skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ridiculous thing to say. I am a small government person, and I believe taxation is theft. However, I am a realist and so I recognize that taxes are part of our reality. I am 100% in favor of the IRS making it as easy as possible for people to do their taxes, because they already have 99% of the info needed.
Lol. Nope.
> The Iraq release from Manning's leak occurred after he left Sweden. Getting him back onto Swedish soil would have been the first step.

Assange lived happily on Swedish soil for ages, apparently without any particular fear of unlawful rendition. He voluntarily attended a police station regarding sex offence allegations, his lawyer had ongoing discourse with the prosecutor regarding the reopening of the case, and he was still happy to continue live in Sweden. He then left the country when they informed his lawyer they did want to charge him.

I'm not sure the fact the US wasn't even aware of the Iraq release at the time undermines my observation that this behaviour looks more like somebody seeking to avoid facing sex offences charges in court than unlawful abduction. And likewise that Swedish actions look like a slow motion bureaucratic response to sex offence allegations that would have been tricky to prosecute and not a dastardly plot to get him to the US.

The fact the US has subsequently chosen to actually open a case against him based on something they didn't even know about at the time doesn't really change that (although FWIW I think it's politically unwise for them to bother)

> The UK has never allowed rendition from the British isles, and certainly would not allow a former colony to subvert their court system.

Apart from British soil having been a stopping point for CIA rendition flights and its enthusiastic cooperation with US schemes overseas, the UK has also routinely bent its own law to deport asylum seekers before their appeals are completed in manner not dissimilar to the Swedish cases which keep getting cited. (The same Home Secretary that was happy to push the unlawful 'deport first, appeal later' policy was, ironically, also the only thing stopping Gary McKinnon from being legally deported to the US after exhausting every single appeal, because our court system isn't that fussed that the US might be overzealous with national security related hacking prosecutions. But I doubt Assange had much hope of helpful intervention from her...)
I think we should be pretty skeptical of these kind of broad generalizations. How do you know you're seeing a representative sample of protests in either country?
It's a political problem. Problems that don't - or appear to no - spread pain and benefits equally move inexorably towards the political.

But here's the thing. Political problems have political solutions. You just have to figure out a way to adjust who gets hurt and who gets helped until the people happy with the solution have enough power so that they can steamroll those who remain unhappy.
You could say anything between the Great Divide and the Eastern divide is "midwest" and nobody would look at you funny.

https://www.theadventurecompany.com/continental-divide-in-co...
Because they lead to a false sense of certainty and inappropriately appeal to authority.

These questions are complex. The premises and framing are critical. The surrounding evidence that's not measured is probably much more important than whatever the scientist is able to actually measure.

All living beings, including humans, are a mix of strengths and weaknesses in careful balance. If a martian scientist were to look at humans they would probably say something like:

"Not very strong, not very fast, eats a lot, no armor, horns, or poison. Can't fly. We predict that wolves will hunt them to extinction in a few decades."

But obviously the martians didn't measure our brains. Evolution of living beings tends to create these exceptions that throw off simpistic analysis.

What are you forgetting to measure that will completely throw off your conclusions?
I could see it as East of the Sierras in California continuing across the midwest. The economic and cultural differences crossing from the western coastal strip in California to east of the Sierras are mind-boggling.
> I toyed with a simple puppet-alike, written in golang, called marionette (in hindsight a terrible name)

Well, yeah, especially as Puppet has a well known solution named Marionette Collective

* https://puppet.com/docs/mcollective/current/index.html
* https://choria.io/docs/about/mcollective/
> Passiveness

A lot more people have some degree of social anxiety than one might think, especially in IT.

Lightning talks originate—and work well in—the sort of tech-bro workplaces where there’s an Xbox, foosball table, and bar in the breakroom. Half the “culture fit” criterion of hiring for those places is just an attempt to filter out potential hires with any amount of social anxiety; so the average level of it in such places is low.

But other than in that little ecological niche, you’re not likely to see many engineers who are fond of public speaking, even when they have something they know and would love everyone else to learn about.

On the other hand, though, many of these same more anxious people are fond of writing. Unlike public speaking, which is a live performance, a written piece can be composed—worked out slowly, checked for errors, re-drafted, thrown out with no repercussions, etc.

Many engineers who aren’t at-all interested in giving a lightning talk, might instead quite like to blog about what they’re doing in some official capacity. And they would like it even more, I expect, if they didn’t have to have final responsibility for what was presented (because there’s always still the anxiety that someone might spot a flaw in your argument that you didn’t); but rather if their prose was handed off to a managing editor for the blog, to work up into a final article.

Which means that a lot of these same engineers would be fine composing a lightning talk, as long as they didn’t have to be the presenter, and also weren’t put on the spot to answer questions afterward†. Find someone in your org who just loves talking—maybe a salesperson, maybe your CEO!—and have the engineer in question work with them to transfer the knowledge necessary to give the presentation. As a bonus, the presenter gets to be educated in this stuff from the source, one-on-one; which can very much help improve the depth of their knowledge, when that same person is communicating with your customers!

† Q&A is a very valuable part of a talk, and the knowledge required to answer arbitrary questions really has to come from the engineer themselves, rather than a presenter. I’d suggest still doing Q&A with the engineer, but asynchronously, so you’re not putting the engineer in question “on the spot” in front of an audience. Maybe set up a mailing list or group-chat channel, that everyone attending the talks can subscribe to, to ask questions relevant to the latest talk. Then there’s no time-pressure on the engineer’s part to respond, but everyone still gets to ask questions, and to hear the answers to others’ questions.
Because the situation is (probably) a lot more nuanced than what you paint it as.
The correct things to do about this problem don't require even knowing the breach exists, let alone getting somebody to tell you the details though.

You need to do MFA for everything that matters. Passwords are crap, you may not be able to mandate that your customers start caring about that (though you should offer them better alternatives) but you can enforce it for your employees.

Require WebAuthn everywhere. Issue employees a suitable authenticator if they don't have one (iOS 14 will make newer iPhones a suitable device, high end Android phones are also suitable) and avoid mechanisms to let an employee subvert this requirement. Now you literally don't care if your employees choose crappy passwords (which they will) because it has no security impact.
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No thanks. Good languages start small and stay small. HTML is already bloated with tons of elements of questionable usefulness. It's a document presentation format, and that's all it should ever be. Does Markdown need knowledge of state and navigation and breadcrumbs and menus?
> lyrics that are all just some variation of "yeah yeah club dance club club club club party party club club love you dance dance drunk drunk club club don't love you now".

Maybe you just don't like dance music? "Rock around the clock" or "Twist and Shout" had the same style of lyrics - simple, repetitive, rhythmic, accentuating the music rather than telling a story.
that should have gotten hundreds of upvotes but didn't for some reason
ah, the 'wrong type of communism' argument?
I remember that day well (it was job-relevant to me when it happened). I'm still amazed how Porsche managed to pull that one off!

That's a good example, thank you for sharing it again!
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism
Taking 5G to work, in offices, and on the factory floor–will it help?
Besides the fact that the University of Cambridge is in England, the whole story is about distinguishing a personality difference among those who live at higher elevations. Furthermore, the assessment it makes is largely positive.
Paper is here. Amazing that you can build such a high quality annotation for a de novo genome

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2486-3
Yeah, the air in Portland last night took a nosedive pretty fast. It wasn't quite as bad as during the eagle creek fire, but pretty close.
Policies are the most overlooked part of the process, even when blogging
Can you please not take HN threads into ideological or nationalistic (or regional) flamewar? We already had to ask you this once recently.

Even if you're right, this is the worst way to bring it up, unless you want everyone to get even more rigid in their pre-existing views and even angrier about them. What good does that do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah but you know I think because we listen to less and less music on the radio and more on streaming, I think it's harder for break out hits to happen today. New music has to compete on equal footing with old music that is more accessible than it has ever been and also has to compete with podcasts and other forms of audio entertainment that are available in much higher quantities today.
In addition to the lobbying activities that, naturally, garner hate, I dislike them for just being a crappy marketing-driven company that is constantly trying to up sell.

I’ve used them for about 20 years and every year it’s a hassle to find a reasonable price, figure out what they call the product I need each year. I spend as much time trying to figure out what to buy and clicking “no” as I do filing my taxes.

This is as a customer that uses them once a year and that’s it.

If they just sold a clean product, then it would be fine. But they are asshole marketing / rent seeking quite a bit.

Lots of non-savvy friends buy the $200 version instead of the free or $50 version because of the way intuit markets within their product about buying audit protection and what not.

It also infuriates me that their boxes software costs less than the web site. I think companies that sell physical copies of software for less than the website version are jerks. Obviously, they can do this, it’s legal, and people fall for it. But I would feel bad doing this and I think anyone who does this is a bad person.

Therefore, I hate intuit and will switch in an instant when I can.
For reference I take 5,000 IU daily, recommended by my doctor. We worked up to that amount over time, testing my Vit D levels until they made into the "normal" range. I live in a very sunny state and am outside in the sun at least an hour a day during peak daylight hours, sometimes much more. Many other members of my immediate family also have amazingly low Vit D levels despite plenty of outside time.
RCTs are high quality, because they are done in a controlled setting, testing against a control group, testing the null hypothesis. RCTs are able to show causality. The problem with RCTs is that they are very expensive, since it involves keeping people in a clinic, so usually RCTs are short term and can only afford to look at surrogate markers.

However most often than not, surrogate markers are enough. Also RCTs tend to coroborate the findings from observational studies in about 70% of the cases. Also for really hot topics, like diabetes management, we do have year-long RCTs too.

And drawing conclusions from systematic reviews and meta analyses of RCTs, well, that's basically the best we can do.

For assessing the strength of available evidence, I recommend reading the following: https://examine.news/how-to-read-a-study
I tell people I strive to be a "session musician". I'm there to use my skill in the craft to do a job and contribute to a greater whole.
I guess you could frame being unwilling to go outside and/or exercise as a chronic illnesses in and of themselves, but otherwise I don't see how anyone would consider this plausible.
Recently even Lukashenko recognized limits of his power against the social media:

In Russian: https://t.me/rt_russian/44353 (translation below is mine, ask Google Translate for the skipped parts and/or for a better translation :)

"... I warned my senior friend and brother Putin - it is impossible to fight against.

Why? - How are you going to fight Telegram channels? Do you have a capability to block the channels? Nobody has such capability, even the ones who created all that web. Americans. You see what is happening there. And telegram-channels are playing the main role there too. [...skip...]

To remove the Internet and like that ... Even if Internet is removed today, the telegram-channels will be working from Poland. So, don't you get relaxed. You also have some specific political events coming, and may be right out of the blue..."
Also, there was an effective labor movement in the US which could equalize the negotiating positions of management and labor. I saw this just today: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/09/the-demise-of...
I don't think focusing on album sales paints the full picture on how modern artists find success.

I've heard artists mention how albums don't really make them much money. Things like touring and merch sales account for the bulk of their income. I'd guess with streaming, podcasts, social networks, etc. artists have found ways outside of releasing a traditional album to stay relevant to the listener.
Art has been democratized in recent years. And not just the drawing type of art either: music, videos, 3d modeling, animation, digital print, literature, etc can be produced on a computer. So today, pretty much anyone with a computer can create whatever random idea is spinning in their brains.

You don't even need "talent" anymore. Music can be created by ear using drag-and-drop interfaces. Illustrator makes it dead simple to do vector art without any drawing ability. GTAV comes with an animation toolkit for making films.

Most people create art for fun or their own pleasure. Tiktok is full of "modern art" in the form of short videos.
I mean, maybe a solar shade is possible, but it still requires a massive engineering investment and maybe has some accidental risks like “ends photosynthesis” (which is hyperbole, but still, it’s a big one shot project with global consequences).

DAC has limitations that likely keep it from being the sole solution to CO2 levels, but it can be developed incrementally without much risk and then deployed on the margins where it makes sense (e.g., on top of geothermal, in the Sahara next to a PV array).
Yeah, like “poor”. Oh, wait...
> They should have had someone on watch in shifts in the overnight

I don't think I agree with this.

It improves your very low chance of survival if the fire catches up with you during the night, slightly. But you're mostly screwed anyways. Forest fires tend to move faster than humans, especially in the dark. It means you are less effective in the morning and will likely increase the amount of time it takes to get out of there.

I'd elect for "we all sleep, we wake up slightly before first light to pack up and eat, we leave at first light.".
I view them as the iPhone of cars right now. And thats by design. Maybe if they take away all the bells and whistles and just ship out a barebones electric car for regular people, it might get mass adoption.
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> I believe taxation is theft

> However, I am a realist

Choose one.
I can agree that the view of whether something is helping or not could be subjective.

That's not necessarily true about the infrastructure. The estimate I saw said if all the gas cars were replaced with electric ones then the infrastructure would have to double or triple depending on how much off-grid equipment is adopted. I know my house would need an upgraded connection to handle a 50amp charger. I'd probably need a whole extra line and panel if we needed to charge 2 or three cars at once.
Cool thanks! I will link back and credit you :)
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So if your audience is actually that small, you should do account based marketing (ABM) which looks entirely different. Rather than spend money on LinkedIn ads trying to target “decision makers at IT companies” you spend your time actively pursuing individual companies.

I’ve never actually worked in a role like that, but have had clients move from abm to general b2b marketing.
Tesla is 28% full EV market and if you include Plug-in hybrids (you shouldn't) its 20% of the global market in the first half of 2020 and they have been improving their global market share consistently over the last couple years. But don't let real evidence stop you form selecting specific data samples that prove your point you want to make.

No company in its right mind could hold 30% of the total car market, but what is actually surprising is that unlike many analysis's predicted, their global market share has been going up. Maybe the next round of Tesla killer is finally gone do something.

You are comparing Tesla to the largest auto maker in its home market during a global pandemic where Tesla has to export their car from California (yes they are insane enough to build cars in California) and they have to pay tariffs.

Tesla is building a gigantic factory in the middle of Europe until then Tesla will not have the market leading position in Europe while all European companies dumb their vehicles in Europe first. I still expect Tesla to big a significant junk of the European market going forward.
Ah, nice, thanks!
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"Ok, today as a viral marketing plan we're going to get our boss in trouble with the SEC."
I think this is a very disputable point. I've seen studies supporting both. For example here is study attesting to the opposite of your point: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-s...
Be careful on this one. When not done well it quickly leads to people optimizing for metrics rather than outcomes. It's also a quick path to dark patterns.
Or that you can really reach them at all using social/digital ads (without missing your target on 99% of your other impressions).
Is there any WeChat alternative available in China that supports end-to-end encryption?
What Is Remote-First?
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I'm interested in anyone's experience doing this with a remote team. We do this (in a small but distributed team), and it's as much about keeping shared technical knowledge up-to-date as getting together.

But it can easily turn into just-another-zoom-call. Ideas?
In reality, this itself is an ANN with multiply-add-activation. They basically model an imaginary dendritic tree as a hierarchy of convolutional networks which converge to the dendrite trunk. It's however very far from biological plausibility.
It's a damn sight better than teaching them to ignore what right in front of their noses.

Or doing that yourself.
I'll clarify: it's harder than giving everybody the same 5,000 ICU tablet of vitamin D. Can it be solved? Yes.
Yeah but the best part of being a mountain barbarian or a midwesterner is you get to ignore them while you live rent free in their heads.
Not me, but a "startup" I'm consulting for today that's pivoted many times over the last 13 years. They spun out a different website focused on a single offering about a year and a half ago that led to them developing a focus (sales and tech both) on a specific market and has led to a crazy uptick in business. I can share the URLs if the HN community is curious to see the difference between the two.

Editing to include URLs:
- Original site: www.devhub.com
- Spin-off: www.rallymind.com
> In many parts of the United States when you call 911, you're lucky if anyone shows up within an hour. It's a couple hours to get to a Wal-Mart or a store. It's difficult to get anyone to drive 40 minutes outside the nearest town and navigate unmarked dirt roads to do basic plumbing or home repairs.

That's pretty far out; I think that's pretty extreme. At least in Idaho/WA IMO (different geography and settlement pattern, prolly). But your point is still valid for the bulk of rural US - you just gotta know how to deal, because the cavalry is a ways out and expensive.
I have a plan to write a short article about specifically this topic at Base. I personally fucked up a ton of things with microservices there :)
> I think you may appreciate this situation when others talk about your work.

Yes, I'm very much a layman on this topic.

> placing limit orders at a price where you don't believe it will execute immediately.

Isn't that a "SFT" strategy? Why do you need super low latencies for something like that?

> Are you suggesting that HFT firms all know that someone is going to come through and buy at a price level, and hop in?

That's how I've commonly seen HFT being described, that these companies would see an order on exchange A and faster than anyone else would bid on exchanges B and C accordingly.
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Early on, I don't think so. You need all hands on deck to move fast. But I do think you need to start establishing those Good Habits way earlier than they might be immediately valuable. For example, getting good at product and technical documentation before you have a huge company. It's so much harder to establish those habits with more people, so you want to have that built in so new folks join, and doing that stuff right is just part of the culture. A little effort today saves a ton of effort to establish those habits later. You also end up with more flexibility: Person A doesn't need to constantly support Feature A because they built it and they're the only one who knows how it works, so you're getting more value out of their time.

In the long-term, I do think product-wide you always have teams at different levels of maturity. Some know more about the problems they're solving and how best to solve them, others know less. Some will move fast, some will build to last. The more a team knows about their problem, or the more a problem cuts across teams, the more I think they should build to last, so investment in those areas scales over a large group or important areas of the business.
Looks great, there's a very defined use-case and the video is very clear.

Does anyone know of any other similar piece of software, preferably open source, that allows for complete customization? I have another use-case different from the one on this product and I could use some advice.