skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Martha Argerich will be 80 next year and is still at the top of her game, after struggling with cancer for the last 30 years.

Just watch this, including the audience reaction. It's stunning how good she still is.

https://youtu.be/BF7pmimzjBs?t=53
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Running Pluggable Code at Scale
I live life by the following words:

"If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room"
From "Why Muslims See the Crusades So Differently from Christians" [1]

Are jihad and crusade related?

PC: There is a family resemblance because they share roots in monotheism, where God is a jealous God. And both Crusades and Jihad offered martyrdom to those who die. But while they look alike, they have some important differences. Crusades were directed at the liberation of sacred land considered rightfully Christian, whereas Jihad was about rescuing souls.

SM: I personally don’t find any structural difference between the two. Jihad has an Islamic concept: religiously sanctioned aggression. The Crusades were precisely that.

What was the impact of the Crusades in the Muslim world?

SM: The legacy of the Crusades in the Muslim world is that a lot of Muslims think of where they are today in terms of Western encroachment. For some, the Crusades are seen not just as a medieval threat, but as a present one—a perpetual Western attempt to undermine Islam. It could be physical colonialism or cultural colonialism.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/why-muslims-see-the-crusades-so...
Personally, I'd go with:

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast"
This is why the modern mantra of 'never give up' is not actually good unversial advice. Sometimes giving up one target and switching to something else is the smart thing to do.
This might well vary between countries, but passing sentence is typically the role of the judge or magistrate, and separate from determining guilt, which may be determined be a jury or lower court.

e.g. in the UK & other common law states once a defendant is found guilty a judge or magistrate will determine sentence and consider these factors, among others.

Depending on the severity of the crime, the sentencing may also be referred by a magistrate to a higher court able to impose a more severe penalty.

(see https://www.judiciary.uk/you-and-the-judiciary/sentencing/ for a good example)
I am with you on this. There is some positive incentive if the technical manager gets the product right maybe a strongly exceeds for a year. But if the product fails TLM gets equal share of negative press and a low rating which means greatly low bonus and bad reputation which will make hiring even more difficult. I don't see any reason why a TLM will take any major risks while working in a large company.
I don't know, maybe the solution is to get a pro consumer FCC in the US :)
Fair point. I think I'll take a short break from commenting as clearly I'm getting a bit snappy.
I am in the same camp.

Can anyone more knowledgeable give us some advice on how to approach this?

I am currently learning investing/trading, but not certain about how to use tools like this.

How do I make sure I understand what I'm getting myself into? or is this for finance oriented quants?
> x25 was a network where the terminals are dumb and the network needs to be smart.

At the time that was a common statement, but I fail to see why X25 mandates dumb terminals.

However a profound difference was that X25 used streams whereas TCP uses packets. A stream is akin to a TCP socket.

It is a fundamental difference that stems from the fact that a X25 data exchange is safe from errors.

https://farsite.com/X.25/X.25_info/X.25.htm
University of Illinois conducts 2% of all daily tests in the US for COVID-19
I'm not sure.

https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl/blob/master/src/psl.c is 2K lines, most of it appears to deal with memory management, character twiddling, and processing/conversion.

Maybe the cookie management?
How we made note-taking easier for everyone?
Works for me on both Firefox 80.0.1 and Chromium 85 without any plugins on either of them.

What browser are you using?
On a similar note, when anxious I ask myself, “What am I afraid of right now?”. It helps me to take more control over my anxiety.
I still miss CityDesk from Fogcreek, it was spot on for my requirements.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/12/what-does-citydesk...
Dynamic Pricing for Mobile Apps
Scary trend...
I don't think the comparison was made with holocaust denial in mind, however.
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Companies regularly monitor employee activities on corporate networks and computers. They have a responsibility to make sure employees aren't using the company's assets to break the law, steal corporate information, leak private information, or irresponsibly download and run malware. If you tell employees exactly what the company is monitoring and the exact methods they use to monitor activity, the monitoring becomes useless because people will subvert it.
Testing is obviously not impossible, so let’s set that aside for a moment.

The question is, why are you unit testing ML functions? ML is not software engineering, and unit tests not a good way to broadly evaluate them, outside some “third rail” type tests for insanely important cases. You’d typically use statistical testing (e.g. f1 scores) to determine whether your models are performing as expected, but they are ultimately probabilistic in nature and highly unlikely to satisfy all of the intended cases simultaneously.

There is of course the philosophical question of how you determine the quality of your tests, which are themselves software. The practical answer is to keep your testing software as trivially simple, obvious, and boring as possible; tests can then be validated with the mark I eyeball.

None of this has any bearing on the usefulness or otherwise of automated testing.
I bought one some time ago, I'm still planning to put a Pi zero W or something similar inside, but never got around to do so.
Business Leaders Urge Mayor de Blasio to Stop New York City’s Decline
They missed the opportunity as well, a lot did. I am not saying they would have succeeded for any specific reasons, but back then all the possibilities were there. Internet has become a nightmare, we lost everything that made it special when it started. Nowadays probably 90% of the non-porn traffic is going to Google, Amazon or Facebook and it becomes a problem for freedom of speech and "democracy". Concentration of such power or money is a problem.
I used to be a great admirer of the US constitutional arrangements (even though I'm not an US citizen and I've never been to the States), in fact I have a paperback edition of the "Federalist Papers" on the bookshelves that sit just behind me as I'm writing this comment, but lately I've come to see things in a very different manner.

More exactly, I've come to realise that a legal/constitutional arrangement that supports actual human slavery for 70-80 years after having been put in place is maybe not that great to begin with, and I've also come to realise that one of main reasons for its "PR success" during the last two centuries was the fact that the US as a country got to be economically (and then militarily) successful. It is a perfect example of "might makes right" (in this case economic might). As a (failed) counter-example the legal system of Haiti from the late 1790s-early 1800s was a lot more "illuministic" and "human friendly" but because Haiti failed economically (and then politically) as a state all that didn't matter in the end.
No, but when it occurs, it's usually Python
He presumably didn't say it in Latin though ;-)
How much traffic did it handle for that $0.05?
What is a Cryptophone and how it works
Related:

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. -Frank Westheimer
There's also a paradox in that now that we can have infinite songs anytime anywhere, music seems much less cultural relevant than in the past.
The Complete CSS Flex Tutorial
Actually firefox is faster at javascrupt that chrome.
You should look into the English Resource Grammar:

http://moin.delph-in.net/ErgTop

Online demo:

http://erg.delph-in.net/logon

It has all that information in the generated feature structure -- even more than you can view in the web interface. There's a development environment you can download, as well as a headless linux tool called ACE you can use on a server. The ERG is complex, but far and away the most sophisticated tool in this space.
> You have a part about solidarity being expected as if it could be enforced. Completely ridiculous. Solidarity with whom?

Well for starters, solidarity with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose (and equivalents in other langs). The page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_enc... talks extensively about how a certain baseline of alignment is needed to contribute to Wikipedia.

> So, I expect you are some high official of Wikipedia/Wikimedia?

Umm no. I've been around Wikimedia for a while and have opinions. At most, I am a contributor to the MediaWiki open source project, which may give me some clout in certain technical conversations - but this is definitely not a technical conversation. (Full disclaimer - in the past i used to be employed as a contractor by WMF to do work on MediaWiki, but haven't been for several months now. My views are purely my own)

> What about people investing money to adjust their own pages? It isn't even mentioned and perhaps one of the most immediate issues.

Why would it be mentioned in this document - its off topic and is already extensively covered by other rules and policies. Trying to cover all things in one document would probably doom it to failure.

> No comment on the Nazi stuff, just be aware that some Jews would noticed your misplaced usage of "we" if you really want to make an argument in their name.

I don't understand what you mean by this. The antecedent of "we" in my comment was Wikipedians. Note that this example wasn't purely hypothetical.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200911061810/https://filebin.n...
VT-x can be disabled via BIOS (and was e.g. on my machine. I cannot guarantee that was the case out-of-the-box).
One roadblock, I think, is that the IRS requires 409(a) valuations every year to set a value for common stocks and thus the strike price for options. During those valuations, most startups strive to paint their value as being very low: “Seriously, folks, the market could dry up and leave common shareholders with nothing.” The resulting common share value is often pegged at 1/10 to 1/3 of the preferred share value implied by the most frequent fundraising round. Lower strike prices make it easier for employees to exercise their options and provide more upside.

My understanding is that a sufficient volume of equity sales can force new 409(a) valuations. These would require more payments to an external accounting firm, and 4x the work to do it quarterly, work that often consumes leadership cycles. Moreover, these valuations would likely have the effect of narrowing the gap between common and preferred share values, elevating the strike price and squeezing potential profits out of employee equity.

It’s probably different once a company is large enough that it’s granting RSUs. For companies at the ISO stage, I’m not sure the upsides outweigh the downsides.
Nothing, he is stating a historical fact, that's all. I found it interesting, because we sometime tend to think we kind of know how roman society worked -- a lot of our own institutions in the west are modeled on roman equivalents: courts, marriage, civil assemblies and we do live in democracies with a strong oligarchy. This example shows how strangely different the ancient society was compared to our own.
Couldn't find any references, Can you please provide sources?
A briefer look at the service, in english, including current amateur maintained server https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOhK9bgQo8g
I really like forestry.io, which lets you choose the static site generator system and then host the generated static site on Github Pages or other static hosters.

It's basically the missing glue for the manual operations you would normally do on your own computer if you went the Jekyll/Hugo static site generator way. But you don't need to maintain a development environment on your machine.

After the initial setup, a non-developper can use forestry as easily as Wordpress.
Why don't they hire Poettering to further make Linux unusable for hobbyists?
> Assuming an up round, dilution causes you to own less of a company on a percentage basis, but the actual dollar values of your shares will be worth more.

If you're at a $10M company and you're thinking "I will own 0.1%, so in a few years I can look forward to a payday of $10,000" then you're right: getting diluted 10x to own 0.01% of a $100M company is the same value.

But if your thinking is "I will own 0.1%, and if I owned that much of WhatsApp when it sold to Facebook I'd have made $16M" then a 10x dilution would reduce that to $1.6M

Now, you might argue the second line of thinking is wrong and a fantasy valuation, but we all know no-one's getting hired away from FAANG by the promise of an uncertain, one-off $10k in a few years.
No...

>"According to U.S. government officials, as well as being a senior recruiter and motivator, he was centrally involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda"

We are better off with him dead. He was American, but his allegiance was to al Qaeda and he was planning to murder civilians.
Compared to the internet, the Minitel lacked infrastructure:

The Minitel was inherently Peer-To-Peer but only one peer at a time.
> Electronic devices are more reliable with tin-lead solder rather than Aluminum based solders.

What are you talking about? None of the common lead-free solders contain any Aluminium.

Furthermore the primary concern in regards to lead is during wave soldering during manufacturing (where you do get lead vapor; hand soldering and tinning is not really a problem) and during recycling later on.
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Indeed.

The main questionable implicit assumption that is made is that Python can't "the future" (which is severely underspecified without a time horizon) because of what is bad about it today. It even is literally there "Python isn't the future... It can't be" <because something in Python is bad>.

That's highly questionable, because it leaves out
- that people appear to have reasons to adopt Python, likely because of something that is good about it,
(this complements the observation that not that many people might be impacted by the disadvantages).
- that Python and the ML tools in Python might not be static and actually evolve in "the future".

It seems to me a curious lack of reflection substituted for by being particularly assertive about it.

To my mind Python not being the future is more likely to happen if Python becomes less likable or the attempts to improve the shortcomings (which are there, HPy as a medium-term way to get out of the "C extension vs. parallelism/speedup/GIL" corner, mypyc/numba/TorchScript/JAX pushing the "what can be efficiently expressed in Python" boundary) fail.

Julia, Swift, Dex-Lang, HaskTorch all get things right that Python doesn't. But do they get all the things right that Python does get right?

Disclaimer: I'm biased because I like Python and have some involvement in Python ML tools.
It's indeed extremely easy to brute force these hashes when you have a database of the original (plaintext) data stolen from people's contacts which reduces your search space dramatically.
>Laws are not black and white and courts/judges have to interpret how the law applies

Kinda but not really. Jurisprudence is not the primary source of law in civilian countries; generally civil codes are. Additionally, civilian jurisdictions often treat legal scholar analysis as equally or more persuasive than previous case-law.

So this portion:

>New laws can be written to correct for a courts opinion, yet the courts are free to evolve what they think things mean over time.

Isn't accurate. Courts are bound to apply the law, and most law presented in civil codes is far more rigid and mechanical than those found in common law jurisdictions. In the civilian tradition the proper avenue for reform isn't a judge writing a new rule in a ruling. It's a legal reform project at the legislative level, where legislators and legal scholars go over the code, eventually resulting in a new version.

Are there going to be controversial cases that end up getting emergency legislative attention? Sure, but they're the exception, not the rule.

That said, there are over 150 countries that operate broadly under the civil law tradition, so while what I'm saying is accurate about the tradition as a whole, there are many exceptions on a jurisdictional basis.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. I installed Arch Linux last week on a new machine and all I had to do was pacman -Sy mesa and that's it. Actually, that's a lie. I installed a DE which installed mesa as a dependency automatically.
I remember my stepdad talking about “miditel“, which would have been the name of Minitel in Belgium. Don't know if France and Belgium were supposed to be connected, if it was the same network and operating entity or some kind of white mark thing. Or just speculation.
Ooooh. I wonder if that download pipeline forgets to do certificate verification...

(Can you flood a subnet with DNS A responses, or does that not work due to sequence numbering?)
a Mastodon/3615 Ulla mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVY8MxPhxF8

I note that the anglophone vorticist magazine Blast[1], No 1 (1914) p.27, blesses france for its mastery of "rose" services.

An irony of the Minitel:

> "... à l’époque, les femmes à qui je racontais que j’étais donc payé pour faire fantasmer des hommes ... étaient plutôt séduites par ma façon de le faire ... paradoxalement, parler de mon boulot d’animatrice minitel rose était une super technique de drague."[2]

[1] https://library.brown.edu/pdfs/1143209523824858.pdf

[2] http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2...
A lot of the time it's easier to confirm that an answer is correct than compute that answer. Imagine a test like:

val result = factorize(367)
assertEquals(367, result.reduce(_ * _))

This isn't really a "human validation" - as a human I don't actually know what the prime factorisation of 367 is - and the sense in which it's a "compiler rule" is a deep and subtle one. But I'd argue that it's a valid test and quite a lot of software tests are of this type.

Another type of test not considered here is a "redundant" check for a simple case. If we write a test like:

assertEquals(multiply(83, 83), pow(83, 2))

then to a certain extent that's redundant, but I'd argue it's a useful sanity check of our pow implementation. Again it doesn't seem right to call this a "human validation" since I don't actually know 83^2 as a human.

It also bears considering that even an entirely redundant test may be useful in providing (and explaining) a use case for an API. If we've just implemented the map() function for lists, then a test like:

def f(x: Int) = x * 2
val input = List(1, 2, 3)
var result = List.empty()
for { element <- input }
result :+= f(element)
assertEquals(result, input map f)

is "redundant" in this taxonomy, but a perfectly legitimate test of map; often "be equivalent to this more complicated sequence of functions" is exactly the specification of a particular function.
Looking for the next native iOS project to develop
It’s true that most applications were stream oriented, and Minitel was, as the users’ sessions were only bytes (in videotex encoding) rendered by the Minitel as a serial terminal integrating a modem (1200 bauds reception, 75 bauds emission!).

There was a smart gateway node that translated complex x25 from the Minitel service providers nodes into simple bidirectional stream of bytes to the Minitels, it was a specialized type of packet asssembler disassembled (PAD) called a PAD Videotex (PAVI).

Now x25 did have packets, Minitel terminals did not. So the PAVI and x25 servers were working very differently and with more complexity (hence smart) than Minitel serial terminals (hence dumb).

It’s not that x25 mandated dumb terminals.
How is changing the setting from DDC different from changing it manually through the monitor's buttons? I think the warning is there for programmatic usage to warn people against changing the settings in a while loop or similar, but changing at a reasonable rate shouldn't be a problem.
And a couple of books from Peter Norton or stuff like "PC Intern: System Programming : The Encyclopedia of DOS Programming Know How".
They don't need a court order to sniff packets and do bulk collection. All that data goes into huge data centers. If they want to query that collected data for an American's information, they get a warrant. No human looks at an American's data before getting a warrant. You'd do well to familiarize yourself with their process, which is highly publicized.
Goodness.

If all of software engineering is an infinite space, software testing is always infinite+1.

The problem always starts at human-defined logic and ends at human-defined interpretation.

There is no amount of testing that can replicate eyes on those expectations defined on either end, and my own personal politics reflect that:

Tests are simply reinforcing these vectors from human to human where we might have a black, grey box that is incompletely understood by its contributors.

The point is to reduce complexity and optimize those vectors so those expectations directly align.

If you're writing the consistency of crêpe-like tests, perhaps those goals don't align. I've been there. Something surely has to change. Tests should be very simple validations and should be very developer interpretable. In fact, they should be enlightening to that vertical code.

They should necessarily be an aside to the larger architecture where we generally understand what is supposed to happen. They should define a ruleset to its operation at each discrete step.

Never a validation of "what function functions?".

I've seen too many PMs, execs, and can-do engineers get lost beyond the design because they were building on sand and justifying their castle.

Just stop.

Bring testing to the 'else' case on 'if, else if, elsif, ...' where we can actually understand that path.

Goodness.

Addendum: perhaps I've not worked in complex enough systems. I would appreciate any constructive argument towards my personal views.