skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent about six months a few years back working at a company at Greentown too. Not only are the people and companies there working on some meaningful (and frankly, really cool) technology, but the incubator itself always seemed really well run and was a great space to work in.

I'm sure things are a bit more difficult with the current pandemic considering their buildings' layouts (like most open workplaces), but I'd wholeheartedly recommend people interested to taking a serious look.
I did the same thing for a consulting company. The onboarding process involved creating and populating a google drive folder, a slack channel, and a trello board. I used Zapier to create everything off of one entry in a google spreadsheet.

Tons of fun for me, saves some time for someone else, created consistency for everyone.
The 1st amendment and the constitution applies to all persons. Not just citizens.
Reminds me of one of the points Joel Spolsky made about peer-to-peer not being the reason Napster was successful:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

> Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

> [...]

> If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular.
According to the chicken, cow, and pig, yes. It's up to you to determine how much their opinion informs your own.
People are pushed into these awful chat apps by the anticompetetive behavior of smart phone OS vendors. The next time you argue for the merits of walled garden app stores think about the damage cooperate controlled chat app servers and curated feeds have done to the internet and the public.
I have no idea how you see those two things as mutually exclusive.
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imho all the behaviors that post outlines as "confusing" are my desired behaviors most of the time. For me it's pretty clear-cut, error out by default and only continue when explicitly allowed with something like `|| true`.
That's why I said rather ;)

Human assumptions are one thing, but if you're directly speaking to a person, you can explain your unusual name situation. There is no discussing with the input validation on a web form, though. That's why I think it's far more important for programmers rather than, for example, counter staff.
Okay? There's no reason laws have to have good and bad parts, like a fundamental yin-yang. You can simply write laws without the bad parts.
> Is tech the right tool to attempt solving societal problems?

That's not the right question you should be asking. The questions you should be asking are "Where can I contribute the most value?" and "How can I use that to improve society?"

Maybe tech isn't the be all end all, but it's often better to do things that you're good at.
Not surprised. When paywalls started becoming a thing most of them could be circumvented simply by removing a DOM element and some CSS classes. Nowadays this is basically not possible anywhere anymore.
The study says the opposite:

> Randomization generated groups with comparable percentage of unfavorable risk factors as there was no significant difference in subjects with at least one risk factor, except for high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, known risk factors for unfavorable disease progression, which were more frequent in patients not treated with calcifediol.

> However, even considering these factors, calcifediol significantly decreased the need for ICU admission in COVID-19 patients in a way not previously reported in this process until now.
This is one of the v things Donald Trump is helping address. He has called CNN "fake news", and is generally making a mockery of the press and truth. Trump is correct that CNN, MSNBC and the New York times are propoganda machines. It if getting less subtle all the time
I’d also like specifics about the “not statistically significant” part - because otherwise there can be a suspicion of cherry-picking the available data. Which I felt, reading parts 2 and 3 of these blog posts, was definitely a possibility.
>Let's at least let our work culture hit a nice 50/50 split between office jobs and remote jobs before we damn the WFH movement too much.

I don't think a 50/50 split is required to test out any new idea. All you need is a representative statistical sample.
The protest is driven by naitonalism. They symbol of the movement is the a flag that thoroughly separate Belarus from the soviet past and Russia. Anti-Russia is built into the movement.
We simplified our offering.

From the beginning, rsync.net offered standard ftp service along with ssh tools. It pleased me to offer an old fashioned standard that "just worked" and allowed some weird corner cases to function for people.

Simultaneously, I wanted a "clean" nmap. I wanted to see port 22 and nothing else. So, we disabled ftp (and with it, inetd on all of our FreeBSD storage arrays) and reduced our attack surface as well as the number of processes we need to run and audit.

We made this change about 18 months ago...
The keys used to encrypt the confidential VM memory is kept in the hw registers and not accessible and extractable by any sw, google or AMD. The keys are per a VM, ephemeral, so not stored anywhere.
RE: storage level, you can encrypt your disk on the file system level if confidentiality of the data is important to you, dm-crypt with dm-verity are good choices.
I agree with you that Google SREs are probably the best, no argument there.
Yes, it has to be done extremely carefully. Picking metrics well is one of the most important jobs of company leadership.
The issue is again the legal differences between hardware and software.

You own a tangible good but you only have a license to intellectual property.

When cars were all hardware it was simple. But now they are more and more software and you only get licenses to use that software even if you do own the hardware it runs on.

Cars are becoming like smartphones and computers.

This actually all started with things like books: You own the book but not its contents.
Perhaps sick people should be going outside more? There doesn't appear to be any reliable clinical evidence of better outcomes for respiratory disease patients who stay inside. Someone ought to run a clinical trial on that.
> I'm at the point where my current job is pretty boring and we don't grow enough to bring in harder problems

This is usually the point at which I job hunt. Honestly, I need a place where new and interesting problems keep propping up. I don't think I'll ever settle but I do always leave on good terms.
This was made because I wanted something which would work with both ES modules and CommonJS modules. It is pretty stable. Just open an issue if you want something :D
What would be wrong with One Country, One System?
I worked at a small company that was always chasing the next potential sale. Potential customer mentions feature A and all of a sudden all development shifts towards developing that feature. The vast majority of the time the potential customer never became a customer. In the meantime competition focused on their own plan of features and our product wound up with features no one ever wanted and was missing critical functionality everybody demanded.
> Most of which take the OpenJDK source, sprinkle in some "secret sauce" and then compile the entire thing for convenience of users.

Got some links to these GPL licensed OpenJDK forks?
In 1990, my brother observed the elections in Croatia that lead to the Yugoslavian war. Western Europe was recruiting young people to defend democracy and human rights across the continent. The bet was to stabilize all countries on the continent.

Pro-Serbian regime tried to fraud, but with the help of international observers, they got shutdown, votes have been reorganized when needed, and the sole presence of neutral observers acted as a strong deterrant.
Now Croatia is a prosperous country that we enjoy spending vacation to.

Because of this act of courage, my brother got hired by the UN. From taxi driver in 1990 to now diplomat in 2020. He served in Darfour, Afghanistan, Mexico, Guatelama, Irak, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania. Saved countless refugees from certain death, negotiated with dictators, put pressure one step at a time.

I understand your concern, but don't take courage for foolishness. My brother is not a fool, he is an idealist and will probably have more lasting impact on the world than me.
> Or else cover the cost of the run as an installation fee.

The community of Ammon, ID, built their own municipal fibre network because of this:

> It all began about seven years ago when the city government, suffering from horrible upload speeds, wanted a dedicated 100Mbps circuit between City Hall and the Public Works building, less than a mile apart. Qwest (now CenturyLink) didn't want the project, while Cable One offered to do it for a start-up fee of $80,000 plus $1,000 a month, Patterson said.

* https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-...

* https://www.ammonfiber.com

At this year's (virtual) NLNOG there was presentation from a fellow who was fed up with slow Internet options in his rural Michigan county and so setup his own ISP by having fibre optic pulled to his house and then redistributing service to his neighbours:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXJgvy3mEg
Yes to everything here except ... browsers do not change faster than the equivalent part of desktop software: the toolkits (GTK/Qt/Cocoa/etc). The latter change at least as fast and often much faster than browsers ever had.
With link rot and all the lost pages of the day, I really do wonder how much information and effort is just lost to the sands of time over the years. This truly makes the Internet Archive such an important tool for everything we do on the internet. I know that is a commonly held belief here, but I really think many regular users need to come in contact with it and see the great benefit it has for us all.
Would love to see this!
Obligatory mention of https://www.turbotaxsucksass.com/, which takes you directly to real free file option of each major online tax prep site, bypassing all the misleading not-actually-free filing options that the sites loudly advertise.
“When Will We Have a Vaccine?”
>Russia-Ukraine war and Crimean occupation

Here, fixed that for you.
> Children ages 2 and 3 are a strong counter-example to this "inmate human goodness" hypothesis and Rousseau's thinking in general.

Children younger than that are strong counter-examples to claims that humans are bipedal and have sophisticated verbal skills. I think there is a more, useful understanding of "innate" that doesn't literally mean "from the moment of birth" but more means "absent other sufficiently strong influences, a fully developed human will evidence this trait".

I agree that toddlers are miniature terrorists. It's a good thing their little bodies develop as slowly as their brains and moral compass, to mitigate the damage they can cause.
IMHO opinion, another big benefit of ansible is how usable it is from the start. Granted, you can build some bad habits if you're not careful, but being able to step into ansible and use it for stuff without a big building project is a huge advantage.
Yikes. I meant to write "would not be enhanced". I need a subeditor. :(
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I work at Hotjar and love it that you're getting value out of the product! We do try to not record bots that advertise known user agents, like Google, Bing and other common ones. Reasoning being that recording non-humans will usually not tell you much about how your UX is optimized for humans.

It's really interesting that somehow the fact that we recorded these less known user agent bots actually made the product more useful for you and you were able to detect fraud going on.
Two reasons

1. Beeminder can, if you want it to do so, increase punishments up to an arbitrary amount. There are situations where you want your punishment to be extremely high, so that you know losing is not an option.

2. Some people have a problem with entering the right amounts of data, or even tracking all their stuff. Beeminder is automated.

Do whatever works, though. The rubber band approach isn't bad. Some people might prefer automated scripts that send out compromising photos or destroy data if certain conditions are met. There are a lot of approaches.
We can clearly see that GDPR is a well marketed gimmick fulfilling Keynesian principles akin to broken window parable. It's about creating jobs that don't produce anything useful whilst giving a notch of false sense of security to people. Everyone is now conditioned to click "Agree" buttons without reading what it is about and EU governments have a weapon against any company that happen to cross them, because of ambiguity of the law. Watch some Defcon videos how GDPR is actually helping bad people fish for personal data. It is now easier than ever.
Anyone who bought the line that Assange didn't need to fear extradition probably will transition seamlessly from "the idea that Assange will be extradited if he leaves the embassy is a baseless conspiracy theory" to "well, he's accused of breaking the law, so it will be a good thing to extradite him to face trial in the U.S."
If the seeder is malicious, there's no need to attack SHA1 at all. The seeder can't control which peers get which versions of any identical-SHA blocks — your target peer may share the bad block — so it seems easier to just upload the malicious content to everyone.
I've had a few, but I'll pick one in particular. I got started with programming via BASIC (various forms), none of which supported recursion. I didn't really know what it was, but knew that I just wanted to call into the same routine again from itself or via mutual recursion (again, didn't know the term). This didn't work as expected, however. Either the program wouldn't compile/execute (threw an error at the recursion) or the recursion just corrupted the data (each call shared the same local data, so they'd clobber each others' work). While playing around on a TI calculator I programmed (something, can't remember the details) but created a stack using the list data structure. I then looped (versus recursed) but pushed a data element onto the stack or popped elements off of it. The program quit when the stack was empty.

Later, in college, we were learning lower level programming details (like what C translated to in assembly and how it managed calls and the stack frame). Despite this being my third CS course in college, I hadn't really grokked recursion yet. But I had a flashback during one of the classes to the TI-BASIC programs I'd written using a stack, and realized I'd recreated recursion (but manually). After that recursion and loops were synonymous in my mind (as they should be, at least in many cases) since I knew how to translate between them. Whenever I saw someone managing a stack and looping until it was empty, I knew both that it could be and how it could be translated into recursion (and vice versa).

It seems to be one of the hardest topics for many of my colleagues (especially those without a CS degree, so lacking practice with recursion) to understand or ever use. But I can usually get them to understand it once I draw a few things out on paper and show the two solutions to a problem (recursive or iterative). This doesn't mean they like recursion, most still avoided it, but they started to understand that it wasn't magic, it was just the computer managing the same data structure they were manually managing.
I tried really really hard to put in all of the most significant studies on Vitamin D. Small, low-quality studies didn't make it in, but the major trials did.
"Blank page" problem is usually only a problem if your site is really slow, but if it is fast (because of server side rendering) it is less of a problem.

As the presenter in the video said, browsers can render HTML documents really fast, this leads to some interesting conclusions.

Assume that you need to render a modal as popup for each item in a grid.

Frontend solution would be to reuse the same modal for every item and just swap in the on-the-fly rendered content for that item. Or maybe even on-the-fly create & render the entire modal when needed.

Backend solution would be to render one modal per item. This is actually easier, just loop & have unique ids (you can even reuse the same loop that you build the grid with) & no need for dynamic loading, rendering, etc. So even if you send more HTML down the line, the page acts smother.
They should. But often, you instead get "fake science": a badly-designed study that is followed by inadequate statistical analysis that just happens to confirm the investigator's pre-existing biases. That approach shouldn't be used to investigate anything. Nor should the conclusions be regarded as scientific.
Some consumers will want the latest and greatest content. To please everyone (other than the owner) you'd need to look at the content across time, versions, alternate world views,... Thus "deep".

My central use case is that I might 'scrape' content from sources such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

and have the process be "repeatable" in the sense that:

1. The system archives the original inputs and the process to create refined data outputs

2. If the inputs change the system should normally be able to download updated versions of the inputs, apply the process and produce good outputs

3. If something goes wrong there are sufficient diagnostics and tests that would show invariants are broken, or that the system can't tell how many fingers you are holding up

4. and in that case you can revert to "known good" inputs

I am thinking of data products here, but even if the 'product' is a paper, presentation, or report that involves human judgements there should be a structured process to propagate changes.
Isn't that better than only one option? Also the choices have new additions every four years.
The 'brushing' scam that's behind mystery parcels
I suspect that I didn't know about that project back in 2017 when I started my own hasty reimplementation.

(Though I don't know if it supported puppet at that time.)
> we should be pushing for electronic voting systems (not shitty ones, but truly great ones)

Experts in electronic voting systems are discouraging the use of this technology for high stake elections, even with state-of-the-art schemes:
https://www.belenios.org/faq.html
Have you noticed how no one who led us into the Iraq war, whether they be government, media, etc. has faced any consequence whatsoever? Even the few who have admitted a "mistake" talk about it as if it's a mistake like I forgot my wallet and not a mistake like I killed 100k+ people.

The major red pills in approximate order are

1) I'm being misled systematically

2) I've been misled since school

3) They are fully aware of what they are doing

4) Given the choice, they would prefer me dead over defiant
I guess you could look at it in a relative sense. Compared to Beijing, it could be argued that Los Angeles is in the early stages of development.
I thought the official IRS form filler was discontinued? Does this just take you to another intuit competitor?

EDIT: it just sends you to the free version of turbo tax and has links for the competitors heh
Web3 Is a Stupid Idea
This is the height of stupidity. And a good example of why I endorse being "woke" but not "Woke", if you get what I mean. This is just rampant, over-the-top, completely unjustified hysteria.
HMRC manage to do this just fine in the UK.

I'm sure many other governments around the world do the same.
Luigi does some workflow visualization with d3

https://luigi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
At my old company we had an innovation consultant come in and tell us that kind of approach was nearly impossible to manage in the longer term. Apparently teams dedicated to holding the fort grew bitter and had much lower retention than teams on greenfield work.

Paying back the debt, he said, usually requires too much knowledge of a system to cycle teams in and out consistently enough to ensure everyone gets a piece of the new versus the old to keep them engaged.

Whether or not that was backed up by hard data, I'm not sure. It was an interesting angle I hadn't previously thought of though.
That price is not really based on mass market affordability though. The UK GDP per capita is $43k USD and the US is $63K USD. The average salary in the UK is $38k/year and the average salary in the US is $63k. By all measures the UK is a significantly less wealthy country.

Perhaps Microsoft choose their pricing based on other measures.
> I'm still not sure what problem removing my ability to cross the spread whenever I like is meant to be solving.

What problem does it solve? Why should we have so many expert programmers and mathematicians spending their time competing in a 0-sum game that could simply run a bit slower and produce the same societal value?
> 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.

I'd argue that that's still talent, if the product is any good. You don't need technical expertise, but you still need creativity.
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This is true, but then also, sometimes that's exactly what you need.
> It's easier to extra judicially grab at least non citizens from Sweden.

Even if that were the case, that's not the right comparison. The comparison has to be of the combination of extradition to Sweden plus rendition from Sweden vs. the easier of extradition or rendition from the UK. Since, after all, he was already in the UK, not in some indeterminate state that the US could collapse to either Sweden or the UK at its preference with no effort.
Here is what the article states: "Therefore, a multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to adjust the model by possible confounding variables such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus for the probability of the admission to the Intensive Care Unit in patients with Calcifediol treatment vs Without Calcifediol treatment (odds ratio: 0.03 (95%CI: 0.003-0.25) (Table 3). The dependent variable considered was the need to be treated or not in ICU (dichotomous variable).) CI:-0.30 - 0.03 p:0.08."
The statement is worded in a confusing way, but that is a non-significant p value. Of course we should not put too much into "statistical significance" but it is interesting to note.
What is laughable if the fact you picked a make work jobs program like the Hover Damn to highlight government efficiency...

The entire purpose of project was because the government needed to find something for thousands of unemployed men to do. It was literally the definition of "busy work"

Further the budget was massively reduced because they did not have to concern themselves with minor things like environmental impact, or worker safety...

I hope that is not your only shinning example of government as it is very much tarnished by the stain of blood
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