skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fyi, I liked this to get a quick and initial understanding of the language (I just read it): https://juliabyexample.helpmanual.io

Question:

I see that on Gentoo Linux all versions of the language-compiler (pkg "dev-lang/julia" versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5) are all marked as not yet being officially stable ( https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-lang/julia ) => any "real" reason for this? Are there any open/important bugs or is it just because of e.g. a low usage of the language itself on the Gentoo distro, or maybe because the specs of the language are still changing, etc...?

I think that e.g. Rust more or less as old as Julia, but Rust on Gentoo is marked as being stable since a long time... .
Ahh, the infamous RECOVERY trial, where they give patient dangerous high dosage(2000mg first 24 hours, 800mg each for next 9 days). Also they probably made the decision to stop the trail after that (now retracted) study[0], lots of trials stopped after that study came out.

https://does.hcq.work/

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The user agent gets to choose how the permission requests are shown - that's not part of the spec. For example, they can choose to ignore permission requests until the user has interacted with the site for a significant amount of time. They can make the permission prompt more explicit and "scary". They can choose to only allow notifications after the site has been added to the home screen.

This is not a question of safety at all - Apple has control over how many people get tricked via their control over the permission prompt.
Just to add to the anecdotes:

I bought an iPad Pro (the one before the LIDAR one) with the intention of using it to take notes, and I completely failed. Combination of feeling self-conscious bringing it into meetings and using it at work, and just not being in the habit of taking notes.

In the past couple of weeks I've made a point of writing out the ideas and reasoning behind what I'm doing before writing any code. What I'm finding is I spend a relatively long amount of time at this, but even without writing code, I'm finding issues with my solutions on paper. Previously I would have just dived straight in and then gone "ah, shit" when I got to a blocking point.

It's also leaving me with a catalogue of searchable notes about parts of our system, and since I've written these notes myself they usually include gotchas that I've encountered before. I use GoodNotes 5 for this, it can search through handwritten text with surprising accuracy.

I'm going to continue doing this, I think it will take longer to see if there is any effect on my productivity, but it /feels/ like it's faster to find a bug on paper rather than getting halfway through an implementation, plus I'm building up all this reference material.
"...but descriptions of other people’s hallucinogenic trips tend to be tiresome. (The son of maverick biologist Rupert Sheldrake, Merlin grew up among colourful company, and the apple clearly didn’t fall far from the tree.) He breezily describes the potential of fungal hallucinogens such as psilocybin to treat disorders like depression, downplaying the possible dangers and the mixed and still rudimentary evidence of their efficacy."

Never lists these possible "dangers" while downplaying "rudimentary" evidence...
Free speech has taken quite a beating in recent days. It's weird watching many of my friends and people I respect cheering while it happens. I honestly don't know what we do to fix our current situation where lies so easily go viral, but making Twitter arbiters of truth doesn't seem like the best solution.
No need for an inquisition. In both Fortran and Julia you can set your index origin to be whatever works best for the problem you are expressing.
More at the company's blog: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/2020-elec...
Castle Quest is the game my family measured all games against for couple of decades following its release. There is no way that game will live up to my expectations if I attempt to play it again now.
And they can take a few more decades to clear. Such is the story of Indians in the Green Card queue.
Good afternoon. My apologies for the delay in answering all your questions. I'll do my best to respond to them all before the end of the day.
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> I say 'lucky' but I was actually disappointed as I had planned to apply for the "cooperation" i.e. to be sent abroad for 1.5 years in a technical capacity.

I've thought that implementing something along these lines in the US would be a fine idea. Everyone, male or female, going off for a couple years of either military training, domestic work (building trails, cleaning up after natural disasters), or international work (Peace Corps on steroids). As an earlier poster said, it'd mix people up across classes and geography. When you get out, you get $10k in your pocket and a plane ticket anywhere in the country. I'm way past 18 now but as the person proposing it, I'd be entirely willing to go take part :)
>which means that clicks don't really matter at all in terms of Google/FB's ability to monetize

What? They get paid for the clicks, not the impressions. Serving ad impressions costs money, the clicks make money. I don't quite follow your line of reasoning here.

>Transparency shouldn't matter for people bidding for conversions

Why wouldn't it? How do we know the bidding process is fair and the clicks we're paying for are valid? We don't and that's the problem. We wouldn't tolerate this type of behavior from companies in other industries. We need to quit giving tech companies a free pass and start holding them accountable.

>If anything fraud (really misclicks for FB and Google search since there is no fraud incentive) is also bad for them as well as it provides false signal of intent to their algorithms.

It only has to be good enough to convince people to keep using it. There's no financial incentive to eliminate fraud completely, or even try, without regulation.
From the article, emphasis mine:

> Out of the blue, one day they said you have to add in-app purchase to stay in the App Store. They stumbled upon something in the app that mentioned there were paid plans, they went to the website and saw there was a subscription you could purchase, and then turned around and demanded we add IAP.

It's apparently not just "no notifications". Below is the actual Apple guidelines. Notice that it is not "notifications", but "call to action". In practice, it may be "slightest hint".

> Free apps acting as a stand-alone companion to a paid web based tool (eg. VOIP, Cloud Storage, Email Services, Web Hosting) do not need to use in-app purchase, provided there is no purchasing inside the app, or calls to action for purchase outside of the app
The way I see it, tech as exemplified by Silicon Valley has an unique culture that portrays itself as cutting-edge, on the side of progress (not politically, though there is that too), open to experimentation, and empowering. At least, that's how the rhetoric is shaped.

And yet, despite startups' attempts to introduce concepts such as transparency, "radical candor", "employee wellness", even radical experiments like holacracy, etc., at the end of the day the core of these businesses are the same old corporate structures.

And amidst the high-paced, high-stakes froth of move fast and fueled by the promise of dumb money, many firms end up having mgmt. that shall we say, are more susceptible to mistakes, and persist in them despite discontent from the rank and file. And despite performative attempts to promote open discourse and welcome questions, they often don't listen to that discontent. So those truly unhappy just jump ship. Which is fine to some extent, but it just feels like it's contributing to an unsustainable throwaway culture.

> After that, you've exhausted your options at that company and aren't owed anything further.

> I may be more cavalier with my "if you don't like it, then leave" attitude.

But what about the end user? The customers who will be failed if the company does? And what about the product itself? If someone who works on it feels like company leadership isn't making the right choices, and if their concerns are echoed by a good amount of the workforce, shouldn't they at least be given the chance to appeal to the board?

It just feels highly hypocritical that an industry that sees itself as so forward-looking and enlightened, so flexible and boundaries breaking, just ends up conforming to the same corporate fiat structure at the end. It really belies the messaging of being able to "make a difference."
No one is making Twitter an arbiter of truth. If you don't like the way Twitter does business, there are other platforms that will cater to your alternative truth needs.
I don't need XBOX or PS5 to defend Apple. I will defend the rights of any non-monopoly (Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the phone market) that created their own hardware, software platform and digital market from scratch, to define their own rules governing said digital market whatsoever.

However, do not confuse defending Apple's right to impose their rules with "liking" or "approving" what they do. Just because I believe Apple is in full rights to do all of this I do not like it so as I consumer I vote with my wallet, which is my right to do so just as is their right to impose rules on their platform.

A lot of the people riling up against Apple seem to want to have the cake and eat it too. They want partake in the value of the Apple digital platform (both as consumers and developers) but then they want to force Apple to play by their own rules, not Apple's rules. That doesn't seem right to me plus it's just contradictory as it's very likely that Apple being able to enforce their own rules is what created the value of their platform anyway.
And methane has the added benefit of being able to be used in unchanged home heating systems, at least in large parts of Germany and probably of Europe. And there is an existing distribution network in the form of pipelines to most houses. And there are large storage facilities, like the strategic reserves for natural gas. If you factor in the saved CO2 due to the fact that you don't have to change most home heating systems. And that you can easily retrofit lots of gasoline engines in already existing cars. Then I don't get why Germany started to support EV at all.
I like your approach. You are stating what personally meets your criteria. You are mis-stating my position though.

I'm stating an absolute position - that you don't know a thing until you have proved it to yourself. Its kind of self evident. Its so self-evident that people think they know it. But they don't realise that watching something in a video or on TV is not evidence. Its the illusion of evidence. It kids people into thinking they 'know', but the truth is that they have beliefs.

You are expressing a practical approach. This is interesting too - you want to get as much solid info for the effort. You are taking a pragmatic belief system approach to navigating reality. Your practical approach, doesn't need facts or truth. It is happy to have things that are useful or not - its about utility. At least this is proactive.

I'm stating a fact - that you don't know a thing, until you have verified it personally. Knowledge and what qualifies it as such to any individual - is a point that is missed by most. I'm stating something about truth and how we know it or not.

You also say:

"having to prove everything from first principles before accepting its validity is a huge waste of time and effort."

I agree. I'm not saying that you should do that. I'm saying that people need to recognise when they are believing something on the basis of no evidence that they misunderstand as evidence (ie seeing something on TV), and when they have verified something personally.

I'm fine to say, that I don't know. Many things. The shape of the earth. That viruses exist. I know there are theories (sphere, flat earth, viruses, microsomes) - but I'm not going to mis-represent the state of my knowledge. I simply don't know. I haven't been in space, I haven't verified it myself. I haven't seen a virus. I'm not going to pretend to have knowledge that I don't. I contrast this with others who say they 'know' when they are kidding themselves and others.

Anyway, I think Magritte said it best:

"Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
How much more?
Shouldn't ad buyers just assume that the high fraud rates are baked into the price? If Reddit gets rid of fraudulent clicks (whatever that means), then the ad price will probably go up.
US military truck drivers (88M) doesn't give you a civilian CDL as part of the training. You can use a CDL as the training part to get a military license though -- aside from having to have a specific license for every different vehicle to be qualified to drive them but that's as simple as driving around the block to get 'signed off'.

If you have a military drivers license you can drive on public streets in military vehicles but you can't use it to drive a civilian vehicle on military or public roads.

(used to be an 88M and driver testing NCO)
impressive. I'd super appreciate the image quality but it's really hard top give back the desk space to a monitor like it's 2003 again.
Cultural differences are not necessarily bad, and people can adapt and learn how to work together over time.

You cannot change timezone differences no matter what you do.
>Knowledge and understanding of a topic is required before reasoned action is taken. If you can not talk about abortion, birth control, sexual/gender discrimination, gay marriage, and more because it is controversial then we might be getting in to an area where speech is so restricted that it impedes knowledge transfer and understanding on those topics.

And you can research and discuss those topics outside of work.

You're not being paid to show up to work and form PACs. You're not being paid to show up to work to virtue signal about the most fashionable wedge issue of the day. You're not being paid to show up to work and sow discord by assuming moral high ground and vilifying the other side. etc., etc.

>In order to have an informed populace then need to be exposed to things, sometime controversial.

The political culture status quo at Bay Area companies is that this is an alt-right talking point.

>If you remove a reasonably large mechanism for that, conversation at work, it will have political consequences.

Conversation at work absolutely should not be a large mechanism for political discussion. It's work. If there are political consequences because workers are no longer allow to virtue signal all day, then that speaks more about their weak mental state than it does about politics.
Evercam.io is using it for past few years, i.e 5 years almost, And I have been following seaweedfs for almost the same number of years, I think we are the largest one, this is what I think, as I have not seen anyone else, coming back and forth on GH issues :)
What about the products of my labor that I create from scratch? Can I decide what laws govern that too? You know, like taxes?

That idea went out the window a long time ago. Now we are all beholden to each-other and society on some level, so best we deal with it and solve these anti-competative issues and predatory platforms, otherwise let's agree that it's completely immoral and stop cherry-picking "moral rules" based on what we find useful at the time.
How to use financial ratios to pick stocks
The premium is actually higher than that. For $100, the developer gets $70. Which means the premium is $30 on a $70 base price, i.e. a ~42% higher price. That's a very steep price for easier payment cancellation.
thanks for sharing the article! i'm the author of the post and think it could be of interest to others that are looking to apply more efficient hyperparameter tuning algorithms to their problems. let me know what you all think and happy to answer any questions!
Many ads are not clicked on by a real person, but a bot, or someone clicking ads as fast as possible because it is their job.

Many comments would be considered "fraudulent" in the same sense, in that they were not authored by a real person, but a bot, or someone writing comments as fast as possible because it is their job.
This is less of a problem for pay-for-action type ads.

If you send X number of people to your site with Y conversions, it doesn't really matter that 'bots don't buy' - because the $Z spent on ads for Y conversions is the metric used.

It's much more of a problem for impressions or for ads without directly measured value.

It's one of the reasons Google makes so much money, the spend is generally optimized for the return, not for 'how many visitors are fake'.

Though it's a problem.
what does the amount of time have to do with saying 'I know' when you don't?
How is it BS for a private company to say they don't want to take money from a group like Stormfront?
> The idea that people in charge cannot understand them it's as old as modern humanity (hence 5-6 thousands years old)

There isn't great evidence for authority structures that would justify the label "person in charge" 6 thousand years ago. History generally starts around 5 thousand years ago, with the development of writing.

(Were there people in charge of other people 6 thousand years ago? Sure, it's not unlikely. But Çatalhüyük is a more or less urban area 9 thousand years ago; if we're going on what's likely, your estimate of 6 thousand years is much too low.)
How long before the "misleading" label is used on anything that doesn't match their own political views?
Earth is a hemisphere, obviously :)
Many (most) minimum wage jobs do not provide any meaningful benefits, so it's tangential to the minimum wage in most cases.

There's no doubt some fuzzy math involved to extrapolate inflation over the course of 50+ years, but I don't think that invalidates the fact that minimum wage has objectively not kept up with inflation even remotely.

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, and a handful of states are only just now breaching $15/hr. At this rate by the time a federal increase happens we'll already be another 20 years behind.

Worse yet is that labor data shows that more and more adults are working in minimum wage jobs, so the talking point of "it's just summer jobs for teenagers" and "it's entry level work to move on from" is very out of touch with reality these days. There are millions of people trying to survive on these wage levels and without benefits and it is not working.
That is a good question. I think it really depends on your personality. Engineers tend to be conscientious, orderly, industrious types. Being industrious typically means being a self-starter who takes the initiative and is probably self-taught.

That said, intelligence (g factor) isn't simply being conscientious. Being intelligent means that your personality is flexible and you're able to apply different aspects of your personality depending on what the situation calls for. Conversely, less intelligent people are generally stuck with the personality they have and are less able to modulate their behavior depending on the context.

Anyway, I used the StackOverflow analogy because it's more likely to resonate with the HN audience. The point was more about knowledge and relying on others as a crutch to avoid having to think for yourself. It's not inherently a bad thing, but doing it too much has consequences that may not be obvious.
I use rc quite often for a default shell when circumstances allow me. Heck, I hacked up rc-httpd, a web server written with rc, for a few projects and it work out nicely.
Am I the only one who clicked on this thinking it's a compilation of Rich Hickey's comments in Clojure source code?
If you replace 1,000 workers with 50 and a very expensive machine, should you pay each worker who remains 20 times as much? Because that’s the assumption in the article.

The people who build and service the technology are paid well. They’re techies who live in Silicon Valley, etc. But there are just very few of them compared to the 950 newly obsolete workers.
Yes this is true. Also there is nothing to stop someone from simply buying a data center, or several, out right.

I don't mean to be sarcastic here, but why spend $40 billion developing some new weapon tech that might or might not work, when instead you can set up a proxy Private Equity firm and buy out all a country's data centers?

Also by the way inside of a data center there is tons of segregation between server racks, dual power sources coming from opposite sides of building, etc. Even if you were given a decent time window a single person could only do limited damage.
Interesting point, TBH I had never considered applying the TSP to any more than two dimensions, as it becomes exponentially more difficult with each node added even within the same plane. I'm not even sure if adding more dimensions would make it more difficult or not but You have me thinking on that now, so thank You.
I think my main concern is the potential for politically biased vetting, which could lead to an election being swayed. It's a large amount of power over a democratic outcome by a small group of individuals who are not accountable to the public and are not guaranteed to be acting in good faith.

It's possible that the fact-checking orgs that have been chosen really are neutral but given the political power they hold in their hands, and given my experience with human beings, I still do harbor some residual concern about this. They seem like a remarkably high leverage attack vector for cynical political operatives. I probably have to do some more digging about who these fact checking orgs are before I come to a concrete opinion, however.

I will however admit that the alternative is also fraught with the exact same risk. Allowing various actors to actively spread misinformation can itself sway an election. Perhaps the best solution is to have vetting that only targets the most egregious, obviously false information, where the information that was censored (unless it is violent/pornographic/criminal), especially that which is relevant to upcoming elections, is catalogued and available for viewing by the public, simultaneously for accountability, public trust and to assuage conspiracy theorists that the vetting is political.
This is 50% of the reason, the other half is that all the tracking/ad requests hit an API endpoint on bloomberg.com (no dot at the end), which is now a separate origin as far as the same-origin policy is concerned. But the code is not expecting this to be the case, and doesn't set any CORS headers on the response, and the browser denies access to the response data.

This breaks the ads but also breaks any interactive charts, etc. that need data from the API.
Maybe it was just a GPT3 comment.
In theory competitive markets should force companies to increase automation without long term increases in profits. Grocery stores installing checkout barcode scanners are in competition with other grocery stores which kept the profit margins stable over time. Being ahead or behind the curve impacted individual businesses, but the overall industry saw minimal change.

Thus, technology isn’t the cause of companies capturing a higher percentage of the increased efficiency due to automation.
There's plenty of good stuff and bias in religion too.

Science is meant to be about knowing things on a personal level.

What we actually have is the illusion of knowing things that we don't.
In this case it looks like a lot of them don't have A records at all.
Yeah, I would like to not use GA too in the ideal world too :/

That said, we do use the Anonymize IP setting and have all of the demographic / interest settings turned off for Google Analytics.

We basically whittled 3rd party stuff down to GA and a Google font, so while not 100% perfect, I am pretty happy with the strides we have made.
Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository