skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know the “ship is sinking?” What unemployment number is necessary such that the ship is not sinking?

This article admits that the true number has been relatively much higher for nearly the entire history that unemployment has been measured by the federal government.
It does, but only in a certain window (I believe 12 hours). After that, dang and other admins can (and have done) merge duplicate threads.
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Webcomics work that way - quite a few webcomics have been written over the course of many years, and you can see the art style slowly changing and the artist's skill improving.

You don't notice it if you're subscribing/following the comic, until you jump back to an earlier strip and see how much less skilled the early work was.
Absolutely. The current state of AI/ML practically requires a human to interpret the results. Even a recommender system is just collecting and analyzing data for humans to consume in some way. And that system needs to be maintained and retrained regularly to produce meaningful results.
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I have seen some of Cody's Lab videos, I'm not really certain it matters whether or not a given resource is desirable for turning into charcoal since, what you are left with at the end of the process is nearly the same either way.

You could think of charcoal as a "substrate" or "substrata" which living organisms can live on and with in.

My process is a simple fire pit, filling over the period of a couple hours from the bottom up (it's fun you can cook on it too) and at then end once the pit full top you douse the entire thing with water. This is the stereotypical dug in, campfire.

During this process material is placed on-top of the burnt material, which slows it's burn (due to lack of oxygen) and the material will transition to charcoal but not further to ash.

There is very little smoke and the coals stay very hot all throughout the process. Due to the lack of oxygen, the syn gases are instead burned fully instead of going into the atmosphere.

Anyways, I can create a 5 gallon bucket of charcoal in a couple hours.

The next step is charging the charcoal, since it has nearly infinite microscopic holes in the material, it acts as a sponge with immense surface area. The charging process fills the holes slightly with goodies for microbiology to utilize, for example nitrogen.

Eventually the charcoal itself starts to be break down (over tens, hundreds, and potentially thousands of years) and serves as a "battery" to fertilize plants and other higher life forms.
I am not the most educated person on the matter, but I think there is an argument to be had about what constitutes a "website" and what is just a "multi-paged presentation" or even a "multi-paged advertisement" that is hosted on the web. I can imagine that even certain presentations can foster more intrigue and be more informative than just a place online that supports brands, products and services. I wish I was more well-versed on the history and principles behind the web so that I can express myself better, but I am quite unnerved by this service and how it presents itself.
It's not quite that trivial, since rhymes are based on the last stressed syllable in a word (e.g. he rhymes "samarium" with "barium", but not "lithium").
I don't like how every slide bloats the browser history. Google Slides doesn't do that.
Github Repo: https://github.com/fluree
I dont know how the accusation that they are a monopoly in search and advertising related to them being poor at spending that money to become a monopoly elsewhere.
C was the K&R book, PASCAL was the User manual and Report. These were the platonic ideals of the languages.

The specification was the language, the fact that there was an implementation was a bonus. I never once in my comments above said "formal" so perhaps we are meaning two very different things by "specification." No version of Cs specification since K&R has done away with undefined, nor implementation defined behavior.
Congrats on the public release today!

Do you plan to build an integration API (for embedding into Pitch, not the other way round)?
Time for someone to start killedbymicrosoft.com? ;)
It does, based on a URL match. One of the links included a "www." hostname prefix in the URL and the other did not, so the URLs don't match.
Great. Would love an invite if you are up for it.
The problem with unemployment numbers is that you only realize that the ship was sinking after the fact. The exact line of percent unemployment (and length of unemployment) at which a society falls apart isn’t a known factor.
If it can be used as such (make money/bought/sold,) and legalities allow (powerless company charter not withstanding,) it will be used as such.
Nothing will happen just like with Microsoft. DOJ is only doing this to scare them to ease and liberal their services.

Google achieved dominant market position through legal and fair market competition. If you want to regulate them introduce Internet Search Engine laws do it the same for Internet Social Networks and Internet Social media. They are not breaking Google up that's for sure.

Listen what Larry Page said "data in data out" with Facebook and with Google. If internet service allows you to export your data and move it to the competing service there are no problems.

"You don't want to be holding your users hostage. We want there to be a competitive market, we want other companies to be able to do things so we think it's important that you as users of Google can take your data and take it out if you need to or take it somewhere else." [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmQkNKo_0A
Chrome was awesome once upon a time, but so far I've managed to avoid installing it on my 2020 MacBook Pro. I use a lot of Google services but it still scared me a bit when Chrome started offering the option (on by default) to log into the browser rather than just into a website. Colleagues at my last corporate employer rolled their eyes at me when I told them I tried to avoid it and suggested there was no serious alternative to Chrome DevTools for any serious developer.
This implies that the product wouldn't be shuttered if it weren't acquired. Startups aren't extactly know for their longevity. Some were intended to be sold to a FAANG on day one. As for Instagram, products are cool until their investors start expecting them to turn a profit.
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And it doesn't even address anything I actually said. It's a deflection at best. The spectrum of corporate misbehavior that needs to be regulated is much broader than "singular monopoly".
The point I've always taken away from the US's faniciful unemployment numbers is that the USG could be doing A LOT more research in this area, but instead chooses not to. The Department of Labor, or some other government agency, could publish many different metrics that explore the issue of unemployment in many different ways. Because like any social phenomenom, there are lots of different ways to slice this pie.

Instead the USG deliberately chooses not to, because they don't want the issue of unemployment explored. Congress could mandate that unemployment metrics be gathered in dozens of different ways, with dozens of different definitions for what it means to be unemployed. But they don't. This is the point, and really the only point that matters.
This is also the tech powering Materialize, which is an awesome materialised view maintenance engine with a Postgres like interface:

https://materialize.io/
You've got a much more optimistic view than I do. That frustration is definitely there, but there needs to be a reasonable alternative for people to easily move to before you see any kind of exodus.

Right now, one doesn't exist. These also-ran projects designed by and for geeks don't really count.
In my experience on desktop Firefox has more compatbility issues than Chrome. On mobile, on top of that, it is way slower on most websites.
> It sound like people writing books without the rules on verb conjugation being really set.

I'm sure this happened earlier in the history of English. Of course, humans are much more forgiving than compilers.
Any new language project in 2020, for good or ill, is going to be highly opinionated and self-select for people who share similar views on language design. When someone comes along on their discord and says "you need to have this security and correctness issue that I care about deeply fixed yesterday" you really can't be surprised if not everyone shares your urgency- There are probably other languages/communities that DO care deeply about exactly those types of issues, that's the beauty of the long tail of the internet.
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An example of tricking oneself came to mind:

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds on comp.os.minix in 1991
Indeed.

And the math schools concentrate on isn’t particular useful in the context of a modern society. So what that you once memorized a geometric proof long enough to take a test if you don’t understand how interest works and how credit card companies take advantage of you.
I see this as more of a commentary on the lack of people able to do the automation, and the ways automation is done currently.

On a production line with 1000 different operations you'd have a thousand low skill people using their eyes, brains, and fingers to develop the assembly process.

You could never get 1000 roboticists working on getting an assembly line going. I don't know how you could even find that many, but if you did manage to do it, you'd probably end up with an assembly line that would spit out 60 iphones a second.

Instead what you might have is a setup where no individual process is getting the attention it truly needs. Each step is probably just barely working because the pressure to get 1000 automation steps working means that as soon as it works even poorly you've got to move on to the next step.
You responded to me with a 6 word, unsubstantiated, sentence that I'm wrong and just left it at that.
I'm certain they are refusing to read it. I try to be sensitive to thinking I'm being clear when in reality I'm not.

Here is a screen grab of a typical email.
https://imgur.com/5d36jpq

The first questions I get are "when is first practice".
Thanks for sharing your project, certainly looks like an interesting start!

Quick feedback, it seems you forgot to answer the question "Why build another one" before submitting your comment, I'm still awaiting your answer :)
Branded and store/white-label products have coexisted for a while now. It seems to work for everyone involved. The only players that it doesn't seem to work for are those with a brand but not anything underlying to differentiate themselves. But they're ultimately not driving any economic value so it's not that bad when we lose them.
This is still the case. There are some alternate package managers (pnpm, yarn) that handle this better, but they both break some tooling. In practice, I've found that it's not too big an issue—most people have plenty of disk space, and if you are running low you can just `rm -rf node_modules` on some old projects and install again next time you touch them.
Exactly. You can also use non-comptime functions in comptime, if it avoids certain types of stateful behaviour.
No offense intended at all but I had a similar experience with the zig community.
Many Android phones have smaller bezels than iPhone 12 and they don't use magnets. Probably there is enough surface to have enough grip.
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Partially, full support next month.
Your GF is a saint. This is a good place for AI to read the original email, and reply with snippets. If the AI isn't very good, it doesn't really matter because they probably aren't reading it anyways. :|
I have to disagree - I feel like most successful investors explicitly look for ideas that can grow in the exponential fashion you describe. YC particularly doesn't seem to show any interest towards linearly-scalable businesses AFAIK.

EDIT: Or, rather, I agree with the point you're making, but I think it's pretty commonly-held belief.
So who's going to pay for browser development, then?

Google bankrolled both Chrome and Firefox.
Hey guys, I've posted here before to show off a collection of 500 SQL and python interview questions (https://platform.stratascratch.com) and got a lot of great feedback from you all. I'm back because I wanted to share 500 more data science interview questions -- this time covering concepts in statistics, modeling, product sense, probability, business cases, and system design. They're all free and were collected from various public sites. But they're free because I'm only 1 person and can't answer them all. I'm hoping the data science community can contribute. These questions all have discussion forums attached to them, sort of like StackOverflow and Reddit style.

I'd love it if you guys could share your thoughts on it! Does this hit the mark as an educational resource to prep for interviews? What can be improved?

And just to be transparent about my end goal here, I'm hoping for this site to be largely free. I just wanted to create a site where people can have technical conversations around data science, and am starting with the niche of interview prep. The coding questions do have an executable IDE with datasets so I do have to charge for most of those questions to pay for my server costs.
Developers hate these tools for a reason: they're the ones maintaining it after it's been deployed. The whole concept of "no-code website builder" ultimately goes back to "where is the code and how do we modify or integrate it with our current systems".

Maybe if it was marketed as a "fast prototyping" tool, I'd be more on board with the product.
His definition of unemployed maps perfectly to the good and often used term underemployed - basically people that want more hours and money and are unable to find them.

If you learn in 2020 that there are a lot of working poor, you haven't been paying attention in the last 12 years.
I'm super excited for Pitch. Since it's a web application I assume there will eventually be a public API, and ways to embed interactive media.

I think this will be really powerful for events. Imagine if you had ONE master slide deck that had:

- A slide for audience polling

- A slide for a zoom call with one of your speakers

- A slide that managed an icebreaker activity (like Kahoot)

- A slide that tracked merch sales in real time

- A slide with general analytics about your event (ie. how many registered attendees are actually in the room)

All you have to do is hit NEXT SLIDE
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The whole "facebook isnt cool anymore" thing has been going on for a decade now. Linkedin isnt cool. The WhitePages arent cool. Plenty of other properties, like twitch, discord, twitter, carve out their niche. Snapchat was going to be the facebook killer, people got bored with snapchat. But facebook keeps growing. Now TikTok is looking like a threat. But no matter what everybodys favorite place to hangout is, they also have a facebook. And companies keep throwing money into facebook ads.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
> Look at IBM. They just can’t innovate

Indeed. But they shot themselves in the foot when they replaced their experienced, expensive staff with low-wage Indian workers (not to pick specifically on Indians... there are certainly Pakistanis and other Asian cultures represented in that cohort).
Ok so the article points out well known deficiencies in the widely used definition for unemployment and presents a nation wide figure using a magical undefined number called the living wage applied against a data set revealed only to Axios on HBO whatever that is.

So what to make of this? That the unemployment figure doesn’t reflect the actual experience of job seeking in the USA...

We know this and there’s nothing in this article adding to our intuition.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette

Dawkins wasn't "deplatformed" for his legitimate views, but for islamophobia, which is completely legitimate.

> In 2013, Dawkins came under fire for a series of statements regarding Islam that seemed to blur the line between reason-based resistance to dogma and xenophobic prejudice. He views Islam as the "greatest force for evil in the world today"[35][36] and stated that "All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge,"[37].
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I realize this sort of tool targets a completely different audience, but what we desperately need is not more no-code builders, but a robust, DB-backed builder with an object-based workflow, and with code-behind for custom workflow logic. Like something that can compete with Zoho Creator, but is actually engineered in a sane manner, and offered at a sane price. It would take the market by storm.

Most of the solutions out there either are stunted by no-code workflow that severely limits what you can do (ala Casio), or are code-behind solutions that are poorly engineered, fragile, and require deep platform knowledge and far too much coding to accomplish simple tasks (ala Alpha).

Zoho Creator is the happy medium, but it's cludgy, badly organized, has terrible support, missing key functionality, and its engineering choices are mind-numbingly stupid.

We need an Access for the web, but nothing comes close.
Google authenticator is just TOTP. The whole "scan a QR code, type the number" thing will work with any client, not just Google's app.
I had a similar experience with Encarta at a similar age -- in the US, in perhaps in a far more privileged environment -- but it hit me the same way.

Encarta was great because it curated and presented information intentionally. Everything was in one place. You didn't get lost in rabbit holes or overwhelmed by information overload. You didn't get distracted by Instagram.

It's so obvious that it barely needs to be said, but giving a kid a well-crafted learning experience is better than just throwing them into the deep end of the internet.

I remember in elementary school some student asked why race cars make that distinct zooming noise as they race past. The teacher didn't know, but I was able to go to the front of the class and explain the Doppler effect based on an interactive lesson I had watched on MS Encarta.
This is a gross misinterpretation of his thoughts. Its not that he and only he can implement it. Its that he believes that security must be seamless and take basically no configuration in order to be used by the masses. Things like federation, key control, protocol control, and a million other things makes the effort required to use the service be far greater than most people would put forth. So he's made something seamless, and it's being used by more and more people every year, unlike, say, PGP, which is a UX nightmare.
There is creating new work and there is judging early work. One hack I’ve used for both is to realize that your brain is different at different times of day and in different levels of exhaustion/sleep/context etc. You are almost a different person as time passes. That novelty gives you new perspectives and new ideas with time. So always document new ideas (i have even built a new tool to make that as fast as possible) and then live with them for a bit. A good one will haunt you in that it will keep showing itself and resurfacing in other contexts. If the regret of not having it is heavier than the effort to put it together just use a weekend to put it together.

For judging ideas, you should pay even more attention to regrets. Your choice is a psychological anchor, so if you chose poorly you may not know it as your brain will automatically try to justify your choices, but if you find yourself angry at past rejections you’ve made on an idea, that’s probably regret talking to you, and that means you’ve been subconsciously haunted by something you should be paying more attention to.

Now I’ve learned to note what upsets me about an idea and at times dig in deeper and consider it extra points towards the idea.
This is a great idea. Thank you for working on it.

Allow me to suggest a feature for your roadmap that might be particularly helpful to people like myself that take this rather seriously: Support users that are in a habit of creating and using a unique email address per service that they subscribe to. (perhaps this is a bit niche for MVP, I realize)

For instance, I own a domain that I use solely for email. I have a configuration that allows me to type <any-thing-here>@<my-domain>.<TLD>, after which that email address will automatically route to my main inbox. Therefore, I have probably 100+ email addresses that have been used for various accounts and services like Netflix, Amazon, Foobar Business LLC, etc. It would be great to be able to use your service with my many 'primary keys' rather than just one. Perhaps you plan to support this already, but if not hopefully this comment leads to a discussion/consideration in your team.
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Clean and efficient output is my biggest gripe with many of the current builders.

I would like to add:

- good multi-language support
Have you seen their customers vs their competitors’ customers? And Watson is a joke.
Everything in EtcH will be purely functional which both simplifies things and allows us to create interesting new features. Lots of influence here from languages like Elm
There will be no textual solution as the plan is to make that unnecessary. Instead complex functionality should be built up by composing functionality from a just a few core language features operators, map etc...
A good library/module solution will be needed. I haven't quite got to that bit yet.
Source? We do unschooling and know a lot of families who unschool and exactly zero of them are antivaxers or antimaskers. We tend to end up here exactly because we believe in the scientific method.
There are ads on the Gmail app??
I've never heard of that. If true, that might be a large hole in my theory :)
> That's the old (and frankly: tiresome) mindset

It really isn't. It's based on comparing the languages as they exist today. C++ is vastly more productive.
Yeah but how long does PBRT take if limited to 8GB ram? ;)
If you consider many companies hiring their first applied statisticians due to the AI/DS hiring, then the gains are massive.

Yes, most companies probably do not know how to effectively leverage AI knowledge from 2012-2020 (deep learning era). But, classical ML/AI tools such linear regression, basic clustering, A* search, bayes nets etc. are older tools that many industries are now using for the first time.
No search isn't a Natural Monopoly. There isn't some sole magical search spring that Google taps into or a need to dig search lines beneath everybody's houses like a utility. "It is very useful" does not make something a utility - having exclusivity to a commons is what makes it so.

There is nothing exclusive about search - Firefox and many other browsers allow you to choose between multiple search engines at any time without setting a permanent default.
"10x better"? Citation needed.
Atreus somehow is not one of those names that puts me in mind of Christianity or Islam, either one.
> Rust and Zig target different audiences though.

You would think that, but for example I think that, for example, Oxide should definitely have picked zig, if it were more ready. Obviously it's not, and oxide wants to ship now.
that's interesting. I can delete my FB account or Amazon account. how can I do this with my government?