skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does anyone think AI can pick up on causation when humans can't even do it?
That indicates mostly a branding/communication problem and not something fundamentally wrong with the practice of layering services over other third-party services.
Drones Shoot Darts at Trees to Collect Data
Yes, absolutely. Approximately nobody translates technical documentation for fun, much less at such a high level. The article is pretty clear that the number of languages supported is a business decision.
They're right leaning. You made it sound like it's harder to make your timeline right leaning than center leaning.
I wonder if JS could have been a better language for platform-agnostic business logic.

Unfortunately, it looks the best approach is still to inject the JS inside of a webview, which has way too much overhead for background processing.
For the arrow coming from github to the cdn, I would bet that's a deployment where the existing docs site gets deployed as a lambda. From there, CDN calls that aren't cached go to the lambda which are then served up.
I'll nominate myself as silly question asker.

Has this been used as the persistence for an event sourcing service? Does that sound like a good/terrible idea?

Does it play nicely with SQLAlchemy?
Making the virus extinct is unlikely, but that's more than required to return life to "normal". What's required would be for its annual death toll to drop out of the top 10, such that it looks more like the kinds of ordinary ways people die at random (car crashes, cancer, etc.) and less like taking unnecessary risks.

A decent vaccine (say, 80%+ effective) would lower the transmission rates enough for that. People in high-risk groups may continue to wear masks for the rest of their lives, along with other real changes, but most people could treat their lives as "normal".

The odds of that are very good. There are multiple vaccines in process, with good reason to expect them to work, and preliminary evidence that they work fairly well. That may not suffice to eliminate the virus, but it's good enough for people to stop building their lives around it.
You need to start where you are, and realize that just doing more things isn't going to fix any holes in your life. If you have a ton of things to do and you are having trouble keeping track of them, then you might have use for a tool.

Separate your work and your life and your ambitions. I'm lucky enough that I can track my work stuff in my head. If it ever gets to where it's too hectic, I escalate to a written task list.

My home life is similar. All of my life context is kept physically. I can see that the dishes aren't done. I can see when I need to take out the trash.

My ambitions, on the other hand, well, I've spent man-years of effort on hacking away at solutions to manifest them faster. I don't consider the time I've spent writing scripts and stuff wasted because I love doing this stuff, it's what I naturally start doing once everything else is sorted. I don't take a 'ship it' strategy to them because to me the point is enjoying the journey, not to get to the end as fast as I can.

I don't have to build a colocated kubernetes cluster in order to host a blog, but I want to. It appeals to my sensibilities to not pay hundreds of dollars for compute when I have a perfectly good desktop machine with lots of its own compute.

I've spent more time on keyboard macros than I'll ever save. But the feeling of power I get from having my world accessible with just a few keystrokes is great. And learning about how evdev and xbindkeys and the like work is interesting as well.

The hole isn't filled when I get to the end. The end is when the hole stops being filled. This is what organization will do to you if you're not careful.
Not GP, but one the one hand semgrep has a real honest to goodness parser at its core; on the other hand I'd expect C++ to have sufficiently complicated semantics that it needs some understanding of C++ specific mechanics to be useful. Furthermore, you'd need preprocessor and template expansion magic to really get to the bottom of it. Effectively this is the same problem e.g. javacpp has.
> Yes, either cloud functions (like Vercel's `/api` approach that we love) or docker containers (something like Google Cloud Run) will be one three big features we'll be working on next

I'd love to use one of these serverless solutions (cloud run in particular looks great). But there is a key problem that they seem to share: cold starts. Our app doesn't see a lot of traffic, so we can happily run the entire thing on the equivalent of a small VM. If there was a massive traffic spike then I guess this would fall over, but we're an enterprise app so this is unliekly and we could fix that pretty quickly by provisioning more servers (in heroku this is as simple as dragging a slider). But even if we couldn't, falling over in abnormal conditions seems greatly preferable to there being a good chance of 3 seconds+ of latency being added to a normal everyday request.

If you can solve this then you're on to a winner.
Belief in a human destiny outside Earth seems like a religion promising an afterlife to the faithfil for mostly secular technologists.
One is proactive assessment by a community, the other is blind bigotry against outsiders. The inclusion of bigotry as a deciding component is the key, IMHO.
Vi is the editor of the Unix programming environment (among other things the shell). Emacs is a shell, that introduces a different kind of programming environment. The OS is still Unix, it's wrong to say that it is it's own thing, but you relate to it differently, but neither is inherintly "better" fit for *nix in the abstract, it's just that the shell is more popular since it was historicall the default UI.
Well, the way I see it it was the financial problems who personally made the decision, so that complicated things somewhat.
NSIDC records began in 1979 for the arctic sea ice. Earlier records have to be intuited from proxy sources, such as anecdotal accounts or early photos.
Great news! There were 5+ years during which I warned people away from Pygame. First there was no official release with Python 3 support in sight. Once that happened, I was disappointed that it still used the old SDL, which was utterly obsolete by then.

The last area I'd like to see improved is the documentation. But the list of stuff that did get done over the last couple of years looks fantastic. Thanks to all the contributors; I'm looking forward to kicking 2.0's .whls.
Five scenarios that Tesla FSD Beta fails
Can you expand on what you mean by an acyclical hierarchal relationship?
What do you think would prevent a self sufficient colony on Mars in a few hundred years? I don't see any fundamental obstacles to it.
Why is it now more likely to become cluttered than before?
I don't think you've been reading news over the last year about Canada being considerably unhappy with China these days. I'd disagree with your characterizing the liberals at not doing anything. Also have you been paying attention to the meng wanzhou CTO of Huawei at all? I'm tempted to fact-check the rest of your statements as a function of the complete inaccuracy of the last one but that would take to much time :)
Which book should you read?
https://www.bradyneal.com/which-causal-inference-book
> But it's still hard to find a lawyer that charges less than 250/hr.

I've seen research that the average lawyer (which is definitely not NYC biglaw firm) successfully collects on about 1/8 of their nominally billable hours.

If that is true, and you also factor in that they are effectively running a small business with all that implies for non-billable work, your $250/hr lawyer working on their own is making about $50k/year. So even if we are off by nearly a factor of two, they are hardly raking it in.

By comparison if you are in larger firms, more of the hourly rate is captured but it is also paying for multiple people.

Don't get me wrong, there are lawyers out there making great money (e.g. partners in those same NYC biglaw firms). But thinking that is the experience of the average lawyers is a bit like looking at levels.fyi and deciding that all over the country most software engineers are making 250k+.
This article refers to a 1981-2010 Median:

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2020/07/laptev-sea-lapping...

Edit: Another graph goes back to 1979.
I don't need to convince you. The issues in BC are well documented.
I don't doubt that the Github-based CMS will allow for community-provided translations. I _do_ doubt that we'll see anything like the current set of languages covered at anything like the current levels of breadth and quality.

Like I said in another comment, approximately nobody translates technical documentation for fun.
I learned way more about spiders in the sci-fi book "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky than I thought I would! The basic premise is that the evolution of spiders on a new planet is hyper-increased, and they become the dominate intelligent species on the planet.

The sexual dimorphism comes into play because male spiders are the victims of sexism in spider society. They are smaller, weaker, but eventually work towards equality.

That book is interesting but nightmare inducing!
This can come to a head when traveling.

Years ago, I had used hotels.com to book a reservation. I had booked a hotel near the destination airport for one night before continuing to travel to my actual destination. The hotel advertised that they can give refunds or change booking with 24 hours notice.

My flight was cancelled and rescheduled for the next day, making that one-night hotel stay a waste if I couldn't reschedule or get a refund for it.

Apparently hotels.com doesn't have the same policy as the hotel I had a reservation at, so while still in the airport, I had to argue with about 3 layers of people before it was made apparent that I wasn't speaking to the hotel.

In the end, hotels.com "made an exception" for me and refunded my money which I was then able to use to book another night. I suspect that exception was made because they were able to get a refund from the hotel itself.
I don't think being left with 3 billion in profit is being sued out of existence.
Sellers will advertise the lowest price they are willing to accept once they get desperate enough. But generally, for low volume, high value transactions, haggling is almost always worth it for the seller.

Hence car sales, land sales, leases, company mergers etc all have a bit of back and forth as opposed to produce at a store. However, in poorer countries, I’ve seen haggling over vegetables too, but that doesn’t happen in developed countries since it’s not worth anyone’s time.
The first record in the graph used by the hn-linked article is from 1978.

If I'm not wrong this should be the point from which frequent reliable measurements had been taken. (It also roughly matches with my memory about that topic).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_shipping_routes
With corporations, the cynical view is most likely to be the correct view. And I wouldn’t say MDN does very little for Mozilla; it’s the main part of their brand in developers’ mind share. If they want to have a browser without developers who like it, that’s their choice, but it won’t really work out well business wise.
This is so good, the features, the licensing, all of it. I'm not going to argue the use-case or NewSQL vs NoSQL or anything but for someone who wants PostgreSQL-level knowledge transfer working with time series data (audit logs, event history, change management, etc), this is amazing! Good work!
> This is because I legitimately use facebook for communication more often than I use phones. Therefore, being banned from facebook would have a larger impact on my life than being banned from ever making a phone call again..

If you use Facebook as your primary communication platform I can see how getting banned from Facebook would be very inconvenient, unfortunately, the fact that you would rely on Facebook in such a manner doesn't change the reality that Facebook is just one website, while a phone network is fundamental infrastructure that underpins internet connectivity. For the vast majority of Facebook users losing access to the phone network would mean losing access to not just Facebook, but everything on the internet. You might have grown accustomed to thinking of Facebook as something more than just a website, but that conception is simply wrong, the idea that Facebook is comparable to the network that Facebook runs on is categorically incorrect.
I have been thinking about this all morning, and I really can't come up with a single biotech that has been started by people who left university. Do you have any examples? (Not being rude, just ignorant)
I'm with you, friend. May we rejoice in our newly attained, unusual facts!
EXoDOS v4.0
Because a low sophistication customer is better than a high sophistication one.
Really? "Fairy tale of physicalism"?

What have you got against fairies? Can you prove that fairies don't exist? Can you prove that fairies are not the true manifestation of consciousness? Can you prove that you, yourself, are not a fairy who is extremely confused? Woo.

Dressing up religion as sense never turns out well for religion or sense.
My Slack usage is definitely async. The icon is kept on the far left edge of a 43" display. How async varies from person to person, day to day. This likely works because we have more than one person in every group able to field inquiries with appointed people for critical workflows.
What a waste of talent to have the smartest people work on crypto. Waste of everything for everyone involved.
I keep telling the spam filters to let some stuff in and they still bounce it in there. Though to be fair they get most of the stuff. About 2 years ago I went from maybe 100 or so a month to well over 1500 a week now. Got on some list...
The catch is you have to develop the experience. You may well be able to reach a better outcome! But you do also have to commit to developing the depth, which can be a process of years.
Spread of a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant across Europe in summer 2020
I'd be skeptical of just assigning problems an arbitrary difficulty level and then comparing them directly. Better to recognize larger, uncontrollable trends and then see if they can be nudged into the right direction, or adjusting your actions to piggyback them. This is sort of what the whole "accelerationist" thing was about, back in the 90s.

In other words, forcing the entire world to address some contemporary issues (like overpopulation, for example) might be more difficult than just accelerating the production process that makes space colonization possible (thus solving the problem).

> Migrants can't pay for proper boats to cross the Mediterranean but they'll pay for interplanetary travel ?

I had in mind more the early settlers to America, and early frontier America itself really. When "leaving Earth civilization" becomes conceivably affordable/doable for a small group of people and/or with investment, it will happen.
yeah but laundering demand is less price sensitive.

If i am laundering money, i am OK paying some "tax". That's how laundering works in general. Even in case of car wash, they show it as a legitimate income, and they do pay tax on it - they just happen to make the money through illegitimate means.
Why does space colonization have to entail far-flung visions of the moon and Mars? (never mind the moon is three days away) It could also mean building orbital colonies. Or even taking the technology and knowledge gained from space exploration and using it to colonize Earth, should we need to- building undersea, underground, or polar bases.
Key bits of the abstract (below the fold):

Abstract— Goal: We hypothesized that COVID-19 subjects,
especially including asymptomatics, could be accurately
discriminated only from a forced-cough cell phone recording using
Artificial Intelligence. To train our MIT Open Voice model we
built a data collection pipeline of COVID-19 cough recordings
through our website (opensigma.mit.edu) between April and May
2020 and created the largest audio COVID

....

Results: When validated with subjects diagnosed using an
official test, the model achieves COVID-19 sensitivity of 98.5%
with a specificity of 94.2% (AUC: 0.97). For asymptomatic
subjects it achieves sensitivity of 100% with a specificity of 83.2%.
I was curious too, came across this graphic showing records since they began in 1979 (original source NOAA)
https://mobile.twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1318913839568662529/...
No, I am disagreeing with "misconception #2".
The Evolution of Version Control System (VCS) Internals
One trick is to apply as a specialist for a given role. During the interviews ask questions that give you a sense for how easy it is to generalize internally.

You can automate your resume-specialization by building a template in HTML, store role details in a DB (a JSON file would do), and generate unique PDFs with `weasyprint`. Something like `11ty` or `jekyll` makes this fairly doable.
Marketing pretty much. Some vague cloud of "uses serverless to generate", "pushes static files to a CDN through an API", but if you drill down none of that is key to it. I.e. you'll find advocates state that if a site uses a static site generator or Netlify it's JAMStack.
You should probably know that the rest of the critique is based on the principle that when one studies economics they should be entirely hostile to empirical arguments. This is why these arguments aren't taken seriously by anyone and why they are entirely ignored by those without an ideological motivation for the basis, which is that economics is not a social science but instead a transcendent discipline which can ignore both epistemology and empirical evidence and thus come to more convenient conclusions that completely ignore all the inconvenient conclusions of social science, experiments, history, and real life.
Wow! Things are really making progress in RISCV land!
actually I think the typical application should mix "NoSQL" paradigmas and relational.

consider a Offer model, do I really need OfferPosition's as an own table or can I include them via something like "jsonb".
Satellite records go back to 1979 [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/alarm-as-arcti...], but there appear to be ground based observations from earlier years that corroborate the abnormality of the current year.
"If Boulton and Watt would stop wasting their time and money with those silly steam engines..."
> I do not understand this position. Why attack Wayland? X.Org works, it would probably work for another 10 years, XWayland maybe 20 years. If X.Org is such a marvel surely someone would maintain it.

Because most people are dependent on distributions to provide them with a standardised setup, packages and security updates, and few distros have proven willing to support more than one option for a component as central and dominant as the display server. Sysvinit also works, und unlike Xorg doesn't even have the problem that graphics hardware will eventually leave it behind; and yet, it is now basically impossible to avoid systemd and its many tentacles if you want a mainstream-compatible Linux experience with timely security patches, because its proponents have successfully persuaded every major distro to adopt it and drop everything it replaced. Wayland, unfortunately, is not willing to exist as just another option until it has reached feature parity with X11; rather, it is competing with it for a limited resource (distro support) now, and poised to go in for the killing choke.
I preface this by saying I’m not ok with how this is. I’m just explaining the reasons “class action” lawsuits are the way they are.

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That’s because the purpose of “class action” lawsuits isn’t to provide relief to the harmed class (despite what many think). It’s to punish the company (financially) for their wrongdoing. It doesn’t always work out that way,[a] but that’s the idea.

The reason (supposedly) for not getting relief is that the injured class members can still file their own cases against the company with their own lawyers. But then you need to pay out-of-pocket for that lawyer and hope the judge not only sides with you, but awards cost in addition to the claimed damages.

Of course, there’s always the perverse incentive of the lawyers working for the class to take a bigger cut for themselves (“why would I take a $5 million payday when I could get $15 million instead?”). There’s also a push to settle because then they work less, but still get their payday.

[a]: Especially if the payout is less than they made harming the class
A decade out of date? It'll take you 30,000 years to reach the nearest star at the rate of the fastest moving object ever constructed by man. If anything any of us are talking about are able to be out-of-date in a mere decade, the whole premise of this discussion is flawed beyond measure.

All of the resiliency that you've seen in life is due to the fact that the environments to which we're adapted are uniform. Oceans everywhere are nontoxic and water. Air everywhere is mostly clean and breathable. There is no example of life being resilient under conditions as varied as other planets. We are only able to adapt within the confines of our clean-room Earth. We can't even adapt to the bottom of the ocean or Antarctica.

Optimism isn't going to overcome 6 orders of magnitude of error.
Also, I think most commenters are not weighing how much different running a biotech startup is compared to a software startup.
I think that would be a lot of fun! I'm vaguely planning to target RISC-V eventually, because I bought a couple of dev boards. But for now you should check out Vladimir Keleshev's book! His book targets ARM.

Book: https://keleshev.com/compiling-to-assembly-from-scratch/
If the text is in github, you can download it, backup, make an iso and share on piratebay, it won't be lost.
Interesting, the wiki page notes:

> The sea has a severe climate with temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F) over more than nine months per year, low water salinity

Given the low salinity and below 0 °C for so long, you would expect it to be frozen most of the time.
And the problem is that each time the software changes, attributions are lost. I used to be active contributor to MDN with thousands of contributions. Countless hours of volunteer work.

When the platform changed and my attributions were lost, I stopped contributing. I had no street cred anymore. I was angry.

The switch to GitHub means the same problem once again. Nice way to alienate your community, MDN. Good luck with that.
There's a BIG difference between "data driven self-help" emails from a self-proclaimed "marketing pro" and on-topic development discussion and patchsets.
I'm not sure what extended zip codes are as I'm only aware of the zip codes like 90210 which cover a large area. But here in the NL a lot of online shopping for example don't even ask you for the street name, just the post code (4 digits + 2 letters) and of course your house number. You type in the post code and the street name gets filled in, leaving you with just the house number to enter.