skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue the context manager concept is better than destructors, because it's more explicit.

BTW, Python does have the `__del__` special method. It's just that almost all usage of it would be better implemented via context manager.
> How is this achieved in practice? Wish I knew.

I think my take-home from this discussion is that the honor code can be made to work in the right circumstances that exist, at least, at Caltech, Rice, etc.

At the same time, I believe it is impossible to induce the requisite "cohesion" in other contexts such as 100% remote learning or high-stakes mass testing (entrance exams etc.), even if the student body stayed the same.
That's a little snarkier than I intended. It is good to share this method of handling what is otherwise very awkward code. It just is unfortunate the language itself doesn't have constructs that lend to proper syntactically scalable resource handling other than nested "with" blocks.
There seems to be a lot of Engineering practices you need to understand and follow to use GraphQL effectively which makes me naturally suspicious of the technology. I do judge technologies for most use cases (not niche) by how easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot - the easier it is the less I rate the technology for broad usage.

The article assumes simple schemas as well - a parent with many child relationships in this article could lead to some complex resolvers. Unless I misunderstand the article many of the strategies here are in ORMs (e.g. lazy subselects) which often don't perform as well as a crafted query given the still multiple roundtrip's to the db. They also require more code, and exhibit branching which means that performance is a function of the users query. If you know your user that's fine, but then again I don't see the advantage vs a straight REST or RPC call which would result in simpler code anyhow. It seems to work IMO in cases I guess when service isn't critical, your model/schema is simple, or you prefer flexibility of data access over reliability/predictability.
When my Local Mc Donalds screens broke down it was a disaster as most of the crew did no know how to work with out it.

I am actually surprised how bad many Mac Donald's are at Time and Motion - or maybe its the UK Franchises
China did isolate infected people away from home for precisely this reason. Seems to have worked.
Yes but if you tell the restaurant to not put kale in your food, and they go ahead and cook it in kale juice anyway, you'd be a bit annoyed right? Burger King aren't complaining about it - they are still promoting the plant-based aspects of the burger, but aren't claiming that it's a vegetarian meal. Nobody is making a big deal about it.
I'm not sure what your point is. I'm a software developer. Of course I think actual progress is pretty swell. But your quasi-teleological approach to is tantamount to religion. And justifying it through your fantasies of what might happen 400 years from now is unrelated to the practical weighing of benefits and costs that underlies actual progress.
I skimmed through the article and there's quite a bit more of this:

> This has led users to literally turn Atom into Vim, unable to let go of the past, unwilling to fully embrace the future of code editing.

> unable to let go of the past, unwilling to fully embrace the future of code editing.

W-what?
Nope, carriers buy broadcasting bands. Phones are designed to be able to take in and process the various frequencies that all the carriers use.

Whenever there is a bandwidth auction, you'll have the potential of your phones not having access to your new network's bands.

How we've been handling this is that new purchases often go to newer tech. However, there has been some cannibalism of really old bands (For example, taking a 2g band and turning it into a 5g band). That happens per carrier.
I managed to get to Gather's office and what blew my mind is that there are programmatic gates that allow people to go into private spaces if they have permission.
The initial Bloomberg leak that predated any announcement from Apple said that the entry level laptop chip would feature 8 big cores and 4 little cores and not 4+4 arrangement in this iPad Pro version of their chip.

Moving down to the iPad Pro version of the chip, given it's more than adequate performance, would already leave more pricing wiggle room.
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Problem with context managers is that they add up indentation really, really fast. I guess TFA is at least a partial remedy to this though!
What are the chances this data was available to report prior to the election?
Don't know alteryx but at 5k/user/yr, I'm not sure this classifies as a "just use"
I think this is the same exact situation I'm in. Getting some banding on one edge so I think I might need to replace the toner, but the last cartridge I bought was probably 8 years ago.
Oh, totally. It's VERY apparent that 5g was developed for a pre-covid world :D
most italian pizza is trash compared to american. you’re eating a flatbread.
First of all, thanks for mentioning those other examples to me, I haven't heard of them before and will definitely engage with them further.

You're right that I can't just dismiss the possibility of the stones or the paper developing a consciousness.
However, this fallacy wasn't unnoticed by me, I just don't see a way to approach this question in a more scientific way than by using my intuition.

So you're proposing that there is actually no difference between human brains and computers in respect to the ability to be conscious, did I get that right?

I don't understand your argument about the stones "buzzing and vibrating and bouncing around [...] in highly nonlinear ways" though.
That doesn't resemble the computations made by a discrete computer anymore, does it?
Or are you hinting at precisely those differences between computers and brains (i.e. mathematically discrete vs. mathematically continuous)?

Also, why do you think parallel information processing matters? Does it really matter in a computer?

Could you elaborate on your argument that scale (in terms of calculation speed; in terms of memory it surely matters) does indeed matter?
I don't think it's any more plausible for a huge pool of fast-moving "magic sand" to be conscious (excuse me for once again committing a scientific fallacy here, I'm open for suggestions on methodology).
It is in the US in December
The most logically consistent argument they could make is that alternative browser engines are disallowed... so logically an implemntation of "wget" which is just a wrapper around the Safari engine should be OK.

Of course, all of this is arbitrary. Apple just wants to be able to control their platform, they don't actually care about having rules and enforcing them with any semblance of fairness.

It's unfortunate that developers have to put up with this. I say "have to" in that my understanding is that Android users (in general, present company likely excluded) won't pay money for high quality ad-free apps. So if you actually want to make something good and be paid for your trouble, it's iOS or bust.
Is it listed here? https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/supported.html
There are over ten citations there to real articles about predatory journals, all linked in the paper. Even this:

> 28. Stromberg J (2014) ‘Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List’ is an Actual Science Paper Accepted by a Journal. Vox 21: 10-11.

(See also HN discussions on the abovementioned paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22052019, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098655)
I didn't realize they couldn't use any persistent storage. I would think this would break most web applications.
This is how products get better. Small changes that seem less relevant to people with low product interest.

Meanwhile these features stack year on year til you have vastly better products over time.

This improvement isn't marketing departments. They might spin the improvements to stories and messages but the changes come as continual engeneering improvement in products. Go see a 15 year old phone and imagine we'd stopped adding little improvements there vs today's phones. They work but they are clearly inferior products.
The Big Bang never happened but fusion will
there are product reviews and seller reviews. but people get these mixed up a lot, or don't even know about it.
One wonders why cancer rates continue to climb
I sort of disagree. The big win from GraphQL (vs REST) is flexibility: You don't have to define all your endpoints up front. The client(s) can make the sorts of queries they want.

If you're building a single page app frontend where most of the business logic is on the client side, it makes sense to empower the client to define the types of queries it wants to make.

If anything, running a GraphQL architecture seems like less maintenance burden to me, because it makes the server side API less rigid, so the coupling between client and server becomes looser.
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There are many gross oversimplifications of the healthcare.gov rescue experience.
There's actually a big scene of vegan cheese alternative making, it's just pretty localised right now. For example there are many companies in London making excellent vegan alternatives (e.g. I AM NUT OKAY, Honestly Tasty, Kinda Co, Mouse's Favourite), many of which offer something with pizza-melty mozzarella-like effect. Local pizza delivery places offer the vegan options too. There's even some with blue mould for that real funky cheesy flavour! It's expensive right now but the product is there.
Their reputation is shot. I wanted to buy a NAS, and look at the prices in Canada. I stopped myself from going to Amazon because I was too wary of weird reviews and long discontinued products with completely strange prices.

I went to Canada Computers instead.
Truth itself is not really knowable in many interesting cases, and even scientific truths which might appear "objective" at any given point are subject to debate, change and revision.

The thing that needs to be protected is the pursuit of truth and I think this looks a lot like freedom of the press and freedom of civic speech.
And look for patterns of bad product traits being reported. Most people complain about one thing they didn't like, or one thing they wish the product had (even when the description said it didn't, go figure). If everyone is complaining about the same thing, then I know I should probably be wary.
One little thing left: notify users about the existence of these sites.
Why do so many carpenters still use screwdrivers when they could be using a drill?
FATCA compliance issues won’t just get the IRS on your back. You also have to deal with the US department of treasury.

The US treasury is not handicapped by regulation in the same way the IRS is. We’re talking extradition and jail time, not just having to pay back taxes.

The Venn diagram of banks where you’d feel safe storing millions of dollars and that would also be willing to help you defraud the US Treasury are exceedingly small. It’s just not practical.
This is a good point! I wonder how often that's the case...
We need lots of laws for consumer protection. It's in society's interests to regulate business plans. This falls under right-to-repair.
A solution for both this, and the problems with exams in general, is oral exams. Student has to answer questions from the teacher, in real time, one-on-one. Takes longer, but is much more authentic.
One of my friends in college managed a medical journal, which was owned by a moderately well-known professor trying to quickly cash in on his fame. His job consisted mainly of formatting word documents while pretending to be a team of reviewers.

Sleazy conferences are quite common too. I think this is a deeper, broader problem than many scientists would care to admit.
Agree that serious training seems necessary.
Why do companies retain experienced developers instead of hiring ignorant and entitled millennials? Don't employers understand that experience is a liability?
This seems worse for most except the highest performing employees. You don't get most of the benefits of stock appreciation and 33%-50% of your income is going to be variable based on the opinions of your manager and skip level.
Do you know if it's possible to get ahold of a copy?
Easy: People are getting older. Older people have a higher risk of getting cancer.
Given the features and cost, what are the likely class of suitable applications for Precursor? It looks like the guts of a typical (consumer) router e.g., or a set-top device, but maybe not a commodity IOT thing (overkill and cost) and certainly not an iPad (performance, for one).
I for one agree with you. There is no rush to get vaccinated.

Personally, I doubt I will get it at all. The authorities have a very long way to go to win back my trust, after the chain of screwups over the last year.

We've seen that they will lie to us, we've seen that they apply rules to us that they themselves don't follow, and we've seen them take advantage of the situation for their own benefit.

It is a huge shame that so many people are not going to take it solely because they've betrayed our trust so many times that now that they might be doing something good, we won't cooperate.
Except HP scammed its customers by promising free ink for life and delivering $0.99/month ink until the next price increase. It's hard to vote with your wallet if companies make false promises.
"I asked you to write an algorithm, not a bunch of Greek letters. Is that your fraternity or something?"
This and other links look great, and more natural/simpler than the 2d board.

But gatherly doesn't seem ready to serve my family and I if I have to request info (I can't just sign up).

What's the best, simple app like this that allows easy subconversations that my family, parents, other non-technical folks could easily join?

I don't mind paying to host but it has to be easy for them to log in and use.
Not debating your point, but I want to point out that there is literally no overland travel between South America and North America because of the Darien Gap. If you want to get to the US from Bogota, you'll need to fly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap
This is an interesting paper - thanks for linking!
There's a sucker born every minute or something akin to that.
Will this save their tanking ratings?
I agree with you, I would argue that free software/open source developers are the ones who feel entitled to an income based sorely on the size of the audience they amass.

Something of incredible value was lost when Free Software was corporatized into Open Source, and instead of "True believers", we had more open-source-as-marketing. I am a frequent user of libre software, and I do it without paying (how many have donated to VLC, yet directly or indirectly depend on it or FFMPEG? Even closed-source applications remotely related to video likely depend on it one way or another). I pay it pack by contributing to open projects and making them better - granted, I have a day job that gives me this flexibility.

It would be a dark day (IMHO), if all open projects were to depend on the benevolence of F500s.
Taiwan did ask people kindly to self-isolate at home in most cases, and it worked extremely well. Certainly a lot better than telling travellers returning from high-risk areas to go straight to work the next day, as the brilliant minds in charge did in some other places.
It was a long ago, but here's hoping someone from 18F can chime in:
https://18f.gsa.gov/
Nope.

This actually seems like a really good idea, taking both the sense of place/community that you get from games, and the productivity and environment that you get at work or a conference.

I like it.
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Because this is one of the (thousands of) features in Palantir's government product? And this one is manual, just dragging things around a canvas -- Palantir's software places them automatically and intelligently based on available data.
> I'm having a hard time convincing myself to leave iTerm for Alacritty, just for a speed boost.

I've never understood why anyone would want a higher-throughput terminal. Better latency I could see, but throughput? I'm not Commander Data. I can only read so fast. If my shell is dumping text at me faster than my terminal can render, it's because I catted something I shouldn't have.
I must say I appreciate your direct delivery, and concise points (sorry Santa).

How do you suppose we determine what basic human rights are? Or is the question too vague?

Keeping the same spirit of your comment, but applying it to food:

You don’t have a right to my food. You have no right to food for free.

Both these statements seem quite true in today’s world. Can we go further and say food/water isn’t a human right?

I hope this isn’t interpreted as putting words in your mouth. I’m just curious where you stand with regard to more ‘mainstream’ human rights.
I was checking out the application for one of your positions and found this required question:

> Please provide your salary requirements or range.

I feel frustrated when I see that you haven't listed a salary range for your open positions, yet expect applicants to provide this information. I think it puts prospective employees at a disadvantage. Also it can waste applicants' time if you'll never pay as much as they need or expect.

I think your mission is valuable. I want public services to serve the public well. I hope you consider being more open about potential salary ranges because people like me would feel more comfortable applying.
My (perhaps too) honest answer: Because I'm reviewing the purchasing experience, not just the product. Same as when I review a restaurant, I'm reviewing the service and food, not just the food. Even now that I've learned there's a separate area to review the seller, I can barely be bothered to leave one review, so I'm likely not going to take the time to leave two. Honestly, they're lucky I'm even leaving one honest review, since I'm under no obligation to do so. And like others, I've had my critical reviews get deleted, and I've even received emails from Amazon with vague threats about them, so they really don't encourage me to care much.
The whole series can be read via [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/column/good-question-randall-munroe-...
> Getting a bank in most other countries is not hard at all and certainly not a "nightmare."

I don't know about "most" countries, but my American colleagues in Germany and Switzerland complained about the difficulty of doing anything related to finance (banks, brokers, taxes) because of their extra tax liability. I personally had to sign quite a few forms certifying that I am not a US citizen or a greencard holder or in any other way tax liable in the US, so it does seem to be a big deal.
This seems to be the only approach that works anymore. Are all the negative reviews petty or entitled? Then probably the thing in question is fine.
It's not even funny how Italian and Indian food are so trivially made vegan!
You almost make a religion out of this. Make the lion vegan to complete the circle. That would end the misery on this world, right?

Some animals are abused and we can work on regulation to prevent that and promote sustainable development (in EU they already have some laws about this) but I don't think making sure cows die by old age should be the end goal.
The 80% number was made up in this conversation. The vaccine has not been tested using only one shot and we don't know how effective it might be.
What brand/model? I’m not finding these, just the old/expensive APC models and the like.
Do you just copy and paste this text in different places?
Benchmarking Pulsar and Kafka
The emergency alert system (which plays its own alarm tone) seems pretty trustworthy.
This may be illegal in California where employers must share their range and cannot ask candidates their salary history.
It’s true that those who don’t understand what a HTTP cookie is, are unable to make informed decisions about them.

Forcing those who reply to HTTP messages to ask if they can send a header asking if they can save a cookie does not change that - the user who clicks the cookie popup may still now understand what they do.

Many do understand things like private mode though, which is nice.
The answere is unfortunately "it's complicated" and "it depends on the task". Very large EfficientNet variants are impractical anyway. For detection I've been very impressed with https://www.paperswithcode.com/method/vovnetv2. You can use "plain" convolutions when you need higher accuracy and depthwise separable convolutions when you need speed, at the expense of a relatively small accuracy drop. Generally GPU hardware prefers the kind of nets where it can "stretch its legs" so to speak. VoVNet does have more parameters, but it's _far_ easier to train to practical levels of accuracy, and it does well on NVIDIA hardware, and especially under TensorRT. Note that you can plug in VoVNet2 as a backbone into just about any detector, it doesn't have to be CenterNet. For mobile GPUs MobileNet V3 is still adequate for a lot of things.

If anyone from NVIDIA is reading this, I feel like this is a good, and under-explored area of research that'd be very tractable for you: figure out architectures custom-designed to do well on recent NVIDIA GPUs, and especially on Jetson Xavier.

One thing people don't realize is that EfficientNet/EfficientDet aren't necessarily the best choice _for their specific dataset_. In a way, a lot of these academic networks are overfit to the task of e.g. detecting objects in MSCOCO. If your dataset doesn't look like MSCOCO, there's no guarantee whatsoever that they will do well on it. Same with ImageNet for classification. ImageNet is very hard. To do well on it your net has to do something most humans won't be able to do without substantial training - recognize the various dog breeds. If your problem is simpler (which nearly all of them are), chances are you don't need as complicated a model to do well on it. Indeed, a "complicated" model is likely to actually do worse than a model that's "just complicated enough". Due to e.g. overfitting, or being more sensitive to noise in real-world data, and so on. Not to mention it will naturally limit your experiment throughput, which is one of the most important factors for getting a good model that does something practical.
e-waste is among the worst flavors of post-consumer waste. If a lack of corporate attention span is meaningfully driving up its creation, then it's probably in society's interest to pay attention to that issue.