skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently added an assertion that the # of tests succeeding was > 0 to cover a similar issue.
Only for the Air, the M1 Pro is tested against the equivalent i7 Pro so I assume not throttled as much.
They have pro versions of their phones. It doesn’t mean anything anymore.
The legal and ethical aspects of South Africa’s Covid-19 app explained
> A PhD is slave work and exploitation as 'right of passage'.

You can't assume all fields like that. I know that some people here on HN have described PhD programs in lab-based STEM fields as killer hours, low pay, and lots of carrying water for their supervisors. But in my own discipline at least (a subbranch of linguistics), a PhD is typically paid with an ordinary European middle class salary, and the topic is chosen by the student and only agreed to by the supervisor, so you aren’t being slave labour for the supervisor’s own ends.
I think we are saying the same thing.

I was pointing out that the basic concepts like "modes", "commands" and "navigation" are unintuitive. But the commands, or navigation itself is not.

And from that, I state that it is not unintuitive to "close vim" in itself. But that "using vim at all" is.
It really is only a small amount of what we know. Look for example at the KEGG pathway list (https://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html), which is a curated list of pathways (so also only a part of what we know, albeit a larger). And this visualization depicts a dozen or so of these pathways.
What would "correctly" even mean in this context? The whole point seems to be that no, society is utterly incapable of handling their behaviour and tries hard to just somehow get the to behave like girls instead, attributing all differences to social factors instead of acknowledging biological (mostly hormonal) differences and addressing them.

However a "correct" way would look like, statistics certainly indicate that the current system is far from it.
That is a rude comment. Why have you sticked with windows or mac os when they released 20 versions of their software? NT and 98, windows server, etc.? Because it does it's job, who cares that there are other versions that also works! I run influx stack in production for two years and had (almost) zero problems with it. Everything works, is being maintained and on the side the new cool stuff is being rolled out, what's the problem with that? Paul, as a happy user of influx, let me say - thank you guys for what you are creating!
Would love to read about that, even if some parts are now already outdated or no longer as big am obstacle.

A site as large / complex as I assume bing is would possibly allay lots of our concerns and give us some concrete steps to move forward with.
I'm not kidding when I say that deep technical work like building proton is a lot easier in some sense then building a good multiplatform UI.
It's great to know that. As far as I know, many media streaming companies are sharing with a fee.
What is our accuracy as a team for feature delivery timeline estimations. Is someone consistently off, if so is there a common reason (eg brittle unit tests mean they have to refactor unrelated tests so their PRs are consistently late (or slow to produce).
Not all development is equivalent, I’d cut and run if someone evaluated me on time to merge, LOC produced or churn, etc. Those aren’t reliable metrics in my opinion for how a person is doing in your environment, they are just evaluating maximizing me as an asset, not a person.
Maybe it was too early for this kind of thing. I could imagine today such shell would be much slicker.
[Late to the party, sorry.]

Anyone curious about modern sortition:

Citizen juries are chosen by lottery. They review policy and make recommendations. Non binding, but impactful.

https://healthydemocracy.org

https://xraypod.com/show/democracy-nerd/exporting-oregon-sty...

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IMHO:

Treat representation and policy making as distinct and separate activities.

I'm very political. Over time, I've become increasingly disinterested in electoral politics and campaigns. At best, it's tangentially related to policy work. Less so over time.

The real power these days lies with interest groups and lobbyists. Both on the left and right.

There are some notable exceptions, where electeds are effective advocates of change, but they're rare. Most are just doing triage.

And what outsiders see as partisanship is just different teams funded by different coalitions of interest groups.
Richard Feynman and How to Learn Anything Well
Depends on what your chosen research is... there is no law stopping PhD candidates from publishing impactful papers.
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Rolls Royce plans UK class of mini-nuclear plants
The jury is still out on that one.
This is 2013, I was expecting to read about Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 being "Beowulfed"!
You make it sound although everyone lives in a city that FAANG companies hire in? Most of us don't, and most of us don't even have the ability to enter the US to try for most of these jobs. I'm well aware of how Bay area skewered HN is but "just get a job at FAANG" is an incredibly patronising attitude
Rolls Royce plans UK class of mini-nuclear “small modular reactor” (SMR) plants
Checking if the Pi is done: Basic monitoring for a Raspberry Pi cluster
I think that the trackpad needs to be bigger. Doing gestures is much easier with a big pad.
Oh interesting, I didn't realize that. Thanks!
>Some things do apply. I am not an ML expert myself, but just today i helped during the initial requirements call for a ML opportunity.

Nice. It is important not to promise what your ML experts said they can't deliver.

We have conversations with everyone about a prospect/deal. Everyone chimes in with talking points, potential problems, conditions of success [i.e: we'll need to have Y data, and we need to have their sales and data warehouse teams on board for this to work], ethical considerations, engineering constraints.

We fine tune this so that we know how to help the client succeed in that project. We do this so that the client organization knows who to include in the project.

>Question about 2.7.0: Currently we have an offer for a ML PoC for a very cheap price. Do you do initial work completely free of charge?

If you consider it's very cheap, you might want to make the client see how much value they're going to get from the completion of the project and price it accordingly. It helps to be aware of the client's context, their competitor, where they are struggling, knowing the sector and key metrics. You're not selling "ML". Your helping them solve a problem, and it helps framing that in terms proper to their sector.

For example, if you're doing a PoC for customer churn for a bank, you want to do your homework about that bank, read their financial documents and get information about number of clients and the problems they're voicing (what's growing, what's shrinking, why, competition). You also want to learn how much does a churner cost.

Framing things in terms of dollars and market share instead of of recall and accuracy helps.

We offer different modalities for value to be exchanged. We have the advantage of being very flexible and able to make offers on the spot; we therefore can offer multiple ways for the client to get value of this by adapting to how their own organization works.

This is why it's important to ask questions and listen/read what they're saying to discover the reasons of an apprehension/hesitation. Sometimes it's just that it's the end of a fiscal year and they really want to do this but they can't budget for this right now. How do you then construct a deal to make the project possible?

Sometimes it's an organization bound to do public tenders because of public procurement regulations. How do you construct a deal to make it possible for them to hire your services.

You want to avoid free of charge? Get them to agree that if the PoC meets certain criteria, they'll green light the project and pay you for what the PoC would have cost. You may offer a conditional discount tied to their subscribing to a maintenance offer later.

Ultimately, the way you structure things is up to you but you may be surprised to know that organizations are more than willing to pay you, and more than you think, if you structure things in a certain way, and make it easier for them to pay you in exchange of real value.
the solution is 4chan.
Moderate only the horrifying,
appease nobody's personal belief that they have a right not to be offended, and make your voice heard.
Everyone needs to learn to have a better bs filter in times of AI generated fake news.
What use is trying to eradicate the things we disagree with?
Clearly the answer is inoculation.
Thats also interesting

> “But it’s something that could be trying to happen even now.”

Could be happening on earth still or other planets he meant?
This is hard to do. I heard a quote from like 1950 that you should work all out until you have 100k, then relax. Was said by a billionaire in why he didn’t burn out. After that, he was less stressed and did things he enjoyed more, which happened to make money.
I was talking about opposite side of the political spectrum but obviously not insane people.

It seems you are grossly mischaracterising people of a certain political orientation which brings me to think that maybe you never really attempted real contact and/or you didn’t try hard.

Some of those conspiracies you mentioned don’t even have any link with any specific position on the political spectrum e.g. here in Sydney some politically progressive suburbs are amongst those with the lowest vaccination rates and as you probably know this is also true in many other large cities across the world https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/rich-suburbs-have-low-immu...
This change can't come soon enough. My only objection is that the rollout is way too slow, and the first step is only a baby step. What we have now is essential a 0day situation.

Unfortunately a lot of commenters completely misunderstand the proposal, as well as the attacks it is designed to mitigate. Here's a good paper describing the issue, "Attacking the internal network from the public Internet using a browser as a proxy":
https://www.forcepoint.com/sites/default/files/resources/fil...

The "HTTPS" part of Google's proposal is a bit of a red herring, as I said, only a baby step. It does not mean that your local services have to be https. It just means that public http sites can't make requests to local IP addresses.
Basically Ant would like to be seen as a technology company, rather than a finance company, because these two are under different regulation. In theory, Ant acts as a broker to loans, and it is making profit without much risk. The new regulation would have been in discussion for months. My guess is that Ant knew about this new regulation which would hurt its valuation, and decided to go for IPO before this regulation come into effect. If the new regulation halves Ant's valuation, it is really not fair to the IPO investors. it makes sense to stop the IPO.

There was tens of huge P2P lending companies went burst with tens of thousand investors losing their money and protests happened after each event. This is the reason for the new regulation. That said, Ant group is in a very different league. Alipay owns a huge share of payment market in China, the data it is collecting can cover everything you do with money, I would think Ant's loan are safe and that's why banks are buying those loans from Ant.
Benford's Law and the Detection of Election Fraud (2011)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the article, but my reading is that the stock went up after the sale. So the CEO left money on the table.
> That is, in a period of social upheaval such as we have experienced since the death of John F.
Kennedy and the escalation of the Vietnamese war, conventional modes of behavior lose their appeal, and fascination with the bizarre, the alien, the unfamiliar , the strange, with all sorts of stimulation that provide escape from the realities of the moment, increases at a great rate.

Written in 1974, this comment still seems true today, although the means of escape is probably now social media, rather than the drugs being discussed by Silverberg
The students are also trusted, or at least accountable. It's very different than a random stranger. That said, I wouldn't store anything truly private in a shared box like that, specially in the university, where the boxes are likely to be maintained by inexperienced undergrads.
Not sure why this wasn't a dupe of my submission [1] submitted ~8 hours earlier? Oh well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046588
> In the definition as is very well agreed upon,

No, the definition that is "very well agreed upon" is purely the lack of animal products in the food. The logo on supermarket products that denotes the product as "good for vegans" is based purely on that lack of animal products, not on any ethical beliefs beyond that.

Also, even among those who would call themselves vegan for ethical reasons and so do not eat animals or dairy products, there are a considerable amount of people without qualms about using animal products in other spheres of life than food.

You seem to be trying to do gatekeeping about what a "real vegan" is and cut out those who don’t share your purist animal-rights obsession. That is obnoxious.

> (hence veganism setting itself apart from vegetarianism which is only a diet).

Veganism has set itself apart from vegetarianism because in common parlance the latter term covers diets that allow milk products.
It does not say that it isn't likely, just that it hasn't been observed. This is the first article on the topic I've seen that even suggest that it isn't strongest candidate.
Dupe (by 1 minute): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25057824
Got it. I appreciate your detailed and clear reply.
Love Feynman and his quirks. Wish one of his quirks wasn’t being a little derogatory towards women though to be honest. Has made it harder and harder for me to recommend him to people without being upfront about that caveat...
Remind me of an old Usenet joke.

> The upgrade path to the most powerful and satisfying computer:

> * Pocket calculator

> * Commodore Pet / Apple II / TRS 80 / Commodore 64 / Timex Sinclair

> (Choose any of the above)

> * IBM PC

> * Apple Macintosh

> * Fastest workstation of the time (HP, DEC, IBM, SGI: your choice)

> * Minicomputer (HP, DEC, IBM, SGI: your choice)

> * Mainframe (IBM, Cray, DEC: your choice)

> And then you reach the pinnacle of modern computing facilities:

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Feather HTTP https://github.com/featherhttp/framework. From the description: A lightweight low ceremony API for web services.
Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's not. It would be wrong to unconditionally assert either way.

I did a pure mathematics PhD and was given a general area to look at and a problem to solve but that was really just a starting point, I had the flexibility to solve something related so long as it was interesting. The papers I published had my sole authorship; not even my supervisor's name was on them (except in the acknowledgements). I spent much of my time, for several years, in a room on my own with nothing more than a pencil and paper (except occasionally a book). All I did was sit there and think hard. It was glorious, and definitely not slave labour.

Postscript: I did not go into academia. The PhD helped me get (and do) my job afterwards, possibly not as much as if I had worked in industry that whole time, but it was a fulfilling life experience.
The gruesome rise of “Avacado Hand”
Looking back at 100 releases of screen sharing for sales
If observational astronomers all work independently out of their apartments with a $1k telescope for a few decades, a lot of areas of theoretical astronomy are going to languish. Not to mention other fields that need crazy things like an actual lab.
I think there's a bit of a distinction between patches that add functionality not accepted by upstream (as here) vs the more typical distro patches which do things like replace bundled libs with shared ones, fix locations for things like TLS bundles, that sort of thing. These can still break things, but much less frequently.

I haven't been a distro packager in many years, but my recollection is that in other distros (debian, fedora, arch, etc) patches that add new functionality would generally not be considered okay unless accepted by upstream. I'd be interested to learn the rationale for not upstreaming this patch before including it.
> YouTube used to have a freely accessible search API.

Twitter used to have RSS/Atom feeds for each account so you could follow someone without a client, just a regular old news aggregator.
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Earth, hence the “bacterium gobbles it up” idea.
Natural gas (methane) also leaks and contributes to warming as a greenhouse gas far more potent (though shorter-lived) than CO2.

CA electrical generation is largely zero- or low-emissions sources, with hydro (for SF, Hetch Hetchy), nuclear, wind, and solar making major contributions.
Why not "tax people with a lot of money, to help pay those who do not"?
CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (2011)
The only way to do a migration is to have it be an actual business priority with a stakeholder at the executive level pushing for it's completion.

Else you have some engineer saying the very reasonable thing of "we can do the migration incrementally because that'll totally work" and what you wind up with is the easiest part migrated and the gnarliest part not migrated and some half and half monster that persists forever. Until, and there must be an XKCD about this by now, brilliant engineer number 2 comes along year later and laments the half finished migration and decides we can finish it. But not by finishing the original migration, no, by starting a brand new one. They migrate the remaining easiest part of the original code and the easiest part of the original migration, and are so burnt out from all the complexity and general clusterfuck it has become that they quit the company leaving the future maintenance programmers with a panic attack when their boss comes to them and says... sorry to dump this on you but we found an email that says we need $steaming_pile_of_crap_you_spend_your_days_cursing to be compliant with $some_new_government_regulation_you_cant_push_back_on by $some_date_you_know_you_cant_hit. The kicker? They got the email 11 months ago but just found it now that the IT is leaving and was cleaning out his inbox.

Source: brilliant engineer number 2
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> in the sense people know what they want to do, but the exact process for doing it takes years to develop and refine.

That is what makes me dislike the idea of patents - if two or more teams working in silos on developing and refining the process would have gotten similar results, then the process should not be patentable.
For those of you that don't like that terminology: let's just use the words that Debian itself uses, namely "the universal operating system". What is an operating system if not a collection of software that follow a standard so as to interoperate?

> I also think Debian's approach has shown itself to produce something less reliable on the whole

I think the opposite. Is there something particular you'd like to point to? I accept the SSH disaster. But that's 12 years ago now, and it is a single example.
Or those who gained a lot from the crisis? It's not like they were planning for a pandemic; for e.g. zoom this was simply a windfall. Why not tax that?
For those of you that don't like that terminology: let's just use the words that Debian itself uses, namely "the universal operating system". What is an operating system if not a collection of software that follow a standard so as to interoperate?
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055465
I usually don't test the logging. However, sometimes I get tests for the logging messages "for free". That happens when I break out some logic in its own function, and I want logging on what happened in that function (definitely not all the time, but is sometimes useful). Then the function can return its result, and a list of logging messages to output. When asserting the result, I can also assert on the logging messages.

It's what I describe in "Returning a message list" in this post: https://henrikwarne.com/2020/07/23/good-logging/
Financially Independent, Retire Early is FIRE

An example would be https://reddit.com/r/FinancialIndependence (as always Reddit is hit or miss, take it with a grain of salt please)
Even in person? What you described is normal online but I would think it wouldn’t happen so often when you are face to face
Even better - Tax bank executives who earn more the first day of the year then the average bank employee will earn all year?
Considering how stunted most people are without a phone and google on hand. Sounds like the main character had a rough time learning to spell and do math again :).
Finally they got some sense. Thank you
"The woman said she has always been supportive of efforts like New Hampshire’s “Free the Nipple” campaign, though she doesn’t actively participate in such movements."

Aha! Even more electioneering - where does it end with this woman?
:)
They don't carry most local news. I live in a town of about 7,000. We had a "labor of love" local paper for a while but haven't for a long time so Facebook or Next Door is pretty much my only source of information about what's happening in town. But it's not hard to do the math and see why it's really hard economically.

How much would it cost to produce a weekly newsletter/newspaper for the town with a sustainable income for one or two people? Maybe $100K/year? Now you're talking about every town resident paying over $10/year--and most won't. Can maybe knock that down with some advertising--of course, now someone has to sell ads too and we have very few businesses in town.
I think we have to consider that this talk is from 2015, when datascience was a much smaller part of the python ecosystem. I have used python since 2003 for various things and never once I’ve touched numpy, but I bet today 1 in 3 python devs use it probably every day. I understand your point of view and I understand the speaker’s own too - his is just more old-school.

We’ve been able to sidestep the GIL in many ways since forever (for example with alternative implementations like Jython, IronPython, PyPy etc), and I think everyone has known that for a long time, but here Dave just wanted to show what the actual problem is, beyond the buzzwords (it had become a bit of a myth in the early ‘10s, when Go suddenly exploded in the sysadmin/backend niche partially because “it can do parallelism better”).
92% efficacy of Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine
Because Deutsche has consistently gone above and beyond when it comes to hiding (or assisting others in hiding...) illegally obtained money, whether its cartel leaders, money launderers, Bernie Madoff, JEpstein, Donald... Shocking they would try to throw some shade at a quantitatively irrelevant group.
Not too rewarding when you're left with no real way to earn a living after.

The pursuit of knowledge is great and all, but it doesn't pay the rent.
I’m not sure... the difference between a 20 and a 2 shouldn’t be too large.

An example of a large range in my head is like 120-140k, a more typical one would be like 120-130k. If you’re good, you could negotiate a bigger range.

That’s an appreciable difference to the employee, but basically a rounding error to the employer.

If you have a high salary today your employer already has an incentive to get rid of you and replace you with a new grad. It already happens.
Wow, so because I save myself and my employer money by not mindlessly commuting to work everyday I should pay an extra tax? That's one of the most ridiculous ideas I've heard so far.

It's a bit like taxing cyclists 10 % of their income because they don't support the car industry...