skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe most would choose not to take that step because they are well and truly cognisant of the level of responsibility and care required to raise a child with the same, or more extensive, needs as they themselves had. No one would know better than they would, and I have yet to meet a person with Downs that was stupid despite any manifest intellectual deficit.

That said, it is definitely immoral to forcibly prevent another human from having a child. Any debate on morality must focus on the decision the individual themselves must make.
Why are you purposefully ignoring their point they are trying to make? It doesn't matter how much of genius engineer you are. If you are this willfully ignorant, you are dumb.
Rosetta2: x86-64 Translation Performance
This is not a new philosophical problem. We already know what the inherent tension is here. Do we value the sanctity of a human life over the greater social order?

Of course both answers to that question have very far reaching implications, and to answer one way or another almost always reveals oneself to be a hypocrite in some way. But instead of actually engaging with these hard questions we equivocate and try to build logical defenses that allow us to have our cake and eat it too.

Unfortunately with modern science and medicine we will be forced to reckon with the consequences of these unspoken choices soon or later. I don't pretend to know what is correct here, and I don't necessarily pass judgement on those who would answer these questions differently than I, but I do have large amounts of contempt for anyone who tries to ignore the realities of their positions and even more contempt for those who think the answer is obvious and self explanatory.
If you work with management that base technical decisions on a single word name, one with relevance to its ability, then you have bigger problems than database platform names.

"What is this Postgre thing? I can't pronounce it so it can't be any good."

"MySQL sounds like a toy. We need 'OurSQL'."

"Oracle is the right choice because I'm familiar with the name."

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."

"Eww, bugs! Gross!"
Isn't that what Google's TPU equipment is for?
I don't think the OP is really describing imposter syndrome - being "the only thing I know is how to pick up any new stuff fast" is a slight humblebrag (unless he fears a imminent shortage of 'new stuff' to deal with) - but then that's just me projecting (as I have an aversion to the misery of the new).

I think actual suffering is mainly down to our natural focus on 'what we can't do' - combined with some mal-tuned sense of empathy, projecting this from blissfully unaware others onto ourselves.

I don't have an IT background, and drifted into it as "I like computers and they said yes". Learnt to code a bit to get stuff done, and was OK as built up proficiency. Then moved into more customer-facing stuff - gathering requirements, then coding them up. Then I stopped doing the coding. Then technology moved on under me when I wasn't paying attention. This made me miserable - was working in IT, knew what I/they wanted to make, but was incapable of actually producing it myself. What was the point of me?

Then I moved into Product Management and found it clicked. I could just write down what I wanted (or draw some pictures, design a flow) - then just wrestle that idea out of my head (which is quite satisfying). Present it, clarify it - and 2 weeks later it had become reality. It was magic. I didn't have to do the thing I was crap at.

More importantly though, I started to learn how other people liked/disliked to 'consume' work. Some people seem fine with being given a picture and being told to "make it just like this". Some people get upset when you don't give them the painful new technology. Some people will blithely create something obviously stupid, as you didn't explicitly say not to. You're told some people are 'behind with their work', but it's as they've gone out of their way to create something with elegance. Some people need to be separated from others, by the throwing of your protective body between them, as you don't bruise easily.

By this point, I should probably try to write a conclusion. We're a social species and form groups. The goals of that group become our goals. By meeting my goals, the group meets their goals, and we collectively succeed. My imposter syndrome is where I'm just looking at the gap between my abilities and responsibilities - and I feel I'm betraying the group. Feels like something useful, that's just gone a bit too far (like an auto-immune disease). How to over-come it? Maybe be brutally honest with yourself about what you like/dislike. What made you want to throw up and what kept you blissfully occupied in the office until the lights were turned off. Then be open about it, and ask others.

Simile time - I'm thinking it's like office secret-santa, where you get a random name. If you know the person well, you might come up 'the perfect gift' for them. Makes you happy. If you don't, you end up buying something generic and inoffensive - a box-ticking exercise. This is just a silly activity that takes up maybe 15 mins of the year - but somehow we don't see the latter case as an issue for the rest of the year where you're interacting more.
You're conflating two distinct concepts: 1) what you're obligated to agree to; 2) what you're obligated to do once we've established what you've agreed to.

You're not morally obligated to agree to literally anything, but you are morally obligated to uphold your end of an agreement.
I am not going to convince you that this was morally just, or that the actions of the commissioners was not racist. I am okay with that, so I will focus on leaving a record for anyone who stumbles on this unfortunate thread.

You do not have even the fundamental facts of the situation. "Lavonia County" is not a real place. Livonia is a city in Wayne County. There are some precincts where there are small gaps between the expected number of ballots and the actual number cast. This is typical, and its ubiquity reflected in the fact that statewide recounts reliably produce shifts in ballot counts on the order of ~100. The relative sizes and frequency of these gaps is actually larger in Livonia than in Detroit. These gaps do not demonstrate partisan lean, nor do they evidence voter fraud. Voter fraud is extremely uncommon, it does not shift the outcome of state-wide elections, and it does not demonstrate reliable partisan lean: there are dishonest people of all political stripes.

In spite of these facts, the commissioners asked to certify the results of Livonia and the rest of Wayne County, excluding Detroit. My position is that disenfranchising Detroit is immoral, racist, and a brazen attempt to subvert our electoral system.
If there was competition in the App Store market, I’d have to deal with the overhead of dealing with publishing companies.

My apps would have to be designed to comply with all of the rules of all of the stores.

No thanks.
Retarded is literally the only word that can explain it. Absurd isn't good enough
Why are Elderberry supplements so popular?
Sure, but I don't think the prevailing argument here is that any offense no matter how small should be catered to.

To produce a silly hypothetical, how about if anti-vaxxers got really upset about the phrase "code injection"? Even though anti-vaxxers are a worryingly large subgroup who've managed to return us to the days when measles is a thing to worry about, I still think that general cultural perception is such that everyone would roll their eyes at this complaint.

Rather, for "master" and "slave" and "blacklist" and whatnot, it's that enough of a groundswell of awareness occurred in general society that a lot of people started to feel awkward about the use of a term. It's akin to how "negro" used to be a perfectly acceptable descriptive word, but if you used it in casual conversation now you'd get a negative reaction even though it's not the bad "n-word".

We can't separate the current drive to replace slavery-related terms from the last few years of events in America. There's been a lot of events which have driven home to people that, yes, Black people in America are still having a rough time -- and in America, that inexorably ties to the historical reality of slavery.

A lot of these replacements are symbolic, driven more by a desire to say "hey, we accept you! you are welcome in our community" than any severe offense at any particular term. But symbolic things matter in aggregate.
Ironically, Chromebooks are the "freest" hardware you can get. They all support full-featured coreboot, including measured boot and verified boot.

https://www.coreboot.org/
System colors are in the CSS Color Level 4 working draft updated less than a week ago. What appears to be (durably) deprecated is just a subset of the system color names, with what sounds like a reasonable reason:

Earlier versions of CSS defined several additional system colors. These color keywords have been deprecated, however, as they are insufficient for their original purpose (making website elements look like their native OS counterparts), represent a security risk by making it easier for a webpage to “spoof” a native OS dialog, and increase fingerprinting surface, compromising user privacy.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#deprecated-system-colors
I'll third this. I was so excited about the applications for speech/smart interfaces in the home a la Cherry 2000. But we got Alexa. A tool to buy stuff and spy. I won't denigrate the actual useful functions these devices have - I like to ask Alexa to tell me jokes when I'm at a friend's house that has one. However, it's all the things that come with it that turned me off.

I'm currently pursuing open-source tools to run home automation but it's slow-going. It's complex.
Not exactly “development” category, buying high quality tools that I use on a daily basis has been hugely beneficial. JetBrains developer pack in particular, I don’t know the exact name but you get their whole suite of developer tools. I can’t live without two of them at the moment, DataGrip and WebStorm.
First the elegant Battleships and now the might Aircraft Carriers are on the way out...

Is a goon-swarm free-for-all really the future ruler of the seas?
Makesite.py: FAQ: Can you add feature X to this project?
I've been doing a similar thing where I build lots of different SAAS type projects, lots of them will go nowhere, but what I have learned about design, abstraction, and trade-offs is enormous. Definitely worth the time to do something like this. One of my first priorities in hiring someone is to see if they have side projects where they learn things unconstrained by the normal grind of daily professional life.
Anyone else surprised that this is all they came up with after having started in 2018? Maybe all the low hanging fruit really has been picked.
The problem is that every generation has new de novo mutations. Mostly they don't do anything, very rarely they're positive, but some are bad. It used to be that only half of children survived to adulthood which produced enough selective pressure to remove new deleterious mutations, but that thankfully doesn't happen anymore. This isn't a problem in the short term but if we don't introduce something like pre-natal selection we'll eventually wind up back in a situation where half of children don't survive to adulthood despite modern medicine.
I mean, isn't TikTok one too?

Definitely wouldn't let my kids anywhere near it.
Reading your comment here made me feel worse about my impostor syndrome. I don't know that I have very many things that I have genuinely accomplished, which I think gets at the heart of the issue. When I do mimic accomplishing various things, this mostly comes from taking various portions of online example code, reformulating it, and doing some basic data plumbing to make it work the way I want it to. Almost everything that I have "written" looks like modified example code glued together with stackoverflow-plumbing. I have in fact built tons of projects and worked on large codebases, but I'm not certain that makes me an engineer or that any of this is a genuine accomplishment. It isn't.

At the same time, I feel stupid trying to learn how to program properly at my age. I should already know all this at this point in my career so it feels really demeaning, depressing, and embarrassing to do programming exercises. I can't get out of this middling-tier programming skillset, and I have to keep up appearances that I am not middling.

Every time I do go back and try to fix my understanding I'm caught in a loop. I get bored/upset by shuffling through the same basic intro-type work that I already know if I go back too far into intro material I already know by heart. At the same time, when I try to pick out less introductory projects/exercises I just end up spending the whole time googling for stackoverflow questions every few minutes. Getting me back into the "this project is just a string of answers I looked up" head space. The project never feels like a true accomplishment.
Greed can motivate you to make a stupid move that ultimately harms you and others. That’s what is happening here.
? It's actually probably more efficient to have people prepare food than for you to do it yourself, just like almost everything else in life.

I'm not saying we should just do that, but in terms of raw efficiency, the only issues is freshness vs. transport/timing etc.

Otherwise - you don't make your own butter, grow your own food, or make your own furniture either.
Also sweat from your arm. A watch needs to be at least somewhat waterproof.
This is personal for me, we are just undergoing IVF treatment. We opted to have all embryos biopsied and checked for aneuploidies (Down Syndrome is a form of aneuploidy). Sure enough, some were aneuploid, though almost certainly non-viable.

I could not, in good faith, deliberately bring a child with Down syndrome to this world. Just could not.
I've always wanted to do this but do you run IDE on laptop or XWindows/VNC/RDP?

Also big screen laptops now are more expensive than smaller ones which is the opposite of 10 years ago.
Pretty much every single code school I have looked into (I have not looked into Lambda School specifically) hires students that cannot find jobs as teachers to be able to tout "96% employment rate post graduation". This is obviously an awful pattern, in that the students that might be good teachers (and/or good programmers) actually get placed, leaving only the students that cannot find placement to teach the next class.
>Frankly, if there was a way to fully delete my account including all the posts I have ever done here, I would do so. Sadly, there isn't.

I really wish this was true as well. I know you can request to have your username obfuscated. I do not want my handle or my content (think NLP identification) to be associated with this site. I want to be erased. I do not want this on archive.org. I did not consent to this.

This community is disappointing.
There is no reason to believe in long-term safety, neither is there reason to believe in long-term efficacy, the vaccine is too new for that to have any good data, meanwhile the manufacturers are indemnified to the hilt. Not that there's anything wrong with vaccine indemnification, when the product is proven safe and improves public health, as the vaccines on the markets all are, but this one was rushed through at unprecedented speed.

And what's with the trust in the market to fix things? The 737-MAX crashes did not affect Boeing share price or Boeing management in any meaningful way, neither are safety problems with the new covid vaccines going to affect Pfizer or Moderna.
As another American minority I welcome changes to our tooling landscape and updating out of date language.

No this doesn't do anything, but it significantly reduces the amount of time I have to say master in discussions related to code. Something I personally don't feel comfortable saying.

No this isn't going to fix systemic racism, but it is setting the precedent that our standards can and should evolve with culture and people.
"SJW stuff" does not necessarily affect the bottom line of a bank or its shareholders. Socialism does.
The Mac is demonstrably less secure than iOS, and there is much less incentive for bad actors to target the Mac because of its tiny market share.
Each land/pin conducts heat so the more the better for thermal conduction. But these CPUs use so little power its not a big deal regardless.
Google search has become utterly use less. All the result pages almost contains same result. Let's say 7 years back or so. If you go back to 10th page you could see old results(not the latest one). I actually miss those. Now even if you go for more more more it's almost same results.

So I guess they moved on search engine business. Time to find another search engine, feed their engine with data and see how it goes.

So far no complaints on their other products in GCP platforms or drive or store or firebase or domains or app engine or big query or photos.

Wait browser based photo UI need to be updated seriously. There are so many photos, they could have options to list them up like folders each month and what folder they were from Android like it's downloads, watsapp or camera like seggregate like that, listing them all together in thumbnails in scrolling hell. They need to improve that, I hope they improve before their upgrade next year
Yeah, I like your distinction. I like the idea of focused work that takes into account larger 'black elephants' going on in the world, stuff that may not be part of the popular social discourse of the moment but is still happening.
That's roughly my understanding about how these devices are actually tested in labs.

Probably not something I'd tackle on my own, but it would be awesome if Consumer Reports or a major newspaper hired a lab to do this. With so many people working from home now, I would think it's an increasingly relevant issue.
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The Income Sharing Agreements are here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wLgwpPYcY5-UsuO0akE3lvVsLlR...

And here

https://leif.org/api/products/5b5b8bd0e59b743f9a086ed9/pdf

Per the Lambda School website.
I mean coercion like threats of violence against strike breakers or non-union members, that sort of thing.
Same here, I honestly don't even get why people are angry about this.

You're saying master isn't a big deal, well, neither is main. Would've you cared if git updates this without the discourse of "let's remove master from our everyday conversations."
Why does an (American who earns $100K)'s right to earn $200K take precedence over a (Libyan who earns $20K)'s right to earn $40K?
Precincts in most places are designed to have roughly the same number of voters. Hence, Benford's law does not work for them. Here's a good explanation, using Chicago precinct data [1].

A good rule of thumb is that if Benford's law does not apply to the legal voter population of your precincts/counties/wards/districts/whatever, or when applied to the total number of registered voters in those areas, then it won't apply to the results of a fair election either.

(This is why if you ask every adult you know their height in inches and then look at the distribution of first digits, it will look nothing at all like a Benford's law distribution. The heights are going to be the sum of two normal distributions (one for men, one for women)).

A good example of that is the county results in Georgia. There is a video going around from a forensic CPA showing the votes by county did not followed Benford's law, but he failed to look at the underlying population.

I've written a little web-based simulation using the Georgia data to make it easy to play with the data to get a feel for why Benford's law does not work there [2].

Another way to tell when a deviation from Benford's law is not an indicator of election fraud is to look at what it would take to make the results fit Benford's law. If you can't find any reasonable way to adjust the votes to make it fit, then the lack of fit was not a fraud indicator. (And if you can find such an adjustment, it also needs to stay a Benford fit if you make minor changes to the voter turnout or the split).

In the particular case of the 2020 US Presidential election, there is another thing about all of the purported proofs of Biden fraud by Benford: cherry picking. There are plenty of places where the precinct vote for Trump does not fit Benford and the Biden vote does. And there are plenty of places where neither the Biden nor Trump vote fits Benford's law.

As you will see if you play with my Georgia simulator, when you have a situation where Benford's law does not apply even a small change in voter turnout or in a candidate's share can cause large changes in the first digit distribution. Because of this, and the large number of cities and counties we have in the US where the underlying population does not follow Benford, there is essentially a large randomness in the first digit distributions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etx0k1nLn78

[2] https://github.com/tzs/georgia-benford-simulation
GPUs and also the specialized cards basically can do the same vector, matrix and tensor operations that are needed for neural network machine learning.

CPUs are not faster, in fact they are several orders of magnitude slower for these operations.
If you play competitive games or just like 240Hz monitors, AMD simply blows away Nvidia in performance.
And we are not doing this with a lot of other factors?

Why would this be different than planed parenthood?

I'm also not following that we should draw the line here just because it can be missused when you draw the line further away.

I would even argue, that it is our duty to do tests as we have the means and therefore the responsibility to do so. We do know that nature is not perfect. We can't control everything before like the pill and everything while it grows (supplements, no work etc.) and after birth by helping babies which came out to early or operations etc.

Why would we control everything but not this specific aspect?

The general notion quite globally is, that an abortion before 3month is ethical okay for us as a society and this timeframe was not choosen through some random events. It probably evolved.
If it's not an industry standard acronym or initialism, don't use it. Internal-specific acronyms and initialisms are a litmus test for smart stupid people: smart enough to build the systems, too stupid to realize no one will understand what they're talking about. See also: enterprise-level companies.
The follow up question is - assuming supercarrier battle groups are still relevant in warfare beyond bullying third world countries that can't fight back...

The US Navy has...10? nuclear supercarriers in service (IIRC there is a Ford becoming active soon and another in construction, but a Nimitz or two scheduled for retirement).

Plus the gator navy has more non-nuclear amphibious assault ships that are arguably carriers in all but name (and also arguably at close to if not equal to other nations' dedicated carriers)

Are so many carriers needed?
To be clear, I think TFA is using an altogether different definition. These are all distinct concepts with value in their own right—it’s unfortunate that they’re overloading the same term.
According to this App Store revenue is around $50B and developers affected by this[1] make ~5% of that revenue, or around $2.5B Cutting that in half, we're talking $1B+.

Indeed, that's small potatoes for Apple. But then, everything is small potatoes compared to iPhone sales.

But far, far bigger than even a big PR stunt. Orders of magnitude bigger.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/18/21572302/apple-app-store...
Agreed. But those aren’t the only shareholders. They took action that will ultimately damage the others (when this whole thing plays out). Do you think every shareholder is in agreement with this move?