skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

I've been asked multiple times about starting a community with discussion, but don't currently have the bandwidth. If someone else would like to create one I will happily support it.

[1] www.thinking-about-things.com

Some example articles are at www.twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6.
Recognizing the satire, I agree with the implicit critique that you're making.

That said, I think we also have to recognize that there is no true vacuum of discourse - ie.

> There has to be a way to keep people in line with our society's values while still giving them an impression of freedom.

Even if this is not what we're moving to with public schooling, it is essentially what we're moving to in the private sphere post-Citizen's United, etc. only the values are dictated by those with wealth, rather than procedural, governmental power.
Big ups to the humans who stand for humanity during tyrannical times.
Someone didn't read the article. To be honest however one shouldn't have to read an article for common sense.

>Driver's license numbers, names, birthdates, addresses, and vehicle registration information were stolen for nearly 28 million Texas drivers who received a license before February of 2019.

"There's a lot an identity thief can do with this information. They can try to create a new account and they can try to prove they are you when they're logging in to an existing account," said James Lee with the Identity Theft Resource Center.<

No idea about you, but I don't make any of that info public.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_j6lRdktscE

Do you seriously think Scalia cared about protecting people's rights to bear arms beyond the text of the 2nd amendment? Again, what constitutes a true liberal originalist? These justices are not pursuing power but trying to interpret law - and they get accused of undermining democracy...
vim as initiation ceremony - a near-death experience where the initiate is reborn as a member of an arcane sorcery guild.
It's so interesting...there is this well known phenomenon where ~everyone has at least some bias the vast majority of the time, and in a forum thread where this phenomenon is the specific topic of discussion (say, a psychology paper discussing subconscious bias, and the associated psychological/neurological phenomena that enable it), any significant disagreement (including whether each one of us suffers from it) with this general notion is typically very rare.

But then switch over to a different thread where the topic of discussion is not some abstract idea like this, but rather an object level idea, say just for example a news story about conservative leaning people switching to a new social media platform to escape what they consider to be censorship, and something very curious occurs. In such threads, it is rare to encounter much talk about this phenomenon of psychological bias, and if it does come up, it is ~always only about the obvious bias suffered by those who are in the ~"general outgroup" of the forum community. In those cases, it is common to read numerous anecdotal observations of how people in the outgroup(s) are cognitively flawed in that they exhibit signs of "living in a bubble", and "just(!) won't listen to reason or consider ideas that are contrary to their worldview".

But then if one is to initiate a conversation with a person in one of these threads, and make a reference to the formerly non-controversial abstract idea (from the psychology thread) that ~all people suffer from some bias, at ~all times, it seems as if all knowledge of that phenomenon has somehow become cognitively inaccessible, that the individual has no knowledge whatsoever of the phenomenon.

Conversely, if one is to mention (say, in a different subthread in the same overall thread) this exact same phenomenon, except switching the object of reference away from the person (who was making a biased comment about their outgroup), over to members of the outgroup, this formerly inaccessible knowledge then becomes accessible once again.

Just for the sake of discussion (a mental experiment of sorts), let us imagine that there is some significant truth to this theory - let's (temporarily) assume(!) it to be True, at least to a significant degree. In this purely hypothetical scenario, might this phenomenon offer some logical explanation for the amount of extreme polarization of opinion that can be witnessed in the world, this "crisis of epistemology" we talk about where different tribes seem to live in completely different realities from each other, with each reality having significantly different sets of facts? To me, this seems not only reasonable, but quite consistent with objectively observable reality.
We use a private Facebook group, since most of our older relatives are on FB already. There are some privacy concerns, but frankly, the ease-of-use for us and our relatives just outweighs that.

For relatives who don't have Internet access (just one at the moment), we use NanaGram.co for sending a monthly batch of photos by mail.
It's probably not a fire hazard any more than other regular smartphones. Battery usually only gets somewhat warm when charged at "fast charging" current.

My kernel has some patches that enable battery thermal regulation in the power management chip. Battery gets too warm/cold, charging stops.
Sorry, it looks like I misunderstood your original comment.
These replies both don't seem like they describe someone with "excellent" C++ skills. Sounds more like someone who knows a lot of advanced features of the language, but doesn't make the correct tradeoffs considering portability and/or performance.

Maybe it could be that he didn't know all the requirements up front and his mediocre colleague accidentally wrote code that better suited the company's unstated requirements (e.g. portability to niche systems). But that's hardly the most likely explanation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles effect: A natural experiment (2001)
Strongly agree.

If you’re seeing Tweets that make you angry, unfollow that person. It’s really as simple as that.

If someone doesn’t have the willpower to avoid anger-inducing follows and tweets, deleting Twitter entirely is a good option. For everyone else, it’s really not difficult to curate your feed to be more reasonable.

Use the unfollow button liberally.
Note that echochambers leading to enough hate is a problem for both "left" and "right" aligned people. The violent actions of some people claiming to be Antifa being a recent example.

Echochambers based on hatred (of Trump supporters, "SJW"s or black people) just leads to awfulness, what's needed is controlled exposure to average members of the hated group to cool them down.
Have you used fragment caching (in "Russian Doll" style)? In my experience, that's the key to making Rails applications fast. Ruby is slow, so there are definitely situations where it's not a good choice, but in many "basic applications" caching makes that irrelevant. Language speed is irrelevant when you don't run much code :-).
Operating systems for the Pinephone use the same software packages as desktop ARM Linux. So if it runs in the Raspberry Pi, it will run on your phone. Nextcloud is a nice option for seamless cloud sync.
Nothing better to show off HN than some pretentious snobbery
Looking at bug reports (as in, really looking) takes time. Time costs money.
McKinsey: 77% of SME's in the EU worry they may close, if revenues worsen
McKinsey survey conducted in August (after which lockdowns have been renewed): If revenues were to remain steady, 55 percent of SMEs worry they may shut down by September 2021.
If the situation were to worsen and revenues decreased by a further 10 to 30 percent, 77 percent of SMEs said they may be out of business by September 2021.
Just watched one, which spot on my case. Thank you.
Until censorship.
It is concerning that you have "no horse" in a race over whether there should be American censorship.

It's as if the centrists have thrown away liberalism, which makes no sense to me given that liberal values are immensely popular among the public.
Hold it on the unhinged right-wing media hyperbole here, you're just adding fuel to the fire. First off there is plenty of $adjective left-wing media to go around so it doesn't make sense to specifically target right-wing media. The more important factor here is the fact that the majority of the main stream media have a left slant and have been slinging mud towards those with a different opinion for years now, especially since Trump announced his candidacy. It has become close to impossible to find an unopinionated discussion of right-wing thought in main stream media, it mostly just devolves into posturing, labelling and adjectives. Where should people who are fed up with this go to? Even after this constant barrage of accusations of being anything from deplorables to racists and bigots or homophobes or transphobes or any of those other spurious accusations the orange man still got close to half of the votes. While a number of those votes will have been cast by people who truly like Trump I suspect that a sizeable portion of them came from people who were just fed up being called those things and hoped 4 more years of Trump was preferable over the alternative of having a government supportive of such labelling. This realisation probably has come to parts of the DNC as well given the bad outcome of the election for anyone but Biden/Harris.

It should be clear to anyone but those blinded by their own ideology that having a less politically biased media would be a good thing. Since the majority of the media leans left and is unlikely to move to the right this currently means there is a need for right-wing main stream media to even out the field. The big question is whether Trump is the one who can successfully fill that void, given the polarising nature of his personality.
Reinstitute the draft, or national service where every young kid has to spend a year fighting along side people they didn't know before hand, far from home. Or spend a year traveling the US doing worthwhile projects (fixing up broken jungle gyms in schools) again with people they didn't know.

It is a little bit less likely that you dislike heartland America when you spent a year working with Fred the Farmboy before you headed to Princeton. Fred could probably swap stories with a kid from the ghetto and may be they would come out with the understanding that they were not quite as different after all.

Of course, like any draft it would be a huge violation of the persons personal freedom.
> If I spend hours building a nice report for you and you won't spend 5 minutes reading it and two minutes responding with "sorry but I'm too busy" then who is the entitled one here? Further for you to look at it as an insult?

You? The other maintainer didn't ask you to do that. You're not entitled to even a minute of another person's time just because you unilaterally decided to dedicate hours of yours on something.

> I rarely even send PRs these days because those often rot for months or years.

Mind you, I've rarely sent PRs, but when I do, I do it with the intention to help. Only around half of the PRs I've ever sent were merged, and most of the others were left open without review. You know what I think about them? Nothing, I just conclude that the maintainer is probably too busy or my proposed changes are not within the goals of the project. I then move on and don't let it eat at me.

> let's be great to one another.

I think that includes giving other maintainers the benefit of the doubt. That includes not taking being ignored as a personal insult, I think.
Thanks for doing the work!

Another angle is that Jeff Bezos, richest man in the world, has $184B. That's $550 per American, or $24 per human.

Undeniably a lot of money, but also far from a sum that would change the world if it got redistributed.
I am unsure whether the people claiming censorship here would register as "conservative" in any dictonary definition of the word. Note that where I grew up "conservative" is more in line with the policies of a centrist US-democrat. What the republicans campaigned for this election would be more in line with right wing fascist parties like NPD (basically a party for neo nazis in Germany, AFD, Marie Le Pen's right wing party in France etc).

I think actual US conservatives should draw a border at some point. Because there is nothing conservative about dreaming of returning to a past that never existed (it is usually a ethnic clean past, where everybody was happy and agreed what the good values were, nobody had to pay taxes, etc)
I tried to create a throwaway account and comment on a Reddit thread yesterday. It was denied due to lack of karma.

A few weeks ago I tried to create a throwaway on Reddit to create a new post but the post was immediately removed due to lack of karma.

Twitter now requires I provide a cell phone number to create an account. It throws up on me by suspending my account if a new account is unused for a few days. Requires I prove I’m not a bot to unsuspend it.

Facebook basically requires that I provide a birth certificate to sign up.

If you want to spread misinformation you basically need to be on an alternative platform but it’s also helpful for people like me who don’t want to give up my privacy to a social media company.
> The platforms already had policies, but those did not foresee a time when the POTUS would act this way

Yes they did. In fact, in Twitter's case, they explictly altered their policies so that the failure to take action against this very same POTUS would no longer be a blatant failure to enforce it's generally-applicable policies.

Twitter has apparently had something of a change of heart about that blatant favoritism, and adopted completely new rules to reign in the monster their own rule change created on their platform, but it is not at all the case that the rules that were in place until recently were not crafted with this kind of Presidential action in mind; not only was it generally in minf, the rules were, in fact, created to license this kind of action for the benefit of this specific President, without allowing a level playing field for his opponents.
Immunosenescence
> It's completely possible to run as SmartId/Card system (similar to the Estonian national id / e-residency).

That’s not necessarily a good example of doing it well. Unless something changed since I last looked, after the Estonian certs were all found vulnerable, allowing impersonation and forged signatures on official government documents, the government refused to reissue new certs to citizens.

In other words, they were effectively in the same place as Texas.
Alright, thanks.

For me the desktop capability of it is the most exciting thing. There are lots tasks i can do that don't require powerful cpu and lots of ram. I can even see myself developing in certain cases where i can just remote into a dedicated workstation - seeing what games mobile phones can run, it's not hard to imagine one can run a thing like vscode in client mode.
Big isn't the relevant word here. The right word is growing, and wealthy. I don't have any personal insight into Oracle, but if I were to fathom a guess, I'd say it's probably bureaucratically entrenched and a fiercely competitive internal culture.
How much $
"Variable length CISC is fine." Well, actually, the Anandtech article points out:

"Other contemporary designs such as AMD’s Zen(1 through 3) and Intel’s µarch’s, x86 CPUs today still only feature a 4-wide decoder designs (Intel is 1+4) that is seemingly limited from going wider at this point in time due to the ISA’s inherent variable instruction length nature, making designing decoders that are able to deal with aspect of the architecture more difficult compared to the ARM ISA’s fixed-length instructions."

Given the complexity of x86, it's amazing that Intel+AMD have gotten 4-wide decoders. But the M1 has 8-wide and if they want to go wider, it's linear rather than quadratic in complexity.
You're assuming the people doing the banning and the people defending speech are the same people. Or even if some of them are, that they represent everyone who supports the same political views.
Censoring and filtering ideas will just lead to evasion of the filters. It will never work, we need to embrace free speech and let people believe as they choose.
Check out r/slatestarcodex on reddit, especially the discussion threads.
Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.

In 2014, the Gates Foundation funded tests of experimental HPV vaccines, developed by GSK and Merck, on 23,000 young girls in remote Indian provinces. Approximately 1,200 suffered severe side effects, including autoimmune and fertility disorders. Seven died. Indian government investigations charged that Gates funded researchers committed pervasive ethical violations: pressuring vulnerable village girls into the trial, bullying parents, forging consent forms, and refusing medical care to the injured girls. The case is now in the country’s Supreme Court.

In 2010, the Gates Foundation funded a trial of a GSK’s experimental malaria vaccine, killing 151 African infants and causing serious adverse effects including paralysis, seizure, and febrile convulsions to 1,048 of the 5,049 children.

During Gates 2002 MenAfriVac Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gates operatives forcibly vaccinated thousands of African children against meningitis. Between 50-500 children developed paralysis. South African newspapers complained, “We are guinea pigs for drug makers” [1]

[1] from an article by Robert F. Kennedy. Looking for source
1 or 2 GPT upgrades over the next five years get us to about 10? 10 is an arbitrary number, but my point is that ML advances are coming at an accelerating pace.
For me, it's simply grouping lights.

Example: in the winter months if I'm waking up to take out my dogs, it's pitch black on the main floor, so a command like "Alexa, good morning" will turn on the lights for the path that I need to get to the back door and tell me what the outside temperature is so I can wear the appropriate coat.

The second most important use case for us (pre-pandemic era) was to have lighting routines that made it look like we were home while away on vacation.

I started with some wifi devices (WeMo) but eventually migrated to Z-wave, and found them to be much easier to setup and maintain (and generally more reliable) than wifi (ymmv, of course).

My Z-wave hub is basically a USB Z-wave stick connected to an old NUC that's running OpenHAB in a Docker container. I rarely log into it or do any maintenance on it other than when I add new devices, which is almost never. I chose OpenHAB over HomeAssistant (YMMV) because I found it to be easier to write a couple of basic scripts to handle state notifications for my smart locks. I had been on SmartThings which was fine prior to getting smart locks and then turned into a major pain afterwards (one firmware update basically broke all my integrations, forcing me to do everything all over again).

Keep in mind, I didn't really go so far as automating everything "just because I can". 100+ nodes (as in the article) in a home situation just seems bonkers to me.
I lost years of my life to this stupid idea. GP: You are depersonalized. Get some real help outside of HN.
Yeah, I wasn't talking about the book, just making real efforts to appear nice and friendly.
Strength in numbers.
VBK (Vanguard Small Cap Growth ETF) has done well for me.
Well there is a Convergence Edition which allows you to output over HDMI.
Check out r/slatestarcodex.com on reddit, especially the discussion threads.
While I disagree with the GP, I think you are drawing a false dichotomy and there are multiple conceptions of free speech besides the negative, non-interferential, liberal one that would permit limits on some speech without "ubiquitous" control.

Take, for instance, limits on total expenditures on political speech over $1,000,000.
After the second world view I constructed collapsed (after having gone through the same thing with my parents' world view a few years earlier), I was done. I was less than twenty years old.

Since then, I have built & collapsed yet another life philosophy, and am now mostly just trying to keep floating on the raft I've built from whatever I figured out works. It takes a lot of different tools to do this. I've allowed myself to be an addict by many definitions, because it works. All I can do is keep trying to hew toward preserving my health as much as I can stand. It's better to be able to be here than not, that's the best I've got.
It can be very useful if you use all HW acceleration Allwinner SoCs can give you to make PinePhone into a portable movie player. :) Hook it up to a TV via HDMI port in a hotel and play anything you like. It can achieve quite some performance that way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyRm8kccyG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHOgVmxH_dA

Other side of Allwinner SoC business is making TV box SoC (H* series of SoC), and it shows on A64 too.

It can do video playback at 60FPS HW scaled to larger 1440p displays, for example. Including audio over HDMI. This is already working with current gstreamer and kernel.
There is a discussion on client-ordered state updates, but the implementation is outside of the protocol's scope. There is no requirement for a centralized service so long as you find an agreeable resolution strategy for conflicts. One that works from a user's perspective as well.
>the fundamental skills that you need are mathematics and software engineering

So much this. If I have to interview another junior-level DS who has a MNIST project in their github and still somehow can't manage fizzbuzz or a fibonacci function I'm probably going to take up religious asceticism.

EDIT: I said junior, but I meant Senior. We're talking people with PhD's who claim to have done extensive software engineering in previous roles.
> a word.

A word about what? Their salaries are certainly competitive with, if not higher paying than, Google and Stripe's are objectively higher.
I wouldn't say an MBA is a requirement, but to advance beyond an associate / consultant level you do need a good general understanding of finance, marketing and ops. There's definitely an inflection point where you become more of an expert in your clients' business than any specific technology. Eventually your skills trend towards sales and the business of consulting (staffing projects, managing margin, building capabilities) but that's not much different than the kind of leadership roles (estimating, hiring, mentoring, speaking at conferences, etc.) that senior ICs have to do to make that kind of money.
You should read about the language server protocol. As it continues to become the standard vim will match most IDE-specific features while keeping all the benefits of using vim, which if you can't see I won't bother listing here. I'm already working on java 100% from vim and I don't miss a thing from intellij
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Lecture: Applied Data Science Covid-19 data analysis