skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The core pretty much does nothing, except load the plugins and a few functions that we will extract into their components. This is what we did for the other parts.

One reason we did this was because we built custom, turn-key, ML products for large enterprise. Complete applications, from data acquisition and model training to "the JavaScript", admin interface, user management, etc.

Now... these large enterprise clients were in a sector. We could hardly sell the product to other similar clients because we couldn't just pick and choose which component or features to put on a skeleton.

It took us a lot of time, because these projects were both "software engineering" and "machine learning". In other words, we were toast. The worst of both worlds, as we were doing complete applications that even allowed their people to train models themselves.

It took a toll on morale. At some point working on eight different projects with different code bases and subsets of the team. We were fed up with this. We wanted to do things differently. We wanted to be able to get the time it took to ship the project the closest possible to the time it took to train models, which we historically did rapidly. It was all the rest that took time.

Total time = time to define problem + time to get data + time to produce models + time to write application + a big hairy epsilon

We wanted to bring "Total time" to its irreducible form. We didn't want to keep writing different applications for clients. We knew how to do it, but we did it enough times for several clients to notice patterns we wanted to extract into components. We also were losing time with the ML project lifecycle (experiment tracking, model management, collaboration, etc). We didn't want to ask the question "Which model is deployed again? What data produced that model? I tried your notebook on my machine, it doesn't work! DS: Hey, Jugurtha... Can you deploy my model? Jugurtha: I'm busy right now. I'll do it as soon as possible".

So we started building our ML platform[0] to remove as much overhead as possible, while being flexible. For example, one of our design goals is that everything one can do on the web app, they should be able to do with an API call.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
Unfortunately the Apple employee is likely to get the book thrown at them regardless. Permits and regulations are like candy to corrupt local officials. Often it's small businesses which get caught up. If they don't play along up then they'll be crushed. So you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. But the law doesn't care.
money laundering laws are also from that period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_United_States_Congress#Ma...

they are a key part of the overall strategy to wage war on drugs.
Good to see some research on this. Where I live, mask rules have been relaxed outdoors as long as one can maintain social distancing. It is still mandatory to carry a mask with you everywhere should you run into a crowd and can’t maintain distance.

I am still going to be wearing mine everywhere until I can get vaccinated.
Hot Module Replacement for Web Components – catching up with frameworks
The problem is that they are a proud people
Engineers have workers rights because labor activists fought for them and won.
The system works just fine... when you don't have a bunch of weak fuckers running it, and when you don't have a bunch of weak fuckers in your nation.

People cry, but everyone wanted a bailout, even average Americans, because no one wants to go through The Great Depression again, because everyone's scared, and everyone's scared for different reasons.

Rich people are scared they'll be killed for their hand in another Big Sad.
Poor people are scared they'll starve to death during another Big Sad.
Politicians are scared they'll lose their (laughably pathetic...) power - and/or be killed for allowing another Big Sad to happen.

Its all based on fear, and its ultimately cowardice.

The most American thing to do in 2008 would have been to allow every company that was going to fail, to fail. This is how you purge the weak and allow the strongest to survive. Whoever's got the gumption, the grit, the fortitude, the courage, etc., will survive and whoever doesn't... too bad.

The problem is, few people really have the stomach for this, because our modern world has become so comfortable. The beautiful thing is, the coming reckoning can't be put off indefinitely. Eventually, the bill will come due and people will be made to pay up, whether they want to, or not.
> I don't think they will have to white-board to get a job ever again.

But: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

I think they'll never have to fizzbuzz again, but probably still lots of whiteboarding in their future.
Whatever you want to call it, it's clear that the left and right disagree about actual objective facts, not merely goals or their policy agenda, and that these disagreements drive (and are driven by — the causality can run in multiple directions) political support and decision-making. Right now there's a big debate about whether there was widespread fraud in our recent election (though I would be remiss not to point out that there doesn't seem to be any credible evidence for that). That's a politicized factual dispute, the adjudication of which (by which I don't merely mean in courts or the Electoral College or what-have-you, but also in the public's perception) will have fairly profound real-world consequences for some years to come.

That is one of many recent examples of these sorts of politicized factual disputes.
Extra copying is the downside if you don't control what you're reading from. Thankfully memcpy is fast but if your input is very big it's still painful. In rust I just used an API that allows reading from both an input stream and memory so that if you are reading directly from a file the copy is avoided:

https://github.com/pedrocr/rawloader/blob/c793a132fa03e336f8...
Your assumption is certainly a good one, but this should really be called out explicitly in the article. Perhaps the authors have a different idea about what constitutes a "crowded area."
Oh interesting! Good call. I didn't think counter terrorism made sense it's not like opening would have revealed anything that an xray wouldn't, but perhaps for checking counterfeit makes a lot more sense.
In the context of this article and conversation, you are saying that companies that give away their product, for too low of a price, and too cheaply, in which consumers benefit too much is.... parasitic?

Giving things way to people for less than they are worth may not be good idea, but I don't think I would call that parasitic.

Instead, that is closer to charity.
the only way to preserve democracy is to have absolute transparency of everything public.
> "Why would the company give him anything more than acknowledgement?" [...] why are they expected to give him freebies, contribute to the code or anything else?

I disagree that it's "expected" that the company gives him anything, there's generally no expectation like that in OSS. BUT it'd be super-cool if they did give him a Switch!
What interesting is looking at world oil production over the last 100 or so years. Oil production follows a smooth exponential curve right up till about 1970. And then it becomes supply constrained.
Oh my. One of our maintainers wrote the following on his personal blog:

"It sounds horrible: "UN peacekeepers accused of child rape in South Sudan." But the article makes it pretty clear that the "children" involved were not children. They were teenagers.

What about "rape"? Was this really rape? Or did they have sex willingly, and prudes want to call it "rape" to make it sound like an injustice? We can't tell from the article which one it is.

Rape means coercing someone to have sex. Precisely because that is a grave and clear wrong, using the same name for something much less grave is a distortion."

He's clearly a pedophile! How could the project be agnostic about something like this? Clearly he both endorses and encourages rape of children! (Even though there were no children involved in the story in the first place)
I looked at the list and because it was called "No Nonsense" I thought it would be without nonsensical alternatives. I saw Plasma Mobile as alternative to Android and wondered how well it works nowadays, so I searched for "plasma mobile current status" and found https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/a4f1e6ef-41f5-41ab-... where the person is shown to use it on a phone and come on, it seems really unusable. If the other things on the list have the same state then I really don't get why they called it "No Nonsense List".
People aren't saying the goverment isn't worse. They're saying that Facebooks lack of moderation is part of the cause and deserves criticism even if they aren't nearly as evil as the Myanmar goverment

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_L...

Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993 to July 31, 1994. It played a significant role in inciting the April–July 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Widely listened to by the general population, it projected hate propaganda against Tutsis, moderate Hutus, Belgians, and the United Nations mission UNAMIR. It is widely regarded by many Rwandan citizens (a view also shared and expressed by the UN war crimes tribunal) as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere of charged racial hostility that allowed the genocide to occur. A working paper published at Harvard University found that RTLM broadcasts were an important part of the process of mobilising the population, which complemented the mandatory Umuganda meetings.[2] RTLM has been described as "radio genocide", "death by radio" and "the soundtrack to genocide".[3]
I’ve never had a fire in my kitchen, but I still keep a fire extinguisher. I’ve never had cancer, but I still have medical insurance.

The marginal cost of carrying a gun is basically zero. If I ever do find myself in a situation where I need it, I’ll be glad to have it. And even if I don’t, the fact that random anonymous law-abiding citizens have guns is itself a crime deterrent.
You're free to dislike prop 22, but what you're describing is really nothing like what actually happened.

The special carve-out in this scenario was AB5, which was specifically designed to target Uber & Lyft (effectively every other industry you can imagine was made exempt from it).

And the "access to legislators" was non-existent, that is literally the point of ballot propositions. Apparently these companies tried to work with legislatures first but they were unwilling to compromise. But anyone with a few signatures can put up a ballot prop in California without any special connections, and that's what they did. It was then approved by a majority of voters, it's hard to frame that as some kind of shady backroom deal.

Lastly, it's pretty hard to imagine a mom-and-pop startup this might hurt. It hurts the legacy taxi industry but that is the very type of intrenched interest with their own special rules and special access to legislators that we're better off without. Any new rideshare or delivery app competitors get all the benefits of prop 22 that incumbents do.
The reason this hasn't happened is that it would increase evacuation times beyond the time allowed by regulatory agencies.
I saw a video where a person, walking alone on an apparently empty sidewalk, is not scolded but harassed for not wearing a mask (there is a mask, just not worn). The harasser was the one proudly filming their heroic act.

(Addendum: there’s the obvious question, why not just wear a mask 100% of the time? There are no downsides, right? — There can be. Perhaps my mask had been in use for a while, I suspect it’s gotten dirty enough to be a potential health hazard, but I don’t have another mask to replace it? I’d still use it if people are around, but would try to reduce my exposure to it otherwise. Maybe I have asthma or some type of breathing difficulty, and wearing a mask makes it worse? I think those two are probably among the most common reasons.)
I hear you..every word you said.. Should we move to a model that shares equipment? Or create farming-as-a-service?

Of course this might mean that farms have to be contiguous acres. But less risk and lower capital sunk is a good deal. That is the kind of disruption needed.
Disney acquired Lucasfilms in 2012, not 2014, so ADF continued getting payments for something for almost 2 years after the acquisition. (Disney didn't acquire Fox until 2019, so the Aliens books would be an entirely separate issue.)

The SFWA president has made some earlier misstatements of the law, and it appears she doesn't have a clear grasp of the timeline, so I'm not putting much weight into anything she says. She's correct that the WFH agreement is binding on Disney, but Disney isn't disputing that (though the SFWA claims otherwise). The issue, from Disney's standpoint, is that clearly they don't think there is anything in the contract requiring them to pay.

It is very possible Disney reviewed all of its payments and ended the ones for which it could not find a contractual basis for continuing payments, such as for example, paying royalties on a WFH contract where they owned the rights to the work. But as neither side has actually coughed up a WFH agreement entitling the author to royalties, it's just speculation.

Apparently, ADF actually has a copy of his contract, per the SFWA president (but again, she's made incorrect statements about the parties before). If that's the case, ADF could resolve this very quickly by showing the part of the WFH contract where it says he will be getting paid royalties.
Why would the Chief Security Officer of a massive corporation need a CCW?
"For my part, I can play the German side in a conventional wargame easily enough if I need to, although I would prefer to take the Allied side. But Panzer General, with its eagerness to embed me in the role of a German general goose-stepping and kowtowing to his Führer, is a bridge too far for me. I would feel more comfortable with it if it made some effort to acknowledge — even via a footnote in the manual! — the horrors of the ideology which it depicts as all stirring music and proudly waving banners."

"Are these issues not being discussed in a mature and thoughtful manner in high school these days? I realize education in the US is a dumpster fire but I find it hard to believe things have fallen off the cliff since I graduated in 2001."

These issues weren't being discussed in high school, mature or otherwise, when I graduated in 1986. And if I read your previous comment correctly, it wouldn't be discussed at all (because the Nazis had better uniforms?), no?
On the flip-side, social media has also been exploited by those same corrupt businessmen and politicians. For example, in Cambodia, Hun Sen uses Facebook as his main media platform while forcibly closing independent press. At times his page has had more followers than the entire population of Cambodia (reportedly buying followers to cement a vision of popularity).

Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/213282...
Many AMD enthusiast motherboards ship with Thunderbolt.

It's a straightforward technology to implement and I believe it is now royalty free. The only implementations are Intel's though and I'm sure they're expensive.

Expansion is a complicated business model. Apple doesn't even ship headphone ports. The AirPods are smash hit, not least because when you sell a $1,100 device a $100 accessory suddenly seems really well priced. PCs are similarly pretty high ticket items, that market supports a situation where spending $100 on custom internal PSU cabling is not that bad.

The Raspberry Pi is tough. Accessories cost more than 2x the device. It's a model that doesn't really make sense. You could say that people are buying these accessories, but really its greatest limiting factor is that it's too cheap, it's hard to psychologically deliver on the big ticket item + accessories shopping cart for it.
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I think a lot of this is false economy. If you like doing mechanical work then make that your line of work.

Comparing old to new:

1. New tractors get much better fuel mileage

2. New tractors have technology that can go a long way to making the payments on them

3. New tractors have a lot more operator comfort and if you're putting in eighteen hour days that's important.

Lets say you're a writer. Why not keep an IBM XT around to do your work? Granted finding those 5.25 inch floppies are a chore;<). But that XT can still write and print your work. You can even use Microsoft Word version 1.

The smartest play that I've seen farmers use is to buy gently used equipment. A three year old tractor has depreciated 30-40% and as long as you're able to make repairs is a steal over new. You get most of the benefits of new at a lower price.
FIDO? Like this one https://solokeys.com
Typically, the best practice is to wait for results from multiple studies, and have them confirm the same conclusion. Otherwise, there is a risk it being a fluke or having some other bias in the data (e.g. environmental humidity, etc.)

Personally these days, for outdoors, I use the following algorithm:

1. Over 6 feet away from people: Wear a mask below the nose (so I can have it ready for state #2 below, when needed).

2. Under 6 feet away from someone (even if just passing them by): Wear a mask properly (i.e. over the mouth AND nose).

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Named after a Republican assemblyman, supported by the NRA, passed by a 2/3 vote in a Democratic assembly & senate, and signed in by Ronald Reagan, all due to a group of Black Panthers protesting inside the capitol building while armed. Who knew all you needed was a racial incentive in order to make the stripping of rights a bipartisan effort.
The Federal Government is completely failing here. States can't run deficits, usually by force of law. They'd rather confirm judges than pass legislation to help, all of this damage is completely self-inflicted.
I was 100% confident there would be some irrational Brave hate in the comments.

What about Brave ruins the credibility of a list focused on avoiding Google? It's a pretty easy choice for someone who's happy with Chrome but not comfortable with the Google-ized parts of it.
Instead of the lambda workflow, you could just stick it on a server in a cron job. I pretty much do that with a bunch of things on DigitalOcean, although there's a ton of comparable services.
That was my main guess, but it just didn't make sense. Revisiting the post, it still doesn't :/
Agreed. What an awful situation to find yourself in. With the law enforcement demanding an exchange. You have to gamble one way or the other. Either you report the bribery attempt to the DA's office, and suffer the retaliation that ensues from snitching on the DA's friends; or you go along with the bribe and suffer the prosecution from the DA.

How do you know which one to choose? Are you sure the DA will side with you if you blow the whistle? Will you or your employer suffer retaliation from the county law enforcement you just outed? Maybe you're blacklisted from future security gigs by being known as someone who rats on cops.

Whenever government officials solicit bribes from private citizens, the enormous power asymmetry there should lead us to prosecuting just the government official(s).

Of course it's not always this simple. Sometimes the private citizen wields more power than the civil servant they're bribing. In other words, the Mafia or other organized crime. But I'm not ready to put Apple in that column yet.
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My reading is that the authors were unable to find any air with appreciable COVID levels, but they’ve just added the caveat that maybe they didn’t find a sufficiently crowded area to take a sample.
Calculating Tesla Model 3 range loss through a cold winter night [video]
I know the "cool thing" these days is homebrew, but there's also MacPorts [1] which I would say it and aligns better with the "use a stable base + compile the latest things" approach.

MacPorts does not use the base system to compile the latest things on top. Instead, it creates a "parallel system" where everything is installed from MacPorts (and hence you all dependencies are continuously updated) for the "latest stuff" you install through MacPorts, while not touching the system stuff at all.

[1] https://www.macports.org/
I have had Guillain-Barre Syndrome (not due to a vaccine). No matter what, I still always get my vaccines and make sure that I am up to date and never late on any of them.

Sure, having Guillain-Barre is scary, but it is something that you can make a full recovery from.

It is never an excuse NOT to get a vaccine, unless you actually know that you got Guillain-Barre Syndrome from a vaccine. That is a discussion between that particular patient and their neuromuscular neurologist. In that case, you do not get the flu vaccine any longer because it can cause you to experience Guillain-Barre Syndrome again.

But, this really is an isolated situation that can be categorized as very rare and the general public should always get their vaccines.

If you catch the flu, it can absolutely trigger Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and would be far more likely to trigger Guillain-Barre Syndrome than the flu vaccine itself. If you get the flu and had the flu vaccination, it typically makes the flu illness less worse, making you less likely to get something like Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

There are lots of infectious agents that can trigger Guillain-Barre Syndrome, so it is wise to get your vaccines to prevent them as much as possible. They prevent serious infections, at minimum, which would help prevent Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

I also have the long term variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, known as Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, which is in pharmaceutical remission due to me taking subcutaneous immunoglobulin twice a week for 3 hours each time.

What I am saying is that while all of this sounds rare and devastating, it’s treatable. Not only that, you’re more likely to get Guillain-Barre Syndrome from a bad case of the flu than from a flu shot.
Hey that's great! I think everyone should do what works for them.

Using a tool "just because" it worked for others, seems to be what often drives many decisions in this industry. For example, would you go for the 2,200+ microservice architecture from Uber[1] just because they say it solved all their problems? They probably have their reasons, and they are unlikely to be the same as everyone else.

I know my stack as a solo founder is unconventional, but it's what has worked best for me. And I'm happy with my choice.

If serverless does the trick for you, then focus on that, and keep building the features that your customers actually care about.

[1] https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture
The social responsibility of businesses is to increase its profits because businesses shouldn't have social responsibility, people should.

People complain that corporations and businesses have too much impact and control over our society (which I agree with) and then in the same breath complain that they don't take on enough social responsibility. These are incompatible statements. Businesses should not have any social responsibility other than doing the thing for which they exist: make money. All other social responsibilities, such as ensuring we live in free, fair, and just society, fall to the people and their representatives.

Unfortunately, in our current situation, the people's representatives have spinelessly kowtowed to businesses and corporations and are completely unwilling to embrace any such social responsibility. But the blame and fault for this lies solely at the feet of these representatives and their governments (and, to an extent, the people who continue to elect them).
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>> DevTerm is a post-modern, digital minimalist lifestyle.

> It's more about signaling to others that you embody the "hacker lifestyle" than anything else.

The minimalist lifestyle would be repurposing an old device, not buying an extra one.