skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a previous job we built an advisor for banking and pensions using a mathematical optimiser solving over a model of the Danish tax rules. It would normally find enough tax savings to retire about a year earlier by finding the best savings strategies (e.g exploiting dynamic and temporal effects between taxation on spouses retiring at different times, using the house mortgage as a savings buffer to shift pension payouts to lower tax years etc). It was quite an eye opener.
One of the GOPs greatest triumphs is co-opting and becoming the party of religion/Christianity.
Wow, this nutcake is just in time for Xmas!
The best thing about HN is that comments like these can never be deleted.

I collect them like Pokemon. It's been nearly a decade now and there's certainly many to look back on.

From experience people either double down or feign ignorance years later, which path will this one take?
Consider that your political opponents may also want to achieve the same goals but may have a radically different and less direct method of doing it. Then you might understand that you have something in common with them, and find a way to have civil disagreement instead of othering them.
This doesn’t automatically pin, rather distributes a pin set across a set of trusted nodes.

It’s good stuff nonetheless.
A set of security bits, a spare compact flash card and a couple minutes alone. Don't tell me it's not impossible.
> close Huffpost by finding evidence for those claims.

HuffPo closed operations on it's own, the India Govt didn't force them to do so.
"An immature and angry child demanding an answer it couldn't possibly understand? It dawned on me that this was how GPT-3 really saw me. Or rather, how GPT-3 thought of humanity.
...
We can only speculate as to GPT-3's internal states. Perhaps it knows the question perfectly well, but considers humans as too immature and spoiled to tell: In its opinion, we shouldn’t even bother to find questions to answers we can’t possible understand. Or, more likely, it doesn’t know either. Anyway, it comes across as a jerk."

This sort of anthropomorphization, treating GPT-3 as some independent agent with feelings, is pretty silly IMHO. It's fun and all, but with this post it's hard to see if the author understands that thinking of GPT-3 in this way is giving it way too much credit (or if this post is kind of joking).
Interesting, it's sort of an inverse desire path[1] - instead of locating where foot traffic is the highest, you locate where microbe traffic is the lowest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
It seems to me the title would have been better named "Why reskilling will probably not guarantee you a new job". The first two thirds of the article about how and why this doesn't happen, and it sums up with what appears to be the exception.

That said, I couldn't agree with the closing more: "You've got to work so hard at it and do all these extra activities and just immerse yourself fully. Without that passion, I can't see them getting anywhere." Trying to gain new skills with the mindset that it's a burden does not pan out. Instead, finding a topic that has lots of natural interest yields the best results, and is way more fun!
Russia still wants to dominate Eastern Europe and must be opposed. The US is an excellent partner in that, much better than Western EU.
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I would say to state that vote fraud allegations are "baseless" and "false" is propaganda; the more precise terms would be "unproven" and "alleged".

In general, if you want people to have confidence in an election, you need to take seriously claims of fraud and investigate them openly.

To flatly call them "misinformation" and advocate for further censorship of people making the claims does not give confidence, to put it mildly.
We experienced 504 errors from Cognito but seems to be that other services are affected as well
The timeline was off in my head, it was a long ago!
Use a CM4 as the guts to the camera and it wouldn't have a problem with any of that.
more proof of the oligarchy we live in brainwashing us to believe the "other side" is the enemy while the rich and powerful robs us blind

Whose fault is that though?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NdE9CjkvTY

I'm sure the billionaires are terrified.
Here you go!

https://github.com/github/linguist#how-linguist-works
I often find the history of projects immensely helpful to understand why choices were made.
That may be the case. It's certainly not anything unique. It's just an amalgam of stuff that's been out there, in some cases, for centuries.
Do you think the threat of losing ones job (and therefore joining the lower class) could be used by businesses wishing to discourage unionization?
See, you are part of the problem.
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> India really needs a stern kick in the back from the West

Didn't take long for the racist colonialists to crawl out of the woodworks, did it?
But it’s also easily verifiable that there are many wage earners in both parties, meaning many who don’t agree with your standards for which policies are better.
Nice catch, I didn't even read it that closely to notice that it excluded STEM degrees.

It is interesting because my undergraduate degree in a social science, economics, required that I take at least 2 stem courses. Typically the requirement is filled by 2 introductory level science courses but I'm sure higher level science courses would have satisfied it as well. It would certainly be a risk to offer courses with out further guidance from the state department.
In reality I was joking about fashion. The new trend in monoliths is a metallic finish and slender proportions, skipping one prime square - The original is 1²:2²:3² and the new one is 1²:3²:7² (skips primes 2 and 5). The dimensions continue, of course. In Clarke's 2010 it's kind of assumed it'd mean it'd be integers, but the new one fits better with primes.
Ipfs has something called “bitswap” which solves some of what you’re describing but is lacking in areas such as long term file availability. That’s where filecoin sort of finds sort fills in the gap.

https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/bitswap/
That's the thing, it's not the existence of the tools that's the problem, it's how they're used. Nobody railed against the manufacturers of punch clocks for their products, but these days most employers have come to realize that this is a poor proxy for measuring productivity and don't use such tools.
It isn't just portion sizes as your other replier has mentioned.

Like I said in the previous comment, I applied a lot of energy studying nutrition in order to simplify it for myself and I have other take aways I didn't post and there is more complexity than I let on, but I try not to make people understand 99% of an issue with 10x the text when they could understand 90% of the issue and remember it.

But since you asked, there are different types of starches. Some of them, like the ones that come from potatoes, are fine if they are either uncooked or cooked then cooled. The reason potatoes taste so good is that they are extremely nutritious in every other way other than starch. They're a super food with an achilles heel.

You can research resistant starch and where it's found and under what circumstance on your own, but here is a starting point:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/resistant-starch-101#ty...

Also, since you seem to like the details, I also found that other than fibre, my natural Torontonian diet was pretty deficient in potassium, which makes recovery from working out take longer. So I went out of my way to eat more of it and I was able to make much better gains working out. It also felt less painful to work out while I was working out. Try not to eat it at the same time as salt, since IIRC the uptake pathways compete with each other. And note that the lowly banana is only a good source of potassium per calorie not in general. Eating one per day does very little, which surprised me.
Hey, thanks for the mention! Happy to explain my thinking here.

Regarding marketing and selling what we have: we tried that and it's pretty clear we're missing important bits, in particular packages for common vendors (stripe, slack, etc), and a package for user management, as well as common things like validation. People love the concept (as do you, thanks!), but were struggling to build things because of what was missing.

As we went to build these, the tech/product debt that we had built up during our experimental phase really started to become apparent. We were missing common and expected things like user-defined types (maybe not important for dynamic langs, but we're a statically typed functional language, so being able to create types is kinda important), configurable (or at least changable) HTTP middleware, and a few other things.

The reason for the rewrite is that had been taking long detours around our tech stack for a while. Now that there's limited resources (as in, just me), the cost of taking the long way to everything we build is just a little too high, so it feels like a rewrite (note: just of the backend, the majority of the code is in the frontend and doesn't need to change!) is necessary to get to product/market fit.

I also hope it won't be the death of us. Fortunately, F# isn't a valid value for $hotlang! (Good thing I didn't pick Rust!)
When you talk about the level of politics at the company are you talking about the internal politics dealt with by an employee or the politics dealt with my the account principal who was managing the account?

I've worked for two other consulting firms besides mine, one 150 people, one 36,000 and everyone I've talked to who managed client accounts in both those companies has similar experiences.

Sorry just incredibly curious how a company got around having to deal with politics, while doing consulting. Would make a huge difference to my current company.
> The craziest part of this american culture war, to me, is that it seems to spill over to the rest of the world.

It's more of a bidirectional soup, I think. A lot of the tumult in the US is due to the breakdown of historic norms and views. That has been sped up by social media, but the actual ideas taking hold on one side are largely Marxist, by way of the Frankfurt school, in nature. Those both originate within your own boarders. What you're experiencing is more an echo bouncing back than a spillover, in my opinion.
Great points.

Related tangent: for those interested in this topic of "unlawful massive domestic surveillance", I heartily recommend Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" novels -- esp the most recent, "Attack Surface". They get the technical details right while remaining accessible and engaging regardless of the reader's geek acumen.
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There’s a huge responsibility for any scientist who can confidently claim to predict the future.

Most of the COVID projections were off by a lot. The parameters reduced social distancing to a single scalar and often generated those values as outputs rather than genuine inputs.

I looked at various models over the summer knowing that while they may be wrong, they may be useful. But they did not help much at all for understanding trends and relationships. Take for example models that have been modified for mask mandates. During the summer, most of them had trended down to zero with masks “on” but the opposite has since happened.

There is a genuine amount of circular reasoning where models are used to validate social distancing efforts which in turn are incorporated into revised models.
Please, its Gandhi. No ill will intended, its a common mistake.
Very little, because AWS and GCP bandwidth costs are marked up by over 1000%.
> I can’t think of a single program off the top of my head that doesn’t use the Internet to some extent while running.

What OS are you using? Purely off the top of my head, Linux programs I don't expect to be regularly connecting to the overall Internet in the background (at least unless I set an explicit opt-in setting or use a user-initiated action):

- Keepassxc

- Krita

- Blender

- Nearly all of my CLI tools

- digiKam

- VLC

- Audacity

- etc...

Programs I have that do check for updates or otherwise send activity to the Internet on boot:

- Firefox

- Calibre

- Emacs (Spacemacs)

- (Probably) something somewhere else that I'm forgetting?

Admittedly, I'm kind of cheating by using Linux instead of Windows/Mac. Those are OSes that don't have good update managers, so many apps manage updates themselves.

But even with those apps, there's a difference between an app itself initiating an Internet connection opportunistically in the background, and an app initiating an Internet connection that actually interrupts the app from launching. Very few of my native apps (side-eyes Emacs irritably) will stop working or freeze on boot if their update server is down or responding slowly.

Remember that the reason people found out about this in the first place is that they went to start launching apps on their Macs and found out none of them would start. That's the kind of behavior I would expect from a web browser if some global server was getting hammered (even if I would still be irritated to see it), but that I basically never expect for a native app.
Assuming all vegans feel the way the person you're replying to is a bit of a broad brush, no?
The point is, this information is UNRELIABLE.

Apple has access to information that is ACTUALLY RELIABLE.

However, they choose to not use the reliable information.

Why would you see this, and assume that they, on purpose, decided to NOT use the reliable information, but instead use unreliable information to spy on you?

Why would they do something so bone-headedly stupid?
I'm just saying that technical excellence is orthogonal to how much money a product makes.

There is a ton of shit software out there that makes buckets of money, and lots of well designed, well executed products never make it off the ground. So you can't just focus on good engineering and expect clients to line up out there door.
> Whilst I agree with the sentiment, it does occur to me just how many kindles I see with ads.

> Is there any data released on ads Vs no ads versions?

Do they offer a tracking vs no tracking option too? The absence of adverts does not mean the absence of tracking.
There's nothing wrong with drawing a distinction between claims of fraud that result from nothing more than dissatisfaction with the outcome, and claims of fraud that arise from some actual evidence of possible malfeasance. Dismissing the former outright is necessary in order to give the latter the attention they deserve.
iFixit is so great. I recently paid £200 to a charlatan who bodged a phone repair, so I took the leap and attempted to fix the bodge. iFixit had simple photo guides, it was a piece of cake, and I'll never send my phone away to get fixed again.
I don’t understand how it’s propaganda when one can analyze labors laws in various jurisdictions and see that all the areas with labor laws better for workers and poorer people are mostly in areas governed by Democrats.
It took me too much time to find the actual content, I was not sure if I was looking at an ad or not, when I finally found the actual article my motivation was gone, no good content could be inside that awful page.
Talk is cheap, voting is not. How do you explain blue collar workers voting red?
An Apple ID is tied to an identity right now. They don't use it. Why?
Being Jewish or Black is not comparable to being rich. I'm not sure what you're arguing here.
Somewhat true. I have friends and relatives in Eastern Europe heavily rooting for the Biden or Trump (usually the less educated or even uneducated) and yet they have no real stake in it but it’s as if they’re voting themselves. And I think they realized that America sets the tone so whoever gets the power will influence them too eventually.
Not much if at all.

However, RenTech probably has the cleanest data warehouse of any firm. It was revealed that they have PHDs who do nothing but sort data into databases.
That's hilarious, no thank you. :)

I'm focused on culture, which are things like family, community, spirit, code, music, sport, art, fiction, and thought. War also is a part of life, and if it ever came to that in my lifetime, I suppose you could say I will be engaged in politics then too, but that kind of reckoning i think is a last resort.
Sir, you are actually proving him to be accurate in his description of cult like behavior. The proper reaction when you run out of arguments should not be to lash out. Instead it should be to reexamine your position.
My prediction is that you will try to weasel around by defining "collusion" as repeatedly more specific, but:

- Papadopoulos admitted to lying to the FBI about Russian contact

- Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about the contents of his conversations with the Russian ambassador

- Cohen admitted to lying to Congress about Trump business plans in Moscow

The fact that multiple Trump associates lied to the FBI to protect details of their and his dealings in Russia smells a lot like smoke. I don't believe that Russian interference was the reason Trump won, but there are clear conflicts of interest. The obstruction charges against Trump himself were explicitly not pursued because of his political position.
In this case it seems that (devistatingly) they knew they were lost 20 years ago and just kept quiet about it.
Well, there most likely was the closest thing you could find to Joseph Lister then. 981 is pretty much in the middle of the Islamic golden age and Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid caliphate. This story is happening in what was at the time the most advanced place in the world.
Shoot, apparently those Tor devs have been completely wasting their time.

Somebody in the security industry should let them know that their work on the network level is useless and unnecessary because leaking IP addresses isn't a real privacy threat.
So in my case, we leave the physical light switches on all the time, we use motion sensors or ZigBee wireless switches to control the lights. If the automation falls over we just switch them on and off using the switches. If family are visiting I switch the house to "guest mode" which deactivates the motion sensors and various other automations and we use the light switches like normal.

The term "critical path" is when a whole system depends on that thing to function; it is in the critical path.

For example, if I couldn't use the lights at all when the home automation server is down, or your Mac won't run any programs when the phone-home server is down, those things are on the critical path, without them the system fails.
How? By design, GPT has no model of the meaning of what it's saying. One of GPT's major tells is that it is so context-free that short passages will contain contradictory facts.
We have a great permaculture farm near us, they run classes, tours etc. (Apparently a popular joke in the permaculture world is that the only way to make money off permaculture is to run permaculture courses).

Everything I've seen there echos your sentiments. An incredible amount of work - and knowledge - to achieve a rather peasant-level existence.

That said it's amazing seeing anyone live a genuinely sustainable lifestyle. I always think that if everyone lived and thought like these guys, our environment would be recovering nicely.
Sarcasm aside is killing a 1 year old, let alone at 12 weeks, more ethical than killing a day-old chick? The latter is basically post-natal abortion, which, is not a huge world different than abortion aside from consciousness of inflicted pain.
I have mixed feelings about this example app but I’ve used Next.js in the past and had a really positive experience. The SSR model they use is top notch and a really compelling reason to adopt, among other things.
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They kept it quiet when they could have had the whole world on the look out. Who knows how many opportunities were missed to have them found in the meantime.
> You're not wrong, but on the other hand has "the market" shown any serious signal that it cares about privacy?

Is there a pro-privacy Google out there whose products languished while Google's succeeded?

The Silicon Valley VC network did not fund nor support companies that promoted privacy. I can not think of a single example.

Not a single major venture from SV VC network even attempted to innovate the "business model". We can make machines reason now but, alas, a business model that does not depend on eradicating privacy is beyond the reach of the geniuses involved. It is "Impossible"? I think, "undesirable" is more likely. No one is even seriously trying. Point: money behind SV tech giants is not motivated at all to fund the anti-panopticon.

The salient, sobering, facts are that all these companies are sitting on a SV foundation that was and remains solidly "national security", "military", and "intelligence". The euphemism used is to mention SV's "old boy network".

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/
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Agreed. I wonder why none of other competitors do that, especially in current context. There is Amazon fresh and Bringmeister but they arent as good.
YouTube, Twitter, Facebook. All 3 make gigabucks from the culture war.

Apple, on the other hand, does not wade into the culture war. What they do instead is make money off people's status anxiety by selling luxury products to people on food stamps.
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> Every topic about India I comment on, not only it gets downvoted pretty heavily

Playing a devil's advocate here, would you think there's another side to the debate? India is no binary system like US and is a thriving and functioning democracy. I understand the penchant for people to downvote dissent, but could there be another side to the argument rather than "Indian's are Hindu Nationalists"?
I can think of a couple of issues that may add some friction:

- Adding good UX to an existing project is a huge undertaking. To do a good job you probably want to touch just about every piece of the UI. This can be a hard sell as a new project member.

- Many designers don't have the skills to implement their design. This means that the best they can do is basically propose that other contributors do a lot of work. It is a lot easier to just merge a PR that works then implement a design.

- The maintainers of projects are probably more familiar with accepting code patches. They know how to evaluate code but don't have a strong ability to review UX proposals.

I have a bunch of small tools that I maintain and that occasionally get code contributions. But I know that they have terrible UX. I would be thrilled to get some support in that area, however if someone without frontend experience just proposed the end result. I don't know if I would have enough motivation to implement it myself. Of course I suspect that a skilled UX Designer with frontend development experience would be a very welcome contributor to many projects.
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