skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can't do much, it shouldn't be much code, so coverage should stay high.

I used to be of the "70% is good enough" school, but I found that as I wrote better programs, I also achieved better test coverage. Not because I was writing more tests, but because I was choosing core designs with fewer edge cases, simplifying my error handling with fewer reachable paths, and admitting I might as well just crash in more cases. So now my line/branch coverage is more like 95-100%, but my code is easier to read and I write _fewer_, mostly functional/behavioral, tests. Most lines I don't reach are fatal errors, and most fatal errors are the only statement in their branch.

Code you can't reach from test cases isn't a sign you should write more tests, it's a sign you should remove that code from the program.

Today I view 90-95% really as a baseline, and focus more on path coverage (most standard tools are quite bad for this still) and edge cases in data (e.g. denormed floats or different kinds of invalid data I want to make sure stay invalid) that don't affect coverage one way or another.
Can I marry you?

I will add:

* Tabs > spaces

* Proportional > monospaced

* White background > dark theme
You can be on-call and still do other things -- it's not all or nothing. My workplace has tiered SLOs for on-call, some being as relaxed as O(30 minutes) for first response.
By network effects and brand loyalty.
I'm more interested in the bit about "omnipotent moral busybodies." If shutting down 100,000 businesses, pausing children's education including special education services for a whole year, forcing the entire populace to wear cloth masks, shutting down religious services protected by the Constitution, mandating where you can & can't stand in the grocery store, and demanding the right to censor the news on all digital platforms doesn't satisfy their thirst for power, I submit that no amount of power will.
PC game nostalgia – remembering Sanatorium
> I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number.

Count me among them! I do not like the new redesign at all.
"listening to podcasts on 1.5x."

Some people just talk waaaayyy tooo sssllloooow for my liking. If I want to think about what was just said I can pause it and think. But if they talk so slow that I've already forgotten what the beginning of the sentence was... we've got an issue.

The mediums are different, and I think you should use the strengths of the medium when available.
There are many problems that cannot be solved by the resources available to a medium sized company. Which is why you need multiple governments to get together to help out something like AirBus or space programs.

Similarly Google at its scale can tackle large problems more efficiently than having 10000 medium sized companies pool their resources together to do the same.

In other words, everything has pros and cons that depend on each particular situation. Large companies aren't "all bad" and small companies aren't "all good", you just chose to give lower priority (or ignore) ti the bad aspects of small companies while showing concern with the bad aspects of large companies.
So easy to use an ill-defined group of disobedients as the scapegoat. Back in the real world the effect of the masks recommended to the public is marginal at best.

Delaying vaccines is not ‘just the reality of things’. It’s a political decision with grave consequences. One country makes one choice, another makes another choice. The reality of things is that choice decides wether people live or die. There is no way to shift the blame away from that.
Any lawyers care to comment? Looks like it works both ways https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
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well, not everyone at DeepMind is working on protein folding either presumably (disclosure: I work at Google, but I know nothing about DeepMind other than whatever's public). I think the point they're making is that DeepMind has an order of magnitude or two fewer people working on this for a much shorter period of time than pharma companies.
"For beginners, BASIC is great and Python is terrible." I am curious about this. Do you mind elaborating?
What does "need" have to do with anything? If someone walks away with 8-digit sums, there were contracts involved. Nobody pays out $90M for fun.
A picture of a propeller craft while talking about rotors, check.

I can't imagine it'd be much more than tweaking helicopter designs to suit miniature versions. Designs they've had for decades. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they already have rotor drones using what they're talking about.
My impression is that DeepMind's performance have improved significantly since then.
Her real job is in AI activism, not AI academia. She understands that very well, and she understands that an acrimonious parting of ways with Google, combined with obligatory accusations of racist bias, is a reasonable career advancement step in the field of activism (though it may have been distracting and debilitating in the field of academia).
Terrific, the same comment I replied to konjin applies to you as well. I'll absolutely make this bet if there's a trustable platform.

Just curious, if a random HN commenter said, there's about a 64% chance that at least one human being will grow to 12 feet tall in 2021, would you take that wager also? I mean, there are a ton of people on the planet, and it only needs to happen once.
Charity always creates such vicious circles. While donating for desaster relief is usually good and well, charity needs to be viewed with a lot more suspicion.

Teach a man to fish, he will build an economy. Give him his daily free fish, he will be your dependent forever.
It is very true. I would add that there is another key factor. Not all kids are this driven. The ones that are willing to do whatever it takes to keep up do have that drive. Combine drive and bigger/better/faster/stronger competition and that is a recipe for success at most anything.
I was coming to say the same. I'd easily pay to get a vaccine. Being able to go out and not have to worry is worth a lot to me right now.
Because you got to pay to be a "full citizen" as it's called. https://urbit.org/using/install/

Hmm, paying to become a citizen...where have I seen that before?
I think I understand what you mean. In med ethics you weigh: autonomy, justice, nonmaleficence (do no harm) and beneficence (do good). You're right, no harm is not blindly followed, but it is relevant to bring it up in this discussion.
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That quote is from 2018.

Here is what Mohammed AlQuraishi said in 2020:

CASP14 #s just came out and they’re astounding—DeepMind looks to have solved protein structure prediction. Median GDT_TS went from 68.5 (CASP13) to 92.4!!!! Cf. their 2nd best CASP13 struct scored 92.8 (out of 100). Median RMSD is 2.1Å. I think it's over [0]

and

“I think it’s fair to say this will be very disruptive to the protein-structure-prediction field. I suspect many will leave the field as the core problem has arguably been solved,” he says. “It’s a breakthrough of the first order, certainly one of the most significant scientific results of my lifetime.” [1]

[0] https://twitter.com/MoAlQuraishi/status/1333383634649313280

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
I absolutely agree that the industry has made big strides in an overall less toxic direction.
I would demand to be paid if I was asked to be on call. On call to me means I’m working.
Oh, no, of course. We went to school, 4 days a week until high school. Wednesdays were off back then.

I was not referring to home schooling but "managing kids" nowadays compared to the 80s. To my father, which was well involved in our education and housekeeping btw, it seems there wasn’t much anxiety about it. I feel that my friends are pretty anxious nowadays.

My dad was a general science teacher in a technical high school (woodworkers, mechanics, electrician ...), from an farmer family. We had this chance to learn a lot out of school, building stuff and caring for animals and crops. To the point actually where I haven’t learned a lot science wise until university.
There is no single answer that may be considered an absolute truth. There are only models “all the way down.”
All models are false, some are useful.

Whether a solid table exists or is it just mostly an empty space depends on the task ahead.
I mean to dismiss simulation, so I wouldn't be offended if you did.
Is there much to maintain on old.reddit.com?

It lacks all the features that make new Reddit annoying and slow, and it doesn't need to gain any new ones.

It's basically a graphical version of the core api, which is solid.
It's interesting how the same situation has completely opposite implications in different countries.

In my country, if the contract doesn't mention overtime, that's great, because it means the company must pay you nicely for overtime, and there is a limited amount of overtime per year. However, if it is explicitly a part of the contract, there may be more overtime per year (within some limits), and less compensation per extra hour (again, within some limits). So if you find overtime mentioned in your contract, that is a bad thing.
Many people in this thread are talking about structured concurrency in other languages. I brought up a fun one for golang that, as far as I can tell, is a 3 year old open issue [0] that I've recently bumped into.

Maybe this is a fun challenge for you to become more familiar with golang?

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20280
_I_think people seriously underestimate how much better the quality of life for older people is with walkable amenities and public transportation.

encouraging most people 80+ to stay behind the wheel to shop and socialize is a pretty bad plan. maybe waymo and uber changes this..
I would be shocked if their R&D isn't far ahead of what they share publicly. We've seen in the recent conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia that drones have become a major factor in modern battlefields. And not just surveillance, as the article talks about, but essentially as affordable missiles.

At least there's an obvious civilian benefit from this work.
Wow, this is literally more than I make after tax :( And I have a senior IT job at a multinational.

But I suppose wages take this into account. High rent prices, healthcare etc. Otherwise people wouldn't be able to live off their wage.
My partner is the manager of a red cross shop here in the UK, and it's exactly this - anything not of resale quality (or just too 'personal', like used underwear) goes for 'rag' and they get paid by weight by the rag company. The rag clothes are shredded, IIRC, not sure what for.

They also have a book company who have a similar arrangement, they pay a few pence per book, though IIRC they do make use of the books as-is rather than shredding.
While that is true, I am still unconvinced it's actually holding ourselves to a higher standard. The site is definitely allowed to demand its users hold themselves to a lower standard.

"Higher" implies "better," and giving, for example, Q-truthers bits and digital column inches may be counter-productive to the goals of this site long-term. Can't have as much cool technology talk when conspiracy theorists have disassembled Silicon Valley brick-by-brick as a side-effect of demolishing American democracy.
You're right, there will always be a minority who will suffer in anything at this scale. But like LGBT+ rights, for example, perhaps there's something that can be done about it.
I have an even lower cost industry, Programming/coding/mechanical turk.

You can do this on a rpi3.

No need for machines, a supply chain, logistics.

Sure traditionally this was true, but it's a saturated developed market.

Had to take issue with the overly simplified economics here.
old.reddit.com still have image thumbnails, and next to each thread you have an expand button allowing you to easily see the image in same size as the new reddit layout without leaving the page.

I definitely don’t think people preferring this layout are a dying breed, but I do agree that it’s easier for them to monetize the new layout.
Reddit is garbage now. Every remotely interesting discussion gets locked by moderators. Every interesting subreddit gets deleted. So you’re left with content that is diluted to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It’s sad, it used to be a great place to read intelligent discussions from a variety of perspectives, a lot like HN is today but with a broader scope. But today that’s gone.
Has anyone mentioned banning cars here?

I know people talk about it — I talk about it, semi-seriously — but I don't see any comments here mentioning banning cars (except yours), and it's not in the article.
When leftists say "exploit," it's because they regard paying workers less than the marginal value they produce with labor exploitative. (Cf. boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.) They claim that it's unfair that that product of labor goes to the company's owners — hence, to fix this, leftists want to "seize" or "democratize" the means of production. (Sitenote: this a core tenet of capitalism: value going to owners.)

Others would disagree that this is exploitative because they believe that wages should be set by the market.

It's clear that workers are not compensated for all of the value they produce, and that the excess value goes to owners. The disagreement is whether this is exploitative. Leftists argue that it's not fair for owners to capture value without contributing any work. Rightists argue that capital is a scarce (i.e. limited) commodity, so owners deserve to be compensated for providing capital. Who you agree with is up to you to decide.

Pg's blog post strawmans "exploit" because he uses a different definition of exploit than leftists use. This might be because he misunderstands leftism, but the cynical believe that he is deliberately strawmanning them for his own gain (since pg benefits from capitalism). A more honest blog post would examine whether value going to owners or founders is exploitative or not.
How about because it says so on the label?

> Type I, I R, II and II R face masks are medical masks tested in the direction of exhalation (inside to outside) and take into account the efficiency of bacterial filtration. Surgical masks of this type stop the wearer from infecting the surrounding environment. They are not effective at protecting the wearer from airbourne diseases such as coronavirus.

> Type IIR face masks EN14683 are medical face masks made up of a 4 ply construction that prevents large particles from reaching the patient or working surfaces. Type IIR Face masks include a splash resistant layer to protect against blood and other bodily fluids. Type IIR face masks are tested in the direction of exhalation (inside to outside) and take into account the efficiency of bacterial filtration.

They are not designed or tested to stop inhaling large droplets, nor exhaling small droplets. There is no scientific evidence they prevent the transmission of COVID and they specifically disclaim as much.

However, properly worn FFP2, FFP3, N95 and other respirator masks are effective at protecting the wearer from viral transmission. That’s just not what most people are wearing outside a health care environment. And you can’t simply take them off when you sit down.

First hit on Google:

1. https://www.dental-nursing.co.uk/news/covid-19-a-guide-to-fa...
This is trivial in org mode. There are multiple ways to do this. The simplest is:

Put your TODOs in the order you want. You can easily reorder them using Alt + Up or Alt + Down. Marking it as complete is also trivial.

The canonical way to do this is to make each TODO a headline with the TODO keyword. To mark as done, put your cursor on the headline and press Shift-Right.

Alternatively, you can use checklists and just press C-c C-c to mark an item as done:

- [ ] Fix widget
- [X] Extend Screen
- [ ] Profit

But you'll find doing it via headlines works best with the rest of org mode (e.g. you can perform queries on headlines, but not on lists).

> Once there are too many completed tasks at the top, I move them down into a "Done" section.

You can refile any headline to another section. Org mode also has the concept of archiving a headline. By default it moves it to an archive file, but I'm sure the location can be customized.

> linking tasks to further notes would be great to have

Org mode supports links - you can link to about anything - another file, another section in the same file, a line number in a file, a search string, an image, a PDF, a web site, etc.

In practice, if you use the headline version of TODO, you just keep the relevant notes under that headline. You can collapse all headlines if you just want to see the TODOs, and expand any given headline to see the details. But even if you go the checklist route you can just add a link to detailed notes.

You can learn to do all this in Org mode in under 30 minutes, if you find the right tutorial/video.

> without explicitly setting due dates or priority "scores"

These are entirely optional in org mode and not on by default.

If you want to be able to add a TODO in the right spot without moving your cursor to the exact location, you'll want to learn about capture templates, which is a bit more advanced.
Isn't it reasonable to fire someone for dragging other employees into a personal dispute with the person's manager?

It'd be acceptable if it's a relevant party, like your skip or your manager's skip, even if it would anger your direct manager. This, however, is entirely different. It's venting your frustration to a large group of coworkers. It takes away from productivity as a whole, and is socially inappropriate.

I don't know about Google's management policies, but at most companies I've worked at, senior employees and managers are held to an even higher standard, and this would make firing a more likely choice than some type of correction.

Regardless of the hypotheticals, from what I've read, she offered an ultimatum, and they declined her ultimatum, which resulted in her being fired:

> Dr Gebru had emailed her management laying out some key conditions for removing her name from the paper, and if they were not met, she would "work on a last date" for her employment.
According to Dr Gebru, Google replied: "We respect your decision to leave Google... and we are accepting your resignation.
Access to computers in libraries has been severely restricted during the pandemic, many people have not had access to their email at all during this period (that is: for six months plus). Also, there are tons of rural locations that do not have easy access to a nearby public library.
I used Darknet (C library) and good old C++ and CUDA custom written NNs. I've never had any success with Python frameworks, they all felt fragile and not very performant.
Yes, we will just map out/prepare more training data, train better networks. Prepare more and more training data... until we have mapped out all proteins known and there is nothing left to predict for the networks...
That's because Intel (back then, the only real high-perf CPU) rejected ARM as an inferior, slow technology.

And blatantly ahistorical on "money": where is your citation?

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=gross-...

In 2005 to 2008: Intel made 2x to 6x more profit per quarter than Apple. A short example:

Q4 2005 at Intel: $24b profits
Q4 2005 at Apple: $4b profits

Not revenue. Not stock price. Profit, that can be put anywhere in the business. Intel had insanely higher profits than Apple. The iPod (which ran an ARM-derived 90MHz CPU) was already out in 2008. Apple had just acquired P.A. Semi. Intel still had vastly, vastly, vastly more free cash flow and profit.

Don't tell me Intel didn't have money for Arm or hiring CPU architects or even literally acquiring entire Arm firms.

Intel had hired these very people who later joined Apple; it absorbed Arm architects, uarches, designers, portfolios, etc.

They failed. As The Register wrote in 2006,

>Intel's failure wasn't for a lack of talent or investment - or even luck - over the years. Intel threw $1.6bn on a DSP company in 1999, and followed up with a host of smaller investments. And luck blessed Intel on several occasions. When DEC's StrongARM processor fell into Intel's hands in the fall of 1997, it was as a result of a legal settlement, and an unsought and unexpected prize. Pundits at the time thought that Intel had been handed the keys to the kingdom. But billions of dollars later, Intel could only claim two significant design wins from lower tier phone OEMs RIM and Palm. Texas Instruments, by contrast, will cash $14bn in revenue from phone chip sales this year.
>
>So how did Intel fail to capitalize? In a nutshell, it failed to live up to its name. Intel may stand for 'INTegrated ELectronics', but it failed to integrate the electronics that mattered when it mattered.
>
>A series of poor management decisions ensured that StrongARM was well positioned for a market that was on the decline, and rarely competitive in a market that boomed. Early on, Intel decided against integrating dedicated digital signal processing into the StrongARM chip, later renamed XScale. While this decision was justifiable for fixed embedded markets and for PDAs, it put the chip at a huge disadvantage for lower cost devices that needed voice capabilities. In response, Intel copied the PC strategy of adding new floating point instructions, introducing MMX for Xscale. Since phone manufacturers preferred cheaper custom chips for devices that needed a multimedia flip, this was a wasted investment.

Good reading:
https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/28/intel_mobile_failure/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240049543/Intels-Strong...
Yes it is a true/false. No there isn't an API, however the bettors could probably agree upon a set of verifiable websites, the result would be true if one of those sites confirmed it.
I like how it pops up from the bottom of the screen in a card-view, and typing any letter starts an accurate search for past snippets.
One of the key points of the mythical man month is that communication overhead starts taking a larger and larger chunk of the total productivity as you scale the number of people involved, just to keep everyone synced up and rowing in the same direction. It's not really based on when the people are added.
I have pledged this to myself, to the extent that I've been laying out plans to leave the subreddits I moderate.
>lack of proper coordination of weather modification activity (could) lead to charges of 'rain stealing' between neighboring regions," both within China and with other countries.

I wonder if there's a map of regions most susceptible to 'rain stealing' via geoengineering and those who are most vulnerable. Some numbers from 8 years ago:

>Guo Xueliang, director of the artificial weather intervention center under the CMA, said total atmospheric water in China is typically 30 trillion tons per year while annual rainfall is about 6 trillion tons. “At least one more percent of cloud water could be transferred to rainfall every year, roughly 280 billion tons."

>the country would seek to increase precipitation by 3 to 5 percent in the next five years through cloud-seeding.

>In March, Zheng said the potential of average artificial rainfall could reach up to 280 billion tons per year, which is equal to seven times of the storage capacity of the Three Gorges Dam.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2012-08-13/stormy-weather-on-cl...