skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confidence and Skill in Stem by Gender
According to the wiki page on this, the murder rate is now 3 times high than 1977 (start of data on the table).
Doesn't that mitigation introduce more centralization though?
From an actuary's perspective: is Google Sheets ever entertained as an Excel alternative?
Have you ever read the release notes of your browser?

JavaScript has holes basically every month too
Love that they just glue a magnet to the shell then presumably use a Hall sensor or reed switch. Cyborg shellfish.
"Experiences" isn't the same as this idea at all.

AirBNB Experiences is things like "Come swimming with dolphins" or "come on a wine tour".

This idea seems more like the voice-guided tours you can get in museums etc but creating a market for them. It's probably a decent idea, but possibly complementary rather than competitive with what AirBNB is doing.
It is great that you respond with succinct reasons.

People who have used Python for some years seem to forget just how clunky it really is. I've been using Excel since 1990, and sure, it has its own warts, but Python is a very rudimentary tool compared to Excel.

Python is a machine shop. Excel is a car. It may be a lemon, but it's a functional car.

This is a great example of programmers not being able to see the forest for the trees. Reminds me of the "Once Linux gets a desktop it will take over the world" debate from circa 1997-today.
Hm. At the time of the release there were no alternatives not bound to specific hardware (e.g. Intel RST on specific chipsets). I am not even sure there are now. AFAIK, Intel RST is dead, and AMD has no alternative either.
QALY is standard medical practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

I understand it makes people squeamish, but the medical profession triages lives and decides treatments every day.

Doing something QALY negative is malpractice — and lockdowns are QALY negative because they harm the young to save the old/infirm.
> ... whether the virus originated from a lab or from a wet market

Maybe this is pedantic, but the introduction to humans could have happened in a wet market whether the virus itself originated in a lab (where bats could have escaped or been smuggled out and sold, etc.) or zoonotically.
I pay for a SaaS that I'm not using. It's going to take me some time to set-up how I want to use it (some script writing) and it's not really a priority right now. I think there was a promotion when I got it and probably did so with the thought that I may benefit from a grandfathering policy if the price increases or something. Didn't really think I'd put it off so much (it's been like 3 years maybe), but it just happened. It's very cheap though, so I think it's fine.

Maybe your case is something like that. They plan to use it, but are putting it off and thought that signing up earlier rather than later would be better.
There are many ambiguous date formats, but this is not one of them. Four digits, delimiter, two digits, delimiter, two digits always means year, month, day, no matter where you are in the world[0]. Well, except in Kazakhstan, but only when writing in the Khazakh language.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Maye there's a fitness for service argument that could be made and that the software is dangerous in its current state. Disabling it is one way to make it safe and the license spells out what their obligation is to you when they do so.
I think more sadly, this strange "mental health" defence has been used to justify the needless deaths of 100,000s of people from COVID.

There are orders of magnitude differences in the fatality rates of full lockdown mental health issues and zero lock down COVID deaths, it's not a hard decision at all. Compare Wuhan and New York WAY less death in Wuhan, with a much harsher authoritarian style lockdown (maximum mental duress you'd think).

Or Melbourne Australia with a very strict lockdown compared with pick any major American city you like. Major difference in death rates.

Edit: The trolley problem is really easy if one option kills 10,000 people and the other one kills 5... that's kind of difference we are talking about.
Sir, come along this way - Apple would like to have a word with you - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/26/apple-doe...
>> these days

Was it ever any different? Pythagoras is on record saying something pretty similar to your words, ~2500 years ago.
From what I recall, Apple approached Adobe during development of iPhone to nail down performance/battery concerns of Flash and Adobe basically blew them off.
I think you have it very backwards. Coding leadership usually involves nearly zero coding itself. Rather it involves getting the other person to write down RFCs, tech specs, requirements, design diagrams, etc., and guiding them through how to think about macro structure of solutions and outcomes for specific product deliverables and business cases.

Training involves teaching specific tactics of coding, like a new technique of multi-processing, or an approach to refactor a legacy class implementation. Helping someone learn tactics is teaching or training, which is a different thing than leading.

A young person could lead an older, more experienced person. For example, they could drive them to outline a solution in architecture documents that better align with product management. That can be true even if there are no tactics of software design that the younger person can teach the more experienced person. So that doesn’t reduce credibility or anything in the leadership sense.

In general it’s important to separate these: mentorship, coaching, teaching / training, and leading. They are all very different things.
Title should be “Uber will charge 25% more …”
I'd go one further and say your app can run on an old dell desktop salvaged from the back of the local high school if you spent a bit of effort on actual performance
Would the people doing the implementation need to be able to choose and manage dependencies? Or could they do the work inside a prepared environment (comparable to Excel in some sense).
How does the immune system keep a memory of what every single non-foreign protein looks like so that it can recognize foreign ones? That's the most amazing thing here, to me.
Most often I see this as an example of ISO 8061 date, https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html .

"Looking for an unambiguous calendar-and-clock format that is internationally understood? It’s time for ISO 8601."

"ISO 8601 tackles this uncertainty by setting out an internationally agreed way to represent dates:

YYYY-MM-DD

For example, September 27, 2012 is represented as 2012-09-27."
Not an actuary - but I think this crosses domains: the lack of comprehensive shortcuts makes Google Sheets DOA (dead on arrival) for my uses.
Thanks for the clarification on LQG.

As a totally uninformed layman, your description of the singularity was also my understanding. I only brought up the question because this is the second paragraph of the original comment in this sub-thread:

>Would it be possible or plausible that singularity actually does not exist, but just that the theory of general relativity is not a correct description of space/time/matter in small scale? I am thinking in classical theory, when things were treated as point mass/charges, infinity exist in the solution of point sources.

Basically, I wasn't sure why they were getting so much criticism for this, because it sounded pretty reasonable to me.
Pretty likely that the reason OSM is getting all this attention is because Google opened themselves to competition when they started (rationally) price gouging like there wasn't any.
Good lord is this startup trying to draw attention to themselves with this analysis by spinning up bogus stories?

Just look at this:

However, Wuhan stands out for housing the Wuhan Institute of Virology, one of only a few labs engaged in gain-of-function research.

How does this imply causality? Why do they not consider the simple alternative, that a location that specialises in gain-of-function research of coronaviruses has the highest concentration of people who are able to DETECT novel coronaviruses with a much higher likelihood? If the virus originated in a city that has no lab specializing in these viruses, how would they ever have distinguished it from pneumonia?

The coexistence of the lab and the outbreak of the disease leads them to raise their estimate from 1.4% to 42%(!) lab made chance although it does not establish cause at all and does not even consider this inherent bias in sensitivity to detection.
Some cars already have those. I've got a car from 2017 that has some kind of sensors wrapping all the way around the bumper. When I'm parked between two cars, it can detect a car roughly 15-20 feet away as soon as I get an inch or two of my bumper clear of the other cars.

It does lack any spatial indicators to the driver, though. It just plays a beep, but it doesn't seem to play the beep from the side of the car the danger is in, nor does it beep louder when they're closer. Still, it works remarkably well. Reliably detects pedestrians and vehicles (even while I'm moving, which is impressive, because it doesn't go off for parked cars when I start moving).

I think it's the Dodge ParkSense, but I bought the car used so there's a possibility it's something aftermarket.

It's saved my ass a number of times. I'm in jacked-up pickup truck country, so it is often impossible for me to see pedestrians about to walk behind me because of the lifted truck, and likewise the pedestrians can't see me until they're behind me.
I use Fennec from F-Droid as well. The redesign broke many features for me and rendered it near unusable (or actually unusable for certain tasks, like downloading files).
I guess the only way to really prove it is to find covid-19 in an animal and then expose it to the human with the antibodies to it and measure the response?
How would the conversion rate between EUR and USD be determined?
While I don't entirely disagree with your premise...

You've cherry-picked specifically the numbers for "vehicle travel" which isn't even defined but is differentiated even by that article from air travel -- I'd read that as people driving in their own cars. Which is still concerning, but perhaps less so. Some places have even actively encouraged people w/ cars to get out on a drive as a safe way to get out of the house during lockdowns while minimizing social contacts.

Even your link calls out that the drop in air travel this year was far greater. A quick google turns up some estimates that air travel generally accounts for more than half of normal Thanksgiving travel[1], and that there was ~%50 reduction in air travel this year[2]. So that seems like closer to a 30-40% overall reduction -- still not great, but nothing like 5%.

[1] https://protrav.com/travel-411/thanksgiving-travel-statistic...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/11/30/how-20...
Any strategy that requires a mental effort from people is likely not going to work at scale.
I think it’s kind of awesome, in its own weird way.
Color-Coding Complex Maintenance
Problem is Gebru is an activist, she's biased towards her own cause. Accepting her demands directly, without including all the other groups and voices, would not be right.
Agree completely on 1. but not sure on 2. and 4. - I think if you're using Python and need performance then you will be using Numpy etc - would be interested to hear if there are instances where this doesn't work.
I mean... sure? There are a fair number of ways you can mitigate these issues, but the way spreadsheets are structured does not lend itself to structured/ well managed code.
> I suppose it depends what you are comparing it to. Almost every JSON library has the same limitations you mentioned, and yet many people find JSON useful for network applications.

JSON is a human-readable format which is hugely advantageous to develop and operate in many settings. Protobufs doesn't have that advantage. Yet we're paying all of the same costs to structure the data with both. That's enough to posit JSON as a net winner over protobufs.

> Unfortunately protobuf C++ can't live fully within this arena model while it uses std::string for accessors.

Forcing std::string as a container for core components of a networking API (specifically for an accessor) is an exemplary demonstration of a lack of seriousness in a library.
I was mainly alluding to their attitude towards refurb and repair. While they are not really any more or less disposable than other brands, Apple corporate policy strongly encourages disposing of items which could trivially lead much longer lives given the chance.
SCC Insight did a great analysis here: https://sccinsight.com/2020/07/21/the-war-heats-up-over-seat...

It's hard to summarize, but I pasted the closest to a summary below. The Parrott and Reich study is the one commissioned by the Seattle Office of Labor Standards and City Council:

> At this point, there’s no real point in groping through the wage, expense or hours calculations for either study; the underlying data in the Parrott and Reich study is garbage, and both studies skew their analysis and recommendations in the direction that favors the one who commissioned their study. Instead, we should be focused on the key policy questions, and forcing city officials to be transparent about who they are prioritizing in the policy decisions they are making in setting a minimum wage. Once the policy questions are answered, there is enough raw data in the Cornell report to calculate out the proper minimum wage.

> The key policy question, one that drives so many others, is whether the city should prioritize full-time drivers over part-time and casual drivers. As we’ve seen above, it affects almost everything: what expenses to include, how much the system needs to try to maximize paid hours for full-time drivers, the economic model for the companies. According to the Uber/Lyft data set that Cornell analyzed, only 15% of TNC drivers are full-time, but for them the job is their livelihood. Should they be prioritized over people driving as a second job to help make ends meet or deal with emergency expenses? Should the city try to increase the number of full-time TNC driver jobs? Should the city be picking winners and losers at all between full-time and part-time drivers?
The Mozilla Foundation minus Firefox doesn't seem like a good use of charitable funds compared to say, the EFF. For example, they funded this hit piece on P2P technology [0] and a browser extension to solicit complaints about YouTube recommendations [1]. Meanwhile they're laying off key developers and gutting the future of their core product, while paying execs bloated salaries to manage this array of white elephant advocacy projects.

[0] - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen...

[1] - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/regrets-reporter...
>>An XC60 is an upgrade in every way other than horsepower.

Weeeeell, this particular one is(GLA45 was 381bhp, the XC60 T8 is 390bhp). But yeah, it's not really comparable, these two have very different use cases.
Thats probably True. But to what extent will nature mitigate this, and offset the negative with positives. For example:

1) Clearer water means that light reaches deeper. Potentially allowing more aquatic plants to grow over huge new areas. Providing new habitat, food sources and shelter for fish.

2) Zebra mussels might trap some chemicals like PCBs. And accumulate them in their shells. Once the mussel dies, they fall to the bottom, and might permanently lock up them up into the sediment.
Bullfighting was never asserted as need, only suggested as a possible tool. In order to live in this country I must document my income in great detail and own up to any tax obligations. Then when there is a disaster the government offers aid but asks me who I am and how I can prove myself worthy. You believe it makes sense for my government to demand detailed explanation of all income and then claim ignorance when a disaster strike? Why?
> The goal isn't to sell the robots

Their website has a tab called "Shop". I clicked, thinking one could buy t-shirts, perhaps a Spot plushie, but for $75K and change you can get your own robot dog. The "Buy Now" button is kinda crazy, like some user just happened on the site and Add-to-cart and in a week one could have this delivered in a box. It's only a smidge more than the Mac Pro.
If you loved Contact, you will love Arrival too - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/ ...
Authoritarians have taken this as a chance to seize power without accountability — and have used it capriciously.

That’s true regardless of what you think about the lockdowns, medically.

I think we should hold them accountable now, so we don’t have to fight for our freedoms later.
> There are many ambiguous date formats, but this is not one of them.

The comment you've replied to is a counterexample to this claim.
Not everyone is driven by money, but I think its fair to say that most people would take a job in industry where you can make 2-3x over a government job. I think this is born out in your own admission that it is very rare for government to hire engineers. Above inflation / COLA pay raises are table stakes for good engineers. If a good engineer in industry has only managed to get COLA pay raises over the last 5 years, they should quit.

I've not claimed that government can't do anything right, and I strongly believe in government. I do however believe that current public policy is designed to cause government to fail. Lots of contracts in that yearly $500 billion are successful, but things like the F-35 program, the Littoral Combat Ship, the Space Launch System, Healthcare.gov, the fuck ups in this article, and more are big enough that they eat pretty significantly into that $500 billion budget. The government has some serious issues procuring engineering work. Some pork politics certainly contribute, but lack of technical expertise at federal agencies is, I think, a significant factor.
My original thinking was that companies needing to use transformers, LSTMs, etc., would want to fund the development after doing the simple work to evaluate NN-512's ResNeXt or DenseNet performance on their hardware

Same with development of tooling (network conversion, parameter import). It just takes a lot of time/effort for me to write the code. It's easy to say that support for AVX, AVX2, etc., would be nice, but that's months of hard work (unfunded)

I guess we agree that a niche tool like NN-512, that has a reduced feature set (trimmed to allow one person to complete it and release it for free), has trouble competing with the huge, free, flexible, multi-target tools funded by large companies

In retrospect this is obvious!
I don't think that's a strong indicator. Why would you want an investigation that likely requires you to grant foreign investigators access to your bioweapon labs and their records?
How can they possibly login without the password being available to them?
What about other potential viruses though? We don't have vaccines for those.
TVM can do that for you: http://tvm.apache.org/
Interesting, this was probably due to "DNS tunnel mode":
https://www.your-freedom.net/index.php?id=dns-tunneling
I will look into this more, thanks! :-)
That makes a lot of sense. I remember having bad managers early in my career as well, but I was also in a customer facing position that required much more feedback from management (weekly one-on-ones). Compare that to now, when the only time I hear anything from management is when I get a raise, or a shout out at the end of year "all hands" meeting.
If you will ever be able to integrate git into it, portabella might catch good traction with privacy freaks that self-host their gitlab/bitbucket instances.
>which is always risky to weigh in on publicly,

It wasn't always that way. Back in the day unless you said something totally out there and tone deaf (like something beyond the bounds of any commonly known ideology and on a highly sensitive topic) you didn't have much to worry about.
But you aren't even trying to discuss it honestly! The prior probability of voter fraud is so low that it demands really incredible evidence. When you frame it like "vote fraud or not voter fraud", you're implicitly lending a whole lot of credibility to something that is, well, not the least bit credible.

Also, to borrow from a completely different polarizing thread, you're making a classic motte-and-bailey argument in record time. You start out broad - "election fraud", a "zero sum game" that they must be cheating at - but by the end of the comment you're already on, "Okay, not election fraud, but there were votes that were incorrectly cast somehow, and thats what I'm actually upset about..." which of course is obviously a defensible position that nobody would disagree with.

Another way to think about how silly this is: Can you conceive of a world were Trump and his supporters don't claim there was fraud, but accept a Joe Biden win?
I also wrote a gameboy emulator a few years ago... But I disagree about it being fun.

The truth is it's rather tedious. There are 256 opcodes you will need to create. Each has certain flags you will need to check that change it's operation.

Some of those flags are undocumented, and several of the opcodes actually have hardware level bugs that make them act differently than the CPU document describes.

So after creating every opcode, you will inevitably have bugs which you need to fix.

After fixing those you will still not have games running because of so many undocumented/buggy opcodes, so now you need to figure out how an actual gameboy operated.

At this point I was only able to solve it be getting a working emulator and executing the same program on each until their states diverged.

I did find it interesting to learn about low level hardware, but I'd say the project is 50% reading specs, 10% interesting, and 40% tedious pain-in-the-butt.

I never did get sound working, and the graphics are buggy, but I think I got far enough that I learned all there was to learn.
The whole world said it was nothing until February or so, when Italy had its first casualties. The reason for this was the WHO's downplaying of the virus.
What niche does your butt plug serve?
The art of selling yourself without being a seller
One could imagine a standardized set of signals on the front of the car. Red = stopped/stopping. Yellow = about to start moving; Green = moving and continuing. Something like that.
I would say it matters for future considerations. Gain of function research is happening in many places. Leaks can happen. An unrelated virus could cause another pandemic if there are flaws that go unaddressed. The probability of a pandemic occurring doesn't decrease because this one has occurred, as they are independent events. For all we know, another pandemic could be brewing and we're so occupied with COVID19 that we're not observing it.
I can appreciate what you said - I accidently learned that just keeping the camera still and not moving it around much drastically improves the home videos I shoot.
The more populated thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25581487
He does a lot of drawing, if you have seen him speak before he uses hand drawn overheads. Its hard sometimes to find venues that even have them! (or they need to borrow one) I have flipped through some of his doodle books from the 50s/60s amazing stuff.
Go look at Melbourne Australia and come back and say lockdowns don't work.

They went from 700/cases a day 30,000 infections. To 0/Day 0 Infections in 16 weeks. Everything you said is categorically wrong.
webrtc is great for sending data as fast as possible to someone else, unless you need to synchronise data between multiple parties

Zoom doesn't use webrtc (unless you count the browser fallback version which nobody uses), they use their own video codec - which notably uses a lot of cpu but requires little bandwidth.
From my experience, zoom is the only solution where I don't experience bandwidth problems all the times.