skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I think that the delineation between the scientist working with the content, and the Engineers who actually provide the mechanics for it is very fair.

If there is a question mark here - it's really how much value are we deriving from all of these data people?

Where is all the ML that's changing our lives? Search, Alexa and TikTok, I can see it.

In the future obviously vision systems for autonomous cars etc..

But I'm really wary about the heavily decreasing marginal returns after that.

It will surely change the world, but I think in specific areas. Most of the entire field seems like an optimization on something rather than anything new.

Washing Machines feed up immense amount of labour and toil. Alexa telling me the weather is not.
Thanks for sharing this class.

The best references to learn Unix (and TCP/IP and networking) are still William Rich Stevens books.

Other courses/sources that I found very useful:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs114/2003fa/

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs214/2004sp/

http://boris.lk.net/unix/

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/UnixTools/notes.pdf

https://dasher.wustl.edu/chem430/readings/unix-tutorial.pdf
> Even if that is true, the harm that does not come from the fact that it's illegal would be magnified a hundredfold if it became as widespread as alcohol (which is, please keep that in mind, the scenario I was talking about). That's not hyperbole: Accodding to the European Drug Report 2018 (https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/8585/...), the prevalence of injecting drugs (chiefly heroin) is between 0 and 0.9%, which consumption of alcohol is pretty damn near 100%.

With heroin specifically the increase would be nowhere near what alcohol is. Heroin is not a party drug while alcohol is. Cocaine, Meth, and MDMA I would expect to see increase in usage for the party scene but heroin specifically wouldn't see that increase, it would a small increase at first but overall that would go down. Portugal has shown that if you legalise the drug and make it a health issue you then get access to the addicts and you can help them. This means while more people will take it, the number of concurrent users will be lower because the number of people coming off it will be higher.

> Even if that is not exaggerated (which I strongly supect it is)

I'm pretty sure there was a study somewhere but I am lazy. But 1 thing I can tell you, every heroin addict I've met and talked with about the addiction of different things, I've met lots, has said they found tobacco harder to give up than heroin. Heroin it seems has a shorter withdrawal period than tobacco, so once you're over the hump you're for the most part fine. With tobacco from experience, it took weeks to stop taking nicotine gum and months for the cravings to go away.

> those are not the only kinds of harm: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/hero...

Those are envoirmental harm. I've heard heroin is healthier than alcohol but that's just some random heroin addicts so I take that with a grain of salt.
Is this satire? Political violence is so common in America (and violence in general) that I doubt anyone blinks an eye.
Stick a screwdriver at a wedge of the window and twist, it shatters in 2 seconds, glass comes off with a swipe once shattered.
Source: 'Hongry' friends.
> your work signature should be kept professional and that means excluding private data.

Unless you live in complete isolation your gender is not
private. As soon as someone sees your appearance or hears your
voice they will subconsciously associate you with a gender. And
if that association is often incorrect then what's wrong with
avoiding awkward situations?

We don't mention ethnicity or religion because they're not
relevant for communication with business partners. Genders are,
due to how our language works.

I wouldn't enforce mentioning pronouns as in the majority of
cases it's simply unnecessary, but if someone has a problem with
that detail in an email signature that tells a lot more about
them, enough for me to reconsider working with them. Because no,
it's not an important thing for me, but if someone thinks
themselves as too professional for such little things they're probably
not a pleasant person.
it was done in 10 days... prob have some bugs... feedbacks are much appreciated
Yeah, so is having to put

"John Smith, sr developer"

in your email signature.
For a long time I've had my full name as user name on my machine, which meant that my user profile path contains both a space (evil) and a non-ASCII character (even more evil, although it's in Latin 1 at least). A lot of things break on one or both of those things and at times it's a bit annoying to deal with. Some bug reports have also been closed as "Won't fix, just don't do that. Who needs spaces in paths, anyway?". I haven't tried to use non-Latin Unicode in my user name and profile directory, which would break everything that uses the old ANSI APIs on Windows instead of the Unicode ones, and that's probably way too much breakage. But broken nonetheless, and that includes a lot of new, recent, and still-maintained software :-/

In a similar vein, I've also used U+2212 as minus sign in my regional settings. There's a lot of software that refuses to parse numbers it previously happily emitted.

I've given up on that too, by now, though. The only thing I still do is using English as UI language (so I don't have to deal with bad translations of software), but German as my regional settings (with ISO 8601 dates). There's a lot of software out there (I think GNU gettext is broken in that way on Windows) that assumes that the way I want my dates and numbers formatted has any bearing on the language I want to see in an application. Many others don't care about the regional settings and use the UI language to also format dates, times, and numbers. That's annoying, but at least nothing breaks, so that's the only deviation from the standard user I still use, to still be able to work.
Static linking doesn't require a container format.
The aspiration that GP was getting to was that less cleaning is required as a result of better data engineering, I believe.
>A lot of folks here are calling out the lower pay for SWEs in Europe and Canada as a failure - but also praise the low wealth inequality and low income inequality in Europe and Canada.

I think when it comes to Europe people should specificity the countries. If you take Europe or even the EU as one entity then it is one of the most unequal places on Earth when it comes to income and wealth.

Bulgaria is an EU member state and in 2018 had an adjusted net national income per capita of $8,148.[0] Luxembourg is part of the EU as well and in 2018 it was $60,189. Denmark was at $52,641. Poland was at $12,954.

All of this varies enormously from country to country.
>If you could name three of them I'd be really grateful.

Latent Dirichlet Allocation, message-passing in Hidden Markov models, and Naive Bayes for spam filtering. Outside my subfield, there's always the basic handwriting recognition employed in ATMs.
In this case it won't pay off either. It's a hard job market for mediocre engineers and many STEM fields don't even pay that much better.

The vast masses of people are already on the road to hell from birth no matter what choices they make in their lives so that expression ought to enter its retirement years
I think a big part of the problem is that there is so much gendered language in german. So there are no progammers, there are male programmers (Programmierer) and female programmers (Programmiererin), which leads to both forms or short forms being used (Programmierer/in) in these postings to be inclusive. But I don't even know if there is an accepted neutral form of the word if you wanted to address someone non-binary.

So, while the whole (m/w/d) thing is kind of silly, it on the other hand makes it clear, that whatever gendered form you use, you don't actually care about gender.

I really hope we can someday find acceptable neutral forms for these words. It would make many things much easier in german.
I'm not French but it is my second language.
A lot of 4chan was self aware. But on Facebook they think they're saying what everyone is thinking. They aren't trolling
The violent comment botnets will continue to attack every social network until Twitter is the only one left. No due process required. Twitter has teamed up with Amazon now, they've got a giant in their corner.
Well put.

Unless you want to be angry without reason it's a waste of time. Back in 2019 I went social media/ online dating free. Had more fun and better partners than I could ever imagine. Also boosted my income significantly
Would love to know more about those differences in dress and speech within Paris. I've spent many months in France and love the country but spent less than a week total in Paris even though its a city that fascinates me.
A couple of days ago, there was a thread about "How to become a data engineer in 2021": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25728198
> This seems like you have a problem with the state itself

That's a straw-man argument. I didn't say no power to prevent speech is legitimate. In recent days, the issue at hand was censorship by social media platforms / large tech companies.
As just a straight 1:1 translation to 5e, it isn't really hard. The monsters are roughly the same, so it isn't hard to run an AD&D adventure on 5e. I would argue a "novice" DM could read through an AD&D adventure and do the translation on the fly. (EDIT: When I wrote this I meant look at the monster in the adventure, and find the analogous one in the 5e monster manual, and use that. Don't use the original stats!)

HOWEVER, I would offer that from the TSR AD&D adventures I have run, AD&D is a) much more "hack and slash"/murder hobo like, and b) much more deadly/much more "random", as compared to a WotC 5e campaign. Not to say that is bad, but I find that if you want to do it, you will want to tell your players this so they have the right expectations going into an AD&D style campaign.

I personally (as a DM) prefer having (some amount of) plot line in my adventures, so I find myself filling in a lot of gaps myself if there needs to be a plot line (which I personally enjoy). I also prefer not to kill my players characters (granted, I also level set that doing things you expect to get you killed will in fact get you killed), so I tend to tune back a lot more of the "deadly" traps (i.e. in some of the really deadly dungeons, just a bad roll of dice on a failed trap will kill you. I am not a fan of that, so I tune it back that it will eventually kill you, but you have a chance of reacting and your teammates can save you).

But I will also offer, I have had players who want to run it "old school", so I don't do any of that and run it as a 1:1 translation, and we have had a lot of fun with it too!
The key thing is that they built a reward system into sharing each of those thoughts, which enables an addiction for acceptance from users on the platform. Facebook’s engagement systems / algorithms feed on these addictions. As the article discusses, this causes users to radicalize their posts to garner more attention.
I always felt that tech-focused data scientists should also be required to know how process data end-to-end; at minimum, from a SQL database to deployed model, but knowing how to collect & clean data is important too. It seems like the industry is trying fill the gap that was created by a glut of people without math/cs backgrounds going into 5-week data science courses who then need hand-holding when they get real jobs.

Data science & engineering should be treated as a single collection of skill-sets. Lacking ETL experience is a major deficit, considering how prevalent that kind of work is.

This might just be my personal biases coming through. I consider myself a "full-stack" data scientist & engineer. But because data scientists who can work on the backends are rare, I always end up doing the plumbing while other people do the fun analysis work.

I think companies that are data "science" heavy are going to be at huge disadvantage soon. Tools like Rekognition and Google AI APIs are making the model training & deployment aspect almost trivial. At some point, the only real work involved in this space will be the data "engineering."
I think you're right. We are products of our perception of reality. I just didn't want to get too deep in my summary.

I feel that people are manipulated on social media mostly by opinions/narratives and not incorrect facts. These opinions end up guiding how we feel about facts.

Example:

Fact -> Maga protesters stormed the capital

Opinion 1 -> "These protesters will be looked at as heroes for trying to protect our democracy"

Opinion 2 -> "These protesters are fools to do such a dangerous thing for a president that doesn't care about them"

I believe that depending on if you get more Opinion 1's or 2's on your feed, it probably will eventually shape how you feel about the fact. Sad thing is most of the time these opinions are hyperbolic and not balanced.
That does sound weird, but mostly from the perspective of mass-to-value ratio (unless they want to ship animals straight after birth). In terms of ethics, those particular animals who would live off-world should consider themselves lucky: they'll be living in much better conditions than their terrestrial brethren do.
The goal is definitely that it can enable greater optimisation and I agree that it's not a reality yet. The other benefit is that it constrains types so that you get compile time type checking, which is very useful.
That tweet seems to be incorrect.

https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1349277932531847174

> Hi Glenn, I'm wondering if you would be willing to delete this tweet and issue a correction both on Twitter and your newsletter since a number of the people arrested last week, including Jacob Chansley and Nicholas Ochs, were active users of Parler. Thanks!
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One datapoint: this recently changed, but I worked for years in a very multinational context, where people/names from my home country/language (America/English) were in the minority of people I emailed, called, interacted with, talked about, etc., and no one cultural/language group was very dominant in my work.

I found the trend to state pronouns (for those who opted-in) super helpful. It made explicit for me (and other colleagues) knowledge that is typically implicit. Of course, this is a different use-case for stating pronouns, but one that made them sticker (I think) in my work context than they otherwise would have been.

So, thumbs up for stating pronouns. If you don't state them, people who can will infer pronouns (and may be wrong), and people who can't (because of a lack of context) will feel awkward, have to ask someone else (time/energy), or get it wrong, which is shitty all around.
I've had fb friends report spammed into being temp or permabanned very easily (personal feuds, stalkers), so I would question how they're even measuring quality at this point.
Image tagging is not in that category. Google Photos, Synology Moments and other similar projects are valuable for end users. Nobody had time to manually tag hundreds of gigabytes of photos with even 10% of the items in them.
Pathfinder 1st edition was a direct successor (near-clone, even) of D&D 3, which was created by WotC. That's where the big break from AD&D happened. D&D 5 has about as much in common with AD&D as D&D 3 and Pathfinder have. Perhaps more, because D&D 5 was in some ways (though not all) an explicit attempt to go back to earlier, less complex editions of D&D.
"Posts circulating on Telegram, the online ecosystem of choice among militant neo-Nazis, urge followers to locate the addresses of politicians in Congress and assassinate them."

Vice is already trying to label Telegram as a haven for Neo-Nazis, which it probably isn't. Or isn't any more than Signal, FB or anything else for that matter.

The issue is the government will use this as a means to crackdown on protests, private messaging apps and others things we've enjoyed for decades.
Also, unless I'm mistaken, not e-ink.
Nor does DC want to join MD.
Is it possible to use signal without having to have a smartphone app installed?
Was this written by a CCP- sponsored bot?
If you build your own thing then it will be subject to the moderation of whatever service you build it upon. In this case, hosting services and app stores. If you don't like their moderation either, you are free to setup your own bare metal servers, even your own app store.

And then there is Tor. If you really want to live outside of any moderation, outside of even basic laws, then setup a Tor hidden service. If you aren't going to put in some basic effort to protect yourself (ie what ThePirateBay does every day) and instead run strait to the courts, then I have little sympathy.
Author here!

The article was published earlier this week and I have a quick addendum: regarding Erlang/Elixir, my goal has always been to bring new developers to the platform. After all, Erlang developers already have the most important part of Elixir, which is the Erlang runtime!

There are also key people in both communities working hard to make sure the tooling is consistent across all languages. A lot of this effort happens under the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (https://erlef.org/) too.

All to say, regardless if you pick Erlang or Elixir (or Gleam, LFE, etc.), I hope you will fall in love with the platform as much as I did 10 years ago!
It's perfect except that neither DC nor Maryland want that.
I don't deny there is probably some favoritism going on, but is Facebooks willingness to moderate their content not at least part of the reason? Parler was completely hands off when it came to any sort of moderation of the content its users were posting (by design) which allowed for threats of violence to go unchecked and flourish within the platform. That seems like a pretty significant determinant when considering which site had a more direct connection to the events that transpired.
Already sold out :(.

I love the DIY aspect of this. I hate wearing watches, but with something like this I can 3D print my own belt loop or other style case to experiment with other forms of wearable.
shrugs in autocorrect
> due to being the primary source of govt income in most (all?) European countries, and increasing gross salary kinda stops making sense at some point

It's the same in the US

> It would be great, if these issues were addressed, and there are well-known ways to do that.

How ? moving to bonuses or equity is a way to defer taxes but at the end you would pay the same
Then I suggest you advocate most religions be illegal, lest scholars in the future no longer know whether creation myths were true or not.

It's funny how such arguments of protecting truth only come when the lie be emotionally sensitive, nay, they come just as easily when the truth be so sensitive.

It has nothing to do with veracity an everything with emotional sensitivity. The holocaust's occurrence could have been as false as the sun orbiting around the earth, but provided it'd be as sensitive as it now is, it would have been just as illegal.

Which is also why it's in particular Germany that bans it — the holocaust is no more or less true in different places of course, but the denial thereof is far more sensitive in Germany.
I have experienced the same thing...but I just don't think it has anything to do with whether the positions are labeled data scientist or data engineer.

And I would warn you from my experience teaching statistics to undergraduate engineers...they are not going to be much better. Regularly get 'hey we have this data what test can we run?' 'what are you trying to show?' 'we don't care we just need to run a statistical test' conversations.
Adopt a good Workflow tool, like apache airflow. Easiest is to rent a service from AWS https://aws.amazon.com/managed-workflows-for-apache-airflow/
Does Facebook use AWS servers with TOC? Thats how. Parler is free to build it. With their own servers and own physical network if they want to. The fact that they can't is the market in action no?
How much money has Parler?
Nope, you are completely trying to misrepresent what your original post said. You said that you downvote other ideas because they (the ideas) are “dangerous”, here is your quote:

> “ I mean answers that are dangerous, vulnerable, misleading, or represent an extreme viewpoint as fact ("buhh object orientation is dangerous, you must write C++ using functional paradigms, it's the only way to make good programs")”

So you are claiming that an idea expressing “OOP is dangerous” is itself dangerous as an idea and that this danger is what merits your downvote.

Yet you’ve done nothing to explain such an extreme and unreasonable point of view.
Wow! Amazing project!
What ended up working for you?
> And with full legalization, you'd have billions of advertizing dollars invested into marketing and research departments by companies trying to convince people to get high from their brand.

Legal competition is also pushing the THC levels up. The THC levels are definitely not going in a downward trend in legalized states like Oregon, Washington or California. Flower you can easily find 30+% levels of THC and with things like hash and other derivative concentrates you can find over 90% purity.
Size is important, obviously. But so is reputation. Parler spent whatever good name they had very quickly, and it turns out things become difficult very quickly the moment people stop giving you the benefit of the doubt.

Facebook has better PR too.
It may well be that he didn't. I have had Chinese colleagues that thought the Dalai Lama was some kind of devil. I think it is difficult to imagine real life within Chinese borders.
The onus is on you, links please?
If you're not sure, you can always just use the person's given name instead of a pronoun. This works 100% of the time, while pronouns in a signature block aren't very helpful if you're referring to someone who got CCed but has not replied to an email chain.
On the other hand this probably makes the task easier for law enforcement when people make credible threats.

Though that of course has down sides. There used to be periodic news stories about people frivolously calling the cops on facebook posts. (Somehow I don't see a lot of that lately, but I haven't been looking either.)
> The question for anyone with an entrepreneurial bent well be; how to contribute?

Before that question you need to ask when to contribute. The long term fortunes to be made are obvious. What isn't clear is when. Long term might mean 200 years of development before any money is to be made, and thus you shouldn't invest as you will be dead before there is a payoff. But Long term might be 3 years, in which case it is too late for first mover advantage, the first movers have already (secretly?) put a large sum into their investments - but there might be a profit to me made as a second mover. Of course often the second mover is the one who makes the real money (Bill Gates wasn't a first mover in PC operating systems, Digital Research at least was before him), so it isn't clear at all when you should get into the market.

Good luck. If I had real insight I wouldn't be posting it here I'd be putting everything I had into my investments.
The problem that I've seen is often "data scientists" are expected to be the equivalent of full-stack engineers (or maybe more accurately: one-man CTO shops)—to understand data architecture, understand business architecture, ensure data quality, build data into product, build dashboards, derive insights, posit hypotheses, set strategy, and drive business value.

Thus many "data scientists" are juiced-up report-builders who can't analyze their way out of a paper bag.
>That's a straw-man argument.

Sorry, but I'm really just trying to understand your position on this, so hopefully I can learn something too - not argue against you. I'm not trying to pull a gotcha.

>I didn't say no power to prevent speech is legitimate.

You said it's "problematic". What did you mean by that?