skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people feel like data scientists get all the credit and the fun work, while we have to do all the heavy lifting and boring stuff that they need. There's this idea that data science is a special and unique skillset that couldn't possibly be possessed by a simple software engineer. Despite being largely a subdomain of CS.

I remember an era before "data scientist" was a job title. When we (programmers) would analyze data to see if we had enough information available to identify the problem, if not, fix that, then come up with a strategy to solve it, test, and finally deploy the model. The fun part was trying different solutions and analyzing the data. It also felt awesome to deploy a product that worked like "magic." Product owners didn't know or care what a neural net was, they were just happy it worked.

Now there are tons of data scientist out there who take the easy, fun, rewarding work and try to skip over the nitty gritty implementation details. Then management thinks engineering is incapable of doing such work, and the only time we get the opportunity to do something fun is to do so behind the scenes.
Please don't change the status quo. I love my cushy job.
I was just looking at Elasticsearch a while back and was considering learning it, but I guess they've crossed that open-source tech out of a list of things I need to learn!
You can't perform the no-cost behavior of wearing a mask without, you know, _having_ a mask, which is not necessarily free.
> Also, your theory doesn't explain the anomaly of all the large muscular men who you can tell by physical appearance have high T and who are very kind and not aggressive.

I don't think higher levels of testosterone have been reliably linked to aggressive behaviour except in case of anabolic steroid abuse. Those kind people might well have high levels of testosterone.
People cite activity declining, but really we've been plenty sedentary for all those decades since we eliminated electric public transit in most American cities in the 1950s-60s. Some people walk 20 feet to their car, 200 feet to the elevator, 20 feet to the cubicle, then end the day back at home without scarcely moving 1000 feet by their own leg. That isn't new between 1999 and today. People spend all day inside watching TV or playing video games rather than playing outside, that too isn't new. If anything, more people are biking, hiking, and running outside than they were 20 years ago.

Another potential factor that I think may be a culprit is sleep. Americans sleep less today than 20 years ago:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-get-less-sleep-than-2...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/28/7736227...

What is driving this? Well, it could be our addiction to staring at a phone screen for hours at a time in total silence, unmoving. It's probably a combination of things, like the fact that americans are working more hours than they were 10 years ago and now have to sacrifice a good nights sleep to get all their personal business done when they aren't working:

https://www.businessinsider.com/american-work-habits-culture...
Someone should design a a front-end framework for which anachronistic analogies like this make sense.

E.g., if a user selects some text and chooses "Copy," the text gets deleted and a listener sends a message back to the server to signal that the text has been "pirated."

At that point the server not only deletes the associated data, but sends a message to all extant clients to remove the given text.

Kinda like a realtime borrow-checker, but not so much for memory safety as for the sheer stupidity of it.

Edit: clarification
Testosterone is also linked to a greater sense of fair play, both as the recipient and the benefactor.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/testosterones-eff...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12191-hormones-affect...

The concept of testosterone=aggression is damagingly simplistic, and should not be held up as a good model.
This story is just layer after bizarre layer:

> Some internet research led Mr Celli-Bird to discover that the bird, which is registered to an owner in Alabama, was last seen during a pigeon race in the western US state of Oregon.

> It is not clear how the bird managed to make the 8,000-mile journey from the west coast of the US to southern Australia, but officials believe he is likely to have hitchhiked on board a cargo vessel.

> Actors Johnny Depp and his then-wife Amber Heard had to issue a video apology after illegally bringing their dogs Pistol and Boo into the country on their private jet in 2015.
Not to take away from the main point about cost of living, but I have severe doubt about that quote being representative. Burritos at the local truck that I'm partial to are around $9, which seems par for the course around here. I literally don't know where it's even possible to pay $15 for a burrito in SF, even at the fancier brick and mortar restaurants. I'm sure there's one somewhere, but I'm also sure that the size weighted burrito cost in SF isn't anywhere near 2.5x that of SD. I'd be pretty surprised if it was even 1.5x.

Not an expert on the SD burrito scene, but looking at a random survey (https://sandiego.eater.com/2018/8/8/17660256/california-burr... ) suggests that most of them are in the $6-8 range, for a smaller burrito than the SF Mission ones that are my point of comparison. (Amusingly, that article actually does include a $15 burrito.)
At the time her response was that she doesn't necessarily believe in black superiority... it's just something people should address.

Does this sound ok to your ears? If this was a white supremacist, we would all correctly be shouting about how it's a dog whistle and not an acceptable response.

I wish more people would read 'How to Be an Antiracist.' I believe he's absolute right in that the only way forward is to call out racist beliefs from everyone, not selectively.
Selectively excusing racist beliefs from "our side" will only open the door to more racism.
I'm trying to get creative because I have nothing else to do, but it's hard :).

I'm learning different drawing apps and music production apps. My drawing is like a 7-year old (quoted from someone else) but I used to play piano and my coding skills are decent.
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> "horrifyingly, took the lead in falsely branding the Hunter Biden archive as “Russian disinformation”"

Calling it an "archive" is laughable at best, the provenance of the supposed Hunter Biden laptop which was left in the custody of a randomly chosen computer repair shop guy who has ties to Giuliani and the Trump apparatus is clear. The entire thing was an intelligence plant that Greenwald swallowed hook, line and sinker.

There's a reason why dozens of highly respected, experienced investigative journalists took a good look at the information supposedly retrieved from this "laptop" and decided not to proceed with publishing any of it. Because they didn't want to embarrass themselves by publishing obvious fabrications.

From USA Today:

"John Paul Mac Isaac — owner of The Mac Shop — told reporters that a man who identified himself as Hunter Biden brought three liquid-damaged laptops to his repair shop in April 2019, per the Delaware News Journal.

The man left one laptop for repair and never returned to retrieve it.

Eventually, Mac Isaac gave a copy of the laptop's hard drive to Brian Costello, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani, who is the personal lawyer for President Donald Trump. Mac Isaac said he turned the hard drive over to Costello because of fears for his safety."
err ... it's kind of what you'd get from Textkernel or LinkedIn Recruiter, probably at a similar price. But with nicer fonts, so ok.
Leaving the sex out of it, a common statement is that England is the Japan or Europe.

There are actually remarkable similarities in culture which are possibly influenced due to both being iland states.

https://bccjacumen.com/uk%E2%80%93japan-closer-than-you-thin...

These do not dive all that much into sexual media however. The Anglo-Saxon is infamously sexually traditional and repressed, and the Englishman second only to the Australiaman. Australia recently actually banned the import of Japanese pornography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmbo5dxgQg

He's wrong, however — Eromanga Sensei is far from the worst. I would love for him to take a stab at Night Shift Nurses or Aki-Sora — the latter so amazing that even Tokyo itself made laws to contain it's carnal sins against mankind.
A large component is the dating market you’re in.

If you’re a man in DC, NYC, or some rural town you’ll have more luck.

Bay Area? Zero chance.
An app to help couples learn each other's languages (https://learncoupling.com)

My wife is Chinese, and I've been learning Cantonese and Mandarin off-and-on on my own for years. For many reasons, I recognize it's extremely difficult to make it work to acquire a language with the help of a romantic partner. I even had a friend who's wife was a doctorate in French language education but completely failed to use her as a resource.

I've identified some of the pitfalls and am developing a system to get native speaking partners more involved in language learner's journeys in a fun and encouraging way (not as a teacher).

This is my second startup! Went through YC once on my first one (related to VR). Been using YC Startup School this time around.
And guess what, when a corporation uses Elasticsearch in a serious way they will inevitably end up contributing back. It's actually easier to just get a change merged upstream rather than to manage a whole fork, unless the upstream is really hard to get patches merged with.

The whole narrative of "company X is offering Elasticsearch as a service and not contributing back!" is ridiculous. First of all, the whole point of free software is that somebody somewhere is going to be making money with that software, and that's okay, regardless of contribution. Second of all, in practice companies like Elastic will always exaggerate the extent to which corporations aren't "contributing back".

What they really mean is Amazon isn't contributing financially to Elastic Co. That's what they're pissed about, and that's why they clearly wish they were actually in the business of proprietary software (which they now are)
You didn't refute what I said at all. Testosterone levels are linked to violent behavior. This is very clear in the literature. Does it mean everyone with high testosterone levels is violent? Obviously not. And violence is not always a bad trait either. I don't believe in toxic masculinity. Masculine and feminine traits have their place and are obviously adaptive in different situations.
That's great for Matt, but other companies like Elastic can't afford to go from >50% to 5% of their market.
Why is the keto diet good for you?
How is this relevant? Poitras is highlighting that an informant was not protected accordingly, and that the Intercept is no longer a trustworthy resource.
I just don't think that enough people are paying attention to the disappearing freedom of information and expression in America.

I believe that it has reached a point of no return and that you should expect what you saw in China to be a precusor to what will come to America now.

Congratulations! You've played yourself America.
Don't feed conspiracists by shutting down legitimate reporting, don't protect the powerful from inquiry, just because they are on 'your side,' don't feel the need to de-platform those with a record of truth-telling, when they go after those you admire. Let the muckrakers muck as much as they can and we'll all get closer to the truth, however uncomfortable it may be.
If they care about global warming there is tremendous potential for carbon sequestration in agriculture they could push. Obvious examples would be: no-till practices that keep soil carbon sequestered, forest farming methods that mix woodlands into agricultural land improving soil and vegetation carbon retention, capturing agricultural waste carbon in biochar, and reducing wide area cattle grazing methods which adversely effect soil carbon in prairie lands by preventing deep grass root structures.
>I also have a theory that those that don't wear condoms or use protection don't wear masks.

>If you don't care about the risk of STDs or an unplanned pregnancy or your faith in God is the primary driver of your health and well-being response, you probably aren't going to care as much as others about wearing a mask.

So people in committed relationships, homosexuals and people above the age where pregnancy is possible?

Because those are the groups of people who use condoms the least and at least one of them is certainly not letting religion inform their sexual habits.
Why Joe Biden Can't Bring His Peloton to the White House
So stacks is a separate network with its own consensus layer where a random miner from the bitcoin main chain is selected to write the next block, have i got that right?

What happens when they write something the rest of the stacks network disagrees with?
Fair, that's a good point.
Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
> So she sets the record straight over 20 years later, only after being appointed by Biden, that she was only pretending to be racist. Yeah... sure...

OMG! You're right! And Terry Pratchett went to his grave prostylizing a flat earth model because he never officially made a statement that his satirical novels were just that - satirical.
It's really that baseline metabolic burn is pretty high, you have to work a lot to double the number of calories you burn, but it's easy to eat double your metabolic needs
wait, are you making a joke there?
why no ?

Its a bad idea for the following reasons :

- Bitcoin has an artificially constrained overly small blocksize, which effectively prevents holding more data on its blockchain [ maybe BCH or another variant with a larger blocksize would work better ]

- We already have other blockchains, such as ETH, with active and working smart contract languages and tools : we need standardization

- The constrained blocksize on Bitcoin drives a high-fee market, meaning affordable smart contracts wont happen on Bitcoin

- its a massive carbon sink, and we should solve that problem before further burdening Bitcoin itself [ we burn vast amounts of electricity to solve the hash - effectively a lottery with expectation of winning proportional in Joules of electricity burnt - we need a more energy efficient form of statistically provably fair distributed lottery ]

- the long / slow block compute time of ~10 minutes means a poor user experience [ ETH is closer to ~15sec

tl;dr - ETH is already established and is a much better platform [ faster cheaper, more mature ] for smart contracts... and Bitcoin itself is burdened with a small block making this untenable.
It's really interesting how you see a tone shift around issue #70 in 1998 where they add text and a lot more scantily clad women (and some very buff shirtless demihumans) on the covers. Before that the covers mostly stood on their own as art pieces without any extra text and scantily clad women weren't really there.
The locally owned and run stores were forced to close by a government mandate, while the "big boys" where deemed essential and were allowed to stay open.

The joys of being rich, you get to influence the government!
> Blockstack enables users to use arbitrary storage backends like Dropbox, Amazon, Google as “dumb drives”. Only pointers to the storage backends are stored with Blockstack and encrypted/signed data is kept at storage providers.

I stopped reading after that.
It is named after a Russian Ballerina, but is believed to to have originated in Australia or NZ.
I wonder if the trend reverses when we get to the ultra-rich.

The richest people are often leaders, celebrities, etc... They are constantly moving and meeting people, and they are also more likely to have personnel in their house, and maybe a chauffeur, bodyguards, etc...
It also makes you sad, have low energy, less drive to do anything, lower muscle mass, worse facial aesthetics, more feminine fat distribution, weaker sperm, and less bone growth through puberty. It is pretty much not a good thing for any reason.
thanks, this give me some confidence.

I think differently regarding self-hosting though. By the fact that StaticBackend is a Go web server, it's a standalone Linux binary and can be hosted very easily on x64 Linux server.

But I'll see when the first customer will choose that option. I'll be ready to help them deploy for sure.
Unsure if confused by desert/dessert or a kiwi disputing the origin, but it’s effectively a meringue nest that is crunchy outside and marshmallowy inside topped with cream and fruit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova_(cake)
I should look into this, maybe refrigerating would help. The recipe I tried was an unusual one (an olive oil dark chocolate chip cookie recipe), and I had made it successfully with eggs before, but trying aquafaba ruined it.
T levels also depend on where one grows up rather than where they end up living: https://www.everydayhealth.com/mens-health/where-men-spend-t...

Does this research provide any insight into why testosterone levels have been in steady decline in the United States for several decades? If a safer, less-challenging environment leads to higher testosterone levels, wouldn’t levels be rising instead of falling?

Magid points to trends toward higher rates of obesity and lower rates of smoking that at least partially explain lower levels of testosterone. “There are a number of theories why this might be occurring, and there are those who dispute whether this is either a real trend or what it could mean for male health in the long term,” he says.
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Disclosure: I work for AWS, but I do not work directly on Elasticsearch related services.

Elasticsearch is/was an "upstream" for Open Distro for Elasticsearch (which is a distribution / collection of software). As an "upstream", changes to the core Apache 2.0 licensed software was sent as pull requests to Elastic, which are usually merged. It isn't correct to say that AWS has not been contributing to the upstream Elasticsearch code under an Apache 2.0 license (and, also, signing the CLA to boot, which allows Elastic to relicense AWS contributions under SSPL).

Here's a sample of PRs from AWS developers that I could find:

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/61400
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/59563
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/57271
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/53643
I see.

Thanks for the info :)
Overall this seems like a fitting outcome for both projects, it certainly gives what it now Perl7 a sense of momentum and freshness as far as discussions around some of the direction being taken by Raku (nee Perl6). Huge thanks to everyone involved.
> Raku seems to be stuck in a "we'll optimize that later" dead-end … Raku has a long way to go.

I agree that Raku still has a long way to go in terms of performance – it's not nearly as fast as it has the potential to be.

That said, I strongly disagree that Raku's performance is stuck. I've only been using Raku for about a year, but even in that time I've seen a noticeable improvement. Over a longer period, Raku has gotten dramatically faster – around a 10× improvement from the 1.0 Christmas release, depending on how you measure. For details, check out this 2019 talk where one of the lead Raku developers discusses performance gains/plans. ([0] video; [1] slides)

There's definitely still work to do (especially with regexes and grammars, as you mention). But the language has made tremendous progress, and is now in the same basic range as Python/Ruby/Perl.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeu0wK92NE
[1]: https://www.jnthn.net/papers/2019-perlcon-performance.pdf
>The other thing I'd emphasize here is dealing with "state". Data is effectively state.

It gets even more complicated. It’s not just the current state that matters, but also the history (sometimes the entire history) up to that state.
You'll have to admit it's hard to take any of these seriously when they are all about the same company that has been reported to embellish things to put it mildly. Well, except for Max D. Capo's, he used a different service.
My wife made bean brownies once. They tasted like beans, not brownies.
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Nearly any field of computational science likely needs skilled data engineers. You could search for topics that interest you online and contact people accordingly.

I cold-emailed my current lab's P.I. and just asked for work. Search for "research software engineer" or "scientific computing professional" positions. Plenty of data engineering goes on in many fields (environmental science, climate modeling, high energy physics, physical chemistry, etc), and plenty of fields desperately need to develop an engineering culture (e.g., plant biology, my field), whatever interests you. Availability and compensation will vary by discipline.
It is a positive. For the owners and all the investors!
Great point.

Hard to continue developing a product when the most talented people in the company have gone elsewhere already. They need the human capital in order to make sure it stays afloat and they get the requisite knowledge transfer.

Then its anybody's guess what will happen. Google's track record of buying technology and then doing something better with it is not encouraging at all.
A prime example of why advertising is zero-sum and should be restricted across the board. Would free up so much money for businesses to use on something worthwhile, with no net loss in customers.
Its pretty common for Australian media to dredge up whatever loosely related celebrity news they can tack onto whatever load they're shovelling that day.
Yes, I think the amount of chickpea taste varies based on how much the aquafaba is cooked down. (I always make it by boiling dry chickpeas; I don't use canned.) With some more experimentation I can probably get it to work.
Monopolies are wonderful if used responsibly. Having 1 standard way to do something across the board can solve entire universes of problems. Interstate highway system, electrical grid, internet, etc. all fall very cleanly into that bucket.

Splitting up a technology company like Amazon or Google would probably just make matters worse over the long haul. Instead of 1 obvious regulatory target you would wind up with several and this creates more shadowy areas for perverse incentives to grow like mold. Just look at how splitting up ATT has played out. It ultimately re-aggregated into more-or-less the same monster but with even more power and influence than in the 80s. If ATT would have been nationalized instead of split up, I'd have a hard time believing we wouldn't have better internet access on average today.
Are they CS/EE PhDs?
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I wish I could find the court case, but the gist of it was that there was an enormous amount of "public land" in Oklahoma (I think) that a court ruled was actually owned by a Native American tribe and the deed/land was given to them. Access to the public was immediately revoked and multiple casinos were built on the part of the land near a lake and closest to the highway that ran through the land.

Is this a similar case? Also if anyone has a recollection of what I'm referring to, that would be awesome. My search skills are failing me.
> You can't really be obese ( over a certain point anyway) and be happy. When I was over 300 pounds every day was an experience in pain.

So if that's the case, why does it matter what the Huffington Post says?

I'm not morbidly obese, so perhaps I've missed the pro-obesity PR. A fashion magazine might give a cover to an obese model once a year, but the other 11 months all seem to have the same rail thin models that have dominated since the '80s.

Same goes for TV and movies. Producers wouldn't hire a fat guy to play Mark David Chapman, it'd be an easier sell to get a fit actor and have him balloon up to that desired weight.

The only obese poeople of renown in our society are older politicians and the rich, i.e. people that do not care about meeting society's beauty standards.