skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of moderate tweaks to an enormous problem, AHP reform for small businesses is comparatively low-hanging fruit that could help businesses today meet the minimum requirements for attracting talent - health insurance. Your proposal may be better in the long term, but the journey there is not simple by any means.
Are you implying Google did it on purpose to prevent this super-intelligence from taking over?

To me it seems like the opposite, the outage was untintentional and then humans worked really hard to fix it. It's almost as if we were the cells of the body of this super-intelligence.
> the only limit to your velocity is you

I have never seen this to be the case outside small, self-contained projects. Even with a fixed scope (its own can of worms), major slow-downs often clearly come from outside the team—unexpected or unreasonable infrastructure limitations, problems with the products of other teams, shortcomings of internal or external tools and libraries, unclear or inconsistent evaluation of the work by its eventual users... etc.

Moreover, in cultures tied to estimates-as-quotes (or estimates-as-deadlines), there is often significant pressure for "product" teams not to try to fix these problems, even for themselves. It would be net faster for us to write our own version of X than to try to integrate the work of team Y? But they've already done the work, why would you want to do something redundant?

In a world where technical teams have clear ownership, this is less of a problem. Team Y giving you problems? Work around it the best way you can. Infrastructure not supporting your needs? Hack together your own on top of lower-level pieces until it's ready. But organizations with cultures that give technical teams the space to do this also have far less issues with estimates—both in having better estimates and being able to handle estimate uncertainty gracefully.
Agree with you on that.
I'd love to be in a situation with some recent outbreaks and hotspots instead of it being the entire country. Or even if New Jersey was free. Or even one city.

The only reason it's apples-to-oranges is this continued belief that America is somehow special. This has caused all countermeasures to be ineffectual, half-assed, and incomplete.
There is extensive research on this question and the result is terrible: no, it does not help them. In fact getting taken into CPS is worse than almost every form of child abuse:

https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583

The result is that by every metric, from reading scores, to subjective and third-party assessment of happiness, to years of study, to taxes paid (which means how much money they earn as an adult), kids left in "abusive" homes do better than children helped by CPS. Other studies point out that this applies on every point on the spectrum, even when the children simply receive psychological help at school or other less invasive things.

A very significant group of them develop "Reactive Attachment Disorder". And ... well, just read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_attachment_disorder
Satellites help us fight climate change
What tools are appropriate for professional engravers these days?

I was a theory and comp major back in the early 90s, and I used Finale to do a few small engraving commissions and to make big band and wind ensemble charts back then. It took a long time, but with work I was able to achieve pretty much what I wanted. Some of the other tools I checked out, I immediately thought, "I can't do that? No way, that's totally unacceptable."
I guess the way I look at it is that if you can automatically label your training set, you either have solved the problem you set out to learn (just use your labeler as your classifier/detector/whatever), or you're exploiting some limitation of the training set. Given a human-annotated test set, I'd want to see a comparison between three outputs:

-The outputs of the auto-labeler. If this is strong, you've learned that you didn't need the training set after all - you managed to solve the problem without it!

-The outputs of a model trained on auto-labeled data. If this is strong but the above test was not, then this pipeline makes sense.

-The outputs of a model trained on human-labeled data. If this is strong but the above tests were not, we're in trouble.

If none of the three are strong, then the training data was lacking (assuming we've done our best on tuning the model we're trying to train), and so no real value was gained by annotating it.
Don't worry, it's only other people's speech.
This wasn't a meta study, but perhaps you are referring to one you know of.
Funny I was just writing a simple .zip file filter (carver) and thinking about those initials in every .zip file, "PK". The filter takes an HTTP stream (headers, chunking, etc.) on stdin and outputs only the .zip file on stdout.

When studying the zip format, you can find yourself thinking, wow, this is really brilliant and then you remember the sad story of the guy who created it (this article in particular).
All the idiots who voted for brexit voted for this and don’t get to complain. They should be compensating the people who actually paid attention to real facts rather the racism and nationalism.

Of course that won’t happen and England needs to accept that it is now going to become irrelevant - there’s no benefit to having business in Britain beyond access to just the market. Finance companies are already leaving, and vehicle manufacturing is probably not too far off either.
"our problem". you are funny.
Cheap debt keeps companies on a ventilator.

Bailouts where cheap money isn't enough.

Regulatory capture.

Societal aversion to change.

Innovation replaced by Too Big To Fail. Tesla can't replace Ford and GM because Ford and GM have enough debt to take out a bank.

An actual market economy will produce innovation. America isn't one.
What your quotes say and what GP says boil down to the same thing. How can you tell if "your baby is moving less than usual; (...) there is a change to your baby's usual pattern of movements"? You count kicks. And quite likely note it down, because there's plenty of things going on, particularly around pregnancy, that will make you prone to forgetting such counts from day to day.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Her children were upstairs, and as soon as the cop pointed his gun upstairs, she starts yelling at him to stop pointing a gun at her children. While no video proof exists that he was or was not doing so, this is a pretty good indicator that he was. Since there's no indicator that he wasn't pointing a gun at her kids, at we can see that he is in fact pointing a gun upstairs where her family is, it's more reasonable to believe he was. Unless you have some sort of evidence that he wasn't.

Also, notice the lack of trigger discipline that they're using in the videos... Absolutely disgusting.
If Google and Facebook don't like it, tbey can move operations offshore --- out of the country,
There is a significant amount of content on Medium that's readable without an account. I think, if the goal is to get eyes on your content, Medium's recommendation of your stuff to other people is a great way to achieve that.
I suspect things like travel will have some requirements in terms of vaccinations moving forward, so life could also become quite inconvenient if you like moving around that is.
It might also be worth pointing out that those flashpoints were originally put into place deliberately, in a mostly failing attempt to bring the country back together, and then left in place until they went off.
Thanks vx modules look like an interesting rabbit hole! I’ll start looking hehe.
To what end are you arguing? Do you honestly think that the 6th Amendment will be repealed, or that strict scrutiny will suddenly not be applied when appropriate?

(I suspect that this entire comment thread was started in order to try to pull a rhetorical gotcha, and you didn't actually expect somebody to respond to your words as written, but hopefully you've learned some constitutional law on this beautiful sunny MLK Jr. Day.)
Cool. But, Closet Tools and Spider don’t support Safari, and they make so much money that it’s not because of the $99/year fee. Why else wouldn’t they, if not that?
Negotiating scope is a different mindset than negotiating estimates.

Even better would be making sure the team understands both the real goal they're trying to achieve and how time plays into it, letting the team make scope trade-offs like that as they go along.
The best example is that right after the holocaust and "never that again", half of the western political spectrum turned a blind eye to the various genocides and crimes against humanity happening in the communist block. Clearly no lesson was learnt. The two great totalitarian ideologies of the XX century have a lot in common. These laws that target one but ignore the other are I think at best misguided if not cynical. The French equivalent of those laws was proposed by the French communist party...
How and Why Google Glass Failed
> That depends on the law correctly defining a line that separates a “mistake” from everything else

That line isn't defined by the law--that's my point. If you drive with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit, even if you don't cause an accident and don't do anything erratic that gets a cop's attention, you are still breaking the law, just as if you drive at 56 mph in a 55 mph zone. But everybody knows that the actual law is not enforced as it is written, because it can't be. Instead we rely on vague limits imposed by the resources available to the police and their individual judgment about what counts as behavior that is abnormal enough to get their attention. And we also have to put up with the fact that the cops can use the letter of the law as a revenue source if they want to; they can always post some extra cops with radar guns in places where they know people routinely speed, and harvest a bunch of tickets any time they feel like it.

Personally, I would prefer not having laws that can't be enforced as written in the first place. Everyone knows it's impossible to catch everyone who exceeds the speed limit on a highway--so the speed limit should not be a law in the first place. It should be advisory; the actual law should be something along the lines of "the posted speed limit is the government's best judgment of a maximum safe speed; just exceeding that speed, by itself, does not violate any law, but if you cause an accident and are found to be exceeding the posted speed limit, you are presumed to be at fault and face greater legal liability". A similar provision would apply to drunk driving: just driving with BAL over the limit would not break any law, but if you cause an accident, you are presumed to be at fault and face greater legal liability. That way the actual law could be enforced as written, and the vast majority of people who break the letter of the law as it is written now but never cause any actual harm wouldn't have to worry about playing cat and mouse games with cops.
The model aspect is a good addition, because that's one of the things that differentiates engineers from pure scientists, or mathematicians. Engineers design to the model, which in some cases may not represent reality with complete accuracy, but will in those cases be much easier to work with. So long as that model has a demonstrated track-record of producing good results, and the same assumptions it makes have been proven valid for the current design, then it's usually good enough for design purposes.
French government owns and subsidizes nuclear power heavily.

EDF is 84.5% owned by French State. Areva S.A was majority-owned by the French government until 2016 when it become insolvent and French government bought the whole thing to prevent bankruptcy.
Well, the metric is #papers and #citations to get funding. So yes that's true, ideally, but...
The poacher who shot an elk there and went to trial had a pretty decent argument citing this particular hypothetical. The judge dismissed the argument but his attorney pressed on; the poacher eventually took a light plea bargain contingent on not appealing and using this line of argumentation.

Given the makeup of the federal courts and all the way up to SCOTUS, this would be a dangerous case for the state to take to trial through the appeals process before closing the loophole.
Is Flatpak better than snapd, if we set aside that one is ‘open’ and one is ‘closed’ and evaluate them by the merits of their functionality in service of the goal?
> Facebook learned that the hard way

They got slapped on the wrist, you mean.
Hey, I love the product and I was looking for something similar last night when I was working for a project.
Another Secret Camera Leak – Twitter's Head of Legal, Policy and Trust Lead
Other current engineery thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25823907
Limiting corporate speech in the name of protecting individual speech seems like a reasonable proposal to me.
Fired Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones tests positive for Covid-19
I was listening to a talk by a former head of the ACLU yesterday (on the JRE podcast). His central point was that all speech (including hate speech) should be free because someone else is going to be deciding what speech shouldn't be free, and therefore nobody should get to decide that.

This fellow seemed to not realise he was living in a democracy and had been doing so his whole life.

He provided some examples to prove his points, and they were all from ages ago. He didn't seem to realise that the trouble we're going through now is a direct result of allowing hate-filled people to form bubbles within which their hate festered until it boiled over.

Without Parler (or any other safe space for these bigots and racists), they benefit from a broader range of views, and that's a better thing for society as a whole.

Conservatives seem to just not get democracy, and as a result see the Government as something distinct from themselves. In my country, the government is folk I (or my neighbours elected), and they enact policy I (or my neighbours) want. We can just as well change that policy in a few years time if we didn't want to. That's democracy 101.

If you live in a democracy, you don't fear your government, and you can trust them to regulate speech, because they'll do what you (or the majority of your peers) want... if not immediately, then in four years time at most.
Privacy shouldn't be limited to the technologically elite and their immediate social graph.
I think the Dakotas are already at herd immunity
It's a feature, not a bug. Similar with strong consumer protection laws. I don't have to ever bother reading any ToS or disclaimers or whatnot when dealing with merchants, because there's an overriding set of laws I can invoke when they screw me over. So I only have to read one ToS - the government-issued one.
Ah, XORing is indeed addition in F_{2^k}. It's not addition in Z_{2^k}, though. I was thinking about summation modulo prime number, in this case Z_p = F_p.
I use a lot of R, and like many aspects of it. But the fact that `f(stop("Hi!"))` may or may not throw an error depending on the internals of `f` is a little maddening. (And there are tons of similar issues.)
If curious see also

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13148725

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6602899
> But this is also the beauty of free expression - it prevents anyone from using it to enact total control.

This is the really tricky part, though... absolute free expression only prevents people from enacting total control if it persists; however, free speech is not something that can’t be undone.

This is a form of the paradox of tolerance. If people use their absolute free speech to push lies and propaganda that allows them to gain enough control to then suppress future free speech and maintain their own power, we are no longer protected by free speech.

Even if you believe truth always eventually wins out if free speech is allowed, that doesn’t mean that we won’t hit a point along that path where free speech is restricted, and our meandering path towards truth suddenly stops.

Now, I don’t think restricting free speech is the answer, but we can’t pretend that it is impossible for people to use their power of free speech to prevent free speech in the future.
> "spam, illegal pornography, and deliberate impersonation"

Please stop repeating this tired meme. All of things in that list are off-topic or outright against the law; nobody wants to receive those things. The topic is and always was removal of unpopular speech that is

1) on-topic

2) between consenting parties who consciously wanted to send and receive those messages

3) mostly not illegal. (Yes, of course, the illegal parts should have been prosecuted.)

The fact that the discussion being deplatformed is unpopular or deplorable still doesn't justify a uninvolved third-party stepping in to disrupt it.
Just want to chime in to say how good the Shuffle.dev team is! I had a billing issue where I was locked out of my account due to an issue with PayPal's webhooks. Dawid (the Founder) responded very courteously to my strongly-worded email, and worked with me to fix the issue.

A really great guy, and a great product! I mostly use the Tailwind builder, the top comment on the ProductHunt page is mine and has a bit more detail on the story: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tailwind-builder-2-0.
> All of those options still exist.

Not really, not during the pandemic in locked down areas.

Also, tech plays a much bigger role today than it did in the heyday of Geocities et al. Combine it with the willingness of other tech forms of censorship like Facebook banning groups and organizing events and Visa banning financial transactions and you have total censorship.
The other half is that we realize that adults give COVID to kids but kids don't tend to give it to other kids or adults.

Which makes COVID the opposite of diseases like the common cold or the flu where kids act like germ factories.
Also, the Teleharmonium, from 1907.[1] This was actually built. Startups with too much venture capital are not a new thing.

The Teleharmonium was the first musical synthesizer. The approach was to have one tone generator for each note, and switchgear run from a keyboard. That's a reasonable idea, and electric organs of the 1950s to 1970s worked that way.

But this was before amplifiers. They wanted to distribute the music over telephone wires to speakers in hotels, and needed power. So each tone generator was a sizable electrical generator. The whole installation was building-sized.

[1] https://i0.wp.com/120years.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...
It's asymmetric. Why can't I make them sign my terms for using my data?

ToS popups need a textarea field where I can submit my terms.
Previous discussion threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25812655

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815452
There may be thousands of counties but you’d only need corrupt activity in a few of them to flip some swing states and change the election outcome.
This is an amazing product and I congratulate you on your launch! Like the parent, I'm also really curious how you plan to update the data and also wanted to ask how you normalized the data.

I ask because this space has always been interesting for me. Funny enough, I helped build almost the exact same thing at a hackathon (https://devpost.com/software/liform), but the project didn't pan out after that due to our team's lack of medical knowledge. So I'd love to learn from your experience processing this data into a usable form.
This is true for fields where there are such sanctioning bodies. Some fields like software engineering do not have such bodies and it's wrong to attribute to software engineering rules that are used for some other fields.

Fields where this is used are highly regulated with usually law mandated sanctioning process that is designed to reduce direct risk to humans.

Do fields where there is no such risk have this type of sanctioning? For example mechanical (machine) engineers or chemical engineers.

Being an engineer doesn't mean you need to be sanctioned by some body. If you get sanctioned, you might be Chartered Engineer or something similar. Interestingly, UK has Chartered IT Professional.
QAnon is as successful as it is because it is tapping into the cognitive dissonance created by things like federal mishandling of the Epstein case (slow walking allegations made since the 90s, the 2007 sweetheart deal which granted immunity to any unnamed co-conspirators, not having raided Epstein's New Mexico ranch to this day, etc), as well as the fact that wealthy and powerful elites continued to associate with him long past the point his predations had become an open secret, and they have suffered no professional or legal repercussions whatsoever.

The mainstream media says "he killed himself and was a one-off and all these rich people just wanted to solicit charitable donations and there's nothing more to see here," and anyone with two skeptical brain cells to rub together can see that's a lie and (if they are actually moved by the horrendous circumstances of the Epstein case to find out the truth) they go searching for alternative sources of information, at which point they're often easy game for disinfo merchants of various stripes who gain a foothold simply by not insisting they're crazy for even asking the questions in the first place.

The insistence that this is purely a problem of "mass misinformation" seems almost belligerently blinkered to the broader context and reasons why our society's institutions have lost credibility and trust.
In the world of micro-aggressions, there needs to be a very strict definition of what we mean by violence.
Fizzbuzz in CSS because fuck it
The same url was discussed Jan of last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551

Why does the blog-post date say 'October 18, 2020'?
Implementing Amazons single threaded owner model a retrospective
This creates an incentive for international corporations to keep a few banana republics around - nations constantly kept in shambles to ensure a fat profit margin by minimizing manufacturing costs.

It also eats away at the earning potential of the middle and lower classes in more advanced nations. If your nation's cost of living is high, finding a way to outsource your economic productivity is the goal of a titanic mountain of cash.

Because of this economic uncertainty, it ALSO makes some middle and a lot of lower class people in advanced nations latch onto the first nationalist they see.
Worried about Earth's future?[..] the outlook is worse than scientists can grasp
Here's the actual judgement from ECHR: [1]

It is an interesting reading - it gives a very different impression than the article.

According to the document, she claimed Muhammad was a pedophile in a series of seminars "Basics of Islam" that pretended to be objective courses but were organised by a far-right political party.

The judgement also mentions that saying something offensive or untrue on purpose and then claiming "it was just my opinion" doesn't protect you from repercussions, that you are allowed to criticise current practices of religion but not on bases of what someone allegedly done hundreds of years ago when societal standards were different, and that fine 480 Euro is on the low end of a range and not disproportionate.

So as I understand it, a far right person was deliberately shit-stirring in a propaganda seminar and got slap on the wrist (fine of ~ 15 % median wage) to be more careful next time.

[1]: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{"itemid":["002-12171"]}

EDIT: the link doesn't seem to work properly, you'll have to copy-paste it.
> "we release what is ready"

this really is key, if you can do it

alot of companies though, are "business driven" which means releases and schedules are set beforehand, which makes this hard... (but if you can do it, its great!)
It's not hard to get a doctor's attention when he knows you will provide him with golf days and holidays, if he plays his cards right.