skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compliance seems pretty good. The ones I haven't imported are because they're using an unusual format. Compliance on the new 2021 rule about payer-negotiated charges seems very spotty though.
Dremio is a query engine for data lake that uses Apache Arrow heavily for a lot of processing. The application still runs on JVM.
Right? Terseness and aversion to stylish, conversational writing is a potent style unto itself.
Good riddance. Most people just want to buy mundane household items without having to solve knapsack problems.
> How can anybody believe such nonsense?

Because the intelligentsia aligned with the “retain power for Trump at all costs” faction represetned in the insurrection announced various mechanisms by which that ccould be done (which may be Constitutionally dubious, but that’s irrelevant here), because the President openly endorsed those theories, and because the actions the members of the mob openly stated they wanted to take were consistent with enabling those routes to be taken by removing actors who were impeding them, notably the VP.

To believe it was an attempt doesn't mean that you must believe it was likely to succeed, only that there is sufficient reason to believe that that's what the actors involved wanted to have happen. And there's plenty of reason to believe that they did want to impose a different leadership than the actual election winner, and that they had specific reason to believe that attacking the capitol when they did would present a means to achieve that objective.

> Sorry, but simply taking over the capitol doesn’t automatically make you the ruler of a new regime.

Nor was that the plan, but the escape of the VP and members caused the plan to fail.
I don’t follow. What would they be waiting for?
The rationale that they gave at the time was that they feared people would buy up all the masks leaving hospitals undersupplied, and that people would think that wearing a mask meant that you wouldn't also need to distance yourself from others.
Amazing to hear, I've always thought that Medical Science is like Computer Science, stagnant. I'm glad to hear you are doing well now and modern science is advancing!
Source article seems to be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/amazon-sh...
Agreed - they both have their place.
You mean the Beats headphones? /s
I have no experience in Computer Science departments, sadly.
When I started on Clubhouse I was hooked the first night. I had never talked to so many black people in my entire life (I’m an Asian Indian American for context). I felt like I got exposed to more black American culture in 6 hours on Clubhouse than in my entire life. I also felt extremely drained. It was a lot of consumption.

I fell off for a little while as I realized my feed getting pretty echo chamber like. Then I started seeing extremely interesting conversations pop up such as the main PM on Google’s Alpha Fold answering questions live about the technology. Most recently the mayors of SF, Austin, Miami, and Seattle were on talking about the massive swell movement of tech between these ecosystems. They were taking questions from a live audience.

There is something magical going on here. My two cents.
well, that is their business model. Take it away and then sell it back.
> Sure, but that wasn’t the claim.

The claim was that he called on people to storm the capitol. Doing so with coded language where his audience would understand his true meaning while he could maintain superficial deniability if the uprising failed would still be such a call.
It's already in the trap. Very hard to justify the $$$$ to be platform neutral when sales reps are so good at pushing the savings of jumping in fully with one SaaS.
It was an odd market niche. Only dry packaged groceries so I couldn't go "grocery shopping", but also could not be combined with my Fresh order.

The limited selection and lack of a price benefit meant it wasn't worth the hassle of another order.
Not all studies are correlational. There is a small Spanish RCT that showed quite phenomenal results: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
This reminds me of blind variation and selective retention (BVSR) theory, which posits that all intelligence can be traced back to a simple algorithm: randomly exploring possibility space and selectively committing to long-term memory. Is this post saying that all intelligent behavior is fun?
I agree. But I'm on board with a similar take like: the net present value of a software engineering effort is much larger than the NPV of the end product, because the learning unlocks so much more production down the road.
Making two apps is harder than making one app.
Personally, I find it miles behind the modern native DOM API, which is what I prefer now, but I guess to each their own!

(And I'm not even against jQuery, I used it extensively mid-2000s-2010s, including on fairly large SPAs, and even taught a class with it for a little under 2 years, but again, to each their own)
You may find the reasoning here interesting: https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

The "secret" Apple OSK string is widely available on the Internet. It is also included in a public court document available here. I am not a lawyer but it seems that Apple's attempt(s) to get the OSK string treated as a trade secret did not work out. Due to these reasons, the OSK string is freely included in this repository.

That repo has been around for many years.
They all include a NDA about the agreement itself. So yes, the terms are confidential. Even the fact that a particular that you may or may not have an agreement at all is confidential.
I had said many times Amazon had too many ways to order groceries:

1. Amazon.com

2. Amazon Prime Pantry

3. Amazon Fresh

4. Whole Foods via Amazon Prime Now

5. Amazon items via Amazon Prime Now*

*I never figured out what exactly this was. Was it just Amazon.com listing reproduced in the Prime Now app? Was it Amazon Fresh and/or Prime Pantry items? Was it some other set of items?
When evaluating the dynamics of a net, do all tokens move each discrete step or are there other choices that can be made?

Are any forms where the edges are weighted, or does each edge necessarily have the same weight?

Related to the previous question, if you have a finite number of tokens at a vertex with multiple outgoing edges, how do you choose which edges they follow? I suppose that for any given allocation there may be multiple succeeding allocations.

Finally, the structure seems very similar to neural nets. Are they actually similar, or very different?
Even with private property those lines aren't so clear. I have a sidewalk and utility lines that run across my private property. I don't exactly have the ability tell people they cant walk on my sidewalk or cut-off those power lines even though it's my property.
Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of contract law combined with acceptable use policies, IMO. #unpopularopinion
This article was posted before several years ago. The whole premise is bumptious - "I can copy data out of a bunch of papers [which I am in no position to screen for quality or relevance], run a canned 'gold standard' analysis in R [the idea that there is one true way to generate valid data is ridiculous], and then go tell the professionals what they are doing wrong." He even brags that his meta-analysis for depression had more papers than the published one, as if this was a valid metric. The Cipriani meta-analysis he cites was publised in February 2018. His meta-analysis was done in July 2018, and had 324 more papers - what explains this difference, other than obviously sloppy methodology. A proper meta-analysis is a lot of work, researchers spend years on one meta-analysis. The whole concept is ill conceived, and the author is too caught up in themselves to even realise why.

Meta-analyses are a good idea, but the mere presence of a meta-analysis does not denote a useful undertaking. The literature is polluted with thousands of meta-analyses. As far as I can see this is mainly because there is software available which lets almost anyone do it, and once someone else has done a meta-analysis it is much easier to do another one because they have already found all the papers for you. The publication rate of meta-analyses far outstrips the publication rate of all papers, and shows some unusual geographic variation (Fig 2) [1].

[1] https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/...
There was a submission on this (in the annals of HN) where someone made the point that, more often than not and under normal project scenarios, unexpected problems usually do derail the entire software engineering plan.

The gist being: estimates are given with zero as a lower bound, and some upper bound. In reality, there is no upper bound. Software engineering can and does involve unexpected problems that would take infinite time to solve.

Ergo, project timelines are more accurately averaged between {min_time} and {infinite}, and, given that, remaining risk is the only true metric that should be reported. I.e. how far are we along in terms of project completed, such that we can say only x% of the project remains, and therefore that 1-x% did not explode.
I notice you are never able to defend your confident, evidence-free assertions Mr. Jaquesm, with anything other than rhetoric and insults.

If I am so dumb, and you are so smart, why do you never humiliate me?

Or, you could even embarrass me right now, at least for fun. Go find our last interaction, and post a link to it right here underneath my comment. I have nothing to hide whatsoever, if I was a dummy in our past interactions, then link to it so others can see for their own eyes what sort of a "master troll" idiot they're dealing with.

Or if you won't do it, I will encourage third party readers myself. Click my username, go read some of my "wall-after-walls of text". Get a feel for "my whole shtick". Judge for yourself if what I actually say matches this characterization. Judge for yourself whether asking pointed questions that logically test the childish rhetoric and hyperbolic claims that are becoming an ever larger percentage of the discussion on culture war topics is "a shtick". Judge for yourself whether it makes sense that accuracy and sound logic are considered mandatory for technical threads, but when the topic of discussion is regarding matters like democracy (a sacred institution), then these things are not only not mandatory, but downvoted and outright mocked. A computer program won't run as desired on ambiguity and imprecision, so why do we expect an entire country will?

By my estimation, the culture of this website, like that of the country, is going downhill. People seem to be no longer able to speak truthfully, and they certainly won't talk about the abstract notion of truthful speech, something that philosophers have debated very seriously for ages. But here in 2021, on Hacker News, it's like it's become some sort of a taboo.

There aren't many people like me around here, but I'm not the only one. You can downvote me and shame me all you want, but to get me to shut up about this apparently uncomfortable topic of The Truth, in high dimensions, you will have to get dang to ban me. Go ahead - push the report button on me. I suspect that day will come eventually, so might as well get it over with.
I never understood what this product was to be honest.
No, he did, by his own words, a network meta-analysis[1] on the results which combined the results of many studies into a single table. However this was not a mere tabulation or summary of existing results but a fairly involved statistical aggregation of results. In scientific literature this would merit it's own publication and peer-review.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5386629/
They do, or at least they regularly suspend and remove tweets for that. I get a bunch of "the person you reported violated the Twitter rules" notifications for many of my reports. (Note that spam reports never generate report notifications; as far as I can tell they just go to the "quality tweets" algorithm or even shadowbanning in extreme cases)

I assumed OP meant that Twitter is "over-sensitive" and bans you for just misgendering nowadays. I clarified that it doesn't action your account for that specifically but the underlying context, if it's part of harassing someone.
I sort of agree. What I find appalling is that the legislature is aware if the issue and refuses to fix it (do their job). If it's really that clear cut, then surely the people can speak through their representatives to fix this issue.
You did not read my comment.

I was explicit in saying that this is irrelevant in the context of a discussion forum.

I also said my comment has to do with not making bad impressions when applying for a job.

Please read what I said, all of it.
There were a lot of internet grocery stores that sold nonperishables in the days before Instacart. It was useful for people in rural locations that weren’t very mobile... and still is for the people who don’t live where fresh grocery delivery is available.
Sounds like the type that thinks that if they blow enough smoke up your arse then you get things done quicker, and they look better. I hope they die out.
Amazon Prime Now is basically direct courier delivery from the closest warehouse to your house. the app only presented things that were readily available in your area.
People copy other successful businesses all the time. Granted, it takes some time, but innovative business ideas become mainstream if they're successful.

Keep in mind that changing an investment strategy is simply changing the algorithm used. If I was running a fund returning 7% yoy, and yours was returning 10% yoy, you bet I'd be telling my staff to try out your algorithm.

Magellan was the biggest fund in the world until other funds adopted their innovations and it pretty much reverted to the mean.
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Makes me want to buy all domains 'l' + (from 8 to 256/2)*'ol' and telling a story.

Has anyone done this before?
> I thought I believed in free speech

Fascists on the left and right want you to doubt this.

What we saw on Capitol Hill was vile and atrocious, but it was a bunch of uneducated hillbillies that have been indoctrinated. They might have been afforded the chance to invade by Trump insiders, but they would never have toppled our government. In reality, they stood zero chance of threatening our democracy.

Big media and big tech are using this to show you that it's okay if they deplatform and take free speech away. Don't trust it. This is the real threat to democracy. Shutting off dissent. Promulgating only allowed thoughts. Cancelling.

The best way to reach these people and talk them down is by addressing them in a non-violent manner and meeting their needs. The boom years are over, and our economy only works for the top earners. Everyone is unhappy. Left, right, north, south, urban, rural. We are under attack from foreign and domestic powers seeking to divide and polarize the electorate and take advantage of it. The chaos makes it easy for them to distract and compel.

The fix is the hard path. Addressing systemic inequalities, reaching across the aisle, addressing income disparities, and educating our nation's children.

Free speech is one of the things that makes our nation great. Not because it permits hate, but in spite of it. Because it enables love.

I dislike Parler as much as you do, but what's happening right now should shake you to the very core.
Deter burglars with a Raspberry Pi chatbot
Exactly. I use Prime all the time but never have sorted out the grocery stuff, so I use Instacart.

I did once try something that iirc was Pantry. I searched for Pantry items, they mixed in a bunch of stuff that wasn't Pantry but wasn't obvious about that, and after I filled my shopping cart with various items they wanted to charge me lots of extra shipping. So I backed out and didn't bother with it anymore.
I’m no expert in this but I have a brother-in-law who is a police officer and a brother whose is a defense lawyer who deals with these cases sometimes; here’s how I understand it to work basically.

If you refuse to come to the door for 20 minutes, yes I suspect police will draw their guns if they have to force entry into your house to get you.

So basically they come to the door and the procedure is “knock-and-announce” — they can’t just immediately come and break your door down unless a judge has signed off on that specifically.

Police are required to wait a “reasonable” amount of time. Usually that’s more than 20 seconds but not more than a couple minutes for you to open the door.

If you refuse to open the door after a reasonable amount of time, the police are allowed to make a “forced entry”.

At that point, having to force entry into a house is itself an escalation and a violent act, and they would reasonably want to be prepared for any response they might encounter since the people inside have already indicated they will not come easily. Meaning it’s more likely they will draw their guns in a forced entry situation.
If every car were custom made, you'd have no idea which control had what function... look at how differently a mass produced car used to work before things were standardized https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/driving-a-model-t...

You can't fix something you don't understand, and unique things require a lot of time to figure out.

This applies in many areas. I learned a ton about Atomic Clocks the first time I fixed one... the second time I did it, it was only an afternoon, instead of a week spent in my friend's shop over the course of a month.

So, yes... the main investment is the knowledge learned. It is foolish to waste that effort.
When they decide it's in their best interest to do so.

Perhaps lead a vocal protest against Facebook, spread it far enough, and if it gains enough traction maybe Facebook themselves will do it. They could do it at any point and be well within their rights. Same with Apple.

I think that the overarching issue that many are missing is that our corporations are acting as our representative bodies -- we're speaking with our money as consumers -- because our political bodies are corrupt and no longer representing us directly.
> Why? If you are a startup for a recipe making app,

Suppose someone posts a recipe for making marijuana brownies.

Will you moderate that post?

If you did not moderate that post, does Amazon AWS have a right to terminate your account for allowing your users to promote illegal behavior?
There is a difference between saying it was a call, and saying you believe it was a call. There is evidence to the contrary, so we at best cannot be sure without some kind of due process. People are free to believe what they want, of course.

If someone is going to claim they are not trumpeting a narrative and are making fact based claims, and not opinions based on their interpretation of words and events, then I will hold them to that standard.
The move makes sense. In theory Prime Pantry is a good idea, since it reduces the cost of shipping that we're all paying as consumers on "free" shipping items. But the logistics of finding enough stuff to fill the box went against the idea of Amazon, which was think of a thing and order it immediately. I'm not sure if others were organized enough to order their paper towels/soap/toilet paper etc at the same time, but I certainly wasn't.
I was reading this as a licensed professional in a different field, and trying to imagine someone without my licensure trying to sell me an app that made my decisions for me. Let’s just say this was always going to be a tough sell, no matter how good the economics looked.
> But how do you explain that one knew what they where doing was unlawful?

That doesn't matter. As the maxim goes, ignorance of the law is no excuse.
We don’t know for a fact there is life on Europa so why would we look for exo-Europas as candidates?
I think there's something to be learned by comparing our current situation to WW1 and the Cold War. In short, we in the present can identify the root cause that will lead to a major crisis (powder keg), but we don't know if that crisis will actually happen (spark).

For WW1, it was clear to at least some involved that the war was the twins of extreme nationalism and imperialism coming home to roost. We judge these factors very harshly in hindsight because of the devastation WW1 caused. For the Cold War, we avoided complete nuclear Armageddon in the Cuban Missile Crisis only because of a few sets of steady hands. Since WW3 didn't happen, I think we judge the root social issues of the Cold War less harshly. Both situations were obvious powder kegs to their particapants, but one was lit and the other was not.

I think it is clear that our present age's powder keg is being filled by the near cost-free and instantaneous point-to-point communication enabled by the Internet. The ratcheting societal polarization, erosion of trust in traditional sources of authority and institutions, and the metastasizing of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are all products of self-reinforcing filter-bubbles and people becoming untethered to their real life communities. Like with the Cold War, we may get lucky, but like WW1 we also may not. Should we abandon the ideal of free speech to try and mitigate a future major crisis? Or will we make it out the other side as circumstances change?

Sorry, no takeaway from me, but I think that's the situation were in. :(
That makes a lot of sense then honestly. "Boiler rooms" are definitely not good environments.

>If your customer wants your product then by definition you don't have to sell them.

That's a misnomer, what if they don't know you exist? That's what sales and marketing are for, to inform people that could benefit from your product that it exists, essentially. Will their business implode if they don't buy your product? No, almost certainly not. But, they might derive a massive cost savings, time savings, increased employee satisfaction, or other efficiencies by using whatever you're selling and your job in sales is to get them to listen which is the hard part.
I've honestly been entertaining the idea that upon adulthood, everyone should receive one free name change if they so wish.
Sure, but a credentialed person is more likely to be familiar with other research in the area and have expertise with state of the art techniques in the field.

So an uninformed reader (with less background than either to critically evaluate the work) should, all else equal, prefer the analysis of an expert. That's not to say the expert cannot be wrong, but a non-expert has a greater need to establish the credibility of their argument.
> With most other engineering disciplines, the cost of a screw-up _starts_ with a major financial loss

This isn't accurate. Engineering screw ups are extremely common, we just don't usually take notice of them because they are so much lesser than the horror stories we learn about in school. If I had a nickel for every time I had to beat on something with a hammer to get it to line up the way it did in the CAD model, I could probably afford to pay someone else to beat it with a hammer. Little mistakes are a daily occurrence in most places, to say nothing of situations where "that's not really a problem, you just need to re-tighten it every now and then." The tragedies you occasionally see on the news are just the mistakes too big to hide behind closed doors.
Right, I agree. If countries had no supply issues I would definitely agree with opening it up for everyone, with maybe a subset of reservations for specific risk populations (or with the option of bumping someone back in their place).