skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore these laws almost exclusively apply when speaking about specific people. QAnon people can be sued if they say "Hillary Clinton drinks the blood of children". However they are safe saying "Democrats drink the blood of children." I don't understand why these two should be treated differently from a moral, ethical, or legal perspective.

Also these are largely viewed as civil issues and not criminal so Hillary Clinton needs to take them to court and not the State. These two issues combined basically give Americans free rein to make up whatever lies they want about whatever group they wish to defame.
Oftentimes it has to do with the native APIs that are available.

I'm building an app, and being able to deliver a better experience when selecting an image/video to upload was a consideration and one reason why I didn't use a mobile site and instead went with an app.

Push notifications are another big appeal of apps vs. a website, although I know that has changed somewhat recently it probably won't cause any massive shift in mobile site development.

Oh, and tracking :)
Thanks for this link, it was a great read - and compelling.
I'm not really convinced this would work in practice. The trick seems to depend on the fact that the dataset is a sequence of frames of the same object shot from slightly different angles. But that's a terrible dataset - it might work for training a toy proof-of-concept, but if you actually wanted to do calorie estimation in the wild, you'd need a much more varied (and larger) training set. And once you have that, you lose the properties that made this labelling approach viable in the first place.
> then makes them work in dumbed-down languages because they can't be trusted with power tools.

The languages are “dumbed” down so that the resulting code is intelligible to those that work on the system, so that the code is communication.

Overly smart tools allow a smart person to make mistakes so complicated that nobody can fix it (even themselves). Or a smart person builds great solutions so complex that nobody else can work on the code.

A good engineer chooses restrictions that help themselves and others build better solutions that a team can work on.
The author brilliantly makes the case against single payer healthcare. Bravo. Job well done, sir.
Agreed, but also...

There's like SO MUCH empty land. Growing up in the US, I thought the most empty things got was Ohio. But turns out, we're more like Russia - with the empty siberian frontier - than we are like the UK or something.

If everyone were evenly distributed, we'd still have <100 people per sq mile
imo this is exactly it.

It reminds me of pre-iPhone Japanese mobile phone culture where the more complicated interfaces were prized because users had to master them like a game or a puzzle.
Then why do plants branch off sooner than fungi?

https://www.onezoom.org/life.html
As a near-local, I see the Venetian problem (as the article explains): day trippers are destroying the place, without contributing. Even the low US phones registered are probably from the two bases nearby, and some that aren't.
If you exclude Venice for the tracking aspect, then stay out of malls, watch it in airports and add in the UK and a bazillion cameras.
I went to Venice one time, I didn't really enjoy it as I got caught in the evening rush to gtfo.
As a lot of persons have already given their privacy away, adding in the ability for the local cops to maybe* block an avenue or two, and open others to ease studied congestion patterns may not be a bad idea.
That video shows a cop pointing his gun up a flight of stairs, not at children. You claim he was pointing his gun at children out of frame, but the video doesn't show what was claimed. I've still seen no evidence to support the claim. If that's the best you can provide, then it's misinformation.
This is because we use 'votes' and 'likes' along with non-transparent algorithms to amplify certain voices over other.

Nothing to do with the medium, but how we structure social media.
Computational software engineer with physical engineering qualifications here -- we better be engineers on both sides of the divide! I suppose I don't really count though, as far as the question goes, since the software I write is used for doing physical engineering, and is a tiny fraction of software development, etc.
A famous Norwegian professor of social medicine, Per Fugelli, once told a story in a talk that has stuck with me for some reason; Per was talking to a taxi driver, and the driver told him that he was having surgery on his heart valve. Per asked if he was scared , and the driver looked at him and said "No, Per, would you like to know why? Because the surgeon who will operate me has also operated the King" (the King of Norway has had several heart surgeries through ht eyears). I think it's a nice story.

Unfortunately, most of his works are in Norwegian, but his last essay before dying from cancer was called Thank you, Norway - and good luck on your watch (Google Translate uses "god vakt", but I guess it is an idiomatic greeting to guards whos shift is starting) [0] - he was afraid the three pillars of the Norwegian society was somewhat threatened: justice, trust, freedom

[0] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https:/...
Yup, that will be one less reason to live in a city. I've also theorized that work from home and self-driving vehicles are other trends that may counteract the trend towards urban living. If you have a self-driving vehicle (on the highway at least), longer commutes may be less of an issue if you can work, read, or watch tv (we're not there yet.) If you work from home, commute doesn't matter at all.

That being said, I work from home, but I live in downtown to have easy access to activities, restaurants, and supermarkets without needing a car. The difference in rent is dwarfed by not having the cost or hassle of a vehicle.
What did they devour before plant created organics? Other fungi? Organic precursors occurring naturally by chemistry?
Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
Funny when you look at the actual definition of a project straight from PMP.

"a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique project service or result."

No "projects" in software fhat I know of are actually temporary. They only end when management fires the people behind them, it gets cut off or there is no adoption.

We in software think of projects really as things which we create and which need maintenance in order to live. There is never some "end" to it.

Because it doesn't even conform to its own definitions, we could therefore conclude that the whole PMP project management discipline, as applied to software, is a scam.
I’d be fine with that. Climate change is hard enough that I don’t think banning dissent and reinforcing groupthink is gonna get us to a good place. We should think about designing better solutions and incentives to adhere to those solutions instead. Banning misinformation won’t cure the desire not to go along with a plan. It just kicks problems with aligning incentives down the road.
The Amazon subsidy was entirely based on previously shown results, meaning that Amazon would have only received breaks if they had created jobs in the prior year or had made particular investments already. The city and state would not be making ahead-of-time investments due to how they structured it. I think that's fine and protects the public's interest sufficiently. It's also worth noting that a substantial portion of the Amazon deal was through existing city/state programs like Excelsior, ICAP, and REAP (the article goes over those), which other companies can also try to get qualification for.

Personally, I don't think subsidies should be banned, because public agencies must be allowed the freedom to make smart business decisions when the opportunities arise. The one danger I see is that big corporations that can navigate the legal and political landscape may have better access to these deals than a smaller player, which stifles competition. To fix that, my suggestion is that any subsidy deal should also be made available in some smaller scaled-down form to smaller competitors.
Might want to check out https://mentorcloud.com
Doctors do have curated platforms where they can lookup information, and also have diagnosis tools / checklists in them.
Coming to think of it, that's an interesting observation I noticed in my family too.
Yep, absolutely.
Perhaps this would have been a great business model to start astroturfing big pharma by focusing on SEO, allowing users to upvote meds that worked well for them and letting big pharma pay to bump theirs to the top or highlight it or something like that. Or for a given class of med, charge big pharma or individual chemists a certain amount for referral back links.

As a consumer your flow is probably naturally: what type? which brand? where is cheapest in my area?

There are plenty of energy comparison companies making money that way. They have a lot less tangible data.

I’ll be honest - the tech is so cool you nearly made me want to reach out and buy where you got upto. 'Nearly' is code for, yes I'd be interested, but I don't have enough $$ to make you interested vs the work required to build a profitable model.
Oh man! I'm laughing and crying at the same time. I had a very similar experience in my first "startup". It hurt me so bad, both financially and emotionally, that I could do another "startup" for 7 years.

Luckily, the next time I came across Steve Blank and YC Startup School materials and instead of burning all my cash over a two years I managed to FAIL my next three startups withing few weeks with a negligible cost.

Those books and articles saves your life and money!

This is yet another cautionary tale for founders.
Yes, I forgot, Europe doesn't have Democracy.

Aside from this argument not being based in reality, this isn't even a free speech debate, it's a consequence discussion. Society has a right to reject your speech and not amplify it.
Could you elaborate? I see that Plotly.js is a JavaScript library, but is there special integration with VSCode?
A non-twitter link:

https://www.carscoops.com/2021/01/tesla-model-s-convertible-...
Some states have abolished laws that made it a crime to knowingly give people AIDS because it is 'stigmatising'. Yet those same people harp on about people not wearing masks are 'murders'. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Because we don't want a world where we HAVE the technological capability to make life so much more convenient but somehow can't use any of it because of some shitty fixable privacy/social/political problems.

For example, if you see a car that tracks your movement and sells it so some third party, you can either say "lets make cars that don't do that" or "lets go back to horses". I'm not excited about going back to horses, we can fix the damn car :/ Turning our back on modern technology is a depressing and limiting action in the long run.
I use Obsidian and want to incorporate it in with my Gist usage. Found this which might be helpful: https://github.com/defunkt/gist

P.S. My biggest peeve with Gist is the missing dark mode :(. Otherwise, I find that the ability to use Markdown and embedded images in my gist's actually covers most of my documenting/blogging use case. Obsidian will hopefully address the dark mode issue.
Neat. Visual tools might be even more useful for less technical people, e.g. project manager discussing landing page requirements with client during meeting.

Being busy developer I do not have time to wait each time for elements sidebar to slide out - maybe use smaller elements in palette, but keep it always open? Constant fade outs to dark and back to light are a bit distracting when working in the dark.
The Brexit vote also helped some politicians wake up to the damage they did in regards to better understanding ‘winners and losers in globalization’

Maybe it wasn’t the best idea to offload environmental damage to China while gutting the middle class in your own country

Yes, in total the country is ‘richer’ after doing this, but most all of those gains went to the 1%; 99% suffered to prop up the ultra wealthy.

If policy makers don’t figure out how to fix the productivity/wage divergence (https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/) we will only see more populist rage.
Never approach marketing teams unless you’re Theranos sized courting Walgreens.

Corporate marketers hate risk. It’s a great way to lose your cushy job. What I have seen happen is that they embrace innovation, parade you around their offices and never close on a deal.

I saw this happen. The founder of BuyYourFriendADrink was the doyenne of Diageo’s hallways but after burning six months of runway no revenue producing contract was inked. Some corporate politicians simply exist to take meetings.
> If it were those people would likely be dead due to a pandemic of gun violence

Isn't that what's happening here, that the belief in "the right to storm the capitol" has got out of hand? After a while it doesn't matter that that's not the SC ruling, if it's what enough people with guns believe.

Prior to the viral pandemic people argued there was a pandemic of gun violence. It turned out that was a drop in the bucket. If the Vegas shooting happened today, it would be a mere blip in the excess death numbers from coronavirus.
Even within organisms starting with identical “first order” characteristics the opportunity for variation is fascinating. Here is a podcast on the topic I found illuminating, it is with the author of a recent book The Hidden Half

http://www.econtalk.org/michael-blastland-on-the-hidden-half...
I love the author's writing style. I found it kind of funny. But there's a lot he could've done better.

My top recommendation would've been to find someone in medicine as a co-founder. This could've helped him find flaws in the economic model faster. I still think his project has amazing potential, except that it's going to have to go through a couple of iterations. For example - what if he somehow integrated this information to make it so that it's easier to connect customers to future doctors and take a affiliate fee?

Also imagine if we had a better medical search engine. There's so much information in medicine that is still blocked off to consumers. The author mentions that consumers do not want to go through the details - maybe we can make something that can dumb it down for people and put a directory of doctors who can help explain further?
The author has a great sense of humor. This was really fun to read:)
>If you're on a sales call selling a product that increases user retention and someone says "no we don't need that", you would often reply with "So you have perfect user retention then?" to probe them and re-open the conversation.

Assuming that I didn't initiate the call, if I tell some sales punk that I don't need their product and they come back at me with "So you have perfect user retention then?" my answer is going to be "fuck you" followed by ending the call.

Arrogance might work in used car sales but it's not a panacea for closing the deal.
Yeah, I think it's social media and hyper-partisan media and government (the slow build) combined with a pandemic (the fast build). They've collided and now we're circling the toilet.
However, what if the election really was fraudulent? I mean the video in Georgia after the election observer were sent home, were pretty incriminating.

Also seeing how BLM got backing and did way more damage, makes this all look pretty one-sided. It's only okay if they do it.
I loved reading this, but it doesn't seem like he thought this through all the way. For one you'd want to figure out how you plan to monetize anything you expect an roi on before you start spending all of your money. Two giving out medical advice feels like a giant cluster of potential headaches, and liability. A doctor who trust your website and then maybe one of her patients has a bad reaction, may have grounds to sue you particularly if you charge a fee to use the product.
This isn't a double standard; it's just the natural tendency of rules, regulations, and market requirements to become stricter over time. It's quite common for early entrants to a market to get away with behavior that late arrivals are accountable for.

Facebook and Twitter probably couldn't be introduced today with the level of moderation they had at the time.

The bicycle is a nontechnical example of this phenomenon. You couldn't bring it to market today because of liability concerns and safety laws.
I’m surprised to hear that, because my understanding is that all the major broadcasters have a blanket licence to play all music (from major record labels). They can just stick a top 40 hit in the background of a soap without planning for it. Maybe that doesn’t apply to something as primary as the shows theme song.
I listen to most of those too, but as podcasts. The BBC has a very good selection of Radio 4 podcasts.
My point was more that the software developer have to not just build with existing material and equipment but have to invent and build those on the fly.
For an article written in October of last year it sure is funny that there's an HN discussion about it from last January...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551
Ironically missing that some folks will never be able to learn some songs.

And, learning to play an existing song doesn't necessarily translate to being able to write one.
https://engineerscanada.ca/frequently-asked-questions

"An engineer is an individual who has been issued a licence to practise engineering by a provincial or territorial engineering regulatory body after demonstrating that they have the requisite education, skills, knowledge and experience. An engineer is sometimes referred to as a licensed engineer, a registered engineer or a professional engineer."

Professional engineer and engineer are both functionally equivalent and protected. You can't legally have the term engineer in your title in Canada unless you are an accredited engineer and pay your dues.
I thought exactly the same when they were talking about trying to convince doctors to buy it - surely they don’t misunderstand their market that much though?
Why not try to fund it by selling pharmacies, or with some kind of affiliate program?
Mechanical engineering has specifications for "bug" tolerance.

These are manufacturing tolerances and safety factors.

Unless you're testing the piece of steel you're bout to use, you don't really know that it's yield strength is what the box says. Similarly, the welding might be done by an apprentice with a bad teacher, and during maintenance, the repair guy might run out of a certain bolt and use a different one with a washer.
I don't see why a future collapse into tyranny of a country in Europe would have to involve a revival of the symbols of any particular defeated regime. If they needed symbols for propaganda purposes, they'd draw from legal symbol pools, like Roman culture. (It "worked" once...) More likely, they would draw from contemporary symbols that already had positive sentiment associated with them.

The point being, it's not clear whether German speech laws are frosting or cake. If the German people wanted to destroy Europe and themselves, that would be enough whether they did it with the symbols of a defeated dictator or not. People point to European speech laws as examples of reasonable protections, but I'm not sure if they're stopping anything. The real bar against the collapse of liberal democracy is the fact that the people living in those countries don't want it to happen, and understand why it would be bad for them.
if you could just do "algorithmic labelling" why do you need to go to all that trouble of making a dataset and training a model in the first place? Why not just use this "algorithmic labelling" thing?

Because thats not how this works, thats not how any of this works.
Think twice before building your own public cloud
either they have a sky high churn rate which brings down LTV and justifies the monthly price (in which case should be lowered to reduce churn) or they have just no idea what they are doing :) to me is more the former
Well, this is the thing isn't it, threats of nonspecific violence are a normal part of American politics. You could find thousands of examples of that kind of thing from both sides.

The unusual thing is turning that violence into reality.

Would it be great to dial that down? Yes. Will the Republicans stop doing enraging things and calm the situation? No.
> I listen to most of those too, but as podcasts

I don't understand what practical difference you think that makes... it's the same shows, made by the same people, how you listen to it doesn't make any difference.
What happens if your slow market has to coexist with other fast markets?

My understanding is that

a) either there is a huge price lag to the fast market and say you offer some good cheaper that the fast market. Then the HFT would come and buy your stuff and sell it more expensive on the fast market. Until

b) your market becomes illiquid.

In both cases there is little incentive to use your market. It would only make sense for huge trades (similar to take over offers, etc).
Thanks for your response - feel free to rant.

I agree with what you said, but given there's only so many hours in the day, and I only watch TV to "switch my brain off", I didn't feel it worth the cost given that Netflix et al fills that hole just fine- for far less.

To get my science / nature / news I turn to podcasts.
Shrdlu – Understanding Natural Language (1970)
Suggestion to posters: if the site is paywalled, add a comment with a summary of the article.
Look at those: https://www.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/kre49d/compiler_...

Even faster, 1.2M lps
> No idea what any of those shows you listed are.

They are almost exclusively BBC Radio 4 programs, many of which are available as podcasts. I can heartily recommend The Moral Maze and In Our Time.
That's my experience of every university math department I've ever been at. I always assumed that's also how non-math departments are but don't actually have any first-hand experience.
Free expression is chaotic. It always has been and it always will be. It will always have lies and misinformation, some people will even believe the lies. But this is also the beauty of free expression - it prevents anyone from using it to enact total control. Speech that is free will always seed doubt against ideas, regardless whether those ideas are true or false. It's an avenue that allows anything to be questioned.

Propaganda and misinformation have been around for a long time. Mark Antony and Octavius engaged in a war of misinformation.[0] People in those times had far fewer avenues of information. If somebody sold them a false story, then people were probably more likely to believe them. We're still here though.

I think what's been happening over the recent years is that people have finally started waking up from the End of History. The world is as chaotic as always.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/aaf2bb08-dca2-11e6-86ac-f253db779...