skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not defined as such, but it certainly only seems possible in the absence of the state. One well known dictionary phrases the relevant definition as "the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action". Many nation states (although the US is the worst offender in this regard) and those whose interests a given state protects, have quite successfully convinced their citizenry to celebrate the limitations placed upon them and further to mislabel these limitations as freedom.
“Ministry of Ousinge?!”

“Ministry of what?”

“Ousinge. It were spelt like that on t’ van”

“Van? What van?”

“The Cat Detector Van.”

“... You _are_ a loony.”
And they still are?
I was thinking of the MS Office Android app. You can get it running on a $50 tablet. How powerful would it be vs let's say Office '97 on a Windows 95 PC purchased for around $2000 25 years ago?
When things like this are left undefined, it's not to intentionally annoy you, as you seem to be taking it. It's generally because there are two or more reasonable possible behaviors and which one is correct hasn't yet been determined. In this particular case, there are subtleties because named tuples can be seen as ordered collections of values and as named associative structures. Deciding that kind of thing takes a lot of time and effort. If you feel that there is a preferred behavior that broadcasting over named tuples ought to have, it would be helpful to post that on GitHub.
Interestingly, the democrats would have fixed the elections but only managed to win the Senate in a tight run-off?

After spending $100 million, the Trump campaign's legal team found no admissible evidence of election fraud, just videos they can use for future campaigns attacking democracy.
Look, do you use

specialized knowledge or techniques

to design things,

to achieve or cause a specific outcome

within certain limits or constraints?

Then you're doing engineering. Whether to call yourself an engineer, well in the absence of a formal certification program, that's gonna be up to you and/or your employer. Former civil/structural here (that's the bridge-building one, and as far as I know, the most stringently credentialed/licensed).

It's helpful to remember that "engineer" comes from the French ingénieur which is also the source of the word "ingenuity." So an engineer is basically just an ingenuity-izer if you will. If you trace it back further, you get to the Latin ingenium (engine), of which the "genium" part comes from gignere (basically to cause something) which gives us "engender" and "generate" and "progeny" so you see there's a creative aspect too.
Multicloud? The cool kids call it polynimbus.
In other words, "solve a frequent, burning problem".

Tom Blomfield worte about how during YC S11 they had trouble growing at all. He chanced upon a customer who fit their product's user persona to a tee but at the end of a 20m conversation Tom realised the it wasn't really a burning problem for them at all.

And so they pivoted...to GoCardless.

https://archive.is/8IDcl
It's a pretty dark path then. There aren't many examples of countries separating peacefully.
Law enforcement has been failing to take the threat of right-wing extremism seriously for a long time. I think that's what we should be focused on addressing instead of clamping down on speech. The situation at the capitol should never have been allowed to escalate to the point that it did.
The one thing everybody seems to forget is that the term "engineer" generally means "liable."

Do "software engineers" really want to be liable for software bugs? That's what you're asking for.
Which programming books are still must reads, essential reading for your career
Two well known out of my head:

https://twitter.com/dave_suspect/status/1268950685577547781

https://thehill.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumb_small_a...

If you have the stomach for it you can just start going through some of the threads of well known left wing people and you'll soon find the extremists posts in between that you can follow further.
Start with https://www.realvision.com and branch out from there. It's focused on investment but you will end up being introduced to a lot of macro-economic concepts.
Do you have a personal Twitter account I can follow? Your career is one I'd like to follow.
Might be a cultural thing (I'm Brazilian), but I consider everyone as a friend unless proven otherwise.
> These days, I only give estimates in terms of units but without numbers. Hours, days, weeks, months, quarters or years.

Then you must be either an independent contractor or have some magical source of job security. I couldn't get away with this kind of estimate.
Would software effort estimation work better if software developers were held to fixed-price bids?
Wow, what makes you prefer SolveSpace to FreeCAD or programmatic cad like CadQuery? What do you use it for?
> From a large-scale purchasing and architectural roadmap point of view, this tells me they won’t enjoy the economies of scale that flash enjoys, and the enterprise drives will be dead in a few years.

I think a lot of OEMs and users quickly figured out that a 128Tb m.2 SSD wasn't much more than a 32gb Optane module cost-wise, at which point you can have your whole boot drive and more on an SSD.

I'm not certain whether enterprise drives will die off as quickly, I suppose it depends on market trends. One marketed plus of 3D XPoint technology was far better write endurance and lack of need for garbage collection. If a data center has a lot of rolling data to process it might not be a bad fit.
My brother had a tooth chipped and a broken arm. I have had an adult stand on my head and kick me around a room. I still had it much better than some of my peers. It isn't the best situation, but sometimes it is the only real option to protect the child.
Waiit - "You have a mind-shattering headache. [..] What do you reach for? " - isn't this where you're supposed or even required to ask the pharmacist? You know, the person who has the years-long training to know drug effects, limitations and interactions with other drugs?
I'd love to see an equal amount of the effort put toward initiatives like this, also being put toward mitigating their extremely likely negative societal impacts (and putting in safeguards).

Of course, that's not nearly as sexy.

Yes, there are lots of incredible positive impacts of such technology, just like there was with fire, or nuclear physics. But that doesn't mean that safeguards aren't absolutely critical if you want it to be net win for society.

These negative impacts are not theoretical. They are obvious and already a problem for anyone who works in the right parts of the security and disinformation world.

We've been through all this before... https://aviv.medium.com/the-path-to-deepfake-harm-da4effb541...

Of course, some of the same people who ignored recommendations[1] for harm mitigations in visual deepfake synthesis tools (which ended up being used for espionage and botnets) seem to be working on this.

[1] e.g. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/12/131605/ethical-d...
"Was it a "violent take over"? Not a chance"

Sure it was.

This is how a 'coup' works - the objective is not to 'take control of the country' by force, but of the political system.

If that violent mob was successful in 'stopping the count' - then it very seriously threatens the legitimacy of Biden being president.

Why do you think that Congress reconvened right after the violence and very quickly pushed through the vote? And didn't wait a few days?

If the vote confirmation doesn't take place, someone takes the case to SCOTUS wherein they might rule the process was not complete and 'now you have two Presidents' - and very ugly ambiguous situation that could spiral out of control very quickly.

The fact that SCOTUS could have ruled 'incomplete process' may embolden millions of 'hard Constitutionalists' to one side.

This stuff happens all over the world, all the time. These things are fragile.

It was a nice little lesson in how actually fragile 'even the USA is' and that this is serious stuff.
> 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.

In the US, at least, the current (seemingly unsuccessful) slouch towards tyranny definitely does involve the revival symbols of a particular defeated regime: the Confederacy (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/Kevin-Seefried-arreste...).

Though it might not really be a "revival," since the symbols were never really killed off in the first place. A lot of the flashpoints building up to this one involved removal of these symbols.
For us, the revenue model isn't this site itself. It's other work we do in the industry - this just helps us get notice and leads to the other things we can build on top of this data in combination with other data. I'd be happy to chat more about this if you were ever interested.

Side note - I'm a long, long time OSM fan and contributor. Thanks!
At the same time the JVM is getting better memory tracking analysis and incremental pauseless collectors (C4, ZGZ, Shenandoah, G1 improvements)

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/understanding-the-jdks...
What about DNS? ISP?

There must be some line. Sure you can build your own server and connect it to the internet, but if you're handing out cards with an IP address, marketability is limited.
should have made it enterprise software for HMOs - they profit when their population has better outcomes. Or sell it Epic or something and they'd package it into their systems.
> Always question everything you are told, especially by central authorities, mainstream popular media, etc.

This is how conspiracy theories start.
I feel like the author homogenizes all of academic writing. The needs of the English department are different than the needs of the computer science department. While there are a few universal virtues that all writing should strive for to be good, I think the domain of discourse is an indispensable factor in determining your style.
He needed a co-founder who has experience in health care. As a Clinical Pharmacist and a developer - this idea would automate part of my clinical pharmacist job and is viable. He needed to sell to hospitals and PBMs as a tool to automate formulary management.

Selling to those entities are really *really* difficult and there is no good distribution channel, but doable with an experienced person who sold them stuff before.
>making decisions that will require taking resources from others by force is the definition of neglect

I'm gona walk right past the 'taxation is theft' dog whistle.

You can talk about 'personal responsibility' all you want, but at the end of the day, the urge to have kids is probably our second strongest drive as a species. Babies are gona happen. When they do, they should be fully supported as much as necessary to make sure parents and children get what they need at a base level. I don't mind my taxes paying for baby formula and diapers. We should probably fund daycare too. This is that 'equality of opportunity' conservatives are so fond of in place of 'equality of outcomes'. Well, if that's true, at the very least we need to make sure that everyone gets the bare essentials to properly raise a child.
Hi Imnimo, I wrote the article and definitely understand your concerns. The point is not the specific steps I took working in general for most datasets, but more the overall idea of using a more data science-y approach to labelling rather than just blindly throwing your data at a workforce.

A more varied dataset will require additional strategies. We have done this type of thing with various datasets and what normally works is a combination of some vertical models, heuristics specific to the dataset, classical computer vision techniques, and some human label seeding/correction.
> so they could brutally optimize away things like brains

Youtube Twitter Facebook et al. provide fairly convincing circumstantial evidence that homo sapiens is doing the same...
The status quo has brought us to today. The platforms only act when they see that the political winds have shifted. There were precisely zero “profiles in courage” among the platforms until after the election. We can expect nothing more - they’re businesses beholden to investors and regulators above all else.
I always try to remember that my brain is essentially the same as the brains of the Auschwitz prison guard’s and that there is nothing special about me that would keep me from doing what they did. It is only civil society that prevents humans from being fully, horrifically, human. Civil society is a rare, most precious gift and it must be preserved.
I've seen examples of encrypted payloads being sent to various third parties on the internet, it would be very time consuming to try and determine what that data actually is.

In my opinion, the OS should let you deny the "internet" permission on any app, no reason why it should need it if I don't want to risk my data being uploaded without my consent.
Those don't cover other dangerous types of lies, like telling people drinking bleach will protect them from COVID, or telling them COVID is a hoax and they shouldn't wear masks, or the whole antivax thing.
I'm not convinced calling someone the n-word is the same as threatening his life for that reason.

So MAGA fan would be the same as the n-word, because I can tell my Bubba hey what are we going to do about the MAGA fanboy over there.

Is that threatening his life too?
This could be done in browser via native speechSynthesis API. Maybe there's already an extension out there.
Indeed, that is precisely the decision that must be made. Neither one is obviously correct. And once a decision is made and goes into a release, it cannot be unmade — we all have to live with it forever.
Dengue Fever Is Growing Worldwide. Don't Delay Testing Like I Did
I think I agree. I also think it’s weird to laud academic writing as it is often quite bad, having a tendency to go on and on with some pointless complexity (do you feel like a real academic when you write “not unreasonable”? I claim that ordinarily the only nuance between this and “reasonable” is that writing one makes you feel clever).

Historically academic writing has been constrained by page limits (compare papers written by Euler to Gauss). But as publishing has moved online and expensive this has become less of an issue. And if you wrote a book there were far fewer constraints on length.
She lost a lot of work over it -- therefore she did pay a price.

As stupid and tasteless as it was, to make it into a call for others to cut off his head is specious at best. And that's a key issue in play: the intent of the the message.

You're engaging in weak whataboutism.
There are principled exceptions to freedom of speech that are generally easy to identify and agree upon. I think there may be reasonable concerns about Parler's willingness or ability to police illegal speech online, but the stated reason for deplatforming is a farce.

They reference things like the capitol riot, but if I recall correctly the actual storming of the capitol was planned (to the extent that it was a planned affair) one FaceBook. There's lots of things shared on FaceBook and Twitter that are bad (and even illegal) but they don't get the boot from their service providers - and Twitter is an Amazon customer as well!

And the fact that Twitter is a big Amazon customer should not be ignored. It could be that Amazon's motivation was primarily political, but protecting the interests of one of their largest customers should not be ignored.

But regardless, the real key here is that Amazon blatantly violated their contract. No company bets their business on a hosting service that does not provide protection against spontaneous cancellation of service.

Even if Amazon wins the lawsuit, the message to all to all of their customers will be "we can turn you off at any time and for any reason". Expect to see a lot of migrations to other providers if that happens.
Sorry for going off a tangent here, but when you say you got a CS degree after being a mechanical and energy engineer, do you mean you went back to university for a full undergrad in CS? Or was that a Master’s?

I’ve been thinking of going back to school to go the opposite route (CS -> engineering, probably aerospace), but I have no idea how to go about it or how to estimate how much cash I need.
"As far as I can tell, the commonality among those always-winning firms is high frequency low latency algorithmic trading. These days it takes millions of dollars per month just to pay for the infrastructure you need to be able to be competitive - and then you also have to have some nontrivial edge, without which there isn’t all that much profit in having low latency."

I don't believe Medallion would be classified as a high frequency trading operation.
Moving faster and increasing impact of deliveries, those are goals you can work towards, that do not involve needing to estimate anything.

The question is: do you for every sale provide an ETA of when you think the sale will close, with projected key milestones along the way and their dates, all before even beginning engaging the would be customer?
Yeah exactly this, it only really makes sense in some very limited situations in embedded software, for example when you might be in an interior handler and have no free registers
Can we not post to Instagram from the command line using their API?
Looking at the API docs here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/reference/media under the "creating" section it explicitly says that "This operation is not supported".

Also googled around a bit and it seems that there really is no way to make a simple curl request to upload an image to instagram and share it as a post.
I find it hard to reconcile what the author says in this article and what they say in an earlier article entitled "How to actually write a sentence", which is an explanation of how cohesion and coherence contribute to well-formed sentences, a topic Pinker spends a couple of chapters on in Sense of Style.

https://metaphorhacker.net/2020/02/how-to-actually-write-a-s...
"Big data is a resource and a tool. It is meant to inform, rather than explain; it points us toward understanding, but it can still lead to misunderstanding, depending on how well or poorly it is wielded. And however dazzling we find the power of big data to be, we must never let its seductive glimmer blind us to its inherent imperfections.
. . .
What we are able to collect and process will always be just a tiny fraction of the information that exists in the world. It can only be a simulacrum of reality, like the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave."

- from the book "Big Data" mentioned in the article

Meant to inform rather than to explain. Words of caution for "data scientists". We get more useful data from our senses each day than we ever will from a company conducting surveillance over the internet.
It's a lawsuit by an activist group. No indication of any grounds for the suit or that a court will entertain it.
I wonder if there might be a technological barrier. My degree is in physics, so I depend on mobility for any hope of employment. ;-)

It was easy to learn programming. One reason was that the tools were always relatively cheap (even when they cost money), and the cost to learn by trial and error was negligible. At least this is true for the basics. Becoming a good programmer who can be an asset to a large project is outside my wheel house, though I'm in the process of learning.

Today, for mechanical design, you at least need access to SolidWorks, and the part of learning that comes from experiencing failure is costly and time consuming. Surely 3d printing is changing that equation, but not overnight.

But you can test the waters of programming without asking anybody for permission, and if you discover that you hate it, then you can just bury it. And many do. Programming is hard or most people, for reasons that I don't think we understand.

Now, programming and mechanical design by themselves are not engineering, but if someone wants to get into a new skill through the back door, they are similar. A person with SolidWorks skills can be useful as a designer without being a full blown engineer.
IMHO "Make something people want" implies that people will want to pay you for it[1]. If people want it, they'll come asking you to take their money - if their response is "meh, I'd try it for free" then I'd argue it's misleading to tell that they want it, the most you could say is that they are interested. I mean, he demoed this stuff to people and none of them seemed to say "wait, can you give me access to this right now? Pretty please, I'll be your pilot test user, but I want to have this?" - I can't see any evidence that would justify the author claims "Consumers wanted it, doctors wanted it". The doctors called it "What a fun project!", the doctors called it "useful", but none of them wanted it the way they might want a cup of coffee i.e. being willing to give something at all to get the thing they want.

[1] the other limitation is whether they can afford to pay you despite wanting it; there are products/markets where the target audience is eager to pay but their collective budget is too small for the scale you need.
> bunch of us who use JS at work and are specifically looking for the exact opposite in our hobby projects

I use Rust at work, and JS only in hobby projects :)

There is something "opposite" about these languages, but I think both coexist because there's very little overlap in their use-cases. You use Rust where JS can't be used (multicore, high-performance, or low-level native code), and use JS where Rust would be overkill (small webby things).
It works on Linux, macOS and windows
We have a running joke at work that our attempts at making money are "probabilistic arbs".
Collaboration would be one reason. I have quite some friends that use MuseScore and are orders of magnitude better musicians than I am, but I could help them create better looking scores and nicer rehearsal tracks if they could just export to Lilypond to give me something to start from.
To be more accurate, you want to find a problem that people will pay (money, time, etc) for. He never tried to test that until it was too late. To be fair, this is a very, very common failure mode and I can imagine most people reading this story can identify with it.
It felt like there was a missing chapter!

Consumers don't see the value at all.

Doctors see the value, but won't pay for it, because it doesn't change their bottom line.

Whose bottom line does this change then?

HMOs, insurance companies, organizations that want to improve the health of a population in aggregate. They'd pay money to have healthier people (on average) to provide the service to their docs (who see the value) to use for free.

Well, maybe; but I was hoping to see that theory validated in the last turn of the wheel.
Why do some people say “We don't know what electricity is ”?
Linux.Midrashim: Assembly x64 ELF virus
Google: "I CAN"
FCC reminds radio users to not use radios to commit crimes
There really needs to be a proper big trial conducted on this. There's too much evidence pointing to a possible link between Vitamin D supplements and better Covid outcomes for people with Vitamin D deficiency to dismiss it based on one meta-study.