skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not me trying to be edgy or snippy. During an era when eugenics was the predominant belief of the professional class in America, when they openly promoted "mercy killings" of certain classes of people, withheld treatment of deadly diseases from citizens on the basis of race, and sterilized thousands without their consent, and with all of this being so well-documented, no, I don't need the author to spell out the word "eugenics" for me to see it when it's written all over their actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
Yeah I tend to agree with you.

They did say right at the end: As we can see, Pat is already having an effect before his name is even on the door at HQ.

But the way I read this headline, it kinda sounds like Pat actively rehired folk.
After Florida Covid-19 data scientist turned herself in – she tested positive
This is so tiring.

I'm a Swedish man. Last time I visited the US was several years ago. I'm not particularly sympathetic towards Donald Trump or Parler. I'm definitely not here to defend nazism.

Not sure if it's intended, but if you intend to get sympathy and support for your cause (whatever that is) by calling me a nazi or implying my interest in internet infrastructure has anything to do with supporting nazism, then you are not gonna get very much sympathy from me.

So way to go with the polarization.
The idea is to encode binary strings in a visually shorter form than e.g. hex, and also make it easier to visually detect differences. It’s also possibly easier to remember a bunch of emojis than a hex string.
Implementing a performance boosting algorithm in Coccinelle
I’ve often wondered why there isn't a tool that generates regex for you automatically when you feed it a number of similar strings. Is this too complicated mathematically (even for machine-learning), or does such a thing actually exist (and I just don’t know about it)?

Imagine you want to write a regex that captures hex values such as 0xC0D3. You enter a few sample values (the more you enter, the more concise the regex which the generator will spit out) and the generator should easily discover that all your values start with 0x followed by exactly four digits 0-9 or a-f and give you a (albeit maybe not the best, or several) expression it can. Bonus points if it indeed explains in natural language each part of the regex it generated...

I’d imagine this would also be a great tool for learning regex, a sort-of “learning by reverse-engineering” if you will.

I seem to need regex only once every two years or so, which is not enough to learn it properly or, if I did, to retain it. So such a tool would be awesome.
I truly don't see the point.

The code that you wind up with is so long that it is hard to read for anyone, whether or not you know regular expressions. I'll never remember what all of the things are called. Anyone who knows regular expressions will find the regular expression readable. Anyone who doesn't is likely to find both relatively similar in effort to learn.

The only tool you need for maintainable regular expressions is the x modifier. That lets you break it up with whitespace and add comments. Here is a real example in code that I wrote for a tool used by people who don't know regular expressions. (This is Python that is parsing out the contents of various arrays in a bash script.)

# This match will pull those out into an array of pairs
# representing an array name and the inside of the parens::
#
# [('sqlFiles', ' "foo"
# "bar"
# "baz" '), ...]
#
#
match_pairs = re.findall(
"""(?xs) # x turns on verbose expressions (allowing these comments)
# s says . matches everything (including newlines)
( \w+ ) # Capture the name of the list
\s* = \s* # spaces = spaces
\( # find open paren
( # Capture it.
(?: # nested non-capturing pattern
\s+ # whitespace
| # or
".*?" # " with as few characters as possible then "
)* # non-capturing pattern repeats 0 or more times.
) # end capture
\) # Closing paren
""", contents)

If you know regular expressions, the comments are superfluous, though breaking up the expression does make it easier to read. If you don't know regular expressions, you should be able to figure out what the code is trying to do and how it does it.

How you specify that modifier varies heavily by language. So, for example, in Perl you end your expression with /x. In Python you have to start your regular expression with (?x). In Postgres you pass a third argument with 'x' in it. Sadly, JavaScript does not support it. (Big mistake.)
Not sure about all of Southern California, but LA County is down to 65+.
I'm interested in lab automation, and ramping up on that. Do you have any automation needs?
Overhead... it's all overhead. Starting and connecting to a VM isn't nearly as streamlined as connecting to a Docker container (even if it is also running in a VM).

Even the hurdle of SSH'ing to a VM is more cumbersome than `docker run`.

Certainly this could be automated and scripted, but the Docker solution is so... streamlined.

And I say this as someone that used to use Vagrant. With smaller installs available (such as Alpine), maybe more modern VMs would be just as easy as containers...

Also -- for me, VirtualBox was just "meh". It worked, but really wasn't that great. It always seemed like it took too many resources to run. That was another issue with Vagrant. (And yes, I did also use Vagrant with VMWare, but again -- that's a lot of overhead).
Jim 'Kimo' West - Coconut Hat

I listen to the album to fall asleep - super relaxing.

Fun note: Jim West is Weird Al's guitarist, but is an accomplished slack-key player as well!
> My secondhand understanding was that Intel was losing top talent due to pressure to pay closer to median industry compensation. Top engineers recognized they were underpaid and left the company.

This is what happens when you're run by bean counters who don't understand your core business or industry.
Wow. I never noticed.
We've been using a BSD-style license to make sure we don't stop those people using it if they want to.
at this point who really cares? the amount of doses given is like 35% of the inventory. we should give it to anyone who wants it before these lots expire
no sarcasm, not currently on offer
My argument is that pollution outlives a society that it kills by a non-zero amount of time.
I believe it is an encoding for data into base 1024, using emoji as the symbol set. Similar in concept to Base64, meant to encode data into a format which can be sent anywhere ASCII is acceptable. This, one could think, would allow you to do the same thing more efficiently but with systems which accept emoji.
I'm glad to see a paid for service, by I don't think I'd take the jump for $10 a month!

>(from the website) we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage

Aren't you worried about Apple's reprisal ?

Also it might be worth adding a word about the privacy of the messages. Am I correct that the end to end encryption goes out the window and each Matrix connector can see the messages in plain text? I think it's not so much an issue as long as it's clear to the user, and that they pay for you to keep their private messages private.
So should we also cancel sites like Twitter that don't ban far-left conspiracy?
I think scaling with revenue is appropriate (as you're aligning incentives), as long as it has a ceiling near the monthly fully loaded cost of a Controller role (which is right around ~$12,500 in the US). At that point (having a need for a Controller role), the customer should be doing between $40MM-$50MM in ARR/annual turnover. With that said, Finmark should expect to have to provide more value to a customer than a single Controller role would. This also might help with encouraging CFOs not to attempt to build finance fiefdoms (tools > headcount).
> So if someone gets defamed (me too entanglement) by someone else via Twitter it’s on Twitter and not the actual person who defamed the other?

It would be, except for Section 230’s explicitly carveout of most civil liability as a publisher for online publishers (whether other users or platform operators) to the extent they are moderating/curating user-generated content, rather than producing/submitting content.
This person (Panfrost driver developer) is working on reversing M1 GPU

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html
Police records: Boris Johnson 'doesn't know' impact of deleted files
Well, hopefully you networked with your profs and their contacts during that time? They can probably help...
I think it’s not actually a very good ML case study for this reason. Feature engineering would be a huge part of a problem like this. Additionally, jumping to start with XGBoost is a pretty amateurish thing to do, and the very first problem to attack is class imbalance.

In the bio blurb they self-describe as an infra engineer who also enjoys data science. In some sense I really don’t like to see that. The quality of the data science / ML work in this is actually quite bad, but people use these blog posts as resume padders to try to jump into ML jobs without ever having any real experience or training.

I think it’s a bad thing because it devalues the importance of real statistical computing skills, which are very hard to develop through many years of education and experience - absolutely not the sort of thing you can get by dabbling in some Python packages on the weekend to do a little project like this.

The amount of waste I see from companies trying to avoid paying higher wages and avoid team structures that facilitate productivity of statistics experts is staggering - with all kinds of hacked up scripts and notebooks stitched together without proper backing statistical understanding, making ML engineers manage their own devops, and just ignoring base statistical questions.

For this drive problem for example, I expect to see a progression from simple models, each of which should address class imbalance as a first order concern. I expect to see how Bayesian modeling can help and how simple lifetime survivorship models can help. I expect to see a lot of feature engineering.

Instead I see an infra engineer playing around with data and trying one off the shelf framework, then claiming the whole premise can’t work in production.
Can't you? If not, then your laws suck.
Is he being released? I thought he received a 25 year sentence in 2012?
Recap. How we survived 2020 as a two person startup
Hey there! Article author here-

This was written as an after-the-fact look back after a year long project and the target testing set did change a little along the way. The big change was splitting by manufacturer (and eventually by model family), which changed the number of applicable samples to compare performance on.

I cut some stuff from the article for length, so I totally get how that could have been unclear.
Relevant article: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html.
The military and sports teams certainly mandate exercise (explicitly in the military's case and at least implicitly but very likely explicitly for sports teams).

Military pilots are also issued "go pills" (dextroamphetamine) for long combat and long single-pilot transit sorties.
Being a man of principal is not virtue signalling.
I agree. Definitely worth listening to.
Here is a link to the video: https://youtu.be/2mTmTdOgv0M
I usually choose debian for docker images if alpine isn't the right solution. Their slim images are pretty nice.
Monthly focus documents instead of roadmaps
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say here. Are you intending to insinuate that much of the most objectionable content on Parler has been posted by users who are trying to get Parler in trouble with the end goal of reducing the amount of content of that nature that is online?

Because that sounds like an overly-complex theory, and doesn't explain any content on Parler that was posted more than two weeks ago, when the idea of getting Parler off the Internet actually became plausible.
/fit/ is a crap board most of the time, but sometimes golden nuggets of information crop up. That sticky is one such gold nugget (permanently pinned to the top)
Mshodern Dance Moves
In 2 Thessalonians 3:10
https://sci-hub.do/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano....
What was the comment?

Is there a standard for what ‘first contribution on a year old account’ should be..
Word press site? Just make sure to secure it.
I'm no academic, but functional languages have performance problems that simply cannot be handwaved away. For example, say you have a function that modifies an array. In a pure function, you cannot mutate in place, the function would need to return a "new" array. This necessitates at least a partial copy. I have seen proposed solutions for this where the array structure is some type of index table, where you can just mutate part of it and still maintain most of the original, thus avoiding having to potentially copy a huge amount of memory. However there is an unavoidable performance penalty, and also introduces issues like cache misses/pipeline stalls come in to play.
The problem I usually run into with this sort of arrangement is the database. Every non-newbie developer is very aware of using source control with their code. A lot of developers are careful about managing the dependencies for that code as well. But for the database, you have a second asset that often needs to be synchronised with the code, and that means both schema and possibly records as well.

Just deploying changes affecting both assets carefully in production can be quite awkward relative to a code-only deployment. You might need to do this in several stages, updating your code to allow for but not require the DB changes, then updating the DB schema, then maybe updating existing DB records, then at least one more round of code updates so everything is running on the new version of the DB. And you might need to make sure no-one else on your team is doing anything conflicting in between.

Doing the same in a staging environment isn't so bad because you're running essentially the same process. However, for a development environment where you want the shortest possible feedback loops for efficiency, you need to be able to spin up a DB with the correct schema, and possibly also with some preloaded data that may be wholly, partially or not at all related to controlled data you use to initialise parts of your database in production or staging environments.

It is not always an easy task to keep the code you use to access the database, the current schema in the database, and any pre-configured data to be installed in your database all in sync, and to ensure that your production, staging/testing/CI facilities, and local developer test environment are also synchronised where they should be.
I'm not talking about my lawn, I'm talking about your lawn.
It's a nice story and good for Intel that can attract a talented ex designer back - but the overdoing of the title is unnecessary and counterproductive.
And to that end you don't actually need a state. There are other means to guarantee rights that don't inherently undermine themselves by directly infringing rights in the process.

The state is a protection racket. They claim to exist to defend you—mostly from other states, or other entities that do pretty much exactly what states do with without the false veneer of "legitimacy"—but in the end the only real threat to your life and property if you don't do as they demand comes from the state itself. Unfortunately they're a popular protection racket, with a large emphasis on PR and propaganda, so if you try to stand up for yourself your own neighbours will turn on you rather than joining you.
I lived in Central London right until last year. Definitely depends on stage of life, but it's not like London is unlivable for someone making 100k pa.

Also if I wanted to walk to and from work, now I'd rather get a hotel or ABNB and commute like that for a while. It seriously gets old.
It is true that in old men there is a large percentage of slow growing mostly harmless prostate cancers, but you can also get it if you are younger (or it can be aggressive) and then treatment is possible (and required). The advantage of doing a PSA test is however not clear cut, because having a (slightly) elevated PSA can be caused by a benign enlarged prostate or prostatitis. This is why this new test is worthwhile (if it really works).

Source: I'm 47 and have prostate cancer (metastasized, so incurable but there are still a number of treatment options to improve quality and quantity of life).
You made a great thing. It's so simple and effective.

I've read a handful of workout plans, considered hiring personal trainers, and sifted through YouTube videos without ever being able to establish a good workout routine. This is EXACTLY what I needed.

Thanks for creating this.
I think we all know which gatekeepers are going to land on the list and how happy they'll be to be on it. If this does more than just create a list and actually punishes gatekeepers for bad practices, I'll be impressed.
It's a novelty fun project, it serves no practical purpose. It's an encoding scheme similar to base64 or URL encoding, but one that does nothing useful.
It used to bother me too, and some usage still bothers the hell out of me, but there’s a way "exponentially large" works fine.

An exponential change is a change on a log scale. Instead of current+d it’s exp[current+d]. So exponential change makes sense. “Exponentially higher” means on a log scale it’s higher enough to be worth commenting on. It’s mathematically correctly synonymous with an order(s) of magnitude change.

Of course, that gets you into the debate over what exponent or log base to use. Is 2x an order of magnitude increase? 1.1x? 10x? It’s all fuzzy.

And then there are people who just use it as “hella” and that still drives me nuts. “It increased by 10% but that matters so much to me that 10% is exponentially larger!” That kind of usage seems to be catching on too as “exponentially” further enters the lexicon of people who don’t remember what an exponent is. I’ll fight that one forever.
> and used its dominant position to benevolently stop the game.

Why benevolently? Why not maliciously?
As far as I know, Signal is hosted on a mix of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Cloudflare. https://www.kuketz-blog.de/signal-jegliche-kommunikation-erf...

Threema is hosted on bare-metal servers in Switzerland. https://threema.ch/en/faq/server_location
Why data science failed to deliver on its promises
Understanding the UseRef React Hook
Very happy. Cracking course
One definition of "first" is "preceding all others" [0], so something with an index of 0 would still be the first item.

Apparently the definition of "zeroth" is "being numbered 0 in a series" [1], so something with an index of 0 could be both the "first" and the "zeroth" item...

However, another definition of "first" is "one that is number one in a series", so the headline of this post is both accurate and inaccurate, depending on which definition you want to use, I suppose.

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeroth
Process on a diet: anti-debug using job objects
wouldn't something along the lines of categorical imperative work here?

I.e. "if that speech became actions would you want those actions to be universally accepted [where you live]" or even just "applicable to everyone indiscriminately including you and your family"?

In that case "line up the firing squads" "Pence goes first" is a clear-cut scenario.

Parler absolutely endorsed and supported all that and how anyone can defend them at this point is frankly baffling. Unless all those people are ok taking Pence's place in front of the firing squads? Even if they are then it is not sustainable to have that as a universal law because at some point we will run out of people to make firing squads of (they will all be shot).
Maybe aliens will be interested in Earth for Astrogastronomy.
In fact it screams Bayesian survival analysis, since there is so much prior knowledge both of general hard drive failure rates and SMART stats.
An end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimises sensitive metadata
I think what really gets to me is that not only have the NIMBYs rigged the system in their favor (paying relatively no property tax, buying when housing was cheap, constraining as much new supply as possible).

They then are also condescending dicks about it.

At least recognize that you’re screwing new people. It’s ridiculous for them to do all of this and then act as if they’re the victims.
Standard tech swing easter egg: search google for sweden, zoom in on the pin/center of the "sweden" text
There is a specific term relevant to this, which is applicable to many problems of misaligned risk/incentive, governmental and otherwise: "Moral Hazard"
Fascism is when racism becomes state policy. Nearly always accompanied by a violent dictator.

The US narrowly avoided devolving into a permanent fascist state. Now people who at least support human rights and democracy are in power.
I'm not sure why you would need to re-do a full gamut of trials for anything except deciding that the current type of data collected was insufficient.

Presumably you record all data, and just split it into test and train sets, and you're off to the races.
Exactly. While I might disagree with his vendetta, if we're honest, all he is doing is exposing fraud.
Flame me away for such a controversial opinion, but I think in the US we have gotten shy or afraid of asserting the power of the state to police public behavior, and become a "please if you like" country. Maybe social media is making it hard for government to remind people that it has certain powers.

It's a dangerous trend if you ask me, that people are not periodically reminded that they do have obligations that the state can hold them to, and it is not just a voluntary, toothless government. Any action by government becomes a burden that you can choose to opt out of?

Maybe it takes a real crisis that people want the government to flex its muscle, and maybe this doesn't seem to some to rise to that level. I don't know why.

Mandate that everyone gets the vaccine, or has a civil penalty. Or is not allowed to participate in public life and infect others.

Government is not a "please if you can try" entity, in case people forgot.
You seem to be missing the point of what we call a "Linux distribution". Shared libraries are fantastic and everything in /usr/lib should be shared
They have. It's also hosted on the Bitcoin blockchain and it's forks and there are torrents of it of course.

Here's how to decode it from the blockchain: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35959/how-is-the...
And BLM & ANTIFA use Facebook and Twitter? We banning those?

It’s insane to say “because “terrorists” use Twitter, let’s shutdown Twitter” instead we remove them from the platform.

Parlor was working with the FBI and was kicking people off their platform breaking their terms.

It makes no sense what’s currently happening.
For what its worth, VICP is funded by an excise tax on each vaccine dose. Compensation is also "no fault", and no party is presumed liable.

In the specific case of the COVID-19 vaccines, they are explicitly NOT covered by VICP, but rather the CICP.

[Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) | Official web site of the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration](https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp)
Ask your manager if there is anyone on the team that you could use as a mentor -- someone to bounce ideas off of and talk to.

Ask your co-workers for Zoom "coffee break" meetings, just to chat and get their opinions on what they're working on, why they like to work there, etc. Don't be shy to ask for a follow-up meeting for those co-workers you hit it off with.

If you want to talk more, my email is in my profile. All the best!
I believe that this is just an arbitrary choice that doesn't collide with other keys and is fairly consistent with the other keybindings — cs for changing delimiters, ds for deleting delimiters, and ys for creating delimiters.
Because we're the most interesting people we've ever met. End of story.