skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Europe Automatic performance reviews are probbly not legal in EU according to GDPR section 22.

"The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing"

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/
And they're welcome to do so, as long as it's ecological it's not a problem. Geothermals (which the other poster is probably speaking about) are not an issue.
Good point! I also subscribe to Google One; does that in any kind of fashion lower the chances of being hit by an auto ban?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's accidentally incurred a $1K+ charge on a personal AWS account because of confusing pricing docs. This is awesome - looking forward to using this ASAP
> Whereas the claim for bitcoin is that it will soar in value. Why?

Not so much that it'll soar - but should retain it's value because of the cap and decayed mining

Further from that Buffett on his gold criticism - there is no hypothetical "bitcoin asteroid" that could hit earth and tank the value, or a new discovery

You don't have to be all-in on bitcoin, it's a hedge and a better version of the role metals play(ed). Personally my own preference is bitcoin sits somewhere between stocks and cash - that's exactly what Tesla are doing with their own cash management
Yes. The output of buildpacks is an OCI image (Docker image) that works with the container runtime(s) in Kubernetes
Except the only reason he wants to have a meta-argument is because otherwise the main argument has no credibility. The only reason it exists is because the ET argument is weak. He has to discuss the peer-review process and call it unfair, because otherwise he'd have the problem that the most qualified people to analyze his arguments are all saying the same thing: that it's unconvincing.
From the Wikipedia page

> In June 2005, the Chief Coroner of Ontario ordered a review of 44 autopsies carried out by Smith. Thirteen of these cases had resulted in criminal charges and convictions. The report was released in April 2007, indicating that there were substantial problems with 20 of the autopsies.

That sounds more like 45% to me.

Also this bit from the article about a baby that allegedly had a skull fracture:

> Later exhumation of the child and examination of the skull have shown that there was no skull fracture. It is thought Dr. Smith confused the normal gap between the baby's skull plates for an injury.

Holy shit that is bad. Even as a lay person I know about these gaps.
I agree. What's also absurd is that Tesla raised $5B and now is parking 30% of that in Bitcoin, which we all know has a unique history of volatility. This is not going to end well.
I have used sketch, figma and InDesign over the past handful of years, and for the companies I have used these products at, figma has won hands down.

The ease with which stakeholders, designers and developers alike can work together, either by desktop app or web, is great. Not perfect, but great.
Thanks! Yeah we're big proponents of IaC.
The only earthy valuables I own are some potted plants, and some mushrooms in the refrigerator.

Will that do? I also have some whole wheat bread that my kids say taste like dirt.
> Reading the shebang of a stamp file is a lot easier than scanning a bash file for any sneaky obfuscations

This.

However, the feedback in this thread is right.

Looking back over the past few years, I almost never used stamps as executables.

Generally I always use it as a library, or via something like `unstamp someStampToExpand.stamp`. So the shebangs and executability of stamp
files were stupid, and added a lot of complexity for almost no gain.

I've just gone ahead and removed them.

I think now it should be a little clearer how easy it is to write stamp
functions in other langs.
Chinese miners are mining Bitcoin also with laptops racks
I have worked extensively with both Sketch and Figma. And although I find Sketch to have a superior design experience, Figma works better in the context of teams. It's usually also cheaper than the Sketch stack.

Figma offers design, prototyping, developer handover, team collaboration, a.o. capabilities. The basic service is free and the paid tier is fairly priced. All said capabilities are also integrated so you don't have to use plugins or switch between apps. When working with Sketch, I use Sketch for design, Marvel/InVision/Framer for prototyping, InVision/Zeplin for developer handover, and InVision Freehand/Miro for collaboration. This means dealing with multiple licenses, plugins, and copy-pasting assets.

I also worked with a mid-sized company that was paying around EUR 20,000 just for their InVision license (developer inspect is expensive). With Figma you get most of these services (good enough) for a single price.

So money certainly plays a role but Figma's success goes beyond just the pricing model.
Close; I don't literally want to have the same subscriptions. That would be like saying the only way I can see your Reddit feed is to literally subscribe to all the same subreddits. I just want to see a feed as someone else, without losing my own. It's technically possible today, but nobody has implemented it yet as a first-class feature.
A lot of this is probably mostly BS-y stuff like personality tests and so forth. But if there's a stack of 100 resumes applying for some job, there's going to be a lot of arbitrariness in any heuristics used to cull pile down to a reasonable size even once "obviously" unqualified candidates are filtered out (and even that filtering can be a bit arbitrary).
Not an expert, but as an anecdote: every company that I have worked for have had their stated purpose as "Doing X and Y, and also investing in stocks/bonds/whatever".
There is so much junk science going on in forensics that it would be great to require everything to be open sourced. Same for voting machines and anything police in general is using (predictive policing is pretty scary). There is way too much stuff hidden and can be challenged only if you have very deep pockets.
I am embarrassed by the industry.

How many of our generation's best and brightest minds are doing crypto and day trading?

Imagine if these minds were focused on societal problems -- energy, health, food.

I know multiple Harvard CS graduates who went right into the crypto space.

What a waste.
You ask a really good question, and it seems there is a deficit there, at least in my current knowledge

What comes closest is some studies on extreme forms of Buddhist meditation. One of the interesting discoveries is that during normal meditation, the parasympathetic system (homeostasis, breathing, etc.) is very dominant, but during the peak enlighentment experiences of the advanced meditators, the sympathetic system (fight-or-flight) system associated with athletic performance also runs at very high levels. Normally, the sympathetic & parasympathetic systems are in opposition, when the sympathetic system is active, parasympathetic is suppressed, and vice-versa. The other situation where both systems activate is during sex (arousal needs paracympathetic, orgasm sympathetic). The interesting connection I made is that I'd noticed these intense flow states sometimes occurring in the most intense times, where everything in my mind was absolute calm - I called it "fast meditation", as in meditating at 85mph. I know others also experience this. I conjecture that this is some of the same phenomenon seen in advanced meditation, just form the opposite end (here, maxing out the sympathetic system and the parasympathetic maybe kicks in, but I have no measurements other than my mental state).

There's also some research on the "flow state" related to accelerated perception, where people feel that they can see insane levels of detail and time slows down, as in accidents. They were trying to recreate it to understand it, and I found the efforts entirely lame and a waste of time. I can tell all kinds of stories about seeing very clearly both important and trivial things at high speed, and having entire trains of thought which I can verify happened in fractions of a second by noting the beginning and end points of the chain of thought and calculating in the distance and speed. These studies catch none of it, and I can say that even with years of training and effort, it is still extremely elusive (which is why I can't really fault the researchers, I don't yet have any great ideas on how to capture it).

I wish I could point you to specific references, but these were all readings from a while back.

BTW, ML and sports training seems like a potentially very fruitful area! I'd love to hear more about it. I found that much of the most interesting areas are at the intersections of different fields, so I wish you good luck in your pursuit!
The only people who recommend self-hosting email are ones that haven't tried it.

We have an admin who spends a good 40% of his workweek doing just our email servers. They are a massive PITA.
Your company generally pays you to deliver results and not sit in meetings. Even if you can provide useful insight in the meeting or may be necessary for the meeting - if there is no one available to pick up the result then there is no value in the meeting.

As you increase seniority, identifying the right balance will become more difficult. However unless you plan on switching to manager it's absolutely critical to take time out for hands on time.
Show HN: GPT-2 Twitter Bot
The Genocide of the White man is a myth in South Africa. Attacks are being blow out of proportion by right wing nationalist with a racist agenda.
How does this compare to the FOSS aws cost estimator for TF that's already available?

https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-cost-estimation
Why should one want to pay taxes on debt that was a result of stupidity?
Not really liquid and can't be moved with you around the world in the pocket?
I would be open to a PR adding a link to a good diff/patch way of doing this.
I used @minimaxir's aitextgen library to create a Twitter bot powered by GPT-2.

This bot takes Joe Biden's tweets as input and tries to respond in the first-person voice of Donald Trump. I didn't have any success with fine-tuning on a dataset of Trump's tweets, so I "included" all the information in the prompt to GPT-2 via [magic sauce](https://github.com/charlesjlee/trump_gpt2_bot/blob/main/twee...). It took a lot of fiddling, but I'm satisfied with the final output.

Links

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=minimaxir

https://github.com/minimaxir/aitextgen

https://github.com/charlesjlee/trump_gpt2_bot
I think this is exactly why people should use Buildpacks over Dockerfiles. I've seen so many Dockerfiles that are wrong, or even introduce security problems.
Yes it has, anyone in the world can open their own "current account"/"deposit account" for free, right now. Barring hacking you, no government or authority can access it without your consent. None can prevent you from receiving money in it from someone else, or from transferring money out of it to someone else.
Sorry, I didn't mean literally RSS with Reddit, I meant it as an analogy. Reddit lets me "peek" at r/Conservative, but I can't "peek" at your set of RSS feeds.
It’s not a religious belief being expressed that’s at issue. People don’t want to hear specifics about your beliefs any more than they want to hear about your sex life, personal fetishes, or bowl movements.
For a few ten year old card models. Everything before and after supports whatever the HW can. Maybe it's time you let go of this grudge.
> I expect that come late summer we'll all be getting another booster of some sort against whatever mix of variants is around.

A booster? I don't think I will be able to get my first dose by then...
My list to improve the play store process that requires $0 additional dollars from google and would fix 99% of issues:
1) give developers a period to respond to the complaint before takedown (maybe 1 week)
2) if they respond, make a decision within 1 week.
3) show all this information in a portal to see basic information like your app is facing a review, pending google response, etc. Really basic stuff.
4) allowing you to attach information in responses (one situation I have been in, the trademark office had ruled in my favor but I literally didn't have a way to provide that ruling in the appeal).
5) having a premium developer support program that provides good support. I think most serious devs would prefer to pay $300/yr to have good support vs what they have now (zero support).
You could use that same argument for anything you can buy with dollars, including the metal used to mint them.
I don't think those with neutral perspectives have much incentive to comment.
> At the city level, [Miami mayor] Suarez’s ambitions are equally ambitious. He’s “looking at” ways to pay municipal employees a percentage of their salary in bitcoin and allow residents to use bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for “payments and fees,” including taxes.

https://www.coindesk.com/miami-mayor-previews-favorable-cryp...
> E.g. if a spammer can pretend they're 10 million different people, and each of those "people" requests an explanation, the whole system grinds to a halt.

Again, it's not a "request".

If spam detection and account suspension can be automated, then suspension notifications can also be automated.

I'm not sure I understand where the 10 million number is coming from. Are you suggesting that 1 spammer can create 10 million accounts on your system (which appears to be Facebook)?

Regardless, no spammer has the time to get on the phone and personally dispute 10 million account suspensions — disputes which are unlikely to succeed if there is good evidence — so I'm not sure how the system grinds to a halt.
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That is the usual argument, but I don't see how it stands up to scrutiny.

Either there are alternative ways to track a user of an Apple device without IDFA or there are not. If there are, then it is reasonable to assume that unethical advertisers will return to using them if their access to IDFA is gated.

So, whether or not IDFA exists, the only robust way to protect users is to block apps from having access to anything about the host device that implicitly provides a unique method of identifying the user.

This is what other platforms have been trying to achieve. For example, in the web browser ecosystem, software has been restricting programmatic access to features that can be used for fingerprinting or deliberately reducing the level of detail exposed by some APIs.

With control of the entire ecosystem, why is Apple not better placed to adopt this strategy than anyone else, and whether or not Apple is technically capable of achieving the perfect result, how does introducing IDFA make any difference?
There are companies, such as Chainalysis that specialize in analyzing the graph created by mixers/tumblers. If you want a coin that truly cannot have it's origins traced, use Monero, since it's a completely different structure with a public/private "view" key. It's actually a very interesting system.
Have you looked at the research in this area or are you just winging it?
> Just think about the army of "Facebook content moderators" who were a popular topic on HN recently due to the concerns over their mental health.

Hire them directly instead of via labor farms, pay them an actual living wage, give them full health benefits, and hire enough of them to prevent overload.
How to Pass a Software Engineering Interview
3 completely different points:

1. Ignore the downvotes. The reality (poor customer service perception) is what it is. Objectively looking at the problem and what can be done about it, without cynically assuming it's impossible, is the most practical focus going forward. Thanks very much for this insight, it was really interesting to read.

2. I've noticed various glitches and bugs over the years with various services - two I can remember right now are a) misspelling a search then clicking "did you mean" won't update the titlebar (been watching this one since ~2012), and b) accidentally sending an in-progress draft from one device will cause followup edits made on another device to sent to /dev/null. Well... I look at the kind of time-wasting junk input that makes it into Issue Tracker, I look at random app feedback, etc, and I know my feedback is never going to be seen. I can understand why things need to impact 10K people to be noticed. I thought I'd ask you: what's a good recommendation here?

3. Extremely specific question that I happen to be worrying about at the moment :) - I wasn't sure which Google account I wanted to use to play with GCP some months ago so I ended up enabling billing on more than one account using the same card. I have an idea I'd like to play which would call for a new account (since it would be tied to a YouTube channel) and would require me to use the same card yet again. All of this would be staying within the free tier, but I still wonder if I shouldn't run data takeouts first...? (I can't deny that the current state of Google services feels a bit like Russian roulette with extra servings of superstition - what doesn't kill your account, makes it stronger, or something??)
Unfortunately, the project seems abandoned.
Btc is predominantly powered by renewables like hydropower in non-urban areas, or uses otherwise wasted sources of energy.

Yes, there is carbon power use.

Compare the coin to current fiat system energy use, not stand-alone.

Btc is more energy efficient than fiat. Few understand this overall, and judging by the comments, few understand on this site.
How can you "validate" it? Are companies making all their staff take these tests and then measuring performance? But the people in your company isn't RCT. Are companies basing this on research that is done on random people? Okay, but skills required on most jobs aren't correlated to some "general" intelligence. How do you deal with the fact that IQ appears to be correlated to income? How you deal with the fact that IQ doesn't correlate to success? Seriously, I don't understand how this makes sense to anyone who has studied stats at all (this is taught to 16 year olds where I am).

This stuff is totally out of this world crazy. I am reasonably intelligent, I did an IQ test when I was 12 and it was 130...I am extremely bad at relatively basic elements of life and work. I am good at other things but there is no way this can all be measured or, even, quantified. What is more: the main thing determining my ability is still experience, and my skills change significantly over the course of a few years. This isn't how statistics or science is really supposed to work. Slightly obviously, and contrary to what people think, this entrenches inequality.

I understand why companies do this:

* Hiring is hard. It is hard to get people who are actually good at hiring, there are no courses for this at university, there are no real rules outside of experience. Ironically, companies get over this by doubling down on their weaknesses.

* Underemployment is massive. It used to be hard to apply for a job, everyone just shotguns apps out now, and no-one has a job they want. Employers can do whatever: I am in the UK, even for menial tasks like working in the supermarket, they are doing weird, totally unscientific tests.

* Everyone is terrified of hiring. Employment lawyers get richer, laws get more complex, and the risk of being villified in the press for an interview gone bad are massive. Ironically, these totally "objective" processes just solidify inequality. They are designed with context, there is no totally abstract notion of intelligence that is relevant to the work place, they are designed to produce stratification in intelligence that likely does not translate to any real-world scenario. These approaches cause the thing they are trying to prevent because the thing has become so terrifying for companies.

Just my 2c, but this stuff is, imo, one of the worst modern corporate behaviour. Whether you think it is right or wrong morally, the outcomes are not good...the solution to bad hiring processes isn't psuedoscience. It is: hiring people who can do their job (again, these are linked, I have noticed that some companies are in the death sprial...they have bad processes that hire bad people, when a company does it well they just exist totally outwith this cycle).
A size 1000m x 150m seems pretty small for something that would have taken tens of thousands of years to get to our system.
What about when people DON'T want to live in a jurisdiction?

So far even attempts are seastading failed due to traditional countries destroying them militarily (one italian attempt for example was just bombed until nothing remained, and an attempt the pacific resulted in nearby countries landing troops on the built islands and kicking people out)
Compile it, run it with the same inputs the prosecution claims was provided, and see if you get the same result. That's sorta the point of computers, right? Same inputs on the same program, same output?
Instead of thinking about what bitcoin&co. save for a single average person (not that much in comparison to e.g. gold), think at bigger scale:

It forces states to be even more mindful about what they do with their currency.

Because, states have a lot of ways to prevent people from starting to avoid their currency. In particular they can increase tax on everything, such as real estate, income, or just wealth in general. However, taxing bitcoin (or even monero) is so much more difficult, that it can act as a sort of regulator - similar to gold, but even better in this point.
"The highest reach of injustice is being deemed just when in fact you are not" - Plato
LMMS is a store-front; Ardour is a giant warehouse.
You and I are evidence. We are part of an advanced (or at least, spacefaring) technological civilization, and we are alien to everything else in the universe. Therefore, we know other alien civilizations are possible. One is much greater than zero in this case.
Two reasons:

* they come across as effective if they "solve" the case i.e. they find someone guilty

* it's practically impossible to challenge their findings because they hide their bs behind "experts" and "science" and other terms used by bs vendors
Descriptive statistics for data-driven decision making with Python
I deleted my Facebook on July 30, 2019. They just rubbed me the wrong way all the time.

I was afraid that disappearing from FB will negatively impact visits to my blog and revenue from selling my books via e-shop, but it actually slowly increased.

I have a nagging suspicion that paying for FB ads was worthless.
> businesses start hoarding crypto tokens instead of investing in building stuff

Share buybacks. Tech businesses are buying their own shares to pump the stock price (and their options' value) rather than investing in building stuff.
and you can build useful things using cryptocurrency via smart contracts.
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During a bull market the bulls say the bears are stupid. During a bear market the bears call the bulls stupid.
I've read once of a company who fired everyone who had below average performance score.
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Even with the advent of internet technology, nothing compares to the feeling of actually being at one of these parties. I suspect as soon as the laws become a bit more lax, there will be a HUGE resurgence, especially by the youth (like myself) who are sick of being stuck indoors
Je n'ai pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.