skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, I found thematic newsletters like Import AI or the Johns Hopkins University Covid newsletter very useful lately and have been looking out for more of them.

I want to stay up to date with what is happening in ML (and in the world) but don’t want to burn time manually opening up RSS readers, RedditML or news websites every day, given all their abusive time-stealing distractions and soul-crushingly dumb comments. I strongly prefer a weekly or daily carefully curated summary automatically delivered to my inbox. Hopefully these curated e-mail newsletters will become a thing again.
> People framing it as 'unethical' should lay out exactly what their ethical framework is

I didn't because I thought it clear and obvious from context. We're talking about medical ethics, which is a well developed field of research and practice. There are established procedures in the US and UK to get ethics approval for studies and those panels are not just making it up as they go along (mostly).

I suppose when I say 'it is unethical' what I really mean is 'the medical community in the developed world has come to a strong consensus that it is unethical'. Even with informed consent.
This is all FUD. Miners largely use renewable power that is excess, not expensive dirty power plants.

Here's a good breakdown of the counter argument:
https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1360343382556483587
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26168853
I also predominantly use python and JavaScript professionally, but have written a lot of Haskell, and a bit of go, rust and others.

I love haskell and GHC but it's not a builder's language. That's not to say it can't be used in production, the language is very powerful, easy to refactor, performs well and is hard to make mistakes in. Some of the tooling like QuickCheck, STM and lenses are decades beyond other ecosystems whereas simple things like logging are hard and debuggers/autoformatters/IDE tooling are less polished than their counterparts in mainstream language. I have both Haskell and Django web applications in production and it pains me to say that python is a lot more convenient and easier to iterate on.

Finally, in answer to your question I would recommend rust. It is a rising star with a decent type-system derived from ML languages. I would also characterise the language and it's ecosystem as being focused on building production software. As an added bonus it integrates well with python and JavaScript applications, and is a useful tool to have for optimising expensive algorithms.
The author is evaluating other games and determining that they don't live up to his standards. One possibility is that the author is the best at what he does, as he believes. Another is that the author is not competent to judge the complexity of these other games. A chess grandmaster may view the board and know the inevitability of mate in three, while a normal human might see the same board as favoring the eventual loser, based on some simplistic understanding of piece strength. Whole thing seems a bit Dunning-Kruger-ish.

Crawford comes across to me as an eccentric artist, not a game designer, and with the accompanying ego. This has helped the industry, such as when creating (C)GDC. But, like many artists, he has strong opinions on what qualifies. I personally don't enjoy games that are "games as art", but I respect their place. Crawford doesn't seem to view "games as games" with such respect.
Yes, obesity is a risk factor when catching COVID.

Or, if you meant to question the truthfulness of their claims (without offense, is that possible?)... A quick internet search shows that the heaviest person recorded was 50% heavier.

So, yes, the weight described is certainly possible.
Uber is just a different rent seeker, though. Over time the situation will likely just keep getting worse until it is as bad as the system it is replacing (many things about the ride-sharing ecosystem are already not great...)

While it's always nice to see a broken rent-seeking system in our world become eroded we should not laude the transfer to another fiat regency.
Yes, the condition of being named facetime is not met. That's the point of ALTERNATIVES.
That's what caring about the users or the product at the expense of ladder climbing is.
In my mind the company provides food as a perk in part so people hang around and chat without leaving the office, it also makes it more pleasant to work there.

It’s not to feed you in your own home.
I don’t think I’ve seen it ACTUALLY be anything but B in the real world, but theoretically, to answer your question -

1) that’s interesting! What do you consider the hardest people management issue you’ve run across?
2) what is the people management problem you think most people overrate in difficulty?

It usually will surface if they, for instance, consider people management easy because they have zero emotional affect and hence never bear any emotional load, or if they’ve been bless by ignorance and don’t see the work their peer and senior managers are doing to avoid them setting everything on fire, or never consider coaching or growth of someone to be a problem - because they never do it.
So forthnoworksanymore. Lol.
Calling what HNDigest does user hostile is pretty far-fetched, but if you have an alternative idea that wouldn't make the experience worse for most of the subscribers I'm all ears.
Or also you never have to work for a manager who openly respects others more because of their race or gender. A wide variety of things apply this way. A sane amount of political correctness allows the meritocracy I want in a workplace.
>Also very common to have multiple people conclude very different things from a photo.

But that's true for text, too. The US just had a very major politicized event where two sides had two wildly different conclusions over what one man's words meant. And there's a grand legal tradition of taking one specific document and interpreting what its words mean and applying it to a plethora of situations. There's plenty of people that come to wildly different conclusions over what certain amendments do or do not mean.

Hell, look at literary analysis! You can give people a book like 1984, and some people will say in all confidence that it is explicitly anti-socialism, when the author said the literal opposite. And that's something with a supposedly clear ideological message, to say nothing of works with less concrete themes.
MSFT is still known for good WLB. Just check places like Blind to get an idea of the corporate culture of a company. There are certainly hard teams/jobs at MSFT but it seems on average that the WLB at MSFT is super good.
He was complaining about his inability to schedule meetings because of the 11:00am spot. Even in the most flexible of environments, lunch is usually off-limits, 1:00pm is tricky because people can be late due to lunch and this 11:00am yoga essentially means a nearly 3 hour block with difficult scheduling constraints. I don't agree with a lot he has to say but this one kind of makes sense. Routing un-availbility at 9:00am, 11:00am and 3:00pm are, well in my opinion at least slightly uncool (one off's are fine ofcourse).
> This is how life is as a PC gamer and it's.... actually good. Who cares if you need to open multiple stores?

I do. I hate it with passion. Launchers have to be updated, games have to be updated; they all have different UX, work better or worse than the other. Let me have just Steam and regulate Valve so that they don't abuse their position, and I'll be fine thank you.
Was literally about to type this out. The issue of prioritizing promos over product value doesn't exist when delivering product value is what gets you promoted. If that's not the case, it's the fault of management and not the employee.
Dutch municipalities to set-up zero-emission zones by 2025
> To answer your question, no. I'm saying that it's the same technical domain.

And I am saying that these things are radically different, and thus the only way you could classify them as the same technical domain is if you are ignorant of those differences, or define domain so broadly that everything affected by physics is the same domain. You specifically refer to engineers remaining in a narrow domain and specifically gave an example of bridges and transmission lines as distinct domains, and it would be oxymoronic to talk about a narrow broad domain. You not only admitted that you have no idea what you're talking about, you used the fact that you were ignorant as evidence in support of your claim.

Going back to the example, both things employ statics. Statics is the most basic tool of engineering - it is the analysis of forces on something which isn't accelerating. There is no way to completely avoid statics for anything that physically exists. Statics is to engineering as wood is to carpenters. It is equally absurd to say that two engineering tasks are in the same domain because they both use statics as it is that two carpentry tasks are in the same domain because they both involve wood. The engineers designing bridges and transmission lines both employ statics, as do those designing kidney dialysis filters and rocket engine combustion chambers and acoustic panels and laser cutters, all six of which could very well be done by the same engineer (I've personally been employed to do five of the above so far in my career).

Your original claim, which I argued against, was:

> The engineer generally stays with a set of fundamental domain principles their entire career (e.g. sticks with bridges as opposed to transmission lines) while programmers tend to stay at the top layers while the technologies below the surface change radically.

Your argument had nothing to do with the difference between principles rooted in physics vs mathematics. You were saying that programmers use high level, general abstractions while engineers make more limited use of abstractions and remain highly specialized. I am saying that engineers work on a wide variety of problems over their careers, involving radically different physical principles, and that they abstract away many of the details of these various narrow domains so that they can work on the top level.
LibreTime – an open source radio automation and broadcasting solution
AFAIK some athletes may in fact be (somewhat) overweight according to BMI yet still are unlikely to suffer from health problems related to weight gain. An example would be ice hockey players, a large proportion of whom probably have a BMI in the overweight range but who are very fit. A relatively large proportion of their extra mass is muscle compared to non-athletes.

This is probably the minority of athletes, though, so it might be a fringe case rather than something that should be taught as a norm. I also don't know how that relates to COVID.
Have you been to Switzerland? If you had, you would understand that exactly what I said would happen has happened has happened there.

No society wouldn't collapse with a minimum wage, that is not my argument. Logic would dictate that if everyone in a town was making $15 an hour then prices would naturally increase. How can you not see this?
We Can’t Rule Out Bigfoot
I'd love to see this with CJK characters.
I haven't submitted one personally, but from knowing someone who has (and has received them) and reading Private Eye (satirical & investigative magazine here) I gather a more common/easily usable excuse this side of the pond is 'commercial sensitivity'.
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

I've heard plenty of him due to close relatives refusing to turn him off in my presence. They called it "education".

The most specific thing I remember was somewhat subtle, and incredibly insidious: Almost always, he would refer to Barack Obama using first and last name. However during one show where Muslims were in context (probably terrorism, but I don't remember specifically), he consistently used "Barack Hussein Obama". I don't remember him actually calling Obama Muslim directly in that episode, but he clearly wanted to both paint being Muslim in general as evil, and associate the (then current) president with Muslims.

This is a man who not only spread hate, but did so intentionally and effectively.
There already is a black market in for Bitcoin in the United States, that's basically all Bitcoin is used for these days aside from speculation. The fact that it would become a black market for Bitcoin itself doesn't change much. Almost all Bitcoin purchases these days are done through exchanges and held on exchanges, managing Bitcoin wallets is enough of a technical challenge that it will never be in any way widespread without the support of exchanges.
Is Miami the Next Silicon Valley?
I think the U.S. basically won by the Soviets' "forfeiting". If USSR landed on the moon second but soon after, say, landed a man on Mars, and the U.S. unable to accomplish the feat, we would say the Soviets won.
> You will be forced to use so many different app stores and won't have a choice to NOT use their app store "IF" it progresses like it has on the desktop.

You're only forced to use stuff when you're in the small minority that cares about not using stuff. Moxie Marlinspike explained it perfectly in his DEF CON 18 keynote.

Thing is, I don't think there's any conclusive proof that the majority of customer would be okay with what you're describing.

Most of us on PC are getting along just fine with one or two game launchers. I'm using GOG and Steam. My kid uses Steam and Epic.

When Funcom tried adding their own launcher for Conan Exiles, the vast majority of players berated them so hard on their forums that they removed it.
From my point of view, the things I've most "noticed" coming from MS that are great seem to all have been launched/started during Ballmer's days (2000-2014). For me those are:

Office/Word Online (2010)

Azure (2008/2010)

WSL (Can't find info. Looks like it started before 2014 under Project Astoria)

.Net Core (Happened in 2014 - not sure who "started it")
Anyone interested in this region might enjoy reading The Snow Leopard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Leopard

I'm currently about halfway through and it chronicles a trek through the Nepalese mountains very close to here, in search of the blue sheep. An interesting, introspective story.
Introducing Amazon Build It - Weigh in on which devices we build next
I'm curious what people think of these calculators. I wonder if people are surprised by the numbers, given that news headlines don't quantify the risk in detail. Also people may think differently about the same numbers.

I made my own covid mortality calculations last April, and was not scared off by my estimated odds, 1 in 350 per year. Using the linked UK calculator my odds were far better than I had estimated, about 1 in 16,000 per 90 days.

The activity calculator was interesting, also. I had heard that mask-to-mask interactions were based on an hour of nearness while indoors. I thought it to be an overreaction when people would wear masks outside and cross the street to avoid passing on the sidewalk.

So I looked up 10 people with no masks in a room, and it was a 1 in 200 chance per hour of catching covid given the odds of someone from my area being there who had it. Once again the risk was not as high I as thought it would be.

I'm curious what others think of the numbers from these calculators, especially those who find them alarming or surprising.
could also be a niche market product created a decade ago that some other large company depends on. money keeps rolling in with little effort. source: personal experience. the company is no longer in operation but it lasted for a god 30 years.
That was my original thought this morning, such a blatant press release. A "ready to go" article to the journalist to do the work for the day and get on with something else, common practice.

However note the intro

"according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC's request."
While we're at it, why does there need to be 18 brands of deodorant? I think regulations should be in place so there's only one brand!
It really is an incredible country. I was there in 2007/2008 and it was really politically in chaos. I think a lot of going back once the pandemic is over.
Informed consent is by far the most important thing missing in the Tuskegee study, but it is not the only thing.

To give one example of the complexity of medical ethics: occasionally when running clinical trials, the results are so GOOD that it becomes unethical to not stop the trial and give the drug to the control group.
Study shows majority of AWS root accounts improperly secured or frequently used
Yep. You looked at the revenues and it was Windows and Office which were clearly not continuing growth areas. Azure was floundering and only targeting .Net. Xbox wasn't doing great. They were flaming out on mobile. They had most of the pieces. They just weren't arranged and prioritized properly.
In the US, it is generally expected that incoming students have no exposure to calculus.

Of course, many students do study calculus in high school and can sometimes skip these courses in university, but the curriculum assumes they haven't.
Appropriately Calibrated Opinions, Loosely Held
Beautifully spoken. I think I'm still in the being too safe camp from just getting out of university and into a for life corporate job. I like your attitude towards 'no'. Some risks are necessary but the worst outcome being 'no' like you said is really not a bad outcome. Hey, it could even be a good outcome since it lets you start focusing effort somewhere else earlier.

Any chance I could contact you as a newer grad from a similar background?
Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light
Patrick Wardle has discovered the first Apple M1 malware in the wild
That’s a good point, but I feel like modern Mac desktop computing hits the right balance: users can opt to install only from the App store with a high degree of confidence, but power-users can use Homebrew without restriction.
Certainly.

But that is not how it currently works.
SO a QA process that tests for more than 5 seconds will find that.
S3 and DynamoDB would be the two I’d mention first (since know it or not, folks are relying on them anyway), then things like Fargate, QLDB, and PrivateLink.

Agree on the simplicity point, though the key is not just simplicity for coding, or for communicating about the architecture, but emphasizing simplicity of operation and honesty at the skills, abilities, and criticality of operating and resolving things under stress.

Several years as AWS CAB member show this topic is hotly debated. I think there’s this “third way”, to purposefully exploit the different DNA of the top CSPs.

I choose that word “exploit” to appeal to the board room, to feel they get more than they have to pay for (which I think is true, thanks to CSPs’ focused spend). A more friendly way of putting it from CSP point of view is “leverage what we’re best at”. Rare case of genuine win-win.
Just because a group focuses on a topic does not mean that they possess any genuine expertise. Nobody rational would claim that we should listen to astrologers about fortune telling. A more prosaic example is that virtually zero mutual fund managers outperform the market. Pundits are not any better at forecasting political events than the average person.

Experience alone is not enough. You must demonstrate evidence of actual expertise. Ethicists behave no more ethically than the average person[1], which strongly suggests that the entire field is worthless.

A rational person should ignore the established field of bioethics. Maybe even take the opposite of their advice.

[1]https://qz.com/1582149/ethicists-are-no-more-ethical-than-th...
I keep a close eye on snow forecasts for the Cascade mountains in Washington state as a skier and local to me near Seattle in the winter. I don't rely solely on consumer weather apps for detailed forecasts a few days out. But I have a few sources I find are very accurate.

Weather.gov is the best forecast in my experience.

And a local resource, who relies on forecasting data, is cliffmass.blogspot.com. He is a UW professor who breaks down the available models and offers a forecast of his own when there is the potential for lowland snowfall.

Both of these sources nailed the significant snow event we just had in western Washington.

Perhaps there is still just a disconnect between the simple, automated consumer forecasts and the actual prediction models that are available.
> the games that voluntarily choose to be on other apps stores.

It wouldn’t be voluntary. They would be forced to support the other stores or lose revenue.

Claiming it’s just a matter of choice for developers is simply not correct.

The extra options would also come at a cost for consumers who would need to deal with multiple stores, many of them with undesirable features such as weaker privacy
protections.
People can be genuinely toxic though.

Personally I've met and worked with lots of people that were in many ways friendly and genuine but had some weakness or quirk that induced them to mistreat their coworkers.
Yea, I have during the winter months a "when arriving home after sundown turn the lamp on" automation as well. During summer months I turn that one off.

I've generally really enjoyed basic smart home stuff. I have a handful of smart wall switches that work well, and for the lamp a wall-wart that I use. One of these days I'll just retrofit some actual lighting in the living room and can skip the lamp situation but until then... this is a nice workaround.
In both cases, I as the user, have no choice:

1. Apple wins = I have no choice but to use the app store.

2. Epic wins = I have no choice but to install multiple different app stores to run many different apps.
Found through this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=OT3VNn5VFCM

Favorite nugget: who knew that the King James Version contains dozens of uses of the word "suburb"?
Maybe you'd be interested in joining the dozens of other Windows 10 S users.
Apple provides a hardware thing, users pay for the objects,
Developers should pay for the IDEs or compilers if they want to use Apple tools and the user should have the freedom to decide what to put on his piece of hardware,

But sure, if I put my app on the store I should pay for hosting it, for the updates and reviews, I should pay if I want it to be promoted on the store but I should not be forced to say pay Apple a tax for shit like soem subscriptions or books I sell from my app, I should pay Apple for the store services they offer.

Also Sony and Microsoft should not be immune either IMO
Sense's core mission has always been to reduce global energy consumption. https://sense.com/ It is attempting to achieve this by allowing homeowners to understand and reduce their own energy usage. Disclaimer: I used to make the hardware at Sense.
Worth noting that "political correctness" is a phrase created to lampoon/insult the irrational political groupthink of Communism, and was later converted into an indictment of progressive liberal values.

Saying "some political correctness okay" is equivalent to saying either "some irrational groupthink is okay", or "some cultural marxism is okay". What's worse than this general confusion, is then implying that it's the same thing as caring about human rights or the right not to be discriminated against. Thus it makes caring about human rights something to be ridiculed. But only when you defend the use of the term.

The term "political correctness" is only an insult. Defending it at all is like defending some insult you're given on a playground.

"You're a poop head!"
"Yeah, well... I *want* to be a poop head!"

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/historical-origin-p...
Individuals are allowed to risk their own lives. Organisations can and should be made to jump through many hoops before risking the loves of members of the public (however well informed). This is a good thing and why medics research ethics approval is needed before any clinical trial.