skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of the comments are concluding from the title that open source maintainers should be working on the projects during office hours.

That is not what the article is suggesting.

From the article -

>> anyone can book a 25 minute conversation with me on a Friday to talk about the project. I’m interested in talking to people who are using Datasette, or who are considering using it, or who just want to have a chat.

>>A challenge of open source is that it’s easy to be starved of feedback. People might file bug reports if something breaks, but other than that it can feel like publishing software into a void.

>> Hearing directly from people who are using your stuff is incredibly motivational. It’s also an amazing source of ideas and feedback on where the project should go next.

I think that's really a fantastic suggestion.
Dr Suess was undeniably a racist, but i think at this stage people are looking to find stuff that may be offensive to someone, somewhere and then ban it. What next? Mr Potato Head has gone gender neutral. i think we are overestimating children.I doubt the next Suess free generation will be less racist as a result. What they will have is no appreciation of one of the most talented childrens writers ever. The only author who has managed to make poetry interesting to children, who can spark their imagination with genuine wit. For what reason? Roald Dahl was genuinely anti-semitic. I still enjoy his books, but they don't come close to the Doctor. The purge of childrens toys seem to be that they are poisoned with outdated and racist notions and they are poisoning the minds of children who grow up as racist. But its absurd, intentional conditioning of childrens minds by a social convention is acceptable. How can this possibly be the reality. Only totalitarian regimes put such effort into brainwashing children. I'm not doing justice to the issue. If someone can word my points better, i shall be grateful.
its basic supply and demand. the wealthy encourage mass immigration because it makes the cost of labour cheaper in the economies they run businesses in.

see: h1b visas and ultra pro immigration silicon valley companies
>To riff on this I think this weird expectation of projects to "grow" is a side effect of the increasing corporate influence on F/OSS.

Or it's because in the end people like being popular and always have. Social standing, social cred and all that. I mean, look at all the people who obsess about their instagram or twitter follower counts. Being a FOSS developer doesn't remove all the usual human drives and desires that most people have.
Burning books, the next evolution of our enlightened approach to the past.

Because racial justice will be solved by policing language and imagery, even in the past, and not via economic means, class power dynamics being examined, analyzing the political system, or anything else a postmodernist approach embraced by corporate America would find uncomfortable.
It seems like the bulk of OSS developers I know do not get paid, but are obsessed with a particular problem domain (or have essentially merged with their tool and become a finely tuned cyborg).
No, they explicitly do.

> cohort = await document.interestCohort()

I mean it‘s a proposal. I‘ll believe it when I can use it, but maybe actually look at the proposal.
Longevity is the key factor in the search for technosignatures
Ceasing to publish new copies is different than disallowing the exchange of existing copies. The owner of the IP chose to do the former, eBay chose to do the latter.
ML are algos not models (estimators to be precise). This model could be fit by many of them. However, fitting the model directly with the linear model will be advantageous for computational reasons.
Does this fetch it all clientside from the different services, or does it actually mirror the content from corporate censorship social/ad networks to one's own website?

That is to say: does it keep your content up on your own site as a mirror when the big five suspend your account for wrongthink or an errant nipple?
quiet often they are defend on some hypothetical others behalf.
Thanks I agree, I was just looking up the other day whether “brain fog” was an accepted term and reached the same conclusion as you

For me, the poor leadership and lack of consensus is enough for me to avoid exposure. When everyone can articulate what you said, instead of the reductive things they do say, I’ll be more comfortable

But I’ll likely be vaccinated before then, which is just as fine for my risk analysis
If you read a decent bit of WW2 history, incidents like this are fairly common. A bunch of young men in a high-stress situation open fire on phantom targets. Once one person / group starts shooting everyone else tends to join in unless command prevents it.
> I am all for getting data! Good investment.

This will also flag long-term effects from other virii, as well.

One thing that Covid drove home is: "Infection with a virus can do a LOT of extra damage that we don't track very well."

There are lot of people who get diagnosed with "Lyme" (aka the modern equivalent to "hysteria" in many ways) who may very well just be "You had a bad cold/flu/other virus and your body took a lot of damage and now its going to take quite a while to clean up."

Modern medicine is amazing, but it has a gigantic blind spot around chronic conditions.
This would be 100 Mbps faster than the non-existent cable that stopped 4 miles from my dad’s home in Wisconsin. They went down a rural road 40 years ago hooking up houses who wanted and stopped when they reached a home that said no. They had wireless for a while but the company shut down. Starlink is his only real hope.
MIT apparently just instituted some parental leave policies for grad students. I go my PhD about ten years ago, and we did not have parental leave policies across departments at that time.

What bugs me about much of the discussion is that many of the commenters here are talking about how ideal a stay-at-home parent (mom) is, while not acknowledging that fact that actually being a stay-at-home parent involves lots of not staying at home and making arrangements so that you can get time not with your kid or doing less intensive supervision of your kid, but still firmly holding that you are more virtuous if you are sitting on your porch drinking wine with other mommies while the kids play, or cleaning up their poop, than if you are in a standup about what's happening this sprint and your kid is in daycare playing with the other kids and having poop cleaned up by someone who gets some money for the task. Something just seems lost in the rhetoric.
Very interesting except they only really trained the AI for "gunboat Diplomacy" where you are not allowed to communicate with your fellow players.

Any serious Diplomacy player knows that the moves on the board, coming once a day or once a week, are far less important than the interpersonal relationships and written communication that actually creates the game. Convincingly beating humans at Diplomacy would also involve passing the Turing test.
I was exaggerating for effect, but yeah. The existence of a polynomial time prime factoring suggests the existence of a useful predictive pattern in the distribution of primes. That would break the Twin Prime Conjecture and possibly refute Riemann. Undermining those starts tearing the foundations apart. I’m almost certain that won’t have just happened.
The problem is that you call it "clearly racist". If that is so clear why it took months to decide? In reality it's not that clear and you know it. You just moved a goalpost a little to include something that yesterday nobody complained about to become "clearly racist". And tomorrow will be something else.
Facebook’s New AI Teaches Itself to See with Less Human Help
Exactly. It was literally the government/edu/dod/doe that gave us the internet.

Web service should be nationalized, and so should Chrome.

Those "rich people" are in the position they are due to consumer ignorance and apathy, but above all, they are our guests at the trough.

Show me someone complaining about over-regulation, and I'll show you someone whos being a hog.
While we're at it, can we convince the Australian govt. too please?

Something like 10/5 is considered "fast enough".
Sorry I don’t follow, is the e-word ‘evolution’? :)

Yeah I found a picture of the Africans question. This might be the worst one. I see why folks would take it the wrong way.

They are potbellied, dressed in ‘tribal’ garb. Stereotypical I suppose, but I don’t see why that’s necessarily a racist ‘statement’ of all black people. Within the context of the text, it’s about going to an African island and bringing back an exotic bird.

And I found one of the ‘oriental’ pictures, and honesty it is pretty benign. Maybe the other is worse I don’t know didn’t find it.

Also, there is a very benign picture of an Arab gentleman riding a camel. Very innocent, nothing in particular offensive in my opinion.
There's an entire discipline of UX best practices. Some of it is subjective but some of it more generally agreed upon. I don't think you'd find many UX designers who say AWS follows these, and it's up for debate the degree to which it's intentional.
I think scrum is very useful if executed properly, especially when something new is being developed. Small-scale attainable and clear goals, the daily sync/unblock, having clarity for 2 weeks (no randomization beyond livesite because all work goes into the backlog), and having a ready set of tasks to work on if you run out of work is great.

However scrum can really suck if executed poorly, especially the daily syncs. One of the keys I think is taking things offline and not ratholing, enforcing the time limit (15min), and if there's any manager or PM present not doing engineering work they cannot speak unless spoken to, or perhaps once at the end with any short updates/concerns w.r.t. backlog.
If you think agile/scrum is bureaucratic try this thing called "SAFe".

But in all seriousness - scrum as it is practiced today is not beneficial. It's mostly used for "accountability" rather than the "collaborative/communication" mechanism that it was supposed to be. Add into that situations where product/program management questions every little estimation decision (e.g. do you really need those system guarantees? can we leave automated testing out of the MVP to reduce story points).

Agile has been corporatized (if such a word exists) and is no longer "agile".
X people constitute something like a classless class. They occupy the one social place in the USA where the ethic of buying and selling is not all-powerful. Impelled by insolence, intelligence, irony, and spirit, X people have escaped out the back doors of those theaters of class which enclose others...in some ways they resemble E.M. Forster's "aristocracy of the plucky", whose members are "sensitive for others as well as themselves...considerate without being fussy."

A fairly traditional name for this class is “Intelligensia”.
> Hacker News likes the internet of 10-20 years ago a lot more than the average person.

Isn't that tautological? "The average person" knows nothing (or almost nothing) about the Internet of 20 years ago.
Every time I see a project on GitHub being pressured to change a term because of PC a little of me die inside. I still remember the PR where someone changed the term master to primary in Swift and Chris Lattner wrote a comment to object, only to delete it shortly after likely due to pressure.

It's a shame we can't stand up against bullshits like that because there's too much to lose.
Why do we need user tracking at all. Advertisers can operate based on the sites that are relevant. For example let’s say a magazine website cpumagazine.com is popular. Advertisers for computer parts, computer services etc can pay to be ads on this site.

The point is the individual user doesn’t need to be tracked for advertising to work.

It’s a false choice thinking we need 3rd party cookies or a. special browser based UUID ad profile.

The truth is we don’t need either and advertising can still be effective.
You shouldn't underestimate the novice. The professors who do such weeder classes will have the data though, so you don't have to believe anyone's experiences if you can instead ask a professor... For what it's worth though I'll add to the sibling comments and state in my experience too prior programming experience is less correlative than you seem to think. (I had it, though I quickly found out after my first week "I thought I knew C, I do not know C.")

Those who have been subjected to such programs can also probably agree that the filtering of the first semester (and there is a filter, but again we think it's a fair one not dependent on prior programming experience or other such privilege) ends up normalizing everyone, for the benefit of everyone. For the people who started at 0, they're now Somewhere nearby everyone else, ready for the next (harder) material, and for people who started with some "advantages" they've discovered they... are also now Somewhere, not Somewhere Else ahead of everyone like they might have been at the very start. In these sorts of programs, people with prior experience find that they couldn't sleep through their classes and get A's like they might have pulled off in high school, their advantages were not actually that significant after all, and indeed some from-nothings can and do perform better than they.

For anyone who just wants access to the software industry's wealth, I'd encourage them to ignore college entirely. There may be a case-by-case basis to consider college, especially if you need economic relief now in the form of scholarships/grants/loans only accessible through the traditional college protocol, but in general, avoid.

(If you want something besides just access to the wealth, you have more considerations to make.)
I've had a symmetrical gigabit connection for the past year and a half and there's no way I'd go back to anything slower. The peace of mind from not having to worry about something in the background slowing down your connection and the ability to download digital games faster than the physical copies could be installed from the disc is just too valuable.

Improving internet for America outside of the cities means investing in the infrastructure to upgrade it. It also means outlawing the data cap scam and banning ISPs from overselling their bandwidth because high speed internet is useless if you can't actually use it. Its the same principle as banning junk health insurance plans that are useless when you actually need medical care: fraud should be illegal even if it "saves some people some money".
Thank you so much for the clarity and levity.

The person you're responding to is understandably scared and is ignorantly propagating the sensationalism that the news has been hammering into our brains.

The news is not science..people need to realize.

It's a business and even the biggest news companies peddle sensationalism.

Even if only one person has some strange side effect like 'covid toes'...the news media can prey on humans emotional response which overrides statistical reasoning to lay claim that it's a possible Covid outcome.

And while it's not an outright lie...it's extremely disengenuous and very sensational. And they do it all the time.

We need to teach people statistical reasoning in school and we need to hold news agencies accountable for statistically irresponsible news.
This always reads to me like it's suggesting the more moderate voices should log off, thereby leaving the platforms to the more extreme voices.

I'm not convinced that's helpful.
It'll be interesting if the equity ends up valuable enough to diminish the relative importance of the cash compensation. Some may actually benefit from lower employee compensation depending on equity ownership. The post touches on equity, but I'd be interested to know more, especially due to potential conflicts of interest of larger equity owners benefitting from lower employee compensation
> Literally everything in this quote is speculation, or factually incorrect.

Neither one of you provided sources. I think that you're right, but how's a layperson to know?
Show HN: Drop-In Audio for Remote Teams(Jitsi+WebRTC)
It would be a browser level dialog, so good browsers can give you that option, like safari does for other permissions.
tl;dr: Word got out, somebody turned it off, nobody knows who, nobody knows where it was, nobody knows why it was on. No answers, only questions.
Without Google Play Services, this is blatantly untrue.

Evidence otherwise appreciated, even if just a compelling theory...
Just curious, why no 256?
As mentioned in the See Also, Spielberg’s movie 1941 idea was based on this.

https://youtu.be/6_KOLqpo7z8
There's no need to go back, and every reason to go forward. Just because a lot of tech has gotten very good is no reason we have to passively accept that it can't get any better or friendlier or safer.

To abuse a metaphor, we're not advocating throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but that bathwater still _has to go._
Gotta disagree. Bleeding, bleeding, bleeding, tears, pelvic instability, trouble pooping, breast milk coming in, mastitis, difficulty walking for several weeks, hormonal changes to sleep ability. People who give birth need time to physically heal. Some have an easy time, others are still shuffling around in mesh underpants with witch hazel and aloe soaked hygiene pads at four weeks post birth. (Search for padsicle to learn about it.)
In other news, Google suspends indexing of the said AI ethics research conference, so that no one knows about it.
Why? If someone is harboring a low grade infection because their immune system didn't rev up enough to clear the virus, getting a jab with something engineered to provoke your immune system could very well fix the issue.

Also, "placebo effect" is real. "Reversion to the mean" is also real.

None of those explanations are "psychosomatic".
It serves to make people confident that they're giving up their privacy and at least getting security back in return.

Which is what the general public wants.

For everyone else, there's Graphene.
Yeah, I've also done a bunch of work on hard classification problems where generalization pretty much fails. I think they're /probably/ doing the right thing in the infinite training data regime. And they're definitely doing interesting things in the generative case.

But ultimately they look for a convenient 'nearby' solution: that's the nature of stochastic gradient descent. If you have two solutions and one of them is the hash function, it would be helpful to /know/ that the hash function is harder to get to than the 'correct' solution.
The saddest part of the book is his "Class X" concept. Didn't really work out like he hoped. Just became another flavor of upper-middle or middle (which you regard at is probably depends on how much you dislike them, I'd suppose--for context, I'd take this mutated, absorbed-into-the-system "class" to include SV-dominated tech culture, or at least what it thinks it is and/or is trying to present as)

Book's a ton of fun. Recognizing the elements of one's own class roots, reflected in Fussell's mirror, if you will, is entertaining. Fascinating tool for analyzing (sorry to bring him up, but, it's really interesting) Trump & family's, uh, fashion and decorating preferences.

[EDIT] And on actually reading TFA, Scott notices and covers all of this, because of course he does. There's a reason I like his stuff.
Good observation, I've felt the same since I encountered this new generation of humans who demand changing speech, and use esoteric terminology and demand other people say and not say things. I don't care if someone believes in social constructivism, that we're born blank slates, that words influence perception more than biology, so on and so forth, but I care very much when people who believe these things believe that anyone who questions - who dares question - them is a villain and an enemy who must be stopped.

A focus on symbolisms like statues and children books and language on Twitter or git repos is being embraced by the powerful corporate interests. Something that actually does an enormous positive for racial justice, universal healthcare, takes a back seat.

Can we agree this is a feature, not a bug?
Thanks for the reference!

I personally don't think that the qualitative pros/cons of the chosen approach or alternatives that we're discussing today, 30-ish years later, would be all that new to the designers of C in 1993. The difference is that we've had 30-ish years to watch those decisions play out over millions of lines of code in software running at scales and levels of complexity that programmers in 1993 could only dream of.

Also, software security was barely an issue in 1993. Today, it's a massive issue.
Shit, I'll mail you this one on my desk I just flashed for $150 more than I paid.

Let me know.
> Are you totally anti process?

Not speaking for OP but agile, straight from the manifesto, itself is anti-process, at least in the sense where...

> If not, which process do you find more palatable

Is a cogent question.

Which process do /you/ find productive and helpful? What would you change? What would you emphasize? Process is a tool to serve you and your peers and your stakeholders. Not to pay fealty. Not to choose sides. It can be picked into pieces and rearranged. It can be recalled or reorganized whenever it’s unsuitable.
The paper says that: "Specifically, our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data"

What is a generalization of a random labeling? Does the network become psychic? Is this saying "garbage works fine by these measures"?
Google actual science instead of 'the news'. The patho-physiology of Covid is well known.
Whenever I review C code, I first look at the string function uses. Almost always I'll find a bug. It's usually an off by one error dealing with the terminating 0. It's also always a tangled bit of code, and slow due to repeatedly running strlen.

But strings in BASIC are so simple. They just work. I decided when designing D that it wouldn't be good unless string handling was as easy as in BASIC.
I thought "office hours" is a common term in universities?
I’m working on a pay comparison and career planning app for skilled trades workers. Went live last week, but still missing a ton of features.
https://skilledpay.co
We can help you serve Canadian customers as well. You are indeed a fit!
“green list and red list”

Clearly, you love environmentalists, but hate commies. Try again.

You can call it “gray space” now that everything is low contrast gray on gray. (Black on white and white on black were apparently also offensive color schemes.)
The US Navy does a really safe nuclear power program, but it costs a lot. If you could combine the organizational fortitude of the Nuclear Navy to manage the plants and the maintenance with a reasonable cost, I think that would be sufficient to ensure safety, as long as the designs are also done well. Personally, I think nuclear power is too risky for commercial use, i would put my money in HVDC links, pumped hydro storage, geothermal, and overbuilding renewables as the best path to reducing emissions, and continue to use natural gas for emergency generators for hospitals and stuff.
> I wonder if you can do this using an AWS instance of a mac. And then move the photos to S3.

As I understand it, AWS virtualization is a full Mac client, right? If that's the case, there's no technical limitation that would prevent this.
Could you please extrapolate a bit further to make things clearer to us?

I just don't understand how you manage to come to your stated conclusion.

"You" can't believe "smart people" buy "fear mongering"

Isn't this implicitly stating that you're the one who's glaringly incorrect?