skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saddens me to see science and science journals embrace and continue perpetuate the nonsensical concept/ideology of race.

Human migration has long existed and people of different backgrounds have always mixed. It wasn't until relatively recently, i.e. with increased prosperity, that homogeneous groups of people grew in size and established borders to keep it that way.

It should come as no surprise also that all humans have African ancestry. And by Jim Crows “one-drop rule”, which still is prevalent in the Western world (2021), that makes us are all black.

This entertainment science needs to stop and let real science prevail.

Let's call it what it is, tribalism.
I've struggled for so long to find a note-taking app.
I basically need something like Atom, VSCode, or Notepad++ (advanced text editing features) and then ability to embed images. Half of my job is taking screenshots and analyzing logs.

I use Atom for text right now, and OneNote for images, but it would be ideal to combine them. I've tried a few Atom plugins that say they can do this, but none work (possibly due to API changes over time).

Anyone know of a good solution?
tbh anti-racism sounds like a left-wing dog whistle to racists on their end of the extreme.
Cocaine Cowboys – More Drugs, Money and Methods
Cash king still, crypto not a major feature yet of money laundering...
Well, as someone else on this thread wrote, it does happen all the times you're not preparing for a presentation or a blog.

If you're building something marginally different from the routine the curtain is drawn, and IMHO you're probably better off buying a shrink-wrapped ready-made SAAS.
Link to the talk: https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/BBQ9K8-1
My thinking is that many of the kinds of engineering failure stories you refer to are about the failure, itself, or the victims of the failure (Therac-25, for example), but not often primarily about a single individual's life of failure (or even a single individual's sole role in a failure).

They might also be about the engineering teams/groups involved (Challenger explosion) and sometimes about a specific engineer (Allan McDonald).

I'd argue that all of these have immense value. The Allan McDonald story can be seen as both success/failure (failure to stop the launch, success for being right and standing firm on that belief). And while "pure failure biographies" related to engineering failures probably exist, I was able to come up with a number of examples while writing this comment for every other form of engineering failure that doesn't qualify, but couldn't think of a good example that does which I have seen/read. Many on business failures that focus on a CEO (and sometimes those CEOs are the engineer, but, again, nothing that wouldn't require reaching out to Google).

Thinking about it -- I'm glad about that. The kinds of "excellent essays and books about engineering failures" that you mention are the kinds of things I love to read. I wish there were more of them.

What I hate when I'm reading these things is the colorful, biography-like nonsense that major publications (and self-important "journalists") like to toss into stories: "I pulled up to the diner at 8:00 PM, the paint on the door was clearly done in another era; when this small part of (nowhereville) was an up-and-coming metropolis, and the place that Bob Thomas grew up and learned that hard work and determination can do anything. The "O" in the "Open" sign had failed long ago, leaving only "pen". It was a sign from the universe as I was here to write about the startup-to-empire-to-bankrupcy of ePens Custom Pens. Though I was a half-hour early, Bob was waiting for me, his hair and beard flowing together not knowing where one begins and the other ends. One can't help but being reminded of the race condition that would ultimately lead to the unraveling of the machine he'd spent his life building".

No thanks. Tell me what went wrong. Tell me what led up to the failure -- include technical details and process/technical/decision-making that led to the failure. I don't know the engineer and my interest is in the idea/technology, not the person. And I care even less about the guy writing about the person... :)
I like to imagine a giant robotic crab with a crab processing unit.
Current manufacturing capacity is irrelevant as we only need to keep up with solar power generation capacity. Assuming 100GWh of battery manufacturing capacity is built per year that will provide a 20h worth of the world’s electricity demand in ~32 years. However that’s quite conservative, we can extend battery manufacturing much faster than that.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Some additional details on the cons:

- 1) Mobile support. We don't have a mobile app but you can access it on mobile using tools like GitJournal or IaWriter. Admitted this is not ideal but we do plan on a native mobile solution later this year. See FAQ here: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def...

- 2) As for navigating notes, this depends on your style. If your use case includes always having the preview side by side, then navigating with Dendron is not always consistent. If you mainly use the markdown view, navigation is our strong point since you can navigate and create links without leaving the keyboard

- 3) Yes. We don't have full text search but vscode text search is quite good, especially if you combine it with the [search editor](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/692fa114-f798-467f-a0b9-3cccc3...) which lets you create new docs from search results. we also have guides on how to use dendron with elasticsearch [here](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def...)

- 4) As for order with notes, there's a few thoughts here. You can embed notes into other notes using [note references](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/f1af56bb-db27-47ae-8406-61a98d...) and control the order there. for how it displays in the hiearchy, its alphanumeric sorting. custom sorting is something we can implement if there's enough demand. for lots of short notes, this is where I would push back. VSCode has a fantastic windowing system which lets you split your editor into multiple panes (that can be automatically maximized). I regularly have 5-6 panes open at any given time that are views into different notes, sometimes the same notes. this is actually one of our strongest features since tools like notion only let you view one note at a time

I'm thankful you gave us a chance and do know that we're working on all the points you mentioned!
I found the 0.0001%. Mint could not reliably connect to my run off the mill BW Brother wireless laser printer. I had to reboot often to get printing. Same problem on 2 different PCs.
Hacking into Google's Network for $133,337 [video]
You're right, and in a bull market it's inherently conservative since you're looking at past prices. What I mean is, if houses are selling more than appraisal it's mainly because prices are up compared to recent sales, not because appraisers are accounting for any particular view about how that will play out over the next few years.

It was surprisingly subjective though. It wasn't like you were feeding lots of data into big statistical models. You'd only pick the few closest comp houses that sold recently. They'd still have different features, so you'd try to figure out the value of the features by comparing the comp houses. It was a simple mechanical procedure but you could work it out different ways and get different numbers. Our instructor admitted there was a lot of opportunity to make it come out however you wanted, and even said that experienced appraisers did so consciously.

So I wouldn't be surprised if an appraiser who thought the market was in for decline actually did write lower appraisals, though they'd justify it entirely by recent comps.
The kernel is stuck on whatever version it shipped with. A lot of routers use the long obsolete 2.x kernel.
If you're interested in measuring your implicit bias, this site has a lot of interesting tests you can take https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

I was shocked with my own results from the gender/career bias test.

At the end of the day, the test doesn't tell you how to fix it, it shows you that these patterns of thought are deeply ingrained in how we think and the way to "fix" it is to actively go against the biases we have been trained on. There is are some good resources here as well. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/faqs.html#faq14
By that definition of original sin, subconscious bias is just a specific kind of ancient injury. So subconscious bias isn't analogous to original sin, it is a form of original sin.

So either subconscious bias is religious and dogmatic like original sin, or subconscious bias is hopeful and not religious like original sin.
Ah sorry, I know that. I meant the 2020 Godel prize awarded to Moser and Tardos. Just noting the connection.
I see, apologies for my unnecessary hostility.

It makes sense that the tool would highlight parts of the codebase that need refactoring. I am a bit confused about what would be communicated between two engineers on a piece of code though. Would it be "hey, could you do XYZ as part of your change"? Or "hey, please don't change this piece of code until I've changed it"?
Google’s new Nest Hub tells you how well you slept last night
https://amazon.care/ works fine for me.
I wish there were cable modems available as PCIe expansion cards with OSS drivers so I could roll all my own home networking gear.
Endless hedonism is boring until there is competition.
DenisM mentions status in his comment. Status will demand Versailles bigger than can be passed at light speed during a life, just to impress. There will be galaxies full of combat drones, just to keep the balance in fighting power.
Silos Are Bad, Handoffs Fail, Async Is Hard
The lesson is: failure is an indespensable step towards success, so we need not to gloss over failure as if it's taboo
I have no doubt Amazon will be highly innovative in making healthcare worse for everyone long term
So Dendron does this. We have a shortcut to automatically embed images as well (https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/a91fd8da-6895-49fe-8164-a17acd...).

I describe Dendron as basically notepad with additional features :)
Video conferencing company DolphinVC chose FusionAuth for cloud independence
What do you mean? Slavery in America was inextricably tied to racism just as the Holocaust was inextricably tied to Antisemitism or the Civil War was inextricably tied to slavery. None of those aspects should be ignored or downplayed. History can be ugly and uncomfortable, but we should try to learn from it rather than ignore it.
It is the answer when the shortage is an abrupt, acute disruption in the money supply. A massive number of people were made unemployed by the pandemic. We had lines at food pantries stretching miles long.

If you recall, at the beginning of the pandemic we we had farms ploughing under crops for lack of demand. Potatoes stacking up to high heavens, farmers offering them free to anyone who'd arrive with a bag to transport them.

The author actually mentions the traditional knobs of monetary policy don't impact the distribution of money at the bottom of the economy where it is needed. That's why the direct stimulus and now family UBI is so different, and should be looked at as imperfect but necessary for addressing the need at hand.
Articles that carry misinformation can be easily found out because of the thought schemes they are using. The problem is that such language is also used by governments, so that's why people are not taught how to spot this. I have a couple of friends who seem to be susceptible to fake news and they come to me with different stories how something is bad or some weird conspiracy theories that I find tedious to debunk for them, but even if I do they still have that sense that because someone has authority, even if what that person saying or writing is not true, it is true for them. When I try to show them these schemes, they don't want to hear it as they think "they got me". This is insane and probably they need to find out how they are getting this wrong by themselves, just as I did.
I would agree Omni's software is the one thing that one might miss moving from MacOS to Linux.

For me, I miss OmniGraffle and also OmniPlan. OmniGraffle lets one make nicer-looking drawings more quickly than anything on Linux that I've seen (xfig, ImageMagick & co.), and OmniGraffle is a slick and much simplear and cleaner project management software than e.g. MS Project and even Merlin.

(For the record, I never "moved" from MacOS to Linux, but I've been using Macs on and off at work as secondary machines in parallel to Slackware Linux, SuSe Linux, Red Hat Linux and eventually the Ubuntu LTS Linux of the day).
Allowing this faux diversity change will only lead to more calls for other faux diversity changes, so the time spent pointing out its vacuousness is well worth it.

Just as security theater isn't real security, diversity theater isn't real diversity. We must stand up and denounce diversity theater and those who profit from it so that we can get focus on diversity efforts that have substance behind them.
> I recently created a natural language generation model(built with LSTM layers mostly) that was trained on east-asian zen books. Do you think that my result could have been better if I would've used an architecture not designed by white germans?

Potentially. Ways this might happen: most SOTA architectures are dependent on larger datasets and abundant compute resources for training (as well as related tasks such as hyperparameter optimization or architecture search). Few architectures are designed or evaluated based on smaller (fixed) corpora sizes and smaller (fixed) training budgets. Even few-shot learning tasks typically still require a huge amount of pre-training on large datasets. So researchers and practitioners constrained by fewer resources and smaller datasets (which may not apply to you specifically) trying to adapt popular architectures to their needs are disadvantaged. Compare the attention being given to energy budgets and similar constraints for inference as opposed to training and the disparity becomes fairly obvious.

So, yes, adapting an architecture created in the first place with the kinds of constraints you are likely to face in mind, by folks that are more likely to be facing similar constraints themselves, may very well lead to you achieving as good or better results with similar or less effort and expense.
If this is made for a quick, tongue-in-cheek laugh I think it's pretty harmless and kind of funny.

If this is posited as actual guidance for interpersonal communication, run.
Everything is recorded now. Even a private one-on-one in-person conversation is likely being recorded. Did you check the other person's phone? Or ask them to leave it outside the room?
There are categories of failure though. Those not only tell you where to look but give you starting points and substitutions.

Substitute one set of problems for a better known set, and go from there. When engineering figures out how to solve the less known set, then you can do something “new”.

Today you might solve liquefaction by running pillars to bedrock and then design for earthquake damage caused by being anchored to bedrock.

Some day you might use the Dutch trick of building houses that can float instead.
FWIW when I went to the site I had to whitelist scripts from js.stripe.com to get anything more than a black screen.
Where's the joke though?
If you tell your pediatrician you don't want to vaccinate your kids they might kick you out too. I don't think this is unique about Amazon's offering.
The only one that kind of bothered me was "The Legacy Maintainer" which argues that your legacy maintainers _want_ to be stuck on a legacy project with their career in ruins. In my experience, nobody wants that, but neither can they do anything about it. Then again, the world already looks down on LM's as effectively an "untouchable" caste, so any excuse will do.
But the tool in the article is to ask people whether they think a certain headline is accurate and then looking at the effect that has on their sharing of other articles. If someone with the "I am right and you are wrong" mindset shares fewer articles they think are not accurate, they'll actually be right more often. (At least in their own opinion.)

If this gets weaponized to make people on "both sides" pay more attention to the accuracy of what they're sharing, I'd expect that to result in a more healthy public debate.
Thanks. So, as with simjacking, a bad actor, e.g. an employee at a company with poor internal controls, can sell (or inadvertently give) access to anyone's 2FA codes.
My reaction was to instantly think that I'm on one side trying to get things done and SJWs are on another side slowing me down.

I don't care if it's a new JS library breaking dependencies to support import instead of require or if it's idiots changing names of things. These people are my enemy.

If I already have zero tolerance for whatever virtue signalling crap is popular in the mostly white and affluent San Francisco, is because of behaviours like this one.

On the bright side, this can help more people to discover there is a world outside of the liberal bubble, hopefully contributing to a more balanced society.

(black ancestors, libertarian background)
I haven't actually worried about putting my email on the web for years now. Google's spam filter is good enough, I think.

It might be nice to have an anonymous ID that can forward to a (possibly changing) underlying address. But I'm not sure that's the presented use case.

I wonder why real-life mail doesn't do this. Identifiers mapping to whatever your current address is. PO Boxes exist, I guess, but it's not quite the same.
This line of thinking falls into a common issue I have with evo-psych work. The paper proposes a mechanism that could select for intelligence, but doesn't provide evidence that the mechanism caused humans to evolve to be intelligent.

It's the equivalent of the "Is-Ought" fallacy for empirical sciences.
How Now, Sacred Cow?
> isn’t health care the kind of thing you want commoditized

No? I want it separated from employment and universally and freely available like the rest of the developed world.

(At half our costs, and similar outcomes!)
Regarding Gtk's frequent breakages, I really can't understand the thought process of whoever is making these decisions.

Gtk is pretty much only relevant on Linux, the Linux desktop is itself a tiny fraction of the desktop market, and the amount of developers who're willing to write GUI apps for Linux, to write documentation or tutorials on the subject, etc. is already extremely low. So you'd think it makes sense to keep things as stable as possible, to make sure that no unnecessary effort is wasted and to encourage people to improve their apps or write new ones.

But apparently the Gtk people don't care. So much effort has been wasted due to stability issues, not even talking about the multitude of good-willing people who got burned in the process and just stopped caring about Gtk altogether. It's really a sad state of affair.
> I would much rather be able to request services in the way Amazon allows you to buy products than continue to engage in the current opaque system.

Is a system where n% of the care is provided by unqualified/unlicensed providers masquerading (indistinguishably) as other, qualified providers, where the reviews are invariably fake, and from which both customers and providers can be banned from the system with no recourse for arbitrary reasons really something we want?

Not to mention that people are different in their health needs, responses both physiological and psychological to treatment, and in their goals for healthcare.

I didn't think much could make the US's current health system less transparent or effective, but on reflection I think Amazon taking their current marketplace strategy and applying it to the health industry with a wide brush might just do the trick.
you're welcome! Not sure if you saw that 1.4 has an all-new series of table valued function support, which previously was nonexistent, I hope it improves the situation in that area: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/dialects/postgresql.html#t...
We ain’t known for speaking up :)

It is a time where we are getting violently targeted. And while people are jumping at the bit to speak up for every other group, we’re forced to uncharacteristically muster it up ourselves. I imagine if I was any other minority group talking about my experiences, it'd be taken more seriously.
Perhaps your purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
I wonder if Slack has considered using webrtc to do peer to peer chats on the client side and then gathering up the chat metadata and having each client periodically send their version of the history and reconciling it server side.

This would also have the effect of allowing slack to peer more or less normally even if Slack was down (of course bots, search, etc wouldn’t work).
> Of course, the task requires a few weeks of planning and execution, but that doesn't stop it from being possible.

Few weeks? With most providers you can get this done within 24h from the initial email to sales@
I have a pretty in-depth understanding of the NEXRAD WSR-88D weather radar data formats. It's not that it's rocket science, but it's just an insane volume of incredibly arcane data and math.

I've learned all of it for a hobby project of mine and I still have a lot more to learn, but I find studying and deciphering it to be strangely relaxing. It's weird.
compared to something like org-mode how complex is the learning curve here? with org you can be up and running with the basics of the notes in a few min.
There's actually some evidence (though also some debate) that early human hunting led to the extinction of megafauna in North America in the late Pleistocene age. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5693/70.full
> 1) I won't remember what I did and I don't know all the implications of those changes I made, and

That's why I keep a log of everything. Any error message I encounter, any change I made and why. Neatly organised, in an org (org-mode) file.

I make exactly the same as I do in programming project or server configuration: keep notes, explaining to my later self (and to others) what I did and why.

> 2) I don't want to spend time on those stuff.

As I commented already: then you're forced to adapt to things others thought it would be best for you instead of adapting the system to your way of working.
Keep in mind "provider" can mean someone with a 1.5 year online nurse practitioner degree that they got while working part time, with the majority of classes on "nursing theory."

American healthcare is truly a mess.
The master branch has caused many civilian casualties. This change is great but not going far enough, the github background color is white which is offensive, it should use a background that all humans of all colors are equally related to. Options are many: fushia, blue, and green.
Also, this comment textarea I'm writing on, is mostly a white background with some black for the text, it's offensive to see that the white occupies a much more real estate than black.
And don't even get me started on chess, which is racist because white has the advantage over black, but also sexist because you sacrify the queen to save the king.
What does it being a commodity have to do with it being separately from employment and freely available?

Sorry, I’m not following.