skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It almost looks like the hole is 2 meters in diameter and that you're standing right next to it. But then a person in red coat is really small. How big is the hole really?
most common strategy (I think) is to raise with a vague ML promise but execute using whatever makes the most sense in practice
And if you want to see the definition of terror, look at the second video on this page when part of the main crater collapsed https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/hraunrennsli-dagsins-a-o...
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because the people who use and love WP have no idea what you're talking about when you say "JAMStack and headless CMS" and really don't care. It just does what it says on the tin.

But yes, there are other great and simple products coming up that will overtake - but they remove the techie nonsense even more. Carrd, Webflow, and about a million others.
If 200$ is in impulse purchase territory I need to do a reality check with my wallet and humanity
The most recent news continues to reinforce the idea that AZ is simply not effective at ALL against the B.1.351 SA variant, which is worrisome if it ends up dominating outside of South Africa.

Pfizer and Moderna both seem to show lower neutralizing antibody responses, but not nothing, and while there is some question of if "2/3rds less is enough," there's also some other significant considerations around the T-cell response that's triggered by those two and its robust effectiveness even against B.1.351. But not so much with AZ, which continues to show itself as ineffective against the variant: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/91658
There are ways to use ads without violating privacy nor breaking the law (remember that this practice is illegal under the GDPR).

Either way, if you must do ad tracking, do so on your homepage. Once the user is logged in and has paid you money for a service there shouldn’t be any ads nor tracking.
Any given book? The comment wasn't talking about particular books. Or even necessarily books at all.
May I kindly ask any developer, who sets up a webpage, to have at least a single paragraph of an introduction, what the software is supposed to do? Admittedly, it happens very seldom, but it does: Documentation, that goes straight to the usage, without any intro as what the software is.
Could you please leave us out of this?
Were they "real" M.Sc degrees or "conversion course" M.Sc degrees (the equivalent of an expensive boot camp with a official piece of paper at the end)? I'm part time staff at a UK university which offers a 'conversion course' degree. It is vaguely annoying (from my vantage point of 25 years in industry) that these students are getting M.Sc degrees - the good students learn the basics of programming, so I'm not throwing shade on them, but I would hire someone with a B.Sc over them if I had to choose. Those with a B.Sc are more knowledgeable due to having 3 years experience in IT stuff versus just one.

But they are getting M.Sc degrees because part of the course involves learning how to "do research", i.e. the process. That apparently is a general requirement for students getting an accredited M.Sc degree. But it doesn't have to be original research... or even good research. Honestly, the whole program is sort of a diploma mill and given that students typically go into the program in order to retool and get a job in IT, they would be better served learning more focused stuff like one does in a boot camp than "how to do research". Or maybe a not-MSc degree, but something that indicates they're good enough to be junior programmers but are not really MSc level. The uni is trying to play the "boot camp" game while adhering to "academic standards".

I OTOH went thru a "real" MSc program from a much better uni (Edinburgh) and you absolutely had to have the basics of IT under your belt before taking that program.
This indeed means downtime on database level. But their system design allows processing transactions with DB down for some time. I guess they are caching account balances and limits in some in-memory DB. This is a common design choice for payment processing systems.

Sadly, PostgreSQL doesn't have a built-in solution for online upgrade yet. This is one of the few points why commercial DBMSes are often worth their money.
what a lovely and very long and detailed PDF. I'll bookmark it to read when I have time ;-) Meanwhile, innovative entrepreneurship is about JFDI.
> thought most of the work was boring

It’s my biggest problem, both with people who want trendy frameworks, and myself who was bored with work in my younger years (til I started drinking and made changes and created my company). “From a million dollars, anything is your passion” is quite true (was it Joel on Software?), but IT is quite boring when evolving at the lower levels.

I’ve loved the book “Tribal leadership” which defines levels of career,

1-Almost dropout;

2-Bored worker (apathetic victim, but delivers work - This was me);

3-Working like an as but executing on your own skills (“lone warrior” - This is me now);

4-Executes well with a mentor above and mentoring below, which pushes the organization forward by “belonging” to the social fabric;

5-Executes for others - Creates relationship between people so they can execute together - that’s the “startup ecosystem” or corporate leader style, those people often look like gurus amazed by the smartness of people in their ecosystem, which, if they are contagious and humble, becomes true leadership.
The analog for that would be shared literals which are not copied (super important for small map overhead reduction if the constructor initialized a fix set of keys like elixir structs as the key index is shared). The persistent_term module allows any value to be registered as such at runtime and avoids a lot of caveats that came with mochi_global and the like. While they aren’t ref counted it can definitely help cut down on copying in my experience.
German Law is a bit more complicated than people give it credit for. While the police might not proactively go after cases involving some older minors, they will if the person files a complaint.

If a situation involves "exploitation" under the law, as most of Epstein's crimes would be considered to, then it is also automatically illegal.
If I'm looking for a good hotel in x, I probably want good information on the quality of hotels in x. I don't want ads about the hotels.
This tool totally lacks a cal inspection sticker, that’s a write up
The MTR of Hong Kong is also a prominent example of a profitable transit system.
I did something similar, Raspberry Pi with e-ink display hooked up with HA API etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0sHtZqs8Go
Or, the cheaters don't end up in good workplaces - some will get washed out early, some won't get accepted, some won't even apply. A good diploma doesn't mean immediate, effortless transfer into best companies - you have to do some work applying and interviewing. In particular, I believe the kind of roles your rich family can get you through their network probably aren't the best ones - you're more likely to be given irrelevant make-work that doesn't disrupt the actual business, and your paycheck is just a price of your sponsor's friendship.

Also, some of the cheaters - particularly of the lighter kind - still absorb enough knowledge through osmosis + self-study that they can back up their diploma with actual knowledge.

Ultimately, I think looking at the aggregate outcomes, the correlation between students cheating and university getting bad feedback from the market is weak enough that it just doesn't form a strong incentive for universities to do anything about it. It takes a widely-published scandal to temporarily change that.
I just wanna leave here some classic papers on sexism and harassment in tech, which are relevant even now:

[1] Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists (Ellen Spertus, 1991)

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7040

[2] How to Encourage Women in Linux (Val Henson, 2002)

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

[3] What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You (Kathryn S. McKinley, 2018)

https://www.sigarch.org/what-happens-to-us-does-not-happen-t...

[4] Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher, 2001)

https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-P...
Exhibit 9374729 in the case “use ad and tracker blocking at the DNS level”
> When you work those kind of hours, are you _actually_ doing value-adding or value-optimizing things, or just engaging in work theater?

You're going to be doing a similar total amount of productive work to elsewhere (possibly less because you're so tired), and engaging in work theatre for the rest of the time.

As I wrote just last week [0], Japan's worker productivity is not good but that's only one measure and possibly not the most important to those who set the rules in Japan.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26450579
Completely agree. I block Facebook at the router but I can't stop other people giving away my PII.

But I do make choices where I can.
Cook, and other Apple executives to testify in Epic Games case
Hey! I have around ~15k GitHub stars and am generally known for nice READMEs. My 3 biggest tips are:
1. Show what you do (better yet: let the user use your software)
2. Show how you're better than competitors (feature comparison)
3. Network effect (thanking contribs, people, other projects etc)

I wrote much more deeply about this on my blog:
https://skerritt.blog/make-popular-open-source-projects/
This doesn't sound right: according to Wikipedia, the cost of the Perseverance rover is $2.7e9 total over 10 years, whereas the cost of SLS is $2.5e9/year (figure for 2020). I agree that it's a jobs program, but the rovers on Mars could be too small to be relevant to the calculation. Maybe it should be "instead of high-speed trains to nowhere it's rockets to nowhere". You don't get rovers on Mars because of the spending on SLS, you get them despite the wasteful spending.
I am already autistic and have done many vaccines in my life. I don't think that the vaccines make people autistic or not. I don't think they contain any mind-controlling chips either.

But I won't do this vaccine. Especially not the AstraZeneca one.

It's not (only) about the known side-effects. It's about the unknown side-effects and about the fact that not even all medical experts are interested in taking these vaccines. I know way too many doctors in various countries who are not so keen on taking the vaccine.

Unfortunately, humans are not like computers and we don't have as good of an understanding, holistically.

If I top that with the fact that, whatever we live through now is due to multiple mistakes that pretty much all the politicians did over the 1+ year (and before that by not creating proper infrastructure), both on the public health domain and on the economy.

Down-vote me.
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the government subsidies roads so why not trains too?
As a Dane myself, I completely agree. And we should have resumed once EMA affirmed the vaccine being safe and efficient.

But there is a feeling here that we have thing under control, and in a weird way we do.. we had about 6 covid deaths total, last week.
1) Risk management. Accept some losses if necessary.

2) Overdraft. Take the money, putting the account below zero, and fine the customer for letting their account go below zero.
Telling what concrete problem you solve already place you ahead of many Apache projects. "single storage that can handle both relational and graph model data". Some short example of usage would be nice too.

To illustrate, let's look at summaries of top popular projects (by number of commits, because that's what Apache shows on stats page):

> Camel is an Open Source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.

> Apache Flink® — Stateful Computations over Data Streams [here image of taking events and DB as inputs of process]

> Airflow is a platform created by the community to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.

??? Why would i need them?

> Apache Spark™ is a unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.
> spark.read.json("logs.json").where("age > 21").select("name.first").show()

> Lucene Core is a Java library providing powerful indexing and search features, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities.

These tell or show what they do. Good.
It's not a great review. First, it focuses on the email exchange about Minksy. I absolutely agree that RMS's words there were blatantly lied about to make him look bad. RMS absolutely should have shut up sooner in that thread, but he didn't say anything terribly objectionable.

But I stopped reading your link once the author did exactly what he railed on everyone else for doing: misquoting and taking quotes out of context to support their view.

The author tries to defend RMS's views on pedophilia by pointing out that the Dutch article that RMS links to only talks about reducing the age of consent from 16 to 12, and that wouldn't constitute pedophilia. (A conclusion I'm not sure I agree with, but let's pretend I do.) But, nope, shoulda kept on quoting, because two sentences later there's: "The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether." Nope, not ok.

Your linked article also repeatedly says things like, "All those questionable quotes seem very reasonable when put in context." Well, I disagree. After reading the full quotes, I still find most of them unreasonable.
Here is the 10 page lists of Stallman's 'demands' for people hosting him [1].

This is considerably longer and more detailed than any heretofore described pop singer 'diva' or CEO. I can't think of anyone but heads of state with such requirements.

Stop defending Stallman's 'neurodivergence' as some kind of excuse for his behaviour - this is straight up egocentric narcissism.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/g/mysociety-commun...
> Hours after, Austria followed and many other EU nations.

Austria never followed. As far as I know one charge was discarded after a fatal clotting case in Austria in a nurse. The regulator also said that the risk of not vaccinating outweighs the risk of vaccinating.
Rising house prices are not a technical problem. Having house prices fall is a very big political problem.
Gotcha, I understand now what you mean, train a model to click. That will be valuable for more than just Solitude on the back end. Thank you.
This is what Hong Kong does. It can never be a fully private system though bevause the government must apply zoning and permits to potential new lines.
Fagradalsfjall is only 385m high.
About?! The 14th decimal place of latitude is worth ~0.15mm!
And also when you upload something to blackblaze, you are already handing out your files to a third party. There shouldn't be anything sensitive that you didn't encrypt client side.
> So, you knew what the meaning of "toxic" was all along, but you pretended to not know what the meaning was in order to make some kind of point? I would prefer a direct discussion.

Yes, I knew all along that "toxic" means "dangerous". When we're not talking about eg. plutonium, we at least borrow the seriousness of that use. It's a very strong word.

> [...] his actions are to call people stupid over their religious beliefs.

I think it's a stretch to call speaking an action. Hitting religious people would be an action, calling them out really isn't.

Stallman is apparently not the most agreeable person, and possibly he's been nasty and hostile. Some people have chosen not to work with him, others have worked a lot with him. He's not killed anybody, he's not made of plutonium, there's no danger.
Relative risk! If over 65 the risk of severe illness with Covid is much increased and with it, the risk of blood clots is very substantial as any search on this topic reveals. Seems the reported cases of blood clots for AstraZenica vaccinations (17 million so far) is 37. Not a difficult risk assessment then unless there are predispossing factors for an individual.
> it's hard to imagine why some countries there have suspended it's use

Really? I can imagine quite a few reasons:

* When usage was suspended, it wasn't yet known whether it was limited to 18 cases or that was just the top of the iceberg.

* Even 1 death in a million outpaces COVID-19 deaths in young people, so vaccinating could be worse than not doing anything for them.

* Vaccins with fatal side effects can significantly reduce the willingness to be vaccinated, so even if statistically it's a good trade-off, the end result can be better by not using it.

And it's not like the doses that would've been used in those few days were thrown away. They were simply rescheduled for a week later -- the full vaccination effort isn't going to be done any day later due to this delay.
No citation in this, but being trans correlates with being autistic
> Not even the speedometer needle is actually analog anymore, it's all digital now.

And that's a petty.
But, the internal state is still changed by the owner process, in the owner process' context. The external process cannot change it's state behind it's back.

Effectively, mutations to the internal state are "serialized" by the owner process, so it's easier to handle possible race conditions without using explicit locks/semaphores.
Depends what you mean by “understanding ESAC”. Of course I understand CASE/ESAC. I ‘understand’ Duff’s Device in C (even though I don’t think I could’ve ever come up with it myself). I’m just saying that this strikes me as rather... inelegant?
Where I'm from, previous exams are public and you can request previous students' answers (with names and PII censored) from the university for a small processing fee. This forces the professors to not reuse exams.
Not directly answering your question, but something I'd appreciate in every readme:

- What problem is this repo solving / why would I use it (ideally explained in a way that a person who uses completely different tech stack could understand; this is a tough requirement though)

- What problems this repo does not solve and when I should not use it

- What are the alternatives and trade-offs
Is it? They still have best earnings (post-tax) in Europe... You have to count in contractors though. Where are better offers than in the UK? I didn't find any better even in Switzerland.
> and grow to be some of the biggest companies in the world.

Japan does have some of the biggest companies in the world and it's not a free market here, not by a long way, competitiveness isn't something particularly needed internally (monopolies and cabals abound) and possibly not externally either, if conditions are right.

> The other aspect is that the lower the value of an employees time the more the business will be happy to have them undertake repetative tasks as the cost of them doing it is lower than the cost of the work to automate.

The stereotype/joke about fax machines being prevalent isn't based on a myth. Don't assume things work the way they would in the West.
Just spitballing here, but it might be possible that these individuals have an immune system that is pre-disposed to an auto-immune attack on their platelets. If so it might have happened eventually anyway (hence no deviation from normal stats), but the vaccine happens to trigger it pretty consistently. If so, and if the thrombosis turns out to be treatable like the German researchers think, then getting the AZ vaccine might turn out to be a relatively safe, controlled way for people with the condition to find out that they have it (compared to something else triggering it at some random time where they are not on the lookout for symptoms, and thus more likely to die from the blood clots). All theoretical at this point, but it would be a pretty good outcome if this side effect of the vaccine in reality turns out to become a screening method for a previously unknown condition.
I have a hard time understanding if your mention of the co-worker was supposed to be an example of someone who misused autism or not?

>it's not something you use "neurodivergent" with seriously.

what do you use neurodivergent with seriously. I would think not being able to read a room is a big problem?

>Like generally there's a lot of disability chic or identity these days; but moderate autism makes it incredibly hard to act in daily life in the same way moderate OCD does.

is it incredibly hard to act in daily life with moderate autism, or is having moderate autism and complaining about its difficulties an example of disability chic or identity? It seems like you want to say it is the latter, but phrasing like 'incredibly hard' make it seem like you couldn't possible mean that.
FWIW humans do know a collectivist morality - Confucianism, and, well, it has its own failure modes.
Rocket to nowhere would be great - at least it would be flying
Lo más destacado de la semana (15/03/2021–21/03/2021)
Everything that touches real world is about constrains - cooking, rising a child, paying off mortgage, doing a thousand pushups etc. So, the juxtaposition of art and engineering on this axis is not helpful.

The big distinction between art and engineering is that art is supposed to speak to us and move us in an subjective way, while engineering aims to create products which are objectively good solutions for a well-defined problems.
Feminazism (An Introduction and Purposeful Explanation)
isn't that just basically openscad's difference()? I'm talking about defining an object/module with positive space components and negative components. so basically, when you apply union() to that object and another object, the positive parts will be added to the second object, and the negative ones will be subtracted. currently this has to be done in two seperate steps
Yeah the stop was needless and only helped the anti-vaxxers. The chance is still much less than common medication like birth control and much smaller than Covid itself.

Anti-vaxxers shouldn't be pandered to, they should be sent to the back of the queue when the need for ICUs come.
I used a few, mostly Dynatrace. Experimented with Pinpoint and did like 3 PoC of commercial products. Dynatrace won for me but the prices were insane.

There is now a lot of opensource ones, usually not so fancy on the visual side. Elastic APM, Pinpoint and so on.
If it is true, then in the long run AZ vaccine is close to useless. B.1.351 will just spread all over the world as quickly the original virus did, and we'll have to revaccinate with something else anyway. Which can also be complicated if something else is a viral vector vaccine too.
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While it's certainly not a good sign, you have to consider the huge error bars on the statistics in that study, and the fact that nobody in that study (both in treatment group and control group) caught severe COVID-19 that would require hospitalization and/or died, so there's no data at all yet on whether it's effective in preventing hospitalization and/or death.
also a Dane I think, frankly it seemed polite.
The timing is also bad, isn't it?

For most people, first years at university is also the first years of independent adulthood, with all its challenges. I sometimes wonder if universities would work better at educating people if everyone was given a year or two to focus on getting their shit together - interests, romances, whatnot - and only then the real education would start.
I work in the London (City of), and the company I work for (many thousands of employees) will be expected back in the office this year end. WFH has never been part of the company culture and, at most, people previously WFH 1 or 2 days over a 2 week period, and even that was exceptional.
Due diligence when installing a tracking script? Is this not a third party script which runs in the page context?