skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a serious medical condition and I'm sometimes pretty impaired while posting here.

When I said it was sort of a pet peeve of mine, that perhaps sounds like I meant I was criticizing you and that's really not what I meant. I meant it aggravates me to see someone post in good faith, get downvoted to hell until they seem to be pissed off and no one will reach out to them and say "This doesn't work well on this forum for this reason."

I occasionally do try to make that effort in part because I'm a demographic outlier so I don't readily fit in here and have always had to really work at it and I sometimes get a lot of downvotes for what seems to be simply being a different demographic.

This forum skews culturally American to some degree. There do seem to be a fair number of Dutch members who post, but it is run by an American company and that helps shape the dominant culture here.

I'm American but I'm a former military wife. Like the Dutch, I tend to be pretty blunt.

Some people find me to be refreshingly direct. Others find me to be rude, crude and socially unacceptable. It seems to have little to do with my behavior and more to do with their cultural expectations.

I was only trying to tell you your bluntness will tend to be interpreted by most Americans as rudeness and disrespect, though some people with military experience will be more tolerant.

It's always a risk to say something to a total stranger and that's likely why it's common for someone to get downvoted to hell and no one tries to talk to them about that in some kind of helpful fashion: Because it can get misinterpreted and make the problem worse and make you a target of their ire.

I don't really care. I tend to do what makes sense to me and accept that sometimes it bites me in the ass.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't have to sit around justifying my guilty conscience. I don't have one. I don't stand idly by and say "Not my problem."

I'm sorry this didn't go well. I don't intend to discuss it with you further. If your take away from this is that I attacked you rather than that I was trying to reach out and bridge the cultural barrier you will face on HN, welp, you win some, you lose some.

Have a great day. Sincerely.
Maybe you not making the argument you think you are making? If organic molecules floating around in a sack can never be conscious then we must be more than organic molecules floating around in a sack, because it is a fact that we are conscious.
> Jhaveri admitted in her post that it was a "dashed off over-generalization."

I think there is already a name for generalizing about a race.
> Yes, it is

> will
Some propose that those kind of clubs exist because of Christianity.

Paul told people to treat their wives like they were the Church, which lead to the end of tribes, the replacement of those large social/family groups with a more varied interest based group structure, which lead to more intermixing of ideas, the industrial revolution, and Western thought processes.
The Great Communicator, in action.

What a piece of shit that man was.
We have a service that uses AWS Route53 health checks, and set the records to 60s TTL because if there is a problem at the primary service fails healthcheck, we want it to get the updated DNS records, which point to another data center, fairly quickly.

In our case, primary is AWS with a protection service in front of it, and secondary is our own servers at a data center. So something like VRRP wouldn't work.
You can argue for class representation but it doesn't need to be a component of every argument. Here, it was needlessly interjected and is distracting to the main point.

You did assume things about me and that was wrong. You "and others" have to share this forum with a great many people, people who come from both prestigious backgrounds and people without. If you want to convince someone of something then you end up having to speak to them on their turf. You can't engage in moralizing language or act condescendingly, as you did me. It tunes people out and makes them perpetual enemies of not just you, but your cause.

This obsession with talk of power is very murky and non-descriptive. Even the class-warfare talk is murky. They're not points you're going to win with conservatives if that's the discussion you're thinking you're going to offer "different perspectives" on. When I talk to conservatives I talk to them about economics on their level. They have poor people too, Democrats spent years making fun of their "poor and uneducated". On Friday I had a manager tell me all about how "blue collar and uneducated" people in the South are a problem, simply because I'm from the South. It was astonishing rhetoric, but not uncommon from certain communities. Nobody will listen to garbage like that and I certainly wouldn't if I were them.

Instead, I talk to conservatives about how the education system misses the mark when it comes to portions of the population, which includes them and liberals, and how better education is a driving force in not only a better economy but their lower classes as well. Assuming people don't have empathy for the poor is where people get things twisted. Many people who present arguments that tow a hard-line on economics came from tough backgrounds as well. In their worldview, the world is a tough-to-survive place and that is just a fact of life to them. Upending that worldview can't be done with moralism, shame, or guilt. It must be addressed through understanding and empathy, none of which you would've communicated in your earlier response.
I like it; I like it a lot.

At first I bristled at the notion that the workflow is wrong, but this places the "todo list" front and centre. That's an integration of workflows that makes sense.
Magit changed how I commit by making it much easier to split up changes. (I'm sure another gui would work well)

Edit:
I think a buffer of lines you navigate is just the right metaphor for working with a bunch of text. It's why line editors are generally considered obsolete.
>Because lifting restrictions is directly related to increases in cases, which is then directly correlated to the number of deaths? Willfully ignorant.

Correlation != Causation. Willfully ignorant.

>We might agree that there may be more effective ways to keep people separated than a full blown lockdown, balancing health concerns with people's needs, but at the time, it was the best tool in the toolbox- and outside the US worked well- New Zealand, for example, which is pretty much back to normal these days after a duration much closer to the first time period.

South dakota, sweeden don't have lockdown and they pretty much normal all these times. Florida has short lockdown, but they realized their mistake and quickly lifted it. They are normal too.

>you are certainly implying that your own inconvenience is far more damaging than the lives of others. '

No, lockdown affect a lot of people, not just me and its just not merely inconvenience.

> just want to let the people die and let the chips fall where they may

No, I never said that. I support reducing/preventing death as much as we possibly can, but trying to do so with causing so much damage that is bigger than the virus itself, I can't support.
I see your tongue is still firmly in cheek here, as a brief Google Scholar search would reveal there are very few experiments available to observe quantum gravity and as far as I can tell, few studies of mathematics ever bother considering the experimental observations that other scientists or engineers would require. In fact, another researcher wrote the following article in 2017 in plain language: https://nautil.us/issue/45/power/what-quantum-gravity-needs-... therefore what you're saying is roughly true if not exactly true? ;-)

From that 2017 article:

> You already know we haven’t found anything yet—otherwise you’d have heard of it. But even null results are valuable guides for theory development. They teach us that some ideas—for example, that spacetime might be a regular lattice—are simply incompatible with observations.

I would suggest that publishing and peer review requires an audience, therefore ... err, by publishing this I am actually peer-reviewing your work?! Drat! That makes me 0/2 then!

To conclude my peer-review, I would like to see more details for reproduction, merely stating that you've performed experiments without providing the necessary observational data and steps to reproduce highlights the lack of originality in the paper you're proposing and therefore I would decline to publish. ;-)
There's that famous Knuth exchange with another programmer where Knuth develops a super-complex data structure and algorithm to solve a problem, and the other programmer responds "that's cool, but I can do that in a single command line by piping three Unix commands".

There is a case to be made for programmers being at least familiar with Unix utilities and shell scripting so that they can unlock the superpowers described in that anecdote.

However, I largely agree with your sentiment - I pretty much do all of my scripting in JavaScript and Python and would not be particularly happy to have to deal with a large bash script.
It was an illegal strike so I am pretty sure he is not being sarcastic. They had "civil service" clauses in their contract that made them "Federal employees" and Federal employees could not strike (not sure if that is true today).
This article talks about doing fixup changes while working on the "plan".

The utility offered though doesn't address the fact that now non-related changes are still bundled together.

We've just managed to write the git commit message earlier?....
I agree.

I grew up in a conservative congregation with a difficult-to-understand theology. I went through some dark and nihilistic points in my life but after being exposed to Jordan Peterson's study of Christianity as the mythology that underpins the culture of the west I developed a deep appreciation for these ideas and now consider myself a Christ follower.
In February, the Surgeon General said that masks aren't effective at stopping the spread of coronavirus. The WHO said "Not having a mask does not necessarily put you at any increased risk of contracting this disease". The director of the CDC said that you shouldn't wear a mask if you're healthy.

They were all lying to the public about masks to cover for the fact that there weren't enough for healthcare workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-fa...
Not all bad behavior is illegal. And people let Stallman get away with a lot because they believed public criticism of Stallman would undermine the free software movement or their careers.
Nice idea, I encounter this problem often during work. I usually end up doing the lazier "git add -a" where a couple of unrelated small fixes get bunched together in a larger commit.

Sometimes I do take the time to organise the changes into multiple commits, but that process is very prone to making mistakes.

The most annoying part is when I accidentally forget to add a crucial one-line chunk belonging to a particular feature I'm working on, so that I have one commit "refactor: ..." that accidentally has an important config change or a one-line change that actually belongs to the feature. So now the feature commit doesn't represent a fully working program. Very annoying.

I'll try this out, see if it works any better. Hope it does!
We most certainly did not, TypeScript is and continues to be a primary concern for us and we plan on continuing to support it as a first-class citizen of the ecosystem
When the rational thing to do (e.g. lying about the effectiveness of masks to prevent PPE shortages) contradicts the moral thing to do (i.e. telling the truth), what's the right choice?
From your stance it looks like you're a US citizen. Many, many people lived through horrific times to give you the privilege of workers' rights. Before that, the environments were terrible for them. Now you propose reversing that because (presumably) you are wealthy and you feel that you're entitled to power.

I'm just not sure why you'd say that out loud, is what I guess I'm really curious about. It really speaks very poorly of a historical (or even current time) sense of empathy to look at employees in this way.
Where did he say he changed his mind? I can't seem to find anything where he takes back his statements
Commingling (supposedly) unrelated changes in a single commit isn't indicative of any problem with the vcs.
Is the VSCode support good? I tried using Deno with WebStorm a few months ago and it wasn't a great experience.
Again, this boggles my mind. Data cleaning is 90% of the job. If you don't like this, then you should not be working in ML/DS.

I actually enjoy data cleaning, sure it's annoying sometimes but the insight you gain actually allows you to build a much better model.

And, to counterpoint one of your points, I would note that part of my (psychology) degree was collecting data from our friends for various surveys and experiments. We'd then add everyone's data together and run analyses on this.

It's really crazy to me that stats/ML/everyone else didn't do any of this, as it certainly lead to me being a much better data scientist.
> I'm not convinced that authorities were lying about masks. The actual situation was kind of complex back then, and certainly prone to oversimplification, but that is still very different from actual deception.

I tend to agree.

My reasoning, at least for Canada last year, was we were following the WHO advice with respect to Influenza. I say this because Dr. Tam is part of the WHO, cited the organization numerous times throughout Q1 2020, and I've read the recommendations document which was published before Covid-19. The document did not recommend mask usage or border restrictions until a situation got out of hand, mostly due to a sparseness of studies suggesting the efficacy of masks.

Of course, IMO the major flaw was they assumed Covid-19 was like the flu. We in Canada should've looked to Asia who experienced SARS with us and follow suit with their rapid strategy rather than assuming we had Western exceptionalism and that it wouldn't come across the ocean.
>It isn't obvious that America has ever been made worse off by free trade.

George Washington seemed to think it was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1789

Free trade only hurts if you're not among the richest countries. It prevents countries from escaping the middle income trap, since their industries are not able to sustainably compete with imports.

America was not able to compete with British textiles when the tarriff of 1789 was passed. It wasn't the poorest country in the world, but it wasn't among the richest like it is today.
This is what Kathleen Kennedy had to say about the production of the Mandalorian, of which (thankfully) she played very little part in:

> In March 2018. Kennedy added that the series was an opportunity for a diverse group of writers and directors to be hired to create Star Wars stories, after the franchise's films had been criticized for being written and directed by only white men.

You don't need closed-room meeting comments to just look at her public comments and infer the motivations from there. Literally, go and look at any public comments she has made.
Do you have any plans to stop ruining the open and secure web?
How to Approach Streaming and Content Creation for Children
Yeah, I'm personally not into any of that, but I don't hold myself any better than those who do, I just happen to have better support system and got lucky with some skill/goals that keeps me busy.

But I can't help but notice that when faced with uncertainty and job instability many choose to throw money in whatever they happen to perceive the future would be, and unfortunately a lot of those so called "investment" are hyped by other capitalizing on their fears. Economical bubbles are everywhere (real estate, NFTs, stocks, bitcoins, etc.)

I do think the underlying issue is the instability in the economical system. My concern is that this trend toward job elimination and capital centralization accelerated with Covid. And governments, economist, thinkers still unable to articulate a vision/strategy for the future, or even worse acknowledge the issue.

The change is consumer behaviour last year was extremely rapid, those who never bought online in their live are now buying only online and many of those changes don't seem to be reversible.

I really hope I'm wrong, but the way I see it, with the current market economics and centralization, and the rate of change, a lot of us and huge chunk of our society would find itself with no prospect of work or income because our government and economical systems are just lagging behind.
Can differential privacy protect our privacy?
What even is this article? When did Core77 hire lazy farmers to write product reviews of crappy products?
Paradise homestead: got barren land, boosted it at a profit
Restoration agriculture done right in rural Wisconsin, by engineer and accidental permaculture expert Mark Shepard.
One of the makers of Humanloop here. We have recently started trialling our active learning tech with real customers and are excited to share the results. Happy to answer any questions!
Drama sells better than facts.
For example reverse engineering and parsing binary file formats
I didn't speak about the military breaking the strike at all, except as to note that I wasn't really talking about which side was right in this particular instance. Yes, calling the military in to break the strike is very much "might makes right"; it just wasn't what I was commenting on. I was commenting on the dynamics of how strikes work and the fact that this event highlighted certain facts that tend to be ignored.
Why are you still vague, what did he said and why is it legal, immoral, unpopular or incorrect.

Yes i would like a logical phrase that starts from "RMS said X" then I want to see how you extrapolate that using logic to conclude that RMS supports some illegal practices.
It's not clear from your comment, but I'm assuming you deem the term "illegal strike" oxymoronic. It isn't.
Do you really think that linking to dailykos, which considers Reagan only slightly worse then Bin Ladin is really a good link?

You can argue what Reagan wanted, but there is also no doubt that the union dramatically overplayed it's hands. This was not unusual in the aviation business at the time. There was a major carrier that went to the union and claimed they needed concessions to reform their business to deal with deregulation. The union said, sure, we will do it if you open all your books to us and prove it. The company did, then asked for ratification of the pre- negotiated contract. The union looked at the books, decided that the companies was in fact doomed without them. However, the union represented not just workers at that carrier, but other carrriers as well, and since the union was also present in other carrier theydemanded a top of the market contract to bleed the company dry (and force other carriers to match the contract) figuring that if the company was on it's way it, it should take as much as possible as it could before they went down.

(The union/corporate battles at this time are insane. Both the union leaders and the executives were forbidden from exercising leadership ever again - see Frank Lorenzo, Jack Bavis, Charlie Bryan).
My wife is a member of a non-striking teachers union..

I've always wondered what their ultimate collective bargaining power is if the single thing that grants them their leverage (to strike) is off the table from day 1. Shes never been able to answer.

Its not shocking that they rarely even settle for a fraction of what is asked and are just "thankful" when the government and politicians are so kind to budget them raises.

Best part....Due to the policies put in place during the 08 crash, salaries and raises were severely restricted. The government last year decided to "make up for it" by changing the base salaries for NEW teachers. So now a brand new teacher just out of college makes about as much (within a couple thousand) as much as my wife, who has a masters and has been teaching for about a decade.

Thats the issue with people that are passionate about something. It happens in IT as well. Many will work for peanuts because they like it and "experience". And my companies have been put off that I describe myself as a mercenary. I work for money and have absolutely no emotional ties to team, company or organization.
I think there's a subtle difference between the PPE/mask lie and the lie about first vaccine protection levels.

The first lie is a straight lie, although perhaps for noble reasons. The idea was to make believe an untruth, because that would help mitigate PPE shortage at the time.

The second one, "hesitance to admit that the first dose of the vaccine gives you very strong protection against Covid" is not the same thing. This one is about interpreting data, defining adequate protection? It's about weighting pre-approval experimental data, more recent data, more anecdotal information, etc.

There really is a big difference between the two. There is no world without "lies" of the second kind. There is no simple truth here. All we have is a complicated distribution of probabilities and definitions that changes rapidly.
I think a lot of people have thrown the baby out with the bathwater so to speak. There’s so much value in being spiritual but we get offended by the extremes of religion and toss it all away.
This is a terrific article.

But this statement:

"But to keep those truths to yourself is to take on a responsibility you were never trained to bear."

His entire argument is that no one could figure out a way to redistribute income from the winners to the losers after the free trade.

Maybe the truth these policy makers know is that telling the truth would lead to them losing their jobs. That's more or less the same thing for both involved groups "economically."

But, I love this discussion. Well done.
"Right" and "legal" are two different things. Especially as a person with the authority to change laws or direct enforcement.
Now you're getting into nuanced answers anyways

Does it make sense to expose them. Yes, probably, if there's no cost to doing so (which is approximately what you said when you says "needs to handle unicode strings anyways").

Does it make sense to use the exposed dependency? That depends

- What is the cost of including an extra copy (high in wasm, low in server side containers)

- [Edit: Added] What is the cost of using the system copy (typically low, but non 0 performance impact)

- What set of symbols is more likely to be outdated?

- How many times are you going to run into issues where you are missing the dependency in the runtime?

- How expensive is it going to be to implement a different solution for every different runtime that exposes it in a different way?

- How likely is the runtimes API ever to change in a backwards incompatible way?

Most of the time, for things that are not downloaded just when the user tries to run them (i.e. websites), I think it doesn't make sense to use the exposed dependency, even if it exists.
>If I am not responsible for how people interpret my words, who is?

This is backwards.

You have no control over how other people think, behave or react, let alone how they interpret your words.

Your words can be effective or ineffective conveyors of your thoughts. You are responsible for your words.

Your listeners can be effective or ineffective listeners. They are responsible for their interpretation.
If stock price and valuation isn't a reward, then why is executive compensation often tied to stock price?

> how do you know what the "fair share" is that doesn't harm the capacity of the company to continue to provide value?

I don't know, but it should pass a smell test at least. I can tell you that a company that was recently net negative only because of reinvestment using those negative years to not pay taxes during positive years doesn't pass the smell test.