skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah you can want things to be different but the change can come at much higher cost than you can imagine.I am often thinking about this sustainable way of living and I always come to conclusion that we cant.

I am not sure how possible it is to retrofit adequate infrastructure into american cities but even then you will inevitably have to raise standards.Most people that want to stay in suburbs prefer it because of ... well a lot of reasons.

Apartment dwellers usually have an issue with noise coming from their neighbors and there does not seem to be a solution to this problem without raising costs astronomically.

I am not sure austerity will come...at least not for you ;-) in the US or other "resource rich" anglo countries.

>Anyway, what's so austere about walking to the grocery store nearby instead of driving a mile down the road? Why build so that you have to drive a car instead of making it optional?

I dont like to drive. I own a cheap car and use it to get from point A to point B in reasonable time.It gives me freedom no public transport can.
I just dont trust the government to be there for me (it never was and I dont think it ever will be).

I'd rather support technical solution than ideological.

>Btw it would be awesome to buy you a beer if we ever met - nothing personal here. :)

I would gladly take it. I am a huge beer nerd.
>It's only a problem when you abuse your monopoly position to restrict competitors.

Like what Spotify is suing them over, for example.
DARPA Awards Nuclear Spacecraft Contracts to Blue Origin, Lockheed, GA
If there is an explanation of that online, I'd be interested. I have a teenage girl who is interested in knitting, and I'd love to give her something work more math into it.
No LOL, but that made me giggle.
> If you have a big knowledge gap in something that's

> - easy

> - freely available

> - relevent to your job

> then that's pretty much entirely your fault and it has nothing to do with your educational background.

Sure. But reversing a binary tree isn't relevant to most modern software engineers. And when it does become relevant then, like you said, it's easy to learn (on the job).

> It's not even anything that advanced or difficult either.

No but it is something that gets "memorized" for a test (and therefore immediately forgotten afterward).
I use Neo2 [1] on a Moonlander. I find it works really well. Neo2's distinguishing feature is that there are built-in layers that contain special characters, such as those used for programming, control characters, including a numpad, Pos1/End, ... and also many mathematical symbols for significantly faster TeXing.

What makes it such a good fit, in my opinion, is that the modifiers can be placed on the thumb clusters, and even layers 5 and 6 that otherwise require a combination of modifiers can have their own keys. On the other hand, having all control characters already mapped means you needn't find a good location for them anywhere. I still have 5 keys unmapped.

That said, getting used to the Moonlander took almost no effort at all for me, I was back up to speed in a few days.

[1] https://neo-layout.org/
People interested in this will probably enjoy NetLogo and NetLogo3D. It's pretty much the Logo you know and love, but you can have many more than one "turtle" which then allows you to program complex things such as flocking algorithms.

Here's an example of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdpTVAx6AU0

You can even move the box around to see things from any arbitrary direction and distance.

It's mentioned in the document, but it doesn't get into what makes NetLogo as interesting as it is.

Also, I love this story:

"A story Paul Goldenberg recounts from the early days of Logo is that one day a child typed the
command love and got the response

love has no meaning.

The child tearfully reported this to Paul. The next day that error message was changed to

I don’t know how to love"
It is substantially easier for me as a developer to get information out of the document and into a template.
I'm a happy user of Colemak for over a year. Although it took me a few months to get used to it.

One disadvantage though is, now I have trouble typing on QWERTY.
I have two friends who ran their own small non-tech companies, and it's fairly clear companies don't value it when doing hiring. People have a fairly rigid idea of the sort of person they want to hire. They just see the time as "out of industry for years".
> Do the vaccines work or not?

Look at what's happened in Israel. Most of their population has been vaccinated, and their transmission numbers have plummeted in response. That alone should tell you that the vaccine is effective.

This doesn't mean 100% immunity - Pfizer and Moderna decrease risk of transmission by 95%, and if you do get it, it's much more likely to be a mild form. That's why it's important that we still avoid high-risk gatherings. We have enough people in this country who aren't willing to get vaccinated that it will likely take longer to achieve herd immunity. I suspect there'll be a long tail to this pandemic, with pockets of the country still spreading it through 2022.
US Government needs to actually represent interests of citizens more than interests on corps bribing them to allow abuse of people rights and privacy to continue.

Implementing GDPR like regulation in US will solve a lot of issues.
Why would you even want to reverse a binary tree in the first place? Simply traverse it backwards, it's just as fast.
> The problem is you could have a huge legal battle over it.

Of course, and it would be a real PITA, but I don't see how it would be that much different from a GPL violation law suit right now. If you publish your source code, even under GPLv3, there is nothing that really stops anybody else from taking it and violating the crap out of the terms and conditions.

In pretty much all jurisdictions I'm aware of, the copyright holders are the only ones who can sue for copyright infringement (setting aside the whole "is the GPL a contract?" debate for the moment[1][2], which would also open up suing for breach of contract in some juristicions).

You can slap any license constraints you like on your source code and publish it, but if you really don't have the resources to pursue legal action for violations to begin with, that already isn't worth anything and the software is effectively in the public domain.

[1] https://perens.com/2017/05/28/understanding-the-gpl-is-a-con...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Lic...
> J&J is about 5% of all vax doses given. It hasn't really been very helpful so far

This is a very misleading talking point being spread around today, including by the White House. Very disappointing.

* J&J only requires one dose while all the others require two doses. So counting doses is misleading. J&J represents more than 10% of the actual full vaccinations. Many two dose vaccinations have not been completed (some will never be).

* The US has ordered 200 million doses J&J doses and a total of 600 million doses of the two dose vaccines. So J&J represents 40% of the full vaccinations ordered to date.

* J&J vaccine was only approved on February 27th while Pfizer and Moderna were approved back on December 11th and 18th, respectively.

People pushing this 5% number as obviously trying to put the best face on this screw up.
And I suspect you are in the top 1% of users. How is a 80 year old granny going to know which one to buy?
So what? It is an honest question. Nobody answered. I still don't care.
> One interesting aspect of these tacos is that they are essentially "laundering" the food of a minority treated with suspicion (North African / Arab immigrants) by disguising it as a different kind of exotic food. In the US, incentives might be the opposite: In some places, Mexicans might find success selling Burritos as "Döner Kebab".

I'm not sure I agree with this point, or even understand it actually.

There are plenty of fast-food joints selling "the food of a minority treated with suspicion". They're usually called "grec" (greek) for some reason, though they're what the non-French usually call a Kebab. The only "stigma" I can think of applied to those places is that it's "too fatty" / "not very healthy," etc[0]. There also are the "Lebanese" joints that sell wrapped sandwiches. Those are usually called "Lebanese", and don't have any stigma that I'm aware of either.

Also, the "tacos" I've had around Paris have absolutely nothing in common with the kebabs or event the Lebanese wraps. They're usually drenched in some liquid, sugar-laden sauce that makes eating them a pain and come in all kinds of... surprising combinations.

Usually a kebab is pretty straightforward. Some joints may get fancy with the sauce options; some joints are clearly very good while others are... less so; but you always know what kind of sandwich you'll get.

The taco places seem more like the salad bars that have popped up all over the place. You can pick and choose among a bunch of ingredients, and it's usually up to you if you want your combination to "make sense" or not.

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[0] The "health" related skepticism around French kebabs is about their fat content mostly. The "sanitary" skepticism also exists, but it's usually targeted at "Chinese" joints.
It's the same thing with flu vaccines, mind you. They only get a few months testing before entering mass use

The speed of access for these vaccines is that they started mass production while testing was ongoing, rather than waiting until after testing to start production
Google is Poisoning Its Reputation with ethical AI Researchers.
Total COVID deaths for people aged 0-17 in the USA are 246 so far.

That's not that many. Despite my wife and I getting vaccinated, I'm not completely sure what the correct answer is for our kids.

To put those numbers into perspective, more kids die from the flu in any given year (despite vaccination!). And far more kids die from car related accidents, and cars are a daily fact of life here.

I'm also interested in the other longer term effects of COVID on kids, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information out there about it.

You talk as if it's a clear cut answer. Given the numbers involved I don't see how it can be.
Weight looks like a great easy way to quickly asses something. Much better than a bunch of models with years that are good before the MBA type sold out the brand name for a quick buck.

Thanks.
Apache Software Foundation retires slew of Hadoop-related projects
Deploying C# Web Applications with Docker
This is college ;) They're trying extra hard to make her life hell this year.

As much as I hate the way she's being treated, she's lucky to get her backbone early in life. She's already a very strong and capable adult.
They slapped the word "experimental" on the disclosure form and waived liability to the manufacturer... it was rushed... as it should be. I took it. But the reason people don't "trust the science" is that its obvious people are lied to on a regular basis around covid and trust has flatlined.
This has nothing to do with neither AI nor ethics. Gebru was fired for throwing ultimatums and demanding to "doxx" colleagues who criticized her paper [1], and blasting group emails calling for sabotage. [2]

Mitchell was fired for downloading thousands of internal files using a script and sending to external accounts. From Google response "we confirmed that there were multiple violations of our code of conduct, as well as of our security policies, which included the exfiltration of confidential business-sensitive documents and private data of other employees" [3]

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...

[3] https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/19/google-fires-ethical-ai-l...
> I specifically want my non-technical family and friends to use password managers

I consider it a victory if I can get non-techies to use their browser's facilities to store passwords, and then to choose reasonably long passwords and avoid reuse.

(I use `pass`, myself.)
That struck me as a red flag too, I wonder if he's really getting passed because his experience is all on stuff thats too small scale. Regardless, it doesn't sound like he actually did any interview prep, so it's not surprising he's getting negative responses. Even people who love this stuff have to brush up on the areas they don't frequently use (for work or fun).
Fail Fast Is Failing Fast
Release of Oil 0.8.9
Watchclocks have been used for over a century. Guards or watchmen on patrol had to be at a specific spot at a certain time to prove they were not asleep. They had to prove via the clock that they were at that location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchclock
Can you imagine the trauma of having to pay for MATLAB? Easily $50k/year/engineer for some places, plus many extra runtimes for batch simulation. Once you have a significant chunk of code in MATLAB (especially using their special toolboxes) you are screwed.
You could waive fees for primary residences and tax the hell out of investment properties. I don't understand why prop 13 in California didn't work this way.
So that's where my resumes end up...
Man GDPR is such a pain to implement and UX-wise, but it seems to actually have improved personal data protection.
Perhaps. But I tend to look at the actual interactions I have as a laborer and consumer, and try to determine the effects of those actions. So I care about Jeff Bezos because I occasionally order goods from Amazon, not because he is the richest person on earth.
I can’t get pass breaking keyboard shortcuts with new keyboards. If only there was a way to revert to QWERTY when ctrl alt win were pressed
I see dedicated devices as end-runs around data gathering restrictions on apps. (I'm not sure how this specific device works)

For example, a cellular kindle can do anything.
I actually really like the idea of a license that forces changes to the licensed code to be made available to be merged back upstream, at least in theory. The issue I have with the GPL is that it doesn't, in my opinion, do a good enough job of distinguishing between "changes to the licensed code" and "changes to unrelated code which happens to be integrated with the licensed code". I would prefer not to impose restrictions on the latter, because in my mind that effectively restricts what people are allowed to DO with my code by making it harder for them to use it with code that's available under a different license.

For example, if I were writing some kind of calendar application which contained a date parsing module within it and someone wanted to copy some code out of that date parsing module and paste it into their own application, I'd be perfectly fine with that. If they later make improvements to that code they copied, I'd prefer it if they'd contribute those changes back, but I absolutely don't want to try to force them to make their entire application open-source, or if it's already open source, to force them to re-license it under my license.

I recognize that the line between "unrelated code" and "improvements to my code" can get really blurry, which is why right now I prefer to err on the side of freedom by using permissive licenses like the MIT, but I wouldn't mind using a copyleft license that took greater pains to ensure it isn't "viral" like the GPL.
This has to be one of the most new yorkerie articles of all time. It's an interesting article but man this could be an Onion article.
>Ok that's fine, but then I may as well use as much resources as possible because fuck it?

I grew up in the 70's with constant shrieking about "peak oil" and how we are all doomed. And 40 years later we have access to not only more oil but other forms of energy as well. Your obsessing about the planet not being big enough is freaking ludicrous yet after decades of such sentiments being THOROUGHLY beaten down by the real world, people like you cling to them like some intellectual security blanket.

I believe far more strongly in humans working independently, yet together, in solving tough problems. A 2,000 pound machine may be too expensive for you. Luckily it's not for me. Indeed I have three. And the world still exists, humming along quite happily.

And what makes this a practical reality despite your being convinced it's impossible? Capitalism. You mention it, yet apparently really don't appreciate it's true power. Capitalism single handedly spawned and lifted the vast majority of the world out of death and existence far worse than what we call poverty today that was the norm for 98% in a mere few hundred years - reversing literally thousands of years of oligarchies that dominated human existence until just a few generations ago. My paternal grandmother witnessed the change from horse power and candles to flying through the air in jets in her lifetime. Is it perfect? Nope - no system is. And yes, there are parts of the world where there is still substantial room for improvement - but laying that only at the feet of capitalism is moronically naive. The sad thing is, I fear most people today aren't going to really appreciate where we were until it's gone - and it's going to be a hell of a lot harder to put things back once lost then try to just keep them now.

>You complain about communism yet are happy with the government subsidizing unnecessary jobs and construction projects, propping up industries that would otherwise die, and using tools like minimum parking requirements and building new roads to do it.

A few public works projects are pretty far from fu*ing Communism. Good god what the hell passes for "education" these days if you can even consider yourself rational in making such a casual comparison.
"And this end is called the Thagomizer. After the late Thag Simmons".... [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#/media/File:Thagomi...
Livebook – José Valim
I doubt they have, but plenty enough time has passed to evaluate your concern by examining trial participants.

The mRNA in the vaccine lasts a matter hours.
Animacules Just as He Saw Them 340 Years Ago (2015)
I came to write this. Why are accents being disregarded under the case-insensitive comparison section?

The proper solution is typically "case fold", however I only know it from Python, not sure if Javascript supports it natively.
Yes, even for a general-audience neuroscience book this is sparse on details and has embarrassingly few references. That being said, Numenta has dedicated significant effort to publishing more details in the past 5-6 years:

https://numenta.com/neuroscience-research/research-publicati...

Still there is much to be desired in the ways of mathematical and empirical grounding.
It's perfectly possible to criticize both Apple and Google at the same time.

If anything, these examples just illustrate why centralized app stores are inherently flawed, even if Apple's store is of much greater quality than Google's.

Corporate cheerleading is boring and elides that the greater issue at hand is about openness and choice vs. closeness and security. Examples such as TFA illustrate that despite corporate promises, their security is incomplete.
They might also add additional guidelines for who is eligible for J&J. A bunch of countries have set a minimum age for AZ vaccine, I could see something similar happening here with J&J. Perhaps excluding women under 50 for example.

But I agree J&J will definitely resume in some capacity in the near-ish future.
You can plug in a USB MIDI controller and assign physical controls to any parameter of any plugin in your project. I've done it a lot with my BCR-2000, quite the beast with its 32 encoders, but lots of fun and notoriously used by Daft Punk in concerts. I'm actually on the lookout for something more portable now, I find I usually end up focusing on fewer than 10 controls.
Progressive Web Apps Are Competing with the Apple App Store
Discord will block NSFW servers on iOS
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The pause is to figure out exactly which groups are affected, and to decide if/how to update guidance. They are presumably working as fast as possible on that. Don't forget that the doses aren't going to go bad, so it is just a short delay in administering them
Well, until they intentionally break something like the 1password4 integration with the browser extention. And after asking why it broke they say: sorry you're out of luck but here is a shining new subscription just for you.

Now you're forced to buy the new version just for the integration that has always worked fine.
> Why is it a problem then?

I honestly think the Ayn Rand crowd are missing a few circuits. Well, that's a crude way of putting it, but let's just say it's like color blindness but for ethics. No amount of oratory will make a color-blind person see red. And that's just the way it is.

Those "circuits" play an important role in regulating how groups behave. Lacking them, you open the door for extremely bad things to happen. This is why libertarianism and related ideologies should be treated with extreme caution at best.
Agreed. Another unknown is how many people may have had some clotting issues that were mild and unreported. As you note, even though the 7/7M odds are compelling, the effect is still unexpected and there are two other vaccine alternatives. Taking a pause to consider the issues and perhaps make adjustments in suitable patient profiles and/or adjust follow up observation and early intervention treatment protocols for the issue makes sense.

Don't know if it matters to anyone, but the "FDA has suggested that health care providers pause the use of the vaccine while the side effects are being studied. However, providers are not prohibited from using the vaccine if they feel the benefits to an individual patient outweigh the risks." [1]

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/13/9867670...
As an employee (not of Figma I mean of VC backed companies in general) it's also frustrating because you join based on some vision and then you often end up hating the feature throttling for philosophical (empathy with users) or practical reasons (makes it harder to sell or market if that's your job)

Remember when products were getting better over time... now their value starts meh (MVP), becomes great (thanks to funding), and then reverts to meh (when finally focusing on unit economics)
Yes, they are. Go look how many servers run GNU/Linux.
That's a good point, especially since Margouleff didn't talk about a Moog in the sentence I quoted above, so it makes sense that the bass would have been played on the Tonto.
J&J is not mRNA platform, it uses an adenovirus platform.
A very nice tutorial. Looks like based on this it should also be possible to follow the LFS book, if desired.