skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to detail the conversation too much, or distract from the excellent points you have made... But how is this simpson's paradox?

Simpson's paradox is easier to understand geometrically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simpson_paradox_vectors...

L1 and L2 in the diagram have smaller slopes than B1 and B2, and yet their sum is higher. It's not hard to characterize when this happens. So the canonic example is that a drug might be more effective against all sub-cases (e.g. mild, severe illness) and yet appear less effective overall.

You, on the other hand, seem to be describing selection bias.
Stay at home Denver (2020) [video]
PDF files can be heavy or light, just like a webpage can be heavy or light. These days most PDF files are machine generated without much care for file size and you get their stereotypical heaviness. If you take a bad webpage generator (such as Word 2003) you get highly complex and redundant markups too.

Also PDFs can embed font glyphs. That doesn't mean they have to. Common fonts like Helvetica are even guaranteed to be available in any PDF viewer.
Yes, but it is unlikely to succeed.

The problem is that it is an unstable strategy. FLoC is strictly worse for privacy-conscious users if trackers don't change their strategy, and it is also strictly worse for trackers to stop using their current tracking techniques.

It is a bit like the prisoner dilemma.
Theae stats are often quoted by Musk and Tesla to suggest that driverless cars are here and safer than human drivers, and the only thing preventing them are regulators. They are never quoted to imply that driver assistance makes driving safer, which i believe they would.

So, one has to compare computer vs human. In fact, more than that. One cannot compare modern technology to one from the previous century. So one must compare computer to the best passive driver assistance that one can develop for humans. So Tesla must compare a driverless solution to their own driver assistance solutions aiding drivers, and not the "average car on the road"
I was blown away that the service has been around for so long yet the process of installing packages was so manual
Zenly: A map for your family and friends
Putting others at risk is harm. The amount of harm was larger than expected, but that doesn’t excuse the intent to cause harm anymore than someone dying during a beating is excused because they didn’t mean it.

Reckless Endangerment for example is inherently a criminal offense even if no one was injured.
Elements of Programming: Fundamental Data Structures
if you want to kill your battery, yes, it does make a very inefficient (small area) ionizing radiation detector. Keep in mind that the size of the sensor is O(1 cm^2). It would be easier if the phone had a shutter.

Look up Crayfis or DECO.
For those who are interested in playing around with printer vulnerabilities[0], a lot of them had been scanned by shodan[1].

[0] - http://hacking-printers.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[1] - https://www.shodan.io/search?query=HP+printer
Good old asp.net
WebRTC only works on certain browsers and platforms.
Who are the last 5 people to have left this group and why did they leave?

Honestly, I never much cared about company 'culture'. They'll always fib anyhow. If the work was sufficiently sexy, take the job, give them six months to see if it sucks in some other way. Usually you can clear a decent campsite for yourself. I've only had to bail on three jobs after giving them a shot for half a year.
It is the users fault,

but to honest, when left to its own devices the car drove at high speed into a tree. Its not a subtle obstacle. If the car can't figure out what is going on in this senario, thats not a good look.

Diving autonomously is hard, but not running into static obstacles seems one of the more basic things.
HLSL Pixel Shaders with D3d9 SDL_Renderer
The whole front corner wrapped around the tree. That's a highway-style crash, so figure 50+ mph I'm guessing? I have a hard time imagining the front passenger survived the impact given the way the cockpit collapsed, but maybe the back passenger was trapped.
Depends on the size of the function. If these are literal one liners: don't break them up. When they are shared between multiple pieces it's more useful. Ie: submit request has multiple callers.
This has been my same experience for what it's worth. Folks whose parents told them they hung the moon who won't accept a living wage for a hard day's work. Not bad people at all for the most part. But they think their entry-level skills should earn $35+/hour.

Worse yet, I work with a handful of guys who are making $22-28/hour to do a $20/hour job and they can't stop complaining about how boring and repetitive it is. For most of them, they went to trade school and have no idea how good they have it at this company.

If I'm not getting paid what I'm worth, I move on. If I can't find someone to pay me what I think I'm worth, I reevaluate my skillset. If no one is willing to pay you what you think you're worth, you're probably not worth that. And if a job is paying you more than the going rate for your skill, you shut up and do a damn good job.

And, finally, maybe it's how I was raised, but whatever I'm doing - whether it's beneath me or doesn't pay shit - I do a damn good job, because if I'm going to do something, I do it right.
I'm building OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) - it's (yet another) uptime monitor, with a twist.

Key differentiator being that it also does page speed monitoring (actual page speed metrics like first contentful paint and largest contentful paint), and tracks your page's resource size over time.

Currently in alpha, with a free tier if you want to check it out.
Less Is Often More
I’ve never used the pro version, which I think is just more specialized features on top of the core framework.
Abolish the police.
It is a criminal institution of thugs and mercenaries.
“do you need to be arrested?”
There is no excuse for any police department to exist anywhere at any time.
It only serves the rich and the powerful and their needs.

Law enforcement is different than community caretaking and the people who execute the responsibilities and authority of these necessary societal functions should be different people. There should be sheriffs deputies and highway patrol officers to handle matters of purely criminal felony and civic disorder(speeding included in the last with substantial risk of the first) and all misdemeanor crimes considered matters for community caretakers(who should guilt and manipulate people into civically orderly behavior while providing them benefits that police won’t offer, like addict rehabilitation, employment opportunities, social and practical skills training, psychological therapy, interventions, and diverse other roles). Then for any serious violent situations we should have civil militia agencies with fully trained, bonded, and sworn militia members who are authorized to carry and to use lethal force and specifically equipped with comms to coordinate their activity with sheriffs departments(no authority to arrest, provides civilian muscle to assist in law enforcement protection).
Of the three, only the latter should ever be authorized to use lethal force in anything but a self defense scenario, and the community caretakers should primarily be armed with non lethal methods.

None of this would apply of course to places like detroit where it does make sense to shoot first and ask questions later, but i defer my racist leanings by suggesting communities with internal issues should be under a mandate to internally recruit their policing. Eliminate the excuse and you eliminate the problem.

None of this would be hard for any western nation to accomplish All of the countries and locales where elements of this structure already exist are way happier places to live. There is no excuse. The only reason we have the structure we do is because of unmitigated authoritarian elitism. Defending it means defending totalitarian mindsets.
In my view, there might be uses for different kinds of units, depending on what you care about. Nanometers are interesting to me because they relate to progress in lithography technology. Nodes or gates per acre tells us something. Achievable information storage or bandwidth per acre tells us something else.
When writing code that is mathematical, I firmly believe "descriptive" names are an anti-pattern. To figure out what anything complex is doing, I'm going to have write the equations on paper anyway, and a matrix called G instead of adjecencyMatrix speeds that process along greatly. Even better, if the variable names are sufficient short and mathy, I may not need to translate back to paper, since the equations become more recognizable in place.

This zealotry a lot of devs have over descriptive names needs boundaries.
Aka the numbers are made up.

Not convinced it’s a problem though. Intel seems to be doing fine with their farcical 14+++ naming
not sure why you're being downvoted.

Autopilot is not an AI but marketed as such, Tesla carries full responsibility for these deaths as well as false and misleading advertising.

Waymo may not be much further away in terms of technology, but at least they don't broadcast irresponsible claims as loud as Tesla does.
Interesting comment - someone else pointed that out too. Could be a good feature to explore.
PostScript has something really beautiful to it and I'm still in awe when I "netcat" a .ps file to the local IP address of my good old and trusty HP LaserJet 4M+. Elegance from another era.
Clojure/Ring + Datomic + React
Don't use a loyalty card. Duh!
How the heck was the car driving itself with nobody in the drivers seat? Surely that's a minimal requirement the car must pass before it engages autopilot.
Strunk and white, elements of style has a chapter similar to this article
> See why, it’s probably an extra word you can cut. Or at the very least, a convoluted phrase you can simplify.

This advice is backwards, for example. Try:

> See why, it’s probably a convoluted phrase you can simplify. Or at the very least an extra word you can cut.

Better (I’ll even use a fun comma):

> It’s probably due to a convoluted phrase you can simplify, or an extra word you can cut.
Simpson's paradox can be thought of as selection bias as well. To make the Simpson's paradox clear, consider the following simplified scenario: autopilot has more accidents per city mile, and more accidents per highway mile, but because highway miles have fewer accidents, and autopilot is tested on a much higher proportion of highway miles, on average it has fewer accidents per mile overall.
"Also, paying cash is yet another bit of entropy. Like using Firefox. "

I do not understand. I am typing this on Firefox. Felling the low entropy vibe!
Of course a full investigation is needed but it seems like a good case to use Occam's razor.

People with Tesla's often use defeating devices to overcome the measures against unsafe use, there are many videos on Youtube of people doing just that. It's colloquially known that people are attaching small weights etc in order to do that, pretty basic stuff. Also software often has bugs, it's known for Tesla to release software under the "not ready for daily use, use at own risk" pretext. There are also previous known crashes due to the failure of Autopilot as well as videos showing failure of Autopilot where crashes were avoided thanks to human driver sitting in the drivers seat.

The other alternative is that these people acted unreasonably, crashed the car, failed to exit but changed seats before perish and the professionals who reported in and investigated the situation couldn't tell that.

Which one is more likely o have happened?
`sls invoke local` is great - do you know if there's a good way to mock dyanmoDB, S3, RDS etcc, with Serverless Framework as well? our python stack is lots of SF services and we are struggling with reliable testing
You're not alone. I've had this exact experience so much so, that we stopped using AWS Lambda, and switched to using the the various Amazon API calls individually and gluing together a pipeline using a job queue.

It's just so slow to debug and develop on AWS Lambda
As another response says: turn off phone is an option. Leave in another room. Note: I didn't say I'd carry this phone with me 100% of the time OR keep it turned on. These are good secondary rules to discuss. (Tangent: how do I know my work computer doesn't already do this?)
I don’t agree with any of what you conjecture. Assume you have much better technology as ours but we roughly correct in our current understandings of physics and energy. So let’s try building space habitats with square foot like our planet’s surface that can accommodate exponential growth in demand, really? Before you say well they will have a different habitat, that’s easy, we can even almost solve that, little DNA programming we can likely adjust our DNA to incorporate features that make earth’s atmosphere habital. Now the “incredible” resources to get here. It’s nonsense, the first arrivals will be automated probes, lightweight. Again we can almost easily do this and we just got started.

Lastly, the idea we aren’t looking for habitable planets with in the back of our minds colonies is silly, of course we actually are, we can make all the excuses we want to try and justify our real intentions.

We are on exactly the path I suggest they are likely on. Find planets, send probes, sample lifeforms if found. Send seeds. It’s the universal life force that makes us do it. It’s what life does, expand, replicate, grow, spread.
There's some usefulness in this idea, which is the core idea behind Unison https://www.unisonweb.org/docs/tour
> There is absolutely no benefit to a potential employee or the employer not to be up front about these things to good hires

I think you are making a questionable statement, specifically because you fail to describe what you mean by "these things" when talking about "these things or those things" can leak sensitive company information. For example, you would not want to describe what technology is used for secrets management or laptop security. What you mean may be very different, but that's the problem with the discussion: a lack of specifics. Everyone chooses to take the safest route.

> use the information they gain about company culture to determine where they want to work.

Yeah, culture, that you will inevitably talk about during your following interviews. This is a liability issue and game theory (again, because modern capitalism) dictates that you want to give the potential as little as possible when securing an agreement. Yes you can over-correct and probably do as a company for some situations, but it's better than the alternative.
"we're targeting fast runners, 5:30minute mile runners"

way back in high school, i was a 5:45minute miler, and hit 5:30 once. it was not fast, at least fast enough to win. sure, 5:30 isn't a walk, but maybe my views on the mile speeds are skewed because i was in it.??
The only profit center is a customer whose check hasn't bounced.
Didn't see in article, are these going to be amp links?
Mud weights once they get wet with that dirt
For developing API Gateway web servers on Lambda in Go, I use an adaptor, so it becomes a standard HTTP request, and I can just write a web service like any other. https://github.com/carlmjohnson/gateway For event based stuff… I have always avoided it for exactly this reason. Seems completely untestable and a pain to get working right.
Maybe we should stop using infrastructure that allowed eavsdropping in the first place, we'd be fine? Then again, if everyone used e2e security, our spies wouldn't be able to spy :shrug:
> the individual isn't really that badly off

I probably should have chosen my words a touch better. Beggars are certainly never in a good place in life irrespective of whether they homeless or not. I don't subscribe to the "welfare queens" rhetoric.

However, giving a small amount of money to that particular person right now does nothing to improve the situation. And, in fact, it makes the surrounding area slightly worse for the people who live there by creating an attractive nuisance.

Comforting? Not particularly. My mother had quite bad dementia. Without me around, I could have easily seen a path for her to becoming homeless. This is a huge indictment of our current government and economic system that having a mental health crisis can consign you to homelessness.

> if they're children, the money is being skimmed by adults

This one may vary by country, but I'll stick by it.
Charles Stross has a short story called "Missile Gap", which I heartily recommend. Just mentioning it relating to this topic is a bit of a spoiler; it contains the line "Humans are not useful. The future belongs to ensemble intelligences, hive minds". It appears to be online here: https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2007/fiction_m...

I can't think of any where a civilization coalesces or evolves into one being and that gets explored in depth; only where it happens briefly "and then they uploaded/transcended/melded with the God-entity, the end" style. I suspect it would be hard to imagine being in a single superintelligence, I can only think of them seen from outside by ordinary humans. There are a few I can think of which have one-mind/hive-mind ideas on the small scale:

Starship Troopers, the enemy bugs are insect-style intelligences where only the queen is really sentient and the rest are worker-drones.

Joe Haldeman's Forever War ends with a reveal of the enemy being a hive mind of some kind, and it was all a mistake. Seen from the human side with no exploration of the enemy except that they exist.

Peter F. Hamilton has this idea in a couple of his books; one is Morning-Light-Mountain[1] which is an alien hive-intelligence which outcompeted all others in its solar system. The other is a trans-human faction starting to go the same way, "multiple-people" who clone themselves and have brain implants to sync their brain state into one mind shared between all their clones. Only on the small scale of a few dozen bodies, not a competitive intelligence. They're smaller plot parts in large space operas.

John Windham's Midwitch Cuckoos, the alien children are believed to be a hive mind, as teaching something to one of them turns into something all of them can do. Also seen from the outside, we never find out about their origins or the adult aliens.

(In the film Avatar, the aliens have a tree where they can tap into the wisdom of their ancestors, it turns out to be a kind of hive-mind of the dead).

[1] https://peterfhamilton.fandom.com/wiki/Morning-Light-Mountai...

[2] https://classicsofsciencefiction.com/2019/03/01/rogue-farm-b...
I miss them too! It's not the Yahoo! directory, but I have a feeling you will like this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/
> another hard statistic to gather.

It's not that hard. Here are the statistics on police feloniously killed, over the past decade.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2019/topic-pages/tables/table-42.x...
> In addition, I'd probably use better sourcing than 'some unnamed guy we talked to'.

So, I see a lot of complaints about this, but everyone uses unattributed sources. It is realistically the only way to report on politics, unless you just want to print press releases, which is really more the realm of wire services. This is how it has always worked. (Even then you have to be careful; politicians often make press releases by leak...)

I don’t see an issue with pointing out that a lie is a lie.
Yes, I tried it once for a small job for a client, thinking this was so small that it would be really nice not to deal with servers or anything. Boy was I wrong. NEVER AGAIN. God what an unpleasant workflow. Even on a tiny job the disruption to my usual productive code workflow ate up way more time than standing up an EC2 instance and installing stuff. ugh.
The one time I lived in a neighborhood with a HOA, i found it provided a private pool and and a way for neighbors to be more exclusive, not inclusive. For instance, one of the HOA rules was that you cannot have any vehicle with commercial signage or lettering (like a plumber's van) parked outside over night. If my parents were to stay the night, the rules said that their pickup with lettering advertising their small business was not welcome in my driveway.

As I was writing this, the term "sundown law" came to mind.
My co-founder and I built https://napkin.io for this reason. We thought the experience of onboarding and stitching together services with AWS was too complex. With Napkin you can deploy a Python API endpoint from our landing page with a single button click.

We're actively developing this so any feedback of how we could make this better for your use case is welcome!
you wear knitted jeans? of all of the clothing items to refer to as unraveling, jeans would not have come up in my mind at all. sweaters on the other hand...
This seems as overengineered as Juicero. Technology for technology's sake.
Learning about the 3-plate method was mind-blowing for me. I hadn't realized how much I was just accepting this huge gap in my knowledge of how we build modern technology, a ton of which centers on "so how do you get an initially flat surface to make a reference from if you don't have one?"

Between that, and the lathe, you can build the world.
A lot of home owners use their equity to invest (typically, in another property).
The limit for me is the early 1980s. After that, the feature sizes get too small for my microscope. (Red light has a wavelength of 700nm, so things start to get difficult below about 1 micrometer.) And when chips have two or more layers of metal, it is much harder to follow the wiring.

Companies that do chip analysis commercially, and have tools such as electron microscopes, can process much more complex chips. The limit for them is probably how much you're willing to pay.
One way of looking at it: ask whoever owns that wall.

In my view, since he didn't ask the wall's owner, Banksy took his chances when he painted it. So they're free to remove it, keep it, or remove something else to restore it.

The value of art (in general or one piece compared to another) is subjective, so there's no objective answer to this question.
I did read it, but didn't watch the video. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
why would the gov't be in control of the mortgage period? That's between the borrower and the bank.
I think of ensureX as getting x whilst initializing it if needed
The outer space medium (with radiation and low temperature) coupled with interstellar distances acts as a very effective biocide, even against something very resistant as tardigrades. The way I see it, about encountering free floating extraterrestrial life, either sole or riding an asteroid, the most we can realistically expect is for complex organic matter, remains of once functional biological mechanisms, that would present in itself definitive evidence. The aforementioned natural barrier is a bit to high and too unrewarding for unguided evolution to address (regardless of allotted time). For something to be able to traverse long distance in outer space medium and avoid degeneration, the destructive factors need to be actively countered, therefore the other kind of evidence must be something undoubtedly engineered by an intelligent creatures, be it probes or vessels preserving organic matter.
>Which one is more likely to have happened?

No idea. "Professionals couldn't tell in the immediate aftermath" isn't that odd. Especially given the state of the vehicle.
Knight, Death and the Devil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight,_Death_and_the_Devil

Also the cover artwork for Channeling the Quintessence of Satan by the Austrian band Abigor.
Honestly I’m starting to think treating google like a security concern is the answer here. Lately their moves have been actively open web hostile. See AMP etc
Is this a new position or a backfill for an employee that left? If the former, why is the company creating a new position? If the later, why did she leave?