skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually the entire reason I learned enough vim to be dangerous, on EL7 and below they did not ship nano in the box and there was a project I was working on where we had a bunch of 5.5 systems that had busted network configs. That was a.. joy, to say the least.
Yep, this was the exact case.

I can't bill transit from all clients, but I can still do billable work on the train for other clients. No way to do that while driving.
> Over time Twitter naturally would have accounts with nothing but performative anxiety present

I had this thought two days ago—that Twitter is largely a repository of mental health issues on display. The next day I visited a developer's Twitter profile, and it was just bad jokes with a general theme of mental health. I created a new profile recently in order to interact with developers but I will never again enter into this performative aspect of the website.
It wasn't racist in my country at any point, as we never had any slavery (we did enslave and genocide each other, but we're all white so no one cares) or racial minorities even, besides maybe some Turks or whatever. And I was still told by some people that I benefit from white privilege.
First, you appear to be reacting to something I did not actually say or mean to imply. I was answering a specific question about the connection between "rich" people and golf. So the question was implicitly focused on class, and therefore my answer was looking at golf from that perspective too. Please note that this is not the same as casting judgement on the qualities of golf as a sport in and of itself.

I'm not trying to tell anyone that golf is inherently bad and that they should feel bad for enjoying it (although I do stand by my earlier comment on it being a display of having excess land to waste, at least if we're talking about golf courses in areas where it does not fit into the natural landscape and where available land is scarce).

Similarly, whether or not the class comments apply to you specifically is not up to me to decide. I don't know you or your context.

Now, to answer your question: I would say that the entire category of Lawn Games would be available here. I already linked the wiki page before but I'll do so again in case that comment gets lost:

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

There's also Tai Chi, or yoga, or just going for a walk, and we can keep going. Also, looking at my own parents, badminton and tennis are perfectly fine sports to play for retired people if your opponents are of the same age and you both take it easy. My mom plays badminton and tennis with her friends, and my father still likes to shoot hoops in his backyard. So basically, there are plenty of ways to get mild exercise out there, that is not an argument favoring golf over anything else.
Why? Facebook is not the sole large corporation in the foundation. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are all founding platinum members.
#2 is true for all years, not just this year.
Regression test keeps failing even after changes rolled back
This research clearly was "human subject research" and thus should have required informed consent. Their IRB is way out of line here.
The social tactic could have been changed from "we will revert all recent patches originating from UMN" to "we are forced to review all recent patches originating from UMN, and to enforce stricter scrutiny of UMN patches going forward." Second is more honest and also applies social pressure.
>worldwide

Because people outside the US actually see their doctors when they get sick? Or people who are otherwise older/younger/immunocompromised etc.

Don't just assume that everyone is a young healthy person like yourself.
Does the job count as a main project?
Personality test developed by Ray Dalio and Adam Grant
> Disinformation campaigns very frequently include publicly signaling you’ve come to a different conclusion than the real one you’ve come to.

I'm not sure why you think what I said is incompatible with this. Often the best "lie" is a carefully cut-out corner of a larger truth.
Help Me Track All U.S. Colleges Requiring a Covid Vaccine
This. If I saw a *d-daemon in the process list, I would feel I must research the origin of the name.
Apps and in-game purchases could be cheaper. In theory, Epic could pass all that 30% apple cut in savings you.
If you had flu symptoms, are you not going to go get a covid test?
It's a good one I'm thinking, because laws are literally making it more expensive. There are a bunch for other food items. The gas tax is higher so gas is more expensive, the cell phone market is an exploitative oligopoly even more than the USA and thus the prices are some of the highest in the world, and so on. The countries economy is now dependant on the RE sector, so that is even worse than the USA for many.

TBH if the USA got universal healthcare, the advantages of living in Canada would be slim.
I thought we know by now that transmission mode is more similar than initially thought? That is, it's mostly airborne for both covid and flu.
Maybe "herd" is an actual tool, separate from Hurd? Or "and herd" here is equivalent to "et al?" Impossible to search for though.
> For many progressives, workplaces are inherently political by their very structure and processes.

If so, then I wouldn't want them in my company. If I'm hiring, I'm (almost always) hiring someone to do some work, not to try to destroy my company's structure and processes.
> is not a situation created by the group of researchers.

As far as I got from various threads on the issue the university has been involved in at least two major time wasters:

* Breaking the trust model and forcing the maintainers to revert all already accepted patches on suspicion alone

* Running a primitive static code analysis tool that got overeager with correcting impossible bugs and not marking the generated patches as such.

> Proactively punish the whole UMN does nothing to address the real issue here.

Proactive? The universities review board signed off on that mess, there is nothing proactive about banning a group of bad actors after the fact.
The article makes a decent discussion piece. Such that it does seem that both are pitched as panacea cures for why the models sometimes don't work.

Combined with the idea that folks think models would be better used if they presented their uncertainty, I can see the direct line to models needing explainability before we deploy them.

To that end, why do you think "no?"
The problem lately is that airlines are still cancelling and rescheduling a lot of flights. So even if you book a particular flight there's a significant risk that the airline will bump you to a different one.
So the strong form of the phrase "free speech must mean freedom from consequences" implies all speech must mean freedom from all consequences, whereas the weak form would mean all speech must be free from a certain undefined subset of consequences?

That phrase is always proposed as a rebuttal to "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences," and always in the context that any consequences given will lead to a slippery slope. It doesn't contradict that premise at all if interpreted in the weak form, it only makes sense as a rebuttal in the strong form.

So either the so-called "free speech maximalist" side actually believes that people who argue free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences are referring to all consequences rather than any consequences, or else we're all just in violent agreement with one another, and really just haggling over what those consequences should be.
> - Sales of chicken noodle soup bowls ($4.95) in Harvard’s campus canteen increased 21.1% when costs were disclosed

What sales decreased in relation to this? Would overall sales increase if all food items had costs listed? Or would people gravitate to the meals with the lowest margins, figuring them to be relative bargains?

It's really not simple to draw a conclusion from the limited data set here.
direct (non-Reddit) links:

https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/04/m...

https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/cat-transparency-repor-...
If those marginal trips aren't already dissuaded by rush hour traffic, it's going to be hard to dissuade them with congestion pricing. I intentionally avoid rush hour traffic when scheduling doctors appointments, etc, but sometimes it's not always possible. And if there's focus on personal vehicles over transit, then people will have no alternative, they either drive and join the traffic on the road or don't go.
Because everyone gets to see a Yes followed than a No video.
Also, besides the classical "like button", there is a Respect button that signals that you are willing to open the door to the other side.
Hence, the nuancing and approaching instead of flame wars
I'm not a devops/sysadmin, but for a personal setup have had a great experience with pyinfra!

It's such a relief doing it in a real programming language instead of figuring out how to write a for loop or contatenate strings in some crappy yaml dialect. Life is too short to spend it on that.

P.S. perhaps people will enjoy my rant on this topic: https://beepb00p.xyz/configs-suck.html (discussed on HN about a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787332)
It does bring up something we don't always like to think about, which is that by contributing to the progression of very general technologies we often empower people/organizations who are doing things that may be bad for the world.

But I'm not sure what there is to be done about that, and it isn't limited to Rust (or Facebook for that matter), and I don't think this event really makes that state of affairs worse in any particular way. It just remains an uncomfortable and (seemingly) unavoidable fact of our industry.
Explainability is the new credulity. The existence of an explanation system in adherence to the NIST's proposed guidelines will in itself signal that the underlying recommender can be trusted -- without needing to check the actual explanations. The NIST proposals are interesting, though, and it would be a good challenge to make them work.

EDIT: adding commentary.

The four principles (quoting Hullman quoting NIST) are:
1) AI systems should deliver accompanying evidence or reasons for all their outputs.
2) Systems should provide explanations that are meaningful or understandable to individual users.
3) The explanation correctly reflects the system’s process for generating the output.
4) The system only operates under conditions for which it was designed or when the system reaches a sufficient confidence in its output. (The idea is that if a system has insufficient confidence in its decision, it should not supply a decision to the user.

What do I think Hullman is getting at with "the New Uncertainty"?

A major theme in Hullman's research, reductively, is understanding and then helping how people make sense of uncertainty as mediated through data visualization. In an explanation system, replace a the viz with a narrative of a solution process, as carried out by some algo agent, or with some rationale or justification, by as carried out by same. The process of judgment is now uncertain as well. Explanations are uncertain narratives. How does a person make sense of that?

The NIST #2 bar for what is "meaningful or understandable", without relying explicitly in the authority of the recommender, seems pretty high to me.
Keybase.io
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I swing between some kind of superhuman 'do all the things' productivity freak, and a singularly focused person all the time. When the circumstances are right, I will go full `sprint mode` and achieve a lot in a small amount of time. Other times I am in `marathon mode` where many-littles-make-a-lot and something much more complex is completed.

I have no exact number of projects, since my work is so intertwined with other projects, so the number varies often wildly as time goes on. But if you wanted to force a number out of me I would say 6-7 major projects and many mini sub-projects which get better over time due to gradual microhabits being cultivated over time.
Basecamp asks employees to keep politics out of the workplace
The research was a little more compelling than that, since they did use an automated tool to find the partial vulns that they could sneakily upgrade to complete vulns. That is a little more interesting than introducing an entire complete vuln in a patch and hoping nobody notices.

Still very unsurprising, but a little more interesting than how the work has been presented in media.

I do also still believe that Oakland was incredibly foolish for accepting this work and that the PC has almost as much egg on their face as the researchers.
Building a machine learning model to predict the NBA MVP
I don't think it's that simple. Even local produce is exceedingly highly priced these days. We've no shortage of produce, and there's no real protectionism going on there. And AFAIK there hasn't been any tax changes on those kinds of goods yet the prices are ever higher.
That article is drawing conclusions based on an incomplete data set.
Suicide with covid is a covid death anyway.
Looking at the Google Trends graph I posted in the sibling comment - that would make so much sense.
One thing to consider is RV camping spots which commonly have power hookups.

The the 2nd GEN Tesla charger has pigtail adapters for a lot of NEMA single and split phase receptacles. While it doesn't cover all (e.g. TT-30R), you can use passive adapters to convert to those specifically.

You can purchase the pigtails individually for under $50 each or $200 for a kit.

https://shop.tesla.com/product/nema-adapter-bundle
Only in theory, in practice success is measured by the associated metric. And as constantly demonstrated, anytime you measure people’s performance by some metric that metric becomes gamed.
Lead acid batteries?
> What they punish is the download itself, ie. the acquisition of a copy.

In some countries, such acquisition of a copy is legal on its own.
Not sure why this has gotten so much backlash. Sure, growth is generally a good thing and plenty of places are badly underpopulated, notably all of North America. I don't think this is the case with China. Much of the country is the fairly uninhabitable Gobi Desert and Himalaya Mountins. They've got a very large number of people crowded into a fertile river valley and the coast and it isn't all that great ecologically. They're seemingly well past the point nationally where the tail chance of producing more Einsteins and Teslas is worth it, even if the entire world isn't. I don't see how Matt Yglesias arguments apply here. Matt is making that argument for the United States, which outside of I guess Australia is by far the least dense of all developed countries. He wants the US population in another 80 years to still be 2/3 of what China's population is right now and they're roughly equal in land mass.
> Also, who decides what is "good", and what is "evil"?

Huh, Rust developers have plenty of opinions about "good" and "evil" on everything under sun. They peddle it non-stop on social media. So they seem perfectly capable to decide on that.
I really think this whole thing would make for entertaining content on one of the YouTube drama channels. Overall, I thought the kernel team was right to be upset about being experimented on without consent, but the exchanges on both sides had some notable incidents of immaturity. I didn't think the attacks against the static analysis guy were totally justified. They were calling him an idiot for putting in an unnecessary null check. To be clear, he then also overreacted, and that really made me think that it only takes one side to start de-escalating things.

The most disappointing response IMO was from the University itself. I didn't like how they deflected off the issue of why there was no IRB questioning of this. Just because human experimentation is narrowly defined federally doesn't mean you can't have higher standards.
California controls the licenses for smog test stations. I would imagine there’s a clause in the contract that says “California, at any time, may do random undercover inspections of the smog testing facility to ensure compliance” which the owner of the licensed smog station would be aware of.

Do you see how that differs from an academic randomly experimenting on an open source project with no notice or warning?

Retail store owners/managers contract out “mystery shoppers” to test compliance with retail store policy and procedure. This example is also nothing like the UMN experimenting on Linux, since there’s a contract and both parties are aware.

A similar example to the UMN/Linux situation would be an academic doctor deciding to randomly test blood donor screening by sending in HIV positive people to lie about their status in order to donate tainted blood and only telling the Red Cross or whoever after the blood has been donated.
> backpressure: your belts fill up

This is a very good point, and one that I hadn't considered.

I'm playing Satisfactory at the moment (very similar game) and for the first few dozen hours I played it I used building efficiency as my metric.

For instance, let's say I have a simple factory chain: miner (iron ore), smelter (iron ingots), constructor (iron plates). I would start at the output side and make sure each building was operating at 100% efficiency. This works fine on a small scale and can produce optimal results in the early game.

Later, I noticed that my conveyors moved at a set pace, and that I could easily find bottlenecks in my design by observing where the conveyors were either only partially filled or were stopping as inputs exceeded needs. As you progress, your factories get much larger. Checking each building takes time, and changes to the system mean you have to check each building after the changes propagate to be sure you've not messed something else up. It turns out that once you've reached a certain point of complexity, your bottleneck is more often input, not efficiency. Watching your conveyors gives you much faster feedback, and you can tell at a glance if you need to increase resource input into a factory "module" or if you need to modify your design at some point within than module.

This is mirrored very well in managing a team of software engineers: you can watch individual productivity metrics, hours spent working on problems, story points delivered, etc. - but at some point, watching the inputs become a more comprehensive metric. Instead of exclusively monitoring your team's velocity (output), you should watch the size of your backlog over time (input). By extension, that means you should ensure that sufficient time is spent grooming and prioritizing backlog issues to ensure that you don't have things in your work queue that are no longer valid tasks (make sure you're not moving things that don't need to be moved anymore).

If your backlog is steadily growing, it's time to talk about increasing your team's capacity. Often that means hiring more people (adding more buildings), which is the most direct solution. If payroll costs (power generation) are your containing factor, though, then your effort should be focused on tracking and optimizing individual and subteam productivity (individual building efficiency).
Pretty sure this has come to several times. And pretty sure I still don't see the advantages over s-expressions. :(
At least some swim meets use a light and a buzzer. I first encountered that many years ago at Gallaudet, a school for the deaf. I think that has become common at all swim races. It certainly makes sense to not exclude racers who can't hear.

I did note at the time that the gunshot sound put an extra oomph into the start over a buzzer. No idea whether that actually made a difference to my time, but it sure got my heart rate up.
>How is security research unethical, exactly?

Those being researched must consent.

The goal should be to further society. This research attempted to sabotage infrastructure.

Research should avoid unnecessary suffering. Kernel maintainers are overworked volunteers.

They must be allowed to discontinue the research if the stress becomes more than they can bear.

Read more on University of Minnesota's website and look at page 4.
https://www.ahc.umn.edu/img/assets/26104/Research_Ethics.pdf
It's stilted startup SF hipsterspeak: mission-statement newspeak synergy 2.0. Different BS, same results - fake af.

I think his nonverbals gave him away. If he were a more-convincing, greedy sociopath, I might believe more of it.
A lot must be really a lot - like large percentages of the year?

I went through the effort to sign up for all the loyalty programs and I travel some for work (or at least I did) - probably 6-12 weeks a year?

The loyalty programs were mostly negligible in value they provided. Some (like Amex Platinum rewards) were so hostile to get the value from it made me irritated to use it - not a direct hotel loyalty example, but a lot of them felt like this (calculated to give you the least value possible). Airline loyalty sucks and is a pain to use.

The CSV card was probably the only exception to this that I can think of.
Releasehub goes all the way to CD if you build out a staging and/or production environment. Releasehub also does super fast builds with buildkit. So it's CB->CI->CD all the way.

CD is the real end-goal and there is an argument to be made to be an expert in only one. However, integrating all the different parts of these chains and tools just adds more compatibility and complexity problems, which is exactly what Releasehub tries to solve.
Have you tried emacs?

/0.5_s (only half sarcastic)

serious tho Doom Emacs might just be what you need, depending.
Really we need to end office work to do something about climate change and out of control housing prices anywhere close to an urban center.

"Well lets go back to destroying the environment and making cities unlivably expensive, because I need to be forced to have 40+ hours a week of socialization"

Not to mention it is all open plan offices that everyone is so desperate to get back to.
XGBoost with LambdaMART ranking performed the best across all models(neural nets, log reg also tested).

Adding pairwise ranking with LambdaMART helped to solve overfitting with only some 360 data points. Instead of looking at binary win/loss MVP, I looked at the ranking of all players receiving votes in each of the past 38 years.
Something like this needs to be made commercial at a reasonable price-point :-(. It will help bridge the technology gap between aged grand-parents who aren't comfortable with modern tech and up-to-date grand-kids who live in far-flung places and are more comfortable with the newer methods of communication. Also connecting to a network must be made transparent somehow in these devices like Kindle's WhisperNet.
So that would be just enough to pay the bureaucracy, like in other foundations.

It seems they just want some influence and use it as a hiring bait.

After having been hired, you'll be asked to work on a legacy C++ code base.
Alternatively, I think the research could be done in an isolated experiment environment among consented participants. For example, they could ask maintainers to review some set of patches outside the context of Linux kernel. They would then ask maintainers opinions on the said patches using some form of questionnaires. If the participants are well informed the nature of the experiments, there would not be any ethic concerns. For incentive, the researchers could pay for any maintainers willing to participate the experiments.
Ask HN: Would you find a hosted service to get the best image crop useful?
I've built a service that a couple of my projects rely on. It takes a url, scrapes the meta data and retrieves the open graph image url. Then, it allows you to choose an image size and it returns the best crop for that size. I found it useful in two recent projects and thought about making it available to anyone as a simple API, like a weather api or addtocalendar. Think its worth putting up and setting up accounts... card processing.. etc?
IBM is acquiring Turbonomic for up to $2B