skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To build on your very important last point. Material handling procedure is something that I haven't seen mentioned here that is a very real issue too. Similar to agriculture or pharma where entire stocks can be thrown out if stored incorrectly, in many construction and manufacturing contexts your steel can be thrown out for not being stored correctly too (i.e. left at the port in the open for extended periods, or mixed with other metals). Not just steel, but lots of building products (like membranes) will usually be specd with how they should be stored before use.
The main problem I find with that is drivers don't expect you to be going so fast. They will pull out in front of you without thinking.
If you are in Florida and want to increase your odds a bit, go visit the shark bite capital of the world, where 14% of global shark bites happened last year.

https://eu.news-journalonline.com/story/news/environment/202...
onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat. But anyway.

Utility isn't measured in amount of land used or CO2 emitted or minerals extracted. This is not a Starcraft game.

Using land better increases the sum. Making energy production more efficient increases the sum. Zero-sum means that any of my gains is someone else's loss, which is not how any human society has ever worked.

A zero-sum world implies that any form of human cooperation that isn't literally war is impossible, which doesn't empirically seem to be the case.
$1 per 1000 minutes. If one 10 minute video becomes semi popular, let’s say 100k views, that is 1M minutes, and a $1000 bill.

That’s For one semi popular video!

This is insanely expensive for nearly everyone except mega corporations with huge budgets
,,We will probably have bad seasons and good seasons, as we do with flu''

The author underestimates the efficiency of the mRNA vaccines. Manufacturing still didn't ramp up to the levels necessary to vaccinate the whole world, but I would be surprised if the yearly mixed shot of flu/COVID vaccine wouldn't significantly decrease the endemics as well in the next few years.

As a personal example, my mother was not taking the flu shot, because she experienced serious side effects that were not worth for her in return for the low efficiency.
Outsourcing Python Development: Pros, Cons and Costs
Great article and expertly written. I'm thinking if you do offer per usage pricing and flat pricing, make sure customers automatically switch over to the cheapest so they don't have to feel like they got cheated on a technicality. I'm sure it also builds you brand's trustworthiness when customers realize you have their backs, that you favor long term relationships over short-term profits.
My issue is with the article calling that scenario "the end".
>Vietnam used AK-47.

This is common misconception. What you mean by "AK-47" is usually AKM rifle.

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

Secondly: SKS rifles were very popular as well in North Vietnam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS
Gotta love when a group of people claim to have categorically identified falseness.
In my experience, such fine-tuning tweaks do not make much of a difference on both capable and non-capable machines.

I've tried all kinds of optimisations in an attempt to make browsing experience bearable on my old single-core netbook. Went through the same process on my multi-core desktop, but just to see if I can get perceivable results. It was interesting, but ultimately a waste of time. Got no significant results in both cases.

After that, I decided not to tinker with about:config for general performance optimisations. As I see it, the best optimisations come with the browser updates, and going through about:config is only sensible when you have an urge to have a temporary fix.

Has anyone had better experience fine-tuning their browser?
Yeah but if that's your goal why piss everyone off and torch your platform?
You're right. They have two models built on top of the same frame. Why exactly do they need a $400 million factory?
My perspective on this as a data scientist:

Data science as a field (and as a job title) is broad and generally splits into

- research

- software engineering and data work

- product/business decision making

With many data science jobs being some blend of the three instead of staying purely in one category. And you can split each category even further. The point is that there is so much breadth that people can have the same title and completely different job descriptions. You need a disclaimer about this pretty much every time you discuss anything data-science related.

The article focuses exclusively on the third category of data science (as does most of the criticism of data science). So to understand the article as criticism towards the field, you need to take two things into account

- what proportion of all data science jobs are predominantly in the third category or involve any influence on business/product decisions (anectodally, not that many)

- how many of those jobs and teams actually exhibit the dysfunctions listed in the article

I don't have any numbers to answer these questions.

Personally, I'm interested in the engineering type of data science jobs (ML engineering, scientific computing and other adjacent roles). I wouldn't want to be in a position where I have to advise on decisions, or come up with justifications for someone's business/product choices, or continually have to come up with excuses for my existence in the company. In my current job search I have a preference for positions titled "software engineer" just to avoid all of this ambiguity. It's also very tempting to switch to being a backend developer or something similar and drop the whole data science thing altogether.
> With Intel, you know it’s been battle-tested for years.

This is quite an interesting statement to make in the wake of Spectre and Meltdown (and vulnerabilities in that class being discovered what seems like every couple of months or so).

It's a bit amusing to me how much we overlook clear, even huge flaws in products and processes because they're old - sorry, Battle-Tested™ - while zeroing in on lesser flaws in newer ones.
Then why not unofficially standardize its use in GCC and Clang's register-pooling subsystem?
Ubuntu too

https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2021/05/26/announcing-ubuntus-move...
Nothing ? It says current vaccines are potentially unable to stop the spread of new variant. The vaccine passport is a tool designed to stop the spread, based on vaccine, with a potential huge impact on our societies for the next decades..

It's absolutely linked. If vaccines were able to completely stop the epidemic, then the passport would be a temporary thing. If not then it's permanent and a whole different story.
Taiwan at the crossroads: China-free or China+?
There's the (controversial) concept of "Risk Compensation", which covers some of the same ground; when we feel safer driving (eg, when we start wearing a seatbelt), we unconsciously compensate by driving with slightly less care. There are two problems with this: the risk is often transferred to other people, and the magnitude of the compensation is not guaranteed to be the same.

The Netherlands is a great example of reworking the streets to make them better (see for example: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic... and https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-...). There was a large and well-organised campaign starting in the 1970s.
The inverse is true as well. If there are people who cannot find jobs, then employers wont have an incentive to be productive, they can afford to waste people on bullshit jobs.
This is a false dichotomy. Supporting dots in the email address is trivial, following the spec is not.

Furthermore, for a user, it is trivial to get another email address if the one they have causes issues, so it is not really an accessibility issue either.
Universal declaration of human rights, Article 29

1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
HATEOAS is somewhat useful even in machine-to-machine: hard-coded URLs in clients are kind of a PITA to support.
It is a nice article, but the statistics can be twisted as usual:

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

"Since 2000 there have been 17 fatal shark attacks along the West Australian coast[24] with divers now facing odds of one in 16,000 for a fatal shark bite."

Statistics that include people who never swim in open water are kind of meaningless if you do swim in open water.
The flu vaccine didn't stop the flu, it mutates faster than vaccines can keep up. You can make the argument [0] that vaccinating during a pandemic (during which new variants arise faster) creates evolutionary pressures that favor variants resistant to vaccines, increasing the chance that virus mutation can get ahead of vaccine development. (Which is not to say we should stop depoying vaccines of course)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PgIUDn__WU
Because teams want a cultural expectation of normal work hours. I am often a night owl and I’ve sent messages late at night and gotten asked my manager if I’m overworking and since then try to avoid doing it unless I’m responding to someone.
I'm curious where you live? Because it seems more and more cities are adding bike lanes and separate bike paths, and cars are already obliged to yield to everything else, at least everywhere I've lived in the USA.
Regardless of how significant the data science insights are, in the end the way you communicate them is through some sort of dashboard.
> I can understand it in games,it was the first trick for hiding a bad 3D engine, make everything dark, but it is not necessary anymore.

It's become necessary in movies and series as well, because stuff is mostly CGI now.

Look at Star Trek in the golden era (TNG-ENT) vs. what it is now. Despite aging props, the former looks real (if cheesy; color choices in early TNG didn't age well). Federation ships are solid, clean, and brightly lit. That's because they were real, physical sets. Discovery/Picard? It's all dark, and while it may also be a stylistic choice, the fact is that if they lightened it up, all the CGI sets and blinkies would stand out like sore thumbs.

On a related note: I can close my eyes and imagine myself walking around the bridge of Enterprise-D, touching the panels, sitting in the captain's chair. I can almost feel the texture of the chairs, the friction of the carpet, the glassiness of the panels. Can't do that with Discovery. When I close my eyes, I just see non-solid holograms. I can't imagine what would it be like to touch them.

Physically based rendering, as awesome as it is, still seems to subtly fail in reproducing various kinds of materials. Between various games (including AAA productions) and movies I've seen over the years, I haven't encountered one where a CGI piece of metal actually looked like a piece of metal upon closer inspection. Everything looks like make-believe plastic.
> We have moved away from a world of shared libraries, filesystems, and UNIX users and permissions into a world of shared-nothing

This is absurd. Fuchsia has all of shared libraries, filesystems, users and permissions. Probably even more of those than Linux.

And while I am a fan of microkernels, I can hardly claim that have become more interesting as of lately. In fact, I would even claim they have become even less interesting, since people are now taking seriously for some reason all the side channel attacks that practically make hardware-enforced privilege separation useless.
Avoiding DDoSability of your app (removing bottlenecks, scaling up replicas, implementing rate-limiting, etc). There are probably some rare cases where captcha is useful, though. For example some account creations where you wish to have more human accounts created, especially if you need to later manually approve them by humans (verifying documents, etc) and don't want to deal with thousands of cat photos instead of passport scans.
> N pieces of code that are mostly the same but have subtle differences isn’t repetition

Often, they are.

IME, a very common pattern is divergent copypasta where – because there is no connection once the copying occurs – a bug is noticed and fixed in one place and not in others, later noticed separately and fixed a slighly different way in some of the others, in still others a different thing that needs done in the same function gets inserted in between parts of the copypasta, etc. IT’s still essentially duplication – more over its still the same logical function being performed different places, but in slightly different ways, creating a singificant multiple on maintainance cost, which – not literal code duplication in and of itself, is the actual problem addressed with DRY, which is explicitly not about duplication of code but single source of truth of knowledge: “Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system”. Divergent implementations of the same logical function are different representations of the same knowledge.
Why an hourly rate? Isn't it a bad idea if you are very efficient with your work?
Transparency, and animation in UIs is terrible. Bad for visibility, bad for usability.
In conformal cyclic cosmology, there are no big bangs.

Once everything in the old universe has been reduced to photons, and all the black holes have evaporated, the universe loses its sense of scale, and resumes operation as a universe the size of a grapefruit (or the size of the earth - I don't think it matters).

I don't know how Penfold thinks this resizing is supposed to happen, for example whether it's instantaneous or a slow process.

I'd love to have a few beers with Penfold; a lot of what he thinks about isn't maths or cosmology, and isn't all fit for publication, but I imagine it must be very interesting.
People should note that this data cannot really be anonymised. This is because you only need a post code, date of birth and sex to determine who the majority of people are.

"A 2000 study found that 87 percent of the U.S. population can be identified using a combination of their gender, birthdate and zip code."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification

UK postcodes are more specific I believe.
It's pretty awful to never be able to advance an opinion I have because people will always criticize my person instead, and never answer the arguments.

The best tactic is to avoid talking about myself so that people can't find any angle.

It reminds me of several things:

* "do as I say, not as I do"

* "Kill the messenger"

* "Separate the art from the artist"

Generally pseudonymity almost allows people to express without fear of being judged.
I think the speed limits are more for the benefit of riders than for things they collide with.
That is a non-argument. I was clearly not speaking about the bare minimum, but about required in a practical sense. Have you looked at the Go gtk bindings? If not, do so! The Go bindings are way nicer than the original C interface, Gtk was designed for.
Gtk fundamentally has an object-oriented design. As it is based on pure C, it has its own thin object layer. However the "object oriented" features of Go blend much better with that design than the native C. Because you can build type hierarchies of structures and each structure type has methods.
I very much regret that Go hasn't made bigger headway into the UI space, but it is a chicken and and egg problem. You need UI bindings to write UI applications. In general, there isn't enough development happening, especially for Linux. And alas, too many new developments get lured into writing electron apps. And there are of course a lot of QT apps.

But in my eyes, Go+Gtk should be a great combination for the desktop, as the bindings have a nice API and Go is really approachable for newcomers - it was one of the design criteria to not have too high learning efforts. If anything, there could be more documentation on how to use Gtk.
And so far, my Go+Gtk programs can be easily recompiled and run on the Mac :)
Developing MobyCAIRO
> Did we really know what “5” was then? What is five-ness really? Perhaps fiveness is a set within a set within a set…

The reason it seems mushy is because there are two related concepts at play: a numeral vs. a number.

A numeral is the symbol: 5 in Arabic numerals in Latin script or ٥ in Arabic script; V in Roman numerals etc.

A number is the quantity, the amount being expressed: five (English), ḫamsa (Arabic), cinq (French) etc.
It's an artistic choice, it's not meant to say anything about technology. To the extent that it does say anything about technology, it's the HDR video of the present day that makes a difference.

Heavily chiaroscuro lighting is a trend, like the orange-and-blue colour grading that preceded it. It looks like the Expanse has gone for "just blue" with occasional red highlights. A side effect of this is unfortunately unnatural-looking skin tones. Absolute peak example: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5438bd1be4b044...

Look at what's highlighted in red there. If it helps, run it through an aggressive blur filter and look at what shapes remain. Face of the woman on the left, details of her uniform, the ship on the display in the middle, and balanced out with the guy at the back right in a red zone.

(Also this is why SF directors love transparent or "holographic" displays, because you can film the person looking at the screen and the thing being displayed at the same time)

It may also be a deliberate contrast with the dated future of 2001 and subsequent works where interiors were often extremely white and clean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiKFAwiKjBo

"'War crimes' are defined by the winners. I'm a winner, so I can make my own definition.".
We also got a number of channels totalling a few hundred names hijacked from chanserv, because of 'libera.chat' in the topic. No contact, nothing. We aren't even a F/OSS project, but a hackerspace. 10 years of a chanserv registration, gone, just like that.

The irony is that we were planning on a progressive transition to Libera via bridging to make sure everything went smoothly for everyone and that we didn't split the community. Now, well, there's nothing to do but just move cold turkey.

Great job, Andrew Lee.
Just got a similar email from zsh mailing list.
You should memorize them only for your own benefit so that you are less likely to produce them and quicker to realize the foolishness and incompleteness of other peoples opinions.

You cannot hope to correct people making these mistakes though. The foolishness is more important than the substance of an opinion even though poorly formed and provably so. Pointing the logical fallacy out to a HN comment will reward you with down votes and possibly flag your comment.
That revenue number refers to a very limited group of foreign countries.

"Universal’s high-octane action pic F9 has started its engines at the box office with a huge $162.4 million from a handful eight foreign markets, including $135.6 million from China alone.

The latest installment in the Fast & Furious installment also debuted in South Korea, Russia, Hong Kong, Russia and the Middle East, all markets where moviegoing has rebounded from the COVID-19 crisis. F9‘s ticket sales were as strong as pre-pandemic times, and marked Universal’s best start in China behind the last Fast film. It is also the biggest showing in the pandemic-era for a Hollywood title."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-offi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOhKULOL4o
But it sorts the comments based on karma.
Ban knives to fight murders!!!
My understanding is that the reason for the high mortality rate is its novelty. I.e., because it’s unfamiliar, it’s a big task for the immune system to learn how to beat it, and elderly/impaired people lack the strength/energy to do it.

Other cold and flu strains are less deadly these days as we’re all mostly adapted to them.

Why would that not happen with this coronavirus too? Why do we assume that this coronavirus will mutate more quickly than the other coronaviruses that are already endemic?
> What mainstream operating systems have made credible attempts to eliminate covert channels from eg timing or resources that can be made visible by cooperating processes across user account boundaries?

The answer will depend on whether you consider Multi-Level Security (MLS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel_security "mainstream". It's certainly a well-established approach if only in an academic sense, and the conflux of new use cases (such as secretive, proprietary "apps" being expected to manage sensitive user data) and increasingly-hard-to-mitigate info disclosure vulnerabilities has made it more relevant than ever.
My current Cortex-M4 project is about 40kB of code, and it runs at 48MHz. If I needed more performance, would just get one with a higher clock-rate. 64-bit has zero advantages in this context.

Also, worth mentioning that our safety-critical auditor recommends staying on 90nm or larger chips. That’s many of the Cortex chips, and the same as the original iPhone.
its(not, that, hard)
What is the problem with hard-coded URLs? It is certainly simpler than having to extract the URLs from some other request. If they don't change (and they shouldn't!) I don't see the problem.
You're really missing the point. There is no way to calculate a confidence interval for the presence of an active infection based solely on a PCR test. That is a yes or no judgment call made by a clinician based on multiple objective and subjective factors. Recovered patients often continue to test positive even long after the infection has cleared and they are no longer infected. Thus a PCR test on it's own isn't a reliable way to detect re-infection.

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/covid-19-diagnosis
Moldova reduced greenhouse gas emissions by about 70% compared to 1990
I don't know about conspiracy, but the general population hasn't needed constant vaccination before.

Maybe it's bad, maybe it's good and I suppose it's not that different than seasonal flu shots... but immunity by subscription still feels new to me.

If we take it to the logical limit, does that look like family subscriptions to McAfee mRNA edition? A flu is sequenced in London and x weeks later the vaccination is included in my quarterly update package?

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted a lot and I haven't even started on future doctor's office mRNA printers yet! Regulated to heck, partly for security reasons, vendor locked consumables and they use proprietary encryption. They have to jailbreak them in sanctioned countries and enterprising hackers work to decrypt the updates. You wouldn't pirate a vaccine! Would you?
Pretty sure it isn't broadcasting, because

> c(1, 0) + c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
[1] 2 2 4 4 6 6

succeeds but in numpy

>>> numpy.array([1,0]) + numpy.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with shapes (2,) (6,)

ie, numpy correctly recognises that totally incompatible dimensions can't be added.
I like the Expanse as a story and ideas and for the few characters that are worth it (most are flat drones), but its aesthetic is not very original , most of this stuff has been redone countless times in game design . Still great to look at but i think they could have done better artistically.
Wouldn't your view be in agreement with the poster? They aren't saying they personally believe there must be a right side but that the metaphor implies it.
Humanoid Attack: New Form of Click Fraud Identified Through Machine Learning