skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't tell you what a lifesaver this is and we're so excited to give it a shot. One of the challenges of adtech is there's a lot of bad actors trying to defraud ad platforms and a non insignificant amount of our time is thinking about how to minimize (can't eliminate) fraud. Having this baked into Stripe is a small miracle for us.
Gender Identification on Twitter
There are some benefits to the Economist, such as the ones you mentioned but I don't know that I could recommend it, at least without a secondary source for what you're reading there.

I stopped reading it about 10 years ago for a few reasons. During the housing crisis the coverage wasn't as deep as it should have been and I would read articles that were nothing more than "nationalizing banks is bad" without explaining why.

Their coverage of US politics was also laughably bad. During the push to pass the ACA they overstated the GOP's position and willingness to deal. I used to get it from a library a few towns over so I would be 3-4 weeks behind. One time I was reading an article where Charles Grassley was being made out to be principled and respected and I'm laughing because he had recently endorsed the death panel nonsense.

I really, really wish I could recommend the WSJ, however they declined pretty heavily after Murdoch bought them. The number of long form articles declined and I was seeing less journalism and more ideological fluff in the non-editorial sections.
> Not linking to jwz's blog from HN because... he doesn't want it to be

I don't think ... that's how the internet works?

(edit: I mean the "because... he doesn't want it to be" part)
So...don't publish software? That's part of the game, no?
>Real Translation: Covid has made people miserable in their jobs.

I am far happier in my job and my career. And if my employer decides that they require people to come to the office, then I shall find a different employer who doesn't.
Sometimes when a package gets very popular other people step up to help, or take over. Other times the maintainer has a mental breakdown or just disappears.
This. It carries the dust to the walls and then you just sweep the edges. Just sweep it on the floor and watch it work.
This is an extremely odd request for something licensed as MIT.

Especially since the code layer is so thin. The project has existed for a week, and consists of 360 lines of python, most of which are get/set on what I think is JSON.

Edit: Geez. Half the commits are bumping dependencies. The project is incredibly clean and beautifully structured, but gosh...
Google AI outperforms humans in designing floorplans for microchips
If you skip the opinion section, reporting from business news operations like Reuters or Bloomberg is basically as objective as it gets while still not being a plain recitation of facts.
Seems that he wants pypi and pip to be the exclusive distribution mechanisms for his project. He wants to avoid handling bugs that come from his project being packaged through other means.

He misunderstands how nixos works and suggests that Home Assistant will be able to install his package via pip on nixos.
Not only unexpected but that's about the best reply possible. Nicely done.
From my observation they (at least Fox News) do report on all the same things, they just made the articles not fitting their agenda buried deep in their websites, and on their TV channel they don't report it, or just quickly mention it on their non opinion segments.
To be honest one of awesome things for work at home is it prompted to me to finally setup a half decent bagel at home routine. And nice coffee, weak and fifty percent milk, just like I like it. I am looking forward to 4 pm tea time informal chats with friends, two days a week, shortly.
Better take: Until you can't passionately make arguments for any side you are biased.
IMHO, moral outrage is just a consistent human trait. I don't think there was a time or era in known history that we didn't shame the other side.

If you want to look at TV entertainment, even something as "wholesome" as Lucy or Leave it to Beaver all they way from the 50s is chocked full of outrage at anything not considered acceptable at the time.
I run a web based bouncer on my cluster and VPN into its interface on mobile devices.
There was even a joke back in the aughties about Windows XP being "Jesus Christ Edition".
That and acceleration at launch will kill most cargo.
> in one breath he supports same sex marriage, in another he restricts certain federal aspects like gender dysphoric individuals being allowed in the military

These are incredibly different issues. For me personally, given that we ought to only have a small peace time army and we currently have lots of volunteers I support only accepting the strongest, buffets, most agile soldiers which 99/100 times will be a mostly male force.

When we have a war, then we can talk about adding more people, but fighting a war or being in the army is not a right and frankly the army is too big.

Now whether those men are homosexual or not is immaterial, but trans soldiers would require higher costs and more lifetime healthcare costs.
Yeah, they went above and beyond trying to mollify the original author, in my opinion.

I would have forked his repo, and said, "We'll be happy not to include any of your code. We'll just use this forked repo which is now our code."
It's an invasive species. It's called "famine weed" because it can cause a disastrous collapse in crops.

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

> It infests pastures and farmland, causing often disastrous loss of yield, as reflected in common names such as famine weed.

It aggressively colonises disturbed ground. It is one of the hundred most invasive species in the world. It causes huge losses in crop production.

https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/45573

> arthenium hysterophorus is an annual herb that aggressively colonizes disturbed sites. It is considered as one of the ‘100 most invasive species in the world’ by the IUCN

> In India, the yield losses are reported as up to 40% in several crops and a 90% reduction of forage production (Gnanavel, 2013). Parthenium hysterophorus is now being reported from India as a serious problem in cotton, groundnuts, potatoes and sorghum, as well as in more traditional crops such as okra (Abelmoschus esculentus), brinjal (Solanum melongena), chickpea and sesame (Kohli and Rani, 1994), and is also proving to be problematic in a range of orchard crops, including vineyards, olives, cashew, coconut, guava, mango and papaya (Tripathi et al., 1991; Mahadevappa, 1997; Gnanavel, 2013).

They are not fear mongering. This is a calm, evidence based, bit of research about a very worrying species.
Speed and Strategy (2008)
It's unfortunate , I'm an Enterprise Architect in Banking and honestly I wouldn't have let that feature go in production.

Businesses that do not have a legitimate reason to view my sensitive document like Passport , should not be allowed to do so.

Only authorized institutions like Licensed Payment Institution / Banks / Insurances etc... should be allowed to do so and AFTER they've been approved.

It's sad because you can tell right away that this will we be abused by Stripe's customers inadvertently. Just like Uber "God View" thats you view any customer ride...

Pretty sure the amount of "Identity Theft" or "Privacy" Scandal is going to explode with such technology available for everyone.

I don't know how a product manager at stripe could tell himself that "Yes , it make sense to give access to sensitive documents" in an age where people are seeking more privacy.
WhatsApp launched its first major privacy-focused advertising campaign in the UK
I have no idea, what this is.
It doesn't even need to be about an antagonistic situation. It's like any other negotiation situation. If you're in a position to and not really too unhappy with just walking away if you don't like your work, your team, your salary/benefits, an organizational change, etc. it makes discussions much more relaxing.
Deplatforming targeted one side of the political tribal war much more than the other, it was not just some politically neutral phenomenon that only targeted grifters.
The Civil War saw trench warfare.
> Sometimes when a package gets very popular other people step up to help, or take over. Other times the maintainer has a mental breakdown or just disappears.

It sounds like this author is looking for a third option, one that doesn't involve people management (1) or ghosting (2), and as far as I can tell, no mechanism for this exists that doesn't violate the current tenets of open source.
Related, I really really enjoyed George Packer's "The Four Americas" article from a few days ago:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-...
The format for floating-point is specified by the IEEE floating-point standard (or whatever it's officially called these days). C permits but does not require IEEE format. Most implementations these days use it.
The elephant in the room is that this sort of enlightened centrism, while it sounds noble, rests on several ill-formed assumptions.

The first is that, by reading from both sides, they’ll balance and you’ll arrive at an enlightened center. This assumes the Overton Window is balanced, stationary, and not tilted to one side or the other. You’re beholden to the good judgement of each side to not move themselves further left or right.

Another is that the opposing content can actually be merged. In many cases the content will cover different pieces of the same broad issue. Or the interviewees will present their opinions in a completely different fashion. Up to you to carry all this context in your head, or make simplistic summaries of viewpoints that don’t add much value beyond what is already commonly known.

The third assumption is that being at the center or having this detachment from either side is a political position in and of itself. I think it’s too simplistic to say you’ll be the net sum of whatever each side puts out, but you’re taking a position all the same.

You’re not obligated to give equal credence to the opposing side on a number of issues. At best it will make you more detached from politics over time, splitting hairs over policy stances at the voting booth instead of more impactful grassroots political action.
Bingo. And, the selling price of the building increased over time with basically zero cost to the owner. Sure they paid for maintenance and improvements, but they don't need to in order to benefit from localization-based appreciation.
Perhaps forking 'fully', and rebranding the fork, could be another option. That might help redirect the support burden downstream.
I've observed basically 2 sustainable patterns here.

1. Some kind of forum/wiki starts providing community support and increase community contributions pick up the burden

2. Some business starts supporting this component and picks up a lot of the burden because they fix things that cause them pain in their business.

I've never seen a single person passion project be both open source and well supported for a long period of time without healthy community engagement.
I won't say Fox is the only one guilty of it, but they intentionally mix what would best be described as "opinion pieces" with "real news" and don't really make any effort to draw a clear line between the two. The end result is as disastrous as one would expect when taking someone's personal opinion and selling it as a factual source of news.
But when suggested alternatives to resolve that issue, he simply ignores it and states “sorry, this is my wish” with no further clarification.

The whole chain is a guessing game trying to figure out what the real issue is (and in the end, it’s not even found — the author randomly finds an alternative he likes)
IIRC he had xscreensaver start spitting out error messages when it was old because Debian generally keeps package versions fixed per release, meaning if someone had a 2 year old but still updated version of Debian it would ship with a 2 year old version of xscreensaver. Jwz was tired of getting error reports for bugs fixed years ago because someone installed a the default "current" version on their Debian based OS.
Thoughts on Being an IC (2019)
Looks super cool! The demo is awesome :) How are you guys able to support retailers so quickly? That's insane!
The Economist strikes me as very liberal, and not particularly conservative. And by that I mean the traditional definition of liberal, not Democratic-Party-of-the-US liberal.
He's complaining about a support burden, and near as I can tell, his repository has literally zero issues on his GitHub issue tracker as of this writing, so the corpus of nixos users who have submitted issues is exactly, well, zero.

I'm not exactly sure who's being a "pain" in this case outside of the potential future concern that someone might wrongly blame him for package failures via nixos which is packaging it as an upstream dependency of home-automation.

I think I'd be more concerned about the latter's users!
Looks like the mobile strategy of Apple and Google.
Yes, I'll admit, I'm biased against slavery. Proudly guilty as charged.
It does, as much as talking about Sunday as a day off denotes Christianity.

Did you know that Sunday is a day off in China as well?
What would a realistic portrayal of an average American family look like to you?
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I'm a serial entrepreneur with three exits- most recently >$100M exit. I'm far along in a fintech startup MVP, about to do a raise, and am seeking a strong developer cofounder. Looking for someone with a lot of node js experience, maybe with fintech experience, but someone driven.
> Hrm. Mac computers allow this with Slack.

On Linux, Slack installs a custom protocol handler, and includes a hidden iframe with the slack://RANDOMSTRING/magic-login/LONGRANDOMSTRING URL. I assume it's the same on Mac.
I guess I fall into the idle fantasy category. I dream of quiting my job. I do look at job postings, but I don't see any better jobs in my area (that I'm even remotely qualified for).
I dunno...this attitude scares me a bit, that you would just shrug away wasted CPU cycles and accept the low performance.

CPUs are getting faster, and yet paradoxically, performance is worse, especially in the world of web browsers.

The original DOOM ran at 30 fps in 320x200, which meant it rendered 1,920,000 pixels per second with only a 33 Mhz CPU. That's less than 18 clock cycles per pixel, and even that's assuming no CPU time spent on game logic. If DOOM were written today with a software renderer written in C#, Python, or JS, I'd be surprised if it could get anywhere near that level of clocks/pixel.

These days, the basic Windows Calculator consumes more RAM than Windows 98, and that's just inexcusable.
A very similar thing happened when the folks at flathub tried to package MultiMC. Unfortunately the author threatened to sue for trademark infringement and they backed down.

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/1978#issuecomment-74...
Can regular government workers do that, or just actual diplomats? If the latter, just go for their assistant.
There is no obligation: legal, interpersonal, or otherwise.

Only the license terms that the software is released under matter.

Most FOSS licenses include disclaimers like: "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."

If you did not pay the author for support, they do not owe you anything.

If they choose to provide support or fix reported bugs, that is their choice.

The NixOS team can use the code regardless of the developer's wishes if the license allows it.

If the developer chooses to not support the software on NixOS or change the license, that is their choice.
None of the alternatives were something like "rename, so it isn't attached to them any more". I understand their issues, at present they can push new releases via pip, with this many nix users could have very out of date packages.
OtterTune is something that we have been working on at Carnegie Mellon for several years now. Your overall assessment of our approach is correct. OtterTune uses Bayesian Optimization, either with a GP or DNN as the surrogate model to predicate how the objective function will change for a given set of knob values. We then run GD to find a new set of values.

A lot of the tricky parts in this problem are figuring out what to tune, how to tune, and when to tune.
if you follow an HN link to that site it detects the referrer and shows you something you don't want to see, so it's more than just because jwz doesn't want you to, he actively punishes people who unknowingly click a link that violates his preference.
In our setup, we have a class that does the heavy lifting. The file where that class lives ends with :

if __name__ == '__main__':
fire.Fire(JobManager)

which turns it into an instant CLI.

Then we have a separate gui.py file, which contains the Gooey code. This includes the class mentioned above, and builds a minimalistic GUI around it. This does need some argparse-based code, but in the GUI we only expose a small subset of the full power, so we only need a little bit of argparse-code.

P.S. I'm not certain this is the best way to approach things, but it's the way we use it, and we're happy with it so far.
COM Library has a ranking system for news organizations that seems to line up pretty well with my personal observations [0]. They show CNN as centrist but left-leaning. This agrees with my personal experience, except for news stories in the "woke" category, where CNN seems to skew far left.

[0] https://libguides.com.edu/c.php?g=649909&p=4556556
His About page https://frenck.dev/about/ looks a bit weird after I read that GitHub thread

> I like to give back my knowledge and time to the open source community.
Cool. I've built basically two version of this previously:

https://ImpossibleFitness.com/exercises for fitness movements, lifts and exercises.

and

https://MoveWellApp.com/stretches for mobility training and stretching.

The goal is to make these more accessible to everyone and demo exactly what each movement takes.

Would love any feedback on things we can improve. We're 100% bootstrapped and are adding new movements + routines every week. Happy to add anything that the HN community would think is useful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM/

For some funny times.
It’s embarrassing quite how much faster the plain html version is. Proof that all the fancy JavaScript gubbins do very little to enhance the experience and a whole lot to slow it down
The Drawing That Earned Sir Roger Penrose a Nobel Prize
The author may well have plausible reasons but it was obvious from the overly curt tone he wasn't going to treat the discussion constructively
Is it known how much money Christel got?
> It seems like the reason is (paraphrasing) "because I can't meet the resulting burden of support."

Exactly. He made that point a few times, but the replies don't always seem to address the issue he raises.
Eastern queens NYC. A good 70% of the teens with me were south asian.
Please don't read HuffPo, they're as reliable as The Daily Stormer.
Honestly, I think the best solution in this case is to fork his repo from a version still under the MIT license and work with home-automation to replace their dependency.
Python ambee is a simple client library for a proprietary sass iot service.
I guess they want to control exactly how their users are using their service.
I lost the blog post I learned this from, but one way to do it is whenever someone opens a PR on a project you don't want to maintain anymore, make them a maintainer!

That way, the project lives on with minimal disruption to its users.
You can't always even get supportive viewpoints of some policies. If some policy is too unpopular with the base, they seem to just get very quiet about it, or discuss it in very general terms.
When hiring I totally Want gaps in people's resumes. I've even asked people who hadn't why and whether they really want to be looking for work right now at all.

I honestly try to maximize humanity, unhappy people can't do good work.
Just because you are legally allowed to do so doesn’t mean that you should. Hopefully you have a similar stance towards Amazon’s behavior in the OSS community.
It's being added as a dependency to home assistant, a popular package, so they are pretty much between a rock and a hard place. Ultimately, if the author of the code doesn't want it redistributed by distributions, I assume home assistant will have to remove it from upstream. It might be good for someone to raise the flag with home assistant since this is apparently becoming a point of contention with two different distros now.
You can live in a flat in the best parts of major cities comfortably, you could hire one or maybe even two FT employees to help you to cook, clean the house, take care of kids, etc. If you don't like the city life, you could also rent a small "mansion" in the suburbs (but then you'd suffer a bit with the internet connection, fiber only goes to major cities)

You could dine out at nice restaurants every weekend and travel around by plane every time there is a holiday and stay at 5 star hotels

Taking into account the minimum salary here is 300 USD / month and with 50k per year you are already top 1%, 100k gives you an unimaginable level of wealth. You'd earn about the same salary as the president of the country and more than most CEOs from local companies

But that would be if you spend all your salary every month which is not so smart, what most of us (bilingual developers) do is continue living a standard middle class life and just invest heavily, I invest more than 50% of my salary, mostly in real state and US stocks
We have another highly effective Covid vaccine, based on different tech
I only rent from individuals who own the home. People should never give money to the likes of BlackRock or Invitation Homes, who are helping destroy the housing market.

Rant aside, there's certainly nothing wrong with owning. I plan to probably settle down and buy this year in fact. I was just trying to show that renting isn't all bad, and certainly has some pros over owning
I wonder how much annual salary they lost when Reddit takes their subreddit away.
Not for software in US or India I don’t think. I am not manager but do lots of interviewing and OMG people who can code and think and talk are so so precious. We would hire all remote in a jiffy, unless asking salary is higher than budget. When it is coming down to it, my company is picking lower salary over in office.
Job searching with "stranger" companies becomes harder.

But if you leave enough coworkers who want to work with you again at each job, you can always find jobs through them.
The accents (and word separations and upper case / lower case distinctions) were added after classical Greek had become a learned language like Shakespearean and KJV English is today. They helped people who spoke later forms of Greek pronounce old texts.
So ye olde "I don't like distros packaging my FOSS project because they won't do it exactly the way I want."
Or imagine having to dedicate equal time in school to the flat earth "theory", which can be disproved by video calling anyone in a different time zone...
Indeed. But they've always had both a fancy JS version and a plain HTML version, and originally the fancy JS version was just as fast if not faster.
Raiders of the Lost Ark turns 40, and it’s still an unqualified masterpiece