skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case just take PTO before handing in your notice.
Buying a Dell is not a mistake I am going to repeat.

They were good up to maybe 4 years ago, but since then their top of the range hardware is bad and their support worse.
TIL .. of bunny.net :-)
During the standardization of C++17, a proposal specifying the left-to-right order of evaluation of parameters (and other operations) came up and the committee got very close to accepting it, but in the end there were concrete examples in actual code that was worse of because of the proposal, so it was unfortunately weakened at the last minute.
What are lifeboat matches? Why did he out them in his ass?
Ironically, the paradox of tolerance is often used to justify attacking almost any opposing view, as almost any view can be framed as some form of intolerance.

I believe the paradox of tolerance as a useful idea is empty and bunk
What It Means That Kickstarter Is Trying a 4-Day Workweek
There are permissions for both. You can disable network entirely and disable access to X11/Wayland. You can use flatpak to lock down things to the point you can’t do anything anymore.
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> Influx has higher temporal resolution, and an SQL interface (its the SQL interface I don't like)

SQL was too limited, that's why they did Flux, their new query language. It's weird and has a learning curve, but powerful.
> Microsoft Edge got a decent native vertical tab solution before Firefox did! Edge!

Firefox has had the "down-arrow" Tabs menu, which does exactly the same thing, since, uh, about forever.
I agree with your point, e.g. data augmentation can be added, but thats pretty much it. All the other regularization techniques they use are neural network specific and cannot be applied to gradient-boosted trees. What I find particularly striking at this paper is that their method trains a single neural network which outperforms an ensemble of decision trees (XGBoost). Asking for perfect apple-to-apple comparisons means also comparing an ensemble of the MLPs vs. XGBoost. In this context, at least the message here is that XGBoost and/or other gradient-boosted methods are not anymore a silver bullet for tabular datasets. Boosting for trees was great in reducing both bias and variance, but apparently neural networks can achieve the same effect with a high capacity (low bias) and a mix of modern regularization techniques (low variance).
I mean, that's the definition of PR. It's their job. And the longer you think that your opinion is your own, the better it works. Confidence tricks work the same way. But I'm not just defying you, you also have a point. PR can't make people like anything. The target audience is already in some state, they came from somewhere, want something, already have some preferences, can be described to being on some trends. What effective PR can do is take what they have, and align it to these states, trends, preferences. Like how it's said in the movies, hypnotics can't make you do something you don't want to do, or something that makes no sense to you. The "seeds" have to already be there for it to work. Now I'm not sure about hypnosis, but PR, propaganda, advertisement works this way.

And this is in no way exclusive to Disney, or PR. It's natural to want others to do something for you. PR is just the current legal way to describe this effort.
Telegraf's USP is that its an anything to anything converter. Which is invaluable when you are supporting a whole bunch of mixed stuff.

I'm not sure OpenTelemtry is a replacement for actual designed metrics though. Its great for getting info about the state of an instance of something. but thats only half the picture. Building meaningful alerts of just raw telemetry is hard.
It is observable in the aggregate statistics. x% of people voted for so-and-so candidate.
These follow ups aren't super compelling IMO.

> To do this, the first and smallest step will be to phase out the BinaryPack library and make sure we run a more extensive testing on any third-party libraries we work with in the future.

Sure. Not exactly a structural fix. But maybe worth doing. Another view would be that you've just "paid" a ton to find issues in the BinaryPack library, and maybe should continue to invest in it.

Also, "do more tests" isn't a follow up. What's your process for testing these external libs, if you're making this a core part of your reliability effort?

> We are currently planning a complete migration of our internal APIs to a third-party independent service. This means if their system goes down, we lose the ability to do updates, but if our system goes down, we will have the ability to react quickly and reliably without being caught in a loop of collapsing infrastructure.

Ok, now tell me how you're going to test it. Changing architectures is fine, but until you're running drills of core services going down, you don't actually know you've mitigated the "loop of collapsing infrastructure" issue.

> Finally, we are making the DNS system itself run a local copy of all backup data with automatic failure detection. This way we can add yet another layer of redundancy and make sure that no matter what happens, systems within bunny.net remain as independent from each other as possible and prevent a ripple effect when something goes wrong.

Additional redundancy isn't a great way of mitigating issues caused by a change being deployed. Being 10x redundant usually adds quite a lot of complexity, provides less safety than it seems (again, do you have a plan to regularly test that this failover mode is working?) and can be less effective than preventing issues getting to prod.

What would be nice to see if a full review of the detection, escalation, remediation and prevention for this incident.

More specifically, the triggering event here, the release of a new version of software, isn't super novel. More discussion of follow ups that are systematic improvements to the release process would be useful. Some options:

- Replay tests to detect issues before landing changes

- Canaries to detect issues before pushing to prod

- Gradual deployments to detect issues before they hit 100%

- Even better, isolated gradual deployments (i.e. deploy region by region, zone by zone) to mitigate the risk of issues spreading between regions.

Beyond that, start thinking about all the changing components of your product, and their lifecycle. It sounds like here some data file got screwed up as it was changed. Do you stage those changes to your data files? Can you isolate regional deployments entirely, and control the rollout of new versions of this data file on a regional basis? Can you do the same for all other changes in your system?
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> It’s too generalist for safety critical applications. A DSL is a much better fit, restricting operations and possible side effects to a minimum.

That's exactly what Ada's 'SPARK' subset provides. SPARK can be formally verified, which may be valuable for highly critical work.

Also, your criticism applies just as well to C, and even more so to C++, but those languages see plenty of use in safety-critical domains.

> At the same time, it’s very abstract and somewhat esoteric, meaning capable developers and tools are hard to find.

Ada's concepts are not particularly abstract, and are not particularly difficult to learn. A C/C++ programmer should be able to transition to Ada without too much trouble, as it's somewhat different but it's still a statically typed imperative language. It's not like Haskell where you'd need to re-learn the very basics.

Transitioning from C++ to Ada would be less of a leap than transitioning from C++ to, say, JavaScript.
And this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agsUU9i__hc
old white men? rich white men?

I think the pattern of animosity is quite clear and nothing special. Same old, same old.
I completely agree, especially on the usability of Graphite.
Casual users can create own dashboards - just get the data into Graphite.

InfluxDB has some additional advantages, but they meed medium to large scale or advanced use to matter.

For my use case (smaller, simple environment), Graphite is great.
Despite the large numbers of birds killed by cats in gardens, there is no clear scientific evidence that such mortality is causing bird populations to decline. This may be surprising, but many millions of birds die naturally every year, mainly through starvation, disease or other forms of predation. There is evidence that cats tend to take weak or sickly birds.

We also know that of the millions of baby birds hatched each year, most will die before they reach breeding age. This is also quite natural, and each pair needs only to rear two young that survive to breeding age to replace themselves and maintain the population.

It is likely that most of the birds killed by cats would have died anyway from other causes before the next breeding season, so cats are unlikely to have a major impact on populations. If their predation was additional to these other causes of mortality, this might have a serious impact on bird populations.

Those bird species which have undergone the most serious population declines in the UK (such as skylarks, tree sparrows and corn buntings) rarely encounter cats, so cats cannot be causing their declines. Research shows that these declines are usually caused by habitat change or loss, particularly on farmland.

From https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-...
The assumption that DID has to be in a public chain is flawed.
You should really look at DID use as a mechanism to decentralised the use of certificates. In my mind its definitely not not very different from PKI based certificates or any token based solution like OAuth. The difference is its potential to be decentralised.
Slighlty offtopic but what about the big outage from a few days/weeks ago where half the Internet was down (exaggerating only a little bit), has there been a postmortem I missed?
Obligatory "Office Space" quote : "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care". Maybe your workplace is uninspiring? Maybe everywhere you've worked it uninspiring? Many workplaces are inefficient. Not surprising if you can get stuff done in fraction of the time. Have you got kids yet? If not, that might explain your issues. ;) Once you have kids its a much as you can do to get work done, look after kids and be a good parent, and do a few hobbies besides. No time for feeling guilty for not doing enough. ;)
>>Do these people genuinely have freedom to contract?

Yes, and if they didn't, a court, made up of a jury of their peers, would find the contract void, as contracts require informed/genuine consent.

>>If there's only one employer in town (or a range of employers offering the same conditions), then that freedom is moot.

Even in the late 19th century, workers in company towns had market options:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/01/in...

And in any case, that situation is exceedingly rare, especially in the modern highly urbanized economy, where a large and growing percentage of the population lives in high population metropolises with thousands of employers.

>>There needs to be equal forces pushing up and down on workers' rights.

I disagree with this assessment, based on the empirical evidence, which shows wages consistently rise in lockstep with per capita GDP. What gives workers bargaining power is companies seeing their productivity and revenue rise, and as a consequence, bidding more for workers' services as they compete with other employers. That's the dynamic behind wages in China tripling over the last twenty years.
Intellisense for Typescript gives you a sort of stenography with zero time investment. I barely type anything in full except definitions or strings.
HR? Or PR?

It's easy to allow and promote freedom of expressing thoughts, any thoughts, even controversial thoughts, if you're an underdog in an underdog industry, whose existence and success depends on being free to think up and try weird things. FAANG of today is not that.

FAANG is a bunch of good ol' megacorps now[0]. They're very sensitive about their stock price, about their relationships with investors, customer base. These things are strongly and negatively affected by media controversies, so corps obviously want to minimize such stories. This is how you get a trigger-happy HR: they become the internal enforcement arm of company's ongoing PR efforts.

I haven't seen a company that's actually ruled by their HR department. All I've seen is HR protecting their company - and the way this protection looks depends on the company's position and culture. They will absolutely fight for freedom of expression for as long as the company itself needs it to survive and grow.

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[0] - I think it's important to repeat because people old enough to remember how they started, who were adjacent to hacker culture back then, sometimes cling to that image of a bunch of geeks trying to make something about the world better. I know I do, I have to keep reminding myself that Big Tech is just a collection of run-of-the-mill multinationals. They may happen to employ a lot of software developers, some (few) of which work on cutting-edge problems, but they're just corporations, like all other corporations, like all the corporations the hacker culture of yore used to mock.
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Oh I see, so because someone chooses to get facial tattoos they don't deserve to be treated like a human being?

I forgot that human rights are just guidelines, my bad.
None of those things were really the result of some top down utopian master plan, though. The closest might be the enlightenment if you consider the rewards for book finding granted by wealthy benefactors, but it was fundamentally a backward looking "Revolution" that was based on worship of the ancients.

The "scientific revolution", is not really a well known or unambiguous label, the growth of science being a long term trend. And it's worth observing that a major part of the present day corruption of science with the replication crisis, the junk sociological sciences and so on, are the result of an explicit top down utopian plan by governments to make a better tomorrow by funding academics.
It looks really cool (I love the flat poly aesthetic), however some hopefully helpful feedback:

- Framerate isn't wonderful (20 - 30 fps on my laptop, which will happily run graphically more intensive JS demos at 60fps usually), and I see you're using React: is using a relatively heavy framework the best way to go here? Possibly this is fine and the optimisation is required in other areas instead (e.g., are you creating loads of garbage?),

- Car physics and handling is way off: clearly for this game realistic handling probably isn't the goal, but it's bad by the standards of more recent arcade racers (Burnout et al, Cel Damage for something that has a slightly similar aesthetic), or 1980s style 2D racers like OutRun (or more recently 80s/early 90s-esque racing games).

It's certainly an interesting demo - and, as I say, I love the way it looks - but in terms of demonstrating ClojureScript as a viable platform for game development, definitely needs more work. And in terms of this being a game, it's a long way from that: no objectives, no other drivers (depending on the objectives, may or may not be required), no hazards, pickups, etc., no sound, and so on.
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Perhaps I am way of base here. But it seems to me like MTF athletes simply should not be allowed in sports where testosterone would be considered doping (or some other criterion to determine whether having been biologically male is a significant advantage).

My proposal would clearly suck for MTF athletes. They'd be forced to either drop from competitions, or compete in the men's league. An MTF athlete competing in a men's league is likely to experience disphoria. It will also probably attract people saying "Look they are still a man, they are even in the mens league!". Both of these would be very hard to handle for MTF athletes. Probably causing many of them to drop from professional competition.

I hope this would be addressed partially by not having a "mens league" but an "open league" and a "womens league".

But otherwise, I think this is acceptable fallout to keep athletic competition fair. Yes, this policy will harm MTF athletes, and that is simply unfair. But the alternate policy is even more unfair. It might not harm individual MTF athletes, but it harms the acceptance of trans people in wider society a lot. Moreover, it harms athletes in general a lot.

In the end, I feel the following harsh sentiment. If you are truly MTF, then transitioning is probably more important than keeping your profession. It really sucks to force people to give up their profession when they are already going through a tough time. But I don't see any other way.
Have you looked into auditing classes?

If you aren't familiar with it, you can join the class but ungraded and for no credit. So you have less pressure, but still learn. The details of how it works varies by school and instructor, but sometimes you don't have to pay full tuition, and often don't have to actually do all the work. It is intended for exactly what you are talking about - learning material from a course without it actually being part of a degree path.
> It's weird and has a learning curve, but powerful.

I don't doubt that, but teaching it to business analysts, product owners and the like is a real headache.

I'm sure I would grow to love it, but then it would require me to make dashboards for other people. Getting them to make them themselves is living the dream
Masks reduce the spread of respiratory diseases in hospitals. People have known this for more than a century. Many tests have confirmed it for many different diseases. Masks also work outside of hospitals. Sars-cov-2 spreads like other common respiratory diseases. Therefore, masks reduce the spread of sars-cov-2.

We see this in data. Washington [0], Vermont [1], and Maine [2] all got mask mandates last summer. These states have had half the number of cases [3] as other northern-US states which waited many more months before requiring their citizens to wear masks in public indoor spaces.

[0] https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-announces-stat...

[1] https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/24/scott-orders-mask-mandate/

[2] https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/health/coronavi...

[3] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areasRegional=uswa&area...
I have the worst handwriting I know of. It’s so bad that I can’t do whiteboard interviews, I specifically request a laptop with a notepad.

I tried getting into the iPad Pro + pencil workflow but it didn’t work for me initially. Even I couldn’t decipher what I’d written because the smooth surface made my handwriting worse. I didn’t think that was possible.

What changed it for me was adding a textured screen protector and Apple releasing Scribble in iOS 14. My handwriting can’t be deciphered by humans but apparently ML can manage it! The workflow of annotating PDFs and kindle books with the pencil very enjoyable after these two changes. It subjectively feels more productive because I’m not interrupting my thoughts by bringing up the keyboard and searching for keys with one finger.
> I didn't say it was. The key par was "state is managed seperately from logic."

But state is managed separately from logic pretty much anywhere where you don't store lambdas as fields of structs.
Who is saying they want to kill half the population?!
On a related note:

One of the advantages of weightlifting (at least for a middle aged cisgendered male) is that it increases testosterone production.

Significantly lowered levels can have some really bad outcomes as one age, ie killing energy levels, libido, physical strength etc.
And is there any list of all available bangs + also do we have an ability to add new ones?
Morgan Stanley to bar unvaccinated staff from New York offices
Why so? Is it structurally different?
I don't think they are capable of a revolution at this point. Their wrath can easily be redirected. You don't even have to put up a too convincing target, small overstepping of some arbitrary social rule is enough.
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A simpler explanation would be "pee-lover".
It was not that quick tbh. We were seeing intermittent issues for several hours after the initial problem arose.

It tought me a valuable lesson: make sure it is easy to switch to another CDN & to update cached/stored urls
Yes.

C/C++ is used over Ada just for familiar syntax. The coding standards used for safety-critical projects limit the features into a tiny safe subset, Essentially DSL.
Linters and code checkers and static analyzers check the code more thoroughly than the compiler does.

For example, all memory is allocated during initialization. No allocation or reallocation from the heap afterward. That's why you see in the weapon specs familiar magic numbers like can track 256 targets simultaneously.

Commerical code analyzers used in the military, aviation, etc. are good but expensive. I have used https://www.absint.com/astree/index.htm

JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER AIR VEHICLE C++ CODING STANDARDS FOR THE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMDocument Number2RDU00001 Rev C December 2005
https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
When we were self-hosting Grafana with an influx data store writing queries was actually very easy since Grafana provides a "query editor" to generate the SQL for Influx. Ironically that was much easier to use than InfluxDB Cloud's own solution (which now uses a completely different query language).

Grafana Cloud seems to mostly advertise the pull model, whereas we were really looking for a push model. I'm glad I figured out how to get that to work with Graphite, since Grafana Cloud offers both Prometheus and Graphite.

Now given that Grafana Cloud's free-tier covers our needs I'm glad we no longer have to maintain a self-hosted version (and we're definitely getting better performance now).
> Everyone should take the post with a mountain full of salt (just look at their post about systemd).

The latter felt more convincing, so I don't see it as an argument for distrusting the one on Brave.
Batch norm has an advantage for iterative methods on mini-batches, while XGB uses the full training set. Using batch norm on the full training set is equivalent to Z-normalizing the features, which has no effect at all for XGB as the scale of features plays no role at the split decisions of the tree nodes. Apart few non-parametric data augmentation methods (notice adversarial augmentation is also nn specific), I do not think any other regularization used in that paper can be directly/intuitively applied to XGB.
Welsh government suspends all future road-building plans
I think most ultra-endurance races tend to have an overall price where everyone competes in the same race.

I recall one race which had an overall price and a women's price. The same person won both and that caused slight kerfuffle.
I got the iPad Pro because I want the lowest latency possible. But later I realised I can’t tell the difference between the iPad Pro (9ms) and iPad Air (18ms). I think other people might be able to tell the difference between 9ms and 5ms, but I doubt it’s distracting people out of their workflows.
I want to run a laptop brand.

There is simply none normal laptops left on the market for pro users.
Nv Neurons are easy to breadboard if you buy the specified chip, that’sa good starting point for experimenting with this design since you can hook up some LEDs to see the alternating activation. Hooking up motors and sensors will be more complicated since you need some way of driving the motors.
It's been easier to achieve this on mobile platforms due to the fact that it's not dependent on old API's that doesn't take compartmentalisation into consideration.

I guess it also helps that mobile users are not generally expecting to be able to use the devices as general purpose computers.