skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries! I agree in part with your original statement, which is why I was asking for more detail. As a society I think we have too much confidence in our predictions about macro events, especially ones involving human behavior. Even the simple examples I gave likely involved many unsuccessful predictions before landing on the ones that were reproducible, so in a way we were likely poor at predicting even those events (20/20 hindsight). It's certainly an interesting topic.

In a way, we do fail pretty often at predicting, but if the gold standard is every other organism's creative predictive ability (as opposed to common instinctual behavior), we're actually quite good :).
There is a documentary about his time in Belize:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/18/gringo-dangerou...
I really loved Banks' work. Sadly he's gone. But there was always this split between the humanoids and the Minds. I want to be a Mind, not a humanoid.
Mariorod! As a company currently using GitHub issues, is there any way to jump onto the beta program quicker?
Why did he kill his neighbor?
IMDB[0] for those wondering.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6071534/
I very seriously doubt that a middle-aged white male economics professor (who grew up in the sticks in North Dakota, no less) is of the same political mindset of "the majority".

> students and faculty are wary of speaking their minds

If you're worried about disapproval of others, being an academic is the wrong industry for you. If academic freedom and the first amendment aren't enough to protect your speech, you'd really be in trouble working in any other industry.

Now if you're going to claim that in society at large you have to use restraint when talking, and that you'll be attacked by people of all political views, I'd probably agree. That's pretty different from what you wrote.
I am relatively new to this, completed one year at my job a while back. But I find Jira isn’t that bad. My teams have used Kanban boards to track stuff and I find it quite helpful. Sure, I forget to update my tickets every once in a while but it is a good tool IMO. So can you explain what you meant when you said the new UI isn’t better?
I've made a few friends in life who've done pretty much every drug under the sun. The only one that I've consistently heard described as "better than sex" is heroin.

Please, reflect on that for a second. Imagine going through all the drugs you could, trying heroin, and being like: "woah, this one drug is actually better than sex." It says a lot.
The fundamental problem with these types of analysis is that it is the aggregate and average of a large mostly sparse country with a large population. Between Federalism, local & state politics, wealth concentration, and geographic constraint leads to some interesting and costly quirks to our school systems.

It turns out that wealthy public school districts are extremely good and compete at the top of the world stage, and poor school districts are really, really, terrible and underperform on the world stage by a substantial margin.
It makes giant difference - tooling, community, resources, low level concepts vs getting stuff done

I remember starting with C++ - everything was painful/confusing and unclear. It was some older C++ and CodeBlocks

Once I witnessed C# and Visual Studio I instantly felt like everything makes sense, is easier, documentation is readable and productivity is increased, so I switched.

I could focus on challenging problems instead of fighting with the language.
> It’s rare to find a functional programmer.

FTFY

My (crusty old) experience is that folks who did CS in college at schools that were more theory-driven tend to have experience with functional coding. I don't recall being taught Lisp but I do remember having to just figure it out for class. Because the class wasn't about teaching a language and there was homework in Lisp.
How is IPA ambiguous when talking about pronunciations of words?
There were some very disturbing allegations against him --which is why I included his fall from grace and the good or bad.

I would just add some skepticism to the charges only because the police down there can be corrupt and or inept and subject to bribery and so on. I don't know if there has been an independent international inquiry into the matter.

Anyway, I think it's sad to see people when they throw away all the earned achievements in such a debauched way.
That was the prompt so the replies will be towards that
But somewhat ironically that was not what he was imprisoned for.
In his last interview from prison he said his money was all gone, his friends had abandoned him and that he regretted absolutely nothing.
The USA has a lot to answer for. Is a man's life worth taxes when we just print unlimited money anyway?

Disgusting. We rob the world and destroy, even so, collapse is coming and no amount of fake money will stop it.
Shouldn't that be a Catalan jail?
Airpods + iPhone/Apple Watch. No wires, nothing to put in your pockets when you're lifting and running. Who loads an MP3 player?
Wouldn't equity require not descriminating against Asians?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Crossing
Which poses the question - if you're absolutely sure you're not going to kill yourself, how could you make sure that everybody knows it and believes it? Is there a way?
BBC story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57589822
I honestly forgot he existed. He always seemed more like a mythical character than anything else to me.
> I feel like a lot of people in this thread are forgetting he likely killed his neighbor in 2012 and has been on the run since.

In America, we're supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. It's a shame it really only takes an accusation.
> Until 10 years ago gay marriage wasn't official policy of Obama

I think you are misremembering. Obama was actively against gay marriage and defended his views against gay marriage through the 2012 election. I think Biden was the one to first broach the topic in 2014 with his active support for it.
Charisma is a helluva drug.
Ghidra 10.0 Released
In this specific case she was a guest of Essex University and not a tenured professor there, so they were under no specific obligation to provide a platform for her.

Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology
at Britain’s Open University, was due to
give a talk at Essex University

To your point though, I wouldn't find it good for a tenured professor to lose their job for such a thing. However, even the idea of tenure really is meant to be more like "freedom from interference" and not "unlimited freedom without consequences", right? And of course the tenure track prior to tenure is of course a period of intense vetting.
No, the best outcome would have been a trial with a fair outcome.

But he went down to South America, started making drugs, and got accused of rape and murder. The legal system should assume innocence before trial, though in my personal opinion he was an evil man.
Expecting fully executable code to accompany every publication is kind of unique to the modern ML research Scene. As someone from a very different computational research field, where zero code is the norm, not the exception, this reads as a somewhat entitled rant. Reimplementation of a paper is actually a test of the robustness of the results. If you download the code of a previous paper, there may be some assumptions hidden in the implementation that aren't obvious. So I would argue that simply downloading and re-executing the author's implementation does not constitute reproducible research.
I know it is costly, but for actual reproduction, reimplementation is needed.
He never made good on this promise:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7qawy/john-mcafee-no-longer...

Kind of undermines his credibility.
Here is a good article.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financialasset.asp

Bank deposits are financial assets- which gets its value from a contractual right or ownership claim.

When you deposit money in a bank, they lend that money out, they make a return, and in a sane world you would receive interest on that money.

Using this definition of a financial asset, I don't think bitcoin qualifies, it is more of an intangible. It might be a financial asset only if it is held at a custodian.

Congress and the courts decide what a security is, not the SEC. The SEC is the enforcement agency from what I can tell.
> That is, say there is a plan on their site for a 2BD/2BA house, the floor plan is very simple and a builder that is unaware of this company ends up copying the floor plan for no other reason that it happens to be a very common floorplan. Could this company still pursue damages?

No. The ruling in this case actually covers this in detail: Proving copyright infringement is a two-step process, first you must prove that something was actually copied and then that the copied portion was substantial enough to constitute infringement. But the first part is a necessary precondition, without copying there's no infringement. They give the example of two comic book authors inventing a character called "Dennis the Menace" independently on the same day.
I shouldn't have used "sabotage;" it has the wrong connotation.

A union can organize through collective action a walkout of software maintainers. Few organizations (big or small) run automatically indefinitely without the hundreds to thousands of changes per day such teams make. The three examples you've provided (GitHub, Slack, Teams) often grow per-enterprise integrations to make them work the right way for a given company, and when those integrations crash, who will be available to restore or correct them?

Through simple inaction, a site reliability team can "cause" a company's infrastructure to spin itself apart by simply refraining from stopping it from spinning itself apart.
https://www.nacha.org/news/ach-network-moves-23-billion-paym... is where I got the data on total volume.

I took the 1% from you, assuming you got it from somewhere reliable or at least that you believed in it. (I looked for it in the report summary; I didn't find it; I assumed you got it from the full report, which I don't have access to.)

If the correct figure is 0.08%, that's almost $41B on $51T (more now, as the network volume continues to grow).
I don't think anyone here is arguing he deserved to die, but he definitely wasn't innocent either.
Does the artist need to be involved with an NFT though? I thought Joe Shmoe could make and sell one if he so pleased.
Github's social/discovery features are too strong - it makes it difficult to justify keeping OS projects on GitLab even if the feature set is better for maintainers
I hope there is security footage. If not, I don't like the trend for governments / organizations / powerful people in exacting justice.
And then he killed himself to set off moronic conspiracy theories as a final FU to the USA.
Spotted it had been bought up before me! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27608838

But the thread with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
Well, this certainly transcends traditional liberal vs. conservative dogmas.
>I think we should accommodate trans people as much as we can, up to and including letting them be legally be considered the sex of their belief as long as they have transitioned to some degree, by taking hormones or surgery.

See as they make up a smaller minority than most minority people in the US, I personally think that helping poor and working class people first would uplift them a lot quicker than letting trans people be trans. I mean it's great an all you get to be your own gender, but everybody will despise you knowing you got that way by tax payer money. If you got that way through working and paid for it yourself but were able to via worker protections and rights, the cultural stigma around it would be significantly far less vitriolic.
This is a community built around aspiring to be a rich freak, what do you expect?
Yeah, but the article is worth checking out
My comment was in response to the parent comment referring to cis-women's concerns as "TERF talking points". I am saying that cis-women's concerns shouldn't be invalidated, and that we can figure out a path forward that acknowledges the threat that trans-women may face in men's prisons and also acknowledge the threat that cis-women may face being cell mates with a person who has a penis.

Basically, I think that sexual assault in prisons should be taken far more seriously for everyone. That may mean every prisoner should get their own cell regardless of sex or gender. I don't think housing cis-women and intact trans-women in the same cell alleviates this.
John McAfee: antivirus entrepreneur found dead in Spanish prison
The experience of "coming out" (to me) was reconciling my sexuality with my family. In America, you're basically born straight and everyone in your family assumes so. The easiest part of it was coming out to my close friends, who already know that I'm not vain or chasing attention with it. The harder half is finding some way to frame it to your parents (and grandparents). Knocking on their door, sitting down in their home and eating their food is just irreversibly ruined. In some sense, I know it's my fault: I'm basically telling them that their bloodline ends here, I hope they enjoyed their transient acknowledgement on this earth while it lasts. That's a tough pill to swallow for a generation that's all about making the idyllic "50s family" a reality.

> To take it further, why phrase it "I am ..." instead of "I have ... desires"? If the latter sounds awkward, why is the former any less awkward?

I wish we could do that too, but if I told that to people now I'm gay and a freak. Society won't care one way or the other, because queerness is political now. You're either with "them" or against "us", and never the two shall meet.

That's just my view on it though. I'm only 1 (one) gay person out of millions, so take my anecdata with a grain of salt.
Because whatever he says in a trial becomes public record and widely reported on.
No, but if you ask me to call you a chartered mechanical engineer when you aren't then that changes things.
> With each goal I found I was less and less happy, eventually I took a boring job at a consulting firm that works with boring industries and Fortune 500 types. I'm a principal engineer and architect and it's boring as hell but it pays incredibly well, is super stable...

I relate with this a lot. Maybe it is that I burned out or its my Age (40 later this year), but after being 8 years churning along in startup leadership (as tech lead and then Head of Engineering in two startups), now I accepted an "Architect" role which does not have all the craziness of being "in charge" of the whole system all the time, and "herding cats" managing people. I am SO HAPPY now I cannot believe I landed this role, and I hope I keep it for some time.

I think the only time I am going to "run very fast" is if I make my own company. Which won't be VC backed (in all these years in VC land, I've not liked the VC model).
John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail
According to news story: McAffee's dogs kept terrorizing people on the beach, neighbor poisoned dogs, McAffee hired hitman to torture and kill neighbor.
This is a vicious circle. Gays or non-whites are now expected to vote for certain parties (depending on country) etc., and reap bewilderment at the very least if they do not comply with the expectations.

There is, for example, a fairly famous author (Ayaan Hirsi Ali), who is a Somali ex-Muslim, and she says she was having really hard time from the Dutch left when she lived there. Her ideas simply did not fit the preconceived concept of an African immigrant.
Should the title be changed to the more journalistic "died by suicide", or just "died" with suicide left to the article body? "Committed suicide" is generally not the recommended phrasing largely due to associations with criminality - see https://reportingonsuicide.org/recommendations/ as well as https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2018/10/04/a-guide-to-res... and https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2018/Why-Suicide-R...
the rest of us are starting with the premise that prisons have all failed equally, and find them equally incompetent at any additional vector of assault such as the one that introduces pregnancy

its not nearly as gendered as you are making it out to be, this a condition statement satisfied by some gendered combinations
I think it is the same reason no one has ever cared much about lesbians compared to gay men. [1] But I am not sure why that is.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lesbians-more-accept...
In his last prison interview he said that all his money was gone, his friends had all abandoned him and yet he regretted nothing. Sure sounds like a last statement to me.
Don't know nearly anything about the guy, but as a rule anytime an enemy of a government dies of "suicide" or natural causes and there is no video footage I am suspect. You can buy a security cam and a year of monitoring for a the price of a hamburger. Nowadays a 3 year old can't eat a cookie without there being video footage.

These should be assumed murders until proven otherwise.

If you need a reminder of why, watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJujIwtdk8w)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_al-Mabhouh
Do you really expect that the effect of „fully funded“ schools is measurable after only a couple of years.

It takes decades for any society scale effect to become evident.
I don't think your explanation of "TERF talking points" is fair. Contra Judith Butler it's not clear that feminism has any meaning without some essential idea of "womanhood". That is fundamentally what disturbs "TERFs".

When you talk about "this Goldilocks zone of womanhood," I think you've rediscovering one of the oldest philosophical discoveries: mental concepts and ideas (in this case "woman") do not apply perfectly to the world of appearences. But this does not mean we can jettison concepts and ideas altogether. In fact they seem necessary. So the fact that we cannot seem to come up with a perfect criterion for defining "biological woman" does not mean that we can dispense with that category.

And that's what's being asked of us. We are told "trans women are women". What does that mean? It if means "there is a category, women, and in that category there are trans women and biological women," that's fine with me. If it means "there is no distinction between biological women and trans women," that seems wrong to me and to the vast majority of people.
Yes

What circumstance made you think of that?
>2. Feminists (TERFs) who believe being a woman is a fundamental, biological identity and cannot be coopted by males.

I'd wager that most people believe this. Not just feminists.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609346

He's also indicated much more recently that any "suicide" wouldn't be such.
McAffee ended up doing YOLO to the extreme. Check out the "After McAffee Associates" section.

> In June 2013, McAfee uploaded a parody video titled How to Uninstall McAfee Antivirus onto his YouTube channel. In the video, McAfee criticized McAfee's antivirus software while snorting white powder, and being stroked and undressed by scantily clad women. The video has garnered over 10 million views.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#After_McAfee_Assoc...
- How big is your team?

4 Dev, 2 BA/QA, 1 Product, 2 Administrators

- What are the essential roles need to be in the team?

Pretty much the listed above, but with the added separation of build target for developer.

- From feature inception to release, how long does a feature takes? What are the process needed along the way?

Depends on the UI/UX due to the fact that we target so many platforms, if there is any platform specific UI/UX then that will add to the till release. However, most of the time this is not the case and we have quarterly releases. In order to go from inception to release we have to follow the normal BA -> SWAG -> Development -> QA -> Release

- How does your team prevent regressions?

Code review and automated testing

- How does your team share knowledge effectively?

Domain knowledge? Not so well, our BA/QA's are always available to help understand any domain knowledge that is needed to implement a feature or fix a bug.

- What is the testing strategy?

TDD with smoke tests via katalon

- What are the methods and tools used to design the application architecture?

iDesign methodology with Azure

I recently just switched from the web world to the application world, and it has been a bit of a pain due to the necessary understanding of platform specifics, installers, apk, ect. But, I think moving forward application development will only get easier with things like .NET MAUI, Flutter, ect.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
Just ask. A good client thinks of you as a trusted business partner and will want you to be fully informed.

Maybe you can help them make or save even more.
I've switched from Jack to Pipewire on my main desktop and it performs perfectly, much better than the jack / pulseaudio combo (using an RME Multiface II).
And in late 2020: "I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine."

https://archive.ph/peexn
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152...

>Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I got a tattoo today just in case. If I suicide myself, I didn't. I was whackd. Check my right arm.

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509...

>I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.
I did not know what else to do. And when I start something, I also want to finish it
Your sketchy looking link which I mistakenly clicked on instead of copy and pasting into my VM is b0rk. Says "This item has exceeded its view limit!"
Ability counts, hard work isn't the end goal. The SAT is supposed to measure ability, because grades are a better measurement of hard work. The SAT is valued more highly than grades.
You can recover from panic! in Rust on the thread level.
He was found guilty in civil court in Florida and forced to pay $25M; he never stood trial because he fled.

Also, presumption of innocence applies to the law, not to HN comments.
> did he deserve to die?

Is there a coherent answer to this in the case of suicide?

I feel like we enter a liar's paradox since the entity who decides whether you deserve to die is yourself.
If you withdraw from the school, you are free from detention. All punishments at a school that are short of expulsion are enforced primarily with the threat of expulsion.

There are truancy laws, and these vary greatly from state to state. However, not showing up for detention does not typically make one a truant; only being absent during regular hours.
Where did I say anything about putting every single house on tarmac? I said several times that gravel is good enough for most roads. As you get into dense cities you will discover that tarmac is a better choice than gravel just because the large number of tasks that don't work well via mass transit makes the disadvantages of gravel show.

> "it's impossible because that would require forward planning" does show society in a bit of an unfavourable light, doesn't it?

Things break without warning. Or are you proposing we automatically replace our large appliances every few years even though they could probably last for 5 times longer? (even then you will still have random early failures). Not everything is worth repairing.
It does not only show issues, but also other content. What would you consider useful information?
On the (re)launch of Pull Request
> Mormons are probably another group due to the reliance of their theology on binary gender, but I don't see them as being particularly vocal on this topic.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints doesn't appear to feel threatened by transgender rights. At least, not according to official stances here: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/topics/transgender