skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How exactly does what you pointed out -- "lack of familiarity with the subject" of geography -- constitute a "calling out" of their strong opinions on McAfee's character?

Total fucking non sequitur!

(Even trying it on paints you in an ever worse light. At least in my book, you'd have come out of this a lot better if you'd taken GP's advice and backed off gracefully one or two comments earlier.)
Right - you have to count up with software or it will take you a while.

To me, it's a hard choice that cardinal systems don't force you to make.
What is the goal here: to make revenue for the government or to punish successful investors?

Thiel paid taxes on his Roth IRA - when he put the money in. As a result, the government didn't have to wait till he was 59.5 years old to get their cut. Thiel for his part was willing to use that money for risky investments. As in, the cash deposited in that account could have well gone to $0 if not for the fact that Thiel is a gifted investor. In that case, the IRA would have been worth nothing but the government would have still gotten their cut ahead of time.

Management and mitigation of risk - both for individuals AND the government - is literally the reason Roth IRAs exist. This is indeed the law working absolutely as intended.

Anyone could follow the Thiel strategy, except for the fact that ordinary Americans are forbidden from investing in risky investments because they're deemed too stupid by that same government and that Thiel is probably a better investor than just about anyone else.
> IMHO such tooling should not be part of the language itself, and be left to the community.

I strongly disagree with this. "All batteries included" is one of Go's strongest points, especially if you look at gofmt, which set a standard for all code out there.
Video Games Are a Labor Disaster
But I thought le evil orange man said it came from a lab, and therefore it must be false and debunked? That’s what The Washington Post told me to think last year.
> exploding case numbers

https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spr...

What?
When you have to pay thousands of dollars per mwh it is pretty likely that many in poorer areas wont pay. And yeah, that rate is not impossible in Texas, they even have a law capping how high it can go since it is a problem.

Edit: I am pretty sure that many poor homes wouldn't be able to pay a power bill of a few thousand dollars, which is what you'd pay if you have variable rate and ran as normal throughout the texas power crisis.
Oh, so the test does give the source. I must have missed that part of the article thinking it was only identifying that there was a source in the cfDNA that was abnormal, but not realizing they could determine where it came from.
There are cases where governments implemented protectionism and support for industry, but it failed. You have the case of computer industry in Brazil.

It's not as simple as saying that government support is the key since there are many cases where it didn't work.
It's actually a federal protected secret for some industries like data centres.
Ugh. Next thing we’ll see is a LinkedIn widget on your profile page showing how many projects you’ve committed to.

I know GitHub does something like this already, but GitHub is more techie sharing, and LinkedIn is more about bragging based o what I see.
They said "minority" then you equivocate to "poor". Those are not the same thing.

Also, TFA: "Income status of areas did not appear to be a strong factor"
Ha, nifty.
The previous job had the bios on lockdown. It would have trip something up.
But here I could pull it off and not take my personal laptop.

What’s annoying me is to have to carry 2 work laptop.

Oh well :)

But good tips.
There was a while a number of years ago that I was furloughed on Wednesdays and apart from the 20% pay drop, it was incredible. It felt like I had two day weeks, and I had a day off when normal businesses were open to handle my own affairs.
What if we reduced the amount of money we spent on military purposes instead of increasing it?
Same vibe as "I would just simply..."

What do you think the entire medical, pharmaceutical, bioinformatic, etc. industries have been doing for decades? Are you really so arrogant to think that other people are too lazy and stupid to think of your brilliant idea and that you are simply more intelligent than everybody else? Do you really think people haven't been trying?
I find it hard to fault Google for the VPN captcha thing. I have little doubt that the associated IPs are being used for all kinds of nefarious purposes that deserve flagging them as suspicious.
> Go can hardly be called a modern language.

I'm not sure what this means exactly, but it's a significant advance in simplicity and productivity in my experience.

> The usual argument we hear on HN is that it has an absolutely stellar backwards compatibility story.

This refers to the compatibility of the language, not necessarily the tooling. Even still, this is a single change, there's no need to panic about losing backwards compatibility just yet.
Amazon and Google face UK CMA probe over fake reviews
The post is garbage, as is the report.

There's nothing illegal about it, and it's none of these busybodies' business what people do with their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
Which device is this? Focus control has been a pretty basic API element since v1. Unless the device is reporting that it has a fixed lens erroneously, that is super weird.

Having said that, the Camera subsystem is most certainly subpar on Android. It is crash prone, only recovering after a full system reset, which makes developing anything novel a giant pain in the ass. It also is full of random bullshit even if you're using Google's anointed, in-house devices. I remember an update suddenly randomly yielding frame rate capability values multiplied by 1000, chaos monkey style. Code ends up being littered with "If this bullshit device on this bullshit version, then...". It's a gigantic waste of time.

And then as Google started trying to differentiate their own devices with exclusive imaging features, things really started going off the rails.
yes, eve online solved "griefing" by redefining it as "pvp". in all seriousness, I think their solution is pretty good. it's never 100% safe to undock, but it's prohibitively expensive to repeatedly kill a specific pve player in high-sec.
Let's hope it increases wages for the rest of us.
Half-OT: What do you use for JavaScript/TypeScript? (CodeGuru only works for Java and Python)

I looked into Snyk Code, but it's mad expensive.
Thanks. aka 20 questions.

Practically, this will likely yield the same results.

Remember I'm still struggling with phrasing:

I have no idea how akinator is implemented. 20 questions is traditionally a drill down decision tree. From their blurb, I infer that akinator divines its own decision tree, vs user supplied questions. Clever.

Instead of finding a needle in a haystack, the big data strategy is to progressively remove all the hay until the needle is revealed.

Like the big data equiv of Sherlock Holmes' deduction (logic). "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever left, however improbable, must be the truth."

Again, am not an academic, philosopher. I don't know what to call this strategy.

It's not logic, reasoning. It's brute force. Test every single possibility to find the matches.

In other words, it's a database query.

Ok, maybe I'm just confusing myself here.
Idk.. the alternative seems like a Python 3 nightmare. People start depending on things and then you’re faced with two choices: (1) break lots of people, (2) hold on to every bit of ugly broken legacy stuff in the name of backwards compat.

At this point, I feel like the entire solution space has been explored between all the different languages and there is not a great solution from any of them. Personally, I’m much happier with Go breaking things than becoming a C/C++ hole of legacy going back like 50+ years.

On the timing and speed (only one version warning before removal): we can debate the right speed until the cows come home. But, Python 3 took longer than a decade to kill Python 2 as they were trying to give people “plenty of time”. In the end (IMHO), people don’t change unless they’re aggressively forced to because there is always something better to do with your time than upgrade software to prevent some possible future hypothetical breakage. That calculus changes when it’s not hypothetical at all.
It is of course real but so is the responsibility to manage it. At my old job, I was insanely stressed and it was totally self inflicted. My manager challenged me to start later, end earlier, take a meditation/walking break etc. Similarly, I do the same to people who work for me.

Most of what we do is a long term game. If you are a developer or a manager I need you to be healthy and productive for the next decade, not burn out over some short term thing.

There are times we need to push, work the weekend, etc. Most times we don't and it's important to take responsibility for that decision.

I take a very capitalist view of this. It's not about slacking, etc. It's about maximizing your long time contribution and earning.
Different power companies use different smart meter tech, not all of which is easily readable.

SDG&E uses encrypted Zigbee to transmit data. AFAIK, it has not been cracked.
Can you block out the times on the work calendar to correspond with the actual booking in your personal calendar?
I gave everything and had nothing left.

That's it. Reminds me of the start of Allen Ginsberg's poem America, one of my all-time favorites:

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. [1]

[1] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/america-56d22b4...
Indeed. I wonder if one could set up a fake transmitter that sends corrupt data (to lower one's own energy bill, hide a marijuana plantation, or to cause issues in a neighbor dispute), or what would happen if one would blanket jam the entire frequency.
> It's OK for first-time/student developers to submit such patches
I am absolutely burned out with my tech job. The only thing keeping me in it for now is fear: in a minor way, losing the paycheck and benefits for a while; but more significantly, the realization that I know I need to take a year or two away from work to recover from the injury that is burnout. But it needs to happen.
Though in theory I agree, I think this is simplistic. I know a lot of people who don't live a "ritzy" lifecyle but are still stuck where they are. And yes, in theory, they could move somewhere affordable, but they may not have enough of a cushion, or they may have roots where they live now (for instance, their kids might have friends, or they may have family that are either helping them with their kids or require being helped).
Yeah, if I were single and living in a Big City™, I'd be desperate to be in an office again, too.
Amazon Garage
> And programmers are usually really bad at truly touching others with artistic games.

I think you missed the key words "seems capable of" in my statement.

Satisfaction in creating art doesn't come from actually touching other people's emotions, i.e. witnessing them being touched. (People who need that feeling, should best avoid becoming artists, and instead become entertainers or performers, where your craft is done "in communication with" a direct audience.)

Satisfaction in art comes from when you've polished your work to the point where your mental model of other people is touched. It's actually completely solipsistic; it doesn't depend on whether any real person ever sees the art at all. Just whether you think your target audience (which can even be a fictional character, or a dead person, etc.) would like it if they ever did see it. (Art can also be entirely for yourself — though works of art of the complexity of games usually aren't.)

As such, you can be truly bad at expressing yourself, and still receive satisfaction from creating art — as long as you're also bad at predicting how other people will react to your art†.

Luckily for fledgling artists, skill in the craft of art, and skill in judging art quality, are usually developed together. So, when starting out, you can be satisfied by bad art, because you don't yet know it's bad. (Though this does mean that people who start out as art critics, have a very hard time of becoming artists, because they know from the start when they have no inborn talent for art, and that discourages them from doing the practice required to develop the skill for art.)

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† It could also be that you're bad at the craft of art, and have a well-calibrated mental model of people, but you're just driven to create art for people with weird/outré/"bad" taste, who are especially moved by exactly your brand of unskilled art. But that's beside the point I'm making here.
I didn't use Code Guru, but looked into Snyk Code. It gives much more and better tips, especially for security related things.
Just wanted to give a quick shoutout to Mailfence[0]. Their support team helped me set up DMARC/SPF/DKIM. Their keystore makes it easy for non-techies to use PGP, and the tech-savvy are free to use their own keys and their own mail client.

[0] https://mailfence.com/
Protonmail still does not have message threading built into the mobile app. That seems like a minimum requirement in 2021, doesn't it? I don't know how that is still not in there.
> Involved lot of sacrifices and accumulating modest savings over a lifetime to help the next generation to live a bit better and make fewer such sacrifices.

Congrats. That's awesome and it's what we should strive for. Sacrificing sucks but doing it now so we have to do less of it later (or later generations have to do less) is powerful. Your parents setting that example for you - and you passing it down - is exceptionally valuable too. I grew up in similar financial circumstances without learning those lessons until much much later.

> There's also a cohort that might...

Yes, there are cohorts in all circumstances. That's why I said "most" and not "all."
Conspiracy theory is a bit like a belief in God. You can present 'facts' until you're blue in the face, but it's very easy to just retort "that's what they want you to believe."

Our distrust in government and authority is now running so deep (and often with good reason) that many people prefer to believe those with a big following on Facebook or Twitter if that person presents an argument that aligns with their world view. Doesn't matter if the entire scientific or medical community disagrees, that's the view they'll take. And one piece of evidence towards that view will count a thousand times more than everything against.
Dude, CTs can be risky. They use ionizing radiation, which increases your risk of cancer. It's really only an issue with repeated use, but I think there's a study out there claiming 50k early deaths each year can be attributed to repeated use of CTs. I don't have any medical background, but personally I would prefer imaging that does not use ionizing radiation when possible, just to save up some "credits" for when I may need to use the other type (like CT for possible stroke).
See also C and C++.
You absolutely do not save anything by outsourcing from the US to France. And cultural differences are there too. That was probably the worst possible example in the EU :-)

That being said, yes there are other options. Eastern Europe is more and more popular for outsourcing, so is South America. Honestly, I'm maybe dead wrong but when I compare the mentality two decades ago (ie let's minimize cost by any means, who cares who writes the code? it's just code) and today, I truly see an equivalent to the "not invented here" syndrome.
Yes, but that's one specific cancer. There are a few others for which this is the case and absent genetic data a few that are borderline cases (notably: breast cancer, where the presence or absence of a mutation is a very relevant bit of data).
That sounds more like fabricating experience than getting experience.
The Tyranny of Excel
AIXI is an AI algorithm which is uncomputable, but has interesting theoretical properties, like making optimal decisions across a wide variety of environments. Computable approximations like AIXItl satisfy weaker versions of these properties.

This paper shows that the definition of AIXI and what is "optimal" are 'subjective': they depend heavily on which language(/turing machine) we decide to use. We can choose a language/TM which (a) causes AIXI to perform arbitrarily badly (worse than random); and (b) we can make "optimality" so trivial that it applies to every algorithm.
You’re missing the point because ‘go mod get’ would cause the same deprecation notice. The complaint isn’t what the new command looks like, it’s that the old one is being deprecated.
Shortcut to the source of the technology...

https://grail.com/
"It correctly identified when cancer was present in 51.5% of cases, across all stages of the disease, and wrongly detected cancer in only 0.5% of cases."

Doesn't this seem kind of low? Just a bit better than a coin flip. Of course, it rises to 65% and 87% for certain circumstances and the false positive rate is low, but it seems like a lot of cancers could fail to be detected and give a false assurance patients are cancer free. When symptoms emerge later they may be less concerned with getting it checked out. Is this in line with standard performance of tests?
For those who are wondering the rewards aren’t worth it… this is not Amazon asking for oss contribution to their AWS source code. This is for private companies to offer bug fest to their own employees / target audience.

> customers can set up private AWS BugBust virtual events

Why should the jacket be sponsored by Amazon? I don’t get it.
It also looks like you need to give it room to move around? Look at all that space that could be used for more veggies!
Having been in a similar situation, my sympathies; I've found it to be a very strange sensation. The burnt-out knows exactly what work tasks they need to do, they know that it's easily within their own capabilities, and they (at a conscious level at least) even desperately want to do the tasks to fulfill their professional obligations (or to simply continue getting paid). But the body just will not do it or forcing it to do so feels as strenuous as Olympic weightlifting such that one is exhausted at the end of the day not from being productive but from attempting to beat oneself into being productive. It's a very unhappy state to be in.
I sell 3 software products: an event seating planner, a visual planner and a data wrangling product. I'm confident that Excel is the biggest competitor for all 3.
Better to start with defining the problem that you are solving and whether or not you need to solve it before even delving into that particular rabbit hole. ROI on analysis is usually fairly low unless you’re in a regulated industry or the product is cheap or free.
The profiler is very good as part of your CI automation, you can alert on regressions and such.
Note: I follow a more standard definition of bias [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias] which makes it errorneous nearly by definition.

Indeed. Use of priors do not intrinsically make the system biased. It's a bias only if those priors are incorrect for whatever reasons, or if the facts specifically about the sample under consideration are not able to override the population priors.
I feel that. My wife and I have a rule: if our expenses go over what we could make working in fast food, we sell some stuff.
That's not the same as "anyone but huawei" as the parent comment noted.

Huawei is not being singled out here because huawei or china but because of a specific behavior that's being called out here.
Closing the world's schools caused children great harm
Please don’t do this here. I see you are new but its not a comment that adds anything to the discussion and is not discourse that is welcome on HN.
Same - I enjoy working in my garden because it's a break from my office tech job!

Robot aside, the UI to plan your planting is pretty great though.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.”
- 1984
"go get" was originally not intended as dependency management, just as a convenient way of getting the latest version of some source code you need from GitHub or other hosters. Ok, when it gets that source code, it will also get its dependencies, but I don't think you can really call that dependency management? Later, it was updated to "play nice" with the "modules"-based dependency management, but that was not the original intention behind it.

But I still prefer to have the occasional churn when "the official way of doing things" changes to having x competing tools doing the same thing, which has the potential of generating even more churn.
See my comment here on definition of 'bias'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27631529
Talking with family and friends has been incredibly valuable, this is great feedback and I wanted to comment on it because it's super important.

The one caveat I'll add is that just like ourselves, other people can get tired of our constant struggles and I've found therapy to be a very effective way to have someone trusted to speak to while not overloading the people I need to depend on with my problems.

I agree that there is no "one thing" to do, right now I'm just trying to figure out the strategies that other people have used so I can pick and choose the things that might work for me.
MyGNUHealth 1.0 – The Libre Personal Health Record
agree completely. if it's for personal farming--it's too expensive because tending to a handful of plants is trivial.
This would be an example of systemic or long lasting results of racism. Having less dependable power means your foods more likely to spoil, your work is going to be disrupted, all kinds of things that are comparative disadvantages. And if these communities are artifacts of redlining, then it would be very obvious the clustering had racist origins.
Happy Twentieth to Safari and WebKit
I feel the absolute same way. I’ve learned to be satisfied rather than passionate/excited about work. It’s much more sustainable in the long run.
> Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.

https://www.darkpatterns.org/
Did you look into Nextcloud? If you don't have the expertise to maintain it in-house, you might have to pay for a managed instance, but it's been a pretty solid replacement for Google services for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
You know what? I know that scraping is currently legal, but then we end up with things like that company or Clearview AI. We need some laws, ASAP, prohibiting data for being scraped for specific reasons.

Also, I have some friends in insurance companies, and they say that the insurance companies right now are actively trying to learn how to scrape people's social media - secretly - so they can catch "dangerous" behavior or violations of their rules. My dad's client was telling how there was a guy who was running a happy hour secretly in his insured bar, and his company which scraped Facebook found posts from other people saying "great happy hour at this bar", he reported it to the insurance company, and they sent the bar the bill. That's freaky and should be illegal as a violation of privacy.
Just out of curiosity is the whitelist public?
To be clear, the whole GOPATH development workflow is deprecated. But the GOPATH environment variable isn't, since it's still used for configuring the location of other things like the module cache.