skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll apologize in advance my response maybe a bit snarky. Your comment does not read like it comes from a place of good faith, so I find it hard to reciprocate.

> Perhaps you should think of your tilt when you see ideology in fact checkers

That's an awfully convenient way to disregard literally any and all scepticism.

Just over the last month the the lab leak theory has gone from conspiracy to a mainstream possibility and the facts in Assange case turned over their head. In any political matter, facts take ages to establish and sometimes facts themselves are no more than uneasy consensus.

When I'm personally invested, It takes me days to verify facts despite all the resources at my disposal and even then I leave some space to have my mind changed. In a world where all of NYT, CNN and Fox are doing their best to destroy public trust (some more than others), faith in reporting is rather hard to come by.

If you think underpaid faceless social media community fact checkers have either the ability or the moral purity to identify and report facts then, then I must regretfully refer to such an opinion as naive.
> wealthy as Elon Musk paid no federal income taxes in 2018 and pays very little in many years.

What has this to do with anything? He doesn’t live off a salary, so of course he doesn’t pay income tax.
They killed my friends with those drugs. That’s the impact they had. They deserve life behind bars.
Yep, "vodcast" used to be a word in regular use, referring to RSS feeds of videos/eposides often provided by TV channels for episodes of their content.

Now that RSS has been effectively killed, this word/concept has disappeared without trace.
All POSIX compatible regex engines do the same. It's somewhat linked to why POSIX regexes don't have non-greedy operators.

But DFAs can implement the preference-order semantics found in backtracking regex engines too. Russ Cox's articles show how to do that.

(Just adding some additional info to your point.)
i was just curious

people use metaphors with a lot of conotation (walled prison) so if there is a more neutral term, i was curious how to state it in either non-positive or non-negative way
For nordic climates: After running the numbers I was surprised by how little benefit I'd get from geothermal drilling + heat pump for a much larger investment (like $30k including internal fitting of water-based radiators) compared to a regular outdoor air/air heat pump for $2k. Ongoing costs would be like 5-8% lower.

Modern air/air heat pumps are awesome.
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I was going to post a similar response. From my direct experience all my Pi setups became corrupted within weeks or months. Admittedly it probably was caused by user turning off power mid-write or other preventable actions, but this is real life.

I'm excited to see the replies to your response that have some practical suggestions to prevent this.
Yes, you're talking about federated learning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_learning
It's 2 weeks in a hotel. I've been through it. It's not the end of the world.
> They consider a 150K NZD a good salary.

In 2020 when I was looking for a senior dev position, 120k ($83K US) was considered a good salary. Though I didn't have a network or a specialization, which hurt me.

> You can make twice that if you get a job doing similar work remotely for a US company; I used to, and I meet a lot of people who do. Nobody knows how many people are doing this, but it's a lot and growing.

Any tips for how to break into the US market?
> The bank is shutting down all existing personal lines of credit in coming weeks

Stopping the creation of new accounts is one thing, but taking away existing ones is more concerning.

I am thinking wells fargo is worried about their misc. consumer debt bucket with regard to upcoming economic forces.
A downvote is too polite. The Pacific Northwest heatwave literally killed dozens of people (https://www.oregonlive.com/data/2021/07/oregons-heat-wave-de...). Pick a less stupid hill to die on; preferably one with trees and shade, and remember to drink water.
Being dead is worse in that it doesn't end, yes. But that year was not worth living.
The article said the spokesperson said Hölzle never opposed what the resigning employee said Hölzle strongly opposed. And it quoted the spokesperson saying all employees are eligible to apply for remote.
One thing missing from the article: what evidence is there he opposed remote work? The article says,

"A Google spokesperson told Insider that Hölzle never opposed remote work for employees who didn't have a certain seniority level or wouldn't be assigned to an office."

which is more negatives than I'm strictly comfortable with.
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In some countries like Austria: yes. We still support fax machines there for that reason
>DoH assists in the circumvention of ... monitoring

yes, that's the point. I understand you want to monitor traffic within your network, but forcing clients to use insecure protocols to enable network-wide monitoring means you're enabling network-wide monitoring. and that's the opposite of security.

remember that your browser traffic crosses multiple networks before it hits the website you're trying to connect to. forcing that traffic to be observable and modifiable in your own network means it will also be observable and modifiable by your ISP.
I have done (ok, result) returns in some python code. At some point though, I realized almost any line of python can raise an exception. I find that there is just too much friction trying to avoid the exception system. I just learned to embrace it.

Where exceptions are problematic for my code base is when unwinding the stack is not the best behavior. Sometimes, I want the following lines to execute and sometimes I want to retry.
Exceptions make a default execution flow very easy, but the default is sometimes wrong, and the correct flow is not considered until undesirable behavior appears at runtime. An (ok, result) system seems like it might force one to think more carefully about the proper flow. But the price is always having to think about it, when stack unwinding is usually the right flow. Or one might be tempted to create a Haskell like monad that automatically skips execution of following expressions, leading to the same bugs as an exception system.
Correct code is possible with either system. I’m undecided if one system is more likely to lead to correct code.
Ask HN: Have you ever been sued by investors? If so, what was that like?
Going out on a limb here, but sfgate.com might have some bias. It's easy for data to be measured incorrectly when there is an incentive to getting it wrong.
*from India. There's still an international arrival cap of ~3500 people per week, which was just reduced in response to the current outbreak in Sydney (https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/department/media/mr_202103...)
Why are gas, groceries, and used cars prices going up?
If you want to import banking data for tracking your personal finances or small business, there's also GnuCash, which you can run locally. https://gnucash.org/

I haven't used its online data-fetching features, but instead save manually save OFX and QFX files periodically from banking Web sites, and later import them into GnuCash (which includes transaction matchup features). I also use the statement reconciliation features.

I save all the OFX, QFX, and PDF files separately, in case I ever want to do something different with the data. (One of my financial services won't let you download transaction data older than 90 days, and most of my services won't let you download data or statements more than 1-2 years old.)
you'll be fascinated to know that we picked a python-based (Object-Orientated) HDL - nmigen - for exactly this reason.

we've developed a dynamically SIMD-partitionable-maskable set of "base primitives" for example, so you set a "mask" and it automatically subdivides the 64-bit adder into two halves. but we didn't leave it there, we did shift, multiply, less-than, greater-than - everything.

https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=ieee754fpu.git;a=blob;f=src/iee...
https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=ieee754fpu.git;a=blob;f=src/iee...

can you imagine doing that in VHDL or Verilog? tens of engineers needed, or some sort of macro-auto-generated code (treating VHDL / Verilog as a machine-code compiler target).

the reason for doing this - planning it well in advance - is because we're doing Cray-style Vectors (Draft SVP64) with polymorphic element-width over-rides. yes, really. the "base" operation is 64-bit, but you can over-ride the source and destination operation width.

the reason why we're using our own Cell Library is actually down to transparency. we want customers to be able to compile the GDS-II files themselves, fully automated, no involvement from us, no manual intervention.

ironically, as an aside: Staf's Cells are 30% smaller (by area) than the Foundry equivalents.
Everyone is attacking the overall theme of this article, and I agree with many of the points made, but nobody seems to be focused on the actual solutions provided in the article which I think are good. The article isn't about software developers believing in you PRODUCT its about software developers believing in your PROJECT. If I was the author, I would probably try to rephrase this as "Software developers are most effective when they feel a sense of ownership and responsibility for the projects they contribute to." The article suggests 4 items:

Don't withhold newly discovered information about the customer's needs

Avoid the temptation of isolating the team in the name of "just getting* it done"

Avoid discouraging technical team members who express interest in the market or business model

Avoid over-statusing your software development initiatives

All four of these items are ways you can signal to your developers that you trust them to do their job and respect their ability to make use of the information given to them (You can't handle the truth!!). I think its worth at least being aware of this methodology in the case that you have a dev team which is showing interest in "the why" of a particular project, or appear to be struggling to build what the business is asking for. Otherwise, you are better off incentivizing devs with bonuses, pay raises, and equity because they might just not care about "the why" or "the why" might just not be useful for them to do their job.
What is Microsoft's long-term goal here? Why did they release a hugely controversial feature that is not making them any money? (Or is it?)
Awesome learning resources, Thank you!

Are you learning French/German for the sake of employability?

Or you find that good English all that's required for most EU remote jobs?
Solar water heaters have really fallen out of favor because to make them robust, they are more complicated than you'd think.

It's generally not viable to just run a water pipe onto the roof, due to both freezing and temperature regulation concerns. So you end up with a closed loop system (filled with a glycol solution that won't freeze) and a heat exchanger to get the water into your domestic supply and at a consistent temperature.

Not to mention the service issues of having something "weird" on your house as a critical system.

Nowadays, we have electric heat pump water heaters that are very efficient, so running that in conjunction with solar panels to generate electricity can make a lot more sense in practice.
they are talking about a single right-wing riot on Jan 6 and FB role in it, but nothing about entire year of violent riots by BLM in 2020 where all the mainstream media and not just Facebook played a major role in inciting violence.

Another one-sided political piece by NYT.
Ask HN: How to Learn to Code Better?
I always considered myself to be a "good" programmer. Been at it on and off for 20 years now. Have been building my own desktops for just as long.

That idealization lasted until I decided to tackle a massive software project on my own recently, and I'm feeling increasingly unconfident about my abilities.

The more example code I look at implementing, the more I realize just how spaghetti-like what-I-call-programming really is.

I have never had any formal programming education. I took a "Java for beginners" course in university once and dropped out after 2 weeks because everybody in the course seemed to already know everything about Java and I was entirely lost.

I am embarrassed to admit that I don't have the slightest idea what "object oriented" even means.

I have cracked open "Clean Code" recently and have made it half way through "The Pragmatic Programmer" a few years ago ... but can't even find that book anymore :S

Are those even good suggestions for someone like me?

How would you suggest to somebody who already thinks they're a good programmer to go about actually becoming a good programmer?

A bit about me...

- comfortable w/HTML+CSS 20 years go with a SAMS 24 hour book

- comfortable w/PHP 15 years ago with a PHP for Dummies book

- comfortable w/Javascript 15 years ago with the web

- comfortable w/Python 5 years ago through the web

- comfortable w/Node 2 years ago through the web

Thank you so much for reading this far. Really! I appreciate it!
on S3, South Africa region using a javascript library that uploads them using pre-signed urls for you and returns the final urls which you can save in your mysql database
Someone always has to bring up food as a good reason to go the office.

For me, no amount of Google food is going to convince me to choose onsite work over remote or a more reasonable hybrid.
First off I said it was a context aware search which it is. It uses past training data to predict what you would type next based on the context ie the code around it. It’s no more intelligent than alpha go. Intelligent AI is considered to be a general ai which no one is even close to building yet.

Since neural networks are pattern matching based on the training input it is a derivative work of the training set. It says it right in first thing that comes up in auto regressive language models use the training input plus context to predict what the next word would be.

Now here where the fun begins if they try this in court. If you claim it’s generating new work then who owns the copyright? You may not realize how big of a deal this is but there was a court case you can lookup where a monkey took a selfy and the person who camera the monkey used tried to claim copyright and lost.
I like the concept here, but absolutely cannot abide anything that makes it more necessary to have laptops open in meetings.

If this were iPad or iOS focused, I’d be far more likely to use it for me and my teams, as cutting down on laptop distractions has been one of the big meeting wins.
That Bezos quote is pretty dodgy, but to address your point: Ask anyone in Denver and they'll tell you there's a mass exodus out of Chicago. Or ask anyone in Miami and they'll tell you there's a mass exodus out of Philly. People move around. I think this is a similar phenomenon to buying a car and "seeing that car everywhere all of a sudden." It's all about perspective. In this sense, data is always better than anecdotes.
> have easy alternatives to

Well that's always the million-dollar question, isn't it? Take Twitter for instance. Whether there's an easy alternative to Twitter depends entirely on your reference class.

The social aspect makes this so much harder as people are unique. It's completely reasonable for someone to need to be on the same platform as some other particular person. Say, Elon Musk. Or pre-ban Trump if you want the least convenient example from a civics perspective. How do you justify kicking someone off a platform for having the wrong views if that's where their elected representatives spend most of their time?

But this perspective completely defangs your position in all but principle. Any privately-owned platform with important[1] people using it is basically any platform that has any reasonable amount of success. Even if you restrict to public officials, well, there's a lot of public officials.

[1] Note important is in the eye of the user, and people will generally self-select into platforms that have users that are important to themselves.
The hypocrisy is always stunning.

The push to reopen my office is led by our COO... who is at the office like four hours a week, and otherwise works from home.
“residents are attaching bird skeletons to feeders to ward off birds”. That’s incredibly bizarre. Why not just take them down as advised?
> I don't think anyone flies to the other side of the globe for fun anymore since Corona. And I don't think this activity will be back any time soon. Holidays where possible will be a lot more local.

I disagree, people are very very eager to start traveling again. I know that a lot of people around me are literally going to bolt off the second they are allowed to, preferably to the farthest away destination possible. Not that there's anything wrong with that in any case (especially considering how good the vaccines are)
I bought my car brand new almost a year ago, and I would barely loose anything by selling it now ... I'm thinking about going full Uber.
"First, unmitigated transmission will disproportionately affect unvaccinated children and young people who have already suffered greatly. ...

Second, high rates of transmission in schools and in children will lead to significant educational disruption, a problem not addressed by abandoning isolation of exposed children (which is done on the basis of imperfect daily rapid tests). ...

Third, preliminary modelling data
suggest the government's strategy provides fertile ground for the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants. This would place all at risk, including those already vaccinated, within the UK and globally. While vaccines can be updated, this requires time and resources, leaving many exposed in the interim. Spread of potentially more transmissible escape variants would disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged in our country and other countries with poor access to vaccines.

Fourth, this strategy will have a significant impact on health services and exhausted health-care staff who have not yet recovered from previous infection waves. The link between cases and hospital admissions has not been broken, and rising case numbers will inevitably lead to increased hospital admissions, applying further pressure at a time when millions of people are waiting for medical procedures and routine care.

Fifth, as deprived communities are more exposed to and more at risk from COVID-19, these policies will continue to disproportionately affect the most vulnerable and marginalised, deepening inequalities."

Thinking especially of adverse effects from "Long Covid": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01433-3
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Big/old companies tend to get entrenched in their ways, I see this everywhere as a MSP, spouting idioms like "If it ain't broke don't fix it!" and "There's no need to reinvent the wheel".
Depends where you're looking. If you look online, anti-tech sentiment has never been stronger. These are of course, very different groups of people we're talking about.
I don't how stable your systems are. If too much print currency is printed, prices will rise. And if the printing is great enough and sustained long enough, hyperinflation will result.

Does a stable supply of a currency, coupled with collapsed systems, create hyperinflation?

Does a currency's value only drop up where systems collapse and not suffer hyperinflation elsewhere where systems are working?
Feels like Substack, but for video.

In the "creator economy" realm, this looks like the missing part of YouTube - where creators can actually make money without being forced to make content optimizing for clickbait advertisement catered content.
In our team its mostly a difference of business focus and the overarching responsibility - most data engineers I work with manage a major leg of the business and are responsible for their domain but I am responsible for all of them.

I certainly spend time coding (especially because again, small-medium startups cant afford anyone in the data space who isnt able to heave ho) but much of it is translating pretty vague stuff into market research/a proof of concept/an initial design of what will bring value to the business and scale alright and then often more people will throw in.

That being said you can call me whatever you want, as long as its not late for dinner :)
This is really a testament to the impact of years of seemingly small advances.

Example: when I was younger the 5 year survival rate for malignant melanoma was about 5%. Now? Significantly better [1].

[1]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cancer.org/cancer/melanoma-...
> This will simply lead to ISPs and network operators blocking DoH.

With eSNI/ECH, browsers would just have to hardcode a bootstrap IP, and then ISPs won't be able to block DoH without also blocking all of every major CDN.
What's the good argument behind preventing remote-work visas? I mean, it sounds like the best of all worlds from a country's perspective - someone from another country is paying this person, but that person lives here, and they spend their money here? That's a net inflow, what's not to like?
Fair, but how do educated women achieve those low fertility rates?

It's not abstention...
Probably. I know my university has a custom built time tracking website that relies on student ID cards, it was likely built by students as well.
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My takeaway from this is that whoever wrote it believes if people mail each other information about meeting up and they end up participating in an event that took place like what happened on Jan 6 that it is the fault of USPS for not reading people's mail and making sure that they refuse to deliver mail for anyone that could ever possibly be connected to any sort of protest that ends up turning violent or getting out of hand. Seriously, this is just another attempt at promoting censorship. I wonder how many of the protests for BLM that Facebook helps organize where people vandalize property and attack other peaceful counter-protesters, attack police officers, and deface government buildings.
I created this account on July 28, 2014 [1] - I had(have?) stage IV Colon Cancer with liver metastases. I did a FOLFIRI regime with cetaximab, then a colon resection with a general surgeon.

My oncologist was great (ucsf medical center) - but the surgeon refused to address my liver mets - they were too large and distributed.

My wife found out about a specialist at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan that uses something called a Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pump - a hockypuck that delivers 50x a chemo dose directly to the liver. That was implanted in my abdomen and I flew between SF and New York to get it refilled every 4 weeks for six months. Their surgeon then resected 75% of my liver. (Skipping a few steps here. I had another met that they couldn’t get surgically and they got it with 10 rounds of radiation.)

My company was very supportive and our health insurance picked up most of the cost - over US $2million (so far?)

I was hospitalized several times after the surgeries for post operative infections - in a way they seemed far more difficult for the doctors to address than the cancer itself.

Oh, while the Cetaximab shrank the tumors, the skin rash it caused was absolutely wretched - my cuticles would bleed and had to wear finger cots and gloves to protect them. And my eyelashes grew about 3x their normal length.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8095321
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maybe a reason similar to whatever explains the drop in oceanic exploration among the peoples of south-east asia and polynesia several thousand years ago?
Because Google and Apple are providing a service to host developer's applications and charging a fee for it. The fee is quite high but they're charging it for the service. Nobody is dying because of their actions.
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