skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most fascinating, and also frustrating, thing about archaeology is how little we actually know.

We find these tiny fragments, and they tell us something about the past, but every artefact invites a lot more questions than it provides answers.

My late father spent some time researching tattoos and body marks in antiquity. A common pattern that appeared often were 4 dots arranged like the vertices of a rhombus. The pattern appears eg. on terracotta figurines and must have had some significance. But we have no idea what it meant, and all we can do is make wild guesses.
"Total violent crimes" per 100000 population is a very blunt statistic that tell you very little about a city and virtually nothing about any particular neighborhood. It mashes together a lot numbers that mean different things to different demographics. And most importantly, those stats say absolutely nothing about the actual context of these crimes.

Sorry you had a rough time in Baltimore. I was there through the O'Malley years and saw amazing improvement in my old neighborhood, Patterson Park/Butcher's Hill. Some other places didn't fare so well despite occasional promising signs (Sandtown-Winchester, Hollins Market).

Baltimore is not for everyone, and that's OK. We all have/had our reasons for being there. There's no good reason to trash Baltimore or call any city "a hell-scape". It didn't get the way it is overnight, and it won't improve overnight. It will take many years.
It's so interesting. There's a huge amount of privacy-related online REEEing about irrelevant issues, such as anonymized error telemetry in open source software.

Yet when mobile phone carriers sell your real-time location data to random entities, it seems nobody gives a damn.
CNN is hardly "far left" - they were highly unfavorable towards Sanders in primaries.
If I was surrounded by people who could put together accurate software estimates that made upper management happy, and I was the only one who was always got it wrong, I'd hang up my hat and see if I could get a job selling life insurance. Hell, if 10% of my peers could put together accurate software estimates that made upper management happy, I'd lobby to have them elevated to senior positions and spend all my time begging them to explain their secrets.

But they don't. Nobody does. They don't just get the timelines wrong, they get the tasks and milestones wrong - which makes sense, because the people asking for the estimates don't actually know what the goals are, usually even after the software is delivered.

The only thing an intelligent software developer can do is play along, learn to read subtle cues as to what they want you to say, say that, and get on with the actually messy business of delivering working software.
I've never worked for a US tech company, so I wouldn't know, sorry!
I really hope that people who are in hiring positions here will make sure to never hire someone involved with this company.

Last time I said this, people said that's like accusing relatives for the actions of a e.g. a cousin. No, the people working there chose to work there and chose to disregard any morals for their paycheck. I hope the people working at this place will never find another job in this space, once NSO (hopefully) goes under. However, unfortunately this is unlikely because there is enough other companies doing essentially the same thing, who'd likely take those people on happily.
> I've had the virus (so I now have superior natural immunity), but despite it nearly putting me in the hospital, I'm convinced that not risking the "vaccine" was absolutely the right call - YMMV.

I had it too, and every licensed medical authority of any kind I talked to still advised me to get the vaccine. I talk a lot of shit about the medical profession, but I'm not so deluded as to believe that my understanding of immunology is better than theirs.
Is "the public" incapable of using magnet links?
This entire post sounds like the "MongoDB is web scale" video that is now a decade old. "Internet scale" is meaningless jargon. "Joins are slow" is a meme based on now-ancient MySQL performance.

Schemaless / document databases have a place and a purpose, but nine times out of ten the data we're dealing with day to day has a known and rigid structure that changes infrequently.
It’s incredibly irresponsible to compare homophobia to a worker not cooperating with a strike.
I daily take modafinil, actually prescribed to me. I have bad problems when I take either ritalin or adderall. Not being able to sleep for over 24 hours, and panic attacks being some of the more annoying ones. Modafinil on the other hand the difference is more subtle, where if I try I can focus but I'm not trying to focus on something.

Highly recommend anyone considering it talking it over with their doctor first. The dose they sell via grey market can be rather high especially if you haven't had it before.
Evaporated water eventually falls as rain, though probably somewhere else.
Everki Atlas is what I use personally. It can carry up to a 17 inch laptop securely. Has plenty of pockets to keep things organized. Quality seems very high with thick stitching and large zippers. I have had it for less than a year so I can't comment on long-term use.
'Poté explained that the basic mechanism is comparable to the process “used in lie-detector tests, like you see in the movies.”'

And yet polygraphs are known to be unreliable, to the point that they are generally not admissible in court. It would probably be better marketing if they don't imply that their product is comparable to an qn existing tech that is unreliable.
That ultimately becomes a metaphysical question about existence, though it also has elements of morality and pragmatism.

Names and concepts are ultimately just shared mental interfaces for refering to and interacting with things in our environment. Everything above the atomic (in the original philosophical sense, here physically quark, Plank-length, and quantum-energy levels) is comprised of collections of other things, and the behaviours of certain sets of things organised in specific ways is distinctive enough that we apply different labels to them, even when the underlying components are the same.

A tree is a collection of carbon, water, and trace elements, but is more than the sum of its parts. A chair or house (if made of wood) are made of tree but not tree. And so on.

Describing things as behaviourally consistent concepts has been a useful mental model for me.

The moral element comes into play where there's intentionality in organisation and a realisation of misdirection in general public understanding. Interests groups and lobbying organisations often present themselves as freestanding or general member organisations, but in truth are mostly representing the interests of their largest members (the MPAA, RIAA, and various software interest / piracy groups come to mind). These have an "ablative heat shield effect" in drawing fire away from the principle member firms themselves. (This is played out across many, many such instances, not just the three I've given.)

The modern business corporation is in fact specifically a risk-externalising engine, and both it and its executive leadership play that role in at least part. I'd just addressed that in an earlier comment on this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27910464
They could shoot you.
> ChessBase charges for the software, which means they're either not compliant with the terms of GPL, or there's some other aspect of the software they're not obligated to share.

It's very clear from the story that it's the first one: they're not compliant with the GPL. At least that's what the Stockfish authors are claiming. They're pretty obviously acting in good faith and appear to be correct in their claim. ChessBase haven't laid out their side of the story other than their marketing materials saying "we developed the software in house and it's better than that open source stuff" and I wouldn't expect them to have a defence based on anything other than technicalities. You won't be seeing a blog post from them, because their lawyers have told them to say nothing.
this isn't even remotely true, in Canada for instance, if you got laid off during covid, you could get $2000 a month payments unconditionally.
Where do you define this line of barriers becoming 'artificial'?
She is not pursuing a lawsuit against the university itself (at least at this point) for exactly the reason you point out here - a university cannot reasonably trust someone with those views to treat Muslim students fairly.
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The farming will stop, one way or another. That much is certain, since the river is drying up. Whether it will stop in time to prevent other issues is the question.
Without getting into a debate about progressive taxes, Bezos pays far more than his fair share in taxes. The social burden that he creates is microscopic compared to the tax revenue he pays. If he disappeared tomorrow, the national budget would be in worse shape than it is today.
> once you're this rich, you can take hundreds of millions or billions of dollars worth of loans to cover anything you'd like to spend

Didn’t ProPublica show, in their leaked tax returns, that Bezos doesn’t do this?
It absolutely does prevent you from getting it and spreading it. That’s the whole point of herd immunity. It’s the point of vaccines in general. How do you think we got rid of smallpox? People got vaccinated, and it died out. Now there is no such thing as smallpox, so nobody even has to get a smallpox vaccine anymore. We won.. There hasn’t been a case of smallpox since 1978. A disease that killed hundreds of millions, and it’s gone forever. We could do the same to covid.
VCs hand out millions to all sorts of companies that fail, every single day. This is another common talking point that holds no water. I'll give you $250K (or $500K equivalent) myself if you bet your life on turning it into a billion, let alone a trillion.
> A trump appointee would likely be replaced in 4 years.

Depends on how you interpret January 6th. And a Trump-appointed surveillance board could have been used to make January 6th more successful...
Well phrased, thank you! I didn't think of it in this way, but yes, that kind of phasing makes sense.
The UX issue you're describing...can and should be solved with UX.

While security and UX are oftentimes in tension, in this case they don't have to be. It would not be that hard to be signed into multiple accounts and allow you to switch seamlessly between them (allow the tagging of each account, such that you can say, effectively, "show me dev us-east-1" vs "show me us-east-1" vs "show me dev", slicing and dicing between accounts that way). At that point, separating infra across accounts becomes semantically meaningful, and you can slice/dice in whatever way seems best (so you could have a full account for a single service, sure. Or an environment. Or a region. Or a combination of those, only service-Foo in us-east-1 for dev. Whatever level of granularity you want; trading off instead between the security of isolation with the convenience of colocation, which should be the actual UX cost; infra in the us-east-1 account has a harder time communicating with the infra in the us-west-1 account).
I have to say it's vanishingly rare to see someone else advocate for net reduction in energy usage. In so many similar discussions it seems to be as much a taboo as topics like population control or not being able to freely buy tat products from china.

But it seems one way or the other these shifts are inevitable, either by choice or it left unaddressed the other way as a natural consequence and with much greater suffering. Same with water use in arid areas, it's either restricted today or ultimately gone tomorrow.

I guess the approach of burying our heads in the sand can be at least assured of an increasing sand supply to support it.
I think you're articulating exactly what the other commenters find appalling: a single man with the power of a state.
Yeah, I think you and a lot of other people misinterpreted my comment, since it was oddly one of my most-downvoted-ever.

My "systemK" joke was indeed implying what you said, that systemd is "a key place in the stack where you would need to be super careful." (Almost Kernel-like.)

And my question was legitimate, although poorly-researched. Answering myself: CVE-2021-33910 only affects systemd, not all FUSE in general.
> But since that's not true you've moved the goal post

I said "about" 2x. Ok, about doing some heavy lifting, so it's closer to about 1.5 for 2020, during a pandemic. What's a typical year? Ah but you are so focused on technically correct, you missed the forest for the trees. My point still remains. The gulf between what Amazon sells and Walmart sells is so wide, it's hardly seen as "competing". Amazon themselves have admitted to this fact (and have used this fact to shield themselves from anti-competitive legislation. One of their favorite moves is to point at Walmart and say "they are the big guys, not us") So these are just established facts, not moving any sort of goal posts. I am not here to defend a thesis or dissertation, we are having a casual conversation on the internet.

I guess you must be one of those guys who demands zero margin of error in their conversations? If so, you must be fun at parties.

> Honestly I'm not sure why you'd want either of these companies to succeed.

Speaking of fallacies, never did I say I want them to succeed, so here's your straw man back. I am observing the reality of what is, and what is likely to happen.
Is it direct from him or did he setup a foundation that he can donate to that disperses the funds?
Not an odd complaint considering he's worth 207 billion. He could more fairly divide that stock wealth among Amazonians. Question is: that 207 billion, did he accumulate that fairly himself or did his workforce accumulate that for him? Hard to answer from the outside but could a single man accumulate 207 billion without help as a corporation of one.
I'm not saying things couldn't be even better, but looking at Google Maps, I could still reach Bucharest from my ex-eastern block country capital (Prague) via highways with just a short stretch of non-highway road in Romania (I'm actually considering the trip, I've never been to Romania).

You're right about the former soviet republics though, the trip to Riga and especially Tallinn doesn't look very comfortable.
> That's complete with DB migrations in a safe way

How?! Or is that more a "you provide the safe way, k8s just runs it for you" kind of thing, than a freebie?
The lottery probably pays better.
https://www.nomadproject.io/
May want to check out this: http://snap.stanford.edu/decagon/
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Setting aside the implication you are trying to make that following employment law equals to agreeing with torture, it's not the same at all.

There's a legal definition of a strike, union and employment vs contractor. Just like there's a legal definition for prisoners and torture.

You can't get the rights associated with an unionized strike (anti scab laws) without the consequences of being unionized (dues for instance).
Jeez, I just checked to order one and the shipping to Canada is more expensive ($30.00) than the device itself ($26.99).

And I'll probably get hit by customs, that's not good.
If the US federal government were to assume an active role in setting prices, that could plausibly be called socialist medicine, no? And is therefore verboten.
I think you just described the „Cannabis Social Clubs“ in Spain.
It needs feminism as much as it needs male chauvinists. Which is zero need in both instances. What Data Science needs is more precision and better techniques, not more polarizing ideas that imply that Data Scientists somehow have a prejudice against women.
Thanks, and also for the spell-check (corrected in original).

A good set of additions as well, McNamara Fallacy especially.
Cryptography brings computational solutions to finance. The end.
Many of them know the checklists for their model of aircraft. The downside of the checklists is that they sometimes explain the "what" and not the "why". They are supposed to be taught the why in their simulator training. Newer aircraft are going even further in that direction of obfuscation to the pilots. I expect future aircraft to even perform automated incident checklist actions. To your point, not everyone follows the checklists when they are having an incident as the FDR often reports.
I would bet similar things were said in 1790s France.
Is your automatic refactoring completely 100% bug free in all edge conditions?

I personally don't have that much confidence.
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Not to mention that the there is a pretty small limit on how many can show up in the drop down (I don't remember how many) so it isn't very scalable if you follow the recommendations to create a lot of accounts.

Plus you have to look up the account id in order to set it up initially.
they are also, type stable, strongly typed and have the same overhead as a struct. So an array of NamedTuples takes the minimal space and allocation.
> We would never dream of using bitshift operators to do I/O

Or the sum operator for string concatenation, which is the epitome of non-commutative operation.

I like your point of view, but still I'm skeptical of function and especially operator overloading. Shouldn't these semantic constraints that you mention be enforced by the language? For example, the language does not let you overload + for a non-commutative operation, and so on.
This is maybe a fallacy since very few men actually think women shouldn’t work outside the house. A lot of men (and women) think women would be happier in the home than working. There’s also psychological and sexual dynamics in play with submissiveness vs assertiveness required to be competitive.

And that our culture of 2 income households and every woman wants to be in STEM to build ad products is a flawed concept. We want all genders to be technically competent but we want a resilient, self sufficient world, that doesn’t have to ‘capitalize’ on every human ambition/potential.

Except we live in a world where me saying that makes me sexist. And worthy of doxxing.
> Aren't democracy and communism orthogonal?

Theoretically, yes. Practically, if you concentrate all ownership in the state you remove the means by which private citizens can check it.
But you have to repay those loans eventually incurring the tax burden when you do, right?
But the value isn't equal. If you think of the business value implemented in code as the "picture" and the run time environment provided as the "frame" the frame has gotten much larger and the picture much smaller, as far as what people are spending their time on. (Well, not the golang folks that just push out a systemctl script and a static binary, but the k8s devops experts). I have read entire blogs on k8s and so on where the end result is just "hello world." In the old days, that was the end of the first paragraph. Now a lot of YAML and docker files and so on and so on are needed just to get to that hello world. Unix was successful initially because it was a good portable abstraction to managing hardware resources, compute, storage, memory, and network, over a variety of actual physical implementations. Many many of the problems people are addressing in k8s and running "a variety of containers efficiently on a set of hosts" are similar to problems unix solved in the 80s. I'm not really saying we should go back, Docker is certainly a solution to "depdendency control and process isolation" when you can't have a good static binary that runs a number of identical processes on a host, but the knowledge of what a socket is or how schedulers work is valuable in fixing issues in docker-based systems. (I'm actually more experienced in Mesos/docker rather than k8s/docker but the bugs are from containers spawning too many GC threads or whatever).

If someone is trying to debug that LB and doesn't know what a socket is, or debug latency in apps in the cluster and not know how scheduling and perf engineering tools work, then it's going to be hard for them, and extremely likely that they will just jam 90% solution around 90% solution, enlarging the frame to do more and more, instead of actually fixing things, even if their specific problem was easy to fix and would have had a big pay off.
The entire point of language like "order-of-magnitude" in an article is to convey uncertainty, and that you're sure at the level of the log of the number.

Error bars are important.

A different poster pointed out other language in the article which DID estimate 4 million deaths more precisely, but that level of imprecision is exactly what scientists and engineers mean by "order-of-magnitude."

It's common for press to take a result with huge error bars, and to condense it to a number.
I said they don't appear to be abdicating responsibility for the risk their software could be used for bad things to happen. If you look at the report, it's all about weighing that risk against the risks of not licensing their software.

They are abdicating responsibility for the list, which doesn't seem unreasonable since the Pegasus Project has been pretty explicit that they don't know where the list came from, who put it together, or why any particular entry was put in to the list. The Pegasus Project guys have already walked back their statement that the list is phones that have been targeted by Pegasus, so...

It very much sounds like someone found some HLR logs and then failed to determine whether that list was specific to Pegasus or not. It seems very unlikely that there'd be HLR logs that would be specific to Pegasus somewhere, so I'm not sure how anyone could expect them to take responsibility for such a list.
Why? "Scab" is a term meant to dehumanize. Something like "replacement worker" or "picket line crosser" or "strike-breaker" should be preferred.
> not true that other countries have both the same road systems as we have in the US and functionally-equivalent passenger rail systems. Every country has one or the other.

Germany, France
Pydantic is an incredible lib. I use it for so many different things on top of misc parsing.
The picture is rather deceptive, making the drone look huge compared to the men standing behind it. When you play the video you'll see it's not that big.
When I fill my tank with gas, there's a preauthorization with my credit card before I'm allowed to pump a single drop. It seems like a similar arrangement could be made here w/r to hourly level billing. And it would be a huge improvement over the current situation which scares me away.
The USA chose to clump together, that's what the 'U' is short for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine#Effects
I'm a traveler, or at least I consider myself one, and I couldn't find a tool that could easily help me keep track of all my travel experiences - a scratch map wasn't enough and other tools lacked many features. So I created Worldee.

Worldee was originally just an online travel diary but now Worldee is the only platform that can guide the traveler through all the stages of a travel experience - from the initial inspiration, to planning new adventures, and to preserving travel memories. Every single itinerary on Worldee is created by travelers for travelers. Mobile app was just released. I would love to get your feedback!
All true. The problems start getting gnarly when Something goes Wrong in the magic black box powering your service. That neat framework that made it trivial to spin up an HTTP/2 endpoint is emitting headers that your CDN doesn't like and now suddenly you're 14 stack layers deep in a new codebase written in a language that may not be your forte...
Interesting, but how do you pay off these loans except by later selling stock (and paying capital gains tax)?