skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably a "me problem," but I have had a hard time moving beyond the tutorials to actually getting work done. For example, I am working on a project right now where I would typically use a dict of dicts in python and then use map functions so that I can process the keys in parallel. When coming to python from perl, ruby, and c++ I found that I already had a pretty good intuition about how this would work.

I read the documentation, but could not make as much sense of it as I should. I searched online for example and found a few hits on the question, but not nearly as many as I would in other languages, and if there were answers then they were often marked "wrong," or I could not get them to work with my code.

After a lot of searching and trial and error I finally got that working, then started looking into how to run this on multiple nodes and processors and got completely lost.

I am sure the documentation is there and that I could do a better job figuring it out. I am also sure Julia would be a great match for the type of work that I do, and I am going to keep trying. But from what I have seen so far it feels like the pain of trying to migrate from Python to Julia is pretty difficult to justify.
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How do you define self made? Is having parents and friends/family with sufficient resources such that you can experiment and try and fail and fail and fail until you succeed without worrying about ending up homeless "self made"? Or even parents who are fluent in the happenings of the world and can direct you to the right direction to minimize the chances you are wasting your time?
> I own my device without the need to root it, every feature in the brochure is available to me as a user.

I'm not able to sideload iOS apps easily (apart from using AltStore), or downgrade apps at all. This becomes possible with a jailbreak.

Also, with a jailbreak, I own my data. iOS (Android too, I believe) actively prevents some data from being backed up or copied otherwise.
Thousands of children. That's tragic. I've been lamenting children's loss of free range. I thought it was due to saliency bias around kidnapping, but it sounds like the auto companies may be at larger fault.
I think the difference is in name only -- but TBH, I'm a little naive on more specific PL details.

That's just how I imagine the implementation of that concept would likely go in the Julia space.
that's fair, and you actually have an informed view on this matter.

The solution you have come to is a fair one (which is that truly developing a decentralized infrastructure that is reasonably priced to run apps on has too many challenges to succeed, at least the current solution that ethereum is providing).

I have hope that these problems can be surmounted by the ethereum development team. There are lots of challenges, and that is why everyone says we are at the beginning stages.

I think it's worth a shot, and if it succeeds I do believe we'd live in a better society.
For anyone curious, Apple has release a few updates for iOS 12 since support for some devices was dropped with iOS 13, with 12.5.4 being released in June. The iPad Air mentioned above being a nearly 8 year old device. Are any Android devices of that vintage still receiving any updates?
Right, but also consider that what you're describing is a matter of law, and we're already talking about changing law (to require body cameras to be always-on), so why not change the other stuff too?

Change the "plain view" exception to only apply to stuff the officer notices while physically there; if they see it in footage later, it's not admissible in court, and not grounds for a search warrant. Change the recording-consent laws to not apply to police body cameras.

And regarding privacy, have retention policies: if there's no legal hold on some body cam footage (part of an active investigation or court proceeding, etc.), it gets deleted after 90 days (or whatever time period sounds reasonable). That way we don't have recordings of people's private residences living in storage indefinitely.
The technology stack to support Google Glass is almost entirely distinct from the technology stack which supports in-phone AR. Maybe both are AR, but then all that means is it's not a particularly useful term, because it can mean things that are entirely different from both a technology and user perspective.

So I think we need to define terms - Otherwise if we are comparing overlaying a tape-measure on the camera on your mobile phone to being able to plug on a headset and playing beat-saber, it's not a particularly useful comparison and I'm not surprised that VR has bigger hype!

(But moving about a bit of furniture through the camera view on your mobile phone is very different to something like magic leap, or oculus passthrough).
In our country the incentives for electric vehicles where being lowered just around the same time the Model 3 came around. Before that, you would be a fool for not buying a Model S (as business/contractor) as adding up all incentives and tax breaks would almost half the price. I believe other European countries follow a similar trend.
Seeing this from Europe, I don't really know or care about US politics. However, when it comes to science, I tend to trust scientists (government or otherwise) quite a bit more than, well, non-scientists. Especially in a political environment where everything gets distorted as a matter of fact.

Doesn't mean that Fauci is necessarily right. But I'm yet to see someone with verifiable scientific credentials hold an opposite point of view.
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> the 13mpg on my tundra makes me sad.

Yeah. Me too. I can get to 17/18 on the highway if I drive it right, but it almost seems like I can literally watch the gauge go down as I travel a longer distance.
Both, though mostly documentation. To me, a standard is the documentation. The fact I have to read rustc source to find syntax is frankly an abomination. A standard defines syntax and grammar in ways that a html reference page never does. It doesn't matter as much for "fluffy" languages like Python or Lua, but it's very important for a systems language.

I also want standardization to make writing alternative conforming compilers easier. I strongly dislike the attitude of some Rust maintainers, and a standard is a useful tool to forcibly remove some level of control from their hands.
You are a few months late friend. Flagging the lab leak hypothesis as fake news stopped being credible a few months ago.
Hopefully the ants won't invent little cars and trucks for themselves.
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If you live somewhere so dense that there is no off-road parking then why do you have a car in the first place?
Japan and Korea both have a LOT of cars and both have way too many fossil fueled cars and not enough electric cars. I am not making the case of a dichotomy between supporting electric cars and supporting public transport; that dichotomy is the one I’m responding to and disagreeing with.
>something that's vitally important

Why would that be vitally important? They are a business selling lifestyle and technology. For them vitally important is staying in a profitable business. I think we can agree that we're past the point where we can believe that these vulnerabilities threaten that. These vulns mean to them, I think, only risk. Mitigation will come in a form of some patches, and some PR. And the world will go on, continuing to circulate these phones.
That was our problem. We added a git hook to reject new malformed commits. The easier way to not mess more things was to make all the code base compliant.
I'm not really a fan of big government or over-arching government regulation -- in fact I consider myself a (little-l) libertarian of sorts.

However: This is EXACTLY the role (and responsibility) of government. Capitalism cannot be left to drive this, the externalities here are far to great and critical to the future of this planet -- if we leave it to the car companies we'll still be driving cars with I/C engine in 100 years (assuming we haven't choked to death on the CO2).

We need BIG incentives for ordinary people to be able to buy and use EVs, and for companies to develop EVs and produce them. As much as Tesla has pushed the curve, the 30% tax credit we had for a $120K car isn't going to help anyone but the wealthy. Although the Model 3 is much more affordable it's still out of reach for most median income families (esp. after paying $3-5K for a charger to be installed).

Companies like Toyota are doing this because they dropped the ball on their own EV development and should be called out and admonished for hindering this.
If someone's going through the effort of installing an extension, wouldn't it just be simpler to move off of Chrome? Even to a different privacy oriented chromium browser if not firefox. Importing settings is pretty much one click. Unless of course the goal of this extension is to actively mess with google.
Right. Shotspotter or the generic equiv should be purchased by the city, not the police. The data (raw and interpreted) should be managed in the public, as its a public interest to know about firearms (including the police's) being discharged.
Seems like there's a lot less street lights than cars.

Really, people should just have fewer cars.
Cool! I'm glad someone is looking into this -- figuring it out the hard way sounds... potentially quite destructive.

Have you found any scenarios that seem likely to hit oscillation first?
this is the biggest result of the past few years: half the nation's population implicitly trusts the government more than ever before, and the other half trusts it less than ever before. the consequences of this will not go away anytime soon

for the downvoters: the bifurcation is not down party lines
Take away guns, and you'll have a knife problem. What we really have is a people problem.
If you frame it as a fight against poverty we’re making incredible progress. Now we can ask the question in a way that might lead to a real solution. The solution could either be fix the biased vocabulary in the test or give everyone armoires. Or overhaul the economic system so that more families can afford armoires.
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> "and look, Microsoft has been user-hostile for years now"

You know how sometimes people can have things completely backwards, and it's impossible to understand how? This is one of those times.

Windows: the best thing for accessibility, screen readers, keyboard navigation. The best user-side (rather than admin side) automation of programs using things like Autohotkey and COM automation. Windows defender is a response to protect users both from malware and from the predatory behaviour of the likes of McAfee. Enormous amounts invested in hardware compatibility, software backwards compatibility. Generally very good tooling for introspection, performance monitoring, debugging, development on .NET, event tracing, public symbol servers. Famous for GUI wizards making complex tasks possible with less skill. Most typical programs have a next->next->finish install including technical programs like WireShark, Python, etc. "user hostile".

Linux world: a culture where the user should "RTFM", where lack of technical skill is mocked, where a GUI wizard is scorned as inferior and people who use them shunned, where not wanting to self-host a LAMP stack is considered "lazy and incompetent", where technology being difficult is seen as par for the course and people who deal with that are lauded for it, where simple things are complex and common things in Windows land are dismissed with "nobody does that" cluelessness accepted without question.

It's like seeing a billion people walk into shops, exchange money for food, and leave in 5 minutes and hearing someone living on a homestead who works 5am-10pm pickling cabbage and making the vinegar to do so describing shops as "user hostile" because you can't choose the pressure the grapes were crushed with - the tyrants!

Windows is nice.

It's incredible to think that you can go to Add/Remove Programs and switch on a type-1 hypervisor with a checkbox click and a reboot (or with a command line if you want) and that's the kind of engineering which runs through Windows, and people dismiss it because of Candy Crush in the start menu (and Microsoft ruin it with candy crush in the start menu).
>WiFi Sucks...Including 6E

Outta curiosity, why do you say 6E sucks?
Simply out of curiosity, I counted 91 stations in Manhattan in the proposed congestion pricing area below 60th street. (More precisely, I counted 60 stations outside the area.)

More relevantly, congestion pricing has been proposed since (at least) 2007, and there are actually currently 0 stations in Manhattan in the congestion pricing area ... because there is no congestion pricing.
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I was surprised to see this on HN too.

Definitely not all of NREL has switched to Julia + JuMP. From what I can tell, Python, MATLAB etc still are quite prominent across the laboratory. And, NREL is a large organization and we are a small team; we don't have much insight into what tools developers decide to choose and why. If anything, it is possible that we've set the precedent that Julia + JuMP can be used for this sort of work.
So Fauci said the taking an animal virus and making it more infectious in humans, isn't gain of function. Is there any non-crazy definition of gain of function you'd accept, or is it just whatever Fauci needs it to mean at this moment?
Mmm, very good points. I used R for quite a few high-level statistical analyses, I found it handy for munging data and .rmds are nice for organizing a systematic set of chunks to make the code logical. Sometimes I ran into speed issues, which is when I would reach for data.table, which is quite a huge speed boost for some of R's slowest issues.

I had to learn the basics of STATA for a modeling project, because the other researcher knew STATA (these network effects of collaborators knowing different things). Turns out fixed-effects multivariate logistic regression modeling is WAY faster in STATA than R, to the point where our infra just couldn't complete the R code in any reasonable timeframe so STATA was just the better pick.

My main gripe is especially in healthcare, so many workers are trained in something in their 20's, then use that for decades. There are thousands out there still using SAS every day, for instance, because it's what they and their collaborators know. I suppose Julia and Python will grow in healthcare over time, SAS should in theory go down in usage...who knows!
Maybe there could be an independent review committee that reviews footage before release ensuring no impertinent PII is released. This, of course, would only work if the committee was _truly_ independent (i.e. commissioned for {x} years with a set budget by a higher level of government), and potentially would need to be anonymous in the event of a divisive case.
> When her summons arrived, panic set in for Cantwell.

"My mind went immediately to the stimulus payments," she says. "At least I have a way to take care of this now."

FFS. Zero chance this was a coïncidence.
Write for money.

It will motivate you to finish.

That's what Heinlein did.

And he's a better role model than Thiel.

In general and as a writer.
I'm worried there's a reason they're so cheap - they don't seem to have good build quality.
Interesting article recently on Quillette that talks about this and supports the idea that big tech doesnt really practice true diversity, they hide behind it.

https://quillette.com/2021/07/21/silicon-valleys-cynical-tre...
"So, in the eyes of those in the future, we may or may not remain human."
You mean that, in the future, whatever we become may see present-us as closer to the monkeys?
I am a younger immigrant and plan on doing exactly that.

One big part of the "oh shit, let's go back" plan is that it's usually so much cheaper to set things in your country of origin. Some real estate, some investments and you're set for life for a fraction of what it costs in a more expensive country. Or, alternatively, you can see this as an arbitrage: get income in a high income country, spend it in a low income country. For example, just three of my monthly salaries are larger than the median net worth back home. Think if you wouldn't try to exploit such massive inequality yourself.
The change is just returning to status quo, it's not giving up some right that you already had.

Most companies are asking for partial return to office, which IMO is already a concession, and people are up in arms over it.

I'm not against remote work, I just think people are being too entitled about it.
Storing pressurized hydrogen safely & efficiently is much harder to do than storing propane.

Pressure for propane tanks, 100-200 psi.

Pressure for hydrogen tanks, 5000-10000 psi.

It's not the same.
fantastic idea!
Safari reader list does this and it’s awesome.
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There are obviously hundreds of initiatives to reduce carbon emissions, across many countries.

It's up to you to defend the 100% reduction number I'd say, which is the whole point I'm making.

Why not 99% for example?
I think the reason why some Germans think it's a bad place for companies is the bureaucracy. Any time you want to build something, the NIMBYs come out, find some sort of protected frog, and your project is on hold for an extra 5 years of paperwork on top of the basic 3 years.

Now, this may be a complete misconception, but that's what my perception of doing business in Germany is.
> Where do you have apples-to-apples comparison?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/07/28/teslas...
Googling "Australian chess grandmasters" I get the following list: Walter Browne, Max Illingworth, Darryl Johansen, Temur Kuybokarov, Moulthun Ly, Ian Rogers, David Smerdon, Anton Smirnov. The guy I'm talking about is on the list, I won't give the exact name.

> verifying the plausibility of statements by internet users is a personal hobby of mine, hope you understand

https://xkcd.com/386/ not sure it's the healthiest hobby, but I guess I understand.
> Hybrids can be greener than an full EV

Any cite for this? It's not totally implausible to me, at least given current power generation.
>I don’t agree with your analogy. The post-arrest reports that the police fill out is closer to the audit log. A better analogy for SWEs would be keyloggers imo.

Which everyone should have enabled for the exact same reasons: auditing

All SSH sessions (every character you send) to our qa and higher environments are recorded and saved for later auditing.
If you want to have a more engaging round like real life battles, try to play chess with a clock. Give 15-20 min to each one without any adding system, or 5min (or less) if you want to play FPS-ish chess.

There are some apps to simulate these clocks. See also adding systems if you want more variety.
The Fauci-hating in this thread is beyond unhelpful.

> Generally, the overlap between the genomes of the viruses in the lab and that of SARS-CoV-2 was no more than 80%.

> In evolutionary terms, that’s a chasm. In their critical review, the international group of virologists note that SARS-CoV-2 and its closest known relatives have an overlap of about 96%. That “equates to decades of evolutionary divergence,” they wrote.

That's the TLDR, which wouldn't come across from most the anti-Fauci comments.
> Credible genetic analysis of the virus shows nearly incontrovertibly that it originated in Wuhan.

What are you talking about? That's just not true. There is zero incontrovertible evidence that it originated in Wuhan.

"https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-who-china..."

'“The possible path from whatever original animal species all the way through to the Huanan market could have taken a very long and convoluted path involving also movements across borders,” Embarek told a nearly three-hour media briefing.

Embarek said work to identify the coronavirus’s origins points to a natural reservoir in bats, but it is unlikely that they were in Wuhan.'

- Peter Ben Embarek, who led the team of independent WHO experts in Wuhan.
> Some might become insolvent.

Why should an exchange go broke because something they trade falls in value?
> I think there might be specific circumstances where not recording might be appropriate (e.g., if they're inside someone's house).

On the other hand, though, I think being inside someone's house is when having a recording is the most critical. Without video recordings, it's just the officer's word against the defendant's, and courts will more often believe the officer's version of events.

Out in public, it's possible -- and in some places, likely -- that a concerned passerby would be recording what's going on, reducing the value of & need for the police body-cam video.
Maybe you should take a walk. No one is shackling you to a six figure salary. Get some perspective.
Add this to the list of reasons I prefer to work remotely. I get a private office with full control over the air conditioning, my own chair, desk, monitors, etc, and no coworkers staring at my computer.
Recording 24/7 is a simple problem- they turn off when placed on a charging dock in the station. With how microSD is progressing I don't think it's necessary to disable in a patrol car. Perhaps it could somehow communicate with the clock in/out system and only be disabled when the officer is not clocked in to work? Then, lunch would be off the clock and off the camera.

I don't see how it's too different from stores recording their cashiers 24/7.
You have mistaken this for a tutorial.
I know your way of thinking is quite popular here, but I will take my chances anyway. If your friend says that seriously, then friendship is not what you guys have, at least in the traditional sense, I see my friends often, I enjoy seeing them and having conversations, playing, etc... Saying people who are fine talking to other human beings face to face, are craving attention is ridiculous, that's how we have been doing things since the beginning. Also, no one is forced to be together, you can always find a remote gig, or do freelance work or another career altogether. Lots of people love to go to an office an interact with another human beings, you don't need to be extroverted. I do respect your perspective, and I think is totally fine, but trying to associate social people with some sort of masochism is ridiculous. I know , nowadays, being a regular social human , is not as cool as being introverted , or "in the spectrum" (in the spectrum myself), instead of lashing on other people, maybe you can get yourself a more comfy setup and a gig that allows you to not talk to others, and just code your way to the moon.
Whoa! Where do you live?
Yeah it's actually quite clever. Once you realize you've been trapped in a scam, the only way out is by hyping bitcoin so much that enough liquidity enters Bitfinex and allows you to liquidate your holdings. If you blow the whistle you get nothing out. If you ask for your money immediately, the exchange tells you they can't honor that request currently, but could if the price rises enough from new entrants.

It's basically like a pyramid scheme where you can buy your way out by shilling hard enough for Bitcoin.
... you mean for consulting services ... you can do pure FP in normal scala and without the cryptofascists