skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well because I have, in fact, made a number of friends with Chinese people, I don't think we think should unleash a nuclear holocaust because we're unhappy with their government. Is this blunt enough for your liking?

You know, another thing I'll say about this is, your problem obviously isn't actually my tone. If I were combative and forceful in everything I said, you'd find a way to take issue with that too (probably more convincingly). Because your actual problem is you dislike the content of what I'm saying. Fine. Argue against it, or ignore it, but let's not waste our time pretending there is any manner I could possibly present the same view that you wouldn't find fault with.
Well, we seem to experience such things in a split second, and then we correct ourselves. We use some kind of reasoning to double-check suspicious sensory experiences.

(I was thinking of this when I was driving in a new place. Suddenly it looked like the road ended abruptly and I got ready to act, but of course it didn't end and I realized that just a split second later.)
Try searching for jobs at the Open Document Foundation. They were looking for developers few months ago.

Or search for other FOSS jobs here: https://www.fossjobs.net

HTH
As someone who is clearly interested in words, I hope you will take this comment in the "let's share some interesting knowledge!" sense in which it is intended, rather than a nit-picky correction...

It's actually "bête noir" - which is interesting because, commonly, ê signifies a replacement/contraction of the "es" sound. So the original phrase would have been "beste noir", which makes it easier to see the English meaning of "black beast" - an evocative phrase!
It's more like applying the technology with caution and accountability when you already know beforehand that the output is not error-free.
there is a loophole here that I think is worth mentioning.

What does getting rich mean? If you compare bitcoin to the USD, its value “increases”. But if you compare bitcoin with bitcoin you have the same amount of bitcoin today you had yesterday. So what really happens is you can buy more goods with the same amount of btc, in time, because of its scarcity.

So bitcoin can create wealth in the sense that the quantity of goods you exchange for it increases over time (if people buy into using it that is).
Covid has shifted demand. Covid in some areas means limited seating and increased prep costs. Pizza is more popular in the winter. 10 to 15 sounds like a Covid related increase. This is the summer of the gauge where everyone is making back the profits they lost.

If think it's because minimum wage workers are making $50.00 more a week then this would only apply if the shop was selling less than 10 pizzas a day and had about 10 employees which sounds overstaffed and in an area with no demand.

A pizza shop with 1 - 3 employees working making 80 pizzas a day would only need to raise prices by pennies.
I have a PhD in neural networks, haven't used it in many a year, but some of the knowledge is still there. Some of the memories of racking my brains to understand what the hell is going on are still there, too.

It is easy to have a theory of what is going on, to model the processes of how things are playing out inside the system, to make external predictions of the system, and to be utterly wrong.

Not because your model is wrong, but because either the boundary conditions were unexpected, or there was an anti-pattern in the data, or because the underlying assumptions of the model were violated by the data (in my case, this happened once when all the data was taken in the Southern Hemisphere...)

In all these cases, you can know what you're doing, you can know the boundaries of what what you're working with, and you can get results that surprise you. It's called "research" for a reason.

The model can also be ridiculously complex. Some of the equations I was dealing with took several lines to write down, and then only because I was substituting in other, complicated expressions to reduce the apparent complexity. It's easy to make mistakes - and so you can know what you're doing, and the boundaries that you're working with, and still have a mistake in the model that leads to a mistake in the data ... garbage in, garbage out.

In short, this shit is hard, yo!
There was too much "magic" going on. I could never figure out where variables or functions were coming from. Sometimes I would have to sit down with our local Ruby guru (a principal engineer who has been working with Ruby for years and years) and it would take us the better part of an afternoon to track down what a function call was doing.

Again, that all could have been a side effect of horribly written Rails code where I was working. The Ruby guru I mention above would often lament about how bad our Ruby codebase was. To me, it just showed "wow it's really possible to write code this bad in this language" and left a sour taste in my mouth.

I usually prefer TypeScript for scripting things. Being able to run it via node and in the browser is a killer feature and I have many small libraries I've written that I reuse in a lot of personal projects. Sometime I use Python but I'm not a huge fan of Python's version and dependency management.

For anything that's not destined for the browser that require speed or a larger codebase (i.e. backend services) I don't think you can go wrong with the JVM. I prefer just plain Java, but also have used Scala and Kotlin extensively and they're all great for speed, collaboration, readability, testability, and have robust ecosystems.
If only epidemiologists had such humility
I took a course on Plato’s republic back in school. Our class conclusion was that nothing has changed in the last 2000 years in terms of society/issues since that book was written!
> Given that humans hallucinate faces in things all the time

Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
“Collapsible” implies using some sort of interface for looking at the logs… that interface can also include grep/search functionality that searches all the lines. It could also include functionality to let you download the entire raw log to grep locally.
Im looking into building a research collaboration platform, would like it to be like a google drive with markdown/latex.

Does that sound something appealing to work in a web document, instead of white boarding?
Pauli: “What Professor Einstein [just] said is not totally stupid.”
Reminds me of 2001/cheong [1].

#include <stdio.h>
int l;int main(int o,char **O,
int I){char c,*D=O[1];if(o>0){
for(l=0;D[l ];D[l
++]-=10){D [l++]-=120;D[l]-=
110;while (!main(0,O,l))D[l]
+= 20; putchar((D[l]+1032)
/20 ) ;}putchar(10);}else{
c=o+ (D[I]+82)%10-(I>l/2)*
(D[I-l+I]+72)/10-9;D[I]+=I<0?0
:!(o=main(c/10,O,I-1))*((c+999
)%10-(D[I]+92)%10);}return o;}

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2001/cheong.hint
The data does not at all imply that something is wrong or that we need to do more than is already being done. Vaccines are not 100% effective and we were never going to prevent infections entirely. The only real issue here is that way too many people are refusing to get vaccinated so that infections are still having a large impact on the population as a whole. Among people who are vaccinated, severe complications from COVID are extremely rare.

People need to stop thinking about COVID as a disease like polio that we can relatively easily eradicate, and more like a bad flu that we simply coexist with even though annual vaccines are widely available.
If anyone wants to learn more about Murray and his ideas (and incidentally support him and his family), he has written a number of books:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zionism-Bullshit-Interviews-Collect...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Samarkand-Mr-Craig-Murray/dp...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catholic-Orangemen-Togo-Craig-Murra...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sikunder-Burnes-Master-Great-Game/d...
If you've ever worked in manufacturing, real Kanban boards are messy but organized for the people to know what's going on. Every Kanban board I've seen is unique in its own ways. Some use post-it notes and some specialized tokens that magentically attach to the board. Design of the board and layout can vary widely, but generally when you see one, it is a workshop organization tool made by people who feel comfortable using it.

Take away is that just because they're not using an off-the-shelf project management / WIP management tool, doesn't mean they're not organized.
This article is Activism masquerading as Journalism.
One thing that is enforced legally is the IOU. It used to be that a note meant that the bank/government owes you gold for it. Since USD is now fiat, the IOU is in the form of ensuring that your debtors actually pay you (simplest form is loans or bonds). Within a jurisdiction that would be done in different ways with the court. Between countries it would be done with the military.

On ethereum, the IOU is that you’re granted a vote to shape the code of the network, and also you can are owed some structured computation cycles.
The article's argument doesn't seem right. French and German had comparable spelling consistency within dialects before printing, although they had much more divergent dialects than English. The difference between them and English is that English went through a massive series of sound changes after the orthography was set, whereas German didn't. French did, but the sound changes were mostly deletions, leaving a relatively regular spelling.
The government using the taxes paid to the local municipalities and state, because these companies are strong economic drivers for those areas.

It's kind of how the NYC metro is not meant to break even, it cost the city money to run it, but it second order effect it is a huge economic driver thus worth footing the bill for
> Under the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act, “aggravated felonies” are a basis for automatic deportation. Struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse put veterans at greater risk of incarceration than the general population. In 2017, nearly 28% of minority veterans – that’s 1,315,989 people – reported a service-connected disability, principally PTSD.

I worked with citizen veterans who ended up in jail for crimes committed while distressed from PTSD. The VA treats these veterans. It's inhuman to deport them imho

https://theconversation.com/deported-veterans-stranded-far-f...
FBI has expertise to do my taxes but they wouldn't come if I invited them. Most likely they invited themselves.
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PEOs are an incredibly imperfect solution. Makes giving equity much more difficult and, in some cases, impossible. And benefits like healthcare and ESPPs also get very difficult. You end up with a set of "second-class" employees. We do it when we have to, but it's a lot better to setup a full legal entity. The challenge is that makes you first hire in a country often cost at least tens or hundreds of thousands in legal fees. And, in the worst cases, can be millions.
They can be true at the same time: the warnings have different meanings to different people even at different times in their life. I’m coming to realize just how much real trauma there is in the world by having become friends with innocent people that went through hell. We need more compassion in the world, not less.
I think this is absolutely correct because very few dental offices still perform amalgam fillings at all.
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sure. there are nuances. stocks, options, futures, gold, etc all have different trade-offs and risks associated with them.

my point was that a case can be made that it’s an investment and the ponzi people need to take a deep breath.
> Additionally, XUL was a steaming pile of shit, and there was no saving it. Multithreading was only possible by ripping out XUL.

Nah, multi threading has always been there (because it's doing networking and IO at least) and multi process support landed shortly before Quantum release.
EU want to ban Bitcoin and limit cash payments to 10.000EUR
The problem isn't the warnings and non-fatal errors. In fact, the largest problem is that the noise obscures them.

The problem is the pages and pages of "did that, everything is fine". Since Linux distros stopped optimizing disk usage by omiting the update time of files a couple of decades ago, I haven't seen build tools lose any single step. The failure is never because something that should be done was ignored. Instead, the failure is often because of some non-fatal error that you have no hope of finding because it's mixed with 10k like of "build tool got here" spam.
I just watched the documentary on John Delorean on Netlfix. It’s very interesting and reminds me of this. Check it out if you have a chance!
I vaguely remember reading more about this elsewhere and I believe they only used COVID positive patients. It would be interesting if there are follow-up studies with mixed training data if true.
But the (video documented by multiple sources) sequence of events on the day fits the scenario of an accidental detonation very well: repair work involving hot welding the door, a slowly growing fire, then successively larger explosions capped by an enormous blast after an hour. It all took so long that the fire department had arrived

If one has access and just wants to destroy the evidence in a big boom, there's no need for so much complication and the uncertain results of it. Just pour gas on the pile, light a long fuse and run, fast.
I came up with it. And it'll be 30–50% off, depending on the tax rate in the jurisdiction.
Thank you for that advice. I will work on that.
We need less Chimp brain and more Bonobo brain. We’d all be having a better time.
>"Ive used thousands of plastic bags in my life and none of them ended up in the ocean."

99% chance this is wrong, just because you placed it into garbage big does not mean it wasn't shipped off to china to a poorly managed facility and didn't end up in the ocean

>"But replacing all plastic with glass/aluminum just for the small fraction that will ends up in the ocean makes no sense."

Do you remember when milk was delivered to your door, and you returned the bottles, and they were reused? Reused glass products make perfect sence.

We now use inefficient, plastic laden and polluting processes because we are lazy. Most people don't have a real coffee machine, they buy shitty overpriced plastic pods filled with second rate coffee that then pollute the environment for 'convenience'
Wait it doesn't look like you used the performance branch of automerge (which is now merged into master). It is significantly faster.

https://github.com/automerge/automerge/pull/253
Thank you! Long way to go, but the ride is fun.
> The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group

Never liked the term APT. It just makes the 'blame game' easier to commit, instead of focusing on the more important task of securing your country's infra. Now the US just screams: 'China up to no good again'. 'Oh those damn Russians and their cyber-attacks'. No. Fix. Your. Infra.
I second this. I spend a great deal of time digging through where we've positioned big data models to steer population scale behavior, and very infrequently do the implementers of the system ever stop to analyze the changes they are seeding or think beyond the first or second degree consequences once things take off.

That is all part of engineering to me, so by definition, I think many in the field are in fact, out to lunch.
> you might be better off not assuming that the OP is dumb enough to let out their unvarnished thoughts in an interview.

After a glance at Calltrak's recent comment history, I think that might actually be an ok assumption.
I mean that Comcast, ATT and Verizon collectively own a large portion of US media corporations – including CNN and MSNBC. You can quibble about the semantics of ownership, but the control of media is concentrated in a small cluster of last century's monopolies.

There is an infographic here: https://techstartups.com/2020/09/18/6-corporations-control-9...
But Hamas, ISIS, FSA, Hezbollah, cannot simply park their bomb materials in a well-functioning port. No, they would need some sort of semi-failed state, in a big city with many places to hide, yes ... and one sharing a flimsy border with a warzone like Syria. And once the materials enter the warzone, they effectively disappear, and could reappear anywhere in the region. Where on the map could we find such a port?
Could you compare to react-admin (https://marmelab.com/react-admin/)?
The f-strings in Python are legend
I can totally imagine that. I cancelled my TV subscription as it was all about corona all the time. So depressing.

Now that I've done without for so long I don't think ever getting live TV again. My use of mainstream news sites has also dropped to near zero, just a one check per day. I focus more on tech news these days (stuff that really matters :) )
I propose “heuristic optimization”.
I read this as another group, not a nation state, wanting and stealing the ammonium nitrate. Most of it was stolen before the blast — terrorist groups? Low-level thugs? Who knows, but you’re right that a nation state doesn’t need to steal it in this way. That’s why it points to other parties.

It may be incredibly common but not in the quantity that was stolen.
I know - I can actually speak a bit of French, but I could not work out how to type the e-circumflex. Perhaps you can inform me?
I got it and I absolutely never willingly signed up for it and I am (and was at that time too) a very competent user.
Keep in mind that 11 US states by themselves are larger than the entirety of the UK; Oregon, for example. I don't know if tax is assessed differently for say Scottish rather than English residents, and 32 US states are larger than England.

This is going to be an issue if you move anywhere within a country with a federal system of government. For EU residents I imagine this also gets tricky for people who decide to WFH from other countries.
> Which I believe is somewhat by design.

That's a really interesting thought that had never occurred to me. Maybe somewhat akin to Steve Bannon's "flood the zone with shit" strategy.
If you want to view this from an entropy perspective, then fossil fuels are basically cheating because their use can’t be used as part of a closed system (closed with respect to the sun’s lifetime) unless we factor in the energy and time required to convert sunlight into crude oil or natural gas.
He was convicted of obstructing an official proceeding, I guess that is described as an attack now? Is that some general rule, are people who disrupt official proceedings attackers?
we can be as pedantic as we like, but either way, people like that were not the target audience. <—- that’s the important piece of what i was saying.
“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” –General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Absolutely not, the central theme of every movie, sporting event, advertisement, or news article must be DIVERSITY DIVERSITY DIVERSITY!
American corruption exists, it is just excused as how things are done. E.g. speaking fees to important bureaucrats, revolving door between industry and regulatory agencies, etc. There is also probably insider trading by spouses of elected officials, but this is harder to prove.
[UK specifically] not seems, it has gone back to normal (as in pre-pandemic).
nah. no offense but you don’t understand how it works.

there is nothing preventing you from running your own node or miner.

also, you are overextending the meaning of trust. Do you trust air when you’re breathing? Do you trust traffic lights? Do you trust you’re going to eliminate excess water through pee?

The point is that if you have a series of established rules and a way to verify that they are actually applied as designed, it does not really matter who applies them.

One miner cannot become a bad actor and invent its own rules.
Without paywall: https://archive.is/LsTS5
> amazed that companies haven't figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be

I was once asked to do some stats on the marketing effectiveness of a company I was at. Not my job but I really hated a couple of the people in the marketing dept so I went at the task anyway. I had long had suspicious that the advertising was mostly smoke and mirrors so I was glad to find out that I was right. There was basically no correlation to sales and marketing spending, campaigns or anything they were doing. Except for a couple of basic common sense ad placements. They were wasting millions a year.

What do you think happened? Surprise happy ending. At the end of the year they shut down the marketing dept and outsourced the basic ad placements for a fixed fee.
That is called chirality, and many compounds found in nature are chiral
3gg was replying to version_five. You're bhntr3. There is no generalization being made about you or even people like you, in a post that is a specific response to an account that is not yours.
Forget morality: reasons to reject it
No, the treatments were all paid for by the government of North Carolina in this case, and were based on levels of lead concentration in the blood, not socioeconomic status. So by comparing those with slightly above the threshold (who got treatment and thus ended up with significantly lower lead levels in their blood) and those with slightly below the threshold (who did not receive treatment and therefore ended up with higher levels of lead in their blood) you can make an estimate of the effect of lead in the blood that should cut across SES. (This is described on page 316 of the pdf- actually page 2- if you tested above the 10 microgram/deciliter concentration twice you got treatment, if you tested above only once you did not get treatment. They did a matched control group where the initial tests matched a test in the treatment group and generally matched the SES and geography, but the second test was in the 5-10 mcg/dcl range. Thus there is strong evidence that the control kid had a blood-lead problem but just missed the cut-off for government treatment.)
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Because it’s a conspiracy theory without any evidence, and isn’t even plausible. They blew up their own port to distract from the explosives/fertilizer they were stealing? Hanlon’s razor applies here.
For whoever is counting, 5 wrongs and 4 rights do in fact still make a wrong.
I'm am both.

Why I'm pro-AI: Neural nets.

I worked on object detection for several years at one company using traditional methods, predating TensorFlow by a few years. We had a very sophisticated pipeline that had a DSP front end and a classical boundary detection scheme with a little neural net. The very first SSDMobileNet we tried blew away 5 years worth of work with about two weeks of training and tuning.

Other peers of mine work in industrial manufacturing, and classification and segmentation with off the shelf NN's has revolutionized assembly line testing almost overnight.

So yes, DNNs absolutely do some things vastly better than previous technology. Hand's down.

Why I'm Anti-AI: hype

The class of problems addressed by recent developments in NN/DNN software have failed horribly in scaling to even modestly real-world, rational multi-tasking. ADAS level 5 is the poster child. When hype master Elon Musk backs away, that is telling.

We're on the bleeding edge here, IMHO we NEED to try everything. There's no telling which path has fruit. Look at elliptic curves: half a century with no applications, now they are the backbone of the internet. Yes, there will be BS, hype, snake oil, vaporware, but there will also be some amazing tech.

I say be patient and skeptical.