skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with a background in CS (but not AI/ML) and working in bioinformatics:

People with a background in methods like solving problems that are easy to solve with the methods they know. Those are rarely the problems people in biology/medicine want to solve. Some common pitfalls include:

* Asking the right questions.

* Framing the questions correctly.

* Finding computational problems that capture the essence of the questions and that can be solved efficiently.

* Interpreting the results.

* Avoiding systemic biases in rare but important edge cases.

Finding the right problems to solve takes time, and the first attempts will probably fail.
Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999)
>The US government commits far more atrocities on a yearly basis than the private sector ever has

This is one of those claims that's basically impossible to prove. I have no doubt you could link hundreds of constitutional infringements, but at the same time some reports suggest ~25% of workers regularly encounter some form of wage theft.

Or let's use this stories drone strikes as an example. Hale's revelation was that the military vastly underreported the number of civilian deaths to drone strikes. But I don't think private contractors would even be required to publish a bs number of casualties caused (I can't find any reporting requirements, but my search was hardly thorough.) Many private injustices can be very effectively hidden.
I would say that using lot of liquid CO2 must cool down a lithium fire while also denying it oxygen to continue. That's what a CO2 fire extinguisher does; it's often used to put out small fires in powered electrical installations.

At a car battery scale, especially in a garage, that would require the use of oxygen masks, and evacuating anyone around, because there won't be much to breathe. Also, of course, the fire truck must carry a large amount of liquid or solid CO2 ("dry ice").

Using liquid nitrogen would be even more efficient, but even harder to provide at scale. Liquid nitrogen is cheap, but cryogenic facilities are not.
Technically, you still have that capability. After the user is authenticated with their Apple ID, you can present a profile to provide username/password/email.
No. They didn't want Trump to have that "win." It was purely political. The vaccines they are pushing now are the very same ones that were developed and tested while Trump was in office.
If we kept interlopers in power long enough, it could start to work. Four years or less is probably not enough time for this to work.
A century of science fiction that changed how we think about the environment
I do. "Don't like" is not the same as "not interesting".
> Half the stores are gift shops for socks and blankets etc.

Yeah this annoyed me to no end, however after a few shops I realized the only reason these are even open right now is because of the high margin gift section. Check the prices on their plushies when you are there. $35 for a small rabbit! and people buy them.
Why should I pay for the education of other people's children? Or the roads they use in their neighborhoods? Or for keeping their food supply safe? Or for policing their neighborhoods?

People should just pay for the services they use. Do you need safety when you walk in your local park? Hire a bodyguard. Do you need to make sure your food is not laced with toxic stuff? Hire a taster. etc. etc.

This way everybody saves lots of money and each of us pays only for what we need.
Do you think if they had announced before the election and Trump had won all the current recalcitrants would be lining up in droves to take it, their concerns about rushing assuaged?
??? How can unvaccinated people be a threat to vaccinated people, if vaccines work?
SAS and Tableau more than doubled. And Matlab more than tripled!

I'd guess SAS's increase could be due to companies needing more reporting tools built to understand trends during COVID-19. Tableau's growth perhaps a combination of that, as well as organic rise in popularity for ease of producing slick, informative visualisations. Matlab's rise I cannot explain.
I’d add: https://www.thaienquirer.com/ (English)
> The US uses a vaccination compensation fund.
Right, like a parent sees the value of an extra income, and subconsciously recognizes the benefit to their sanity to not recognize that they live with an abuser, so they let things slide.
I believe you may be confusing `set appendfsync always` which syncs on every write with `set appendfsync everysec` which syncs every second. The latter is more practical for typical redis use-cases and therefore I suspect much more common in the wild.
Not just strcpy either. Pretty much all str* functions are bad and should be replaced with their mem* equivalents when available.

I don't even know why the str* functions exist. They're just worse versions of mem* functions.
Yes, it is embarrassingly common that someone tells me something won't build, and I ask them what the error message was. They didn't know because they didn't read it, and reading the error message made the issue blindingly obvious.
I've heard you might be spending around $10,000.
Would you consider / have you tried using Sorbet only with .rbi/.rbs files?
Like riding your bike to school instead of walking.

(Showing my age again. Kids today don't ride bikes to school. All you gotta do is look at the lonely single bike rack at elementary schools. In my day there were lots of racks festooned with bikes. These days when I pass a school, there's a long line of moms in SUVs with the motor running talking on their phones.)
All I can think of is Eagle Eye, which, despite starring Shia Laboeuf, was an interesting movie.
Yep. At least give us some utilities to convert the config files. I'm not hand re-writing all that.
It doesn't matter if the gold metal is fake. Assuming you can prove it's real, a gold coated hunk of silver that was a real medal in the Olympics has to be worth more than an equivalent amount (weight or volume) of gold. The same reason no one is concerned about the intrinsic value of dollars.

There was, if I recall, an example of two Olympians melting down their medals because of some totalitarian government (Jews in 1940's Germany?) The medals were later recast. Only example I know of of the base value being worth more.

Meanwhile, it helps athletes. Because you have to pay income tax on the base metal value, not the assumed collector value. Although the US may have exempted medals from income taxes??
You mean he wasn't capable of gaming out the consequences of the Government reacting poorly to the use of official whistleblower mechanisms and wouldn't therefore be able to go to the press in the manner in which he did?
> A key CRT concept is intersectionality, which emphasizes that race can intersect with other identities (such as gender and class) to produce complex combinations of power and disadvantage.

I don't get it.
Does anyone know what year and date this started happening?
Silenced (2014) is a great documentary about whistleblowers. "Three National Security whistleblowers fight to reveal the darkest corners of America's war on terror, challenging a government that is increasingly determined to maintain secrecy." They aren't famous. IIRC, they each tried to alert everyone in their chain of command, from bottom to top, then went public as a last resort, i.e. were "proper whistleblowers". They all seem to have lost their careers, marriages, homes...everything but their self-respect. It's tough, a neverending nightmare. A very disturbing documentary, highly recommended.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt02827908/
No because I don't have any. Thanks Java
I read a couple months ago that publishers were being pressured not to publish books by Trump insiders.
Even if power is decentralized nothing stops multiple power hungry evil individuals form taking over and abusing their offices. Look at the government, most of it if not all branches are corrupted. It’s true that if a Hitler type comes along they could do a lot more damage grabbing a centralized power system.
> It makes for terrible television, but it seems to be built into the nature of fighting.

I think you probably mean “fighting sport” rather than just fighting. Fighting in real life is over in seconds typically. Sports have rules around them that can be gamed, hence why there’s stalling to “win”

In real life if your defending yourself you want the confrontation over as quickly as possible or to exit the situation, delays only put you more in danger. I believe on average it’s something like over in 15 seconds, after that it typically ends up on the ground and even then it’s over in less than a minute.

Probably being pedantic, but people sometimes confuse UFC and other martial arts contests with real self defense/street fighting.

Here are the things that you can’t do in UFC for instance that would otherwise end a fight quickly:

https://www.ufc.com/unified-rules-mixed-martial-arts
> first attempts will probably fail

First hundreds of attempts? In your experience, is that a reasonable number?
Here it is with further analysis, from another good long-standing source of information about human rights
and repression of journalism in Thailand...

https://prachatai.com/english/node/9368
Where does it say that this information was provided on demand without a warrant? The only exception to a warrant requirement is a FISA letter, and all US persons are required by law to respond to those.

And in terms of NSLs, they only turned over data for under 500 of them so far this year (and it could be a lot fewer since the bucket size is 1-500).
One of yarn's best features (still not implemented by npm, but give it a few years) is resolutions.

You can override any version of a package anywhere in the dependency tree. For example, to resolve a CVE in one of your zillion packages.

pnpm has "hooks" which can do that and more, though I still prefer yarn resolutions.
Tbh if I wanted to fly under the radar, I’d use something that looks like a corporate VPN, but self-managed instead of Tor.
No. I'm bringing it back to the premise of the article after your efficiency tangent.
So how do you block private power if not via legislation? Legislation and its enforcement are a government power.
> 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee

Now do the government.
Playing Devil's advocate, the Declaration of Independence does include the phrase, "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."

Also during the Revolution, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Expedition lead to atrocities against the natives and the later acquisition of a large amount of land for American settlers.

I wouldn't consider this in the top 10 motivations for the American Revolution. (In fact that complaint was the 27th of 27 complaints.)

But as a motivation, it was not exactly absent either. And the economic consequences of this particular item did prove, in hindsight, to be immense.
More precisely, it's the power of "one dollar = 1 vote" rather than "1 person = 1 vote."
"The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling"

America is militarized due to 20th century European "killing/incarcerating/surveilling." Europe perfected these methods.
> You can't appeal to Supreme Court pro se anymore.

Do you have a citation for that? Here's the US Supreme Court accepting a pro se appeal in 2019:

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/supreme-court-accept...
Look at the entire crypto space. $1.5T+ of value and growing and the vast majority of it is built remotely, sometimes anonymously, and it's one of the most free and spontaneous industries.
A fun video related to this and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is this one: https://youtu.be/xeUQlXmzuZ8

Basically my understanding is that high-level competitive Jiu Jitsu (Gi) can be extremely dull to watch, because of the point system disincentiving taking any risks. So that's when No-Gi submission-only competitions became popular to watch. 20+ minute rounds without any points scorable for the first half.
> why are you starting a new C project in 2021?

Why not?
The Nanny State Meets the Marquis de Sade
Your team's practice of failing to commit lockfiles is risky and (as far as I know) uncommon.

Commit your lockfiles. Their whole point is to reduce the risk of dependencies silently breaking your build.

If you don't run tests in your production environment (and most people don't), then you need to commit a lockfile and use it when deploying.
i will never stop recommending this video. i've watched it a dozen times, at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&t=1s
> but we habitually fail to get to grips with the very real problem of deliberate lying

Deliberate lying....like about Iran-Contra, Iraqi WMDs, IRS targeting, NSA surveillance?

I have no illusions that deliberate lying isn't a problem, but asking the fox to guard the henhouse will make it even worse.
Why Apache Pig?
If you truly supported fair wages then you’d support collective bargaining.
Wouldn't most agree that the chaos of stopping -all- carbon emissions tomorrow would likely be far more damaging to humanity than what global warming will do in the next few decades if we don't?
That's the democratic way. Pointing this out won't be well received on a site used by people who are in favor of censorship, many of whom work at the companies that are collaborating with governments to enable it.
> But American history is full of private interests pushing for war

It is, but this isn’t a US trait. Look at the UK and it’s record. The British East India company were truely outrageous and set the standard for centuries of brutality and immense profit. Pretty much everything else is small fry in comparison.
Can somebody please confirm the percentage of bystanders allowed to be killed when fighting war in a moral fashion? I'm assuming no war/technology is perfect, and nobody can reasonably expect it to be so. I'm also assuming most readers here are OK with our Government fighting a moral war. What percentage is morally acceptable to the readers here?
How did you get this current job? Sounds like an interesting job. I might be a good fit.
And then what if, on your service, `bob` signs out and `alice` signs in? Then `alice` not only has `bob`'s subscriptions, but she also can't buy her own.
The first attempts made by any particular person are likely to fail. And when many people approach similar problems from similar perspectives, they are likely to make similar mistakes. Give them a few years, and someone will probably figure out what the mistakes were and how to avoid them.
for compare, 3995WX 64 core is $5500. the 32 core amd is $2700.

one thing I am glad to see Intel ship is usb4/thunderbolt4. really good on chip capability to have.
The tools that are inferring the family tree of mutations (for example nextstrain.org) have been helpful. That's also a form of AI.
Lo and behold (head of App Store review): https://youtu.be/tJeEuxn9mug?t=1707

The world needs developers to continually push the envelope. Apple is a little closed off on innovaion from Developers, they don't really push the envelope as much as developers want them to... If you have something that's really compelling, and apple keeps rejecting it, don't just go silent into the night - complain. Do an appeal, complain, use whatever means necessary to get your idea out there... Apple responds well to the media; if you go and you put a nice campaign together and you say this app should be approved for these reasons, and you go to the media and talk about it, chances are Apple will eventually approve it.
This is kind of cool.

I'm not a fanboy of the military, but if an AI system can be used to assess threats and even help plan defensive or deterrent actions rather than reactionary actions that would be better for everyone. I'm not sure how well an AI would be able to do this though.
Yep, but then all username/password/emails that log on using that device share the same subscription IAPs—namely, those that belong to the Apple ID that's sign in to iOS.
He would have lost access to all the files, and been shown the door. Without proof no one cares what you claim.
The hardest part about ML is understanding the domain. I agree with Jeremy Howard on this, that it's easier to teach a domain expert to do ML than to teach an ML expert the domain. I think you are on the right path.
Health Checking Best Practices
The the US government allows these stats to be researched at all, much less put into writing. It's always been obvious the vast majority of deaths in US involvement overseas are innocents, including a lot of women and children. The 90% figure surprises me not at all.
#1 Sounds like you are complaining.

#2 You missed the point. Twitter is trying to tweak their algorithm not to fix the actual problem, but to reduce the Twitter-perceived downside of not aligning with in-vogue leftist politics (i.e. in this instance: "despise anything to do with white-males but scream racism/sexism as it suits them").

The parent comment is essentially saying this whole bounty exists because Twitter is afraid of the social-politics associated with being considered a "male-gaze" facilitator (while mentioning they're already aware that the known technical cause has nothing to do with that, but it's essentially too hard to explain to the general public).

So mentioning you get eyefucked in the bread aisle by more men than lesbians not only misses the point, it shows how quick you are to position yourself as a victim (whether you intended to or not) as it suits you...only to admit you enjoy the eyefucks. Making ppl like you happy is the actual goal of this.
Are they a joke compared to a waiter??
Potential remote code execution in PyPI
Never in the history of pandemics has there been a moment where "individuals" get to decide when a pandemic is finished.

Historically pandemics were finished through compulsory vaccination, lockdowns and quarantines controlled through force, or just letting the vulnerable die until disease mutate into something else or a couple of rounds of human breeding select for traits that improve survival.

"Individuals", as seen by the hot takes on newspapers, forums, and Twitter, have made remarkably bad observations about the pandemic, as if they just didn't spend their entire lives devoted to fields such as immunology, virology or epidemiology.

Hell I've spent the entire pandemic reading up on pretty much every new paper that comes out and I'm still astoundingly ignorant on the matters and I can at most give a handwavy opinion on whether "n" for a study is reasonable to extrapolate the authors' conclusions.

So I'll take my chances with the experts, the ones who made good, precise observations by applying what they learned on their field instead of believing that their own personal takes are the best on God's green earth.
Amazon is a marketing channel. They want more sales on Amazon, which in turn drives more volume, even if their take is lower.
It's probably naive to think parts of the government and government contractors aren't deeply connected.
> Curious if there’s anything public about improving ruby performance from the I/O angle mentioned in the post.

I'm currently working on Polyphony [0], a Ruby gem for writing highly-concurrent Ruby apps. It uses Ruby fibers under the hood, and does I/O using io_uring (on Linux, there is also a libev-based backend).

[0] https://github.com/digital-fabric/polyphony
My reading of his argument is that sizeof is (compile time) function that maps expressions or types to their storage size.

From that lens, C has a design mistake. I'm inclined to agree.
> Telling all the people who want HDR to go buy a $5,000 display they don't need is a bit of a mean spirited move.

Plus an extra $1,000 for the stand to mount it. That never stops being funny.
Unions are not “the end” for corporations, that’s a false dichotomy.

And I’m not at all expecting corporations to welcome unions, I’m saying unions need to fight for it. But that requires people believing in unions again.
Well, most of that land is already used to produce food. I'm not so sure whether it would be a good idea to start up serious competition to food production.
For the cost concern, do Starlink as backhaul, and sell fractional access. They’ve already said this will
happen in some places.

But you’re right, in that scenario while it may address your cost point, the government can still censor it, so that censorship point stands.
Yeah same here. I've received emails saying things like:

"I see from your hacker news comments you're interested in scaling startups, our project/product .."

Spam.
The battery contains more than just lithium - It has to be able to sustain a redox reaction internally to do its job.
Do you think the centralization of power in the federal government is a problem? Do you think famous people are a problem? Or is it only wealth that's a problem?
There are two theories of government: One says that they rule by divine right, the other says that they rule by the consent of the governed. One does not recognize human rights, the other does. I know which one I want to live under; I hope that those that argue the other never have the misfortune of experiencing their wish.
Wow, talk about a straw man.

The very same evidence means If we slow carbon emissions over, say, the next decade, warming will slow accordingly with a lag of a few decades.

If we reduce emissions a lot, warming will slow a lot.

If we stop emissions warning will stop.

All within our lifetimes.

And every fraction of a degree the globe doesn't warm will have significant impacts to outcomes due to the non-linear effects highlighted in this article.

The OPs claim is we can't do anything now to change our trajectory within ours or even our children's lifetimes; that the trajectory of climate change is locked in at this point thanks to the carbon we've already emitted; that "5 years. 10 years. 20 years. 50 years. 100 years. It is all fucked." and that "the future is already written."

That's simply false, though in the OPs defense we've only come to understand that recently due to improved modelling.

We can meaningfully change our future today. We simply refuse to do so.
Everything seems like common politically correct advice straight from self help lectures.

I was expecting stuff like, You'll be on your death bed for a week at most and probably high on drugs. Do not plan life for the end 5 mins.

If work matters more than family now, chose work.
There is no recognized public right to know any information that subverts the defense apparatus or benefits a foreign adversary. So even if you want to reveal a war crime you may need to wait until after it can't be proven in court to jeopardize national security. Until such time you would need to limit your disclosure to approved channels.

Anything else is treated differently. Stuff like waste, abuse, environmental issues, discrimination and the like are usually a different ballgame.
You cant be serious. He was a member of military working on drone programs, then moved to a private company operating under the authority of the govt.

You think you can start an LLC and bomb people in Afghanistan?
I agree that we don’t know. But there is also evidence that quarks are fundamental. Based on all our measurement, they are point like particles with no internal structure or size.
If anything, the incredibly convoluted amortized analysis that goes into proving bounds on the cost of splay tree operations is perhaps more iconic than the actual splay tree data structure.
The pandemic has shown the raw incompetence most journalists have when writing about even moderately technical topics. Either that, or their willful mischaracterization of information into the complete opposite of reasonable interpretations by experts.