skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He's not trustworthy, he's a horrible manager of people, and he never pays off on what he promises.

The man was running for POTUS. Do you expect the men who lead the world to uphold your own moral standard?

From Machiavelli's The Prince:

>Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft . Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by craft, and in the end have overcome those who have relied on their word. [...] A wise lord cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observance may be turned against him, and when the reasons that caused him to pledge it exist no longer.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Prince_(Marriott)/Chapter...
From data modelling point of view it's a challenge to wipe the user data since it will affect a social graph. And there're different strategies to handle corner cases (e.g. how to deal with reactions/replies on "deleted" comments or with reactions on your photos or your reactions on different news, mark as deleted and wipe the content or completely remove nested graph). And it actually makes user tracking much harder (please keep in mind, they're tracking users that have not register yet, in that case user profile might be converted from one user type to another if they are going to continue track you (why didn't want that?)).

It might be much easier to extend account entity with something like:

- is_deleted (boolean)

- deleted_time (utctime)

- is_suing_us (boolean)

- legal_case_id ...
I was shocked when I saw this figure. I assumed it was 8-15% at a lower limit. What this implies is that you can have a substantive intellectual conversation with only roughly 1 in 50 Americans.

Update: Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
Rights are inalienable, no one provides them
True, but what you go to as a starting point is telling.

"A lot of people on Twitter like this" is a naive seeming starting point. It just seems like an extension/abstraction of Yang's candidacy. My key point is that a party is not that.

There are lots of starting points, all incomplete, that he could have chosen. Multiple, politically credible people. Another option might be organisational novelty: This is how we'll recruit & nominate candidates.

Certainly not discounting that this can't be straightened out later, just that it is not straight now. At this point it's not that different than a book tour. It's a set of policy ideas, an author making the rounds defending them, with supporters and detractors in the public or press.

Calling that a political party should be a statement of intent. What is "the party," meaning Andrew, intending?
On the contrary, I'd argue it's become increasingly relevant in the age of ARM laptops and Windows 11 hardware requirements.
> Andrew eventually stole the pac's name and branding - Humanity Forward - put everyone out of a job

"Not left, not right, forward" had been Andrew's slogan throughout his presidential campaign. The PAC may have come up with it (I have no knowledge either way), but it is as much Andrew's branding as it is the PAC's.

As to putting everyone out of a job, I had no idea that Andrew, or any candidate, could guarantee someone a lifetime job once they joined his PAC.

Andrew's presidential bid ultimately failed. There's bound to be disappointments all around. But your allegations ring hollow base on this comment alone.
Sébastien Tarnowski
I almost went with Backblaze, but there does not appear to be a way to restore an encrypted backup without having the decryption take place on their servers [1]:

So encrypt it yourself before they encrypt it for storage.
They weren't zero cost before? In a language where idiomatic control flow uses exceptions? That's crazy!

I've felt weird using exceptions like that but I always assumed that CPython was optimized to minimize overhead of exceptions and exception handlers.
I was a redditor for a decade before I did this, and I TOTALLY AGREE.

Reddit moderation, esp for large subs of like over 50k, is outrageous. The power you can muster to influence debate and exposure at that level is immense, and there's basically no repercussions for abusive mods. The amount of time you have to devote to managing a community is immense, the ability to keep your mod team on point is hardly possible. It's really hard and thankless and can totally twist your head up.
I haven't used sqlfluff, but they support jinja templating and in those cases they ignore spacing problems. So maybe your use case can be supported?
this is a tired old complaint and anybody could say the same about pretty much any job that pays more than their own.

Telling blue collar workers you work in tech usually gets a nearly identical reaction to what you just gave. etc etc.
A good set of Etymotics would give you more overall noise reduction while letting you listen to music, without ANC.

I’m with the author on this, ANC is too fatiguing to my ears to use. Passive noise reduction is much better.
This didn't age very well.
I think that one of the factors making it so difficult to produce accurate estimates on software projects is their usually high levels of variability. There are often so many big differences between projects and it's hard to consistently draw lessons from past experiences.

However, it seems that when such variability is low, it gets easier to make predictions.

I've seen an ERP company which used to provide good estimates for most of their customization projects. However, they used a home-built, suited-to-the-task programming language, the team was experienced and relatively stable, and the projects' scopes were usually narrow.

Those factors are not easily reproducible, for sure. But I believe they indicate that taking measures to reduce variability and standardize processes may pay dividends in the long run -- projects may take longer than they would take under agile approaches, but the improved predictability may be desirable.
Based. Lot of streamers gonna feel some blowback on this. Not that it should matter but supposedly there’s a bunch that lie to their chat about the income they generate.
They would be 90% smaller (though hopefully on higher volume). From the S-1:

>We incur content costs in the form of payments to our instructors, generally determined as a percentage of total revenue generated from their content.

This is a pretty typical structure when unit costs are low. It gives the publisher the ability to price as they please to optimize revenue, and because the inventives are aligned, authors don't need to know customer willingness to pay.
The funny part about this comment is, if one filters out all the bitter and out of place adjectives it reads like you're describing a worthwhile and fun educational exercise.
I donated to his campaign after seeing him on JRE, and I’ve been getting spam emails from political candidates ever since. I’ve blocked at least 7-8 different “PLEASE DONATE” mailers, but they keep coming. I think Yang sold my info.
I've been using sqlfluff with dbt for a while now, and not only has it been a delight to use, the maintainers are incredibly responsive.
> The man was running for POTUS. Do you expect the men who lead the world to uphold your own moral standard?

Yes?!? It’s insane to me how little some people expect of their elected officials. Yes, the cynical side of me knows it’s never going to 100% live up to expectations once they're in power but good grief.

"things can never be good, here is a 16th century essay that proves my point" is just self-fulfilling prophecy. The Prince mirrors the politics we see today because we keep electing people who read The Prince and use it as an instruction manual.
You definitely still can. Zerodium pays "up to" $500k for them.
Yeah, you need to read more of the sqlfluff documentation. :-)
containers are actually a really good fit for dbs. they do one thing and one thing only and for a really really long time without many changes.

and the answer is we will definitely be running DBs in clustered mode in the future. its not really a debate its an eventuality.

without clusters you lose on reliability and maintenance QOL improvements. without clusters its very hard to upgrade systems effectively leaving systems to stagnate and decay both in performance (Hard/Software improvements aka kernel updates or inbternal DB improvements) and reliability.
Trickle down economics! Google sponges up all the revenue, and then dribbles out just enough dole to enable some content generators to survive. How noble and generous of them.

Surprised they aint bragging about the increased ability this will give them to fight misinformation and wrongthink by ensuring all news coverage conforms to the highest standards of consensus.
Mining for strong gravitational lenses with self-supervised learning
How I Dealt with Intense Startup Anxiety
The 'killer' feature of the QC25s compared most newer ANC headphone, was that single switch for simply turning ANC on or off.
>vapor

>vaporware

I see no issue here
An entire bloody Civil War was fought over (among other things) whether or not it was possible to break up the USA. The outcome was: States cannot leave. The Constitution does not address secession, but the Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the Constitution to have created a union that is in their words, indestructible,”[1] and ultimately the Civil War seems to have pretty convincingly established the illegality of unilateral secession.

1: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/11/14/good-question-can-...
Sounds presidential to me...
In general it has a bright future. It is not nearly as revolutionary as, for example, the Mill CPU by Out Of the Box Computing, but it does have some refinements from all the lessons learned over the decades of ISA design.

As more designs get produced, there will be more and more pressure on the chip designers to stick to the published specifications, instead of going their own way. Why? Because everyone will want to just use the existing toolchains (GCC, LLVM, etc.) and not have to support proprietary extensions. It helps that the specs themselves are easily available.

The implementations that exist now are not at the leading edge of performance, but they are more than good enough for many applications. This will improve over time.

One of the best features of the ISA is the design for extensions... meaning that extensions were planned from the very beginning. Unlike other architectures, where often the ISA is designed to be "complete", and adding extensions inevitably becomes difficult, expensive (cost or run-time performance, or both), or complex (which slows adoption).
> "Pet Lemon Market - Monetizing pet ill health into revenue streams: exploit the temporal inconsistency of people in having high elasticity in pet purchase costs but extreme price insensitivity/ inelasticity in purchasing pet medical care by giving away sick pets (especially bulldogs), & getting vet kickbacks or direct profit-sharing."

This is pretty horrifying, and doesn't even sound like a facetious idea...
The issue with focusing on realistic estimates is it omits the psychology of deadlines, incentives, ownership, competitiveness and determination.

Going back to your university days, who hasn't left things to the last minute and been amazingly productive in the last couple days before the coursework or exam was due?

The issue with aggressive deadlines is burnout, creative oppression, flawed risk management etc

As always it's a balance. Grass is always greener but chances are it's neither.
There's a massive cartel of 5 shadowy, evil mega corporations to overcome in the hearing aid space with lobbying chops and deeply embedded legal fuckery on the level of big pharma.

They use their position to exploit one of the most vulnerable populations on the planet, charging many thousands of usd for devices that cost $5 or less in mass production.

They created a pseudomedicine called audiology and established regional and state level boards to maintain an iron grip on medical device classification, and have ignored decades of activism and campaigns to open the market despite massive bipartisan support and action all the way up to the presidential level.

Innovations in the market are quietly litigated into oblivion, or purchased and incorporated into the existing framework of rent extraction from the elderly and disabled.

Until we see punitive action taken to dismantle the groups behind price gouging and medical device restrictions, the market for hearing devices is off limits.

There are a few exceptions, but the suppression of competition is brutal, ruthless to the extreme.
Comply tips work with Etymotics as well. They’ll sit differently in your ears, but they work well.
Yes we are still talking about Facebook.

In regards to boiling the ocean, it is a hugely-complex system involving billions of people all interacting in millions of various dynamic subgroups using technology sometimes in ways even the designers can't anticipate. There's that.

No, this historian idea would not work. We need to look at these examples from a CS perspective, not from a historical one. Those guys wouldn't have a clue. You'd end up with 50 essays and a lot of nothing. Put a different way, what we want is a collection of generic classes that we could instantiate that would describe all of those systemic failures. That's it. You could do that in an afternoon, a week, or a year. I don't think it is as long as a year.

But like all coding practices, the key here is a small group and agreed-upon code. This isn't a sample-the-universe problem. Perhaps a way of looking at it is that yes, it's an ocean. It's an ocean of oceans we have to boil. Tech, people, and all of that beyond anybody's ability to grasp. But because it's so huge, we're free to then come at this in much the same way as mathematicians began reasoning about types of infinities. You don't have to know the infinity or collect all of the information required in order to effectively reason about it.

I'm not talking about a big-bang, monolithic solution to social media. I'm talking about a few commandos arriving on a strange beach, taking a look at their surroundings, coming up with some heuristics, then testing them. It's not a long, drawn-out complex process. In fact, just the opposite. (But it is a fundamentally different kind of problem than computer folks are normally exposed to. We're looking for quick set of heuristics to test, not an accurate or complete definition of the overall problem and solution. We use CS knowledge and complex systems understanding to make informed categorical guesses that we can then test)

Hope that makes sense. I'm outta here.

EDIT: You may be asking for a solution to the FB/Social Media problem. I am saying that the best I think we can do is come up with a workable way to score possible solutions. That's it. Since it's scoring, we could use the Great Pumpkin or something more formal. I'm voting for more formal.
How to Implement and Style the Dialog Element
> Does this mean there is a tonne of sub-sonic noise that we don't conciously hear

This is especially true if you live in a city. You often don't notice noise pollution but it has very significant long-term impacts on human health.
Look at the amount of confusion that idiosyncratic terminology led to among the people here in this discussion alone. Of course it matters.

To repeat, first referring to the commit message body as why but then concluding you should call it how (because it can't be "why" since you've already decided that the summary is your "why" (which can't be "what" because you want the code to be your "what"))... is the kind of internal inconsistency that should be all the evidence you need to abandon this campaign to insist on using this terminology.

And speaking of inconsistency and insistence: if you truly think it doesn't matter, then there's no reason to insist on defending it. The only reason to do so would be if you didn't actually believe that it doesn't matter, and you just said it didn't because it seemed like a convenient way to argue that the weirder nomenclature is acceptable. But again, if it truly doesn't matter, then you'd have no problem letting go of that, right?
Anyone have any recommendations for non-ANC wireless over-ear headphones?
Since everything is politicized, the perceived stakes are so high that social / legacy media would not allow something like this to get going.

Take a look at Unity 2020, an effort to recruit a third party for the presidential run. It was banned on Twitter immediately upon creation. No explanation was given (they're a private platform).

Hopefully it'll die down a little bit now that we may have more traditional candidates on both sides, but I don't know because there are just as contentious issues today.

Everything is view from a lens of agenda. When decisions are made, they're made in the context of "what would this mean for [x]?". For instance, if a story, no matter how newsworthy, could lead to lower vaccination rates, it is more likely to be buried. And when you have organizations filled with people that believe certain ideas or politicians would literally end human existence, the stakes couldn't be higher. Any effort that could be seen as helping the wrong side is dead on arrival.

https://medium.com/arc-digital/unity-2020-a-tragicomedy-ac01...
Not a billionaire, very meagerly "rich"
> I've felt weird using exceptions like that

How should they be used instead? Maybe I don't understand what you mean by "idiomatic control flow uses exceptions" - could you give an example. Maybe there is some use of exceptions that I'm not quite familiar with in Python.
In the US, TSCA grandfathered-in thousands of chemicals without any evidence of safety for purely economic reasons. Also, new substances aren't required to be tested for safety beforehand, so it's a "closing the barn door after the cow escaped" situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_Substances_Control_Act_o...
Ugh, you're so right and I have to add:

STRENGTH TRAINING FIRST!

If you only do cardio, ie bike and run, then you are actually WORSE OFF.

Calories burned is directly proportional to muscle mass!

Air squats. Pushups. Crunches. Ten of each of those a day. It can be done in 60 seconds. 10X that and you'll be shredded without running or cycling a day in your life.
>What if we made a Internet Standard for messaging and presence?

That's a wonderful idea. In fact, we've had such a standard since 1999 (protocol codified in 2004[0])

It's called XMPP[1]

[0] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
> What question are you trying to answer by looking at mortality probability?

Well, starting with the problem of 'life expectancy is biased by infant mortality', that it misleads people into thinking it was rare to live past 30 or whatever: stats like 'life expectancy at 20/30/etc.' are helpful.

I was just saying that I don't think 'life expectancy at x' when x is small is helpful, since in the limit we're back to where we started, and until x > end of relatively high risk, it suffers the same bias.

Looking at mortality probability would more directly show that early years are at risk, before it settles down and death is unlikely until old age. The old age curves (birth year is still the horizontal axis) would still show the truer change over time, but now so would the infant years.

You could even (/might need to) refine it to P{living another year} - P{having died within last year (or before)} or something.
Quantum computing may not be all it's cracked up to be , but i 'm ok with some smart people becoming newly minted millionaires by investors with excess wealth.
Yes that's also a "right" that is devoid of legal, moral, or practical meaning. As is any "right" to any exhaustible resource.

The UDHR is an aspirational document that has no legal force in and of itself.
I don't think it's that deterministic.

Facing a behemoth like the two parties head-on is impossible. You can't have as much coverage as them as a starting point. OTOH, you also don't have to stay in their paradigm or split your efforts so widely. OTOH, elect three senators or nine mayors would, in itself, represent a major victory and real political power.
They’re using it “ironically” which at this point is coming off as genuine
Culture wars fall within the purview of media op-eds and social, which tries to rope in policy makers. I don't think Biden for instance has devoted much time addressing identity politics any more than Yang. Does it not then mean he's focused on pragmatic problems? Competency is up for question.

I like that Yang narrows the focus of what he purports are policy changes in need. I don't think this has resonated well, but I expect it's because UBI and VAT scares off moderates who want someone to feign upholding something close to the status quo. Also because UBI and VAT don't rank among the more imperative concerns people have, or at least don't obviously address them, e.g. healthcare, cost of living, economy.
> "that's dumb, we already have natural trees outdoors. Why do we need to put them indoors?"

Do you live some place where it does not snow in winter?
It's half the pay of the chair of Mozilla. It wouldn't be hard to argue that he's underpaid.
No OpenPGP support means users won’t be able to use Pass password manager and GPG to lock down various stuff?

Then, I won’t downgrade!

It’s worth mentioning, it doesn’t seem to be FIPS validated. It therefore doesn’t meet US government requirements (see NSA guidelines). I don’t know how much this is important in practice.
How I Failed to Change Wasmer
investing in bleeding edge companies will always be risky. Why not let investors take the risk, and may be these engineering challenges will get solved due to monetary motivations!
Introducing raspberrypi.com
Maybe nature prefer right-handedness just because it started in North hemisphere.
There‘s an explanation, with a particular view point, here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/escr/pages/areescrfundamenta...

The history is that western democracies generally emphasized civil rights while poorer countries social rights. This “evened the playing field” to play off rights against each other. For example one can claim that it’s been necessary to to limit certain civil rights to improve the situation of social rights. (Take away the farms and give them to the workers).
> Estimates are often, if not always, mistaken as commitments or deadlines

This. This is the problem with "estimates."

My solution - and this will sound bad - is to over-estimate.
The Right to Freedom from Misinformation.
Reddit moderators are a whole breed of their own. Any that I've encountered (mostly for 100k+ subreddits) have lost any shred of empathy they once had.
If you look outside of the US, Green parties can develop some tension between city and country greens.
:s/these days/at your particular job/g
> Can you expand on an example of a 'new' human right that would be authoritarian in nature

How about a right to live in a community free of external interference—a stronger version of the right to self-determination? You could argue that it would prevent acts of external aggression, but it could also be used to prevent aid when a nation's people are being oppressed.
At highway speeds, you can’t hear an ambulance until it’s on top of you either. Your eyes are much more valuable while in traffic than your ears ever will be.
Personally, I do it once a month, to avoid donating to a billionaire. YMMV.
No, payments to authors are percentage-based, so they deflate down with the price.

It's just a form of price discrimination. If you're paying and not urgent, wait a couple weeks and the price is $10. If you've gotta have it now, or don't care about the money (e.g. work will reimburse), the price is $100.
> It erects a straw person

Just wanted to appreciatively note your use of inclusive, non-gendered language here.