skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy programming. I do not enjoy working. I do not need a scheduled, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week time block where I am mostly doing things I do not like in order to get what I enjoy out of programming. I am absolutely optimizing for getting out of the cycle.
I just used this for a few English-language queries and the results... are surprisingly great.
This article seems to have rounded up the BS without actually cutting through it. Some people have points, some don't.

But any article such as this that doesn't include the numbers about scale of the ultra-billionaires and why their hoarding is a problem is useless. It may be true that printing more dollars is a bad stopgap as well, but the obvious points should be obvious.
Just mention the chat program Telegram. You will have 200+ people immediately dissect everything that its creator ever said and did. Which I don't mind at all but you can see extremely anti-Russian sentiments straight from the middle of the Cold War. Very puzzling. There's not even good factual discussion most of the time.

For bonus points, do state one provable and visible fact: that Signal (the program that's always recommended as a replacement for Telegram in HN) is not completely open source either, and then suddenly even more people appear to explain to you how that's somehow okay for Signal but not for Telegram. Even more puzzling.

Another one: mention Rust, no matter how. Somehow you're suddenly a zealot, you work with a "flavor of the week" language apparently (nevermind that it's at least 10 years old), and you also feel the need to tell everyone about it everywhere you go, and let's also not forget that C++ can do everything that Rust can and you're a bad programmer for not realizing it. I learn so many new things about myself every time I mention Rust around here! (warning: this was sarcasm)

HN isn't as neutral and factual as you might be imagining it. I've seen ugly and shameless appeals to authority by very prominent and high-profile members of this community.
What larger HDDs would you recommend? I need to upgrade a bunch of 3TB and 5TB drives that have been running for several years but really concerned about failure rates. I used to swear by WD Red however I’m hearing some horror stories about them in recent years.
what you're literally suggesting is that manufacturing consent is the righteous course. democracy shouldn't hinge on getting the vote 'right' or on the 'legitimacy' of a single elected representative. we're at a point in history, where we can instead have dozens/hundreds of representatives without much administrative burden via technology.

plurality of perspective and expertise is what makes a society stronger, not a singular hegemony. the legitimacy of government emerges from the totality of its actions (and non-actions), not from cult of personality.
This reminds me in a way of the yacht with a system that detects cameras taking a picture of the yacht and sends a beam towards the camera to wash out the image.

https://petapixel.com/2012/10/28/worlds-largest-private-yach...
I am mentoring at least one researcher because they reached out to me like this. But it's a good point; I'm not sure how successful the strategy is overall
Gentle reminder that instant runoff voting has been tried & discarded by a number of organizations over the decades (it's literally centuries old!) It's been tried in America and discarded in the past several times in many different places. It is also how they vote in Australia (which is similarly divided as the US).

I don't disagree that Approval has issues. I think we can improve upon these with score or STAR. But I think it is very naive to start a post with such a criticism and then ignore that it applies even more strongly to the alternative method being presented (either Exhaustive Voting or Two-Round).
I know, but they included it for a pretty long time, so I think distributing GPL code as part of a BSD project is kosher, legally speaking. (Same goes for FreeBSD, although they, too, replaced gcc with clang some time ago.)
In fairness AMP does not have a requirement to use a CDN. It allows the use of a CDN which was another reason why Google pushed it (to do all kind of same-domain tricks), but to keep on topic, I actually don't think Twitter used that Google cache.
Most evidence is. "Circumstantial" doesn't automatically make the evidence useless.
That's a write up I would like to read.
Re 1: start with the thought of getting 30-60min of walking with sporadic jogging. Once you either get used to that to the point of hungering for that walking time or you get an urge for more vigor, then escalate to a training regimen.

Re 2: very yes. And be willing to call a friend m/family while they sit on the phone to give you courage to push through the life admin.

Re 3: very yes.

I’ll add a fourth: improve your sleep consistency. Turn off overhead lights at night. If you can’t sleep on a particular night, then keep your attention on some bodily sensation and Wake up at the same time in the morning both weekends and weekdays and go outside to look at plants which are illuminated by natural light for 5 minutes.
Considering the context of the topic and the current state of the world, I found it to be an interesting read.
> And there’s little survival advantage for people who can effectively fight cancer after their reproductive age.

I don't know how to quantify it, but having healthy grandparents in the picture is a survival advantage.
Global Usings: A Look at New Language Features in C# 10
“My day job is advocacy, at night time I stream“: Steven Spohn on accessibility
It's the guy from the comment!

Always good to see you Clay. Hope you are doing well.
The Bloomberg article seems to be based on this survey [0] (do a web search for the sentence "Deloitte study shows higher percentage plans to spend nothing" from the Bloomberg article if you like). It does not seem to phrase things in such a tone-deaf way as the Bloomberg headline either [1].

[0] "2021 Deloitte holiday retail survey", https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/articles/us16... (PDF)

[1] The survey instead says "Perhaps the most sobering pandemic trend is that low-income groups continue to suffer." on one of the first slides instead of the euphemism that the article uses.
"Buy it right, or buy it twice"
> you might get a better reception on Infowars

Can you elaborate why you added this part to your comment?
They got to make their case in open court and lost. That's like saying Derek Chauvin was "cancelled."
The anemic standard library in Rust always seemed like a disaster waiting to happen. Javascript gets heaps of deserved criticism for its standard library, but at I can generate a SHA-256 without needing to pull in a third party library.
Real Time Sign Language Classification
>To login, you just scan the QR code from my authenticator and enter your phone's pin or use Face/Touch ID

Others see the problem with having to scan your QR code while using the device that, presumably, needs the QR code scanned ... you've just mandated multiple devices

You might look at SQRL (https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm)

Or just use "normal" TOTP systems like the myriad authenticator tools already out there
Generate image footprint from DNA sequence for sequence matching
Talk to a therapist and tell them about this fear.
Of course, my brain read the word in the headline as "Clojure", and so I was expecting "Honesty" to be the name of a new Lisp dialect. I think I need to get out more...
You can't steal a blockchain receipt. Here's a challenge for you: go right click a CryptoPunk and save it, or use this NFTBay to torrent the JPEG yourself. Then try and sell it.
No, it seems like it was always “Visa”. See the scanned advertisement https://clickamericana.com/topics/money-work/visa-card-debut....

I'm just talking about the name in text. The logo has always been in all-caps.
Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning
Interesting, that limitation should perhaps be highlighted.

I think the appeal of the simple ballot is what drove adoption (ie, vote for as many as you like, top X win).

In California the trick is they treat all open seats as one office.
remember George Orwell book Animal Farm.
Scrolling around to a random place in the article:

> Following the Boudreau incident, Project Veritas paid Izzy Santa a five-figure settlement after she threatened to sue, which included a nondisclosure agreement.[185]

That links to https://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68628_Page3.html, which seems like a factual account to me.

You should consider that facts that you don't like aren't "opinions", they're just facts that you don't like.
Aerostat: Russia's new anti-missile and anti-space missile
There's a significant difference between "Not Voting" and "Voting for 0". Other than Nevada, most states don't allow "Voting for 0". The closest thing we get is writing in Mickey Mouse where writeins are allowed.
Googling this took me to the electrifyingly long Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.

It seemingly won’t even render properly here, at least on my iPhone.
Overthinked and overengineered describes Monzo very well. Their business model isn't really banking but coming up with ways to extract money from investors, so this kind of overengineering is a strong business move for them.
I'm biased as the author of git-stack but struggling with this problem is why I wrote it. When I started it, I didn't know there were so many tools in this space. However, if I knew then what I knew now, I would have still written it. Too many tools require adopting a specialized workflow which doesn't play well with everyone's situation or other git tools. Some do but they require manually defining each change which is too much boilerplate for me.

My goal with git-stack has been to automate my PR workflow and sit alongside other git tools. I've even tried to keep it open so you can use parts of it with Phab or other tools. You should be able to start using it out of the box with a standard PR model. It'll have better performance and behavior if you configure which branches are shared branches and mark them as "protected" in git-stack. If you don't use a PR model, then that might just don't run `git stack --push` but the rest should still do a reasonable job.

If I were to pick a tool besides git-stack, it would either be git-branchless or Graphite.
Huh, I got a smallpox vaccine when I was in the military in 2006. I assumed it was still a common thing, but I guess it hasn’t been done for civilians since the 70s? Crazy.
I understand why HN doesn't like speculation in "dirty" topics.

But I wouldn't really blame the average person for wondering about this since we know that Gates & WEF held coronavirus pandemic drills a month before the outbreak happened (or by some accounts of the origins, in the same month as it happened). I think everyone's suspicions of government and individuals tied to it are extra high due to everything from the last 2 years.
If Twitter was serving valid AMP, they didn't have a choice on using the Google cache or not:

"As a publisher, you don't choose an AMP Cache, it's actually the platform that links to your content that chooses the AMP Cache (if any) to use."

"Caching is a core part of the AMP ecosystem. Publishing a valid AMP document automatically opts it into cache delivery."

https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/amp...
If I did I don't remember him. :)
How are you familiar with Basic Four?
> carefully auditing all dependencies (difficult and maybe impossible if the dependencies are highly technical or the malicious code is sufficiently subtle or obfuscated)

...yeah, a business is responsible for the integrity of its supply chain. There's nothing fatalistic about this. Running a business with potential liabilities is different from having a high school programming hobby.

If you're using community distributions of open source software in a security-critical context (e.g., any machine that touches PII) then you should absolutely white-list dependencies and either (1) have internal auditing mechanisms in place for those dependencies or else (2) have good reason to trust the QA procedures of the underlying community (and still do some basic auditing on every update anyways).

Everything else should be carefully sand-boxed and basically assumed to be pwned/pwnable.

If some rando came up to your contractor and offered them free concrete for use in your foundation, and the contractor said yes without any due dilligence, you would have every right to sue that contractor out of existence.

The www isn't a wild west anymore. The era where any middle schooler can build a six figure business by serving as the middle man between open source packages and end-users should probably come to a close. And I say that as someone whose middle school software freelancing business cleared lots of revenue by the end of college.

I wonder if this could be a revenue model of OSS. Cyber insurance providers should probably stat weighing in on these supply chain issues soon.
Oh, I do not deny there are honest marketing people. But there are plenty of people in that game happy to omit some inconvenient factoids. And as always, those are the ones giving their craft as a whole a bad name.
Achieving 10 GB/S Scanning Rate in a Single Cloud VM
>We aren’t even through the current pandemic yet.

FTFY.
What was hard then that you're worried about needing to be "easier" today?
We use dask heavily, along with rest of the pydata ecosystem. I guess we are in the 'sweet spot' where data doesn't fit memory, to begin with, but once we perform any filtering and aggregations, switch over to pandas. That's exactly what dask recommends too. Our datasets don't exceed 100GB right now.

Also note, dask clearly acknowledges challenges dealing with data in the terabyte range https://coiled.io/blog/dask-as-a-spark-replacement/

Most of our use-cases right now involve using multiple cores of a big instance, than resorting to cluster computing.

With spark, there is additional/steep learning curve, complexities of dealing with cluster computing. And Spark-ML is not well known. With dask/pandas it's easy enough to feed scikit-learn and/or bring in dask-ml, just a pip install, and you can scale well known sklearn modules effectively.

I think in the end, it's about keeping things simple. As others said, if you are already invested big in Spark/Scala/Hadoop, that may make sense for you. For non-CS folks, this will be a challenge.

As for vaex, it's very interesting. One issue is that it seems to be able to want hdf5 and doesn't want to work with parquet. And it's API is not fully compatible with pandas.

Ray/Modin: played with it a bit and maybe it's a bit too new for enterprise uses and may be more geared for ML workloads. That's my take anyway and it may have progressed substantially, already.
Sam Altman interviews Tyler Cowen about AI [audio]
Eh? By your own quote:

> it's actually the platform that links to your content that chooses the AMP Cache (if any) to use

Twitter (the platform that links to AMP content) could choose which AMP cache if any to use.

Oh, I guess maybe the confusion here is that your argument is that as a page publisher you cannot opt out of the Google CDN? I read your original statement as "it is not possible to view AMP content without using the Google CDN"
Pretty interesting idea. In fact, there are a number of military-related systems to spot sniper scopes (generally optics) with lasers, which I expect is similar to what they used here.
Not saying this as a personal attack but your comment comes off as incredibly out of touch. Downhill skiing and scuba diving may be somewhat mainstream compared to something like lounging on a private island, but they're not that common. Most Americans probably go their whole lives without ever skiing or scuba diving. And to posit these as regular, everyday activities is also unrealistic. Scuba diving or skiing are things that require travel and buying or renting gear, if not paying for training as well. That's not a 'hobby' for most people, it's equivalent to a big luxury like going on vacation.
> Five mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain

And a good thing, too.

Otherwise those juicy big-science grants would disappear!
The Angular Mini-Book 1.0 is now available
> Schools are being pressured to remove books and cancel professors for spreading the “wrong” ideas. These sentiments are all too familiar to me, and to anyone who has survived life in a dictatorship. The only answer is more freedom, more speech, not less.

This is a good sentiment, but it's worth noting that the overwhelming majority of pressure to "cancel" books and academics is directed at the left by the right, regardless of what gets column inches and think-pieces.
The court system is not particularly equal if you piss off a billionare. And Thiel just went and found something to sue about because he didn't like Gawker's _other_ coverage.
The audiobooks that helped me succeed when I became a manager
I wrote this blog post to share the audiobooks that helped me succeed as an eng manager.
> pushing house price growth to over 7%, its fastest rate since 2005.

It seems that, like inflation, the EU sees the same trends as the US but with the value roughly divided by 2.

However, in the US, the west&east coasts (especially suburbs) and a few metros (Austin, Denver, ...) the numbers are probably 4x that, so I wonder if in EU there is a similar trend, with some hotspot cities.
awesome, thanks for that info!
The parent comment was a pretty clumsy dog whistle to paranoid folks who believe Gates to be a sinister puppetmaster who is unleashing pandemic disease on the world. The Infowars audience is very receptive to this unfounded notion. Since the commenter is concerned about the popularity of his posts, I proposed a suitable audience that would be more receptive and would provide the desired positive response.
I am glad you do not work with me.
Consider the possibility that since Smallpox has been eradicated for forty years, someone in that lab may have thought nothing of the vials in there until after seeing the recent chatter about it, triggering a Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in the lab worker, leading them to reporting the dangerous vials.
Good. Housing prices are insane at the moment. Housing speculation is making it unreasonable for many people to go and buy a home. It is seriously uncanny that housing has turned into speculation rather than a place to live
> If you mean, we are not as equipped as elephants or whales to fight cancer, then that's true.

There's some debate as to whether they have better cancer fighting mechanisms, or whether their size means they are less fast affected by cancers, and/or whether they are large enough that their cancers split into competing cancers before they are affected.
Do you feel trapped by it not being an option?
A smallpox pandemic would be orders of magnitude more deadly than COVID. COVID has a very low death rate and is comparable to the flu, whereas Smallpox kills 30% of people it infects and disfigures an even higher percentage. And my understanding is that it is just as contagious (may be wrong on this).

Read up on Operation Dark Winter (2001 era wargame of a US smallpox outbreak) for details on how this might play out. Spoiler alert - nothing good happens to humanity.

EDIT: I appear to have pissed off a lot of people by comparing COVID to the flu. I apologize, I simply meant that COVID is a lot closer to the flu than it is to smallpox. I am vaccinated and wear a mask everywhere, I am not trying to "downplay COVID" or whatever.
I think the situation parent writes about is more likely (and more informative). Namely that there are places with two major-enough platforms such that everyone has to accommodate both (e.g. browsers).
More than once.

"The smallpox virus escaped three times from labs in England in the 1960’s and 1970’s, causing 80 cases and 3 deaths."

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
nice, now I want to connect and check out the old channels I used to hang out in!
neat, let me know if you have any further questions. Would love to make this a more common thing that happens to zip files. As result of me doing this in firefox, zip utilities(aka 7zip) started complaining a lot less about this creative interpretation of the standard :)
Well the article was about palm acid, not palm oil.
Super nice.
When using the app, does the data get uploaded somewhere or is it all offline?
An AWS outage doesn't directly cause death. Those aren't comparable at all.

A better comparison would be a nuclear program that can't keep its nuclear materials under proper security. And we can all agree those programs should be avoided.
This is actually completely backwards. IRV favors extremists whereas approval voting tends to find the most broadly appealing candidate.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4FXLQoLDBA
Trade group charges Amazon is pulling the wool over consumers' eyes, sues
It's just so silly that people who took the prospect of a global pandemic seriously are looked at suspiciously by conspiracy kooks.

We had so many close calls in the past, including a bunch of Coronaviruses (SARS/MERS/a bunch of serious colds), it was obvious as international travel increased, population density increased and humans further encroached on nature that we would see things like Covid.

Experts had been warning us for years which is why nearly everyone with any brains opposed the idiotic dismantling of warning networks, Chinese CDC teams, and the pandemic response NSC unit under Trump.
Goes to critical thinking ability.
> The frozen vials "were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine research in Pennsylvania"

Occam's razor suggests that those were put into the freezer decades ago and forgotten, and if they were moved, no one bothered to read the labels until now.
https://www.cnbc.com/2010/01/20/The-Stadium-Curse:-Naming-De...
I'm guessing that since that specific job sometimes leads to free foreign travel, it's better to be vaccinated for as many things as possible before deployment happens.
> having grandparents that are in good health and helping find food or care for children

Maybe, certainly since the advent of nuclear families. But our much longer genetic lineage selects around tribes, such that direct grandparents' longevity may not be as critically important. Third-and-fourth cousins likely easily filled this role.
Good luck getting worldwide cooperation on that. I guess it depends on who you are referring to as `we` but unless it's stopped entirely, there's still real risk of non-compliance leading to leaks or bioterrorism.
High priced flagships have them but there are also a few midrange phones like the Huawei P30 Pro that have them too. The trend seems pretty positive towards more ToF sensors in phones, especially because Apple has had them for two iPhone Pros in a row now.

They're basically for augmented reality applications because they sense depth. Placing objects at the right size and scale in the augmented view is much easier and more accurate with the ToF sensors, for instance.
Gotta love Kasparov. I think he's wrong about black lives matter. He's right that it's a required movement, but he's wrong that it's about power. In fact it's the opposite.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2014-10-18%202...

black lives matter only exists during the election. And what do they have to show for it? Nothing at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_Justice_in_Polici...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_Law_Enforcement_T...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ending_Qualified_Immunity_Act

Nothing at all passed.

They control the house and never actually passed the legislation. They know they have no power at all. In fact the only person to have done anything for the black community was an exceutive order. https://cops.usdoj.gov/SafePolicingEO

Black lives matter organizers know the democrats aren't doing anything for them. This is in the context of a clear humanitarian crisis. They are actively harming their own goals. Why would they do that?