skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raise your hand if you pull directly from the internet into production without testing!

<no hands raised>

How can we claim he did anything to production if no one will admit they're dumb enough to push this latest version without testing it?
Down voted because this is absolutely not true. No western research facility uses wild primates this way. They are bred in captivity for a number of reasons, both practical, ethical, and environmental.
If you wanted to raise $1m at $10m post, well, you already have the $375k, so you can just raise $625k at 10m post now and your outcome is the same as the prior YC arrangement.
It seems like back then people were smiling to a passerby and not to the camera. They'd keep a stern face when they were knowingly photographed.

Now we smile for the camera, but not so much to a stranger.
Yep. In my lab two people are doing a PhD while having left university for awhile and while still doing their job (teaching English).
They are planning to integrate their own sketchy crypto-coin, I think they will get money from that. Although not sure how is that going, haven’t heard about MobileCoin for months now
I don't see why humans would have done this without taking credit for it.

The risk is much lower and what i read, the evolution is normal when it would have evolved through mice.

I'm not an expert, but it seemed plausible when I read it.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-did-omicr...?

I'm not a believer of a man made virus. A coronavirus would have been a bad choice either way because it mutates too easily.
How about +13 while just wearing more clothes? That would do a huge impact on ecology. Maybe even save us another hundred or so years before global warming comes
A lot of the country’s problems are not intractable. Perhaps it’s the two party system that’s intractable where both parties are more interested in vying for power and defeating their enemies than actually coming up with practical solutions. The current discourse on the major issues sure does make one believe that the only solution is for one side to just die out, but that really isn’t the case.

Take abortion for instance. I think if a Democrat came around and said “no abortion is a good abortion” and created a policy to reduce abortions not through prohibition but through funding research of new contraceptions, family planning, and education, that could make for a widely popular platform.

Or for immigration, how about we let States determine how many migrants are allowed to live and work there? If California wants to welcome lots of immigrants, let them. If Wisconsin doesn’t want any, that’s fine too. Let’s have a visa program that limits which states they’re allow to live an work in.

Regarding health care: single payer is not going to happen. But why is the debate cast as there only being two options—single payer and the system we have now? Single payer is very rare throughout the world, and the best health care systems are not single payer. Perhaps we could have something like Medicaid for all, ie provide very basic coverage to everyone, and then most people will have private insurance on top of that? There are a whole bunch of other options that no one is even talking about.

I could go on. There are pathways to cooling the animosity between the two parties. Of course, Fox News and CNN and Twitter and Facebook make their money by riling everyone up and pitting us against each other.
>> things that alter the structure of my body

Lol...the structure of your body is "contaminated"/changed all the time. You are living in an continuously changing ecosystem. The clothes you've been wearing all this time changed your body structure. You are pretty much a byproduct/result of the ecosystem. I'm sorry to disappoint you but your faith is a "change" as well given by people around you. The key(word )that you've been looking for is "delusional". Find its meaning and it will set you free the way the creator intended
When I search for "databricks series b valuation" in Google (from Argentina, using Google.com in English) result #6 is:

"Python get value from database - Büro Jorge Schmidt", which judging by title and preview seems to be a Python + MySQL tutorial. It returns a 403 error and might be a hacked site, since the home page is for a graphic design studio in Munich.

Result #8 is something similar:

"Intellij flatten packages - Músicos de Viaje". This is definitely a hacked site (from Spain, apparently) that redirects me somewhere else.

Result #10:

"How to calculate tax percentage in sql query". Another hacked site, this time for an evangelical church from Brazil.

Now... how can Google think that any of these sites are relevant? Even if it doesn't realize the pages are hacked... even its crawler has been fed content that included the keywords... :

A - The sites themselves don't match the query at all.

B - No legit site about the subject would link to these sites.

C - The results themselves (title, url, preview), as Google shows them, have nothing to do with the search!
It looks like the repo has been restored.
Honestly, you are going to see a LOT of this due to COVID.

COVID hasn't been good to anyone but faculty are in a particularly difficult situation. Increasingly, they are made to feel responsible for their students' mental health and well being alongside increasing expectations around teaching, inevitably increasing expectations around research, ever more administrative nonsense, and ever more interference and being messed about with. Add in just he absolute sheer NOISE of doing anything - including trying to publish and it's just overwhelming.

Honestly, if I leave academia - it will be HR that finally does it. I work at a university where the sheer incompetence of HR has effectively wrenched complete control away from anyone else.
my thoughts exactly, these animals are even smarter than dogs and according to some studies smarter than 3-year old children, which makes this even sadder.
We have one as a pet in the family and they're so chill.
https://raindrop.io/

https://www.diigo.com/
It's all cognitive dissonance in the end. People are quite happy to have illogical and inconsistent beliefs because it lets them remain entirely ethical in their heads.

They will even become hostile when you challenge this because you are threatening the foundation of their ethics and mental health.
2x? Try 10x
Is this so much worse than killing pig and salivating its meat and devouring it? Think about it, you are killing a living animal for your one meal when you had all the options in the world. Many people are not even eating it fully and simpply just tossing it away literally in a trash. As usual, I am sure a lot of people will run to Bible to justify this.
Our existing product is B2B, yes, but we got a lot of interest from consumers too and are considering a consumer product line (for which we're doing customer interviews to get insights/feedback). If you have 20-mins to share your thoughts, we'd love to hear from you :)
Sure ok, but so what?

What kind of person (allegedly) sinks a movie franchise out of spite?

How about… Not do that and put effort into everything you do?

IDK. Not sure I buy this and think it’s possible the Wachowskis that made the first movies are gone, and this was a good effort. ♬don’t let money change ya♬.
No, I am not sure. An airport’s purpose is to fly passengers. I don’t really want a mechanism for airlines to pay just to have empty gates. Isn’t that kind of dystopian? Shuttered gates, paid for by Delta to ensure its monopoly?
God's will is not so forceful as to supernaturally reach into the world and kill someone clinging to life, even if by evil means. If it were, and He reached down and destroyed the device every single time, you'd be likely to rebel all the more, calling Him a tyrant! No, this monk was truly no fool, he must have been a wise, simple old man who lived his life humbly doing his best to love those around him.
Guilty as charged, and it was an assumption on taking work inside vs outside your legal jurisdiction. I recognize that it may be harder for some (many?) to find good clients/projects closer to home. That said, I run in to folks in the US that have similar issues/complaints (no idea if GP is in US or not), when often there may be better options.

You need to look, and keep looking. I've been doing this since the mid 90s, and the effort it took to network, get exposure and build a brand was, IMO, much harder back then than now. However, there is likely more competition today than... 25+ years ago, so, perhaps it balances out in some way.
The law involved is actually pretty simple.

Localities are incentivized by Prop 13 and many other things to not approve housing. This is good for localities' budgets because people demand more services than office space, but is bad for California if every locality does it because then where will new residents live?

So the state, which is keen to have more residents, requires each locality to "do its part" and accommodate some number of housing. Davis currently doesn't meet these targets, and so state law now overrides local zoning laws to allow any amount of density to be built so that Davis can catch up.

In our federal US system, states are sovereign, so the feds can't just lord it over states, but cities have no such predefined relationship to their state. In fact, all cities only get the powers that states choose to delegate them, which is why state preemption (e.g. "every county must do X" or "no county can do Y" is a thing.)
Exactly. There are only 3 Indiana Jones movies.
Yes. And the equipment. And the studio spaces. And the a-list actors/dir3ctors/producers who took home many millions each. 200million was once an insane budget (Waterworld) but with movies these day grossing into the billions (Endgame et al) 200mil is no longer a stretch.
I have T-Mobile, they don't block my VPN traffic. Cox however... My VPN does not work on any Cox network.
*from live-streaming right?
Does your phone support band 71 (600 MHz)? This band is only a few years old, and T-Mobile has been deploying it as their primary long-range, building-penetrable band. It's unsupported on phones made before approximately 2018.

Band 12 fulfills the same role in some areas, and is supported on most phones, but T-Mobile doesn't have a nationwide license for it.
bad, unchangeable EU regulation strikes again

meanwhile, in a country that left the EU:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1200/made/data.pdf

> These Regulations make three changes in relation to slots allocated for the scheduling period which
runs from 31st October 2021 to 26th March 2022 ...

> the list of reasons on the basis of which non-utilisation of slots can be justified, which appears in
Article 10(4) of the Regulation, is expanded to include certain government-imposed measures
related to COVID-19 which severely reduce the viability of, or demand for passenger travel
on, the route in question.
This doesn't seem to explain the reaction to even the smallest amount. I don't believe for a second that even 1% of the anger is because the consumer has wasted resources on their food. Or people would be furious about beef when chicken is massively more efficient.
Plugging in my setup: Zotero with their Zotero Connector. Provides a lot of benefits (local, stores a snapshot of the page, pulls out relevant metadata, easy note attachement and linking)
I think this is really cool. On the recent NPM thread I stated that I want a feature where I can get the latest semver compatible version that is at least N days old. The idea being that I want to stay current with my dependencies, but I don't want to be on the bleeding edge.

This is even better: I only want to have a version that has a minimum level of a verified "reputation score". I could perhaps even treat it similar to a Blockchain new block validation: I want to wait until at least X validations from people with a reputation score of at least Y vouch for the package.
> > how we define "abomination" comes down to what we're used to.

> If a person believes scripture is only a cultural document and not divine revelation then that would be the definition of abomination. I have to personally disagree with that assessment.

That's not what I claimed. But to claim something is "abomination" based on your own personal recoil from it isn't very useful as a moral framework.

> and accepting death if it appears to be the due time for it anyways.

What's the "due time", though? Biblical figures lived for hundreds of years, supposedly. And it takes extraordinary efforts to have as low of an infant mortality rate as we do.

Surely the heroics in the NICU are how we move the time of death from what would happen on its own the most, and some of the more expensive medical care given. Hey, many of those babies will never repay to society the resources they consume.

What you seem to be saying is that it comes down to some mix between a reflexive judgment and cold utilitarianism.
Maybe your company's not a good investment if its business plan requires hiring a single magic employee for a half million dollars.
Not sure you're going to get an answer from someone more knowledgeable at this point, but from my understanding, the answer is "some." Obviously, the more users the better. You have more traction and a bigger base to get feedback and improve your product. However, YC has still publicly stated that they do fund people based on an idea or MVP without any users, but you'll need a stronger founder profile / problem with unique perspective / MVP to compensate.
Come now, do you think the gut flora that naturally interacts with my body, etc. and lives and dies (death being explainable as a consequence of the fall anyways) is on the same order of meaning to me as the changes enacted by God-image bearing man? It's not comparable to me.

The change brought about in my faith is a divine change given by the Divine Persons from outside this temporal universe who love me! Yes! A salvific change! To those who cannot see this light, it understandably does look like a delusion, and I don't blame them for seeing it that way, that's part of their own personal life.
> You can happily ignore anyone who says hot dogs aren't sandwiches

Hot dogs are tacos, not sandwiches, per the cube rule. [0]

[0] https://cuberule.com/
I've come to really regret my recent switch to Verizon Prepaid. They are very over-provisioned, which means anyone not on post-paid (i.e. MVNOs and to my disappointment, vzw prepaid) will get deprioritized to practically zero even with plenty of data available in the plan. I am unable to load even the simplest of web pages when this happens, which is a terrible state to be in when one is trying to check-in to a store to pickup an order, for example. I feel I would have gotten more enjoyment out of the money I am paying them if I had set it on fire. I am frantically looking for a less nasty alternative.
I'm not OP but a while ago I wrote this comment which you responded to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27206569

Since then basically none of the specific bugs I cared about got fixed (that I think could be unbearable to me, some of them definitely are, not sure about all), which are: 8751, 9437, 9811, 10287, 10577, 13263, 13485, 14323, 14424, 15416, 15565, 16123, 16184, 16763, and 16807, all these were all opened before my comment, and everything earlier than 16123 is more than one year old and still open. Maybe one of those is miok's. Newer ones raised since then that also look important to me at first glance: 20046, 20005, 19929, 18458, 17838, 17218.

Also there is this closed bug still attracting comments: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/15500#issuec....

As much as I hate NPS scores in the industry, I think these bugs are preventing Matrix from getting new promoters.
>People have been injured and died from these vaccines.

Really, how many? How many have died that didn't take it that could have?

Those honestly medically unable to take it (which is a crazy small number) compared to those that don't out of willful ignorance is a drop in the ocean.

>So I won't be playing any level of Russian roulette with unneeded pharma products, even if it's a 1 in a million chance of serious issues or death.

hahhahaha.... Right now you'll not take something you claim affects under 1 in 1 million while helping spread something that has killed 1 in 400 in the US. That's a difference by a factor of 2500. 2500 - think about that. And has likely given millions lifelong permanent damage.

You really prefer a 2500 times increased death rate, and view that as defensible for society? Really?

Now, let's look for demonstrable numbers. About 500 million doses have been given in the US last year, 206 million people fully vaccinated, many partially vaccinated. Where are the hundreds dead by your claims? There are currently (as far as I can tell on Google scholar, CDC, etc.) exactly ZERO people whose death is attributed to the vaccine.

So go ahead and show me your data.

So it's not 1 in a million - it's likely more like 1 in 100 million or even fewer that die from the vaccine. 1 in 400 die from COVID.

This clearly shows the lack of compassion, understanding, numeracy, that such arguments display.
I was honestly surprised the author's answer was "my friend Torben" and not, "oh, it was me".

Part of the reason I like to write as little code as possible is that anything over a year old has some antipattern that I've come to loathe. I can't hate code that didn't get written in the first place.

Or at least, it's a lot harder to do so.
I am in the same position as the author: I have a tenure track in academia, a semi-decent work, and good feedback from peers/students. However, I never felt so miserable.

I've been thinking about all the reasons why I should not quit. The "freedom" in Academia, helping society (or a few people in it), the grass being greener on the other side, the pandemic is exacerbating my thoughts, it's just burnout, and so on.

I grow more convinced by the minute, particularly when I read that other share the same agonies (thanks for sharing this, author!).
Industry is though in many aspects, but at least it's not a delusional bubble fueled by frustration as Academia is. If nothing else, Industry feels more real and with better chances of making me feel alive.
That doesn't mean that there isn't a contract between HBO and Warner Studios involved for this, as crazy as it sounds. It doesn't mean that there definitively is one, either -- but depending on how the different divisions are structured, HBO may well be paying Warner for the streaming rights.

My impression is that this sort of deal -- where the production arm may well shop around a product to different networks/services, even if the parent company actually owns one -- is becoming less common as nearly everyone's starting their own streaming service, but AFAIK it still happens, particularly for movies.
I also gave Rust a go (last year? Hard to keep track since the pandemic) but the book I was using was geared to C programmers so I quickly lost interest, though I would like to understand what the hype is about.

I think the bit about productivity may certainly be true if you have to use libraries, obviously Ruby has many more available now (maybe forever), but I certainly feel more productive in Crystal now, maybe for things other than the language itself, admittedly. For example, producing a binary makes installation a breeze, and I don't worry about which version I'm running as I point the right compiler at the code; no Bundler now, library installs are sane (at last!); and socially I find the lack of "rockstars" in the main team refreshing, I have no fear of being dissed or dismissed, it makes contributing easier.
I've been gone from G for 4 1/2 years now. When I was there, the weekly meetings often featured "search quality" measurements that were rigorous in their objectivity (I thought). They bent over backwards to be non-self-deluding.

I distinctly remember Udi Manber saying "if the web is slow, it's our fault" (actually, the speech was that everything is "our fault"), meaning, really, "take responsibility for problems and don't throw up your hands."

However, the natural tendency of any organization is to reward the suckups and promote mediocre people who just get along with everyone. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what's happened with Google, too.
The beauty of using supply&demand to sort out all these conflicting priorities using price as the discriminator is it works better than any bureaucratic system ever has.
That's a good point! A lot of online content is created for search clicks only, not quality. For example, I often search Google in lithuanian language and I keep getting whole lot of auto-translated blog/article farms as a result. Those translations almost always are shoddy, but these pages keep popping up in the first Google results because a) there is not a lot of native (language) content to push out these clickbaits and b) those clickbaits are on domains that are also, well, in the first results of other lesser languages... I think these auto-translated pages started to pop up two or three years ago...
It's called Copyright for a reason :)

If you buy a painting from an artist, or a print from a photographer, can you turn around and scan that art and sell hundreds of copies? Usually not, you typically have purchased an individual copy of a work but not to make your own copies and redistribute.
Nice response! I only went to Davis, I was definitely curious what someone living there currently thinks.

I was fortunate to always live in Davis while I went there, but it definitely wasn't inexpensive!
Many new package managers (e.g. cargo) have small differences which often have a massive impact for such situations.

They are still not perfect, but they tend to know it and work on improving it (almost often slow).

The problem tends to be more around missing proper CI setups and workflows(1) and similar. And naturally npm being very easy to use wrongly.

(1): Lock versions, (shallow) review diffs of most dependency bumps, test and build in a sandbox, automatically check CSV/audit databases on frequent basis, don't automatically bump versions of release builds, etc., etc.

> carefully selected but outdated distro repos.

and also:

- inconsistent between distros

- sometimes long term unfixed security vulnarabilities

- (more) incompatibilities between packages and distroes

- unofficial patches to fix security vulnerabilities or compatibility, which not seldom cause future subtle problems, including security problems

-problems to push important security fixes in time

-often not language specific due to the high amount of work needed to properly maintain them

- costly to operate

- an additional attack-able link in the supply chain

- often OS specific

A distro based system is quite nice for distributing programs,
but in my experience it's a nightmare for software packages.

I mean just look at the endless problems distros have with packaging python, npm and shared objects.

Instead I think most dependencies should always be bundled with the program (if anyone can rebuild if needed, i.e. open source) and distros should only package programs, not libraries.

There are some exception. But like less then 10 on most Linux systems, and many could adept by having a well defined non C-FFI interface + bundled support library.
There are people who knew this some time ago, through personal live study. There's even pictures. It seems that body of research would have some bearing too? I admit i dint go check all their citations.
That's something cynical to shouting about green energy and tolerate firing so much fuel for nothing at the same time.

Anyone else feel te same or is it just me?
Technically, a define is the same as hard-coding the string. Practically, at the point of use a define looks like a variable which might suggest it's ok to use another variable. Now it could take something from untrusted user input and you wouldn't notice.
How is this reaction different from other respiratory illnesses? You wouldn't send your kids to a daycare with the flu either, right?