skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The site I link to isn't a "conspiracy site", it's a blog written by a guy who does lots of data analysis.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. Anyone can throw some graphs together on a blog. Why should we trust him over papers that have been peer reviewed by experts in their fields?

It's a series of cherry-picked comparisons. Why is he comparing Germany to Sweden? They don't even share a border. Why not UK to France or Peru to Ecuador? Did he pick those countries because it happens to support his theory?

We don't have to wonder, because he admits it: "Perhaps the clearest example of the delusional political obsession with pretending masks matter is found in Southern California." Oh, great. So why are you showing us the "clearest examples"? Why not a comparison of the other places which aren't as "clear"? How can we determine if it's statistically significant if it's not a systematic study?

There are lots of other problems with that page. He's a crank.
A few thoughts:

- Recruiters are basically sales people. Some (not all) will try to convince you that the stack they're specializing in is the best one in the world and the rest of technologies are almost dead (nothing personal against recruiters btw, they are people and need to put the food on the table too).

- Microsoft has a higher barrier to entry, and makes it more difficult to leave. So you won't see many 3-people startups but more established companies who've been with MSFT since Windows 95/2000.

- Cannot speak for the front-end (I'm assuming .NET/etc), I've been specializing in MSFT BI for a number of years (since pre-Azure). Definitely see that the space somewhat stagnated, new companies are not starting their BI/data analytics projects with MSFT toolset, new entrants mostly go with AWS (Amazon throws a lot of money to continuously improve it and beef up their consulting arm) and other vendors. AWS seems to better suit rapid development philosophy as in "let's get all the data we can get in one place and see what we can do with it". MSFT tools are better suited for traditional data warehousing (as in "Enterprise Data Warehouse") concept which is currently (deservedly) frowned upon. Yes I know MSFT has the Data Lake, Spark, Kafka, etc etc but they are essentially playing catch-up with AWS and all the smaller guys, while incurring higher cost for their customers.

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Is there a good way to find a pin when I know what I'm looking for?

Say I'm looking for 3v3. I can tick pins, then power, and .. about a third of the pins on the board are highlighted. Then I need to hover over each one to see which it is, like a 2004 dhtml menu.
Pikchr is awesome! I'll just mention that the Markdown-based note-taking app I'm working on as far as I know is the only app on the planet that can syntax-highlight Pikchr code: https://github.com/notable/notable-insiders/releases/tag/v1....
You gotta balance. Don't use a password manager for you key accounts - use it for all the rest that you sign up for.
> I can't get behind the idea that a type system is either completely sound or completely useless.

EDIT: I'm sorry. I thought you were someone else.

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It would be kind of crazy if visible ethnic diversity didn't drop consistently generation after generation after the Roman empire moved east, but especially between 1200 and 1700 given waves of xenophobic hate, evictions of the moors and paranoia that anyone with the potential for external connections, (such as connections with the newer hubs of international trade) was poisoning wells.
I think the problem is not discovery but the problem is that only garbage comes from LinkedIn. I've never gotten a job that was worthwhile from LinkedIn.
Tangentially related, a few years ago the New Yorker published a wonderful article about reading in prison called "A Prisoner's Reading List": https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prisoners-read...
> Registering the company somewhere else wouldn’t do them any good when they’re living in Sweden, because the legal system isn’t fooled by sleight of hand like that

This isn’t true at all, at least as long as we assume that you’re dealing with the courts and not some secret police.
So you would call a labor party a worker union? Labor seems to be able to organize just fine regardless if there are unions or not, as long as they are allowed to vote.
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To be fair, I wasn't referring to my own personal risk tolerance but I guess trying to explain a seemingly arbitrary rule... I haven't eaten at a sit down for the last two years because I have small children and expecting them to follow any sort of strict masking protocol is unrealistic.

I also have multiple close family members who work in ICU and healthcare and I really don't think you want Omicron to spread faster than it needs to... That's an extremely shallow selfish mindset.

Edit: Just wanted to share an article from yesterday on the state of hospitals. I have friends/family that are super badass just like you, until they get in a car accident and need a bed at the ER. All the sudden shit gets a little more real and personal...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/01/11/1071568...
Porting numbers from one carrier to another is always possible (even it is "a royal PITA"). However, if I want to switch away from Apple, I will immediately lose the ability to use iMessage entirely. It is not just a PITA, it is completely impossible to switch providers when using iMessage.
> ...but a fight over worker rights is just likely to mean it uses “humans need not apply” warehouses even sooner. The humans at Amazon's warehouses are being utilized as meat-robots in any case, robots that Amazon doesn't have to repair when they break down.

This "Sharecroppers or tractors" argument doesn't even register as a dilemma for me: if you're going to take human labor, then pay a living wage, if not, then automate and free the humans to work elsewhere. It's a net-negative on society to have an employed person on food-stamps.

Agriculture used to be a major "employer" and then got mechanized; society seems to be better for it.
I would suggest you to take a look at the nbdev library:

https://github.com/fastai/nbdev

I have been using it for more than a year and it has been a great experience
Samsung no-showed on its major CPU SoC launch and won't say why
Extremely neat. It does make a couple of use cases much harder though, like finding a GPIO pin that isn't needed for I2C or whatever. The diagram at the top is very well colour coded so I'm not sure I agree that it's too much information at once.

I definitely agree it breaks down when you have as many pins in random places as the example board though. I would provide both if you have time.

Excellent work anyway!
The current set of lawyers and judges and officials for this are political appointees one and all, and will only pick fights on behalf of the political faction. The current detente was only because "each side" had their pet companies.

Facebook has messed up in that managed to anger both sides of the political spectrum. They foolishly thought they could thread a needle here. Now one side is going to make an example of them. The best we can hope is that the other side will make an example on the opposite end when they take power.

But make no mistake that they will take anti trust action against parties that have successfully threaded the needle like the ISPs. Both sides are bought by them
People say this all the time but never elaborate on what they are nor link to any sources that help educate people what they are, so I just assume that when people say this, they don't know what they're talking about and are just parroting.
Would you say that a labor party is a union? I wouldn't. A labor party is a labor movement though. If you call labor parties unions and say we should be thankful to them, then I agree, but that is totally different from workplace unions.
Compensating for lots of debt forgiveness with high taxes seems kind of fair, considering that the high debt levels are in part (or largely?) due to defunding public university education.
I search job site such indeed.com for demands of job categories. (Data driven)

Here are the returns for jobs within 25 miles of where I live (bay area.)

Keywords jobs
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Azure 3094
AWS 7408
Google Cloud 2157
React 3829 (not cloud tech, but just curious to know.)
So? The grandparent was also chromium.
Two pieces of advice.

First, pick a topic that you believe you can be fully engaged with. Here are some examples. But you can look at the threads of these from middle school through first year graduate school.

* Geometry (From Euclid to Topology to tensor analysis)

* Linear Algebra (From vectors to Convex Optimization)

* Calculus (Trig to PDEs')

* Algebra (From Groups to Number Theory)

Second, is do the work. With math is easy to trick yourself, in the moment, that you know the solution and understand the concept. But that mistake acrues, you get to a point where everything is opaque and there isn't a starting point without a hint. This feeling of self-assurance needs to be challenged. You need to do the work, rewrite the proofs, do the exercises completely, and explore the concept on your own a bit.
I'm lucky in that I don't actually need a job yet.

Hence the reason I decided to go in pretty much cold-turkey. I wrongly assumed a decade of shipping 5 SaaS products from scratch (some completely by myself), that have real revenue, and thousands of users, sometimes millions.

They only want to see me dance with a funny hat on

Nothing else seems to matter.

I mean I get it, they need to screen people.

Is there not another way to screen people though that doesn't amplify my anxiety?
The strict sql_mode is often manually disabled. I bet it is off on most shared hostings.
Not everyone, the lazy guy will be worse off and a couple of rich people will be much richer.
Many places in the United States don't have the luxury. I'm in a county of half a million people and there are are basically two options: Comcast cable (which is decently fast for downloads) and a variety of resellers who all run on Verizon's DSL network.

No fiber options unless I want to give Comcast the blood of my firstborn and then pay $300 a month for the privilege. Verizon has been promising fiber "any day now" for the past 10 years.
Between public “popular” forums, it very well might be. What alternatives are there? I don’t know any big subreddit that has as smart people. Lesswrong has more intelligent people (probably), but it’s a much narrower, more technical forum.
I would say I felt the same way. I am also self taught and just have high school level math. For the most part of my career though it hasn't really been an issue.

But I want to learn ML so digging in. I feel like it is not as bad as I thought it would be, I think the problem with math information is assumes a lot of things. There are tons of notation that is really dense.

My recommendation would be to pick a project or an area, because math is huge. Try to find resources for that. So for ML it is linear algebra and Calculus. Try to find a bunch of resources and get different ways of explaining it.

I highly recommend:

Math for Programmers by Paul Orland

https://betterexplained.com/
Hypothetically if it ever comes out that Covid was not the killer virus it was made out to be, would you regret wasting 2 years of your life not leaving your apartment? I find it interesting because I know many people who have lived life to the fullest in these past two years that rarely mask, are unvaccinated, and have travelled frequently. None of them became sick in any way. Obviously I know nothing about your age or level of health but I don't think prescribing isolation is the best strategy for the whole society.
>Out of the hockey fans I know, only the really casual watchers are interested in fights and checking at all. The big fans are way more interested in the strategy and statistics and many of them are annoyed when a big fight breaks out and wastes time in the game. If what you were saying was true, way more people would just be watching videos on the internet of people getting into street fights than professional sports.

To be fair I havent watched in quite some time but as the saying goes... I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out!

This is very simple to evaluate. What would happen to the NHL is fighting and checking was banned. Any physical violence is an immediate contract break and players thrown out of the league? Dont get another $.

Obviously violence would go away but how'd the sport work out? I'm thinking hockey would suck pretty hardcore. NHL viewership would be at all-time lows without question.

Also yes, street fighting videos are ridiculously popular but also why they were banned on so many platforms.

>It's way easier to find videos of car crashes than it is to watch hours of cars driving in circles. I don't understand the appeal of NASCAR, but it's clearly not about the crashes.

I mean no offence against nascar. F1 has nothing but crashes as well. Every highlight reel is about the crashes. So it is about nascar. Nascar highlights are all about crashes.

>Why not? You might find that long-term players of games are more interested in good gameplay than bloody effects or the violence itself. I've noticed that games in general are tending toward less violence and blood than a decade or so ago.

The violence is the point being made. Pleasure is fleeting. Violent video games are fantastic because it lets you chop someone's head off when you cant do it in person. When you have gone so far as to needing that level of pleasure, the next step in solving boredom will be more extreme.

>I think you are being unfairly judgemental about things that you don't understand.

Not judgmental at all. I've got my TF2 and skyrim installed. I watch violent sports. Im not judging people who do these things. I can see that's how people took my post by the heavy downvotes.

The point being made isnt about NHL being bad or good or that fights are or arent part of it. Its that this pleasure seeking constantly increases.
FTC has a “plausible claim” that Facebook is an illegal monopoly, judge says
Having an alternative/choice is always better :)
I think if you've been in the Microsoft stack for that long, you'll be bitterly disappointed moving elsewhere, because the tooling in most cases is trash, comparatively.
Is there such a thing for Firefox?
One interesting fact that you may not know is that the often assumed symbolic notation of algebra (and the rest of mathematics) is fairly recent: that is, the likes of Euler and Fermat were known to write out the entirety of the mathematical logic as a "word problem".

Why I bring this up, is because often I've thought that the innovators of mathematics probably benefited from this action: probably it is what enabled them to solve and derive problems we still today have difficulty resolving.

I bring this up to highlight a point about the philosophical underpinnings of mathematics--that as necessary as it is to understand the syntax and grammar of mathematics today, it is just as necessary to wrestle with the ideas in a form more palpable to your mind: language.

So what I'm saying, really, is that if you find yourself having difficulty with mathematics, as much as it is a matter of "doing the work" (solving the problem, crunching the number) as it is with any other skill, it is as equally important (and maybe even "more" helpful) to approach and take on the logical reasoning as a function of what you can put into words... At least, doing so, I think and hope it would help you render yourself more capable of tackling mathematics.

A good book to start you off in this way, is Bertrand Russel's Introduction to the Mathematical Philosophy. If you have to read it several times, it's been shown rewatching something as higher playerback speed is more effective than just reading it once, so don't be afraid to reread sections (or even in math) as many times as it takes for the knowledge to become explicit to you.

Oh and Khan Academy is a great resource.

Finally, if you have some money you can definitely find a math tutor--if you can find one who you can relate to / who speaks to you, it'll make a radical difference too.

Hope this helps!

Afterward: if you want a problem that'll stump any mathematician, take a look at the Collatz Conjecture: very simple, but understanding it might help you understand how to approach problems in mathematics (although this one has still yet to be proven, and as Paul Erdos said, mathematics is still not yet equiped to prove it, despite how simple it is).
Thank you so much for sharing your perspective. I graduated in 2015 and see very similar things in my cohort.
this sounds... unexpected. I thought client-side detection is only to make blood splashes more instantaneous
> In addition to minification, Parcel CSS handles compiling CSS modules, tree shaking, automatically adding and removing vendor prefixes for your browser targets, and transpiling modern CSS features like nesting, logical properties, level 4 color syntax, and much more.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/crust/

Not sure about the rate per-mile, but literally it's that hot, yes, but not even 15 miles. Just down 5-7km under the oceans, for example at the Mohorovičić discontinuity the temp ranges from 392 to 752F.
That can't really work for any kind of data, that is updated often enough.
Had you taken the time to open the link, the 2nd paragraph states their capabilities succinctly:

> Parcel CSS has significantly better performance than existing tools, while also improving minification quality. In addition to minification, Parcel CSS handles compiling CSS modules, tree shaking, automatically adding and removing vendor prefixes for your browser targets, and transpiling modern CSS features like nesting, logical properties, level 4 color syntax, and much more.
They do not sell a self-drivibg feature
Security Researcher Remotely Hacks into 25 Tesla Vehicles Worldwide
I don't get why this is something Axios is raising, they're a corporate, partisan trade rag that frames public health as a political issue. The medium is the message.
The first minutes of Up stands up on its own as a masterpiece.

But Inside Out might be the only Pixar movie that I actively dislike. Any other is at worst an indifferent "meh".
The company I work for does it. It's nice.
I was once looking for a solution to some technical problem, clicked on a promising web result, and found myself at my blog. I had posted a solution several years earlier but had forgotten about it.
I think it's common to a lot of tech work where convergent evolution or exogenous drivers are important. This is something that I rant about in machine learning too: very often, researchers invent something by trial-and-error or just independently, and then they forge an academic pedigree or theory to retrodict their results. It's everywhere, just most researchers drop all of the failed experiments and focus on post hoc explaining the ones that worked. (Schmidhuber is the patron saint of this kind of intellectual fraud, which raises 'post hoc ergo propter hoc' to the only rule of history.)

I would merely roll my eyes at this (does it really hurt anyone to believe that 'Shneiderman designed the iPhone keyboard'? HCI people know almost all their work is useless anyway), but it leads people to greatly overvalue the role of theory and understanding in ML progress, and undervalue the role of compute. If you believe that resnets were invented by thinking hard to come up with a beautiful theory about identity transformations & gradient propagation, then you are going to make different forecasts and emphasize different things than if you knew the reality was that resnets had been repeatedly invented but failed because there wasn't enough compute to show that they worked on anything but toy problems like the swiss roll and the final invention of resnets was grad students throwing random archs at the wall to see what stuck who happened to have enough GPUs that they could show it worked amazingly well on ImageNet and then had to explain why mashing together multiple layers with additional connections did anything.
One of the issues with this is the dynamic of donations. People keep talking about how public corps don't give out donations to developers for projects they use. I'm beginning to think it's not something they can do and I've been poking at tax and legal code on it. There's likely a reason they don't do it.

I would suggest people try to get funded through methods that functionally work through the big corps/public companies instead of donations (unless they are looking for a corp to donate to a legally registered non-profit).
Let’s break this down.. “Sheriff, you arrested the shoplifter, what about the burglar you let escape?”

Please explain how your example is not whataboutism.
It's in the first couple paragraphs

> Parcel CSS handles compiling CSS modules, tree shaking, automatically adding and removing vendor prefixes for your browser targets, and transpiling modern CSS features like nesting, logical properties, level 4 color syntax, and much more.
I think it will eventually goes to like stock trading. If you have a good strategy, you don't want to share with the world, because it will render your strategy useless.
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I left the Microsoft ecosystem over a decade ago and it was the right choice for me. The companies that use Microsoft are not on the leading edge of technical progress.

C# is a Microsoft's Java, Azure is Microsoft's AWS, Surface is Microsoft's MacBook, Teams is Microsoft's Slack, Codeplex is Microsoft's Github - well ok I'll give them that last one they paid enough for it. But remember Github is rails.

The tech isn't bad. It can and does power anything and everything. There are some interesting fintech companies built on .NET. It's not an issue with the technology, it's an issue with the culture of the companies that use that technology.

Look at Stackoverflow - that's the epitome of an unapologetic .NET shop. I feel that the culture at Stackoverflow was extremely different than most .NET shops I've dealt with. Maybe you should find cool companies building cool things that are in your stack? Check out https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/customers for some ideas. If you're not finding what makes you happy, do what I did and look elsewhere. Best of luck.
I’ve always wondered by we didn’t just have tons of ram paired with a really good in-line battery rather than optane etc.
> That applies for cloth masks and alike

Yes. Yet (I know that the article is about N95 specifically, but in general) that is the majority of masks worn. I haven’t been to a country where N95 masks were freely distributed, are there any?

> But they are not expensive and can be rotated.

In my experience, depending on where you are in the world, N95 masks can be quite expensive and/or very difficult to come by. Rotating them is definitely infeasible for many people.

> Any viruses that accumulate on a mask you would be breathing otherwise

I disagree on this, because the potentially virion-containing matter is 1) accumulating, and doing so 2) next to the entrance to your breathing pathways (given the mask is worn properly). It’s not a binary thing where you inhale a single virus and get sick, repeat exposure and concentration play a role in how large will your dose be and whether you become infected.

> I agree with you but not because I don't think masks work.

Don’t get me wrong, I think masks can work, I just think making them work the way they work in theory is much more effort than anyone would be willing to invest (the amount of effort also depending on social norms in a given country), and policymakers should be acutely aware that requiring masks will not in practice yield the benefit they may expect based on how masks are shown to perform in lab tests, and plan accordingly.

> When I studied workplace safety and health we learned that protective gear is the last measure you adopt.

This is an interesting point!