skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the tech debt quote:

>Tech debt is like fast food. Occasionally it’s acceptable but if you get used to it, it’ll kill the product faster than you think (and in a painful way).

However, I would have worded it more strongly:

>Tech debt is like cocaine. It will make you unnaturally productive, until one day it doesn't.

My point here is twofold:

1. The speed with which which the worm turns is underestimated by Silicon Valley "move fast" culture.

2. The obsession with go-to-market speed in SV and SV-adjacent companies is extreme. In some sense, it's as extreme as the lets-take-blow-and-get-rich finance circles.

There is certainly something to be said for iterating quickly, and it is likewise true that engineers have perfectionist tendencies, but I think our industry has taken a good thing much too far. Going to market has more to do with being focused than with doing sloppy work. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
These systems are primarily designed to support clinical care. Research is an after thought. Health care systems will have to decide it's a top level priority.

There has been modest progress through wider efforts:

- Standard vocabularies, eg LOINC codes for different kinds of lab tests

- Mappings between vocabularies, eg OMOP

- Semantically rich vocabularies, eg OBO's OBI
In-kind grants are fairly uncommon and generally aren't a "substitute" for cash: salaries, even being what they are, are a fairly major expense for most labs.

In my experience, in-kind grants mostly occur when the "giver" has/gets the "gift" cheaply. For example, NVIDIA gave out tons of graphics cards, but they certainly don't pay full retail for their own product. This lets them give you a grant "worth" $5k, but costs them substantially less. Ditto pharma companies, which may not even sell the thing given.

It seems clever to give the funder a shopping list, and then get an "in-kind" grant for exactly what you want. However, many places will waive/reduce indirect costs on equipment (which, per the NIH is $5000 and lasts for >1 year).
Another species known for recreational drug use is dolphins: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msx3BAhIeQg>
That's some nasty gatekeeping right there.
Would probably also need good performance on 128bit floats as well as ECC memory
> It's called a taxi

Try finding a taxi in about 99% of the US more than a few miles out from big cities.

I live just outside Minneapolis and we were SOL until Lyft arrived. Lyft and Uber still aren't available in most small towns. This is not "solved".
The Return of 'Dumbphones'
Long-Covid Concerns are ramping-up Progress on other Chronic-Diseases
Deep learning has great potential in medicine, in particular in radiology and tissue classification. Creating the datasets from scratch will take decades of careful deliberate highly costly effort however, and the current crap hospitals call records is utterly useless. It will truly have to be a bottom up approach, and in the process systematic studies to actually verify a lot of bullshit medical ideas will also have to be done. Basic questions like how many kinds of tissues are there have very dubious answers which are known to be coarse approximations, and some diseases are specifically deviation from the approximations. Its probably not quite as bad as linguistics where, but its really bad. Once datasets with millions of people followed and tested regularly throughout their lives for the specific purpose of generating the dataset, are available for training, it will be quite good. Shame we wont live to see it.
This really sets a new standard in expectations around how safe and reliable these products are. TSLA probably has a significant head-start in terms of technology - but here's a new (call it marketing) feature by Mercedes that actually leap frogs over Tesla in terms of perception on the product.

I think in 3-5 years everyone else will have caught up to tesla and we'll have a more level playing field, mainly in terms of the technology and AI. And "marketing" features like this help accelerate the closing of the gap.
If you publish your email on your profile, aren't all emails basically solicited? What other purpose might posting your email on your profile have other than for people to reach out without you explicitly asking for it?

If you want to be selective in what people email you about, you can always move your email to your personal readme with further restrictions.
That's like saying criticism of the current Russian government is blaming issues on the end of Bolshevism.
That tells you that the "cost" of taking an Uber isn't primarily monetary. It's a big hassle to leave your car at the bar, take an Uber, wake up, get another Uber, go get your car, then drive your car back home. People are weighing that hassle against the odds anything bad will happen on their trip home and deciding it's worth it.
It wasn't directly plugged into the grid but the report says:

>Aucun organe de coupure externe

Meaning there was no way to cut external power from going into the the DC. But the DC also had

>4 niveaux de reprise automatique de courant [very roughly translates to "4 layers of automatic power restart"]

Which I guess kept switching the power back on. So the only way to completely shut down power was by cutting off the building from the grid... with a switch that didn't exist. I don't know anything about data centers but that does not make a lot of sense to me, why would you want your safety systems to cycle back off automatically?

The report also states that the lack of main switch was due to "economic decisions made by the company", but does not give further details about that multi layered restart system
According to market cap or sales, it should have been:

Microsoft + NOISE

instead :-)
There is a reason why they hide that code ^^
One piece of legislation that I wish would exist is a universal opt-out requirement with no contracts. Many times you want to "opt-out" of something they require you to create an account or agree to something.

Since they have already done an action without your consent or agreements they should be able to remove you permanently without requiring you to agree to anything, signing up or mailing crap.
The leading blockchain surveillance company put out a crime report that estimated just 0.15% of cryptocurrency transactions involved illicit activity.

> In fact, with the growth of legitimate cryptocurrency usage far outpacing the growth of criminal usage, illicit activity’s share of cryptocurrency transaction volume has never been lower.

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-repor...
She was never anything but this. She only wants free speech for those who agree with her. She tried to get a professor fired for supporting Palestinian human rights while she was in college, and then has the nerve to say that individuals voluntarily refusing to associate with people who express views they find repugnant are really the ones who are doing illiberal censorship.
Poor bitwize. Tried to make an analogy to MongoDB zealotry but everyone is too young to remember 8 years ago.
That's not entirely true. Neural networks are fairly robust to noisy training data (a.k.a. garbage).[0] Well, stochastic gradient descent has the noise in its name. More training data can compensate for noisy data to some extent.[1] I'm not sure know if model size can also compensate for noisy data though, but would not be surprised if it did.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10694

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01994
> it is hard task.

Barbie said it best, "Math is hard, let's go shopping!"

It's like when you call 911 to report a murder in progress. They say "oh wow that sounds hard, sorry" and hang up.

Or you go to a doctor complaining of an irregular heart beat, and they say "that's going to be hard to fix, sorry."

Or you're writing an operating system, and you learn that scheduling is an NP-complete problem, so you stick with single-tasking.

Hard problems require investment of effort and resources. If facebook is profiting from its participation in genocide, it should suffer consequences for that. If they don't want to accept that responsibility, they should actively work to resolve the issue or stop offering the offending services.
Perhaps exploring solutions can yield better outcomes if exploring with the ones that will benefit from those solutions. For example, if you are trying to develop agriculture solutions for Africa, a blog post promoted on HN and Angel is unlikely to be read by a subsistence farmer in Africa.

There is a cottage industry of people claiming to do projects to help Africa. With marketing via blog posts geared towards those with access to capital, these projects can be funded. And since it is about Africa, there is less scrutiny about how effective it really is. Superficial facile accolades along with wining and dining at global events can further obfuscate this reality.
> Shortly after Myanmar became connected to the internet in 2000, Facebook paired with its telecom providers to allow customers to use the platform without having to pay for the data

As far as I can tell, that program started in 2016, not "shortly after... 2000"
There's many minority languages out there. Imagine posts in Basque or Uyghur being deleted because they're not in the list of "good" languages. Or Rohingya for that matter.

People would rightfully call it linguistic suppression.
I've migrated from KPXC to Bitwarden because of all the sync conflicts and having to diff different versions and figuring out, which data is latest (yes, keepass-diff is a thing).

With Bitwarden, I cannot create a new password or change existing one without being online, but I consider that a small price for not having to deal with conflicts anymore.
A few seconds is plenty of time when it's being rudely wasted and I'm freezing my ass off.

I agree, it's important to wash the undercarriage when there's salt on the road. However, I would never get a car wash at any old gas station, the risk of swirling or scratching my paint is too high. On top of that, who knows if these bottom-barrel gas station washes even clean the undercarriage effectively, or even at all.

Oh and of course there's the risk of accidentally pressing the wrong button, being charged for the car wash, and having to waste more time getting refunded.
Many signup forms do seem to use this pattern.

I never leave it in the opt-in state. Ever.

And a vast number of these companies go ahead and email me anyway.

Sometimes they’re 100% marketing emails and they’ve just blatantly ignored my opt out, other times the emails are under the guise of being related to my account/purchase as opposed to marketing (eg those annoying drip feed “getting started with our product” daily emails) but the lines are very (deliberately) blurred.

In either case, the amount of inbound communication seems very heavily geared towards benefiting the company in being able to send out marketing messages / increase “engagement” as opposed to being actually necessary or useful from the point of view of a customer.

These thoroughly annoy me.

Edit: ironically Cloudflare is among the few companies who I do willingly receive marketing emails from - but even so, if the unsubscribe flow is as OP described, this is not really acceptable and needs looking at.
The challenge with ML and DL systems is that it's difficult to know a-priori what will and won't work. The math would indicate that there is nothing a suitable DL system cannot learn, however in practice certain neural architectures can only learn certain inputs. The cycle time to develop a new system is long, and data is unfortunately scarce. Developing a DL system to solve a problem involves guesswork as to the impact of innovating on any one of dozens of components.

Which is to say, it is and will be difficult to create a business based on applying a novel DL method to a particular problem space. We're seeing a consistent trend that focusing on the other aspects of the problem such as data, tooling, or end to end services tends to be much more successful.
Your fridge yes, your oven no.
> "The majority of Donald Trump supporters are women and people of color"

Interesting semantic game. I had to stop and think for a second, but, yes, that is probably literally true (albeit just barely).

Of white Trump voters, probably a little under half are women.

Some of-color people (that semantic boundary is itself flexible) also voted for Trump, probably enough to make up for whatever man/woman difference there was among the white voters, plus enough to get over the 50% threshold.

So yes, literally, "the majority of Donald Trump's voters in 2016 and 2020 were women and people of color" is probably true.

Interesting trick.
We need either A) competent, highly technologically sophisticated government (which seems very far away obviously) or B) something really similar to take it's place.

So much of what government does (aside from the bombings etc.) is really about providing and enforcing a framework for people to work together. And in this era that needs to be a high tech framework.

Actually, it needs to not only be very high tech, but also very cutting edge, decentralized, sufficiently holistic but also flexible enough to evolve.

Which is incredibly hard, and we probably will not get due to greed, stupidity and politics, and that may be the actual reason that human civilization is superceded by AI civilization.
This is pretty similar to the "pantsers vs plotters" debate in creative writing. Do you need an outline before writing a novel? How much of one?
You know, funnily enough, as someone who considers themselves to have a good memory, I cannot for the life of me remember most meetings, or most conversations for that matter in any sort of verbatim.

What I do focus on is remembering key details, as well as key emotional responses and postures. I try to take away from any sort of interaction any 1) new details that I find to be important and 2) how they reacted to other bits of information.

This helps me create a sort of holistic picture of a person, which I then take with me to my next interaction with them. I find this ultimately more useful than remembering the actual things said, as for the most part the counterparty does not either. However, their fundamental emotional posture(s) and motivations rarely change that quickly and having that knowledge helps me shape conversation faster and better.
If they're volunteering in their local communities, that builds the collective wealth of the community I'd argue this is a kind of wealth (or should be).
Not a lot of people would realize that Hadley is a minor celebrity in many scientific fields due to Tidyverse! Thanks for all the work.
>Weiss is an uncredentialed

Why is this relevant? It's also wrong considering she has graduated with a degree from Columbia...
Zig's code formatter puts list items on separate lines if the last item has a trailing comma; otherwise, it puts them all on the same line. So if you use the code formatter, you'll either have just one line, or one line per item. It's pretty nice.
You represent them to the best of your ability or you get out of the profession.

That's part of being a lawyer in the American legal system and if you can't deal with that then you shouldn't be one.

This echos of some of the "doctors" during COVID who declared they'd rather let unvaccinated people die than treat them. Granted, most of them were probably saying this for attention and twitter points but it's still an amazing declaration to make.
More importantly, there is an API endpoint for /stargazers.

If you really wanted to get GitHub data in bulk for illicit purposes and you know how to work with big data you can get it from the GitHub Archive but that’s a topic for another day. (Although it may not have user emails)
From 1988 ! The first few minutes have not disappointed…

Edit:
Now half way through. This film is a work of genius.
The most rabid anti-smokers are ex-smokers, and the strongest pacifists are army veterans.

We tend to absorb much of our values and tenets from families and environment, in a relatively uncritical way; hence, they are fundamentally weak, and often doctrinaire. When, instead, we reach certain conclusions individually, on the back of our personal experience, they become practically unassailable, because "my experiences are unquestionably real, and my brain cannot be wrong". This can be a good thing, but can also fog one's vision for good.
Best Google Alternatives for 2021: Take Control of Your Privacy
You're opposed to EU privacy regulations? If you feel the US government is unaccountable, why would you oppose Europeans acting on the same concern?
Just because there are 7,100 languages on Earth, it doesn’t mean that Facebook must publish adverts in all of them. I expect there’s a long tail distribution here where almost all of their ads are in a much smaller number of languages.

The native language speakers don’t need to be on call either. Having a one business day turnaround for new advert approval is fine. They have longer turnaround times for similar things like WhatsApp message sending, so this is clearly acceptable responsiveness for them.

So Facebook’s decision is now: is there enough profit in publishing adverts in a particular language that it would justify hiring a native speaker of that language to review them? That seems like a perfectly reasonable cost of doing business, especially when the alternative is providing a platform for inciting genocide.
Here's the openjdk page which includes links to details of all new features: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/18/
It's worth recognizing the late Christopher Tolkien for his life's work protecting, preserving and collecting his father's writings, in a deeply moving example of filial piety.
"She has opinions I disagree with therefore she has bad motivations"

Nice.
> It's also important to note, for OP, that non-disclosure agreements are standard in such cases. It should not be construed as an attempt for the company to cover up its actions and "continue killing children".

Or, it should be construed that attempts to cover up actions are standard in such cases. Behavior does not become void of motive just because it is "standard":

> Trying to hide the body is standard in murder cases. It should not be construed as an attempt of the killer to cover up their guilt.
I'm not thinking of FB in particular here, but even they can't moderate _all_ languages. Some only have hundreds of speakers to begin with.
> "We’re fascinated by the potential applications of crypto in content provenance. In"

@bpcrd what's the advantage of using a block-chain to store video fingerprints, to determine provenance, over say a highly performance-optimized immutable centralized or federated system?
I’m at the point now where I don’t want to think about layout and formatting of my code, just let a formatter do it all for me on save please
I don't at all disagree that Weinstein has as much of a right to effective legal counsel as the rest of us.

I'm just pointing out the obvious: there's an enormous difference between (i) an indigent defendant's right to a public defender in a murder trial and (ii) the "right" to be represented in a civil suit by one of the most successful, famous and expensive lawyers in the country. The first is a constitutional right - the second is a market transaction (on both sides).
I think you both oversell it. Debt, as the metaphor, implies borrowed something. You could be borrowing effort from pulled in libraries. You could be borrowing future maintenance time. Both can be valid choices. Both can be success or failure.

So, if you have the time now to not borrow, don't. But if you can leverage growth to have more future resources to pay back on debt, you should probably do so.
> 1. Imagine if Amazon starts building datacenters for others as a service

Just as an FYI, those fancy datacentres you see on Amazon/Google/Microsoft marketing videos are really the exception rather than the rule.

You will find the majority of cloud servers in exactly the same third-party datacentres that everyone else uses.

Why ?

Because only the US and perhaps one or two other countries in the world has the spare land for a cloud operator to dump a massive datacentre campus on.

Most other countries don't. Or if they do, its either protected land (greenbelt etc.) or its uninhabitable (e.g. Australian Outback).
Those types of emails are usually a reminder to me to cancel whatever it is they're bitching about.
What do they do with the number?
(Aaron Sibarium wrote the article, not Bari Weiss.)

It would be interesting to see whether law schools in specific have "administrator bloat". It's certainly true that generally universities have more admin than faculty--and admin frequently are higher paid, as well, especially in this era of adjuncts making $50/hour and no benefits or job security.
> Maybe Meta should indeed do this, but we can at least acknowledge that there are significant practical constraints involve to maintain a zero hate standard

Can we also acknowledge that not every business idea is destined for success, and that enabling any business to be successful, regardless of consequences, just isn't one of the things that can be legitimately asked of our society?

If a company has a brilliant idea for a solution that enables you to convert nitroglycerin to food, thus ending world hunger, but it just doesn't have the capability to implement safe handling of explosives, then it's not allowed to operate until it can.

Similarly, if a company has a brilliant idea for bringing people together, but it just can't moderate it well enough to avoid frickin' ethnic cleansing, then maybe it shouldn't be allowed to operate until it can.

Sucks to be Mark but some things really just are too dangerous to be allowed without some safeguards in place. It's literally up to Meta to figure out how to place them. If they can't, well, tough luck, but I'm sure they can think of other ways to make money.
> There can be no realistic dispute that the heavy hand of the law comes down more heavily on criminal defendants of color than it does those who are white

There can be and there is significant realistic dispute: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/...

There can be no realistic dispute that CRT has caused far more harm, division, and destruction for our society than it has benefited anyone. It is a cancerous ideology that needs to be excised.
Advantage it brought to me is that I can know if caller is spam and ignore/block the call. TrueCaller added value there.
It’s not about insurance, it’s about the definition of level 3 automation. It requires the vehicle to have very high confidence that it can drive without mistakes, because a human is not monitoring the driving.

Level 2 systems can often work in more conditions because they have a lower requirement for reliability. They are permitted to make mistakes without realizing it, because the human driver is required to monitor and override the system.
> At the .08 BAC legal limit odds of crashing a car are 200% higher than a sober driver.

What are the odds of a sober driver crashing a car?
This is fantastic! And a method I teach to students who I find to be narratively inclined. Works wonders, and is similar to my main method of memorization of historical facts.
Don't take money in exchange for displaying ads you don't understand is probably more what they're talking about.
There's a huge ethical distinction IMO between blocking messages when moderation is insufficient, and allowing paid advertisements when moderation is insufficient.
If that were true, mail providers would already offer this.

Appeal to Authority?

If people truly had any interest in an email replacement, mail providers would already offer this. So why are you asking your original question?

https://www.thoughtco.com/logical-fallacies-appeal-to-author...