skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To echo others: relatively good performance, incredible tooling/deployment infra (really best-in-class), intercompatibility with tons of other languages built on top of the JVM such that it can be functional/do actors/whatever your other weird approach is, relatively high productivity due to a large library base (not just the standard library but also a huge amount of stuff written to support android apps), and ease of hiring/replacement.

But to throw another onto the pile, Java being statically compiled makes it a lot easier to comprehend a larger codebase that you didn't necessarily write yourself. The history of dynamically-typed languages is basically getting to a certain critical size and realizing there's some merit to a well-defined, compiler-checkable code interface and then retconning it in - this happened with Facebook (Hack-lang), with Typescript/CoffeeScript (Google), and I think there's one for Python now too.

So yeah, basically people like Java because it's fast and versatile, because it's got a Pythonesque amount of stuff already written for it, and because it's got features that are oriented towards bigger teams with more turnover/etc that make it practical for business reasons.
unfortunately, 'readability' is fairly subjective. I was part of a group recently that spent a good couple hours every week arguing whether 'ctxt' or 'context' was more readable.

when confronted, they explained to me as one would a child, that they cared deeply about code quality
Quite fascinating paper. How did you come up with this twin architecture? Can this effect be simulated in software?
Tooling, performance, observability, and maintainability.
This is tragic but you need to seek out a doctor for your mental health so you and your family can heal from this. Money won’t help you heal, and if you continue down this path of not seeking emotional closure this company will destroy the lives of your entire family, not just your son. Don’t let them have that power over you.
Do you know much about the process in Belgium? I've been trying to learn more about proper handling of e-waste in the country; there's not much information available. The companies I know just chuck it in the all-purpose bin with batteries removed.
To paraphrase the head of the LME during this episode, it’s a market, not a casino. It serves a real, social purpose: move metal from producers to users, and move risk to those who can bear it. The rules and structures of the exchange are a human system built in to achieve that purpose.

If the rules have a weird interaction with world events and threaten entire artifice, they should suspend the rules.
I've tried to unsubscribe from affirm 2 months ago. I finally setup a go direct to trash filter.

Affirm's unsubscribe link:

http://click.e.affirm.com/u/?qs=0e4276f59f1315c3c386855d4ec2...
>The biggest differentiator between the students who scale up quickly and those who scale up a bit more slowly is their aptitude for memorization....

>But the students who struggle all struggle for the same reason: they cannot remember at the moment of writing their paper the basic facts that give context or even give meaning to the documents they are to analyze.

It sounds like what you're describing isn't about students' ability to memorize, but rather about students' ability to develop their own mental models. Luquet and Piaget demonstrated that the ability to synthesize information to develop mental models isn't particularly connected to the ability to memorize the same information.
"This problem is at least as hard as solving NLP" strikes me as supporting the author's claim, not refuting it.
Telegram sadly also started to ban content on government requests, at least that is what they did in Brazil. Time for more alternatives.
You left out that those inequities "have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19" which is accurate according to the CDC.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
Data, Knowledge, and our Series B
> Avoid EBS at all costs if you can, unless you like spending money on consultants and like crappy obfuscated processes.

* Oracle products in general (in my experience)
Part of it has to do with strict testing in CRAN as well. Packages have to pass tests and confirmed to compile. This adds reliability to package management across platforms.

That said I still run into trouble with package deprecations. I was trying to install the optmatch package (deprecated but still used by causal inference packages) and had a really tough time getting it to compile on macOS.
PASSING the test is what is rigorous. Just as you don't need a law degree to sit for the bar (in some states), the requirements to sit for the CPA exam are basic. But the exam itself is not a walk in the park.
What about the build infra of an app would provide creds to log into ADO?
OP: >In Aerodynamics, a hypersonic-speed is one that exceeds 5-times the speed of sound, often stated as starting at speeds of Mach-5 and above.

Hypersonic Speed : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic
Ordinarily, I would say that we can't expect Facebook to investigate the truth of every ad like this. But if Snopes had already debunked it, it makes me wonder how much effort Facebook is really putting into vetting this stuff.
We had alcohol long before we invented second generation religions :-)
Back in the day, I saw on Facebook a page promoting a website claiming to be able to hack any social media account in exchange for payment, and plenty of fake comments praising its success.

The entire service was a scam and all the comments interacting with it were thus guaranteed to be fake.

I've reported both the page itself and a handful of comments - this should've been a jackpot for FB to be able to catch and ban all these fake accounts conveniently rounded up for them.

The response? That none of these violated their rules and were allowed to remain.
This is an interesting question. Not because of Java (that is answered) but because of the alternatives. Kotlin/Scala/C#/F# are the same stack types, C/C++/Rust are lower level, leaving it realistically (job market) to Python, JavaScript and Go. Python and JavaScript are quickly sorted out as non static typed and Go is still not in the league of Java or .NET despite all it's amaziness.

So it boils down to: do the people like static typing or not.
Can confirm. Been learning Clojure lately (after using Python for a long time) and it's great. That being said, the JVM is a bit chunky in terms of disk usage and when you get into really high performance things, tuning heap space and whatnot is a pain (I'm looking at you ElasticSearch), but it really is a fantastic piece of engineering.
https://archive.ph/a6lxS
Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics
IMHO, we've reached the point where shortopts for "non-superstar" commands are considered harmful (especially when the command args are used in scripting).

Basically, of course, all your posix commands should keep shortopts and keep the "smush together shortopts", but 99.999% of simple scripts and commands that you as a person / developer write should be 100% longopts (and long-opts only!).

Bash is a near-dead/dying language in the sense that OSX is pushing zsh, and there are some fundamental flaws in bash that are difficult to consistently work around (eg: see bash-pitfalls and shellcheck).

CLI usage is trending towards more "bundle and standardize" (ie: make, npm run, Dockerfile, etc...) and for those purpose I _really_ prefer committing explicit long-opts instead of shortopts (eg: `rm --interactive --recursive --force` v. `rm -irf`), as it's moderately self-documenting and harder to make preventable mistakes.

For your whatever internal scripts that parse options, I guarantee you it's better that you explicitly call out `foo.sh --force || foo.sh --file` instead of `foo.sh -f` after you've left it and are coming back to it a year from now.

For "superstar" commands like "docker run -i -t ..." then let there be 100k's of users before you start cluttering with shortopts, and only then add them judiciously for truly time-saving interactive uses.
Show HN: Machinegame – a multiplayer browser game where you code to play
"People reaching out" is fine. "Automated bulk email" is not.
I think the point is that the quality of justice should not be a market transaction. To echo the GP's point, you accept it, most Americans accept it, but the people described in the article reject it. To them the best legal representation should go to the most vulnerable. Not the richest.
Yeah, I added steel bottoms to my Scandinavian designs bookshelves, reinforced the bottom edges and braced the corners with steel flashing, and replaced the cheap backer with some good quality hardboard I picked up at the big box. Handed down twice now in 25 years and it’s still in use at my nephew’s house.
On many important questions with a close nexus to the law, lawyers as a group are to the left of not only Republicans, but many Democrats.

E.g. most lawyers support using race as a factor in college admissions and hiring decisions. Most Democrats (as well as most Black and Hispanic people) oppose using race as even a "minor factor" in admissions decisions (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ...), and oppose using race as a factor in hiring decisions, even if that results in less diversity (https://www.vox.com/2019/5/9/18538216/diversity-workplace-pe...).

Likewise, most lawyers are liberal on criminal justice issues. Meanwhile, a 2014 Sentencing Project study found that two-thirds of Black people (90% of whom vote Democrat) think the criminal justice system "is not harsh enough." https://news.wttw.com/2019/04/11/how-black-leaders-unintenti...

Most lawyer's support Roe v. Wade's rule that states cannot prohibit abortions before fetal viability (around the end of the second trimester). But 65% of people think abortion should "usually be illegal in the second trimester" (i.e. after 13 weeks): https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-us-supreme-court-abort...

Most lawyers are aggressively secular, and lean toward a mode of excluding religion from schools similar to France. Meanwhile, most Americans say that religion has too little presence in schools: https://news.gallup.com/poll/18136/public-favors-voluntary-p.... Specifically, 73% of Republicans and 51% of Democrats think there is too little religion in schools.

Insofar as judges (and Supreme Court Justices) come from the pool of lawyers, it's important to observe that lawyers as a group are well to the left of not only Republicans, but many or most Democrats on these issues.
You’re only looking at one metric of “performance”: the number of conditions it operates in.

The SAE is looking at a different performance hurdle between levels 2 and 3: reliability.
But this is quite a bad product in that respect. If this is all it takes, Tesla would implement the same restrictions and get the same fanfare, but alas they're not constantly aiming for "PR stunt" levels of driving.
If you believe that the system of law is just and fair, then you can give your full effort to defending them. If they are guilty (whether they tell you or not) then the system will find them as such. That's the theory anyway.

Now in practice, you would probably have to tell them their best chance is to make a deal (like 80% or so of all cases anyways). This generally benefits the courts (volume is too high to process), the prosecutors (guaranteed win), and the defendant (lesser sentence).

You might even think that the rules/laws are wrong or are not just. This shouldn't interfere with the idea that everyone gets a trial under those rules. If this is case, then it might be a good idea to get out of that line of work.

Also, there is a big difference between not wanting to work at a firm that represented someone and not taking on a case personally. You can personally say you don't want a case for some reasons (like not being able to do a good job), but if you're saying that nobody should represent them, that's an affront the the principles of your profession.
I agree with that. I mainly think it is like most metaphors, and largely used to argue whatever position the debater has. Whatever use it may have, is indeed evaporated as both sides of the debate burn away at it.
Because it makes sense. Learning should be part of most professions. People attend conferences and workshops. Companies pay for travel, accommodation, participation and other expenses. Giving your employees time to learn something new with a side project is incredibly cost-effective in comparison to external learning opportunities.
This is the ideal design, along with an office whose job it is to manually move data from the public side to the private side. These offices usually have a server on the public and private side to make it seem like it's an automated transfer (like putting a file in Dropbox on the public and then seeing it show up on the private side), but in reality you have a security guard making sure nobody's copying up `MSOfficeOfficialThisTime.msi`.
Reminds me of what I've heard about how bicycle helmets can cause riders to take more risks, so overall accident rates go up (I don't know how true that is, but it sounds plausible).

People who may not have chosen to drive (e.g., tired, drunk, impaired, or otherwise incapable of driving) might choose to do so since they can "lean on" the car doing it for them, and if the car encounters a situation it can't deal with the driver is completely incapable of handling it.
All of these conversations and examples are practically worthless without heaps of context, imo. The topic is too nuanced to look at a high-level list of events and draw general conclusions. It almost feels like our culture hasn’t developed a nuanced enough shared vocabulary to even be sure we’re talking about the same thing half the time. And that environment makes it incredibly easy to obscure truth with facts.
Rethink. A few layers of free cardboard would be about the same as foam.
It was the white pages but yes. That's why there is such a yawning gap between reality, where nobody gives a fuck if you know my phone number, and niche online privacy activism, where for some reason people care a lot.
There is a minimum, it starts at ~$700 for 0.02 BAC. It is also possible to use less than a month salary for people with low income and/or high degree debt due to children etc. The intention of the law is that everyone faces meaningful penalties.
imho simplicity ist the most important trait.

I have a rule i derive from that: like economy of movement there must be a requirement for every change/code.

when nobody says what is slow, how can I optimize. I would pick simplicity and maintainability every time over some undefined performance. Especially as high performant solutions tend to be rather complicated compared to simple ones...

3rd party libs come at a price that is often overlooked/ignored...
The death toll of nuclear energy is only a minute fraction of the casualties brought about by coal and oil. The most pessimistic estimations of deaths caused by all nuclear power accidents that ever occurred and waste that has been produced utterly pale in comparison to the insane human cost of the fossil fuels. And thanks to their greenhouse gas emissions the worst of it is likely yet to come.
And the sun generates its energy output as a result of nuclear fusion, not the nuclear fission of a chain reaction. We'd very much like to bring the sun to earth because controlled sustained fusion could potentially solve the majority of our energy troubles. Unfortunately thus far we've brought it in the form of thermonuclear weapons.
You can 100% use spaces repetition for that. Just depends on what facts you want to spend time committing to long term memory.
It's kind of funny that the author mentioned about data fragmentation in the very first section and at the end went to provide Heart rate/ECG/Afib as one of the successful case studies for deep learning for EMR.

ECG is the classic case of data fragmentation that he's talking about and if you want to export raw data from the popular ECG machine like Mortara, good luck with that. Heck even Apple currently does not support exporting raw data ECG out of the box that's crucial for deep learning, apart from the PDF image file for the ECG waveform [1]. Literally there are more than a few dozens open formats for the ECG [2],[3] and this obligatory XKCD comic comes to mind except that there are 39 standards instead of 15! [4]. Even if the ECG machine manufacturer is using one of the formats there are still serious interoperability issues down the road.

Rambling aside, there's yearly cardiology global challenge competition organized by Computing and Cardiology Conference (CINC) and recently there are machine learning and deep learning techniques proposed for multi-lead ECG diagnostics but the results are not that great [5]. Hopefully it will start an impetus to deep learning in EMR similar to ImageNet Challenge that gave rise to the actual deep learning algorithm that drived the community past the winter AI.

[1] Accessing the ECG Data of the Apple Watch and Accomplishing Interoperability Through FHIR:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34042901/

[2] A review of ECG storage formats:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21775198/

[3] A Review on Digital ECG Formats and the Relationships Between Them:

http://diec.unizar.es/~imr/personal/docs/paper12IEEETITB1.pd...

[4] How standards proliferate:

https://xkcd.com/927/

[5]The PhysioNet/CinC Challenge:

https://cinc.org/physionet-cinc-challenge-awards/
> "explain the http life cycle" and "explain the difference between filter, map, reduce (javascript)".

Those seem like pretty reasonable questions, though - they're at least things that would have come up at some point if somebody had actually been doing professional (web) development.
Who else is not surprised that discount hosting providers cut corners?
What they’ve said basically is:

we can’t possibly review all ads to ensure we don’t encourage violence, so between the choices: a) review all ads, charge per request or just operate slower until our automation is 100% accurate OR b) accept that 0.005% of the time, ads promoting violence and worse will get posted, and cause harm.
Straight talk speaking as someone who has experienced death multiple times, expected and unexpected, natural and awful:

Find a grief counselor and see them regularly. It sounds like you still have a little bit of time left before the statue of limitations runs out. So start getting your mental health in order before making any big decisions.

Spending every day at the cemetery is very unhealthy. If you keep immersing your mind in what you have lost, and in rage, your mind will just become more and more like that. Working out your grief by tilting at windmills is likely to send your mental health into a cascading decline—even if you win. Money can't make you whole.

Please get support.
They linked to the wrong person.

This is the Pat Toomey that co-wrote the article: https://www.aclu.org/news/by/patrick-toomey/
Your concept is applicable across all sorts of consumer and wholesale goods. However people are relying on that information asymmetry for margin, which is a powerful motivator. So you will soon be warring with desperate marketers eager to generate more faux differentiation to confound you and consumers. Most of the products in the consumer market that have irrelevant resale value are like this. The information wars over phony value escalation know no limits...
14M IOPS out of a single CPU core
I don't understand the ground truth well enough to say, and I'm not going to be flippant in guessing.

It *does* look double-edged to me: if you pull Western social media out of places like Myanmar, their replacements could be more destructive things. Their reliance on Western social media, for now, gives the West additional influence and levers in that country. I do agree Meta is using that influence badly, that their algorithms seem to be amplifying calls to violence rather than countering them.
> There is no cost transparency so I don't know what you base that on.

Electricity cost to the final user is the only metrics that matter.

Anything in the energy market is heavily subsidies: petrol, gas, RNG, everything, not only nuclear.

France was having one of the lowest electricity price in Europe for more than 2 decades mainly due to Nuclear[^1]. This is not anymore due to the European common energy market.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/bookmark/59f1e791-...
I think in philosophy it's a bit more valid. Still not maybe the best case, since these are still the papers that stood the test of time, critiquing some marginal paper would probably be a better practice of "critiquing", but philosophy always has a critique. The form may be impeccable, the writing may be spectacular, etc., but the philosophy itself always has room for rumination, discussion, etc.

For a science paper, if it's something people are still reading 30-50 years later, it was apparently good enough. I can always critique the paper for failing to solve String Theory and then draw out from String Theory a mathematical demonstration of how their solution for getting robots to navigate around boxes is very good, but that's more a reflection of me than the paper.
I see this everywhere. What's the excuse in your case?
I used to order monthly coffee nespresso pods from a small-time online store. One time I put the items in the cart and then stepped away from the computer for a short bit only to return to an email with the subject line "Looks like you’ve forgotten something!" displaying the items in my shopping cart. I haven't ordered another thing since.
The PM in charge of it spent probably 6 months to a year planning it with every team prior to our first gameday. The first gameday took 2-5 days to complete entirely, but we made it a bi-annual exercise and eventually got it down to ~12 hours before I left the company
R is a truly terrible language with a handful of bright spots, such as it's visualization libraries.

The boost you get from the slightly better expressiveness of R over something like Julia or Python is not worth the headaches you'll run into down the road in trying to maintain whatever you wrote 6 months later, or God forbid, trying to integrate your code into someone else's work.

R was my first language and in hindsight that was a HUGE mistake. So much of the R code out there is horribly written, and even when it isn't you still have to deal with all of the issues the author here points out. If you pick up R as your first language, you will end up picking up all sorts of bad habits;

R is fine if you're working solo and you don't plan on maintaining or reusing or reusing your code. For everything else, R is garbage. It took me a year or more to undo all of the bad habits I picked up learning R.

I don't agree with the "worse is better" comparison in the comments here. "Worse is Better" was meant to refer to the idea of "Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good", among other things. It was not meant to be used as a justification for poor design. If anything, python for data analysis fits the "worse is better" philosophy much better than R. It's not as well optimized for data work compared to R, but it's much simpler, more consistent, less error prone, and it plays well with others.
I think you're correct right now, but Oracle has a tendency to change their minds frequently. Tomorrow you might be migrating or paying.
It’s not a silver bullet, Human content moderation has its own ethical dilemmas.
Or, even better: don't use shell scripts to express the kind of complex logic which requires parsing arguments in multiple forms/modes.