skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree on not using the cli for installing things etc. Instructions on commands are much easier than instruction about the gui, because they are easily copy pastable.

One example i encounter quite a bit, the instructions for installing python and packages for building cython modules. I have students who are very much intermediate Windows users, but explaining to them how to get the development (they need python for experiment control and analysis) environment going is really painful. They often take days to get in going. On the other hand Linux users are much easier, I just give them the commands to install the packages in an email.
One thing I've noticed with regard to all of the safety claims made about glyphosate is that it only claims that it's safe with respect to humans directly.

They never discuss what it might do to your gut biome. That seems like a curious omission, to me, for a substance like this.

Shouldn't that be a standard part of the risk analysis?
youre talking about appsync when the posted article is on amplify UI.. pretty far away from that specific service and ignores a lot of usecases which dont touch appsync
Any specific models you’d recommend?
So you're holding the well being of poor children (whom everyone agrees are people with rights) hostage for the sake of not yet viable or autonomous fetuses?

That seems unbelievably evil.
I agree. I know many who were driven away from appreciating biology due to its excess of nomenclature and memorization thereof. It's made worse because few terms reveal much depth of meaning about what it labels. Biology is made superficial because the language of the subject describes only surface, no depth.

That's not biology's fault. No language could hope to convey the full ‘personality’ of each character in a tale as rich and complex as unfolds in Lewis' “Life of a Cell”.

But maybe biology is ripe, now that we understand enough of its major 'characters' and their 'behaviors', for us to introduce more abstract models of biology using concepts and language that make for more intuitive players and their relationships. In this way, we might tell a more comprehensible and engaging narrative based on a much smaller set of reusable base models — the way that applied math expands on the concept of a computable function or the way electrical engineering builds on gaussian processes that model signals.

At the very least, I would LOVE for each chapter in a molecular bio textbook to be split into two parts — a short overview of the topic that follows with only the major components and activity described, and only then, to dive into the details. Seeing a city from high above it is an enormous help before trying to appreciate it on foot.
> Nobody is forcing you.

Well, the author was happily using that distribution mechanism and built a community of users whose production systems are now locked into it. Then they rules changed unilaterally, effectively holding access to that community hostage. They most certainly are forcing the author to do something!

Sure the author had a choice to not use PyPi when they initially published a package. But doing so NOW, yanking the project and publishing elsewhere, would directly cause massive amounts of problems that would need to be solved. Who's going to do that labor? The author. There's no reasonable interpretation of this situation that doesn't involve the author being forced to do something.
The Oxide Twitter spaces are recorded and distributed as a podcast [1]. If you're not a fan of the content it won't help but it's at least more convenient to consume than through Twitter.

[1] https://feeds.transistor.fm/oxide-and-friends
> if there are blockbuster acquisitions every year

There aren’t. They cluster to varying degrees depending on the thresholds one chooses. But the likelihoods are far from uniform.
I can just highlight the region if I really want to read it, but mostly, I don't want comments competing for attention in my code and I write a _lot_ of comments in there. It's generally a 1:1 ratio in what I write, so if my comments were bright red my eyes would be burning at the end of the day.
I don't know about the adrenaline, but certainly part of the attraction of hiking in the backcountry was acceptance of that risk. Not much different than skateboarding, if there was a perfectly safe way to do it, I would have done something else.

When I hiked alone, I never told anyone where I was going, and I wasn't going to ask someone to come rescue me in a helicopter from my poorly advised climb or snowshoe hike. If I got hurt, I was in trouble.

You took the gear you thought you needed to make it back alive, meaning backups for most of that gear, and you knew how to use them. A compass and map isn't a drop in replacement for a GPS, if you're going to use a compass you need to know how to use it. And so on.

But yeah, the risk was certainly part of the fun of it.

DNR.
Any you’d recommend in this price range? I’m looking for something like MacBook “retina” quality. Thank you.
My favorite running up that hill moment is from a few years ago. Big Boi from Outkast waxing poetic about how running up that hill is his favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdHgq3oBD8
> But 80% (maybe even more) of the antibiotics are used by animal farming...

This is what needs to be talked about more. Like guns in the US, or telecom oligopolies in Canada, it seems animal based agriculture gets the “thoughts and prayers” treatment rather than any substantive discussion about what harm it is causing the planet, human health, and biological safety via antibiotic resistance.
I believe because the Stranger Things soundtrack/playlist was recently promoted heavily on Spotify.
It would mitigate the problem if institutions could be strengthened by design to be less sensitive to corruption or special treatment.

There are lots of successful examples - constitutions, voting, term limits, separate judiciary, non-political commuters, etc

The big problem I see in the design of egalitarian systems, is explicitly addressing the need for continuous response to new forms of centralization. I don’t know of any significant systems that were designed with any explicit statement of prioritizing that (vs. just general support for fixes, amendments, etc.)

For instance, the centralization of US political power into only two parties, where (temporary) single party rule of three branches is actually a practical possibility should have triggered some major reforms before it spun out of control.

A simple requirement that no coordinated individual or organization have sway over more than 25% of political seats, and political organizations at the federal and state levels must be separated, would do wonders for decentralization and better representation.

But the constitution is silent on any guidance or requirement on addressing new power centralization problems.

It is the hard root problem of power, but not systemizing progress on it is to accept inevitable dystopia
Were you able to get proper hidpi scaling on it without artifacts/blurriness or are you just letting it run at native scaling?
The USPS states that any mail may be refused, though lists only a few specific advance refusals of mail here:

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remo...

I'm pretty sure that both EDDM and specific bulk mail senders can be blocked.

There was a long-standing rejection applied to pornographic materials, based on the recipients own assessment based on "I know it when I see it", though that loophole may have been closed.

From the old Junkbusters site, there are a Form 2150 and 1500 which can be filed against any sender.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970713104642/http://www.junkbu...

I'm only finding the form 1500, here:

https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf

You can also directly contact bulk senders through the DMA mail preference service, Valpack, RedPlum, and others. See one listing of these here:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-stop-junk-mail_n_5b27b...

The From 1500 is the take-off-and-nuke-it-from-orbit option, however.
At what point in a pregnancy do you believe personhood begins?
I had a friend lend hers to me when I was a kid, and I did in fact try it in a cassette player! I even tried to make my own cassette, but I soon realized that I couldn't because... All 4 tracks had to be recorded in the same direction.

2-XL used the left and right stereo tracks of each "side" of the tape to store four total synchronized audio tracks, but all in the same direction of play. If you listened to "side A" on a normal cassette player, you'd hear two tracks: one on the left and one on the right. If you listened to "side B" you'd hear the other two tracks, but played backwards.
I love techmoan
The oil slick effect, or why we systematically overgeneralise
Looks pretty awesome. Sounds even better!
Yes, I remember that! My childhood football club had their pitch in Kieselrot. And now that I read the article it is coming back. The pitch was closed for several months, but we weren't told why....

Oh, thanks so much! Have a great day!
Yes that should be part of the full regulatory analysis, but then you're talking about active effect concentrations, which are generally going to be much higher than possible carcinogen concentrations.
No, it's worse than that.

He can't just walk away and _pay_ the fine.

He is obligated to close the deal and Twitter can force him to do so. If some external force stops the deal from happening - or if he can show that Twitter egregiously violated the agreement - he can get away with not buying Twitter, but he still has to pay them $1B.
I know what you mean about The Prodigy video (and even more so the Daft Punk sample source ones), it’s a bit disappointing to learn a track is almost entirely samples, but I think there is also a real art to picking those samples. If you’ve not been on it before check out whosampled.com and prepare to lose some time, lol.

I have to say I’m more impressed by artists who’s music is largely sample based but they twist them into entirely new forms (eg DJ Shadow and Future Sound of London) than just lifting a few loops wholesale though!
Exactly how I feel about it. I grew up in a town in the middle of a wilderness, surrounded in all directions by dozens of miles of amazing things in lakes, swamps and forests. What did we learn about them in the classroom? Nothing, seldom even mentioned. Then I learned to drive.

What do I remember from HS bio? Lists and lists of lists, uglenas and pseupodas. Way to kill the buzz.
You can't say that's more correct. That's a prediction about the future that's based on nothing, as far as I can tell. Does PyPI have a history of increasing, unwelcome restrictions?

I mean, of course you have to continuously accept terms of use changes as you publish to them. That is the same as anything else. To tack on a bit of additional conversation,

"Hi, I previously published v 0.1, I would now like to publish v 0.2"

"OK, cool, we have a new EULA if you want to publish 0.2"

"Great, no problem, signed and now I'll publish" / "Ah, I don't like those new terms, I'll publish elsewhere or not publish at all"

I don't get the complication here.
I felt this was a thoughtful writeup!

It does seem reasonable that if someone publishes an open source package to an index for distribution, they are accepting that the index may place some constraints on them once their package hits critical mass. So in this case once the authors package received greater than X downloads, they were required to log in to the index with 2FA in order to continue to publish releases. From how I read the article the author was okay with all of this and even reasoned through the requirements.

I think the next key point is subtle: at what point does a package become 'critical' enough that an index might feel empowered to take it over in the name of 'the ecosystem' or 'the community'?

To my mind the question comes down to: who are the people running the index and what are their economic interests? How do I know I can trust the index will not suddenly impose draconian rules or abscond with all the assets wholesale?

Considering where we are in 2022 this is worth considering for more than five minutes. Traditional supply chains are being disrupted and there is an incredible geopolitical realignment taking place across the globe at the moment. Black swan events in a way are the new normal and we cannot take things we used to know for granted (e.g., how freenode changed so quickly and of course how the pandemic caused the world to shift on a dime).
Can you give some examples? What do you use it for and what's so new recently? I haven't noticed anything new, and I've never felt like I need to keep up with changes, it's been basically the same for years now.
It’s a key plot point in the latest Stranger Things season.
It’s possible that rates would have fallen further if glyphosate wasn’t present.
Their version is great, I’ve not heard it for years! Thanks for the reminder.
I also got one of these emails as I created a package that apparently gets millions of installs these days. Personally I have zero issue with PyPi putting more restrictions on these packages, I wish they would do more. As a maintainer it can help me be less likely to screw up.

Ultimately I feel no obligation to contribute to open source or continue to maintain this software. (In fact others have taken over a lot of it for years.) It's a thing I chose to do, I bare the responsibility for those actions. If it gets too much work for someone we should have no bad feeling towards them for walking away.

However maintainers get a lot of bullshit but PyPi are really not contributing to that. There is a slippery slope argument here that I think is just nonsense and in particular I trust people like dstufft and the rest of the team to do their best to avoid contributing to it.

So PyPi team, thanks for this, please feel free to do more.

Yes the package repos have a ton of power. We have a kind of social contract with them to act responsibly so far but all of these platforms are built on a giant pile of donations and free labour. If that contract is violated we'll start finding new solutions. Up until that point I'm happy to let the people with the sweat equity do what they think is right.
How did you meet her? Were you at a zen meditation retreat after retiring from remunerative employment?

On a semi-related note, one of the most predictive factors of stress in any primate societies is inequality, but one of the more surprising factors is that stress increases for everyone, even those at the top of the heap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1352355
>When I bring home my System76 and leave it in my bag over the weekend, it will always be dead by Monday morning.

You may be interested in this systemd script I found on the Debian wiki[0] that enables hibernation and power off after a preset amount of time in suspend. I've been using it with my Thinkpads and it works great. Any time I close the lid it goes into suspend then if I don't use the computer for an hour (this is configurable in the script) it happily goes into hibernate.

[0]https://wiki.debian.org/SystemdSuspendSedation
> In regard to womens rights, viable unborn woman have the right not to be killed in the womb- which includes the vast majority of abortions currently being performed.

So it’s mostly female fetus that are being aborted? That sounds awfully sexist.

> This is the correct moral position to take, and has nothing to do with fascism.

Surprising that you think so. /s

I don’t think it will help anyone to continue this argument, so let’s just agree to disagree.

BTW: Vandalizing synagogues (or other religious places) is not okay/never okay - so maybe there’s something we actually agree on.
:set nu
/ whatever you want to find [return]
i
*edit stuff and use arrow keys for nav*
:wq
Or :q to quit without saving

That’s all the vim most people need.

The fact that less is installed on many more systems than nano is a testament to the bad assumptions too many devs make about who will be using these systems in the future. And yes, it’s not hard to "apt -y install nano" except at work where we have proxies and internal repos, so now I need to use vim to reconfigure apt sources just so I can use a more normal editor that doesn’t require arcane incantations to perform basic config file editing.
This is an interesting pair of takes because my problem with it was that it was just about the most on-the-nose, boring, predictable song they could have put there. I was just joking that they should have put Cloudbusting there instead, but it was pointed out that there's an early 90s version of that song that is clearly going into Season 8 of the show. Just pick any other song from the Chocolate War soundtrack instead. "I Have The Touch" would have worked even better.
With that level of technology and industrial capacity, we could just build a few tens of thousands of orbitals far more cheaply.
I have always felt it should be 'Two or more LICENSED persons per vehicle". The idea is to remove cars from the road for the HOV lanes. Kiddie poolers are not removing cars, they are just giving them VIP access. Remove extra drivers by sharing is the intent. Make it so!
Thanks.

That would require some major respecification of PSTN calling standards.

That said, yes, something along these lines seems necessary.

Even automated curtailment by last-link telcos (e.g., your own telco) based on rejection / complaint rates (e.g., recpients reporting calls as spam) could be A Thing, and are not dissimilar to how email spam management occurs today. Making that the peer's problem incentivises them to clean up their acts.
> If you use the components to create a new design then there is no copyright.

This is false. You can't copy a site's code and just change the design and poof, no copyright infringement.
So is a lot of the stuff marketed as machine learning or AI.
I honestly cant think of a single thing I've ever needed to drop to the command line to fix on a mac. Maybe changing time machine backup process priority so it would run faster? And that was a want, not a need.

Unless you mean _working from the command line_ rather than fixing issues with the OS from the command line?
I’m biased, so I would give the most weight to what the computer science department says.

Predictive policing absolutely does work in some aspects. The opposite of predictive policing is to have all beat cops equidistant from each other in their jurisdiction. This is clearly wrong. The next step is to have cops near population centers, then around areas where there have been more reports, requests, etc. After that you move to time to day. Where you place cops during the day vs night is clearly different. Shops close, bars open. Places where young adults vs seniors gather will clearly have different coverage. Pretty much every study in the subject shows people age out of crime. This is used as supporting evidence against lifetime sentences and geriatric incarceration.

I have to assume only the most naive software will have an algorithm that uses secondary indicators / simplest predictive techniques would get such attention. For example “black neighborhoods” (that happen to be poor, with no other stats other than other departments say they have issues with black neighborhoods) and self fulfilling prophecies (we put most cops at location X and what a surprise, that location had the most arrests, w/o looking at the arrests themselves)
Huh. I mainly find myself disabling mouse=a if it's on by default. But that's mostly because the only time I'm using my mouse is to copy/paste something out of my term and it breaks that.

Also, I think scaring people away from arrow keys is premature. It's not that big a deal.
If I say during a code review that "magic numbers should be documented", I expect the other person to know the phrase and not think I'm talking about The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.

I expect similar things in other domains.
as someone who lives in vim (with a bunch of splits), often in ssh, copying things out of my editing session has a lifelong struggle (because selection doesn't understand splits).

this article is a good wakeup call, a reminder i've been living with a bad situation that deserves some attention.
So this is two 16:9 stacked on top of each other. Each with 2560x1440 resolution and each … how many inches?
so many of the most-played artists and songs on streaming services now are from decades past

I've tried to experiment with new artists....there's nothing there...gen-z has to plumb the 80s for music to listen to....sad
We've turned it into a podcast as well, so you should be able to enjoy it wherever you consume podcasts.[0]

While there may be some unfocused rants in there (sorry, I guess?), there's also a lot of extraordinary technical content -- certainly, if anyone else has described their board bringup experiences in as explicit technical detail as we have in [1] and [2], I would love to be pointed to it!

[0] https://podbay.fm/p/oxide-and-friends

[1] Tales from the Bringup Lab: https://podbay.fm/p/oxide-and-friends/e/1638838800

[2] More Tales from the Bringup Lab: https://podbay.fm/p/oxide-and-friends/e/1650326400
And how do you suppose intellectual credit be assigned? Let me illustrate my question

I did my schooling in India, college in US & doctorate in Japan. Had I made a novel discovery, who should be apportioned the majority credit? The schools which taught me the basics, the college which taught me engineering or the specialization which earned me the hypothetical achievement?

I think the credit assignment based on institution of incidence is the most practical way of recognition since they happen to have an outsized influence on the outcome in terms of labor, capital & collaboration. Economics of technology is known to have little room for moral discourses. I understand the point you make, but there are no better objective and granular ways to understand achievement & progress.
Maybe irony with a dash of truth as well, depending on how many people reactively agree with / are angered by the [ obstensibly incorrect ] paper (thus becoming "distorted" themselves.)
Sysadmin but even that could require you to use the terminal which is close to programming but not quite
Vscode takes more RAM than Chrome nowadays so not a good option for low powered Laptops.
The claim was about companies that are actually not guilty, and while sometimes that's ambiguous it's up to IncRnd to cite an example where it actually is ambiguous or better for the company, with a payment of a billion or more.
Wood, plastic trash, etc. Poorer people will use anything that burns for heating.
Ha! Absoltuely correct and I'm honoured to be Strossed.

Thanks for the, er, bedrock explanation as well.
Just don't say you copied anything
Wasn't being snarky.
Apart from that, out of 5000 employees, you can bet there is one employee disagreeing in email and that employee's opinion is discarded.

There is at least one person disagreeing on any topic.

It is a risky situation all around.

I reckon that good faith is not enough.
The airport in Kitchener has a deal where an airline is offered exclusive rights to a new route out of the airport for, I think, two years. Westjet/Swoop was recently throwing up a storm in the media over this when Flair took advantage of the deal, calling it anti-competitive. Never mind that they had, and still have, access to the same deal.

The reality is that they were only interested in running those routes as long as another airline was. YKF has been down this road before.
How much does this increase effectiveness? And does it also work as a protection from the outside?
DragonBox Algebra 5
Also sad that Shopify isn't all that good. Their scale enables them to have a community with helpful guides and videos and stuff, but the actual product is arguably less sophisticated than what competitors offer. What they have is a zinger of a name and a big marketing budget. Anyone in this space should really check out alternatives. Unless there is a specific plug in or use case you want to use there is not much good reason to choose Shopify.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, June 2022: 802.11ac WiFi