skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It always boggles my mind how much bureaucrats are venerated in India. IAS/IPS officers become legit celebrities.

Part of my bear thesis on India is that no country can progress that venerates the bureaucracy.
I supposed my original message might come off as anti-intellectualism towards ML research. This is personal but I think AI research* has become incredibly over-hyped, so for me reading about contributions to other fields is something more exciting now.

*referring mostly to applied disciplines. I cannot speak for theoretical ML research as I have not looked into it in depth.
Systemic risk of unknowns, path dependence, etc.
> Why do they continue getting fat contracts even if the general consensus is that it doesn’t work out well?

Because usually even the sum of a "fat contract" + cost of dealing with issues is lower than the amount of money saved by outsourcing, or at the very least the amount of money spent on dealing with issues is part of the general company "administrative/dealing with bullshit overhead" estimate and so doesn't show up on the balance sheet anywhere.
There's a million services like that, what do you think makes this one special? The open source video calling service jitsi even has a demo instance accomplishing exactly the same feature with one click: https://meet.jit.si
> The current setup is more akin to a 100m running challenge where he was allowed to run 50m before starting the actual 100m to get up to speed.

It looks like an interesting idea. The long jump competitions have something like that. Can someone organize it? Do you have to go slowly the first 40 meters and increase the speed just in the last 10 meters before the start line? Can the data from the 200m run be used to estimate this?
Anytime screenshots come up in conversation I have to recommend Flameshot, it totally changed my workflow with including them. You can create, crop, and edit screenshots really quickly and it's a must-install for me at this point. Open source and cross platform. https://flameshot.org/
> > > The catch is that power-to-gas tech described in the article

> > isn't real

> We can do anything that atmospheric gasoline or normal gasoline could do cheaper without any gasoline at all.

You have now completely exited the original discussion

Please exit argument autopilot
Here: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/shanghai-communist-party-chi...

Shanghai health officials tried to control the outbreak with testing and neighbourhood-wide lockdowns; in hindsight they should have done the full lockdown earlier.
Covid isn’t dreadful any more, just another of many diseases.

It is evolving the way it was expected to by everyone but the doomsayers.
Yes, the advanced epubs are just the zipped source repo, which is epub 3.2, including any "advanced" CSS selectors and so on. "Advanced" here just means that the epubs are written with a modern web rendering engine in mind, while most ereading platforms in the wild are still at an IE6 level of CSS/HTML rendering support.

The "compatible" epub is the same epub, but with various compatibility enhancements automatically added for different ereading platforms.

Currently only web browsers can render the advanced epubs at 100% fidelity. iBooks might be the only non-browser ereading platform that does a pretty good job with the advanced epubs, as I believe it uses modern Webkit as its renderer. For any other ereader, use the compatible epubs. (Or kepubs for Kobo.)
Yes. What place lacks nuanced thought? How does democracy promote it?
The console is surprisingly terrible, ugly and basic... although for something that deals with so many unrelated services, I guess it's better to have ugly symmetry than no symmetry at all. I usually need to open it in several tabs just to not get totally off track in security groups and lose whatever services I was looking at, since the back button is unreliable. But it does helpfully remind me of the fact that any of the myriad things I rely on from Amazon right now could just be temporary, half assed implementations on their end that are setting me up for forced updates and technical debt... and that my job isn't supposed to be fun.
They won't stop trading with Taiwan supporting countries. They don't have any plans of that as far as anyone knows and never threatened it. The threat is that the US executes it's public plans of sinking ships trading with China in such a contingency.
So many hot takes about a paper that says,

> A newly proposed bias correction technique, robust Bayesian metaanalysis (RoBMA) (6), avoids an all-or-none debate over whether or not publication bias is “severe.”

Absence of evidence doesn't mean it's not true. It doesn't even imply it.
It's mostly a matter of battery price, which is on a downward slope, meaning it's mostly a matter of time.

> Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-022-01065-y
Assholes are just that. But the issue is that if nuclear fucks up, that land is useless, and since those assholes run it, it has a high likely hood of happening. Half life of plutonium is 24k years, so it is much worse than coal, because it will kill for generations and last far longer. IE _everything_ in that area DIES for hundreds of thousands of years.
This seems like just what I need. Does anyone have recommendations for something similar for MacOS?
I don't think that's true. Vaccination is still beneficial to infection.

Selection pressure exists, but they will exist whether or not the immune pressure comes from vaccination or infection, so it's preferable to protect first.
It needs the ability to lift and remove pieces from the board too, which can't be done with magnets
This article uses the term DAG everywhere, but I couldn't find a definition of it.
Spaced repetition doesn't work though. Forced study is the worst.

Let the mind and heart decide what to do next, is still best strategy.

It's not a joke though, the result is, people are still using ORM to do data stuff, instead of ...(not sure about this).
There's zero contact information on the website and you are using a throwaway account here. That doesn't feel like a promising start if you are not even standing for it with your name.
Is that an accusation of bad faith or just a non sequitur?
They’re libertarian, not left-leaning. John Yoo should be a giveaway that it’s not left-leaning…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Legal_Foundation
If the CRDT part is done correctly, then replaying a message that sets a key will not change anything, ever.

If the message is:

Key: Foo

Reference CRDT node ID: 7654321 (the last node that the clients knows of that updated the value of ‘Foo’)

Operation: Update

Value: Bar

The ID of this new node: 1122112211

(Omitted for simplicity: Timestamps, hashes, …)

Replaying that message won’t do anything if the target already knows about the existence of that new node.

If the target didn’t know about the node, then I guess you’re helping them sync their own data? Maybe they owe you a thanks? If you knew what each encrypted message contained, you might be able to do some split-state shenanigans; for example: replay the message that sets a “PasswordAuthEnabled” key to “Yes” but deliberately omit the message that changes the “Password” key from its default of “password” to a genuine password. It’s very hard to imagine an actual situation like this occurring, but I guess that’s what makes crypto (and designing secure systems in general) so damn tricky. That and the math. And end users. And…
Does the study prove causality though? By what physical mechanism does a range of different substances, with no calories, cause diabetes and cardiovascular problems?

The glaring problem is that diet sodas are often consumed as part of an unhealthy diet, alongside unhealthy fast food burgers and fries, and that best explains why you'd see the increase in diabetes and cardiovascular issues. Occam's razor.
Very interesting! How close are we to achieving said noise threshold?
Weird that you said 'the EU' rather than 'Europe'. But since you did I'll point out that there are several EU territories in America that would have had ketchup to begin with.
> You’re saying that alcohol addiction is made up? And you’re only evidence is that you are not an addict? Or, at least, don’t admit to being one

Not at all, just that it is difficult for me and presumably others like me. Other substances like cigarette only take a few days of usage to form a very strong habit.

Substances do help people deal with trauma and pain, any pharmacist will tell you as such as well. Things like alcohol and even cocaine and cigarettes used to be perscribed by doctors precisely because of their ability to improve the quality of life of patients (what medicine is about ultimately, not artificially extending life). There are better and safer alternatives now, so for alcohol's case for example, show me what that alternative now don't tell me how bad it is, and make it available OTC like alcohol. You can't even get depression meds OTC without doctors and insurances so they are non-existent to someone who can't or won't jump through those hoops. This is also what I mean about how ridiculous this society is, you presume everyone can tak to a therapist or that therapy would work (or even would not worsen the condition) for everyone. And then you complain about crime, suicide rate and incarceration rate as if you didn't orchestrate them by saying "let them talk to a therapist" imagine the suffering caused by this one view alone.
This is EXACTLY how world wide web has operated before google.
At the same time, reviewers are chosen based on their expertise in a field, and one of the things reviewers look for is that new papers cite relevant prior research. Are you suggesting that reviewers should just let papers go through without citing relevant prior research if it is their own research? Does it actually matter whose research it is as long as it is relevant prior research?
Yeah, I dont get it either.
I wonder who the "They" are in this story. They remind me of a high yield stock investment product I was suckered into and lost everything on around 2008. Every generation will have to learn "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
Huge inspiration for many of the features present in tools such as Obsidian, Logseq and Roam Research.
I use Temporary Containers on Firefox, so the cookies are deleted after I am done anyway.

I always click Accept All to make it go away, if I didn't have the uBlock filter that blocks the popups altogether.
Certainly a prank or deception of some kind. Let's see where this goes.
$23k is roughly how much my junior data scientist relative makes here in Poland.

No idea where they got that number from.
This is a rather meaningless comparison, since the differences are going to be dominated by:

1) The choice of libraries/datatypes used for strings and word->count map

2) How the source file is split into words - probably library function again, although in C/C++ one could choose to implement a super-optimized low level version that would blow the others away

IMO a performance comparison between languages is only meaningful if the runtime is not dominated by library functions, or if one admits it's really a standard library performance comparison, not a language comparison.
Probably universities are your best bet? Usually, the novel ideas get developed there and only later are deployed by various government (or multi-government) agencies. The deployment state requires less of expertise than the R&D part, so you may not be needed there.
I do stacked PRs at work, they work great until someone suggests an invasive change in a PR lower down in the stack. Does anyone have ideas on how to deal with merge conflicts in this type of flow? For example let's say I have the following stack of PRs

PR1 -> PR2 -> PR3 -> PR4

The reviewer reviews and suggests a change in PR1, this change causes a merge conflict in PR2 and therefore in PR3 and PR4 as well. And then you have to go in manually resolve the exact same merge conflict all the way through you PR stack in each of the PRs. This gets annoying and hard to work with.

Does anyone have a better way of dealing with this pattern of merge conflict? I've tried using git rerere which in theory sounds helpful but doesn't seem to do anything when I strike this issue.
There's a guy on my team who everyone thinks is a bad programmer and general looks down on, but he is always willing to help, does a thorough job and writes generally decent code. I have no idea where his reputation came from, but it would be a shame if he were let go based on his peer evaluation.
As someone coming down from a nearly 2 year fight with an engineering manager whose response to every bug was enforcing more code review rules, and every code review backlog was demanding more time allocated for code review, thank you for this comment.
Directed Acyclic Graph.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
I will cast an uninformed "yes" to this as an American. Long ago, I studied philosophy and discovered Vedic influences, along with pop-culture American visions of spiritual India. I was impressed by the thinking and erudition of Vedic (and Buddhist) scholars, and immediately found links to English and German scholarship. All together, I had an early-adult vision of India as a place with high literacy and a long religious and scholarly history. Meanwhile, my urban life in America confirmed daily that there are illiterate people who thrive on being loud, pushy and often fat -- of every national origin. As the years go by, my views have changed.

I always knew India was a populated place, but I did not understand that it means there are low-education and low-culture people in such numbers. I have met far more people from India now than I had in the past, and their human stories show me how I had been fortunate to see great writing, thinking and devout practice from India, but that is not the whole story.

This is a long intro to basically seeing both India and America as a place with strikingly different people, next to each other, filling the cities. Very high skill, very high education, visiting a store right next to very low skill, very low education people, in great numbers.

I respect my colleagues from India and I trust that they can also respect Americans. There is no single story here, and low quality outsourcing did cost me personally as a coder in the USA for decades.
Either QEMU itself or the QEMU integration seems a bit buggy to me coz it goes wrong a lot.
Is there a blog post/series that dives into programming with Crystal in general, comparing what you can and can't do relative to Ruby? Bonus if it explores paradigms and techniques that are difficult (or much more verbose) in other languages.
> The current generation LTO-9 is only capable of 400MB/s in throughput. That's still slower than a SATA3 drive.

True, but that's the speed of SATA3 interface, or SSD drives. Single spinning rust drive can realistically achieve 150-250 MB/s.
BYD has integrated heating elements to drastically reduce degradation in the winter. Charging speeds is just a result of cheaping out somewhere at the scales we're talking about.
Also apparently banana ketchup is common in the Philippines
But is it really effective use of your time to make changes to the code that you know won't be relevant for weeks or months? You could spend the same time on other changes that would start earning you money tomorrow, instead.
Do you feel the same way about learning a non-programming language?
Based on the way that string theory keeps on going like a zombie in physics, I don't think its disrespectful at all to consider allegations that are pretty much indistinguishable from those. Although I think that heavily entrenched groupthink and biases are all that is required. I don't think they're consciously think that "I need to lie in order to keep the research grants flowing" but its instead that old adage that "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it". To an external observer those are largely indistinguishable and have the same effect, but in the latter case the person has convinced themselves of the lie or the half-truth via financially inclined self-deception.
I constantly get ads on Youtube making illegal earning statements for some randos get rich online scheme, that I report, and am then served again a week later. So they are knowingly making money on illegal predatory ads. Just saying.
> hi maybe do all that but also don't reject vaccines :)
> before the vaccines plenty of young healthy people died.

I think we need to put the words "plenty of young healthy" into context or that statement is at risk of failing a fact check.

Take a glance at the EuroMOMO mortality graphs by age cohort[0] and you'll see this pandemic is definitely skewed towards the elderly, and underlying medical conditions (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, cancer) are known to increase the likelihood of serious illness and death from COVID-19[1][2]

[0] https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34929892/
[2] https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1
https://youtu.be/AQLOj-TylGg
The board can be designed in such a way that magnets always work.
I don't know why inspection time is limited to 15 seconds. It would be interesting to allow unlimited inspection (or maybe like 30 minutes) and see how fast people could solve it then.
I did the same for a while. It's a neat productivity hack. There are a few services that market accountability by hooking you up with strangers. Both of you must have your webcams enabled, and you just work on whatever you need to do for a set period of time without talking.
The average American, buying a ~250 mile range EV, would only need to plug it in to charge once a week. Maybe twice. So, just charge it to 100% every time you charge it.
Agree. If you identify a great talent who happens to live on the other side of the globe, hire that individual as an FTE. Outsourcing to some body-shop firm is always a mistake. At least I've never seen it work.
Whenever you normally use some programs with other options than their defaults, it is simpler to define aliases for those programs.

There are many common programs that I never use with their standard default options (which are very bad, IMO), e.g. cp, mv, ln, rm, rsync, date and many others, so I always define aliases for them, which include those options that I want to use by default.

So for grep, the recursive search should be included in the grep alias. There is no need for a new program in order to have this feature.
> Now, I'm not new to being a PM, I've been operating in a Senior role at a Big-N tech company for 5 years

How did you get your current job? Have you interviewed other PMs as part of it?

There's lots of PM material out there like Cracking the PM Interview for example, and many youtube videos on how to answer product questions.
good job if this is satire, causing "youogle" and "making world a better place" goes hand and glove haha!

If not, well- I don't have much to add, good luck!
Was going to post this. It is amazing.

But I think it will upload to imgur, be sure to configure it off. I have it sent to have in a local folder.

It also has great .gif making support and can also screen record to a .mp4
> Reducing the spread is preventing it

No, it's kicking the can down the road.

The virus is highly infectious, always was. There's no prevention, just delaying the inevitable, and possibly waiting for a variant that is more severe (to someone without any prior exposure), and not having any protection other than vaccines that are based on much earlier/different strains. I'm a little worried about this for my parents, for what it's worth.
This is how I learned to program these books were so ubiquitous in the 80s even my (very_ rural Australian) school library had a few. I’m only had a Vic 20 so had to translate the listings that tended to be aimed at the c64.

So many careers had their origin in these books.
Hopefully to the [flagged] bin
The look-and-feel of the AWS console reminds me of some low budget sites of the late 2000s / early 2010s, which is common across cloud providers. Although I understand that this document refers to the design system, not its implementation.
Isolation only serves to slow spread to a level that your health care system can accommodate. We've tried isolation in a bunch of places. In my state in Australia, we even isolated with nearly zero cases all the way up until 90% vaccination rates. But once you open up, it still spreads. Most of our cases were for vaccinated individuals, who surely were better off for being vaccinated, but it didn't stop the spread. Unless you want to stay isolated for the rest of eternity, the best we can do is be hygienic and get vaccinated, and take care around vulnerable people.
PAR files (parity) are battle tested, if you are really concerned about recovering from corruption.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Note that with "Docker as package" style development, you lose the ability to specify dependencies. Consider building real packages, then installing them in shim Docker images. This gives you the best of both worlds: rich dependency specification, and "just run the thing" facility with Docker.
I very much doubt the bit representation matters very much as long as it simple. Even if ASCII text viewers are lost they would be extremely simple to implement. It is a counterpoint to things like latex. That would be hard to recreate.
You can actually [1]. See the last example.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-inside-kubernetes
You're welcome. The articles he cites on Knowingness by Michael Kelly is also well worth reading.
Some people enjoy their work. I think it’s fine as long as it’s a choice.
There was a ruling that said that recipes are not copyrightable. However, anything beyond the recipe ingredients and method is copyrightable.

Think images, videos, or that hunk of text detailing their experience as a 5 year old before a recipe.

Way back in the day I ran a public recipe scraping API. It had an option to scrape the image along with the recipe, but you had to set an explicit copyright flag to get them.

There was a HN post about it if you’re curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794949
That sounds like a bit of an extreme reaction to what seems to be a "this technology is yucky and I don't like it" problem.
Yes. The same.

I natually learnt something for all i knew.

Forced study is just like a hack, because your mind is still out of control.
https://flameshot.org/ posted above. Not sure if it does all that sharex does.
Note it is a cliche for ideologues and revolutionaries too. Depend on who listens it can mean "disrupt a market" or "being subversive".
History of Hypertext
This is something I've come to realise as I've matured as a developer. I just don't care what style you write in, if you don't use all the syntactic sugar, etc. I care where you draw your module boundaries, which units depend on which, and if you've handled edge cases, and so on. That's what's going to matter in the end. That's where I'll have to spend a lot of time figuring stuff out. Not syntax.
More useful story with less paywall: [1]

[1] https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/ford-to-buy-cheap...
Wealthy Foreign Buyers Are Slowly Returning to the U.S. Housing Market
If you're on Windows 10 or later, there's also Win + G which will bring up the Xbox Game Bar. There you can capture screenshots and video or set up custom key shortcuts to start recording, etc.
I can think of https://youtu.be/ThwuT3_AG6w
`git rebase -i origin/main` (or HEAD~N or any other base) with the e/edit action on selected commit will do the same with only built in functionality.
I generally switch to firefox <readability mode>.

It helpfully removes both the popup and the tracking.