skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took the opposite from the article. Twitter wants censorship but calls it moderation and never offers a choice. They put spam, harassment and Hunter Biden in the same category.
Every generation inherits the debts of the past and a duty to pay it down. Just because I was born into this world and personally did not endorse the use of CFCs or the petrodollar system doesn’t mean I’m absolved of being a participant in finding solutions to the nth-order effects these technologies introduce into the world.
How well do they control for planned home births having lower risk profiles at the outset? For example, even had I been determined to try labor, I would have done so in a hospital, because I was 40 and have a hiatal hernia that will always be at risk of tearing further. I’d be an idiot to have tried at home.
This reminds me of another excellent time sink game: http://clickingbad.nullism.com/
Can you substantiate your comment? What would you like to see in a python tool that R does uniquely well?
Family members as commercial buyers not only read imprints, but also check the seller and his company in various scoring portals. In commercial domain nice consumer protection does not exist anymore.
>If you build a society of elitist institutions, you will get elites.

You get elitists. Not necessarily elites. Subtle difference.
Situation has changed dramatically wrt points 1 and 2 since years, however. As for 3, I'm no web developer so can't comment on this.
The author as much as commits the whole post being speculation:

>> I’m uncertain how big the problem of bad talent allocation in Germany really is. However, given that it reduces the likelihood of careers with an outsized positive impact, the damage could be severe.

Stopped reading after that.. Kind of sounds like someone who didn't get how the German academic system works, that being suitable for "med school" (there is no such a thing in Germany, as there is in the US, over here you simply start medical studies from semester one onwards) doesn't mean you are suitable for engineering (assuming the author is German, I understand engineering as one of those domains that actually have engineering in the name which excludes "software engineering") which again has nothing to do with software developments, start ups and big IPOs. Which again has nothing to do with improving the world or society. IMHO, every single med student helping out with health care in Africa is doing more good than the majority of software developers at, say, Meta or Amazon.
You can actually choose to see dead comments from your profile, which shows the results of some moderation decisions (I believe, but may be wrong, that some comments are also completely deleted, such as outright spam).
What IBs have bad hours for devs? I worked in the markets team at a BB IB and did similar hours to you. I wasn't sitting with traders, to be fair.
Stereotypes about Fields of Study [pdf]
While “don’t like to get” isn’t the right principle to decide what to ban, suggesting an equivalence between harassment and criticism is not pretty.
>> The report is signed by Bayer, Mars, McCain Foods, McDonald’s, Mondelez, Olam, PepsiCo, Waitrose and others. They represent a potent political and corporate force, impacting the food supply chain around the world. They are also, according to critics, some of those most responsible for climate mismanagement with one calling the report “smoke and mirrors” and unlikely to address the real crisis.

And there you have it.

These companies are focused on highly processed non-meat cheap foods and they want to push the small farmers out.

>> “It’s pretty disingenuous,” said Kuyek. “Small, local food systems still feed most of the people on the planet and the real threat is that the industrial system is expanding at the expense of the truly sustainable system. Corporations are creating a bit of smoke and mirrors here, suggesting they are part of the solution when inevitably they are part of the problem.”

Basicaly they want to destroy small farmers for their own profit, using greenwashing as an excuse.
One in four have accents mocked at work – survey
Formatting Numbers in JavaScript
Check out my top level comment in this thread for a (hopefully clear) example. Sometimes you can rephrase a time series problem into boring classical regression.

It can make the implementation and maintainability of a codebase better (IMHO), without sacrificing predictive power.
MGM Launches AI Tool to Search Library of Film, TV Clips
Link: https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006277 366 points | Nov 6, 2020 | 91 comments
That’s true, but can hardly be blamed on their tax or higher education policies, surely?
Level 3 and beyond are nonsense. Just give users the tools to moderate what they see. Don't want to see slurs? Here's a toggle for that. No need to censor those who say them. Memes fall under Fair Use, nothing needs to be taken down. Government of Malaysia can start their own Twitter. $TWTR needs to follow US laws, not laws of Malaysia.

Here is a radical content moderation policy:
Block/take down things that are illegal by law and leave the rest.

Why is it so hard?
Believe it or not, some people are still able to focus, even in 2022.
Ok, but on what metrics? I don't mean I disbelieve, I would just like to know that it was fastest on the things I might care about.
This site has exactly what the article suggests. You can select the "showdead" option in your profile to see posts that have been removed.
Communities on WhatsApp
You are aware that the crisis is, besides some energy price spikes that will affect consumers and industry for a while, is basically over since both electricity and gas are readily available?
Clicking Bad
The recent Universal Paperclips submission reminded me of this excellent game.
TS can already perform complicated refactorings, such as renaming all imports in a project when you rename a file in vscode. So they definitely have all the information they need already.

Node requiring the .js is more understandable, as that actually affects runtime performance: if the name isn’t fully qualified in source then node needs to stat() more paths during resolution.

> What if typescript is running in deno/bum or wasm?

Every TS project already needs a tsconfig.json to specify what permutation of module system configurations it is using.
> The thing that I don't understand is why the world has switched over to Chrome leaving Firefox behind

I didn't switch to Chrome. I switched to orher browsers. For me the turning point was when Firefox started deprecating its old GUI and copying more and more the Chrome GUI: no menu, hidden preferencies, messing with the window's titlebar and implementing its own (very small) scrollbars, messing with DNS, etc.
Great idea, but sounds like a maintenance nightmare to me. Not only that many users will complain that their favorite CLI tool isn't supported, but also a new release of any of the supported CLI tools might break the support without any kind of warning, as I don't think changes to the (human-readable) output are considered major changes.
And ideally write advice articles with this understanding, as well, which this author seemed to do.
You should be aware that you won't be able to avoid politics around race when it comes to electoral reform - because of stuff like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/nyregion/ranked-choice-la...

(Note that it doesn't matter whether they have a point or not. What matters is that now, either way, you'll have to talk about it whenever RCV comes up. There is similar contention around IRV and some other methods; basically anything that disrupts existing power arrangements.)
Much to think about here, but the author should stop and think if he's really looking at the right problem.

Like for instance: is it true that people with perfect grades go into medicine so as to not "waste" their score?

You know, maybe it is!

But don't you agree then, that this is kind of fucked up? Don't they have, like, actual interests? Or actual goals, besides winning in status games? Not even getting rich?

And also. Economically speaking, Germany seems to be doing really, really well, despite "only" having their Heidelbergs, their Aachens, their Jenas, their Humboldts, their Colognes etc. Not having it all concentrated in elite-generating hubs seems to be working out quite well for them. And for us in the rest of the world too, considering where the first mRNA vaccine got developed, or considering where we get much of the high precision industrial equipment necessary to make virtually everything impressive that has been made the last decade.

Why the hell should Germany have Ivy envy?
Extremely different industries, the only web tech job Elon has experience with was X.com where he was a fucking walking nightmare to work with. Seems like he's going the same direction of being a fucking walking nightmare to Twitter. Let's see in some quarters.

I have no hopes at all.
Equally destructive is the extremely conservative view of success and failure.

Once you’ve failed in a business venture, you’re burned for years before any investor will talk seriously or any bank will touch you. Tax authorities and chamber of commerce will also make your life quite difficult when you do.

I personally know several people who needed to incorporate a new company under their wive’s name after a bankruptcy, to even be able to start a new (successful) business.
Seems to be part of the Arch repository: https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/jc/

Why does this site recommend using "paru", "aura" or "yay" to install it on Arch? I have been using Arch for a decade or so but have never even heard of such tools. They don't even have pages in the Arch wiki, and only yay ("Pacman wrapper and AUR helper written in go") is available via the standard repository.

Begs the question: what is so wrong with plain pacman?

EDIT: Okay so seems they were previously on AUR and once accepted to community repository they just forgot to stop recommending an AUR wrapper for installing: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/commit/f2dd7b8815edc92e...

EDIT2: Created a PR with the GitHub.dev editor .. Absolutely blown away by how easy it was! Feels like the future of development.. https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/pull/310
Some of it relates to the modeling of spontaneous excitation bias of opsin molecule releasing their energy in the retina. These are modeled in the compression curve in JPEG XL by a bias before the compression non-linearity, whereas other codecs don't have that bias unless they use sRGB -- sRGB has modeled the bias as a short linear slope, but compresses in wrong directions (RGB) in the color space, not LMS. In JPEG XL, the compression curves happen in the direction of LMS reception directions, not in RGB, that makes reds, browns, oranges, purple colors a lot more uniform in quantization. Finally, more emphasis was spend with visual masking in JPEG XL, to avoid blurring in 'fragile' textures even if they are in the same compression block with sharp edges.
I feel this piece, like a lot of moderation/censorship rhetoric, starts from a disingenuous place.

Free speech, moderation, editing, censorship, propaganda, and such do not have clear definitions. The terms have a history. Social media is new, and most of the nuance needs to be invented/debated. There aren't a priori definitions.

This article is defining censorship as X and moderation as Y... Actually, it provides 2 unrelated definitions.

Definition 1 seems to be that moderation is "normal business activity" and censorship is "abnormal, people-in-power activity" on behalf of "3rd parties," mostly governments.

Definition 2, the article's "moderation MVP" implies that opt-out filters represent "moderation" while outright content removal is, presumably, censorship.

IMO this is completely ridiculous, especially the China example. China's censorship already does, work like this article's "moderation MVP". Internet users can, with some additional effort, view "banned content" by using a VPN. In practice, most people use the default, firewalled internet most of the time.

Youtube's censorship is, similarly, built of the same stuff. Content can be age-gated, demonetized or buried. Sure, there is some space between banned and penalized... but no one is going to see it and posting it is bad for your youtuber career to post it. This discourages most of it.

IMO, the difference between censorship and moderation is power, and power alone. A small web forum can do whatever it likes and it's moderation. If a government, medium monopoly, cartel, cabal or whatnot do it.... it is censorship. If a book is banned from a book stall, that's moderation. If it is banned from amazon... that's censorship.

If amazon have a settings toggle where you can unhide banned books does not change anything that matters. A book that amazon won't sell is a book that probably won't be printed in the first place. That's how censorship actually works. It's not just about filtering bad content. It's about disincentivizing it's existence entirely. Toggles work just fine for that.
That's too bad about the interview. Funny story though. If that was the only reason you failed the interview then I'd say it was an unfair interview.
What was the quality metric?
timeseries database is not a new thing, but encode existing data using a normal database is.
Capital in Germany at least is very concentrated. Instead of young people starting businesses, you have people age 55+ starting their second or third venture. Not a matter of age, but capital distribution more or less makes the old generation the boss. And arguing with them about sensible future development is tiring at some point. There are some exceptions to this, but you really feel the fear of tech from a lot of sides.

We couldn't even manage to have a sensible legal framework for free wifi. People say legislation is slow, but in cases were rights holders feared their decline, the law mowed down any innovation before it could happen.

I don't necessarily agree with the outlier story, but everyone needs at least some capital and options to start a venture. And you don't do that as a side project while needing to earn your keep. You can live comfortable as an engineer too and many just don't want to start a business anymore.

Also, there is a significant penalty for Europe and that is language. English as a base language is a major advantage for almost all kinds of software products. It would be smarter to primarily target that market instead of the domestic one.

That said, I don't see only benefits and the tripple down effect of star companies of the US. I also believe that success isn't reliant on these superstars. They have to see that they aren't fading as quickly as they have risen. And there are also successful ventures in Europe. You just often don't know their name as a consumer.
It doesn't show users that have been removed though...
Homelab Upgrade: New Raspberry Pi Cluster Rackmount
And which is very unconvincing in real world use.... It benchmarks well, but "looks" crap. I really wish they had produced something better than that, if that's what we're going to be stuck with. It's sad.
Working in an university is very delicate matter. People are fed with 1 year contracts during the employment there. Every supermarket cashier has more economically stable life than a young scientist in Germany. So the brightest know this and leave academia immediately after graduation. This funding system is alone seriously flawed and should be fixed to attract more talents. Not getting rental apartment just because one can only show 12 months limited contract is plain stupid. And it happens a lot since universities are in real estate hot spots.

Edit: school system in
Germany also decides after 4th grade if a person may study later. I don’t think, that 10 year old children are capable to decide if they want go to university or end up with underpaid apprenticeship with dead end job later.
> sentiment in the rest of the world — accounting for 80% of humanity — has become much more positive.

India is 1/6 of the world's population and its media sentiment towards China has been trending sharply downwards over the past few years.
XGboost, LGBM, pmdarima, stanpy (for bayesian modelling). Plus a few others.

Don't ask me what they do with all of these, I'm just the guy who make sure the forecast keeps being reproducible.
Using outside people who never contributed to the company to judge who in the company actually contributed. This is Elon going the "hire business consultants to tell you bullshit you want to hear" way but instead of business consultants he is cheaping out and hiring people from his other companies to act as them.
Agreed, good distinction.
>About 10 years ago, a law was introduced forbidding scrap metal dealers from paying cash, and requiring them to check ID. That led to a 30% drop in theft.

My ass it did. I've worked in the metal recycling industry.

Getting payment in some form other than cash doesn't deter people who were already willing to commit a crime. They have a buddy scrap it and the buddy takes a cut for taking on the risk.

Yards don't want the .gov snooping around because that never leads to anything good. At the very best it's a delay and distraction. So if you come in with something the .gov is going hard on this month (cats, railway cable, whatever) they will tell you to fuck off to some other yard. And when it's a PITA to fence shit shit doesn't get stolen. That's where you're getting your 30% reduction, not the law. The government is just such a PITA to deal with that scrap yards would rather leave money on the table than have to deal with officer Donut coming by every now and then to check their books.
CLEARink completed world’s first 9.7” 454ppi B&W electronic-ink TIR prototypes
ImportC has bitfields and #pragma pack but not translate-c.
> A unique feature of JPEG XL is that it is possible to recompress existing JPEG images (of which there are a lot out there!) to a JPEG XL file that is on average about 20% smaller, without introducing any loss. In fact, the bit-exact same JPEG file can be reconstructed from the JPEG XL file.

I wasn't aware of this and this is actually crazy, and freaking brilliant from a migration point of view. I wonder how that was achieved. I didn't care so much about JPEG XL, now thanks to Google derping I want it everywhere.
"They are capable of running 30fps videos with great contrast. Full-color panel prototypes will be available soon"

Sounds like the future of displays is around the corner.
Direct link: https://dberri.com/formatting-numbers-in-javascript/
It doesn't matter what economic system you had, you'd still get the same problem which is that reducing utilisation of a service doesn't reduce the resources required to provide that service either immediately or linearly. Non capitalist systems still have costs, the resources for the water authority still need to come from somewhere and fundamentally that somewhere is the community. There are no shareholders to satisfy, no profit to pay to anyone, they're free to manage their service provision and costs in the best interests of the community.

Just to be clear I have no problem with non-profit utilities to provide a common service or manage a common resource, I think they can make a lot of sense.
I really like your motto! Thanks for sharing it
> But the pace of change has been “far too slow”, the report finds, and must triple by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping temperature rises under 1.5C, a level that if breached, scientists argue, will unleash even more devastating climate change on the planet.

This just says it all. “We didn’t do shit since Paris agreements were enacted.”

What you’ve got here is just more posturing from the industrialists who are ass-fucking us all straight into the apocalypse.

We’re all going to be fed more and more unhealthy garbage, with the excuse being that it’s for the sake of the species, when in reality the ones feeding us the garbage put us here in the first place. Meanwhile the 1% will eat like normal.
i have a feeling that in the long term it might. also increasingly people accross europe are realizing that the US (and of course the UK) see them as competitors while the US elites are relizing that the EU as a living destination is becoming more attractive than US
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Here are the technologies I use:

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What does that make you titlewise? Data Engineer? ML Engineer?
Null terminated string is probably the worst data structure that was invented. It is has caused numerous security problems. It takes worst performance characteristics from array and linked lists (slow resizing, slow indexing). It definitely does not work fine.
Your grand theory isn't new. The 1993 paper The Deadweight Loss of Chrismtas (https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/104699/original/christmas...) explores this in detail.

The basic idea is let's measure what the gift cost and what the receiver valued it at. But not everything that matters can be measured and not everything that is measured, matters. The study should have accounted for the strength of relationship between the gifter and gifted and how it was affected by the gift. It should have measured social status of the gifter before and after. These deepened bonds and increased social status could pay off later in the year. The 2001 paper Poverty and public celebrations in rural India (https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/2528.html) examines that idea and finds it to be true.

When you're looking at an institution that has developed independently thousands of times across human history in wildly disparate cultures, you need to ask yourself what benefit it brings before dismissing it.

This comment reminds me of the teenage atheists who think religion is worthless because it's a bunch of made up stuff they don't believe is true. Regardless of what they believe, religion has independently developed and flourished in a number of cultures. Religions that involve regular congregations bring benefits to their members, such as living longer, happier lives.
I mean, WebP is _okay_ but it leaves a lot to be desired, even when it comes to image quality compared to the old 1992 JPEG standard; coupled with mozjpeg making giant leaps to get old-school JPEG file sizes drastically smaller without costing quality, the original file size advantage WebP pitched is not as large of a selling point.

WebP's best quality is that in lossless mode, it usually results in smaller files than PNGs, but given that it was primarily focused at being a lossy format to replace JPEG, with a 16383×16383 size limit[1], color space fixed at YUV 4:2:0 only[2], marginal space savings, no progressive decoding, it comes up short in a number of scenarios. There's also the breadth of legacy JPEG-encoded files without a good transition story to WebP, especially due to most JPEGs in the world not being of YUV 4:2:0 format.

I sound like I'm hating WebP here and I'm not trying to, but my own personal uses for WebP have been squarely in the lossless mode side with a JPEG-encoded thumbnail to accompany it. WebP's primary selling point were file size benefits, but then mozjpeg really not just improved JPEG 1992, but made it a compelling choice to use instead of WebP.

JPEG XL really stands to be the best of everything. No fixed colorspace model, no image size limits, smaller lossy and lossless files than previous formats, progressive decoding, etc. It's a solid win for JPEG XL, especially if browsers start adopting it for production.

[1] Size limit applies to lossy and lossless mode both.

[2] Lossless mode's color space is fixed at 32-bit BGRA only. Same issue, different spec.