skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The press release says customers can pick the cloud and region they want to use so I suspect the answer will be 'yes' for those questions.

A ~1000 person company I'm familiar with moved from GitHub to a self hosted GitHub because it was too easy for engineers to hit a button and accidentally publish a repository/gist to the public. That shouldn't matter, but sometimes it does. I'm not sure if that's the same on GitLab.
I'm the guy working on data chimp. Here's a quick overview:

data chimp automatically shows data visualizations, tables, and messages about your data as you work in your Jupyter notebook according to rules you set. The rules are specified in code via special “config” notebooks, and when the rules are triggered, your rule code has access to the data frame that’s currently being analyzed, so you can visualize or aggregate it however you like.

For example, you can write a code rule that says, “if I’m working with a data frame column that has more than 3% missing values, show a time series plot of the percentage of missing values for the column over time.” With rules like this, you can spot unexpected features in your data, catch buggy data wrangling code, get oriented in a new data set quickly, or encourage analysis best practices within your team.

I built data chimp because when I first joined the data science team at Heap (I came from an engineering team), I was shocked at how error-prone and repetitive exploratory data analysis was. On one occasion, we published an analysis that contained a bug that slipped past code review, and when our stakeholders got excited about the analysis, we had to tell them to hold off while we re-crunched it. Moreover, I was regularly frustrated by being forced to either

* write the same visualization and aggregation code over and over again

OR

* use a canned function (e.g., pandas profiling’s ProfileReport) that wasn’t flexible enough to show me what I needed to see in a particular scenario and that stifled my ability to iterate on the visualizations generated by the function

data chimp makes analysis less error-prone by borrowing some ideas from automated testing and linting, and it resolves the repetitive code dilemma by making it easy to customize what is automatically shown according to your own rules and by making it possible to paste the code that generated a particular result back into a notebook cell so you can easily iterate on it.

data chimp is currently “beta quality,” but I’m hoping to get some feedback by posting here, and more generally, I’m looking to understand the problems that data scientists tend to face as they’re working with data. If you want to tell me why data chimp sucks or complain about your job to me for a few minutes, I’d love to chat sometime. ;) Book a time here: https://meetings.hubspot.com/matt-dupree
Don't panic Europe is not facing imminent de-industrialization
Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie dies at age 79
This is the real problem. Visibility is to be abhorred at the top levels because viability brings accountability. How many Dilbert comics are there out there with the punchline being "I don't care what the real numbers are these are what I want the numbers to be" from the PHB

There is a large swathe of middle and upper management that gets by due to continually making sure their actual impact is never measured, and they are only a "force multiplier." not that you should do away with middle management, but there are many in middle management who could be done away with, with very marginal loss.
I upvoted your comment but I only partially agree. PHP is great in some ways and totally atrocious in other ways. It put bread on my table in the 2000s but I am not looking back. The language is horribly designed. Writing AJAX calls before Google Chrome was even released (let alone its V8 Engine which made JavaScript fast) was no fun either. Any non-trivial web app we developed was slow (everything had to start from scratch with each request) and flooded with a couple of layers of caching which often didn't get invalidated properly.

Now I am a purely backend&desktop developer, I leave web frontends to people who are willing to live in the JavaScript world where if no big framework is released every 5 minutes you have an impression that the Earth stopped spinning. I learnt the basics of React.js the other year and it's a far cry from what we had 20 years ago. ClojureScript+React even with its difficulties must be an ivory tower of modern web frontend development. I want to remember the good parts of PHP, frameworks Nette and Symfony with nostalgia. But I never want to re-live it again.

I mean Request/Response websites with a bit of AJAX still work today, I even develop one as a side project since I am part-time involved in academia (neural networks & nature-inspired algorithms simulator, in Common Lisp with cl-who, Parenscript and a couple of custom components based on HTML5 Canvas). But modern development? When you need to keep up with the latest trends? No way it can work.
Absolutely. After we add better support for file storage, building workflows that leverage APIs like Dalle/Stable Diffusion become much easier.
Your answer sounds exactly like category theory to me! (Or, if category theory had something to say on this topic, that's what it would say.)
Funny how I didn’t mention anything about myself yet you still attacked me as if I had. Again, you’re arguing with a climate denier in your head
lol. what a waste
Heh, yes, same here more or less -- I wrote an assembly-code Life program for my family's first personal computer (TRS-80 Model I) in the early 1980s, then mostly forgot all about Life for almost two decades ... until it became possible to search the Internet for "Conway's Life". At that point I was completely floored by how much progress had been made since the last time I was paying attention.

Ever since 2001 I've been keeping a close eye on new developments so I don't get surprised like that again.
It took almost 3 years to indict Enron executives after its bankruptcy. This could be a while.
Putting distance between the human and the point-of-impact makes it easier to pull the trigger. Will be interesting to see the stats on this.
I am also in the process of learning cat theory, I don't have a cs background, but I ending working as full-stack developer because it was economically more rewarding, I will recommend to programmers to have a good understanding of set theory, binary relations and order theory (linear orders, partial orders, lattices), it gives you very powerful abstractions that allow you to write new algorithms about anything.
Full quote: "Everyone at Facebook and Google not directly involved in landing advertising accounts, presenting ads, or billing for ads is in a Cost Center."

You read it wrong.
Stocks rally after Powell signals rate hikes will ease
I am also here for this, I brought my own chair.
A big portion of the comp especially at higher levels is in stock grants... and Meta stock just dropped 75% in value this year.

These grants are valued at the market price at time of hire (or refresh).

So maybe pre-2022 the comp was 700k...
Just staring at facts on paper... It sounds like Facebook has no interest in cutting costs since they cut a team that reduced the cost of every single team they interacted with. By a large multiple of whatever it cost to have that team employed.

Regardless of your take on the "Metaverse", it's clear that this was in fact, not the best thing for everyone.
I don't own a printer for this very reason. As of late though I've had to question if this is viable anymore - UPS price gouged me for 2 A4 sheets of black/white paper prints for $6.40.
>Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation? Isn't that a very basic and fundamental example of free speech?

I don't think so.

What you should be allowed to do is to freely argue that the speaker you disagree with is wrong. That's free speech.

If you try to influence the theatre to not have the person speak at all, you are suppressing free speech.
Ironically, the printer industry is getting off with less scrutiny from regulators because safety isn't involved.
That depends if you're about to get ate by your competitions new product
Representation and Identity (2009)
Same here, I'll only change it once I start seeing streaks, it must be a scam it has been like this for years.
The detail they have failed to pay attention to is "what the hell good does this do anyone." Still.
> Apple to pay for advertising on Twitter

You can’t win a fight with Tim. E-lawn should have consulted with Zuck first. He did something similar and we all know how it ended for Meta.

Most probably Elon is getting schooled, spanked, and hopefully not dragged around in that beautiful Apple park.
> local servers tend to be much faster and cheaper than cloud.

Of course, running a server in your house is not going to achieve five or even three 9's of reliability, and even colocating a single rack in a single location might be more expensive than putting that infra in AWS (depending on how data-heavy your use case is, given AWS' exorbitant data transfer costs).
This is very neat!

I don't think traditional board games would be interested unless you got the price down very very low ($2/unit or less).

I think you could make something happen if you marketed and packaged it as a "board game console" though. Like a fixed number of cards and larger boards, plus some sort of base station or phone app that'll flash everything to the starting state of a game of your choice. Then people buy new games digitally from you, same as a modern video game console.

(I'd be interested in the game dev facing API and writing some games for such a thing, so let me know if you're pursuing it and we can swap contact info.)
I got few prints from UPS, black & white long ago. Now I use staples, color one side letter prints are 70 cents or something, black white around 14 cents. Assuming your files are as pdf, on a fat32 usb.
Facebook has become a clown car company.
I always preferred Matlab to R Studio, TBH.
>They also voiced opposition to censorship.

And? Censorship does not imply government censorship.[0] censorship here is simply the result of a successful cancellation.

>being against cancellation is a form of censorship

No. That would only be if GP advocated for it being illegal. GP is saying "don't do that" not "this should be illegal" or even "you should be fired and excluded for thinking that." The fact that you think being against cancellation is a form of censorship is deeply worrying.

[0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship

>the institution, system, or practice of censoring

See also: https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship

>Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are "offensive," happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups.
This is to appease Tim Cook. He just tweeted a video of him in Apple Campus
Shouldn't this provide even more motivation for companies like Spotify to invest in a high quality Progressive Web App that can be installed to phones, bypassing the app store entirely?
This post notes that the savings were net of cost. Maybe Eric is wrong, but assuming his math checks out, cutting a team that delivers net savings can’t be justified on the basis of cost-cutting.
What articles have you published that you are the first name author on? The feedback you get from reviewers is just as important as the one you get from your advisor.
I'm male, and I prefer to think of it as my (unisex) bitchy resting face. :)
How Mastodon and federated services put social networks in the people’s hands
Sure but you can offer that with multi-tenant deployments in different regions.
Absolutely not, that wouldn't be nearly as effective as clickbait
Mostly confirm that drawing things as boxes and arrows even though I implement them as folds/monoids (state machines, binary protocol decoders) and implementing the comonoid by "reversing the arrows" (to do log reconstruction when debugging) has a name, and thus is a fruitful practice for me to continue doing, instead of it being "those weird drawings I keep noodling".

Nothing is rocket science, and you can totally get there without even the traditional monoid definition, but seeing the same diagrams I kept drawing before porting something to more "traditional" code patterns was quite validating.

completely rough whatever that tries to match stuff I did on a ps2 protocol decoder a while ago. Being able to invert state machines that use time ticks to advance requires adding additional counters to make them work properly, iirc. As you can tell none of this is formal, in fact I worked on this before starting my CT joint, but you can maybe see why I resonate more with the CT formulation of things.

The bigger picture here is that when I do embedded dev, I only have so much memory to keep an event log, so I need to be able to work backwards from my last none state, instead of traditionally walking forward from an initial state and incoming events. That this whole concept of "swapping the arrows around" is something that reputable people actually study was super inspiring.

https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/109/434/7...
Solving wire:click not working – When Livewire Doesn't Work as Expected
I was not thikning about "going to the party" dosage every day for a month for sure. There are indigenous communities where they chew coca leaves for years.

Most ADHD medications are amphetamines.
To be fair though, there is a wide spectrum of "usefulness" for pure mathematics concepts in applied mathematics. For less contemporary examples you don't need to know about Lebesgue measure to do practical numerical quadrature for applications. Or you don't need to know that rotation matrices are part of the SO3 group to do computer graphics. Sometimes the abstractions are powerful and sometimes they are kind of a distraction (or even make communication a problem). There typically needs to be a super compelling application to motivate a shift in baseline knowledge.
"As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended."

"All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.” In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report “Antifa accounts” that should be suspended directly to him."

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
It's easy if you don't share passwords with others. I have my whole family and business using it, and there's lots of shared folders.

Convincing my wife and colleagues to all switch simultaneously isn't feasible unless this data fiasco gets worse.
“Lancre woman gives birth to snake” - C.M.O.T Dibbler
Except he specifically said millions of dollars a year "over the cost of the work". They were a net bonus on the balance sheet.
Interesting, good to know
Why would you put privacy respecting in quotes? The subversion of those techniques are probably just because those techniques are so new and people haven't had better technologies yet.

I personally consider those privacy respecting data collection techniques as a parallel with the development and use of cryptography on the web. In the beginning pretty much no one online used cryptography; later on we started using them but used weak ones ("export" cipher suites for example, or just look at the issues in early protocols like SSL 2.0 or SSL 3.0); nowadays almost everyone uses strong cryptography. Similarly, in the beginning pretty much no one cared about privacy when they did data collection; then we had begun to care more about privacy, but many schemes are easily broken due to for example misguided ideas of anonymization ("anonymization by hashing"), and we are also starting to see the development of newer private information retrieval schemes and differential privacy, etc. Unlike the cynics on this HN thread, I am quite confident that maybe a decade down the road the majority of data collection done by companies will be in a privacy preserving manner. Of course there will be outliers much like there are still websites that don't use https but those will be few and far between.
Answered above, reproducing for you here:

"As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended."

"All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.” In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report “Antifa accounts” that should be suspended directly to him."

https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
I hope he is getting schooled but he always seems to luck out somehow.
> Speaking of cutting costs, the company is still pouring multiple billions of dollars into vaporware called “the metaverse”. News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is played by Mark Zuckerberg and you can do anything you can imagine, including “work” and “shop”.

You can somehow feel that he has been dying to say this for years, but couldn't while he was still working for Meta...

But yeah, I can imagine how the decisions on layoffs usually go: "what are those guys doing? Probabilistic something or other?! No idea what that's good for! And wow, look how much they get paid!"
Consent is always required; even if you just give people a random UUID, with no associated session/etc., that always requires consent.

There is a separate question, of whether consent is implied. If the identifying information is required to provide the user with a service they requested (e.g. a cookie for their online shopping cart), then consent is implied; no need to ask.
Musk praised as 'The bravest, most creative person on the planet' by Hastings
Not a horrible framing of things, although the dominant (and likely best) movement is simple technologism, where emerging battery / ev / solar / wind / geothermal / nuclear / vertical farming / artificial meat / etc disrupt mass swathes of traditional / politically entrenched industries.

That's spread across "max energy" (not really), "climate tech" (kind of dismissive of the results/payout).

What it really shows is that almost all of the cited "tribes" have aspects that are needed. Regulation, incentives, urbanization, centralization, technology, resource use reduction, cultural values, even a bit of neopastoralism (home gardens, crafts, reuse/recycling things for other purposes) is significant.

Doomerism is actually a very useful marketing component, because in the process of people discussion "prepping" and analyzing doom prep scenarios, people are forced to deal with problems in a more concrete and detailed way. It also works on an instinctual fear in all people, in some constructive ways. Doomer prep leads to off-grid products that converge with solar, battery, local food production and sourcing environmental tech.
Perhaps now it’s clear why people are against Apple scanning our photos under the pretext of looking for child porn…
No.. you're missing the point. The whole point of crypto is to create a market where a service is provided without relying on a contractual agreement between the provider and the consumer. If you don't have a problem using contractual agreements, then you're better off without using crypto.
Google's THREAT ANALYSIS GROUP:New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
There's also https://github.com/charmparticle/xpe
Ask yourself before buying anything: cost per year times its lifetime. Kilowatt hours, disposal costs, quality degradation (battery, software slowdown), etc.
Ways to Obtain More Customer Testimonials and How to Leverage Them
The article says their _net_ cost savings were $10M. So I would expect that accounts for the costs of the team (salary, and whatever cost they spent building their projects).

Either way, not disputing the arguments in this comment chain.
This could be mostly rectified by having a free press in China. Another way to say it - the sole entity that could solve the problem of needing to rely on random internet claims about things happening in China is the Chinese government.
I'm saying that people on H1B are paid more than the prevailing wage for a metropolitan region. Many employers pay all employees more than the prevailing wage for the metropolitan region.

Where has Powell said anything about immigration, especially the sort of skilled immigration that H1Bs are issued for, and the labor market?
> This is a rather extreme position

Only if you take a rather extreme interpretation of that position.

For the sake of argument, assume that material possessions increase happiness (or decrease unhappiness) up to a certain point, then level out, then decrease happiness as you enter a zone of "can never be satisfied" or "always comparing to ever-shifting goalposts". The irony is there, even though your statement may still be true:

> beyond a certain level material possessions [do] not contribute to happiness but won't necessarily make you unhappy. Likewise, a complete lack of material possessions will probably make you unhappy.

But that starts to feel pedantic. Perhaps a more real-world example would be smartphones. We all want to have them, but it really seems to me at least that many people would be happier if they did not have them.

Then there's always the case where once you have too much stuff, you spend more time worrying about losing it, and you find it difficult to benefit from contact with your former friends who have much less.
This reminded me of something I haven't thought about in awhile: evercookie - https://github.com/samyk/evercookie
Stale bot are not okay. People spend time to write reproducible example of issue and are rewarded with annoying stale bot spam in 30 days. It could make some sense if the staleness was at least 365 days, then maybe the issue would have become irrelevant.

It's also really frustrating to face an issue, search for it on the tracker and find one or more closed reports with no attempt at fixing it. Those should not be close. The project is maybe yours, but record of issues isn't. It's a shared resource.
His other comment clarifies this:
"The team was all mathematicians. We did the math. I helped one of our data scientists put a model into production that saved $15M a year from that model alone, and we had a dozen people like that. We were working on signal loss models that had potential to save billions. I genuinely do not understand the logic of cutting this team to save costs."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33806727
I feel this so much. To my deep dismay the work I’m least proud of in my career somehow endures in production and the things I’m most proud of building were acquired and chopped into parts or killed off. As a PM luckily everything I’ve launched still exists, so far.
Like Plex?