skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not directly, but have been following various projects over the years..

My take on this is that the people using CL for machine learning have been doing this for some time, and so have their own toolsets; tensor flow is relatively new in that regard, and w/r/t lisp interfacing would entail low-level binary interfacing (and therefore mostly non-portable between implementations) to hook CL code with tensorflow kernels (definately not an expert here on either however).

also, what is popularly referred to as 'machine learning' is in my opinion mostly
only one aspect of the field - e.g. classification neural networks - while lisp can
definitely do this, lisp AI programming (in my amateur opinion) shines more in the realm
of machine reasoning/inference due to the symbolic / dynamic nature of the environment - e.g. constructing a set of reasoning primitives (e.g. functions and facts and decision trees) and a meta-interpreter to reason/infer about external data and walk around a problem space.. also, owing to the dynamic and rapid development nature of the language, likely many people are working with their own prototype/core frameworks, possibly cobbled together from various small bits and pieces of 3rd party code. Also, neural networks have been around for quite a while - what these new frameworks bring to the
table is not so much new core algorithms, but the ability to quickly cobble them together in a more popular/user friendly way, and also take advantage of fast hardware (e.g. GPUs)

as for projects - in the general sense, lisp has been a latecomer to the 'languages with cpan-style trove of public addon modules' crowd, owing in my opinion to the need to support multiple implementations in order for such a project to take hold - so older but yet still quite functional libraries might be around in various hodge-podge repositories which are not standardised but old timers have already included in their own local systems, etc. (see also CMU AI repository)

In the last few years, much has been done in the module space - I would
definately consider 'quicklisp' to be roughly the defacto definitive list of current modules, especially those under active development, since the active community is basically converging on this as a module/distribution platform and so many (most?) active community projects are available as quicklisp modules and included here - and so would probably be the one of the first places to start in checking into for available libraries for any topic.

Also, the best way to 'explore' quicklisp is to install it, and then install various packages and then muck around/explore with the source code that they download into
your environment - the documentation tends to be much less 'external' (e.g. websites) and much more 'internal' (e.g. READMEs, in-tree code examples or unit tests).

https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html
Ask HN: Contracting vs. FullTime
Background:

I am currently working in one of big 4 companies. Previously, I was working for another big telecom company (which is going down now) for almost 5 years. I have been at my current position for almost 8 months

I am one of those person who love to work with new technologies. I suffered a plateau in my previous company because I was constantly on one single product (with multiple projects surrouding it). I foresee same thing happening in my current position. I am doing more of Tech support role than actually working on something interesting. And even if i get to do it wouldn't involve any of latest tech.

QUESTION:

I am thinking to leave my FullTime and move to contracting postion.

1. Is it a good idea?
2. Where this could lead me in next 10 years? Can i build my own consultancy company around my experience?
3. In terms of savings and stuff, my current company does has RSU options but they aren't enough. Can i save more as part of contracting?

Any other tips, experiences reelated to similar situation would help
They are engaged in a voluntary exchange of labor for remuneration.

Nobody is compelling them to work. They are not slaves.
> Eating rotting corpses is pretty gross when you think about it.

I tend not to let them rot before I eat them, personally.

I don't understand why you had to turn your otherwise-upbeat argument into a pretty overt attack in the last sentence.
I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip!
I'm not him, but the official Qt MinGW builds don't have 64-bit or static variants. MSYS2 has both.
Things App entrepreneurs shudnt ignore when hiring an app development company
Since when does remote mean a lower salary? I work remotely in the US and I expect (and receive) a market rate salary that's not based on my location. Offering me a lower salary because I've chosen to live in a lower cost-of-living city will ensure that I don't consider working for you. It's not always an employee's market, but while it is, I intend to take full advantage of it.
That's considered "spray and pray" today. Today advertisers want data, data, data, and micro-targeting is everything. The entire advertising industry has become something akin to a private signals intelligence agency.
I like to call them tapographical errors.
This is great. Friend of mine has been tricked by a woman into having a baby and now he has to give away most of his money in form of maintenance. He used a condom, but she emptied it inside her when he was asleep after the sex.
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1: Automation. Availability of white goods is the reason why most people don't have servants. If I had a spare full-time wage hanging around, I don't think I could find enough work for a servant to do in my house.

2: We don't have full-time personal servants, but a lot of people I know have a char who comes once a week; take their cars to a garage for servicing; buy prepared food; pay a window cleaner every so often; get the car cleaned whilst doing something else etc.

I'd also dispute the "richer than lords and ladies" statement, I think it selects one definition of "rich" and ignores the rest.

Yes, we have cars, electronic entertainment, indoor plumbing, free education, and access to healthcare beyond the wildest dreams of our 18th century forebears. However, I couldn't live off income from the tenants on my estate, no matter how well I manage it, or how frugally I live.

At my income, I certainly couldn't afford to employ, feed and house the 15 or so employees in a typical aristocratic household (one could argue that some of those are now white goods, which I can afford). Nor would I be able to maintain both a large house in my seat and a smaller (yet still substantial) one in Mayfair (as well as membership of White's and Brooks's). I doubt if I could afford a small country cottage, a studio flat in London, and membership of a gym.
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Lack of intellectual honesty? I'm sorry, was there anything I said that was false? Instead of responding to my list of illustrations all you can do is say that I'm trolling?
Digital Ocean's new Load Balancers are $20/month, WTF is this thing?
I mean, yes that's probably true for mass market vehicles, but not true for luxury cars. Look at Teslas. Yes, the drivetrain is vastly simplified, but I can't imagine things like those gull wing doors, power door handles, air suspension, etc. will be inexpensive to maintain.
Behind the fall of Quixey
I saw it the opposite way - the UK elite sees the EU as being too slow at negotiating free trade treaties (too many other EU countries are protectionist) and think they can do better.
Thank you for sharing the story of your friend. It brought tears to my eyes.

Feeling guilt about not being able to do more is a natural consequence of suicide. But it sounds like you were there for him, able to really listen. Think of how many people struggling with these sorts of problems don't have that.
It's still positive karma but barely. Honestly anybody that says you can "cure" or "treat" the homeless has never dealt with them. In a wealthy society like most western countries you don't stay homeless for long unless you're too crazy to work.

The best way is to put them back into the mental hospitals where it's safe and they can be cared for. I watched as my relative's old parents fought the state like hell for years to get him committed to the last remaining indefinite-stay mental ward in the state. The alternative was certainly death once they're too old to keep searching for him and bringing him back home (he runs away eventually, or occasionally steals the keys and drives).

Some of these homeless people are so mentally unstable it affects their survival instincts. Like they don't think they need a jacket in -20 weather one day because they saw God this morning and he's going to protect them. And getting someone like this to take their medicine reliably? You've gotta be joking.
That makes 1k r/s about as much as 6-12 full time engineers to configure your load balancers.
ok, but im not sure what your point is.

medical costs are very high in the US, and these are the patients who need the most care and the most treatments. I would expect the cost for medicare (a program that is legally disallowed from negotiating prices with their suppliers, and which covers only people aged 65 or over) to be quite high, and actually im surprised its that low.
Anyone have any experience with flashrouters - https://www.flashrouters.com? While I think you still need a VPN like PIA, IPVanish, ExpressVPN etc, it appears they offer help with device by device VPN connectivity and some plug and play pre-configuration for VPN router?
Even the current UK government doesn't try to argue that the UK has lost its sovereignty by virtue of its EU membership. Its own white paper on Brexit acknowledged that the UK was still entirely sovereign.

For the record, I'm really not trolling, but my position on the sovereignty argument is that for me as a UK citizen, it just doesn't matter since I have such a minuscule say in how things are run either way. And I tend to find legislation that comes from the EU (like the abolition of mobile roaming charges, or the working time directive) far less objectionable than the laws that UK politicians draw up by themselves.
Was the author really pointedly trying to avoid generalizations? His last paragraph suggests, at least to me, that he's more interested in building a new narrative of the "archetypal black entrepreneur".

> We have a responsibility to command an image of the ‘archetypal Black entrepreneur’ which represents the majority of us, and not just the minority. By realigning the story from stereotypes and struggles to the significant amount of positive movement in the Black entrepreneurial space — and acknowledging the fact that many of us come from backgrounds set up for success, we can better serve our collective advancement. Let’s move away from the emphasis on Black suffering, and make the celebration of Black excellence — the new normal.

In my opinion he's looking to replace one generalization with another rather than do what you're suggesting and push people towards telling stories of all individuals and perspectives. He's also doing this by zeroing in on a single statistic, emphasizing it's inverse, and then using that to build a case that more black people are living in his situation than are living in poverty. Unfortunately I have a hard bias against anyone who pulls numbers out of context in order to build a narrative. It also troubles me that taking a deeper dive into his source's findings on the lived experience of many African Americans shows that the single statistic he made up (based on the inverse of the source's findings) is fairly misleading. In my opinion he did the same thing that Milo Yiannopoulos did on Bill Maher. Milo said trans people are disproportionately involved in more sex crimes than the rest of the population. He said this while arguing in favor of the North Carolina bathroom law. Yes, what he said was true, but he failed to mention that trans people are the victims in the vast majority of those cases. While we can "quibble over the numbers", I think its dishonest to take data and twist it to push a narrative -- no matter the point being made.

That is in large part what frustrates me with this article -- I find it paints a dishonest picture of black wealth in order to push a generalization of black entrepreneurship favorable to the author's own lived experience. While I'm largely in agreement with what you -- and Adichi -- have to say with regards to the dangers of the single narrative, I am not at all convinced the author's post was written in that spirit, considering he feels we have a "responsibility to command an image of the 'archetypal Black entrepreneur'".
Our philosophy is to start from the streamer. Twitch and curse joined forces to provide an amazing out-of-the-box desktop experience for our streamers and their fans. Of course this competes with other products, but we do not view it as a zero-sum game

We still have a long way to go to deliver that experience and we are actively looking at community feedback on our launch this month.

Hubert, Founder of Curse now working for Twitch
I think the problem is not that most people don't value privacy, it's that most are unaware of the privacy issues that affect them, or have been misled to believe that the cost of having the websites and services that they rely on (facebook, gmail, etc.) is necessarily tied to giving up privacy.
Oh my, those rusters, still downvoting what they have no idea about.
So why do have to manually mutex or semaphore your threads?
This is not a type system with concurrency capabilities is meant for.

At least parrot and pony do away without that nonsense, guaranteed lock-free.
New York Has a Great Subway, If You’re Not in a Wheelchair
EW: Lapis targets rapid data logging with ARM chip
Instant Runoff Voting is actually one of the most complicated voting methods. Approval Voting is arguably the simplest.

This can be objectively measured via metrics like ballot spoilage and precinct summability.

http://scorevoting.net/Lorenzo.html

Here's a read-through of a talk I gave on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_eMUGCU5U&t=487
It's the turtles. You can't trust anything that lives that long and never speaks.
One problem with Redis is that it looks superficially simple, but actually, like any tool used in critical contexts, there are two possibilities: 1) Know how it works very well and do great things with it. 2) Don't understand it properly and find yourself in big troubles soon or later. Because Redis, in order to provide the good things it provides, has, on one side, a set of limitations, and on the other side is strictly coupled with a number of things related to the operating system, tradeoffs in the configuration and so forth.

Certain things I understood over the years that made it better are, of course, improvements in the implementation, but especially things like LATENCY DOCTOR and MEMORY DOCTOR (this one only for versions >= 4.0), that is, most of the things a Redis operations expert can tell you, Redis can tell you directly... without any other help, just observing its internal behavior.

There is another aspect. For a long time I believed a Redis book was not really needed. Now I changed my mind, and I see no good enough Redis book out there, and I'm almost planning writing one... I was writing for a long time, incrementally, a C book, that is currently just an incomplete draft. I'm thinking about abandoning for now this project, and start with a Redis book.
Ability to take risks (like starting a business or moving to a new city or country) is the biggest one.

Otherwise: money, sleep, free time, dating pool shrinks significantly, peace of mind, ability to travel
Setting up a new connection for every request considered normal for stateless applications? Really? This is a big scaling issue in your stack. You need connection pooling also for stateless apps.
I used to work for a proprietary financial trading firm, where we turned the founders' pile of money into a bigger pile of money. It's the purest "only care about the money" circumstance, and even there they occasionally cared about things other than money. E.g., the people they worked with.

More broadly, though, you misunderstand what companies are about. They're just a collection of people who get together to do a thing. They are only soulless to the extent that the people there are. (Or decide to pretend they are.)

The best places I've worked and visited actually care about the thing they're doing. E.g., I have friends who do catering. They love making people's events go well. They love making people happy. They fucking love the physical acts of making food and serving it to people. Sure, they have to get paid, or the enterprise isn't sustainable.

They are, legally, a for-profit business. But if clubbing seals or trading bonds got them 10% more annualized ROI, they wouldn't do it. Because they're not really there for the profit. They're there to please and delight people by doing something they enjoy.
It's okay China and France are still doing wepl I think. China especially seems quite bullish on nuclear so I guess there's still hope. Korea, India and Canada are still doing okay too.
Is it possible that some of the areas outside of London may benefit by having more competitive trade pacts with individual nations outside of the EU?

One note on productivity in UK:

My observation of UK business culture can be summed up as low-energy and stagnant, and that's compared to US business culture, which I don't like. An example of this is how low developer salaries are in the UK compared to other nations, relative to managers and bosses. I was blown away by how overpaid the managers are in the UK, and how underpaid the "doers" are.

My company's UK office reflects this. They are a notably low-energy group compared to our other offices. There are bright lights who seem to be cowed into submission by a cultural norm of never showing excitement or passion in the workplace. I'm sure there are benefits to removing emotion from interactions to an extent, but wow does that feel suffocating.
My dad worked in public housing in NYC in the 90s when the city prioritized housing the homeless over all others.

It was a disaster -- they brought a scourge of drugs, petty crime and serious issues like sexual predators and outlandish behavior that terrified the other residents.

These people need support, many are in the situation they were in because they lack a support network. That means investing in trained people and keeping them engaged for a long time.
I don't have your experience, nor do I really know what it's like, but here's a perspective I thought of after reading your post.

Your birth parents may not have wanted you, putting you for adoption. However, you were wanted in a different sense, chosen for adoption by whomever adopted you.

-shrugs- Don't know what point I wanted to make, just a thought
There's empirical evidence saying otherwise.

http://scorevoting.net/Lorenzo.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q_eMUGCU5U&t=487
Not true, f.lux released a version of their app in the App Store. Apple pulled their app and so they added another method to sideload it https://justgetflux.com/sideload/ using xcode. Apple then revoked their development license which broke that method as well. It's always been available as a jailbreak tweak but it's also been available to the general, non-jailbroken public
Not sure if this is a dumb question, but if your cache is behaving so badly (40% 500 error?), shouldn't you just get rid of the cache? Maybe allocate some more resources to the DB, but the DB already caches frequently accessed data and you save yourself the roundtrip of check-cache-then-db.
That's called a CV.
False choice. One does not have to live off ramen at a startup to do those things.
There's nothing that says that "top-down dictum" doesn't work for nation building. Indeed, looking at history, it's the only thing that ever did. From a purely bottom-up approach, your feeling of connection to someone else would be a linear function of distance to them. In such a world, it would be impossible to have a border between two people just a mile from each other, with people on each side speaking different languages.

Indeed, the whole concept of the nation-state was a top-down inventions. And possibly not the best, especially when some borders were famously drawn by British people with too much gin in their blood.
In the US, the meal ticket typically only lasts 18 years, not a lifetime.
> ...is being retained by as many different people that can get their hands on it as possible.

Which isn't a big deal as long as the data is only being used for internal use (e.g. UX purposes) to make the product better.
In my view, this complaint is just one step above an acquaintance who claims to have an amazing idea, and all you have to do as an engineer is make it into a reality and then we'll be super rich

Oh... but you can't really pay me that much (or at all), but once this idea comes to fruition, I'll be so glad I invested all my time and energy.

This is what I hear when a startup can't pay a competitive salary. If you can't offer to pay a competitive wage, you shouldn't be in the business (or you really do have an amazing idea, and the engineers are willing to take that bet based on merit or based on trust the founder has previously established)
Stephen Hawking Says We're in the Middle of a “Global Revolt Against Experts”
One of the reasons Google and other top companies pay so many engineers high salaries is to prevent said engineers working on startups. Other comments mention that PhDs are doing trivial and insignificant work at Google -- why? Because Google doesn't want them working on new startups.
There's a bot like this on Reddit that works surprisingly well.
Free contraceptive injections (and reversals that cost a bit) sounds like a great plan for improving quality of life for humanity, actually.
Skyscraper suspended from an Asteroid
It's interesting the assumptions you make about when I see my kids, how much I see my kids and how I balance that with a job I deeply enjoy. Also interesting to see the assumptions made about what kind of people are passionate enough to work more than 40 hours a week. My only point in commenting was to help people challenge their false assumptions. Trust me, I've stared death in the eye, and had a tube hanging out of me for weeks. I am at peace with my priorities - and I spend lots of quality time with my children, thanks for your concern.
(That isn't to say that reptiles in suits won't put on the mask of "changing the world!" when it gives them an advantage. We could all name examples like that. But there are plenty of sincere people out there.)
Were voting machines hacked? No.

Was damaging information about a candidate made public? Yes.

Does the substance of that information matter at all, or simply that it was released?

"Hacked the election" is ridiculous. As if these people[0], or any other midwest-Obama-voter-turned-Trump voter needed WikiLeaks to tell them they were unhappy with the way things were going, had economic anxiety, and didn't see anyone but Trump speaking to their concerns, or simply didn't vote. What Vladimir Putin or Julian Assange wanted, never factored into their decision.

No evidence that Russia was WikiLeaks source has ever been presented, has it? We certainly DID learn from WikiLeaks that the DNC and media "fixed" the debates to favor Hillary Clinton though[1], but where's the outrage at that?

[0] https://medium.com/@Chris_arnade/trump-politics-and-option-p...

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donna-brazile-final...
O.1% of common shares with complicated tax options. Investors get preferred shares cause they invest money. But engineers get common shares even though they're asked to take paycuts.

Startups insist this is "standard". Well I hope it's standard for them to fail until they actually value engineers. I don't see why engineers need to be a monastic underclass to subsidize founders and VCs.
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