skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it still have a massive audience? I would think it has lost a lot since Yahoo wrote of 2/3 of its value already.
75$ is too expensive for something that costs 0$.

Also most developers in SV are paid more than physicians (internists/family-medicine) who prescribe flu-shots.
It really depends on the text and the images.

It is likely a lot more difficult than they are making it out to be. If it were that easy, why wouldn't they do it themselves? If they just don't have any technical employees able to do it, then they probably don't know enough to outline what they really want with a technical person, anyway.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Relevant comic: http://johngushue.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451f25369e20120a5138...
I agree with this article.

Proponents of blockchain tech argue its revolutionary quality is its ability to act as a decentralized and trustless database. But I don't ever hear them sort through the issue of how to agree on the schema for this trustless database.

For a group of people to use a decentralized DB, they have to agree as to what to store in it, and how to store it. They need to form consensus about how the system will work, and how the data will flow.

For example I've seen people on here mention applications such as a decentralized stock exchange, and a decentralized hotel rooms marketplace.

For either of these, it's necessary to get all the users of the system in a room and agree what is in scope and what is not, and in general what can be done with the system and how. At this point they already have a consensus, they trust each other, they might as well just set up a centralized database run by a 3rd party that manages the system, keeps it up to date and adds upgrades, instead of building it on the blockchain and hoping there are no major bugs in the cloud code and that it will live off gas.

For the stock exchange, that's exactly what we already have. We have institutions that are dedicated to running exchanges, which act as neutral arbiters. They use regular old centralised databases. When they have bugs in their code or the system makes a mistake they can even roll back trades, which they couldn't do on the blockchain.

Essentially this is the same argument as OP. The 3rd party's act of ironing out issues, deciding what the rules are and how they interact is synonymous with OP's term "governance". We agree that using/running the system is different than defining/implementing the system and the latter can't be done trustlessly.

And also governance gets a lot easier when you also run the system centralized ;)
Can't fix that w/o fixing the JVM.
Here's a better example, in dplyr and pandas. I find the pandas very awkward in both operations, and dplyr very nice.

Get the last n characters from a column string, where n is determined by another column. Then filter to rows where those characters are 'AB'.

(
df
.assign(last_n_chars=df.apply(lambda x: x['name'][-x['n_chars']:], axis=1))
.query("last_n_chars == 'AB'")
)

df %>%
mutate(last_n_chars=str_sub(name, start=-n_chars)) %>%
filter(last_n_chars == 'AB')
I wonder what's the energy consumption of an average credit card transaction (including keeping the infrastructure, charge backs etc.)...
My question is, why in the world did they publish someone's production credentials in an onboarding document? That has to be a SOX compliance violation at the very least.
THe problem I've found with this approach is that it gets very messy very fast. It's hard to track down bugs to their source.

One of my favorite aspects of Redux is how easy it is to follow the flow of data. Whatever you do, you start at a dom element, look at what action creator it calls, and check out the changes in the reducer.
You say "cultural difference," I say stupid policy on Apple's part to tax tipping.
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Yeah I had to laugh about that one as well. Especially the part about ImageNet being too general. If they knew anything about deep neural networks, they would understand why these base models are important and necessary for a candidate to understand, because they can be used to form a foundation for the solution.

In many cases, you can use the model as-is (and likely pre-trained) for a use case outside of "match label to an image", with only some additional training with your specific dataset - which may only be tangentially related (or not even that!).

These models (and the surrounding tools) have become for many problems more like Lego in my opinion - which is a good thing! It means they are more approachable for everyone, rather than being something mysterious and complex. Ok - if you dig, things become complicated quickly, but for many problems, you don't have to worry about these internals.

Are there problems which don't fit neatly into using a modified ImageNet or LeNet or one of the other "standards"? Certainly. But I think a candidate who understands the standards and basics well is likely a better one than one who only understands a specific subset for a particular industry (if there even is such a thing, which I am sceptical of).

Furthermore - it would be even better when a candidate can say "you know what - your problem doesn't need a neural network of any kind, let me introduce you to <insert standard statistical machine learning method>" - because there are tons of problems out there which can still benefit, and be a robust, easy to understand, and fast (to implement, to maintain, to execute - whatever).

I love neural networks, certainly - but there's been so much hype in the news, everyone thinks they need one, which will probably lead to many investing money into worthless (or expensive) solutions, where simpler (but less "sexy") ones would have sufficed.

The candidate who could know and tell the difference would be even more ideal - being able to interview/walkthru that might be a way to get a better candidate.
>In this case, Marissa Mayer, Cheryl Sandberg, Ellen Pao, Elizabeth Smith, Sophia Amoruso, the last two being founders and not coming into rescue companies in crisis, who also both have experienced troubles, lawsuits, and failure.

I fail to see the connection between these individuals. Cheryl Sandberg is a successful executive ... so is Marissa Mayer for that matter - having had a senior position at Google and then led Yahoo. Sophia Amoruso ran a company that went bankrupt (it happens). I don't know anything about Elizabeth Smith and Ellen Pao implemented some needed but highly controversial and unpopular polices at the reddit cesspool but also fired a popular moderator, Victoria.

What is the connection here besides these are all women?

>I brought this up because you used the word malicious that I would even bring up the idea that women CEOs face a bias.

Yes. It is malicious. You can't just assert racism or misogyny. Those are very powerful words and they are completely misused, frequently to push some ideological agenda. If I'm being charitable, it reminds me of the way UFO conspiracy theory nuts reason. They'll look at some phenomenon and argue "I can't think of anything that could explain X, therefore X must be aliens".. No. That's not how it works. If you don't know the cause of X, don't assert a conclusion. Aliens are not the default position for unknown stellar phenomena. Misogyny and sexism is not the default position every-time a woman gets fired or criticized.

>Please reread my statements about her remote work decision, and how the data was related to not meeting remote work standards, and no data whatsoever was provided about remote work in relation to parenting

But that doesn't change the optics of this policy contrasted with her private nursery.

>but news had no problem conflating the issues, and readers had no problem assuming there was hypocrisy in the decision, despite there being no data to prove hypocrisy existed in the decision.

Sure. You're trying to argue her criticism is unfair - nothing wrong with that. It may be unfair, but nuances and subtleties are lost all the time and certain narratives take hold. For example, I don't think Uber is a sexist organization, but now there's a narrative that they have a sexist culture top to bottom. All subtly is lost when Uber is discussed on HN. It happens. Argue against it and move on.
Well your site works, doesn't it? Can't do something wrong if your site is all right.
Except when they are not. Just because malcode is encapsulated doesn't mean it is neutralised. The issue is untrusted data, not how it is stored.

Word Docs with embedded content or can trigger code execution on parsing, data structures that break AV parsers, image or font data that causes system libraries to overflow/UAF/etc; There all could potentially be a security issue in a DB, the same as in a FS.
Re: parameterized unsafe -- I think it's been discussed and rejected, I don't remember where. I think it was mostly a matter of "yes this would be more powerful, but the complexity isn't worth it".

Note that we sort of made a "new" kind of unsafe with the UnwindSafe trait: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/trait.UnwindSafe.html

That's probably how we intend to solve these kinds of problem in the future.

Re: aliasing -- if it's a serious enough problem, one of two things will happen:

* Someone will develop a version of asan/ubsan for Rust.

* The Rust devs will be forced to reduce the extent to which they apply alias analysis by default (possibly with a flag to opt into it). At least temporarily.

The rust devs have backed off optimizations in the past when they break stuff in the ecosystem (struct layout optimization). But they also work with the affected devs to fix those bugs so they can turn the optimization on.
So happy that Gankro is back writing things about Rust, and especially delighted to hear that the Rustonomicon is going to be fleshed out more. :)
> You claim that people hear and believe bullshit. That itself is a symptom; mainstream medicine has been unable to provide adecuate healthcare services, so the quacks come in and fill in the gap. Your chosen side is very eager to throw accusations of malfeasance and stupidity, but in many cases it would be more accurate to say that people is doing a (perhaps misguided) attempt to deal with hard realities with limited options.

I fully believe that many of the people promoting and peddling treatments that don't work honestly believe that they do work. Nonetheless, if the treatment is worthless, it's still bullshit.

The problem isn't that modern medicine provides insufficient services. It's that modern medicine is fundamentally unable to cure or even treat many conditions, because we simply lack the knowledge. "Alternative medicine" rushes to fill the gaps because people desperately want something. So they buy into vitamins to cure cancer and homeopathy to treat virtually everything but in the absence of evidence of efficacy, these are just snake oil.

There's also carryover effect where some people assume that if medicine can't cure everything, then they have to doubt it's effectiveness for even the things it can cure. People also like to believe that they have secret knowledge. People enjoy imagining that they know things that even the doctors don't know. Plus conspiracies of knowledge suppression etc.

> True Science should have no business taking sides on what ultimately ends up being comercial disputes; theirs is to look at Nature and figure out how it works.

I'm not sure what you mean. Science is on the side of proof. Any "alternative" medicines that have proven effectiveness aren't alternative any more.

> I am obviously engaged in the Alt-med scene, and I can tell you by personal experience that it does work well enough.

Personal experience just isn't very meaningful. There are two many confounding factors and biases involved. You can find people who swear by the effectiveness of pretty much anything.

What matters is verifiability. The ability and willingness to put medicines through double blind studies is what separates medicine from alternative medicine.

> The problem is that, being a low status subject, the ranks of its practicioners are filled with anti-intellectual types; and yes, this means there're lots of bullshit being peddled out there, and even the stuff that seems to work does probably work according to principles that are unknow to the people that use them. And it is an herculean taks just trying to figure out what's complete bonkers and what's real phenomena waiting to have an actual explanation.

The problem is that its ranks are filled with people who don't practice actual medicine.
Did you ever try Xelatex? I think it has support for arbitrary utf8 characters. Also for your system's built in fonts fallbacks is a character is missing from a font.
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For simple drag + drop design needs, have you tried Canva?

https://www.canva.com
Almost no one likes Tcl, but I think it used(uses) a nice model for concurrency. Much better than Python's.

Interpreter as a library, all state encapsulated in a reentrant interpreter object, different interpreters running in different threads that can send messages to each other, no need for expensive serialization deserialization (like in Python) because the interpreters are in the same process, ... so much nicer.
i think its a fair argument to claim that bleeding edge technology is inefficient during its invention phase.

the very first fusion reactors arent all that efficient, either.
> I would say that my ability to purchase and run mining hardware, at a loss if necessary, gives me more control over my altcoins than my citizenship gives me over my bank.

It's roughly similar to buying shares in a publicly-traded bank, which you can do as well as electing candidates for public office to whom the central bank, which is the entity making monetary policy decisions, is accountable.

So it gives you more relative power with altcoins only to the extent that those with more wealth are relatively uninterested in the altcoins in question compared to traditional banking; were a digital currency to succeed beyond a small niche, that would change and you would find yourself as drowned out by moneyed interests as you are in traditional banking on that avenue of leverage, and without the other avenues of accountability that exist with the governance of fiat currencies.
>It may be cheaper to throw a couple bucks at a few thousand people than go through the license Raj. At the very least, it would be faster and more predictable.

They're just going to trample over the landscape they're supposed to be foresting. You also can't verify and trust them to actually go out there and plant things rather than just throwing their whole bag in the nearest trash can and coming back with an empty sack demanding payment.
But breaks stuff more often. Why would that be a net win? Probably a net loss because you incur the mental overhead of putting down whatever actual problems you are trying to solve and getting into a frame of mind to try to fix your computer, more frequently.
Hmm 'ifconfig' is still distributed by all the major distros. Some do not install it by default, but it is available in the repositories.
E.g [1] trained for 20 * 10^5 iterations at 2.1 seconds per image, coming out to 48 days (!) in total. Maybe the 2.1 seconds also include the post-processing to get bounding boxes, though. Anyway, you need lots of training time.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04018 "Multi-Oriented Text Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks"
But yet, this is how it's done across Canada. Thousands of people plant trees for $0.115 - $0.35 a tree (depending on land, seedling size, etc). Seedlings come in a number of sizes (they survive better than seeds) and humans are supremely efficient at locating the best places for survival and actually inserting the tree. We've done many studies (UBC) to find better ways, manual planting still seems to be winning.
> We have hundreds of images uploaded to our app each day. The issue is some of these images have text that we want cropped out.

So... they want to chop out watermarks?
I predict the following quantum bug: Due to optimizations to prevent the need to simulate every single particle in this universe...the people who evolved in this universe are now perplexed that physics works so intuitively at the large scale, but at the small scale, it seems to become bizarre and "not calculated until you look".
Technically there is s3fs, but it's fairly terrible and I actively recommend against it. Still, it does come handy from time to time, in a limited set of cases.
Step-by-step guide to hacking your habits
> Someone will develop a version of asan/ubsan for Rust.

This already happened (japaric [1]). But ASan won't save you from a bug due to optimization-because-I-assumed-these-locations-dont-alias (maybe TSan might?).

[1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/howto-sanitize-your-rust-code/...
> init was a stable, widely used, and well understood system that didn't need an update

If it didn't need an update why did various parties try and replace it e.g. OSX launchd, Solaris SMF, Ubuntu Upstart?
Hey if you can find 1000 people to pay $400, I will make it.

But it's hard to convince people to hand over their money. SaaS works because the profits are reinvested into marketing.
I'm coming in a little late here, but I really did mean it was just an indicator. Visualizations are still important. In fact, a moving graphic might mean that the kid on the kindle is, in fact, using a visual aid to conceptualize how back propagation works with neural networks.

I also don't want to come off as knocking video games. I had an Atari in the 80s. Super fun. I would have played that thing 8 hours a day if my parents had let me. They put a cap on it, along with a rule that I also spend some time with this odd object involving black letters printed on a series of white pages if I wanted to play the video game.

The Atari is long gone (though you could say it's as present as ever, in a greatly enhanced form). But those black letters on white pages are still pretty excellent, and are identical to how they were 30+ years ago.
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I get where you are coming from but it all depends what is on the test.

Although it would be inefficient my ideal situation would be that before casting your vote you have to read each parties manifesto, answer a few questions to prove you've read it (if you fail, you repeat until it's sure you understand the policies each party is putting forward), and then you cast your vote fully informed of what it actually means.
>Because when providers compete, quality goes up and costs go down.

Public Private Partnerships are not creating competition and that was never their intention. The legal set up of such agreements is set up, in fact, in order to purposely exclude competition.

In the NHS it tends to both drive up costs and filter out money to companies run by the friends of politicians. It's simple parasitism.

In general, if there isn't a chance to leech off a monopoly of some kind there is no political impetus to actually privatize. The railway system in the UK wasn't privatized in order to create competition. That was patently impossible. It was privatized precisely because it was so well insulated from competition.

>Well, as Hayek argued, everyone setting their own prices is a far superior system than central planning to set the price of a toll.

Hayek made the same typical tired old assumptions that never hold - perfect competition, perfect information, etc.
Jerry Yang, the most competent higher up at Yahoo for the past decade and a half, is the one who said no to the buy out. And rightfully so. The Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes would be worth over $80B today. Unfortunately the board and some activist investors first kicked Jerry out and then continued on with selling almost half of the Alibaba stake.
You are suggesting that the nature of quantum mechanics is an argument for the simulation hypothesis?
>anthropologist David Graeber [...] Money cannot be separated from state violence.

I've read David Graeber's book. I do agree with him that the common (e.g. John Locke) narrative about money arising from direct barter is probably wrong. Money actually comes from credits/debits (aka delayed consumption).

However, I disagree you need government enforced violence for the basic apparatus of money. Perhaps it's a matter of defining "money" in different ways. I'm talking about "money" as a more basic expression of human bookkeeping.

If you have a small community where everybody knows each other, the people can cooperate to keep track of "accounts" of who owes what. They can write the debts/credits on a public church ledger or hypothetically leave it to the reliable memory of a trusted village elder. (E.g. you don't need government for women to spontaneously start trading scrips for future babysitting hours.) What governments enable is scalability.
With government standardized money, strangers can transact the units of account across a larger administrative area.
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Buffalo wings are everywhere though, I'll be going to get some in just a few minutes. Cornell chicken I've never heard of.
I couldn't stand to work without HKT now that I'm used to them. (Hell, I'm struggling with Scala's lack of polykinded types; you don't need them until you do, but then you really need them).
GET /api/users
Parse JSON
Profit
Probably many people would be happy just using an open source version of Photoshopp 6 an they would be ok missing some of the features released in the last 10 years (like painting 3D surfaces or automatically fill a region of the picture that you delete). Sometimes companies forcing you to update your software to get your money it's not a good thing (Windows 10?). With open source there is always the chance of forking as what happened with OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

The issue of having to pay to get access to your tool it's a big issue.

For big companies having to pay for 100 workstations yearly the monetary incentive is big.

Once many people is aware that in the long term it's a better deal to put their money into software libre projects, maybe different companies could compite to get your money.
Takeaway conclusion is existence of a sort of upper bound on the economic potential of blockchains:

>Perhaps blockchain technologies can still deliver better technical performance, like better availability and data integrity

The supporting argument is so tight that it never even invokes the repeated failures of Bitcoin at the exchange/storage level: Mt Gox, wallets et al.
Systems are funny. People do what works. Don't think about it too hard.
Just going to mostly reiterate a previous comment - Jerry Yang, the most competent higher up at Yahoo for the past decade and a half, is the one who said no to the buy out. And rightfully so. The Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes would be worth around $80B today if I'm not mistaken. Unfortunately the board and some activist investors first kicked Jerry out and then continued on with selling almost half of the Alibaba stake.
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Wait.. an "admin user" on a Mac is basically just a sudoer that still needs to enter its password each time for elevated privileges, right ?

Since you do need to install stuff sometimes, I'm not sure what a power user who's careful about password prompts would gain from routinely running as a non-admin.
Yes. There's been a lot of theoretical and practical work around the last couple decades about putting as little as possible in your single point of technical and legal/patent failure.

Small tools that do as little as possible, but do it very well, composed into bigger systems.

Philosophically identical to RISC vs CISC.
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At what point do you consider the bacterium dead? If it splits in two, you consider them both offspring and the parent is dead?