skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn't read them. There is a bot for that now. Example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/445#issuecomment-3203...
Git itself is already a monoculture, which makes me sad because it means I have very few people to speak hg to. Github makes it even worse.

But having everyone speaking the same VCS language has obvious advantages, especially when part of that language is where to host it and how to get a web view of it and how to share it. People centralise because it means someone else takes care of the boring work and you can go back to writing code. There are disadvantages to centralisation, just like there are disadvantages to giving up your privacy, but it's so damn convenient to do so that nobody has enough activation energy to do the opposite.
Ya, that's not a bad way to execute on the idea, however it does not perform one of Patreon's chief functions that make it so successful: discovery of projects on one, unified platform. Essentially the main setup that Patreon has over all the "tip jar" or decentralized methods that have been tried but never reached critical mass is that the entire patronage ecosystem has a home on the web rather than simply living inside everyone's browser extension or something. That's why a dedicated site for software patronage could really take off because so many open source projects and software ideas are floating around with really just donations or VCs as the only funding mechanism in the valley.

For sure! I will send you an email.
So she taught her daughter to stop asking questions and just take an authority figure's word at face value?

Wonderful, that's definitely going to encourage her to pursue a career in STEM /s
They got fired right after the talk, looks like the person on the other end took it too seriously.
Firefox has a reader mode. It gives everything a nice consistent style.
the same way i approach learning anything new

i try to break it down into first principles, then try to break those principles into components and start to familiarise myself with as much information as possible

it can help to apply arbitrary constraints to aide in reducing the initial barrier of entry

from there you can start to construct your own diet around your interests, your body, and your goals

one day i became obsessed with cinnamon and would put it on everything

once i ran out of the cinnamon i had i went out to get more and learned there are different kinds of cinnamon

from different places with different preparation practices that result in different flavors, of cinnamon

so i'd try one, then another, then another, and eventually i developed a preference, now i know what kind of cinnamon i like.. and why

there is a lot to consider in regards to food and diet, but that is mostly what attracts me to it

for the most part it is an unsolved problem, but there are many great theories and theorems in regard its practice

curiosity ensures development
Good question.

There's a lot of consulting work available in traditional labs because of bureaucracy around hiring new employees full-time. So I can apply my skillsets in those labs as an outside consultant.

Ideally though this would be a pure-research endeavor. Which requires time and building up credentials and a funding base. So basically eventually income for the entire operation would be a mixture public/private grants and leasing out technology developed within the organization to others.
Wouldn't incognito mode block this particular attack?
The article linked does not mention "autonomous" or "self driving". It just looks like an electric powered supercar (which sets a mighty impressive lap time)?
This is a wonderful personal story that gels very well with a large study on "Why Women Leave Engineering"

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/NSF_Stemming%20the%20Tid...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952078
All that crazy VC money benefits the users. Blue Apron is the same thing with food. I got free food, no plans to subscribe. Thanks for the meal!

(Not literally me, I never used Blue Apron, but a lot of people have)
rule of thumb the money of a round is to spent 1 to 2 years.
> politically correct avoid-the-language-of-conflict and make sure you dress up every insult as a compliment

These are two extremes, and you can find a middle ground between them.

In particular, here's a middle ground from someone objecting to Linus for willfully breaking userspace because he didn't think backwards-compatibility was important (a thing that he flames others to a crisp for), in a way that clearly expressed objection but not insult: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/29/541
No, it says it "could have well been his Master's thesis."
if you're insisting on using the cheapest drives on amazon, you probably can't fit 5TB of data into a small room worth of computers.

if you're a reasonable person, you buy 6 1TB samsung SSDs and stuff them into a single 2U case and you're done.
Facebook closes down AI system after bots create own language
They could very plausibly explain the differences in the number of men who write software relative to women. The only explanation is absolutely not "systemic discrimination against women".

I know it's trendy to defend feminist talking points, but it ultimately leads to what we see now with the Google firing: a public conversation where facts take a secondary role to ideology/dogma.
>I think what's happening here is pretty simple: the people who have "writing more computer code" as their personal hobby are excited to feel superior to those who don't.

Maybe some of that sentiment is happening. That's orthogonal to the point that programmers who enjoy programming as a passion (that's a dangerous word) naturally will prefer hiring programmers who enjoy it beyond the boundaries of a 40-hour job.

It's just human affinity. Think of rock bands starting up in a garage. The singer + bass player + drummer are looking to add a guitarist. If they interview a guitarist and he says, "well, I'll just strum whatever and it don't matter if I play with you guys or on a cruise ship or a Las Vegas lounge bar -- guitar is just a job", he won't get an offer to join. For the band members, music is their life.

Since programming is often "fun" and software engineering is similar to "artistry", it's natural for programmers who enjoy coding for fun to want to hang around other programmers who enjoy it in a similar degree. This culture is especially true for startups. As the company matures, it becomes less important.
Optimization is generally used as a broader term than what code level optimization means. Although code optimization does help systems vertically scale.

I've seen quite a few projects fail because the engineers didn't think through the ability of the system for handling more users/connections/data. A little thought before starting the project usually helps avoid ops headache and costly rewrites later.
I think I qualify as a poweruser by some standards, I tend to have 100's of tabs open and I've never left Firefox for speed reasons or others because it has held up extremely well over the years. My machine has a lot of RAM so maybe that's one reason things have been quick, and the main drive is an SSD. Is there anything specific about the 57 release that makes you feel caused the speed bottle-neck to disappear?
Cultural differences aren't enough to explain away his open hostility to so many things and people.

To quote from the original comment in this thread:

>You're a moron.

I don't believe the Finnish mentality justifies being so aggressive - and if it does, I'd better stay a long way away from Finland, which is clearly an awful place to live.
It could well turn out to be an important concern, but what we're waiting for is something resembling a general AI, that we can observe and evaluate to understand whether it even has anything analogous to self-preservation, will-to-power, grand game theoretical striving with humanity, or anything else people worry about in the very abstract.
The w3c cannot break the web. Once something is in the language a certain way, it stays (technically, there have been a couple small breaking changes, but the fact that you don't hear about them speaks to their size and impact)
And he has a list of sites that use WebRTC to get around blocking. Didn't Firefox or someone say they'd reconsider auto-enabling WebRTC if this practise became widespread?
When wasn't it like this.. raw js, NN4 DOM, IE4 DOM, W3C DOM, Prototype.js, mootools, jQuery, extjs, etc.

C/C++ also haven't sat still either, there are always new hotness in any language. For a language that interacts with UI asynchronously, JS has moved in a direction that tends to make it easier to user, even if it changes in the common use case. I remember the bad old days in the mid-late 90's, I'll take today's JS ecosystem.
I'm deliberately oversimplifying. If you:

1. Like sports

2. Wear expensive or formal clothing

3. Dislike video games

4. Are uninterested in science fiction

5. Don't drink

6. Are over 50

... you'll find valley software development culturally inhospitable. Obviously, lots of well-dressed 50 year old baseball fans have programming jobs. But those people don't "read" as software developers, and if you take those people and strip away their resumes, they will underperform people that don't have those characteristics in software development interviews.
Let's not confuse reading a file and reading a file then redistributing it to whoever is willing to pay for it.
Sucks if you're a new parent who codes, doesn't it?
Hi. Seems like an interesting project. Perhaps would be more interesting to HN users if you described how the algorithm worked? Or even better, published the algorithm/model as open source so others can learn from it? I'm genuinely interested in how curation can work in the absence of traditional search engine signals like links or social engagement numbers.
I wonder if they have any plan to support chacha20/poly1305 for encryption and sha2/keccak/blake for fingerprints.
> just as naive as those that voted in our current president.

So you feel both sides are guilty, but not Hillary?
The memo does care about the gender gap in tech as a whole, while you are focusing more on Google's specific policies regarding applicants.

Clearly both are important topics, and they have some obvious connections - for example, the gender gap as a whole often motivates specific corporate policies, that's one reason he brings it up - but they can also be debated separately.

So I think it's fair to say the memo does make some valid points, but it looks like you think it's wrong on other points that it makes in other areas (which could well be true).
> But during the Obama administration, the FCC determined repeatedly that broadband isn't reaching Americans fast enough, pointing in particular to lagging deployment in rural areas.

No skin off my back. I already have internet service significantly better than the FCC broadband definition, and my core concern in this space is net neutrality. Rural areas are the ones that will be negatively affected by this kind of policy change in the coming years. You get what you vote for in this case.
yep been doing Arg for 10yrs now. 1/3 the cost same time zone as NYC clients. great-lifestyle down here.
Unless you're on mobile.
>You're correct, it is a hateful, sexist comment, and I won't take it back or apologize for it.

Then you're choosing to not be constructive. Sexism and racism are not constructive, and they are hurtful to innocent people.
Abstraction, that's what happened.
Uh, yes. I don't know what news you're reading but Germany is an oasis of tranquility compared to most other major Western nations.
I agree with most of your points. However, I think it would be easier to use machine learning and computer vision to solve this problem. The profit would come in the form of reduced traffic which would mean more throughput to local businesses. FedEx would profit, trucking would profit, mom-and-pop shops with prime retail locations would profit. Hence, the municipalities would profit from surge in tax revenue. As far as processing goes, the red-light cameras get recorded somewhere, right? Why not double up those servers, put an RPI with a camera on each traffic light, and then beam the data back to the server room for processing. With machine learning and a lot of patience the system would be able to improve itself over time.

I have always believed that this problem could be solved with about $200 worth of hardware at the traffic light, a cheap mobile plan, and a central server location (wherever they host the red-light footage from cameras that already exist).

Now, if anyone has a million bucks laying around I can get to work right away. ;)
I was not at the conference and have no first hand knowledge of what happened.

But before everyone gets on their high horse, please pause to reflect:

This was all company work product being presented by company employees who were on a company funded conference trip. Therefore there is an approval process for vetting presentations as well as a legal process for opensourcing code. This is standard practice at all companies.

Now what do you think is more likely: That the PR department would approve of a talk titled "meatpistol" (FIXED) (have you seen the slides?) and the legal dept would approve of open sourcing the code and then at the very last minute both groups would change their mind and try to pull the talk, or that the presenters never got the OK in the first place, the company found out at the last minute, asked them to pull the talk and they refused?

How likely is it that they would get official approval for their talk under a "Chatham's rules" meeting in February to for a presentation <strike>in August</strike>at the end of July? Isn't it more likely that they got some initial approval for a talk in February, but that PR still wanted to vet the actual slides in <strike>August</strike>July? (I'm assuming that the slides were made after February.) Which PR department gives approvals like that? What legal department works this way? In my experience, stuff like this happens at the last minute, because that's when you're finishing your slides (as well as your code), and generally PR is going to ask that you make some changes to your slides and they will want the final copy before signing off. Now maybe I'm wrong and the article is correct, but I think it's unlikely.

Moreover given that Salesforce can't talk about this matter, who do you think is the source for the article and whose side are you hearing?

The last few days have really highlighted how quick people are to pile on with outrage and self-righteous indignation before getting all the facts.
> Curious, what software did you use for screen sharing

Started off with Join.me. I then threw out my windows PC and installed Ubuntu, so it stopped working. I did appear.in a few times, but the quality stunk. Mostly moved to my setup team, that mostly still uses join.me.

> were customers ok with this

Oh they loved it. The competition is "Here is a youtube video and some docs, have at it". We actually took the time to get to know our customer and dive in, help them navigate the setup etc.

> Was your app so complex that you couldn't guide them through the phone or it was a deficiency in the UX/UI of the app?

Both! Necessary complexity is high, but so is accidental. Working on reducing accidental a little every day. Not willing to kill off too many features in the name of simplicity, but willing to at least make the common path a lot easier to use.
That's more economics than demographics. But yes, Hospitals and medical services in rural communities are disappearing at a phenomenal rate. Demographics do play somewhat of a role, but nothing compared to the change in our healthcare system (and how we pay for it) in the past 50ish years.

It has in part to do with increased cost of healthcare, difficulty of having one family doctor offices, necessity of specialized services (all leading to an agglomeration effect, why you now see "healthcare cities" in more rural areas, where one city among a dozen has the only hospital and lots of other medical services available.) I'd also say that many hospitals are now parts of large chains that are "not-for-profit" in name only, while acting exactly like for profit entities.

While rural areas are typically shrinking, there is still a very large amount of people who live in rural areas in the US. It's the loss of their economic impact (and the above factors) that have made their medical services disappear.

But it's a complex issue and no one seems to have found a solution here in the US yet. But it's going to keep getting worse in the foreseeable future.
Andrew Ng Is Back with a Deep Learning Course
You're just proving his point further. RINO is literally a pejorative designed to marginalize "moderate republicans". Pretty much nobody uses the term DINO. "Everyone knows" the term RINO because conservatives consistently bash anyone who doesn't embrace rigid conservative idealism. Pejorative nicknames are a common rhetorical tactic used by conservatives, "RINO", "SJW", "Feminazi" "Cuckservative"... liberals don't do this. Of course, you'll say that liberals will use terms like "racist", "fascist" "sexist", "bigot" but those are english words you can look up in the dictionary (and it is common for conservatives to use these terms as well when saying that 'liberals are the real bigots/fascists/racists/sexists!!'), whereas conservative pejorative nicknames are invented by provocateurs with the intent to humiliate their intellectual opponents.
Does he even lift?
Unfortunately Brave doesn't have extensions and won't let you restore some settings from backup or transfer them to another PC, so it's not really a complete browser for most techies the way we think of Chrome and Firefox. Note that the settings loss thing is an issue (ehem "feature") with Chrome/Chromium itself and not specific to Brave on Windows builds.
Ugh that font is unreadable on my phone.
I'm sure if you go and sift through the incredible volume of product that Linus has made over the years you will find a few more examples of absolutely shocking behavior.

What's the last time someone did the opposite and searched for all the times when Linus was on his best behavior?

Have you considered the parallels with the Richelieu quote:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. "

Linus has written far more than six lines and I'm sure you'll be able to do a stellar job of hanging him. But you're going to have to consider whether your ability hinges on Linus' perceived personality or on the volume of his communications and product.
i know what you're talking about, and no, his students didn't share that culture, or any other you're worried about. or probably any you've ever even seen unless you're from the rural south. in which case we wouldn't even be having this conversation in the first place.
As far as pricing goes, steam has the benefit of games being much less excludable than media. If you want a racing game or shooter and can'tafford the biggest titles, there're always other alternatices that're cheaper. This keeps the biggest titles' pricing in check or at least anchor them around value marks people tend to like (40 or etc)

Media by contrast is very steep. Either you're at the top of your genre or you're not worth it for those looking for the former. If you want an epic fantasy story GoT still beats out other shows cropping up around the same theme (even if you think the latter have better story or so on, that's not what drives dollars). If you want space operas you're not going to settle for less than Star Wars.

These "staples" and their exclusivity create a high value proposition greedy execs can't ignore, and one that they don't worry as much will give their competition an opening.
There is a pretty stark difference these days between urban inner cities in Texas and the outer suburbs.
"Reed Hastings" (Netflix ceo) was spot on when he said he will lose points on evaluation. Frankly, he should be fired from the FaceBook board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#Greek_philosop...
Languages are easy. It's always the frameworks (which are usually needed for any real world tasks) that are the killer.
uBO-Extra: A companion extension to uBlock Origin
log_32(x) is only a constant factor of 5 off of log_32(x). If we are going to call log_32(collection_size) "effectively constant", we may as well call any log-complexity operation "effectively constant". If you call the op "logarithmic-complexity", the "effective-constant" property should be just as clear to someone who knows what's up with time complexities and logarithms plus you gain the benefit of being technically accurate. Actually calling log_2 ops "logarithmic" and log_32 ops "effectively constant" crosses the boundary into being actively misleading.
Well, if an illegal immigrant files taxes, then they're registered in the system and will be thrown out, right? If you're illegally in a country you presumably have to stay hidden in order to not be thrown out, and if you pay taxes you're not hidden anymore.
BuzzFeed News Trained a Computer to Search for Hidden Spy Planes
So Chicago has WAY easier zoning laws compared to SF. Still has zoning laws, but they are in a totally different / less crazy league.

Still, my condo has a no AirB&B clause. I would not have bought it if it allowed neighbors in the building to AirB&B.

Not 100% that clause is still enforceable, but I sold it a few years ago. I would sell ASAP though if I caught wind a neighbor was going to rent their unit. A quiet home is worth a lot to me.
>>though it does seem to me he's set up something of a cottage industry churning the same general idea into a sequence of very similar books

True, he has, but his thoughts on randomness and such are very important. Yet, they don't seem to get through to the zeitgeist. In my view, he needs to publish a few more books on the subject to emphasise the point even more.

He reminds me of a professor that's always looking down on everyone because no one is smart enough. But, I'm a fan of his work and many of his views.
The font list menu item doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it. Using safari on latest iOS
Also, another question.

I have looked for xamarin.forms to be ready for years now, but still is very limited/inmutare. I'm building the most simplistic crud app with zero-care for good looks and good UI, yet every step requiere a workaround (for example, you can't have a Password EntryCell, you need to create it from code using a ViewCell).

Exist a lot of functionality available in the base controls not exposed in forms.

Now, with regret I'm thinking in use react native (that destroy the ability to use F#) or use HTML.

How much better will 3 be? Some place where I can talk about this?
To your point on 1) regarding the individual, I think the memo author's original point may have been too inconspicuous
"...so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions." I agree with the flaws in projecting stats to any given individual.

That point about equilibrium is very interesting; makes me wonder about civilization fitness and competitiveness for those that discover the natural equilibriums and exploit them to their advantage. Sort of like a Star Trek Next Generation episode where some planet's society was able to measure all the traits in their children and direct them to where they were optimized. Makes me want to dig up that old plotline and see what the writer's thought about such a ordering of society.
Rich Hickey is one of the rare breed of thinkers in the programming world whose ideas have great relevance even if you're not interested in the language he invented.
And I've yet to see someone single out a particularly nice and constructive comment and use that for a counterpoint.