skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember the context here. The idea is "premature optimization is evil". A lot of people often abuse the quote and then conclude "Caring about performance is bad" which is a complete non-sequiter and not the originally intended meaning of the quote.

The reason premature optimization is evil is that it consumes a lot of time and makes the coder more difficult to read and reason about.

If there's no clear benefit to this, then all the work done to optimize it resulted in _negative_ value. There was no gain, only time wasting and more complicated code.

An example of where performance doesn't matter: a piece of code is only executed once every 10 seconds and it finishes executing in 5ms. Spending time to reduce its execution time to 1ms does not produce any tangible benefits.

An example of where performance does matter: a piece of code is running all the time and it takes 500ms. If you can reduce it to 20ms, it's totally worth it.
I think it depends on how much you want to believe the blue zone folks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

There are many such long lifespan places on Earth, and they have several common characteristics, which would make statistical anomaly at least seem less likely
the guardians can be on set while an infant is on the job. You can't have the real mom follow around while the fake mom is using the rental infant.
Not enough time for a computer to react, but enough time for people to think it could have? I seriously doubt that. Yeah, the average human driver might have also just frozen, or only honked, but the computer has excellent situational awareness (it had better if it's driving on public roads) so it knows if it can backup suddenly safely. A human would have to look over their shoulder. It should also honk the horn, I mean that's just low-hanging fruit to implement. Clearly they detected the truck and stopped, what's wrong with stop() && honk().
Because when working in teams, 1 + 1 doesn't necessarily equal 2. Good, collaborating teams produce in excess of the sum of their parts. Companies will take a hit in individual productivity if they think overall productivity will be more than the sum of individual productivity.
Sometimes you have no choice, for example, on the browser.

But if you're writing server code, I think choosing an interpreted language like Python/Ruby is the single worst mistake you can do.
If you stay at one of the Canadian hotels near the horseshoe falls, you can tell the moment at night when they divert more water through to the power stations. The roar of the falls drops off quite dramatically.
GlimmerJS

https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer.js
Look while it might sound horrible of a billionaire to do so, the way the titles work is quite difficult.

You buy the land from someone, and then 6 months down the track a relative turns up and claims they own part of the land etc etc. So pre-empting this, it is better to sue first than be tied up in court cases with people turning up over the next 20 years.
I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here, but what kind of app runs on a database version 5 but not version 6 (for example)?

I can see an app relying on features not available in older releases, but databases - of all software - have rock-solid backwards compatibility.
Do you guys have any graduate roles? I'm looking for places in London when I graduate and you have a very compelling careers page.
Haven't watched this specific video, but from what I've read previously he's suing so that the courts can determine who owns the land so he can fairly pay them. Many people own tiny slices of land that they don't have any practical use for (because of how Hawaiian land gets passed down through generations), and Mark owns the vast majority of the island, so he's trying to fairly compensate the remaining land owners.

Also, he apparently dropped the lawsuit after the uproar.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/01/27/zuckerbe...
Ya, maybe for some. I think for businesses part of it is familiarity, as its now a lot of people's first language. I also think its a choice made often when you start, because it allows you to go faster in the beginning. Which is where a lot of new projects need to be the fastest. Its still a great choice for projects that are short lived, that's why ML works so well on it, most of ML is just quick iterations on prototypes until you find a solid model.
> Beadie: All the guys at the bar, Jimmy, all the girls; they don't show up at your wake. Not because they don't like you. But because, they never knew your last name. Then a month later, someone tells them, "Oh, Jimmy died." "Jimmy who?" "Jimmy the Cop." "Ohhh," they say, "him". And all the people on the job, all those people you spent all the hours in the radio cars with, the guys with their feet up on the desk, tellin' stories, who shorted you on your food runs, who signed your overtime slips. In the end, they're not gonna be there either. Family, that's it. Family, and if you're lucky, one or two friends who are the same as family. That's all the best of us get. Everything else is just...

-- The Wire
Ask HN:Open source project using a registered trademark?
I am the developer and maintainer of open source project SwiftWeather (https://github.com/JakeLin/SwiftWeather). And I received an email from Swift Weather Company (www.swiftweather.com). They said they are the owner of U.S. Trademark Registration No. 4175355 for the mark SWIFT WEATHER. And the open source project is in direct conflict with their federal trademark rights. They requested me to change the name of this application and refrain from further use of their mark for any purpose thereafter.

I don't earn any money from this project (even one cent ). I am seeking advice to handle this issue. I have some potential ideas as below:

1. Modify the README.md (https://github.com/JakeLin/SwiftWeather/blob/master/README.md) file to add some description of Swift Weather Company. Some of the open source projects have sponsors in their README.md. We can do something similar but without charging Swift Weather Company. That can help Swift Weather Company attract more user to use their services.

2. Rename the project. Because there are some external links to the current project from other GitHub projects, blog posts etc. It may cause some problem with the redirection. If we need to rename the project, there some options:

* SwiftWeatherApp: I am not sure is it same as the current project name SwiftWeather because it still has SwiftWeather within the name.

* SwiftiOSWeather: It is a little bit weird for me by adding iOS in between. But that should be different from the SWIFT WEATHER trademark.

* Any better name?

I prefer the first option but am seeking more advice to create a win-win situation. Thanks.
> Many ML/AI companies especially if funded and therefore highly visible may get acquired as the market is very hot. Isn't that good for the engineers?

Only if the potential acquirers are happy with the answers to the same questions. As a percentage of net worth, individual engineers have a lot more at stake than VC's or potential acquirers.
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Or, you can't figure out how AI is helping solve the problem they claim to solve, and you realize they are just throwing every buzzword out there in hopes you'll be impressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzT3yfe2o-I
You must be new here :)
Building relationships with investors is like dating
> just take the pills

God do I hate medical
professionals like that. It's as if they don't want you to steal any of their elite knowledge or that you as a patient are beneath them. How dare one of us ask a semi-intelligent question!
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>it is better to sue first than be tied up in court cases with people turning up over the next 20 years.

Better for who though?
Have you ever heard the expression the sum is greater than its parts?

Let's say one of my coworkers is working on some code I'm familiar. I may be able to sacrifice about 10% of my productivity (just from overhearing that they're working on something I know about) to double their productivity.
Chemotherapeutic agents are poisonous, and yet they’re administered to cancer patients.

What is deletarious at a granular level is not necessarily deletarious for the system as a whole.

A worker might be occasionally distracted in an open office (-1 to efficiency, say), but at the same time might benefit e.g. from more direct communication channels (+2 to efficiency). That’s a net win of +1 efficiency.

Whether that’s how it actually works out, well... I have no horse I’m that race.
SSNs are fine identifiers (user names.)

The problem is that people try to treat them like authenticators (passwords.)

Using SSNs as identifiers everywhere would reduce lots of mistakes and bugs.

Having a national ID system and modern ID documents/verification would reduce fraud.

These would go very well together!
These are great questions to ask any company, not just AI/ML companies. Also, if you're planning to do it:

4) What is the companies policy on employees moonlighting / doing side contract work for other companies not related to it's business?

Inquire about this before you get your offer. Ask me how I know...

EDIT: Another one, which is kind of risky but I personally think is important and would ask any small company:

5) How transparent/open are you about the company's financial health? Are the books open or semi-open?

Keeping in mind that some companies will not share this information and may even find the question offensive. One time I asked the owner/founder this, and he would not share--I found out later through a side channel that he was very offended that I asked for this information (but hired me anyway because he needed someone like me).
Not sure why ML/AI is in the title. Seems applicable to any startup.
For the person deciding whether to sue.
I was with my female co-author at a conference. She was asked what she wanted to do while her "husband" gave his talk. She was the presenter, not me.
You might also be working in the wrong position. A programmer is a skilled IC, but an IC none the less. If even facebook stuffs mere programmers into open office, what makes you think other companies are likely to do better?

NOTE: I am an IC with my own office in a small company. Pure luck.
GP already listed it as a separate entity:

..., unfermented wine, dealcoholized wine, grape juice, ...

so, it is not.

>> ... wondering something else is added to grapes to make it pre-wine?

I am really asking, because I don't know, and like you, would like to find out: what is this process that would "unferment" wine. If GP is not just trowing words around he/she should know.
Usually you're only going to get good answers to these questions after they've made you an offer.
Very good question. Clearly they have brand recognition in the industry, I would speculate the this is the only thing they have going for them. It's only a matter of time before somebody cuts their lunch.
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Do you have an idea of when it is going to be released? Or this is only going to be a Google internal thing?
If you read the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09558, in section 2.1, it defines two conditional posteriors for the parameters of the generator and discriminator. Then, classical GAN is just a maximum likelihood estimate (or, a MAP estimate with uniform prior) of the parameters.

Next, the paper said: how about sampling the whole posterior distribution instead of finding only one point of maximum likelihood as classical GANs do. This is the point where the famous Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms become useful. They use something called stochastic gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, basically, it is a random walk algorithm, at each step, you follow a noisy gradient, as a result, you converge to the posterior distribution instead of a local minima as gradient descent does.

The paper claims that sampling the whole posterior helps to resolve problems with classical GANs. IMHO, this isn't a surprise claim, this is exactly what is good about Bayesian statistics.
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There are quite a few alternatives, microhttpd is a very popular one though in c++, moongoose / civetweb(forked version) are both good alternatives and are tested in the field and are written in C, you also have duda and libonion doing the same http library but with more functions(restful, websocket,etc)
The right answer for any leader at Director or above is to simply schedule 1:1s with random people from all levels of those you manage directly or indirectly, at least once--if not more--per week.

It's a rather efficient bullshit detector when you have two or more layers down in the organic chart.
> Better for who though?

Subjectively him, and that is why I am gathering he is (was) doing it, and I cannot blame him. These are not your "normal" titles, ownership of land is passed down through generations with little record as to the direct ownership of land.
encryption that the DOJ has access to, isn't.
Why use a cron job? I have certbot running in one Docker container, the .well-known route directing to the one dedicated Docker host running certbot, and whenever certbot renews the certificate, it writes the cert to the NAS share that is only mounted on the LBs and then triggers a SIGKILL to the haproxy docker containers (which causes haproxy to re-read the cert file and configuration).

Fully automated, no cronjobs to fail. In addition, I have a monitoring on all LBs that verifies the expiration time - it has never hit so far. That cronjob/monitoring is something everyone should have anyway because a well working monitoring system can alert you to so many other possible failure states...
Comparatively it disappeared. The hype was ENORMOUS in the beginning. That wasn't sustainable, but it would have tapered off much less sharply if the game hadn't gone from fun to shit very rapidly within a month or two as Niantic made completely unjustified 'balance' changes
How do you get distracted in the open office?

Someone talking loud or having their phone ringer on? That's just shitty office manners, plus you can grab ANC headphones when you really wanna focus. Which also gives a good signal to not disturb to others.

The only distraction I used to get is colleagues asking for help which always felt super nice to do.

I'm 3 weeks working from home and yes, it's great not having to slouch to the office every morning with the associated food/coffee/shower/dress-up/transport routine. But I do kinda miss people a bit and procrastination is thru the roof.
People do die of old age, y'know. And long before that, they stop driving because their eyes become too bad and their reactions become too slow.

All you have to do to cement a driverless-car hegemony is to stop issuing new driver's licenses. 50 years later: no more drivers.
I got $5 "for free" from the Apple ebook class action settlement, I would rather not have gotten the money and the lawyers gotten less. Sure it's not rational, but it's how I feel.

I am sure the islanders would rather not be forced to part with their land, so a billionaire can live in a private paradise, than receive a fair, or even better than fair forced sale price.
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> There's no evidence any of this actually works,

There's plenty of evidence that taxing a product reduces demand for that product

> and most people aren't interested in a government that tries to dictate what they should eat.

That's true, but it just underscores the ancestor comment: Social acceptance can make most any evil the norm. People accept that the government should regulate what we drink and smoke, but not what we eat - this is partly due to cultural acceptance of obesity
Maybe inflation was a bad example, but my point is that expecting all productivity gains to translate into pay raises is ridiculous. To start with, the exoskeleton is a huge capital expense, which the employee is not paying.
IDK if you've noticed, but everyone in the office tend to sync into tomato intervals. 15 minutes of crunch follows 5 minutes of chatter, repeat
it's in the master branch, it just hasn't been tagged for release yet.
Industry expert: Asteroid mining could begin within the next 10–20 years
How old are you? I'm just a touch over 40 and even at this age the poignancy of life really starts to reveal itself to you.

You would trade 5 years of your life for being able to drink wine? Because it's that delicious, right? Sorry, but this is either hyperbole to the point of silliness or you have no idea the value of your life.
Also, the three gorges dam hydroelectric project.
Yeah its almost like we need a different word than "sue" which universally has negative connotations.

He named them in court to force a discovery process because governance structure in Hawaii has no infrastructure to track titles. Hawaii's executive branch has no tool, and Hawaii's legislative branch isn't going to undermine its constituents, so Hawaii's judicial branch is all that there is.

He offered them money for the land when they were able to be identified.

He did it through an LLC and some people regretted it when they found out it was actually the "rich white man" instead of a fellow farmer like they assumed.

Now as for tact? It was calculated and poorly executed. Analogous to when a billionaire landlord tries to evict all the public housing tenants who are all disenfranchised minorities "because they are renters! the law is on my side!". Actions have consequences.
https://www.bfs.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/BfS/EN/2017/1003...

Actual measurements, though not very specific on where this was measured: "a few microbecquerel to 5 millibecquerel per cubic metre [of] air."
We don't have even the moderate height cube walls between people -- you're just staring at them all day over screens.

I get pretty much constantly distracted if I'm looking at another desk instead of the wall: I have a very hard time ignoring people moving, so looking out into a room full of people means I'm constantly looking around and alert to the environment as people shift, have people stop by, etc. It's not the noise that gets me, even with headphones off, it's the constant motion in my field of view.
> so he can fairly pay them

You make it sound as if he is doing them a good deed...

The idea is they don't want their land to be owned by anyone other than the native people... hence the small portions of land split among the indigenous and handed down through generations.

Greed is the primary issue here, and I totally understand their view on it. America has been destroying their island by commercializing a majority of it.
I'm gonna highjack this thread to ask if anyone has any recommendations for scifi books to read after DADOES and Neuromancer. I sped-read them both after seeing the new Blade Runner and absolutely loving it and both of those books, though PKD's writing is a little 'different'.
If any state that isn't just police and a military counts as a welfare state, then I don't think that's a useful definition of welfare state.
The issue with Windows is the telemetry. You simply cannot disable it. Yes, you can waste time ticking everything off, but with the next update, it's back again. No, thank you.

I want to use an operating system that respects my privacy. For me, this is OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or Fedora/Debian Linux.

I use Windows at work, too, and am horrified daily by how utterly difficult it is to use compared to Linux or FreeBSD.
Open offices are great, I agree, but there has to be management flexibility in understanding that employees don't have to be at their desk 40 hours. I like being at my desk around 11-2 or so to network, but I do all my best concentrated work remotely or later at night.

The nice thing about open plans is that they bring people together and create a more cooperative atmosphere, but don't force people to be there 8 hours.
Your mistake is thinking a login is a person and a person has an email.

I have run into all three of these scenarios:

1) A login for an administrator area on a server has a different login/password than the main area, and the browser always fills in the main login/password, even though I ask it not to. autocomplete=off would fix this.

2) A new user and edit user screens exist in web apps that are driven by users sign-ups. Sometimes these things need to be coordinated with other systems in a corporation and users do not always have their own email (I know this is a shock for you, but it is very common). autocomplete=off would fix this.

3) Using a remote admin tool to setup a datasource on a server, the username and password fields refer to database credentials, not a person. Yet Chrome keeps filling in my info. autocomplete=off would fix this.
Not really, IgNobel doesn't mean it has to be useless:

> The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. (https://www.improbable.com/ig/)
> The idea is they don't want their land to be owned by anyone other than the native people... hence the small portions of land split among the indigenous and handed down through generations

The legal way to do this is for those many owners to put their land in a private or public trust, either to be held indefinitely for public non-commercial use or held in the name of the trustees and their beneficiaries. Trying to do this informally is inefficient and silly.
I'd just note that, while I'm nowhere near an expert on the topic, a big part of the problem generally is a fundamental cultural disconnect. Native Hawaiians had a more communal ownership model that appears to strike mainland US culture as fundamentally illegitimate. It tends to manifest now when a billionaire is annoyed that there's no one seller to go to when they want their island. In the past, it was plantation owners.

This is of course nothing new; one argument for displacing mainland Native Americans was that they didn't grok the virtues of private ownership of land. (In reality, the rationalization never matters; in such things, might quite literally manufactures right.)
I'm not the person you are responding to, but I limit my cannabis use during the workweek for similar reasons. Most often my goals for the weekend are to relax and enjoy myself. Of course I'm not going to get high if I'm about to fill out paperwork to refinance my mortgage.
WHY do we have an economic system that allows an individual to own almost an entire Hawaiian island, by virtue of owning majority share of an advertising platform?? The employees certainly don’t get an island of their own, nor the owners or workers at any vendor data centers, or the power plant workers, or the crew that laid fiber or built the routers and wifi access points that get FB onto your screen? This giant funnel that plows billions of dollara into the pockets of a tiny number of people, because they have the piece of paper that says “I own this” and everyone down the line was just ok with it.

We should not allow billionaires.
A few things I can think of:
1. use a live iso
2. 2FA and strong passwords
3. if possible, don't use the internet
4. sandboxing
5. use as a single purpose devices. If one is compromised it won't affect the other
6. don't put your data on servers. The web is very hostile, not safe.
7. reduce screen time. The most memorable moments of our lives are not at a computer screen
Perhaps GP meant grapes that hashed been mashed and are in a tank, but not yet to the point of fermentation (be it by introduction of wild yeast or human intervention)? I.e. the "must".

A quick search shows it is derived from there being 2 types referenced in The Bible.
> Better for who though?

Settling land ownership disputes early and clearly is in the common interest.
I've heard the line that Google succeeds because of network effects so many times on HN that I feel like that's the only business concept commenters know about.