skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your opinion, but I think I must still disagree with it. I do think accessibility should be required, unless it's just not possible in some situation. And content should be, as you said, born accessible.

And not just accessibility for blind people, of course. And here I have to be honest and admit that I haven't lived up to this ideal myself. Several months ago, I gave a presentation to a local Meetup group for software developers on making software accessible to blind people. It's on YouTube. But I haven't yet had it captioned so a deaf person can benefit from it. Nobody's coming after me with a lawsuit in hand. But now that I've thought of this, I should get that video captioned.

Or maybe the presentation or lecture itself is an archaic way to share information. You can see it in the word "lecture". It comes from reading, as in reading out loud. But the people who attend today's lectures can read for themselves. Maybe the best way for content to be born accessible is just to stick to electronic text, that everyone can read in their own way and at their own pace.
Have you been paying attention to politics lately? Blame is alive and well, and I for one don’t want to put up against a wall by rioters because of the worst of us. The blame is real, whether it’s fair and accurately placed being another question.
The average HR person has a lot less knowledge than a para legal.

We had one at a meeting at British Telecom address a meeting of or group when asked about this years pay rise seem to think we where all the same blue collar grades as the "engineers" or telecoms linemen and that we where getting the CWU agreed increases.

I almost said so we are all getting the Band D increase then (4.6%)
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There’s a lot of work in artificial gene regulatory networks that suggest that the network topology not the implementation details is responsible for function. I think we learn more with a simplified model and then figure out why we are falling short of our expectations.
I see it more as way to use the GPU to do calculations in JavaScript similar to the speed C/C++ does for crypto-currencies. Yes you can create a Native Application (NaCl) but that is only going to work in Chrome/Chromium browsers and it's compatible variants. Electron and NodeWebkit/NWJS based projects are the most common. But NaCl still doesn't give you direct GPU access because of the sandboxing.
> Most developers don't just grab their tools based on what they want to play with at the moment. Actual software engineering today involves working with other people and their code. Code reviews, integrations, maintenance, enhancements, technology overhauls, system decommissioning, working with vendors.

And? What's that point you're making? If it's not your job to pick the tools then the point is moot because you'll work with whatever the technical leads decide, all you have to do is get to work.
I believe you are using the word 'regressive' incorrectly then. Of course, just forgiving all student loans will disproportionately help some who don't need it. But in the U.S. we've decided against universal, public higher education for those who are qualified and thus inequities will occur no matter what happens. It's disproportionately the case that the wealthy get into schools with the best connections. Those tend to be private schools. Such is what happens when a society starts down the path toward Ayn Randian utopia.
I suggest https://love2d.org/
Except for the fact that most people use these services in the browser even when there are native clients available? In nearly all of the listed cases the bottleneck is almost always the network and not the JS runtime.

Clearly the users are wrong, I guess? Perhaps you should explain to them why your delicate design sensibilities dictate that they should download native clients because you think HTTP has gone off spec.

Let me guess... you're a COBOL dev and think computers should have never developer GUIs.
Engineering and Design of Nuclear Weapons (2007)
Well, by the same standard, we could say that China was very poor when Mao took over and China had historically been subject to a lot of famines. Poking holes in your examples is just as easy.
So appeal the grievance to the next level which best practice says should be over seen by some one out of the chain of command (so to speak).
I think overall you and I agree quite a bit.

But as far as I can tell, nuklear is designed to be simple to program the implementation, and simple to program against, at the cost of some features.

https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear/issues/50

Dear imgui may have some hacks as you mention to achieve features such as using tab to switch the active component, (I've never looked at the source), but it's still simple as can be to use.

I'm not quite sure what you're advocating to do, but if you make a better graphical user interface framework than those other two projects, then I can't wait to see it.
Why would any good engineer join you as an employee if you literally have nothing besides a "brainstorm?" Do you have money to pay salary? Sounds like you're looking for a co-founder, not an employee.
You do realize that there is life without good credit report? You don’t need to borrow money from somebody else/bank to live good life. Most of the world lives without an obsession with credit reports and borrowing.
I prefer "just throwing cycles at the problem".
I worked in HR for a few years and had the general feeling that most people there really cared about employees.

Sadly these weren't the people who made the decisions.

So you have like 1-10% of people who make decisions for the company wealth and 90-99% who have to realize these. Often they aren't happy about this :(
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Not cross platform (WebGL only) but Regl: http://regl.party/ Is, In my opinion, the way GLSL GPU bindings should be done.
You can have both. Invest 10% of your salary each month in a retirement fund, eat out with the rest, net costs like rent. You'll retire a millionaire. You just need to size the rewards correctly.
Maybe things have changed, but not a couple years ago when I was working with Haskell. No IDE story at all, which is just a crying shame when you think about the kind of refactoring and powerful features you could support. The fact that vim or other text editors were typically what was used was just odd and a waste IMO...like having a rocket propulsion system strapped to a Huffy.
On the upside, if you do sue them they’re likely to lose. It will be brought before a jury of your peers. Your peers will see a large corporation bullying a single person and side with you. It probably won’t matter what ever pretext the company put as cause for termination. Just do yourself a favor and always document well and know how to pick a fight you’ll win, when necessary. Also spend fine finding the right representation.
There's a book called The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein that argues that Frankenstein was actually written by Mary Shelly's husband, Percy Shelly.[1]

A later book, Shelley Unbound: Discovering Frankenstein's True Creator makes the same case.[2]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Wrote-Frankenstein/dp/0943742...

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Shelley-Unbound-Discovering-Frankenst...
Successfully lending without creditor rights, collateral, or reputation [pdf]
“On the Rheology of Cats” (2017 Ig Nobelist) [pdf]
Genetic testing of embryos creates an ethical morass
Because they all have jobs. And if they are looking for a new one they can pick where they want to go because by virtue of being good engineers it's easy for them to find jobs since everyone is looking for good engineers.

And if they aren't looking, why not? My best guess (aside from being happy where they are) is that the engineer interview process is broken. People don't want to go sit in a room and grilled on CS 101 level questions for 4 or 5 hours. It's stressful, it's a poor predictor of performance, and it's most likely not what they will be working on. So they avoid it.

Just my opinion though.
The vast majority of people are part of a religion. What are you talking about? Religion has less ability to control people in some parts of the world, and people in some parts of the world are becoming less religious. Most of the world is still quite religiou though, often to their detriment.

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, huge swaths of the US, South and Central America, and so on are all very religious. So again, what are you really talking about?
Nope, but less typing of #include:s? Easier to send by mail? He seems to use defines to keeps function and variable definitions to one in the program it's included in.
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Something to remember with that book is that it's a highly selective perspective. Gerstner did do a lot to turn IBM around, possibly the best thing he did was to cut through tradition and corporate poltics with a chainsaw to make decisions. IBM in the early 90s was catastrophically stuck in between knowing the world was shifting and an inability to address the changing world.

Decisions you don't hear much about are things like selling off the IBM Global Network at the height of the dot com era, probbaly short term brilliance, but the sale included much of IBM's commercial web hosting, which left IBM blind to the shift to cloud a decade ago.

Or the decision to effectively axe OS/2 almost immediately after the Warp release, not so much because Windows 95 was better, but because the continued existence of OS/2 was inconvenient to the PC division.

Not saying it's a bad book, but like much history it tells a story from the perspective of the victor.
The easy solution is prison but its also crazy expensive both in terms of raw cost and societal cost (broken up families, addiction, developing gang ties in jail, recidivism, opportunity cost of taking a working age person out of the job pool).

IMO there is no politically easy solution or we would have already done it. Society has to change how it views criminals and invest resources in the things that increase the likelihood of crime. For example, rich psychopaths commit a lot less violent crime than poor psychopaths. Social services, addiction counseling, education, etc help. But its extremely hard to convince people more resources should go to helping criminals vs punishing them.
We had a presentation at work about AI and Deep Learning a while ago, and I asked what is the test approach or test plan for deep learning... the answer I got was a strange look.

If you have a self driving car crash and the cause is "the algorithm", that's not going to be satisfying to customers, insurance agencies, or regulators [I should be clear, the team giving the presentation does not work on SDCs].
I have a stand-alone drafty New England farmhouse. That’s about my nighttime thermostat temperature. I go up about 3-4 degrees C during the day if I’m there.
From your lips to God's ears.
> In life, you trust your family and your friends

Should we believe that family and friends are beyond the reach of the cardinal sins? I'm going to proclaim loudly: No! Family and friends are ideally placed to defraud us and sleep with our partner.

This isn't and indictment against trust, because, in practice, we trust family and friends anyway, and are rightly surprised and disappointed when they let us down.

We shouldn't be surprised or disappointed when HR, Legal, Management, etc, turn against us.
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I live in the neighborhood. It's a nightmare to walk throthere during the day, but fairly quiet in the morning until 10. Also a decent place to pick up dinner after 6:00, especially if you enter through one of the side doors.
Numerai becomes the most well-paid data science tournament on the planet
The Longest Miles – Confessions of a credit card travel-hacker
Nothing new to see here. Just a recycle of Gary's Marcus's recent criticism of deep learning.
> Feudalism with energy weapons makes no sense – a feudal society could not produce energy weapons, and energy weapons would undermine feudal social relations.

I do not follow at all. It is easy to imagine a powerful figure to maintain feudal order with help of energy weapons.
Yeah, I would love to have a sonos-like thing I can use to listen to spotify, etc... from my phone.

But I can't find any open source solutions, hooking into the chrome cast protocol seems impossible as all receivers must be signed by Google.
I don't disagree, but will just add that we seem to be viewing HR focusing on the various harassment/lawsuit/firing processes. I feel like HR has more value than just shielding a company from some hypothetical lawsuit; the fact that so many companies have them must mean that they are revenue positive on average.

What would happen if your company did not have a HR dept?

- who would greet and onboard new employees?

- who would sign them up for health care?

- who would pay them and send out tax forms?

Even if there may be other roles that take care of the above I'm sure a lot more stuff I'm not thinking of right now would get a lot more annoying without a HR dept.
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You can add dense pack cellulose insulation pretty easily to an uninsulated house. Home depot rents the machines to do it. Use a hole saw at the top of the drywall, shove in the blower tube and fill the cavity up with low cost cellulose.
I would gladly pay .10 cents for each article that I read until I reach 3 dollars a month which is what they currently offer but I think that they like the repeatable revenue. I am guessing that they are betting that people will buy the economist and then just have it keep re-subscribing.
Depends on the client I would imagine. This is what cURL sends by default:

> Host: google.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
(While I work on Gmail, this is a curiosity)

What issues do you have with spam? Personally, I get maybe 1 false-positive spam email per year with Gmail, and maybe a few false-negatives (which are less of an issue anyway), for an accuracy rate in the 3-4 9s range. So I'm intrigued as to what you're doing or where you encounter the inability for gmail to distinguish between real communication and spam.
I can trust my boss to a reasonable degree as it is a two way relationship. I trust my peers as it is a more even two way relationship. There is mutual respect for skills and knowledge in both those cases. The world would be pretty negative if you could not trust anyone. You are part of a team who work together to produce something greater than you alone can achieve. The issue here is HR is not part of the team.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15246348
People always bring morality into these discussions which then makes discussion difficult, since it becomes about how we all feel about it.

Rather than thinking about how much it's 'right' or 'wrong' to forgive debt, let's try to keep focus on the effect it would have on society. Positive? Negative? And, if it truly is deeply immoral to forgive debt, what effect would this have on society? Would the problems introduced thereby outweigh the benefits?
How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
> we could say that China was very poor when Mao took over and China had historically been subject to a lot of famines

During China's early development time frame (1980s & 1990s) it had the world's largest population base and the world's largest trading partners in the US and Japan (and world's #1 and #2 economies), to leverage for economic expansion. Your example is supportive of my premise: massive foreign investment is a prerequisite. China didn't develop in isolation, they developed solely due to hundreds of billions of dollars that the US invested. Further, China had to abandon its rigid command & control economic policies, and dramatically liberalize away from Mao's former Communist system.

Which neighboring nation is going to randomly choose to invade modern China (post 1970s) and destroy it, as in the case of Russia & Georgia? Pretending investors aren't extremely concerned about that, is silly.

> Poking holes in your examples is just as easy.

Apparently not, you have yet managed to. Saying something is easy, while then not actually doing it (only saying it is), debases the confidence of your entire argument.
This article is from 2013... that's why it's missing Ethereum et al.
To be fair they had to make so many because of the incredibly poor quality control and replacement units. I liked my razr a lot.. When I got one that actually worked
Missing babies: Israel's Yemenite children affair
One problem that all cultures face is that of pecking order. Respecting the pecking order as animals gave us a lesser chance of death by violence within the species. But we've inherited the desire to rise up the status hierarchy and one of the commonest means of doing so is by trying to emulate the most successful. Unfortunately a high proportion of the most successful people appear to be sociopaths who seem to feed off of finding new ways to subtly weaken the culture as a whole.
I hate to sound like a shill, but this sounds similar to an area Encrypgen (DNA) is trying to reach. (https://encrypgen.com/)
I'm talking about modern western society. Sorry I don't have scientific references, and this is all anecdata/personal observation but I don't know a single person in my large US city that is religious or attends church, and yet I know many that spend a lot of time on social networks and yet are lonely. Mostly combination of family/friends/work.
I think the problem there is that if you're only looking at a few images then generating the 16M lookup table takes more time than using the K-D tree itself.

Some kind of memoisation scheme might work though.
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Because we still have no good micro payment system. So payments are slow (enter creditcard numbers, paypal credentials) and expensive (whatever you use, transactions have a USD 0.30 miniumum plus a percentage...).
I made a pivot table creator in XSLT, it was pretty awesome and amazingly fast compared to how slow JavaScript was back in 2007.

Still, I know what you mean. Blizzard had a pretty cool WOW character editor in XSLT.

If you used only certain stuff and never had to debug someone else's XSLT it was pretty awesome.
> Does my insurance agent, who operates his own small business, need machine learning?

I have a friend who has his own navy. It's a small navy. He does like boats.

Once he had a men's yacht trip. There I met a guy and his son who ran an insurance agency.

Well, AI or not, one of the keys to his insurance business success was his ability to separate good customers from risky ones. Basically he knew nearly everyone in town, or at least every one of his customers, down to what they ate for breakfast or some such. That knowledge helped him get a good loss ratio and made good bucks for his business.

So, maybe what he did was not AI but real I!!

I'm sure that if someone had an AI tool that would help his loss ratio, then he'd us it!

For a second example, my father in law was on the local bank board. So, a guy in the community applied for a home loan. Well, at that bank, the loan application went to the BoD of the bank -- no joke.

Then at the BoD meeting, everything about the applicant got exposed and discussed right down to the details of his lifestyle. So, again, if some AI application could help that bank make better loan decisions, then likely they'd use it.

Lesson: That local insurance agent and that local bank both were really big on gathering, analyzing, and using all the data they could get. If AI could help, then they'd use it.
I spoke to guy once who was researching what makes a high functioning team for some large (unarmed) company. His insight over the various studies he’d looked at was as follows.

1. High functioning teams are in the order of 5–10 people
2. Everyone in the team is respected for what they bring to the group regardless of experience.

If you’ve 20 years experience you’re valued for your knowledge of pitfalls etc. If you’ve 2 years you might be valued for your enthusiasm. Or if your a fresh graduate you could be valued on your ability to question conventions that others do not.

My question is: given this, how would an interview ever hope to sift out a potential candidate. Especially when the qualities of the final aren’t (could never?) be properly specified relative to the team they were due to go into.
> These days you can't even do a Youtube search without an account

Hyperbole or...?

https://youtube.com/results?q=never%20gonna%20give%20you%20u...

seems to work fine without an account.
a) after the document is loaded such use triggers the "links to other documents" warning and linked content is updated only after confirmation

b) the URL is shown under menu Edit -> Links...
How do you reconcile that position with a belief that we should forgive student debt? Do you have an estimate as to how many of those dollars will have gone into the pockets of elite schools?
True, but China is also at the very top of it's game, and it's success came at a rather extreme cost. Mind-boggling debt, smog in all the major cities up to LETHAL levels at times (and something like 80% of the time above cancer-in-10-years levels), no army to speak of, legendary levels of corruption (and centuries of history of corruption).

And to top it all off, China's labor market is currently the highest it'll be for the next century or so. It's all downhill from here. China's economic dominance through cheap labor is under severe threat, and they're losing. That loss is causing economic unreast (tens of millions of job losses) in the China.

China also legendary when it comes to outright lying about their accomplishments. From scientific advancements in Fusion energy to amounts of iron ore in ports, China has been caught lying so often that economists seriously think 80%-90% of government statistics are outright falsified, with often strong arguments about the remaining 10%. Unfortunately, their leadership is equally famous for believing the lies, right up to the point that they marched a fleet of ships under British cannons, with substandard hulls and without ammunition. You see, the general of that fleet had assured them the ammunition was there, several of his officers had written the central government that he was lying. Whichever was the truth, the fleet was devastated, the general survived and wasn't even fired. Thousands of soldiers and something like 40% of the total Chinese navy was lost. Legendary.

There are so many things that could go incredibly wrong here. Economists aren't kidding when they say China might start WW3. They might have to.