skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So did the system work, and how did it work?

Basically you are saying you were required to be really diligent about the playbooks and put effort in to get them right.

Did people really put that effort in? Was it worth it? If so, what elments of the culture/organisation/process made people do the right thing when it is so much easier for busy people to get sloppy?
I’d give it a shot. The RM jeans have virtually the same look and feel as regular denim; you barely know they’re stretchy fabric until you feel it give way as you bend. Otherwise, they’re exactly like regular jeans.
Ask HN: What wiki does your team use?
I'm currently researching wiki's to migrate our documentation over to. We currently have everything stored in trello cards but it's becoming too difficult to manage it all.

I've used Confluence at past companies and really like it actually but after the first 10 users it can get pretty expensive for a wiki.

Are there any alternatives to confluence that your team uses that you've been happy with?

Thanks!
yes, depending on demand. Get your friends / coworkers to message us if they need it too
Crypto will be a leading force in NYC's tech growth over the next 5-10 years.
Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning. Video Explanation
Sure, if all players are rational.

Parents feeding their kids aren't.
Bazel 0.11
A github repo
I've been wearing Craghoppers trousers -- mostly zip-offs, but the non-zip are the same fit -- for several years. Brilliant for me, when even with 'loose' fit jeans I normally can't fit my thighs into anything even vaguely resembling my waist size.

UK link, I'm afraid: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00H99Z992/
Semi-off topic - as someone who does a lot of data analysis with sql but has never taken a statistics course - can anyone recommend any resources about where to learn about how to calculate / apply p-value, r-square etc?
I've also been at three different startups in the Bay Area (two in SF) and have never had any drug use going on around me or personally at work. Just the daily coffee/tea and the occasional beer during the end of the day.

NO one I know uses Adderall to get through the day although I know a few that have taken it during finals week and or studying for job interviews, and a decent number (maybe like 10-15% of my friend group) had a year or so with frequent marijuana use but stopped for various reasons.
FaceID doesn't "take images of your face and environment" though. It uses a dot projection (the pattern is unique to each phone) to produce a 3D approximation of your face's structure, and collapses this into some sort of mathematical representation of your face. This information is stored in a separate chip on the phone which the OS does not have access to (and it never leaves your phone; Apple isn't using your face for processing in the cloud or anything). By their statistics, FaceID is an order of magnitude less likely to result in false positives than TouchID.

And aside from this, for people who are truly concerned about security, Apple recommends not using either FaceID or TouchID anyway (as both can be compelled by court order in the US).
If you are in the US, contact the National institute for mental health. You might be able to contact your local hospital as well - that's where I ran into the social care. My ex had a person visit him for a while after we split up and I had a friend that was employed by a different hospital in the area. If anything, they might tell you where to go to get involved, depending on how much time and money you have to spare. If you are high on the time and/or money and are willing to use some of it for good use, you might be able to organize a volunteer program that works with different agencies. Even if it is just a program that makes wellness visits with or without small care packages would help some folks greatly, if they are up to that sort of thing.

What is available for drug users, I'm not sure. It seems one of the major problems in the states is that substance abuse help is difficult. Some charities help folks by donating things like hygiene items and things like that. As you said, some folks nearly forget how to take care of themselves, having fallen out of the habit for such a long time. The same can happen with some mentally ill folks.

Most importantly, though, these programs need funding. Some of these things nearly need laws to happen (like police training). Having worker protection laws that allow folks to take care of themselves would help. One of the better ways to do this is by contacting your state and local government.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I feel like SF and NY have the same thing going on. NY has the Boroughs, SF has distinct neighborhoods that have their own feel. That said, I could travel through all of Downtown, Midtown, and Buckhead in a given day (in fact, have bicycled through all of them in the span of a couple hours). Eating, dining, or visiting friends in any of these doesn't feel any more distant than a trip on one of the other Metros. Frankly, I don't want or think Atlanta should have "one identitiy". It's a melting pot, and I hope it stays that way.
Choosing a Small Company with a Big Mission for Your First Tech Job
Is this observational, a study, or do you get to do "research" with the participants?
Hopefully someone close to neural networks can describe how useful this primitive is as a node in neural networks. If it is useful then, is this a better primitive than simply doing it in "software" using a GPU, for example?
Have you fully consider the Designer's side of this? I feel that to be successful and bridge the gaps between those two mental models you also need to onboard the designers so they can help with generating the right type of mockup (or at least the kind that will help a developer using Pagedraw get the closest to a 1 to 1 code export).

The reason why I ask is that I tried importing several semi-complex but not uncommon (structure wise) files and I got an error saying that I should make sure that the file is correctly formed.

That right away is bad UX. If the designers need to reformat or change the behavior of their files, then they need to be part of the user journey. Right now there's nothing of that as far as I can tell.
So, you have to use his platform to vote do you have to pay? would it get funded?
The Amazing Adventures of Klavier and Clay by Michael Chabon touches on this idea. One of my favorite contemporary novels and a really fun read.
Multi Blockchain address validator. API included
There are likely amortized fixed costs per user + as other people have stated opportunity costs that make your 2-3 dollars have negative value to the company vs. you as a free user.
> You’re saying that because catastrophes happen there’s no point in saving?

No, nothing in what I wrote says that. Literally nothing I wrote should lead to that conclusion. (Good thing you brought up straw man though!)

The point is that saving doesn't guarantee insulation from poverty, and that in America medical costs are historically a leading reason why that is the case. This is in the context of a discussion around how we treat poor and homeless people.

So if you wanted to take one bullet point from what I wrote, you could do worse than "it's not morally okay to look down on poor people in the US because if you're not relatively lucky, that could also be you" or something similar.

Hope that helps!
The original caption,

> A view of Ewen Breaker of the Pa. [Pennsylvania] Coal Co. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recesses of the boy's lungs. (See labels 1927 to 1930 for names of some of these.) A kind of slave driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.

via https://www.loc.gov/item/ncl2004002610/PP/
A lot of people don’t eat fresh water fish and cat fish. Shrimp is king followed by Tuna (likely canned) historically. Salmon is gaining popularity but catfish and fish nuggets are down.[1] I like this source because it is from Mississippi where they like catfish.

What you said was probably true in the 90s. I’d expect farmed Salmon and raw tuna to fall in the next decade as people are more aware of sustainable fishing practices.

[1]http://www.agecon.msstate.edu/whatwedo/budgets/docs/catfish2...
Safari doesn't support fancy pants features like telling which mouse button is held down (event.buttons on MouseMove, works everywhere else since IE9), which makes it a total pain in the behind for any kind of drawing app.

If I could drop support for it completely I would open up a bottle of champagne. It truly is the new IE of the web.
Not to mention Bezos purchased washingtonpost, powell ( steve jobs wife ) bought the atlantic and soong ( a bio/tech doctor ) bought the LA Times.

Tech is not only investing heavily in politics/lobbying, it's also buying up news.
We need design that is faster and design that is slower
> and believe this is one reason the iPhone X is selling poorly

Nah, the average apple buyer does not care about that at all.
This has to be the case. As a civil engineer married to a winemaker, we even find it tough to afford housing in the North Bay. Many of the contractors we see in town are from mendocino, lake county, or further. Very few apart from the owners live in the county.
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I'm 34 years old, I've programmed professionally for 12 years, and I discovered adderall 4 years ago.

The timing of this couldn't have been more perfect as that's also right when I landed a role as the sole/lead developer for a profitable internet SaaS company. A lot of work to be done and nothing but a wide open greenfield to start tearing through.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the effects that adderall has on my attention span and ability to churn through code is close to 2 to 3 times what my ability is without it. When I'm on adderall and focused on coding, I often find that I can see several steps ahead of where I am now and I cannot physically code fast enough to keep up with my mind. It feels like I can hold more variables in my head at once.

Sometimes, when I'm sober, I look at code that I programmed on adderall and find that my approach to solutions can be designed in completely different ways than I would have normally.

I never had a very reliable source of adderall, which meant that there were breaks in my use. This also kept my tolerance relatively low so I never had to take more than 5-10mg per day to feel the full effect. I noticed during the sober weeks in between that there is always a significant lull in motivation that first week before I feel entirely like myself again.

My story with adderall doesn't end well, though. Adderall can affect other areas of your life (like impulse control) and cause you to do things that aren't necessarily characteristic of your personality (especially when mixed with alcohol).

I'd be happy to share more if you'd like. This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons, and I setup a throwaway email address because this is an issue I've thought long and hard about. If you're interested, feel free to reach out (contact info on my profile). I'll check the email for one week.

In summary: the short term benefits of adderall are not worth the longterm inconsistency or effects on other areas of my life such as mood, sleep, and anxiety. At least not for me.
You can't help poor people and make money. Or at least that's very hard.

If a family needs a few bucks to make things go round we should help. But trying to make money helping is likely to be counter productive.

Yes, you need the state to step in. And no when you phrase it as people exploiting the system, it won't help either ;)
Your argument doesn't make sense to me. If the chemical is harder to synthesize, then the receptors could be more sensitive, or bind longer. Why would our bodies evolve to use a messenger molecule that was so prohibitively expensive to make that we couldn't make enough of it?

These drugs are just changing the balances of existing pathways in our brains. They aren't creating new pathways. Either they are causing a substance that your body naturally limits to exist in higher quantities or lower quantities, keeping a messenger molecule from being removed as fast as it would be normally, or removed faster than normal.

So I agree with the parent, it is likely we can choose the tradeoffs, maybe needing to avoid predators and scavenge for food is not our priority anymore and we can turn off some of that so we can think more deeply. But chemically I doubt we can improve ourselves without any drawbacks.

But yes, technology in general, physical things, can have a more pure benefit, and we are already reaping the rewards of those benefits. A new macbook pro is likely to make me more productive while not interfering with my sleep :)
I guess you need to talk to Norvig or whoever designed their data-driven process and the definition of good hire they wanted to achieve. It used to be that when you joined Google you had no clue what your project will be before your first day, so I guess they wanted to maximize success rate on blind assignments to teams/ideas. For that certain abstract skills are more important than your past accomplishments you might not be able to reproduce in different environment with different rules. It's their money after all, they are desirable, they can select for whatever they wish.
An updated SE is about due -- if you put any credence in macrumors' buying guide anyway.

They increased storage a year ago, when I bought one, and a price decrease late last year, so the timeline seems reasonable.
> achieve something in the direction of the scientific Python stack (i.e. Jupyter, TensorFlow and the like).

Seems to be quite far away. IIRC, there are a lot of immature, scattered math libs for JS.

Most of the ML libs I've seen are proof-of-concept, like brain.js or synapse. Those libs seem to implement basic perceptrons and other textbook examples, but not much else.
as somebody diagnosed with adhd at older age and that is taking ritalin (legally) i would say it helps a lot.
but im taking less then prescribed because i dont want to be dependent on it. i always wondered it the effect is stronger for somebody without adhd.
This was tough for us, because we're big believers in the standards-based web. We 100% promise that all the code we generate works across all browsers.

Unfortunately, while most of the editor works in all browsers, getting full support is really hard. We're doing a lot of things that get pretty deep in the browser, so we wanted to lock things down as much as possible.

We almost were electron-only to ensure consistency, and can still give you the electron app today. We felt it was better to launch with Chrome + Electron than just Electron for an optional installation-free experience, which is why we only support Chrome.

I'm personally really sorry as an engineer that we don't support Firefox, Safari, and other browsers yet. It's on our roadmap :)
Makes sense. They don't want to be a free display for Amazon.
A lot more freshwater than ocean fish at Midwestern fish fries though.
Node.js assert-is
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State Machine
>I don't think you're abusing HN on purpose

Thanks for saying this. I skimmed my past 6 months of comments and I don't share your view that I'm "using HN primarily for ideological battle". I don't believe I've previously discussed gender issues, either. If anything it looks like I've had a pro-Apple ideology, which hasn't been flagged.

I make a point to be respectful while commenting, but I don't keep an internal quota for the subjects I comment on. I don't want to add noise to a topic I can't contribute to just to drown out my other comments. The moderation is a bit stifling and doesn't feel ideologically neutral. I know moderation is nebulous so I wanted to offer some feedback, regardless of what happens.
Wouldn’t the memtransistor be faster though? Even if you use CUDA, you still have to compile down to assembly and probably use some kernel level module to communicate with the GPU.
Yep, exactly. The lack of cognitive dissonance by the tech and finance press that covers Apple astounds me.
I'm a professional developer. Some weekdays I use cannabis after work to relax.
In my experience using THC and trying to code doesn't work, I just can't get focus as when sober.
Everything you claim about history is also subject to half truths as well.
Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit adds support for Linux and Mac
> Who uses opiates who isn't addicted to them?
Regularly? likely no one but there are a ton of poeple who use recreationally that aren't addicted.
Except not on Sundays before 12:30.
A Technical Deep Dive: Securing the Automation of ACME DNS Challenge Validation
Hehe, similarly, you'll also hear poor Americans complain about taxes.. sure they have a high tax burned relative to rich Americans, when compared to others developed countries.

But complaining about taxes doesn't reduce poverty.
This is a non sequitur. Fish farms are not receiving the subsidies GP decries. Still, they remain profitable enterprises. Thus they are much better uses of scarce resources than wild fisheries that lose money despite subsidies. Thus "the explosion".
Dropbox is completely unresponsive to individual users. I want more space beyond the 1 TB for their personal plan. You would think they would want to take my money. How hard is it to offer more space? They offer more space to their business users.

My only choice is to get a business plan that costs x4.5 as much and provides me with 3 users accounts that I don't need. They're going to force me to switch to a competing provider like GDrive or SpiderOak
How to Deal with Differences in Opinion
> Sorry, our editor is optimized for Chrome

Internet Explorer all over again. ‍️
[AI] New iPhone App Lets You Search Text in Screenshots
This is very cool and a very tricky problem to solve. Will you support webcomponents one day? Also, please hire a designer :)
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We were already paying colo providers by the MW and had the people to build out the space. It's just that the upfront capex required for a colo provider to build capacity was getting to a point where that meant a significant bet on their part on our continued growth. Thus we started having to look at one options, one of which is to contract them to build bespoke infra.

Regarding cloud being much higher cost: indeed. Anecdotal evidence; I know of a big reference customer who said they would consider the move to cloud a success if total cost didn't go up more than 2x. A few years in, that hadn't happened yet...
Adderall, cocaine, caffeine, any number of research stimulants.

disclaimer, I have a long history of drug and alcohol use pre-serious coding, so it wasn’t coding that got me started but it got me off everything but stimulants.

I was going for school for something other than computer science and saw it wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Thusly I turned to adderall and research chemicals to increase my focus and productivity learning to code. I worked all day and night, 7 days a week.

For coding, it worked wonderfully. I was able to learn a tremendous amount in a short time and it opened up many opportunities. However it wreaked havoc on my personal relationships. I didn’t have any friends, I just worked. I became a jerk to my then girlfriend.

My work outside of work and heavy use of stimulants came to a holt when we broke up which led to excessive drug use of all sorts of things from disassocatives to opiates. Eventually I started microdosing LSD and got over it, got back to work.

After college it was hard to find adderall and my research stims of choice weren’t available so I started using cocaine which often tested positive for amphetamines.

I wasn’t using for my day job, I was using on the weekends to have 24 hour coding marathons for side projects + prepping for a new job. Using cocaine was cool for awhile but it led to chronic sinus problems and after a couple months it became more about using all weekend than getting work done. I quit using when I noticed strong urges when I got home on, say, a Tuesday night.

Now I have a prescription for adderall and I take it responsibly. It helps me focus at work and usually take a day off on the weekend or at the least, take a half dose. A couple of weeks ago I didn’t take it at work because I was planning on taking it after to work on side project.

Interestingly enough, I had a hellish day wherein I didn’t get much done and just watched the clock until the end of the day. I was very depressed that night. I felt so bad I didn’t wind up taking it. Instead I laid around and watched TV.

I don’t have any plan to get off of adderall but I find the random drug testing pesky because I like to smoke marijuana to unwind but if I get caught, I get discharged.
Arguably the only "killer" feature Python has is the ecosystem. There are efforts to build out a similar ecosystem for JS. For example https://github.com/jacobbogers/libRmath.js is a typescript port of R's core math library https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/nmath/
This is a country that worships celebrities. Kardashian, Trump, Donald Grover, etc. What one do about it...

There are a few good non celebrities we should be listening to. Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson's, etc. Highly educated, high signal to noise, experts in their fields and not fking celebrities (at least not originally).

I have nothing to gain by listening to a performers opinion about anything outside of what they perform in. I don't think these are smart people.
Good writeup! For a fictionalization (well informed by the same resources cited by this article) of Newton's oddness, Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books are an excellent pseudo-historical romp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
This is fabulous! Got from cheese to postmodernism in two hops [1]. Really excellent work, and thanks for making it open source!

[1] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Cheese&target=...
That's a good point. I could probably quibble with the practical aspects of the approach (e.g. job loss resulting from medical catastrophe), but you're right that you could probably preserve some of your retirement assets.

The flip side is this is a contributing factor in everyone's healthcare costs being so high.
Science often works with data set sizes that make the standard ML approach unworkable (e.g. 12 measurements which took months and thousands of dollars to make)
They don't provide guidance on product mix, but they do provide guidance on expected revenue and margin. For Q1 2018 they projected between $84-$87 billion and came in at $88.3 billion.

Apple has been historically accurate in nailing their projections, yet when analysts calculate the expected product mix, they either forget the mix and assume Apple is going to sell $80 billion in only iPhones, or they include the mix, which must mean they expect Apple to sell $120 billion worth of stuff.
Or he is just depressive and his outlook says more about that than his station in life.
> For a commercial system, the compiler has to be completely reliable—whatever the source code, it should produce correct, high performance binaries.

Well, that's certainly the ideal case. I can only wonder what historic defect rates have been for commercial compilers.
Our use case was actually very mixed. Certainly throw in somewhere around 100PB of storage if you want to do a semi accurate napkin math.