skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's got an unpopular opinion (and calling out the ADA specifically is probably the worst of the examples that can be chosen) but its worth a thought. When the choice is forced to be "perfect, or none at all", a possible outcome is none at all.

On the balance, I find most of these rules to be acceptable most of the time, but it should always be considered that it can be taken too far.
https://github.com/jamiebuilds/react-loadable
You don't pay me to solve your problems at my desk from 9-5. You pay me to do it in the shower, on a walk, when doing my dishes, etc. And I'm surely not going to be time tracking those things.
Amid dark clouds over U.S. farms, some see opportunity to prosper
Related: Lots of amateur radio operators do this as well: https://aprs.fi/
Hi Don! Are you hiring engineers in NYC by chance for this new opportunity? :)
> I've mused before that dynamic languages will always be a ~generation ahead of static language

Did you mean "behind"?

The trend is pretty clear: dynamically typed languages are disappearing and all the popular modern languages are statically typed with type inference.

Most dynamically typed languages are busy adding static safety through gradual or opt-in typing, but you don't see the other way around.

Javascript will probably be the last major dynamically typed language we ever had to use.
But these are eco-friendly bitcoins. In china they burn coal for this. So I think this is definitely a good thing.
Good find. This should be linked in the readme
I completely wrote Lenovo off after the malware fiasco. Did they quit that nonsense?
IBM is one of the few remaining employers who will pay for your outrageous graduate School tuition, provided you work for them another five years following your completion.
> Removed the ffserver program

Lots of good times with ffserver although thankfully https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module seems to meet the same use cases and exec ffmpeg under the hood.
The power of corporations is at this point like a smaller government with some companies wielding more power than smaller nation states. We are currently in an upswing of corporations extracting more and more money out of people and trying to control them more and more. What are people supposed to do? Wait for companies to just change out of the goodness of their hearts? You cant even talk with your wallet anymore when many practices that are anti consumer, such as tracking every bit of data about you and selling it to anyone, are industry wide practices, couple with the fact that the larger corporations are inching closer and closer to the same level of monopoly power as the robber barons 100+ years ago.

Government overreach is bad, and the government is frequently a bad actor itself, but at least if they are trying to cancel out corporations power we end up with both groups hobbling themselves a bit
The logo looks great on an actual NeXTstation, cube, or MegaPixel, since those are entirely black. The logo pops right out. It really does look good IMHO.
You said the real estate agent handles it where you are from- are real estate agents government officials where you are? You don't have to have a title company, you could do it yourself, but a typical real estate transaction involves large amounts of money and multiple parties, so most people want someone else to handle it all. If you are borrowing money, you lender will probably insist on it.
This sounds right, but for me the lucid problem-solving window is too short to be useful. Then I get sleepy and irritated.
How much specifically?
What company do you work for so I can point out 20 different tech companies with significantly better benefits?
I like your way of looking at it.
> often talks about the current restlessness of the masses in his political philosophy of the paradigm of Progressive Politics courses

Does this ever get abbreviated to PPPPP?
That's fair. I only see it on websites and books.
>So Rob has it right and Google is hiring really mediocre people.

All big corporations start hiring mediocre people sooner or later. Nothing wrong with that. It's just the way it is.
That is true for any discovery after the stone hand ax.

A "true" discovery that can be ascribed to one person 100% instead of to a network of people working jointly in space and time (the dead are involved too!) needs that person to work without using knowledge as well as any tools created by others (in space as well as in time).

Humanity is more like a brain - the secret of our success is in the connections between us (again, in space as well as in time).

My own conclusion, but I found this in support:
https://youtu.be/jaoQh6BoH3c ("Henrich is professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University.")

I also recommend this - and please ignore which concrete product was more or less randomly chosen, it does no matter: "What Coke Contains" - https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/what-coke-contains-221d4499...

> The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. ... Invention and creation is something we are all in together. Modern tool chains are so long and complex that they bind us into one people and one planet. They are not only chains of tools, they are also chains of minds: local and foreign, ancient and modern, living and dead — the result of disparate invention and intelligence distributed over time and space.

----

Same in business. Each time you hear about an extremely well-paid executive or a "self-made(!!?) billionaire" remind yourself that those people's main "accomplishment" is to live today. How much of the network effects (of the human network in space and in time(!)) does one person "deserve"?

I would tell those "self-made" people complaining about taxation that if they go into the deep forest and stop using the human network - which is everybody else (let's even give them access to the dead people's achievements in the form of vast knowledge) - they can keep 100% of the grass and mud huts they manage to create.

Humanities wealth and more important its ability to create more of it is almost all network effects. If all the people alive would work a) in isolation and b) without anything they got from previous generations, what would we accomplish?

Einstein was a genius, so was Newton. What would they have accomplished a) without the exchange with their peers (network in space), b) without building on prior knowledge (network in time)?

So, who deserves that Nobel Prize? That billion dollar empire?

I don't mind any of those existing - I'm not an "evil communist". I do mind when people get a bit too excited about "deserving" and "stealing from me" (taxes). Relax and remember that you are one lucky bastard, able to benefit from network effects that you did next to nothing to help create (because most of it was and is created by everybody else).

My favorite 5s of Clint Eastwood where he summarizes it for me: https://youtu.be/OuvEJ-U1UDc
you can email me almonroth at flickr.com and I will try to help you.
He spoke on behalf of team of doctors he represents.

Just concede the point. It is a known fact that the regime killed people for much less and Neruda had already provoked them enough by then.
> Stochastic processes and control theory, as in Çinlar or Bertsekas, will definitely contribute towards strong AI, if we ever achieve that.

My view is that for high end applications of computing now, drawing from, building on, Çinlar or Bertsekas is about the best we can do and, due to current computing and the Internet, suddenly terrific.

But my view of something real in AI, say, as good as a kitty cat, ..., human will much more directly use very different approaches; that if in the basic core programming there is some math in there, then it will be darned simple.

So, my current view is that the good approaches to such AI will make direct use of little or no pure or applied math. Instead, my guess is that animal ... human intelligence is just some dared clever programming, rediscovered and re-refined so far many times here on earth. From the many times, my guess is that there is basically one quite simple way to do it.

My guess is that the sensory inputs, first, feed data that becomes in the brain essentially nouns: Floor, rock, water, etc. Early on the data on the nouns is quite crude, but later with more experience gets refined. E.g., a kitty cat quickly learns that floors are solid to stand and run on, and some are shaky and might result in a fall. Then with more input and experience, some
verbs are combined with some of the nouns. The strength of the combining is mostly just from experience; yes, we could write out some simple strength updating algebra. But to be cautious, the learning is deliberately slow: E.g., not everything round on the floor is good to eat.

There is a continual process to simplify this data, i.e., a form of data compression, into causality, e.g., learn about gravity. The learning is good enough to identify the concept of gravity as the cause that makes things fall and to reject irrelevant data like just what are falling from, a table, a window seat, the top of a BBQ pit, a tree limb, the second floor landing, etc. Also reject night, day, hot, cold, and other irrelevant variables -- that's smarter than current multi-variate curve fitting that has a tough time appraising what variables are likely irrelevant.

If I were going to program AI, that would be the framework I would use. I regard the learning as close to a bootstrap operation -- the first learning is very simple and crude but permits gathering more data, refining that learning, and doing more learning. To get some guesses on the details, watch various baby animals and humans as they learn.

I see no real role for math or anything I've heard of in current ML/AI, and I don't think it's much like rules in expert systems. And my guess is that the amount of memory needed is shockingly small and the basic processing, surprisingly simple.
I like this! I'd love it if Github rendered Mermaid diagrams in their Markdown.
It looks like you can force strict equality everywhere with the flag '-language:strictEquality'. See the dotty documentation for more details: http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/multiversal-equality.htm...

EDIT just realized you are m50d on reddit and probably saw the exact same comment I got that from.
I absolutely love the Linux philosophy. Piping outputs means programs are functions. So I can combine programs to get what I want. The only gripe I have is that bash is a pretty hard language to read and write.
I'll be frank—I think these examples reflect more poorly on you and Captain Ahab than on your apparent nemesis.

(I am in no way affiliated with your nemesis, AMP, or Google)
For sure. Flickr wasn't the only company Yahoo mismanaged.
This isn't backscatter. More like active modulated reflection.
At Google I was explicitly told not to use $ value in my perf review/promo form by multiple managers. There and at other companies i worked for i found that management cares more about revenue (more engagement, new features, releases, etc) than costs (code quality, performance, etc).
This might be a dumb question (from someone used to using blocking JBDC) but why is async RPC important in this case? Just trying to understand. And can gRPC not provide good async RPC?
I've been through similar, though less extreme journeys. My finding is that it's not about likability. Some people fly under the radar doing practically nothing at these same companies. The key thing is making people uncomfortable. This is what is not tolerated. If you re-read the article with that in mind everything makes sense. It doesn't matter if you're ultimately correct if you made everyone else uncomfortable beforehand.

As others have said here, the important thing is to see how things run and introduce changes at a comfortable rate. After a number of successes, the team will be eager to try more. I too can be confrontational in the face of an obviously better solution and have noticed that there's a break-in period. Knowing this, I do still try to push the envelope a bit. If the company is not fast paced, there might not be much left to learn after a couple years. It also always feels good to leave the system in a much better state than when you found it.
The process was known as deloping ("throwing away"),[0] and normally involved firing a round into the ground. Hamilton's second claimed he deliberately fired into the air, while Burr's second claimed Hamilton fired at Burr and missed.[1] There's really no clear answer, unfortunately, and Hamilton's use of pistols with hair triggers could have played a role as well. Hamilton did write in a statement prior to the duel that he'd delope if possible:

> ... I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire—and thus giving a double opportunity to Col Burr to pause and to reflect.[2]

Firing into the air rather than the ground would involve moving your pistol in a manner that would clearly appear as if you intending to fire on your opponent. On the other hand, his death at Burr's hands certainly gave Hamilton the "brilliant exit" he'd admired for years.[2] Plus, if Hamilton wanted to ensure Burr's destruction after his death, his statement couldn't have been better written. Society would have shunned Burr regardless, but the statement all but guaranteed it would view him with the deepest of contempt.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloping

1. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/burr-slays-hamil...

1. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-00...

2. http://www.historynet.com/hamilton-burr-duel.htm
Experience maybe. Longest IBMer I know did a ~10year stint across the world (IBM run many banks' IT, in part or in whole), it was cushy job apparently - 4x than he makes today doing a similar role, people wanted to hold on to those jobs as long as possible, he would sure be envious of someone holding it down for 30 years, juicy $s.

I spoke an even older IBMer recently too, he talked of days of 1st class flights, 3 figure relocation packages, the parties etc.. again those days didn't last for decades, but if he did I'd guess he'd be hitting the ~35 year mark at IBM.

Sure seems to me people rode that gravy train hard, unsurprising their shaking out some of it now especially if these long timers expect similar perks to the old days, probably similar to flight attendants on BA - the new generation are on 0hr contracts whilst the old generation had/maintain the most cushy number in flight attending - its easy to see why a CEO/CFO would favor new gen.
I like all the tilted square ones.
I'm on Firefox ESR, and while the pages functioned just fine, the performance is...lacking. I think the degraded experience mostly comes down to crappy framerates on the parallax effect.
The Cabbages and Kings Catering one seems weirdly out of place.
Unfortunately is seems that Roman Arutyunyan has not been able (or willing) to keep up the development of nginx-rtmp-module. Thankfully, Mr. Sergey Dryabzhinsky has a fork [0] that has added a lot of nice new features (EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME!) and some bug fixes.

[0] https://github.com/sergey-dryabzhinsky/nginx-rtmp-module
Long term Flickr user here, since the start and a paying customer. In the groups that I’m active in there is a thriving community and it would be a shame if that was compromised. I know people here are happy that it is out from the yoke of Yahoo, but over the years I’ve seen so many products that I use get bought up, enthusiastically changed, and then ruined or closed down by the new owners. Please don’t ruin it with arbitrary rules and attempting to make it “social” like Yahoo did. Despite what I’ve seen in some threads on here not every feels that a product has got to somehow keep adding features to be usable or feel alive as a community. It’s the photography that’s important, not the product and its features.

I guess what I’m sayimg is I’m kind of burned out by products that I love getting acquired and ruined. I love Flickr and I couldn’t bear to see it go the same way.

One last thing, I put a lot of artwork there too, drawings and stuff as well as my photos. Are we going to be penalised for content such as this that doesn’t fall into what you would call a photo?

Edit: I just read my comment and it sounded negative towards Smugmug. That’s not my intention. If Flickr had to go somewhere, then I’m glad it’s with the Smugmug guys. I’ve heard good things about you over the years!
Compilers - every programming language uses this.

Databases - Btrees, indexes, distributed key value stores. The world runs on databases.

Graphics - if you like games, how a 3D scene is rendered, photo realism with Ray tracers, GPU pipelines and OpenGL

AI and Machine Learning - tons of fascinating problems and algorithms.

I’d say focus on the basics. Hash tables have remained mostly the same since they were invented. C still uses pointers, the basics are fundamentally so powerful that they are kind of eternal.

When I hire someone, i’m looking for someone with strong fundamentals. They understand the basic datastructures, algorithms and how a computer works.
Agreed. Definitely would love to pay again now that it’s out of Yahoo’s hands. I still post batches of event photos, but have stopped participating in many of the formerly-amazing camera, regional, lens, and hobby-based communities that endeared me to Flickr at first.
The thing I love most about Uber
Hey Don, I have been on flickr since 2010 and I have been subscribed to Flickr's "Pro" service for several years.

I rely a lot on those statistics to generate more views and contacts
I would also like an expansion and more detailed analysis
Why can't I know WHICH picture was found through Google
(You don't, you say there were X finds through Google, but we can't see which picture)?
Why don't you show the Google Search URL?

Looking at SmugMug price plans you are MUCH more expensive than Flickr,
are you going to be raising PRO costs? And if you do, are you going to pull
the PR stunt of saying it is needed to "To Grow and Improve" and"We think the services offered are at the best price point, there is always free" ? Because Free is not a middle ground.

Because you acquired Flickr, you knew what was coming with it, IE, customers, there is no way to pass raising Tariffs without upsetting your New user base which has never asked for you and is tired of being thrown around from one company to another.and saying you have "no plans for the immediate future" it really does seem that you care more about your increased bourse instead of offering your clients an increased experience?

Are you going to include website hosting services to flickr users within the PRO price and go after 500px, or will you Keep the two Services very clear of each other for a different experience?

If you are keeping the two Services Separate, then aren't you really just here to collect a bigger check? If Yahoo / Verizon / Oath was not willing to spend money to upgrade our services and gain more users and you are, wouldn't this mean our subscription fees will increase?

Why should we remain here instead of going to 500px which offers a similar service to you but for much cheaper?
I don't know.... I have not seen this study, but:

1> I feel I can safely say that I am more productive than the median programmer, as are probably a majority of visitors to Hacker News

2> I am aware of many famous programmers who are more productive than I am by at least an order of magnitude - probably two orders of magnitude.
That sounds beautifully scenic. What time of year would you recommend for it?
At Harvard? Real-estate acquisition.
Gitlab.com supports Mermaid in markdown.. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#mermaid
NYC to ban cars from Central Park
Yep! But they got to drive more aggressively without a substantial increased risk to their safety! Being able to go faster in the rain is useful in and of itself!
I went and read that today because of your comment. I found it interesting and frightening in a paradoxically mind bending kind of way. However, it did seem a bit unbelievable that 300 years into the technology and there were no safeguards and only ~30 mishaps had happened despite how, apparently, easy it is to torture yourself.
Hey - I'm the author of the article. You bring up some good points.

I agree that being a world-class polymath is difficult just like being world-class at anything is challenging. Some of the challenges specific to polymaths are:

1. Not really any formal training in the school system on how to connect disciplines.

2. Sometimes people consider take polymath to mean not having a core area of expertise. In the article, I make the case that a modern polymath is someone who learns skills across disciplines and combines them in their core area of specialty to create a skill set that puts them in the top of their field.

3. Many environments are not conducive to being a polymath. So, it's important to find fields, job, companies, etc. that are.
Sounds great. I can’t wait to see where you take this!
Wells Fargo and BofA have earned a negative reputation for "the big banks," but in my experience, Chase and Citi are perfectly fine ACH + ATM utilities. (YMMV if you aren't the kind of customer they want, i.e. playing close to $0 or making weird high-volume transfers).

Regardless of customer service concerns, the rates on other financial services are simply more favorable at specialist firms. American Express for rewards credit cards, Vanguard for investment, Marcus or Ally for cash savings, etc. A local bank or credit union with impeccable customer service around a full suite of services is still probably not worth the money you're leaving on the table.
If you enjoy this article you may enjoy Russ Roberts interview of John McWhorter [0] where they discuss the evolution of language and Johns book "Words on the move" . give it a listen... approx 1 hour (the transcript is there which is also probably faster but I enjoyed the charisma and enthusiasm.)

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/08/john_mcwhorter.html
Primitive Technology: Round hut
All their eggs in one basket. That is potentially a recipe for a sudden disaster.
I'm the author of the article. Good comments. A few quick thoughts.

1. I agree about being an autodidact. It is hard to imagine someone being a successful polymath without one.

2. The article isn't making the case that people should avoid specialization. It is making the case that people should learn across disciplines and then apply what they learn in their core area of specialty.
We don't have a document that answers your question directly but the capabilities are all there. We're happy to help you get started - post an issue on our repository on GitHub. The "XS in C" describes the API you'll use from your C/C++ code to interact with XS (created a VM, implement native functions callable from JavaScript, etc). Most of the limits can be set using the manifest, which defines the virtual machine build. For example, to limit the memory used by a script or the modules available to a script (e.g. what classes and functions it can call), use the manifest's "creation" object which indicates the maximum number of bytes the VM can allocate. Here's the base manifest all our examples include, which define the VM size in the creation as 32 KB - https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable/blob/public/.... The manifest also lists all the modules that are built into the virtual machine. These are the only modules a script can use (unless you add a module that can load other modules!). For example, manifest_net.json (https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable/blob/public/...) includes a bunch of modules related to networking (socket, sntp, wifi).
They regularly raise the rates, and they keep losing money.
HN throws away all Unicode symbols.
Pretty much kills Safari. Me thinks you need a better scroll library / implementation.