skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the day (1990s), Seattle had hardly any tech scene at all and all of the area's tech action was in Bellevue, Kirkland, and Redmond. Today, things are quite changed, with more tech jobs being sought for in downtown Seattle than the east side it seems. It is a really a strange thing to see from a long time resident perspective.

Seattle is oversubscribed, I hope you are right that the companies/startups will move back east to take off the pressure. But somehow I doubt it will happen like that.
Based on my experience with an F30 ages ago I'd expect that their sensors are very competitive. Unfortunately for many remaining uses of a DSLR, the X series isn't that competitive for most of the same reasons the other mirrorless systems aren't that competitive.

The small size almost positions the X series as a modern day Leica rangefinder. It's perfect for vacation and street photography, even for more intimate things like weddings... but Nikon and Canon have the autofocus thing locked up (probably with a mountain of patents). Unfortunately if you're shooting weddings you'll want that extra low light capability of a full-frame sensor and mature phase detection AF. If you're doing studio stuff, you probably don't care too much but you would miss the ubiquitous Canikon accessories.

Me? I shoot concerts (which is probably why I don't wax nostalgic about film too much). I'd love something inconspicuous like an X series, but I'm almost always shooting at high ISO. If I'm using a manual focus lens I'd miss the instant feedback of an optical viewfinder. If I'm using an AF lens I'd miss the performance of the current crop of full frame DSLRs. In general I'd miss the selection of native lenses available to the dominant DSLR lens mounts.

If there's any worry about the longevity of Fujifilm it would be interesting to contemplate a Fuji/Sigma or Fuji/Cosina merger IMO. Sigma's got some crazy sensor technology, and Cosina's got a recent history of making some amazing lenses. Or Fuji/Ricoh/Pentax.
At least the person behind that tragedy apologized in the Generation Lost in the Bazaar article's comment section.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

That one person did something damaging doesn't refute the point, though. Just avoid another M4 situation.
Sculley wasn't a bad CEO. He was Steve Ballmer style CEO. He knew how to profitably manage a company but he had no vision. Under his leadership, he brought Apple from the brink of extinction in 86, led the transistion to the PPC, the PowerBooks defined what a modern laptop should be and between 1989 - 1992, Apple was at it height. Scully would have been a better CEO than all of the CEOs that came between 1993 and the return of Jobs.

There are very few tech companies that successfully pivot into new areas and can transistion when technology changes that are not led by their founders. Just like "only Nixon could go to China", only Jobs could make the famous deal with Microsoft in 1997.
Wait, what I want to ask is: Why doesn't anyone perform Sci-Hub-like vigilantism to save these works, i.e. scan the books and put them on line? Without big-pocketed companies like Elsevier (or music labels in the days of Naspter) to fight against it, such a site would have few natural enemies.

EDIT: The more I think about this the more I get riled up about the current state of affairs in orphan books. I'm willing to start a project like this or contribute it to it in any way, please ping me if you have such a project or just feel the same way.
someday i might even add it to my toolkit
The original link was to the actual paper[a], not the blog post!

A moderator, dang, changed the link after I posted my comment; see his comment [b] elsewhere in this thread.

Had the original link been to the blog post, I agree, there would have been no need to simplify.

[a] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-018-0147-8

[b] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068449
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Config A takes coding, testing, and validation. Config B also takes coding, testing, and validation. Neither one costs more than the alternative.
It's prefix rather than exact matching, so the Bloom filter et al. aren't going to work so well.
With the exception of the Federal Air Marshal Service, the TSA is not a law enforcement agency and has no investigatory powers. This is a job for the FBI.
I feel like this problem wouldn't be limited to a person's use of the internet but would be an indicator of a person's lack of curiosity in general. The internet, at its most fundamental level, is just information. Saying you don't know how to "waste time" on the internet is like saying nothing interests you anymore.
"“Until we talk to them and treat them with respect — as human beings, which they are — I don’t think we’re going to make any progress,” Carter said."

Well Trump is doing just that so Carter should be satisfied...

Also Trump's campaign was significantly underfunded compared to Clinton's yet he won so I guess money isn't as important as some would think.
At last I knew, my alma mater had every CS major write a compiler in one class and an OS in another. It’s a very good aymto round out the degree.
I was not aware that libpurple supported Matrix but there is a plugin:

* https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix

... which in theory would work with:

* https://spectrum.im/

... running in XMPP gateway/transport mode...
The win would be in mindset shift. How are 300+ million going to care about dryers but not all the other growing ways to be enviro-conscious like avoiding the stack of plastic packaging you get from ordering food delivery?

People waste so much energy without thinking about it and for reasons that aren't particularly more convenient, like using disposable dishware instead of just rinsing off your plate when you're done. I look around at my peers even here in Mexico and see a shift, like asking for no straw when ordering a michelada.

So focusing on the specific energy usage of dryers begins to sound near-sighted. Nobody suggested that dryers alone cause all waste.
The north and east side are the worst places to live in the Seattle area, however, if you are young and without a family. It is very much like comparing San Jose to San Francisco (I say this living in Bellevue and having grown up in Bothell).
The semantic difference between your multiply and mine is vital. Yours can only get generic through coercion (weak types), mine can be generic without coercion (strong types).

What you're describing in Julia is more static types, not stronger types.

The more static a language, the earlier it will raise a type error. The weaker a language, the easier it is to violate an interface with no error at all.

Catching the type error earlier is being static. Having a type error at all is being strong. That's the difference.

Python had design decisions, like no undefined, explicit instead of implicit varags, operator overloading via interface, not inheritance, etc. Which make the language more likely to have typeerrors instead if allowing g the successful misuse of types.

You're trying to make strong typing another flavor of static typing, and it's a totally independent concept.
Better yet, get a grabber.
My guilty pleasure is 9gag. It's blocked in the office (thankfully), so I spend way too much time on it when I'm not at work. I used to read a lot of webcomics (XKCD, Joy of Tech, Pon and Zi, QuestionableContent, Poorly Drawn Lines, The Brads) and user-generated art (DeviantArt). 9gag lowered the barriers to entry and made it easy for images to become viral. It's also now transitioned into auto-playing videos instead of static pictures, which is killing comics :(.

My boss asked me to watch the CS231n lectures and learn TensorFlow, but he didn't give me a dataset. So I downloaded the history of the 9gag hot page, over 60k images. I'm also interested in learning languages, and I find that comics with dialogues are a great way to learn how to talk to people. I then wrote my own image viewer to let me tag pictures as a comic/not comic.

So now I'm still wasting time looking at memes, but I can pass it off as "productive" work, training a machine learning model to find dialogues for language learning.
Even if that is true, when people sign up for Facebook, they fill out a bio telling FB their work history, their school affiliations, who their family members are, their hometowns and current cities, they check in where they are at, tell FB their favorite books, music, tv shows, thier gender, relationship status, thier sexual preference, and thier political party affiliation. Everyone doesn't fill out everything, but a lot of people do.
Face recognition police tools 'staggeringly inaccurate'
This is an incinderary comment: "benefits the rich far more than the one in 1958."

First, that would require a tremendous amount of data and an inherently biased framework of benefits valuation to support.

Second, you can't demonstrate the opposite, namely, that without the first happening, all others would have been better off. Sometimes wealth and structural freedoms benefit all participants, not to the detriment of the lower end, even when opportunity costs are included.

Not saying you are wrong, but your argument is.
> That self brutalization stuff works on people who needs outside approval to feel good

Prestige and the perception of it is a huge part of self-worth.
The expense-to-marginal-population curve shouldn't even be linear--it should be logarithmic. As a city grows, you would expect it to get better at accommodating population increases (by reforming regulation and from investment flowing into local infrastructure projects and making the building process more efficient, as well as workers gaining experience in building the projects).
Yes, Python is a general purpose language; however it has powerful libraries to safely interact with command line utilities. The main drawback is their verbosity. But you get a lot in the exchange. For small scripts of a few hundred lines, bash (or some equivalent) is the way to go. But anything more than that, you need something like python or perl (in my opinion, of course)
If you guys haven’t, you should really look at http://Sonar.Software

That piece of software has been an amazing addition to our WISP here in Colorado. Simon and his team have made extreme strides in provisioning and IPAM management and continue to make bizops more and more turnkey.

The real magic though is the whole thing is VERY API focused. The entire platform can be automated and made more powerful with a little dev time.

We do a ton of 60Ghz (ignitenet), 24Ghz, 11Ghz and 5Ghz (ubnt & mimosa) links to cover about 200 Sq miles. We’ve been mostly following a modified webpass model with redundant PTP and multiple interlinking. A few PTMP hub/spoke exist too where needed (SFH).

We’ve been at this for a few years and have a dedicated lab and geo region that we test all kinds of new ideas and equipment both wireless and new fiber tech (10g GPON, bonded RF).
Thank you for your part of the product! It is good.
I tried it, very painless.

Playing around with only a cursory understanding of neural nets, it confirmed a lot of my suspicions: the libraries have gotten good enough that a failure to understand the underlying mechanics and math can still get you like 70-80% there.

If you have a base understanding around concepts like "activation functions," you may have gotten hung up on the precise reasoning or benefits around choosing a particular function over another. After playing around with some of the examples they've provided, I tried changing activation functions between sigmoid, tanh, and relu, got virtually identical results (with relu being the best). This same general pattern of seeing only marginal differences continued as I tried adding additional dense layers to the network, mostly similar results, just slower and less generalized. I tried changing filter sizes on convolutional layers for the couple image things I tried, very forgiving as well. It really felt like there is a very standardized solution to most types of problems, and the iteration that goes on to improve results is more arbitrary tweaking than it is based on any underlying theory.
>A better bucket flywheel would be all handle...

Ok, that makes some sense... still not feeling it, but I can see the logic. Need more math in my education perhaps.
Your whining rings hollow.

In spite of all the bitching about California, more people come in than go out.

And, do those areas really care about the kind of jobs that actually could move?
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> Out of morbid curiosity, what's the current answer for "how to pack up a Python program into a single executable/directory for Windows" now?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python[1] (HHGTP) encapsulates a lot of standard tools and best practices. I've been recommending it to students for a few years now. Last year it listed virtualenv, venv, pyenv, etc.; now it recommends just pipenv.

HHGTP also has sections on "Packaging Your Code" and "Freezing Your Code". I think what you're asking about is referred to there as "freezing". The "Freezing" section of HHGTP lists some Windows tools, and contains a table comparing them. There doesn't look to be a single accepted one.

A G^nP post did criticize Go compared to Python, but I don't believe the author speaks for “the Python community”.

[1] http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/
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1. Individual action and legislation are not exclusive.

2. Legislation will happen faster if people act. Politicians know that when people say one thing and do another, they'll vote consistently with their behavior. News of waste like this tells politicians not to legislate conservation because it doesn't represent the people.

People conserving will tell politicians voters want it.
Archive of Operating Systems
I appreciate the pun in that paper:

Algebraic Data Types (ADTs) and pattern matching in functional languages
lay a fertile ground to conveniently define and process data types as tree-like
structures. However, in these grounds, trees often cannot grow; once a data type
is defined and compiled, its definition cannot be extended.
You know sort works with pipes, right? It doesn't squirt out mostly sorted output whenever it feels like it.
God i miss bash.org
Exactly. Free trade only works well if both countries are playing by the same rules. Which I guess is why trade deals take years and hundreds of diplomat hours to arrange.
My sequence is wiki steps, script, shebang (better scripting language), application. Every step is under version control of some form or other.

The shell script is just locking down some sequential command line interaction into something less error prone.
The cost of living is less in Vancouver than Seattle, and by extension salaries are lower. This is what has been moving tech companies further up the west coast, so yes it does make perfect business sense.

You also have things perfectly backwards. These companies are what is driving growth in Seattle, not the other way around. These companies are responsible for more than doubling local government revenue in the past decade. The companies create the growth, not the ‘amenities’ of Seattle city.

If you don’t like or don’t know how to manage economic growth, then by all means, make the environment as hostile as you can for businesses. You only need to look at Detroit to see how beneficial it can be when an entire industry leaves town.
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Oh you're right, I missed that, the corners of the eyes are boxy.
And yet another alternative to consider: employee-owned and run corporations.
Could you get good-enough performance with something simpler and more portable?

The optimized assembly is much more complicated and specialized. Porting platforms/architectures is very difficult and you loose out on the compiler's abilities to make assumptions and optimize your code.

String length is a very poor probabilistic filter as you're specifically looking substrings.

Also if you already have a hash of your input string's prefix, and the hash of all of your known strings, in the case where you actually need to check against your "known" strings becomes a fast search of a set of numbers making the fail-through case of your code negligible. If you impose a limit of strings in your "known" pool the compiler can have a field day.
I'm not really against the tax but its use. Spending more money on the homeless giving them handouts is only going to attract more worsening the problem.

I think the homeless problem should be tackled on a federal level since it is easy for them to move states but not countries. Thus, any non-federal government that spends tax revenue to help the homeless will likely just attract more homeless people from other areas worsening the local populations lives through the negative externalities and the costs which only reduce other local governments homeless expenses.
You don't want light in a flywheel. You want mass.
Trump signs bill renewing NSA's internet surveillance program
This is horrible, but you just can't expect privacy in your use of anything electronic in the US. They will track you if they can in any conceivable way. We should advocate for a gpdr like law in the us. It will take years to get there, we don't even have net neutrality, but we need that. Every step of the way there will be people claiming that we can't have protection of privacy because that would be bad for business.
I think the internet is less fun now -- I can't decide if its from maturation of technology or maturation of people though. (Has anyone else felt like things became less fun as they got older?)

I felt a greater sense of community 10 years ago when I mostly used IRC and PHP BBs. The communities were smaller, and it was fun even if you disliked people. Flame wars and trolling were mostly for the audience's amusement, because even if you really disliked each other you had nowhere else to go aside from quitting entirely. Nowadays there are so many options that people don't really commit to communities anymore.

I'm glad this thread was posted. It'll be interesting to read people's thoughts.
[[ alone is reason enough to prefer bash over sh on teams where you inevitably have non-experts making changes. Safe Bash is hard to teach, posix is far harder.
A weather report from December?
Trump considers raising the federal gas tax
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The author hasn't come across the decentralized web (ie scuttlebutt or dat). That's where I've found all the personalized interesting content.
Is our government legitimate?
I think `tar` is a great analogy for date formatting -- "Here is a few examples, one of which is probably what you want."

`tar cvzf archive_to_write.tar.gz dirname`

`tar xvf archive_to_unpack.tar`

Cf

"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" -> "2001-01-31 23:59:61"

That's a nice example. A four digit year, an hour past 12, months padded, two leap seconds. (:00 would be good for seconds too, as would 01 for the day.)

Maybe a short note, then next example -- 12 hour clocks, AM/PM, string months, truncated year. Then the next example, maybe this "week-based" date format. Or maybe just leave that for the end "reference" section.

Lead with two or three short examples that cover 95% of usage. It'll make the document a handful of lines longer, but it'll save these bugs and it'll save people time.
Until you try to mock anything related to the boto3 library provided by AWS....

All of the functionality is something like....

s3client = boto3.resource("s3")

The IDE has no idea what s3client is. Since I've just started using Python and mostly to do things with AWS, is this considered "Pythonic"?

Btw, After using PHP, Perl, and JavaScript, and forever hating dynamic languages, Python made me change my mind. I love Python for simple scripts that interact with AWS and event based AWS lambdas.
Do not try to use technical words in any conversation you have with anyone, ever.
When discussing environmental damage, I’m not sure gold is the thing you want to be comparing to.
In the long term, I can’t see how the east side could possibly fail to attract more businesses. Growth is already increasing in those areas, and there’s so much room for more. The quality of life is also arguably better over there. The more anti-business Seattle is becoming can only hasten this.
Youtube has an incredible amount of high-quality content hidden in tons of garbage. Unfortunately, I find the recommendation system to be inefficient. It's good at suggesting videos very closely related to what I watched before but it's not able to suggest new things that could be of interest.
Eh, Boston is pretty dead by midnight, but there's not much open other than bars. I lived out in the country and had a 24 hour pharmacy and supermarket right next to each other but I never something like that in Boston proper
Last I heard, they were shopping around to build a second Fortress of Dar^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ... ahem ... HQ. Might this be incentive to accelerate things a bit?
I said he had a vision, not that the vision made sense
Official Statement on New Claimed Vulnerabilities by the GnuPG and Gpg4Win Teams
We should fear a 'shadow government'
IIRC it's a clone of redhat and redhat is in the business of support.

Big companies goes to red hat because they promise to support software beyond their life cycle for years. So that's that.
True but respectfully not the point here. Post the drug war on marijuana (a day rapidly arriving) it is reasonable to look at things objectively, consider the possible risks, and make an informed decision on whether to partake. Just because the old anti-pot propaganda was so false and awful doesn’t mean every possible risk is a lie.
So let me see if I understand this. Companies hire people, they become successful and make their employeees successful (at least their non warehouse, non call center employees) making the city and population at large successful; growing the economy. For that good they get taxed more? It’s no wonder AMZ for one is looking for an HQ2 location.

I know it makes people feel good, but honestly, the only answer to homelessness is a federal approach. Piecemeal approaches tend to attract people to homeless friendly places creating a positive feedback loop.

Why not go the whole hog and institute an “automation tax”. Tax companies for every job they automate which leads to an unemployed willing worker, avoiding the creation of a homeless pop. This would be less ridiculous.
Alan Kay which Steve Jobs quoted said if you're serious about Software you should build your own hardware.

I think they're both important. It's also interestng to note in this video he says that hardware has no competitive edge. But that was 1992. Now it has flipped, software has less competitive edge than hardware.
It's the sudden release of energy that matters. Not the composition of the flywheel.
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I miss GeoCities/Tripod, and the time where search engines would always return new, quirky pages for whatever you searched for - no big media publishers or professional bloggers. Lots of fan-built pages, or just people showcasing their hobbies.

These days I find myself stuck in a loop of HN, BBC, Reddit, eventually designernews or YouTube. The latter makes me feel trapped but is still mostly valuable content, whereas reddit just feels like a massive time sink in the worst sense.
His dataset includes underwater topography
The author of the post was putting a dirty water solution on the cloth. In her control treatments, with no dirty water solution, there were no bacterial growth, despite being in the "dirty" washer. sheesh
Trump sides with the sheriffs on their civil forfeiture racket
Called EasyMesh. A better link with more info than the press release: https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-easymesh

And the technical specification (submit form to view): https://www.wi-fi.org/downloads-registered-guest/Multi-AP_Te...

Most importantly: Supports multiple vendors. Current solutions are locked in to vendor platforms.

Another nice detail: Supports 802.11n Wi-Fi devices. Support for 802.11ac is optional.