skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your plan of sharing business logic sounds good. We don't currently have any recommended way to share code between web and iOS/Android, although I'm hopeful we will at some point in the future.
Why doesn't Apple dig deep into their warchest and either acquire Grayshift, or pay off one of their engineers to spill the beans?
Chinese investors are inflating housing markets in the US, Canada, and Australia
This is probably my only gripe with it. I really like static types, since the tools can be so much better in that case. VSCode + ElixirLS is ok, but far from Elm, Typescript or C# in that regard. I've been trying out Dialyzer and Credo, but it all seems so clunky to use.
This is really cool but it kinda sucks that it's tied to Dropbox - I would like to be able to do something like point it at a git repo URL instead.

Off topic: it would be really nice if there was a common open API for file sync/share services like Dropbox.
This is very confusing and meandering. It gives flow charts and lists of steps that don’t map to my experience building deep learning models at scale, and spends a strange amount of time passive aggressively dismissing Lua Torch and extolling virtues of TensorFlow that aren’t very important.

As with all of these purported pipelining systems, I’m skeptical and happy to let a bunch of other people deal with the headches of making it adequately general for a few years before I’ll even start caring about grokking it for my use cases.

In the meantime, creating build tooling, data pretreatment tooling and deployment tooling is pretty valuable for me to understand business considerations and make sure all my modeling & experimentation aren’t just time wasting ivory tower projects, particularly in terms of customizing performance characteristics on a situation-to-situation basis, free to design the deployed system without a constraint to a particular serving architecture.

It also makes me very disinterested in applying to work for the Cortex team, because even though the article is talking about DeepBird v2 as a means to free ML engineers to do more research, it seems pretty obvious that there’s a huge surface area of maintenance and feature management for this platform. Your job is probably going to be less about research, which is scarce work that people compete over anyway.

Possibly attractive for people who just like deep C++ platform building, which is an internal drive not often found in people wanting to solve business problems with ML models.
I have started using Nim fairly recently (past month). I actually wanted to start using it about a year back, but it never happened. But my return to Nim was a good step; this time I might be here for a while as I have started to understand the nitty-gritty details of the language [1].

Couple of reasons why I think Nim is an awesome language:

1. Syntax: It's beautiful. If you like Python syntax, you'll like this. On the other hand, it's much more concise, without losing readability.

2. Static type check, with a sprinkle of type inference only when assigning the initial value.

3. Proc/operator overloading: Have procedures (functions) named the same handle different data types differently. And the same with operators.

4. Support: Great support over Gitter, GitHub issues, Nim Forum, etc. Great devs! (though, I incorrectly thought earlier that that wasn't the case :))

5. Makes me feel home: Hacking/coding in Nim comes the closest to coding in Emacs Lisp. In Emacs, if I want to understand what a function does, I look at its source code. I can do the same in Nim.

6. Editor support: The nim-mode Emacs major mode and ob-nim Org Babel package are awesome!

7. Documentation: Check out the Nim the index.html to search anything, and also Devdocs.

8. Whitespace: Tab not allowed, yay!

9. Not as easy as installing go/rust toolchains locally (without admin rights), but not difficult either.

10. The nimble tool (equivalent of pip) works great for building/distributing Nim projects.

.. and much more! Computer science experts can talk about more benefits of Nim from systems programming point of view (GC, etc.).

For my use case, where I use Nim as Python/Bash replacement, CLI utility development, it looks excellent so far.

In plain terms, it's joy coding in Nim :)

[1]: https://scripter.co/notes/nim/
HN is objectively better at content moderation than Twitter is. Not perfect, but better.
The domain of images used in this research is extremely limited. These are very low resolution artificially generated images of small scenes with simple lighting, simple textures, simple geometry, and very restricted camera positions and parameters that are known exactly (which is not the case for most natural photos). Each of those restrictions needs to be lifted before this will work on realistic natural scenes, and that will require many orders of magnitude more data. It's not clear that this approach will easily scale up to that amount of dataset variation. It's likely that a much fancier neural net architecture and training scheme will be required, and probably faster hardware too.

This is not intended as a criticism of this research, which I think is really great.
That's pretty much what I got out of it. Occasionally lemmings will engage in, "mass dispersal" in a single direction... Which sometimes brings the group to a river crossing... Which once in a blue moon ends in mass death. Certainly the truth is radically different than what was portrayed but it was rooted in some truth. That said, killing a bunch of animals that were children's pets only days before to fake some dubious folk legend is fucking psychotic.
I think some people are mistaken here what weed consumnption is about. It's the oxygen deficiency, the sleepiness that makes some people feel irrationally happy, or otherwise a placebo effect triggered by very strong stimuli like the taste/smell and the heat and a lot of positive marketing.

The anxiety is, by definition, the problem that you should be most anxious about. Live is random and you need to stay alert, and self conscious. Bringing a bit of randomness into art can help with an organic look, but organisms decay, you likely want to design structures built to last. Migrain can be a consequence of malnourishment, vascular stress or other circulatory issues, certainly not something that can be helped by a pill or any of that sort. And if your doctor doesn't know where it comes from either, and your medical history doesn't indicate any reason, go see a chiropractor. And ask about sleeping pills, if you really cannot get any sleep at all. Which I doubt.
Sounds like you just described HomePod.
In the case of a bank robber, any use of force is in pursuit of an arrest. When the cops use deafening/blinding devices to cause protesters to disperse, they are causing bodily injury without the intent to arrest.
Bindgen relies on rustfmt. With the codebase I'm using rustfmt-nightly works, but the stable version segfaults. Known issue but that's why I've stuck with rustfmt-nightly.
Apart from some syntactic commonalities and expressiveness, Nim doesn't have a lot in common with Python.

The idiomatic approach to solving problems in Python and Nim are different. I came from a strong Python background and now I prefer Nim to Python as a general purpose language and especially for writing scripts.

Nim is highly productive and with excellent type safety.

The compiler is relatively fast though maybe not as fast as D and certainly not as fast as Go. The compiler is a lot faster than Rust/Crystal/Pony and there is current work being done on incremental builds which should make it even faster.

If you take a look at these benchmarks the Nim and D fastest versions are faster than Rust and on par with the fastest C++.

Significantly, the fastest D version has double the lines of code as the fastest garbage collected version of Nim though the Nim version performs slightly faster.

The fastest garbage collected version of Nim has exactly the same lines of code as Python.

https://github.com/frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks#l...
Ask HN: Googler, looking to find a technical co-founder
Hi, I'm a strong Google technical product manager, who is ready to leave the good life at Google, go to zero and build a successful company with a technical co-founder.
What do I bring to the table?

- BS, MS in CS; Ex-SWE at FANG

- Deep understanding of how to ship products

- Expertise in being able to ruthlessly prioritize features

- Deep understanding of Computer Science, System software and the state of the art

- Understanding of what it takes to build and ship software

- Deep understanding of what it takes to build a successful product

- Deep understanding of building a business around the product

- Excellent communication & presentation skills

- Knows limitations and will delegate / request help when necessary

- Ability to get people excited and rally around a cause

- The will to win.

- Ability to get funding from a top notch investor

What am I looking for?

- A technical co-founder who can jump in and write high performance code in any language, any stack, and do it fast

- An equal who will bounce ideas off me

- Live in the California Bay Area

- Have 3 years of cashflow / runway. We'll be on $0 salary for about 6 months as we try to find the elusive product / market find.

- A co-founder who wants to win (finding product market fit; getting funding; possibly getting acquired; taking our company to IPO)

My philosophy

- If smart & hardworking people get together and focus on a problem that has a business need, then you will find gold.

- We tend to worry about the downside (Failure) than focus on the upside (Taste: Discover Product / Market fit; What does that taste like, I'd like to know!)

If you find this interesting and are serious about building something we should talk. Email me: oranges.bananas.apples@gmail.com
They would have a ton of data points on how all the "free beer" runs out constantly, as well as the "free cold brew coffee".

They'd get data on how they don't have enough bathrooms for their capacity, there are often broken items in these bathrooms, and more.

They'd have data on how there's never enough mugs and how they're at <60% capacity in one building, yet opening up 2 more in a city :).
It seems that Elixir would be a perfect platform for Artificial Intelligence programming.

Since Elixir is used for (1) functional programming, and (2) it uses Erlang's OTP Server for massive parallelization.

But, I don't seem much activity in this space. What is the probability that Elixir will emerge as the "killer app" for AI development?
Life is short, so is the life of people you care about. Don't take it for granted.

People lie.

Typed languages are better.
Using Linux on a Mac trackpad, I can tap with 3 fingers for a middle (button 2, the wheel button) and so open links in another tab, close tabs, execute selection ...

I find that feature more interesting than gestures. Ymmv.
React Native had hot reloading a year before Flutter was announced. Not to take anything away from Flutter (I heard it's great!) Personally I'm rooting for all declarative UI libraries and platforms, and I'm very excited Flutter is getting traction.
I agree with the lack of proper touchpad support. There are ways around it, but I'd like to not have to spend a day determining if libinput, mtrack, or synaptec is the right driver for my needs.
> That just sounds like a poor understanding of dependency management.

And yet a lot of tools and large packages will spit out an error telling the user to run NPM update. As someone who is new-ish to JS, I generally try and follow the recommendations of those who are supposed to know better.

> The same applies in most ecosystems (maybe with exception of Elm that has strict enforcement of semver).

I previously did C++. Breaking changes were few and far in-between. It helps when the library is only updated once every few years. :-D

Now days? Things that break in my environment:

1. Android Studio, I have never not had 2-3 hours of down time after an upgrade. Mostly involving...
The Android Emulator. After updates, it just doesn't start. This leads me to: The images on the Android Emulator. I finally have found one that works reliably, I am sticking with it.

Finally, Expo. It is just odd in places.

That is pretty much my entire development stack, short of my editor. Happily enough, VSCode updates just fine.

I have the RN debugger working more or less. There is a Cross Origin Resource error that occurs everytime RN opens up chrome, it opens chrome up to localhost, and I have to type in my IP address instead, which is a bit odd, but the debugger now attaches reliably, so compared to what it was like before, I'm good.

The Expo client is random. It tries to install Expo on the Android emulator all the bloody time, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I just want Expo to open. I have to use the client to open the emulator if my IP address changes, and this can take 10-15 minutes to jump back and forth between trying the command line client and the GUI client, eventually one of them opens my app.

And then if I login to my app too many times in the emulator, I max out the # of connections allowed to google's auth service and I have to shut down the emulator to close the connections or else I can't login again. I'm guessing it is a bug with how hot loading code works (not cleaning up open network connections?), but at least I understand the fix for it.

Basically the entire RN development stack seems like jank.

Also JS taking 5 minutes to compile blows my mind. I've compiled entire embedded OSes in less time than that (and they did more!).
My first thought was the same.

My second thought was: github and Gitlab both have pages which will do this for you.

This is even easier for people who want to do less.
Doesnt Creative Commons actively discourage the use of their licenses for code? I seem to recall seeing something to that effect on their website.
Take a look at my https://sitios.xyz/ (the interface is very rough yet, but I'm slowly integrating more stuff and making everything better).
If I was an employee of Comcast, when someone asked what I did I would be so ashamed I would rather say "i am a prostitute that uses the money for drugs".
Big money and GitHub
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> Running NPM Update ranges from doing not much at all, to breaking my entire system making deleting all of node_modules the only realistic fix.

Why not just pin your dependencies to specific versions, ie - “somepackage”: “4.2.9” ?
Suppose we could make it triple-redundant and call it "The Raman Grill".
Reuters seems pretty solid, though I wouldn't classify them as "conservative". They're not clearly liberal, though.
All the 7 themes could have been written using pure CSS with the https://classless.alhur.es/ standard.
Show me a robot that can pick up litter on the side of a road or repair a leaking irrigation pipe. Some jobs that seem simple are actually extremely hard to automate.
*billion and the A11 includes a GPU.
You say you want something different, how strongly do you feel it needs to be code?

If you are inclined to not just fill your wallet but also your time, consider picking up a non-work hobby that you can charge for?

Things like 2d and 3d digital art or music have a commission scenes where, if you put yourself out there, you can make some money.

Art might not be your thing. Maybe it's yoga or woodworking. And it might take a few years (for me, three years of practicing digital 2d art to start taking commissions), but you get to expand beyond what you do for 8 hours already.
Are you a kernel developer? If not then you have to trust whoever wrote your kernel and how are you supposed to determine whether to do that or not?

All we have are some general heuristics here. "Trust" is too strong a word for the relationship we have with the people writing and manufacturing our software and hardware and for the chain of custody between them and us.
Uchicago drops SAT/ACT requirement
They don't have to make it public knowledge... it's just, behind the scenes, they try to prioritize designs that are easily Hackintoshable
Who the hell has ever been in a position to demand the source code to mass-market software as a condition of its use?

"I demand the full, buildable source to MS Outlook before accepting this meeting request!"

Still, does making this type of demand have to be made against the law?
> Does that mean that an illegal street food vendor can be barred from cooking, ever? hehe

I think a court can make arbitrary sentences. It's powers aren't really limited by the rest of the system. Doesn't matter that licenses don't exist for the thing it's trying to stop.
React Native's hot loading is.....

eh. The wrong type of typo can take down the entire app. Other typos it can recover from. Trying to change redux components just doesn't work. All in all it isn't too hard to fool RN's hot loading.

I'd also note that hot loading is turned off by default for RN! I can see why, having it on I have to know what types of things I can use it with and what types of changes will need a full relaunch.

Let's not even get into the "reload" button and what that may or may not do. (Note: I am using expo, so I have an additional layer of bugs and abstraction on top, having to force close Expo on the phone is way too common in my experience)
I don't think it's bad intentions, just very very poor intuition about how computers and software works. They take it as a given that software-based content filters can and do work reasonably well and that the exceptions are exceedingly rare. Just like the press and government and most Hacker News patrons think that self-driving cars are imminent and real AI is just around the corner, and electronic voting is a good idea; and how the press believe that there's probably a backdoor solution for encryption that is still totally safe.
I worry that the days of openness - of FOSS and SV startups, as leading examples - might be looked back on as a halcyon nirvana, a wild and free era, remembered by the few who understand what openness means and what its implications were, and who still remember as new generations grow up accustomed to something else. In the case of something so fundamentally technical, most of the public doesn't understand it; they would not understand the significance and what it has begotten. How many noticed what happened to the streetcars? How many Americans notice their horrible healthcare system, despite overwhelming evidence of far better alternatives?

Look at the CPTPP[0], net neutrality, and this proposed law. Look at the brazen abuse of power by big business in Washington (and in American state capitals and in Seattle and in campaign finance). If you think horrible laws won't happen, won't become fate; if you think it will work out in the end, you haven't read history. There not only have been horrible things like segregation and mass incarceration, which (have) lasted generations, or war upon war, but again and again industry has seized power and cemented their position, and soon it becomes a norm that nobody notices, with vested interests that won't want to change. Look at the current patent system, as a modern, IT-implicated example. Or a better example: Most people blindly accept region restrictions, for example on films, as a norm - maybe something they try to workaround, but an inevitable situation; it's not.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17313484

EDIT: Added region restrictions example
>You're not going to become an entrepreneur with $20k since that won't pay for office space, equipment, etc.

Not if you spend it on office equipment. The $20k buys you $20k worth of free time in your life to work on your personal projects, ideas, hobbies without your life falling apart as a consequence.

That's enough time to set up a small leather-working shop in your garage, or build an app, or start a podcast, or write a few chapters of a book.
The XPS 13 was my first laptop! I've had a 2008 XPS 13, 2012 MBA, 2013 MBP (work), 2015 MBP, and 2016 MBP (work).

I don't particularly like MacOS but I prefer anything Unix to Windows. I ran Linux on the XPS and the 2012 MBA. When Retina wasn't well supported on Linux, I made the switch to MacOS for development. I miss tinkering with Linux, but grew accustomed to a dev workflow with Mac apps (Tower, nvALT, etc).

The reason I stick with Macbooks: they can take a beating.

My XPS 13 was falling apart after a few years, and had gone through three (!!!) motherboard replacements (fortunately, under warranty). I've had minimal issues with my Macbooks. I don't know what the state of the current XPS 13's is, but all I care about is "how often is it going to break in the next four years."

The touchbar and the ever so fussy butterfly keyboard on the newest MBPs have reopened the possibility of me moving back to a Linux XPS 13. I just wish I could get some kind of update on the durability of that machine.
At your scale, you could take a "serverless" application and just deploy it across managed containers, which is how "serverless" infrastructure seems to work to begin with.
"All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware at 5mph."
Much more in depth source article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/china...
Does anyone have a link to a chapter where they define that term?
From time to time, my wife asks me "What's the next thing you need to learn for the next five years of your career?" It's a good question to ask, say, every five years. (BTW, my current answer is "Android", but I haven't gotten very far on learning it...)
Benin City came about during the European Middle Ages though, no? They were referring to a city in ancient Greek times
I am certain that, unlike 100 years ago, the fear isn't that Asians are crowding out white males; but that they are crowding out other minority groups. That is an entirely different motivation than anti-Semitism.
Hmm, on my XPS 13 (9360) fan kicks in only after about 5 minutes with one core fully loaded, and it's not that loud. It usually happens only during Hangouts videocalls or heavy dev work. Browsing / playing 1080p videos / text editing / gimp is not enough to trigger active cooling. But I use linux. Maybe he had windows install with antivirus or whatever hogging CPU...
What the Hell is Devops? (2015)
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+1 amazing for sleep.
Well it's already known that even natural extracts like lavender oil are estrogen amplifiers. And the thermal receipt paper used for years, contained BPA, also an endocrine disruptor. There are tons of chemicals that we use willy nilly without any knowledge on their real and complex outcomes on life. I'd mostly prefer natural but its somewhat specious because having artificial additives means usually the whole mixture will have 10 or 15 chemicals instead of the 103485 in a plant extract. But I'd trust mother nature's 100000000000 years and human civilizations' many years of trials over an Ames test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_test
Bizarre comment. Your link contained a second, legal definition which completely contradicts your point.

> Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others.

Theft is malicious. Attempts to persuade otherwise would be... interesting to read.