skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to call it serverless architecture then you better be running it on webrtc data streams over P2P clients
This is something missing from so much of the "positive self esteem" movement. It seems so phoney trying to make someone happier with themselves without trying to actually address any of their self-criticisms.
That's the error I was addressing in my earlier post. For me, autism is not a disability. For someone like BadCookie's son, it definitely is. I personally don't care either way about "person with autism" vs. "autistic person", but it's dangerous to assume that autism is never a disability because high-functioning people exist.
Huh. It seems Gingher has been a subsidiary of Fiskars since 2005. So Fiskars does indeed still make great scissors!

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.a...
It's still quite huge compared to Lua, not to mention slower. And gems need to be enabled at compile time.
it feel a bit biased when you say that IRC could have a protocol bump, but you wouldn't make the same modifications to hide pictures in Mattermost.

Additionally not being able to share images as a feature? I guess everyone will do the three step upload to imgur first.

In my world - if I could get away with less different clients I would. It makes it a nightmare to support.
The current designs are close to a year old now and apple updates infrequently and generally does not cut the price. So you are paying a premium for buying a one year old design. Imho the best moment to buy is early in the product cycle. You maximise the period the design is fresh and reasonably current. I bought my 15" mbp last October when it was just out.

The flipside is of course that recent models are rather disappointing in many ways. It's only marginally faster than the 2012 model it replaced, contains the same amount of memory and cpu cores. And there is the keyboard, which is a severe downgrade and has many flaws and the well documented reliability issues. That 2012 model was the best piece of hw I ever owned. So, you can wait but don't expect any miracles.
Even if Rust becomes almost as complex than C++ (which may be necessary to be able to move all low level code base from C/C++ to Rust), the world becomes a safer place by not having so many memory corruption bugs while being CPU/memory friendly. I really appreciate the fast pace the Rust team has and hope for this transition to start ASAP (though features are still missing for big code bases, like distributed compilation).
The "serverless" architecture is cool, but it irks me every time I hear the given name for it. For a marketing term mainly aimed at developers, I'm amazed they picked one so terrible.
> You're throwing plastic into the nature and environment.

It's usually latex. Still littering, but it degrades into mush pretty quick.

If you go into the woods almost anywhere near a city though, you will see mylar balloons in the trees.
Are you or are you not experiencing my consciousness right now? Either you claim to, in which case you're lying or delusional, or you don't claim to, in which case you can't say anything about its experiential nature without contradiction. I can say I am conscious all day, but that's just something I say - it can't prove anything to you. If I was being tortured, and I didn't communicate it to you, would you notice?

Logical incoherence starts with lying to yourself. That's not wisdom.

Edit:
I can be a solipsist today and a materialist tomorrow - I'm not criticizing either viewpoint, just saying you can't reason based on believing in both simultaneously.
Implications of Iran’s Ban on the Telegram Messaging App [pdf]
Except noise, please get rid of the noise.
> I "made" it because I am stubborn, had parents who believe in education and because I hate being beholden to someone.

...and lucky. One African to another: it took me hard work, determination, and a whole lot of luck. It wasn't just one thing - but a chain of fortuitous events. My path is certainly not repeatable, so I'm certain my story is that of survivorship bias. I know lots of smarter/more hard-working people who didn't catch the same break that I did. Can you honestly say that you're that much better than your cousins?
Maybe it’s worth pointing out that the governments the other groups live under are ... not just lacking in the free speech department...
I had a pretty rough childhood. I've always been a bit different (something that I'm now proud of). Not sure if it's spectrum or something else; it doesn't really matter in this context.

I was bullied to the point of physiological symptoms - by everyone except my family. This carried on well into high school (I finally broke free when we moved to a different country). My "friends," at least the closest I had to that idea, all abandoned me in the most demeaning way possible. A teacher picked on me, telling me that I would amount to nothing.

I decided that I would never treat any person that way. Everything changed. I was still (and still am) meak about what is done to me - but I stood up for outcasts. Spreading my time across cliques took effort initially, but it became natural. People started seeing me as a leader, even the popular crowd. The students around me became intolerant towards bullying and ostracization (through avoidance though, not action). I work hard to make people feel special, but it does come off way too too strong right now :).

I'm still broken in many ways, but I am aware of them and work on them. Thanks to the abandonment I experienced, if I feel as though I am being abandoned or betrayed I have an extended panic attack: becoming distrustful and pitiful as it subsides. I'm told I'm attractive, but my mental image is still a 15y/o kid being told "I don't know why anyone would kiss him" by my crush/bully (Stockholm Syndrome much? :)).

It all came down to a choice, spread acceptance, and I've often wondered if explaining that choice would amount to anything. That choice was made more than half my life ago and it is so critical to my being that I couldn't be swayed any other way. If I had chosen to isolate myself, that would have worked perfectly for avoiding those situations - it would have become a reliable and trustworthy solution. Even if I wanted to change that, after being convinced to, it would be habit.

The only real advice I can offer is to teach your children acceptance. They even have to accept the bullies. They have to understand why bullies do what they do. They can be guided to the choice to not repeat what was done to them. I have no idea how to approach an adult with advice: I strongly believe that an adult needs therapy (CBT or somesuch) after a difficult childhood. You just can't let go of nature that has worked for at least a decade based on advice.

I would err against resilience: that is inaction. Becoming the opposite of what tortures you is action.
Debt is a very useful tool for transferring money in time at a cost. Like all tools they can be useful, but they can also be taken advantage of and used for harm (or in this case asymmetrically).

Yes there are predators that take advantage of others using said tool. Its been known to cause "indentured servitude". But lets not criticize the tool here. This is an issue of governance, and societal scale.
I'm wondering if the dislike of animation an the delay by half a second thing is more specific to programmers/highly technical people. Meaning that if your app is tech focused it should avoid animation as much as possible.
So many new languages lately, does anyone is risky enough and using such languages in production?
Nice demo. Reminds me of a well done Galaxians clone for Atari 400/800 that used programmable character set animation for the aliens. It was impressive.
the intelligentsia was the first to go during the red revolution.
I spent 3 years working on a Rails app and it was enough to make me swear off Rails for the rest of my life. I think the Rails dev community has good intentions, and the design of Rails is actually pretty nice. The problem in my opinion is more with Ruby, and human laziness. Ruby lets programmers do absolutely anything they can think of no matter how unexpected or un-intuitive it will be to their colleagues. Combined with the rigid conventions of Rails' design, this inevitably leads to a maintenance disaster with people, like you say, getting too creative.

Refactoring a large Ruby on Rails codebase is basically impossible. There's no compiler to help you along; hell the code is evaluated lazily. So instead of refactoring, people monkey-patch their problems away. It's horrible, really really horrible.

I'm now getting flashbacks to trying to understand how files get loaded in that codebase... I need a drink
They can be manufactured well in China, but will they? Companies like Apple have the clout, money, and time to supervise production and guarantee quality. But the typical story is that some small or mid-sized business abandons a reliable and high-quality domestic process to the promises of some sales rep from China. Consistency and quality drop precipitously but it's excused because the CEO has already relegated the company to the race to the bottom.

The domestic companies are usually the ones left behind after a century of intense competition during a time when quality and longevity were paramount and customers couldn't afford to constantly replace equipment. Chinese industry has arisen in a global market built around a different dynamic--cheap industrial labor selling products to rich consumers who are less discerning, or in any event don't mind buying throwaway tools.

That says little about the inherent skill of Chinese labor and industry and everything about how free markets operate and industrial processes evolve.
The various board revisions introduced some changes. Particularly notable were the bug fixes to the original 326298 board. We could never get certain games/demos to work on our early C64. I still look wistfully at Gauntlet...
And my point was that 4 years is completely acceptable amount of coverage. If you want to keep your computer longer, by all means, but you shouldn't expect repairs to be covered forever.
But on the other hand for every repair that shows up in Apple's statistics there are others who are silently suffering because they don't want to lose their ain commputer for week (=mme), or who don't have AppleCare and don't want to pay 100s of dollars for a replaceent.
Unlike the 'master'/'maintainer' role, the main branch does not directly correspond to a person.
Really awesome piece of work!

Might need tags by datasets used, i.e. mnist is image classification, COCO is object recognition, etc.
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I’ve watched that video probably over a dozen times since I first saw it on Kottke. This makes me sad.
I recall Jed Schmidt talking at various events about UNIQLO mobile app having a lot of serverless/lambda in their architecture. IIRC for preprocessing/images.
Accounting is useful. Everything else is social sciences dumbed down. Who knew that was even possible?
GitHub Users Organize to Ask Microsoft to Drop DHS/ICE
There's a big difference between running on GCP and "serverless architecture" Did they have everything running with Google Cloud Functions?
If you're not sure, I wouldn't do it. I don't feel like my work machine is any faster than my personal 2015 model, and I like typing on the older one better.

The historical update cycle says "no", as well: https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro
That was very true this evening. You can no longer get points with your MoviePass card.
There were some strange warning signs though leading up to the hack including people disclosing other security bugs that pointed to a broken system.
Interesting

I think the reason that you believe the JS code is obfuscated is because the part of the code that contains the “weights” of the neural network, which contains 4-5 million floating point numbers of an LSTM recurrent neural network.

In fact I trained the neural network using the open source version of Sketch-RNN and encoded the weights using base64 to save you some bandwidth (https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/tree/master/magenta/mo...)

Welcome to “Software 2.0”, I guess!
I feel that making scissors is a shitty job, not a great acheivement. I wouldn't want to do such a job myself. I don't have a "hardon for outsourcing".
> humble 2 cents

Sadly, not humble, and, from my point of view, uninformed, that is, exactly what would be expected from an otherwise uninformed reader of the newspaper articles about the topics touched, especially from one not understanding how science actually works.

In reality, the "failed" fulfillment of some expectations when the best experiments up to now are performed is also what advances our knowledge, greatly, you can read, for an example, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17363056

Look from this perspective: not only that what some theoretical scientists whose direct "expectations" came to be unconfirmed by the LHC experiments "expected" would remain just a "plain imagination" without a huge investment in extremely advanced experiments, the same would remain for any scientist having some other ideas.

We need so advanced experiments because anything else is already known. And what we know today we wouldn't without the experiments, especially such producing "unexpected" results. There's is not an actual "crisis" in science advancing, exactly by doing experiments never before done the science does advance. The experiments like LHC are indeed a precondition for any new advancement.

For every complex problem there exists a nice and easily understandable solution... that is wrong. Even the basic explanation in many articles written about the science the authors get wrong, and the casual readers get even more wrong.

The typical complaint is that the experiments "cost much" and then the wishes of some aren't "confirmed"? Well they cost peanuts compared to the investment in military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...

"Program cost	US$1.508 trillion (through 2070 in then-year dollars), US$55.1B for RDT&E, $319.1B for procurement, $4.8B for MILCON, $1123.8B for operations & sustainment (2015 estimate)"

Compare with the total budget of LHC experiment of just €7.5 billion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

You'd get surely more than 200 LHCs for just one type of a military plane.

Also, the expected cost of measuring gravitational waves from space, the way that would also give us a new and otherwise inaccessible information about the Universe is 1000 times smaller than the cost of the above military plane.

The typical complaint goes on with the idea that the if scientists work on something, and it's unconfirmed by the experiment, it was unnecessary work. That's also not true at all. Most of hypotheses of what is behind the limits of our current experiments will not be confirmed by definition. If we knew, we wouldn't need to perform the experiments.
There you have it. The motivation for this new legislation is to change those facts: correct tax "avoidance" and prevent powerful foreign corporations to spy and steal assets (i.e. news snippets).

It seems the US is very sensitive when nobody buys their cars, but sees absolutely no problem dominating modern comunications. The EU has a problem with that.

And my definition of stealing is a pretty standard one: both Apple and Google have been repeatedly fined using EU law for tax issues, for example.
Having recently read the old Wired article about him, and watched Gringo on Netflix, I would not at all be surprised if he had done this to himself.
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I wasn't taking sides on whether it's physical or not, so I wouldn't particularly agree with your statement.

I'm only trying to say that if you don't accept that consciousness is physical, you aren't accepting the symmetry between you and other minds, and can't reason from the assumption they have the same experience.

Once you contradict the known fact that you experience your own thoughts and not others, you descend into incoherence. It seems to me kind of like the issues people have with quantum weirdness. People are accustomed to assuming they know things for the sake of argument, but assuming you know the unknowable can sabotage your reasoning.
Verizon's tariffs still offer a landline in New Jersey where you pay by the "message unit". Message units were once tallied by a mechanical counter for each line, and someone read the meters once a month.
Forgot to put (2014) in title.
RSS is an open standard too, but Google effectively killed it.
I use this when designing a redux application:

1. Define function signatures of selectors and action creators.
2. Define the state tree shape.

Action Creators and Selectors translate to the "API endpoints" as it's the public interface to your frontend data model.

The state tree translates to the "database schema".

I would also consider what the data model for client-side persistence (localstorage, cookies) is.
You so nailed it, man. Thanks for that. I really miss those old days. I'm turning 33, but I'm constantly chasing old nostalgia these days and realizing all the old things that used to make me happy, _still_ make me just as happy. (and you're damn right I still use BitchX)
I think that's what they mean when they say the internet.
One thing I ponder, is how my proficiency in doing things to code dropped, when I moved to eye candy. Moving back to a focus on text editors and screens of code rather than skuomorphisms and virtual desk movement animations cost me some whine time, but once back in a simpler tiled wm world I feel much more productive.

You may actually not want those pixels. Or that graphics chip.
Is that for real? No wonder the UK wants out of this.
Every actuary ever.
Sure, but they don't change the fact those are the only 2 options.

And in the "shared reality" option, consciousness is somewhat measurable.
Join Facebook groups, seek recruiters on LinkedIn, look for expat groups maybe from your country who have settled in the place where you want to and see what they did. There’s a need you just got to find out who needs talent like yours. Also you could look IMO remote work sites like weworkremotely.com if moving doesn’t work out. There’s no reason a hardworking developer can’t put in his or her 8 hours and do so regardless of time zone.
Baro App is looking for devs
For highly abusable kitchen shears, I love these ($20-40) from Kershaw/Kai/etc.: https://www.amazon.com/Kershaw-Taskmaster-1120X-Multifunctio...
Hello Devs,

My name is Myles. I am reaching out today to recruit an iOS or Android developer for my startup, Baro. We're a peer to peer marketing platform for lenders and renters. We're currently available for iOS and working on Android. Just recently, we expanded out the app across the east coast and are currently looking for devs to join the team. If you are or know anyone looking to be apart of something great, give us an email at support@barostuff.com. Feel free to visit our website (www.barostuff.com) for more info.

Thank you,

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While that's true, you could at least tip your hat to Jack Dorsey's $3bn net worth, the insanely high executive and engineering salaries in San Francisco, and the effect that being so insanely rich must have on the complacency and sheltered lives of everyone at Twitter. It's a little bit worrying that you think race and sex are greater assets than class (= "network" and "culture fit") and money.
> but you shouldn't expect repairs to be covered forever.

or you could design your products so that if it breaks, its easier for the user to repair it themselves instead of advocating for throwing it in the trash and buying a new product.
Ask HN: Should Google place paywall icons next to links?
What would the nodeJS server be?
Ask HN: Can a technicial co-founder leave without guilt?
Obviously bearing any large conflict between co-founders, can a technical co-founder leave without having a large amount of guilt over their heads?

My wife and I recently discovered we are going to be having another child. Our first child was born when we were both employed for larger companies. However since then I have left a company I was working for to start my own, along with my partners. As well through the course of raising our first, my wife shifted into working part time. Being honest with ourselves and the time commitments required for raising another child, ultimately my wife is looking to stay home and raise our kids until they are of school age.

What this ultimately means is we are going to have to fall onto my income solely along with health insurance. (We live in the US for context.) Our startup has been in operation for a few years; entirely self-funded which has its pros and cons. I have in the past had to skip a paycheck to make sure our employees get paid when there is a lull in sales. It’s not frequent but for a sole-income household it makes a huge impact.

I don’t want to go to our board with demanding more money for what ultimately isn’t the businesses problem. I have several options on the table as far as working for a larger corporation with a bit more stability and pay.

My largest concern is the guilt I feel regarding this decision. My family is always my top priority but I’ve also come to know my partners very well and can’t help but feel my absence and need for replacement will have a huge impact on the future of the business.

Advice?
agreed. After a few years of this, I've given up hope of them focusing on the core project. They have basic usability errors in their merge request and approval flow that makes the product a pain. For example, in 3+ years of using the product, I still have no idea where to find all the merge requests where I am listed an an approver. Our slack channel is littered with folks re-asking people to review their code because there is no way to tell what you need to review.

But instead of focusing on the core features, here's probably what they will launch instead:

- a slack like chat app

- a trello like app

- a yammer like app

- redesigning the left nav once again

- adding even more UI clutter in the merge request box because they still haven't jammed enough crap in there
TL;DR: FinFETs are running out of steam without a powerful "scaling booster"* so GAA-FETs ?, wires suck and continue to suck and development costs are going up so let's misrepresent that and use ridiculous numbers for it.

*Debatable: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7890390/
Using specific words is cultural. There are languages were in order to say a big number you just enumerate its digits.
Time does not exist. It is an abstraction based on the movement of matter. We use time to compare the relative motions of things.

Every instrument we use to "measure" time involves movement: pendulum, sandglass, rotation of Earth, translation of Earth around the Sun, vibration of atoms, etc.