skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Build something useful with it, if not remarkable, and show that. Take the top down approach. Don't leave it to the readers to figure out a use case because not only it shows the technology in bad light, since it appears that it was created without any purpose in mind, most people are also too busy/lazy to do it themselves.
Sure, but that's because developers are expensive, and poorly quantized - In a professional capacity, you can't really hire a developer for a weekend. That requires a direct connection, usually a personal one. There's probably a hundred thousand tasks that could be automated but have never been within ten feet of a developer because it never comes up. Something that you and I would do in ten minutes of perl would likely be someone's full time job.

This absolutely increases in complexity as the benefit increases, mostly due to the low-hanging, prime fruit already being picked... but there's still tons of stuff being handled by humans still. Moreover, as techniques and computing power become cheaper and cheaper, stuff that used to be hard (OCR!) becomes easier all the time.
Pytorch - a beautiful, elegant, well thought out framework.

Tensorflow - a mess.

Anyone who has used both knows just how much of a struggle tensorflow is at every step of the way as you fight it to perform even the simplest of task. I just hope more people migrate to pytorch.
Hmm, well you all did spend a few centuries looting treasure from the rest of the world, you know.

If what you really want is for work to be more evenly distributed on a global basis, this is probably going to mean an increase in the amount of work for places like England and France.
That should look really good on your resume, or probably could be the basis for a consulting business.
You’re asking what’s different between money that buys something for yourself, and money given away? When you trade money for stuff, you get the benefit.

If we’re taxing failure to keep and spend money on yourself, we might as well tax based on failure to earn as much as you can — we’re subsidizing teachers that could be paying taxes like VCs. But no one thinks like that.

People seem to think there’s a social contract via government, but no private social contract -- but there is.
The actuarial calculation will show that the amount you spend now is exactly equal to the present value of periodic amounts spent into perpetuity, if your assumptions about future rates of return hold forever.

My personal hypothesis is that spending is better for the economy than investment, so I would prefer to spend 10% and invest 90% for 20 years, then spend the remainder, than to spend 3% and invest 97%, forever.
Shiffman's channel is great for new & experienced coders, but I will say it is especially good if you want to get a young kid interested in the field
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for!
> The only reason to give to charity is to benefit that charity.

It also denies money from the government financed programs which you may not agree with, whilst allowing you to get your name on a building.

The choice of how to distribute your tax outgoings is a simply a terrible idea.
Off the top of my head there's the Daughters of the Confederacy, whose main achievement is to have fostered the lingering belief in the Confederacy was fighting for everything except slavery in public schools, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, who only in the last couple of generations recognized that slaves were worth more than 3/5ths of a person.
You can tag them in a special category and IIRC also hide that category.
6 Types of Clients That End Up in Designer’s Hell
Spoofed Caller ID is a lie, not anonymity.

Here's a proposal: 1) Caller may choose to hide/suppress their Caller ID, 2) mandatory option for phone carriers to allow Callee to completely block calls (no ring, no voicemail) that don't carry Caller ID, 3) When present Caller ID must be accurate.

The above allows anonymity but disallows deceit. It also provides opt-out for people not to receive anonymous calls. (Anonymity does not give you the right to have any given individual listen to you)

We could have had this for ages, as there are no great technical hurdles.
Elon Musk's Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit
Grind on leetcode until you can do any problem quickly. It's all that matters for interviewing and you'll get a job making more than people with 15 years of experience that can't leetcode but can create beautifully architected apps and systems.
Months ago, I estimated a feature to take 3 weeks to build. A couple of months later, deadline nearing, a new developer was asked how much time it would cost to build and they told the product owner that it would take about 3 weeks. The product owner then looked at me, annoyed, telling me that nobody ever told them that it would take that long to build. I was really happy that I could show them the initial estimate I gave them.

If you haven't experienced this ever, definitely be extremely grateful. Also, when you switch jobs, beware that past experiences are no guarantees.
I'm for this, but how is it enforceable?

Companies have teams dedicated to this and are still thwarted. I don't see California Government as leader in technology. But maybe I'm wrong.

I do see them as a leader in overbudget, late, and often failing projects. So while this sounds good, I don't see it being good.
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>Should his/her heirs be allowed to take that tax benefit as they donate money in the DAF?

Easy fix, just make a DAF non-inheritable. I feel the same way about private foundations. It shouldn't be tax deductible to give to an entity which gives to charities. It should only be deductible to give to charities directly. If I need a big tax deduction this year, I shouldn't be able to get that by moving this money over here where I still exercise some degree of control over it. I should have to give that directly to a charity.

>neither would any of the donors

Absolutely they would, because it will dramatically reduce the tax benefit a DAF provides to many donors.

>because +/-5 to 10% is not going to make much of a difference to a donor.

Yes it does.

>(Many of whom have passed on in any case.)

Yes many have passed on, many are quite alive as well.

>The only difference is, charities would end up with a bit less money or a bit more money.

Here's the difference. If you change the cap gains thing, DAFs become less beneficial to donors. That will probably decrease contributions to DAFs overall. To offset that, you do the suggestion in two which makes DAFs much less attractive compared to giving directly. The size of the effects is arguable but I believe that would actually increase the amount of money given to charities since many DAFs sit around and people are very reluctant to spend them down.
Can we get a rename of this story?

"Alphabet's Jigsaw" would be more appropriate. Jigsaw is, at best, a sibling of Google, not a part of Google.

It is explained in the very first sentence, but comments so far don't seem to acknowledge that.
Why do most people react to this as this was a gift from Amazon, when in fact it was organized by workers and a demand they won?

If anything this was a concession from Amazon, because Amazon workers were supporting a bill against Amazon, which probably had more in store for the company than just a minimum wage raise.
I'm going to say it again, just like in every kubernetes thread.

People should check out openshift. It's built by redhat and is an abstraction layer above k8's. I love it.
In the article, sure. I assume that because we're by a large a bunch of engineers, many of whom work at startups.

If the frame of reference is "anyone" then I still don't get the argument. What percentage of jobs out there are lottery tickets? A tiny, tiny fraction. So what's the advice from the GP; everyone should try to work in some unicorn startup in hopes of getting rich?
yes, have you ?
Unfortunately it's the first one present in all DNS blacklist.

I don't think you'll find a dns server that block ads that have whitelisted Google Ads.
set your static analyzers to 'anal'.
TL;DR

The RTX 2080 Ti’s single-precision (FP32) training of CNNs with TensorFlow is between 27% and 45% faster than the 1080 Ti for measured networks.

The RTX 2080 Ti’s half-precision (FP16) training of CNNs with TensorFlow is between 60% and 65% faster than the 1080 Ti for measured networks.

If you do FP16 training, the RTX 2080 Ti is probably worth the extra money. If you don't, then you'll need to consider whether a 71% increase in cost is worth an average of 36% increase in performance.
Naw it makes them easy to spot.
Yeah, but he found a flaw in the system before it shipped.

People will be driving nonstop cross country in autonomous cars. This could easily happen. NYC to LA in 2 days.
Really? I've not heard of countries issuing multiple simultaneous passports unless you have official or diplomatic status.

Previously the Israelis stapled a piece of paper with a stamp on it, you take it out before you go to the GCC. Now its not even stapled. (They photograph your passport & stamp pages though...) https://www.touristisrael.com/the-israeli-passport-stamp/974...
Less than a half hour. And one comment is about how it's bad a woman won a Nobel prize, because she's a woman.

Gotta be a troll, rolling out new accounts.
> Don't write clever code, write readable code.

Good one. Clever code is really tempting. It feels cool to do something in one line instead of six and call it a day. In many cases, the mature thing to do is to know how to do the cryptic one-liner, but write the six lines anyway for readability and comment them.
And in this, we're entirely in agreement!

I run my personal web stuff in a docker container per application (running as a dedicated user per app via docker's --user=username:group) which iptables rules per user. Kubernetes would work, but is overkill for the 5 vhosts I run via a pretty stripped down Apache config.
If care is taken to ensure that none of the genetically altered species members make it back to their native region (Asia), then we wouldn't extinguish the entire species, just the ones over here, where they're not part of our natural ecosystem.
Are there studies that show companies that work "crazy" vs. "not crazy" are more successful?

Company policies are a different topic than personal success.

If my kids say they want to do well in their careers and have a certain level of material success (they might not, which is fine), I'm not going to tell them to work less, entertain fewer meetings with people, to never rush, refuse overtime, etc. Those are luxuries they can choose later in their career once they're on their way.

who you know will get you a lot farther than how hard you work

I agree, but if you don't know anyone (and I certainly did not) then working hard does, in my experience, yield better results than not working hard. It's like going to the gym - if you have the right genetics and body, you have a huge advantage, but putting in the work is better than nothing if you don't.
MoviePass forces former customers to re-enroll unless they opt out
>2) Venezuela doesn't have a huge market where Google is blocked by a nation-wide firewall.

How is that a justification?
Waymo's vehicle operators make $20 bucks an hour. The driver was about an hour into his shift when he dozed off.
I use OpenOffice Calc, not Excel, but same basic idea. In my case, I use it for a couple of things.

1. A file viewer for certain kinds of data (eg, CSV files and the like).

2. A quick and dirty way to get simple summary stats from some data. Spreadsheets make it pretty easy to point at some data and get things like the mean, median, mode, std deviation, etc.

3. Quick and dirty plotting of small amounts of data. This use isn't as frequent for me, as I tend to use GNUPlot for most of this kind of stuff, but sometimes if you're already in the spreadsheet program poking at some data, you want a chart with a trend-line or something.

4. Exploratory models to play with "what if" analysis. Useful for a first pass at coming up with financial projects, evaluating pricing models, etc. The nice thing about a spreadsheet for this is that you write up all the various formulas you care about, and then you can update one cell and quickly see all the updated values. In a sense, spreadsheets are an implementation of a sort of Dataflow programming[1] and this kind of thing can be very handy.

It's good for getting answers to questions like "If I want this company to generate $1MM in revenue this year, and we set the price for our product to z, how many customers do we have to sign up?" and others of that nature. Of course there are plenty of other ways to do this kind of analysis, but spreadsheets are pretty convenient here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming
> Personally, I'm all for it because the penthouse is just another step to making professional looking shots more accessible and attainable for the average person.

"The average person" doesn't make a living doing stealth advertising for lifestyle brands. This is a marketing service; it's not about accessibility.
Ranger does this very well.
https://github.com/ranger/ranger. Perhaps midnight commander (mc) has a similar mode.
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In that case you could use http://www.startpage.com - it's a wrapper around Google, and your information isn't shared with them.
Here in NYC some Airbnbs are specifically marketing themselves as daytime shoot locations.
Why is the alternative nightclubs and counter-strike though? Why not, getting a good nights sleep, reading books and lifting weights?
I gather it's simply less popular because they're proprietary, opaque and opinionated.

I suspect we're going to continue to see layers built on top of kubernetes, such as gitlabs autodevops, where for the simple things, you don't need to write any of that, but you can still inspect what they create, and jump off the rails for things that are a bit more complex.
Yea this whole thread should be upvoted higher. Document everything. I’ve gotten into the habit of documenting everything I’ve worked on at the end of each week, just so I have a record. It comes in handy at review time when you’re asked to write about your accomplishments or whatever other hoops management has you jump through to justify your existence.
Agreed. Why not get ahead of the problem and focus on teaching our kids critical thinking skills? But then again, why would the government cut off their primary revenue supply?
Trying to make humans do the things computers do well is very difficult.

Trying to make computers do the things humans do well is nearly impossible.
This reminds me of a documentary I watched last decade called "Strange days on planet Earth", narrated by Edward Norton. One of the episodes was about this unwanted migration. They suspended a rubber ring in the water in one of the ports and a few months later found that about 90% of the animals living on that ring were hitchhikers from a long way away.
My theory is it finally gives teeth to enforcement? Now botting could have actual real world penalties other than just getting banned from Twitter.

Not that it matters to international bots but if the USA follows...
But to have a career you also need to pad your resume with the right buzzwords. Just solving business problems without considering your resume is good for the business but will make it very difficult to advance your career if you are an engineer.
They no longer use that word.
Disgressionary punishment is based on the severity of the crime, not the 'potential' of the person. You just described bias.
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Now I see what you mean, you are confusing two spaces. Imagine a finite two dimensional space, say one meter in each dimension. You are now almost certainly picturing something like a sheet of paper one by one meter floating in our three dimensional space in front of you or maybe the surface of a table of that size. The important thing is that this is not a picture of a finite two dimensional space, it is the picture of a finite two dimensional space embedded in a three dimensional space.

If you would crumble up the sheet of paper to a small ball than that would be a different embedding of the two dimensional space in our three dimensional space but importantly the two dimensional space would remain unchanged. That is a two dimensional creature living on the sheet of paper could not tell the difference between living in a nicely flat sheet of paper and living in the crumbled up ball of paper.

And that is the same in your picture, space is the string between A and B and you can not tell the difference between it being embedded in a straight or curled up manner. Even more importantly a space does not require any embedding at all. It is a limitation of our brains that we can only imagine a two dimensional space as a sheet embedded in our three dimensional space. A and B can get further apart without being embedded in any space and moving away from each other in the embedding space or having new space curl up in between them.

So your mistake is to assume that our space must be embedded in another space in order to be able to expand. This might be the case but it is not necessary and we have no evidence for that. It also starts an infinite regress, why wouldn't the space our space is embedded in be embedded in yet another space? And then that one and the next one and so on.

If our space was indeed embedded in another space and curled up there, than your suggested faster trip from A to B would be the equivalent of a two dimensional creature leaving the crumbled up ball of paper into the third dimension, moving a bit through our three dimensional space, and then falling back into the paper at a point nearby in our three dimensional space but potentially far away from the starting point if you moved only inside the crumbled up sheet of paper. You would literally have to leave space-time and move through a space that is not our space-time.

This is in some sense very similar to wormholes but in that case you do not have to leave space-time and move freely through the embedding space but you can follow shortcuts inside space-time due to the topology of it. But again there is no need for any embedding space even if all the pictures of wormholes show space-time with the wormhole embedded in another space.
In a civil issue they either have it given by you, or they hold back when giving you something, but they don't take from you - or they have your written general permission to take. It's criminal exactly when there is no other law code allowing it. Very simple. Very wrong but based on good faith.
You can have both! https://github.com/sctb/woe/blob/master/boot.w
> Really? I've not heard of countries issuing multiple simultaneous passports unless you have official or diplomatic status.

Germany and I think most other EU countries with heavy industries absolutely do this, because it is necessary to do business in the middle east.
What's the point if you have to pay attention?

I'm being serious when I ask. I question weather people can safely use these vehicles in these modes where they're supposed to not interact ... but pay close attention at the same time.

I think it is going to have to be full autonomy, or not at all.
Either that or it's a new trolling account for someone who got banned
>Switching my address after over a decade of use is nigh-impossible.

This is why you should have your own domain. You can switch providers trivially.
If you ask Trump, real estate
Indeed, its not hard. I went through it this summer. However, I switched from a personal domain to a fastmail domain. Why? My domain registrar fucked me over.

At that point, I had used my personal domain for close to 10 years when suddenly it stopped working. I contacted them and they said that it was put on hold because I hadn't paid the yearly expense. It would cost 16 times the normal cost to get it back, or I could wait a couple of months until it was released and see if I was able to buy it again at the normal rate before it was taking by someone else. I asked what they meant by expense? I usually get a reminder from them on email a month before due date, every year for the last 10 years, but my latest expense reminder from them was dated a year back. They explained that they have had trouble sending out reminders for this particular TLD for a while now. I asked why they hadn't contacted their users about these problems, to which they replied that it's my own responsibility to get the expense paid in due time, and that the reminders are just a friendly reminder, nothing more, nothing to be relied on, and I have to pay 16 times normal cost or it will get released in a couple of months.

I decided that I was not going to pay that, and that I wouldn't be using them as a domain registrar again. Luckily I wasn't that happy with the domain anyways and have never been. I have been fiddling with ideas for a new domain name for years, but have yet to find one, so it wasn't that big of a loss. But I sure as hell think it's shitty service from my domain registrar.
Just want to add: if anyone running iOS, you might want to try DNSCloak[1] which is a small wrapper over dnscrypt-proxy. I've been using it for a while and it has been reliable so far.

I also run my own DoH server in Singapore that block adverts[2] with Ansible script to deploy it to any FreeBSD servers[3] :-)

Edit: looks like mine doesn't supported running with Intra quite yet. Will work on it tonight.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-dnscrypt-doh-client...

[2]: https://sg.dns.grid.in.th/dns-query

[3]: https://github.com/sirn/gridns-deploy
This is definitely the correct response - what is the role of testing if not to uncover flaws in both design and implementation?
I'll give it a shot, I get about five per day.
It was about as fragmented in 2000 or so:

MSN messenger, AOL Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo messenger, POWwow... I counted 40 at the time. There were also things like Odigo and hyperbix/Gooey which were used for messaging even though their main function was “char on page”

Now we have FB, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google, Google, Google.
> "Never assume anybody is stupid."

OMG THIS. This is one of the best things anyone can learn.
> there is a lot of noise here

This is true. However, much of what I know about how software development can work, I've learned from reading HN. I've learned loads about cloud, containers, micro services, project problems, etc. This helps me understand all the discussions around me while I was a junior and allowed me to successfully lead development of a SaaS product. If I just focused on learning a single thing, I wouldn't have been able to grasp all the other stuff that is necessary to actually build a product from scratch.