skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, it's because of the conjunction of two different factors:

First, changing anything large and complex with a lot of moving parts is difficult.

You can see the exact same effect in a code base as an organisation.

If your code base is small, making a change has limited consequences and you can usually predict them all up front.

If your code base is large, you lose the ability to predict what the consequences of a change are. So you need to do it to find out. If you don't have good test suites, with excellent regression tests, then the chances of missing a breaking change are good, and "doing it to find out" will result in a broken system.

Organisations don't have test suites, or regression tests. So there's a lot of effort done up front to try to minimise the impact of changes. A lot more work involved in even the smallest changes.

Secondly, small organisations are optimised for flexibility, large organisations are optimised for efficiency.

A two-person company needs to be flexible and adaptable. In startup terms, they probable haven't hit product-market fit, and are still developing their product, changing it to meet the market as they discover what the market needs. Change is constant, and so the organisation needs to be able to change fast. Doing things efficiently is premature, because the efficient process may change tomorrow and become unefficient.

Large organisations have found a business model and grown to fill it. They know exactly what they're making, for whom, for how much, and have a well-defined product and market. All the bottom-line growth will come from reducing costs rather than increasing sales. So they focus on reducing costs. But there's a trade-off between flexibility and efficiency. As the organisation becomes more efficient and more cost-effective, it also becomes less flexible. At the apex of this process, the organisation is so streamlined that any change (by definition) becomes less efficient and therefore less profitable, and therefore any change is difficult and unwanted.
That's more like Excel. I'm thinking something more like Heroku, but standardized/OSS.
Any potential employee of your company will be asking "what's in it for me"? Do you pay well above market wage to make this extra effort worthwhile? If I automate or eliminate a lot of work how am I compensated for that extra effort?

Every company says they want people like you describe but few actually put the incentives in place.
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I remember some "law" about communication in a "network" think its a power-law-distributions as to how bigger the network (organization) the longer it takes to communicate/relay a msg. And that's just in the best case scenarios. Then we start talking about ego and ppl and all odds are off. Unless you working on the production line... fewer ppl are "usually" better!
Oh, "How to Win Friends..." is eighty years old. That's the part I have the biggest problem (being on the near end of the autism spectrum). But even I managed to find a small client with a long-running project that I kept busy with for almost eight years until I needed a change. The point I regret a lot is not having sought and become part of a small team to handle to long-running projects better in every aspect. The folks around me I admire the most did just that, most of them working in a two-people team and they are very productive and inspiring..

Regarding the 20hrs/week, everybody should know: That's the productive time, for every human being. Charge accordingly.
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Yes, this! Not having a clearly recommended approach to development against k8 clusters is a huge barrier to entry!

I was really hyped about Azure Dev Spaces (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-spaces/), but it's Azure only, even though it sounds like something that should work on any k8 cluster..
That’s fairly reductionist. Eventually it’s nice to have words for the long tail of probabilistic phenomena that emerge from atomic-scale interactions. Words like “sonder”.
So much this. I'm not actually that much of a fan of Haskell (might be due to a bad introduction to it), but dabbling in F#, I'm constantly amazed by how much more robust (and self-describing) you can design your APIs while still being way more concise than when using Java or C#.

Since Haskell's type system is still more powerful than what is achievable with the .NET CLR, I'd assume this effect to be even stronger there.

It's really amazing how far sane language defaults can get you. In C#, I encounter badly designed types all the time. The main reason for this is not that it is impossible to design them right, but that the language makes it so tedious. I'm also really longing for the new features in C# 8, in the hope that they manage to remedy some of that (record types, pattern matching and non-nullable references sound like a good start).
And then slowly after years of being managed by an experienced operator, a company loses its ability to innovate until the manager is removed. See Microsoft with Ballmer -> Nadella
I too protect my phone number like my SSN. When a lot of services started to offer 2FA via mobile nimber I bought a cheap SIM Card and used a raspberry pi I had laying around to build a SMS<->Telegram bot. I now use this mobile number for 2FA services or services I don‘t trust.
The NY Times sould really think about getting their headlines right. Facebook Hack is a very prominent computer language, a typed PHP, and it doesn't put thousands of other sites at risk. There's no serious flaw in the implementation of Hack announced in this article.

I thought they still employ fact checkers at such a big news organization. getting the headline right should be the most important task for them.
Oh, I just use the mouse. It's fast enough for me.
Nearly everything that works in Windows 7 works in Windows 10, if you poke enough holes in it. The biggest exception to that is really just drivers, because hardware manufacturers have no incentive to update them past a certain point. There was definitely software that had to be updated to the latest versions to work, but that's where we needed to get to anyways.

I work in an environment that includes custom-written apps from the Windows XP era, and usually the absolute worst we hit was "hey, this device doesn't work on Windows 10, we have to buy a newer one". Not a big deal when it's a $6 USB-to-serial adapter, but people will look at you like you're crazy when you say the network is incompatible with an HVAC system. (Solution in that case, just take it off the network, you're better off.)

But believe it or not, you can still sync Windows Mobile 2003 devices with Windows 10 PCs, Microsoft's backwards compatibility is still insanely solid in most cases.
It doesn't have to be crazy at work
Jobs was ousted by his own team. He didn't leave and just walk back in. Apple was in deep trouble.

I'm not convinced it was somehow better for Apple that it happened. If anything it only lamented that Jobs was required to make it work, which could only possibly leave Jobs with a bigger ego.
This guide is great. Thank you!
Easy to understand if you are cheating by automating your job and spending now freed time for leisure: if your contract says that you are paid by an hour or for fixed number of hours a week/month then you are cheating. Of course, not paying you for overtime can also be considered cheating from your employer.

The only way to not be cheating by automating your job is to spend now extra available free time for other duties mentioned in your contract, perfecting your professional abilities, or moving to a contract which is goal based, not work-hour based.

It is a pity that somebody can be clever enough to automate his/her job but don't see implications regarding the contract signed with the employer.
This is a nice article. I'd like to say that I LOVE Daniel Shiffman.

He has a Youtube channel[1] on which he takes random ideas and tries to code them on three.js in less than an hour (or some variance).
It's fun, he explains sometime complex systems in a simple manner, and the result is always interesting.

I've done a fair amount of little personal projects inspired by his and it's always a fun sunday morning project.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw
Isn’t that what the “past” link is for at the top of the page?
My two biggest counter examples when people say that geniuses are not born are John von Neuman and Srinivasa Ramanujan. These two were surrounded by other people who were regarded as geniuses in their own right, and yet these people viewed von Neuman and Ramanujan as being on a completely different level.
Elon Musk might be far better at running multi-billion dollar companies after he grows up, yes.

Steve Jobs was certainly far more "grown up" when he returned to Apple.
Looks like a nice extension, can the Mac window buttons at the top left of the screenshots be removed?
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It's a must, as now we're on a digital age, almost everything is connected nobody can stop the advancement of technology last thing we can do is to regulate or put law that put a limit on it in a way that it cannot compromised someone in the long run.
Whats their source for all this? I can't find it in the article anywhere.
Just to make sure I understand -- the output of the coregen is GPL-encumbered?
That's not the same concept as the one from the GDPR (even if they share the same name).
Car companies work on a new model around every 7/8 years with a minor change at the halfway point. Essentially every decade most of the cars gets a complete overhaul.
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Thanks, I just closed chromium.
No proposition -- with the notable exception of a priori statements, which are about constitutive elements of our internal reality -- is about reality, but about our notion of reality – compare Kant. Reasoning is about synthetic propositions, which are necessarily only as conceived and represented in our internal reality. Logic is about what may be generalized in this, i.e., about forming synthetic judgements based on a posteriori data. Regarding this data, there is no chance to relate directly to reality, since nothing in our experience relates directly to reality, but is formed by our inner and outer senses. The same is true for any shared experience, commonly related to as 'reality' or 'truth'.

Since the truth of a proposition relates to a state of the world (reality), the notion of a contradiction relates to this as well. Hence, we have to shift our attention to the very nature of this world/reality and its representation, when facing a contradiction. A contradiction just refers to an ambiguous state, expressed as a non-exclusive duality of logical values. Now, we may ask, is it the world, which is ambiguous, (we may never know), or is it our representation, or, is there possibly more than a single representation/context at once?

A (very simple) example: If we subscribe to the notion of color as a property of an object, a solid colored object _is_ of a color, meaning, it may be either blue or red, but not both at once. But, if our description of the world includes the notion of a spectrum and mixed colors, it may be both blue and red at once, commonly related to as a shade of violet or purple. The very context may include the spectral description or not, it may be even ambiguous about this.
What andypea said ^^^ Crucible is awesome. How could you not want a chance to work with molten metal? And the wide range of people == wide range of perspectives. Lots of kind, creative, and smart people
+1 for docker for Mac, -1 for Helm. Helms templating is just too simple for the actual complexity of k8s, but it can make a decent starter too.
Try “Vincenzo Salvia”, “Andy Fox”, and “Evanton”. Each represents their own sub genre of italo-disco synthwave.
Mandatory "How things are VS What people say" graph:

https://twitter.com/RadimRehurek/status/857454177106116608
I remember that someone was considering making a program to automate a co-workers job, since it was just simple data entry. They never actually did it though.
Well I can't be one(Genius) - I had to google "precocity"
How is it the right order of magnitude? Did you compute that based on the size of the observable Universe? But that's arbitrary, the Universe is way bigger than that.
I once worked with a guy who had previously worked for GCHQ doing something with cyphers/cryptography. He said he had never consumed more drugs in his life than during that period. They didn't care he took drugs as long as he was open about it and couldn't be black mailed through his use of drugs.
I think this goes far beyond just hobby's and leisure activities. Society as a whole doesn't seem to accept mediocrity anymore.

Take a look at the actors from 80's hit movie 'Ghostbusters' http://cdn-media.hollywood.com/images/l/ghostbustersthetrio....

Would these guys be casted today? I can't imagine, we see mostly perfect faces on television.

Movies and television are not even the worst, advertising is insane. If you count the number of 'perfects' in some commercials you easily hear it 4 to 5 times in just a couple of seconds. You need perfect skin, a perfect dream kitchen, a perfect ride in a perfect car, etc.

Why do people want this? Can't blame it all to hollywood...
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Sure if you put enough effort in you can make everything usable and cheap. But why put in the effort into that instead of investing it into building a system that naturally fufills such requirements?

Kubernetes was never intended as a system for hobbyists, but for bringing more users onto google cloud. At that it is incredibly successful. But in exchange a lot of other stuff it does really badly.

It is much better to start with a single-node system in mind that expects getting more nodes at some point and develop from there. This will bring in a lot of hobbyists and really carves out how to solve the developer story. Then this will grow automatically with the size of popular projects building on it.

That said, of course it's nice if people invest energy into finding other usecases for k8s as well. But it shouldn't be the community's main effort.
Since, we can only see "the observable universe", how do we know how much mass is beyond our view? If we don't know what is there, why do we think there is missing mass?
European news sites work fine without problems for Europeans.

What does one in Europe gain with reading, say, American news sites which have a mostly local (e.g. American West Coast) focus?

Sure, one may find more entertaining news in a way, and get perhaps another perspective, but I would say that this perspective is obtainable via other means. It is usually even spelled out in the news articles themselves, but perhaps not explicitly. So what does a European really lose by not being able to read, say LA Times, or a news provider from Kentucky?

Not trying to troll.

After the GDPR I noticed I was not able to read some sites. First I was a bit annoyed, then realized the links I tried to access were to some random US news sites. I realized I should be interested in more local happenings versus those in a remote place that is beyond a vast ocean. Also, I wanted to know in more detail what world events mean for me and my area, since that is where I live. And I want to avoid political paint in my news, as far as possible.
That last part, I wholly agree with. The learning curve is steep and difficult.
Interesting and well written, you made me think, thanks.

I do not think it us that easy to fool seasoned regulators the second time though (the first time being the cookie law).

Also:

> but that’s so incompatible with free content business models that it was clear that won’t happen.

There is no reason why they need to track me around the we to serve ads.

Im fact, given the recent accuracy of the biggest actor in that space I'd argue that you'd do significantly better in many cases by using contextual ads.
Build RISC-V chips with proprietary extensions. License the extensions to third parties.

That would require the extensions to be popular, though, and having a corner of one fort is less ideal than having an entire fort.
This article, and a lot of others, seem to be using an overloaded meaning of "personal".

All the arguments stem from the assumption that personal projects have the same uptime, scaling, and deployment requirements as some large commercial site. Some personal projects might but I'd argue most of those are really commercial in the sense that you're developing them for a portfolio or the like. They're not personal.

It makes sense to use business tools like kubernetes when you're making a demo business site. It doesn't make it a good platform for personal projects.

The best platform for those is hosting from home on a single computer, for free, with total control. ie, personal.
Hi Jeremy!

What is the main difference with Keras+TF, I've only worked with them (still not mastering them), why should I consider fastai?

Thank you!
I liked Musk because he seemed to play the engineering adventurer card. Not willing to submit to the average market opinion on how to do things. For instance Model S got more safety and performance than many cars. It started to fade with Autopilot which was way more gimmicky and rushed than the rest. The latest period was just chaos.
It is the event horizon that never forms. The problem that is never dealt with is that when the density of material goes up, gravity goes up, time dilation throughout all the affected material increases. From our perspective, everything throughout the affected material and region slows down - that includes any compression effects to increase the density. There is no opportunity for the effects to generate an event horizon to occur in finite time. If the event horizon cannot form then you can forget about any singularity ever forming.

It is just assumed that the event horizon and all of the associated effects will occur in finite time. It is taken as a given that "Black Holes" exist without questioning all of the assumptions being made regarding these entities. When anyone questions this view, the amount of disdain and ridicule expressed to them is just ridiculous.

Those expressing such disdain and ridicule do not even attempt to answer the questions - it is immediate ad hominen attack. This is the attitude that encouraged me to investigate the matter further and the conclusion is that those experts who support the idea of "Black Holes" have a mindset of "we are the authority and who are you to question us". They are so blinded by there own brilliance that they cannot see the forest because they have their noses up against the ground. It is a sorry state of affairs when dogma gets in the road of investigation.

There are no stupid questions, ever. However, there are many non-answers given.
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I use preemptible nodes extensively in my production environment.
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Having a good worth ethic is respectable. However, working smart can be as effective as working hard. Still, lying about doing work is unethical in my opinion, even if it's clever. Depending on the situation though, I think that letting your employer know that a job can be automated may lead to better opportunities in the future... maybe?
What would be the advantage of .NET Kodi addons over Python? They would be faster that's for sure, but if I understand it correct, addons are not the main reason of Kodi suboptimal performance. The downsides are obvious - while you can relatively easy skim over the source code of the Python addons, it wouldn't be easy with .NET binaries - and most of the addons wouldn't provide source code. And the regular user can easily hack the feature, fix or two into Python addon code by himself, that wouldn't be so easy with .NET addons.
> Except in case of disaster of course, and then maybe some kind of metaphysical excuses might come into play!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake
Custom design services. Which is more of a consulting business, so does not scale in same way as IP licensing.

Could also integrate manufacturing services, but fabs is incredibly capital intensive, making it another kind of business.

Could also keep IP licensing as a model, but open the core and push it further and further out into peripherals. Problem is that would probably kill the surrounding ecosystem of partners that do this today.
So this seems to be basically, a bunch of web apps loaded in vertical tabs rather than horizontally, and it's built on electron.

So it's a browser built on a browser, with vertical tabs.
Elon Musk is not crazy or some super genius calculating 20 steps ahead of everyone else - he is simply a man who does not like being pushed around and being told what to do. I'm no psychologist, but having read his biography and having dealt with many adults who were bullied as kids, it makes perfect sense from my experience as to why he is reacting the way he's reacting. I suspect that the perception (be it real or imagined) of being picked on, (by the SEC, by his board, by the short sellers, etc. etc.) might simply be too painful for him to allow any rational ( i.e. ego-free) thoughts to win out. This and his inflated ego (a lethal combination) may be the reason he's digging his heels in.
I disagree. Even for personal projects I want to be able to access them from my phone while out and about.
Something running on my home computer (which is turned off when I'm not there!) doesn't help. Nevermind that my home internet isn't fast or reliable.

If you include running my own blog/mail/XMPP/matrix servers in "personal projects", then I would love to have perfect uptime.

Additionally, being able to reuse high quality helm charts here just makes things simple instead of having one set of instructions for "personal" use and one set of instructions for everyone else.
Then there's this video ESO's Very Large Telescope shot[0], of stars orbiting something that's a) very massive, and b) invisible. Does that constitute a direct observation of a black hole?

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[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8THY5spmo
If there was a white male underrepresentation this might constitute a contribution to the conversation.
You can be the most skilled musician in the world, and still not have a job. Luck and politics matters a lot in music, and the margins between the best musician and everyone else is such a small percent that the king makers (record labels, opera houses, etc.) can afford to not have the most skilled musician if they see fit.
Who cares what these dead media companies have to say? Journalism in the 21st century has a glut of integrity, passion, and ethics. Elon Musk has an outsized amount of every one of those traits. I don't want to hear a snippet of a heated board room conversation; I don't want to read a rumor about who the next chairman of Tesla could be; I don't want to read any sanctimonious, scowling & contemptuous trash about men so great it boggles the mind. Wake up, 21st century San Fransisco dwelling technophiles & web developers: We have an enormous glut of people willing to stand up for truth, freedom, and greatness in America, and maybe we should all cover for our great men when they misstep instead of sneering about their personal lives or "erratic behaviour". We are a country of individuals and we would do well to police our criticisms of the rare individual who can do the thing that needs to be done - accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.

Comments on "the cult of Musk" or speculations be damned.
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