skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it very strange that you are effectively calling culture “brainwashing”. Would you prefer we have no cultural values at all? How do you think that would even play out? Without a shared value system, you cannot have civilization.

That's an extreme conclusion from my argument--that we (as Americans) are indoctrinated into moral and ethical thinking even if such decisions aren't in our best interest, while other Americans avoid such thinking and are able to find success because they're not constrained by such beliefs.

There is much more to American values than blind obedience wrt paying back debts.

American's can have a shared sense of moral and ethical standards without creating an extreme adherence to such beliefs.
Not if it has to be issued in the country of residence, like mkohlmyr reported. For me that would be basically unachievable. Well, I could retake a driving test here, I guess. That’s quite a bar to clear, if you ask me.
There's also Sanity, which supports self-hosting of the app itself and is mostly open source:

https://www.sanity.io

(Disclosure: I'm involved in the company, but not in a major way.)
It doesn't appear to have anything to correct for orientation like the 3 corners in a QR code.

Edit: ok, found the docs/description of the finder patterns: https://imgur.com/a/ZXXLtQ0
> The distribution of coins is on a fixed schedule

No, it's not.

The distribution of coins is affected in the short term by the actions of miners; it has periodic difficulty adjustments to intended to target a fixed long-term rate, but it is not a fixed schedule.
YES. This is exactly the link I was trying to remember.
Top generals are politicians.
I've found that creating a 1-1.5 hour test that is deliberately designed to be a realistic depiction of the work the candidate will do works and scales just fine.

In practice this means creating a small example project with all of the tedious boilerplate ready and in place and asking the candidate to implement 1-3 relevant stories on it.

It's not the streetlight effect that got the industry into this sorry state. It's a combination of cargo culting and laziness.
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I find it insane that the top comment is focused on India. 1) this is a global issue and 2) the US created the template from which other countries are pushing forward. Blaming this in one region or country without calling out the contributions to the problem by the US is nuts.
> A JAB Code contains one master symbol and optionally multiple slave symbols. Master symbol contains four finder patterns located at the corners of the symbol, while slave symbol contains no finder pattern
Wish I could verify this feature of getting your money back on bad stuff without a fight - - of course Ebay says you have to return the stuff, right ? and whose going to ship something back to China for $50 postage or thereabouts ?

Isn't AliExpress rife with rip offs ? I would not give them my "real" credit card, go down to big box and buy a small prepaid credit card
GitHub Discussion – Optimizer Unification in TensorFlow 2.0
Every screen and printer will display/print colors differently. This is not a good idea.
Leaving everything else aside,

> None the things mentioned ("get off of welfare", "handout", "boy", "change his behavior") is necessarily racism.

All of those are explicitly racist when addressing people of color.
You would/wouldn’t be surprised how many people don’t know history and may not know or understand that, but that’s another issue and also why you have to look at it in context with the other incidents. Either the guy is regularly unaware of the implications and connotations of his words or he’s using them on purpose as an expression of his prejudice and either would seem to be an issue.
+10,000,000 the comment below.

If you feel you have not received recognition or reward in proportion to your efforts while in the employment of this company, its time to 1) start looking elsewhere for an environment more in sync with your own personal values and 2) accept that for >90% of all economic interactions, perception = reality and adjust your attitude accordingly.

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I never heard anything about incompetence in your description.
Technical debt can build up for myriad reasons not related much to competence.

What I would suggest is not to approach this situation as how you can wall off or otherwise attack this person but, instead as a life lesson on the importance of interpersonal relationships and politics.

Politics are a fact of life. Humans are social creatures. All things being equal, and some ways even when not equal, those that are proficient in interpersonal relations will come out ahead. Grok that fact. There is no escape from it.

Good. Now that unpleasantness is out of the way. On to how to cope. Scratch that, /thrive/, in an environment of people doing people things when you are a technical person.

First, information. That is the lifeblood of many systems and politics is no different. Simply make sure important information is conveyed to the right people at the right time.

You use the example that this fellow was able to take credit for your work. Had you passed the information of what you were doing and why it was important to the right people, he would have simply looked foolish to try to take credit.

It can be uncomfortable, to toot your own horn, but it is necessary. Additionally, it can be important to the organization. Assuming you are creating value, it is important that decision-makers know that so they can make the correct decisions. Don't feel bad. Toot away.

Building relationships is critically important in almost every human endeavor. Get good at it. It is a skill like any other.

The target of your annoyance became a manager because he built up those skills and made it known.

Build your skills and make it known. It is just that simple."
I live in the central US. IMO my trash is not making it to the ocean. Why can't we identify these illegal dumpers?
Back when, exactly? Because if you're complaining about size, I remember when a '70s Dodge Dart passed for "compact car". (For reference, youngin's, you could put multiple bodies in the trunk of a Dodge Dart.) And a shadow of what? Gas-guzzling V8s that put out a whopping 250bhp? 350bhp if you were lucky? With drum brakes to haul yer ass down to zero? My 72 year old mother drives a '16 Corvette that puts out 450bhp and gets 25mpg. It'll stop so fast you can feel your retinas loosening. I'd have to take it to a track to get it out of shape, I dare not test its handling limits on a public road. All for $50K. (EDIT: oh, and aesthetics? I loathed those swoopy, gaudy, plastic penismobiles. Until I saw the new ones and said, "I would now like to own a Corvette, for it is much hotness.") Other examples abound. If you're into cars, there is no better time than now.

No, I think it has more to do with the collective realization that maybe a car is less a ticket to freedom and more an albatross around the neck of its owner. Expensive, dirty, and in urban areas an increasingly annoying way to get around. I was thinking just yesterday, as the fuel light came on in our ICE car, "gawd, what a pain in the arse these things are. I'll be glad when all of the vehicles in our house are electric." And I'm old.

Or more simply, maybe we collectively figured out that automobiles make a poor substitute for a penis.
> I am kind of sold on "static" sites, but why is this particular stack and set of solutions so exciting? (As opposed to using, say, Rails on Heroku

It's exciting because it's a static site and not using something like Rails? The static site approach still isn't that well known. Right now, I try to use static sites wherever I can because of their reduced complexity.
In case anyone missed it, a very interesting link explaining how QR codes work was posted on HN a few days ago[1]. I wish there was some explanation like this on this JAB code and how exactly it gives high capacity over the b/w code.

[1] https://www.nayuki.io/page/creating-a-qr-code-step-by-step
They don't exist in "the void". Property rights are fundamental to the free market ideology, as well as courts, police and military. It's the foundations of liberalism, with Locke, Adam Smith, etc.

I reiterate that free market ideology is positive, while government intervention ideology is more normative: it says how things should be and tries to make it so. The best case of this has been obviously Communism and Fascism: they said this is best, and organized top to bottom how things should be, and ignored any evidence of the contrary.
Bitcoin has never been anything but a money laundering scheme for drug dealers and tax cheats and various other criminals. It’s literally the only valid use case for it.
People print codes on glossy papers or try to scan them in various light conditions. This is not alternative for outdoor placement.
To add to this, I am getting vague error messages with any text of a certain length (longer than 100 characters or so) if I tweak any, or at least several, of the advanced settings.
BCH. Led to a meaningful drop in the price of BTC after the fork.
They see a google and facebook which are young companies which are worth more than every auto company in the world combined and they are tying to copy that. Most of these auto companies are 100+ years old and all together are worth less than google and facebook. Google and Facebook make almost all their money through ads.
Good luck sterilizing people against their will.
This reminds me of a drinking game my friends played in high school.

System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install.

I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.
Really enjoyed reading this, even if I didn't understand a lot of the jargon.

I find mainframes fascinating beasts, I don't understand how a programmer would be able to make use of all those "CPs" but it sure looks like a lot of power to use!

It's very exotic, maybe too exotic. I'd imagine hiring junior people and training them up on these things is a lot of effort and probably very hard to hire for - in competition with the companies offering cloud experience etc
FWIW I can easily imagine an angry, old white man calling a 30 year old white man 'boy'

Have you ever actually seen this?

Or, failing that, have you ever read the Alex Haley book "Roots"? or seen the television series based upon? There's an entire scene of protagonist Kunta Kente being whipped savagely as the slave master repeatedly asks "what's your name boy" to dehumanize him and strip him of his birthright and birth-given identity, changing his African name to a white, Anglo-Christian name.

I can't think of a better example than that of how that word came to be weaponized against an entire group of people to the point we have come to now.

"Boy" to black people (hi there, black person here) has a LOT of history of being blatant, unambiguous and pretty darn direct.

Although...

I suppose it's easier if one hasn't lived that life though to rest their laurels on what they "imagine" versus what people like me continually have to point out actually happens because we're the ones living through it.
Demo (https://jabcode.org/create/) worked on the first example I tried, then I tried using advanced settings and it threw an "Error Something went wrong" every time.

This was in Chrome.
This is what the Maersk CEO said recently. Everyone is importing more now in case prices and tariffs rise. He also mentioned that US exports to China has slowed presumably because the Chinese government force the hand of Chinese companies more easily.
I have spent my entire career in your area and can say with 1000% confidence that "the value that I create will talk more than the nonsense of some people" is something that EVERYONE assumes to be true when they start but EVERYONE realises is 100% incorrect after a few years in the industry.
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Python bindings?
From article: "In its updated statement, Tumblr said that while every image uploaded to the platform is “scanned against an industry database of child sexual abuse material” to filter out explicit images, a “routine audit” discovered content that was absent from the database"

Same thing as removing Twitter because a non filtered post showed up in someone's feed.
And in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, most families are organized as a sort of generational polygamy thing, typically with more men than women in the group because of the relative scarcity of women in the moon penal colony.
https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-...
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I'll go out on a limb and say that if we expand "buying illegal drugs" to "buying anything", or more accurately, "sending money securely, reliably over the internet in a censorship-resistant fashion" then that seems like a sufficiently interesting use case.

Even treating Bitcoin as a settlement layer, and saying that we have "an electronic bearer currency that is deterministically produced and cannot be forged" is pretty powerful as a use case.

I'm a huge skeptic on the remaining uses of "blockchain" such as it is. If we define "blockchain" as a one-sided Merkle tree, then we have things like git that qualify, that are very useful in their own right. Similarly log-based database updates are also chains of blocks that are used to represent immutable updates that can be combined into a mutable view of the present, and those are also useful in databases and filesystems. But a bitcoin-like blockchain is not novel or interesting in this regard.
Exactly, I think that folks forget that ATMs operate like that, if the network is down ATM doesn't stop working. That's why folk's account can go below $0. Banks have been operating distributed systems with eventual consistency for a very long time.
I am currently developing a program/course to deal exactly with this issue (15+ years as a team lead/manager/director, started in systems admin and development). I want to take a few students one on one through the course. Feel free to email me: students@makerleader.com.

I was going to wait a few weeks, until I had more content ready, but might as well start now.

If anyone else is running into something similar, shoot me a note, we can get a 5-6 person study group together and I'd happy to provide some generic basics, and do a deeper dive into the specific issues you may be having (free of charge obviously, hopefully in exchange for some feedback).
Sure. That doesn't mean they couldn't do a lot of damage by taking down the documentation, official repo, and download mirrors.

Again.
I’d suggest imagining what the story would look like from the other guy’s point of view, and I bet there would be no malice, no ‘mustache-twirling’ antagonism. It would be about how he always wanted to be a manager, and found a project with a strong technical partner who had no managerial aspirations. How he successfully managed upward and helped to coordinate and keep the project on track. Then at the end, after the success, he got the management role, his partner got to show his technical mastery: everyone got the result they were working toward.
LPCNet: DSP-Boosted Neural Speech Synthesis
Not the whole movie, just the way they try to capture him.

He's in that weird automated hover car with the rotating front/rear that can transition to/from being an elevator up the side of a building. It locks him in and starts driving to the police. He kicks out the window, then jumps onto another moving vehicle.

I think of this every time there is any discussion of cars that have data connections or can drive themselves. If stopping a driver is as easy as entering something into a computer, then it will be done far more often and with less justification.
How the Brain Switches Between Different Sets of Rules
On the security (or lack thereof) of the connected IoT thermostat
I think you are the racist to make this kind of comment. Those words can be used on anybody. When you say racism is the only explanation to tell a Black person to "get off of welfare", you are the racist. Only a racist can think this way.
> Mathematics, so useful a tool in the past, cannot describe this situation. The only way to describe this system is by using the system itself; there are no shortcuts.

> Math, philosophy, reason and order are inapplicable because they are only rules-based approximations of a chaotic state.

This is really a superlative cop-out. "My theory is so genius that math, philosophy, reason, and order are insufficient to describe it."
Tumblr has NSFW filtering. You have to be logged in to see nafw tumblrs, and have it active on your settings, iirc.
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The node_modules problem
Well, a significant portion of empirical neuroscience works under the assumption that parts of the brain operate according to a predictive coding scheme, and there are countless studies that support this notion.

As predictive coding is a form of free energy minimization (under Gaussian assumptions), this implicitly provides empirical evidence.

As for the request to test the idea on live neurons, "In vitro neural networks minimise variational free energy" [1]

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/16/323550
Especially my web browser, and iOS/MacOS/Windows.

The security issues are not nearly as important to me as the software actually functioning the way I want.

The best security is just not to use Google products to start, I know, but sometimes it's a necessary evil.

I also avoid upgrading Logic Pro / Final Cut Pro like the plague. Apple has a nasty habit of changing minor UI/UX features that really screw with my workflow, even just the way they moved the 'tempo' field in Logic 10.4.
Jesus, absolutely not.
The author must just not be groking Heinlein.
You are wrong. Calling out racism is not being racist. "Reverse racism" is not a thing.
I think he means, that guy is more culturally white than the Indians who he finds in the SV.
They allowed corporations to vote with their money and buy candidates. Undermined our ”By the People. For the People” fantasy.
Oh, I've seen snakes too. But I've seen people imagining that those they disagree with are snakes about 100x as much (or more). And if people don't get past this idea that everyone they're at odds with is a malicious, incompetent cheater, they can wind up being a simmering pot of bitter paranoia as they get older, unable to see the good in others.

People who let bitterness rule their lives are far, far more common than actual snakes.

Assuming my observations are correct (I may be wrong, I'm often wrong), then what is the pragmatic advice to give? "Be wary of snakes!", or "Be wary of your own human desire to be the hero of your own story and make everyone you disagree with the villain"?

To me, this is a variant on the Pragmatic Programmers' advice that "SELECT isn't broken".
If you look at browser apps and search engine apps, they're rated 17+.
In order to make a serious comparison of textual and visual programming, you'd be better off using a serious system such as Labview for the comparison, not a... toy for children.
You can write your custom resolvers in any language you want, you don't need to use node at all.

> Some cloud functions could be written in Node, but others could be written in Go in a different provider.

Yep, I write mine in Go with Hasura, works great.
There's no one-size-fits-all for programming. FWIW, I can recall a project where one piece was built visually (SSIS) and I enjoyed working with it.
it reminds my early days in oracle, most of the time was spent on debugging what's wrong with the testcase.
Callum Roberts wrote
“The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea” in 2013.

Everyone should read it. This article is discussing issues that are not at all new. That we treat it as new information is a symptom of the problem.
Pros

The author well formulates the limitations of VPLs (Visual programming languages).

Cons

The rant seems to jumble in VPLs for general purpose programming with VPLs for domain-specific usecases. So although VPLs may be "a bad idea" for general purpose computing and does a good job of explaining its downsides, it is a little reckless in saying VPLs are a bad idea overall.

The author also offers two straw man arguments to make their point, though I don't believe that these things are common misconceptions at all:

1) Abstraction and decoupling play a small and peripheral part in programming.

2) The tools that have been developed to support programming are unimportant.

Lastly, the author uses Scratch as its representative VPL example, even though it is probably the most far removed from "Visual Programming" and more in line with something I'd call "Block-Based Programming". These are far from equivalent and a poor choice to use for talking about general purpose VPLs (though the author does admit that it may have been a poor choice later).
Downsampling alone will not achieve this. It's typically done via phase vocoding or SOLA.
Aye, I don't know what the solution might be, and I know the language was already couched in terms of "probably you did something like this", so it wasn't completely prescriptive.

Maybe all it will take is another sentence that basically says "or maybe you are doing something else, and that's okay too"?
I agree, although I think it could be argued that a logical outcome of this fact, is that most (although hopefully not all) of the physicists should go work on other things, like maybe the physics of planet formation, where we are getting new data all the time. Or maybe in areas outside of physics altogether, like the social sciences, where again we have orders of magnitude more data than we once did. If the low-hanging fruit is all gone, move on. That's hard news if you've sunk two or three decades into becoming an expert in a particular niche.
The Humanities Marketplace as a Circle of Hell
...if everyone is over-promising & you're confident in your delivery, all you need to do is "promise" something between what is expected & over-promised in order to "under-promise".../
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Microsoft’s friendly new A.I wants to figure out what you want – before you ask
Make friend with people good at it.

Also work on being more at ease. "Limiting human interaction" is a bad route to go down to.

And finally on a positive note: learn to love your anxiety. Listen to what it says to you, knowing that its will ultimately help u do things better. People with no anxiety dont do things well. Learn to use it and master it to be better. Dont run from it
That's (fortunately) not the case everywhere: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...
What does being a young democracy have to do with how clean people are? Are you arguing that only people who have lived under a democracy for hundreds of years recognise how important it is not to shit on the streets or fill rivers with rotting corpses and plastic?

Also, I'm not even sure education can fix this. Nature made turds foul-looking and smelly so everybody knows to stay away from them. If Indians can't even act under their most inner urges, that's a whole different problem.