skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While i don't envy their position - i think describing it as working without pay as a little disingenuous - while they have yet to be paid for the work they are performing, does anyone really believe that they are not going to be paid for their work down the road?

In the meantime they need to make their rent and mortgage and car and credit card payments and their creditors aren't going to accept an IOU. So for the time being, this is exactly like working without pay.
IR but it has separate hardware. There's an IR dot projector, IR floodlight, and IR camera.
I'd go with "homage to", not "parody of".

Think George Romero movies: they're "zombie movies" by genre, but they also are self-aware and frequently invert or riff on tropes of the genre itself.
I suggest you to add Yandex to your search alternatives, so you can see what the truth of other side of the world
Wanted to follow back up on my original comment in this thread since to add some data since I can't seem to edit it now. I didn't do this in the Bay Area, I did this in the Southern U.S.
If you can get it to 4.2, you may find this helpful: https://laravelshift.com/
> They described someone who learned to play the guitar without any background in music theory.

I have no idea what guitarists and other musicians you know. I know quite a few and they've had to put in serious work on music theory (most from a young age). Many also started out with instruments like early piano lessons and transitioned to guitar.

It's quite literally a language you need to learn (memorize); kinda like maths actually. Some things may seems intuitive but only savants can compose actual music without training in music theory.
There is always a case in which all license will be discriminatory when it comes to "specific fields of endeavor". If the endeavor is to break copyright then a copyright license can't permit that. To take a example, permissive licenses do not allow someone to take full ownership of the copyright of someone else work.

As such the Open Source Definition with the phrase "specific field of endeavor" is limited to cover areas which don't involve copyright law. For many reasons, including copyright law itself, it can not grant that which would be the most broad definition of nondiscrimination.
They already confirmed it's monolithic several times.
Yeah, I've never had that pleasure except in toy scenarios but they are cool tools! Usually I'm dealing with 2-3 vendors worth of cruft and platforms that aren't publicly available.

You'd be impressed with the power of formatted printf + excel. Solved some fun issues like quaternion interpolation normalization via graphing and the like.
Nothing like a bunch of privileged computer geeks laughing at the 'help' that isn't getting paid. And mocking them because they feel insecure dealing with all the hostility every day on the job.
List for mobile:

> Treat everyone else like you want to be treated. No "talking down".

> Got Business Requirements? Are they any good? That may be your problem.

> Same thing for Technical Specifications.

> Same thing for Test Plans.

> Is everyone working on their most important thing? Why not?

> Will it affect the annual report? Yes? It's an issue. No? It's a detail.

> Keep the process that's needed. It helps.

> Ditch the process that's not needed. It hurts.

> Go with your gut. That's what got you here.

> If it needs changed, change it. If you don't, it'll change itself some other way.
> Correlation != Causation.

> Know the Critical Path.

> Keep your finger on the pulse of everything you can.

> Programmers produce. Everyone else must support them. (Never forget this!)

> If it's not written down, it's not.

> Relax and have fun. Can't? Find another career.
The `p` function in ruby is designed for quick pretty printing. `console.` in the browser are only* useful for debugging. Go has a `println` keyword so that you don't need to import the `fmt` package, and has a `%+v` format helper to get a pretty printed debugging friendly representation of an object.
Maybe the quoted terms were in page keywords or inbound links.
Congrats on the launch, really neat idea.

It looks like the product is not yet ready, and it is just a collection of HTML/CSS templates at the moment (as already stated in the FAQ). As I understand, there is no process which turn designs into code right now, and this statement from the upgrade page seems like an outright lie:

> Some features, such as the AI based trace-and-export, are pretty heavy on our servers and start getting expensive fast.

since How does shots work? section in the same page does not mention anything about uploading, and the Upload a shot page simply redirects to an Airtable form.

I love the idea of launching early, but is giving the false impression that the product is ready, and charging for a subscription on top of that really ethical? You may claim that you are actually charging for accessing your collection, but it does not appear that way from your homepage and links shared on PH and HN. Please do not mislead people.
I mean, its a rumor, so I'm pretty much pretending that Navi will be either slower than that, or cost more than $300. Rumor is that AMD had issues figuring out how to architecture chiplets into GPUs.

CPUs have a long-history of NUMA / multiple sockets. GPUs history of "Crossfire" and other such technologies is far weaker and has far worse support. It is less clear how software is supposed to represent asymmetric access to memory.

How do you build a GPU with a single view of memory, when each die is likely connected to its own set of RAM? Especially with latency being as big of an issue as it is already.

I'm sure AMD is working on the problem, but I don't personally expect it to be solved so soon. Yeah, AMD Infinity Fabric is a nifty 50GB/s chiplet bus. But HBM2 is 1TBps, so Infinity Fabric is simply too slow to share data between hypothetical GPU chiplets.
If you can program [1], you can do BFS - no need to "invent" anything. Given a tree like this [2], asking you to "print the numbers in order" is not a difficult question, it's a trivial one.

I would expect any interviewee that calls themselves a programmer to talk me through a reasonable answer to that question. Forget about what BFS means - you don't even need to know what a tree is. Looking at the image is all you need.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Breadth-...
The MI50 has 60CU's and 16GB of memory, the MI60 has 64CU's and 32GB of memory.

This is a MI50 with soldered display outputs since the MI cards lack them as they have no rasterization support in the driver.
Is techcrunch.com now for people who are hard of sight? That's a massive font.
> My son currently is enrolled in CS and his first 2 years of school are filled with humanities, history and a few more irrelevant courses

Yeah god forbid he enrich his mind and develop lateral thinking skills, empathy, perspective and wisdom instead of focusing exclusively on how he can best serve capital.
Back when I was a kid, one of the reasons I preferred paperbacks over hardbacks was because they were easier to hide under the pillow with a flashlight when I was reading them after bedtime. I read books during recess and whenever the teacher was covering something in class that I already knew how to do. I'd read during dinner unless my parents told me not to. Again, this isn't a problem with screens. This is a problem with what screens show you. Have you ever asked her what she does when she goes up to use her hour and, more importantly, why she chooses those activities?
>> media consumption smartwatches are used for

Huh? Smartwatches aren't used for "media consumption". I primarily use my Series 4 Apple watch as a watch and heart/activity monitoring device.

I do think the rectangular form factor is better in a watch, but this comment may reveal why Apple is crushing everybody else: they understood the user and sold that user a _watch_ rather than a "media consumption" device.

>> Microsoft Band being worn on the underside of the wrist was brilliant

Another misunderstanding of what watches are about. They're on the upper side of one's wrist because they're also a fashion accessory. That's how you get to charge $450 per unit sold.
Only 40% of Boston's valedictorian's make more thank 50k a year
I just want to reply to say I had a Band and a Band 2 and absolutely loved them both. Durability issues aside with the strap of the Band 2, it was such a fantastic wearable. I found it superior to the Apple Watch. I have an Apple Watch now but how I feel about it doesn't compare to the affinity I used to feel for my Bands.

That the Band seemed geared towards wear on the inside of the wrist helped make it feel both more futuristic and more comfortable. And the tile UI was so well suited to the screen size.

I was so disappointed when MS gave up on the Band. You guys did a great job on it.
I am happy that 60-144 fps is acceptable for you in the games that you play.

However, your experience is far from an objective characterization of competitive gaming. 60 FPS spikes are called "cancer" in such circles.
> Is there any UX/design/functional reason to have a round watch face on a smartwatch?

The circular functional bezel on a Gear S3 is nice bit of physical interface. It's primarily how I interface with my smartwatch.

Honestly, you're never going to get much utility out of a smartwatch. So aesthetics is the primary function of the device and round watches do tend to look better.
Is there any way to improve the HiDPI support? I remember that Wine was doing some work on that in recent versions.
Cool concept.
That's a whole lot less dangerous than being a mechanic or a farmer.
Want to also plug TablePlus — I got it in my SetApp subscription but it’s one I would have no problem buying outright. Really good stuff and consistently developed.
> Witnesses might not say what you expected them to; you might not fare well under cross-examination and there is always the risk that some unexpected piece of prosecution evidence might be served on the day in court (I’ve seen this happen more than once). Your barrister might screw up your case too. Finally, the jury – 12 random men and women – may simply not believe your defence and vote to convict you, even if you are genuinely innocent. Even if two jurors have doubts, the votes of the remaining ten are sufficient for a conviction.

As screwed up as our justice system is, having rights of the accused (such as to review evidence before it's presented and needing unanimous votes for a conviction) makes these errors less of a concern in the US. Not impossible, but less likely.
>I've heard a couple of times surgeons comparing themselves to fighter pilots.

The comparison is a good one, because we have figured out how to minimize the risks for fighter pilots, but doctors rebel when asked to adopt the same style of work.

Before taking off, all pilots - from Cessna to A360 - go through a pre-flight checklist. No pilot is expected to remember all the things that need to be checked - we know that we can't rely on memory. We tried this before, and people died.

Yet doctors only now are starting to adopt checklists, which are known to drastically reduce simple, avoidable deaths[1]. Things like rates of IV-induce infections go down to nearly zero when doctors stick to a checklist -- but many won't; the practice is met with skepticism even though it is known to work.

It took a long time for doctors to start washing their hands and stop killing people that way.

[1]https://khn.org/news/hospital-checklist-mainbar/
Ask HN: Why do software engineers always focus on salary and early retirement?
I noticed over the years that many posts and comments here (especially on topics such as working at startups, jobs, careers, etc.), people are always focused on making a lot of money and retiring early.

I feel this is very demoralizing. I can see this be the case at blue collar types of jobs. But across many professions (medical doctors, researchers, professors, ...), people are actually interested in their work! Why does it not come across that way from software engineers.

It seems, from many posts and comments here, software engineers are just wary of being used and abused by their employers, and looking to make a lot of money early and retire young.

Is anyone here actually excited about writing code, building software systems, and doing this until old age?
You seem to be implying this is inconsistent or hypocritical. These positions are each advocated by different people who passionately disagree with the other side.
Spikes issue is not about > 144 fps really, it's about frame times uniformity. You can have no spikes at 60 fps as well, as long as your frame times are not wildly jumping around. And you can easily have them at high framerates, if something isn't right.
AMD's APUs are good but aren't really that popular with gamers, Intel's new iGPU also looks impressive as hell, as they are already competitive with Vega 8 with their current lineup this new one seems to be a powerhouse for integrated graphics.

It seems that AMD will have competition on the APU side very soon, and I really hope Intel would pull it off and actually be competitive in the discrete market as well in 2020 or 2021 and that their GPU adventure isn't going to get a backroom abortion.
It's certainly a very small part of the overall GPU-buying community, but nearly the entire hackintosh community has more or less abandoned / foresworn NVIDIA due to lack of mojave drivers. Even on older macos releases, the nvidia drivers were awful.
Vulnerability in compiler leads to perfect stealth backdoor in software [pdf]
Minnows README says it supports lwIP-raw. Atmel apparently also has their own reference example of an lwIP HTTP server for AVR32.(Probably FreeRTOS based)

http://ultimaserial.com/classroom2.html
Do you have a bill-of-materials you're using as an estimate, to say that $700 is selling at a loss?
Models Can't Keep Up with Migrating Magnetic North Pole
Band 2 was a phenomenal piece of software contained in an atrocious piece of hardware, as evidenced by all the people whose Bands broke at the bracelet. I thought it was a tragedy. Band 2 was my favorite smart watch by a country mile, when mine still worked. It left all other products in the dust.

It's a shame the bracelet was so poorly designed. The thing was damn near perfect.
I think this is part of "Nature of Code" MOOC. I have a similar visualization on my website: https://raze.mx :)
It's just a matter of what people are used to. In a few decades a round watch with mechanical arms will seem odd and ugly to most consumers. Style is always in flux.
Amazon Sets Conference on Robots, AI, Space
Wouldn't Pi have very low complexity, according to Kolmogorov?
Yes but rogue femto cells for this purpose have been ruled illegal in France and, I believe, all EU countries.

Retailers rollbacked to IR sensors and now are slowly adopting counters on cameras with deep learning for disambiguation.
In 1984 or so, I was installing a new system my company designed in an elementary school. One of the kids asked if I could visit their class and talk about computers. During a Q&A, one asked about Japan taking over microprocessor manufacturing. I said something along the lines of "I don't see it. A lot of their chips are just copycats of US chips and they don't work that well. I can't see Japan taking over the market." I immediately noticed all eyes switching over to their teacher and I quickly scrambled to help her save face but I don't remember what I said.
So if fake news drive people to vote it should be a good thing

Absolutely not. I would rather people not vote at all than vote based on incorrect information.
We do use IP geolocation for local searches, so it sounds like our triggering is not detecting the context correctly. Would you mind sharing the search query please (if you’re comfortable), so I can take a look?

As an example, something like “pizza near me” should work:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pizza+near+me

In terms of protecting privacy, you’re right, we don’t need to store the IP address (or any personal data), so we don’t. There’s more detail about how we do anonymous local searches here:
https://duck.co/help/privacy/anonymous-localized-results

Disclaimer: DuckDuckGo staff.
Your cherry picking idea is fine, but your reasoning for it is bs. If someone wrote the code (or read it enough to grok it), asking them some questions on the internals will sift out who just copied some free repos.
Disclosure: im a full-time diesel engine mechanic.

my shop was due for a round of vessel inspections for our waste and fresh oil holding tanks last friday, but, no EPA. Without these inspections we can not technically order new oil or have oil recycled, because the EPA signoff is required as part of cradle-to-grave handling of hazmat substances.

so how do we get around it? we now have half our back parking lot filled with 55 gallon drums of waste byproduct from engine work, which can be shipped without an EPA cert to recyclers. This is also outright illegal if it gets big enough, but we've been declaring it as required by the EPA. since we cant schedule a formal review of that either, we confirm the storage with their hotline for doing so, and since thats not staffed and the voicemail box is full, I have been mailing Kodak pictures and printed descriptions of the storage.

our full-site inspection is due feb 2nd...without it, the federal government (if it were running) would cite us for a flagrant violation and shut us down. The guy who does that inspection called us and confirmed hes quitting to work for...of all places...the company that recycles our oil.
I was wondering something for a project I'm considering. If I build a web app for somebody and move on, am I even doing them a favour unless I maintain it for years too?

Not experienced enough to have an answer
> They're on the upper side of one's wrist because they're also a fashion accessory.

Apple watch is the ugliest possible watch to wear if you want to wear it as a fashion accessory, non-smart watches are fashion accessories. Apple Watch is just less ugly than most of the other smartwatches, but it's still ugly as a fashion accessory
I don't get my psychiatric news from entertainment television. Of course they make these shows as exciting and disturbing as possible to sell ads. Trying to take away anything real from them is a big mistake.
To give you a counter example though, I've worked at a big corporation in past, ended up in management hiring in engineers for my team. It was at that point I found out that the engineers that traditionally interview had never been trained on what an interview is for, how it should work, or specifically what not to say or do. I found that out because the interviewers would openly feedback things that were blatantly discriminatory and interviewees would feedback comments like "They sat me in a room for 3 hours, 3 hours of back to back technical interviews and no one so much as offered me a cup of tea".

We never had any lawsuits, but from that perspective I totally understand how the company I worked for (employs over 100k employees) saw every employee as a walking liability.
> My son currently is enrolled in CS and his first 2 years of school are filled with humanities, history and a few more irrelevant courses all to keep some profs employed.

I suspect, if you aren't just being hyperbolic, you mean, “because he chose to a seek a degree from a liberal arts institution rather than an engineering one (which would have some, but less, general ed) or a vocational certificate program or career-focussed bootcamp.”
The bit I random skipped to sounds pretty terrible. Barely "music".

I've definitely heard much better AI-generated music, e.g. stuff from Wavenet.
So if I wanted to slowly start moving away from Google, what would you recommend for an email provider?
What does "unlawful per UN" mean?
Is there any incident of a TSA agent being assaulted on duty or even off-duty? I mean, I bet it compares to almost anyone working in a high customer interaction environment. It’s probably more dangerous to work at McDonalds.
What risks? Major sponsors not using Let’s Encrypt is most likely due to marketing departments using third party software running the company site. I don’t know why, but marketing usually doesn’t want engineering anywhere near their public sites...
When do all the patents expire?
‘Bear Market’ Is an Arbitrary Label, but Using It Can Hurt
Just imagine how many payday loans are currently being processes right now at crazy interest rates. The true fallout might actually occur long after this shutdown is over.
About Linus: no; he's an architect.

The small business owner very likely has to wear more than one hat due to the size of his staff. This discussion is in the context of an organization likely much bigger than most small businesses of the kind you describe. The organization is inside a company that is in turn bigger. I don't think that a direct comparison useful.
Americans seem to think Prison is a punishment so the more miserable the better. In Reality, Prison should be a place to isolate those who can't be trusted to be free. When trust can be established, they don't belong there anymore. When the concept of prison as isolation is adopted, fewer people go to prison, including innocent people.
Peter Thiel – Understanding Roles in a Startup
Hi all,
Everyone knows the story of Zuckerberg coding in his dorm, of the video game Steve Jobs sold as a teenager, Bill Gates creating Microsoft in the garage.
These programming prodigies who started these lifechanging companies coding by themselves.
In reading about Paypal and learning about Peter Thiel he doesn't seem to be an expert in code or on the technical side of the work. He did not go to school for CS, and I can't find where his expertise in the tech world lies.
What is his defining skillset? What made him special to PayPal and eventually Palentir?
I know my weaknesses and I want to provide value at a startup level but am struggling to find a space that needs to be filled.

Do you know what each Founders role was in the rise of Paypal?

What are essential roles that every startup needs to fill from the getgo?
Sure we do: fake news is the dissemination of incorrect information purporting to be the truth (and not someone's opinion).
Even collecting water falling on your roof is illegal in some places...
Thank you! https://github.com/rust-lang/blog.rust-lang.org/commit/a775b... (will be deployed in a few minutes)
*some electromagnetic signals of a particular frequency, which makes it odder!
You never merged my PRs, QQ. Just teasing.
It ended when bubble burst in Japan. China is a controlled economy.