skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that Quantal was more or less about 2d paint and compositing.

The Symbolics Graphics System was more about 3d modeling and animation for TV and games. Paint was also provided - but also in combination with animation.

A very early brochure: http://lispm.de/symbolics-3/symbolics-3.html

A later one in German: http://lispm.de/symbolics-2/symbolics-2.html
classic fallacy of speed lost by dynamic code “i can’t hit save and refresh the page” vs compiled “i can’t make changes without breaking 5 things”
Is this a problem?

100% of deposits have been paid for by people. If someone else returns their bottle and the deposit payer can't be bothered, that's a win win surely.
https://maps.google.cn is actually working in mainland China, which I found surprisingly last month.
But the people using it would be consumers, and they would be familiar with the way consumer messaging applications work. So it would not be obvious to most people that the person on the other end can see what they're writing.
I think it can eventually have some unintended consequences though. A few years back I visited Calgary and saw signs in parking lots warning people not to leave bottles in their car due to the risk of people breaking car windows just to steal bottles for their redemption value. Alberta has a 10 cent deposit for cans and bottles under 1L and 25 cent deposit for bottles over 1L. Hard to believe people would smash car windows for a couple of dollars.
You may want to think back just 25 years to the early to mid-nineties when developers where considered “code monkeys” who couldn’t think past their current module and needed “business analysts” to write requirements for them.

It wasn’t slavery by any stretch, but working in programming was akin to working in “IT” and thought of as a department full of weird nerds who cost the company money.
GitHub’s policy predictions for 2019
From what I can tell, the issue is that the OP was using a single user to perform all calls. They didn't want to sign users up individually, so they took this workaround route and found out that it wouldn't work after all. TLDR; they weren't using the API as intended because they wanted the DS part of the UX to be transparent to the user.
Yes, although I think we might be better off with some dedicated teaching positions. Especially for for some first and second year undergraduate courses where the material is pretty standardised.
Michigan (see link) seems to further validate that theory.

https://fox61.com/2018/05/17/connecticut-trails-other-states...
Tell it to the workers in the video game industry.
Because you write the message in Vim and it adds to the paste buffer, so you paste it in. Since the agents on the other end are only seeing what's in the text box they don't see the preview.
Plus Vermont
Volvo’s offers interactive preview of the first native version of Android Auto
In Copenhagen, many of the public litter bins have a small shelf for donating bottles. I will hold on to a bottle for longer to put it on one of these shelves, rather than in (or beside) the bin.

Picture: https://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2015/07/KBHPant-Copenhag... ("pant" is cognate with "pawn".)
To me the primary issue has nothing to do with unions. It has to do with private property. The company pays for and owns the property. No one should have any "rights" to using it.
Both kinds of pedal are typical, but it depends on the type of piano.

For uprights, the una corda pedal moves the hammers closer to the strings so they don't accelerate for as long on their way in.

But on a grand, the una corda pedal indeed still shifts the entire mechanism to the right so that the hammers truly hit una corda each.
I imagine this is a big deal because women are vulnerable in a way and to a degree that men aren't when it comes to anything of a sexual nature or having to do with reproduction.

Among other things:
Society is generally okay with men having sex outside of marriage. It is much less okay with women doing the same. Men are generally not subjected to criticism for being working fathers. Quite the contrary: they are criticized if they are unemployed and have children. Women are routinely expected to choose between career and family.

I have in the past commented on the fact that insurance typically did not cover female birth control, but often did cover Viagra. The subtext there: Fertile young women aren't entitled to sex, but men are, even if they are so old they need help performing. Such observations were typically met with open hostility and dismissal, not like the observation held any water.

The ACA changed that some. From what I gather, most policies are required to cover some sort of female birth control, unless it falls under religious exception iirc. So this is mostly no longer true, but was at one time.

My understanding is the current administration is trying to repeal this and stop covering female birth control, so such gains cannot be assumed to be permanent. It's all too easy to reverse them and reinstate historical "barefoot and pregnant" style gender norms for women.

Edit: For context, I'm American and 53 years old. So I'm talking about (historical, before the ACA) American insurance practices here.
The question was what makes it immoral, not what makes it illegal.
Towards web-based modeling
The Facebook usecase is machine translation. Instead of learning translations between each language pair (which scales horribly), just learn to and from a common representation.

I expect you could also use this for classification that works over many languages.
Often people find it different when one party has the data, and has a decent track record of not broadcasting it to the world, and when the data is widely circulated.

I know around here we like to assume that all data is going to suffer a security breach someday but--

- In practice, everyone has more than two levels of trust.

- Someday isn't today.
The real problem here is that there the asymmetry in machine learning capabilities between big companies and everyday consumers. I think what we all will need in the nearby future is personalized AIs (that we all individually can "build" and "own" in the same way we currently do our personalized computers) which will negotiate the currently web against big companies on our behalf.
If one thinks about it, it's not especially surprising that the bottle bills are both uncommon and popular.

In order to have a bottle bill, a state needs to tax every bottle, convince grocers to help collect bottles, and operate recycling processors. Thus, the state's population needs to be liberal/blue/neoliberal enough on tax policy, have a strong bread basket with lots of farmers, and care for the environment.

Why do bottle bills tend to get high amounts of participation once enacted? Environmentalism is more popular than folks think. The bigger reason, though, might be that a culture of recycling has become popular. It can be easy to place a bottle into a container on the street, or for a restaurant to collect a bottle on behalf of its patrons, and those unredeemed bottles contribute to the redemption rate.

If the deposit is large enough, then a market for scavenging bottles can form, incentivizing redemption at scale, but this is usually considered a bad thing.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!?

Is this a move to defend SQL Server or expand Azure’s PG offering?
Wouldn't surprise me if the leaders reversed the decision, instead of it being a technical problem. They've been known to reverse some bad decisions before, like taking coals away from average citizens during winter time.

The government seems to be in panic mode, what with the recent news of luxury brands sales crashing 30-50%, lowest economic growth since 1990, 30% of factories have left while another 30% are looking to move within the next year, lowest level of birth since 1961, population set to shrink in 8 years, etc.
Do I understand you to say that sometimes you use "Chinese" but you also sometimes use "chinese"?
Advice: Skip straight to the situation paragraph as anything before that isn't about the DocuSign integration, not sure what the first section brings to the whole article.
Yes, the authors mention it in the introduction as a "well accepted manifold assumption."
This is misquoted quite a bit. Here's the actual quote.

"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
Even if it's FUD, it literally doesn't matter. It's what people think is going to happen. People need to stop thinking that's what's going to happen.

Aside from the fact that it’s never happened, and the whole scare is based around one family and regional government? Maybe I would help if people stopped raising the FUD level by claiming it’s a rational fear? After all, people are scared of many things that don’t exist, and the response isn’t usually to fan the flames of those fears with bullshit.

To be clear, the precise probability of this is demonstrably 0, it’s like saying you won’t let your kids out because you’re afraid aliens will abduct them. Rational people don’t then point to that fear as a societal ill, and certainly don’t spread the fear of it around online.
Thankfully, the technology to combat rogue drones is getting better
It needs to be personally identifiable. If the app isn’t tracking who’s data it’s collecting, then it’s not PHI.
When I was in Berlin recently it seemed ubiquitous to set redeemable bottles aside for the homeless to collect, or just hand them to homeless people directly. Seemed like only the tourists were throwing them in the trash. Not to say dumping bins doesn't happen but certaintly didn't seem like a widespread problem -- and how exactly does it cost "a fortune" to clean up a pile of trash in the street? Street cleaners are already on payroll.
I would call it libertarianism if most of the people I've written to seem to actually believe in minarchist government and having rights limited only as much as absolutely necessary. I don't think that's what most people on here believe. I think most people here hold a few political-social ideas they strongly believe in (such as LGBT issues or clean energy), a smattering of other fashionable social opinions, and then finally an entirely selfish collection of fiscal ideas which objectively seem to benefit themselves the most.
So did doctors and lawyers, at one point.
It's still down though
MIT 6.S091: Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning [video]
Really agree with the extra simplicity in the ReLU case. Liwen Zhang, Gregory Naitzat and Lek-Heng Lim showed last year that "the family of such neural networks is equivalent to the family of tropical rational maps", where rational functions are quotient of polynomials and "tropical" is in the context of Tropical Geometry, where instead of the typical "plus, times" ring one uses a "min, plus" ring that has somewhat unexpected applications. For instance, with its module theory one can calculate minimum costs paths in graphs just as one does for reachability starting with the adjacency matrix of a graph over a boolean semiring. arXiv:1805.07091v1
Lots of mention of CircleCI and Gitlab as the reason for Travis' downfall, which is very true. I also think GitHub announcing GitHub Actions[1] may have been the final nail in the coffin.

I think GitHub Actions will become a major force in the CI market in short order, it has so many things going for it

a) Everyone already has an account and lots of code already lives there. One less extra thing to worry about.

b) I trust MS/GitHub with my Cloud secrets more than I trust the various other CI providers.

c) The financial backing of MS to provide a significant free tier

d) The fact that actions can so easily be shared on GitHub is a killer feature. More are more projects/companies will build actions for their end users.

1. https://github.com/features/actions
It makes me think, slightly, of the minecraft sound track (https://youtu.be/bIOiV4d1SVI). If you haven't listened to that yet, give it a go. :)
I understood it as they were using the API for validation but loading the embedded content straight from DS, in which case they wouldn't be able to control whatever's displayed in the embed.
> sects of people were uncooperative and competing with each other all the time

And those groups who cooperated with in-group better have repeatedly outcompeted groups that didn't cooperate as well.
>No, their embedded view is hosted on their site.

Right, but aren't you telling them which view to show? For example, show document X for the user to sign.
The application is specifically meant to track this information, so to me that's cost of doing business. If they sell it to other people without consent, that's an issue.

It would be like if I went into H&R Block to get my taxes done. Should I be worried that they have my SSN and earnings? No, because they need that information to do the task that I'm asking of them. If they sell that to other places yes, that's a huge issue.
Idiots need to stop downvoting, the comment is entirely correct. You can read for yourself e.g. here https://www.uu.se/en/students/degrees-and-careers/degrees/le... ,
https://www.su.se/english/education/qualifications-degrees/r... ,
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/sites/www.lunduniversity.lu...
People outside open source are noticing.

Also PostgreSQL has improved by large margins in the last five years. The software is more akin to a pyramid rather than a skyscraper. The foundation took a long time, but now that its complete there is a strong base for growth.
Nils Frahm (namedropped on the NI page linked there because he was involved with making the real Una Corda) is a good place to start, his live shows are fun too.
No. They're not paid if the buyer is in a state that doesn't have a bottle deposit.
The only purpose of my example was to show that in general the implication that ease of use reduces to convenience is false. I used an obvious counterexample. In summary, to imply that I think your assertion that it's about convenience is unjustified and off-base. If you think I was drawing an equivalence between the two situations, then I apologize for not being clear.
You can certainly install a windowing environment into the virtual machine. I've done this a few times when I actually needed a windowing environment inside of Linux for complicated servers or doing things across multiple ports. It works just fine, and VirtualBox even has a "seamless" mode where it sort of feels like you have windows from both environments.

If you can set up Linux, you can set this up too.
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-linear-algebra-textboo...
Presumably the people who find value in this service have different taste buds than you and don't find the food they pay a premium for "disgusting."

Or they have different priorities than you and value convenience over taste, price, and quality. There's even an entire industry built on this premise, "convenience stores."
You will be astounded how much of the web breaks. I know you think you know, but it's worse than you can imagine. The number of sites that can't even display their images, the amount of third party css that is needed and won't load, dropdowns, search buttons, and endless Big Red Banners telling you that you need to enable javascript.

I am 100% in agreement JS is the problem and should be abandoned. But the web falls apart if you disable it.

source: disabled JS on iOS safari. I leave it disabled but have to open other browser all the time. Even stupid HuffPo "click to read" is JS. So when I click 'news' links from the main news widget they open in Safari and I can't read the article I have to copy and paste into Chrome (which does have JS enabled).

There's no way this is an ok user experience. But JS is not an ok security experience. I'm like F THIS I'M SWITCHING TO LYNX. :-(
Period tracking, especially as it relates to fertility, mood, etc. - sounds like health care to me.

Instead of an app company using an app, suppose it were a doctor and a notepad? Would that really be so far outside the doctor's wheelhouse as to no longer be "health care."

They're collecting the data in the course of providing a health care service. Which also raises the question of medical licenses.
Slightly related quote:

"You know what the fella said – in Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
I think this is a little simplified but I honestly believe that if the bible didn't contain the phrase "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth" the world may be a better place.
Not all are. Unfortunately, the need to unionize period is a sign that employers are neglecting the employee side of the partnership, largely in a never-ending quest for growth of shareholder value.

No one WANTS unions. We would like to be dealt with individually in a fair manner. But when tithe business you want to employ you has an entire department intended to get you to sign on for the smallest cost possible... Well... Some union starts to look like a pretty good idea. Even if it does end up causing a lot of grinding since common sense goes out the window once lawyers and contracts come into the picture.
I just checked we are using the v2 rest api. We create a user, we do not send them an email, we then add the documents and setup the envelope, then direct them to the user's embed signing room.

I wish I could find the old postman POC since that would make it a lot easier for me to explain exactly our sequence of api calls.
Also, better diagnostics.
I've seen that too from some studios. Legally the photog is the copyright owner (they created the work), and you're purchasing a license from them, and I suppose in this case there are 2 levels of licenses.

I guess one could try bargaining with them - because without you hiring them, there'd be no license to sell to you. But I guess successful ones can just turn you away.
One of the oldest exemplars of the use of lapis lazuli is "Ram in the Thicket", a pair of statues that date back to sometime between 2600-2400 BC. [0][1][2]. They're extremely intricate and, unfortunately, photographs don't do them justice. One of the pair is at the University of Pennsylvania and the other is at the British Museum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_in_a_Thicket

[1] https://britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collect...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bi...
I really like the concept of voting where my tax dollars go. However I feel that it should be fixed to some amount of points that every person gets to allocate. The results of which must be public information with granularity down to the state level (summary statistics). It should only be to specific categories that the points can be allocated, with no write in. However, it may be nice to have like a write-in section for what is bothering them. This would lead to certain things coming more clearly into focus (like what troubles the common man, rather than what is bothering a company).

However there is almost never a surplus, there's always some amount of borrowing.
[citation needed]

I'd love to see examples of this idea being promoted here.

I personally remember Theranos being attacked on HN first for being full of shit, well before it became popular in the press. Not to mention the ~2yrs where 'lean' stuff that was endless parroted here which is all about not faking it but actually talking to customers.

I also highly doubt any YC type company would fit that criteria either.

Maybe you see that stuff on Reddit but HN is full of some of the most skeptical and critical people when it comes to reviewing startups.
In my country (Spain) you must attach a photo to the CV to get into consideration.

I've been told in Germany you must attach a specific type.of photo, and you must gomtona professional photographer for it
Joy and Pain of Using Google BigTable
It's great that they highlight the effects of targeted advertising on eating behaviour:
https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/healthy-eating-recommendatio...

Definitely good to see a government organization being aware of how the modern world works.
I think it's simply because many people here dream of some day becoming the next Gates, Bezos, or Elon and they don't really empathize with the thousands and thousands of people whose hard work actually creates that ridiculous amount of wealth.
Many schools rely on adjuncts and lecturers to teach. They get paid very little, have no job security, no benefits, etc. But because the academic career path is so completely broken, lots of of very smart, talented instructors take on these jobs to make ends meet while they look for something else that allows them to pursue their passions with their extensive educations.

Don't look down on these people. They're smart, they work hard, and they deserve better.
sorry, meant just intonation (JI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation

it's the tuning system that was most commonly used before equal temperament in the west. It's attractive due to the geometry underlying the pitch ratios, but it's hard to work with if you have a bunch of different instruments that youy have to keep in tune with each other.
I think one example would be if you wanted to train a text classification system in one language, but also allow it to be useful for classifying text in languages it wasn't trained on. If the language can be mapped to this representation, it's a valid input.
> offer you $200

If you're lucky. Otherwise they'll offer you "credit".
"Cult of metrics" -- I like it. Perhaps "you can't improve what you can't measure," but it's also true that sometimes "you can't improve what you can measure," or that it's just not worth improving. Sure, you could pitch me a smart toilet paper dispenser (yes, this is a thing) that measures how many times it turns, then sends me coupons for toilet paper when I'm close to running out, but... it's toilet paper. I doubt your margins cover a discount I would care about, much less your server costs.
Why is it okay to pay less than minimum wage and deny benefits to what are essentially misclassified sanitation workers?
Similar in Germany. 2005 about 10% of bottles with deposit weren't returned, 2012 about 5%. Deposit is between 8 Euro cent (0.09 USD) and 25 Euro cent (0.28 USD). Source in German https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfandschlupf
So isn't ok of setting some minimal salary? I do not see why the developers would be against this, only the companies would like to abuse the developers and work them extra hours and not pay.(so probably companies are spreading the FUD against unions? )
I had a professor mention that during the last bubble (circa 2001), they had dedicated an entire building to the EECS department. Shortly thereafter, the bubble popped, enrollment collapsed and the EECS department went back to just the hacker type. It seems we are in another one of those cycles.

Anecdotally, when I was in university around 2012, I noticed that the same people who would have gone to medical or law school, abruptly change their paths to CS. When I started hiring people, I noticed the same trend in resumes.