skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Autogenerated code is very easy in Julia — there is no string processing at all. You can splice things directly into quoted code (working at the literal syntax level) or manually modify the `Expr` representation in a lispy manner (in which case there aren't any `end`s at all). Code generation is _really_ easy, thanks to its lispy inspiration.

Block delineation in Julia doesn't require the newline. You can just throw a ` end` at the end of the line. Often you'll see folks put the `;` line delimiter there, too, to make things super-clear (as that's generally how you delineate multiple expressions on the same line), but it's not required for an `end`.

And while it is indeed a little sad that you can't use `end` as a variable name, we make the most of it by using it to also represent the last index in an indexing expression like `A[end]`.

So, yeah, not a big deal at all, but very few of your detractions even apply in the first place. :)
If you want to do good engineering work on a complex system, it's imperative to understand and remain laser-focused on what the system as a whole is actually trying to accomplish. The original intent is never irrelevant in that context. In fact, it's the foundation for evaluating all the subsequent decisions that resulted in "a multi-cluster, multi-zoned gRPC service".
I think when you turn off tracking what you watch it warns you this will happen. it does this for me i think and didnt before i turned off watch history.. but maybe i am just imagining that. And maybe you havent turned off watch history.
There's always someone, no matter what, who rails as hard as they can for the victim card. Go and take a look in the mirror.
How much can you save from it living in Dallas?
There is not only that social form of "network effect" keeping in, but also the "free basics" network effect. I noticed that while travelling Asia: In many areas you got Facebook's limited form of free internet, where Facebook's services can be used even without money in the prepaid card. Thus WhatsApp is the central communication channel. Many shops, taxi/tuktuk drivers, guesthouse owners etc. use it as primary communication channel to make reservations etc. That lock in is strong. (One has to see how Facebook will monetize this, but we'll internet==free basics==Facebook+WhatsApp gives them a strong advantage.
I’m as much a Jeff Dean fan as the next guy, but he doesn’t live-code in the talk you linked. The article says code/demo is great, just live-coding isn’t.
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DeepMind’s AI agents conquer human pros at Starcraft II
AFAIR that WSJ exposé is recent; if so, this is not a reaction to this - last year, I've been working on some code integrating with GMail, and I remember encountering the announcement of this change 6+ months ago.

EDIT: at least I think I do. I tried to find a reference to this in my project note, to confirm the timestamp, but I failed. So it could be I've seen it in October 2018, as 'Ivoirians pointed out.
Tinder settles age discrimination lawsuit with $11.5 M worth of Super Likes
This notation is already taken in the computer science world and is used in robotics planning algorithms. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~motionplanning/lecture/Chap2-Bug-Alg...
If one guy closes the whole park that's a failure of management.
Honestly, the title of this article makes me not want to read it. $BIG_COMPANY maybe did a thing on purpose.

Big companies do all kinds of things that we can speculate on. Wait until it is confirmed to call it news
The American dream is living off an allowance at your parents house while in your 30s?

This really reads as a cautionary tale and why you shouldn’t leave inheritances to young family memebers
Minutes spent stuck in traffic, to me, are almost worse than being dead.
$135k Cloud Network Engineer - Dallas (mid/senior level)
I ride a motorcycle, but you and I "balance our books" very differently.
I had to blink at this headline.

It’s 2019 and it appears this headline was better fit for 5 years ago.

I work as a dev, and I still have to climb through hoops and spend money on multiple technical interviews to get hired. Friends in other industries will sometimes even have it harder.

Where are these plentiful jobs? Where is this labor market so great that employees can just walk out on a whim?
This seems like NPR is out of touch.
I'm sad this person has so little to do they feel the need to lament about it online. Makes me ill, given how much I've had to fight for what I have.

Sorry you can't make more money yourself. Get over it, go do something meaningful, really don't have an excuse if you have the means.
But if you already accept Girocard marginal cost of accepting Visa/MC (with which they are co-branded frequently, as I understand) should be extremely low. But what I encountered is a lot of cash-only places, from fast food & restaurants to museums. In US, where I live, I know maybe one or two cash-only restaurant out of a thousand. In Berlin, it felt like the majority is. And the delta in fees can't be that big...
Patents are written to be as broad as possible. The most careful interpretation is that if anyone does option chaining anywhere, it is covered by the patent, and actionable by the patent holder.

Companies that are mere consumers of IT have been sued by patent trolls, and paid up.
No data mining with G Suite.

https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/goo...
Whatever one's view of this approach, it seems to justify a FAQ entry like "My app doesn't charge money. How does Google recommend I proceed?"

Even if the answer is that Google is indeed shutting out free/not-for-profit and pre-revenue apps (collateral damage), it should at least be stated explicitly.
Small enough pedestrian zones and improved public transit are something cities (especially US cities), the hatred and proposals are exactly what you'd expect to hear from an overpaid young professional with no responsibilities, commute by an electric scooter, food catered at the office and delivered to home by some Munchery. Sure! You might be paid well enough that you won't notice that everything becomes more expensive, and if someone who actually works for a living goes broke because in the real world (as opposed to one where pink unicorns pull wonder-busses from any point A to any point B) they now have to pay $100 a day just to get to work and back home. Let them eat cake?

And sure, yes, cities existed before cars. And people lived in caves with no running water, too. Or, maybe more pertinently, people lived just fine (oftentimes better) without a good chunk of "disruption" and "innovation" that comes out of SF/SV. Should we ban them as well? Or maybe tax every Twitter and AirBnB... say a Billion a year to partially cover all the negative externalities?

Actually, the last one might be a good idea. /s
Indeed. And as I said this reasoning might eat 90% of sql server's revenue.
The history of major roads, especially interstate highways, is a history of the need for roads capable of allowing large military vehicles and troop movements. Has that changed?
Electric bikes are getting more and more popular here in Norway (and we got hills and cold weather). Studded tires and an electric motor doing most of the work helps.
The counterargument here is that "everyone" doesn't laugh about how stupid these videos are. Many people do, maybe most people, but some go, "Well, yeah, it's kinda crazy and stupid, but it makes you think." Fringe ideologues may upload videos to YouTube in part to hear themselves speak and to preach to the choir, but they also expand their audience and reach.

Do you think all videos in which people are wrong about things should be taken down??

Suppose Video A posits "your computer has a little gremlin inside of it and you should shove an oatmeal cookie into the CD slot at least once a month to keep the gremlin happy" and Video B posits "the Jewish-controlled mass media is conspiring to make us believe school shootings are a real thing and you should stockpile weapons for the coming race war." They are both technically "videos in which people are wrong about things," but isn't there a qualitative difference between those two things? Don't you think it's defensible for YouTube to take down Video B without taking down Video A?
Western reactors are designed to fail safe in the event of a complete failure like this, they'd just scram them.

Of course the same time as the electrical storm trashes the grid shutting down all the baseload nuke plants would just add to the chaos.
> I don't think that's really different between hardware and software.

Marketing budget is something inherent in small vs. big companies in all industries, so I do not agree that the fact that software and hardware share this makes them similar.

Your example does demonstrate a benefit of software patents in theory, but is this how they are typically used in practice?
Too Good to Be True?
I really enjoyed ShowStopper when I read the original release in 1994.

In particular, I really admire the people who worked on that project, because they had a lot of field-tested reasons for the things they were doing.

But the whole subsystems concept basically cleaved the logical domains in a way that was obviously, even at the time when I read it, not going to extend well in the future. While the POSIX and OS/2 stuff can be seen as a kind of hubristic base-covering (the one kernel to end all kernels), it should not have made the cut in a disciplined engineering organization.
The FTC's doors are closed because of the government shutdown.
When I was contacted by a scammer, I naturally took matters into my own hands.
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True, through many well-drafted US "software patents" can be successfully prosecuted in the EU without too much trouble.
I can understand why those who put money and greed above people who are systematically trying to gut the NHS. I understand because to many, their God is money. Their be all and end all of life. Their alpha and their omega.

Don't confuse that with me understanding them. I am a people before everything kind of guy. In the immortal words of Princess Leia - "If money is all you love, then that's what you'll receive."

I'm vehemently opposed to the NHS being privatized. It's an institution and the crown jewel that sets Britain aside from the rest of the world. To see people supporting their attempts to privatize it and send Britain down the same path as the U.S. in my mind is the ultimate failure of the British people and it infuriates me - worse even than Brexit.

When did we become a people who believed the lies and rhetoric spewed by those on TV over our own education? When did we become a people who just blindly followed what we were told like lambs to the slaughter?

I thought we were better than that, honestly. It makes me sick.
It's actually not that easy to take out a loan. Someone making minimum wage with a home to put up as collateral, even with perfect credit would probably only be able to take out $10,000 to $20,000. As others have mentioned, there are interest rates involved with the loan as well. It's less than a credit card, but a lot harder to get approval.

If the employees are currently paycheck to paycheck, and even considering a loan then chances are they would not be eligible for a loan.
Behind AlphaGo
> Two rounds of XChaCha12 are followed by an AES-256 encryption, but of just 16 bytes

I am not a cryptographer so I am a bit clueless on topics like this but I am wondering, why are they doing this? Does this provide any significant benefit to just chacha12 or chacha12 + poly1305?
If you liked Show Stopper, you would probably really like the various MIT Platform Series books. Each of them is excellent and while they are not really the story of new product development, there is plenty of product development in them.
I can see arguments for "it's all Trump", "it's mostly Trump", and "the difference in 'fault' isn't meaningfully large", but I can't see an argument for "it's all/mostly Democrats". Can you elaborate?

Edit: I'm not being snide, I'm actually ignorant.
It would be interesting to know if there were similar techniques employed for AlphaStar and AlphaGo, with DeepMind's use of LSTMs, etc...
If you're in the United States, 90% of the population can receive the 24/7 PBS Kids channel over the air for free.

If you're worried about the quality of content from YouTube, or the chances that someone gaming the system dumps questionable content into your stream, it's worth spending ten bucks on an antenna. It's also good for supplementing your child's YouTube viewing when YT starts showing the same stuff over and over.
Machine Learning Will Change Software Development
Indeed but without intrinsics, functions using those vector instructions cannot be inlined, and the go calling convention's overhead is still big.
According to salary.com a systems architect in Dallas has a median income of $118k base salary.

If $140k was your base, that's good for the area, roughly in the top 10-15% eyeballing it from the salary curve.

Here's mine...
Base pay: $127k
Real pay: $156k
My location: Orlando
Employer location: Phoenix
Weeks vacation: 6
see also the ngram viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conspiracy+the...
It's not unusual in America to find shopping centers where you have to drive, park your car, and then walk several hundred feet to actually enter the store, thanks to the enormous parking lot, because everybody has to park.

So, I'm not exactly sure how much the car culture is actually working in your favor. The alternative (public transportation) means parking lots can be smaller and closer to the actual destination.
I bet you're from Europe. Keep your draconian laws over there, please.
Ive often thought how neat it would be to have a pirate cable car which was capable of putting a clamp down on the cable and moving along, releasing when it needed to move about like a normal car.

Source: actually born in san francisco and have thought this since the 80s
Please no. That's the equivalent of presenting an unedited video recording onstage and saying it's all cool because you can fast forward and pause it.

Take the time to build a proper, edited presentation.
From my understanding AlphaStar used a LSTM to determine the actions of its agents, but it had a transformer to draw attention to a subset of the inputs
Nowhere to go but up, really.
Maybe they should be there for people who seek them out, but YouTube shouldn't be recommending them onto people who didn't previously want them and who might not be approaching it skeptically.
The first thing you should realize is that pedestrianized spaces are really nice for traveling in a wheelchair or mobility scooter. The second thing is that there are cars available in Europe, called Cantas, that are conventional gasoline ICE cars with purposely shrunk engine displacement. You'd never take one of those on the highway, but the underpowered engines make them safe (and legal) to take on any sidewalk or bike path.

All in all, a car free space can be far better for the disabled than what we have right now.
Azure AD Broke OIDC in Kubernetes 1.9
All the AI stuff is really still incredibly dumb. Same for Amazon: Buy a mixer and suddenly you will be haunted everywhere by ads offering more mixers.
Also, in New York, intersections whose signals don't change automatically on a (reasonably short) buttonless timer are vanishingly rare.
There's a lot of Python learning resources here: https://forums.fast.ai/t/recommended-python-learning-resourc...

My main recommendation is to try to do as many things as you can with code, instead of manually or with domain-specific tools. Even if it's slower at first, solving your own problems with code is the best way to become a productive coder.
It would be nice to get an in-depth overview of the techniques used behind AlphaStar...
The problem is really not cars, but (if any) the way they have to be built. You could easily fit 4 people in a 400kilo vehicle on 2,5m length and move them safely at speeds of up to 100km/h. But crash regulations are so strict and the buildable types of cars so restricted that we all have to have the heavy, expensive, has driven cars that we now have.
The government runs on continuing resolutions when they can't decide on a real budget pretty often already. It's not great, but it's way better than parties being able to hold government workers hostage over policy priorities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_resolution#List_of_...
I know no one commuting on an electric bike...
How the Second Law Nearly Fell into a Black Hole
Just value it like you would any other choice to work. Expected value of an hour working = (increased probability business succeeds due to an additional hour of your time) * (expected value of potential cashout based on how you value their product/idea).
Unpressurized high performance single engines are basically the number one private pilot killer. Dentists and business men with a few hundred IFR hours will go up solo in their new million dollar TBM, lose oxygen, descend into icing, and that's a wrap. Don't be one of those guys.
Do you need a two tonne steel box, or could you make due with an electric wheelchair?
I love watching crackpot conspiracy videos on YouTube, especially flat earth & moon landing denier stuff. Beyond just the curiosity to dissect their weird contrived explanations, there's tons of interesting scientific & historical context to be learned from the counterpoint experiments and such. I hope it will still be generally available & in the sidebar if you're already watching such content.

Also, generally speaking, you really should block youtube cookies. The recommender doesn't seem to track your history then, and the entire experience is FAR better, simply recommending associations from that single video, instead of always trying to railroad you back into where you've historically spent more time.
Software based inventions aren't special, they are just new to the game.
Unless you have history disabled entirely.

Why can't we opt out completely from "recommendations"?
I'd intuit you're probably right. One problem when people are too honest in public though is that negativity is perceived more than its opposite. Having a bad quality can invalidate your good ones sadly.
Settlement is somewhat different than the EC models you're used to. For one thing, a settlement may never occur and an unwind will be required. At least the EC systems I've dealt with where there application is responsible for resolving the conflict don't really have the concept of doing a chain-of-events unwind.

My complaint here is that there actually are two data layers here with completely different semantics and the difficulties of 2PC are meaningfully relevant to the system-of-record layer, not so much the log layer (since enqueue into the log is not really problematic in the real world).
DeepMind reduced the problem to search using the two Deep Neural Networks. MCTS is an old technique but it clearly worked here
You're right, a lot of these metrics aren't as useful for startups and small companies as they are for bigcos.

> Having an "objective" process is near impossible

You're completely right here, however there are plenty of biases that can be avoided by attempting some level of objectivity.

> I doubt this process is risk averse

The risk-aversion is about avoiding hiring people that can't write code. You're right that it doesn't filter for character, which you will discover very quickly when working at larger companies! However a lot of the processes such as code review and design reviews help mitigate some of the bad character quirks that impact software. These processes are often not present at smaller companies, so the impact of character flaws is much larger there.

> Relevancy seems like a joke in your list

I'd say it's one of the most important ones on the list, especially for startups. When I was hiring for startups, I would get loads of people who could talk the talk but couldn't write a line of code. "Relevancy" means that your interview confirms that the candidate can actually code rather than just talk about it.
Many thanks for letting me know - I've fixed that link now. FYI the ML course is now at: http://course18.fast.ai/ml
Which doesn't explain the ones with neither haptic nor audible feedback.
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> Isn’t part of the interest here that Oslo made a shift, rather than always having had it this way?

Copenhagen made the shift in 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%B8get

Interestingly, many local merchants opposed the shift in fear of losing customers. But then soon saw how the pedestrianized street started to boast more shoppers to their stores.
What they're improving at right now isn't any specific AI model, it's how to train the AI models. It's meta-machine learning. I don't doubt that they can quickly train up a new model under different constraints now that they know how best to train up said models. It's not like they throw away all progress once they change some constraints; far from it.
> There are some ways in which they're slightly more difficult (e.g., a manual transmission)

Note the vanishingly small number of manual transmission cars on the market.

> IMO this is a tragedy of the commons

Yes it is.
His base includes a number of people voted into office. It's really kind of odd that they can't even trust when their own party has the entirety of government. I don't understand why people dislike any government, yet don't like if you call them anarchists either. The arguments aren't consistent. The odd thing is most people do not disagree with a wall in places that make sense. A wall for a wall's sake is just pointless. I'd rather put that into tools or manpower (or heaven forbid pay increases). A single drone with heat vision could scan entire sectors, be controlled remotely and wouldn't require using eminent domain. Also it couldn't be dug out, cut down, or climbed over or through. As General Patton is quoted to have said "fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man".
> Its an irony or tragedy when people can't get care in their host country with stronger infrastructure in other places.

Except that that isn't really it. It's that it's more subsidized in one place than the other. If it's $200 here and $100 there, and it's exactly the same thing, who doesn't want to save $100? That's true even for people who can afford the price here.

Probably what Mexico should be doing is charging separate prices to foreign nationals.