skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> set theoretic tools over objects with varying degrees of membership

you can also do exactly that in probability theory by multiplying the probabilities. Is there any difference?
If an image says 1000 words, those videos said about 1002 words, and showed up as blank spaces until I right-clicked and selected "play". (Before that, they said 4 words: "This site looks broken".)
I didn't take your warning seriously. That was a mistake.
Yeah, i guess V is just a temporary name. Other nice names : Jolt, Quark, Ether, L, Lum etc;
Think of FB as an oil company, whose product is human attention, instead of oil. The social network is the oil extraction technology, that is used to mine people’s data and attention. However, the actual product is this data and attention, which is then sold to advertisers, who are the real customers.

The social media extraction technology could be replaced by other tefhnologies used to mine data and attention, such as videos, music, or chat services. The competitors, however, are other companies selling the same product.

That is FB’s perspective.
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Rapid Electronics or Farnell are the ones I use. Online only as far as I know, but that's fine by me, the Maplin staff rarely knew anything of use IME, and delivery is fast enough.
That's not entirely correct.

It seems like the issue is current spikes, and those can occur under far more conditions (HDMI, external USB devices, etc.).

I suspect that beefing up the power system filtering would reduce the power supply maximum current requirements quite dramatically.
It doesn't matter if you look at speed (seconds/operation) of efficiency (joules/operation). For most mathematical operations, a computer cpu will outperform a human brain by many orders of magnitudes.

This is both true and a somewhat irrelevant. It is a bit like saying that a cpu can run recursive, non-parallelizable algorithms faster and more efficiently than a GPU, even if the GPU has more flops. The GPU optimized to run a few types of computation very quickly, and is very slow on other tasks. This applies to the human brain as well, and to a much greater degree.
Ahh the good old days. I remember writing a program in 6502 assembler that could record and playback a digital sample, all using the speaker on the Apple ][+. I'm not sure if I also connected a microphone or if I just yelled at the speaker.

I believe the max I could record was about 7 seconds before I ran out of memory. But it worked and I was happy and proud. :)

I remember being amazed how i'd spent so many hours coding something that executed in such a short amount of time.
I did this and the alternative was me quitting the job completely. I don't think that would have been much better for the company.
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If you’re saying that PHP was a useful, Turing-complete templating language, I agree. I don’t think it was well-suited for large code bases with lots of business logic, and these days I’m horrified by the idea of a Turing-complete templating language in the first place.
Simplicity is undervalued quality. It's far simpler from the point of view of dependency management, that if one is developing a large codebase in C++, to also have the scripting language be native to that environment, rather than to first create a DLL of the C++ codebase, then implement the FFI to it using e.g. SWIG, PINVOKE, or such, to call the C++ context from one of these "premade DLL" substrates.

It's fairly trivial to expose C++ libraries to any other language context, IFF the library is wrapped to a DLL that respects the C ABI. The reverse is not true. You need to have some message passing mechanism in that case (yes, there are several not-so-hard ways to do that but that again, is added complexity).
It would be good to be able to find positions that are less than 40h per week. Feels as though all of the jobs are 40h per week. So that measure should either be removed (and fixed at 40w) or be filterable.
> and you have to ask your ~~parents~~ employer if you could please do something else on the side

What does this mean?
I don't think so. The factor that really killed C= beyond any hope of recovery was Motorola abandoning development of the 68k line of processors in favor of the PowerPC initiative, a few years later. And a LOT of stuff died as a result of that, not just the C= Amiga line. Though with Gassee at the helm, they might have been perceptive enough to pivot to the nascent ARM architecture, partnering with Acorn and picking up their abandoned Archimedes line, and thus owning the low-power gaming/multimedia space. (Keep in mind thst the 3DO was in fact ARM-based, so the technical affordances were there). But it's a long shot.
We don't need to add restrictions on private property and contracting rights to those challenges.

The axiom "reject improvements if we don't need to do them" (whatever "need" means - we don't "need" to do anything) seems a poor guide. What if we want improvements?

Or is this axiom just "reject restrictions"? What if those restictions make things better? Is this a kind of religious axiom; that it's morally right at some higher level to reject restrictions, even if they'd make things better? Does that apply to everything, or just economics?
Full Stack Developer wanted
Reference: HN-FSD-02/19
Location: Cambridge, UK
Start Date: Immediate preferred
Salary: Competitive compensation package including share options, subject to experience
Closing Date: 01st April 2019

At Healx, we're finding treatments for the 350 million people that are affected by rare diseases. We work with pharma companies, patient groups and charities to understand clinical unmet need and identify potential treatments for further testing. Healx is a fast-growing Cambridge UK startup, combining computational methods and deep pharmacology expertise to identify existing drugs that may treat rare diseases, enabling treatments to be found at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional drug discovery.
We're looking for a full stack developer to help develop our internal tools and infrastructure to enable integration and analysis of scientific data. You’ll work closely with people from other disciplines across the company who are passionate about making a difference for rare disease patients, allowing you to see the impact of what you build first-hand.
You’ll be joining a team of software developers using practices such as test-driven development, continuous integration, and frequent releases. You should be comfortable with development at all levels of the stack, including the database, backend and frontend. The technology we use includes Python, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, React and TypeScript.
Some examples of our projects are:
Developing tools to help our pharmacologists assess and find supporting evidence for treatments predicted by our computational methods
Importing and reconciling drug and disease data from a number of external sources for use in our computational workflows
Working with biological data curators on tools to capture information and build an understanding of the rare diseases we work on

Our ideal candidate would have:
Experience in building a web-based UI with a modern JavaScript framework, such as React
Experience in building and maintaining the backend of a web service
Experience working with relational databases
An interest in working with scientific data

Apply at the following Link quoting reference: HN-FSD-02/19
https://healx-io.breathehr.com/v/ySsFgINb3gSoW7O9s4lECw
I think of it on a per-hypothesis or per-theory basis: If a hypothesis or theory is falsifiable, then it is scientific. If not, then it's not.
Notes on fuzzing ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick
The difference between the deterministic substrate in an ASIC and non-deterministic substrate in a brain means we should resist simple comparisons even with any sort of computer hardware, specialized or not.

Synapses sit, from an electronics perspective, in a weird in-between space between linear analog computation and digital computation. There are lab prototype computational devices that might make good comparisons but it's just too different from, say, the sort of specialized decoders you'd find on your phone SoC for that to be a good analogy.
Different types of orgs are defined by how they are weighted.

Security startups, pure performance and relationships, with credentials a distant third. Historically anyway, it's changing.

Since we're talking power, not rewards, relationships and credentials appear to trump raw performance at some FAANGs as their business models professionalize.

Impression is venture funding goes to whoever fits the profile, so ivy credentials with relationships have the advantage over performance.

Different stages weight accordingly. The best businesses require the least competence to operate and maintain, so maturity converges on incompetent, nepotistic snake pits. :)
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The article is comparing the number of raw machine operations (which we can objectively quantify with a great deal of certainty) with a figure of 50 operations per second, which is the supposed number of operations a human (mind? brain? consciousness?) can execute in a second. Furthermore, it seems to conflate the bit rate (bits per second) with operations per second.

It seems wrong to suggest the brain itself, examined as a biological machine, executes only 50 discrete operations per second. In fact, judging by the footnote, it doesn't seem to be suggesting that: it's just talking about the conscious information processing rate. But consciousness is a can of worms itself. It's not at all clear that information has to travel through consciousness in order for the mind to compute or decide something. In fact, the opposite seems clear from many experiments, such as https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052770/

I'm not sure that the article's comparison is very illuminating.
Nope. plenty do. I do.
granted its verbose, but it gets the job done nicely.
easy to follow, plain functions all the way down.
My brother who was intellectually handicapped chose a similar escape from society. He died in his twenties of a pulmonary embolism. It was likely caused by a lack of exercise due to his excessive gaming habit.
Good point, will add that part.
What I meant is that I'm annoyed by the lack of compatibility with standards that could provide the required amount of power to a rPi, the current microUSB implementation is awful and shouldn't be repeated.
Long ago a company I worked for had an iOS app and use some IBM product for the web version (Leaf? or something) and they forced us to use it in the app as well, it recorded the contents of each page basically (some fields were blanked out). It also crashed so much it was worthless. I never found it remotely useful to have such detailed info. Tagging service calls with a GUID was much more useful, as well as recording service errors and exceptions in Google Analytics. While we of course knew who the tag belonged to (after all they were our customer's orders) it was of no use to anyone listening in or watching the tags go by.
Never heard of this survey. I guess only people who're using Jetbrains products had filled it... (looks at the editor statistics) yep, sounds like it.
Here's a standup maths video about that projector:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHjG759ABY
There's also no crypto core and 64bit userland support (that could allow actually secure ASLR).
People complaining about MacOS and leaving is anecdotal. Mac revenues were the highest ever last quarter.
tldr; everything is too hard

I have been writing code for more than 20 years and writing JavaScript for more than 11 years full time. The UI, accessibility included, is not the challenge. I have been doing this long enough at enough employers to watch people fail the same ways over and over and consistently qualify bad decisions with the same repeated excuses.

> This is such a gross oversimplification of the problem

It is not an oversimplification if proven in practice more than once.

> rarely do I see anyone praising it as it deserves

I love JavaScript/TypeScript. Some of the complaints against JS are absolutely justified and some aren't. The unjustified complaints are typically from insecure developers of other languages that loathe the completely foreign expressiveness and flexibility allowed by JS. The mountains of code some developers require to perform trivial tasks is absolutely worthy of ridicule though.
I think their trying to say..
But Facebook knows the other email addresses you use, due to using Facebook Pixel. The advertiser targets the other email addresses, not the one you use for Facebook.
Not excusing their behavior, but could it be Facebook have not matched you using the email address you have given them but your real address, which they have found out via shadow profiles?

E.g., they know you'd like them to assume that chrsstrm123@throwaway.example.com is your email address (and they do you the favor in all publicly visible parts of your profile), but they also see that most of the people in your friends list haven an entry for "chrsstrm456@example.net" in their address book, filed under your name. So they'll simply add both addresses as keys to your account.
How is it that the largest portion of people responding had over 10 years of experience in software development but the largest portion of people responding were between 21-29 yeas of age?
It's meant to be struck out but HN doesn't do strikeout text. I meant that just as when you were in school and needed a hall pass or note from your parents to be absent, once you're an adult you need a formal authorization from your employer to work on anything else than your job during your employment even if it's on your own time.
3.5A @ 240v or 5v?
Watt is "power" current is largely meaningless without voltage
I have been tree and
Also you can compare it with the age below. Most people are 21-29 years old, but have 11+ years of experience? I think the meta-physics of the job market make people write bigger numbers than truthfully would apply.

A smarter way might be to ask when was the first month/year that one got paid for python dev work and then calculate the experience number oneself.
> Free from day one?

That's great in theory, but how do you then pay the developers?
The brain has other differences that are probably a major influences on it's efficiency;

1) It's incredibly parallel, few operations happen linearly. Even modern GPUs don't really match that.

2) It doesn't run everything all the time. Parts of the brain not in use are shut down. Modern computers do this to some extend but CPU cores don't switch off parts of the ALU not in use. The brain has much better energy saving options, only 10-30% of the brain are active at a given time.
> swoop decided that Clojure was out, and we were no longer allowed to use it for new projects)

Can you share (some of) the reasons for that decision?
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they re implemented the TS-Lint plugin to use the same language server as typescript:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
All of them have shortcomings when one wants multi-threading.
Javascript , Python and Lua implementations are single threaded. Perl is slow. LISP is ideal but the commercial distributions with these features have licesing costs of thousand $. The open source (Common Lisp) implementations have all other deficiencies: not easily embeddable and/or big image sizes and/or slow and/or with poor GC. Currently the best open source option seems to be Gambit Scheme. I am playing with it and while the author is extremely supportive some points are still a little bit rough.
In the single thread world there is already a clear winner and that is Lua.
Interesting point about planning for contacting digital friends.

For family tech support reasons I have my dad's and mom's Facebook passwords. I don't think they have many digital friends, but still.

My wife doesn't have my passwords -- except the ones for my phone and my laptop -- but if she opens them she'll find Facebook etc. logged in (even though I've sworn off it for a while now). She'll also be able to see whom I've chatted with. Should I die suddenly, a handful of people who are very important to me may find out.

But if something happens to both of us jointly (this night atypical rainfall in my city -- twice the average for February in under six hours -- killed a bunch of people) -- these digital friends will go uncontacted. Maybe I should give some of my passwords to my parents too.
Why do you even need a landlord or maintenance service to swap a light fixture? Replacing a fixture is a bit more work than replacing a bulb, but it's not exactly hard.
I did say "Serious question", didn't I?

When people from outside the US hear US citizens talking about left-wing politics, we have learned that we need to double-check, because to many US citizens the US democratic party is left-wing, for example. To many people from the rest of the world, the US democratic party is right-wing. We have learned that when people from the US say "left", it's not the same as what we mean.

So when the original comment suggests that the pendumlum will swing "very-left", there's a real chance that to people from outside the US, that actually means "a bit more towards the centre but actually still on the right".

To bring it back to the pendulum analogy, if I asked you which way a particular pendulum was swinging would you need information about the current state of other pendulums to answer?

I would not, but this isn't about the direction of the swing. The original comment was about where the pendulum was going to end up. Apparently, the "very-left". To those of us outside the US, who have learned that what the (majority of the) US considers "left" is what we consider "still on the right", that warrants double-checking.

Well, since we're talking about US politics doesn't it make sense that "very-left" is relative to the current political climate in the US?

I do not expect to see nationlisation of industry and the effective abolition of private property in the US. That's "very-left", but it's almost certainly not what the commenter meant. So I double-checked. As conanbatt pointed out, there is however an actual genuine left movement in the US these days, which didn't really exist a decade ago, so - again - it seems sensible to double-check. Politics is heavily contextual and heavily individual, and to make the kind of assumptions you advocate would, I believe, simply lead to misunderstandings.
60% used personal and biz mix. 20% used personal.

All my co-worker kids code in python. My 8 year coded python stuff on a kano for Minecraft. So it seems reasonable that folks would work on more and more projects unpaid/oss before entering the workforce.

I like that python is both super easy and super professional and can be used for both.
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Can we say that python 2.x -> 3.x transition is done?
On the other hand the parser combinator library does it pretty well. Scala gives you enough rope to make a raft.
I once played in two poker tournaments on back to back weekends.

Tournament 1 on adderall. Tournament 2 without adderall.

Tournament 1 my consciousness and subconscious seemed to be working in tandom. I knew what action to take, and why I was taking that action.

Tournament 2 my subconscious seemed to play a bigger role being off the adderall. I was making the right decisions for the most part same as the week before while on adderall, but I was not consciously completely sure of my reasoning for most decisions until several seconds, minutes, or even hours after I had reflected on my decision making.

A little food for thought
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There's a subtler issue where you can use a number of different codecs with something like A2DP. There should be a lowest common denominator of common support mandated by the spec, but you can get into fun with codec negotiation.
It is a substrate. Not quite the same as hardware but close enough for government work.
No, schengen was another irreversible progression that we opted out of like the euro. The discount is because the rules so heavily favoured continental farmers. The UK was always the 2nd biggest net contributor after Germany (and top 5 per capita), but without the influence to match it. This is despite being told we are 20% less productive than the french ...

What we wanted out of the EU was a consensual free trade arrangement not to support an expansionistic political project that ultimately wants to disolve it's constituent nations.
JetBrains is so nervous that PyCharm ended up as the most popular Python IDE in a survery that they conducted themselves :)

No worries guys, As a happy CE user, I find it's not only a phenomenal contribution to the overall Python experience but also a huge gesture of goodwill from your part.

Kudos!
Tech work is becoming bleaker by the day.

I don't think we'll go very far, as a society, by dehumanising work more than it already is.
At least the agent representing the corporation knows who its master is. The interests are aligned.

Unlike with our our elected representatives. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...)
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It's still an alpha language. I would never deploy something in production with it.
I realized there's no good way to display who's on call so I build this in my free time.

Today I got v1.0.0 out. It can display ongoing incidents and supports basic grafana theme. At my work we use this on Datadog dashboards.

Free and opensource.
Are any of these apps used in the EU? If there’s no user consent for this privacy policy it strikes me that this isn’t GDPR compliant and these guys are just waiting to get fined. I wonder if they can get it around it by having their clients (Hotels.com, etc) essentially proxy this consent through their own privacy policies.
The 2013 VelociRaptor (likely listed as an F-150 in most databases) has a top speed of 155 mph. I'm sure most people could relatively easily modify a normal F-150 Raptor to get there as well. Electronic governors are common for this class of vehicles due to stock tires that are not chosen for top speed runs.

https://www.topspeed.com/cars/ford/2013-ford-f-150-raptor-sv...
Some people can choose to work 50% instead of a 100% leave, so there are ways to solve it.
> this might be caused by the weird Google standard of 80 column limit for source code which I will just never understand in the 21st century where everyone has 24" and up full HD to 4k screens

even if you have a big screen, it's still useful to be able to fit two or three files side by side on a single screen. 80 chars might not make sense as a hard requirement for, eg, a c++ codebase, but it's still a worthy ideal to shoot for.
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Some notes are interesting;

> VIOLATOR ADMITTED TO SPEED AS "BEING A RECORD"

another one

> First checked at 85 mph northbound on I-45 driving in the left hand lane. Sped off at a high rate of speed
"sped off at a high rate of speed".

Is that proper english?

>DRIVER ADMITTED HE WAS RUNNING LATE TO WORK AND THOUGHT HE WAS GOING 130 MPH NOT 137 MPH

that's a 80pmh zone. Is there some cutoff at 130 that would have made the driver's situation better if below 130?!
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> where `in do case if let` is my longest expression.

Not every string of tokens is an expression.
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I have had good success with, and have been happy with the quality of _MeanWell_ LED drivers and power supplies. You can get them through Mouser, Newark, Digikey etc.
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+1 for Philips bulbs.

Lights is something that I used to cheap out on but no more. Not buying Philips bulbs is definitely 'penny wise, pound foolish'.

Also, Philips Hue!
Runs on Linux and Mac using cross-platform libglfw. Windows is promised.