skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider taking as long of a vacation / sabbatical as you are able to simulate what leaving might be like and using that time to see how well you are able to stick to a schedule / routine, be internally motivated, etc. It of course won't be quite the same as if you actually leave, e.g. you may be less motivated than if you actually quit since you know you still have the job to come back to, but should still provide some useful info re: your concerns.
This takes more effort but may be the best long-term solution.
If they don't need to upload it why are they using a web browser at all? There are literally hundreds of programs that integrate tools to compress images.
I'll bite.

Computer languages are more about building a machine than communicating a human idea. Human languages are more about human things. We're all human and therefore should speak the same language.

Computer languages are sometimes so similar and help you build a similar type of machine. Think of ruby, JS, python, etc. All work very similar internally. I really wish we could pick one language (in a particular domain, say scripting) and have a monoculture. It saddens me when libraries need to be rewritten N times. I don't think there's anything silly about it. Web browsers could have picked python instead of JS, Rails could have picked python, and we would have been better off for it.

It's just a silly accident of history that we have what we have today.
>Michael Buckwitz, a physicist at Bremen University and an advisor to the project, said every source of CO2 on earth would be passed over every two to three days.

Given the predictable orbits, what will prevent nations / companies from emitting less on "surveillance hour", and emitting more when out of sight?
This is a bit random, but there are some formal systems for Euclid's elements out there (see, for example https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4315).

I think it should be possible to implement this in a dependently typed language like Idris, but haven't really worked on this (yet). Any thoughts?
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Could you not plant something on these devices then find them like mythical WMDs never found to justify things against Huawei?
Agreed. Comments aren't about important vs. unimportant, they're about words that are executed vs. words that are documentation. Even commented out code, in the rare cases when it's a good idea to leave around, is a form of documentation. It's not code any more if it's not running.
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Primarily Drivers. Testable => Trustworthy
The video we're discussing talks about how it's an "achievement" for chickens that there's 23 billion of them at any given time, making them by far the most populous bird species. For comparison the red-billed quelea is the most populous wild bird species, with around 1.5 billion individuals.

So the question if you're going to pose an ethical conundrum isn't to suppose that all 23 billion would otherwise be living happily in the wild, but rather the antinatalists argument that chickens would be happier as a species if they were all dead instead (well, except maybe some low number of millions who'd make it in the wild).

Of course it's rather hard to have that conversation with a chicken. Assigning human motivations to animals of that intelligence doesn't make any sense. Would you rather spend your life as a bird eating trash from a landfill, or take your chances in the open skies?

We know what most humans would pick in that scenario, but we can also see that there's wild seagulls that voluntarily choose to live their whole lives doing not much of anything except eating trash in the same small place, and they're pretty intelligent compared to chickens.

As ethical trolley problems go comparing the intelligence of a single chicken v.s. a single cow doesn't make sense either, as you need a lot more chickens to produce the same amount of meat.

If we're going to suppose some linear no-threshold model of cognition for farm animals we'd thus be better off if we killed 100 human-level intelligence animals if they were so large as to give us the same amount of food as those 23 billion chickens. After all we're killing a lot more humans than that yearly just from exposure to a chicken population that large, nevermind the ethical calculus.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-billed_quelea
I think our whole industry is full of proxies for the things we actually care about, which is for instance why we rant so often about the hiring process.

For another example, look at what we talk about with Clean Code or SOLID principles. We have that old joke about the two hardest things are naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors. I think the fourth hardest one is resolving merge conflicts.

You work carefully on code for weeks or months and then in one fell swoop it all gets broken when you aren't looking at it anymore. It's really bad for morale.

If you read through all of these Best Practices with the notion that merge conflicts are dangerous, then you start to see them as designed to keep conflicts from happening. Putting related code together isn't just about reading comprehension. It's also about keeping unrelated code apart. You and I can work on unrelated stories without ever doing a 3 way merge.

And if you look at merges as the problem, you start doing things like alphabetizing data structures that don't have a strong cohesiveness to them because then when you and I add a feature to the same data structure, we aren't both modifying the bottom of the file. I put something under T and you put it under G.

To put this another way, if in some perfect future someone invented a merge tool that never screws up, so that we only get merge conflicts when two people are accidentally working on the same feature/bug, we might start to question all of these practices as overwrought.
Routing mistake?
You laugh, but:

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/04/record-play...
I don't think so.

Assuming no entries or exits into a cap weighted index, there will be no trades. No trades mean no price pressure either way. So it would just be the active traders exerting price pressure. And index buyers and sellers would buy and sell everything which wouldn't misvalue any one stock.

I mean if everyone piled into the market, you would still get a bubble sure, but that would imply that at least some stocks were misvalued anyway, so we still aren't worse off.

'Intrinsic' value starts getting tricky very quickly. How do you go about defining it. You're implying it isn't the stock price, so assets minus liabilities? But then what about Uber, or Tesla.

What arbitrage opportunities are you making reference to? ETFs are basically valued via arbitrage, certain traders are allowed to swap the ETF for the basket of shares, or visa versa, so if the price moves away from the underlying shares, they arbitrage it away.
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without altering the hardware there might be no way to verify anything very meaningful
Or more likely, retail investors are pulling their money out of managed funds and putting it into ETFS. When pulling their money out of the managed fund, the managed fund will then have to sell some assets to maintain their portfolio ratios which is then bought up by the ETFS said retail investors are moving too.
I think the first thing is to establish why your current job is making you so miserable and exhausted, and what you can do to organise your day so that you are not left wrung out at the end of the day. Optimising your time and energy is a better option than quitting a job and dipping into your savings. Once you’ve worked that our THEN you can think about whether to quit your job. Because the problems you are suffering now are unlikely to go away if you make such a major and fundamental change in your life. They might - but they might get much worse.

Working with a therapist or a coach might help you unblock whatever is holding you back and identify how to increase your energy and reduce frustration. That would be a better use of your savings - right now - than quitting your job.

You also don’t say whether you have any experience on the business side of things. A side project supported by a stable job is very different to something being your primary source of income.

I’m not saying don’t take the jump - but get everything lined up and address the disorder first.
But actually ZPOPMAX is proportional to log(number of elements in set). So when the set grows to millions you may have a performance problem. I have no idea how fast growing this log function is so I really have no idea of the performance on sets of millions...
Great to see Multi-Armed Bandits getting coverage here. I wrote an article last year to help with gaining a deeper understanding on the topic:

https://towardsdatascience.com/bandits-for-recommender-syste...
Doesn’t kids mostly handle that stuff on their own? E.g. by refusing to watch. When I was in junior high some guys would go to the computer lab and visit really vile gore sites. I never did though. From what they told me it just seemed repulsive enough that I never visited those sites.
You often get the tracking number either before you send the item or as you are sending it.

I think it would be suspicious if you sent a package and weren't given one.
A guy on youtube bought a bit of forest for 20000 euros. It had two ruins and a tiny river inside. Enough to live happily with a few solar panels.
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Recently, I've spent time browsing sites like Flippa.com and others considering whether or not buying an active business is worth it. Has anyone successfully bought businesses on platforms like these? Instead of building, buying can save me the time, I just don't know if the quality/legitimacy is there.
If your child is watching gore vids on the internet then the solution is to sit down and have a very serious talk to the kid -- not to rely on a technical solution to prevent it.
>There's nothing "rare" and "very specific" about parallel processing, what's "rare, very specific" is the amount of software that's been rewritten/redesigned to take advantage of it so far.

People have been banging their heads against the 'rewrite this software to take advantage of multiple cores' wall for decades. The lack of progress is telling. For a straightforward example, look at the second half of this Factorio update blog: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-215

Factorio is a sim game that you would think on first consideration would hugely benefit from a multithreaded design. It turns out that doing so is actually slower(!). And although this example is pulled from a game, it is essentially the same story again and again, no matter what the subject.

Now consider the second half of your statement- that the main benefit of multi-core processing is that it provides more CPUs, so that if any one gets choked, the general environment continues to operate.

(Which is true, and a great advantage of having a multi-core CPU.)

But consider a little deeper, too. If the first, best defense we have regarding multi-core designs is that they are simply more single-cores to have on hand, what does that say about the relative value of parallel processing vs. single-thread performance? Inherently serial workloads dominate across the board, in every field. The few parallel problems we have, we have because people have put a lot of brain sweat in to figuring out what, exactly, we can even do with all these cores lying around.

Meanwhile, there are entire classes of problems that are simply waiting for better single-thread performance before we can move ahead.

This is a very real problem, and it isn't going away.
I couldn't get the .py source load on mobile, so I went by the post title. If it goes through ls-files, then it should be fine.

Though it's not really just .gitignore anymore. Plus it depends on git and its performance... I'm just thinking of really large repos. This approach would basically mean that the tree is scanned twice.
Asynchronous Tasks in Django with Redis and Celery
They were documents.
Was thinking mostly of messaging for the lights themselves, telling lights to tun on or off, checking that they are on or off and also that they aren't misbehaving, that sort of thing, so relatively slow modulation would probably be fine.
From a product perspective: We use Zenefits and it's pretty awesome.
From a startup perspective: I think they've given up the "growth at any cost" mentality which caused the drama few years back.
The packages are being delivered in the end, they just seem to be going through the US first.
Because website are convenient
You'll probably hear advice that makes silent assumptions about personality types. I'm the type that can't have a cushy FT job while also building my own business. Hasn't worked. It sounds great in theory, but I make far less real progress on the business than I think I do. I also think having a cushy full-time job inherently steers you towards "taking it easy" and distracting yourself with "lifestyle" things, relatively random hobbies, etc.

Quitting my job to pursue my own project, with a few years of runway, massively accelerated the development of my project, accelerated my rate of learning - ideal for staying employable, while basically subconsciously removing "lifestyle" distractions that come with making > 200k/year.

So yeah, chalk it up to personality type, but if you're serious about building your own business, the best advice, since you have the runway, might be to quit your job as soon as you can.
Go with your gut. There are jobs out there that don't force you to be that miserable. If you really have enough funds for 5 years(most people overestimate), it sounds like you can take a year off or more to work on projects. If you aren't married and don't have kids, then what are you working so hard for? Money? But you're trading years of your life and your longevity for it.
Anyone here ever used the web-browser that comes with GeoWorks/New Deal? Pretty amazing software. In the late 90's I was studying in Poland. In the computer lab of my dorm there were two Windows PCs and half a dozen text terminals. People were always waiting to use the more modern machines. The terminals were only good for e-mail (via telnet). They were XT-class machines with Hercules graphics. One day I decided to put a copy of GeoWorks on one of them. From then on I could always surf the web whenever I want. People were quite amazed to see a full GUI on a 12" monochrome screen.
Said's original work was just as myopic as this more recent revisit. There are so many issues with this article that it's difficult to list them all.

The author completely ignores the long history of conflict and colonialism in the opposite direction, namely from the Islamic world and into Europe. The idea of "the Other" is actually codified in Islamic law with religious minorities forced to wear distinctive clothing (the yellow mark for Jews predates its use in Germany by centuries) and pay special taxes, as well as numerous other restrictions.

Another tactic used by this author is to argue against the most extreme and least educated of the 'Orientalists' (Sheldon Adelson and Steve Bannon) instead of engaging with more thoughtful critics of current Islamic culture like Sam Harris and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

My last point is that this guy also forgets Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. His examples of 'experts' who misunderstand the Arab world for a nefarious purpose can just as easily apply to political 'experts' in the US who couldn't have fathomed that someone like Donald Trump could ever win the presidency.
They were documents. Why wouldn't they have just intercepted them in-place instead of sending them to the US?

It doesn't make sense to be anything other than an error and Huawei being paranoid (rightfully so, but still).
Does it do face stabilization over a range of images of, say, selfies?

If not, does anyone have a recommendation for which app does this?
China is collapsing economically, demographically, financially, morally, spiritually, and running out of friends. This trade war (and eventually, complete disentanglement between US and China), is driving the old men in communist party nuts. Thus a ton of erratic behaviors from China and Huawei.
Aren't we already in that situation though?

One charge levelled at active management is that they're closet trackers so they own at least most of the constituents of an index. And the big insurance companies and pension funds are probably going to have their funds spread out over competing companies.
If you have five year's worth of savings it's a no-brainer. Give it six months and then get back to employment if you don't succeed by then. Then work for anther 12 months and repeat the process if you have a new project.

As long as you are strict with yourself in only giving it 6 months, it should be fine. Tell everyone you know that this is your plan. If you don't get any traction within six months it's very unlikely that it makes sense to drag it out longer. Just cut your losses and move on.
Quit, you already know you want too and you know how it is affecting you... the question is what you want to do instead and you already know what you want to try.
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To quote Paul Lewis [1]:

"English is the JavaScript of natural languages: easy to begin with, entirely bonkers, but used so widely you can't really avoid it."

[1] https://twitter.com/aerotwist/status/1129820477667586051
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The back story could just as easily be a shipping error and Huawei trying to drum up anti-American sentiment as a counter to all the bad press the US have directed their way.

Sure, it’s highly suspicious that a Hauwei shipment end up in America but equally it seems unlikely FedEx would be dumb enough to advertise that fact on their tracking page if they were ordered to divert said documents.

I’m not suggesting there isn’t something deeper going on that governments are keeping classified, however if there is then they’re doing a good job of keeping it a secret by making this trade war sound like petty bickering.
Anecdotal, but from watching food/travel videos on YT, meat in general outside of the U.S. tend to taste better too apparently.
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Sure, but how do you find out if a child is seeing such things without monitoring? Let them get comfortable enough that they don't feel like they have to hide that kind of thing from you?
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What you should do is remain a dentist but develop a hobby rewriting the terrible software dentists have to use, then sell it to other dentists you know. The other day mine was complaining about his Microsoft based XRay software, and his appointment keeping software looked pretty frustrating too.
Using Kakoune as a Query Browser
OTOH I'm not sure why stalking is legal, provided you do it in bulk.
Testing a Zip Line That Goes Round Corners
Possibly because if the USG were caught reading foreign companies' documents on foreign soil it would be a violation of countless international treaties, which would make the ongoing trade and infosec tensions worse, versus "whoops, this landed on our doorstep, we can do whatever we want on our soil". The fact that this can be easily chocked up to a logistical error is good cover.
They just want you to think they were documents. The question is why ...
I don’t think reaping rewards equals guilt. It just means that regardless of you wanting the rewards, you will get them. I’m not trying to say that people who have problems can’t complain since someone will always have it worse.
This artist is just using the subject matter to explore his love of a filtering method that seems to involve reducing the the dynamic range, as well as the color space to blues and oranges.
I think others here have covered the stability vs satisfaction you might get by on quitting and just working on your own stuff.

However, beyond information people can give you, it still sounds like a very personal decision. For what it's worth, I'd recommend writing about it in a journal/diary. You really have to figure out what you feel about it, and I've found that writing really helps solidify muddled thoughts and feelings. Just get a blank page and write about it for half an hour. Do it on several different days across time and find out how you really feel about it.
You can limit the max concurrency of lambda functions which can help a bit here.

Imo the reason is this is for business/enterprise use cases configuring this wrong could be catastrophic, for side project/personal use cases its pretty well known you get 1 chance for a refund from the public clouds, after some manual checking to make sure you aren't trying to abuse the service.
> FedEx spokeswoman Maury Donahue told Reuters the packages were “misrouted in error” and that FedEx was not requested to divert them by any other party.

Scout's honor. Sounds a lot like Huawei saying it was just a coding error. Would they get away of a spying accusation with this? If it can happen in the US (FedEx, Cisco) it can surely happen in China.

It's strange seeing people defending this as "probably an error" and perfectly acceptable when coming from one side but definitely intentional and totally unacceptable from the other.

The hypocrisy is strong in this one...

P.S. For the casual observer, please note that this comment is not about which company is guilty and how (un)acceptable that may be.
I'd quit. Two of the better life decisions I ever made were quitting education/employment that wasn't making me happy, to free time for better things.

Also, in case you're not familiar already, I'd recommend spending some time reading a few posts at https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ - the aesthetic might seem a bit weird, and it's not a "one size fits all" topic, but there's some good food for thought. Maybe read it at work ;).
The SubC Compiler
Anyone who has shipped with FedEx knows how somehow everything you send goes through Atlanta. I'll bet this was just one of those "logistical efficiency" gone wrong kind of things.

Or US intelligence requested the documents be diverted. Either is about equally likely I'd say.
Seems like NATS streaming would fit my case - have you heard of any real world deployments that use it ? Are there any larger issues that don't make it a good choice ?
I’m guessing from the fact that you’ve literally just created this account to post these ridiculous statements that you’re nothing more than a troll account.
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I’m not sure chicken desires are quite that simple, nor that many humans would accept your deal. But even if we take all of that at face value: would you describe the result as “successful”?
Very much so, as with many single data sources.

One area of data sources would be nature itself - plants, insect, birds, mammals - all of those can act as sensors, the ability to measure those more accurately would be more useful IMHO. Though even when the signs are clear with all those natural sensors - people still demand more data. It's as if we live in a World that won't accept the warning sign, unless it is an approved font,colour,size and been approved by a committee that expands at a rate faster than it can vote.
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"SubC is a fast and simple public domain compiler for a clean subset of the C programming language.

It can compile itself and passes gcc -Wall -pedantic."

Related: An implementation of the SubC language in Go: https://github.com/qeedquan/gosubc
And those problems and solutions are also somewhat caused by / solved by more modern technology.