skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud this article for calling this what it is... Theft.
Accidentally what? =)
Disconnected, okay. Lose your cart... why? Cookies and sessions existed back then.
The market is weird and it's currently a zero sum game at best. DCC tools are in this weird little market that has extremely few paying (and mostly cash-strapped) customers, but the software itself is ridiculously complex. IIRC, Maya was estimated at ~5 mio. lines of code when version 1 or 2 was released, and it has gotten much, much more complex since. My understanding is that not all companies selling these programs are in the market for profit. If that goes away, it's likely that everybody loses.
> Amazon Flex does this well.

I feel like you intended this to be "Amazon Flex does this AS well"

... which is the difference between saying "they ALSO do this" and "they do a good job at this".
It appears not to be. The earlier Legion was developed at the University of Virginia. I see no reference to it on the web page or in the sources on GitHub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(software)
>"Monopsony leverage" and "bargaining" is just price controls. You don't even need single payer for that if you want to do it, you can just legislate prices.

No, monopsony leverage is not the same as a price control. The minimum price that monoposony can give you is the cost to produce the given drug. Price controls allow you to mandate a price lower than their cost to produce, hence the negative effects you mention.

>This is complicated in this case by the fact that most of the cost is R&D

This is also false. Marketing outweighs the R&D budgets at most private pharmaceutical companies.

>a lot of the costs basically amount to regulatory capture or drug companies outsmarting the government

It sounds like you’re advocating for the dismantling of the drug patent system, which is a far more radical proposal. I agree that regulatory/market failure also contributes to high costs, it’s why I believe the free market poorly maps onto the problem of providing healthcare.
I don't even find Amazon cheap. Walmart online is often cheaper.

Where does that leave Amazon? I don't buy anything anymore. Digikey and Walmart online are my prime online stores
> which is impossible on [..] Apple.

Out of curiosity, why is that? macOS does provide a Unix environment and Bash & Zsh shells. (and Homebrew or MacPorts are package managers that can provide updated versions of whatever)
> But it's not. In a modern editor, swapping two lines is ctrl-shift-up for swapping up, or ctrl-shift-down for swapping down.

Sure, if you really hate your hands. ;)

> So were you a faster typer? How was it faster?

Maybe I just was a faster typist. I don't know. It doesn't really matter to the point: if your text editor gets out of the way enough that text editing isn't your bottleneck, then all time spent optimizing your text editor usage is completely wasted. My argument isn't "vim is better than Notepad++", my argument is "vim in the default configuration is good enough to not be a bottleneck". Notepad++ may be good enough to not be a bottleneck either--I haven't used it enough to have an opinion.

> Language specific shortcuts (like go to definition)

I would argue that this is more of an IDE feature than a text editor feature.

> multi-cursor editing for editing formulas and the like.

I'm not sure what you mean here. There's two things I do in vim which might be what you're talking about: splits so I can be in two parts of the same file at once, or splits where I have a REPL open and am editing fragments in one half of the screen while running them in the other half of the screen. But if you're talking about something else, I'd like to understand it so I can learn how to do it in vim. ;)
Developers who respect their work, for one.
That's precisely why I don't believe there is any interesting intelligent life out there, at least in our neck of the woods (the Milky Way). Mostly the time aspect. The galaxy is big, but not so big that it would take more than 200 million years to send a von-neumann probe to every star. The galaxy itself is only slightly younger than the universe, over 10 billion years. In all that time not a single intelligence has arisen and advanced just a bit beyond our level to at least start a mapping project, let alone anything like megascale structures and other projects we would expect instrumental convergence on? That only makes sense to me if we live in a mostly dead galaxy that has always been mostly dead (whether the filter is ahead or behind us makes little difference apart from judging our own prospects), or if we're so deluded about the nature of reality that we might as well say God has tricked us into thinking we're alone until we're spiritually ready or whatever.
A framing: can we make a rock think?

I don't know the answer but that some people think they do upsets me. I definitely think we should try but right now mostly what we do is make a rock DO so I'm not seeing the leap yet.
Model train fanatics work a 1:52 scale or smaller. Model steam train fanatics work in real stock metal, with lathes and to scale, but it has to run.

I think building a shell 1:1 is cool. I think its entertaining and may even spark local economy upsides, looking at the Australian "big things" scene: people like this stuff.
His point is, actually, quite valid. By the time you stop and rebuild all the image caching/media pieces, you'll end up with a hefty amount of memory usage too - Telegram (not the Qt one, the Cocoa one) will regularly climb up to 200ish MB if I have a media-heavy chat going.

People have skewed ideas of what's doable in memory constraints in 2019 for the feature sets that customers tend to expect.
“With the exception of one quarter in 2018 in which Swift placed tenth, it has been five years since we saw the entrant of a new top ten language. In this quarter’s run, however, TypeScript continued its upwards surge by placing tenth ”

Swift should be heading back into the top 10 because of the release of the ABI. Also, SwiftUI should generate a lot of interest.

I was also surprised by the popularity of Scala. I thought Kotlin had more buzz and was stealing users.
General practice in embedded is to avoid writing to disk as much as possible.

Yes.

Data collection is mostly done by sending it to the cloud for storage there.

Nononono, what has the world come to?

However 'edge processing' and 'edge storage' are hot topics

Meaning "how it used to be done when hardware was a hundred times slower"?
The only issue I have had with Robinhood is regarding tax planning, because they only support FIFO sell orders. There have been several instances where I would have preferred to sell shares purchased more recently, so that my older shares can pass the one year threshold for long term capital gains. The ability to specify lots when selling shares would be worth money to me.
> Have found that the closer you get to hardware groups at any of the FAANG's, the higher the average age.

Hm that makes sense given the relative infancy of the software industry.

Not to mention that enrollment in CS programs has been increasing so the talent pool is skewed towards younger people
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Exactly, you said it better than I did.
> No one is anywhere close to achieving true AGI

No one knows how far off true AGI is, just like no one in 1940 (or 1910) knew how far off fission weapons were.

EDIT: I quite liked this article from a few years back [0], and the fission weapon prediction example is stolen from there.

0: https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
Box launched a CLI recently. Not a full client, but it's something

https://developer.box.com/docs/box-cli
That could be true, statistically, if the initial screening interviews are high-signal.
I'm a former marketplace seller. There is a way brands can accomplish this: marketplace items must contain all the features that the original brand provides. So the brand can create, say, a warranty that only applies when purchased form an "authorized seller". Since the company controls who is authorized, no other seller is able to include the warranty, and their offerings are not identical.

The difficult part in all of this is dealing with Amazon and their terrible marketplace back end.
So Peter Thiel is an alt-fascist (via Evola)?
Aside from the obvious issue that a ton of devices don’t have user upgradable RAM, are we really this comfortable with feeding constant consumerist abandonment of old devices through our own sheer laziness as developers?

“It only uses 8% of 8GB of RAM. If that’s an issue consumers can buy more RAM or throw away their devices and buy new ones” is soon phrased as “It only uses 8% of 16GB of RAM. If that’s an issue consumers can buy more RAM or throw away their devices and buy new ones” and soon after etc, etc

At some point, preferably before we start saying “it’s just half a terabyte of RAM to run a chat app”, we may want to step back and question this circular justification for ever increasing bloat and ask ourselves when enough is enough. There’s been no real gain in functionality in the past 10-20 years of chat app churn, just an enormous explosion in RAM and CPU requirements.
I never heard of ripcord. I just downloaded it and gave it a try. It suffers the same problems as every single native (non-electron) chat client I've ever used. Primarily it's hideous and you can't change the UI size uniformly.

As an older dev who's eye sight isn't as good as it was 30 years ago when I started, it's getting harder and harder to use native apps because the default fonts are so goddamn small.

Oh sure, you can dork around in the font preferences dialog and change some things, but there is no option to scale all of the UI (UI => Scale => 120%). It ends up being a hodgepodge of unreadable small text mixed with reasonably sized by but poorly styled and colored larger text that's nearly as hard to read because of the lack of space separating elements. Of course everything gets more crowded when you increase the size, instead of doing what it should do and also increasing the space between elements to let everything breath.

In an Electron app, I can Ctrl-+, Ctrl-+ and everything looks great. I have yet to find a single native app that I use regularly where this isn't an issue. The only ones that comes close (no surprise here) is Sublime Text.

These problems just don't happen with Electron apps. Electron technology may be slower than native, but it sure nails UI scaling. I'll take a UI I can actually see over one that runs more efficiently any day.
Not really. The company went bankrupt and it’s an unsecured debt. It would have been a good play if it was collateralized or the company actually succeeded.
> The US doesn't allow dual-citizenship either right?

The US allows dual citizenship: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/dual-citizenship-all...

> The United States will not ask naturalizing citizens to take any steps to formally renounce the citizenship of their home country. Nor will it stop U.S. citizens from later adopting citizenship in another country – though if their intention is to give up U.S. citizenship, they can certainly do so. You may continue to vote in your home country, if it allows it.

> All this does not mean that the U.S. will tolerate divided loyalties. Dual citizens must obey U.S. laws, uphold the U.S. Constitution, and in every other way adhere to the naturalization oath that they take. They are also required by the I.N.A. to carry their U.S. passport when leaving the U.S., and to present it upon reentry.
It's a feature available if you request it for most brokerages. That's what I consider a basic feature.
But, not even matter is "very much matter".

I'm a quantum maximalist: the brain is just the antennae, receiving and broadcasting. Attention itself cuts (slices) through the quantum soup, and as a result, these mind-forms appear.
Then don't tip.
demonstrate technical prowess = be able to regurgitate your last Data Structures and Algorithms college course. This is how they get away with their blatant ageism, ask questions only young, recent grads would know. Why don't they just require candidates to list five mumble rap artists or Instagram influencers?
It's probably unrelated, but do you have a link/citation to 1990s Legion?

We started around 2010-2011. The project immediately prior to this was called Sequoia[1] (published on 2006, probably started a couple years prior).

[1]: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/sequoia/sequoia_sc06.pdf
There are times where in Lisp, OOP makes things so much easier and clearer. The way that Lisp does OOP (should you choose to even use CLOS) is fascinating and comprehensive. But as with everything else in Lisp, style is personal, and you aren't locked in to any particular set of rules in that regard.

But I do get the subtlety whereby Java's implementation (and everything that came thereafter) is what the author is poking at.
>>Most old people don't learn as many new things as younger ones

Most old people don't need to learn as many new things. It's called "experience."
What tutorial/paper/github repo/demo do you think shows the heart of why this is the best thing? I'm just not sure what this does better than some of the other strategies that are out there that are hadoop/HDFS based, S3/lambda based, from the privs/resources style k8s/cgroups/containers, or from the task based parallelisms that you can see in Apache Airflow, Jenkins, and other job runners.
Is he still getting paid? I'd assume once the company went under there'd be no one to do the paying. In which case it doesn't seem like such a great play.
The Milky Way is not infinite and not even that vast. As for "not having the technology", why not postulate an equal likelihood for heavenly angels? We just don't have the technology to perceive heaven, after all...
The abstract is damning, but not surprising to anyone outside the machine learning bubble. It's a symptom of a major problem in meta-science: breakthroughs are hard, and when you shovel billions of dollars into trying to incentivize breakthroughs, you end up with a lot of envelope-pushing dressed up like breakthroughs, and most of them don't even successfully push the envelope.
where’s the EFFin sources?
This is a silly example altogether.

First, it doesn't necessarily imply that someone writing code like this doesn't understand how expressions work. The author is trying to psychologically model people who code in this manner. I could similarly claim that the else there is unnecessary since the boolean is false by default. If it's a language that doesn't require variables to be declared first, I could claim that the assignment is itself unnecessary. I could then make a further claim that a person who codes like this doesn't understand expressions.

Second, the problem is taken out of context. What happens next? There'll be an if(else) statement somewhere to determine what happens next, and then the if(else) the author has painstakingly avoided will be back.
With the 20 second duration you mention in a different comment that makes more sense. I think I spend more time just overthinking on the requirments.
Dark mode? No? Fck you.
I slightly disagree. The item was sold by Proctor and Gamble. They got the money I paid, and I got a product back. Proctor and Gamble happened to use a third party for fulfillment and as a marketplace for handling the sale, and they are to blame for choosing a fulfillment company which may occasionally send me fake products that Proctor and Gamble didn't make.

We should fault the sellers for using Amazon in the first place.
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Screw the deposit. Amazon itself should be liable if they don’t track who actually sold the merchandise.
I'll counter as devil's advocate here and state that blender is only popular because it's the cheapest option, not because it's actually good. Commercial offerings are still ahead by a lot, especially in usability (the most important aspect for creative tools), but so is their price tag. And the indie developer is a pretty poor idealistic fellow without a production budget from which to afford luxuries like proper tools.
No just keep it. Its fun and why has the name to be an existing English word?

Fun fact: if everybody starts using it, it will eventually become proper English.
How to Implement Shift Left for Your Visual Testing
The giant blinding headlight ones that are great for off-roading at night, yes.

But most other use cases, no.
Seems like the desired outcome here is an unfixed target. What does Facebook want to show you next in the Newsfeed, and why? It's gonna be different from the factors Amazon evaluates to determine your home page suggested items. So while it's worth trying to replicate academic research on these datasets like MovieLens, the real-world outputs from collaborative filtering are inherently subjective.
What cards are you using?

I have three RPis in abusive conditions, and they haven't had a single SD card issue. Two RPi 3b's running as a car entertainment system, with no form of battery backup/safe shutdown. They are on the ignition power, and once the car turns off, they hard shut down. These have been in place for nearly 2 years with the same Samsung Evo 16GB cards.

The other is attached to a digital signage with less frequent hard shut downs, but still has at least one per week, and been in place since late 2017. Also running a Samsung Evo card (I think it's a 32GB since that's what I had on hand).

Both have high quality power supplies, which may help. The in-car systems have Anker car USB chargers that have been de-cased and soldered in place, while the signage one has an Anker wall charger and a standard micro-b cable.
Dancing with the Ancients
Are any of those recent? I agree that microsoft has been pretty dickish and I'm sure parts of it continue to be (see http://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts as an example for why), but as a whole I feel that they are better with OSS now than they have every been.
We had pronouns that matched[1] with expressed genetics, which everyone could see. Why would it matter that people did not know what the underlying mechanism was for what they were observing? Even if they had known, they wouldn't have used a DNA test as the basis for choosing their pronoun.

[1] With the exception of hermaphrodites and such.
such an important insight, that the investors were the ones pressuring him to structure it in this way.
I know the rationale. Then again if it's just one 1 person out of 6 (including 3 other persons who gave "very positive" reviews) then maybe that one person is just being ... negative. As the modern interviewing culture (not so subtly) incentivizes them to be.
Incremental rewrites !== refactoring.

You can rewrite portions of the app and embed the older components in the new app until you rewrite them as well.
Just another nail in what should be coffin of the general "tipping" culture. If I enjoy the food, I should be able to tip the cook, why I need to tip someone who's job is to drive the order to me?
> Supplements (or really anything I put in my mouth) is one of a growing set of classes of items I won't buy on Amazon anymore.

Same here. Also considering I've bought herbicides on Amazon, I always wonder how well edible and toxic items are warehoused, and how they handle the eventual spillage.

> 2. Makes me find new online or offline vendors for the classes of items I no longer buy from Amazon.

I'm about 3/4 on the way of replacing amazon with other online sources that are specialized in a domain. As a bonus, those sources usually know the domain well, offer a great selection and undercut Amazon on price. The only thing is that shipping can take longer… though some vendors are actually faster.

> Makes me reconsider my Prime membership.

I've already set mine to NOT auto-renew. It's buried behind several clicks but once it's out, I'll leave it out. The value I get is just no longer worth it.
https://github.com/StanfordLegion/legion
Conveniently, Vitamin Shoppe sells their stuff on Amazon.
I'd link some tutorial videos a friend did on ORCA but I'm not sure if that's kosher on HN. Look around on youtube there are some tutorials for it sprining up out there. Although some of the tutorials are a tad out of date now that there has been some changes in ORCA.
When it comes to recycling/sorting, it’s safe to say Germany is at the top, and everyone else is some mild to severe level lower.
That is bizarre dream logic. Amazon is the one commingling inventory. P&G are sending legitimate product.

I would never purchase anything from amazon other than books, personally. Too much of a chance you’re going to get counterfeits or faulty merchandise.
The proper threshold would be the demonstration of an AGI approximately as smart as a mouse. Until then it's just idle speculation. We don't even know the key parameters for having a productive discussion.
Similar to this post is this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07355

"Probing Neural Network Comprehension of Natural Language Arguments

Timothy Niven, Hung-Yu Kao
(Submitted on 17 Jul 2019)

We are surprised to find that BERT's peak performance of 77% on the Argument Reasoning Comprehension Task reaches just three points below the average untrained human baseline. However, we show that this result is entirely accounted for by exploitation of spurious statistical cues in the dataset. We analyze the nature of these cues and demonstrate that a range of models all exploit them. This analysis informs the construction of an adversarial dataset on which all models achieve random accuracy. Our adversarial dataset provides a more robust assessment of argument comprehension and should be adopted as the standard in future work."

In the field of computer vision, there are similar suspicions that state of the art computer vision models are overfit to ImageNet datasets and the like. The issue being that even average research labs do not have hundreds of thousands of dollars to reproduce extremely expensive and highly tuned models. Reproducing and advancing the field of deep learning is quickly becoming inaccessible to almost everyone except for a few of the highest funded industrial labs (Google, FB, OpenAI, Microsoft Research among a few others). This is not all negative, it's just that not everything can be taken as gospel.
I'm also an engineer and I spent more time than I would like it :), At least 2 hours a day. I try to disconnect during the weekend...
It got unflagged. ??? (Sorry for OT)
A pitch for ‘reality-based’ startups
I currently use Instacart (as an Express member).

I'd say 10% of orders (I order ~2 times a week) contain an item that wasn't of sufficient quality. Their customer support is great when this happens, always refunding the bad item (though sometimes that's besides the point -- I needed that item for my meal!)

The $100 yearly membership fee amortizes to ~$1/order, and the markup on products seems to be ~5-10%. So I'm paying a little extra to avoid going to multiple grocery stores on a weekend/weeknight