skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They get annoyed when they're asked to think about the bigger picture and just want to focus on the code, the architecture, and whatever is new and shiny.

Maybe I'm the exception here, but this does not really describe most devs I've worked with. I've seen really smart devs just not care to argue anymore in workplaces where no one listens to them, but this is not the same thing as wanting to be a "bricklayer". Most devs usually have a lot of work on their plate and not enough time or energy to argue with some product owner or manager who is determined to get their way and who does have the time and authority to force their ideas through. On multiple occasions I've seen great teams destroyed when some determined micromanager gets promoted and decides they are going to "fix everything" without actually listening to their people with the most hands on experience. This and many other forms of organizational BS can lead to developer apathy from what I've seen, but I really don't think the dev who just wants to be a bricklayer is the norm.
Thanks! I was just in the process of digging through your stuff.
I've been full time remote for four months now. To even get me to drive a mile to work would require a significant bump in salary and options to lose out on this quality of life. It's almost unrealistic at this point that I would ever consider going to work in an office again.

I save a BUNCH of money, I get to work with other remote employees across the world, I mostly work my own hours, and I even got a decent bump switching to this job.

The pay is better than a lot of positions that are local to me in SoCal.

I do miss some social interactions during the day, but slack and getting lunch with friends and previous co-workers fills that gap decent enough.

I see job postings come across all the time in my filters for stack overflow jobs, but the pay and benefits are equivalent to my current situation, except I would have to move to a higher CoL and go into an office.
It should take substantially less than 25 minutes to diagnosis sepsis by SIRS criteria (1). A standard clinical lab has been able to run a CBC that fast for decades and tell you how many of which white cells are present, hemoglobin, etc. Not sure what Il-6 is getting me...

(1) https://www.mdcalc.com/sirs-sepsis-septic-shock-criteria
Yeah, this comment to me really gives off a bad impression of Scale as a whole. My immediate reaction, assuming this is how Scale normally deals with PR, is that this company is still far too immature to be properly handling any sort of legitimate partnership.

FYI, you’re unlikely to solve any of your problems airing grievances on a public forum instead of just directly emailing the people involved.
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Looks like you're the creator so as some feedback it'd be nice to see a simple outline of the steps with "inactive" styling, the step you're currently on as bold (maybe with an arrow in from of it?), and as you go through it the previous steps have a checkmark appear next to it (and possibly go back to "inactive" styling).

The steps could be something like this: (1) Select character, (2) Select colors, (3) Select outfit, (4) Select pose

The reason I suggest this is I was a little confused on what the options were, what my future options would be, and how many options are left.
Ask HN: The worst OSS maintainer you have ever seen
What have they done so that you think of them as bad maintainers?
There is nothing, except Chicago’s suburbs, within about 300 miles of Chicago in every direction.

Also, our train system has more than funding parity with roads. Road spending is about $175 billion per year, about half of which isn’t recovered from use fees, for 5 trillion passenger miles. That’s about $0.02 per mile subsidy. Amtrak’s capital expenditures is about $900 million per year, which comes directly from Congress. (Ticket revenue only goes to operating costs.) that’s about $0.13 per passenger mile.

For a guy driving 300 miles, that cost the government $6.00 in road construction and maintenance. For the guy to train that same distance costs the government $39.
I wish Musk had planned it as well as Piëch orchestrated the VW-Porsche short squeeze back in what, ‘08?
The "rewrite engine" ambitions for Fungrim seem potentially misplaced. It would probably be better to contribute to an existing open source state-of-the-art CAS like Fricas, than to make another one. The article tries to justify this in a weird way:

> Computer algebra systems can be viewed as having three components: a way to represent mathematical objects, algorithms for manipulating such objects, and user interfaces around this. The various components are usually entangled with each other without cleanly separating different levels of abstraction, so there is a lot of incidental complexity.

So? That is no reason to make another CAS, as opposed to helping refactor Fricas.

> The algorithms are incorrect by design, typically for efficiency reasons. A good example is ignoring special cases and assumptions on the variables when simplifying symbolic formulas (some examples given above). Another example is pretending that floating-point numbers are the same thing as real numbers. Calculating nonrigorously is not necessarily the wrong approach; it all depends on the application. It's sometimes better to do something fast and simple (but possibly incorrect), especially if the result can be checked afterwards. Sometimes you really want every step to be correct, even if it takes longer time and requires more complicated user input. For better or worse, current computer algebra systems are largely designed around the "fast and simple" principle, with optional correctness added more as an afterthought (and often not fully supported).

WTF! Only if one uses Wolfram Alpha exclusively!

Another comment [0] by fdej (the author) I just found by accident has some related misconceptions:

> However, nothing open source currently comes close to Mathematica for symbolic and symbolic-numerical calculus (expression simplification, symbolic integration, solving PDEs, etc.).

Try Fricas.

> Also, one of Mathematica's main strengths is providing a lot of functionality in a neat package where diverse components are very easy for the user to glue together, with automagical interfaces where the user doesn't need to know what happens behind the scenes

"Automagical" interfaces suck, they will inevitably break when you stray just a bit from the intended path. It is better to have a typed language like Fricas has.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17694483
The company, PingCAP, that made the course in the linked article also ported MIT 6.824 to Rust as part of their talent plan. You can check it out here https://github.com/pingcap/talent-plan/tree/master/dss
It's not a big priority, but it's by far the biggest difference in priorities by gender in the data that they're showing.
> if you make some assumptions about how long IO takes and how the systems order IO, this overlapping-increment example will have a deterministic order and still be wrong every time (increment once instead of twice).

So? Is every piece of code that gives the wrong result a race condition?
I know multiple people that own a car and will rent something for long trips. A lot of that is for peace of mind and being able to rent exactly what they need. Peace of mind is they don't worry the car will break down. And they can rent a car that is large enough or small enough for that particular trip. One trip it's them for a weekend. Other trip it's them and four other people for a week.

I've noticed that people that do this tend not to be 'car people'
My plan is to run for President or get into politics atleast. Watching all these Geezers having the time of their lives in their 70s and 80s has made up my mind. Just look at Ralf Nader, Ron Paul and Rush Limbaugh ranting and raving away with the energy of 10 year olds. It's that social mojo they are tapping into man. If I can wake up everyday troll the country, get a pat on the back from my buddies in my 90s...I think I'll die reasonably happy.
Pdsl – declarative JavaScript to create functions that return true or false
We should sit down and chat about FORTRAN II with its three-number if statements. I spent a lot of years in that particular village, and was sufficiently frustrated with its limitations that it drove me to a career in writing compilers.

In addition to the language you note stealing the format idea, you need to include Lisp.
They can't share the detailed rules since that will give abusers more information to take advantage of. You assume everyone is a legitimate user, but non trivial fraction of online accounts are for abuse. Since the perfect precision on abuse detection is impossible and insufficient abuse detection often means a death for the service (spam, legal, PR), this is impossible to avoid. The only question is the rate of false positive flagging. Given that this is purely anecdotal, it doesn't give me any way to assess whether Vimeo's false positive is egregiously bad or not.
Common reasons why content doesn't convert (and how to fix it)
That’s a good point as the bulk of that transfer isn’t coming from AWS, probably.

This still means YouTube doesn’t need google’s infrastructure to stream video.
> Where is the loss?

In the many multiples of millions of dollars the ticket would have saved him over the next 30-40 years?

The fact that something the airline sold was a terrible idea doesn’t make it right to suddenly take it away.

And to be honest, if literally every action taken by him was actually proxied through AA employees, and nobody said anything. I can’t really see why they would have any ground to stand on in regards to cancelling the ticket.
We don’t know it was next to the panel.
You can also do things like runtime profile optimization and link time optimization.

get a runtime profile, then optimize the code based on how it will run.

linktime optimization has the compiler output bytecode files, then the optimization happens at the link step where it happens globally across all objects.
The account wasn't terminated - it was (temporarily) suspended.

> Automatically deactivating links or removing URLs would be just as effective at avoiding harm

Generally not - in the (much more common) case where the person being suspended is a spammer, the videos attached to the descriptions in question generally are _also_ spammy - that is, they generally contain some instruction to the user to visit a given URL, or "CLICK THE LINK BELOW".
You know, conduit is less than $3.50 for a 10 ft section last I bought some. Fittings are another dollar or so each, and I can't see 30 ft of copper wire costing 2 grand. So you are paying mostly for the electrification's time. If there is a lot more work involved, and if I lived in an area where I wasn't allowed to do my own electrical work, I'd at least dig the trench myself and take care of pounding a whole through the foundation wall if needed.
To clarify, I'm not the creator.

Sizigi Studios uses a dataset I put together (https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2018) as their primary training corpus, AFAIK, and they were partially inspired by my application of GANs to anime art (as demonstrated on https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ and see https://www.gwern.net/Faces for much more detail about every aspect of it), but I have never been involved with them and don't know much about what they've done other than what you can read in OP. It tickles me pink to see people following up on my anime GANs, though, especially as a startup! The Great Work goes on.
It isn’t really offensive, it’s just 4chanish, which will appeal to certain people and not others.
People don't cook. The kitchen is a gathering space.
Gwern created a similar thing, but I believe it was a different team who made the Waifu Vending Machine. Not least because there are pictures, and Gwern is quite known for their pseudonymity.
Does it have to be at runtime? Is there any point to an ahead-of-time compiled prototype language?
Yes, it would just have taken a little longer (maybe a day).
What a preposterous and illogical suggestion.
LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft's Azure public cloud
Kazakhstan's HTTPS Interception
Really good advice actually. They teaches basic ideas first before give you any programming tasks, that's really good. Also, they starting programming from Scratch app, which also helps beginners a lot.
Didn't know they still running courses btw.
Most of the things Apple is trying to keep secret -- like case designs -- shouldn't be patentable anyway.
DOJ announces antitrust inquiry into large tech firms
Is there anything keeping this out of the anti-encryption debate?

Is it possible that AG Barr could say, "We will go after you for anti-trust issues _unless_ you agree to weaken your privacy tooling", etc?
Why is this gap standard in America and basically absent in europe? It's not like these concerns are US-exclusive.
It's absolutely \#1. I tried switching to Riot (Matrix), but the integration with Slack was painful. You can get it to work well, but what's to stop Slack from breaking/changing their API periodically to make your app stop working as reliably?

If I'm going to put my resources into building a client for something, it's not going to be based on some closed source backed that could change at any time, it's going to be based on something open and forkable (worst case scenario, I can just maintain my own backend).

Slack bills itself as a complete solution, not a piece to a larger puzzle, so third party clients and plugins will always take the backseat. Who is going to try to build a serious competitor when they can't really rely on the backend staying consistent?

Building a decent frontend isn't particularly difficult. It's not trivial, but it has been done. For example, Pidgin, while a little ugly (I prefer "functional"), works well and has been around for years. I used weechat and irssi for IRC chat before we switched away from IRC, and it worked really well (didn't see pictures, but I think that's more a feature than anything, and links were more than sufficient).

The problem is that business types prefer hosted, "batteries included" solutions, and those types tend to not be very friendly with third party add-ons. If I end up being able to use Matrix/Riot, maybe I'll try my hand at a native, cross platform client. But until then, I'm not going to throw my effort toward something that can change at any moment.
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It’s a broken promise. How can it be justified that the company takes its promise back?
Model X/S sales are dropping for two reasons.

Firstly they haven't been refreshed in forever and secondly they are being cannibalised by the Model 3. The problem for Tesla (and investors) is that their ARPU is now dropping at a time when they need margins.
Here is one opinion: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/: A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity
Out of curiosity, isn't Lyft just a customer that pays Scale for annotation services? Or is there a reason for this to be more of a partnership and less of a customer-client relationship?
I don't think the point is to objectify. I think it's the opposite. It's turning objects into something that satisfies yearnings for human company, sometimes replacing it and sometimes in addition to it. It's like listening to music often because you want to hear human voices. And one big name, Hatsune Miku, is a virtual pop star with a synthesized voice, which is based on female human voices, even though it isn't based on a single human voice.

As globalization moves on there are more and more people without romantic partners and/or close friends nearby and they'll use their imagination to fulfill desires they're missing.
Nah, it’s a harmless mistake. Good for people to learn from.
These should probably be deleted.
It sounds a bit like this degree of subtlety:

https://i.imgur.com/OkVMmQi.jpg
But people make huge strategic mistakes in their life because of "might". Basically it's hoarding behavior.

I might need this kayak, so it'll take up space in my life as I move it from apartment to condo to home for the next 20 years. Storage units are full of these mistakes.

I think some EV manufacturers (Fiat?) tried to alleviate this by offering rental cars for a certain number of days per year to people who bought their cars.

(that said after driving an electric car renting a gas car seems sort of like copping out - silly strategy)
Ask HN: What are your info product based passive income sources?
Self-explanatory. Often times, info products like courses, books etc. are a one-time effort that pays dividends over the longer term, if successful. Do you have any successes and failures? What did you learn?
Add Real-Time functionality in server-side blazor app
Yeah...technically interesting, creepy AF.
I don't think you'll find me making that argument in this thread either. Although: the malware warnings are clearly good.

It is a pretty obnoxious message board trope that anyone who disagrees with one's argument must be fully directionally committed to any "compatible" argument; it can't just be that your argument is bad, it must be that I'm defending Google because of an abiding affection for Google. Gross.
epub / mobi versions are available here: https://archive.org/details/whatiscode.html
"It isn’t really offensive, it’s just 4chanish" - those things go hand-in-hand...a lot.
In India same number comes to about 3 million.
Come eat – I mean build with the ZeroCater (YC W11) engineering team
I read an article on the ill effects of cars dated from 1967. I thought it would be very dated but it was spot on. A car is great when you're one of the few that has them. They suck when everyone does. But then not having a car sucks worse.
> ...then those cars are also fantastically profitable as well--even more so than any Tesla model.

Not really. Those vehicles all benefit from economies of scale and have much less resistance to produce in those organizations. Beyond that they produce less of them in comparison. While it's easy to lump them into the same bucket Tesla doesn't enjoy some of the freebies the other manufacturers have for rolling pet electric projects. Beyond that none of the manufacturers disclose pure electrics to the street that I'm aware. So I'm not sure how you can make this assertion. Is there data for all three that breaks out those brands electrics P&L?
I saw the section about not training from scratch (via transfer learning) in https://www.gwern.net/Faces#transfer-learning. The Holo example is really impressive!

How expensive is it in terms of labelled data and compute? Do you know if anyone tried this for just ahegao faces?
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This is a fascinating rabbit hole to go down.

When you consider some of the recent decisions about what constitutes "speech," it raises the important question of whether a private company influencing its customers' voting preferences would actually be protected.

How much different is it for a company to use its speech to influence a politician directly (donations, lobbying, PACs, etc.) vs. stating its political opinions on its own private "property" potentially to influence politics indirectly?

In physical space, is it legal to:

* Have a sign promoting a social position in the window of your private store? ("Say no to drugs!")
* Have a sign promoting a political position? ("Say no to the Iraq war!")
* Have a sign promoting a candidate? ("I like Ike!")
* Tell customers who to vote for? ("Have a nice day, vote for JFK!")
* Tell only customers that "look a certain way" who to vote for? ("As someone in a wheelchair, you should vote for FDR!")

Now convert all this to the online world with banner ads, user targeting, and personalization. Isn't it just free speech at scale?
And that's why I use uBlock Origin on Firefox. By default it blocks most ads, which saves me time in trying to figure out which ones are tracking me and which are just trying to fund the content.

I wish there was a verifiable way to know if an ad is tracking you and selectively allow those that don't. I have no problem with ads, I do have a problem with tracking.
It really is just fun. I don't know why people insist in assuming malice.
You can have that with more privacy than the average US toilet.

This still has the same cleaning advantage: http://www.ironwood-mfg.com/Pictures/Full%20Size/European1.j...

But I see this way more often in the US: https://globalpartitions.com/wp-content/uploads/ASI-SolidPla...
LGA to ORD is 3 million passengers per year. Beijing to Shanghai is 7 million by air, plus 180 million by train (including intermediate stops). Total US air travel between all destinations is only 750 million per year. The ability of the Chinese to recoup their capital investment through ridership is massive compared to what you could expect in the US.
Emergency sign off is correlated with a broken process in my experience.
Favorite part:

"Until now, the Temple Culture was thought to have centered on the worship of a mother goddess, but Malone thinks it was more of a clubhouse culture, focused on ritual and feasting but where food—rather than a deity—was revered."

(The word'Temple' has for too long been a placeholder for 'we don't know.')
> If those same items were excluded with respect to the Chevy Bolt/Volt

Are you talking about the same Bolt? The one where they were estimated to lose $9000 [1] per vehicle sold?

I'm being a bit flippant, but you can't in good faith argue that everyone else is accounting for EV stuff totally normally and only Tesla is doing something different. I expect all those companies are subsidizing the EV production in some way, as they do for all their low-volume cars. The cars that make money are low production high price models (eg, the Lamborghini's and Tesla Roadsters of the world), and the high volume cars (eg all the models (or platforms) that sell 500k+ annually, from Toyota/GM/etc). Model 3 is not quite at this production level yet, though it is close. We'll see from 2Q results tomorrow what the real deal is.

[1] https://www.inverse.com/article/32239-why-gm-loses-money-che...
Note that even with that exceptional HSR, most fly between Beijing and Shanghai. And that's with the ridiculous Chinese rules that prevent you from using your phone during all flights. And Chicago/New York would be more like 5.5 hours.
I think with apartments, there will be a tipping point where landlords will have to install them in order to keep their apartments competitive.
What's the benefit in lying to them about your intentions? Is it just because nobody wants to rent you a car one way in the first place?

My (very limited and probably outdated) understanding of the rental car industry is that the locations are franchises and the cars are owned by the franchise. If you rent a car round trip and leave it in some other city they have to deal with getting it back.
Alternately, it incentivizes coming in sick and making your co-workers sick.

As an epidemiologist, I hate policies that allow sick days to be converted into something of value, or that put's restrictions in them.
Considering that’s about what Apple makes in one or two quarters of iPhone sales, that type of profit over 7 or 8 years while commanding 3-4x the market share isn’t that great.
It does mean a drastically different cost structure, and major difficulties in operating worldwide.