skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would disagree about the gamedev book reference, unless you are referring to the real basics of linear algebra.

The really important concepts for ML are least squares, eigenvalues and vectors, and SVD. Those concepts are not very relevant to game programming.

Well, least squares can be solved with projection, which is relevant for converting between coordinate spaces. But game dev isn't going to give you that intuition.
What sort of bit rate are they getting with this? And to what extent is it directional?
Special thanks to a down-voter who proved my point: would you have dared to down-vote my comment if I was a flat-earther?

Are you looking for truth or do you prefer to not hurt people's feelings?
Gone are the days of Grace Hopper.
Not a physical one, but the hit area on the TouchBar for Esc is actually larger than the physical key was. As much as people like to complain, in my experience the Esc key is extremely easy to hit.
Have you actually used a bezel-less device? They’ve sold hundreds of millions of them. I think it would be a scandal much like the laptop keyboards if their software for ignoring accidental input at the screen edge wasn’t essentially flawless.
LoRa looks like a really cool technology, but I'm always a little bit hesitant about advocating adopting a proprietary protocol, and LoRaWAN is very much proprietary.
Not so much indexed, just columnar.
AKA - watch market is small.
It's partially my fault, I recently dug myself into a small financial hole for reasons not important, but I feel I can have that fixed up quickly. The big issue is I likely won't get hardly anything in aid because I'm under 24 and the EFC calculations by FAFSA are laughable. 2 years ago my parents were paying off two mortgages, plus another rent, however now they don't have any of that, and since they make decent money I am unlikely to get hardly anything for aid, despite living hundreds of miles from them. And after doing some rough estimations of what I would receive vs the cost of state schools, it looks like I'd have to pull out $20k-$30k in loans for every year I attend a state university. There are also minute details that make living generally a pain (i.e. can't drive)

The alternative is to wait till I'm 24, but honestly the thought of graduating near to 30 is equally as depressing. I've also researched online schools, but too many seem scammy / low quality and tend not to offer a program I'm interested in
Do you think this is an important enough issue for a Senate hearing or a bill? I honestly do not.
> AAPL is still undervalued compared to stocks like AMZN. Apple's P/E of 17 is amazing compared to Amazons 78. I'm not really sure why their stock isn't traded with the same enthusiasm that other tech companies see.

I'm not so sure it's useful to compare stock valuations in this way. An assessment of "undervalued" should be based solely on the facts of that specific company, IMO.
Is being demeaning and rigid just the cool thing to do today in blogs. I feel like I keep reading articles like this every day now.
"Well if your team is full of dumbasses" or "If you use OO instead of functional programming"
It was kind of stupid that incognito mode was detectable by websites. Glad Google is finally fixing the bug. There is no reason to broadcast my browser's internal settings to the world.
The idea that you could be sued[1] with breach of contract for violating a ToS in a case like this is goddamn insane. A contract can only be formed if both parties agree to it; and you can't be forced to agree to a contract against your will. Coercing someone into entering a contract is literally illegal.

So just don't accept the ToS. They can't make you accept it, no matter what "by [breathing] you accept our ToS" verbiage they put in it.

Sure, maybe that would make your access of the website "hacking" ("accessing a computer without permission", since you rejected the contract which would grant permission)... but the court rejected that argument in HiQ vs LinkedIn.

[I get that this probably isn't how a typical court would see it, but to me that reflects pro-corporate bias and corruption more than any kind of sane application of common law.]

[1]. Edit: originally this read "charged", but "sued" is more accurate. But I guess what I really mean is "successfully sued". Anyhow.
Do you have any idea whether this is an atypical length for a trending hashtag in chinese?
That’s an extremely well-thought-out court finding, especially since they thought about how the CFAA was intended to be applied. Far too often we see a more liberal interpretation of the CFAA used to the detriment of a small player.
The point of this exercise was to find areas they could have spent that 17 billion on R&D. A few billion losses for a few years for a net long term gain is the point of investing in R&D.

Further, as I have listed areas they could be investing in but are not that you have had zero objections to. I think it's clear they have less focus on R&D than was possible.
That license may also require formal schooling in the amounts of many hundreds of hours of instruction as well...
The fraud comes from the distinction between "We _will_ be able to X" and "We _are_ able to X"

They couldn't do things they claimed they could to lure investments. That's fraud.

Also; I wonder how much the release of HBOs "Out for Blood in Sillicon Valley" affects public perception and the judgment/rulings, if at all
Apple has run out of people to sell iPhones to, Amazon is just getting started ("day one" as Bezos likes to say). P/E is about growth potential and the market is saying Amazon has lots more of it than Apple.
If the systemic mechanisms and incentives haven’t changed, is the problem really solved?
You forgot the sub attached to the carrier is hunting for those subs, and planes can fly quite far. Missiles have to deal with CIWS and RAM.
Unions like to set salaries, because there are more mediocre performers who stand to gain compared to free-market wages than top performers who stand to lose. They don't exactly want a cap, but they greatly desire a floor, and accept it also serving as a cap as an acceptable tradeoff.

Whenever that first part isn't true for a union, then the market pressure is for the top performers to leave the union for free-market wages, until it is.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> The new study has thus determined that the Moon is significantly older than previously believed

True enough, I suppose: ~50 million years vs ~150 million years after solar system formation. But on the scale of ~4.5 billion years ago, that's not such a huge difference. And conversely, 50-100 million years is a long time in the context of stuff with solar orbits on the scale of 1-100 years.

I'm guessing that formation of the Sun and solar system was a strongly exponential process. And the Moon probably formed during the final flurry of adjustments among major bodies.
Case-STUDY how freelance writer makes $1.94M
How have I not heard of Blendle? Thanks for the reference!
I've always wondered why there's not a federal law requiring that the losing party of a suit is required to pay the winner's legal fees, up to an amount equal to what the losing party itself spent.
My problem with apple news is that it still doesn't really resolve the gamified nature of news and the misaligned incentives between a concise but high quality and information dense content that the user wants and the click-bait, flame bait, low density, attention stealing articles news companies are incentive to write when their compensation is proportional to impressions and time engagement irrespective of the quality of that interaction.

I want to be able to have a non trivial level of discretion as to which writers/groups to starve and which to support. For example, being able to pick a handful of sites or articles where my subscription/views/view-time don't count towards their bottom line. Or we could set aside 30-40% of subscription cost to distribute based on the the proportion of some active user action for like Medium's claps or some other rating.

At present the economist/ft are the only publications that haven't let me down in a big way and I'm weary of supporting anything else.
It's only my personal opinion, but I don't care at all about tracking. They can track me all they like. I block ads because they make my browsing slow, cause my CPU to turbo boost, interrupt my browsing, clutter the web pages excessively. I suspect a huge majority of that 26% is similar to me in this.
Thanks for posting this. It brought back good memories. Forth was my favorite language in the 80s.
I've written a toy bootloader before — a much smaller goal/idea — and my goal with the first sector was to load the second sector!
"I had friends on that deathstar" basically: I was working in the UK JANET community, with people I knew doing Alvey project funded 5th Generation work. The projects had a very strong "catch up or we will loose the war" feel to them, because the Japanese were pumping money into things which made ICL, Olivetti,Ci-Honeywell-Bull,Ferranti,GEC very nervous. Domestic-Strategic outcomes vested in having strong world-comparable computing manufacturing: What if they "out thought us"

The one I can remember (from 40 years distance) is the GEC4000 project in Newcastle University, which included GEC-Plessy, Newcastle and York and Glasgow University, in a joint computing project. the GEC4000 was targetting (hah) Submarine and AWACS contexts, and this was a huge activity to get ahead of some issues in computing for synthetic radar. (which btw, GEC had some lead in: the work they did in the prior two generations of computing made british radar work world-class which is in part why british materiel sells so well into many armed forces. Also explains why Schlumberger and the like were into the same hardware: synthetic apeture radar is the same problem as Oil Shockwave exploration. Guess which british companies sold to Oil? Ferranti (Argus) and GEC/Plessy)

The standing joke about the GEC system was it had a real "halt and catch fire" instruction because thermal management on the CPU was out of hand, and it needed constant monitoring to prevent fire risk in the machine room.

The UK also had two rounds of "AI is the solution to every problem" remembering the Whitehill report of the 1970s which preseaged many of the same pushbacks in the 1980s and 1990s on ubiquitous AI: the proponents made far too sweeping claims and got a rap over the knuckles about cost-vs-benefit and sweeping up the money.

Alvey made it very hard to fund non-alvey projects. This kind of thing turns collaborative science into competitive science with toxic qualities. Overall, I judge Alvey harshly.

BTW I was a very very junior CompSci research programmer: If this stuff leaked into first-job-out-of-Uni level staff, imagine how loud it was around the Professorial table?
Let's be realistic here.
Surveillance/Exhibitionism Nexus
There aren’t any thats my point. Its like they made the first ever car 10 years ago after lifetimes of horse carriages and you’re disappointed theres nothing else of that magnitude yet.
People have historically been willing to pay apple more because in part of how seamlessly integrated their products are. I bought a “repairable” android and it was junk / not updated. My old iPhones have kept value far better than friends androids after 3 years. Apple is doing something that preserves phones value (ie, they may actually maintain them for longer with updates etc vs their “repairable” competitors.

And I’ve never had a problem getting my phone repaired
Perhaps the real evolutionary advantage of Sapiens was abstract thinking put to use in advanced sexualization of different species.
So the three celebrity status CEOs out of a C-Suite population in what... the high five figures?
If "lawyer" were a political party, they would control the Senate. Perhaps the American legislature goes too easy on the lawsuit industry out of some form of professional courtesy.
What the Heat Island Looks Like in East Coast Cities
>... (I don't think UBI accomplishes that.)

Does anyone have a flashlight? I can't quite see, it's so dark all the way down here where this lede is buried.
Getting out of the hole of "surviving to the next month" requires a few years of developing and investing in yourself to build a valued skillset. It's very hard to do when you don't have a clue about what that path can be. I took a lot longer to get to my current spot because I didn't know this path existed when I was younger because no one around me even knew this industry existed.
As a long time Vim user, the comments here actually encourage me to give it another try.
I once tried it on a tablet, but obviously I missed that it’s about keystrokes.
It is not something taught at any reputable business school.
I'd sure hope so, since they're getting paid hundreds of times more.
What happened to Vietnam and Afghanistan?
I also loved home button finger print reader - why can’t they have at least one model w it and let market vote
This is true even within tech companies, but for hourly workers. Hourly folks are treated like trash. I’m talking people who live in the bay, and work side by side with other professionals in SF.

In a position like that you almost have to take a “durrr, I dunno!” attitude to everything, because if you try to talk to salaried people about what you need to do your job, you are looked at like a dog who just started reciting poetry.

Every now and then a salaried person will try to engage, take you seriously, but once it bounces up the chain of command that an hourly person is acting like they have something to contribute, it will be quietly shut down.

Seems like the business model requires hourly people stay out of the “brain space” entirely. Otherwise you’d have to pay them a living wage.

Really despicable way to treat people IMO. I don’t see why you wouldn’t want people to be proactive about solving problems.

The again, I’ve seen similar attitudes from engineering managers towards their direct reports.
>It seems that the most appealing features of modern >DSLRs, except fast autofocus, are hidden behind 90s >interfaces with multi-button setups and so on.

What features are you referring to? Personally as someone who likes to take photos, I find the tactile multi-button/dial interface ideal and don't want a menu driven touch UI. It seems like some people want to co-opt a camera type made primarily for photography and turn it into a social media focused camcorder. I know the companies are trying to tap into that market but it feels like it is turning cameras into jacks of all trades and masters of none. I find the pricing obscene, but some current Leica models are stills only and have very elegant and simple interfaces designed purely for taking photographs. There are high quality cinema cameras all over to choose from. It seems people are pulling the DLSR/interchangeable lens mirrorless camera market in two different directions with opposing goals...photography vs social media/video production.
Wow, that is one pointedly political article. Bloomberg is now solidly in my 'partisan source' category.

(Read the article before downvoting, please. Give it a fair read.)
Are we taking AOC seriously on anything related to economics? Even Politifact has called her out on her misunderstanding of unemployment. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul...
Yep, I read that as 766km and 476m (766.476km).
Fostering good environment IS their responsibility. It's not an action of a bad that world suffer from, world suffer from inaction of a good.
Absolutely: there is literally _nothing_ about blockchain in this article.
We’ve gone dell and lenovo - not amazing but the gap is much smaller I think
Funny that at the point high quality LED tv's and digital signals come onstream, the world moves from Free-to-Air into pay-to-watch. So the poor can afford amazing TVs but cannot afford to buy the content we rich get to watch.

Absolute poverty improves but relative poverty goes backward is a constant. Taxing cigarettes to contain cancer risks is a no brainer, which rich people can buy themselves out from but poor addicted smokers get penalized on, and then have to wear "you are poor because you are sick and make bad choices" pushback, and are denied basic health support.
I'm not aware of any markings or certifications. And ending the list that way, I wanted to suggest a whole hinterland of considerations, rather than elevate table choice particularly.

But with those caveats, there are three issues with tables I've faced as a wheelchair user. In order of being increasingly common:

1. Wheelchairs are wide. I can't get into tables with legs a small distance apart. And the table is useless if I am too far away from it or I am side on.

2. A powered wheelchair is particularly tall, so short tables cannot be accessed. There were some I couldn't access in a manual chair also, particularly those with lips around the top. Or bolts and hardware on the underside that are painful to whack knees into.

3. Tables with a single central base don't allow wheels to enter on the floor under the table.

My disabilities are acquired. So I largely ignored the issue when I was running my businesses. As such I don't know about formal best practices or certifications. Honestly my best advice would be to rent a wheelchair for an afternoon and try it.
It's funny how a 3-line bash script is considered an automated agent, but the 100's of millions of lines of code that Chrome uses to download, parse, and display HTML is somehow not "automated"
So far I've only managed to find one thing that monorepo fundamentally offers that micro does not: atomic commits across projects.

But I'm not sure that's a useful feature anyway:

1) If you are doing a whole-repo refactor (one of the main atomic-commit benefits I see claimed), you still have to run on X -> try to commit X+1. If someone committed in between you may have to redo the whole thing. Or lock the whole monorepo while doing so. Both scenarios seem worse to me for mono, since microrepos stand far less of a chance of conflicting (less frequent commits, less code to consider (faster refactoring tool runs), etc) and a lock would be a far smaller interruption (one repo vs the whole company).

2) Atomic commits don't represent how things are deployed. You still have to deal with version N and N-1 simultaneously. So e.g. breaking refactors of RPC APIs have exactly the same problems in mono vs micro.

On the other hand, downsides are pretty clear and take immense work to sidestep: most tools will either be much slower or not work at all, because they now need to work on 100s or 1000s of times more data than they were developed against. That's probably thousands of man-years of tooling you may have to understand and improve, or wholly replace.

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The vast majority of monorepo benefits that I usually see claimed are actually tool-standardization benefits. Or "we could build tool X to do that". Or top-level control, like "we can commit for team X". Of course that's useful! But it has nothing to do with monorepo vs microrepo.

Monorepo just happens to be the carrot/stick used to finally achieve standardization. Others could work, this is just the current fad (which, in some ways, is why it sometimes works - it's easier to convince others).
It appears to be in their "opinion" section.
Who exactly is blaming the poor for their poverty?
Ticketmaster is a successful example of the emulation strategy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9808995
Are the concepts pretty directly transferable and the engineers senior? Specific technologies don’t matter all that much.

Junior engineer? Might take a bit longer to ramp up.

Switching between firmware development and web apps? That’s going to be tough (in either direction).
Hahaha, because pants is a bad tool? Or because it sounds funny? I’m sympathetic to both :)

In defense of pants, I meant that our repo would be a mess without a versioned dependency graph + reproducible builds. Of course other tools give you that too, and definitely do it better than pants does.

I guess I should have said “without some build tool”, our repo would be a mess.
I was also shocked as to well the real-time filters work. I suspect it's also a sign of how china tech is beginning to lead rather than follow on how technology is used in everyday life. They have 100's of millions of people that have embraced technology as part of their daily life so companies have a large audience where they can try new tech.
For highly-technical regulators, this is definitely true — I’ve wondered what the threshold would be where it’d be cheaper to pay substantially more but with a non-compete banning work with anyone in a related field. There’s a plausible argument that the country would be better off with, say, a really motivated SEC even if you paid their retirees 50% to sit on the beach after they left government service.
This acts as if it’s presenting an unpopular opinion against a popular opinion, when it’s actually the opposite. Would any of Noah’s colleagues not be horrified if he had written an article stating “blame America’s poor for their poverty”? Where is the signal, if everyone already thinks this way? It’s just masturbation.
Wow, that is awesome! We (USA here) can learn some things from Japan.
I have used exa for a few weeks. It turns out I like it quite a lot. Not that I am a huge fan of colorcode all the file names, but I do enjoy the inclusion of tree output inside exa command. I have `tree` in my disposal for years, but only use it when I need print out the file structure of a project. Now I use `exa --tree --level 2` religiously.
Roots was advertised as a fictionalization of Haley's family lore.
"The rationale for the American rule is that people should not be discouraged from seeking redress for perceived wrongs in court or from trying to extend coverage of the law. The rationale continues that society would suffer if a person was unwilling to pursue a meritorious claim merely because that person would have to pay the defendant's expenses if they lost."

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_fe...
nsl.com is pretty amazing, I haven't seen it before, cheers!

> It seems like Steven Apter found the Joy combinators very interesting and implemented them in other languages.

Yeah. I'm convinced that Joy is somehow important. It has to do with Category Theory maybe, but I'm not a good enough mathematician to say how. Be sure to look at the Prolog implementation in the ./thun subdir. Something that elegant has to be significant, eh?

As for using it at work, YMMV. You wouldn't use my project (not yet anyway.) But I think it might makes sense to implement Joy as a library in other languages, like Walker's ATLAST. "The painful path to programmability" explains the idea: ATLAST Autodesk Threaded Language Application System Toolkit by John Walker https://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/
Yes and every area you posted is about them getting into declining markets - most of which are declining because of the smart phone.

Microsoft made $10 billion in revenue last year on the XBox - they don’t mention profit (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsofts-record-setting-10b-...). Microsoft still probably hasn’t recouped their losses in the Xbox division and the console market isn’t expected to grow.

Apple made about 24 billion on the Mac during the previous four quarters (https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/07/apple-third-quarter-2019-...). You know Apple doesn’t sell a single Mac where they don’t make a healthy profit. The Mac is nowhere near their best performing segment.
The US is unusual in that if you bring a civil suit and lose you don’t have to compensate the other party for their legal fees.

Unusually high medical bills in the US are also probably a contributing factor. I’d be curious to see how often a civil suit is brought after a car accident in EU vs US.
They didn't mention that most schools in Ethiopia are half day by default (because they lack sufficient teachers & school rooms to educate all the children for a full day). So in reality, most children wouldn't have been in school for half the day regardless.