skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have experience and it has always seemed a great idea with a handful of developers and then come back to be a disaster when the team scaled. They become a nightmare to keep everything properly up to date when you have a lot of people working on all of it. Git sub repos worked a bit better, but overall I really recommend submodules exclusively when the submoduled repo changes very infrequently.
I hear you. I look forward to seeing the (support) death of IE11 in 2025 (!!!), which is likely all too close to my own retirement.

Also about the “subset” thing: the last 10 years or so I have been moving away from OOP, and more towards FP, so stuff like class support or Typescript have been a big yawn, anyway.

We had “C with classes” (I.e. C++ as it was known at the time) shoved down our throats in Uni back in the 80s, since garbage collection was impractical. That “wisdom” turned out to be short lived, and thus my migration towards FP (beyond the Lisp I had in an AI class back in the 80s)
If there were Chinese military bases in Vancouver, Havana, and all across Mexico, with docking rights in Halifax, the United States would not be acting all that much differently from how China is acting today.

Actually, now that I think of it, it would probably act by loudly contemplating the possibility of regime change in its neighbors.
Algae are interesting, but I don't see them as being ideal for tying up the carbon for long - we'd need to compress it into bricks and bury them, perhaps?
Breakfast is gone by 9:06AM actually.. you have to be there before billing hours for the free food.
Some people just also don't want to support Google, for various reasons.
We've been using logging like this but with jsonl lines. Still easy to grep as straight text, but very handy to be able to parse with jq or other tools and be able to have rich values (or even substructures) as part of the log lines.
do you have some relevant expertise to offer?

the basic claim that effective range is halved or more against a target moving half as fast as you seems to make sense. I have no idea to what extent torpedoes need guidance from the launcher.
Funny you say that, i remember years ago thinking that Blender was becoming bloated after the download reached ~20MB :-P.
Public company estimates are usually this good.
Funny, for my account the timer is 20 seconds. I wonder if it differs per user.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20568853, which was posted a hair earlier.

Usually the best third-party article is better a corporate press release, too.
Strategic missile defence systems are destabilizing; game theory argues that if the other side builds such a defence your best bet is to attack before it's completed; failing that you need to build up your armory to a size where it can overwhelm the projected defense. This is why the US and UUSR signed a treaty in '72 specifically banning them (except for one city each; the US didn't even bother to deploy its).
This works: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Dr_Jefyll

The search at the bottom and hn.algolia doesn't find anything with "Dr_Jefyll"
They did crazy tricks because timesharing wasn't invented and whatever program was running had the full machine to itself. Also, designers of these computers usually built everything around the flow of data so that a CPU would have as little as possible to do to read tapes or cards.
That's apparently also why blender had such unusual UX (like right click to select) - it's rooted in Amiga conventions.
> I bet you close the bathroom or stall door when you poop though.

Many public restrooms in the U.S. barely have a door, and if they do it is so high off the ground and so short it barely offers any privacy at all
I think what has really hurt Canon is their failure so far in the mirrorless segment. As others have said, for quite a while they've relied in large part on high quality glass and people's glass investments within the EF ecosystem to drive people to that and retain them within it. It's worked well - they are "good enough" on the sensor side and have also won (or at least not lost) on things which professionals care about quite a lot like reliability.

But mirrorless eroded a lot of that advantage - they were late to the trend, then came with a substandard offering (EOS M series) and then tried to catch up with the EOS R but leveraging existing glass investments to drive adoption is much harder because people see part of the point of mirrorless as moving to a new mount which allows for smaller lenses (at least at shorter focal lengths).
The number of human man hours invested into that guidance number is vast. As accurate as that number is (and for what it is), people are going to make and lose a lot of money even still. Basically I’m saying — check your amazement because it’s amazement all the way down.
http://archive.is/El570
To get a self-sustaining Mars base working and to be able to leave the base and go back to Earth would require some real nifty engineering and automation. Stuff that would transfrom the Earth before lift-off.

Think about it. To get off of Mars, you have two options really. Land the take-off rocket with the fuel in it or land it dry and then fuel it up. Landing a take-off rocket wet is super hard, especially on what amounts to virgin regolith. Fueling up the rocket means you make the fuel on the surface and transport it to the rocket. Also, super hard.

Supposing that you did manage to find a good pocket of the raw materials that you need for the fuel, you still have to have astronauts do that mining, or you need to invent reliable robots to do that for you. Such robots would completely transform the mining and resource extraction economy of the Earth. Then you need to get that fuel to the rocket somehow. Again, either you use astronauts or you invent a hell of a self-driving tanker, which, again, transforms the lives of all humans on Earth. There is the other issues of building the landing pad, the job site for mining extraction, the issues when the fuel spill everywhere with Earth 8 lightminutes away, the scientific issues of just mining willy-nilly into the regolith, the static electricity issues of super dry and thin air, yadda yadda yadda. Even with astronauts on Mars directing all the chaos, it's a nightmare of logistics and black-swan events to refuel a rocket.

Like, comparing the Apollo missions to the eventual Ares missions is foolhardy. The tech we got out of going to the moon is going to seem like brightly colored wood blocks compared to the F-35 that is the tech the Mars missions require.
It's not an indictment at all. I'm just pointing out that there is no apples to apples comparison and it's misleading to imply there is.
Let me know when (type inference of) partial function application and object literals are easy in Typescript and I’ll consider it.
your analogy is off. and the suggestion to use VPN is outright counterproductive.

people close the bathroom door when they poop. I guess they also close the door when they whatch porn.

using a vpn is akin to (car analogy time) trying to using a rental car while in public. you actually expose yourself to the rental company, who might be shadier than the people at the place you're showing up at, who can still see you trhu the window (analogy for your 3rd party cookies)
as a side note, I love that you highlight regex in your new NLP course. There is an inherent tension between the probabilistic nature of models and the need for deterministic outputs in most production settings. Often if we can uncover linguistics rules or regex patterns that guarantee minimal precision (or as our VP puts it - don't look stupid), we'll eschew the model in the short term or use the model to augment the rules.

Also I really appreciated that on of the training goals for ULMfit was to be trainable on a single gpu. With these large-capacity models, training is getting crazy expensive and out of hand. Any chance that your future work will still keep the single gpu training goal?
http://archive.is/TErZI
My guess is that this computer is no longer in service, or soon won't be (we passed a school millage for building upgrades not too long ago).
Google teams up with VMware to bring more enterprises to its cloud
The White House Blocked My Report on Climate Change and National Security
Literally, a ship.
What are you using for analytics or ads placement?
Just today, a UK farm has had to destroy its entire hemp crop :

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/30/oxfordshire-...
this breach does not add up alot of inconsistencies. Also right during the passing of the new law Shield Act
This is not quite correct. The colleges are asking about the financial status of the parents, not the child, and making poor assumptions. Not only does this open up the system to legalistic scheming, it also seriously disadvantages kids with estranged parents.

The colleges are not asking the right questions. It sounds like that's changing, which is good. But they're the ones making the rules and they bear the blame for the consequences.
I don't know enough about the elevators to comment there, but with regards to the Admiral Kuznetsov, ski-jump runways aren't a silver bullet. Ski-jumps cause the planes to leave the runway slower and at a higher angle of attack. Certain types of aircraft can recover from that just fine but it limits both in the type of aircraft that can use the runway and the payload they can carry.
Just taking the company dark and being personally embarrassed. There was no punishment, though there was a lot of teasing. Also spending 4-ish weeks cleaning up the mess that was made.
Pilot wave theory is based on the assumption that every particle is interacting with the entire Universe all the time.
They deserve every lost profit -- the way they have missed opportunity after opportunity on the video and photo market (late to 4K, late to mirrorless, lackluster features, fear of cannibalising their 6K+ models, and so on).
> Their purpose is to serve us not the other way around.

However "we" want them to be able to "stop the bad guys" and "monitor bad communication". "We" also have nothing to hide.

This yougov poll shows more Americans support backdoors in encryption than oppose it

https://today.yougov.com/topics/technology/articles-reports/...

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/inline...
Apparently Firefox is not "modern" according to orbis. Very unfortunate how the web has become such a monoculture.
Isn't it basically just like writing fiction in your head? The act of creating a separate being in your own mind with its own personality and desires is exactly what you need to create believable characters.

For that matter, you are at a significant advantage in many extremely lucrative professions (notably, politics, management, finance, media, UX design, and law) if you can create an accurate mental simulacrum of the people you interact with. This is basically what separates the people who control what others do vs. those who get controlled.
Firevase Is a Smashing Fire Extinguisher
Aren't we already growing algae in the ocean about as fast as we can? Is there more we could be doing than manufacturing fertilizer on a geological scale and letting a lot of it end up washing out to sea? (Honest question, I haven't thought about this avenue of geoengineering before)
I couched it a bit, because I've had people argue with me about it in meatspace. It seems odd to me, especially when their stated alternative was predominantly google. People being people I guess.
Carriers can move at about the same speed as submarines. And when transiting at high speed, submarines are very noisy and thus easy to detect. So if the carrier is operating in the open ocean it's tough for a submarine to get into firing position.

If the carrier is constrained to operate in a restricted area then the submarine has a much better chance of sneaking up undetected. Carriers are frequently "sunk" in exercises like that.
With modern tech, running everything in spreadsheets is more plausible as you can 'scale out' buy buying more compute power. Depending on the product it might be the right thing to do.

If you are storing data and logic both in the spreadsheet this could be tricky in terms of upgrading logic which would need to be done carefully across all the sheets.

But if you have a master spreadsheet with formulas, load it in memory, fill it with data and ask it for an answer, then well you are just running a function using a different technology and there isn't a problem (other than it would be more efficient in say Python probably ... but if you are charging enough compute is cheap).
Right - Part complexity is a big reason and so is volume. We're building carriers at a rate of 1 ship every 3 to 4 years. There's just no value proposition for automation on a lot of these parts.
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You can buy a 90 degree viewfinder adapter if you really want to shoot low down. They're not very expensive.

Optical viewfinders also vary quite a bit in size which impact eye strain quite a bit - unsurprisingly the larger, brighter ones are typically in the more expensive cameras. If you ever get the chance, try a top of the range DSLR viewfinder next to a bottom of the range one. You might be surprised at the difference.
But they're expending their own resources to improve their outcome, much as you might pay for braces to straighten your teeth.
Truework Secures $12M Series A to Compete with Equifax
> there’s a good chance you’re too late there - they most likely already gave that up a long time ago.

People on HN keep using this in a number of contexts as an excuse to not even try.

I'm tired of it. Maybe we are to late. But if try to avoid failure then at least we have a small chance.
He worked for Saddam, he was murdered by Israel or possibly Iran.
emulation doesn't emulate the feeling you get when you're face to face with the real thing, but better than nothing at all I suppose.
Besides the App Store: Apple Care, movies, books, audiobooks, Apple News+, Apple Pay.
I doubt she views her current situation as better than the alternatives she would've had if she had been told in the first place.
> not building a prototype

Old saying, "Fastest way to build a six inch reflector telescope is to build a four inch telescope first."

That is, learn in the simplest possible context.

Like companies that won't build an MVP or even a non-sellable proof of concept. Finding out a key software library doesn't work three weeks before launch day, for example.
Amazon seems to be doing alright regardless.
It's super rare, hold onto it!
Back before the neoliberal revolution, the US used to throw people in jail for price fixing.

Example: Robert C. Townsend in his book Up the Organization 1970 warned, if your customers are all on the east side of town and your competitors customers are all on the west side, you're both going to jail.

Now no one goes to jail unless they steal from other rich people.
Amazon, Walmart, Ikea targeted in University of California light bulb lawsuits
Yes, and this begs the question... what kind of scenarios are we arming for?

In a modern world of sophisticated international commerce, disrupting commerce seems much more "war" than clash of military forces. Consider what I think of as a military flashpoint - the Strait of Hormuz. Some 25% of the world's oil flows through there, serving the hungry maw of Asian manufacturing superpowers. It's only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, and much of that isn't navigable. Really, there's a six mile wide path, filled with slow, lumbering, basically defenseless oil tankers. Any and all of them are vulnerable to the thousands of anti-ship missiles that line the shores on both sides, and a single burning oil tanker could close the strait completely. A supersonic anti-ship missile would take just seconds from launch to destroying a tanker.

A shiny new aircraft carrier is supposed to prevent that how, exactly?

Moreover, the ease with which Iran or another power (or non-state entity) could close it makes too much saber-rattling vulnerable to mutual assured destruction. Just how long would our Asian allies and not-really-allies tolerate having their oil cut off so the US could pick a fight with Iran, or Saudi Arabia, or whomever?
Sure, if you restrict yourself to intuitionistic logic... which is odd (to use the most charitable description I can give of it).
And because the services have much higher margin, the earnings story is even better.

Products are 42.4 - 29.5 = 13 ish
Services are 11.5 - 4.1 = 7ish

If the iphone has the same margins as the other products, and about half the product sales are iphones, the services are producing more earnings than the iphone!

(To be clear: the services are delivered through the iphone, so its not like the iphone is not a key part of the services.)

Source
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/Q3%20FY19%20Consolidated...
Interesting. Would love to be able to disable this for small changes (text only, etc). I'd hate to have to run an extra, potentially costly/time consuming, CI step for small UI changes.

Congrats on the launch. I use GIPHY to "preview" my UI changes in Github. I wish the rest of my team did something similar.
I know a lot of engineers that work for Amazon that are happy. Warehouse workers on the other hand...
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ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Blendle has been doing something similar and I happily send some dollars their way from time to time although I'd admit it would probably be more if they hosted more linux magazines etc.

Also I hear they are changing their business model to monthly payments. If this is true I guess I'm out unless they suddely - like Spotify - will give me access to everything I'm interested in.
Jobs founded NeXT, which created a desktop UNIX OS based on mach/BSD. Most importantly, NeXTSTEP had a nice GUI framework built on Objective-C. When Jobs returned, NeXT merged with Apple, and Apple gained ownership of NeXTSTEP/OpenStep, evolving it into Rhapsody and OS X.

Of course the programming and design were done by the software teams under Avie Tevanian, first at NeXT and later at Apple.
Right now Apple's Services Business consists of:

- Apple Music
- iCloud
- App Store / iTunes / Apple Books
- Apple Pay
- Apple Care
- Licensing (i.e. default Google search)
- Apple News+

Coming later in the year:

- Apple Arcade
- Apple TV+
- Apple Card

I'm expecting Apple Arcade to be a huge source of revenue which I'm eagerly awaiting for myself (and my kids) to get off the cesspool of scammy Dark UX IAP land mines that currently proliferates the App Store.
… they're also good products. It's not just the status symbol thing. People like their products.
So when I can get a big fat gold ring for a quarter next to the bubble gum machines at the gas station, you think it will still be good for an engagement or to commemorate 25 years of service because it is so very non-brittle, conductive and easy to melt, mold and cast?
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I get the feeling that when the article says "math[s]" it means continuous maths, like matrix arithmetic, calculus and statistics (judging by the examples given). Those can be useful, but not as immediately useful as the discrete maths for computer science that most programmers are (er, I think) at least somewhat familiar with: propositional and first-order logic, combinatorics, complexity theory, computational theory (including automata and languages) and, well, binary arithmetic.

Not to mention: algorithms.

I see the reference to category theory. That's discrete, of course, but it's intermediary to advanced. You don't get there without some solid foundations on logic, that you should expect to get from your CS course.
And I don’t think that’s bad for Apple because you are still in the ecosystem, buying their services, all the while not buying a non-Apple device.
“The native script used to represent Ithkuil is both alien and complex.”

interesting choice
Having a sort of "orderly" disruption of 2 million people on the streets seemed to have great optics, not creating sympathy for the government among the population (especially since over a quarter of the population is participating!).

So is there a good reason to be rioting at this point? Seems to me that enough of that creates more sympathy for the government. _Seems_ like not a great plan, but I'm ignorant, so I'm all ears here.
Interactions by email or chat are less efficient for companies than the telephone. This is so, because for the vast, vast majority of people it is much easier to talk then to type. Specially when things get more complicated. With the phone you can also easier check, if the customer understands you. You can easily explain at the phone something that would need to type you out 250 words or more. With a chat you would not be able to do that. Also you would not be able to verify if the customer has even read the piece or just tuned out.
I really wanted to love Chicken but I remember finding a number of eggs I wanted to use that were broken for OSX. If I were a better programmer I guess maybe I could have figured it out.
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I have bad experiences with submodules. It was only one submodule just one level deep, and it only contained something like a convoluted configuration shared among multiple repos.

As you say, getting a change first into the child and then into the parent requires double PRs and testing. But that's the same as if you had it as a package dependency. Only that instead of a version, you have a sha1 which you never know what it is.

I prefer package dependency, because it forces you to explicitly make a release, where it should have passed PR and some integration tests. Also merge conflicts are clearer.
...are experiencing pay and conditions that are vastly better than other warehouses. See https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-jo...
Still, the company hasn't released an innovative hardware product since 2008. That's a long time for them. If Apple can't innovate anymore, regardless of whether they have continued financial success, are they still really Apple?
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Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar. It only leads to a hotter hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Relay based, more reliable and needing less replacement than vacuum tubes I assume, and nice clicking sound too :)
I was wondering the same thing. Like, I use a microservice architecture at work, but the choice of using one vs. many git repos to represent diffs in those services over time seems largely meaningless. I don't like large diffs or people breaking production, but this is solved by testing and insisting upon small diffs, not by how many git repos we use.

Formally speaking, multi-repo management allows a strict subset of the diffs allowed to a mono-repo (because diffs can 't extend beyond each repo root). Are the excluded possibilities all bad? No. Are they generally bad? Not really. Are they sometimes bad? Sure. Are they sometimes better than many diffs across many repos? Sure. Can a reasonably competent dev team tell the difference? Sure, usually. Unsurprisingly, this usually requires the exact same tooling as ensuring the quality of microrepo changes.

If you're continuously deploying master, have a healthy ci/cd pipeline, and enforce good merging discipline, you're fine either way.

I'm a little tired of doing things like revving our trace and logging libraries across our 50+ micro repos that represent microservices. That's genuinely obnoxious. Is it bad? No. Is it obviously more or less error prone than the equivalent monorepo update? No. All the bad bits of either strategy just require some tooling and a clear head.