skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Well, it's quite sad that there are people who truly believe feel-good stuff like "all people are the same" and "all cultures are equally good" even though the reality tells us different story... All countries have their fair share of basterds but in some countries it's the accepted and standard way of behavior.
Good. The sooner both apps die the better. It is ridiculous how shallow and useless Instagram has become.
Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases
Seeking advice on an ML tutorial for rookies without math or software background
OnePlus 7 Pro update adds August patch ahead of Google Pixel
Restricting the IP of your internal servers goes a long way for defense in depth. It’s not a panacea, but it prevents immediate owned to the world.
You say it as if having them were a bad thing.

The fact is, people who want floppy drives in their PCs can still install them. And RS232 is alive and well on Raspberry Pi.

On the other hand, the mobile world is suffering a lot from the "removing ports is a good thing" stupidity. That's how you get cell phones without a headphone jack, and laptops without a (micro)SD card slot and no USB-A ports (even when the space clearly permits them).

The ports that aren't used disappear gradually without the need to be "brave" (e.g. DVD bays from laptops).
I am the author of this 70-page, beginner-friendly intro to deep learning, and I seek your advice on how to improve it, please.

I wrote this humorous tutorial in an attempt to save other rookies some pain. I suffered through two years of teaching myself ML with online courses and blogs, and it was like drinking from a fire hose--too much information from too many experts with too many gaps between concepts, and I was filled with confusion and self-doubt. Could I really learn this stuff? My head was so full of anxious chatter that it left little bandwidth to actually focus on learning the concepts.

IMO, today’s AI books and online courses suffer from “Expert Blindness.” Most of the experts have been experts for so long, and so deeply, that they forget how a beginner sees the material. My blog skips very few steps as I use analogies, pictures, examples and humor to break the concepts down into bite-size, user-friendly pieces, with minimal expert blindness.

It would make me happy to know I helped other folks to avoid some of the pain I went through. Please pass this blog on to any ML rookies, and I welcome all constructive comments to improve this as a resource for all future ML engineers.
Warmly,
David Code (yes, that really is my last name--what are the odds, right? :-)
Perhaps you could explain it correctly?
> we would be blaming amazon

Would we? Amazon requires you to explicitly make the bucket open. It also allows you to prevent that account-wide with IAM policies. It also allows delegating the opening to public to specific people.

And I believe you get warnings about public buckets from their advisor. (May be misremembering that one) You can easily audit that too.

So basically I don't see what else could AWS do to make this more secure. It's 100% on the user at this point.
That sucks, sorry to hear it. If she hasn't paid those bills yet, she can probably negotiate them way down FYI.
My parents have one of these bastards growing against their house. We had no idea what it was until this story.

They’ve cut it down twice, butchered the stump, given it a chemical bath. It is currently back at gutter height.
> That's just an argument for lowering taxes.

It's both.

You don't tax people and then provide everyone with a free dog, you just let people keep their money and they'll use it to get a dog if they want one.

If you want to help the poor, you don't give them bureaucratic programs that require them to buy specific amounts and types of food, housing and education, you just give them the money and they can figure out what they need better than you. In that case some of the money came from different people than it went to, but it's still the same principle.
I think the poster was referring more to Bayer / Monsanto
"Basics" I can live with, but I have a real problem with "whomst."
> China can't do any of that because it would harm their own economy far more (what remains of their industrial / trade trust would vaporize further)

I'll invert your argument. China can close all trade with USA tomorrow, and it will only be few percents of its GDP gone. Trade is not as big part of Chinese GDP as most people think, and trade with US is even smaller.

Moreover, do you think that China has any trust to loose to begin with? Even 10 years ago, the biggest headache of an MNC in China was plain theft and petty extortion by low tier officials. If those companies had a chance to move elsewhere, they would've done so years ago.

They plainly have no alternative.

> and it wouldn't likely kill the company they target (unless it was a small hyper dependent company). The US move against Huawei works particularly well because of the US partners willing to go along with it as a group; the same is true of US sanctions. China has very few allies and few global levers.

China does not need allies to pull that out. Just any widget around has part/material/labour that is passing through China at some point. China can say companies to stop selling parts to server makers selling to, say, Google, and Google would not be able to do a thing about that. It is humanly impossible to recreate all and every critical component that goes into a computer these days apart from Chinese supply chains.

> Plus, the US would respond very harshly and China knows that. China isn't a gentle flower, it isn't avoiding hammering strategic US companies out of the goodness of its heart; it isn't attempting that maneuver because it knows the cost is too high for itself.

Sure, that's the thing, it will be the biggest trade battle ever. The current administration is too soft bodied to even contemplate fighting.

But they have no other option to win this trade war. If Xi has no guts for that, my feel is that somebody will either force him, or do that for him.

> The US is one of the least trade dependent nations:

This is an illusion. USA is one of nations most dependent on Chinese light industry goods. Just any everyday item, and household good on US shelves comes from China. Many kinds of essential components and materials for US domestic industry are near 99% imports.

For example, US may simply be left without half of all kinds of plastics on the market. China has near 100% monopoly on a lot of plastic types,especially higher performance ones. And people were saying that Dow Chemicals was ruling the world...

There are less domestically manufactured everyday goods in US than even in Russia or the Gulf countries.

Surely, USA has banks, funds, and law companies, but does it have manufacturers of trousers?
And of course there's O'Reilly's Safari subscription for programming/tech books...
Tariffs hurt US customers as well. We pay a higher price for sure.

It hurts China, but it does not mean China has to retaliate because it would hurt China customers as well. If China's leaders are wise, they would focus on the economy boost instead of playing this child game with another Child.
USA could stand to have a major update in how it treats currency. As an easy example: why is the penny still legal tender and widely used? Every other first world country had been essentially rid of cent level denominations for years now. Canada is too easy, let’s instead look at Ecuador who uses USD as currency. In Ecuador, outside of touristy areas, salary and prices of everything are in general at most 1/4 of what USA charges. Yet somehow, Ecuador functions without the penny. All prices are rounded to the nearest 5 cents and Ecuador has not imploded from the rounding issues. Why is it that we insist on pricing and dealing with pennies? Every other first world country had adjusted their own currencies accordingly.
This is good. I am surprised it wasn't done sooner. I think all products should have appropriate warning labels.
That is a very useful and succinct definition.

And we did use these blimps in Afghanistan. Very apt and chilling definition.
They claim they won't give out more certificates than they captured. Once they hit the limit, we'll know, and they'll have enough subscriber money and incentive to start expanding I should hope!
> If I use a presumably abandoned work as a jumping off point to a billion dollar franchise and then the original copyright holder comes out of the woodwork to claim 50% of everything I've made will the government escrow cover that?

It would be the same as any other statutory licensing system, where once the government grants you permission to use the work, and you pay the statutory fees, the copyright holder has no claim to any rights in your derivative works. The only right they have at that point is to the fees, and it is between them and the government as to whether they are the rightful copyright holder, no reason to involve you.

Again, I think this would work smoother if all works had say 20 years of full copyright protection, just like today, and then another 20 subject to statutory licensing. Then in that second period there would be no dispute over whether you, the third party, had the right to use the work, the only dispute is over who gets the statutory fees, and the government agrees to be the middle man in situations where that is not clear, so that uncertainty of ownership won't stifle use.

> In this case isn't the government stealing from the copyright holder and/or public domain?

Stealing implies that either the copyright holder or the public have some inherit ownership right in the work, however their rights are only what the law grants them. In this system, works would not enter the public domain until after the second period is over, so the public domain has no rightful claim to them (orphaned or not). In the second phase of copyright, the holder would no longer have absolute right to control the work, and only limited rights in setting prices. Anyone could redistribute or make derivative works (subject to trademark law, etc), as long as they paid the statutory fees. If a copyright holder abandons the work, then you cannot blame the government for treating the fees similar to other abandoned property.
This really depends on the area od specialization. There are tons of web designers locally available but how about distributed computing, computer vision, self-driving, robotics, device drivers, OS kernels, language designers? These specialties are probably not high order bits outside of BigCo and there is simply not enough supply. As far as ML/AI is concerned it's super hard to hire talent even if you are willing to pay big bucks. There are fewer than 2000 PhDs the world churns out (from reasonably respectable programs) and the demand is approximately 50X of this skill set. I see lots of team end up hiring someone who did online courses and it does work out many times but if you want to get folks who spend 5 years of their lives in full-time in-depth studies of all nooks and crannies then its uphil battle for anyone regardless of how much cash you have.
That is a whole mountain of nostalgia, especially the phone line. I remember what a big deal *69 and party lines were when they became available. I actually got in a bit of trouble from Prodigy for calling new kids on the block gay.
>does anybody really enjoy a stiff, snappy UI?

Yes many do. Especially the snappy part. I've removed a lot of eye candy animations coded by well meaning devs at the request of users who care about nothing more that speed.

Animations can be a nice first impression, but if you use the app daily e.g for work or data entry you know how to navigate and you want as close to instant response as possible.

Maybe a smart pattern is animate in the early days for new users then transition into a more jarring and snappier world as they become regulars.
I agree but I think it's good for users
What gets me at the end of the day is that almost the entire institution that makes programming "valuable" is wholly fictitious and socially constructed. Without institutional international copyright and IP protection the vast majority of software produced would not generate nearly as much revenue per developer hour as it does today. The entire industry is basically an accident caused by greedy corporations extending copyright indefinitely for a century before the commoditization of computation happened and suddenly having the correct number could make you impossibly rich while you were given government protections of your exclusive ownership of said number.

When you look at the stock market and you see ludicrous P/E ratios on companies like Google and Amazon it must be acknowledged the only reason money sees them as being so valuable is because governments the world over have awarded them, through employee ingenuity or acquisition, exclusive permanent monopolies to millions of ideas enshrined in copyrights any of which could explode into an infinite money machine on any given Tuesday. Paired with their treasure troves of harvested data on people they are the largest entities in existence not for the actual real world value they produce but for the untenable position they now occupy with the force of the state and international trade standing behind them to preserve their position as the total arbiters of information.

Its really gross, and I have to live every day knowing that I largely do this (the programming, computers, tech, etc) on the back of a power structure enshrined and grown cancerous over centuries with the intent to exploit perpetual monopolies on ideas.
Floppy drives get first class support on Windows 10 though.

(...the couple of 3.5" discs that I now use in old music equipment originally came from a supply room in Microsoft when I interned there in 2014, although I'm not sure what they were used for even back then).
We just got our 10th paid user!
[Cross posting from Startup School forum but whoever needed to read this, you can do it too!]

We're still in beta and this definitely isn't as magical as getting the first user but hitting double digits gives great confidence in the legitimacy of your idea.

We grew organically, friends referring friends. We charge a small fee of invested money so the revenue does not amount to much but surely great feeling to end the week on a high note.

Biggest piece of advice for anyone struggling with obstacles right now - SHIP SOMETHING OUT. Even if it's a google sheets/survey version of the product, getting independent insight from users opens your mind to new possibilities. We keep pondering over our obstacles but truth be told, the market does not care. Your company is what it puts out to users. Things started moving for us only after we launched.

I'm happy to chat with anyone who has questions about getting traction on MVP for your product. Keep pushing!

We're building https://www.booninvest.co
CPU Engineers always designed for the needs of their customers: with early computers having much better support for decimal arithmetic (which was popular in the 60s through 80s, but less popular today).

Overall, today's high-performance CPU programmers (and their tools: particularly their compilers) have a set of expectations, and CPU Engineers are designing their computers with those expectations in mind. That's really all there is too it.
Hm. Perhaps they took some time and worked on the performance then. It was ungodly slow a couple years back, and relaxing permissions led to a significant performance boost.
Auditing News Curation Systems: Case Study (Apple News)
> The meanings of expressions are determined by those who use them

communication is a team sport though. "intended meaning" is only worth anything if the recipient understands it
> The US is also, essentially, entirely energy self-sufficient, with Canada's help. Something China is nowhere near being. The US could shut off China's access to foreign oil and a lot of coal supply very easily and it would grind up their economy.

China can import as much energy as it wants from Central Asia and Russia, it chooses not to because Saudi oil is cheaper.

China also is not as dependent on fossil fuels, due to extensive rail links between their major cities. Its just convenient to use jet planes, also the CCP actively wants to create a Boeing alternative.

If we do end up in a situation that becomes an existential threat to CCP:

- China would aggressively dump US treasuries.

- China stops exporting rare earths that even the US military depends on.

- China starts importing Iranian crude ( providing navy escort ).

- Chinese nationals are forced to sell their holdings in the US.

All of these things would cause a major financial crisis in the US, the Baby Boomers do not have the stomach for it and would vote Trump right out.

Anyway, you are right, the US doesn't depend on trade.

But 44% of US corporate sales happens overseas. A shutdown of global trade would be quite bad for the Chinese, but it would be worse for the "richest nation on earth".

> This is the fundamental mistake China made by keeping its economy so restricted and locked down to foreign companies. Most of the US economy doesn't have a critical dependency on China.

Why should the Chinese open their economy to US companies without getting something big in return ? US firms are not entitled to free access to anything outside their borders.

We know what Facebook, Google can do to a country, it's better for humanity if US companies are not given completely access to every market.
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China did not ban Google. Google is still doing business in China. It has research centers and Android is dominating in China. Plus it earns over a hundred millions of dollars each year from China by selling Ads.
Google abandons its searching services in China because it does not want to cooperate with censorship from the government. They still could re-open if they are willing to cooperate. And they planed to do, then gave-up under pressure from its employees.
All pharmaceuticals should be tested against the control of handing the patient the cost of the medication in cash.

I bet hundreds of dollars a month would provide depression and anxiety relief for a significant portion of the population.
On the other hand, it's a great way to drive people away from disposable consumption and guided into more expensive but better built and longer lasting alternatives less damaging to the environment. But I'm afraid this skirmish will not last long enough to shift behavior.
Sometimes you depend on stuff you don't even use. Or your dependency depends on it. Or the stuff only gives you little advantages. E.g. in Rust the failure crate saves you maybe 10 lines of code or such. But it has tons of dependencies. Or the lalrpop library crate depends on things only the binary crate needs because both are named the same way. You end up downloading and building things you don't even need. This stuff is fixable, the problem is that people don't care much about it.
IME an uncorrected 103°F fever is really no big deal. If you are already on Tylenol and Ibuprofen and still at 103 that’s a bit more interesting. Parent pro-tip, Ibuprofen has always been way more effective and also longer lasting than Tylenol at reducing fever in my kids.

I have a similar story from when my first child was diagnosed with T1D. The entire treatment consisted of administering 1 unit of subq insulin and a standard blood test. The bill was coded as intensive care and came to $15k. My OOP contribution was billed as $7k, but I fought it successfully and never paid a dime. Insurance unfortunately paid their full share.

This was Stanford Hospital, which is notorious for over billing, and actually I believe one of the most profitable hospitals in the country.
The counter intuitive thing to keep in mind here is that the best animations are subtle, and very quick. There's a balance to strike, but good animation can make the snappy UI give just the tiniest hint of motion and smoothness, without detracting from the experience at all. Animations are meant to be subtle hints to guide the viewers eye, not flashy eye candy.

Long animation times are _such_ a common rookie mistake, because the UI dev (or their manager) wants to notice the animation, when in the vast majority of cases, it would be better for the animation to be nearly invisible.
Because you don’t want to deal with the type of person that doesn’t have insurance. They may be more likely to not pay, or otherwise unpleasant to deal with.
Is there a good rule of thumb for how to transition new elements into the DOM? Right now, if I have an overlay, I mount it offscreen, and then do a `setTimeout(..., 0)` callback that transitions the overlay into view.

This works, but it seems a little glitchy in some environments. I'm wondering if it's too much to make DOM modification and then trigger a transition in the next tick.
In short, liability. So much behavior within the US medical profession is driven by a fear of getting sued for malpractice. Even though the patient would be sitting in the ER with treatment close at hand, if the situation did worsen and the patient suffered complications there will be the inevitable questions asked as to why the triage nurse didn't admit them in the first instance. For hospitals it's just not worth the risk of potentially expensive and lengthy lawsuits/settlements.
It is always better to return excess profits to the shareholders than to do stupid things. If there's nothing interesting to buy - you don't buy. I know we're deep into an amazing 10 year bull run and it seems like the more crazier things you buy the better you will fare, but things change. There will be buying opportunities in the future.

And when I say buy it also means invest internally in new technology.

And this has nothing to do with company's size.
I'll never forget running a BBS with my friends when I was in 5th grade. We had 4 lines the chat, and games were so much fun. Also ran a warez website (lame one) but taught me photoshop and html at the time.

Formative stuff that is for sure.
In 1986 I had to not only know 65C02 assembly language to get any performance out of my 1Mhz Apple //e, I had to know that I could get 50% more performance for every access I did to memory on the first page as opposed to any other page. If I spent time doing that type of micro optimization today, I would be fired. I couldn’t imagine doing the types of things I could do today with modern technology.

In 1995, when I wrote my first paid for application in college, Internet was a thing for most colleges where I did some work on a HyperCard based Gopher server (long story), that wouldn’t have been possible in 10 years earlier.

In 2006, I was writing field service software for ruggedized Windows Mobile devices, architecting for semi connected smart devices is a completely different mindset than terminal programming or desktop programming. That wasn’t feasible before hardware became cheap and at least 2G was ubiquitous.

Even then what we could do, pales in comparison to the type of field service implementation I did in 2016 when mobile computing was much more capable, much cheaper and you could get a cheap Android devices and 3G/4G was common place.

But people thinking cloud computing is just “sharing mainframes” and don’t rearchirect either their systems or their processes is how we end up with “lift and shifters” and organizations spending way too much money on infrastructure and staff.

Also anyone who equates managing AWS to a “GUI” kind of makes my point, if you’re managing your AWS infrastructure from a GUI - you’re doing it wrong. 10-15 years ago you didn’t set up your entire data center by running a CloudFormation template or any other type of infrastructure as code.
ATS11=35M3 is about all I remember these days.. dial quick, only gimme the busy or ring ;)