skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another 40 year old here: I mostly agree and I've also found that thinking deeply about a problem for a long time before trying to build anything pays huge dividends. In particular I spend a long time thinking about how I can simplify the design to save implementation time, which means actually building it is faster. I also think a lot about UX and DX: simplifying installation, interface, maintenance, removing unnecessary knobs, choosing the right algorithms and tooling, etc.

I think waterfall style development works for one person inside one's own mind, but not beyond that.

A lot of the stuff I see from 20 year olds these days is monstrously over-engineered and Rube-goldberg like. Many keystrokes, sure, but less thought. This also yields bloatware that hogs resources and is hard to install and maintain.

http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....

More thought and less typing young padawan.
Apologies for the poorly worded question. Regardless, thanks much as always :)
This is correct. Our company was under the Quicken "Family of Companies" umbrella, but we were a 5 person start-up building a web app unrelated to Quicken.
The challenge I have is that I'm not really sure what "value" is right now; if you give the Bain Cap guys another couple hundred million / billions in compensation, it's not like they're going to go out and invest it in incredibly high returning things that really drive our economy forward.

It'll just sit there, along with the other huge pools of capital that can't seem to find great investment opportunities.

I think (?) that Toys-R-Us provides more value to the _country_, if nothing else in terms of employment for a few thousand people, than a few $b sitting in a bank somewhere.

If we were really effective at putting that $b to work, that might be the better option. Infrastructure somewhere might be worth more than TRU to society.
Your analogy breaks down because my eating and walking will not transfer energy to another human.

My own household experience with money and all analogies failed me when I first started thinking about these things. It only clicked once I started drawing up balance sheets.

As for the giant loan and transfer, I think that might be cleared soon-ish and only settled, with an interbank or fed loan if needed, at a later point in time after netting with other transfers.
>The more wealthy and smarter Chinese have been investing overseas. That investment has fallen exponentially since the start of the trade war[2].

I’ve been around the world enough to see this first hand. Empty brand new offices in Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia. Big apartment investments in small cities in USA and Europe. Lots of both in the southern half of Africa.

Perhaps the most interesting were the giant empty office buildings in Asia. Brand new, but seemingly falling apart, elevator shafts open with wires hangout of control panel locations. Ready to fix up for the right client, but I wonder who that is and when they are coming?
One of the problems with these type of robots, is misuse. People who could become capable of doing for themselves, instead become more and more disabled because the lean on automation and won't work to develop their own ability.
We already see some of this with mobility scooters and such, or elderly people who end up in nursing homes for physical therapy and end up never leaving.
> Perhaps a team isn't getting help from another group

Then the team should communicate that to the other team themselves.

> Perhaps there are some tasks that others could offload in a way that doesn't distract the team on the critical path

That should be the decision of the team. If they need to cut down in order to stay on the critical path, then they should do so.
I think that's what some people miss.

The First Amendment protects three rights: Speech, Religion, and Assembly

Cloudfare used its right of assembly and chose not to associate with 8chan any longer.

Cloudfare is not required to host anything.
Nice observation :-)

It's potentially a bit better than O(n log n).

If a hierarchy settles into a strong tree structure, it approaches O(n) connections people have to handle - one bidirectional connection between each person and their immediate superior.

To put it a different way, a hierarchy has potential to scale without limit, or to put it differently again, the larger a system of people, the more they will be forced by necessity into a strict tree structure for the majority of 1:1 communications.
No, it is clearly about the safety of specific, persecuted, groups.
If i am going to pay to read an article, then there better be no tracking cookies, no sharing with 3rd parties and no ads on the page of the article i am reading. If not i might as well read the same content on another site.
This was exactly what I was looking for thank you!
It is no longer Sunday, but it's still there.
Might want to look into replacing the metal can capacitors if you’d like to continue to have a working one.
Some technical notes on how to restore a French Chateaux
From the docs:

1.2 Features of VCL
∙ Vectors of 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-bit integers, signed and unsigned
∙ Vectors of single and double precision floating point numbers
∙ Total vector size 128, 256, or 512 bits
∙ Defines almost all common operators
∙ Boolean operations and branches on vector elements
∙ Many arithmetic functions
∙ Standard mathematical functions
∙ Permute, blend, gather, scatter, and table look-up functions
∙ Fast integer division
∙ Can build code for different instruction sets from the same source code
∙ CPU dispatching to utilize higher instruction sets when available
∙ Uses metaprogramming to find the optimal implementation for the selected instruction set and parameter values of a given operator or function
∙ Includes extra add-on packages for special purposes and applications

(Tldr: this is for CPU vectors and isn't directly comparable to a linear algebra library like Eigen.)
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I get the impression that Reddit only shuts down right wing leaning Reddits. I hear that there is plenty of calls for violence on left leaning ones such as late stage capitalism.
Ever seen https://www.die.net/earth/ ? I ask because it's really similar to OP's product Sunlight.live/ but came out in the late 90s early 2000s. It uses a satellite image of the weather, and a version of earth by day and earth by night to generate a composite that looks really sleek. Thanks for all the downvotes/fish.
Now if we can only get Antifa resources shutdown, since the Dayton shooter has been using them and was an active member

-no one
How to know when to jump on an open source project and when to abandon ship
"So essentially, banks create money, not wealth"

Is that not backwards?

That £100 that is loaned out, hasn't appeared from the ether, its my £100 that I deposited. In some real sense I no longer have £100, I have a promise to pay me £100. So I have £100 in wealth, you have £100 cash, which is a subset of wealth. The existence of bank runs would seem to prove that I no longer have £100 cash, and that banks can't create money.

Further, the whole idea of capitalism and banking is that people who need money can borrow it to create things that generate wealth. Banks are the conduits to get money from the cash rich, to those who can best use it. If that £100 loan ends up making a better widget, has not the bank in some way generated wealth?
> Legally, though, 8chan never had any right to Cloudflare's service.

Correct. However, the main/only service CloudFlare provides is preventing DDOS attacks, which fall plainly into the category of unconstitutionally depriving someone of their free speech.

Providing services to 8chan isn't furthering their mission in any way, and the only "advantage" of cutting them off is that it empowers the people who would deprive the 8channers of their constitutional right to free speech.
I think the tech companies you are thinkg are liberals, not progressive. You are free to give your "soul" to them and the benefits are clear. They are not progressive per si: they don't invest in growing their collaborators just for that fact, but to get return from it.
Despite several terrible decisions Prime Minister John Howard made that still hurt, especially contracting away all our natural resources for basically zero profit (unlike Norway and Qatar who are smart) so now Aussies pay double++ for our own natural gas than our export recipients like Japan and India (even after liquefaction and shipping)... the gun buyback program was the very best thing Howard achieved to make Australia fairly safe comparatively on a global scale.

We had a population of approximately 18 Million at the time, and 640,000 guns removed from general circulation.

Good onya Johnnie.
This is giving money to the rich. Don’t put in any more time than you need to; no product is worth that.
Going fast doesn't allow for secondary concerns and produces a single simple solution.

That doesn't sound like going fast, so much as "the simplest thing that could possibly work." Once you have that running, you can see where the shortcomings are and start to fix those. That will often proceed faster than trying to envision the whole complex thing up-front. (And that often results in a complete, but illusory vision, which ignores something which only becomes apparent once it's realized.)
> And let's not forget that there are non-standard "syslog" implementations that were being used for decades before RFC3164 happened.

totally agree these exist and may vary wildly -
many of these are often proprietary forks of the BSD version in some level of (un)maintained state, FWIW
World Sunlight [Realtime]
More importantly, farming started out as the occupation of 90% of the population in the US and has been continuously falling ever since. The total number of farms grew up until about 1950, but as a share of the population it was only in the low 30% range at that time.

Source: https://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm
i'm with you, despite that fact i've never in my life seen a kitchen island. i was opening the article to find an actual island :< got greeted to this dribble. :'D
I'm confused. Are you saying the safety of specific, persecuted groups doesn't fall under the category of "public safety"?
Good points.

I’d argue that 3 is an implementation detail. If we’re serious about getting guns off the streets, then we need to make it worthwhile to trade them in.

As to 4 and 5, I’ll just say that not all shooting are “mass shootings” like we saw in El Paso. Chicago alone has something like 1500 shootings each year, many of which go unsolved. The article I linked says that the ATF gets 1000 gun trace requests per day and it takes an average of 4-7 days to compete one of them. That seems a bit slow to me, but I honestly can’t say what effect speeding that up would have on our ability to prosecute perpetrators of gun violence.
One possible consequence of a trend towards less formal ways of presenting mathematics is that the ease of entry to the informal might not motivate beginners to learn the formal. Consider that amateur mathematicians from the past, particularly those whom made great contributions to science, might not have been motivated to teach themselves the rigorous formal notation if everything they read was explained in layman's terms. Similarly, those that would not be motivated to teach themselves the formal notation may read plenty of laymen explanations about mathematical theory, but also never be motivated to learn the formal notation. Consequently, a trend towards "presenting material in a more down-to-earth way" may might lead to a global average decline of amateur mathematicians with knowledge of formal notation.

It seems great on the surface. More people might read texts about mathematics, but if the trend were taken past some threshold, then there might be a global consequence as well.

Obviously this is just speculation. Another possability is it will simply result in a change in the personality type of those ammeture mathemeticians whom make contributions to science. I suspect there will be some sort of net effect, but it might not be what we expect.

Is there anyone here that was inspired by layman articles on mathematical theory and later went on to learn rigorous formal notation?
FYI if the comment count goes above the number of points (after a certain number of points, ~45, I forget) - your submission gets penalized and drops off the front page really fast.

So there are times when you might want to hold off on adding comments if it's close to that threshold.
Something tells me online Antifa resources won't be affected just because one of their members committed a horrible atrocity in Dayton, OH shortly after El Paso.
What is the non-conspiracy explanation for the magic bullet involved in the JFK assassination? I only know the conspiracy theory that claims that the CIA accidentally shot JFK and then covered their tracks. And then the other conspiracy theory, where that wasn't an accident.
PSA: If you have a yellowed lens that you'd like to use, great news: you can fix it:

http://pentax-manuals.com/repairs/yellow.htm

http://fockert.xs4all.nl/~pentax/radioactive_lenses/radioact...

This pops up with some regularity in the Pentax world. Turns out Pentax made a lot of radioactive lenses back in the day[0], and they sold them in considerable quantity.

I happen to own one (a Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50mm f/1.4), and can confirm that sunlight works to clear the yellowing.

If you're trying to avoid radioactive lenses, I believe pretty much everything Pentax made after the SMC PENTAX-M is non-radioactive. I have a SMC PENTAX-M 50mm f/1.4 as well that shows no signs of yellowing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20612636 <- scroll down ginko's link, there are scads of them.
This matches up with what I saw. I don't have an access.log, but I took the total network traffic for that day and divided that by the size of one full page load including resources, which came out to about 10k to 15k page views for the first day.
Because they want the data their button+js gets for them, and if they let you get away with not using the js, then anyone can get away with it. Better to shut it down early and painfully.
It's fascinating how brief the era of "hard evidence" promises to be. We're accustomed to having nearly-unfakeable, easily disseminated documentation of key events, but it's a very recent advance.

Photography as evidence (what's apparently called the "truth claim" of photographs) is perhaps 100 years old; the Kodak Brownie provided mass access to quick-capture images with too much detail to easily fake, and the Leica enabled systematic photojournalism. Near-universal access to cameras is only ~30 years old, with cheap digital cameras and then cellphones making photo evidence near-mandatory for bold claims. Audio recording as evidence is ~70 years old, with portable tape recorders producing on-demand records of speech with hard-to-fake fidelity. Video recording as evidence also starts ~70 years ago, but became a systematic form of documentation only ~40 years ago with camcorders, and phones only reached widespread high-fidelity access about 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, photographic digital fakes have been plausible for about 20 years (less for human faces). Audio fakes are similar - extremely convincing fakery is newer (10 years?), but the baseline level of proof was never as high. And now video is less than a decade from compromise.

I don't think the simple loss of evidence will be quite as serious a crisis as some people expect. The era before "hard evidence" is still on the edge of living memory in the US, and areas with less access to expensive technology never entirely developed that expectation. We'll adjust back to weighting source more and fidelity less, though that comes at a price in centralized control. But we're in for a very rough adjustment period where easily-faked content is taken as clear truth.

Beyond that, there's still a major open question about the psychological impact of these fakes. We might adjust back to a society that doesn't rely on photo proof, but there's no clear precedent for how people will be affected by untrusted but gut-level convincing content. Stories of actors being harassed over unlikeable roles suggest that we may yet be pretty impacted by visualizations we know aren't accurate.
The name seems like trying to compress your elevator pitch into a name which feels odd. Also sounds awkward to say out-loud over and over but that might just be me.
I had the same reaction to the email
Comparing languages is very different to compare these two SDKs. I've developed apps on both, and personally I've found Flutter significantly more solid and overall just better.

Everything is faster and just works (builds, hot reload etc.) on Flutter whereas on RN a lot of the things break constantly for no apparent reason. And all that weirdness like it might work if you rebuild a few more times in a row. Moreover, a lot of the debugging tools work exceedingly well on Flutter while trying to use even just the memory profiler crashes RN.
Except the people you need to interact with are very rarely the same people.

It's much more advantageous to form cliques. Small highly connected groups that work on the same thing, possibly with some lose connections to other cliques. That's the model that most closely resembles towns, cities, and even tribes.
Julia is one of my fav languages. For numerical computing, neither python + numpy, nor matlab come even close. The interop is nuts.

To call, say numpy fft, you just do

using PyCall

np = pyimport("numpy")

res = np.fft.fft(rand(ComplexF64, 10))

No casting back and forth. This is a toy example, julia ofc has fftw bindings.
That is already happening, unfortunately.
The ones you hear about, because there's a political agenda behind publicizing them.

Have you heard about any of these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack
Yeah, because being married makes you a slave, especially now with women having rights and all that?

Seriously, this stupid meme needs to die. Marry if you want, don't if you don't. But stop perpetuating these stupid clichés.
Lets have the interests of giant for-profit corporations backing our open source projects, that will surely end up in the best interests for free and open software!
I just picked up Idea Man. Thanks for the recs!
I don't think it was poorly worded; I'm just chugging some coffee and find some discussions easier than others :)
Power Outage Hits Jakarta and Indonesia's Java and Bali Islands
His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time
We require licenses to prove people are competent to operate a motor vehicle and we require most motor vehicles to be registered. Yet, car confiscation isn’t a huge issue in this country.
Perhaps I'm not understanding how useful BTC is, but what is the purpose of it at this point except as a short and medium term investment to make money on? The price is too volatile to be used as a currency imo.
Or more likely to tyranny, as it's those in power that will do the circumvention and they will do that to remain in power. Dictators rewriting the constitution to remain in power is such recurrent event it's practically a cliche by this point.
O3 Ozone / Ion Generator
So having them behind a penny wall would work out fine?
Do people really use Google to try to get to Isis content? I would have thought that was a quick way to get yourself investigated.
You can design your platform in a number of ways to be relatively independant of the underlying CPU model, thereby mitigating the risk of supplier lock-in. All suppliers will try to find a way to achieve such target.

It’s a different thing than saying you need hardware diversity in a majority vote system to achieve better safety. That is demonstrably false. For example, Siemens VCP is /proven/ to be safe and it does not even use a majority vote (see my previous comment for a reference to the VCP)

I prefer not to involve my employers on HN. What I write here is my opinion only.

As for your last remark, let’s be careful in assuming what customers want. The fact that they have to live with obsolete stuff does not necessarily mean they are super happy about it.
Too much traffic killed the site!
That's dangerous because gun owners have convinced people their kids are safe if they play with toy guns that don't look like real guns.

They aren't, but it's a convenient fiction.
I could point to the anti-police rhetoric and victimization of minorities that the left uses as something that the left does that leads to violence (riots or gang violence).

Ultimately, blaming political rhetoric for the attacks of those who are mentally ill or anti-social is either ignorant or straight up dishonest.

This obsession to learn the political affiliations of people who are clearly mentally ill is frankly ridiculous, and giving attention to these folks deranged "manifesto" has much more directly encouraged these events than any political rhetoric.

The reason they write a manifesto before they murder people is because they want to be heard. When you attempt to use them as a political tool, are you really condemning them, or are you actively rewarding them?
Harvard Researchers Benchmark TPU, GPU and CPU for Deep Learning
A module that checks the diff when values are added, removed, or changed
> Ok but serious question...what do you do with highly ineffective teams that you inherit ,and/or are contractors, and/or are the only engineers available, and/or are only motivated by a paycheck, and/or would rather be working on their five side projects, etc

I don't know if this is the best approach, but I actually kind of like these teams, and like working with/leading them, because usually the description is not true. And careful rebuilding of trust can usually (but not always) demonstrate that.

Very few people are truly as ineffective as they might seem, and people are more impacted by situations they are in, or the process/role/authority they have, then anyone will care to admit.

> in many cases who have demonstrated repeatedly that they make lots of mistakes and get sloppy and will fully refuse to cooperate

Ok, sure. I agree, and have seen this happen too. But why? Very few people intentionally want to make mistakes. Very few people intentionally refuse to cooperate for no reason. Most people are not inherently bad.

Are they making mistakes because they don't know something? Are they making mistakes because they are used to working in a different way, or prefer a different way? (If so, why?) Are they making mistakes because they feel some sort of pressure (like a time crunch, budget crunch, some 'three strikes' hanging over their employment status, etc). Is "only motivated by a paycheck" even a bad thing? (People can still do good work, despite only being motivated by payment. That's how most other industries work already). Are they refusing to cooperate because they have an unresolved grievance (where they demoted, or docked pay? Are they working on something that is slow/bad, because they couldn't get buy-in to do it the proper way the first time?)

People can be kind of cloudy, we're not robots, and there's not necessarily one single right way to go about rebuilding trust and creating functionality out of teams. And yes, occasionally there really are some folks who need to specifically be dealt with. But I really bristle when whole groups of people get written off with labels like the above, because it feels fundamentally untrue for most people most of the time.

These are all the types of things that a good manager is supposed to be solving. A good manager can make a "highly ineffective team" effective, even if they might never have been before.