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Free machine learning consulting for small and medium companies
Hi hackers,
I'm offering free machine learning consulting to medium and small companies. I have good knowledge of machine learning (and deep learning) and I hope to see better what kind of problems companies have in real life instead of solving theoretical problems. If you are interested contact me to elias@lankinen.xyz so we can schedule a call and discuss more. I hope that you add the website of your company or some small description to the first email so I can look beforehand what ways I would suggest using machine learning in the company.
Thanks for bringing up Allegro - I have many fond memories of playing around with it in my teens. I'm amazed to see that it's still under active development!
A startup is a huge risk regardless, so if I take a job at at a startup I want to be compensated for the risk. Even if I’m cleaning it fetching coffee. That doesn’t have to be equity but pay needs to be better than if I took the same job at the megacorp across the street, because the risk of suddenly being without a job when the company goes bankrupt is much smaller.
(Fran) Hey YouTube – Where's My F%$& Video?
Hottest probably where they measured. This year (2019) was one with the most rain and coldest spring and summer in many years where I live.

We started joking that "winter wants to spend summer holiday with us". Romania
The point is @pera said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20717160 "Now I'm genuinely confused". That seems to be down to confusion in terminology.

@pron then makes an apparently incorrect claim which I dispute to try to help clarify. That's clarification not nitpicking (I intended that way anyway). @pron's point may be valid but if we don't have common meanings to words, this will go nowhere.
It's all laid out in the article. Adeline was the Delphine studio Raynal joined when leaving Infogrames, after Alone in the Dark was published.
>literally in 1980 you programmed a computer if you bought one

This is the biggest difference to now for me. Because computers were so new you would be getting your hands dirty with hardware and operating system level stuff.

Now, you hardly leave the browser and really could stay in the browser to do almost anything you want to.
They aren't evil man. They are just well programmed robots constantly searching for things to over-optimize. They hit their metrics every day and then plug into their charging stations. That's it.

Give it a few years and they will deprecate Android for security reasons.
Async is a hard concept but what can be revealing is going through the three steps:

1. Get used to callbacks in NodeJS, for example write some code using fs that reads the content of a file, then provide a callback to print that content.

2. Get used to promises in NodeJS, for example turn the code in #1 into a promise by creating a function with that calls the success/reject handler as appropriate on the callback from opening that file. Then use the promise to open the file and use .then(...) to handle the action.

3. Now do it in async. You have the promise, so you just need to await it and you can inline it.

By doing it in the 3 steps I find it is more clear what is really happening with async/await.
> That is why we don't have automated programming at the push of a button, today: because it was never the main subject of AI research.

I don't think that's the only reason at all. I think it's a much harder problem than you're giving it credit for. Great to hear that you're working on it, though.
A large number of academic labs share data by hosting it over FTP. You can harp on about better methods or whatever but these people do not care and don't have time/energy to start caring.
A phone is useful. These plastic dolls are not. That's the difference. Nobody buys them to use them. They are only bought in some post-ironic manifestation of inherent uselessness.

The argument could be made that they are art but that's a hard argument to make. The only commentary on society here is the involuntary one.
The number 20 is probably an upper bound.
This comment is so horribly wrong that it's hard to know where to start.

1. "Doing accounts is not crucial". Um, yes it is. Doing accounts is very, very important. They are a way of understanding the truth of your business, keeping your cash under control, satisfying legal obligations.

2. "If they pay a normal salary for an accountant then any accountant could just take that job and replace me". People are not interchangeable. A good accountant (one who is competent at their job) is your table stakes, after that you have to consider how well that person works with others and how they contribute to the culture of the company. A start up is not about the visionaries or engineers it's about an entire team that makes a company grow and work well together. Viewing an accountant is not contributing to the company culture is not just plain dumb.

3. Also, accounting is way more than just filling in a spreadsheet. When you look at the effect of AR and AP on the business you quickly realize that this stuff matters.

4. Everyone in a startup could go somewhere else. And everyone is taking some level of risk (e.g. they could have gone to a more stable company that provided better long term job prospects). Everyone deserves to participate in the risk/reward.

So, reward people that you want to stick around at the company. Give everyone some equity, given everyone some upside. A business owner who sees someone like an accountant as a drone doing a job for pay is missing out on the larger picture of building a healthy company for the staff and getting the best from that person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesnarfing

I might be misremembering technologies, but I think in BT the incoming connection can directly execute commands on your device without any kind of identification/authorization.
Mystery? Are people going to use a different gas station based on the payment UI design?
Actually Kansas licenses industrial hemp starting this year.
> Back in the 1990s, posing for men’s magazines in your knickers was a rite of passage for young actors and pop stars not so much older than Greta, but that feels a very long time ago now.

???

This threw me for a loop because of how random it felt.
They definitely have enough capital for nuclear. Their neighbours, Slovakia and Czechia, both have quite significant nuclear installations. Czechia generates 34% [1] of electricity from nuclear and Slovakia 52% [2]. Slovakia is finishing expansion of one of their nuclear power plants (Mochovce), which will add 2 more reactors - each with ability to deliver 13% of total country consumption [3].

Both Slovakia and Czechia are bit more "richer" than Poland (if you look at GDP (PPP) per capita), however Poland is much bigger economy - 5x size of Slovakia.

My guess is that because so far they had so much coal (largest reserves in Europe [4]), it was no brainer for them. However they are now in the process of commissioning nuclear power plant and plan to generate power from nuclear by 2033 [4]

[1] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetika_v_Česku#Výroba_elek... (second row - Jadro - is nuclear)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_energy_in_Slovakia

[3] https://www.seas.sk/mochovce-3-4-npp

[4] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
Lisp is a really marvelous way to code. It's the hacker's language - a language you can hack around with by using macros to define your own DSLs, structures and ideas. It takes some getting your head around but the basic core of it is quite simple (compare to Haskell that has so many ideas you need to learn).
Didn't he join because he was "passionate about the job"?
I think even if you reach the parent comment's 98% point, "N2" will not appear there. But 90% English is probably good enough to be able to reason "N2 must be some kind of level".
USA would be very smart to buy land, problem is that there are no sellers. History has proven that buying is worth it.

Example: USA is running almost a $1 TRILLION deficit. Make it two and "buy" Greenland. No rational person one would complain and Denmark /Greenlanders could set up a special fund ala Norway with the money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
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I take it this is the right kind of sand?

Desert sand being buffeted by the wind is rounded, whilst coastal sand has sharper edges.

How often does desert sand end up on beaches? How can one check for the sharpness of sand, are the sand piles higher? Is it more abrasive?
If you read Zodiac, Anathem and (part of) the Baroque Cycle I assume you’ve read his other books (Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Snowcrash...). If not, lucky you!

I discovered Stephenson with Anathem and I was hooked. This book doesn’t get a lot of love it seems, maybe because it’s not Stephenson's usual cyberpunk / near future sci-fi (and maybe because of all the made-up words and history—there’s even an xkcd comic about it). But (SPOILERS) you gotta admire a book that starts like The Name of the Rose and finishes in a nuke-propelled starship.
There are certain tests floating around, like they will try 50ish quiz to estimate your vocabulary size.

Those are not set-in-stone science, so it is just an estimate, but I take about 10+ over those years, and the the number from those estimates seems consistent.

Coverage, there is some paper to track, I just googled it.
made an account just to ask you define unsuccessful. PLease?
This post seems based on some questionable assumptions. IQ is not the ultimate metric of intelligence and may at best measure only one facet of intelligence.

On a related note, I recommend David Robson’s book The Intelligence Trap.
Have you tried the android version of firefox? I really dig it, especially because the desktop plugins still work in it. :D
Couldn't à hypothetical fuse fs emulate any file based store for email?
I certainly understand, and alloc for example is great progress. I'll be very happy when we can provide all of std (or I suppose sys isn't it?) by external crates.
Certain business models require high amounts of capital in order to create leverage/growth. Think of Uber, WeWork etc

The business model of selling $1 for 50c and hoping that later you’ll be able to sell it for $2 because... reasons.
Across the Universe, a star exploded so violently that it annihilated itself
I thought this article was going to be about GNU ed.
I've personally always advised my students to increase difficulty once they've reached 87.5% accuracy.

(I'm just amused of all the % thrown around I this thread)
My understanding is that concrete production is one of the most energy intensive processes on earth, so despite the downvotes, you have a point.
It's saying that this young woman, who faces discriminatory comments on at least 3 fronts (sex, age, and neuro-diversity) is appearing on the front cover of a magazine purely because of her ideas and her work, not because of her tits.
The drive towards "HTTPS everything" has merely caused users to forget what it is and therefore simply trust Google. Needless to say, this is exactly what they would want.
Point taken. But obviously these companies are looking to serve the market at large, not niche populations; millions of people consuming beef regularly (average American 83 kg/yr, average German 57 kg/yr etc), not to speak of the meat that is thrown away every day.

Such solution perpetuate a mindset where instead of admitting we have crossed a line where the planet cannot sustain our beef habit, we're looking for a way to justify not weaning ourselves off it.

Can anyone honestly believe that growing algae for cows won't affect the world's already disturbed ocean eco-systems?
Extremely mature and hard to swallow answer.
On the topic of microwaves.. Can somebody please make one that doesn’t have that super annoying chime everytime it’s done
Surely no one knows all the Kanji, since some of them have open academic investigation whether they even are a valid character or not?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2018/10/29/language/ghost-...
Greenland isn’t for sale, but China has been reported to be trying to charm the Greenlanders to join China.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46386867

Hong Kong on ice?
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The actual content layers (i.e. those containing Nix store paths) are going to be the same, but metadata layers (those containing the image name and the references to all layers) are currently going to be cache-busted.

I'll look into getting that fixed - as long as Docker doesn't mind seeing a different image name than it requested in the manifest it shouldn't be an issue to return the metadata in a stable order.
Your post started out rather sympathetically, but I find I lack sympathy by the end. You rage against how racist you think white people are, a belief you justify with absurd generalisations - white people are "privileged", they will "NEVER" understand (not even if they try and you talk to them about it), and so on.

I have to say something deeply unpopular here - yes, I know in America maybe it's different, but there's only racist people I've ever met have been people engaging in this kind of casual racism against whites. I never saw the opposite. Most accusations of it turn out to be bad statistical assumptions, like "percentage by race of people experiencing a bad outcome differ from the general population, so it must be racism" - ignoring all other factors.
Greenland could become China's Arctic base (2018)
>> It's clear that humanity will not stop consuming

What makes it clear?
An abundance of incentives to consume it (availability, price, taste), and no disincentives to not?
I think this why so many people are keen to find out
I think we can return to the glory days of computing with one small tweak: insist that OS vendors include a lean and clean compiler in the default install.

An OS that ships without tools to make apps for it is not an Operating System but rather an Appliance System.

And, for those who will reply "but my disk space and all the bloat of a compiler onboard methodology" - well that'd be a next step: destroy the bloat.
I switched my default search engine in FF to Qwant a few months back. You have to re-learn to formulate clear search queries (no magic pixie dust^H years of browsing history to help it read your mind) but I find that it mostly works.
Brb, forgot to rub my code today.
The new book Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor is slightly newer, a little more readable, and talks a lot about dilution, but otherwise covers almost the same ground.

Both books are great in understanding the space and motivations of various players.
Thus the FFI impact on Go when going over language boundary and workarounds like runtime.LockThread().
Currently when running a private Nixery instance you can actually specify a full git commit hash for the Nix repository that you're using.

If this repository is the upstream nixpkgs[1], or if your private repository follows the same rules about not importing anything without fully-pinned hashes, you can already get those guarantees about the image content with Nixery today!

The one exception is packages that are not in the binary cache, end up rebuilt and aren't reproducible (the binaries might differ) - but NixOS is ~98% reproducible already[2]!

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/

[2]: https://r13y.com
Second largest industrial producer of CO2. Shipping the sand long distance also makes it worse.
Occupy Wall Street directly brought the idea of there being a "1%" into everyday political and social usage, which has significantly altered the way we discuss class in this country.
One high level problem that jumps out at me is: When do we authenticate?

For web sites WebAuthn drops nicely into the existing login flow. The user knows what they're trying to do is log in, and so when they're prompted to touch the button or whatever it makes sense in that context.

But today most email apps just silently update all the time. So are we authenticating when the app starts and then re-using some credentials obtained to re-connect as necessary? Is that safe? Even if that's all we do (which might be safe) it means the user gets prompted for WebAuthn (to press the button) when the mail app starts, even if they aren't currently interested in email. If they dismiss it, when do we prompt them again? Because meanwhile they of course don't get any new email.
For anyone in here wondering the article states that he added a command to download the picture to the list of commands he got from the chinese.

The satellite Longjiang 2 was destroyed on the moon (as planned) so you guys can't get permission "to operate" it ;)

It's times like these where I wish I was a ham operator myself.
People are not interchangable, but their skills very much are. Accountants are not being treated as drones. Whether you think their importance is extremely crucial in an early startup or less crucial it doesn't matter, because all of that is taken into account when paying them a fair wage. That is de facto the definition of fair. So nobody needs to feel offended. You deliver a great job and we pay you a great salary according to market rates and your experience. This is how the world works.

If a coffee fetcher or accountant would come to a startup owner and say I want a piece of your company for making you coffee or filing your tax returns then they better back up why the business owner will not just ask someone else to do it at this point. It's not that they don't value their contribution, but it's just not a reason to give away a piece of your ownership of your own company where you've put blood and sweat into it.

However, if a subject matter expert comes to me with the same request, and the market is such that there's already very little people of that qualification available anyway, and their contributions are seen as make or break the company, then the conversatoin will certainly be very different.

This is just the free market, no matter how you feel about this, it won't change. There's obviously the argument that the free market doesn't serve us well, but that's a different conversation and out of this context here.
This just seems condescending.

Work of almost all employees is “crucial” and “has to do with the actual startup itself” at an early stage. My experience with companies that don’t realise this is that they rapidly deteriorate because of a poor perception of value within the business.

Setting that aside, all employees at a startup take additional risk. Startup work is frequently harder, more complex, more time- and life- consuming than BigCo work, and runs a higher risk of suddenly coming to a stop when funding runs out.

If I am going to come and work for your startup, I will need one of a couple of things:

- The same pay and conditions I will get at a more established employer, including the expectation of value added, or

- A higher salary to compensate for the additional work and risk of a startup, or

- Equity to compensate for your inability to pay a higher salary, or

- In a very rare case, the fact that you are working in a particular field, area, or cause, for which I’m willing to accept lower rewards in order to participate.

Employment should as much as possible be a transactional process. Offer money in exchange for work and risk; if you can’t offer money, offer something else to compensate. Equity is a reasonable tool for cash-strapped startups.
I'm sure it's not what they were intending, but 'switch' used to be a pretty common term for a light, flexible branch.

And all of git's branches are pretty light and flexible, at least compared against the branches of the previous generations of version control systems..

But yeah. That's definitely not what they were intending.
Quick note on the layers:

The current layering strategy of the public instance is not the one linked to in the README (edit: fixed), it is the one described in this document:

https://storage.googleapis.com/nixdoc/nixery-layers.html

This strategy optimises for reducing the amount of data transferred. I recommend reading both this and the original post on buildLayeredImage!
Having reliable employees is golden, I doubt anyone argues with that.

The argument goes is that an average office hand, a janitor, a driver (or an accounts receivable clerk for that matter) will not be a critical loss for the company regardless of how good they are at their job. Hence no inherent need to try and retain them as hard as those in executive and technical positions.

You can certainly sprinkle some options on them to try and make them feel good, but you should really consider how receiving 0.005% of a company would really feel for them.
Yes, you're right. English is not my native tongue. Thanks for clarifying! I'll edit my comment.
Many systems have been developed in systems enabled GC languages.

C++11 introduced a GC API in the standard library, and one of the biggest C++ game engine does use GC in their engine objects, Unreal.

C++ on Windows makes heavy use of reference counting (which is a GC algorithm from CS point of view), via COM/UWP.

The biggest problem to overcome is religious, not technical.
Yes. Under capitalism, you will never see the full fruits of your labour, it goes first and foremost to the company and they will give you (theoretically) the smallest slice of it they can get away with. Of course, sometimes there are “nice” employers but they have the same interests.
The first question I have is whether driving high on cannabis is less safe than sober. Then there is a question of levels of impairment. I wouldn't be surprised that someone lightly stoned is actually safer than sober due to being more patient with performance degrading the more stoned they are. Treating cannabis like alcohol is not the correct approach. I sold find it better to think of it like coffee. Some coffee before driving is fine but large jitter inducing amounts is not.
Nothing compared to Australia already has had for years....

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/australias-graphic-tobacco-...
> the government will lose its discipline

We don’t have to wait several decades for that. The dollar lost about 70% of its value since the ‘70’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar
Please remember, I am not saying people should not be seen as important or valuable, or not get compensated fairly. I am very much advocating ALL of that. But, when it comes specifically about giving away ownership of one's business, then I think there must be a good reason to do just that, because just being a great employee and doing a good job is IMHO not a reason to give away ownership. That's two different things. Please I am all up for everyone getting paid great salaies, getting amazing perks and what not, but ownership of the business should not be easily given away like that.
Completely agree that there is no wrong or right path to business success in the context of having enough capital. A start-up that becomes successful——whatever way the founder(s) define it——via boot strapping is just as valid as those that raise capital.

However, I do think it's worth considering the value-add having 'smart' money can bring——networks, legal advice, business experience, or other forms of expertise. Granted you have to be careful about gauging it right before accepting the money, but it might be right for the founder's vision and business opportunity.
If you are paid market rates, your career perspectives in the line of business you are in are typically not stellar and your career prospects improve by working in that company no matter how it does you are not taking a risk.
Strikes me as pretty ironic that student groups which are most active in no-platforming efforts now make a free speech argument.
Not gonna happen. Doesn't Denmark ultimately have e veto power (National Security at least) over major issues in Greenland?

Buying is a loaded word. How about joining USA ? Then USA can duke it with Russia in the Artic game.

Or USA can crunch some numbers...might be cheaper to invade Canada. Fifth time is the charm as they say. Joking OK...maybe ;)