skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that we don't have mental capacity to understand this stuff. Nobody has any clue how to interpret millions of dimensions, some non-linear manifold there and how to translate it to something humans are capable of understanding. These things might be done automatically by our brains on subconscious level in a similar fashion (or not), but on conscious level we are completely clueless and basically shoot darts to see which ones become somewhat useful.

I think you object to the lack of "mathematical beauty", but my point is "who cares?". Not sure why should reality conform to some mental model we find "appealing" for whatever reason. Deep Learning is similar to experimental physics.
> Perhaps because Express & Koa were "good enough" there never was a large enough momentum behind say...

This is interesting to me, because Ruby has Sinatra (and others) that compare well to Express/Koa. Python has Flask which is very popular, as well as a number of fantastic alternatives. These ecosystems have very mature, well designed, small web frameworks, but still people choose the larger frameworks in these ecosystems, and all of the frameworks get good maintenance.

I wonder if it's a cultural thing in the JS ecosystem. Maybe the ease of publishing a package creates a race to the bottom in terms of package scope, which makes it so difficult to sustain larger more all-encompassing packages.

I've worked with Ruby+Rails/Sinatra/Cuba, Python+Flask/Django/Bottle/Sanic, and Node+Express, and when I was in the Node ecosystem I sometimes really wanted that Rails/Django equivalent – not always, but the lack of it would cause me to avoid Node for large backend projects.
useRef was designed for this purpose: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useref

If you ran into something that isn't quite covered by this hook, I'm also curious! Can you write a minimal example in codesandbox and share?
Oh, I wasn't thinking people would attack the mayors, I was more so referring to mayors using their power to attack the people in the bunkers.
> The global average temperature has been higher than that in the past
Yes
> there was plenty of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Well, citation needed.
Is it possible that a US government agency is pushing an inflated threat assessment designed to raise its own budget? Did that ever happen in the past?
> What do you think Uber vehicles do then, if not ply the streets?

Do you mean that Uber drivers can be hailed?
Electric cars are even worse though
No. CC points are not taxable if earned via spending - they're like rebates for spending so they are not taxed.

For the same kind of points (Chase Ultimate, for example), you are taxed if earned via:

* Referrals

* Opening an account (i.e. Chase checking account)

* Other non-spending activities
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In Milan things were bettter.

/me cries with 35k in Center Italy (Rome)
Also Kafka.
The biggest exemption was for us working on the systems.

The idea that whispering in the waiting room was an important attack vector while whitelisting us IT people is hilarious. (For lack of a better adjective.)

For a middle ground example:

My SO did clinical trials at the local research hospital. She went to ANOTHER hospital for some surgery, because she knows her coworkers look up people's records, and she didn't want them knowing about her troubles.

Like the systems I created, of course there were access logs. But like our systems, no one ever reviewed or audited them.

Hopefully things have gotten better.
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The way to prepare for changes is by communicating, building alliances, and demanding security standards. Being able to keep secrets is important, but keeping too many things secret and compartmentalized is self-defeating.

You want the US to continue to be globally dominant? Stop over-regulating drones, for one thing. The lack of viable drone business models is a serious setback for training the next generation of aerospace engineers.
The primary concern was transparent composition and enabling "custom hooks". All of the "named/keyed hooks" proposals from the community failed that test.

Custom hooks naturally fall out of the current implementation. Technically, React doesn't even know that custom hooks exist - it just knows that more of the primitive hooks are being called inside your own component.

If you've got time, skimming the original React Hooks RFC https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68 ) is informative (and admittedly difficult, because there's hundreds of similar comments).
Credit card rewards do not get a 1099 as they’re a rebate/discount on spent monies.

Banking sign up bonuses usually do as they’re classified as interest.
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... which will also be the last big one...
Makes me wonder about the future that might have been.

Instead of steampunk, why can't we have the Jetson's equivalent?
Making a Huge Google Map
It's pretty amazing. I maybe should have linked to the pinned comment at the top about how this was constructed; it's really interesting:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/btfhks/wh...
TIL the arab version of Weregild (blood money) is called Diya:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diya_(Islam)
Agreed, that seems like the sensationalism he’s willing to ignore. Which as everyone else pointed out is harmful.

Can GP explain if these plankton did not exist in these times of higher temperatures? Because I don’t know. Maybe they didn’t, but we’ve had whales and plankton separately for millions and millions of years over drastically different climates. So I’m curious how they are making such absolute statements.

I don’t know nearly enough about plankton, maybe someone could explain?
How is Uber unethical? They aren't forcing anyone to do anything. Maybe you could say they are fraudulent because the contractors don't understand the true costs/benefits of providing their own car, but isn't that a bit paternalistic and treating people as dumber than they really are?
If a true fact is playing in to a false narrative, there is a problem with how it's being presented. Calling that out is just as important as calling out falsehoods.
I will give you a counter-example : webvan. This company failed spectacularly but the problem they were solving was real. And now several startups and established corporations alike seem to be solving it and they seem to be ok.

There may be nothing new under the sun but how we look those same old things matter.
Thank you very much for this. As adults, we often forget we need to cherish those around us. I hope author finds peace.
Just a regular reminder that Twitter's namespace is solely the property of Twitter the company.
> Being an employee DOES NOT require (1) only full-time work, (2) fixed schedules, or (3) exclusivity with one company.

> Drivers shouldn't have to spend 45 minutes off the clock in the airport cell phone lot waiting for their turn at the top of the queue.

If the driver is driving for more than one company, who pays for that cell phone lot time?
And because we've tied health care to employment directly. If only we wanted to have affordable health care for everyone...
“The same category of things” still doesn’t make it relevant. It’s obviously not illegal in the US to drive a taxi cab and cab drivers do not make any more money than Uber drivers. The issue is that if someone wants to earn part time income, Uber provides a great option. And these rules would destroy that option. I really don’t know why people cannot be left to make this decision for themselves.
>there was plenty of oxygen in the atmosphere. Well, citation needed.

Isn’t that entirely the basis of the giant flora and fauna we know existed?
Yes, but the temperature rose to those levels over millenia, not just hundreds of years. Ultimately, life on Earth will adapt - it's just that we might not survive long enough to witness the adaptation.
The Lean UX Canvas
This is just inventing difficulties. You need better technique splitting wood with a shovel than an axe, better technique writing web services in C than in Go, better technique storing your data in files instead of Postgres. Good nonstick pans last for years of daily use, unless you're in a restaurant kitchen making a hundred omelettes per day. And even restaurants use nonstick pans for some things, though they use them as little as possible because for efficiency they prefer equipment that can take a lot of abuse.

A home cook making a couple of meals per day and not abusing their equipment should never have to buy a second nonstick pan. (Hence the never-ending attempts to persuade you that there's something superior to upgrade to. You're lost to them as a consumer if you realize that what you have will adequately express your cooking skills for the rest of your life.)

Everything useful becomes a crutch, and except as fodder for micro-mastery, there's no reason to do something the hard way for the same results.
That's what the very-rarely-used `useImperativeHandle` hook is for - exposing "instance methods" from function components:

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#useimperativeh...
On mobile but look up their reviews in Glassdoor or indeed. All reviews are suspect individually but there is definitely quite a pattern.

Forced summer camp, nepotism, back stabbing politics, etc. Sounds like a hellish place to work.
Last I checked, macOS doesn't include python3, just python2. I wrote a handy tool for our team, but nobody uses it because they don't have python3. Now I have to play sysadmin on dozens of machines.

A few had 3.5, but I used 3.6.

What can be done to make this easier? I.e. why isn't python3 pre-installed by now? esp 3.6 or 3.7?
The domain was registered many years before, but I agree I should have never gone with NameCheap in the first place. Another one much more reliable registrar is Marcaria, which went down price-wise since just few years ago.
Uber and Lyft purport themselves to be "ride sharing" and "supplemental income", but that isn't what they are. They're underregulated taxi companies who's employees need to work nearly full time to meet ends meet.

These companies know what they're doing. Their words, like the words of so many corporations in America, are lies and deceit. Their image is a facade meant to deceive.
Which browser is that? :)
There are definitely lots of merchants who don't take (or strongly discourage) cash— think Apple Store, IKEA, the self-serve tills at the grocery store, anything online. But the common element in all of those is that they're big companies who can negotiate better rates.

Independent retailers, restaurants, etc are put in an awkward position where not accepting credit cards can cost them business, but accepting them forces raising prices which can also cost them business.

Canada has an interesting option in the form of our Interac system for debit, which has more favourable fees especially for small purchases. Since every Canadian with a bank account has an Interac card, one common option for indies is to accept only cash and debit.
How is Monzo related? They’re still a bank and still use MasterCard.
Business Email Compromise Is a $26B Scam Says the FBI
On shutting down Talkshow
You could listen to it while you do other stuff.
There are apps that do text to speech.
I don't understand the hate against class based components. React class-based components are dead simple to understand.
Yes, you can, using the app.

Inside the app you can see them plying around you and you just hail them in your phone. The interface is much more practical than hailing a taxi using your hand.
> But if you think the categorization of the Amazon as the Earth's lung is above that criteria for you,

It is, if your stand is from a country that destroyed its own natural forest and now demand that a country of 200million people should not use 60% of its own territory to save the world while half of its people is poor.
Single Point of Failure and Attack Vector, what could possibly go wrong?
RemovedInDjango30Warning inherits from the python built-in DeprecationWarning, so it can ignored on the command line with:

python -Wa -Wignore::DeprecationWarning

The above, however, will ignore all DeprecationWarning warnings. You can further filter this ignore if you know the module where the warning originates: https://docs.python.org/3/library/warnings.html#describing-w...

Alternatively, if you find a package import is causing this warning, you can wrap the import in a context manager that ignores the warning:

import warnings
from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango30Warning

with warnings.catch_warnings():
warnings.simplefilter("ignore", RemovedInDjango30Warning)
import MODULE
But if the business spends $100 and the rebate is $2, but I personally pocket the rebate instead of giving the money back to the business, wouldn't that $2 become taxable personal income? (and perhaps also theft, depending on my relationship to the business?)
Building a license plate reader from scratch with Deep Learning
I’m fairly certain that a majority of the “X months free” offers are for new customers only.

I’m not sure about the AWS credits. Has anyone ever stacked them? (I’m sure AWS locks us to one per account since it goes through a review process)
Eclipse Dirigible 3.5.0 Release
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This article is from April.
Other reasons which make me happy with Cloudflare
Nothing is simpler than a function. Easier to write, debug, and test.

* Removed "pure" to make my main point clear.
FWIW, Brex also offers this. I use my corporate card and immediately get a text reminding me to snap a picture of the transaction.

However, it almost never correctly identifies the transaction on the card and pings me immediately with another text "Could not match a transaction". I usually just ignore that though.
Here's a blog post I wrote about this recently:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2019/07/the-trouble-with-many-wor...

The TL;DR is that the critics are correct. Deriving the Born rule begs the question because it makes an unjustified assumption (branching indifference) and also introduces an "invisible pink unicorn", i.e. a concept that, according to the theory, has physical significance but cannot be measured. In the case of MWI that concept is branch weights.

[UPDATE] The critique I wrote is based on Wallace (https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2718). Carroll's argument appears to be somewhat different. I'm just now working my way through his paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7577) but I'd be very surprised if it did not also have some untenable assumption hidden in there somewhere.
News just in: the metaphor is not the thing
Reduce wealth inequality through industrial and fiscal policy, don't stuff cities full of millions of culturally distant immigrants (distant from both each other and the existing population), encourage integration and patriotism instead of ethnic sectarianism via education and cultural pressure.
I'd rather they err on the pro-consumer side, to be honest. I doubt those big banks and credit card companies will struggle to fight this and make their case for the appropriate exemptions if their scenarios warrant them.
News at 10. Government contractor declares bankruptcy. Years of files and source code is lost. Multiple government agencies use software that is no longer being developed.

Investors scramble to make a new company and win more government contracts.

Rinse and repeat.
Thank you! I'd love to see what you do with it!

- The looping animations are from a JS animation library that I wrote so that means lots of dom updates every animation frame, which is expensive. Also, the animation lib uses WebAssembly which runs directly on CPU. Aaand they don't shut off or pause when they're out of frame (haven't got to that yet)

- Awesome, thank you! Hoped it would be helpful :)
ACM Fellow Michael Littman on TalkRL: Reinforcement Learning Interviews
Someone above mentioned it was less of a by-city split and more of a by-area type. For example, city drivers are more likely to be full time, where suburban drivers are more likely to be part time.
Why would they tell the truth?

https://thinkprogress.org/mcdonalds-tells-workers-to-budget-...

>McDonalds has partnered with Visa to launch a website to help its low-wage workers making an average $8.25 an hour to budget. But while the site is clearly meant to illustrate that McDonalds workers should be able to live on their meager wages, it actually underscores exactly how hard it is for a low-paid fast food worker to get by.

>The site includes a sample “budget journal” for McDonalds’ employees that offers a laughably inaccurate view of what it’s like to budget on a minimum wage job. Not only does the budget leave a spot open for “second job,” it also gives wholly unreasonable estimates for employees’ costs: $20 a month for health care, $0 for heating, and $600 a month for rent. It does not include any budgeted money for food or clothing.
"reduces traffic" is an interesting way to say that as a sighted person you can drive your own car whenever you want where ever you want, but as a blind person I will have to have my possible transportation options externally limited.
If you're interested in a lengthier intro to the Riemann Hypothesis, I highly recommend the book "The Millenium Problems" by Keith Devlin.
Yeah, just seems like maternal guidance to me.

People nitpicking the gender of the programmer in a cartoon here is a great example of what I despise about modern tech discourse. The gender of the cartoon programmer isn't even that clear, it's so highly stylized. But I wonder if it was a woman giving another woman a massage instead, they'd be lambasted for pandering to the male fantasy of lesbianism.
Your comment made me realize that I had confused WePay with WeChat Pay, which has a slightly different scale. The "We$VERB" field is getting a bit crowded.
And simple, helpful things like automatic list numbering are in Textile but not in canonical Markdown.
This card is a Visa card. I don't think Stripe is close to replacing them. Not by a very long distance.
You're promoting a logical fallacy that's especially dangerous to people with entrepreneurial drive. You're assuming that things done once will always be done that way — that some things are always destined to have the same outcome no matter the context or time they arise in — and that the world, at its base, is distinctly resistant to change.

This is strongly related to the the Hindsight bias [1], which "refers to the common tendency for people to perceive events that have already occurred as having been more predictable than they actually were before the events took place."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
Of course not. they will simply hire a brand new contractor that is made up of 90% of the leadership of the former one, at a much higher rate to 'reverse engineer' the software.
Guns were around for a few hundred years before this alleged democratizing effect.

Also, of note, is that guns were invented in China thousands of years ago and it has been a monarchy or dictatorship since then.
The risk may be more existential for Softbank than just knocking profits -- coming after Uber
Talk about a knee jerk reaction. Ban, ban, ban seems to be an answer to everything in Germany.
Sure, but from your statement "not in a bubble" could just as easily mean "in the wake of a burst bubble" and "markets are mostly sane currently" could just as easily mean "markets are reacting to a damaging period of insanity".
Then I'm struggling to understand the value proposition. If I did want to stick to implementing it visually through sequence diagrams, can I implement all the examples through a sequence diagram and have it run on Ballerina? Really curious. If yes, I'd really like to try it. There are no instructions/examples on doing that.

EDIT: I found a link to using the graphical editor in the comments here.

https://v1-0.ballerina.io/learn/tools-ides/vscode-plugin/gra...
> Before WeWork, most people weren't aware that coworking spaces were an option

Is this true? I am skeptical. If it is true it speaks to the mindboggling ignorance of Silicon Valley decision makers.
I was living in a small (<500k metro not in california in 2009, and there were already 2 branded “coworking” businesses (that were well marketed to the tiny tech community). I may be the exception but I had not heard of WeWork until much later, but I wasn’t in a talent resource decision making position at the time, it wasn’t really my need to know those things. If it was and I didn’t, I would have fired myself for gross incompetence.
Especially in the UK and other more regulated countries
than the US, becoming an Uber driver takes time and
money as you require a licence. People aren't doing it
as a side-gig.

What special abilities does London's licensing body require the driver of a black cab have to have over any other civilian driver?

I know black cab drivers need to be able to memorize maps of various neighborhoods but isnt that rather antiquated in the age of advanced GPS & traffic apps that do the same job better?

I'm all for thorough and deep background checks (and regulation to mandate them), to weed out sketchy drivers or those with criminal pasts, who drive for Uber & Lyft but anything beyond that is just bureaucratic over-reach & rent-seeking by the government.