skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you have a Pebble Time or a Pebble Classic / Pebble 2?

I agree with you with regard to the Pebble Time, but the Pebble 2's screen is fantastic. I can see the time even in an abnormally dim room, without the built-in light. (The trade-off, of course, is that the Pebble 2's screen is black and white, but I think that's fine on a watch).
Salesforce has created a computer program where you put in a small prompt, like "Wikipedia page about badgers" or "News article starting with the line, 'Donald Trump was impeached today'", or "French translation of 'I like pears'", and it tries to predict what the text will be. You can also run the program in reverse, where you put in a snippet of text and it predicts whether it came from Wikipedia or a mystery novel or the fitness subreddit.

Salesforce created the program by first writing some relatively simple linear algebra, then fiddling with the constants until the output happened to look right. Their program contains 1.6 billion constants, which is more than any other program of its kind.

This program is also special because Salesforce has released it publicly; other organizations, like OpenAI, have previously claimed that text-generation software is too dangerous to release to the general public.
I guess these are good points. The last line especially.

Yet it's obvious to me that correctness and stability should be features, and more fundamental than all others. It's not as if a non-extreme amounts of testing is all that expensive.
One of them is Hotel California, the other is "I would like to see my mother again and have her meet my children, but she isn't allowed in the country," or "my brother is stuck in a war-torn country and I can't get him out." It's not just an inconvenience, it's families that are forcibly separated for totally bullshit reasons. (In addition it's "I can't take a job in the US", "I can't support my family members in time of crisis", and so on)

Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/americas/travel-ban...

- The number of people who fall under the ban exceeds 135 million
- The majority are in the five Muslim-majority nations, led by Iran, with a population of more than 80 million

"The executive order "affects the lives and families" of at least 187 Google employees" (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/williamalden/nearly-200...)

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2017/02/09...

"Dr. Suha Abushamma, 26, is an internal medicine resident at the Cleveland Clinic. Although she had an H-1B visa for workers in “specialty occupations,” which should allow her to enter, live, and work in the United States, Abushamma was not permitted to enter the country. Abushamma holds a passport from Sudan, which is one of the banned nations."

"Sahar Algonaimi, 60, was detained for five hours at Chicago O’Hare International Airport following the issuance of the executive order. Algonaimi, a Syrian national, had traveled to the United States from Saudi Arabia to visit her 76-year-old mother who is recovering from surgery for breast cancer. Although she held a U.S. visa and had planned to stay in the country for a week, she was she was forced to board a flight to the United Arab Emirates instead of being allowed to clear customs."

"“I needed someone to be with me here,” Ulayyet said through tears at the hospital. “How am I going to teach my kids and tell them that this is a free country? How can we tell my kids that we have to take care of each other?”"

You don't think these sound similar to the OP?
As one data point, I frequently look at the second indicator on my phone or laptop (I configured both to show one at all times), but even nerdy colleagues tell me that's just me, so that's probably just me.

I think I'd be fine with having to tap my wristwatch to update the display. It would be cool if it could just show seconds without tapping, but if having to tap means the difference between a few days of battery life and months of battery life (I'm on a computer most of the day so it would wake only a few times a day), then sure.
They call themselves communists and explicitly avow Marxism. If they're not socialists / communists, no one is.
I don't agree with the word "any" here. There's nothing wrong with taking a disruptive approach to oppression when you witness it, but calculating your position relative to the system/law/culture so that you are able to live freely to act justly another day - that can be the tricky part.

I remember seeing hotel staff act in an overtly and disgustingly racist way in Cape Town, South Africa. As a tourist, hotel guest, American, and white person, I knew that I had all of the systemic privilege on my side. So I had no problem assisting the underprivileged people in that situation.

Now, with a powerful totalitarian system like China, it might be a different calculation.
The US gets more tax revenue from rich people than most Western European countries. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/11/23/american-... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/us-taxe...

> Income taxes in America are more progressive than in other rich countries--according to an authoritiative official study which, to my knowledge, has not been contradicted. The OECD's report "Growing Unequal", on poverty and inequality in industrial countries, includes a table that provides two measures of income tax progressivity in 2005.

US Social Security also pays out more than most Western European countries.
I'm not a native English speaker but I'd read Lycos as lee-cos, so neither of your options ;)
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Put a Rust SDK for the watch on Github, tell people about it here and on Reddit and send interested people dev kits. Then start preparing the next model because this will be a massive success.
As stated tests are important, what varies is the style and ordering of writing them.

I don't like brittle tests that are specific to the implementation, such as assert that such-and-such isn't invoked--an equivalent function can be invoked and pass.

The order I do things:

- think about the problem space, come up with some shape(s)
- list the test cases, but don't write the bodies
- code the happy path and runtime errors for others
- write the test bodies, make them pass
- clean-up any remaining placeholders

Sometimes (2) and (3) are flipped, more often interleaved
If you submit your project to HN you will be getting unparalleled feedback imho. The depth and range of expertise here is incredible - from VC to legendary developers and CEOs - and a lot of people are comfortable sharing their feedback. On top of that, there are just experts across all intellectual fields hanging out here.

But it's technical feedback, it's idea feedback, product feedback, it's not likely to seed your users or paying customers. And a lot of submissions go unnoticed.
We have a dash in the company name, which was perfect at the time we started if (1997).

But then came the mandatory domain name (expensive back then) and email adresses.

So we when we had to spell it on the phone, it was a nightmare, even mor in french because we had to explain it was the dash on the 6 and not the dash on the 8 (underscore on French keyboards).
So it was something like "g, dash, yes the one on the 6 not on the 8, etc.."

No need to say that there were a lot of lost emails back then.

And that we bought the domain name without the dash when it became affordable !
POWER is not mainframes, z/Architecture is mainframes.
Apple set up their first base outside the US in Limerick, which now also boasts the likes of Analog Devices (Limerick was where the current CEO started out), who actually do a lot of design and manufacturing there. Dell also used to have a massive presence, mainly making keyboards and the likes. Also I think something like nine out of the top eleven pharma companies worldwide have manufacturing facilities in Ireland, mainly in Cork I believe.

These are just a few off the top of my head, but the history is really interesting. A good bit of it has to do with Shannon, which actually served as inspiration for Shenzen believe it not!

I've been tempted to write up this history for quite a while because it's not really well known, and even despite being in STEM myself was quite surprised when I found out Analog Devices actually do design and manufacturing here and were making chips for Apple and Waymo!
These days you can get a cheap AOSP phone and run a lot more so I'm not that surprised this stuff is dying off.
> why should anyone believe you when you say it’s a real crime this time?

Because it does not matter to anybody. Saddam didn't have the WMDs, the evidence was manufactured. Did that fundamentally change anything with regards to the trustworthiness of US government & media when they claim some middle eastern country is developing/using WMDs?

On the international level, power matters. Political power, military power, economic power, not your reputation.
Stanford should donate that $50k to victim advocacy.
I've eaten a pizza box, and that tasted like Dominoes. Is that any help?
Thank you for your feedback! I highly value the opinion of working professionals like you and am taking notes. :)
In the Department of Redundancy Department.
I often find me searching for a package that does XYZ on npm and find just so many. But most of them are either badly designed (!!!), have bugs, no typings or just don't do what I would expect they do. The few good ones are just impossible to find in reasonable time and I have to implement it on my own.

I think having a curated list of packages with clear categories and alternative comparisons would be of great value to both package consumers for finding an high quality package and package publishers for being promoted if their package is of high quality.
I hate screens, constant connectivity, but could not live in today's world without them.

So much of the world is fixated on our addictive devices and trying to find ways to live without them are difficult, even damaging in some ways.

I really do miss those days I could leave the house with just keys and wallet, and had the world around me to provide my entertainment. Today, I am constantly pulling out my phone at the first inkling of boredom.

Finding balance is crucial for all aspects in life, our devices are the same, and developing enough discipline to shed our serotonin inducing toys for a few hours a day is a challenge we will all have to face. Otherwise we will be hollow and hunched over glowing screens for the rest of our lives.
^ Notably, that's very different tech from actual e-ink.
Are they charged with a crime?

Due process would be served if they are being charged.

TBC, it’s not like all the people in gitmo got their due process but still, either charge the kids or* let them go.
Europe already has great consumer protections. The US doesn't, and probably never will.
> You can override just about anything in Python, including the meaning of accessing a property

JavaScript has getters that do the same [0]. You can even redefine 'undefined' depending on version and mode [1].

Is operator overloading really that much 'worse' in Python?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/8783528/
I think the Nigerian embassy in London forgot to read that clause
I get that, although in many cases the AWS-specific tooling needed to build and deploy services running on Fargate is minimal.

It's basically logging in to ECR and triggering an ECS service update (2 API calls).

I voluntarily keep out the networking and IAM parts out, as I believe they are also needed for a Kubernetes cluster.

What I don't get is that many people seem to think that they are lock-in free just by choosing Kubernetes. But:

1. Kubernetes itself is a very, very opinionated piece of software. You are not free, you have to go the Kubernetes way.

2. The overhead of learning and maintaining Kubernetes is real, compared to a more managed solution like Fargate.

3. If you use Kubernetes, you still have to set up the underlying infrastructure. This infra is still vendor specific. If you go for a managed Kubernetes like GKE or EKS, you still have to deal with a vendor-specific API.
https://gabriellaroche.dev/ie11-death-countdown/

I really hope you are right about January and this counter is wrong.

In the meantime I'm not worrying about IE anymore (have luxury of not working at bigco and can say, "sorry, we don't support that").
Has anyone come across good smartwatch hacks to add a hackable microphone to your wrist?
Why does a 65 year old person still have to make a long term investment into their career? Isn't that person going to retire in their 70s or earlier?
I had a prison friend who researched up all the techniques and materials used by the great art masters, and started producing paintings and sending them out to his mother. They sold for thousands apiece.
> parent goes with them and kills every single opportunity for fun

Sad but true. I'm super self-conscious of dancing because when I was little my mom would always chaperone these events and watch me. Now I always feel like there's somebody standing around with nothing better to do but analyze my every move, judging who I'm talking to, saying, etc. When my friends come over I hate even talking to them in the house because I know she's listening. Same thing with phone calls in the house. I always need to go for a walk for that.
Is there a good explanation/article about how they take/process these images? I would have liked it if they could have included a bit of text about why certain items were not in the picture/removed.
Maybe by the end of part 3.
A new one starts tonight on Country music. Even though I'm not a big fan of the genre, I expect it to be fascinating.
I don't follow. Supporting extensions doesn't instantly make a product worse.

Removing features and making them into extensions, would be a different thing.
I thought the purpose of an abstract is to briefly summarize rather than beat around the bush and tease you into reading the whole paper. Reading the linked summary of this paper was nothing but infuriating!
Why don't you want to use a cellphone? Privacy/surveillance and/or stimulation addiction? I miss my old mp3 players and RockBoxed iPod classic, and I've been meaning to get rid of my cell phone as well. Really I'd prefer a pocket computer to a cell phone, surprised there isn't anything like that for sale.
Google is very difficult for me to say. I don't think I have a speech impediment, but perhaps my northern Midwest American accent just slurs the end of the word and I end up saying "Goo-chl". I hate saying the word because I know it's so difficult for me to say. But since "google" is now a verb, it's pretty entrenched. I say "I googled this" even when I actually used Bing or DDG.

It's harder to imagine Lycos or Altavista becoming a verb. Maybe it's because Google has been a verb for so long, but "google it" sounds better than "lycos it" and I cannot imagine ever saying "just altavista it". I certainly cannot image someone saying "I dogpiled this".
Thank you, I'd really love to play with this!
TLDR? Communism.
wouldn't an equivalent counterpoint then be to ship them to Guantanamo?
That's awesome, great tutorial. Another fun one is dolly zoom, which is pretty easy. Some of the DJI drones can even do it automatically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC7hkMR0hBs
I'd say that the best way to spark creativity is if "doing nothing" is directed, or that there are available activities to do.

I've spent a lot of my childhood isolated with not much to do, and the best periods where when there was something that I could do that didn't involve spacing out or reading the same books over and over again. Like when there was a guitar or a piano available and I was able to start learning on my own.
No, you add value to their labor and in return get to keep some of it.

Or you can solve some previously unsolved problems which allow you to produce better products for lower costs than your competitors. This is how Carnegie, Rockefeller, Walton, Bernard Kroger, Aaron Montgomery Ward, Richard Warren Sears, etc. all made their fortunes. Even modern tycoons like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, etc.

Can they get too much market power and start stealing from society? Absolutely, that's why we have anti-trust laws. But to see a fortune and assume a theft is to fundamentally misunderstand economics.
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Estimating the scene geometry from a single image is highly challenging and remains an unsolved problem. As such, you can find subtle artifacts like this in most of the results. The artifact that you are referring to stems from a geometry adjustment step in which we make sure that salient objects like humans or animals are on a plane in the 3D space. This requires image segmentation which is also highly challenging and may lead to parts of the background being assigned to the segmented foreground object and vice versa.
If you are taking a disruptive approach to the government (at any level) of a place you are traveling, you should expect to have a high risk of getting arrested, and not necessarily being given a fair trial. If you are morally so opposed to the situation that you believe this to be a sacrifice worth making, ok then. But you shouldn't be surprised when it happens.

Also, it is not too hard to imagine a foreigner's "disruptive behavior" backfiring in terms of the impact on the locals' attitude towards the policy in question. Knowing whether or not your disruptive behavior will be a useful prod to change, or provoke a backlash against foreign meddling that actually reinforces the system in question, takes a lot of nuanced knowledge of the local society, which a foreigner will usually not have.
The only real Excel alternative is Google Sheets because of it's compatibility with Excel's API. Anything else will cause headaches. Excel is too widespread, unless you're working in a silo.
The most competent colleagues I've had are always the ones most anti-union.
There used to exist many type of high end servers like solaris and mainframes. But consumer grade hardware became so reliable that it became hard to justify the price of the high end serves. Some features was hot pluggable components like hard drives which has now also got into consumer grade desktop computers. Today when you have cloud database providers it makes even less sense to run your own high end server.
We sell open source security keys: https://solokeys.com

Paid: Amazon, the thing I like is that their dashboard clearly shows marketing cost and revenues, so you can very easily say whether it's worth or not.

Non-paid:

- Github: http://github.com/solokeys/solo

Last time I measured, we had 1% of our traffic coming from Github, and 1% of that traffic converting to a sale. This is pretty awesome I think, especially because having a baseline we can improve. We're not making any strong sale-pitch on Github, we simply put links to our store at the top and bottom of the readme.

Right now we're running a crowd funding campaign, and because we knew Github was bringing high quality traffic we're advertising it there.

- Twitter. This is our 2nd social in sales. We're not doing anything special, just clear profiles (personal and business) with links to the store, and clear call to actions when you tweet.

- Pinterest. This is the social that bring us most clicks the the store. I know the platform very well, of course. For SoloKeys specifically the audience is not right, so there's little to zero conversions to sales, but it's good learning nevertheless.

- Medium/Hackernoon. When we blog, we typically get spikes of traffic and sometimes sales. But it requires time to write posts, so it's not really as scalable as the other channels.

(We're barely using Facebook, and zero Instagram, so I can't really talk about these).
I had a classic and a Time.
As someone who grew up with the internet and rules like this I can tell you that the only thing it taught me was how to game the system and use electronics without getting caught. It gives me anxiety just to think about it honestly.

If you didn’t grow up with it you can’t understand how stressful it is to maintain friendships when your parents will randomly take away your phone. Its like being randomly grounded over and over for years.
A couple of things to mind when talking about TDD.

1. Tests can be unit-test, integration-test, e2e tests. Don't limit yourself.

2. TDD is a technique. Depending on the problem and your experience it might not be the right one to efficiently get you a working program and a good test suite.

Remember there is no free lunch.

3. Also, if you have never successfully applied TDD: Please stand stil for a moment. Some techniques require practice and TDD is one of those.

You need to invest time in order to use it efficiently. Once you do it, you will be faster and deliver higher quality code for a large set of programming tasks.

4. There are tasks where i don't use TDD. However, I usually go back to it as soon as I can. You can switch between the two techniques. There is not one way that is most correct.

5. Also, note: if you don't write tests first. Writing tests after the code is complete is more difficult. You might need to adapt your code to make it testable.

6. If you write tests afterwards, usually you will accidentally omit tests for crucial cases if you are not careful. I use line coverage and branch coverage tools to help me when I don't develop test driven.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but PHP also has the same with the . notation, though perhaps because it was inspired by Perl.
Emperor Qin was seeking to become immortal. The most famous remnant of this emperor are the Terracotta warriors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army).

The cool thing Qin did was introduce and enforce standardization of writing / measurements / item parts. This is mentioned in The Fall and Rise of China by Richard Baum at UCLA. I didn't know until today this inspiration came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Feizi.

Qin also was known for having many attempts to assassinate him. For those interested in a fictional portrayal of the first Qin emperor, The Emperor and the Assassin is a very good movie. (Mandarin, english subtitles)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_and_the_Assassin
This seems to be the case for Z, too, doesn't it?
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In case of `query` you’d have a uniform API from which all other APIs would flow. That’s what $ essentially is.

Instead, browser have two incompatible APIs: `querySelector` to retrieve one item only, and `querySelectorAll` to retrieve multiple items.

On top of that, jQuery always returns an array-like object. `querySelectorAll` returns a NodeList that is so poorly designed that it didn’t have a `.forEach` for two years or so, and you’re still better of doing an `Array.from` on it for the sake of consistency and sanity.

For every thing that jQuery got right, browsers got 10 things wrong. For every thing that jQuery got wrong, browsers got 100 things wrong. It took browsers 7 years to implement querySelector/querySelectorAll after jQuery showed it’s possible and useful. And they still got it wrong. 13 years after jQuery debuted DOM APIs are still a mishmash of extremely poorly designed functions that are unnecessarily verbose and error prone.
A random article on hacker news completely changed how I job search. This has led to several jobs I don't think I would have found otherwise.

The article was not about job search, it was a post reviewing a tech talk about technology that as you say may have been "too technical" for me at the time

This is not to say that I use hacker news for job search
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