skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the above, plus vanity projects. If certain people want a system, in many enterprises everyone below will bend over backwards to get it for them.

I will give you an example. A few years ago every c had a BlackBerry. IT ran BlackBerry business server alongside Exchange. Everyone was happy. One day a non-exec got an iPhone from his other job and wanted his emails from your co on the same device. There is no way to resist these requests, they will have it. Need to upgrade Exchange? Do it then, need to turn on web services, do it then. Need to hire back that team from Cisco for the week to sort the router, do it then. Need to hire the compliance consultant to rewrite your policies...etc.

When senior people want a toy they will have it (as long as it doesn't upset the other board members toys).

I guess that suggests that being the toy is the way to shortcut the long enterprise buying pattern. That or being the missing link that lets an IT manager deploy said toy more easily.
Stallman wasn't making a press release. He was defending a dead friend on an internal mailing list.
I found that so cool. I had to post it. Check the youtube video here .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7nJBFjKqAY
>I wasn't expecting full VR tours of the place (though it is doable [1]), but I did expect to be able to walk through the place in 3D and see how it will look like in the winter morning and summer afternoon. Hell no. What are you smoking?

Architecture is a competitive industry. If you want a 3d model you can walkthrough it's not the end of the world - even Trimble sketchup pro has a built in walkthrough tool. You can also export most models to something like cinema4d for a video walkthrough. The models you expect to walkthrough to get some idea of light will require new texture work, lighting, and lots of small details that they otherwise have no reason to add. But those all cost time and money they probably had no idea you expected from them.

The thing is that you probably didn't make your expectations clear up front. If you did architects would quote you a price with that included. But theyd also say something like x revisions and then it's $125/hour so you dont waste their time.

It's a pretty reasonable if you have specific non standard expectations. They'll be happy to mark up the value of having someone else do it and charge it to you.
I built something similar with the same basic functionality although lacking all the polish. Basically I had a cheap vps with docker installed and a small control panel where a user could log into github and pick a repo and add domain names. There was then a number of glue scripts to pull and build the sites and deploy them as Caddy server containers, this handled all the automatic TLS and static file serving. I had all these load balanced with nginx listening to the docker deamon and restarting. In hindsight the whole thing could have been a good opportunity to learn and use k8s, maybe would have been simpler to piece together but I learned a lot.
That's because software sucks badly. Architects are used to elegant and simple tools that work all the time: pen, paper and few other things. It's not just CAD software that sucks, it's the interfaces like mouse and keyboard that are slowing down design on computer. And yes, there are other systems but as you say they're not cheap so student architects won't learn on those.
> Unicode has also captured emojis

Yes and a huge downside of this is that we're now stuck with an incomplete set of them.
Just an FYI, I was able to make a rough design of our small house using the free, opensource sweethome3d program, convert it to webvr using obj2vr, and then virtually walk through it.
Nope industry running on small margins and client with atypical expectations who probably doesn't want to pay for what the extra work costs
FWIW youtube serves 128kbps AAC though, not mp3.
> I'm an ex-Googler, and I know how PRISM worked. This did not happen.

But from the blog:

> We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.

Does not match up
I don't like board games, I find them tedious and restrictive. I prefer more creative games like improv or higher stakes games like poker. When I do play boardgames I don't have a big picture strategy, I make and break alliances for the sake of a joke and I find myself forgetting the rules (since there are so many and they all seem so arbitrary). I'm just not invested. I've learned to not play because it upsets people who take the game more seriously.

What you will learn about me from playing board games with me is that I don't like board games. Not that I lack big picture thinking, loyally etc. I'm perfectly capable of playing the long con in a game of poker and planning all the way to the end because I'm invested and focused.

If you are looking for a filter that only lets people who like board games into your team then great. I'm sure you will have a nice monoculture of board game nerds and hopelessly agreeable people who don't like boardgames.
One thing to keep in mind is that any neural net based ML system is essentially just a mathematical function imitator. The observations in this paper are spot on in the sense that many mathematical functions can have the same subset of results (success within your training data set), but can have wildly varying behavior in the general case.

This is known as overfitting, and its one of the main things that should cast doubt on any ML system's capability to reliably produce results outside of a training set.

In a way, these outcomes are to a point predictable (in the sense of "the possibility exists" as opposed to "this set of weights yields these generalizability results") if you take the whole "neural network" thing a bit more straight than many academics are comfortable with you doing. The human brain, or any collection of biological neurons, is in a state of constant flux, creating different networks in order to react to stimuli in the environment and implement actions that bring us closer to achieving $goals.

Who hasn't experienced an off day where the gears of your mind just aren't producing what you darn well know they should be? It's just a fundamental change in the primary set of neural tools you've got to work with that day. When the weights change, so too does the output, and the function modeled. The cerebellum if I recall correctly, actually acts as a QA like functionality built into our own minds.

There's nothing magic about simulating neural networks in silicon that suddenly gets you to a more "free-of-mistakes" state besides being able to condense way more dimensions of data into the networks "sensory space" as it were. Even then though, the possibility of suboptimal functions being imitated is inescapable.

Try explaining that to someone that wants to save millions on workforce, or automate safety-critical tasks without concern for the consequences though. It's amazing the cognitive barriers we can build.
Yes. Discovery and creation are a greater joy than any game mechanic. It is the ultimate relaxation for me. I can also play with the kids while feeling they are getting something of value from it.
Ah shame, I remember reading about targeting iOS at least with nim but didn't look to closely into it.
> Most spotify listeners assume that their monthly payment goes to the artists they listen to, but that couldn't be further from the truth

Yeah I assumed the pay a flat rate per listen to the artist.

> Spotify pays about $0.006 to $0.0084 per stream to the holder of music rights.

Which is pretty flat, and you should have got at least a dollar surely. Is this not the case?
Sure.

But just as an apples-to-apples comparison, look at the capital requirements of greenhouse or vertical farming.

A combine harvester moves over dirt. That combine is also probably serving a number of farmers, rather than just a single operation -- occasionally-used high-capital equipment is ideal for lease or service arrangements rather than ownership.

I completely agree that farming is vastly more capitalised than it was 100 years ago. But it's still far less capital intensive than most industrial sectors. Which means that any additional capital requirements, such as batteries and generators, hit hard at the bottom line and margins (if those even exist in the first place).
Neat! A slightly less pleasing description I saw was "A trunk holds a lamp and a lamp", which has a definite smell of being machine-generated.
It's worth to mention that it also supports native Linux, Windows and macOS buildings. Plus web via JavaScript and server via jvm.
In 2017 someone in Canberra bought a couple of used filing cabinets from a second hand store for $10 each.

They turned out to contain hundreds of highly classified documents detailing years of cabinet discussions of successive Australian governments ("cabinet" here meaning the core group of senior ministers). This probably happened because the (filing) cabinets were locked and no-one could find the keys, so someone at parliament house got lazy and didn't dispose of them properly.

The documents were handed over to journalists and the whole saga became known as "the cabinet files".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/about/backstory/news-coverage/20...
Google also forces certain countries to use Hijri calendar with no option to switch to Gregorian.

Even if your language is English and your calendar is Gregorian, it will still display news dated in Hijri. No setting or option to change.
Why not potato plants? How about a briar patch or mulberry bushes?

Why is this good if we're disrupting the natural ecosystem that is already there?
Googlers are overwhelmingly young compared to what they used to be. What these people want most, beyond the usuals of money and perks, is for their employer to give them moral structure in life and the constant reassurance that they are good people - something they've been told since birth is the most important thing to be but with nearly no guidance on what that means, beyond the plots of Disney movies.

In effect they want Google to be a church and executives to be priests, preaching a moral code and equally importantly railing against heretics, sinners and apostates.

This need for a new religion can be seen in many walks of life but it seems strongest amongst those immersed in the university system for longest. They've never been judged by any system that wasn't artificial and based purely on the opinions of superiors - from school to college to promo committees and peer bonuses, very few of them have ever really hunted hard for a job, made a product themselves or taken any risky decisions. They've got nothing to give them self confidence and thus fall back on membership of a group identity defined by a mishmash of whatever ideas they picked up from others just like them. Google struggles with them the most because it has hired so many and because Google internally is such a poor approximation of the real world: absolutely stuffed with "rewrite X in Y" style projects and people that don't have any strong reason to be there.

The best way for Google to solve this is a major reduction in headcount, least experienced first. But I think headcount is rather sacred there as it's used as a proxy for ambition, so instead they will continue struggling to be as holy as their student staff demand.
> This is unsurprising given the total willingness and business incentive of major players such as Google to drive the applications use case and their comparative disinterest in the semantic hypertext use case

Indeed, I am consistently surprised at the document-display features that are still missing from web browsers that are increasingly preoccupied with serving as application runtimes.

The web was originally envisioned as a platform for scientists to share documents, but thanks to Google dropping MathML, there's still no cross-browser, non-kludge way to display math.

Browsers still can't justify text properly. Even with hyphenation (which iirc is still a problem in Chrome), the greedy algorithm used for splitting text across lines still results in too much space between words when justified.

There seems to be a complete lack of interest in Paged Media support, so if you want your web-page to be printable with nice formatting, you basically need to provide it as a PDF.

I've gotten to the point where I'm often happier to read something in-browser as a PDF than as a web-page. Sure, it can't reflow properly, but at least it won't have a 2-inch sticky header and make XHR requests to 10 different domains. My vision-impaired father reports that his text-to-speech software now works better with PDFs than with real web-pages. This is insanity.
It's not that no one bothered. They didn't share their data with anyone for some time. As soon as they did, the mistake was immediately discovered.
Slick and responsive credit card number form component in Vue.js
Why experts are annoying
That forbes "contributor" site you linked is sloppy. Oatmeal did a rebuttal to that: https://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response

The author even had to correct basic factual inaccuracies in his own article based on reader comments.
"saved" = streaming model, which, given the layers of brokerage, provide nearly no money to artists popular enough to generate millions of streams/listens.

The tech world has colonized a succession of industries, from publishing, to music, and the net result is dead industries whose shells serve as mere promotional funnels for the illusory big gig in the sky in which the artist will make their money, despite the fact that said artist makes quiet music people like to listen to in their homes and will never likely be able to pull off large concerts.

Per the commenter below "there's loads of talent, let them eat cake", well friend, I like good music made by people who cared enough to study, play multiple instruments fluently, collaborate with others, and sometimes form large ensembles that are economically unfeasible. Where is big band? there is a reason bebop and rock and later singular dj's took over = simple event economics...

Meanwhile, the elephant in the room is how our industry preaches lovely lies about freedom and how other peoples products should be free, while our vampire industrial sector sucks the remaining blood from various markets we first destabilized and weakened. I know that I certainly participated in plenty of music sharing (and creation) and I am not denying the positive benefits of being able to find loads of different music through the magic of text searches, but simply urging my fellow tech zealots to back the XYZ up a bit and aknowledge the absolutely devastating effect we have had.

Spotify, incidentally, is one of the worst offenders in treating the artists poorly, compared to something like Bandcamp, let's say.
I didn’t say babies do anything. I was talking about one specific child, with whose behavior I have intimate experience. His sleep and wake patterns are definitely not precise enough to set a clock by them but he really does generally go to sleep around eight and he’s awake between five and six in the morning, dark or bright, usually closer to five.
Nice use of ripgrep (aka. rg or recursive grep) the best tool to grep today.
China’s Great Dam Boom: A Major Assault on Its Rivers (2013)
Where was that young lady's parents? Do you typically let your underage daughter travel with a playboy billionaire for the stated purpose of giving massages to his clients?
The english title doesn't do the book justice. In original language, German, it is called "... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen", which translates to "... after all a Yes to life". Viktor Frankl – one of the great Weiner psychologists – wrote this after surviving concentration camp where he lost his family and to be wife. Obviously, his yes to life, caries much greater depth and weight that you meet in most books. An interesting and easy to read book which contains anecdotes and reflections of daily life in concentration camp.
A 5am class? That sounds insane! What was the justification for that time?
XUL had bindings to supported native widgetsets.
So you think the evils of the US come from the poor having too much power?
Einstein became a worldwide celebrity in 1919 and was super well known among scientists and interested laypeople before that. Godel was 12 in 1919 and had yet to do anything of note.
old news? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19986910
There are only recommendations, nothing is forced.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftwa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Tex...
And why would that guy work for you/me and not for another big corp with deep pockets that can hire him for top dollars?

I mean I get it that sales are all about connections but let's not pretend that everyone in here can go sailing with a 10M sailboat in order to meet the guy who knows a guy who knows a guy.
The font includes both cursive and normal italic variants. The non-cursive version is in the files ending with "Oblique". I set the editor to only use cursive for comments, that works nicely for me - in actual code it would definitely be too much.
WhatsApp is probably the number one messaging app on Android, so why would you not use it with the "one person you know with Android"?
On a Founder’s Journey
Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads from Health Orgs, Let Anti-Vaxxer Ads Slip Through
Yes, the summary is missing one word: own labor.
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say.

The video is mostly about asking which series, TREE or Graham, grows quicker and how we can show it.

It does this by starting out asking, which is bigger, TREE(G(64)) or G(TREE(64)).

I fail to see how that is comically inefficient or how introducing TREE(TREE(3)) is what they should have done instead.

>Somebody needs to tell them about the fast-growing hierarchy and how Graham's Number lives around \omega+1 while TREE hangs out with the small Veblen ordinal.

Somebody should watch the video before speaking out about what the video should contain.
That's another project though isn't it? Great to see people using Haxe. Much underrated.
OK. I don't know about how much developer take in Ukraine. But my comparison was from US.

Since there's a lot of investment going on, by startups and giants like Google, Apple, Amazon etc who are hiring a lot in India, it is difficult to get good devs easily because devs will see few things even before trying for interview,like

1. Company's product and how it aligns with their perspective
2. Brand
3. Monetary value

(not in any order)

And these companies will keep on paying large amount of money because it will still be cheaper than what they pay in US. These giants will give a brand recognition. And as we all know, these companies have amazing/challenging work too.

So smart talent gets occupied and is hard to snatch from such giants.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but that's what the video is about?
Although not a direct answer to the question, with gmail you can add a unique identifying suffix/tag after a + in the name part of your email:

eg: first.last+walgreens@gmail.com

And emails to that address still wind up in your inbox.

This can help to identify which source ultimately divulged your email to a spammer (intentionally or otherwise).

While it would be trivial for spammers to strip this tag off, i've found numerous instances of spam eventually being sent to the unique email I only ever used at eg. the sporting goods store.
How do you define a fractal? Unless you give me your definition I can make a definition match what I need.

Let's look at one paragraph from Wikipedia.

> Images of the Mandelbrot set exhibit an elaborate and infinitely complicated boundary that reveals progressively ever-finer recursive detail at increasing magnifications. The "style" of this repeating detail depends on the region of the set being examined. The set's boundary also incorporates smaller versions of the main shape, so the fractal property of self-similarity applies to the entire set, and not just to its parts.

Let's consider the context of behavior again.

A person is an object of elaborate and infinitely complicated boundary. You may look at one instance of behavior at one time and you may see a certain value, like you see at a fractal at a particular zoom and configuration. In a sense, particular details at this magnification. A family of several people has an elaborate and infinitely complicated boundary and has details of it's own, in addition to the people within it. A village... A city... A country... A planet... An organ...

Let's look at Merriam-Webster:
> any of various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size.

Do you see how it fits?

If we consider shape more literally, it may be something like, a person has an arm to grasp things. Let's take one function, picking an object up and bringing it nearer to you. A community has an appointed person to deliver things. A country has a company to do so. A world has a certain country which is the most efficient for transport. A cell has a protein or a function of its membrane to interact with some molecules to bring them closer.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing…kill yourself. It’s just a little thought; I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they’ll take root – I don’t know. You try, you do what you can." - Bill Hicks
I got "A mundane-looking door, pleads to be killed when the knob is touched." Hahaha
I exist as a counterpoint. I pay for Spotify because I have terrible taste in music, zero idea how to cultivate it, but want to listen to music when I do things.

I pretty much just search a vibe and let some rando’s playlist take it away.
It's action-math. Not meant for teaching, but for showcasing math to the general public. The general public wants action cams and cute animations.
There is even an old competition on Kaggle to try to predict the next integer of the given sequence.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/integer-sequence-learning
I bow to your greater experience of Singapore but I struggle to see how anyone could feel safer as a pedestrian in Shanghai than Singapore. It’s not as bad as Beijing but the median (car) driver here is just dangerous and that’s without taking account of the scooter drivers going wrong way or running red lights or driving on the foot path.

Most of Shanghai has really wide, four lane roads or wider in the new built areas that are most of the city like Pudong or Qingpu. The rest sounds worse in Singapore but the only parts of Shanghai with narrow streets are in old Puxi.
Yeah all those stupid fools... who needs machine VMs, language VMs, processes, process namespaces... Just compile your software with pointer authentication and run it in kernelspace on bare metal. Why is everyone so stupid and I am the only smart person on this planet?

... If you haven't realized it yet. I'm not serious at all ...
semantic web can only happen if paired with a new business model that is not advertising and e-commerce. Also, to get alignment from coders they need to fall into the pit of success. So it needs to be a new thing, separate and distinct from HTML.
In a period when the US did not allow non-nationals to take out a US patent. Rather weights the game.

Fred Mullens patented the lightbulb 20 years before Edison, and Joseph Swan a UK patent for essentially the same design Edison got a few months or years before Edison. He was already lighting a theatre with his lamps when Edison got his famous patent IIRC. There are probably a dozen other people from other countries who achieved and patented something before Edison.

Edit: Note, Swan successfully sued Edison in the UK. After which Edison's continued presence in the UK was via a joint venture with Swan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan
Can I not sell a photo of a new York City street scene if one of banksys pieces is visible in the background?
Ayup. You get to keep what you got, but no more.

If your H1-B's are that valuable, then maybe you can find something else for those salespeople to do, eh?
Why it took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3