skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People were already building substantial web apps long before the current generation of popular libraries and frameworks were around. Some of those applications are in use to this day, jQuery and all, and still in active development. They can include a huge amount of functionality after that much work has gone into them.

Would a team choose the same tools if they were starting those apps with a blank canvas today? Probably not. Is anyone going to throw away a decade of working code to rewrite the apps that already exist? Also probably not.
Standard Arabic is similar to Latin in Medieval Europe - it is a second language that is used for formal education and communication, but that no one speaks as a native language. All the Arabic languages that people speak as first languages are much more analytic.

It's a similar phenomenon to Latin, where the formal written Latin used in Europe preserved things like case endings and flexible word order, while the Vulgates that later became the Romance Languages dropped a lot of that and started relying much more heavily on word order.
I finally got to use one (I think it was a bottom-tier gen 2? Whatever was current at the time) about a year and a half ago when we got one for testing stuff in IE/Edge.

When I first heard of the Surface, what I thought it'd be: a bad laptop and a worse tablet.

After I read and heard people raving about how great it was for years, what I thought it'd be when I finally got to use one: a great laptop and a good-enough tablet.

What it was when I finally got to use it, very much to my surprise at that point: a bad laptop and a worse tablet.

I don't get it.
I love the touchbar.

You just need to customise it using something like BetterTouchTool which allow you to execute sequences of actions or invoke menu items.
Very interesting that the guy in the pentagon in charge of the choice bows out two days before the Microsoft award. Possible trump influence?
That really is a great explanation - thanks for linking it. The whole playlist deserves a watch: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI7lqC4ZBnInJOAwogQJtSq...

I’m on my fifth and have to confess that I’ve learned quite a bit.
Swarm of sea urchins wreaks destruction on US West Coast
This is why founders and employees should form worked-owned co-ops rather than be slaves to investors. If they absolutely need funding, look for angels, loans, convertible notes or ways to build slowly without giving away control to vampires.
I recently learned about some limitations in both Coq and Lean theorem prover after watching the video by Kevin Buzzard on formalization of math in Lean. He did some claims about quotient support in Coq, so I just asked[1] Coq developers straightly. I recommend to read their discussion and explanations.

[1] https://github.com/coq/coq/issues/10871
The guy in charge of the award bowed out two days ago...
The ironic thing is that extra restrictions on H1Bs and the insane green card wait times will lead to accelerating offshoring and use of foreign contractors. In fact, it's already happening. Not only does it badly hurt the US economy and tax collection, when whole new teams are hired offshore, and the company is used to working with offshore teams, they will tend to hire new people in those places.

E.g Canada is reaping rewards https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/09/16/canad...
That isn't really a failure case in cuda (or opencl). It's very common to launch more blocks/workgroups than can be resident simultaneously on the GPU.
Pros and cons of different ways of storing Enum values in the database
Hence the use of the phrase "1-time" in my comment.
Very many years ago Amazon was strictly behind Microsoft and others in comp, hard to believe they pulled ahead.
What I really wish for are 2000x2000-ish square screens, ~20 inch diagonal with minimal bezel, so that I can stack 3x2 of them and get to work at last instead of flipping wasting screen space and head movements on overly wide screens.
Because they're losing potential hires to better paying competitors, and if they don't hire, they're leaving money on the table.
Suggestions on How to Fix NPM
Convenience is not the only advantage that streaming services have over torrenting.

As quaint as it may seem, there are still those who prefer to support the creators of their favorite programming by paying for the content’s production. The satisfaction they gain by having legitimate access to the shows and movies they watch is not something that streaming offers.
TDD: Random Is Arbitrary
You seem to have an odd preoccupation that a word doesn't have the meaning you want it to mean.
Moving the Finish Line: The Goal Gradient Hypothesis
So the escape key is there on the Touchbar.

It is always the same size. It never moves. It is always there.

And because the keyboard is already pretty thin the difference in feedback isn't that significant.
My primary calculator in linux is speedcrunch which lets you do adjustable squishing as it is referred to in the article which is pretty nice.
Does it come with a coupon for the Kafkaesque social credit system patterned on China that isn't far behind it?
It isn't hysteria, and that H1B process is clearly nonsensical.

The people of the nation come first. Before anyone else. Always. That isn't isolationism. It's common sense. Just like your family comes first, before anyone else, to you personally.

On the national/job market level, even if you can't immediately find someone to fill the position locally, it's your duty to do whatever is necessary, including bringing in less qualified people and training them to qualify for the position in question, or raising wages substantially, or any other solution, rather than bringing in outsiders.

That's the only sane position, unless you're against in-group preference entirely, and people against in-group preference are dangerous, as they lack the ties of heritage and loyalty to those around them that are inherent to human beings with proper mental and emotional states. In short, globalists are sociopaths.
Chart.js 2.9
Instead of a heavy-handed centralized government mandate like this they should have used a tax incentive to encourage people to drive on the other side.
Ikea uses MDF - medium density fibre board, which is made from formaldehyde based binders and melamine. Try to to drop off MDF at a recycling plant some time. MDF ends up in land fills and yes formaldehyde leaches out. So no it's most certainly not "literally just captured carbon."
For a slightly improved version, place a sentinel (say a 4 byte magic number) just before and after the allocated segment. Check on FREE_MEMORY if they're still there. Not perfect but pretty good as an early warning system.
I saw there is a work[1] on creating a temporal type theory. So ideas behind TLA+ may lead to something more universal in the future, we will see.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10258
Lean has independent proof checkers, and Coq could have, too. The fact that these are big systems doesn't harm the de Bruijn principle: you only need to trust the checkers…

(btw I couldn't find the source code for the proof checker in the paper, is it available?)
Bigger, longer blackouts could lie ahead in California
It was a whole todo for myriad reasons at a particularly fragile time for the union.

I think it's weird to reject the idea out of hand in 2019. Practically, I doubt there'd be much difference between living in Texas in 2019 and living there one year after independence.

As globalism increases in the wake of colonialism, I actually think this could be a very positive thing. Empires and consolidated power are a problem. Tribalism is a problem. Nationalism is a problem.
Fantastic article, very well written and informative with lots of great links (e.g. diamond anvil).
> How is a legitimate startup supposed to recruit the best people under these conditions?

Why should startups be entitled to recruit best people?
Seriously, for coding I absolutely love a 1920x1080 screen rotated 90°. Still wide enough to see an entire (sane) line, but more vertical space is just wonderful. Can't watch video, obviously, but for a work computer the vertical space is the absolute best. Improves web browsing as well for most sites.

I tried a 36", I can't stand it as a display. Fine for a TV, but it's a little much for a monitor. Although I can't stand more than 2 displays, so YMMV.
Towards Transparent Machine Learning
Who's right?

Trees couple hierarchy into information, and there lies the problem. Same thing could be modelled as a table, and allow both views:

root hw
vendor_submodule acpi
vendor fujitsu
vendor_feature lcd_brightness
submodule backlight
feature brightness
value 4

Architecture ain't easy...
Microsoft Wins Massive JEDI Cloud Contract
People on visas cannot get raises. And they can't refuse to work late.
This is what ruined Twitter for me.

They hired a thousand engineers to guess what I like when I already followed the people I want to see content from and I don’t (always) want it in some random order they think is best, mixed with liked tweets they never intended to publicly share, I just want a chronological list of actual Tweets from the people I followed again.

Not a dice roll the AI will get it right 51% of the time.
I'm glad scrollbars died on mobile. Right hand scroll bars are a PITA for left handed use on a touch device.
But that salary is discounted based an offer of real ownership of a piece of the company. It's not clear to me why the last 20% of a salary, taken as equity, should have a lower preference in the capital structure than cash invested.
While it's hard to get confirmed metrics on Stripe given that they're private, it strikes me as unlikely that a 100-person startup would have been Stripe's "main customer" in mid-2015. Analysts estimated their annual revenue to be $450M that year based on a payment volume of $20B, with customers that at that point included Lyft and Slack.
Land prices where demand > supply (most purchases) are bid up by credit, so available credit sets prices.
Yet you still doesn't give a straight answer how it is fair that Saleforce pays less tax than Square. I don't blame you. Nobody has answered that question.

Even Benioff merely said ~$10m was nothing to Square. He implied it didn't matter that it wasn't fair because the amount was so little. Like Wut?

Because Square doesn't help homeless much (I don't really know how much compared to Saleforce and other companies), so we make a law for a smaller company to pay tax more than a bigger company? We can simply disregard fairness? Really?

Also, Jack explicitly said that he has no problem paying taxes to the city; he wants to pay tax fairly when considering peer companies. We just gonna need to agree to disagree on whether jack is willing to pay tax.
I am an American guy working in NY for an Indian company. I absolutely love it. All my colleagues are Indian and they are super nice. We never stress out about anything. Just hang out and do some work. Americans seem to be deeply biased about India. Lots of people think in hyperbole and generalizations. You don't know what something is like until you spend lots of time with it. Americans just hear headlines and assume they're rampantly true.

By this same logic, everyone in USA shoots guns and eats McDonalds daily.
The best example of objective evidence for this I have seen is:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/96443300/the-names-the-...

Where a male and female colleague swapped names in all correspondence, and she (with a temporary male name) was astounded at how easy work was, while he (with a temporary female name) was perplexed by how much harder his job became.

And I'm guessing you have seen:

http://www.econ.nyu.edu/user/wiswall/research/schilt_wiswall...

"In 2006 American economists Kristen and Matthew Wiswall performed perhaps the ultimate test. They examined what happened to the pay of and status of employees who'd changed sex."
Ah, I think you'll see what I see at https://www.dropbox.com/?landing=dbv1

Yours looks like https://www.dropbox.com/business
I found a way to learn to like it by using BetterTouchTool, which makes it more like a static customizable screen instead of the modal aware screen they marketed it as.

It gives me (always in the same place), currently playing song in Spotify with << || >> controls, weather tappable to see forecast for current location, a scrollable emoji keyboard, battery display, and standard brightness volume controls. Ctrl and Alt give me other modal contexts. All of those are nice for interacting with my host OS even if I'm, for example, working inside a VM at the moment.

Edit: it also prompted me to map escape to capslock, and now I wish that were default everywhere.

Edit2: having a scrollable emoji keyboard handy is honestly awesome, since I do most of my SMS messages through my computer.
Skype for Business, signed in and loaded - 157MB RAM.

Microsoft Teams, signed in and loaded - 300MB+ .

They still have a lot of work to do...
There’s also some really bad “ML” that reorders everything in very unpredictable ways across different Apps / UI contexts that are very similar.
It’s not the worst, but it’s definitely not reminding me of a simple Apple experience
Everyone needs to be taken down a peg from time to time.

I knew someone who rode the Monorail in Seattle next to Jeff Bezos. No idea who he was, even after he introduced himself. Told others they "met someone named Jeff Bozos on the train."

Yep, that sounds about right.
Has this changed since 2007? (don't have any freebsd available to check)
I'm confused. The page I landed on says that Bank of America supports Firefox "51 and higher". I have Firefox 70.0 on Linux and I have no problems with Bank of America's website.
Really a great, supportive guy, and very kind in a pitch meeting, even when you are completely losing it. In general I've found the sequoia folks to be a class act (with a couple of, to me, egregious exceptions)
Not only walk but name and shame the founders for allowing this to happen. No one should want to work for someone who screws their employees like that.
Questions asked by the EU parliament:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2018-005624...

Answer:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2018-005624...

Apparently it has been tested, has been shown to have statistically significant result. As of November 2018 it was not used nor planned to be used on enforcing any border control, but was tested at three borders in real conditions.

Even a good system would have false positives. In itself, that does not invalidate the whole system, even if I think the whole premise of this project is very shaky.
Isn't that an equivocation/conflation of differently bad things? Shouldn't border control optimize risk management based primarily on wise human intelligence on-the-ground supported by reliable or at least reliability-qualified data that doesn't hassle people any more than is absolutely necessary? For example, in the US (not the EU), the number of secret databases and watch lists that feed into current border control decision-making is absolutely frightening (per whistleblower revelations).
You would need a rocket to use a mass driver at all, you need something to circularize the orbit. Otherwise, it's not very useful.
The comments were a very informative read!

I'm sure they'll explain it to their kids as a ponzi scheme with a paycheck.
Give me a break, I've seen first hand how H1B's are treated like dogshit by management.

What are they gonna do? Quit and go back home? It's modern slavery.
I came here expecting a terminal fashion show.
This is the first time I hear Krita but I support all good open-source projects like Blender

What I like in Blender, except its invaluable community, is its UX, they follow a good logic in interfaces. If someone is familiar with 3Ds Max or Maya, in less than an hour can understand the whole software and how to work with it even without any help or tutorial

However, I'm not in the VFX industry and I'm an architect and Building Information Modeling/Management - BIM technologist, so recently we've started to improve Blender for Digital Built Environment industry, an open-source plugin (interfaces) called BlenderBIM [1]

So hope we help Blender and Blender community to speed up its success

[1] https://blenderbim.org/
> how to spend $1000

It's really funny because when building something, I will often look at overall cost as one of the main motivators for doing something for a personal business.
That labor is being paid cash along the way.

It might additionally be getting common stock, under the same terms of other common shareholders, which is to say, behind the preferred shareholders, who are behind the bond holders.
Same here. I got one from work for testing with. I was completely underwhelmed.

I think it's a combination of astroturfing and owners trying to convince themselves they made the right decision.
This show felt like so many other shows on American TV in the last decade: somebody had the core of a good idea, but the writers had no idea how to turn that into a show.

The first couple episodes of Jericho were tantalizing. The interesting part was the world and the geopolitical situation, but then so little about that actually changed over the course of the following episodes, it was just a bunch of small town politics and side stories among a few uncompelling characters.

I'll catch hell for this, but Battlestar Galactica was the same way. The mini-series and the first episode of season one are a completely different animal from the rest of the show. The rest of the show was just the writers releasing dribs and drabs of what the Cylons actually were and actually were planning, among a bunch of side stories between characters (okay these were more compelling characters for the most part, though largely unsympathetic).
The person you're replying to was not speaking of all foreign contractors, they were speaking of H1Bs in particular. So it sure doesn't seem that your particular concern was labeled hysteria, because it's a different one.
You don't have to be rich to buy furniture whose primary design consideration isn't "cheap to ship." The metal and dowel based joinery of Ikea is a joke and it's a direct result of the "cheap to ship" design mentality.

You can find lots of furniture that uses proper joinery without breaking the bank. Lastly its false economy to buy the same disposable book case every 3-4 years when a well made one can last a lifetime. And they're quite easy to find second hand.
These H1Bs might be for renewal of 3 yr extensions, transfer from another employer or a first time H1B selected through lottery. The article doesn't mention the spread. Usually you have to dig deeper into USCIS data to differentiate. Since Indians have to be on H1B forever, it will look like a company is filing more H1Bs every year while in reality they are just maintaining visa status for their existing employees.

There are staffing and consulting service companies out there that exploit H1Bs for profit but I don't believe uber is one of them or the type that uses H1 to save money.
Really? Why would a foreign country trust a firm deeply engrained with the US military?

Then again, there are only a few military in the world that need this kind of service, and those countries are highly unlikely to go with foreign entities as provider.
>You're still not responding to what I actually said. Instead, you've extrapolated from the study your own preferred interpretation, which the authors not only didn't do, but were careful not to do, because the data doesn't exist to do it (and, indeed, the data probably points in the other direction, albeit weakly).

You don't need data to know that health insurers deny claims to to preserve their existence and protect profits. It's how every form of insurance works. The only thing that data will tell you is to what degree they deny claims in this pursuit relative to their other tactics, from jacking up premiums, imposing high deductibles, etc.

>Average claim denials in Oregon are just 8%, a fraction of what they are in Illinois. Are health insurers in Oregon more moral than they are in Illinois? Will your rationale for that argument hold up when I note other states with low denial rates that aren't at all similar to Oregon?

They're not variably immoral, because that's not the premise. The premise is that they're entire existence is unnecessary and immoral and has caused the bankruptcy and deaths of many. This isn't even internally consistent with your other arguments, as you've claimed that the variability of denials makes aggregate figures not a particularly useful measure.

Since we're also demanding responses now, please, again, feel free to describe what threshold of bankruptcy, injury to the sick and disabled, and deaths you feel is appropriate for the status quo. How much of this is necessary?

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2018....
Your story is actually probably what the parent was trying to illustrate. Instead of wasting time with WoW, you "wasted" time with something more meaningful (all this being relative of course).
Money in an account is just a note that someone is entitled to actual resources at some indefinite time in the future. You don't see a difference between erasing that note and destroying the resources it quantifies? I mean, I'm not saying that what people write down can't affect the real world, but it's a fundamentally different thing from the physical world. Erasing a number could have any positive or negative consequence, maybe soon, maybe far in the future. It's very tenuous. Destroying the stuff has a specific cost, for certain, that applies to society and not just the owner. Destroying or wasting stuff in large amounts is obviously "stealing" from the needy, while numbers changing because of people having their hopes and dreams deflated is not.

When hopes and dreams die, the cost or benefit depends entirely on how it motivates humans, which is very complex and often unpredictable, but can as easily be good as bad, even if it's painful.

Perhaps I am talking to a being from another dimension, or a ghost who exists only on the internet, in which case I'm probably wasting electrons.

How about this:

Suppose you have a lottery ticket, and you think you've won $1M. But then you notice that you read a number wrong, and it's actually worthless. You may feel like you've lost $1M, but actually you just gained something extremely valuable - if you continued thinking you'd won, you might have done something destructive like quit your job before you found out you didn't. And that action in the real world, would have had negative consequences for you, your employer, your loved ones, and so on. Society in other words. For some reason, even (or maybe particularly) people who think money is evil fall into the trap of thinking it's real as...(google says "a donut").
I'm not aware of any sysctl values that can be accessed from two separate paths.