skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative of having collaborative decision making has its own downsides, of being slower, not meeting goals, and sometimes producing conflicting outputs.

In reality, a "directive" can be generalized to any "process request", such as a software enhancement request.

A "goal level" statement must be described, and then someone between the implementer and the manager needs to flesh out and escalate what the functionality looks like and any potential conflicts. ...then the person implementing them needs to translate that spec into an implementation, and then escalate any potential unintended consequences found in testing phase. ...and all of this in an iterative cycle.

Unfortunately, 99% of office requests do no merit enough _value_ for this process to be worthwhile. With infinite resources, we can achieve infinite perfection in every management request.

...but in the real world where business demands are transient, the expectation should be that management doesn't know what they want all the time and asks for things with incorrect parameters and conditions. ...and so the implementer (since there's no one in between) needs to bring their industry experience and communication skills to _poignantly_ explain the caveats in the request and explain what the alternatives are.

These are difficult conversations to have. They inherently contain conflict and the emotions of frustration associated with the manager perceiving that they aren't getting what they want, and the implementer being asked to break protocols and safeguards.

There is no perfect solution. This comes down to professionalism and having employees and managers that are able to offer compromise, have dispassionate discourse, and be willing to thoughtfully approach the problem in succinct and timely fashion.

...which is why hiring experienced intelligent emotionally stable people is the most productive choice for companies.
I was curious about that compression and found an analysis[1] of the DL protocol. The first thing I saw was that it doesn't just render to a framebuffer on the PC, it renders twice, once at 16bpp and another at 8bpp (which it will combine to achieve 24bpp). The use of Huffman encoding seems consistent with the state of compression in 2003 [2]. If doing it today you'd probably go with x264 lossless but that would have been too slow 15 years ago. In conclusion I'd guess the lag is caused by the split framebuffers. Or an inefficient proprietary driver.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a3ed/739f229315fe8673f227e7...

[2] https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=165545
Nintendo Switch isn't standards compliant with USB-C and as such it's pretty much the same as having any other non-compatible proprietary standard.
Does Yang still have a chance with the democratic party? His numbers looked terrible last time I checked. Is he planning on going independent if he fails to secure the nomination?
> but honestly, the product is now way better

It is not. 1Password 7 for Mac is a UX regression IMHO. Most of my common workflows have become more clunky. There's useless UI elements I can't get rid of taking up prime real estate (Watchtower). And, while this is subjective, I think it's also uglier than 1Password 6.
Hollywood writers fired agents. Now agencies are sidelining writers in new deals
A 560lb Atlas Stone does not fit into the carryon sizing bin. Based on an eyeball estimate, I believe that the best you could get into the cabin would be 200lbs.

It looks like Atlas Stones are generally mold-poured concrete, so you'd have to pour concrete into a rectangular shape.

What is the maximum mass (in pounds) of concrete that can be poured into a carryon luggage rectangle compliant with BA policy?

EDIT: 51 pounds, because that's the BA published limit on carryons. So, 16"x12"x3.451" using 133 lbs/ft^2 pre-mixed concrete, best case scenario. Make sure to take the handle's weight into account.

https://www.britishairways.com/en-us/information/baggage-ess...

https://www.calculator.net/concrete-calculator.html?slableng...
Sounds pretty stupid honestly. There is so much more to voice then the words that are said, and punctuation is just not possible to convey everything. Can their replicate sing? I think not..
No, I don't think it would be in the insurgents best interest to terrorize their public. They would attack enemy military units and fight for strategic positions and assets they until they can install and defend the democracy they want.
I'm curious about the environmental or ecological impact.

This is a pretty naive question but: will capturing that energy for human use divert it from other parts of the current ("natural") system where it's being used?
Awesome demo, so you deserve some honest feedback.

After the demo I looked at the pricing and immediately decided it's not worth it by far.

From the viewpoint of a freelance software dev that does quite a lot if data cleaning lately, the price is so high that I wouldn't even bother trying it on binder.

As a comparison, I pay €53/year for PyCharm professional that I can install on as many machines as I like and pay for my Excel/Office a similar yearly amount. I switch between 3 computers, so having a license nailed to one of them is a dealbreaker.

Also, $49 + taxes roughly translates to 1 hour of income per month - every month if I use it or not. Plus I'd have to factor in the time it takes to setup and deal with license problems & bugs. Setting up licenses behind a company firewall is quite a challenge - unless you use a simple txt.file license option like jetbrains. BTW, Jetbrains also has a very cool feature in the license model: If you pay for at least a year, you get to keep the last version that's at least one year old for free. From my usage, I estimate that bamboolib could save me 1 hour per month max - currently I just paste to excel if I need to scroll in a larger data set or use the .sample() function to look at some examples.

So to tempt me there should be a freelancer license at a maximum of $49/year that covers at least 3 machines (only use one at a time) and should work offline.

BTW, the companies I work for all have not made the jump to Jupyter labs, yet. They are firmly Excel based and I'm constantly trying to drum up interest for Jupyter. I also do regular meetup talks on Jupyter (where normal business people show up) and many of them don't know that it exists, yet.

So having a very cheap or even free personal license would showcase your program to companies... and you could write the license in a way that companies need to buy a full price version.
remember how there used to be articles about how google wouldn't bother to replace failed hardware in racks because it was easier to just map around it?

thats what wind and solar are like for the grid. its pets vs. cattle gone terrawatt.
That's half of the interview process. The other half is convincing your future-peers you aren't a liability. Provide value, get along well, communicate decently.
Yeah, at first I wanted to use TSX exclusively, but I came to the same conclusion you did while digging into it more deeply.

I still think having a fast path using TSX could be useful, but since I never had a CPU with it, I never had a chance to benchmark it.
Yeah, I like knowing how some things really work, but not movies.

When I was younger, I would always watch these "behind the scenes" type shows and was interested how it was all made. Eventually I realized that it was just ruining movies for me. The director and crew work very hard to create a vision, create "magic". Why would you want to destroy that by learning how its all done?

Its like a magic trick, most would agree that the interest, the mystique, is in not knowing.
How long was your average charge time on the Superchargers?
Docker Restructures and Secures $35M
[copying comment from an older HN thread, not speaking on behalf of any employer, opinions my own]

I think many people underestimate the challenge that the 2 to 3 migration presents for large enterprises. The core issue is that even though the migration for any given module is normally really easy, the total effort required to migrate is still essentially O(n) in module count/file count, because even with current tooling you still need to have an engineer look at every module to do the change safely. Even if it only takes ~5 minutes per module to make the changes and validate that it works correctly, this becomes a giant undertaking when you have tens of thousands of files to migrate.

The fact that it takes a long time also creates other problems. Your business isn't going to hit "pause" on other development, so there will be changes constantly introduced into modules you've already "swept". It's going to be hard to make sure 100% of your engineers and code reviewers are knowledgeable about the specific requirements to make sure the code works in both 2 and 3, so you would really like some automated safeguards to make sure they don't introduce anything that won't work in 3. Pylint helps with this, but won't catch everything. Unit tests are obviously essential, but:

1. Even a well-tested project won't have tests that cover 100% of code paths and behavior.

2. You're stuck running the tests on both python2 and python3 for the duration of the migration, which doubles the resource (compute, memory, etc.) cost of your Python CI and regression testing infrastructure for the duration of the migration.

Most big companies have passionate Python advocates who really want to be on Python 3, but the scale of the problem and the lack of tooling to tackle it with a sub-O(n) amount of effort make the overall project risky and expensive for the business.
Xkcd: Machine Learning Captcha
I'm not in a rush to put the holy grail of my personal info into someone's cloud service that I can't manage or securely delete. I think that KeePass + [Dropbox,Google Drive,etc] is the best solution. You can easily get these files on to your phone for passwords on the go.
To me at least one trillion in culumative investment does not equal a one trillion dollar industry.
Alchemy was never an academic field. It was a tradition veiled in secrecy, requiring years of private work and knowledge transmission through strict and very narrow (typically teacher-student) channels.

Your point has been brought up before -usually as an attempt by established institutions to whitewash and explain away Newton's idiosyncrasies- but there is no evidence whatsoever to back it. On the contrary, what we know (and there is a lot we do know thanks to his writings) about Newton and alchemy absolutely indicates him being immersed in the Hermetic worldview and alchemical paradigm. Clearly, Newton was practicing alchemy not as a way to look for novel techniques or as a way to bridge the old and new worlds together, but primarily because he was a devout believer.

Newton -a profound genius- stood at the threshold of two worlds colliding. He was also a groundbreaking scientist in optics/mechanics/mathematics. He was aware of Boyle's chemical research. Knowing all of that, he _absolutely_ chose to dedicate his life to alchemy. That is immensely interesting.

"Much of Newton's writing on alchemy may have been lost in a fire in his laboratory, so the true extent of his work in this area may have been larger than is currently known. Newton also suffered a nervous breakdown during his period of alchemical work, possibly due to some form of chemical poisoning (perhaps from mercury, lead, or some other substance)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studie...
Haha, sure, if I live with them, it helps to know :)
Why would it? E.g. if mining has a 1% return on investment and there are three actors with 4, 5, and 7 units of hash power, and they reinvest profits into more mining rigs, then a year later they will have 4.04, 5.05, and 7.07 units of hash power---the ratios stays the same.
Judge quashes freezing order on Vitaly Orlov
A freezing order on assets owned by Vitaly Orlov has been removed by
a judge in the High Court of Justice of England and Wales
http://bit.do/fhbiK
Fair enough.

To your point in the other related thread about the usage of the term glass ceiling, there's nothing discriminatory about this specific practice in the VC community. No matter the gender, race, sexual orientation, or whatever other metric you'd use to describe an associate that could in theory be used to discriminate, a VC firm does not have an incentive to promote from within, and actually has incentives not to do so as described by another poster.
I don't think that's true, or at least it's no longer true: RHEL 8 does not ship with Python 2 by default. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel... Red Hat software that depends on Python, like yum, is in Python 3.

I think it is true (as of pretty recently) that Red Hat is the only company employing a Python core dev to work on Python core dev stuff full time (see https://discuss.python.org/t/official-list-of-core-developer...). But the core dev team is focused on Python 3, so that isn't a sign of Red Hat's Python 2 commitment either.
It's so your VTEC will kick in, yo.
Not an issue for me, my kernel has no swap or other such thing - by design. Of course I realize not everyone is in my shoes - such an approach would absolutely fail on Linux!
The vast majority of programmers haven't built something at this sort of scale, so while it's very possible that he has, odds are that he hasn't.
Neither interstates nor rail make profits. But they are funded for with some consideration of ROI. The government shouldn't (and mostly doesn't) build interstates that are used only a few weeks a year.

If the government has money to spend on rail, it should put it where it'll serve the most passenger-miles/year.
Typically, USB-C headphones don't have a DAC, they just pass analog audio through the USB-C connector.
They make it incredibly difficult to still pay the one-time fee for the software vs. doing the monthly charge. Like, hiding it. They have threads on their support forum of users complaining how deceptive it is. It's clear they want your vault on their servers and you paying the monthly fee instead of using Dropbox and paying a one-time fee.
>Nature and Biology gives us a very strong counterexample to this. If centralization was the stable form

The context of my claim was about computer information systems becoming centralized. Yes, I understand we do have decentralized washer & dryer machines at home instead of everyone going to centralized laundromat. And building residential houses is still a very local business that resists a hypothetical giant national corporation that builds every house in America. Even Jeff Bezos' Amazon can't conquer 1000 different local building codes and construction techniques to build homes. However, the realm of information technology seems to behave differently.

I like to use the decentralized-Git-to-centralized-Github example because:

- programmers are the ubergeeks that would conceivably be the vanguard of decentralization because they are already predisposed to understand its benefits

- programmers (unlike mass consumers) have the technical know-how to implement their own git server if they wanted to and overcome any challenges of ISP NAT router.

And yet, the vast majority just think: "Hmmm... there's a free service that can host my repo which means I don't have to spend _time_ or _money_ to mess with any of that home setup?!? Sign me up!!!"

There is no "evil capitalist monopoly" that forced Git centralization on to resistant programmers. Instead, the programmers willingly put their code on Github because of the benefits. The economic forces overwhelm the ideals of the decentralized protocol.

As mentioned before, a git distributed protocol can't stop an actor from spending more money on that protocol than others. Github Inc spent extra money on Ruby programmers to create extra features such as issues tracking, web landing page, hosting disk space, reliable backups, DDOS protection, etc. Unequal spending by actors makes one node with better features more desirable than other nodes (such as a personal home node) and this starts a feedback loop of centralization.

To restate the claim earlier: decentralized computer information systems that need to share data is an unstable equilibrium because it depends on having free-will actors not spend extra money on a protocol to gain an advantage which is also an unstable equilibrium.

Even if this thread's article's vision of IPv6 improving direct connectivity were to happen, I still claim the overwhelming majority of programmers would continue to choose something like Github rather than host their repositories on personal home servers. Personally, I wouldn't want my repo to be traced back to my home's ip address. I don't want China DDOS'ing my home ISP connection if they don't like my iPhone app that monitors Hong Kong. If I was a female, I wouldn't want my home git repo to give away my ip address and invite digital stalkers. I'd use Github just for the ability to shield my IPv6 address.

If the programmers -- which we can think of as technical thought leaders -- aren't leading by example (with git) for decentralization, why would we realistically expect other mainstream consumers to adopt decentralized setups? Yes, there will always be decentralized communities but it will always remain niche.
Those manufacturers also write into their instructions "DO NOT REMOVE this easily-removed flow-restricting plastic washer, or drill its hole out to a larger size, or your shower head will no longer conform to maximum flow rate regulations (nudge nudge wink wink)."
> E.g. if Git protocol is decentralized, why is there so much concentration on Github?

If cooking is decentralized, why is there so much concentration of food at the mall?
According to a Bloomberg survey of 5,000 model 3 owners, 98% say they would buy it again and the vehicle had surpassed their expectations. 99% percent of respondents said they would recommend the Model 3 to their family or friends.

I live in Puerto Rico where a Tesla doesn't make much sense due to the infrastructure, but these numbers still made my neck hurt with a little bit with FOMO.
A quick web search indicates that in 2016 motorcyclists were 28 times more likely (per mile driven) to die in an accident than those driving a car.
This is a good article on the technical reasons Finda uses electron to make a portable, yet fast & lightweight desktop search app: https://keminglabs.com/blog/building-a-fast-electron-app-wit...
The last time I checked, which was admittedly a long time ago, if you have a net worth of over $100k when you renounce your US citizenship, it is assumed you are doing so for tax evasion purposes and you will be continued to be taxed for the next ten years.
The cadence of the synthesized voices are still noticeably artificial, even for the short demo phrases. This is not to say this isn't impressive. But how much does this method improve when it isn't constrained by a 5-second sample? If we feed it several hours of public speeches from Martin Luther King Jr, or hell, tens of hours of audio from President Obama or Trump – will it have the same artificial cadence, even if the tone and pitch of the imitated voice is accurate?
Does it have to "elucidate specific functions" to be a pheromone?

Or is it sufficient to be a "subconscious smell," signaling or otherwise?
I find that these kinds of tutorials are great at all stages of my experience.

As a beginner, it's helpful to watch someone's thought process as they build something from scratch. I remember not even knowing where to start.

As a more experienced developer, I tend to know how things work independently, but am always interested to see how you might go about stitching them together at a high level.

Here, I liked the concurrent-mode and fiber patterns broken down into their simplest implementation to get the point across.
Cultural Depictions of Cats
Meego was never stable on the N900. Most people who are still using one are running Maemo.
Management wants new features not porting. They will only port when they absolutely have to.
15-20 minutes.
Random startup generator with GPT-2
That's exactly what a scientist would say. Engineers invent things because nobody told them they were impossible.
Dunno if he ever really had a chance. That said, he's got as good a chance as he ever did. Currently polling 2-4%. That said, he just raised $1 million in the last week, and $1.5 million the last week of Q3. He also just started rolling out TV ads in Iowa and New Hampshire for the first time.

If he stands a chance, we'll probably know in the next couple of weeks.
Just an aside, Elon did not start Tesla. He was an early investor and part of his deal with the company was to be able to claim to be a founder.
I would take this deal for 1X my salary. Hell, I'd even take a pay cut for the opportunity.

- Escaping surveillance capitalism, facial recognition, pointless IoT, telemetry

- Assuming I get to work in the same industry, the opportunity to work full-time as a systems programmer on 1979-era tech

- Better weather

- More affordable housing

- Getting to live through the 80s as they happened

Even if the deal is altered so that magically the only difference between 1979 and now is the tech landscape - the first two items are compelling enough on their own.

Do you know anybody with a time machine that can hook me up?
Schools already do it in small ways with older kids mentoring younger kids. The concept of mixing ages is well-known and well-regraded, for the reasons I’m suggesting.

Your objection is out of place considering there’s been no discussion of details; certainly those need to be hammered out. Unfortunately, your comment is baselessly dismissive and unhelpful.
Fair point indeed, but the good news is: we improved on that :) And it won't happen again.
I thought the main cause of the crash was the cargo weight, didn't know it had also damaged the control hydraulics. Wonder if it could have been recovered if they'd had those controls.
Knative governance update from the steering committee
What does, then?

Isn't the "value" of an industry normally taken to be the sum of the market caps of all the companies in the industry?
Meta but since when is using strikethough for links a good idea? Or is it just my browser?
What's the best privacy-respecting way to attach comments to a static site? I've got a 'blog on github.io, but have never set up comments.

I've never enabled analytics either. I just assume I have 100 million readers. (-:
Pandas Got a New Logo
This is just a fun CS project I made for an ML class, but it got me thinking: technology can actually be used to find opportunities in the real world.

If we train an AI on human behavior, shifts in corporate expenditures, emerging technologies, etc., could the "next big thing" be identified with AI? Or are businesses more of an art than a science?
How do you keep your technical knowledge up to date?
What are some resources that you use to keep up with the latest tech trends and keep your skills up to date?

inspired by: https://lobste.rs/s/3e2keo/how_do_you_keep_your_technical_knowledge
My favorite thing about articles about super smellers/tasters/whatever is how whenever they show up, everyone in the comments also has this rare ability.
E-ink is used in the Amazon Kindle's which take quite a bit of abuse and run just about forever on a battery charge. Of course all the usual comparisons between paper and technology still hold.

There was a cartoon on that subject where they re-invented paper as an improvement on the laptop. 'Can be read in full sunlight', 'lasts for 100's of years on a single charge', 'can be burned safely in a pinch' and so on.
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