skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This going open source is just wonderful, but I have a feeling this is going to significantly decrease lower the company's revenue and ultimately hurt the product.

So here's my question: how do we avoid that? Outside of freelancers who control their finances directly, most developers probably won't be able to convince their company's money people to pay for something they can get for free. Paying a relatively low annual license can usually be justified for the sake of efficiency, but "donate to the devs to keep the project going" is a much tougher sell.

My only idea is selling a "subscription" to signed binary builds under a non-free license, but I'm not sure that would work very well either...
These comments made me wonder why the democratic principle is never used in corporations. Is it a flawed principle?
Challenges of (Almost Accidentally) Building a Native GraphQL Database
The article mentions they are about to release their third book (last paragraph).
Congrats.

Did the cost of electric energy go up?

Did various levels of government borrow even more money which they do not intend to pay back, and which will destroy millions of retirees and savers a few years down the road?
I built this just for fun, but then thought that this could help others, too.

I built the app using java in just 2 nights.

I know that there are lots of features missing, but for now it is working and I think it's enough for MVP.
Thats a good
Can YOU post links to the articles so we can learn?

Thanks!
not with the web client :(
With actual rent, most of what you're charging for is the location, not the building. That's why rents for flats in London or San Fransisco are astronomical, but those for much larger and nicer houses in Chelmsford or Fresno are a fraction as much. The rentier did nothing to create the value of the location, they just bought a slice of it.

It's not immediately clear that there is an analogue of location for SaaS.

Which is why ytur point about lock-in is interesting. It's not so much that lock-in is part of rent-seeking, so much as that lock-in creates the analogue of "location" needed for rent-seeking (maybe?). Once people are stuck in AWS, Amazon can charge higher prices for shittier services, because people have a reason to be there over and above value for money.
This describes my Makefiles - they all run some other Bash or Python script.
> We're moving from a world where a buyer and vendor agreeing means something will happen to a world where buyer, vendor, bank and government all have to agree before something will happen.

No, we were never in that world. The only truly bilateral agreement is a gentlemen's agreement.

Trust usually relies on certain facts being public, and visible to a whole lot of people besides the transacting parties. "Who owns what" is a pretty important set of facts to agree on publicly.
Paul Bloom: Why Empathy Is Not the Best Way to Care

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVCwjjT_CVY
I think that you're on to something. If they're confusing empathy for virtue signaling, the results are going to seem counterintuitive.
I recently escaped a situation sort of like the one you describe.

5 desk smallish office, we had one coworker who already has a very high natural voice volume and tone, who could not be stopped from having all sorts of personal calls while at the desk.

Boss would do nothing (but was closing his office door not to hear him) since he was a pathological submissive introvert.

We asked politely to at least leave the room. We asked not so politely. We had the office manager come and talk to him, the quiet would last two or three days and then it will all start again.

Calling his spouse, calling his kids and doing homework with them at the phone, calling his parents, mechanic, house renovator and whatnot.

We started counting and averaged around 7 calls a day, which we could not avoid to hear.

In 2018 the total was around 1800 calls.
It's a joke for you but a laptop with a good mech keyboard is exactly what I want.

I plug a mechanical keyboard into my laptop all the time, because it's easier on my fingers. A thicker laptop that I can type on is better for me than carrying around a separate mech and putting the laptop on a nearby flat surface instead of my lap.
For context, that seems to make coal ash about as radioactive as granite based on these figures for the latter: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S168785071...
Well pointed out, Mister Gotcha.
It's not the next best thing, it's the better thing. Reduce, reuse, recycle.
> These comments made me wonder why the democratic principle is never used in corporations

It is used in some corporations.

Labor coops are usually corporations. So are labor unions. So are consumer coops, which also apply the democratic principle with a different constituency.
Go uses IEEE-754. The behaviour of these may be odd for those new to the quirks of the float, but I thought the behaviour is nowadays standardized and reproducable across platforms.
What Is a Tech Lead Anyway?
If "property is theft" is too harsh, how about "property is theft until proven otherwise"?

Whether you agree with it or not, money laundering laws usually go in this direction.
> Only a tiny percentage of laptops are ever upgraded.

What about batteries, they're basically consumables.

I still remember a friend of mine breaking a single usb port on his macbook, he had to change half the components, the bill was something like $1.5k for a $2k macbook.
Here's another fun (similar) set of comics by Anaxi: https://www.instagram.com/anaxihq/
Acquire Raises $5.4M Seed to Transform the Rules of Customer Engagement
They are different words. You don't TL;DR a book. You'd do a Summary (or Cliff notes) of it.

I'd also argue it's new and internet based.

Scientist have 'Abstract' because they need it.

The general public simply did not publish pre-internet. Now they do. So needed a new word.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl%3Bdr
Kaggle Winning Solutions
You throw away (recycle) the old battery and recycle or repurpose the SSD and replace it.

If they're soldered you need to replace everything. How is that not worse?
Basically a throw-away computer.
Maybe wrong interpretation of lake ice.

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is often the victim of mapping oversights.
Still fails the Malta to Minturn benchmark over Tennesse Pass along US HWY 24 in Colorado. Needs to have Mitchell, Pando, Red Cliff, Gilman visible at the same time at the right places also. Does not. Busted. Go home.
From the article: "we can't help but feel that Apple can do better—especially after seeing Microsoft perform some real engineering magic to make its latest laptops more repairable"

Which leads to this link: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+3+(...
They just slap Pro on whatever version is more expensive.
Repairs are going to be expensive if you need to get a new motherboard to replace a single component.
Cost/profit center is such a bogus concept. I can’t believe almost all big companies use it.
Yeah, it's a dark user pattern, but there's a long way to go for them to match the tactics of Comcast or Verizon. I would call it unfair to characterize NYT subscriptions with Cable-TV-like tactics.

Do they offer intractably complex subscriptions meant to deceive you into buy more than what you need ? No.

Do they prey on old people and talk them into services they neither use nor understand? No.

Do they call you on a regular basis to nag you about an upgrade to your subscription? No.

Do they send you mail 1-2 times a month with one of those stupid credit-card-sized cardboard ads with a deal on them? No.

Do they automatically jack-up your bill as soon as intro is over? Yes. That's about as close as they get to cable TV. It's not good, but it's not evil either. You can, AFAIK, extend a discount indefinitely by calling them up and asking for it.
It uses exact rational arithmetic for values that it can represent that way, preferring correctness to efficiency. Scheme and some other languages do the same thing.

Using imprecise but efficient-to-calculate-with-numbers for exact literals by default is probably the most pervasive premature optimization in all of computing.
As a Swedish expat, I would like to state that history around abortion is more complicated than “allowed since 1938”. Here is the first paragraph from Wikipedia from the article on abortion in Sweden [1] and it summarises things very well:

“Abortion in Sweden was first legislated by the Abortion Act of 1938. This stated that an abortion could be legally performed in Sweden upon medical, humanitarian, or eugenical grounds. That is, if the pregnancy constituted a serious threat to the woman’s life, if she had been impregnated by rape, or if there was a considerable chance that any serious condition might be inherited by her child, she could request an abortion. The law was later augmented in 1946 to include socio-medical grounds and again in 1963 to include the risk of serious fetal damage. A committee investigated whether these conditions were met in each individual case and, as a result of this prolonged process, abortion was often not granted until the middle of the second trimester. As such, a new law was created in 1974, stating that the choice of an abortion is entirely up to the woman until the end of the eighteenth week.”

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Sweden

Thus “free” abortion was not introduced in Sweden until 1974 and at least as late as the 60s proponents of more liberal legislation organised trips to Poland where the laws were less restrictive [2] (the best reference I could find in English, here is a more opinionated one in Swedish [3]). The great irony of course is that today Polish women may seek to make the trip in reverse given the recent political changes in Poland.

[2]: https://www.thelocal.se/20180524/the-history-of-legal-aborti...

[3]: https://www.rfsu.se/vad-vi-gor/i-sverige/fragor-vi-jobbar-me...
> the planet is burning

> yeah, but what about money

That's a good summary of the situation.
Id read TL;DR it is I am a lazy F*^^ker
ONNX is a turd in is present state as well. Too many unsupported ops and you can't really run ONNX on e.g. a phone or really anywhere. You could theoretically convert it into something that does run where you need it to run, but then you have to deal with the converter's supported ops as well, and design your net around the intersection of the two sets of ops and their parameters. If you're doing anything more complicated than basic classifiers, you're going to run into issues.

That said, I think in a few years with enough elbow grease ONNX could become pretty exciting.

As to what people should use for research: just use PyTorch. I switched to it when it first came out, and never looked back, _except_ when I need my stuff to run on e.g. a phone or something, which is something PyTorch won't help you with.
Maybe they should include one with every butterfly keyboard purchase.
What you own can never be an entirely private matter. It's fundamentally about your relation to everyone else in the world, things you are allowed to do that they aren't.
Does this work in Safari for anyone? I've tried on iMac, iPhone and iPad.

Only Firefox/MacOS works for me.
> You also need to monitor the PM2.5 levels to ensure your air purifier is working.

But if you don't have an air purifier, and you're concerned about air quality, surely you want to get one before you start worrying about whether or not it's working?

Or both at the same time, sure, my only point is that if there's already concern I don't see the point in monitoring before or without mitigating.
It's the job of the organisation to tackle this via policy - I've worked at companies where the policy is that if a conversation is anything more than a few exchanges, it should be taken to a meeting room, and everyone is required by policy to point out to others if they've forgotten the policy and strayed into a long open conversation by mistake. It worked well. Same company had a rule about holding onto the handrail when using stairs, and not walking with drinks that don't have a lid on. And everyone is expected to point that out when others do it too. When everyone buys in it works well, and people thank you when you do point out that they aren't following policy. I'm normally pretty juvenile and rebellious to rules like this, but when it's done sensibly and sensitively - and when the benefits of following the rules are obvious - even I will conform without complaint.
Here is my funny side as Developer trying to access CommitStrip...it's slower then the 1st site I accessed in beginning of 90's using dial-up connection. Funny, eh?
> that alternatives are somehow better

Microsoft just released Surface X with a door on the back for replacing the drive. The device is 0.28 inches thick.

Thinkpad X1 Carbon and Dell XPS both have replaceable drives. From opening the case. If anything I'm struggling to find another laptop maker who solders the drives to the boards like Apple does...

Drive failure isn't a possibility, it's a certainty and soldering them to the board creates a hard deadline when the laptop turns from a computer to a brick.
What America Lost When It Lost the Bison
>What is a virtual sim card(eSIM)?

>A virtual SIM card is a cloud-based number

Wait, what?
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/07/surface-pro-x-ifixit-tea... (Surface Pro X teardown reveals one of the most repairable tablets ever)

If Microsoft can do it, Apple could do it too and even improve upon it.

Also I can't see why the original comment is about "hating on Apple". All I see is legitimate criticism about some issues with Apple products, that apparently many other people have too. Your comment on the other side is very emotional and full of snide remarks.
Inerview with CPO of Resume.io, doing something cool or doing something unique?
Bugfinding
True but i’ll argue a bit. They statistically maximize reward. As far as i’m aware, the engineer is still designing the reward function. She’s also designing the statistical method to converge to the optimal solution (as quickly as possible).

So a RL chess algorithm tells your statistically a move (action) from a state S to a new state S’ such that you are expected to maximize your reward. Whereas a chessmaster (probably) designs his next sequence of moves based on logic (my opponent will respond in such a way because etc). This is different from « statistically, this move right now has the best odds of leading to a win » a la monte carlo. Now what is surprising, is that statistical algos are better than our best logicians at this particular task. But its the action at a given state is still statistically designed.

Finally, you need your data mining to be representative of the underlying distribution you are trying to model. So you need your simulator to be the most real whereas they are in fact approximations in most useful cases (landing a plane for instance).

So for instance if you want an algo to design the flight path of a rocket landing on an asteriod, you could recreate a simulator modeling spacetime from observations and model its dynamics from eintein’s equations, but then what’s the RL for, why not just use an off the shelf optimization algorithm like we have for decades? [1]

The bellman equation and DQNs are nice and all, but they’re still statistical algorithms, producing - in my mind - statistical intelligence about a particular system. An RL agent will not tell you WHY such an action was taken, but it’ll tell you that statistically, it is the action to take.

Very neat results in RL however.

[1] i worked on a RL based agent to control trafic lights, and it wasnt clear whether our solution was better than a classical optimization one. Actually, classical optimization (minimizing an analytical model of the system) seemed to scale much better to larger meshes.
Possibly hugged to death. Try it again tomorrow.
Flink Community Packages: A Website for the Ecosystem Surrounding Apache Flink
Summary: The new formula, which applies to dogs older than one, says that a canine’s human age roughly equals 16 ln(dog age) + 31. (That’s the natural logarithm of the dog’s real age, multiplied by 16, with 31 added to the total.)
No, but the post above was about skeletal tracking, not the OP content.
> It probably allows them to make it smaller / thinner

Surface X is 0.28 inches thick and has a door on the back for accessing the SSD. Apple could do better.
3D plasmoid-mediated reconnection and toroidal guide field in simulations of CHI
>I always thought that TL;DR was a flippant statement that the post you have made was too long

Yeah it used to be that, years ago, but like everything getting popular, most of the time the initial meaning evolves or gets lost
Olympic committee's deal with Airbnb angers Paris authorities
Rancher K3s v1.0 Released
About arbitrary taxation, I understand that's how they handled it in ancient Athens. Some nobody would say something like "It's been a while since we taxed the Alcmaenids, I propose they pay for the next Panathanea festival".

Since that state was radically democratic, it may not have had the corrupting influence on the taxers as Smith suggests... but maybe it was a factor in the aristocrats allying with their rival Sparta to topple their own constitution.
Adaptive tracking of enzymatic reactions with quantum light
Talent May Be Shifting Away from Superstar Cities
Problem with Julia is that approximately nobody wants to learn yet another language just to do pretty much the same things that Python can do with the help of e.g. PyTorch or NumPy. Us programmers often overestimate the level of enthusiasm non-programmers have for learning programming languages. Heck, I'm kind of also running out of enthusiasm in this area myself.
If Java becomes increasingly unattractive, what are you eying as replacement? I won't defend Java/Swing, but at least it does HiDPI (in contrast to eg. JavaFX and RCP last I checked, even though printing is broken w/ HiDPI as you said). There aren't that many alternatives for cross-platform desktop apps (qtk comes to mind, but it's a rather big departure from Java I guess).
Space Alien Research Could Get Its First Grad Program
I thought this guy was the Tech Lead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JXhdlAJGe4
I seriously did not understand how there could be no input lag, and even though I was asking people who both tried and watched it they all said that it was not noticeable. I had a hard time believing it, and still can't...

Stadia should, theoretically, be like playing an online multiplayer game with no lag compensation. Your inputs are received and processed, and the output is sent back at the network delay; this is going to be at best three to four frames late (60 ms on a good day, with 16 ms per frame at 60 FPS). Unless you run multiple instances of the game at the background and do input prediction at different modes (much like CPU branch prediction, I suppose), you will encounter this significant lag. Even with prediction, the experience just cannot be smooth.
No consequences. You can terminate it anytime you want, they can't until the end of the contract.

It's probably better to be upfront about your story.
Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form
Substrate-directed MoS2 nanocrystal synthesis w tunable dimensionality andoptics
Teaching memes?

This channel ?
https://t.me/libmustdie
C++Now 2018: Eberhard Gräther “The Untapped Potential of Software Visualization”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIFVYFspfc
Cold climate, surely? Mold as a result of internal condensation?
I can't see how this lag couldn't exist with the network, processing and encoding overhead. How did they get that far through product development and still assume it was viable?
Mid to slow. I don't do technology of any sort while running. That's the point. It's the chance to disconnect. I don't run for my body. I run for my mind.
Why aren’t Americans rising up like the people of Chile and Lebanon?
My pet hate is technical videos in nasally valley-speak: excessive vocal fry, dramatic pauses, and glottal stops. I literally cannot listen to them and have to go to other sources.
Tesla’s business strategy is not chaotic – it’s brilliant
You can't get there from here I say thrust people into a trial by fire and convince them to choose another profession until only the hardcore remain but who's hardcore anymore in this world of where's waldos and salty emoticons
Corporations are democracies .. of the shareholders.
> How many (in percentage terms) of laptops will ever need repairs, how many of those will actually be repaired (as opposed to consumers just deciding to buy something new, even if repair would be relatively easy and cheap)

Whether end-users try to repair their laptops depends in part on their expectations; and their expectations depend a lot on how repair-able laptops are in general. My second-to-last laptop, a Dell, lasted me nearly a decade. I upgraded the hard disk, upgraded the memory, and replaced the inverter in the display twice. I mainly replaced it because it was about 4x the weight of newer laptops, and had started eating batteries. There's no reason more laptops couldn't last as long.
I think they meant disassembling the actual persons. >.>
It looked to me he was playing from inside a corporate network. There could be a lot more in play that stadia can not control. At the end it says mobile is fine. My guess is that phone is on their guest network without all their security software poking and prodding the packets.
Eurogamer also did a tech review, and actually did find it laggy: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-stadi...

Also, they found that to get the best performance from it, it sucked down in the region of 20gb per hour of data. Which is a lot for countries with capped internet allowances.
Plenty of people on the darkweb allow for flushing of bank transfers to untraceable crypto currencies. Typical scenario: use an unknown (homeless, hacked account whatever) person to register bank account, send money to bank account, withdraw in cash or use digital service to convert to cryptocurrency. Money is gone and owner of bank account might not even know and can probably not be held responsible. The reason the hacker got caught was because he made invalid SWIFT transactions to accounts in Mexico and someone found out the reported errors and checked other transactions.
It's not hugged to death, that's the problem. It works, it just takes 5 minutes to load anything I click on. So I click there, and open 20 other tabs meanwhile then go read one comic there, click for next and do 20 more on others so on and so forth
List of talks, blog posts, and interviews about open source maintainers
"...they get paid per recorded hour."

And, as members of the actor's union, they are paid scale. (edit: and royalties.)

I'm struck by the irony that voice actors (who work for a day or two on a video game) are paid royalties for years, while developers (who work crazy overtime for years on a video game) are paid a straight salary, then laid off after it ships as a "cost savings" measure.

So "your throat hurts" after a few days' work? I'm finding it difficult to muster sympathy.
The stream I saw said there was barely any noticeable lag. Not discounting this experience, but I suspect the specific corporate network might play a significant role here.
“Fanboy rhetoric”? How does this add to the conversation?

Anecdotally (which is all your point boils down to) I know that businesses rarely upgrade machines. Home users rarely do either. Gamers and enthusiasts are the people that tend repair or upgrade. These people are a vanishingly small number. I have no problem with Apple, or anyone else, replacing broken or damaged items with new/refurbished ones, so long as they are responsible with the disposal or reuse of the damaged article. Apple demonstrably are.

Apple offer free recycling[0] and it’s available in most countries, if not all. It is reasonably well publicised and easily searchable. If an individual chooses to dispose of a device in an inappropriate way, that’s on them, not the manufacturer of the device.

[0] https://www.apple.com/uk/recycling/nationalservices/