skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've hired a lot of developers on upwork and my success rate is close to 0, even when paying $50-80/hr

- 6/10 just can't code to the mockup. I think they use a fixed library of components or something and get it as close as possible as quickly as possible, but there would be major visual issues (ie. things would be functionally broken) and I have to go back and forth 5+ times to get it right. At that point it's just a waste of time.

4 others I had some limited success with:

- freelancer 1 could code html/css to spec, but it was very clear that he specialized in "psd to html" work and couldn't handle a more complex vue component. He then ghosted me in the middle of work.

- freelancer 2 was amazingly good, implemented the component without problems, did not require any hand holding and everything looked great the first try. Surprisingly he was also the cheapest of the 10. I expressed that he did a great job and wanted to continue, but a week later he said he had some personal problems to deal with and couldn't continue. I offer more money, to be ghosted again..

- at this point I was tired of looking and just wanted someone experienced, if more expensive. freelancer 3 had a great upwork track record, relevant experience and a good portfolio. He worked on my project for several days before telling me that my api was broken and he was trying to debug it for CORS issues. I was confused because the api only took a few standard POST form variables. After trying to figure out the problem myself, I realized that he didn't know what a post variable was - he assumed all POST requests were json blobs in the form of {postvar:value} and didn't know sending it in a different way was possible. Instead of communicating this to me he assumed it was a CORS issue and spent several days trying to fix it without result.

- I then decided that experience was not a great filter and hired freelancer 4, who seemed smart and curious based on github projects. This person did pretty well overall, but had trouble with English communication. He would frequently come back to me to tell me X was impossible because he had never seen it before, and I would have to tell him that X was indeed possible, then walk them through the implementation step-by-step.

anyways, the search continues..
Humans can and are absorbing some of what the machine has demonstrated.

I think Kasparov has it right when he says that the best player isn't a human or a machine, but a human using a machine as a tool. The machine can help the player optimize and reduce mistakes, but machines don't yet know how to ask questions and explore in the same way. Maybe they never will.
Ah, that's a good point. It would probably require looking deeper into the studies to see how it is controlled for, if at all.
Tweetable Python
Exactly. Nothing has changed at Tesla: their plan has never been to release model after model that cannibalize their business in the the electric-car-driver milieu; they aim to eat the classic demographics, one by one. For this niche, they broke out of their box and embraced a different aesthetic. Striving for that meant there was a lot they couldn't reuse--even the strength of their brand--but it's the most important niche by a longshot. It gets its own box.
Epilog AI’s self-driving retrofit handing stop signs and traffic lights [video]
"Anonymous email forwarding" is probably a bad way to describe this service, since it is likely to make many people think (as it made me think) "isn't this just a more efficient tool for sending spam?".

What this really is is an easy way of setting up email aliases. I think that should be the tag line.
Syscall Call-From Verification
Except Calvinball of course
> I don't think there is much profit in hardware, most companies seem to work on razor thin margins.

Consider that Apple is America's most profitable corporation. They do squeeze people with software restrictions; and it is a core part of their strategy. But the focus of Apple has never been 'our software is rare', it has always been 'faster processor, thinner phone, better screen'. The artificial restrictions on the software aren't at all beneficial to the software or the programmers; they are part of a strategy to make the hardware more valuable. It is a strategic element to help their hardware resist the commodification of smartphones.

If they had inferior hardware then the restricted software strategy would see them crushed under the booted heal of groups like Samsung.
Could have used this list while doing research for my Masters! However, I don't think I was as well-versed in emacs back then either, ha ha.
You can't go short but you can still hedge your exposure by going on short on something very correlated - like Bitcoin futures. I do this manually depending on how much capital I'm trading.

I actually have no idea what my Sharpe ratio is, sorry. With the system constantly changing, data formats changing, exchange balance apis changing, and accurate monitoring already being a challenge in itself, it's very difficult to keep track of exact returns and historical data. I could probably calculate it if I spent several days (weeks?) trying to process all my historical trade data, but that would be a waste of time for me personally.
This article just screams anti-EV. Jalopnik writers have a huge bias towards ICE.

> Cars are a reflection of ourselves, whether we choose to festoon them in explicit messages or not. They can show what we hope for, what we aspire to, not just how large or how modest our bank accounts are. They are how we present ourselves to our fellow human

Ya, not everyone believes that
I've become convinced a lot of what we now consider mental illnesses are actually symptoms caused by unknown pathogens. Inflammation plays a big part in this.
Well, it's a self-replicating bit of code. That's arguably a virus. Granted, it doesn't infect anything else, but it does self-replicate.
In late 2017/early 2018 when their websocket was new I believe you had to be authenticated for either the initial order book query or the websocket subscription. Either way since we always locked our api keys to our IPs it wouldn't have mattered.
I'm definitely not an expert, but from what I've read, there's a lot of irony in the angular look of the F-117a becoming the icon of "futuristic". That plane, first of all was designed in the mid to late 1970s. Second, notice that newer [stealthy] planes don't look the same? What people say is that the facets were purely a necessity to simplify the calculations needed to make it stealthy. People did incredible things when computing power was expensive to solve problems analytically, which became obsolete once you could just apply brute force.

Also, I don't know about the business of making movie props, but it seems plausible to me that when making cars for SF movies, decades ago when budgets were lower, probably involved large sheets of plywood, cardboard, foamcore or whatever, hence big facets would be the most expedient design.

It's weird how arbitrary so many signaling mechanisms are.
I would sum it up as counterintuitively "Because they can't afford not to have kids." Urbanization is certainly a factor in how affordable kids are as in rural contexts they essentially paid for themselves via farm labor.

In the world wide context of rich vs poor in the third world it is often the case that your children are your social security. This may also be culturally enshrined as a literal legal duty for offspring to care for their parents no matter how alienated they were.

It would be technically accurate yet misleading to say Social Security and pensions are anti-family. Ensuring care in old age regardless of savings or offspring ability to provide undermines the obligatory support network role. Of course modern perception of family has evolved in the same sense that marriage is seen more about love instead of an economic transaction.

And that is before any conscious or subconscious k/R strategy. Essentially "elites" are incentivized to get the "best" heirs and dedicate more resources to them. Those struggling and incentivized to reproduce enough to have some survive and be successful.
At the risk of self promotion, I made something very much like this a few months back: https://anvil.works/blog/xkcd-style-apps

It was inspired by the 'xkcd' matplotlib theme, which itself is delightful:
https://matplotlib.org/xkcd/examples/showcase/xkcd.html
But the Palestine example shows that it does not happen with every disputed territory in the world. If you are living in a country that has recognized Palestine and has diplomatic relations the state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_t...) it would make sense that "Palestine" would show up on the map. But it doesn't show up either on Google's, Apple's or Bing's map.
I'd add telnet (not the same as telenet) and ftp.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12808-z

"Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2 m."
Australia probes deeply disturbing allegations of Chinese political interference
Argentina: You may visit Argentina for up to 90 days on a tourist visa by just showing a valid U.S. passport when you arrive. For a residence visa you must have a passport valid for at least six months longer than your arrival date. You may need a physician's report to ensure you are in good health. You may also need a criminal background check, depending on the consulate where you apply. These documents must be translated into Spanish and notarized. Check with the Argentine consulate where you make your visa application for acceptable translators and notaries.

Brazil:
any foreigner looking to work in Brazil must have a work visa or Brazilian residency. In most cases, you should have a job secured before planning to move. The employing company must submit a work permit application to its local Ministry of Labor & Employment – this is the first step to meet the requirements in the work visa application process. After the application is approved, the approval is published in one of the local legal newspapers and sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After this, the Ministry will contact the Consulate or Embassy, which will then start the visa process.

No. Even South American countries don't have any open-door policies.
Also w! for wiki.

The bang commands are super useful.
Healthcare Execs Charged in $1Bn Fraud Scheme
Move on.

Simply if they had their ducks in a row AND they wanted you they'd call you. Either of those could be negative. None of those three combinations require your input.
By "third-party", I presume you mean anything originating from other than the site's domain?

I haven't actually checked the site in question (on mobile, kinda tricky), but isn't this OK as long as a subresource integrity hash is used?
Aside from its designated purpose of producing pretty 3D furniture visualizations, the 2D monochrome exports are pretty neat if you need to mock up architect-style floorplans without a proper CAD tool. Can assure you a few UK Building Regs drawings have been produced using it...
If you like Ubuntu and Gnome services such as the account manager, install Ubuntu Budgie, it will run much faster. Try getting the future LTS release, it will be safer.
This whole article and it’s sentiment is wrong. It’s a good example of a person who is not capable of thinking from first principles or who never watched the reveal. Which describes basically everyone’s reaction to the truck.

What is a truck? A utilitarian vehicle. Does aesthetics add utility to the vehicle? No. Does it cost lots of money to make the car look swoopy? Yes. Does it increase the utility to give the vehicle an exoskeleton rather than a traditional frame? Yes. Should we make the car swoopy instead of making it an exoskeleton? No.

Literally every logical angle points to doing what they did. They maximized utility and minimized cost. Is this a good formula for a regular car? No! Is this a good formula for a utility vehicle? Yes! Are there lots of idiots out there who like to daily drive “utility vehicles” for their commute? Yes!

Doug D reviews the car and said it costs too much. But he only ever compared the upfront cost of the trucks. You save money on fuel and maintenance with an ev, and his omission of that was glaring.

People saying strong glass is bad because first responders. If I want to have strong glass then that’s my right. And living in the sf Bay Area, I don’t just want strong glass I fucking need strong glass. Elon musk shared a video on twitter of the glass resisting a 1kg steel ball being thrown at it. When it broke on stage it was a fluke. And 9mm resistance would also be really nice. Apparently Doug D never visited Oakland.
How is a Ford F150 safer for a pedestrian?
This is awesome - happy to see privacy oriented search become more popular. I think DuckDuckGo needs a better name though - Something more ubiquitous. Duck, maybe? Quack?
> "I could see distance sailboat cruisers packing one away..."

...where the high humidity and salt air of the ocean would corrode the heck out of it. The author mentions that it has air vents.

A Panasonic Toughbook would be a far better choice.
Building a Static Site Generator from Scratch for My Personal Website
I like the way that one sounds. But it looks like it's using a server-side script to generate the audio:

view-source:https://tetyys.com/SAPI4/scripts/tts.js
Maybe they'll sell a golden DVD for millions of dollars à la the Wu Tang clan did with their album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin".
Perhaps the one 'special thing' piece humanness is that we can and tend to automate ourselves. (i.e. we're lazy) :)
Maybe? I don't know.

But, either way, having two completely separate graphics code paths means a much larger maintenance burden than one. Even with hardware to test on, I'd consider it perfectly reasonable to decide to only support one, especially if the odd company out is one with a history of not playing ball with the community.
> Days can be gloomy; there are men and women who are very much alone, and many whom age or infirmity confines to their own company with which they are only too familiar. These men and women, reduced to boredom and gloom, can now fill their sad and useless hours with beauty or passion.

I wonder if he imagined that the very same technology he predicted would comfort us in our loneliness would also come to contribute to our increased alienation from one another.
Re: "all of humanness"

https://xkcd.com/1875/

(If you don't want to click the link, there's a joke there that machines may have a hard time "being to cool to care about stuff.")
This is really neat, and timely -- I was just watching some of those "buying and opening a Titan II missile launch facility in Arkansas" videos on YT. Seems like a useful addition to one's underground lair.
talk to a doctor and, if you are lucky, they find something they can cure. If you are unlucky, they find nothing. If you are really unlucky, you find something like an autoimmune disorder - lots of autoimmune disorders get both some inflammation and 'brain fog' or other cognitive issues.

All the diets folks recommend are not really proven to help with things like autoimmune disorders (even though some folks swear by them). If it were that simple, it would be standard treatment and no one would go through the side effects that some of the medicines for autoimmune disorders have. I don't know how effective the diets and supplements are for other things, but I'd not trust it unless it came from the mouth of a medical doctor I trusted.
> but the overall point is both true and important: climate change is real.

That doesn't excuse bad reporting, which is my point.
#!/bin/sh (long-lived)
This post is an exemplar of the crucial relationship between domain-specific knowledge and ML competency in the ML space. The bulk of the post is detailing the tricky ins and outs of trading, and overall the author gives the impression that they're broadly knowledgeable about stock markets.

Contrast this post with those you see with ML hobbyists who delve into medicine or fake-news and produce useless results testament to their lack of domain-specific competency.
No they don't. You just use the wrong word. Try accelerator.
Possibly walking recaptures energy that a simple wheel mechanism wouldn't? I vaguely think I read something about how humans are fairly efficient at recycling the energy produced as you stride and gravity pulls you down.
Are there any games computers can't beat us at? Last I heard OpenAI destroyed professional Dota players.
Is this true? From what I've read about Alpha Zero/etc, in both Go and chess, it's going interesting move sequences that people hadn't considered viable before. That certainly seems like an interesting thing to learn.

Also, sure, you can dismiss it all as statistics. But how sure are you that what's happening with humans isn't in some form? I'd also say that MCTS is something people kind of do too in games: look a few moves deep and try to judge the value of that position, which is definitely more interesting than simple RL/bookkeeping/stats.
This program is awesome!

You have to make sure your data is accurate, for example wall thickness actually matters if you want an accurate drawing.

Split level designs require careful planning on how to separate the various levels.

It takes a little time to get used to how it "thinks".

Also be sure and install this plugin: http://www.sweethome3d.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,1... it can be rather hard to make accurate drawings otherwise.
I get the idea but technically this is just making HTML more complicated.
> I’m telling you I had psychosis and I cured it.

Except that's not what you've described.

You've found a way to treat the symptoms, but if you stop doing that thing the symptoms return. That's not curing it.

It's interesting nonetheless, and could assist researchers in developing a cure.
> fairly efficient at recycling the energy produced as you stride and gravity pulls you down

Ever walk on dry loose sand at the beach? Plod plod plod.
Doesn't adding an index only take out a brief metadata lock at the start of the operation, and then leave the table safe for queries while the rest of indexing completes?

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-online-ddl-op...
(with the obvious caveat that it's only recharging 10 miles per day)

Well, not that I take this prepper thing particularly seriously, but presumably one of the benefits of the post-apocalypse lifestyle is that you no longer have to commute for a daily 9-to-5.
That looks awful! Especially for the rear doors, which don't have a mechanical opener on one model.

Basic design should mean that familiar methods work in an emergency. People often follow the usual way out of a building, even if there's a closer fire exit.

I just wrote above, but I was trapped in a burning car when I was a kid. The door latch worked, but I had to hold it open and kick the door to unjam it after a collision.

Had it been a Tesla, would I have known about unclipping the speaker grill, or finding a small tag to pull on at night? And been able to kick the door at the same time?
Its a controversial assertion for non-scientific reasons.

Diabetes is the second highest profitable disease for pharma companies, and the only way to control it without their expensive and error prone drugs and treatments is to strictly manage your insulin levels through diet.

Anyone who says, on a scientific basis, that keto is dangerous might as well be lumped in with flat earthers, climate change deniers, and anti-vaxxers.
> That's the rules we set and they are really the right rules

"We" who? That's just your opinion, not some universal rule.

> Developers rarely do only one project. One might not care whether or not someone uses the free Window Manager, but if the negative impression carries on to other and commercial projects there was harm.

Perhaps, but I think we should let developers make the decision for themselves as to how to support (or not support) their own software that they work on for free in their spare time. If providing bad support hurts them in other walks of life, that's still a choice they may decide to make.
‘I Think This Guy Is, Like, Passed Out in His Tesla’
I mean, the issue isn't so much that bugs exist -- like you say, that's par for the course, even among the best developers. It's about a large incidence of severe eat-your-data bugs in such a short span of time (roughly a year) in something that's quote-unquote stable and whose entire purpose is long-term data storage and retrieval.

It's even worse because unlike rsync, which synchronizes filetrees from point A to B and can be immediately confirmed to have either worked correctly or not, borg uses a bespoke storage format that's not easily verified or operated upon by standard utilities. You just have to trust it to pull the correct data out when you need it. That's a heavy burden to put on a tool, and the borg devs seem to be struggling under its weight.

Consider the standards expected of filesystem or database maintainers. borg repos are not really that different -- they're a big, opaque chunks of bytes that you expect to be able to produce specific data on demand with perfect reliability.

These types of systems don't get marked stable when they're still in primordial, eat-your-data development phases, and on the small handful of unfortunate occasions when data loss bugs sneak in, they're a) usually limited to some bizarre corner case; and b) taken extremely seriously, almost to the point of solemnity, and often result in major overhauls to a project's validation and QA routine.

If any stable filesystem or database had 4 widely-applicable database corruption bugs within a year, it'd be lights out for that project. All trust lost, reputation irreparably ruined, angry letters to a variety of mailing lists, permanently-increased scrutiny on any new projects or maintainers among the same class of projects, etc.

All I'm saying is that based on my admittedly-murky prior experience, the project's observed track record, and the high standard of care that must be met to qualify a project for storing authoritative copies of data, I'm personally not comfortable trusting borg with anything important any time soon. No one is obliged to share that evaluation, of course.
That doesn't really fit with the idea that the design choices were based on aggressively keeping prices down though.
Old, but https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Tesla wants to replace traditional windshield wipers with laser beams
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-chrome-android-droppin...

The current minimum API level for Chrome is Android 4.1. According to a recent commit, it will soon be bumped up to Android 4.4. KitKat.

Your app is 4.1, Maybe bump that up to 4.4?
Bangladesh to approve Golden Rice – GM crop to prevent childhood blindness/death
A bit OT, but my brother lives by the sea, literally at the top of a cliff. He's a biker, and has owned 5 motorbikes in 10 years - every single one has ended up badly corroded because of the salty sea air, resulting in hefty bills.

After the first bike, he started putting a cover over them, but it didn't help much.

Any ideas on what might help reduce corrosion? (he doesn't have a garage, and building one isn't an option).
> It would be impossible for nature to evolve such a complex, conscious yet instinct-like feature as "I want to have kids for the sake of kids..

We have such an instinct now. Women (some men too, I guess) in their 30s frequently attest to a feeling that their "biological clock" is ticking and that they feel a yearning to have kids for the sake of having kids. This desire is probably still secondary to the raw sex drive in humanity, but evolution is great at taking secondary drives and turning them up to 11.

Keep in mind also that evolution isn't necessarily genetic. Humanity's unique advantage is culture. We can change our "software" much faster than we can change our genetic "hardware". Some culture groups, e.g., the Mormons and the Amish, already have fertility rates very much above average. As long as fertility is heritable, it doesn't really matter whether the mechanism is genetics or culture: the future belongs to the people who reproduce.