skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no real industry wide vendor lock-in when it comes to formats in 3D

Mmm, Blender had a lot of problems having to reverse FBX from autodesk, which AFAIK is or was a de-facto standard. About open standards, I kinda hate xml, so I didn't like Collada much. I'm looking forward for knowing more about glTF[1]. Thankfully Blender 2.8 had the official add-on from the beginning.
While the vast majority of academic labs aren’t producing finished products like drugs, it’s not uncommon for researchers to obtain patents on certain promising leads.

Most universities have a “tech transfer” office that helps with this (the university usually gets a share) and tries to find licensees.
You could put a CDN in front of the static content (the videos are likely 99% of YouTube's bandwidth), and you could use Heroku for serving the few kilobytes of HTML.
But you have to wait for that society to forget that living on a starship means spending your whole life never venturing out, while a planet lets you spend your life exploring.
I did it by hand as an exercise to learn css grid and css animations
It's not the size but the way they operate:

* plan is to forego profits to gain market share, negative earnings

* free cash flow is negative

* lots of debt.

Dropbox -40%, Uber -28%, Pinterest -23% since the IPO.
1. Probably

2. Trump wins by smaller margin (losing Michigan or Florida)

3. What will the recession be caused by?

4. Maybe younger voters vote against Social Security for this reason [insert doubt]

5. Unless Bernie is elected don't expect any infrastructure spending

6. Huh

7. Don't get your hopes up

8. Maybe

9. There's no breaking point. Their Hell has no bottom.

10. Both Bernie & Trump are against TPP. Would require moderate to get it.

11. Only Americans/Brits are good at spreading movie culture, that'll be true for a long time to come.
Actually a lot of them do very bad things with their money that are very harmful to society, whether it's Bill Gates fraternizing with a convicted child sex trafficker, Peter Thiel platforming for racist demagogue Trump, Vinod Khosla spending unlimited amounts of money to carve out private access to beaches, or running for president and sinking a record setting amount of money on his campaign like Michael Bloomberg is doing. None of these clowns deserve to be billionaires and nothing bad will happen to them or us if a small chunk of their money is used to pay for things like single payer healthcare.

But my point is that no tiny handful of people should be allowed to have that kind of power, whether they're evil or not.
Doesn’t solve the issue with calling an api that doesn’t return a promise, but the tslint rule “no-floating-promises” flags missing awaits which is quite useful. Also useful is flagging awaits that don’t return a promise, which can be done with the tslint rule “await-promise”.
It's not individual lifespans that are the issue, it's the lifespan of your equipment. If your rocket breaks down in the interstellar void, you have no resources with which to fix it.

And then you need to be able to bootstrap the entire industrial base to build a new rocket at your destination without any help whatsoever aside from what you brought with you. Given the history of interoceanic colonization efforts on Earth, this suggests that the difficulty ranges from "insane" to "impossible."
Many YouTube channels promoting adult content disguised as Kids drawing videos
Keep in mind that cookie banners are an implementation choice of the website.
Scholar found influence of Babbage's computing machines on Marx
AI system outperforms experts in spotting breast cancer
I like your explanations of "right to hide something". Thank you.

Here in germany the "nothing to hide" argument is mostly used by the spokespeople of the ministry of state security with an implication of crime as defined by the law as written. But let's not focus on the finer points of morality. More important: even if we go from "right to hide some thing evil" to "right to hide some thing" we are not even close to privacy. Because privacy is not about hiding some information about oneself, it is about the right to have some level control about personal information.

A level at which almost everyone suddenly understands privacy is sexuality: no matter if you want to keep your sexuality hidden or not, no matter if you publish on pornhub or not, privacy is the right to not be filmed in your bedroom without your consent. Privacy is not about hiding.
The ios app for home assistant works just fine.
> You may probably want to know why Windows 10 feels so buggy

I'm not sure why all the hate -- I have had zero stability issues, it boots amazingly fast, and if you get rid of all the default crap on the start menu it looks ok and search finally works like a charm.

> In certain cases it's extremely difficult to find or update drivers for your hardware devices (

Except that it's more difficult everywhere else - if you can even find a driver...
Magnetic sensor for garage door is also still my main use case for home automation (after going to work and leaving it open for the third time). Also added a relay to allow opening/closing remotely, which has been useful a couple of times.
Like it or not (I do...) terraform is the de-facto industry standard, and pretty much the only mature cloud resources management tool I'm aware of.

It is unwise IMHO to use CloudFormation currently unless you're provisioning resources so obscure they didn't yet make it to tf aws provider.

BTW your Dockerfile pretty much boils down to:

FROM alpine:3.10

RUN apk add --no-cache \
python3

RUN pip3 install awscli

COPY config /root/.aws/
COPY credentials /root/.aws/
> Killer explanation from the first part of the paper:

> "This framework is pretty powerful, and it allows to reformulate a bunch of different problems in machine learning and optimization as similar games.

Agreed. I am economist doing DS and the framing used in the paper makes online learning much more intuitive for me.
I’m not familiar with Godot, but word on the street is that its 2D pipeline is nicer than Unity3D’s. Unity3D does 2D, but focuses on 3D. I’m using Unreal right now and I expect it is 100x heavier than you are looking for. It’s one of the top 5 largest public C++ codebases in the world.
> didn't expect folks to literally mimic everything that was shown in the docs

Isn't that the point of documentation? To give you a reasonable, suggested way of incorporating a library into an existing project? This is almost saying, "the docs were wrong and everyone learned the wrong thing". I don't think you can blame package users for that. People reference documentation to know what to do, and also what to avoid, when using a new library.
For the English speaking audience: All the videos with `Hindi` thumbnail have some very disturbing audio (taboo adult stories)
If the only asset the Squanders have is land (which they already own) and the only thing the Squanders and Thrifts can produce is food (which the Squanders are getting from the Thrifts in exchange for Squanderbonds), then why would the Squanders give Squanderbucks to the Thrifts to buy Squanderbonds?

Better for the Squanders to let the Thrifts exhaust their soil from overfarming, while the Squander soil regenerates. Then, when the Thrifts realize they face starvation, the Squanders can hire them as indentured servants to farm Squander Island land. The Squanders can keep the Thrifts on a near-starvation diet so that Squander soil isn't exhausted until Thrift soil regenerates.

While the Thrifts are toiling on Squander soil and serving the Squanders hand and foot, the Squanders can annex Thrift Island and ensure total ownership of all productive land forever.

The Thrifts could avoid this fate, of course, by eating their Squanderbonds.

As the old proverb says, if you owe the bank $1000, it's your problem. If you owe the bank $10,000,000, it's the bank's problem.
That’s one interesting thought. Most coal miners I’ve met didn’t want to pursue a programming career, but could have if they’d wanted to thanks to our very generous federal student loan policies. Much more likely is that those with aptitude go into chemical or petroleum engineering. Not many apples or googles in Appalachia. They aren’t exactly awash in those new service sector jobs we keep hearing about.
Isn't gcp going away in two years? Or at least speculated to given the leak about winding it down if they can't beat AWS and Azure for market share?
There is some point to that. We are perfectly adapted to our planet because it formed us. Colonists on another planet may not find the same perfect conditions and it's likely that even to get a partial match (say Mars like conditions) they'd have to be many, many light years away from each other, with little outside support. And they'd need to adapt to colony ship life first, then to life on another planet.

They'd more or less evolve completely independently and it's conceivable that having these limitations will mean they never reach the same potential as the original humans did on Earth.

Usually the comparison with colonists of the past pops up. But they had the distinct advantage of being perfectly adapted to the planet and many civilizations still perished. Seeding another planet with humans raises a lot the bar for successfully developing a thriving civilization capable of reaching the levels required to further spawn successful colonies.

And a philosophical thought: would they even still be humans after (tens of) millennia away from the home of humanity, in vastly different conditions from the ones that evolved us? Would they be "our" thousands of colonies?
Yeah, we'll have to disagree here.

We officially recommend consistently using action creators [0], and I talked about the reasons to use them in a blog post [1].

Switch statements and lookups are almost completely equivalent (except for fall-through and default case handling) [2], and "performance" is irrelevant here. In this case, use of `createSlice` means that writing the lookup table object generates the resulting action types and action creators for free, which drastically reduces the amount of code you have to write.

I am strongly against defining async logic inside of `mapDispatch`. It's similar to writing thunks in the first place (an arbitrary function that has access to `dispatch`), but it's less testable, not reusable, _and_ doesn't have access to `getState`. In fact, you should be using the "object shorthand" form of `mapDispatch` [3] to pass action creators into connected components, like `const mapDispatch = {addTodo, toggleTodo}`.

The advice to put async logic in `mapDispatch` also does not help if you're using our new React-Redux hooks API [4], where you just have `const dispatch = useDispatch()`.

The Redux Toolkit API is specifically designed to remove as much as possible of that incidental complexity from your Redux code, and move it _away_ from being that "Enterprise Java" feel.

[0] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-action-crea...

[1] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2016/10/idiomatic-redux-wh...

[2] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-ta...

[3] https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#use-the-object-...

[4] https://react-redux.js.org/api/hooks
Do you have any insights on how someone who is used to the text-only world of Bash transition to using Powershell cmdlets?

The problem I run into is that it just feels like so much typing to me. I have to read documentation. All the attributes HaveReallyLongNamesThatContainCapitalLetters. By the time I've made my beta version of the command I want to run, I feel like I need to open a text editor to finish it. Maybe add some error checking. Some comments too. Maybe a unit test or three. And now I have an entire project and all I wanted to do was add a line of text to the end of a file.

Part of the problem on my part is my own ignorance of the APIs and what commands are available to me. But it all seems too verbose to use practically. The Powershell language seems very good for what you would write a shell script to do, but for interactive commands, I have a hard time believing that people use it. It's just so verbose.
A cheap device would deliver lower performance, but that doesn't explain the poor OS design issues. I used to be quite a fan of Android, but even as performance has improved other things have gotten worse. I don't like the Apple ecosystem either so perhaps I will be a customer for the Pine phone as my app needs are quite limited.
Weasel Words and Weasel Stats
You've probably heard of "weasel words." I want to call the following a "weasel statistic" (from State Farm mailer):

"[we] can help with an average of $507 in savings"

(fine print: "1. Average annual per household savings based on a 2018 national survey by State Farm of new policyholders who reported savings by switching heir auto insurance to State Farm")
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He supports healthcare for everyone, that's literally the goal[1]. He just has a different approach to get there. And some argue it's a more realistic approach than Medicare for All, which (at this point) doesn't seem terribly likely to get widespread support and pass.

1. https://www.yang2020.com/policies/medicare-for-all/
Just an aside, neither the logo nor the name make me think of "spee." Definitely going to check this out though, thanks!
I too am liking RxJS more and more, especially for simple state. I gave up on learning React a few years ago because Redux was just too bonkers.
I'm quite terrible at assembly, but it looks like both got inlined and compiled to a memset:

leaq 8(%rsp), %rdi
movl $1024, %edx
movl $255, %esi
callq *memset@GOTPCREL(%rip)

for the 0xFF fill and

leaq 8(%rsp), %rdi
movl $1024, %edx
movl $238, %esi
callq *memset@GOTPCREL(%rip)

for the 0xEE fill.

However it turns out the original also compiles to that, because the inlining means the fixed size array is visible to the optimiser.
I've never worked with Unreal, but Godot is significantly more light-weight than Unity. Can definitely recommend!
I've been burned by observables in a large scale knockout project too. Definitely left my weary of observables for UI development in general.
The A-10 cannot fulfill its primary role (CAS) in most modern environments nor can it be upgraded to do so, which raises the question of what it is actually useful for. This is primarily due to lack of space in the airframe to dramatically expand the onboard electrical and power generation systems, which are needed to power modern defensive capabilities. In the last half century since it was designed, most of its passive survivability has also been obsoleted by more modern air defense systems specifically engineered to reliably kill planes like the A-10. Lack of effective active and passive defensive capabilities greatly limit what you can do with it if you care about pilot safety.

It has become so limited in the CAS role due to poor survivability that we can't deploy it for most CAS missions. And for the environments where it can survive, the US has many other platforms that will work for CAS in the absence of effective air defense. The A-10 was designed for a very different battlefield that increasingly no longer exists.
It still expects technology that we do not know is possible to build.
Yup, I came here to question that as well.

What are some examples of companies that hinged on machine learning?

DATA is crucial, but that's very different than "sophistiated machine learning models". For example, do Uber and Lyft need machine learning?

As far as I can tell, they need data about drivers, users, ride completion, maps, and a lot of people doing simple statistics on that data and improving the product. Machine learning might give them a few percentage points in some specific subsystem, but it isn't going to make or break the product as a whole. It's not "table stakes".

Pick another industry and do the same thought experiment. What are some other breakout companies? Did snapchat succeed (in its day) because of machine learning? What about AirBNB? I think they are optimizing the product with "data science", not machine learning. Certainly not deep learning.

Machine learning finally came of age in the 2010s and is now table stakes for every tech company, large and small. Accumulating a data asset around your product and service and using sophisticated machine learning models to personalize and improve your product is not a nice to have.
You're wrong. Machine Learning is driving all of the ad placement on major ad platforms, personalization on all top social/media apps, search ranking for google, translation, speech recognition, finance, fraud detection.

In the next decade it will start taking over computer graphics, medicine, manufacturing, surveillance, hardware / software and every other aspect of our lives.

EDIT: for people who are downvoting me, here are some examples of how machine learning is and will transform our lives:

1. 3D graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlgLxSLsYWQ Andrew Price doesn't have a technical background but does a decent job summarizing some of the ways deep learning will transform computer graphics. Soon all of the mocap, character design and animation will be driven by deep learning systems.

2. Computer Architecture and Traditional Software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTpKWOuzOxc There's a ton of recent research showing that you can use machine learning to beat human crafted heuristics in hardware, scheduling, compiler design and query planning.
I like to have themes installed & windows update (which 99% of people will not be able to figure out how to fully stop) always breaks my computer requiring me to roll back to the previous update until I get another update notification which force-ably breaks my computer again. I now use Sledgehammer 2.6.0 to absolutely crush windows' update attempts every time I boot up. Microsoft deserves hate for not giving users simple permissions over their own systems.
If I recall correctly, the bet was accepted.

EDIT: Ah, I found documentation:

"Michael de la Maza, a Boston-based investor and TechStars mentor, has taken my recent bet on valuations."

https://twitter.com/sama/status/582292425449730049
> 2. Secure server software ($5000). This does not seem to be an absolute necessity; there are a lot of sites on the web where you can send your credit card number unencrypted, and to date there have been no reports of the numbers being stolen. But catalog companies may believe that a secure link is necessary, and spending this $5000 would give Webgen a much more professional look.

For those who were not around then yes you had to buy at the time for roughly that amount software to do SSL it was not like just installing openssl as is done now.

This part I found interesting in it's naivete even back then for one thing 'no reports of' does not equate to 'not happening': [1]

> and to date there have been no reports of the numbers being stolen.

> But catalog companies may believe that a secure link is necessary

This sounds even more like 'younger person willing to take chances older experienced person to risk adverse'.

[1] Even today I can say 'no reports of houses in my neighborhood being broken into' but I don't really have an accurate source for things going on in my area only ad hoc.
We've just switched to Godot from Unity 2 months ago (we're doing VR), and I will never go back.
The USA spends more per student on public education than any OECD country besides Norway. It’s probably not a funding problem.
Yeah, I know. I'm not blaming Dan here, specifically, just repeating what he's said several times himself.

That's why we're doing the docs rewrite. The target audiences have changed since 2015 (new devs learning Redux in a bootcamp vs folks coming from other Flux libraries), we've got a better understanding of how Redux should be used, and we want to set folks on a better path from the beginning.
Biden’s comment was really quite a foolish thing to say, but he really didn’t have much to do with education spending in coal mining areas of the country. According to [1], federal funding for high schools represents around 7 or 8 percent of the total. Historically, the Federal government doesn’t fund elementary, middle, or high school education; that responsibility falls on the local and state governments.

Furthermore, funding doesn’t seem to be the problem with US schools, see [2].

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cma.asp

[2] https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm
> I feel like, working in tech, we know better than anyone else how incomplete or unreliable these systems can be, so why introduce it to your home?

I think there is an S-curve argument in here somewhere. There was a time where putting in an electric stove was just asking for trouble because of the reliability, but there were early adopters who were excited about the idea. Fortunately, those guys shook out the bugs for the generations that followed.

Ultimately though, I'm probably in the same part of the S-curve as you. I spend much of my day doing
(hacking | improving | debugging) (code | business | people | self)
so adding another layer sounds like a PITA, but if you're an early adopter, my hat is off to you and I send my thanks for shaking out the bugs for the rest of us!
To put a finer point on it, software today is absolute garbage. I've been screaming about this for decades.

All of this bloated 'shitware' today is the result of it having been written by people who a) have no deeper understanding of what the computer is actually doing; also known as typical Python/Java/etc/etc/etc programmers, and/or b) simply not giving a damn about conservation of resources--as further evidenced by all of the other extremely wasteful and destructive habits they hold in their personal lives, and in their societies in general.

After all, this is the same civilization that's burning through increasingly vast quantities of oil at an astounding rate, despite the fact that previously existing abundant and cheap oil is nearly depleted, with no possibility of replenishment or replacement. So is it any surprise that foolish developers also burn through CPU and memory with reckless abandon?

Really, the problems we face aren't just in software; they're more about the foundations of our entire Western 'civilization.' Such problems generally tend to be rather intractable, in the historical view.

I'm working to construct, in my own computing life, something of a 'personal oasis', which is increasingly removed and estranged from all of the horrible things I see Other People out there having to suffer in their personal computing lives, thanks to talentless 'developers' who Just Don't Fucking Care. Some of these pricks actually have the audacity to call themselves 'engineers', even.
> We will see real estate values collapse in some of the most affected regions and we will see real estate values increase in regions that benefit from the warming climate.

Identifying the risky low lying areas is relatively easy. However, predicting how and where the climate will change for the better, is at best a crap shot.

We'll know things are getting serious when there's talk on Wall Street about moving out of lower Manhattan.
Handle async stuff in mapDispatchToProps.

dispatch => ({
async onRequestFnord(arg) {
dispatch(actions.fnordRequested());

const result = await service.fnord(arg);

dispatch(actions.fnordReceived(result);
}
});

Or something to that effect.
From Yang’s campaign website:
“Current welfare and social program beneficiaries would be given a choice between their current benefits or $1,000 cash unconditionally – most would prefer cash with no restriction.”

The point of public healthcare and food programs, among the other programs he’s talking about not having, is that even if you run out of money you can still buy food because the food stamps are reserved for doing so.

I know you all like to imagine everyone is rational like you, but what will you do when someone has spent everything and cannot feed themselves? Or has spent everything because of an emergency and their healthcare coverage lapses and they are ill?
Operator-Precedence Parser