skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big reason that AI/ML/Robotics is closely associated with FAANG companies is that these are very expensive fields to get into compared to web development or CLI utilities. FAANG companies can also move much faster than FOSS efforts when it comes to putting together great teams.

There was a REALLY good comment on FOSS vs. closed source commercial software that was brought up a couple weeks ago, which I wish I could quote verbatim but unfortunately you'll have to deal with my paraphrased version:

> "In early UNIX days, we got things done on computers using lots of small tools that did one thing well because compute resources and developer talent were both in scarce supply. Nowadays, software companies can put together teams that can manage huge monoliths of software. In order for FOSS to thrive, we need to put less time into trying to beat these companies at their own game (e.g. code behemoths like the ones you see on Linux desktop projects) and focus more on making great tools that do one thing really well (e.g. cURL, GNU Readline)"

ML/AI is also really hard because it requires people to establish much stronger interfacing standards between the important steps of the data analysis process AND the substeps within those steps. Keras[2] was an enormous step forward in this regard, but the creator now works at Google and I assume he isn't very interested in continuing to make Keras the standard frontend for Deep learning model specification.

HuggingFace[1] Is an awesome counterexample to this trend of AI/ML being lead by FAANG. I'm fiending for an opportunity to check out Thinc, but I'm quite occupied with security coursework these days.

1: https://angel.co/company/hugging-face
2: https://keras.io/
The original thesis is very instructive.

https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/
This is false. If used right along with other common sense measures like washing your hands regularly and not touching your eyes / nose / mouth they reduce your risk of catching and spreading infection. [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868605/
People have been saying they expect a recession in the next 2 years for the last 2 years and now is no different. If it was easy to predict when the least risky time is to make a risky decision, then it wouldn't be risky, gambling wouldn't be a thing, and life would be forever boring.
My personal pet peeve: using the wrong language for the region. So, I'm a native English speaker - but I'm driving around Germany. Give me the names of the streets in German only - NOPE.

Still can't find any way to fix this issue. Its terribly annoying.
But they left something to build upon.

This is key, regardless of whether you think that "doing it right the first time" would have not taken meaningfully longer, and paid off in the long run over and over.

For any meaningful product, you want to get customer feedback early and often, and you want to do it before your competitors get a chance to.

I say this as a more stereotypically "Process" person/developer than a "Pioneer". I know too many failure scenarios. I overthink. I get into analysis paralysis when there is an open page. I need that Pioneer to help my company and my team get started.

But give me an existing system, and I'll mold it and expand it as quickly as that 10x Pioneer.

I love taking shipped hacked together code, and gradually refactoring it and improving it for 10x, 100x scalability of both system throughput and development team growth.

The important factor here is shipped. In production, with customers. Customers who already see the value and benefit, and don't mind the occasional blips and glitches that will take much longer to fix (and probably require massive rewrites) to fix behind the scenes.

Beautiful code without users is worse than nothing at all.
So philosophy is similar to software as a field in that you don’t need a bunch of equipment to get going? Maybe it’s trivial but I had never considered that fact or it’s implications before.
The idea that pentesting will make code safe is pretty crazy... This is basically the same as saying C code doesn't have safety issues as long as you code carefully.
I think the split makes more sense as process versus "heroes" (which is an old view I used to hear at process training classes). Rather than depend on key people able to solve any problem via "heroic" efforts (e.g. all-nighters or long weekends where they rewrite everything or learn an entirely new skill), you follow a reasonably-intelligent but slower process that has worked historically and can make progress even with average contributors.

Management of course loves (perhaps even needs) to make a commodity of employee skills, so process is always pushed early and often. But even the heroes will get burned out or reach a point where the product is just too big to handle otherwise.
Depends on if there's enough demand for the service from people who consider Regus an unacceptable option.

Starbucks built an empire on the unserved masses of people who (1) wanted to be people who went to coffee shops & (2) were scared to go to actual independent coffee shops.

It seems a good path for WeWork to follow. Lower costs and broaden appeal, just enough to cater to people who won't use Regus.
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Being antagonistic to authority is something I left behind in my teenage years. I’ve learned a lot about social grace since then, to the point that I consider it a strong point. Also, homework (as a rather pointless forced learning aid) is so unlike working given my ADHD it’s ridiculous. Moreover, as I’ve since been diagnosed with ADHD and given the ability to medicate and be cognizant of this weakness it isn’t the issue it was when I was a teen in college. At this point in my life I have a body of accomplishments from business, as alluded to in earlier paragraphs.

Really though, how would an employer know either of these things; it’s not like I‘d put them on a resume or a cover letter. I added it only to give context to why going to college didn’t work out for me at the time, not to describe why I think I have trouble finding a job I enjoy. I’m confused by the unconstructive nature of this comment, it seems purposefully derisive.
There is ARIA, but ARIA isn't quite good enough. I also suggested a <widget> element, which allows you to define your own widgets and provide an implementation in HTML and JavaScript to be used if the browser cannot use it directly (if the widget is implemented directly (subject to user configuration), then the stuff inside the <widget> block is ignored or used in an implementation-defined way; if the widget is not implemented, then the <widget> is treated the same as a <span>, and any <script>, <noscript>, etc it contains is interpreted normally). (For selections from lists, there is already <input> anyways, and the browser can include whatever special features they want; they may be disabled in application mode if needed.)
They are good now.

I am writing this comment in a laptop with Radeon Vega 8 graphics and Ryzen 5 CPU running Ubuntu 19.10.

I am playing Audiosurf2 in the second workspace.
Others I've heard: feca (café), zapi (pizza)
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The whole intelligence in service of madness thing stems from the fact that sane and intelligent people sometimes do not have a goal of their own.

I have a suspicion that the majority only have a vague idea and they mostly end up where they are by happenstance.
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Just get an espresso machine (the real ones, no capsules) and a bean grinder. Coffee from freshly-ground beans tastes way better than Starbucks, is still $.03 per cup and takes only a few seconds to make with an electric grinder.

Moka pots work too and are cheaper (though espresso machines are real cheap at least here in Europe) but the coffee isn't as creamy and it takes a few minutes to boil (even though it needs no attention). With a large moka pot it's easier to make large quantities though (but I hate stale coffee so I favor espresso machines). Still better than drip.

If you're really into coffee get a superautomatic machine. Best coffee I've ever had, instant and with zero effort.
This won't be it.

For one thing, China is quite technically competent.
That's what I was wondering. I just came across this with the Google calendar API.

I was annoyed that the Facebook business appointments gcal sync wanted full access to read all my calendars and any calendars shared with me. All I want is for it to be able to add appts. But apparently, the gcal api doesn't have the granularity to even allow full access to a single calendar.
What is needed is better way for the user (rather than the document author) to customize it. For example, I may want to disable smooth scrolling, or make other adjustments.
How would the situation have played out in the west? The symptoms are flu-like. Would the situation have been contained on the theory that people will self-diagnose after watching the evening news or hearing about it over Facebook?

Also, if any situation explodes, would the west be as capable in quarantining a huge urban population or building a quick hospital?

Would emergency aid be tossed around like a political game?
Voilà donc de quoi s'inspirait The Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lElf7D-An8
I dont think it's necessarily a bad thing
Which translation is that? It seems easier to read than my copy (Richard M. Gummere).
State-backed application of behavioural economics [0] was the driver behind the RNG overhead, not efficiency: "Premium Bonds were introduced [...] to control inflation and encourage people to save" [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize-linked_savings_account#E...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond#History
I'm bullish on cryptocurrency.
The cognitive biases linked in another comment and other general failure of our reasoning and logic (or even how our pattern matchers work too well, seeing patterns where there are none, looking at you, clown-shaped-cloud) tells me that there are still shortcuts, errors and less-than-elegant. We make mistakes in reason and thought all the time, sometimes fatally. I don't think that diminishes from how incredible the brain is and how adaptable and generalised its function is, I just don't believe that it doesn't take shortcuts given all of the errors we make.

I'm a hobbyist at sleight-of-hand magic and therefore like to read and watch lots of material on the matter (eg the book "Sleights of Mind" by neuroscientists Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, and science writer Sandra Blakeslee) and there are an incredibly many ways to fool or trick the brain into believing untruths, even obvious ones.
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They sell something similar at Trader Joe’s— much cheaper.
I've been to both, and WeWork is definitely much better. But I'm not sure how much that has to do with the benefits or the decor. I think it's more because of the people they attract vs Regus -- young and bustling. It gives the place a more lively feel.

OTOH, it could be because of all the fun toys that they attract that crowd.
I dunno man. I think any state would be hard-pressed to top this list: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26899191/florida-man-...
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> The investments of rich people often never see the consumer economy.

That's not true at all. Investments from the rich contribute greatly to the economy -- otherwise they would not be investments. Let's say that I had a billion dollars, and all I did was stick it into a savings account. The bank uses that to fund mortgages, LoCs, provide business loans, etc. Those all have a direct effect on the economy.

More likely the rich are investing in a combination of VC, real estate, and the stock market. Those are ALL job creators.

Really the only thing you can do with money that DOESN'T contribute to economic growth is bury it in the ground or spend it overseas.
As I understood it their primary purpose was to get the wearer to not absent-mindedly touch their face, which is a much higher vector of infection than airborne inhalation of disease.
It all comes down to demand for me. These legacy+tech companies create additional demand by virtual of their tech.

Uber services opportunities that couldn't be serviced by traditional taxi companies (on demand, low latency rides).

Which makes the crux of these businesses "Does your technology create enough additional, currently-unserved demand to hit your growth targets?"
Not in a WeWork anymore, but once was. A former co-worker said newly renovated WeWork's are also dropping the free beer, so another cost cutting measure.
> All the shopkeepers aren't from Beijing originally

Why is that?

Are the native Beijingers to rich and fancy to run a shop?
Seems like a good option would be to implement a second version that has the batch API but leave the line oriented one as is for use by the callers expect it to behave in a per-line oriented way.
The randomness of premium bonds are the whole point. If people wanted a flat interest rate they would just buy a normal bond, or some other kind of investment.

Premium bonds are so popular precisely because they are unpredictable. It's like buying a lottery ticket, except unlike a lottery ticket, you get your money back if you don't win.
Is being one of the many, many coffee shops that serve better coffee in more enticing environments than Starbucks enough to build a good business on? Answer: yes, but probably not a business worth an order of magnitude more than Starbucks, and especially not a business whose growth is predicated on using VC money to give the coffee away for free whilst the ex-CEO milks it for cash. A lot of the many, many businesses reselling charmingly-decorated desk space without the hype and self-dealing should be fine.
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> I realize this is describing the travelling salesman problem, but for small (<=4) n it should not be too difficult while still being useful in practice.

Google actually already has an api that does exactly this called Google OR-Tools[1]. They could totally build this feature into google map if they want.

[1] https://developers.google.com/optimization/
Thanks; I shall. In fact, I’ve been putting it off for lack of browser support, but I suppose that is no longer a valid excuse.
Could you point us at them?
Computer Engineers need deep knowledge of mathematics and statistics, good reading and writing skills in English and (perhaps) other languages, usable skills and understanding in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, and exposure and interest in the liberal arts. Curiosity and groups social skills are both needed but are not "book learning".

The good thing for a new grad to know is that formal learning at a University is not the only way to learn. Any topic can be learned on your own; finding a study partner speeds up learning.
Is anyone really scared to go to an independent coffee shop? Seems like they just didn't want to go bad enough. But since Starbucks is everywhere, you no longer have to cross the street to drop in at a coffee shop.
Why did you "quote" disinfectants?

This is an editorialized title by the submitter
I've been away from front-end web development for a while now. I've been doing steadily less of it over the years, and by now it's probably been 4 years since I've touched it at all. As memory serves, the last project was gulp, typescript, SASS, and still jQuery.

When the front-end work began to fork off into it's own real separate independent discipline, likely when we really achieved separation of the UI from the backend, things started to change and I ended up having to make a choice. With front-end build tools, CSS processing libraries, larger frameworks like React/Angular, I ended up on the back-end side of the equation - data platforms, databases, web services, application logic, integrations, infrastructure, etc.

Seeing this reminded me of how much fun front-end development was, even with having to deal with the annoying quirks of HTML, CSS, JS and all the browsers.

Did anybody else, like me, suddenly have a real hankering to sit down and break out all the new HTML/CSS/JS toys and start playing? :)
I have warned many times that CCP is an evil regime and will cause big disaster for whole human society. Whoever in the free world still trying to make some profits collaborating with CCP, just remember: dance with the devil, just wait for the music to stop.
XWin app can listen to all keystrokes in system. This was fixed in Wayland.
It's common in all Spanish Spain places
Why you should be careful using example domains.
I feel like you'd want to create an index that's something like (number of features) + (number of unit tests)^2 + (number of adjacent integration tests)^3

And maybe normalize for each by the lines of code for each component and some constant factor after twiddling.

Basically LoC by itself is meaningless. When you gauge responsibility you want to look at how many features are owned, how complex those features are (unit tests) and how critical those features are to the system/product (integration tests). With complexity/criticality being weighted much higher than feature count.

Of course like all metrics this is easy to game. But that's what code review is for.
"Au jour d'aujourd'hui" is used to emphasize the "up to now" quality, kind of like "as of now".

"Comme même" is just a spelling mistake. Kind of similar to "he is better then that".
Yes, I would want to have more user commands for many things such as:

- External editor for textbox input

- Save form data to a local disk file

- Recall form data from a disk file (on the same or a different webpage than it was saved from)

- Replace scripts in the document

- Document/application mode switch

- Disable rich text editing

- Specify a remote filename when uploading files using forms
Current China is not the USSR for sure, still I wonder if this will not shift people away from cheap chinese products long term. You know with the end of globalization this might give a little more push towards local/safer productions.
For the record, I know many cases of philosophy majors getting good jobs (as computer programmers). Apparently some employers find that people who take Logic classes can be taught to program, and then cost less (at least for a while). But your point stands, that most people have a reasonable idea of which majors give good employment prospects, and if they don't they can nowadays find out online what they are.

But, and here's the kicker, there are a lot of people who lump all college degrees together, either mentally or in their writing on the topic, and then justify going into debt to get a degree based on that. "Go to college" is not that easy to swap out with "go to college in one of the majors with a track record of leading to a good career", not least because there are numerous colleges (Fine Arts, some parts of Liberal Arts, etc.) where if that were the way people thought, that college would shrink to half its current size or less.

Which, maybe is what needs to happen, or maybe we need to find another way for society to fund people who study those topics (my preference), but either way it's not what's happening now, and those closest to the university system are generally the ones most hostile to the idea of looking plainly at the facts about the current situation.
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Are we not supposed to use server-side includes anymore? I never stopped. I find them quite useful, and they use virtually no resources on the server.
Not a very defensible business model if you have massive competitors that need little more than some colorful paint and a few shared desks smashed together in the middle of the room.
cargo vendor will avoid downloading dependencies from "some random server."
> were scared to go to actual independent coffee shops

Nobody's 'scared' to go to an independent coffee shop. This is a ridiculous snobby notion.
> Those sitting idle just get tower location

Do you have links or google keyword hints to more information about that? Is that OS specific?
Having an AI defeat the strongest human players (without cheating) isn't often the hard part, its making it fun, believable, interesting or, indeed, beatable (its no fun if you can never ever win) is often the hard part. A perfectly minmaxing AI that makes perfect decisions isn't very interesting to players. Outsmarting players in interesting ways is, well, interesting, but just always playing the best move in any given scenario (like what deep blue did with its search-based "AI") can create perfect play if the search space is within the bounds of time/memory of the AI, but that's not very interesting to play against or watch.
The comparison to 80s/late-90s USSR is poor. I think this epidemic is showing the opposite, at least in terms of technical competence. The response from the central authorities has been massive and relatively well executed.

The comparison is also off because the day-to-day living situation on the ground (for the average citizen) is totally different from _both_ a political and economic perspective.
As a French-3rd-language learner (first English, then a little Spanish) I was (and am still) really confused about why "qu'est-ce que" is a thing. Spanish doesn't do that, at least as far as I recall. In many respects the languages have similar vocabulary (at least, coming from an English-speaking perspective).
I’m willing to accept less-than-perfect simulation of our production environment in order to speed up development, especially for settings that eg only matter in the case where the machine crashes (big deal in production—not in tests).

We already make a leap of faith by developing on Mac/Linux distros other than what we use in production. Making Postgres not-crash safe locally is a pretty small change compared to that.
Yeah, still won't be easy to integrate the batch optimizations now, since all the code in this module is written with the single-line-at-a-time assumption.
It really could
https://www.livescience.com/face-mask-new-coronavirus.html

A regular surgical face mask doesn't protect.

A more specialized mask, known as an N95 respirator, can protect against the new coronavirus, also called 2019-nCoV. The respirator is thicker than a surgical mask
While this might be true I’m not sure if we chalk this one up to the CCP. I mean it’s not like a viral epidemic can’t originate from other countries.
I think the only major language using the M, D, Y spoken order are American-influenced English and Ewe (Ghana etc).

Several countries write a short data as M/D/Y, but these mostly have a significant American influence.
Redox is probably more unsafe that Linux is. The 20% of unsafe stuff going in there had 0 review from serious security standpoint.
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This just shows you can't please everybody, iTunes has to be the most complained about piece of software from Apple.