skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not right. "Null" means that the value is not known. Suppose you have a table for employees, and you want to record the last time they were paid. What do you put in that column for people who just started this morning? The alternatives are to use null, indicating that they haven't been, or to formulate a codebase-wide sentinel value like "0000-01-01" and then accounting for that in every single database operation everywhere.

Further suppose that you have an external function in your codebase to estimate how many paychecks you've paid to someone, but the author doesn't know about any "0000-01-01" conventions your office uses. Without that, you'd see that Joe New Guy has worked here about 2,020 years, so we've probably issued him about 48,000 checks. If only you'd used null, then that function would have calculated "today() - null", which in any sane language would raise a type exception and alert you to the problem.

Nulls are beautiful. They have meaning. Lots of people misuse them, but that doesn't mean they're not valid and useful.
what simple mistake did the weimar republic do that caused a hyperinflation? I thought it was primarily caused by a massive reduction in the supply of goods following the versaille treaty without a corresponding reduction in monetary supply. At that point there really wasn't a lot the government could do to stop it.

Zimbabwe faced similar problems after disowning their most productive agricultural providers, reducing supply.
> they stay in my drafts folder if I feel they aren't contributing significant insight

You should publish them! A blog post doesn't have to be wholly or even slightly novel to be immensely useful for someone.

Right delivery, right place, right time. Others will almost certainly have thought, discussed, written about the same ideas before you but the reader might not land on their blogs or equivalent, and even if they do, the delivery might not speak to them.

They might however land on yours and your delivery may be just right for them.

Anyway, nobody owns ideas - to the reader, whether it's you or someone who thought of it before you delivering the idea doesn't matter - all that matters is the delivery of the idea itself.
According to your article, this might help ease the symptoms of the flu. So it's just as useful in prevention as decongestants, cough drops, expectorant, and other such drugs: not at all. It just helps you get through the infection.
A gap in your resume is called a sabbatical. You spent a year doing something else that's more important to you because you can afford it. Medical plus some recovery time is a great reason. But just playing around with some new tech, investing in your education, or even spending time on your other interests, work for charity, or see something of the world, are great reasons. Slacking off may not sound great, but many employers are unlikely to care that much about the gap, and if they do, there's always a more interesting way to phrase it.
> innovation hasn't been IBM's business model since the 1950s

The 360 was innovative in pretty much every respect. In the 90s IBM was the only one of the big Unix vendors to bet on Linux and open source.
I think its a nice feature and totally optional. I long thought that a feature like that is useful. Generally I see no reason why user information should be stretched all over the system.

Its totally clear that this is not the right tool for all situations, but it is a nice tool.

Now, maybe it should be packed separately but I don't really care if it is there if I don't use it.
State of the art NLP system isn't a very meaningful term. You can't really say that Watson was "better" than Google's NLP systems at the time because they were solving different problems.

In general, what they did was not trivial, but it also wasn't revolutionary. Some of it was novel, but novel in the sense that it applied specifically to the problem they were trying to solve. It had little impact on the technology behind what IBM eventually tried to sell as Watson.

Anybody with a bucket of money could have built the same thing at the time. The impressive part was IBM figuring out that it would be worth spending a bucket of money on.
No. He means see a human avoid killing a kid.
Quarter after quarter G seaxeh results turn into ads. At some point there won't be any organic free results and all search results will be paid placements. Which is now 80% true
You can be charged for possession of child porn for pictures of yourself, and be charged as an adult for it (even though you're a minor as far as the images are concerned). The rules are overly broad to give the courts/cops the ability to stop the bad guys. The problem comes in when, in many cases, they're using those powers in a way that makes _them_ the bad guys; but then it's too late.
Undefined is very underappreciated invention. I wish I had undefined in Java, throwing exception on read. That would make a lot of software much more reliable. I'm going to write my own AutoValue library just to generate java beans which will allow uninitialized values.

PS undefined in JavaScript is not that useful IMO. But it could be useful with more strict language.
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The SDK is for third party apps to make use of Afterburner's existing codec acceleration. There was never any mention by Apple of any other use.

Sadly. I was waiting for it too.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210748

It's not really surprising. Developing a macOS SDK for letting developers load their whatever on a PCIe-mounted FPGA is a huge undertaking, only done by those manufacturers of FPGAs (and not for macOS). There really isn't any market justification to build that for what's effectively a glamour product.
Is this because Trump says Google search results disadvantage him?
Ctrl-F "Other Bets operating loss":

Q4 2018 (1.3bn)

Q4 2019 (2.0bn)

Yikes
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You’re using some pretty aggressive housing numbers but conveniently omitting the part where you’re dumping most of that money into the equity of your million+ dollar home so that if and when you want to quit the rat race, you still have massive assets to take with you.
> Not announce to investors and the public ever more grandiose targets after each miss.

Those poor investors are really taking it on the chin today because of those overly optimistic software projections!
YouTube's non-ads revenue (RED) is in "Google other". So YouTube Ads yielded $15,149,000,000 in revenue in Fiscal Year 2019.
Human beings visual systems are far faster than once per second. Your reference is complete reaction time to both process visual information and decide on an appropriate action and actuate a control surface given a state model of the world. Your brain most certainly processes visual information faster than 17 fps doing novel segmentation and odometry.
Are youtube ads that much worse than cable TV? I pay for youtube premium and don't watch cable TV anymore so I honestly can't say myself, but from what I remember of each, they both seemed about on the same level of garbage-ness.
I am sorry, but this article is just an air (fiber?) tremor. The matter is much easier, it is pure free market process.

There are companies who needs software to increase their profits and/or gross margins. There are people who can engineer software.

There are different levels of software complexity (think between Excel spreadsheet's formulae and operating system). There are different skill levels of software engineering.

There are different gross margins obtainable via software of different complexity. There is everlasting competetion between companies for market shares.

Everything else is demand and supply curve from Economy 101.
I've been in the eurozone since it started.. only ever saw 500 euro bills being exchanged in casinos.
> That's an abomination definition of agile, probably influenced by scrum. In the agile manifesto it says nothing about "tight loop upfront planing", however it does explicitly say[1]:

Sure it might be an abomination, but if we set the rhetoric aside for a minute we should consider the option that the context where Agile is applied isn't just RoR rockin' startups in the Bay. Lets call it dilution perhaps?

Besides, there's context. The Manifesto was drafted in a world still reeling in RUP and floor-wide teams marching towards quarterly releases.

That wasn't sustainable, but neither is "responding to change over following a plan" if that means moving targets every other day. That's a recipe for burn-out, and sprint commitments are sacred.

So yeah, context: respond to change means reassess every some sprint, not pivot 3 times a week.

/s (tongue in cheek people, life's too short for zealotry)
> I wonder if this will be the undoing of YT

Who knows?

But what I do know is that about half of the YouTube channels I follow have already started putting videos up on other services -- they're eager to get out of the YouTube ecosystem. And I'm eager to follow them.
Really easy to use and convenient to create a nice roadmap fast.

Do you plan to expand the idea (i.e. add collaboration features)?
That’s a fantastic idea. In my last job I started a weekly newsletter of curated tech articles, but this crowdsourced approach sounds far more sustainable.

> My manager had a game-changing suggestion, too: give phonetool icons for people who submit to the list

What’s a phonetool icon?
It surprised me how long it took it to realize the road was wet.
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The last time I saw Bruce Lee
This is why Let's Encrypt has a short cycle.
I don’t think we need programmers. I think for this task we’d need neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, mathematicians and engineers. Also, I don’t think we need more developers working on that problem. We need the right people with the right motivation and cognitive abilities to solve the problem of Artificial General Intelligence.
And here's a PR for adding that to CanIUse: https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/pull/5262
The dancing cars were fixed several months ago in an update. The computer used to just recognize cars, and then align them according to the lanes it sees. At a stoplight it when it had trouble seeing the lanes clearly the cars would rapidly change orientation.

Since they updated the neural net to also recognize the vehicle orientations the dancing has stopped.

I have seen a lane change cancel recently, a couple weeks ago though.

You can tell the car is a 'nervous' driver. It plays it way too safe, but I guess that's a good thing at this point.
Huh, sorry for that then. I used to get this all the time with TC, Engadget and a few other sites, but since turning JS off, it's stopped. Something else must have changed around the same time I tinkered with it.
Something I’ve observed with languages he designs are that they end up with a ui form builder. I wonder if that will happen with typescript. It’s harder, because they’d either need to pick a framework, or design it for at least react, vue, angular.
Be honest - just talk about what you did if they ask about the gap. Say you planned for it, saved a good amount of money, and took time off to improve yourself. It's becoming more common these days as sabbaticals or what not.

Be sure to also talk about what you learned during that period too though, specifically how you grew as an individual, etc. It doesn't need to be work related per se, but an improvement of some sort.
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> for some reason often believed by otherwise quite smart people

I don't understand why so many smart "tech people" fall for the hype.

Maybe it is because "machine learning" is just abstract enough that even the most jaded developer thinks they can treat it like a black box where if you pour enough videos, photos and LIDAR readings for training into the top it will somehow spit out a fully autonomous self driving car at the bottom.

I do find it funny though. On the one hand Alexa only manages to turn on the lights successfully 50% of the time yet somehow we will magically have self driving cars capable of safely navigating the roads any day now. I mean for fsck sake, we don't even have a thing that can wash and fold clothes automatically but somehow self driving cars will be on the market any day.

Like, if we cannot even get voice recognition to work right, how on earth will you tell this magical car which street parking spot to take in a busy city? How will you tell it to pull over to pick up a friend? Hell, how will you tell it to go through a drive-through at McDonalds? A touchscreen?
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It's up to them to prove that WebUSB is secure, not on me to prove it's insecure. Direct hardware access over the web is inherently dangerous.

If they have a way of truly sandboxing malicious uses, without entering into permissions request overload (no human is infallible), I'd love to hear it.

the "discussed at X f2f" is not filling me with confidence.
My favorite is Welford's Algorithm [1] which lets you compute mean and standard deviation in one pass. Every programmer should be aware of it.

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That's probably true for cheap labor, but ~50% of developers I know will try to switch into other teams when they are forced to use Teams because it's that annoying. When you pay somebody thousands of dollars each month, paying an extra 12.50 to make him not look for a different job isn't really something you should need to think about a lot.
Average tenure is heavily skewed by massive head count growth. When you add 20,000 employees in one year (Google, 2019) + replace the churn from the population of 100,000 people hopping companies for more compensation, it will drive your average tenure number way down. This is a commonly referenced but completely invalid argument. Very few people are pushed out at the large, stable tech companies.
Anecdotal evidence here, but I have a friend who worked in their palo alto office for several years. One day as Elon was walking through the Fremont factory he saw a large empty floor space and asked someone why there were no workers occupying that space. It was then decided that her job would be moved from Palo Alto to Fremont. She was not fired in a weird and capricious way, but she was managed out of the company in a weird and capricious way, and that was less than a year ago.
From my experience, Chennai had it 10x worse than Mumbai. Almost every truck had "Honk please" hand drawn in various styles on their rears.
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both the weimar era hyperinflation and hitlers rise to power were caused by the conditions of the versaille treaty.
Is "Other bets operating loss" the same as research and development, or is it somehow different?
Also - a token can’t be used to change your password or steal the account completely. The app can ask you to enter your password again if you are doing these changes to your account. A token would not allow the attacker to pass this.
True! But it's likely you see these sorts of hybrids phased out, similar to how Chevy killed the Volt in favor of full battery electric vehicles. The ban can change to be more onerous at any time, and manufacturing capex decisions are decided on decade timelines. It would be a shame if you attempted such a compliance hack only to have your manufacturing line lifetime profitability nuked with the stroke of a legislative pen.
I don't know why you got down voted for sharing what sounds like a perfectly reasonable idea...
It's also interesting that they might not have any nearly as big in the future, as interestingly Microsoft has purchased almost all of the developers (Obsidian, inXile, Double Fine) that had major Fig funded projects. (They did not purchase Fig itself though.) It's fascinating that most of the biggest dividends so far paid to Fig investors have been from Microsoft buy outs.
I'd love to see a Tesla on auto pilot on a Vietnamese 'freeway'... buffalo crossing street while 3 people are driving directly at you on your side of the road, in the wrong direction, while 8 people are crossing the street laterally from both sides (2 of them are drunk), while one person is merging without looking and also dodging a wheel eating pothole and a truck driven by a meth addict, is about to rear end you.
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Living in the most expensive city in the nation, with a house, with 3k/month completely un-budgeted for still seems like a high amount...
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I think it is much less that people are opposed to self-driving cars as a concept, just that they are skeptical of their current efficacy, and even more skeptical of what many of the current competitors in the field self-report their efficacy is. I for one am skeptical of many current claims that self-driving cars are eminent, and would like a greater regulatory setup to confirm that self-driving is in fact as safe to safer than human driving, and in what instances that is not true. In order to prove that to a statistical significance, you are going to need many many miles, which we should force companies to do in the effort of being cautious.
I agree that it’s a worse strategy if you hold capital back.

I was looking for a comparable in public equities where you keep buying more of the same thing, doubling down on the bets you know and like. I guess in private markets you are limited by the available supply. In Public markets you are limited by your capital.

For me when I get more capital I will deploy generally in things I already own, which has the affect of lowering average price if the price has fallen(that’s why I made a mistake calling this DCA).
You can make all the threats about nationalization you want, but if you think that's going to happen in America anytime soon, to any company here, you're delusional. I'm not saying it's a good or bad idea, just that the idea of any company in America being nationalized at all is crazy; it's so against the current political climate that it really is impossible to happen. Even if the Democrats win this election it will never happen, but the idea of Trump signing off on nationalizing anything at all is insane.

In European nations, however, it could happen, but even there I have a hard time seeing it. If any nation nationalizes vaccine R&D in my lifetime, I'd put money on it being China.
> You replied to the 4 scenarios I posted, but forgot the thousands of others left while you missed my point.

try
{
while (true)
{
if (IsScenarioOutsideOfUnderstanding())
{
throw NotUnderstoodException()
}
}
}
catch (NotUnderstoodException)
{
SlowDownAndStopLikeAnyoneElseWould();
}
Run this scenario in a thousand variants in sims.
I believe there is a truth to this. Sometime ago I read something like: "If you want something, figure out the price, and then go pay for it". [1]

In my time as consultant I have seen people being very successful because they were willing to spend endless hours on boring topics, spending time with un-inspirational clients, massively exaggerating business opportunities, and trading anything in their life for success. It works. But it comes at a price.

[1] I think it was this: “Nothing in life is free, especially your time. Everything has a cost. And when it comes to your time, the cost is heavy. You can never get even one second back.
You can live your life on purpose. You can spend your time on things you value. You can be who you intended to become. You can continue to progress and evolve, even after you’ve become successful and fulfilled.
But the price must be payed.”
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> some record label set up an automated system and indiscriminately fed it all the music they've produced.

So, both idiots and greedy, then.
You used to be able to do this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
You may technically be correct, as the UK is no longer in the EU. You can buy cars with a debit card in the UK, haven't tried using a credit card.