skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I noticed that. While it's possible this is the result of the machine learning algorithm implicitly picking up a male bias in the data set that causes it to rank men more highly in terms of importance, I don't know how likely that is in practice. Maybe the explanation is as simple as the man taking up more pixels, or a bias toward lighter colors (like the man's white & blue shirt) while black colors (like the woman's clothing) are more likely to be considered unimportant background. Maybe the algorithm considered both approximately equally important and the result was essentially a coin flip.

Regardless, I agree that it's not a great look when the caption on that example talks about how AutoFlip "detects the subjects of interest" and "avoids cropping off important visual content". It's definitely not sending the intended message.
Speak for yourself most esteemed master of fish. Plenty of code bases are thankfully neither spaghetti nor ravioli.
what loss? Looks like Softbank is already making small (by the tech standards) profit (if they had the stomach to make through the trough of course) - $7.6B invested for 220 million shares at the current stock price is more than $8.6B :

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/03/softbank-more-than-600-milli...

". The Japanese conglomerate spent about $6.6 billion to buy just over 200 million shares from existing investors, including former CEO Travis Kalanick, at around $32.87 a piece. It provided another $1.05 billion in fresh capital to Uber, buying 21.45 million shares at about $48.77 each."
Being Swedish, I attempted to use that back in 2002 when I was fed up with with my current, quite stagnant employer. Being young and naive I allowed my then direct manager and CEO to bully myself into giving up on that idea.

They weren't even aware of this possibility. I showed them the actual law. They implied they would lawyer up if I fighted them.

I ended up simply resigning instead. In retrospect that was a fantastic idea! In retrospect I saw people getting stuck there, while my career took off like a rocket (well, comparatively speaking)...

If I had been a similar age today, wanting to attempt this, I'd probably be able to find free help online. It's such a different world now, compared to 18 years ago.
Weboob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without r
Web page is vibrating up and down. I half-expected a little airplane chasing the mouse pointer.
Where I live they have this TV show where startups have 2 minutes to pitch their idea to some investors. I remember people who built a fully automatic pizza machine. They asked for a few thousand euros and failed. I wonder how much money they would have got from Masayoshi Son. Somebody should make a TV show for/with him.
Why not both? It was a poor usage of engineering effort to try and recreate a field, instead of leveraging some assets and building on what they actually had.

It isn't like reader died alone. They had buzz going, which did a decent job of linking reader and Gmail. That is solid engineering. Instead, they have constantly tried to recreate Gmail to kill it. Wave? Plus? Inbox? I'm sure there are others.
Yah that's it. GitHub link: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy
They've got a decent demo working but no federation yet.
Unless they spent $20b to make back $10.6 :-) [In some circles it’s called ‘Selling a dollar for fifty cents.”]
>Too bad the US immigration system is a clusterfuck regardless of how much money you´re willing to throw at it.

There are countries in the world other than the United States and Sweden. Also why should any country have an obligation to open their doors just because you're willing to throw money at them?

That aside, one of my Canadian friends spent a year in Chile creating a startup because the Chilean government paid a good chunk of his living expenses in an effort to bootstrap their tech entrepreneur scene. There are many interesting options around the world of you seek them out.
Well, 412M learnings for them. I would consider that experience quite valuable.
I wonder what they're looking for in those questions.

I did interviews for a while (granted that's not the same if you're pitching a startup). Man I hated it. All the recommended questions came with no real goal or anything to look for that I thought told me anything about what this person can do for me.

I guess maybe Zume they're just looking for a "good" answer to maybe indicate you could answer those kinds of questions in a pitch or whatever and not look bad... but what does that tell anyone anyway?

I asked other interviewers why they asked what they asked and what they thought it told them.

Everyone was just some myopic thing where they had a story where they had some bad employee and they think they're bad because X or good because Y and ask a question that they think shows them X or Y ... but nothing seemed to indicate that they really learned anything.
>Wow a pizza compNy that delivers and cooks on the way to your house, all done by robots.

I am not sure I suppose in really high real estate cost areas that might be good, but it does not strike me as an obviously good idea with respect to capital usage.
There was an Article "Are the BSDs dying" (https://www.csoonline.com/article/3250653/is-the-bsd-os-dyin...) where it us said, that NetBSD has the lowest code quality of all BSD variants. It also finishes last when it comes to security updates.

To this day NetBSD doesn't deliver binary security updates in a timely manner. Not in the base system and not for packages. Even OpenBSD manages to do this nowadays.
If there is even a patch at all, it is delivered in source form only. Users are supposed to build the binaries for themselves. That's anachronistic in the year 2020.

Building from source consumes not only time but also energy. When everyone talks about saving energy and reducing carbon footprint, source based systems where every user is supposed to build binaries from sources are a not only a waste of time but are also contributing to the climate crisis.
Zume eliminated the two easiest steps with costly robots using needlessly complex technology and that was the basis for their business? What insanity would prompt someone to invest in that?

I had family working in a plant for one of the big name pizza places, and you can see the whole process for on-demand pizza at many brick oven pizza joints. I don't know how you could go to either of those places, look at zume, then conclude that zume had any advantage or was solving a problem from either side (on demand or automation).
You may have missed the point and there’s not much room to dumb it down. If you have to narrow the definition of driving so much then it’s not actually driving.

Many cars spend a lot of time idling, especially in crowded cities. Would you call them self driving because they can perform unattended this very, very narrow task (but long) from the whole activity of driving?

As for the “yes sign me up” I call bluff. There are plenty of situations in daily life where you need to have constant supervision. You wouldn’t let your child operate in them under the assumption that “there’s a good chance they won’t die”. You will take the constant supervision in place of the device that only works for 1% of the features you need and even then it might kill.

Take an iron that can iron by itself but only small, cotton clothes, and once in a while it burns down the house. Do you leave it unattended? Do you even call it self ironing?
Swedish resident here. Absolutely correct. 99% of "Sweden does" stories are absolute and total nonsense. Publishers publish what their audience want to read.

No-one* uses this 6 month sabbatical for startup purposes.
> Fundamentally it's a lack of trust IMO

Which is usually a failure of communication. The whole "just trust us" bit doesn't work, and it takes real work to build a rapport with your stakeholders to earn "blind" trust, which is what most people are really asking for when they say "just trust us". This almost never happens, unless people have been working with each other for many years.

> then nitpick that "well that's not needed"

First, ask questions. Find out why they're willing to put energy into this - most people are not wasteful when they push back on things (most). Maybe their boss is riding their ass, and it's CYA. Maybe they're just stating a preference, so I'll ask questions to make this explicit ("So you just prefer it this way? No data? No customer feedback? Your boss didn't ask?").

Second, socialize things early and often. Tell people weeks, months, quarters in advance about some technical debt you're eventually going to get around to paying off. This gives people time to vent, challenge things, or say they're stupid. Use this time to refine your story, and get better at telling it in a way that gets the least resistance (don't need support, just fewer detractors).

Sometimes that "socializing" is complaining about a shared frustration. "Ugh, System X gobbled up Sharon's purchase order again and she has to spend another two hours after working salvaging things. Really wish they'd let us spend time fixing this, but you know how it goes."

By the time I've scheduled a meeting with stakeholders to discuss something (especially something I know will be difficult for them to see value in), I make sure I've individually discussed it with everyone in the room. When they see less disagreement between each other, there's less negative energy to build off. There may not be any positive energy, but that's much easier to deal with.
Coronavirus is absolutely a black swan event, but it will probably affect mainland china more than us/japan.
I don't see it having as big an effect on pure software companies, but it will affect hardware and companies that rely on chinese market for expansion. Apple in particular, though airpods are happening at a really good time for them to weather this
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>Do you take an independent choice based on your morals and the information you’ve seen, or do you take the road to the biggest pile of cash?

You mean, do you force your moral viewpoints on the rest of the world? I would have figured that the last 500 years of colonization showed the issue with viewing one's own morals as superior to the rest of the world.
Solo since 2010, 35K EUR MRR.

Mornings are for focused work on things I look forward to doing, so that usually means development work and really moving the needle. If I force myself to start my day answering support emails or writing a blog post, I usually procrastinate and end up with less done in total for that day.

Directly after lunch is when I answer support emails, so that I still have plenty of time for it and not end the day totally stressed out with a non-empty inbox. Depending on how I feel after that, I finish my day doing low-effort obligational work or I go back to fun work again.
> At the end of the day, if you got hit by a bus, your company would send flowers to your funeral and have an open req for your position before your body was buried.

Which is exactly what I expect them to do. Its a business and not a family. They compensated me for my work, I don't expect them to cry for me when I'm gone, but to hire someone immediately to continue the business.
Ah, that's disruptive I guess? You know, because old pizza is the non-digital incumbent and such? No idea, the more I think about it the more I prefer to not sell my business as a start-up. Because of stuff like that. And that dog walking company SoftBank invested in.
Why do you think it’s against guidelines? The OP comment started a very interesting thread IMHO. Not everything has to be a “reasoned critique”, sharing personal feelings about a situation can be a great way to get to a constructive discussion.
> A first year student of some community college in the US is twice as good as the average developer here.

I work closely with developers from both the US and Sweden, and this hasn't been my experience at all. If anything it's been the reverse.

What I can say though is that developers from Asian countries leave a lot to be desired. Which is funny as you've outsourced jobs to Vietnam.

At some point you ought to realize that what you're saying is bullshit too.
My favorite rule is "Investment to the marketing, don't spend". I think, if replace "marketing" to anything else, this rule can be applied to any aspect of the life.
That these companies don't treat engineers as a cost structure the way you were talking about. This creates a drastically different culture since tech has a seat at the table, and the CFO can't just willy-nilly makes demands that impact the entire engineering organization without consent. It makes a big difference.
Free private repos is a real upside.

Central login where you can never understand what login you are using and what information they are collecting, nor on which website you are not whether you’ve suddenly integrated Confluence into a Bitbucket instance, is a real downside. God I hate SSO’ed companies, they went all the way of Google into Youtube.
> Like, we've had dynamically generated HTML for about 40 years.

No, HTML was invented almost exactly 30 years ago; we didn't have dynamically-generated HTML 10 years earlier.

> We just started writing those backend libraries in JS

There's a difference between dynamically generating HTML documents delivered from the server and dynamically manipulating the DOM on the front end, and the author isn't talking about backend-specific but frontend-focussed libraries (though some can also do server-side rendering.)
In hindsight, many failures seem ridiculous. But they're ridiculous in part because they failed.

You could have written basically the same thing about Starbucks if it had failed.

But it didn't.

It went on to become one of the great success stories of the modern era.
See also "Opium Wars".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

Don't do drugs.
Design fault testing at its best
That's not true for quite some time. Visual Studio 2013 added many C99 features that aren't in C++ like compound literals or designated initializers.
>>It's pretty common in the US for people to turn down the heating to save on costs, and living in the freezing conditions at home.

It's pretty common to do a lot of things when you have no money. Heating one room, say the living room, might be an alternative to having to pay for heating no matter what. But then in Russia, you have no alternative, heating or death, so this is essential.
Climate in USA varies a lot...
Sure. Someone is installing blinkers at the BMW factory which may never be used. There are plenty of jobs where you could say that the work being done isn't fulfilling because it is a waste of time. The problem is that at the BMW factory you know exactly what you signed up for when you became a blinker installer. At some software companies you are told that you are going to be part of a team that is building a successful product, then when you get there you see that everyone is running around trying to make features by certain dates for no good reason.
Acid reflux reduction
It might be time for the Hiro we need.

Still hands-down my favorite first-chapter of a book.
> Compare random frozen pizza machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7anib2L7uUk with the hilarity that is Zume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFSdxwRVh8A

Thanks for the links. Indeed, hilarious to watch it side-by-side for some extra entertainment! With the volume of pizza they're making in that Zume factory, it doesn't seem like there's even any extra benefits of using robots — and these robots seem to be placed there more as an obstacle to overcome than actual help; also, they didn't even use it for cheese dispersement, which was still done by hand? LOL, robots-made pizza!
Good news is that the Gonum team has been working on an optimized pure Go version of BLAS. It's at parity with netlib blas for some of the important functions (GEMV, GEMV, etc).

Why is this good news? Go is a very easy to use language, and it favours using compile targets, leading it to be available across different platforms. To install, one simply does `go get gonum.org/v1/gonum`
Well, again, if that’s total annual comp, sure, for the reason I gave (vesting of previous grants biasing toward longer tenure at level, signing cliffs). But as a one-time manager at a FAANG, in my experience, the ranges for comp in terms of base+bonus are rarely that wide.

Anyway, I’m sure there are counter examples, but my point was that if you are at a FAANG making $250k and you find out someone at the same level is making $350k, it’s unlikely to be merely that you didn’t negotiate well enough.
> Programmers have a wide-ranging tendency to want to do everything in a general-purpose language, no matter how unsuited to the task, and actively resist learning specialized languages.

That's why JSX never caught on, and everyone just uses plain JS for React, right?
Assignments that are accessible by "anyone" at the consultant brokers are often listed around 750-950 SEK/hour, which means ~470 to ~600 GBP/day if you work 8 hours per day -- clients usually don't mind you working more though. Tax isn't that different last time I checked, but CoL is of course much higher in London.
The wiki list is outdated. Brazil for example has at least 9 https://techcrunch.com/unicorn-leaderboard/ (filter by country)
I went to sourcehut. I am very happy, but during the process I ended up actually having to learn a bit of git. Future projects will probably be git.
Ben Franklin paraphrased: “the only things that are certain are death and taxes”.
It may or may not be true, but this hasn't matched my expectation as a Swede. But it may also depend on where in Sweden you are.
It's truly too on the nose.
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This thread made me think of Dr. Evil and his insistence on putting lasers on sharks. Some startups seem to think just throwing some more technology into an already refined process will somehow be “disruptive”. Solutions searching for problems is terrible way to streamline or even add value to an industry.
Everyone in this thread knows what a CAA record is.

That’s not the point, although I doubt most people on this thread knew that the use of DNSSEC is strongly recommended for issuers of certificates.

I’m pretty sure Lets Encrypt doesn’t operationally depend on DNSSEC, but if they’re issuing certificates to a zone with DNSSEC-signed CAA resource records, that’s irrefutable proof of the intent of the zone operator, something that Lets Encrypt and other issuers of certificates should probably pay attention to, regardless of the personal feelings of their engineers about any particular standard.

Without DNSSEC, there’s no way to know if the CAA records have been tampered with when using something like ACME.
I also use the free version of https://feedly.com/ . Can't see what this has over that for $2 a month.
Last I looked into this: maintenance of rail >> maintenance of runways. There's a lot of manpower in rail maintenance, which is costly in Europe.

But subsidies also play a role. France subsidizes rail as much as air travel is subsidized, and there rail is much more affordable.
I don't think that's a fair assessment as the alternative might well be their services being blocked by that region and a local service implementing this exact status quo.

Exactly the same outcome just without Google. Its a bit of a Pyrrhic victory to withdraw from those markets on ethical grounds.
For the benefit of the rest of us, can you explain what issues this causes and where/how you are running this code?
> Anyone who’s been in full-time employment for at least six months is entitled to apply for the unpaid sabbatical, or tjänstledighet, as it’s called in Sweden.

I just don’t see the magic in this or the extended parental leave

Why can’t any healthy functioning adult do the
exact same thing on their own ?

is 6 months living expenses really holding back your entrepreneurial dreams?
The WEF is a kind of a 'personally politicized' entity I don't mean that in a bad way. It's not some official government thing working on economically secular issues. It was founded by a dude interested in economic advancement and wellbeing of 'the world'. But it's made of people with personalities, agendas - and I don't mean cynically or negative, it's just part of the NGO landscape. It's a very European centric and is naturally going to be supportive of developing and promoting 'innovation' in the broadest sense for its constituents and relations.

Someone in the group may have had a meeting with someone from the city of Stockholm either public or private, which gave them the impetus or idea to talk about how they've been successful.

The author of the post, 'Sean Fleming' is a journalist from the UK with a background in PR, more than likely he's hired to 'write stuff' that is favourable to the WEF, and so this seems like a neat thing to talk about.

Basically, it's PR. There's nothing wrong with it, but that's what it is.

I'm doubtful that anyone in such a position is paid remotely enough to go really in-depth and to discover the underlying correlational factors such as the effect of very high taxes, or the real productive measures of '6 months off'.

It's just a little note from the WEF on how Sweden might possibly have some interesting differentiating thing.
I'm always reminded of how the founder of FedEx got a C+ on his project when he presented the idea for the company in his business school class.
>"Motivation will come and go. If it goes, I’d advise to avoid resisting and just let it go. Focus instead on “everything else” for a while, relax, and think over why it may have left."

I don't know if your advice is correct or not but I do want to add to the discussion the fact that it is 180° opposed to advice I received to the contrary: don't wait for motivation (which comes and goes); discipline is more important, and that means just doing it, regardless of whether you're emotionally motivated at the time.

Again just putting this out there because your advice and this advice are opposites. No comment on which (or both) are correct.
> GPUs are the best example for why C is a good lower-level high-level language, seeing how CUDA is programmed in C/C++.

CUDA is not C or C++. That you can program GPUs in a C/C++-like language does not entail that C/C++ is a natural form of expression for that architecture.

> Do you have any examples of architectures that could exist if only they weren't constrained by legacy C?

Turing tarpit means that every architecture could be realized, but that doesn't make it a particularly efficient or a natural fit for the hardware.

For instance, consider that every garbage collected language must distinguish pointers from integer types, but no such distinction exists in current hardware, and the bookkeeping required can incur significant performance and memory constraints (edit: C also makes this distinction but it doesn't enforce it).

Lisp machines and tagged hardware architectures do make such a distinction though, and so more naturally fit. With such distinctions, you could even have a hardware GC.
Added a kafka layer to make this real time capture. I guess lot of people are trying to do this. I guess what is the keypoint i am missing here.anyone ?
Interesting trivia: Zume owns the patent for "cooking on the way". These days you can really patent everything (in USA only, I hope)... What about mobile hot dog stand? Isn't that prior art?
Try it on a toaster :)
Unfortunately, it’s not this simple and certainly not this idealistic.

1) A (public) company’s first duty is to increase shareholder value, ergo, you take the cash.

2) That company wouldn’t have any influence on those millions if they aren’t in the market, so the point is moot. They’re either in the market under the constraints by the governing body or they aren’t in the market.

I’m not saying this is how I think the world should work; I am saying this is how it does work.
How would you decide on the issue of Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands)? What is the independent morally correct answer?
Oh man I’ve seen these signs first hand :(