skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I think a lot are struggling to stay awake and just use a ton of caffeine to mask it. Certainly I've seen some execs whose brains just weren't there thinking they were fine to do SFO->DUB and start meetings.
Can't tell if this is /s or real.
Sounds like you know unsuccessful people. I know plenty of developers who became front-end or dev ops from their own studies. It's not too hard to learn SQL or data visualization. The majority of questions can be answered via stackoverflow or slack communities. You don't need to know everything to land a entry-level job, you just need to prove you know how to problem solve.

Either way, you are not becoming a true machine learning researcher via self-study nor a bootcamp. You will need at least a master's in CS/Math/Stats to land those roles. A bootcamp is neither the lowest cost to a softwaredev career nor is it the a career effective maximizing choice.
So you're just upset you don't have more money? $28K is a lot to the vast majority of the world but I bet you don't think so.
I'm pretty sure I read this in an interview with one of the authors. However, I can't find it, so I will defer to you. Apologies for the implication.
Some of us actually did know him. I did, albeit not as well as others here, and I see no harm and much good in people celebrating his accomplishments in his chosen career.
The "right process" is whichever one ends up nominating Hillary Clinton.

... I'm only partly joking; I am not a fan of the idea that there are some special gatekeepers or One True Process™ for determining who's allowed to talk to voters.

The things Bloomberg has meaningfully "wrong" in terms of process look something like this:

- he is be a rich person (definitely not trendy in the party), and...

- his failure to solicit donations deprives people of one meaningful test of his political appeal, instead

- he spends his own money on politics instead: an uncool, Constitutionally protected exercise of the First Amendment, which has an unfortunate interaction with the political narrative that _Citizens United_ must be restored (though in fact it wouldn't stop him from doing this)

Needless to say, arguing about some of these "violations" is actually in practice just arguing about ideology and might be more effectively approached as such.
> why don't browsers just include the most popular fonts, so the underlying OS doesn't matter?

Well, pontificating here:

1. Because many applications don't ship with additional fonts, and it's an additional layer of complexity. Some do—Microsoft Word comes to mind, IIRC.

2. Because you're still left with the same problem: unless all browsers can agree on an additional set of standard fonts, you as a web developer will only want to use those installed by Chrome and Edge and Safari and Firefox.

3. Because licensing for desktop application may (?) be more of a pain than licensing for web usage. Which may not matter for Google Fonts, since they may be the license holder for all anyway. I don't know.
Sure, it was "plug and play", but like every printer, it took some work: you have to download and install a driver package and software suite, because this stuff isn't included in the Windows OS. This simply isn't the case in Linux: for many printers (particularly HPs), the drivers are already there.
Python has enough vararg functions to make this not doable without coming up with some special-case syntax. There's a reason you don't have varargs in the Haskell world--currying isn't a special case, but rather happens any time you have multiple arguments. A three-argument function with type (A -> B -> C -> D) is actually syntactic sugar for a function that takes an A and returns...

a function that takes a B and returns...

a function that takes a C and returns...

a value of type D.

This is determinable by just looking at the number of arguments provided. But a variadic function, in a world with currying, would be a function that takes an argument, and returns...well, it might be a function to take another argument, and it might be the actual computation.

Even if we didn't have currying, we can't just use whitespace in a Python-like language. We don't know if (print) is actually a function call, or just referencing the function object (perhaps to pass it to 'map' or something). Your syntax needs to distinguish between those two cases.
> While both have their sexists, I find that the problem is far worse, and far more accepted in tech than either.

> as extolled by the post above.

The post above that was killed by downvotes?

Why is HN such an outlier, and how is it holding out for so long and resisting this dominant, anti-woman culture of the tech industry?
please don't alias ls to rm -rf ....

it is not funny.
Few talented people will sign up for this sort of thing.
1. My bad. I genuinely misunderstood your stance. Are you suggesting that by taking money from him in a manner that is not sincere is not ethical? Is it unethical, because I am taking money under false pretenses, sway opinion of a few, or some other reason?

2. I never claimed to be absolved. Then again I do not believe I committed a sin either. You may be pushing your analogies too far. Lets stick to the facts available to us.
You see, we had things called computers, which were like an interface between you and the network...
True. And I'm sure most devs that I mention in my comment actually get the job done. In their own way.

I have paired up with some terrible programmers, with bad coding habits, weak knowledge of their ecosystem and no capacity for any kind of architecture design, but that eventually did better than me because they worked way more, and were more persistent.

This idea that bad code will waste productivity is not that important if one person accepts to work 30 hours more than you every week, including to fix the mistakes they introduced by writing said code in the first place.
> It's not, but hasn't money always played an important role in politics?

I guess it's a rhetorical question. In other words, let me rephrase: why money has always played an important role in politics?

In 2016 Lawrence Lessig tried to attack this problem, with little success. In this election there seemingly is another candidate, somewhat more practical than Lessig, with somewhat stronger systematic approach than others, so we can hope for some progress.
J. K. Rowling comes to mind.
Cryptocurrency Scammers Impersonate Followers of Political Figures on Twitter
Needlessly pedantic. If companies are profitable, they provide some sort of value even if you don't think so. Much more than people sucking up welfare benefits and not giving back, at least.
Any time CI hits a site with these fonts integrated an ephemeral session (no cache) probably has to download them.
But only one of those two is family friendly :)
The new Office app now generally available for Android and iOS
Attorney General blasts tech, suggests companies be liable for dangerous content
I agree with your sentiment, and feel that YouTube should add a language tag rather than uploaders having to do this.
We've ended up with many bills, multiple EOB documents, et c., trickling in over a span of many months, coming from a bunch of different sources, each time we've had someone in the actual hospital (not just a doctor's visit), including three births. We've managed to miss some trivial bill and end up with it in collections because there's just so much damn paperwork and usually a few of them are in some state of error or dispute for some time. Seems to be normal. You in Kaiser or something? I understand that's smoother than... basically everything else, since it's all run by one entity (ahem).
Yep, heat definitely apepars to be the biggest factor in these bulbs dying. I have Hyperikon BR30 bulbs in various locations. About half of the bulbs installed in insulation-contact recessed cans have died, but those in exposed fixtures are fine.

Philips bulbs seem to do much better in the ceiling. If only they'd make 3000k bulbs...
A2SV: Africa to Silicon Valley
I've literally described why I think generating billionaires is a symptom of a broken system. So the short answer is: because it's a broken system. A better question would be which country has the least inequality and the highest standard of living. That's the country I want to live in. Would be pretty nice if that was every country.

Also you're wrong: there are ~700 billionaires in asia and only ~600 in north america (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_numbe...)
Wait until you hear how 'valgrind' rhymes with 'grinned'!
Social apps for a happier and longer life
And 2016 was also a NY-based choice. Combination of money and control of media narrative.
If you really believe that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not, please check this out:

I’m an ex Palantir, Google Research, and Liftoff software/ML engineer, currently training poor and smart software engineering students at MIT of Ethiopia(Addis Ababa Institute of Technology), and connecting them with opportunities in Silicon Valley. The program is called A2SV.

A2SV is a 3-month interview preparation program that focuses on algorithms, data structures, problem-solving, communication skills, and personal development.
For more information, please watch the trailer(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy00E8FklC0), check out the website(http://a2sv.org), and take a look at the progress sheet(https://bit.ly/327Pf4g).

The ask is simple:
Interview these folks for summer software engineering internship positions at your company(or share with others in other companies in the valley or Europe). The inspiration these guys have is amazing and contagious, so the distance they'll go - or even make the team go - is likely greater than most others you can find locally.
> pretty much all games in the early 80's had [so called] pixel perfect scrolling. Each frame showed exactly what was required.

> Today it is entirely acceptable for a map to be a jerky stuttering pile of crap. The same goes for the infinite scroll implementations. Its preposterous to start loading things after they are needed.

This doesn't make any sense to me. In which game from the early 80's could I view accurate map data for any region on the earth, and quickly scroll across the planet without any loading artifacts?

Of course you can manage pixel-perfect scrolling if all of your data is local and fits in memory. That's not anywhere close to the same domain as maps.
Are the other videos in this series publicly available? You are great at explaining things.
I was pointing out that it was not "supposed" at all. Trump is a former democrat in exactly the same way that Bloomberg is a former republican. There was no reason to weasel word it
You should check out https://community.letsencrypt.org and ask for help there!
My account is comped, and has been since long before the acquisition. I'd forgotten about the link in my bio, as I put it there a long time ago. It's gone now, thank you for reminding me. :)

I am migrating my repositories off of GitHub this week, which is why I now only have about six remaining there instead of the 60+ that I had for many years. The remaining ones are the ones that need to remain online for services that pull from there; I intend to remove my remaining code from the site very soon, on the order of days. I actually happen to be building my new self-hosting server today, having tested out Gitea and found it a perfect replacement.

My account will remain, to squat my username to prevent impersonation, with a single public repo containing only a README explaining the situation and why use of GitHub is inappropriate.
Surely that is more due to testosterone than stupidity.
Larry was a great thinker. I got to discuss "vi vs. emacs" at one of the Fellows induction ceremonies held at the Computer History Museum. He could easily articulate counter cases and keep the discussion both productive and quite civil!

I first met him while I was visiting my wife at her office in Xerox Business Systems (XBS). He came over to discuss some suggestions to improve the protocol she was working on. I thought he was one of her co-workers because the discussion was very peer to peer as opposed to top down. She corrected me to point out he was one of the movers and shakers at PARC. That left a very positive impression on me.

He was also "the other Larry" at Xerox. Larry Garlick, who was also "Larry" to most people, was also at XBS (as was Eric Schmidt) and later followed Eric over to Sun.
You can't "earn" a billion dollars. You can acquire that much by winning big at the stock lottery or by appropriating the surplus value of others. All Bernie/Warren/Yang are promising is that they'll return some of that acquired wealth to the people who actually did the work.
You can only install LED bulbs in fixtures that are open to the air. There are some newer bulbs that claim to be heat resistant, we'll see.
I am paid to shill in warcraft 3 general chat. I can vouch for this.
So a lot of fluff and no actual reply.
Users can be tracked without cookies being sent, while "access to the data is kept secure".
Call me a cynic, but I lost my trust in google a long time ago.
I've been wanting this for a while, mainly because I often find myself writing long function composition chains that end up being a mess of parentheses. Python is good at encouraging functional style but sometimes it ends up being too much to be readable with the normal syntax.
€3/mo, and for a different plan
Typesafe internationalization made easy (with Kotlin)
For readers interested in understanding the technical details about potential BGP attacks on domain validation, which serve as a motivation for Let's Encrypt's multi-perspective validation deployment, see the following paper from USENIX Security: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...
wonder if there's a code injection opportunity here
There’s a company that makes exactly this - https://canary.tools/
Douglas Engelbart demonstrated copy/paste with a mouse in 1968 [1], however I'm not sure what he called the process. It was also very much an experimental system and not something for sale.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Yes, for sure - Home/Condo is next, with Auto, Life and others further down the roadmap. Lots to do! But the goal is to be full service.
The parent stated that you can run your own DNS server temporarily for the cost of the hardware to run the server and shut the DNS server off after the certificate has been issued. The cost is basically free.
It really does not matter how much you have. You are hoarding wealth that you could be giving back to improve conditions for those that aren’t as fortune to be able to save. It doesn’t feel great to listen to people tell you what to do with your money, does it?
Good point. I've seen miracles occur simply by refactoring an Excel workbook such that the inputs, outputs, and calculations to map the inputs to the outputs were all delineated into their own clearly-formatted bounded context. And also, when you do drop into vba code, simply organizing the code so that interactions with the sheet are easier to understand, and isolated -- and focusing on "seriality" (no feedback loops, minimize code triggered by events) can transmogrify vba code from the Bogeyman into a friendly neighbor.
It is difficult to have these conversations and not think that people are just determining right and wrong by whatever they do or do not like based on what is immediately in front of them
Typesafe Internationalization Made Easy
That's not all they care about, it's just all they have left. Their values have been systematically eliminated from education, entertainment, and the courts. Their regions are socially and economically ruined. They have some representation in politics and the media but it's mostly just exploitive lip service. Their states are used as shorthand for incest and illiteracy in the punchlines of jokes.

I would guess that when there's a riot in an urban neighborhood you don't say they have an ideology which only cares about hurting people and destroying things. You should look at this in a similar way.
This breaks my heart. I used to work next to Larry—literally sat next to him—on Yahoo’s central design team. We were in frequent meetings together, but didn’t talk one-on-one often. One evening commuting from work, during one of many Caltrain failures, he noticed me as I waited outside the train and offered me a ride home. I remember sitting nervously in the car, a bit awestruck, and I finally got up the courage to ask him “Did you really invent copy and paste?!”

“Yes.”

From then on the ice was broken and we chatted more freely: fun discussions about the (then) up-and-coming voice recognition UIs (I compared them to CLIs which he liked), wearables, design, and cycling.

I consider him a friend. Didn’t expect us to lose him so soon.
High quality recording mics and even mics designed for acoustic measurements usually (and deliberately) only go up to 20-40 kHz though roll off more gently than human hearing. Usually there is a mechanical resonance that's tuned to get a flat frequency response up to a point rather than a wider but rolling off response. A few specialist mics get up to 100 kHz, or some sort of laser vibration measurement...
Chris,

Congratulations. I wish there were more like Goodcover.

How would you handle premiums and claims from high risk earthquake and fire prone areas (in California)?

For example, if I invested in building a defensible area around my house, would you give me a discount on "fire insurance"?
Coffin Corner
Yeah I'm not convinced Assange would recognize or care to look hard enough to figure out if his source was a simple cut out.
10X programmers do exist but good luck finding them as Job Seekers.

It is also a concept which is NOT SCALABLE.
I'm glad it is gone. The useful uses of it are far outweighed by the abuses. If I never again have to page down through the entire history of a file in my editor to get to the code that will be fine with me. I have a version control system when I need to know history.
I've actually stepped away from using laptops in general. My laptop is a 2014 MacBook Air that is now running as a glorified Chromebook. At both work and home I use i7 desktops with multiple monitors. If I need to do something, I remote into a desktop from my laptop.

Obviously not everyone can work like this. I have found, however, that I'm generally more productive when I'm on a desktop. I have better methods for input, no problems with user servicability, and speed is never an issue. I've also found that at home, I spend far less time on a computer.
I think the anti-Assange/anti-Trump clan are trying to get ahead of this story and positioning it as if it were another quid pro quo situation, which is insidious and duplicitous to say the least - because actually there are a lot of political hacks who are headed for deep embarrassment if Assange can demonstrate that, indeed, Russia was not behind the DNC leak which embarrassed Clinton and 'cost her the election'.

Trump telling Assange "okay, so .. come out and tell the world that the DNC leaks weren't Russia-sourced and if you can provide evidence that this is true, I will pardon you" is not the same as Trump saying "cover up Russia's involvement in the DNC leak, and I'll pardon you" - but yet, the positioning in mainstream media so far (its only been a few hours) is definitely making it seem like the former.

Until we can refer to the sources (you know, "avoid fake news by going to the source"), this should be treated as fake news either way. The hearing hasn't even ramped up yet and we are already knee-deep in Russiagate nonsense already.
I love hearing stories like this, and I feel what you feel. Definitely rewarding and fun, playing a bigger part in your local community feels amazing.
You could download the fonts to your machine(s). That way they will be served locally rather than connecting to fonts.googleapis.com

https://fontsplugin.com/how-to-download-google-fonts/
Wow, lots of oppo research against Bloomberg this week. I wonder if all of the other Democratic candidates planned it this way
Linux won because it got proven to be effective before any money had to be spent. The risk of trying it out was very low. And it ran well on old or low spec hardware, which Windows did not run (well) on. So we snuck Linux in by installing it on old puny PCs, setup some useful network services, and let it do its job well for months. Then we would casually mention to management what we did.

Many companies would not or because of SLAs _could not_ use free Linux. They would pay RedHat or Suse fees that included support/maintenance. Yes, it was still usually cheaper than Window licenses, but the price was not really the point.

Now about sneaking languages, platforms, and stacks in... Java was once too risky and unknown to be used in place of C/C++, but we snuck that in and proved it was up to task. Python... hah, Python was a toy "scripting language". No self-respecting CIO would approve of building company products in Python. Ruby? Rails? Surely not, those were also free, unknown, unproven technologies (which ironically were trying to supplant Java-based systems... that same Java which was once too risky).

PosgreSQL or MySQL? No way, that's not reliable for production. Of course it is, and it got snuck into companies whose engineers despised Oracle and SQL Server (not because MSSQL sucked, but because it only ran on Windows).

You can pick any modern best of breed tool, and I can point in history when that tool had to be snuck in to prove itself and gain acceptance.
How about a Rust or a Go with Python syntax?
Fake News About a Secret Nazi UFO Base In Antarctica Refuses to Die
This researcher at Cambridge has a PhD and still had to take time to prove why the Nazi Antarctic UFO base is a hoax.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nz53eq/fake-news-about-a-...

* Operation Highjump | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump
We went separate ways. I had a job offer I couldn't turn down and it was still very early days in the venture.
When tinder had a webapp, not sure if they still have it, I've made a Chrome extension to swipe right.

I used to leave my personal laptop on with the thing enabled when I left for work in the morning. Got me plenty of matches, but not that many dates, since you need to engage in conversation very soon after the match, or the lady is going to lose interest.
I wonder if this is a deliberate strategy ... I .e. first advisory council halts, does their DD, and then says its all good... which they can then point to and create a defense. Prob not the case but can't rule anything out.
Nukes, malware and bots: US intelligence races to stay ahead of adversaries
I made a critical mistake in my initial "364 million years" estimate -- I forgot to include the wattage per square meter.

Corrected:

(1.2 * 10^29) / (340 * 0.276 * 3.79 * 10^13) = 3.4 * 10^13 seconds, or 1.07 million years.
Absolutely nothing other than the fact it wasn't a requirement.
Who did you quote? ("It’s all about the comments" )

I'm curious about what you think about Talkyard-blog-comments https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments (I'm developing it), in comparison to a PHP+DB approach? (Pros & cons? if you have time)
Stoicism 3: Setbacks and Framing
Thanks! I'm not sure where the other videos are (I don't see them on my Youtube). I'll see if I can dig them up.
In theory it is a great fit for ML. But not for the reasons you're suggesting.

The success of a compression scheme ultimately comes down to its ability to estimate p(x), for some sample x. And estimating p(x) is precisely the problem the field of ML addresses.
in fairness, there are two billionaires running on one side and a near billionaire (trump) on the other side. at least one (Ross Perot) has run in the past.

having a lot of money makes it easier to run, but there's no guarantee of success
Less than a third of Americans identify as republican.