skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to highlight: this is a problem that's on topic for us at VC3 (https://vc3.club). We're a group of contributors seeking to produce actionable research in the area of technology for social connection.

If this sort of thing interests you, we would love to have you join the discussion!
I stand corrected. It was much louder than a consumer vacuum but my analogy skills are weak.
My little firm is nothing like the scale of CF but I do the same and have dropped my email address around a fair bit. I do get some pretty interesting missives that make it past the filters but signal to noise is very high in my inbox.

I deleted my Linkedin account well over a year ago and I still get emails from them saying my profile is being viewed. Tossers.
Safari to reject HTTPS certificates with over thirteen months validity
What Is Hacktivism? and Why Should Enterprise Care?
So, way back in the last millenium, I did my Master's thesis (way smaller deal than a Ph.D. thesis) on neural networks. Since then, I have looked in on it every few years. I think they're cool, I like using them, and writing multi-level backpropagation neural networks used to be one of the first things I'd do in a new language, just to get a feel for how it worked (until pytorch came along and I decided for the first time that using their library was easier than writing my own).

So, it's not like I dislike ML. But, saying an investment is an "AI" startup, ought to be like saying it's a python startup, or saying it's a postgres startup. That ought not to be something you tell people as a defining characteristic of what you do, not because it's a secret but rather because it's not that important to your odds of success. If you used a different language and database, you would probably have about the same odds of success, because it depends more on how well you understand the problem space, and how well you architect your software.

Linear models or other more traditional statistical models can often perform just as well as DL or any other neural network, for the same reason that when you look at a kaggle leaderboard, the difference between the leaders is usually not that big after a while. The limiting factor is in the data, and how well you have transformed/categorized that data, and all the different methods of ML that get thrown at it all end up with similar looking levels of accuracy.

There used to be a saying: "If you don't know how to do it, you don't know how to do it with a computer." AI boosters sometimes sound as if they are suggesting that this is no longer true. They're incorrect. ML is, absolutely, a technique that a good programmer should know about, and may sometimes wish to use, kind of like knowing how a state machine works. It makes no great deal of difference to how likely a business is to succeed.
> Tacit leaders are more important (and respected) than explicit ones. Appointing a leader rarely works.

There are different use-cases for intrinsic and extrinsic leadership. Some actions work better when executed by one or the other.
This bullshit policy drives me mad. I will start donating regularly once it's cancelled. Not sooner, nor later.
Please explain something to me.

For me and my of my customers, having your "entire cloud deleted" is like... the #1 nightmare scenario.

So why does this capability/function even exist for active accounts at CloudFlare? It sounds like the OP fell victim to what is essentially a regular process.

Or to put it another way: No amount of explanation or assurance is ever going to make me feel comfortable with my doctor having a handgun as one of his medical instruments.
I was under the impression that the closure compiler didn't exist in 2004, only GWT, and that it was rewritten to be almost all JS later.
You can still pull it off, but it requires copious quoting to ensure no substitutions or removals from the query.
I couldn't make heads nor tails of it when it debuted. But I was only 17.

This article brings me back to a time when every product had a bunch of these "empty suit" quotes about it. The person never said that stuff, it was all written for them. I remember being on a project where marketing fluff was "said" by someone who had no idea what was going on and, besides, the product wasn't doing anything, let alone what he claimed the technology enabled it to do.
Learned a new word today. Pyrrhic.
Statistical forecasting: notes on regression and time series analysis
JavaScript is a fascinating example of Microsoft successfully getting a giant own goal.

The promise of the web was cross platform applications that required no installation. Microsoft's fear was that cross platform applications would make the operating system irrelevant and reduce Windows lock-in. Both Sun (with Java) and Netscape wanted Microsoft's worst fears to happen.

This was the era of Embrace-Extend-Extinguish. So Microsoft embraced the web and added a variety of extensions that only worked on Internet Explorer and Windows. The browser wars followed, which Microsoft resoundingly won.

Along the way, Microsoft demonstrated the power of their browser by doing everything that they could to encourage people to write web applications that would only run on Internet Explorer. Which, of course, only ran on Windows. One of the things that they did was write web versions of Microsoft applications using various Microsoft extensions.

One of those applications was Microsoft Outlook. Which needed to poll the server and find out if there was new mail. For that purpose they wrote the first version of the XmlHttpRequest object. This was in 1999 and they thought nothing more of it...until gmail and then Google Maps came out in 2004 and demonstrated what could be done with it.

The next thing you know, everyone is talking AJAX. Mozilla makes the web accessible to the world. And then Google decided to throw serious energy into a better JavaScript runtime (aka V8) because they wanted to be able to write more sophisticated applications.

And the result is that Microsoft's nightmare has now been realized. But none of it could have happened without that fateful decision to supply the missing piece for a ton of applications of having an asynchronous way to go back for more data without loading another web page.
> didn't work well.

And nearly impossible to debug on top of that. Firebug didn't come around until 2005, and AFAIK that was the first interactive debugger for Javascript. In fact, I remember spending a lot of time debugging without even console.log() support - window.alert() was the only weapon you had for the longest time. Not to mention every Javascript implementation's frustrating habit of just throwing up a blank page instead of an error message if anything was wrong...
took two tries for me, too
This will result in a whole new class of copy paste bugs.

Great anyways
hi OP. We built an open-source library called, BentoML(https://github.com/bentoml/bentoml) to make model inferencing/serving a lot easier for Data scientists in various serving scenarios.

Love to hear your thoughts on our library
>> Let's Disrupt

Already vomiting in my mouth.
No, obviously not.
Can you expand on that? How do you get out of paying taxes?
It was used, but mostly for internal applications or websites that were willing to dictate a minimum browser. Firefox was only released in 2002. By 2004, it had hit a critical enough mass that it was reasonable to tell a user they needed as good as IE or Firefox at the time (for a beta project).
I think it's meant to promote looking at how a literate programming system is mangling program output. It's way more complicated and powerful than just "inverted comments" (like e.g. CoffeeScript did in recent memory). Composite parts of the final program can be presented out of order, sent to different output files, etc.

For something slightly more modern than this sample program or TeX, there's "A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation", which presentes the code of lcc, a quite conformant C compiler (which, IIRC, still enjoys some popularity on Windows).

Sadly the strengths of literate programming are rarely useful for mere mortal programmers -- we're not often entrenched in deriving algorithms and/or presenting something in a didactic manner.
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to ask you question. I ported and continued Einstein for a while, trying to make it run well on e-ink displays ATM. I also wrote a little emulator so that MPW tools can run on macOS, Linux, etc. . I bought one of the early MPs, hoping to be able to write apps, but the cost of NTK was just too much, and the resulting lack of software made me abandon the platform quite quickly.

As a novelty, I like to have Einstein running NewtonOS on my Samsung Note 10 which is now really fast and quite impressive for a machine from the 90's.

Apple has refused Einstein for iOS at least once. They don't allow emulators, especially not Apple product emulators, and they don't like the idea of downloading ROMs. Do you have any suggestion on how we could get EInstein into the app store nevertheless? Or how to get around the ROM issue?

Maybe related, I wish we could bring NewtonScript into the 64bit world, surrounded by an updated NewtonOS. There is already half of the ROM rewritten as newton-framework on GitHub. Do you think it is possible to rewrite the rest? To get a truly native framework going? How would we do that?

Anyway, I wanted to thank you for creating this huge Sudoku puzzle for us. I have a great time tracing your steps and understanding NewtonScript and how it works inside NewtonOS. I have manually disassembled thousands of lines of ROM code, and it's just great fun to see smart code.
How do I invest in this?
I didn't know which probably slightly proves some point other people made.
There are "NBOMe" compounds though, such as 25I-NBOMe, which may easily be sold as LSD or "acid" to the unsuspecting. LSD should be colorless, odorless, and tasteless, whereas NBOMes are known for their metallic and bitter taste.

"If it's bitter, its a spitter"
“ Embrace services. There are huge opportunities to meet the market where it stands. That may mean offering a full-stack translation service rather than translation software or running a taxi service rather than selling self-driving cars. Building hybrid businesses is harder than pure software, but this approach can provide deep insight into customer needs and yield fast-growing, market-defining companies. Services can also be a great tool to kickstart a company’s go-to-market engine – see this post for more on this – especially when selling complex and/or brand new technology. The key is pursue one strategy in a committed way, rather than supporting both software and services customers.”

Exactly wrong and contradicts most of the thesis of the article - that AI often fails to achieve acceptable models because of the individuality, finickiness, edge cases, and human involvement needed to process customer data sets.

The key to profitability is for AI to be a component in a proprietary software package, where the VENDOR studies, determines, and limits the data sets and PRESCRIBES this to the customer, choosing applications many customers agree upon. Edge cases and cat-guacamole situations are detected and ejected, and the AI forms a smaller, but critical efficiency enhancing component of a larger system.
I seem to remember oddpost.com doing 'Ajax email' pretty significantly in 2002/2003, well before gmail.
That’s why I’m working on angle, a speakable dialect of python

https://github.com/pannous/angle
This comment reminds me of something of a thought-experiment-come-hacky-side-project that I can’t seem to find.

The premise was, what if you could never edit a function? Instead, you had to delete it and recreate it entirely whenever changes were needed.

The incentives are twofold - keep functions small, so you don’t lose too much investment if you have to delete code, and think before you start writing, else you waste time.

As I remember, this project came with an AST manipulator that would helpfully delete your function if it’s unit tests failed.
Then I'd like to know the CEO's opinion then.
I don't think he's saying that OP should've known to email him, just that he would've done the same thing over private emails where nobody was watching, as he is doing here publicly.
This article states, that the path to a vaccine is something between 3 months (optimistic intial version) to 18 months (fully tested and mass production) ahead.

Does anybody know, what the path to a reliable and cost effective detection mechanism is?
Magic Mushrooms Inspired Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ (2014)
And in context, the idea is that when we use classic Unix text manipulation tools, we make implicit and sometimes explicit assumptions about the nature and structure of the data. Those assumptions can be wrong and then our pipelines are also wrong. By contrast, a strongly statically typed environment might force us to prove our assumptions in the context of the interactions among the different parts of our code, and so there will be fewer corner cases where we have unexpected or unspecified behavior.

The only barely held back part is presumably that when we notice a corner case, we might add a little more logic to handle that specific case, but we never really approach the goal of handling all possible inputs with valid or useful behavior. (We might even declare that a non-goal.)
But manually improving the data pipeline requires an understanding of the problem, whereas doing a hyperparameter optimized architecture search just needs $$$ hardware and no clue on the side of the operator.
"who can certify that the matches you are set up with are people with a track record of dealing honestly ("

Mate, good observation with the market of lemons. My thinking. Actually the same in the official job market.

But otherwise you are nuts. "All warfare is based on deception" [Sun Tzu] and "all is fair in love and war" [Proverb]. And, since all relationships sooner or later end in lies, why not start with it? [Lord of War]
legitimately don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. Is this not a fair question? Help me understand.
I think google as the primary engine results in stuff like this: https://github.com/osprey-voice/osprey-starter-pack/blob/mas...

On the other hand it’s probably better at general (non command) English.
I don't think not being biased is possible except /maybe/ an absolute null set.

Any position on a mapping qualifies as a bias technically, it just may not map to something considered such or sensible. What is meant most of the time is if it is contentious or controversial which is utterly orthogonal to morals and reality. If enough people dogmatically insist that using punctuation is intellectual elitism or acknowledging gravity is then it may become a "political issue". They would be objectively wrong in every stance but by definition would be right about it being political. A cat walking across a keyboard is biased compared to anyone actually writing even including the worst typists chemically impaired.
It does since like 11.1.

Yes, SW can cache all resources. This is how offline PWAs work.
I program mainly in R and I always use RMarkdown. I write extensively about question definition, notes, reference, exploration, different directions in RMarkdown. In the end if I ever need to have a script version I have some utility function to pick code chunks and output as script.

This serve as a very good documentation and is much better than code comments.
Why not wrap it in an easily installAble Linux package
Fun fact, Num basically requires inf and nan unless you're willing to tolerate either terrible overflow (non-)handling (eg Int,SatInt) or memory blowup (eg Integer,BaireReal).

# where R is some r such that Num r
let huge = <the largest (finite) value in R>
let inf = huge * huge # can't be finite unless you
# truncate or saturate or something
let nan = inf - inf # can't be either of
# infinite (infinitely < +inf and > -inf), or
# finite (catastrophic rounding errors)

Num doesn't allow inf or nan to be Maybe R, so you're stuck filtering out in-band errors from a bare R.
Going through the interview process and just last week I was rejected from Google with a referral and without even getting a recruiter conversation. Caught me by surprise because with current education/work exp. I had no issue reaching the "talk to a human being" step with other FAANG companies... a bit disheartening but mainly just makes me wonder what Google is looking for at that point in the process that's different from other top companies.
The WHO has been repeating the ridiculous lines that travel restrictions don't work and that China is doing a wonderful job containing the virus.
If a person is that candid while interviewing someone that is definitely a huge red flag.

"I think you will like it here, me I'm bailing because I can't stand it"
> Ryan Broderick, a self-professed hebephile

It's pretty clear that the tweet in question was satirizing people who use terms like "hebephiles" to defend themselves. While you can argue in good faith whether the satire worked, was a good idea, was appropriate, etc., taking the tweet at face value and saying that he's a "self-professed hebephile" is not arguing in good faith.

So either the author doesn't understand what was going on or is choosing to lie about it for rhetorical purposes - either way the author isn't a credible voice.
Fatality rate in US for 18-49 is 0.02%. Source:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm

So using your most optimistic number of 0.4%, that’s a fatality rate 20x as high.

And again, you have many comments downplaying the significance of this virus based on your own assessment that it kills young and healthy people at acceptably low rates. What about the billions of people who are older, sick, or have the misfortune of being born in a country without access to decent medical care? Pretty easy to calmly assess relative risks to other people, especially if you get them wrong by a factor of 2000%.
I like the idea that code should look more and more like human language. I think that programming languages have gotten much more human-friendly nowadays and this trend will continue. I have created my own human-like programming language prototype to explore these ideas and have implemented TodoMVC with it: https://github.com/tautvilas/lingu/blob/master/examples/todo...
I understand it for some cases where the mods just need to stop people making up random crap on topics that don't exist or can't be verified. But in this case a single reference is more than enough to write the whole page because the spec is literally the only source of truth on the topic.

Unfortunately I think the mods may be too passionate about "protecting the integrity of wikipedia" that they let legitimate content be deleted. It also doesn't help that the wikipedia UI for disputes and edits is really confusing and I had a hard time trying to work out what was going on or how I communicate to this moderator. The whole system is designed for power users only.
I think this is a really valuable perspective. Would be curious to hear from more folks on “the other side” about their experiences. I’ve often considered doing the expat thing and trying to work in or setup such a shop.
My Dad used to be a council civil engineer - every year he took turns deciding when to send the gritters out. There’s quite an art to deciding on a plan based on the road dew points, the precipitation forecast and the temperature. Precipitation washes the salt off - so that mileage often has to be covered multiple times over.

He used to get very nerdy over Christmas checking the road network data website :)
Your analogy skills were strong, because analogy is rooted in myth, not fact. Achilles did not actually have an Achilles tendon because Achilles did not exist

There does not have to be an increadibly loud functional industrial vacuum cleaner, for figuratively everyone to get your analogy, because the Herculean reality of vacuum cleaners is that you cannot clean an augean stable of lego on the floor, without a lot of noise. If you get my analogy.
If I worked from home and my employer asked me to install a server in my home, I would tell them to go fuck themselves.

It's noisy, it takes up space, and presumably I'm on call to fix it if it breaks.

You should pay them an extra 24x(PSU wattage)x(peak $/Wh in area) per day for the electricity too.

I'm alarmed that someone in your company felt this idea was appropriate enough to propose.
You take a deep breath and hold it. Breath out very quickly then immediately back in, all the way. Hold it. Repeat. You don't even need to lie back, you just allow yourself to settle a little deeper.

When I graduated basic training I was fairly lean. I was 5'10" and weighed 148lbs and got fairly good fitness scores relative to the rest of my flight, so I had to have been reasonable well muscled. (Not anymore though. Oh no.) I could still "tread water" just by holding my breath.

It's more of a skill (that they don't teach you, for some reason) than a test of physical fitness.

I imagine this doesn't work for water polo players who are actively doing stuff in the water. I imagine you need to keep breathing fairly heavily just to keep up with the activity. But then again I've never played water polo so I wouldn't know.
Ok. You know of Sally Ride but not Mae Jemison. Their work is equivalent.

You know of Watson and Crick, but not Rosalind Franklin. By you, I mean the general you.
Making the NTK so insanely expensive killed my enthusiasm pretty quickly. I was working as a SW engineer in L.A., so even if it would have been only a small game, I would have had the ability to at least add something to the pool.

Even the Palm SDK was commercial in the beginning. But a free toolchain was put together by some hacker after a year or so, which subsequently convinced Palm to lower their price and eventually give it away for free IIRC. Then again, even VisualC 6 cost 400$ or so back then.
Perl (5) is array-of-codepoint based, at the logical level. Those codepoints might be internally stored as their encoded-to-UTF-8-bytes, or they might not, but this does not affect the usage of the string.

Many don't really understand the string model (because many don't really understand character encoding) but it comes down to: all input and output is going to be bytes, which by default is stored as the codepoints sharing the ordinals of those bytes, and there are several mechanisms by which you can manually or automatically decode/encode those byte ordinals to the represented characters; for most text processing, you do this on STDIN and STDOUT.
I wrote my first website in 1995 and started using Javascript in 1996 (only I think it was called Livescript back then)?

I was not impressed. On the client side I would use it for very few things and when I tried the server side version I decided that I would rather stick with Perl and CGI. Although I did not like Perl, I could get things done with it. (Oh, I just remember: also Cold Fusion!)

My opinion of Javascript has not improved over the years. I worked with Javascript for a while and in complex enough problems that my name ended up on 2-3 patents and patent applications. I no longer work on the web, but I have occasional need for Javascript and I always hate my time with it.

This will be an unpopular opinion, but frankly I am perplexed by its popularity, because it is neither simple nor elegant.
I'm glad paia is still around.

Just before I was born, my father built and entire 4700j... that was neat to be around when I was little. Eventually I sold it to a collector who had more time and money to refurb it... keeping old hand built synths like that alive is a labor of love.

But I still have a collection of euroack stuff that I've put together. It's a neat hobby even if I make a lot more music with plugins in Logic.
Now that the OP has given a go ahead to go public, We will eagerly wait for your update jgc