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IMHO, Beta 2 should be held back until _at least_ USB Wifi devices are supported. I can't get most of my laptops to work, and the tried-and-true trusted Wifi USB dongles I use on various ARM projects just don't work because Haiku doesn't support _any_ USB Wifi.
First proper JavaScript apps were Firefox/Netscape 9/Thunderbird where the user interface was done in JavaScript+XUL, while not being loaded from a server and most logic was done in C++.
Because you have to compromise? That’s my point, is that the infinite selection offered by online dating makes it seem like you don’t have to compromise, whereas the years go by and you keep losing value as you age.

Not that there’s anything wrong with dealbreakers, and maybe they are warranted, but it all depends how much you want to get married.
If I was hiring at a relatively tiny startup, a person who had only ever worked at Google and didn't need the job on top of it wouldn't be my first choice. Probably sounds good at meetings though.
Sounds like you're bitter cause you got rejected by Google.

Google interviews tens of thousands of people yearly, you think your one anecdotal experience or that of a few friends allows you to generalize the entire interview experience for every single person interviewing at Google?
literally sunsetting a project. I like it.
"black students “consistently scored lower than black students who were not asked to identify their race before the test.”"

Why attribute this to students imagining they're inferior instead of them inferring from the question that the test administrators are biased or racist? Or just have thoughts about racism interfering with concentration?

So much research I read about seems to assume that the subjects are thinking precisely what the researchers expect.
Heads up - I am getting an invalid certificate warning in your site. iOS Safari.
Roblox gets a lot of traction with young people right now.
A better headline:

German car manufacturers failed to adapt to changing market demands and Tesla is eating their lunch.
Italy banned direct flights from China, but not indirect flights.
> primes greater than 1

I mean, many theorems about primes do not apply to 1. 1 is very often not considered a prime. And, as another commenter noted, there is not just one definition of prime.
Gmail gives you the capability to automatically give access to a list of emails if you're inactive on your Gmail for x amount of time: https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive

You can just send the master password to your password manager in that email as well.
Also you tend to lose when playing the short game, short game is more easily predicted by algorithms. So you are not only going against pros, you are going against machines that has speed and world class math phds
Clearly 99% of the population isn't either... Why make this an app or a startup or something if you're only going to invite 500 people? Why not just play matchmaker yourself in whatever city?
> If you don't know how to do it, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

This is so true. We spent decades educating non-technical people that understanding a problem well is a prerequisite to programming it. Take something easy to understand like driving a car, doing it in a computer is now harder.

AI is undoing all that. People reach a vague problem they can't describe and assume computers will magically fix it.
Very common in game development. Someone focuses too much on the engine but forgets the game. Or focuses too much on the graphics pipeline but forgets gameplay.

A portfolio of completed projects is actually a thing worth having in game dev. Doesn't necessarily mean a project polished to the nth degree but instead, a project that is a cohesive whole. (I'm not saying polish is a bad thing...)

Notes to the pedantic: this doesn't exclude a portfolio of specific examples. eg a set of graphics assets or level assets. Or a graphics library. But the thing needs to have been "done" and not in perpetual "there's this obvious giant hole where this important functionality is missing". And yes I've had success with incomplete projects but they were fully playable just with "programmer art".
Silicon Valley asked Elizabeth Warren to help with a fundraiser
Grindr is male dominated just like Tinder.

Perhaps we just need to accept that men's drive is higher than women's, and that no app is going to change that.
80% of drugs from pharma, 48 pharma plants in Wuhan, US will start running out
How did you estimate your hardware needs?
And then you have Korean.

오늘 학교에 가기 싫다 (I don’t want to go to school today)

Hangeul is a syllabary so anyone can read it, just like Latin. It was specifically designed in response to peasants not being able to read Chinese hanzi.

Things like the subject and topic can be and is omitted when it’s superfluous. (The above sentence omits the subject and subject particle. There is no topic here). English almost always needs to specify the subject, asides from very casual speech/slang. Korean, like english, doesn’t need to specify gender of nouns, and it also doesn’t need “a” or “the” markers. The location particle above could be dropped too.

However Korean does have complex honorifics and formality conjugations, which typically get longer the more formal/polite it is. Above we have the plain or dictionary form, which is usually the shortest form as well.
The main source for the large-scale applications of mechanical energy that were later powered by steam engines was animals, in ancient Rome just as in pre-industrial England. I've heard that argument before, no technological progress because of slavery, but it's widely oversold. Romans had water-powered grain mills, saw mills, and trip hammers, despite slavery. They did have some famous mine-dewatering systems that were human-powered (slaves), keywords: reverse overshot water wheel. Mind-dewatering has been the original use case for the steam engine, so it's quite likely that those installations are the inspiration for the "no technology because of slavery" argument.
I helped a phone company develop a disaster recovery / business continuity plan back around Y2K. It was a hefty job requiring them to physically move things around between different locations and whatnot, but the company came out all the better for the efforts.

Are companies no longer doing these?
You don't have to refuse to take an ARM license (although RISC-V is also a thing). You may not even have to design your own chips at all -- they could just pay an existing manufacturer for design specifications and then both audit the design and develop and publish open source firmware for it.

Supply chain security is an independent problem. First you have to know exactly what the design is supposed to be, only then can you verify that it actually is.
PS5 controller patent suggests it will monitor your sweat and heart rate
Yeah, even russian social network (200m users) have a bunch of very smart people supporting users from password recovery to psychological help. No way big startup can't afford something like this. You just have to do so.
Results like this make me wonder what news from sociology or psychology can really be trusted. It seems that every finding I've heard about that has entered the mainstream (stanford prison experiment, the importance of "grit" and "growth mindsets" e.g.) ends up either debunked or at least shown under replication to have vanishingly small effects.

During my time in my PhD program in science, I (voluntarily) went to two talks for my department and for the wider university about stereotype threat. It was a fascinating, compelling subject. But alas.

Contrast that with results in math or laboratory sciences. I'll read about something like the Sensitivity conjecture in Quanta or Scientific American and it might not be as inherently interesting, but at least I can somewhat trust that the result is "true". But that kind of scientific result never enters the mainstream where literally everyone in-the-know has heard of it.
I don't believe the original article is down on unit tests. He's very clearly down on manual tests and tests that are part of a human-controlled QA step. But he also says, "If you have manual tests, automate them and build them into your CI pipeline (if they do deliver value)." So he is in favor of automated tests being part of a CI pipeline.

And I'm saying that the things I listed are good ways to get quality while not having QA environments and QA steps in the process.

I also don't know where you get the notion that all debugging has to be done in production. If one can do it there, great. But if not, developers still have machines. He's pretty clearly against things like QA and pre-prod environments, not developers running the code they're working on.

So it seems to me you're mainly upset at things that I don't see in his article.
I'm fluent in Visayan (Cebuano & Waray-Waray). The articles are hard to read, but no harder than, say, the translated Bible. I honestly didn't realize they were bot-constructed. very cool!
This is already at least as bad as the Spanish Flu in terms of R0 and CFR. Yes, unprecedented.

Spanish Flu has an R0 of about 2[1]. Current published estimates for 2019-ncov are 2.3-3.8 for this paper [1] and there's another floating around which gets as high as 6-8.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19545404/

2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

Look at the rate of spread in Korea and Italy recently. Where numbers aren't being cooked like in China. 3 weeks from first infection to Nationwide pandemic. Unprecedented.

This is the first time something so virulent has struck humans living with this kind of density. This will have massive ramifications for global geopolitics because it will show the weakness of centralizing production in third world countries and becoming dependent. Rumors abound in china about elites, professors, researchers, lawyers speaking out against the government. 2500 of them allegedly signed a petition demanding free speech. This virus will test the resilience and ingenuity of the human race.

Unprecedented.
I think F# cleaned up a lot of OCaml’s syntactic oddities nicely, though I could do without the off-side rule.
The relevant question at 3:10
The big consulting firms have been building in-house ML libraries for common business problems for 3+ years. They don't need to acquire the data startups because as the article points out, these models are commoditized pretty quickly (especially when you have access to the transactional data of many large multinational companies). There is no secret sauce to ML that makes you any more likely to succeed with it than Accenture -- and they have a much deeper pipeline than you do. ML is a mature capability at all of the enterprise-tier consultancies, and they bundle it with their $100M system deployments. The mid-market consultancies are working on it. There is very little money to squeeze out of this market.

We're also a long way off from AGI. Nobody really even has a roadmap to what an AGI would look like. Heck, DNN/ML techniques have been widely-known since the early 90s; they just became practical with access to cloud-scale hardware, so the current situation has been 25+ years in the making.
I still haven't figured out what tags are useful for tbh. Are we able to filter by tags? Are there any common sets of tags besides the three they suggest (e.g. #sayhi)?
I know, but I'm writing to a modern audience. :)
Besides not being related to day to day job a lot of these questions also select for a specific set of knowledge. If you've done that particular class of problems (graph, tree, dynamic programming etc), then you do well, if not then you don't. They also typically have a single or very limited number of solutions, so if you deviate early the chances of recovering is very low.

I see this style of interview questions pretty frequently and I really question their effectiveness, vs say something more open ended and fluid.
Well, with F# they did change some significant things e.g. type parameter syntax. Anyway, the point of Reason is that some people just won't even look at OCaml syntax. They just won't, that's the way it is. Reason allows us to onboard those people now, get them to see the benefits of the language, and perhaps later even come around to preferring the OCaml syntax.
It is said that NBOMe isn't orally active, whereas LSD is. NBOMe needs to be held sublingually, so if you're worried about it the best thing to do is to swallow and not let it sit in your mouth.

Also if it's bitter don't take it.
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What? Why not? An objective and comprehensive recollection of facts, mutually identified responses, and associated outcomes can't be hashed out?
You should read about R0 and CFR estimates for recent publications our of China. Conservative estimates put this well past Spanish Flu territory. That doesn't even get into the various rumors coming from the weaker papers.
Guys, as with all interviews, YMMV.

Microsoft and Google interview thousands and thousands of engineers monthly, do not try to generalize the interview experience for everyone based on your one anecdotal experience (or that of a few friends) and naively assume it's that same way for everyone else.
I've noticed that a lot of alternative lifestyle communities cluster aggressively, so I also wonder how evenly distributed the demo here is.

As for ongoing usage, that's an excellent point! If you could grab a solid quarter of the potential userbase willing to pay and keep them paying $10/mo forever, that puts you at $300,000 MRR ($3,600,000 yearly). That's enough to cover AWS bills, a small office (think Regus), and probably a handful of employees in the SF Bay. Or Bay-grade pay for a 100% remote company. Get the 120k number and you're grossing 12 mil / yr. Nothing to sneeze at for sure.

I think it would be a challenge to make much more than a lifestyle business out of this, though.
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That sounds very useful.

I am also super impressed that you managed to present your product without mentioning "big data" or "machine learning" or AI - given that anyone that does anything these days crams those big words in.

Thats is good, good luck.
Sorry, yes, I'm an idiot.
The article conflates “popular” with “loved”. JS is popular because it’s the only* language in which it’s possible to write browser apps and extensions. The number of people using transpilers for this purpose is minimal.

In actual fact, most people try to avoid JS whenever possible, instead using TS or other languages that compile down to JS.

Saying people love JavaScript because it’s the most popular is like saying people love McDonald’s because it sells the most burgers

[*] since we don’t have Java applets or Flash apps anymore. Writing in other languages still means transpiling to JS in the end
To an extent, yes, but didn't entirely solve the problem. When something goes wrong with Jquery or something that uses it, Jquery is yet another layer to debug or break. There's a point where throwing more layers at a problem has diminishing returns.

The solution (for CRUD makers) is to make common desktop GUI idioms part of a standard instead of emulate them all. This includes but is not limited to: MDI windowing (as an option), modal panels, drop-down menus, tabs, combo boxes, editable column-expandable data grids, expandable trees, tool bars, and a decent multi-select widget instead of using (just) the Ctrl key. HTML frames were helpful, but have since been deprecated. Somebody found them too useful? Mobile land is too different from desktop land. Forcing a lowest common denominator is bad for business IT productivity.
You pay high taxes because Prop 13 disallows fair taxation of long-held wealth. So the person with $500M of property, in another state, would be shouldering a fair amount of burden, but here in California they will be taxed nearly nothing if they've held the land for decades.

Instead, we have high sales tax, and high income taxes so that long-time wealthy residents have it easier.
Earlier than that I went an initial interview at some IBM office - they went very cold when it turns out that I did not have a degree.
The app would offer the coupon to both simultaneously, so it’s a incentive to actually meet (fancy dinner for 2 for $30? Heck I’ll give you a shot)
Agreed! The interesting thing is that basic unsupervised pre-training seems to produce a model which functions not only as a knowledge base but also an NLU system which can effectively query the knowledge base using natural text questions. This is exactly what our follow-up paper is on.
Many approaches for dealing with symbols reduce the information to numbers. Consider regression of categorial variables. The categorical variables are usually converted into a vector of numbers using a one-hot encoding. Now, if you are classifying a sequence, the number of categorical variables will vary depending on the sequence length. Some sequences will be longer than others, resulting in an irregular number of features. Consequently, you will not have a fixed number of columns for our regression model.

Statistics and ML are vast, so there are lots of methods that cannot be pigeonholed like this. If you mention a specific method, we can contrast DKM to that method.
How Much Will Medicare-for-All Cost You? (It's Not What You Think)
The article addresses that issue, its core thesis is that AI supports declarative programming. One of the author's main points is that a sufficiently intelligent compiler would rewrite code to be better optimized and have better computational complexity, eliminating low level C++ programming type jobs.

Category theory is to support the creation of specifications that are both easy to understand for a human who knows category theory and easy to optimize for the AI, compared to the original quick sort example.

The author also thinks many HTML and JS type jobs will also disappear. What I am skeptical of is that while Go, Chess and Jeopardy are challenging, they are closed domains. I think people underestimate just how much complexity building CRUD apps involves. Just like we underestimated how difficult walking to a cupboard to retrieve a mug would be for AI.
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I think this happens because it's very very difficult for a manager's manager to know if the frontline employee is spending their time solving real problems or slacking off with no actual regard for the customer.

"Metrics" are an unhappy middleground for everyone.
There are absolutely researchers skeptical of catastrophic CO2-induced climate change, Richard Lindzen, Will Happer, Judith Curry, Nakamura Mototaka, Susan Crockford, and many, many others. Curry does a great weekly summary of papers and research that are both for and against the theory that CO2 will cause catastrophic warming: https://judithcurry.com/2020/02/15/week-in-review-science-ed...

The difference between historical revisionism and CO2 induced climate change theory is that one is a recorded event in human history and one is an hypothesis about how the world works. It is one for which there does not exist an empirical experiment and for which there is mixed evidence, like so much of nutrition science and psychology, it is one that warrants critical thinking and discussion.
As an aside, I think there is a huge danger in poorly challenging incorrect statements on the internet and elsewhere.

Dehumanizing or disrespecting others is one of the easiest dangers, as is challenging with a incomplete or fallacious counter.

These only add fuel to the fire.
A human smile is when you pull the sides of your head upward and back with the muscles under your skin.
Disc: Googler

Since you are comparing to AWS, do you have any source for apparently lots of products that were killed in Google Cloud?
There's a great video on this by Scott Manley [1] where he talks about the harsh conditions and challenges being posed.

1. https://youtu.be/1DEvcJgBy0c
it’s the same risk online too. no one knows what they’re taking. it’s all blind faith
Twitter can be a useful tool. I follow about a 50 or so people who tweet on stuff I am interested in, and I have blocked 1000+ people.
So because "A close friend of mine interviewed there" and the interviewer showed up late, you have concluded that the entire company, Google, "just loves to waste your time"? And every one of the tens of thousands of interviews Google does each year, all start late?
I don't think GP is being sarcastic.

Disc: Googler.
Great post. Thanks for sharing your experience.
What you describe is indeed the downside. The upside is that if we automatically translated English content for (say mathematics) into other languages then non-English speakers would have access to the highest quality Wikipedia content.

I do think this is an interesting point: the current Wikipedia policy of allowing each language's Wikipedia to evolve independently risks missing an opportunity to free certain non-English speakers from some of the unfairness that results from happening to have not been born an English speaker.

(With no disrespect to the Wikipedias of other major languages, I'm sure they have many extremely high quality articles. But I assume that in, say Math, Physics, Computer Science, the English Wikipedia is the highest quality.)
Arduino companions for Nerves devices (Part 1)
yet ml use in the industry is thin, alas quality goes with patience
Grid Compass
I did similar at my current and last job. Rather than spend $24k/month, I spent $50k, bought a shitton of hardware, built a virtualization cluster at Corp, and upgraded our connections. Accounting thought i was a wizard.
Idiomatic Swift code is called "Swifty".

Idiomatic Python code is called "Pythonic".

Idiomatic Java code is called "terrible".
Of course it'd have been easier to pay reparations if Germany wasn't squirreling away money to sidestep the treaty's prohibition on further preparation for war. Nazi Germany didn't place an Amazon Prime order for next day delivery of bomber aircraft and submarines the night before they invaded Poland - preparations took many years, and cost a lot of money.
I don't think it's being overlooked. It's being seen as pedantry, correctly I think. It's obvious what the parent poster meant, right? Sure the messy business logic is an algorithm in the technical sense. But everyone knows that when people mean when they say that most developers aren't writing fancy algorithms.

You know it's kind of funny how this very conversation mirrors the criticisms of Haskell leveled in the top post! Someone is trying to insist that language fit in a neat mathematical box where words are stripped of their colloquial meanings and force us to only use dictionary definitions. But language and the real world just refuse to be so clean! Ha!
I plan to do this in the near future once my GCP credits are used up (18 months of credits left).

My plan is to temporarily shift to dedicated hardware through a service like Hetzner to evaluate what kind of hardware I need. I can simply redirect a fraction of the traffic and extrapolate. Since this is elastic there will be no upfront costs, but I can play around with different sizes. Once I'm happy with my estimate, buy real hardware and move the rest over.

At least that's the plan. I don't think you can do much more than an educated guess and I think this will be as close as I can get.

Not AI related btw.
Interesting that the supreme court ruled on this specifically

> The California Supreme Court also decided that the act outlaws sex-based prices at bars (ladies' nights): offering women a discount on drinks, but not offering the same discount to males. In Koire v Metro Car Wash (1985) 40 Cal 3d 24, 219 Cal Rptr 133, the court held that such discounts constituted sex stereotyping prohibited by this Act.
My wife does the washing and I do the cooking. She shops for food, but I carry home the cat litter since it weights a lot. Although she started lifting, so that might change.

At work we buy a quality grinder and coffee beans and split the bill.