skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, ABCL (if I understand correctly) compiles to JVM bytecode, which is analogous to "machine code" in the context of its target platform (and hell, is sometimes even literally machine code if you lack any semblance of sanity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor).

And ECL does ultimately compile down to machine code if you include "compile the resulting C output" in the compilation process, though this is optional.
After some issues that he has faced this month, he finally gives up his title/position that must be tough for him.
Every single day I am thinking how the JVM could actually be a platform that is worth using in many situations. That day may come but certainly not within the next decade. No matter how well you optimize your code the JVM will ruin it and make it slower and consume more memory than necessary. Of course none of this matters in a world where your internal dashboard with single digit user counts is set to use 4GB RAM just "to be sure".
It was the next day -- but I get what you're saying.

I think it ultimately boils down to persuasion and the environment. When you're surrounded by 'faith', you can pin a lot of things onto that -- much like how some folks buy into horoscopes, homeopathy, statues, prayer cards, etc.

I know someone who considers themselves to be really lucky because they win a lot of contests -- but they only win a lot of contests because they enter a lot of contests.
I am 161(.5) cm and range between 110-115 lb (50-52kg) and I am perfectly healthy...? By bmi and by several doctors opinions. Or do you mean 62kg is too heavy? I think it's the upper end of normal.
I agree you should do this from the user's perspective, but what about when a message handler (which is already async and not blocking the user) needs to call into an api? You could rewrite it to use queues for the request and response, but then you're convoluting control flow.
Principles of Company Building
About 90% iOS 13, 7% iOS 12, and a fraction of a percent for the remaining. I guess that's better than I expected…
On a side note, I noticed some of the best book "choices" I've made came when I was able to read a couple snippets. Just enough to get my curiosity going.

It would be cool if Amazon released some of the most highlighted passages for some of these stories. I feel like it would do more for discoverability than just recommending book titles.
I think it's crazy for reasons other people state, especially latency and connection reliability issues. But I think a related idea can work pretty well.

Self-driving cars are classified into 6 SAE levels, 0-5. 5 is full autonomy, 4 is autonomy in limited conditions, 3 is self driving but there has to be a driver ready to take over.

Getting to 5 is really hard. It could take decades, because there are a zillion edge cases. But what if you could turn cars loose at the "can handle 95% of driving" level and then let it call a human to give guidance when the car is nervous or confused?

Obviously, the phone-a-friend approach can't work for things requiring quick action. But if you bias the car to just stop safely and wait for orders, I think it's doable. E.g., the car comes upon an accident where the lanes in one direction are blocked. Humans know to go around the accident by slowly and carefully sharing the remainder of the road. So perhaps the car stops before the obstruction and asks for help. A human looks at it and draws in the path it should follow to get back to normal road.

So I think remote "robot coaches" could plug the gap between levels 4 and 5. And maybe some of the level 3 gap, too. And from what I hear of the Waymo operation in Arizona, I suspect Google's doing something akin to this.
Depends on your speed. If you want a slow but epic burn, Left Hand of Darkness. Something faster action novella, Lathe of Heaven. And the OG Harry Potter tale, Earthsea series. It won’t be time wasted with any of these.
It's an extremely goofy move.
Investors bet millions on Microverse, a Lambda School for the developing world
Not quite. Aurora serverless spins up machines for requests and spins them down. If I were paying just for storage and IOs, it'd be perfect. But I'm paying for ACU-hours. There is a 10 minute minimum charge, and an unknown ramp-up time if there are no ACUs spun up.

If I have a web app which is accessed once every 10 minutes (0.002 requests per second), I'll be paying for a full AWS machine. It should be a shared, scalable resource and abstraction.
The Web is fragile. The average life expectancy of a single Web page is anywhere from 44 – 100 days. We’ve all hit the dreaded error code 404 “Page Not Found”. As of today, Brave Browser users can heal many of those broken links with one click.

Now this is interesting.
Actually you would go to your bookshelf and get the beautifully typeset book, rather than a sheaf of paper.
Even the speed by which help articles load when clicked on in the Help Topics works the same way as ms paint. This is insane level of attention to details.

On a separate note, I love the Help Topics so much I think I will use it instead of ZenDesk guide pages on our SaaS website. It's so elegant and all contained in one booklet with extremely legible text and iconography. No bs web ui here.
He did a few AMAs on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c8ru2y/i_made_a_free_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...

I find this fact mind blowing:

Right now, Photopea is about 1.4 MB (most of it is zipped javascript).

880 kB is the actual program

150 kB are localizations to 38 languages, with 650 phrases in every language

116 kB is a database of gradients, brushes, patterns and contours

84 kB are icons (112 of them, in a 160x160 px resolution)

23 kB is a font database (names, categories and URLs for 4700 TTF files)
In law school, I had a 'how to negotiate' workshop once. We were given a fictitious deal to negotiate (with some external circumstances hidden from us), were paired up with a random person and then had 15 minutes to execute in the hallway. The second I got my numbers, I started building some sort of game theory model around the circumstances in my head, filling in some numbers and scenarios, all while stalling the girl opposite to me so that I had more time to work on my 'optimal strategy'. So then in the last 3 minutes or so, I 'executed' on my theory and we both got our negotiated numbers. The girl looked rather bored and played a bit dumb, giving out the feeling of 'I'll let you have this one, what do I care.'

Well the result is easy to predict - after the hidden circumstances and our respective numbers were revealed, it turned out she had basically steamrolled me and any smugness I might have had about my rational approach and winning strategy was crushed. I stopped doing any formal analysis of real world decision making after that.
COVID-2019 is going to hit everybody more or less to the same degree. The only people who are going to be significantly damaged by it are those who bet everything on doing good in 2020 (which is still more likely to be seen as bad luck than poor skill), or those who manage to absolutely screw the handling up.
> “The crash driver’s employer, Apple, is a tech leader, but like most employers, has yet to develop a distracted driving policy,” Sumwalt said.

Are employers really supposed to police what their employees do when they aren't working?
People who get bad ratings can't move as freely.
I was homeless for half a year. Fortunately I was 19 at the time, and the military gave me a way to get out of that situation.

I'm 37 now; if I became homeless, it would be much, much harder to get out of it.
If Brave is a bad actor, I cannot imagine what you think about Google.
I want to say that the C++ type system is not really weak — it can enforce basically anything, since templates are Turing complete. But most of those possible types are horrifically unergonomic.
I don't know anything about Whirlpool specifically. If you are impressed with their IoT group, that's great! I'll go pick on smart microwave manufacturers instead. ;)
Wow, let us see where this will go.
Companies have done this, and it doesn't work as well as you think. This is because a lot of protected classes and some other politically controversial demographics (poor people, old people, etc.) _cost more money to insure_. That is because they unequivocally do get into more accidents and have higher claim frequency.

Creating total transparency into this process would be suicide for these companies - they absolutely do rate on zipcode, and poor neighborhoods absolutely have higher rates because of fraud, break ins, and generally higher claim rates. However, if you didn't rate on zipcode, then you are under-priced for these areas and you will be killed by adverse selection.

TL;DR these companies have figured out how to obfuscate filings so people don't see them blatantly charging more for XYZ, and risk public outrage.
Two heads are better than one. The physician doesn't necessarily know all the new drugs outside of their specialty.
Oh, hey, I basically started writing something exactly like this when I started using Selenium to script some test cases.
To this day there are people that support it, as long as it's for other people.

Even here on HN where the audience is ostensibly more enlightened you'll see comments along the lines of "sure legalize cannabis and mdma, but let's not do so with the dangerous drugs like meth and heroin".

That thought is part of the "protecting us from ourselves" lie, and it is well intentioned at that point but it certainly doesn't help anybody.
There used to be lockers at all bus stations, and most airports in the US. Maybe you didn't notice because you weren't interested. Those at airports usually had to be found by asking at the info desk.
It may be possible via the FileReader API
Keith Block “steps down” from co-CEO at Salesforce
There is some valid criticism made of Brave in this thread, which seems to ignore that those additional features are opt-in. In my experience, Brave is the best browser for empowering the less technically literate to protect their privacy. Until Mozilla ships Firefox with more aggressive, integrated, on-by-default privacy protection, Brave is the best browser to advocate for non-techies.
I'm paying double for peace-of-mind.

Think of it in terms of expected costs.

* In one case, I pay $500 / month.

* In the other case, I pay $250 per month, and have a 25% chance of having a workplace conflict. A workplace conflict can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Which is cheaper?
> That, and Azure is actually really good

This doesn't match my experience at all, from the inconsistent and weird horizontally-expanding OG-Xbox blades user interface to thrown-over-the-wall API libraries[0] to Azure AD being a complete waste of time and effort if you don't want them owning your entire directory (I'm sorry, I have to pay for Office or separate API access to manage users through Okta?) to real fun stuff like servers not recording restart or shutdown events in their audit logs if they were under load.

In fairness, I will say one nice thing about Azure: their CLI tools, under Powershell, are pretty good. I was impressed. Powershell Core is not, however, a good experience on a Linux machine, and while WSL2 is a lot better it's still not replacing my normal day-job workflow.

But it's been over a year since I had to use the comprehensively bad clusterfuck that is Azure, and honestly I'm still pretty mad about the experience. Azure is the one cloud provider that a company can't pay me enough money to work with. Well, one of two; there's also IBM Cloud, which, whoa-nope.

[0] - https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for...
Too late to edit, so just to add: I'm well aware that the US is huge, regional, and diverse. The aggregate figures cover over much of importance, which makes it hard to compare as a whole to other individual nations. There are of course American communities as peaceable as anywhere else in the world.
The peloton strategy is the current meta.
I see, but is it possible that he suspects a large sell off of excess fat or even a large downturn after the presidential elections, and this recent downturn just reminded him of this idea?
I love the acronym.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FFS
I would say "no", but there's one area it could apply: to make sure an employer will never require an employee to be on the phone while driving (even on speakerphone).
Yes. I can see an argument favoring Firefox, but it strikes me as absurd hyperbole to frame Brave as worse than Google, Apple, or Microsoft.
The article says many of the eng hires were transfers from Google.
And it’s starting to become clear that this approach is not working.
A buddy of mine speculated he may be gearing up to run for the oval office. Seems outlandish but I kind of like the idea...
Yea the OS/free-software zealotry is annoying. I use Brave and it’s been great so far. Even the UI is nicer than Firefox imo.
Some things work like that. If I buy tickets to a concert, then decide not to go to that concert, I'm not entitled to my money back.
https://www.wired.com/story/phantom-teleops/
Interesting Q uestion you posed in your deleted comment. Unlikely to get traction in this forum, but interesting nonetheless.
This isn't the case. By moving the threshold less and less each time they could keep moving it indefinitely while remaining below a chosen upper bound.
>using a new Mac

Found your problem
There are many games and many meta-games in this field. Here are two.

For SWEs, one base game is to earn the most money. The play-space appears to be one's current company, so working hard on company-beneficial projects and doing well should lead to promotions and pay-rises.

A meta-game for SWEs is realising that there are many companies that might hire you, so working on projects that benefit your current company may not be the best strategy. Instead, some SWEs attempt to work on projects that make their CV look more attractive to other companies.

A base game for Managers is trying to get the most output out of the team of SWEs available, by shuffling work around, training people, putting experienced and inexperience people on the same project to spread knowledge, etc. There's a lot of strategy and tactics in this; trading-off short term losses for long term gains, and the like.

A meta-game for Managers is being aware that some of those SWEs may be playing their own meta-game. Do you help that SWE to go up and out to replace them with a different SWE, perhaps with a more useful skillset? Do you cynically restrict them from working on CV-positive projects in an attempt (likely to fail and definitely unethical!) to keep them around? Do you find ways to pay or reward them more pre-emptively so that they're less interested in their meta-game?

Sometimes these meta-games are "too clever by half" and you may well be better off ignoring them and focussing on the base game itself. The important point is to be aware that such meta-games exist, and that even when people appear to be playing the same game, they may in fact be playing to lose in order to win a meta-game instead.
I’m not being sarcastic. The two countries I have experience with are the Netherlands and Japan, and the cost is 0 and the equivalent of $1.5, regardless of the amount withdrawn, respectively.

In the Netherlands I think I pay a $3 monthly fee for the privilege of having an account, but Japan is free.
but that would just converge on the chosen upper bound, which suggests that upper bound was the threshold.
I don't know if it's common knowledge or not, but he decided not to a couple years ago. His family doesn't want him to.
Only slightly from a medical standpoint, and a fair way from being obese.
15 years as CEO. Doubled yearly revenue since takeover. Bought and/or grew some of the most valuable entertainment IPs on the planet right now. Took an 800-pound gorilla status company and turned it into a cosmic-god-like powerhouse feared by the rest of us mere-mortals.

Pretty sure he just wants to leave on a high note and enjoy himself at this point. The dude is human after all. That kind of commitment does take a toll on you.
Why would the board be upset about star wars?
How many times per year do you pay someone with PayPal?
I don't know, I think the grandparent post could be interpreted either way.

Usually, "physical modelling" is the term I'm used to seeing for synthesis methods that simulate physical effects, whereas "hardware synths" are what people tend to call synthesizers that are physically tangible (as opposed to pure software). Physical synths can themselves be digital or analog, or a mix of the two.
I wonder why it's so expensive. You can find cheaper than that in Western Europe; like $20/night in a dorm bed in a nice hostel in Brussels, with access to bathroom and kitchen.

Of course, I'd be sure to follow the article's advice - they're looking for foreign students, and it's to tell you they're full if they don't like your looks.
The first three can reasonably be thought of as defining linear transformations. For linear systems of equations A x = b, x is an unknown vector in the input space that is mapped by A to b.

Both covariance matrices and Hessians are more naturally thought of as tensors, not matrices (and therefore not linear transformations). That is, they take in two vectors as input and produce a single real number as output.

As for graph adjacency matrix, this can actually be thought of as a linear transformation on the vector space where the basis vectors correspond to nodes in the graph. Linear combinations of these basis vectors correspond to probability distributions over the graph (if properly normalized).

2D images... Yes, these cannot really be interpreted as linear transformations. But I'd say these aren't really matrices in the mathematical sense.
What about DRUI?
If you don't have money, you can spend a lot of time becoming proficient in the field, and maybe find a loophole or two, and assure yourself you are in compliance.

If you have money, you can afford the compliance experts to find you every loophole.

If you have even more money, you can get new holes written into regulation, tailored specifically for you.
"The Left Hand Of Darkness" and "The Dispossessed" are great back-to-back.
Flat Earther's are more convicted than stupid. They're more than welcome to give money to anyone they please.

> In my ethics it is fraud to keep people in a mistaken belief to profit from it.

See: all of organized religion.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/electro-smith/daisy-an-... is worth a look as well. They have dev platforms in Eurorack, desktop synth, and guitar pedal form factors that could be used for something like this, though they have enough DSP to actually run the audio processing the module, but it seems like it could be used for something like a hybrid setup as well with VCV rack with some software work.
Ask HN: How low is the ECB capable of pushing rates?
I've long wondered what would happen in a bad recession when rates are already super low, and now the possibility seems on the table that we will find out. The US has some wiggle room as it's rates aren't as low but the EU already has negative real rates and 0 funds rate.

So lets say they saw a major sell off over the next couple weeks. Lets say upwards of 15%.(not suggesting this will happen, just that it's possible)

They are going to have a strong incentive to make major rate cuts and I know they have explicitly said they are not opposed to this in principle.

On the other hand, for example in the US, there are structural reasons that make it seem like it would be difficult to lower rates too or beyond zero. The biggest I can think of is that pensions rely on the ability to find meaningful yield to be able to meet their obligations. Ive heard of various other scenarios around banking stability and the repo market as well that are speculated could cause big issues .

My subjective question to anyone with an opinion: does the ECB have any restrictions of this type, especially the risk of pension collapse or could actually test out a -2 or - 3 % percent rate without causing an obvious blow up.

What weird stuff would happen at - 3%. Negative mortgages? Would the whole credit system start looking outside of the EU completely?
Physicians (and other prescribers such as dentists) don't even necessarily know what all medications a patient is taking. In theory they can check through the regional Health Information Exchange or Surescripts but in practice things fall through the cracks. This is a leading cause of preventable medical errors.
The assumption I work with is that mmr is a function of both fundamentals and meta. Fundamentals act as the floor, and meta as the ceiling. Team interactions make this all the more interesting - some examples:

A player with no understanding of the meta but good fundamentals can easily be directed by their team and have the same output as a high(mmr, meta) player. However, direction will not always be available and this will result in some losses.

A team full of players with high meta knowledge but low fundamentals will lose the fundamental game too hard and lose most matches. Also experience the "too many chefs in the kitchen" effect.

A team full of players with high fundamentals but poor meta knowledge will perform reasonably well, but be outshined by a more balanced team.

The team that won the largest DOTA championship 2 years in a row was clearly one that on balance had medium fundamentals (at a pro level), and outstanding meta.
Wanted: Healthy Brains
> No bs web ui here.

You ain't seen nothing yet: https://dev.lotw.xyz/desk.os
> Do you know many other banks that let you withdraw abroad for less?

Abroad? Mostly a slight markup on the default exchange rate, which is hard to pin down, but certainly less than 2%.

But my problem is mostly this applies on any withdrawal. Not only abroad.
Manager at the team you're transferring to gets to see your perf history before they accept.
Reminds me of byobu + tmux, looks cool
So converting to imperial - she's 5'2, 136 pounds? That sounds like a very normal sized woman to me. I can't help but notice that she's been with the airline for 25 years and wonder if that's the real issue here, especially given the number of airlines listed in the article of not having similar weight guidelines. While perhaps this is a field necessitating certainly height / weight restrictions, this doesn't really sound like an individual who's a particular outlier in either of those areas.
In an effort to further protect the privacy of its users online, Firefox has begun rolling out encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users.

To be honest I don't use Firefox that much compared to Chrome.
I believe the hiring manager has access to your perf history, which is far more valuable than interviews.
MacPaint in JavaScript:
https://www.cloudpaint.com/classic

An elegant weapon, from a more civilized time.
Because republicans
Fantastic. Especially glad they went with | over +, that’s always felt like the natural way I’ve wanted to do this. Looking forward to more set-like operators in the future!
Walmart introduced its own FBA like fulfillment service – WFS
Where can I read about some of these more impressive use cases you describe?
I'm actually worried he's sick, though I hope not because I admire him a lot.

That was my first thought also. Similar to what happened to Accenture's Pierre Nanterme, who had to step down because of his cancer (and sadly succumbed to it in 2019). But he was transparent about the reason, I don't know what was the rationale for Iger.
The movies have generally underperformed and hasn't hit internationally like they hoped. They've had to revise a lot of their long term plans of Star Wars. It hasn't been great.

Regardless, I don't think they're that upset. Star Wars hasn't been a home run, but it's been a solid double and net positive to Disney.
Language Chat Is Changing the Way You Should Learn Languages