skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>either bullshitting you or deluding themselves

Was this the best possible way to treat an intellectual disagreement? Surely people can disagree with you without being liars or delusionary?

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, just don't expect it to apply in reality.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/27/doc_searls_zoom_pri...
Besides features, how does this compare in daily workflow to https://asdf-vm.com/? Does it provide version management or just upgrade to latest?
Nice boid-related tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtqltqcQhw
Results: Two dishtowels can be as effective as a surgical mask
I am deep, deep down the Illustrator rabbit hole (20y of it being my main tool, working on big projects that are deeply entwined with how it works) and will not be changing to Affinity Designer, but I can really see Affinity being a lot more appealing to new artists. The subscription model is super off-putting when you’re barely scraping by. Sure Adobe has student pricing but you know what? I wasn’t a student when I glommed onto AI, I was just recently out of school and struggling to get into the animation industry. I pirated it for a while, then started buying it every second or third release when it actually had features that sounded useful to what I was using the program for.

Affinity, you pay like, what, fifty bucks, and you’re done. No subscription, no fucking around with cracks. That’s a lot more appealing to someone still learning their craft.

I have seen this change happen to Photoshop, there are a lot more young artists who are using Clip Studio or Procreate than Photoshop for their work. I constantly see articles here talking about how UI people are using Figma or Sketch or whatnot instead of AI because they are both better-oriented to what they do and are a lot cheaper, with a buy-once model instead of a subscription.

Adobe is also terrible at listening to their users. I can point you to a top-ranked feature request for AI that had its “user story” put into the pipeline to be implemented “soon” something like two years ago, which is a feature I personally was putting into their old feature request inbox a decade ago. Illustrator is really, really ripe for disruption, and Affinity has a solid competitor judging from my brief explorations of it.
IANAL, but I think that the concept of 'successor state' is well established in international law.
I suppose you can argue users vs customers, but Amazon does a much better job. Their support isn't perfect, it's off-shored, but it's still good enough for most purposes, I think.
I see videos from a lot of wildlife photographers who are using their big 600f4 lenses on Z6/Z7. It seems that adapter works really well.
Distilling Task Specific Knowledge from Bert into Simple Neural Networks
what's the difference between checking them in mid-air versus at the port of arrival?
Not that this is a solution but get a good directional antenna and point it at Google - instant guest network(advice not guaranteed to work)!
ICANN and Verisign agree to .com extension with 7% price hikes
instacart.com and sameday.costco.com are "down" ("We're taking a lot of orders right now") - please check back soon. Good luck with your workers!
Like all systems languages, the winner would be those that are sponsored by OS vendors for their platforms.
Appreciate the link. I didn't expect HN to allow articles behind paywall like reddit.
I was always surprised by Adobe's lack of product thinking and software development chops and their revenue and share price (inversely proportional).

All of their products never evolved, very poorly integrated, terrible UX and product design in general, bad software development maturity.

The last one is an educated guess based upon all of the previous points and also Steve Jobs publicly shaming them due to Adobe's inability to react on Flash issues. [1]

Adobe took very long time to react to Sketch software challenge, and the result (Adobe XD)is just about OK, nothing remarkable.

[1] Steve Jobs' open letter:

Thoughts on Flash

https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
I think that was the ‘general you’ not you
Something similar happened this time of last year: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/bird-lays-off-up-to-5-of-w...
In my experience, there's a balance to be stricken. I really like notebooks for documenting the algorithm development process. I used to do a ton of repl driven development and Jupyter is a repl that allows you to persist commands across sessions. It saves a ton of time that I used to spend scrolling through the ipython history after closing and restarting the session. Jupyter also allows you to manage different kernels in the same environment, so it makes tasks like testing code between py2 and py3 trivial. My final point here is that there's also excellent cython integration, so you can do a lot of prototyping of cython code without having to mess with configuration or multiple files. I will agree that there are tasks better suited to IDEs, but jupyter is not just a plotting frontend, it can be used very effectively in algorithm development and the communication/documentation of the development thought process.

Typically, I have a git repo with the final code products, some of the more complex code gets written in notebooks, then transferred to git and thoroughly tested. I've been dreaming of this debugging experience in jupyter because that's still not a task that's suitable for notebooks, but I am hoping that it will come for vanilla python kernels before I can hope to adopt it.
My friend was selling me on affinity recently. They have a 50% off sale going on with their products right now, and they have 90 day demos to try it.

Definitely will have a learning curve for someone that has only used paint.net, but will be nice when I need to do the occasion graphics work for personal projects.
In Windows we at least have COM and now UWP.
Sure. But most senior devs are not Tim Patterson.
There are no human approved coronavirus vaccines. There were a number of SARS vaccines that never finished clinical trials because SARS became pretty much a non-issue before they finished. There are also coronavirus vaccines approved for animals. Both of these things could potentially help with faster developing a vaccine for COVID-19.
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> This request was blocked by the security rules

> Please Note: We are temporarily unavailable to users from certain countries while we upgrade our site to implement new methods for data processing as required by applicable laws.

Interesting.
From a practical perspective, there seems to be no appetite in the medical community to attempt this. We have vaccine candidates now, and the consensus opinion seems to be that we should go through the trial process. There just isn't much room to shorten the timeline without cutting corners and safety and efficacy verifications. Unless we learn something dramatic and terrifying new about this virus in the near future, I don't see what would cause this calculus to change.
I don't think that's a contradiction: Germans police themselves so there is not as much of a need to police each other. And perhaps we subconsciously assume that someone who permitted themselves[1] to violate a rule did so for a good reason.

[1] I don't think that's idiomatic English, which illustrates my point.
”They are in the same trap as traditional car manufacturers are with combustion engine cars. The profits are in the established technology, yet the writing is on the wall for the new technology. You know where the market is going eventually, but for sure you don't want to disrupt your current revenue stream until the new technology is really ready to replace the old one.”

I think that’s it. But it seems they are catching up very quickly now. The upcoming EOS R5 looks like a very good camera.
Treasure Core Dump File
> Her argument is that ~20 mbps DSL is good enough

that is insane. How having no internet is fine because 20mbps is enough?

That could be a good argument against fiber (which i also think is overkill, decent cooper is lower maintenance and with enough repeaters as good as) but it is hardly an argument against it being available to all as a public utility.

> And, by the way, the FCC thinks I have a dozen options for broadband. That is false.

and the real enemy shows up. FCC, from the bush-omaba-trump admin become the most corrupt organization one can think of. They openly lie and laugh when someone point out the lie.
That would suck. Airbnb is great if you need housing in a weird location with no hotels (e.g. walking distance from something in Santa Clara), it's great for extra privacy (e.g. getting a TH in a quiet area in Europe away from both your loud hotel-mates and the loud tourists outside), it's great when you just want a bed on the cheap (everywhere; why pay for a hotel and its overhead when I need a place to store a backpack, shower and crash 8 hours a day). It's also great for weird places if that's your thing (I love it when they have a dog you can play with; sometimes there's house cooked meals; I actually once stayed in a house where the listing explicitly called out that a cat will likely come to your room and go into the bed :)). Oh yeah and places with assigned parking with no obnoxious valet system and parking charges are great everywhere.

The only inconvenience is usually the key hand-off, but private places usually have lock boxes these days, and shared ones have people living there.

The secret is never staying in airbnb-s that look like they are run like a hotel.
I find that the biggest misunderstanding happens because "new grads" (and I happen to be one) confuse _asymptotic complexity_ with actual complexity.

I'm not sure sure why, but CS courses and interview questions mostly focus on _asymptotic complexity_ and usually forget to take into consideration the complexity for "little values of n". And funnily enough, in real life n never goes to infinity!

In a strict sense big O notation only cares about what happens when n goes to infinity. The algorithm could behave in any way up to numbers unimaginable (like TREE(3)) but still, its big O wouldn't change.

Maybe what is missing to those "new grad" is a felling of real world data, and how a computer behave in the real world (with caches, latencies, optimised instructions etc...) not just having an ideal computer model in their mind when they design algorithms.
Fake news. Everybody's home. No man-made global warming this year folks.
What’s odd is that I can’t interact with it at all on my iPad. I scroll down, hit a media object of some kind, and that’s the end of it. Blank space, no scroll indication, can’t seem to scroll back up to the top.
I've always had a positive impression of redhat, but I was recently blown away with their dedication to upstreaming contributions across different open source projects. I was investigating a new Linux kernel feature that redhat contributed and saw that the same developer opened pull requests that added support for the new kernel feature in three major open source projects. And one of the projects took over a year to accept the changes, but he was persistent in reaching out, making requested changes, etc. It really shows the passion at the company to share their contributions.
AirBnB at least seems to keep churning out loads and loads of perhaps marginally-useful open source software https://airbnb.io/projects/

Maybe those engineers keep busy with these hobby projects, and then that makes for good PR to recruit more devs?
The New Grad had knowledge. The Senior Dev had Understanding.

Understanding > Knowledge

It's that simple.
Sometimes I wish Google would just stop participating in open source and standardization. The proposal actually suggests supporting Fuschia at the language level, but not any of the BSDs, and replacing the ABI with protobuf (or similar).

Much of this proposal would create insurmountable engineering problems for everything except the Google monorepo, or similar infrastructure at $1T companies building monoliths.

Historically, most innovation has happened outside of those environments.

Sabotaging the toolchains of smaller shops is not going to pan out well for the industry at large.
> an attempt to out-compete SpaceX on mass satellite production and cheap launches was doomed to fail

Not necessarily. SpaceX has an advantage in owning the rails. It isn’t, however, decisive.

OneWeb failed to bring any advantages of its own to the table. It compounded its launch and first mover disadvantages by launching with ArianeSpace. It gave away any satellite advantages by using Airbus to make the birds.

There simply wasn’t any strategic ground for OneWeb to stand on.
Note that this one (https://github.com/meshula/OpenSteer) is the “semi official” port of OpenSteer, a library for steering behaviors, which is the generalization of the ideas underlying boids, as described in http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1999/gdc99steer.html
Sure, they are hard questions. My point is that confronting them is pretty clearly a better thing to do than dismissing them.
I understand that running physical cable to all locations is expensive, and if there is not a guarantee of minimum customer buy in it makes no financial sense for companies to do that. I grew up in the 80s and should be of the MTV generation, but because of the economics I never had an option for cable until I moved away from the parental units. I couldn't imagine not having access to the internet in today's society.

I have hopes that with 5G, we could have a way to deliver gov't subsidized internet plans that allow everyone to be able to have a minimum amount of reliable bandwidth. Buy your $20USD receiver to receive a basic 10Mbps down, 1.5Mbps up connection. I think that should be free. Just enough to watch some video, enough to push normal attachments in email/web post (homework, resumes, etc). After that, if you want/need more bandwidth, then buy what you want. But at least this would provided a way to get past that last mile problem while making basic internet for all a viable thing.
This is terrible thinking: South Korea and other places have not locked down and they have effectively contained the virus.

We are doing Trillions of damage they are avoiding. Given the costs we should be spending billions studying what they are doing.

We need to understand more effectively how the virus is spreading and focus on those spots, not this lockdown stuff which is too costly.

Some basic policies like mask-wearing for everyone in public, gloves, and masks in restaurants, and on subways busses, N95 maybe for anyone in crowded area jobs, anyone with any sickness immediately self-isolates etc..

These total shut-downs seem like a 'home vacay' for now but it will start causing serious pain very soon.

Edit: I should add by 'trillions in damage' I'm not worried about shareholders; this will have serious consequences for people. Many millions are losing their jobs, millions will be evicted, foreclosed, homeless, jobless, and otherwise, have their lives severely disrupted. FYI in America no job = no healthcare. At some point, the shelves stop being stocked. We need to be smart.
What region is that graph describing? In the US, transportation is 29% of emissions:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

In California, it is something like 40% of emissions.

These percentages are going to increase quickly, as renewable generation is now cheaper than other types of electricity generation in most markets, and prices are plummeting like a rock.

The same can't be said for electric car prices, nor EV adoption rates.

I think land use changes that permit transit are by far the most important infrastructure changes to reduce emissions. However even in California efforts to change this over the past three years (SB827, SB50) have met a brick wall of resistance, despite widespread acceptance climate action and desire for better transit.

Transportation GHG emission rates are going to be far far harder to change than power generation emissions.
Agree with the first part.

But I would say the Slack UX, from a visual and performance perspective (not necessarily intuitiveness), is as good as nearly any native Mac app I've ever used. VSCode, from a visual and performance perspective, is better than any native Windows app I've ever used, and also as good as many native Mac apps.

I know people like to gripe about the memory usage and disk space usage of Electron apps, which, fine. But it's a fairly academic complaint. Those things don't honestly affect my experience as a user. The only time an Electron app has ever felt sluggish to me was Atom, fully loaded with plugins (~3 years ago), and I honestly suspect that had more to do with its naive and non-cooperative plugin architecture than with Electron itself.
Exactly- did anybody accept the negative bid? The article only mentions the bid itself, which makes me think not.
I live alone in one the harder hit parts of the US and normally enjoy “WFH”, but for me that usually means coffee shops, parks, beaches. Its the being stuck in an apartment, not interacting with anyone except on video calls. This whole situation has made me really reconsider my priorities, and made me wish I’d settled down younger.
Abbott launches five-minute Covid-19 test, can run at urgent care clinics
“Rather than trying to push the envelope I'd much rather see some of these companies try to refine their products to make them nicer to use.”

Same for my Fuji X-T3. It’s a great camera but there a few annoyances that get mentioned on a lot of forums (meaning I am not the only one) but they aren’t being addressed although it would be a simple change.
Which first principles are you using to come to that conclusion?
Manticore 3.4.0 release: online schema change, new PHP client and Docker image
Walk me through this argument - my local utilities are a nightmare! Their pricing is atrocious and regressive (huge flat fixed fees to connect, tiny marginal costs), they constantly have to borrow money from the city to make ends meet. Combined, we pay $350 a month for gas, water & drainage, electricity (over 50% of the bills are fixed costs, unaffected by our consumption). Customer service is awful.

In comparison, our internet is relatively painfree and only $30 a month. I get that there are certain high level concepts of why it is good to treat internet as a utility, but as a consumer the idea frustrates me.

(Our city offers a municipal internet, btw. But it's worse service for more money, and has generally been a money drain for taxpayers.)
FYI, the web page seems entirely unusable on my iPad Pro. It goes blank at the first example, and without a scroll indicator I have no idea what’s going on.

I was able to scroll to the bottom footer, but I can’t scroll back to the top, so there’s literally nothing but a blank page now except for the footer.
The amount of vitriol directed at Everlane for this Union thing is astounding.

There never was a union. Some people on the team wanted to form one, but most did not. It caused huge cultural issues and tension across the team, and the pro-union employees were very loud and went to VICE pretty much any time they had any minor complaint about the company (which VICE would of course eat right up).

Now Everlane is being framed as union-busting... when it was their own employees that couldn’t form or didn’t want a union. Everlane has always been fine with it, if that’s what the team wanted.
How much does the quality of sampling influence the result with this machine? You're saying testing at work could be done, but what if the swab is not taken properly? Wouldn't that create a false negative?
The problem is "Housing" is not simply a consumable like food or (mostly) clothes.

The owner can consume the housing or rent it. But if it's not used to house people, then is it really housing? Or just real estate?
You can use outline to read it:

https://outline.com/xmDFJS
it was and will be higher before and after there is a "we"
Curious if covid19 will stay in the system like mono or chickenpox. The latter coming back decades later as Shingles. It may take decades to find out.
Right, and what do the ex-USSR states get from the USSR's successor state Russia as compensation?

I believe this swamp would be bottomless, and not every nation or victim who suffered from wrongdoings of others would get paid anyway.

Edit: victim
Can you elaborate a little here? I made the switch from classic notebooks to jupyterlab recently and find the bin experience very similar (there's a few subtle differences that I can't remember offhand, but I don't recall having any problems with cell navigation)
I was laid off a few months ago over Zoom. The thing that irked me about it was I got an invite to it with a dishonest description the night before. Since this was a director I didn't ordinarily communicate with, I wanted to make sure I knew what I was talking about so I did a few hours of research on the fake subject that night.
> The purpose of this paper is to present research that's completely independent of any product, and show how the concepts apply to software engineering specifically.

Lol, the article actually ends with a link to the product you're selling:

> Ready to build a more predictive hiring process for software engineers? Schedule a 1-on-1 review of your hiring process or request a free trial of Qualified here.
Many countries without an extensive history of colonialism have achieved similar prosperity to the great European colonial powers: Spain (29k per capita gdp), Portugal (23k), Netherlands (52k), United Kingdom (40k), and France (41k).

Consider Korea (31k), Taiwan (24k), Finland (48k), Austria (50k), Switzerland (80k), Czechia (23k), Hungary (17k), Slovenia (26k), Estonia (23k), Greece (19k), Lithuania (23k), Latvia (18k), and Cyprus (27k).

Hard to make the case that colonialism is the sole or principal factor that produced the prosperity of any of these countries.

But if it is true that Portugal (23k) is an evil white supremacist economy and Lithuania/Estonia/Czechia/Taiwan (~23k) are virtuous economies, we should study Lithuania, Estonia, Taiwan and Czechia! Great job lads!

Does the Republic of Ireland (#4 per capita GDP) need to pay for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland colonies or does the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (#21 per capita GDP) need to pay Republic of Ireland?

Is the Ottoman Empire also very bad? Do the Turks need to pay up? The colonialism people seem to pass over them for some reason.
I dislike the mentality that one must "struggle" to be patient with new devs and that it's "more than they deserve."

Is it really so hard to help other people learn, and to accept that the only advantage you have on them is starting earlier?
This is fair if those colonies stop speaking English, using sewage systems and modern agriculture practices and basically return to living in yurts.

Ah, you mean that other definition of fairness...
From the article: HK did in fact not effectively contain the virus.

"In recent days, this semblance of normalcy has vanished. The number of confirmed cases here has ticked upward at a much quicker pace than before, worrying health experts. The government reversed course on its easing of restrictions, sending workers back home, closing parks and city facilities, and reiterating calls for social distancing."
I think it has something to do with "bio data" format that govt uses in India.