skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just super disgusting. While people are dying, Qt is looking to make a buck long-term.
No, the prices are indeed absurd.
Reminds me a comment made by Rich Hickey https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425632

Quoting top comment: “The presumption that everything is or ought to be a community endeavor is severely broken.”

I believe in the BDFL model but can see history repeating itself. Being open source doesn't mean everyone is equal, and it shouldn't
Thank you! This is great feedback. The filters are lower contrast because we want the attention to stay on the art. But they might be too low-contrast and introduce usability problems.

We love sculpture and we're really excited to have it on the site. Sculpture is tricky, though, because shipping is usually more expensive and it's trickier to pack sculptures in a way that keeps them safe. That said, we're gradually rolling it out. We have a tiny number of sculptures on the site right now and we're going to add more as we get more confident in shipping them.
After installing ICQ for the first time, I distinctly remember thinking that ICQ straight up copied the sound from WS_FTP, which I had already been using for a while and where it was used as an error sound. They are definitely the exact same samples. Interesting to hear the story.
Can you or someone else tell me what exactly that means for me?

I have my savings in a 401k with a mix of index funds stocks and bonds and to be honest I am quite happy that the government is stepping in and not letting everything go down.

I'm sure there is a downside, but can you make it clear what that is?

I noticed a lot of HN folks just love to be alarmist when it comes to the economy. I am sure this time you are right, but I've been reading HN comments like yours every single week for almost a decade now, always suggesting that we are on the verge of an impending doom...
Haven't used it in years but still remember my number: 1315980
and that godforsaken "uh-oh" sound.

Way to ruin the nostalgia with such a poor reboot. it's a shame so many of the old internet 1.0 brands are rotting away.
Very cool, but too expensive for me.
Yes I have plans because everyone says it would be better if there are video demos here. I wonder if product tours are not enough.
My favorite is probably Libre Lounge: https://librelounge.org/

It’s one of the few podcasts that focuses on the social aspects of free software rather than just the software itself, and as someone who thoroughly enjoys conferences like LibrePlanet and FOSDEM I feel like it has the same sort of vibe.
One thing not mentioned in the original "Why Swift for Tensorflow" document and was a mayor source of conflict when the differentiable programming feature was formally proposed by the S4TF as a standard Swift feature: Swift has no mechanisms for metaprogramming. The reason is that Automatic Differentiation can be implemented 100% using metaprogramming, instead the S4TF team had to create internally certain features for this, that is probably one of the reasons why it took so long to get the most basic stuff working.

In retrospective you can really say Swift was a bad choice for the project because the time to market was much slower than it could be vs e.g choosing Julia. The other thing they didn't take into account was the actual market, that is, the Data Science ecosystem in Swift is non-existente, you have an excellent Deep Learning library standing alone without a numpy, a pandas, a scipy, a opencv, a pillow, ect, which makes doing real application with it nearly impossible.

That said, Swift as a language is amazing, doing parallel computation is so easy, not having a garbage collector makes it super efficient. Its the kind of thing we need, but the language right now is not in the right state.
Completely tangent observation: What's the point of using sketch scribbles over the diagrams? They could just make it in powerpoint and simplify. It would be easier to read as well. Decoration for the sake of decoration? Why?
Boa: Use any Python package in Node.js
>our immune system is without par //

Is it just lack of use that means we get sick from tainted meat, and such, when other mammals seem to stay healthy?
Did you get rejected while Interviewing at Google? It's the only plausible explanation for the vitriol on your throwaway account.
If you know that Go was designed as a migration path away from Python, it's a bit easier to understand why it's gotten so much support from Google.
All companies that use strong encryption are banned. Domestic companies can't use proper encryption so they aren't really banned, lest they go under very fast.
I was recently talking to a registered psych nurse, and we got talking about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

I believe I've been self administering a form of it for a couple years, and I summarized my understand of CBT as "moving more thinking from the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex", and she confirmed that with "in laymen's terms; yes".

It's not like the fields are completely isolated, I guess is what I'm getting at with that anecdote. It's hard to go from neuroscience to psychology, but that's always being looked at. I reckon most big advancements will start coming when we start understanding the connectome more, but it's not like all advancements will come from there, and it's not like people aren't working right now to bridge neuroscience and psychology.

Also I want to hang out with the laymen she does.
you can tell this guy is old
Somewhat tangential to the valid arguments here, it is possible to work around the Elm 0.19 restrictions:

https://vllmrt.net/spam/subverting-elm.html

https://github.com/robx/shelm
No, I'm saying that you're conflating atheism with being an arrogant moron.
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I've been struggling a long time. Some of it I admit is self inflicted due to my own weaknesses and inability to move past pain and problems, but most is external and there has been a lot. I have failed to grab securely the occasional lifelines I have had over the years. One from a kind member here. Not long ago I completely gave out and tried to stop living. Now I am trying to recover from that and new issues and feel very alone and adrift. I have no holistic support or care. Each day is such a fight, each moment. If anyone has the time and energy I could use real caring, love, strength. "If I could just go back" is my mantra but its not served me at all I see. I need to go forward but things are SO bad now I don't know how and am getting pawned off by the local people I asked for help. The healthcare system has failed me repeatedly. So another desperation post. Few people have written me in past but I lost all messages/contacts as I seem to have deleted the accounts content. I want a life...a future...but I am simply not able to do it alone. Timing of world events makes it even worse I know. Please if you have the energy reach out. Email is in profile. I am probably even beyond trying to stay anonymous as its so critical and desperate. I am past forums or crisis texts etc. I need real people and real guidance.

Thank you
Whatabouting about the GDPR doesn't address any of the criticism of it, I wasn't talking about the EARN IT act in my comment.

I bet many agree here any that those US laws and actions are bad too. I really care about privacy myself also, more than the typical tech worker looking at the actions of my coworkers compared to me.

If there was GDPR casual or GDPR lite for small businesses, kind of like small business taxes where hiring an accountant once a year for a few thousand euros was enough, then I don't think people would be up in arms about the GDPR.

If GDPR-casual was good faith level of actions where all you did is kept a log of privacy data clearing requests, like a copy of an email and a copy saying you did it back, and then did a best effort cleanup, I don't think anyone would care. It's the very large compliance burden that GDPR imposes, with a lot of liability gotchas everywhere if you don't implement bureaucratic detail #2929 that put people up in arms. And if you say that it isn't like that, it shows you haven't really looked at what is required by the GDPR or tried to implement it in your company.
It's funny, as soon as you have a system that has to take into account human behavior and variety of possible inputs/states, it gets massively complicated if your goal is to try to have people not be dissatisfied with it. (and if you're trying to do it right -- or alternatively, NOT making the right decisions about that goal). People just don't behave like you think they will/should.

As an example: a retail transaction database. Or a calendar booking system. That should be really simple, right? Just record who ordered what, when they received it, who sold it, etc. Who reserved the room, who to send invites out to, simple?

No, it turns out that you have to also take into account people whose orders got delayed by the human-based shipment system, people who got coupons and they expired/want to extend the coupon, people who returned the merchandise and never got any confirmation that it was received back. Or what if someone modifies the meeting location after people accepted -- does a minor change to the meeting description trigger a re-invite or update, or not? Can meeting rooms be held by more than one person at a time? Or what if you want to tie it to the email marketing system that wasn't properly integrated or planned to be integrated -- that's another couple of engineers who have the thankless task of maintaining ETLs that constantly break whenever a change comes along.

Or in the case of Yelp, I'm sure there's small teams who are responsible for the mundane tasks of how to keep track of when a business closes, or reopens, or temporarily shut down due to virus situation -- how are the entries for those businesses supposed to be updated? We never had a field for "closed by mandatory government order" -- that's gonna take a refactor of xyz to implement, etc. etc. We have users who review things, and then those users someday die/go idle/get banned. What happens to the ranking of their reviews? It goes on and on.

(and usually, the people who take the time to think about these things in advance set themselves up for much less pain, and far fewer people needed to fix it, later)
Reconsider your participation level bruh.
We've also spend a tens of thousands of years selectively breeding plants to produce more calories. You won't find such calorie rich wild plants. Foraging for plants is really hard.
Agreed, this is the most clickbait title of the week.

From my understanding, the author is someone from outside Google who doesn't know anything about Google bets more than what is publicly available, and the author is biased toward the Swift language.

JAX makes more sense, as it uses Python, but more importantly, Google works at a lower level of the stack with TPU, MLIR and XLA. It doesn't really matter what language is on top of that stack.
but you don't need to have standups with all the team. That seems to be the problem. Thats why i said "standup team" not "team" in my original comment.

how many of those 15 ppl care about what you are doing on a regular basis. I am guessing not more than 5. I've never been in a standup with more than 5-6 people, 15 ppl standup sounds too ridiculous to me.
A postmodern critique of this argument might start with your identification of a single "culture" that has a pattern. Who decides what this culture is and who its adherents are? What if there are exemplars of the culture that do not fit this pattern; are they inherently excluded from the culture by the fact that they do not fit the pattern? If so, it may be the case that we are fitting a pattern we would like to see onto a culture that is in fact varied and diverse, and which does not in fact have a particular direction.
Tesla factory not in danger despite delay
Right on the main page under each piece it says "$XX - X months"... I feel like that's pretty up front.
The Outer Worlds: From Concept to Creation
Embedded is the reason I listen to podcasts. Accessible yet informational embedded systems topics, and sometimes fascinating tertiary guests.

And lightning!
What you’re describing is a shock to the supply chain and distribution, but not a problem with the amount of flour. Any panic buying is temporary. Buyers simply cannot exhaust our capacity to produce flour in the steady state, but since the supply chain responds so slowly to changes, they can cause temporary disruption.
But DJT lies a lot more than any of his predecessors, and hires a lot more incompetents, and fires a lot more competents, than any of his predecessors.
If you can come up with a formal proof of correctness for an evolving API then you are clearly operating on a higher plane of software development than us mere craftspeople, and I certainly wouldn't presume to talk you out of trying.
and take a huge earnings hit? WHY? when you can just let people go. it's a company with shitty business ethics, so why would you even suggest that they do right by their employees?
LLHD: Multi-Level Intermediate Representation for Hardware Description Languages
Charitably: To express the tentative nature of the information or model. "Here's our working theory."

(I think it makes it somewhat hard to read in this case)
I doubt they boiled water just to drink it.

As for fire, I would assume they never let it go out, or else they learned friction fire.
On the surface that seems to be true. NYC has ~8.4 million people minus those who left the city. ~1% of the population has already tested positive (81,803), and compared to yesterday (81,803 - 76,876) = 4,727 people are testing positive per day which would take years before everyone gets it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_N...

More pessimistically, NYC’s CFR is almost 5% while in a growth phase when South Korea’s CFR is 2% after cases peaked when it was 0.6% in the growth phase. This suggests NYC is massively undercounting cases and the actual rate of infection could be something like 5-10x as high, with the virus reaching 50+% of the population in months at it’s current rate of spread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...

PS: A more nuanced look taking into account differences in the overall and infected populations could narrow that estimate down. But, it should not be assumed South Korea discovered every case or that each country is counting deaths in the same way.
I'm not sure I follow.

The rest of the world was acting with the (false) information that China, and the WHO, were putting out there - including that there was "no evidence of human-to-human" transmission. So perhaps when you say it's "not China's fault", this is technically true in the sense that it's the fault of the rest of us for taking what were obvious lies at face value.
Last ~15 person team I was made up of the following 7 devs, a tech lead, 3 qa(1 automation, 2 manual), a product champion, a pm, and a deployment expert(devops) is 14.

14 doesn't seem crazy to me. And splitting this team up runs into some issues as well.

Do you now have 3 tech leads who acting as pm reporting to the head pm? Do you try to split up the code base? How do you split up QA/Production Champion/Devops? All these decisions seems to have drawbacks.
The community is more valuable than the code, because the community writes the code. So being cut off from the community is a major blow to a fork, and substantially increases their work burden.
Python is great for scripting or rapid prototyping because of this, but I can definitely understand why someone would want a more literal language like Swift. Even in your example you can glean more information from the Swift code.
Yeah - had the same experience looking for a whole buncha vintage computer/development topics. There would be 1-2 applicable results, but the majority were incorrect.

I find your example to be the biggest "no-go" for any practical application because the info/description of that /r/DevelEire is literally "A sub reddit for Irish Software Developers". That's something that a simple FULLTEXT solution would have easily found w/high confidence.
Darned right! These kids today eh!
$31 for a c13 power cable, what?
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At least they're honest! Better this than lying about what security you offer, like Zoom.
This is essentially an Oauth flow...
I think that the WHO communication was proportionate to the current knowledge at the time of each of their interventions.

First of all they said, when it was clear there was a problem "We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test." (and then Trump and almost everybody else did not want to hear that)

And moreover they said more exactly, some time before the previous item, that "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission". So your position is a deformation of their words.
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As many companies are starting layoffs would it be better to get prepared for interviews? What are you choices to practice online programming platforms?
That was a very fascinating video to watch - thanks for that. Only thing is it delivered a pretty gnarly case of motion sickness after a few minutes ..

What was really interesting was the observation, towards the end, that once he'd hiked for 4 days and then arrived at Agafia's place and been there for a day, he felt like he'd arrived in civilisation!

One wonders what the plan for the area is, once Agafia leaves this mortal coil. She's not alone at the moment - it seems she gets regular visitors - but would this be enough of a settlement to form the basis for a new township to be founded? I confess, the idea of moving to that valley is very attractive these days, if but for the harsh environment I clearly know nothing about ..
What would be neat for this kind of service is a way to sell the piece back, either to the artist or to the service. If they knew you bought it from the site they'd know it was authentic.

Is a Gazelle-style site for art a thing, that's not eBay? I don't know that you'd want to get rid of art you bought very often, but if you move and it doesn't fit with the new aesthetic, you might want to swap it for something more on point.
That seems pretty reasonable to me for something like this, I just purchased it myself for $90 CAD, and generally I see these types books around the $100 CAD mark.
Is that right? As a beardy guy, I find beard is cooler in Summer and warmer in Winter. I'd speculate that hair allows more heat transfer to sweat. Hair also send to keep a local air layer near the skin which helps Summer-cooling and Winter-heating.
If the US is not the most powerful country then who is? The US has the strongest economy and the strongest military. What other measure are you looking at? Even if you want to look at Europe as a single country then that would be debatable. UK just left and its looking like there is growing support for Spain and Poland to leave. It looks like the EU may be falling apart.

I think you need to look at individual US states vs the US as a whole. The federal government doesn't really have authority to do everything that other country's federal governments do. For example its generally accepted that the federal government cannot force every citizen to be in lockdown while the states can.
This discussion about whether or not the "Elm community" will be meanies is missing the point and inventing a hypothetical scenario where you get kicked out of some club. Kind of a weird conjecture to me. I guarantee nobody truly cares that you fork Elm. The thing is that generally people who threaten to fork Elm are quite hostile on the Elm forums and subreddit.

If you fork Elm, an already tiny ecosystem, you'll realize that the hard part is building the community, not adding your pet features.

Everyone who has threatened to fork Elm has realized this at the end of the day. It's also why people overlook the lack of their pet features: because ecosystem is far more important.
I wonder if this is an overly stated aspect of the reason why Humans propelled themselves. I thought the reason why we beat all other animals was because we evolved to have a larger brain size especially the frontal lobe which is used for inventing, mirror neurons (copying), planning and strategy.

Hunting isn't necessary to survive. We can live off of bugs, plants and fruits, etc.
The problem is edge cases take a shitload of work via pareto principle. And if your company is small, edge cases can be ignored because they affect 1-2 users. When you're serving millions, those are thousands of users. You might be the only entity in that industry at that scale and have to custom build everything.
My general approach is to create monitors (in something like Splunk or ELK) that watch logs and fire alerts (email, SMS, PagerDuty, etc) if their conditions are met.

I create monitors for health issues like watching for out of memory or pod failures. I create monitors that compute the error rate and trend for each endpoint and alert if it crosses a threshold. Similarly, I'll create monitors for dead letter queues or email send failures or anything else that might go wrong in an app.

This may sound like a lot of monitors, but I try to log things in common ways, so a handful of monitors can watch hundreds of endpoints or queues.

Finally, for complicated mission critical systems, I build in support for synthetic transactions that avoid undesired side effects. These may generate extra trace logs in the app. Such requests are submitted on a regular schedule and the input and output logged. Then I build more monitors on these logs.
In case people are curious what it's like to work in VR, here's a demo of me using Simula: https://youtu.be/FWLuwG91HnI

I would argue that working in VR is fundamentally superior to working in PCs/laptops. It's basically 10x the screens, focus, and work immersion. Simula's text quality is also very good (getting around the eye fatigue present in older VR Desktops).
What are their strong ties to the russian government?
Edit: huge props to the team for shipping a fix for this in minutes.

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I want to love this idea, but I struggle to get past the lack of full price when browsing. It says "$48 • 24 months" and expects me to intuit that the product costs $1152.

Or rather, I worry that it expects me not to intuit that. Breaking the absolute price into a series of less frightening numbers to obscure the magnitude of a purchase feels slimy when cell phone carriers use it to trick people into buying new iPhones for "cheap". This seems like the same tactic. Especially since the payback periods vary between paintings, so you can't even compare apples to apples in terms of monthly dollar cost.

It's okay that paintings are expensive. It's less okay to undermine people's ability to reason about the cost of things.
Substitute "incorrect" for "false", and it's all clear, ie. "incorrect positive result", and "incorrect negative result".
Well, if you want to move something to Southern Africa, I can help with that.
That's a pretty large cut. What stops a user from just messaging the artist directly and buying the work from them directly for a lower price?