skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We still do that. This exact same process.
I like and often use the mountain metaphor myself.

Sometimes the path to the top includes some abrupt parts, akin to climbing a vertical wall. These are big efforts that requires long periods of concentration.

These are often followed by easy trails with no elevation, or even downward. This can be boilerplate that you can do without even thinking.

When you've reached the top, if you realize that the path you followed was not the shortest/easiest/most elegant one, know that your new muscle strength will make it orders of magnitudes easier to go down again and find new shortcuts. Clean up, delete unused parts, simplify, comment/document etc.

Finally, you will not even think of it as a mountain but just a small bump :)
Lower numbers may not have enough of an effect on transmission rates.
I'm putting a three-ply cord fragment to thwart you guys in the title above.
Ask HN: Are you planning to launch a software business in these uncertain times?
There are some dire predictions for the global economy due to the pandemic and the disruption and uncertainty that has ensued.

Given the ecomomic uncertainty, are you planning to continue with your plans to launch your software business this year? Or have you paused your plans and decided to wait to see how the economic outlook will pan out for the year? Or have you shelved your business plans altogther?
There is so much nonsense in this article, it isn't even worthwhile to begin. Here's one example:

> "The number of new cases is declining."

MDs are important. They are not, by default, statisticians, epidemiologists, or policy experts.

We have actual MDs and non-MDs who study infectious disease epidemiology, and they unanimously say that re-opening now is premature. I trust those people more than the random non-experts signing this article.
Startup Founders can't use Social Media to grow their businesses
Hi all,

From what I've seen, most startup founders don't know how to properly use Social Media platforms, they even dislike them and because of that, they ignore them. They simply don't use them, even if it could be one of the best ways to bring new clients, drive brand loyalty and business growth. They don't use social media platforms and even if they do, they don't quite know how to use them.

Why does this happen and why Startup founders don't use social media platforms more, as a distribution channel of their ideas and products?
You can automate this, even if you have MFAs enabled. I do that through 1Password CLI (for the MFA token) and a script to interact with the idp. We use temp credentials, so after X hours you to generate a new session.

I'm just typing the 1Password password on the terminal, I could automate that part too but then essentially I'm removing all auth from my workflow which is dangerous especially on laptops.
when i am coding and i am in the zone you are not going get an answer out of me until the day is over either. so i don't think that's the issue here. if everyone needs to be available for quick questions then maybe there is an issue with how the work is structured, and how knowledge is shared.
Alibaba Cloud will invest $28B more into infrastructure over next 3years
You are right to be. Tetlock spun the conclusions of the project far boyond what was warranted, especially because the project was heavily flawed.

I participated in the initial part of the project, figured out the winning strategy very quickly, and then dropped my participation immediately. How to be "super at forecasting" in Tetlock's eyes? Have lots of spare time in the middle of the day when professional are at work, because that is when questions get posted, and easy points can get made. (To win a prize that is less than the hourly rate of a professional.) Hmm, no wonder that the conclusion was that people with no expertise but plenty of spare time can beat the pros...
Patents and copyright are two very different things.
I've been doing that lately (1.5x-2x), but taking notes, and making sure to work on any exercises provided after the lecture. I need notes for retention even at 1x, so it doesn't feel like extra work.
It's kind of telling that these billionaires think it's easier (or at least cheaper?) to flee than invest in maintaining a functioning civil society. I guess they're hoping that somebody else (kiwis, apparently) has done that work elsewhere.
I see you are invoking Ffmpeg via the shell. I also tried steaming to Youtube from Go and had to resort to the same solution. It's a shame there isn't a usable library for implementing a RTMP client in Go. Using Ffmpeg from the shell is very limiting because there is no way to monitor the status of the stream or to provide audio and video separately using stdin.
None of the characters was incapable. All of them were good at what they were hired to - driver, housekeeper, tutor, art tutor. They were also hardworking at their jobs. The rich dude was also good in his job (and caring to his family) and worst you can say about rich mom is that she was naive.

I dont think you understood the movie.
Yes it was printed in some low key European online news, but the original article was a scubadiving magazine where this Austrian scubadiving doctor was just giving some commentary. Even Austria's newspaper "derstandard.at" saw criticism over printing an overly sensationalist summary of that scubadiving commentary by the doctor and everything the doctor has said is completely normal to see in pneumonia patients as well, because sore tissue (which is what an inflamation in your lungs is) takes longer to heal than getting rid of the virus itself, but just like any wound it heals.

If there was ANY significance to this and this wasn't just an out of context over sensationalist news article to get people scared then it would be all over the big news.

It is really really scary how many supposedly intelligent people on HN are falling for so much shit. No wonder the world is what it is when the majority of people are so incapable of critical thinking and making their own educated opinion rather than repeating every shit they are being fed by someone who wants you to believe something different every day.
An open source foundations with billions does not exist, except Mozilla Foundation but they don't really spread out the money to other projects compared to what they spend on their own products.

So, the answer is that nothing exist.

Out of the given options a few also don't qualify (like I mentioned, Apache for sure, opensource.org most likely) because they don't spend money on software development at all.
When one is tempted to invoke the Dunning-Kruger effect to dismiss those with whom they disagree, that is precisely when one should be most circumspect in their own opinions. It’s a silly look to say everyone has cognitive biases except me. It’s the nature of Dunning-Kruger that subjectively it gives you no information about how poorly you’ve estimated your own ability.
By my reading the yeast does the whole job, short of purification, meaning getting the yeast, sugar, and alcohol out of it afterward.

Why even a 50% loss of product would be debilitating is a mystery. It's not like the yeast collects a salary, or like sugar is expensive. The author doesn't seem to realize how little of the stuff is needed for a dose.
It's based on learning from what happened to Microsoft.

I used to work at Google. It wasn't often discussed, but when lobbying came up (including in formal contexts) the general attitude was "you can try to ignore Washington but Washington won't ignore you". The perception was very much that Microsoft had gone through the anti-trust trial not so much because of what they'd done but because for years under the Clinton administration they didn't grease the right wheels, in fact they barely had any presence in Washington, which left them politically exposed. The combination of no powerful friends, extremely vague laws and extremely empowered and political regulators was seen as a very toxic one. And that's especially remarkable because Google was (at that time) a company whose executives really didn't like Microsoft, they feared them and treated them as the biggest threat to their business. A lot had come out of the Linux/open source world, academia, UNIX vendors etc and they were really the last people who would give Gates a break, but nonetheless their conclusion was that lobbying was basically a requirement of doing business in the USA.

I'm going back here - eventually that changed and they came to fear Facebook more. But for instance the Google Toolbar was basically an anti-Microsoft play, as was Chrome.
you can work as a conciliar and give some advice to companies.
> You might find the inverse relationship, unfortunately. High salaries often come with high expectations and low time to develop employees because of your high salary. That's been my experience, and I've worked for a fair number of large and small tech firms.

This is surely correct. I just ask myself whether this is just a very different formulation of what zck wrote:

> I suspect this is like baseball before Moneyball -- what if you can get people who are undervalued and make them better?

If we identify "undervalued" with "salary below market rate", one obtains the statement above: By moneyballing, look for great developers who are paid below market rate (and will thus accept a salary far below the one of "rockstar developers") and hire them.
They can certainly do that. It would mean Australian firms would need to buy ads through a foreign broker or sibling company, but many Australian advertisers would have those sorts of firms in existence already.
A DevRel in a digital product agency
Couldn't you use named pipes for passing separate streams of input?
> it is textures not shapes that drives recognition in CNN

This is a misinterpretation of the paper. It's not CNNs that are biased toward textures, it's the ImageNet dataset. As they prove by training a CNN biased toward shapes, using a modified dataset.
I grew up eating that. And yes I did savour the the brown residue with roti/paratha, enhanced with a bit of sugar. That's why I can never eat margarine. I do my best to buy the best quality butter from the supermarkets here in Melbourne, Australia. But that rich taste of the homemade stuff is hard to reproduce on an industrial scale, I reckon! On the other hand, I don't miss the Yoghurt from back home. I much prefer the Greek Yoghurt I get here! :)
Tbh it has been the opposite experience for me.

Small companies had little onboarding process, little to no training budget, and everything had be deployed yesterday. Plus a lower salary.

Large companies had formal onboarding, training budgets which they encouraged you to use, and didn't mind spending more time get the thing right before releasing and a higher salary.
Thanks! I'll do it, I've never visit Parallax site before
I guess I'm just getting more and more annoyed at Medium posts, being stupid enough to click the link and seeing that it wants me to sign up.
Read this and thank me later.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
Citation needed. The USSR and PRC both went from agrarian societies to industrial powers in under 50 years.
Perception by management
I think, this is one of the reasons to use much more video-based training sets and these in time-correct frame order. A moving boundary is something quite significant, but these should possibly not exclusively inspected through a hole ('convolutinal')
"making good money" is the goal of a company.
Doesn't work with me, unfortunately.

Last time I did this, I could barely hold it down long enough to have some effects. I felt 100x better when it exited my body, but I only had some mild "breathing walls" effects.

It doesn't help that I tell restaurants I'm allergic to mushrooms because I really, REALLY hate them, and they won't take me seriously otherwise. (And they're in almost everything, especially "vegan" stuff (which I like, without being vegan))

I have been blessed with a good source on.. ahem.. another source of psilocybin, without any taste. That works!
i think it's still different. being on call means i must be able to work during that time.

being reachable means that you can pass on your problem, and i'll acknowledge it so that we can together decide what the best next step. sometimes we can solve the problem, sometimes we can find someone else who can also help, and sometimes we need to delay working on the problem and reschedule it for another time. but at least then it's scheduled. on a few occasions i am not reachable at all. but that doesn't happen often.

in other words being on call means always to solve the problem immideately, whereas being reachable means i have the option to say no.
I implemented a queue system in Node.js
Well I've read enough over the years (Philip Tetlock springs to mind) to rarely be any more confident of my own predictions in the political sphere than anyone else's. Only time will tell!

As for the spirit of friendship, and just to be clear, I believe the US's declining significance, although having some distinctly ignoble proximate causes, will ultimately be of benefit to her own citizens also. I really meant 'everyone'.
Oh, forgot an 'o'.
Horrified and shocked. I’m deeply grateful for the technical discussions on HN. Which makes it all the harder to see such shortsighted views promulgated here.
Oh it most certainly is regulated, but I would agree not to much benefit for patient.

Although the reason you pay $0 co-pay for preventative visits is because the govt says insurance companies have to.
Is there any reason to believe that coughing into the crook of your elbow is effective? Yes. Neither is N95 certified, but they are both physical impediments to particles directly flying out of your mouth/nose onto other people. Why is this hard to believe?
Yeah - I did try it + the other oft-recommended optimizations. I have arrived at the conclusion that the actual build is not taking the majority of the overall build time, it is the various before and after that happens (e.g. checkout git repo, deciding build parameters, sonar qube scans, creating git tags and so on). Since the Jenkins pipeline basically runs shell scripts to do these things in each stage, the overall build just feels slow. Collapsing the stages would make things more messy, keeping them separate is cleaner but means more per-stage overhead.
>> If we identify "undervalued" with "salary below market rate", one obtains the statement above: By moneyballing, look for great developers who are paid below market rate (and will thus accept a salary far below the one of "rockstar developers") and hire them.

Yeah, I don't disagree with this at all. My software architect was writing JCL COBOL full-time before he took this job and has a degree in Computer Science from a no-name private school. He knew nothing of our tech stack, but he was a hard worker and a good culture fit, so I hired him and gave him two months (EDIT: on salary) to teach himself - bought him all the courses, books, and such he could stand. Within 3 weeks he was pushing to our repo.
That's assuming that they completely abandon Intel, which would mean that the Mac Pro would not be offered with a 28-core Intel Xeon W, but rather with an ARM processor that has comparable performance (or not offered at all).

But even if Apple shifts to 100% ARM, Hackintosh community still has whatever number of years that Apple still has to support the computers that they are selling now / selling until ARM takes completely over.
A lot of academics write C
I don't think there is a one size fits all strategy.

Sweden's strategy can work for them because it relies on the public to make the correct choices.. which can work when people observe hygiene rules, social distancing, etc.

But this sort of strategy can't work with if you have a population that isn't willing to actively participate in minimizing the risk.
In other words, the majority of citations of the D-K effect are examples of it. (This one, possibly, included.)
I had the exact same issue facing hard problems in my work. I noticed that my main issue was keeping focus. My solution was to introduce on distraction free 90 mins slot of work in the morning (my most productive time) to tackle the hardest problems. No e-mails, no phone and no de-railing to other topics. The results so far have been great. The inspiration came from Deep Work [1] by Cal Newport. The book describes the philosophy behind it.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X47ZVXM/
The only large company I worked at where this was true was Microsoft. I have literally nothing bad to say about my experiences there, even the fact that I was caught up in the massive layoffs after the Great Financial Crisis. They handled it all with class and encouraged us to abuse their educational resources.

This hasn't been true most other places I've done contracting work for, or heard from friends who are full-timers.

It probably just runs the gamut depending on personal experiences. I guess my point is that it's hard to find a really high salary and expect to be trained up, and that seems logical enough to me.
The advantage of a #1->#2 strategy is that it gives time for the healthcare providers to prepare for the eventual inrush of SARS2-patients. They can get needed materials, information on how to best treat those who are infected and build out and/or reorganise to be able to give the type of care typically needed for SARS2 cases.

It might even end up being less destructive for the economy since a relatively short lockdown followed by a progressive opening-up to a level where health care can cope with the case load probably gives more confidence in a good outcome and with that a higher consumer confidence. Given that #1 is the policy followed Sweden's neighbours while Sweden follows #2 it will be interesting to see how the respective economies fare after the pandemic is over.
Because politicians believe, probably correctly, that journalists decide elections. When journalists come knocking for favours they get them.

It's the same story in Germany, France, Spain etc. Less so in the UK where newspapers are more diverse and have mostly either gone paywalled and stabilised, or have such huge popularity and reach (e.g. Daily Mail) that they can be profitable off of traffic and ads. But most countries have a lot of newspapers all hard to differentiate from each other due to journalistic groupthink. They can't/won't compete by altering the way they report news, so they are reduced to calling in favours in capital cities.
I’ve been shipping for more than thirty years. Twenty-five of them, as a manager.

Not everything has been a success, and I was not the “big boss,” during most of that time, so I often had to work in far-from-perfect systems.

The one thing that has been a constant drumbeat, throughout my entire career, was a relentless focus on “Done.”

“What does ‘Done’ look like?” Is a question I’m constantly asking myself. It can change, as the project progresses, but it’s always there.

I tend to start vague, with “Done” being almost abstract, and get sharper and more focused, as the project coalesces around an end-user deliverable.

As I said, I have had many less-than-stellar outcomes, but I’ve always delivered an end product.

The best ones have been the ones with the least planning up front. Not always the most ambitious ones, but the best ones.

I’ve learned to adopt an “organic” project process, based on the assumption that it’s impossible to know the end result when I start.

I write about that in these articles:

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
In the meantime, I would really urge you to travel and see the beautiful sights and places which you might not be able to later on. Splurge a bit and see those places so you can have a memory of them and never have the feeling that you missed out on anything in life. The Great Barrier Reef, The Grand Canyon, visit a space observatory so you can see the other planets, other galaxies, etc.,

Especially considering your age, I would really really urge you to do this. If you dont have anyone to go with you; just do it solo. I hope you consider my suggestion.
No one asking a question like that should be allowed to own anything in my country.
Requiring that benefits are accounted for is not 'sabotage', it's actually sound and transparent financial accounting.

Such details actually matter!

If, after the real cost of operating USPS is exposed and they cannot cover it with revenues - or - cannot be subsidised enough - then the US can make a more rational decision as to whether or not it should exist.
Yeah, and the three buttons are the same size and color, too. Often there is a light grey "save preferences" link that saves the mandated minimal cookies preset and continues, and a big, brightly colored "continue with all cookies" button that tries very hard to look like the button you're supposed to press to continue.

(I used to work for KDAB until three years ago. I noticed the good cookies dialog yesterday.)
With room to spare. The whole point is to free space.
Norway has closed schools, universities, gyms, and placed restrictions on cafés, bars, and restaurants. But as private individuals, while encouraged to work from home if we can, we are free to go where we please (except no spending the night in your cabin in the mountains). Our public spaces are open, shopping centres are open, quite a few cafés are also open.

If we leave the country we have to go into 14 days quarantine.

Our death rate per unit population (3) is a lot lower than, say the UK (23), even though we are free to move about and they are not. So lockdown is not always as effective as might be hoped and also not always necessary. Local conditions mean a lot, not all populations are willing to behave responsibly even when the law demands it, while some merely need to be told what is necessary.
Humans locally minimize entropy, sometimes in exchange for fulfilling an objective function or following some optimization gradient (profit).

It's nice when it works out and we leave things behind in better conditions than we found them, but that's not what the universe is playing at. Nor is it necessarily a/the goal.

It's weird how this all works, and how short a time we have to affect it. It would be nice if everything we made was good and worthwhile, but it's hard to know where things are even going to wind up, and if our investments in making certain things better will pay off. You have to consider opportunity cost when making improvements.

(This pandemic is really screwing up my sleep schedule.)
Notes on C++ SFINAE, Modern C++ and C++20 Concepts
Couldn’t dosage be averaged out by simply drying, “powdering”, and mixing the mushrooms as batches? I think similar is used in winemaking.
Found another interesting problem. mouse=a works great on my Ubuntu laptop; however, it has no impact when connected to Linux servers via Putty - when I click somewhere in the vim window, the cursor doesn't jump to that spot.
All of software seems pretty terrible to me, only that the front end is easily observer as an outsider.