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Everything. The state of YouTube content on ML is similar to what the state of software engineering would be if there were only videos on "Hello, world!" or conference talks about awesome products demoed on "Hello, world!" problems.

Practically none of the content creators seem to have ever executed a project that used ML, or worked in an ML team, and those who are doing that professionally don't do YouTube videos, except for talks in conferences that they did something, not really how they did it.

I think you are in a great position and can do a lot of good by showing how you and your team execute a project from start to finish.

Seasons and episodes. One season per project. One episode every week or two that addresses the problems solved, and how. I want to look at your screen and listen to conversations and brain-storming. How do you do ML, in long form videos from the field, not some bullshit 5 minutes videos with sentences like "then you only have to deploy your model". How do you collaborate on a project, how do you choose metrics that translate to the real world, how do you retrain your models, how do you do workload management, how do is your private cloud, do your ML practitioners have self service infra for training, how do you do self service deployment, manage data and access, how do you test data is not tainted, deploy and expose models, embed models.. How do you collaborate. How do you track knowledge, decisions, and assumptions and hypotheses.

For example, if you could take papers like "The ML Test Score: A Rubric for ML Production Readiness and Technical Debt Reduction"[^1] or "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems"[^2] and show how your team is dealing with each point, it would be great content.

All the thing that anyone who has spent a day in the real world knows isn't covered by 99% of the content online because the people doing it are either too busy, consider it competitive advantage, or don't know it even exists (had people working at FAANG try our internal platform, and they don't even deal with these problems because they're in "research" and they have teams of ops they can offload their notebook to).

[^1]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[^2]: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-m...
But... "Cliqz" sounds like an existing word that does mean something? So?
underscores or GTFO, so you can double-click to select the full branch name!

we also tend to prepend with our initials just in case someone else also has a branch related to that issue and they give it a similar descriptive slug
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The issue is not 'why they have thin margins' - the issue is their inflexible operating ability mostly due to fixed costs, specifically rent.

If restaurants had 20% margins they would still be facing collapse.

Rent is a huge portion of costs vis-a-vis most other businesses that can be run 'anywhere' whereas restaurants need prime locations.
He said it was his opinion.
This is truly an amazing cause! Incarcerated people and their families deserve better, and Ameelio's organization and outreach is going to provide an incredible impact. I cannot wait to watch this organization grow!
The latest version of Dgraph 20.03.1 contains GraphQL endpoint. We're releasing few more features very soon, which would add object level auth, ability to trigger custom logic, call remote GraphQL endpoints to execute part of the query, and so on. So, you could put Dgraph directly in front of a frontend, without worry.

Dgraph can also be called via Apollo Gateway, as part of their federation.

We also have other very interesting stuff in the pipeline, which would cater a lot to front end development as well as backend. So, stay tuned.
https://quantumjavascript.app/

You might find this useful. Along with the author's write-up:

https://medium.com/@stew_rtsmith/quantum-javascript-d1effb84...
Elon Musk tweet wipes $14bn off Tesla's value
> That's not my view FWIW. Gurdjieff was very clear when he wanted to be and also very obscure when he wanted to be, often at the same time, but always in service of his fundamental goal: Transformation of man.

I hear this Gurdjieffite dodge a lot. "He totally meant to do it that way, for reasons you and I can't fathom. It was all part of his brilliant plan, for he has assumed no less of a burden on himself than the total transformation of mankind!" They say that about his numerous scams like painting sparrows yellow and selling them as canaries. "That was just Gurdjieff testing the public, to determine who was truly worthy of receiving his teachings." No, it was a scam.

For God's sakes they say that about his penchant for reckless driving -- which nearly got him killed twice! It's just proof of his Jedi reflexes which he developed through his genius and years of study.

Come on, man! I won't doubt that he was a clever bloke -- as is Yarvin -- but he was a huckster. His stock in trade was getting people to think he was a unique genius with the power to bring about a new age of enlightenment. It's a testament to his intelligence that it worked, but it doesn't legitimize his claims or even put him on equal footing with Da Vinci.

And no, I haven't been hanging around "the wrong Gurdjieffites". The argument that you are not allowed to criticize Gurdjieff or his Great Work without having fully oriented your brain to his cosmology and philosophy is so common that there's a Gurdjieffian slur for it. "Wiseacring" is the word Gurdjieffites use to mean "talking about things you do not and cannot understand because you are not yet as galaxy-brained as Gurdjieff was".

My exposure to Gurdjieff's impenetrable web of BS and the cult of personality around him that it induced has made me suspicious of anyone who claims to be or is claimed to be a towering intellect with unique powers to change the world, especially if they are surrounded by sycophants who confuse obscurantism for genius. Yarvin rings this same alarm inside me, as does Stephen Wolfram.
This is really cool! Another great library for working with large time-series datasets is Bokeh (https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/index.html).
It's not a REST API if it does not enforce a Hypermedia format. Plain JSON has never and will never be a REST API.
It's called an Ad-Hoc API with your own made up rules.
only serious customers need apply!
because it isn't the company that wants the share price boosted, if you bought into Gilead a few weeks ago when this drug was first announced then boosting the share price helps the shareholders who aren't in it for the long run
> I wouldn't care if it were devastating only to the current press, it is beyond awful anyway

You're confusing the 24/7 TV infotainment with proper journalism. TV anchors peddling stories optimized to maximum viewership for the purpose of advertising is just one aspect to it, and it would be the least hurt by this. Real investigative journalism would be hit much harder.
This stuff makes me very nervous. Together with the contact tracing apps we'll have total surveillance wherever we go.
It sure feels like the main reasons that the people who are still encouraging draconian restrictions for all instead of a more measured, locally oriented response based on the situation for each locality are either because they are afraid of lifting restrictions then things getting worse and thus getting blamed, or a cynical belief that hurting America will hurt Trump for the election - or a combination of both.

One thing is for sure, this whole thing has really shown the kinds of power hungry people you DON’T want to have in charge. For the last three years there has been constant screeching about Trump planning to be dictator for life - and now all you hear is complaining he isn’t enough of an authoritarian for their tastes. The incongruity appears utterly lost on them - it would be hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerous.
coincidentally, i posted this not too long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23045207
It sounds like you know a lot about this field, but can you please post more substantively, and in particular replace name-calling ("highly comical" "nonsensical") with actual details? If you know more than others, that's great, but the thing to do on HN is to share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn.

A phrase like "cute but completely incomparable" doesn't teach the reader anything. It would be much better to say what the relevant aspects of "transmission intelligence in the Linux TCP stack" are, and what makes them relevant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a hybrid meaning it may struggle in direct competition with pure loss based algorithms. CUBIC, the Linux default, is somewhat notorious in causing bloat issues but these things tend to play out like an arms race. BBR is another hybrid and has tons of heuristics and tuning to try and adapt to these arms race conditions.
Airlines and oil giants are on the brink. No government should offer a lifeline
Founder of a bicycle insurer here and I can tell you that the only way to deter people is by parking in secure private or public spaces (never, ever semi-public) and by making your bike less attractive than the one next to it.

2 locks is indeed the standard in big cities. Also make sure they are sold secure gold rated or Art 3. Anything else is a waste of money. There are a few new lock types which are supposed to work better against angle grinders like Tex-lock or LitLok.

Because the average bike price is going up it also becomes interesting to steal parts. A decent handlebar + shifters are easy to sell individually. Companys like Hexlox or Pinheads are working on locks to tackle that.
Mmh haven't seen too many credit unions do this. Though groceries and netflix are not paid by api but credit card
I agree. These things are really about expanding bulk collection programs, not about catching whoever the big bad guy is at the moment.
Bokeh looks cool, too.
So in a way this also only works when there are few people following the strategy, right? Not everyone can have puts on the same thing as someone had to be on the other end of the deal.
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From the Judge: releasing the logs may help clarify whether fraudulent activity interfered with the comment period, as well as whether the agency’s decision-making process is “vulnerable to corruption."

My take: I was one of the flesh-and-blood people who commented. when I did that, I also looked up every comment made by a person with my name. Result: every comment by someone with my name was obvious cut-n-paste.

From my POV, it's clear: the FCC site was swamped with fake comments. Their unwillingness to publicly say so is an abomination in a democracy.
I have mixed feelings on urbit. I think it's a really interesting idea, but it's implementation is too obscure and complex. I do, however, sympathize with their goal and appreciate the UI design of this new web app.

I struggle to see the practical benefit of urbit versus something like sandstorm.io, although I don't think that project is perfect either. With WebAssembly getting its footing, it's hard for me to justify a future platform that requires code to be written in a specific language.

What if we had a federated computing platform that ran code via WebAssembly, stored data wherever the user would like including an option for IPFS, and managed identity via OAuth / SSL certificate authorities / private/public keys? It could be interacted with via a web portal, and apps could be provided APIs to interact with other apps and the rest of the system.

I can see something like that being built to fulfill similar goals (as I understand them... I could be wrong) but using existing tech: HTTP3, TLS, IPFS, WebAssembly
I'm only basing this off of every software product I use as well as the fact that I've been in this game deeper and longer.
The fear is that journalists will focus on the one concern that affects them. Politicians see that and give journalists an exemption. Everyone else is still screwed.
> The €50 is just a simple nudge for all those people to get it roadworthy so they can start using it again or sell it to somebody who will use it.

Certainly do more to increase bike usage and keep the momentum of usage going than any marketing thing.

What would be nice would be better incentive to use public transport and to not use cars, we have used the stick with taxes for a while, carrots like this can only work better.
If they could get that balance right and maybe focus on cheaper public transport, incentivise ride sharing and bikes, more so bikes over electric as they are more accessible to the whole populus, not just those who can afford to cash in on incentives out of many peoples reach.

Been all well having subsidies for solar paanels, electric cars, but when the outlay and means to get those put those out of the reach for so many, let alone people who rent, or indeed walk or cycle. Perhaps the focus would perhaps incentivise using less electricity, incentivise public transport and bicycles, not just expensive hire bikes for hipsters in which most will end up being stolen by those who can't afford to access them via other means.

But this initiative as a one off is both timely and good on many levels as you say, getting unused bicycles into action over the whole disposable mentality of most objects, is fantastic. Also nice boom for the bicycle repair industry, though unsure how they have been impacted by things currently.
Depends upon how far apart are the servers. It is on our roadmap to experiment with Dgraph servers as part of one cluster across US based datacenters. Once we establish that, we can try it out across US / Europe, etc.

We use 100ms heartbeats, with 20x that for election timeouts, in line with Etcd. Don't think that's exposed to the end user -- nobody has needed to tweak that.
Oh my God, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. You may have the opportunity to drive through a green light and not have a scooter run a red light or stop sign.
Elon Musk lied about the EPA’s Tesla Model S test, agency claims
Not questioning your conclusion; out of curiosity, did you also measure latency?

You could get very close to maximum possible just by massively delaying & coalescing ACKs. In other words nearing blind transmission without caring about packet loss at all.

But latency could get pretty bad!
Sounds about right, the bike I use for my daily commute from the train station to the place I work needs things like new tires, new brakes, some new spokes etc about every 1-2 years. Usually totaling around 50 euro. For that amount a good bike repair shop can do a lot for a bike.
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What's wrong with that? it's a good fallback
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Because the task is typically the same across all candidates, so you can judge them comparable between each other. Giving them completely different tasks negates the point of the activity (and also negates historic knowledge from past candidate's solutions).
This is one of the best titles I've seen this year. Reminds me of G.G.Márquez, who told how much he sweated over the first sentence. I haven't read the post yet, but I feel the discussion has already started.
Walking the Clojure source history: a talk not given
Why do you like these prefixes? Honest question.

My thoughts are: They don't really add any value to the branch nor do they inform the developer. Identifying a bug fix, a new feature, or a document branch doesn't change the way you treat the branch in any way, nor would it necessarily prioritize the branch.

If you are drowning branches (like dozens or hundreds) and need to categorize them like this, it's somewhat a "code smell" reflecting the development process. Having too many things open and not closing them is not the greatest strategy.

Anyway, honestly interested in your opinion and why you find those prefixes useful. They seem to me to be some holdout from early blog postings recommending this approach, but turn out to not really add any value.
The person I was responding to claimed that media in France is “all but left-oriented”. I was providing a major counterexample.
Not at all, but the nature of mistakes is revealing of the journalistic bias of those working for those organizations.

When Washington Post falsely claims the Russians hacked into critical US energy infrastructure, this isn't a harmless typo or a flubbed detail.

When the New York Times repeatedly lies about WMDs in Iraq and tens of thousands of people die, this isn't a harmless typo or a flubbed detail.

Those are the obvious ones, the most egregious behavior is what they don't report on or cover up.

If the internet wasn't around to fact check the lies of mainstream media in real-time, imagine what they'd be getting away with.

Why do you think they're deserving of your defense? Their actions are neither harmless nor accidental. These aren't innocent mistakes.

These are recent examples. If you go back further, the same news outlets were repeating CIA propaganda via Operation Mockingbird and other efforts.
I fully disagree, on two grounds.

1. AI is by far our least machine-like invention yet. Our ability to predict the choices a state of the art AI makes, or even reason about them, is extremely limited. As a relevant example, I would argue that AlphaGo's move 37 was creativity by the AI and not its creators, none of whom was a Go grandmaster.

2. AIs can iterate and output creative works extremely rapidly. If we credit all such creative works to the AI's creator with the current IP approach, it would allow them to amass a potential treasure trove of IP that would put everything that came before to shame. And if they then use this for litigation, then the future could be very gloomy for a while.
I thought Java's String was hard-coded to UTF-16. Is that mistaken?
Opportunity cost, don't want to get stuck with low rent when you may be about to get a high value renter
That move would be pretty high-risk/high-reward, but I would be for sure cheering if/when that happens.
Bad times ahead for digital lenders in Kenya
If restaurants had much better margins, they (or their owners) would have bigger rainy day funds. There are lots of businesses with large fixed costs.
Unless you've already diagnosed and fixed the bug yourself, you really have no objective idea of how minor the bug is. And therefore I can't see how you could meaningfully judge candidates. If you're using a fresh bug with each candidate, that also decreases objectivity because you're not comparing apples to apples.

Additionally, if the candidate gets totally mired you don't have any way to give them a nudge, because you don't know what to do either.

Unless this is just a test of pair programming -- and without expecting to reach resolution of the bug -- it doesn't really sound useful to me.
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Most people are just following orders at their job, where they've got bills to pay. Morals are not so important on the hierarchy of needs. It might not even be something that crosses those worker's minds because of a much different upbringing/education than yours.
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Interesting story about how this developer got called by the NSA, who instructed him to hang up then call back the publicly listed number for the agency. Exactly the steps that big banks should take. https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/why-the-nsa-called-me-...
Unfortunately as CEO of a public company, I don’t believe he can make stock moving statements casually, without backing it by information. It can’t be left as an exercise for the reader - if it’s opinion, why does he think so? Or maybe he is j/k. How should we decode this information?
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Hi all, Ive been looking around for a technical explanation of how video streaming works and cant really come up with anything. If anyone has any links or sources that can help id appreciate it.

Thanks
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