skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A consultancy company I used to work for referred to this as 'brains by the pound'. The implication was that the only way to increase revenue (assuming constant rates and expenses) was to add more staff (perhaps working for new customers).

There is one way to make it scale, sort of. Find a consultancy solution that is applicable across multiple customers. E.g where multiple customer teams have essentially the same problem. Once you have ironed the bugs out of your consultancy solution, you can template it and reuse in new situations with fewer surprises. You can still include a risk bucket in your charge-out rates, but this is more likely not to be used and thus taken as profit. In the case with which I'm familiar, a very large organisation had multiple teams writing business requirements that would be put out to tender. The central organisation had never tried to standardise this process, and multiple similar mistakes were made by multiple customer teams. Hence a good business opportunity for a small external consultancy who could spot the mistake patterns and solve them multiple times.

Whether the template approach is good for all customers is a wholly different question. You can also get badly burned (in cost and / or reputation) if you find after starting with a new customer that the template isn't applicable after all. Hence the common situation where a consultancy organisation deploys its 'A-team' to win and start the work, and then swaps them out for cheaper and less skilled staff to complete the deliverables.

[Edit - added example]
27 to 31 fps on a 2.6 GHz MacBook Pro (Late 2013) in Safari. Try Safari, maybe?
I asked this some time ago and never found a satisfactory answer. There doesn't appear to be much research in this area either :/
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i agree, there's reputational impact but again it's the trade off that early adopters make and are fully aware of.

When you're the first user of a brand new companies' database, you better bet there will still be kinks they're working through and let's face it you're the guinea pig.

i'm sure mongo is thankful for all these guinea pigs because they helped to define the roadmap and iron out the bugs. however, in the end of the day 2009 version of a product is entirely different than 2020 version. there are endless analogies (facebook, google, etc.) the only difference with an open source technology is users can analyze it under a microscope.
>I'm not trying to out the mod or get vengeance.

Getting the actual conversation and actual article you tried to post gives a lot of context into why you believe you were cancelled. I don't want you to out the mods, I want to understand their side of the story.

I've heard your side, and it sounds like the content didn't fit the vibe of the subreddit, as per the mods. They told you that and you threatened to break their rules again. Yes, you were threatening to break their rules.

I'd say they gave you a chance, and given this particular story re: mod harassment, didn't want to engage with an aggressive user.

> No rules broken, just intimidation and censorship.

A moderator of a forum asking you to not do something is not intimidation. It's asking you to adhere to the vibe of the subreddit. The description of the article you tried to post was obviously an attempt at rabble rousing on your part. There are helpful and constructive ways to voice your opinion. If you have consistent trouble doing that, I would consider therapy to try and understand why people see you as aggressive when you try to share your opinion.

There's nothing wrong with asking for help when you're struggling to fit in socially, especially if your opinions diverge from the norm. Being different is HARD.
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From startups to stalwarts - this is the norm. Wall Street / Investors first. Infinite and ridiculous QoQ / YoY growth expectations and a lot of really dumb approaches to achieve this. And executive pay that's way out of line. I just read "The Infinite Game" [0] and while a lot of the book rehashes many oft heard stories amidst well known companies and people as examples it makes the clear point that given our hyper focus on short term profits we pay the price in the long run. I don't disagree and I've been in roughly eight different tech companies over the last 12 years. From startups to companies that do more than a billion annually. They're all doing the same thing. The executives can't even hear themselves admit it, which is the really interesting part.

Case in point I was on a call where an executive stated: "We're moving to a subscription model in our product because, to go public, that's what Wall Street is going to want to see". Not because that's where customer demand is, or because it makes sense for the business. But this short sighted rationale to meet a short term goal inorganically. Wall Street and VCs are very much no different than the influencer marketing crowd. They just happen to pretend and purport they're good at growing business, when the real MO is lining pockets.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38390751-the-infinite-ga...
more like 10y, but it breaks down when you get deeper in the google maze
I have worked on that problem recently, and yes it is really hard.

You will be surprised on how many cities are named 'San francisco' in the world : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(disambiguation)
My favorite Siri moment since like iOS 7 is when I ask Siri to turn off all alarms:

".......... one moment please ........... there's a problem with the network connection".

No. There. Is. Not. In fact, all alarms always get deactivated. All other queries immediately before or after work fine.

The failure rate when I ask that is no less than 100% for me. Just sad.
What do you expect for those results though?

I think a better example is searching "+= operator python", for which it successfully highlights the "+=" and finds relevant results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2B%3D%22+operator+python...
Not at all, you seem to be missing a lot of historical context here. The cold war was a thing,as was WW2. You should be happy the US played world cop else it would be russia and china playing world ruler.

You are extremely misinformed, the US was superbly pissed off at 9/11 but Al-qaeda terrorized europe,africa, SE asia and even china. They declared a "holy" war and used that pretext to attack the US and anyone supporting the US or Israel. The CIA are pretty terrible ,but hey..why not compare them with the KGB and ex-soviet states? How about modern russia and it's treatment of it's neighbors , straight up invading countries on a whim and annexing their territory. You should check out how they toppled Ukraine's entire government before the current one also because they're using that playbook against trump. Let's compare apples to apples, you can disagree with US policy just fine without claiming the world would be a better place without their intervention policy. Also,FYI, the pretext of interventionism is WW2, you know,how if someone say toppled Nazis or Mussolini before they went out of hand hundreds of millions of lives could be saved? A 3rd world country falling for say Russia or China (even by proxy) means Russia or China will play economic or direct warfare which will lead into a bay of pigs type of a stand off where either you let you let them point a nuclear gun to your head and hope they don't shoot or you stand by and let them invade your allies. Oh and which world policing are you talking about? The serbian genocide? Because US lead but it was NATO just like afghanistan,so it was more like NATO policing. It's ridiculous that you expect the US or any major power to not attempt to interfere in other countries politics to have an outcome that benefits their country. Every country including UK,Germany,Netherlands,France,China,India,Vietnam and Russia do this, they just don't try and succeed as much as the US.
One would think that a very common word would already been added to the dictionary, and not require the users to enter it to their own dictionary. I'm pretty sure "fuck" is in every major dictionary as well, so why the fuck not in the phone dictionary?
There is a port of sorts: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l Still an early stage but nonetheless.
Try https://screenotate.com/

(no affiliation, just a user)
Much like https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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As others have said, it's not worth breaking away from the standard language only to make a few shallow changes. It needs to be a fairly radical improvement or it's just not worth it. If Kotlin were too similar to Java, it couldn't have offered much reason to adopt it.

If you want a modern language that compiles down to C (not C++), there's Vala. It even has some kind of async support now.
So the IRS start going on about complex tax things before confirming who they are talking to?
IBM has been dead for years. This is the inevitable end.
>I see my employer as accepting a risk I'm unwilling to accept.

Which is also true. At the same time, risk is highly relative which is why this situation is feasible at all. What's risky for you to do as an individual is not of the same order of magnitude of relative risk when you consider scaling of available resources.

Example, Alphabet, Amazon, or Company Y decide to invest $1 million in a new SaaS 'X' effort with some monthly fee in an attempt to build a successful product/service. These companies have arrays of pre-existing successful products/services they've built (typically diversified) that generate stable profits. Relative to that sort of expected profit, SaaS 'X' is a drop in the bucket. If 'X' fails, it's the same absolute monetary loss ($1 million) but the relative risk of losing $1 million isn't significant to any of these businesses, it's small relative to their total resource pool of disposable assets. Loss recovery will also take significantly less time.

On the other hand, if I as an individual go through the effort to form an LLC, develop SaaS 'X' myself and fail, $1 million is nothing to scoff at. Even if you're in the higher income scales of our industry and making $300-500k+/yr for labor, you're looking at ~3-4 years or so of potential losses and values that are probably near or a bit more than your total personal assets, at the very least I'd say 10%. If you start an LLC and get a loan or have some investor drop money on you, $1 million is still likely going to be a lot relative to your loan. It's highly likely that if 'X' fails your business will fail. There's high relative risk here (there are some mitigations strategies from your personal assets but it's still significant). You're probably going to face noticeable financial hardship or have to revert back to the labor market due to business small failure rates.

Risk is mitigated through scale, snowballed growth, and diversification (amongst other strategies) in our economic system through initial successes that often occur either through true innovation/market creation/penetration and/or sheer luck.
Exactly. There is no way Apple could wait until feature parity which still may not ever happen in some areas. There comes a point where they have to get what they have out the door and continue to iterate. One could argue Apple released too early, but it was going to be bumpy no matter when they released.
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I don't know what to tell you. The facts are settled according to authorities on language which I trust. Your folk-etymology seems to be an intuitive but incorrect back-formation.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/routs

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/using-root-rou...
To be fair, the early Silicon Valley was delightfully dorky:

https://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/10/steve-jobs-appeared-in-...
It is OK because Musk was contacted for the story, and presumably was fine with it.
Think we passed that a good while ago to be honest. Used to be a good read a few years back but just comes across as damage control at this point. "Siri isn't very good" is hardly a controversial opinion in 2020.
If you do a year or two in games, it may make it easier to get a more general programming job, fwiw.

Btw, you may want to edit your post to prefix the title with “Ask HN:”
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Maybe there is some hope that they can turn things around, but the last decade has all been about spinning off and selling out any real hardware or software divisions, chasing failed cloud services and overhyped AI buzzwords, and shedding every highly-paid legacy US employee they can get rid of.

I hope they do, I make a ton of money selling to them...
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Isn't the whole point about UBI that you don't lose it if employed?
> I'm glad it only has the intel integrated video card so I don't have to deal with proprietary drivers.

I'm not sure if there is a model with an AMD GPU, if there was I'd go with that.
Ask HN: How to Leave a Job?
Hello HN,
I am currently switching jobs(in Romania) and I was wondering if you have any tips on how I should announce my current place that I am leaving?
Any tips for how should I proceed?
or IRS scammers...
Yeah... well... I'm terrible at that. Recently I learn many more purchases can simultaneously be investments. The topic now makes me wonder if this 7000$ vintage espresso machine is robust enough for another 20 years of service. https://coffeemachinewarehouse.com.au/product/gaggia-vintage...

It looks more solid than fiat?
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Something to do with his image? Here in the UK people complain about exactly the same thing when people reference "Boris".
> Ok, first of, why should I (as an institution) care about the people unable to fulfil the conditions of my test?

Maybe you (as an institution) care about all your students?
I'll be very happy once claims about improved GC performance turn into actual reality for my workloads.

What is "pretty minimal heap wastage"?

As far as I can see, ZGC (which is currently marked as experimental) doesn't give any specific performance guarantees. It'll be interesting to try.

"How much headroom is needed very much depends on the allocation rate and the live-set size of the application. In general, the more memory you give to ZGC the better."

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/13/gctuning/z-garbage...
I'd be content (happy, even!) with Windows 2000.
Never think of AM/PM except when dealing with badly designed software.
I recall reading about a local business that lost their phone number of decades to a new hospital that printed a bunch of marketing materials with the wrong number and successfully persuaded the phone company to commandeer the number.

Update: I remember now, the phone company gave them the wrong number to begin with. Just a bizarre story all around, and quite cruel to the original business.
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Obviously virtual assistants should ask for clarifications. Now imagine every time you ask for the time, weather or a flight to London and you always mean only London UK, imagine how annoying that can be. Makes me wonder if VA's are more productive in such cases compared to typing.
Don't forget to give the creators the "good money" you promised :) https://languagetool.org/#Price
Akash looks cool! I am working on a self hosting solution (https://protos.io) that is similar to Sandstorm, and I've been dreaming of a way to deploy VMs on various cloud providers, without requiring an account creation beforehand and without having any intermediaries. Akash looks like it could become that. Unfortunately at the moment you can only deploy containers, and I need the ability to deploy full VMs.
I would have to go back to the code to see what the difference is with your example, but I think the problem was with overload resolution, where the base interface/implementation classes have a function by the same name as the derived interface/implementation classes but with a different signature. The compiler error was already at the declaration site, and not at the point the classes where instantiated.

Maybe I'm not even fully grasping the problem myself, but in any case virtual inheritance on the interface classes resolved it ;-S
Depends on the school. I don't think the elite schools like the ivy leagues do this but they are very selective so it's kind of assumed everyone that gets in is smart enough that they should graduate. A lot of the competitive public state schools though absolutely do this.

I went to a public state school and they straight up bell curved the grades for most classes at the TA level so that a certain number of kids were always going to get a D/F both of which are not passing grades and thus requiring the student to either retake it or switch majors.

It was pretty brutal but also highly effective at getting me to really study the material to stay above the curve and pass.
The same for "nucular" instead of "nuclear". The first time I heard "nucular" was G.W. Bush on TV. I thought he was an idiot because a president of a nuclear power ought to know how to pronounce a word that important. I found it more odd that many people pronounced it that way and thought they were either mocking G.W. Bush, or emulating him. I was young and intolerant and thought they were idiots, too. When I had heard it one time too many, I figured there can't be that many idiots and looked up "nucular". I found out that "nucular" has forced itself into the dictionary precisely because too many people pronounced it that way and I was livid.

I eventually toned down my zeal because languages and people are dynamic and ever evolving and reflecting on Montaigne's Essais, written in late 1500s French, lead me to more understanding.

PS: I still consider that using "nucular" is insane.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular
Title should be:

Patent Troll IBM uses coronavirus as excuse to cut thousands more senior jobs . . .
> Getting the values would only let you recalculate the results, not discover why the results were produced.

It also allows you to calculate new results, which can be used to detect when the system is actually wrong, and to detect bias.

And actually, yes you can discover why the results were produced, because models leak a ton of data about the training set.
While I agree that the press is exaggerating the deadliness of the disease, this number is also misleading. As many will point out, the vast majority of US citizens have at least one comorbidity (obesity, diabetes, heart trouble, smoking, asthma, etc.)

You have to go to the very young (under 25) to find a sizable population without a comorbidity.

I think it is more useful to point out that mortality is skewed heavily toward age and whether or not you are in a nursing home. Seniors outside of nursing homes are doing an order of magnitude better than those in homes.

Over half of US counties have no COVID deaths. The number are skewed terribly by NY/NJ as well.
Will check it out :)
Even Microsoft's own hardware can't get it right. I have a Surface Pro 3, and it will not stay in sleep mode. The screen frequently turns on for no reason at all, even if the keyboard cover is closed. I've taken to putting it in hibernate mode whenever I know I won't be using it for more than a few minutes, otherwise I'll come back to a dead battery.

But even hibernation doesn't always work. My custom-built desktop PC frequently wakes itself out of hibernation in the middle of the night. I don't even know how that's possible, because I thought hibernation was "off, with RAM saved to storage". Which is just wonderful when I'm sleeping in the same room.
The Readme of that project could do with a few examples of what tests and successful/unsuccessful output look like. I found the examples folder and still can't visualize what it might be like.

I've been using cram (also written in Python) for a private project and been mostly happy with it: https://bitheap.org/cram/
Hit me up anytime you'd like to have an architecture convo, esp a cisc / RISC discussion.

Keybase in profile, but lmk of a different medium would be more palatable.
I like that and might use it for my markdown note-taking app.

However, it seems that there's an alignment issue between the axis' values and their points (or bars) on the graphs. The stacked bars total value is 95, yet it seems to go a bit over 100, and the problem is even more apparent on Line and Scatter plots. Nothing too major to fix I guess.

The non rounding on axis values (0, 20, 39.9, ... 99.8) is also a bit weird. Sorry I don't want to sound negative, I'm really interested and will keep an eye on it!
Judging by Elon’s reaction, it’s been out of his hands for many years.
People who do stuff out of fear generally don't stop being afraid if you give them safety. They would continue working even if unpaid, which most of them are kinda doing the whole time.

My perspective.
Ask HN: Looking for honest testimonials of Electron vs. Qt vs. GTK
Hi,

Electron is the target of a lot of hate on developer's forums. Nonetheless a lot of app are created with it everyday and you won't make me believe that these developers are just 'stupid' (the words of people hating electron, not mines).

This is why today I'm looking for honest testimonials of people having built apps with Electron and / or Qt and why they chose one rather than the other, if they have regrets or if there is some pitfalls.

Best regards
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With that said, TI is still doing R&D and is investing in new facilities. They announced a new 300mm fab recently which will be several billion dollars in capex.

If you look at their annual report, they are defining free cash as the cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures. This is better than "invest nothing and send it all back". In 2019, their capex / cash flow was about 12%. They certainly don't invest nearly the amount that an Intel or TSMC would invest in their lines - but the products they produce don't really require that.

I'm totally with you on stock buybacks being a big problem.
No they are not (only) that.
IBM is a global cloud provider on par with the rest as far as the basic offers go.
Climate models and recent epidemiological modelling (outliers in terms of their effect on public policy making) are far simpler than say the ML this article seems to suggest. But you don't need a human-understandable representation to understand their limitations.
Here's a blog post showing self hosted PyTesseract finding text in an image and preserving the format: https://stackabuse.com/pytesseract-simple-python-optical-cha...

There's a reason why the external services are popular though...lots of training data and tweaks to make them much more accurate. Try the Google demo here, for example: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/ocr
An example from Google is YouTube TV.

I have seen countless people raising issues about why they can't use some services and after some time the people from the service will finally tell them it's because they aren't in the US. All of this can be simply solved with a simple "Only available in the US" in the front page. And if Google is to be believed human support is quite pricy.

And no, it isn't complicated. Not for designers or developers. (I am not a good designer but I have developed many websites.)
I just spent longer than reasonable zooming into random parts of Canada, it's quite funny seeing places like Morpeth south of London. And also satisfying to see Kent and Essex are neighbours in Canada, too. There were some surprising ones too, like Uttoxeter having a name-twin
Norton Commander is the reason I still use Midnight Commander on my servers !

My fingers know all the key shortcuts for decades now