skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It blows my mind how people can come here and attempt to write a serious answer claiming the CEO "rarely" knows something his armchair critic doesn't (as a basis for their "bad" decision). Then proceed to peddle cliches and conspiracies.

Also, shareholders aren't stupid, they usually reward CEOs for good business decisions and so does the board. Sometimes it's unclear what is better long-term and short-term results are preferred, but nobody knowingly punishes or fires a CEO for a good decision. That just exists in the imagination of people whose involvement with business decisions consists of reading Dilbert cartoons.
Is this a good option to host sensitive data? I'll have to opt on a backend to store medical data in my app. I had discarded Firebase due to some opinions I found on the web stating it would not be the best option.
There's a problem in that: what if you're up against VC-backed silicon valley unicorns whose business case is to overgrow and obliterate anything else in their sector?

In other words, if you can't afford to buy cars and hire drivers and comply with all regulations then don't compete with Uber. The missing part is, Uber intentionally cuts these things out of its business model so you can't… I guess it would be, drive for Uber until you can afford a real taxi medallion.

Likewise, I think being a YouTuber you will NEVER be able to earn enough money that you can jump ship to a competing video service with better conditions, because no such service (?) exists at the scale and audience of YouTube, because YouTube runs at a substantial loss in order to completely own the market for non-trivial uses.

That's valuable. How valuable? Stock market valuable: as in, people with money THINK it is valuable, and I don't think the reality has been well tested yet. We're still in the world where dominating and monopolizing is seen as super valuable, because of some immense perceived payback that you apparently get to do.
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Venice skaters take back park in defiance of LA city orders
Look at Telcos/Semiconductor/Aeronautical industries if that's an option. They are notoriously ageist in the opposite direction and value experience far more than tech in general.
Number 53 brings relief to Italy (2005)
History of Unix Manpages (2011)
I know that JetBrains are using Java Swing for their IDEs and they look pretty native on OS X and Windows
I was replying to the suggestion that Qt could be released under GPL if its authors wanted to prevent the creative accounting described by OP.

Also, LGPL is already problematic, because you cannot link statically with it.
You may want to consider JavaFX, which nowadays supports creating binaries with GraalVM.
If you cannot see major bias of media and tech giants towards liberal agenda, you have missed what ~ 60M americans noticed before casting their vote for Trump. It is an effort to influnce US elections (which failed in 2016). I see nothing wrong with Trumps post.
The same, like all phone manufacturers who allow you to download the Linux kernel's source code, or Tesla who allows you to download the Qt source code they use: https://github.com/teslamotors/qt
You have to ask yourself if you really want to work for a racist company that hires based on skin color (aka affirmative action)? If you're that desperate, becoming a criminal almost seems like a more sensible choice
It was £500K and appeared to be per organisation not vehicle, and was a once off deposit, so a little different.
It would be really interesting to see code simplification via neural network.

While working in enterprise I see plenty of code that after some massaging collapses into a much simpler form (for the programmer) and equivalent for the computer.

(fix typo)
Yes article from March. By now also published about by Nature (at least online), and also part as of the signals they are looking at in the NL
Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel
I agree with this. In FANNG old and young people don't usually compete. No one will interview someone young to a senior position and vice versa. It's a bit like in the army... There are way more junior positions than senior which skewed these companies towards the young. Also, for senior positions the interviewers must be senior too, which means they are not young either.

In other companies that's not always the norm. I worked in companies with senior folks in their late 20 / early 30s while a few 50+ developers were software engineers (not senior).
+1 Well said,

"The point was made that humanity is just putting a lot of crap into a system whose limits are poorly understood, and we might want to rethink that a bit."

That should be whatever Green initiative slogan so more people understand.
Twitter will just move to non-US servers and open company in Estonia. USA economy goes dowwwwwnnn ...
You don't have to send the files. You just have to provide access to said files somehow. Put them into your web page, send link in email. Print link into manuals or sales agreement. And whenever customer calls and asks to have them just send them the files.
I know you are trying to be kind but what you are doing here is expressing ageist prejudices.

You wouldn’t (I hope) write something ascribing specific behaviors to all female devs, or Indian devs, right? So please don’t do the same for older ones.

I’m in my forties and quite capable of getting caught up in the excitement over a new technology. On the other hand I think I’ve matured out of the stubbornness I had in my twenties. I’ve met young developers who get so caught up in the mastery of their first tech stack that they aren’t ready to go back to being a beginner again, and haven’t seen enough ways of solving problems to recognize that what they think is the only right way to solve a problem could possibly have an alternative.

If you’re looking for ‘use boring technology’ enthusiasts and people open to changing their mind, go out and interview and hire for those attributes, wherever you find them - but don’t assume they’re only going to be found in older developers. And if you’re looking for someone to explore new technology, consider that an older dev might be just as enthusiastic as a junior, rather than assuming.
This didn't got enough attention, there are still companies marketing their own binary obfuscated ones.
Perhaps not always.. https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Prime-Air/
If you don't pick a db, where do you store data ?
>The modern formal definition is a post-hoc formalization of an existing intuitive concept

Sure, but we're aiming to teach those 'post-hoc' formalizations. What fourth-graders are learning is supposed to be a foundation for future abstract mathematics. And we are using the operators and syntax of the modern formalizations as well.

Again we're not just teaching kids how to think about ratios and do practical arithmetic. If that's all we wanted, we could just give them an algorithm and an abacus and that's all they would ever need. Fractions can be used to think about ratios and things like that but they come with WAY more baggage because they are more than that. They are abstract concepts that underpin further abstract mathematics.

>It's a bit contrived, but say I ask the pupils at the table to send someone away. They

You can always add an ad-hoc extension to whatever the analogy you're using. I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm making no judgement call on how to teach mathematics to fourth-graders either (I don't know what the best way is). But I do want to point out that your extension to the analogy (negative fractions being equivalent to sending a student away) is because you've reached the limits of your initial abstraction. It's not a clean mapping either. For one thing, you just assumed the numerator is negative (student being away), but it is just as valid that the denominator may be negative (or both!). And it isn't clear that a negative numerator and a positive denominator is equivalent to a positive numerator and negative denominator. You either have to prove that from first principles using formal methods or you simply have to assert that to the fourth-grader and justify it with "it's just the way things are"
I am 49, living in the Netherlands working as a self employed devops. Keep trying. Solid companies will value your seniority. But you also need to remain flexible and invest in much needed technology knowledge. Don't give up, be confident that you have what it takes. Radiate your confidence.
Ask HN: Why does everybody like notion.so?
What is your favorite feature? What is missing in other tools?
Did you remember any of the stories after the one you remembered in detail? Because if you do then maybe it took your associative memory a while to match the pattern.
Is this sort of lambda architecture for ML applications? Not referring to the "library" part of the flowchart obviously.

Only major difference I can spot is the streaming layer is more about read speed latency instead of serving real time data.
the overlap _used to be_ huge. "let's play" was the single largest genre on youtube for a while. then they all moved to twitch.
I think not making the 4th year primarily projects would help. In my mechanical engineering BS my 4th year was a combination of projects and electives (ignoring the senior design class). At the very least a class on software testing should be offered at the level of an elective.

The curriculum doesn't mention other required courses like general education, so perhaps the author thought electives weren't worth mentioning either.
Thanks!

Also the first 10-15 minutes in this recording explains the Feature Store concept and how it can integrate with other ML tools (in this case Sagemaker) incl. slides, examples and demo if you are more of a watch & listen type. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DaTA7o0FHY&list=PLgN6fhzkSu...
The Indistractable Developer
Ugh. That book was _terrible_. Maybe something got lost in translation since it's so highly acclaimed, but I just couldn't get past the opening chapters.
I just got finished posting about ageism not being as big of a deal as people say it is. But, after reading this, I can see how it’s more nuanced. If your experience doesn’t match what it “should” be for your age, yeah I could see discrimination happening.
So basically someone who has been a developer for 20+ years has to have 20+ years of React experience?
Yeah the front page definitely tries to sound like they just invented the quadruped.

I’m all for people getting into robotics, but I’d much prefer a more natural/honest intro to projects like this. “I saw all these cool quadruped projects and wanted to make my own to learn more about them”.
Are you loosing on the Industry 4.0 Battle? – Points to consider
It’s a poor version of OneNote.

The reason why it’s popular now is because productivity tools go through a flavor of the month period.

Few years back it was all about Evernote, then Omni, etc.

It doesn’t help that notion blasted the productivity and self help YouTube community with paid sponsorships last year(many of whom didn’t even disclose it).
I had a manager early in my career who used to say "everyone else's job is harder than you think." That really stuck with me.
A Factlet for All
If you are gonna go through all that work with this chip in particular, you'd probably be better off putting four of them on one board. It's all kinda moot with more powerful chips available for cheaper anyway.
Yes. But the definition of fail is quite broad. My bitter experience shows that even simple syntactical errors (which are easy to make on a whiteboard especially if you are multilingual) were reason enough to throw me out.
He tweeted his threat to shutdown Twitter, gotta love this.
Yup. Similarly, I'm now assuming the base Amazon shipping is 'pay ten-twenty bucks or so for super fast delivery, which will be about what the previous free shipping was'. Because since coronavirus, they claim to be so busy that normal stuff takes months: therefore, I don't think that will ever change. They will continue to have the free tier take months, making it more impractical and motivating the choice of 'fast' shipping, and since it's a global change I figure they get to keep it (in practical terms).
there is now (Commercial/GPL only): https://www.reddit.com/r/QtFramework/comments/gfsqzv/qtquick...
Qt have indicated to KDE that they'll be lagging the open source code behind the binaries by upwards of twelve months. [0]

> But last week, the company suddenly informed both the KDE e.V. board and the KDE Free QT Foundation that the economic outlook caused by the Corona virus puts more pressure on them to increase short-term revenue. As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months. They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in practice.

[0] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...
Your argument assumes great performers also make great teachers.

I don't think it does. It assumes that people can pick up something useful from listening to someone who's perfected their art regardless of how good or bad they are at speaking about it, which might not be true, but I don't think it assumes anything about quality of the 'teacher'.

I would hope that Masterclass filter out the people who are genuinely bad at teaching. I would also hope that they don't just stick the person in a room with a camera and let them get on with it. They presumably have people on hand to help the celebrity make a good series of teaching videos.
May be JavaFx, though their documentation is not very extensive.
The only people who thought he overpaid at the time were the same people who still can't believe Facebook is a valuable business.
> That's the equivalent of creative accounting for software developers.

That's precisely what makes LGPL the LGPL. If it is a dick move, it is a FSF-endorsed, widely deployed, and widely used dick move.
I'm very nervous about using Qt since they announced they more or less want to get rid of the free edition due to less than expected income.

And their commercial offerings are very pricey indeed ($6000 a year).

I'd recommend users to switch to wxWidgets.
"For success within theoretical physics you see, again, exactly how important raw intelligence is. Charisma and people skills are nice, but top researchers are disproportionately brilliant. This isn't nearly as true in those scientific fields where research results are unverifiable. We've seen this in the recent months with the embarrassing quality of epidemiological modeling."

I actually believed physics has repeated run into the problem where large swaths of research is in fact unverifiable and exists purely on a theoretical basis until technology has caught up with the theory. Wasn't there a large discussion within the past 12 months or so about the many flaws of the field of physics, including the repeating of the same mistakes due to not wanting to stray too far from the existing literature? Doesn't this field also have large swaths of theories with plenty of mathematics behind both that are also mutually exclusive?

If I would think about a field with a long history of verified research, physics would most certainly not be up there. I'd say chemistry has physics beat there for example.

Additionally, epidemiological modeling has to deal with real data from sources whose trustworthiness are largely only somewhat known and somehow project this into the future. This is a garbage in, garbage out situation and I don't know if this should reflect on the field overall. It'd be like judging ML as a field based off of a problem case in which all training data has untrustworthy labels.
What the fuck. This is insanely cool!
Building a JavaScript Scatter Plot Module
Can’t you bundle it in a binary as long as you provide an upgrade path for the QT part? I know this doesn’t work for mobile because users can’t do it due to the app stores, but for an embedded MCU application you could allow re-linking and reflashing of the hardware.
Good, I hope this forces them to decide whether to be neutral platforms or publishers. They've been having their cake and eating it too for far too long.
Or there were 30 people applying, it was hard to differentiate, so they kept asking marginal questions.
This deserves its own blog post
It's not as one-sided as all that, if you want to look at it that way. Who invented DDT? Who, not satisfied with having nearly wiped out the large raptors, then went on to make the same mistake but far worse with neonicotinoid pesticides, risking not "merely" worldwide trophic cascades, but the wholesale destruction of a critical participant in the food chain that permits humans to go on living at all?

Science is many things, and one of them is a not very clever child endlessly sticking a penny in a light socket and endlessly being surprised at the unpleasant result. The trouble is that we all participate in the unpleasant result.
> I've literally had conversations on the Fediverse where people expected and wanted blockchain-like replicas of their content onto everyone else's computer. And for everyone else to read it.

I honestly doubt that. Are you sure that you are not straw-manning them? In my experience they usually complain about how admins strip the ability to read their posts from the users registered in said instances.
Says nothing about flagging comments or "manipulating algorithms"
Then don’t play that game. Three of the 5 big tech companies (not including Netflix) have cloud divisions where they are hiring consultants - no LeetCode or algorithms required.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one. I've started getting these in the last week. It coincided with a screen replacement but sounds like that might be a coincidence based on your report.
I would postulate that 3) is indistinguishable from doing a great job as CEO the vast majority of the time. Only very occasionally are the personal interests of the CEO in conflict with those of the company and its owners.

Most CEOs can recognize that a business decision can be absolutely the right thing to do for the business and not make that decision if it either would cost them (1) their standing with shareholders (2) their annual bonus (3) their standing with the board (4) their standing with internal constituents.

Again, you'll have to provide some compelling evidence or some very good arguments to convince me that the cases where the wishes of the board and/or the shareholders are in conflict with what is best for the business, are anything other than a rarity.

The key skill CEOs need to be CEOs can be summarized as: "How to become a CEO."

That's a very cynical and reductionist view. I prefer to think in terms of peacetime and wartime generals. In peacetime (ie. when the market forces make it difficult to fail for example because you have a monopoly), I think it's probably true that a very important requirement for rising to the top, is political skill. In a wartime, ie. in a highly competitive market, good business people rise to the top.

You fail to mention the 4th possibility (alluded to in the article): Market conditions sometimes change and the CEO is left with no good options. If you had a wildly successful business selling abacuses and someone suddenly introduces a low cost electronic calculator, there's probably not much you can do a CEO to prevent you market from shrinking. Of course you could try to change your business from making abacuses to making calculators in an attempt to hang on to your customers, but there's is also nothing about manufacturing abacuses that translates into creating electronic calculators, so the chances of that succeeding are slim to none.
>Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices

Not wrong tho especially if you just look at the mainstream media
What $100 subscription? In Europe it's 200 EUR per year and it's not possible to buy individual lessons.
Where in the EU are you? I'm 43, living in Berlin and working as a software engineer. From what I can tell there is not much age bias here. Some German companies I know have an average age beyond 45 in dev teams.

I even interviewed with a FAANG for a Berlin-based engineering position 2 years ago but canceled the process myself. Being over 40 did not seem to be an issue at all.
Twitter has refused to enforce their terms of service on accounts from various heads of state. They pretty much earned this. ("I didn't think leopards would eat my face," sobbed the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.)
You've convinced me, there is no difference.

Why wouldn't anyone want to write code like this:

Expr(:call, :+, :a, Expr(:call, :*, :b, :c), 1)
> Also, LGPL is already problematic, because you cannot link statically with it.

Damn. I just wrote the whole top level comment to explain that you can link statically LGPL code and how to do it with details.
Astrologers didn’t predict Covid-19. Could it be the end of astrology?
There's also the issue of discovery. It's not easy nor obvious that an author is also selling a DRM-free version elsewhere, meanwhile all the big ebook stores sells DRM-protected copies.

If there were a big, well-known DRM-free ebook store I'd be all over it. I use GOG, Bandcamp and other similar businesses whenever possible
We're in a pandemic. tell us today
Addressing the issue of fake pitch decks:

I gathered the decks from a variety of sources on the web and trusted they were originals. Although interpretations of company pitch decks may be of value for some people. I'd rather this be a collection of original pitch decks.

If I had have known this would receive the interest it got, I would have spent more time vetting them before uploading. The vast majority of them are originals and come from demo days of accelerators. But going through them again, some of them do indeed look dubious and I've removed them. I'm working on adding sources/references to each of the decks as well some of the other great ideas people have had.

If anyone notices pitches that don't look to be originals please comment here and I'll take them down. Thanks :)
Also, put giant quotes around "liberal". These people are anti-gun and anti-free speech.
You might be surprised:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156611992...

> Organic-based field effect transistors for protein detection fabricated by inkjet-printing
> Any good alternatives to Qt, Gtk, Electron?

wxWidgets?

For audio-related software (such as Helio Workstation[0]) there is JUCE.[1]

[0] https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-workstation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUCE
Facebook Ran Multi-Year Charm Offensive to Woo State Prosecutors
Show HN: Buildtrakr – Advanced Analytics for CircleCI
A marketplace for retired professionals to post their resume and skillset for part time work.
In a FAANG you need to be competitive. If you are junior and 40+, you probably had different priorities and struggles in life, so you might not be willing to have the dedication required.

It also creates problems for both you and your peers - you will have a very ambitious 28 yo giving guidance, from a management or senior position, to a 40+ yo. You might feel bad in that situation and it's not going to be easy for the younger person having to guide you.
From what I gather, according to the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, they started sampling on a weekly basis from the 17th of February [1].

To paraphrase, they didn't find anything the first two weeks, but samples from the 2nd, 9th and 16th of March showed signs of the virus, four days after the first person in the Netherlands tested positive for the virus.

They mention that they have applied this technique for the norovirus, measles and others before.

1. https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/nieuwe-coronavirus-aangetroffen-i...
Can I ask about how you made the switch to contracting? I also look at contracting jobs but most ads only seem to want full-time staff.
cool code, but oof. can you make that a link to a pastebin? my scroll-wheel finger would thank you.
But your interview process is tailored for youngsters - most seniors won't allocate time for leetcode/competitive programming preps.