skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professional sports is a competitive industry where absolute performance is irrelevant. Only relative performance counts. In cooperative industries like engineering and software development only absolute performance counts. As long as someone is competent enough to be able to bring in enough money to pay for food and rent they will be hired and since that is such an incredibly low bar there is no reason to exclude "less skilled" people who perform 3.4% worse than the best. Those "less skilled" people are more important than the top performer simply because they are in the majority. Having 10 competent people is better than only having the best person for the job.
These are the 2020 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies
OpenNebula 5.12 “Firework” brings Serverless Computing to the Enterprise Cloud
some DRM video formats can ping the servers for sure.
It will absolutely be 0, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
I think your point is very pertinent: People literally advertising what it is they're looking for. I see only two problems with this:

1. It reduces serendipity. And that's the "hallways" thing missing in online interactions.

2. As soon as I put my wants/interests out on the internet it's almost certainly going to become chum for spammers, dodgy recruiters, the GRAFT and so on. i.e. Repurposed to ends antithetical to my original intent.

Still, there's something in the notion... if we can say something about ourselves (online) in a safe way, then there's at least a chance we can get some serendipity/discovery happening.
> So, you could place image in right place in your ePub book in same way as you place images on your website.

I've never seen an ePub with images where it looked anywhere as good as the PDF version. It's generally a mess.
No disrespect to Sweden or the Gripen but the UK makes 30% of its parts(mostly electronic warfare) which is a leverage it used to ban its sale to Argentina.[1]

If a foreign country owns such a major part of your domestic fighter then your fighter is on a very short leash.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen
At that level, I don't think we can expect individuals to make "the right decision" and take actions that hurt them personally.

This is where government regulation is needed.
EasyOS 2.3 – The Modern Prometheus Tux
whatever became of rethinkDB -- i think it was just too far ahead of its time it; had some really interesting ideas
Most of the "useful" tasks AI has helped us with are problems that are domain specific and lend themselves well to machine learning (for example object detection in images and machine translation as another poster mentioned).

However, what I think the poster meant was that just tacking on AI for the sake of it to a problem which most likely doesn't have an applicable use for it (which currently is the case for most existing IT projects or apps) is doomed for failure.
The 20 million are also for the backend. I'm not sure it's possible from the public information to determine whether that's a reasonable sum or not.
Thats a simplistic view of restaurants. From a purely market perspective, people already do this with personal loans, credit card or otherwise. I do agree that evaluating the final software's value is difficult but for a loan lender, it's only a matter of credibility rather than success.

As long as market actors don't do anti-competitive practices, I still don't see why a successful software can't be replicated and you can't compete in the same market niche. The user interfaces are one area which can obviously be different. Enterprise software is full of replicas.
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (W. Heisenberg) (1958)
Isn't python __dict__ pretty much a per-object vtable?
I’m confident that that’s true in the “bulk construction” aspect of the project, which is of course an enormously important component of the task.

I’m not at all convinced that that’s true for the architecture and strategic planning aspect of how to tackle the project. (I’m talking about industry salary rate for top leaders and architects here; I’m not suggesting that people with this profile aren’t available in the Midwest; I’m merely stating that they could make wildly more than $134K in industry even in the worst-paid Midwest city.)
First, I need to say that I never tried TerminusDB, so I can't claim having a strong opinion on your approach :)

Back to the time-travel. One of the most evident architecture when dealing with AI/ML/Optimisation is to design your application as a mesh of small, deterministic, steps (or scripts) reading input data and outputting results. As you would expect, output of one step is reusable by another one. Example:

Script A is reading Sales data from source S, Weather data from source W; writing its result to A. Script B is reading data from source A, and Calendar from C; writing its result to B. In this example, we want to be able to do two things: 1) run a previous version of A with S and W from 2 weeks ago and assert the result it produced now is exactly identical to the one it produced at the time 2) run a _newer_ version of A with S and W from 2 weeks ago and compare its result from the one it previously produced. Of course, in the real-world, S, W, C, progress at different speed : new sales could be inserted by the minute, but the weather data would likely change by the day. So, you need a system that would allow you to read S@2fabbg and W@4c4490 while being in the same "repository". That's why git semantics are not a good fit: you need to have only one "branch" to ensure consistency and limit misunderstandings, but you want to "commit" datasets in the same repository at different pace. For that purpose, event sourcing is much better :) (BTW, git at its core, is basically event-sourcing)

Kafka's architecture is actually the best solution.
I honestly don't understand or know anyone who would move to the US now. I have a few friends who were considering it but it's a very firm no at this point, and they all had offers from the big firms in Silicone Valley. Sure, your compensation in UK or Germany won't reach the stratospheric levels of US programmers, but as a competent engineer you can easily reach very comfortable levels of living, buy a house, brand new car, afford to have a couple kids and save some money for fun. And you won't have to deal with the insanity of American healthcare, immigration or politics.

I grew up thinking that my dream would be to move to US one day - nowadays there probably isn't an offer that would make me move there.
You may be interested in reading Superior: The Return of Race Science which is a comprehensive debunking of your racist ideology.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Sain...
Are people really bickering about the price of this? Please tell me you're just German developers angry you didn't get this contract.

Because the alternative is that you're terrible at math.

According to[0], the costs of the pandemic for the German economy are from 255 to 729 billion euros. Taking the middle of 500 billion as a best guess, and a quick division will tell us that this app will be worth it if it stops one in every 25,000 infections.

Or, alternatively: this app costs about 0.25€ for every citizen, or about a quarter of one mask. That does not strike me as a terrible deal.

The point here isn't that this is a model for how all government procurement should be run. It is not.

It's that under the specific circumstances, overpaying is completely acceptable if it meant, for example, getting a contract signed a day earlier. Note that situation was obviously far worse when this project started than it is now.

[0]: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Does your government have much of an open source culture? I think these arguments were already had (and won) in the UK, for instance.

https://github.com/alphagov
https://github.com/hmrc
https://github.com/UKHomeOffice
Just want to say that if someone here truly has tried to overcome procrastination, but still fails, try to get screened for ADD/ADHD.

Even though it's a condition that is also quite over diagnosed, it's simultaneously a condition that's underdiagnosed IMO - it really depends on where you're looking / sampling. A lot of kids fly under the radar, because they don't show any obvious signs, even more so those with ADD / non-hyperactive.
Also there is a thin line between procrastination and brutal prioritization. I often feel that procrastination ping and think to myself, is this really the next most important thing for me to do? Often times it is not, and once in a while it is. A lot of my work is creative in nature and forcing the creative process when you’re blocked is not always a good use of time. There is a balance between deadline, now and the time it comes to you with a force that screams to leave your body. The trick is understanding yourself and being honest, am I putting this off because it’s too fuzzy, not clear what the next step is etc? or is it just brutal prioritization?

Also note that I’ve changed roles quite a bit in my life and when I delete the final TODO list I look back at the things I did not get done. It’s as informative to review your accomplishments as it is your failures, but also what you never got around to doing. Often that last category will make me laugh “look at all those stupid things I thought were important”... rm -f TODO

And as I tell people all the time, the day after you die there will be more email in your inbox. If you focus on emptying your inbox your life will be empty when you leave. But your inbox will still be filling up.
> but the stability improvements seemed real. At some point the Switch had to be rebooted every other day

No idea what you're talking about.

> For QOL the last big update allowing to remap buttons was a big deal. I haven't tried moving data between to the SD card but it would also be a big deal for people with more than 10 ~ 20 games, as space becomes scarce pretty fast.

My point is that the amount of real QOL changes is extremely low for the amount of time the console has been out. There's been nearly nothing, while they just keep "increasing stability".

Frankly, the Switch's OS is still incredibly barebones and missing a lot of QOL features and I'm tired of people defending Nintendo for being so half-assed about the Switch. It's been three years. There's been barely any progress, whether it's the OS, online infrastructure, or fixing the drift issues. Do they have Yakuza debts they need to pay off or what? Where's all the money going to?
I hope there are more intelligent civilizations out there. Wouldn't want to be the smartest guys in the room :D.
In that case you are swapping one ISP for another. You would need a small botnet to act as your proxy provider set to make it harder to find you.
> Here's the magic — the next time you face a task that your whole body is screaming, "I don't want to, I don't feel like it," ask yourself: what's the next action? What's the next action I'd need to take to make some progress? Don't break the whole task down. That will be sure to overwhelm you. I think if most of us broke our whole task down, we'd realize that life's too short, you can never get it all done. Instead just say, "What's the next action?" and keep that action as small and as concrete as possible.

I'm actually handling this area in my life right now, and I decided I'd use my intuition rather than my intellect to handle it (and analyze with my intellect if my intuition came up with something interesting).

It did.

Here is my idea: be playful about the tasks your procrastinate on. Don't cater to your intellect, cater to your emotions.

I have 2 examples with flexibility training and lifting weights.

Flexibility training: ask yourself questions that stir up curiosity, such as

"how does this feel?"

"what do I like about it?"

"what do I dislike about it?"

"will I think similar ideas the next day if I answer these questions (spoiler alert: I personally don't)"

And then focus relentlessly on the fun (if you have some of it) and really indulge in it. I've likened flexibility training to a lot of things I find fun.

--- Example 2 ---

Strength training: ask yourself questions that stir up curiosity and fun! Such as

"How does it feel fun?"

"How does the pain feel fun?"

"What is it that I don't like about it? Why?"

"Are there moments when there's a part of the activity that I dislike or like and it flips to the other side, why?"

In practice: I mostly ask "how does it feel fun?" and shamelessly focus on it.

--- Some theory ---

I'd want to ask the professor if he considered playfulness and curiosity as potential moderators or mediators that could enhance motivation to procrastinate less.

I believe that playfulness and curiosity are related to the competency and autonomy aspect of self-determination theory, so to me it makes sense that those aspects heighten motivation in general and therefore reduce motivation.

Another idea: talk with people about your workouts that you've done (then you also bring in the "relatedness" part of self-determination theory).
Jens Spahn (M-of-Health) said yesterday in Tagesschau that the app was within budget and delivered on time, which he admitted himself is rare!
For one: because this would be extra work within a short time frame. The source shows no extension points. Outside small tech circles nobody would have said anything if it were closed, if they have bad intention they could have made it closed.

For second: we can easily see that the app doesn't use GPS or similar, which is a nice indication

For third: Germans overall trust their government to not lie as much as other governments

For forth: Researchers will reverse the app

The only way this thing can work is, if the population trusts it, installs it and keeps their phone on. If the population doesn't trust it, it's doomed. It's in the self-interest of the project to be trustworthy and transparent.

If you understand German you might enjoy this podcast with two of the developers: https://ukw.fm/ukw030-die-corona-warn-app/
France also released the source code of its StopCovid19 app[1]

[1] https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19
People are working on that: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/issues/75

Edit: and also see https://github.com/theScrabi/CoraLibre-android-sdk/
The Descent of Mail RFCs
> Randy Pausch, an M.I.T. professor who died of cancer

How does this get into the article without basic fact-checking? He was a professor at CMU.
Yes, the Leaf and many other EVs do blend the brake pedal to various degrees.

But Teslas do not (at least not traditionally. Perhaps that has changed recently in the Model 3 if the other comment here is correct)
I'll say it again: procrastination is a bullshit detector of the free and cry for the help of non-free.
Cool, but it doesn't matter that no-extension is much faster because we can't browse without ad blocking. Even if it slows the page, it is still preferable. On the other hand ad blocking wastes less bandwidth and memory.
Germany's the home of the CCC. I'm sure people will be scrutinizing it.
> In any other anime film, we might be quick to dismiss these suggestive, voyeuristic shots as "fan service", but Ghost in the Shell uses these to express something deeper. When bodies are purposeless shells, what does it even mean to sexualise them?

While I agree the nudity in GITS isn't gratuitously sexual, I was quite surprised when I learned what a large portion of Shirow's oeuvre is erotic art books.
It's not that simple unfortunately. It's most efficient when it runs the most lean fuel mix and least engine vacuum (i.e. full throttle). That balanced with gearbox efficiency, other drive train loses, and wind resistance. As a real world example, Ford Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost is most efficient running 28mph in 4. gear. closely followed by going 44mph in 5. gear.
If you assume a linear relationship between economic damage and number of infections.
I am the same, I will naturally go to bed late and get up late, but unfortunately the world doesn't revolve around my schedule, so I make a point of trying to have decent sleep hygiene and going to bed early enough to allow me a decent amount of sleep.
I'll raise my home-made, precisely-formulated CBD tincture to that.

Ingredients:

- 99.9% CBD isolate bought in bulk with real batch lab results

- organic coconut oil

- a tiny bit of pure vitamin E T-50

All ingredients sourced from good vendors. Mixture stored in a batch-dated, dark glass container (olive oil containers are good), and delivered sublingually in an eye-dropper bottle where the mg/drop is known. The exact recipe depends on the volume to be made and the desired dosage per drop.

Tools / supplies:

- 0.5 mL glass pipette

- 20 g scale (sub-mg accuracy and precision)

- 1 L dark glass bottle
Small nations can occasionally do surprising things when they feel like it. Israel successfully developed nuclear weapons when they only had two million people in the country.
>[...]Germany[...]buy a house

Unless you get financial support from your (grand)parents, you can forget about that as houses in the nice areas are closing in on the million euro ballpark and IC salaries there are a joke for such a purchase.
JS and CSS don't have to be re-parsed and computed, and images don't have to be reloaded into memory.

You also get more control over what the browser looks like while the next page is loading (e.g. loading animation instead of blank white interstitial screen).
Yes. Google Translate is obviously a useful product, and obviously Google will have thousands of areas where they can apply AI (enough that they'd even write frameworks for it). But 99(.99)% of us work in mundane jobs doing boring CRUD apps. My post was meant in this context.

You work in a company making an intranet product for the paper tissue industry. Your manager wants v3.0 to have some AI in it. No one remembers the fiasco when "Cloud" was added in v2.0
Spain moves forward with Google tax for 2021 budget
You don't think it's easier to develop in Java than assembly? And setting aside the development experience, it might be easier to hire Java programmers.
Actually, it's easy to deliver something within an overblown budget.
The researchers didn't write the article headline and aren't responsible for it. If you're going to criticise people for being overly vague in their claims, it would be helpful to do so with some moderate level of accuracy.
Synology and QNap are probably the 2 biggest in this market segment, Synology already has issues and QNAP is bringing ZFS to market in their latest line of NAS devices

Synology also has used btrfs in the past which I would suspect may suffer the same kind of issue as ZFS but dont know forsure
Additionally, there are expected operating costs of 2.5-3.5M€ per month. Most of that will go to the telephone hotlines.
I read the article while procrastinating on a work task I should be doing. I think the author nails it. When I just get started on a task, picking the simplest thing to do first without much planning, then I naturally get into a flow where small sub-tasks present themselves as I go.

If instead I start planning out all that is left to do, I quickly become demotivated and overwhelmed not knowing where to start. A sort of "analysis-paralysis".

The big problem for me is that even if I get into a productive flow its much to easy to run into a blocker that pulls me out into paralysis again (could be a family interruption, a harder sub-task, etc).
The batteries have such large capacities that the C-rates are tiny. Tesla are well beyond the point where inefficiencies in battery contribute to as little as 1% of the total range.

Source: design engineer at EV company.
Content distribution is easily commoditized, hence not very interesting for Amazon.
Solving for IT Operational Efficiency: Principles of Optimization
Facebook are masters when it comes to controlling the narrative (damage control is their expertise). There is almost certainly something else under the surface.
I find it implausible that Facebook would care enough to go after a single individual. No matter how bad that individual was. If they did this for every criminal of that level who uses Facebook, they'd run out of money.
They simply cannot do this. Whenever the media or a big company focuses on a single individual, it's never actually about that individual. It's either about some higher social concept or it's simply a PR stunt to control the narrative.
I think anything of this sort which comes out of Facebook is more likely to be damage control. They probably came up with the narrative before they even implemented this backdoor.

Facebook has teams of people whose entire job is covering Facebook's ass. Before Facebook even does something bad, they already figured out an excuse for it before they even started doing it.
If they didn't have an alibi, they wouldn't even do the crime. That's the kind of operation they run. They preemptively create the narrative, then they act. Why do people treat Facebook as if it were a conscientious person?
You can use the UUID v4 as a secret I guess.
Latin American Fintechs Are Educating Consumers
It's not impossible. But there is a very real gap between "this is cool in a research paper" and "this is deep learning that works in real life".

It's a large gap, covering everything from application topics, to data quality, to the need to actually run the damn think in a production setting with scalability, availability, error handling, etc.

Production applications of deep learning aren't particularly glamorous, they're not the "next big thing" right now. Rather they're improvements of existing applications.

Google's on device live captioning works really well, but still somewhat niche, and requires special / higher end SoC's to run.
Just ran into this by chance, incredibly it seems to be unknown (I wasn't able to find any links to it)
Show HN: My New UX Design Portfolio
If you get paid 20% more but spend 20% of your salary on services you wouldn't need to buy otherwise - isn't it parity already?
> DUNE

Give me a break. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is not secretive. Why do you and so many people make up BS like this?

No accelerator is extended at all, let alone beyond FNAL border and certainly not 800 miles.
I don't think you read the graph right. Without ad-blocking extensions, the browser is of course much slower, about 15 times slower according to their tests.
> a website allowlist

Ridiculous. It's even called whitelist in the code snippet.
In C++ you could do this with std::tuple and variadic templates, if you know all the event handlers at compile time. There would be zero indirection, although depending on how you implement the indexing into the std::tuple (i.e. by treating it as a std::variant and using std::visit) you could still inadvertently generate a vtable.
Unbelievable for regular software maybe. Quite believable for enterprise contracts, downright cheap for healthcare stuff.
Foone on Twitter: “ok as for the FBI story cause a few people asked”
There’s also a website, there also was a security audit, there’s a hotline for getting codes when the laboratory can’t get you one. There are two separate apps for Android and iOS. Both the website and the Apps are available in German and English with other languages like Turkish following.

All of that costs a lot of money if you want to bring it to this level of polish.
>the universities somehow find them lacking in “personality”.

It is a pervasive stereotype of all Asians in the US to this day. Unless you act bombastic, are loud and spew BS, you are considered "not leader material". It is all about posing and not actual effectiveness.