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I've been using Transcrypt for the last few months and am impressed at how well it integrates with JS libraries. But then that was done with intention in the design. I've been writing React+MaterialUI apps in Python and the resulting code actually still looks like the Python I know and love. I did get pulled into the NPM/Parcel world for JS package management & minification, but the build step is relatively painless and Transcrypt has a Parcel bundler plug-in so there's no extra work involved to use it.

The fact that Transcrypt hasn't implemented the full standard library yet hasn't been much of an issue for me so far either. In the very few cases where I was missing something, I just pulled in a JS library in it's place (i.e. deepcopy).

While using Transcrypt this way requires you to understand the APIs of the JS libraries that you use, the code you actually write is 99% pure Python.
This is the main concern I think. It's what's always being brought up with OLEDs.
To the extent Autodesk software suite is a tool that is buy-once-and-use, that's true (sort of... they're still legally curtailed as a US company from selling directly to terrorists, etc.).

To the extent Autodesk is a service, it's up to the company whether they want to provide, for example, cloud services to fossil fuel prospectors or coal mining operations.
This has been my thought as well for some time now, but a lot of the most strident voices for "control it all costs" seem to be coming from the young (at least online), maybe it's different in real life?
“Should i wait a moment?” Still has me laughing
This article is a great example of the phenomenon being discussed. The article intentionally misleads the reader and distorts statements. For example, look at the selective omission from Nait Jones statement. They were clearly trying to portray him as categorically opposed to journalists reporting on abuse.

>"When it comes to our industry, there’s a really, really toxic dynamic that exists right now,"

Next sentence omitted: There were very very impactfull stories about abuse inside fast growing tech companies, that proved to be very valuable stories, that stopped that abuse from happening.

>"Because those stories were so popular and drove so much traffic, they also created a market for more of those stories. They created a pressure on many reporters to find the next one of those stories inside of a fast growing tech company because those stories play very well on Twitter, especially around protecting vulnerable people."
The US is a funny country. Parents mock geeks. Towns are crazy over only sports, and cheer leaders are the most popular figures in schools. Schools tell kids that they need to be unique and they don't have to study hard, and the term "queen bee" is apparently a US thing, and it is definitely not popular, if non-existent, in India. The states dumb down their curriculum. The testing organizations use only standard tests. The whole country sells more barbies than any action figures of female scientists, biographies of female scientists, and experiment kits for kids, combined.

Did your teacher tell you stories of Marie Curie passionately? Did your teacher tell you stories of Noether and her amazing theorems with great admiration? Did your teacher tell you the inspirational stories of Ada Lovelace? Did your teacher and parents tell students that everyone can achieve the same level of mastery on STEM? Did your country treat engineers and scientists as heroes? I guess not.

And now a bunch of lefties are complaining there are fewer women scientists and engineers in the pipeline and attribute it solely on discrimination or bigotry?

Get your priority straight.
Hmm, I guess there's some level politics in every situation where humans have power over other humans, but I don't understand why that would make F1 compelling to watch.
Quite a lot of people do want to eliminate the curve until we've produced and deployed billions of doses of the vaccine we don't have.
Although the SO question is focused on the goal, this broad kind of task is quite a common requirement for chatbots, so looking at tools like RASA and Spacy for this are good places to explore (for those not opting for the commercial API approach others sensibly suggested)

https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/nlu/entity-extraction/

Spacy have a handy demo of NER (although it appears down for me right now):
https://explosion.ai/demos/displacy-ent/
The Bay Area's Transit Dilemma: Too Many Agencies, Not Enough Riders
SaaS gives software companies a lot of practical leverage.
Something that I've heard of people doing is getting a timer box. Basically what it is, is something that locks for a designated period of time.

When you're done work you can pop your stuff in it, set a timer for 16 hours or whatever is necessary then you can't access these things at all.

Here's a rough link to what I mean (https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Safe-Locking-Container-Height...)
I think "trawling" would be more appropriate than "trolling" here.
For sure. I was mostly referring to online "deals" with my comment, but it definitely applies to phone solicitation, too.

I personally ignore almost any phone call from unknown numbers these days because so many are scammy or robocalls. I figure that if anyone really needs me, they'll leave a message.
I find it completely absurd that so many people are happy about remote classrooms.

Online videos and assignments at most top universities have been available for free for years now. Universities are entirely about the advantage of learning in person, peer groups and signalling.

If the value of university when remote remains the same for your major/university, then it is a scathing indictment of the in-classroom experience the major/university offered.

If I found myself in such a situation, the first thing I would do is un-enroll and reflect on the stupid financial decisions I've made.

I hope this is a wake up call for middling private universities and non-lucrative majors that can be easily made remote. A $100k+ fee for something that can be accessed online for free without any real loss in value is highway robbery.
maybe we can use some sort of unique cryptographic hash that can be independently verified to the date, place, time, and officer badge number?
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Do you consider quarantine and other responses to covid a, say, pause or temporary "end" of "life as we know it"? What would you consider an "end of life as we know it"?

Edit: Another good comparison point would be the Great Depression. Was that a (temporary) "end of life as we know it", in your view?
I'm not sure what you're arguing for. My point is that you cannot, in general, abstract over both lazy and eager iterators. There are irreconcilable differences in how they work (and how you have to treat them).
I'm sure there's some position you hold that others worry about. If worrying about a thing is enough to treat speech in favor of it as a virus to be quarantined, that's going to come back on you somewhere.

I did briefly consider the possibility of being both left and right authoritarian at the same time, but since this ideology is rarely seen outside the state of Gilead in the The Haidmaid's Tale, took a calculated risk. You're right, my apologies. (And if you haven't seen the Hulu series, it's kind of fascinating: extreme religious conservative sexual repression but with solar panels and EVs and post-money command economy. The show fills this out a little more than the book did).
US patent laws sensibly state that only individuals, not corporations, may be awarded patents.

Unfortunately, most companies require that any patent awarded to an engineer in their employ is automatically assigned to the company.

Get rid of that loophole and employees will be able to license their patents as they see fit. Of course this is fraught with practical difficulties, but some kind of compromise could be reached.

Never happen, obviously.
Block ads on search results. The top way they end up dealing with scammers is clicking the "top result" on a search engine.
There's also bluetile, written in haskell
http://bluetile.org
I certainly felt like my programming jobs were bullshit at times. I've worked on tiny, abstract parts of gigantic businesses, and had long meetings to discuss even tinier aspects of that work, only for the department to be axed or the project shelved.

Now I run a website that tells people how to solve problems that are important to them. I find it a lot more rewarding.
Certainly there can be problems with media, as well as with venture capital and their paid defenders (like the one hired by the suitcase lady mentioned in the story). But can you provide concrete problems? You talk about nothing concrete in your complaints about journalists being unfair.
More testing = more cases.

Actual deaths are down and have been trending down for months.

https://i.imgur.com/83sw5pd.png

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

I have no idea why this isn't front page news.
Maybe, although I’m currently being paid top end London wages in the country. A lot will depend on supply and demand, what salaries people are willing to accept, and what more openness to remote employees does to the candidate pool.
I carry a CAT phone with KaiOS that has Google Maps but not much more. That being said, I've never felt the urge to use it yet since it's a serious pita and I'm on a cash card which means data traffic is REALLY expensive.
How is it fuzzier? If someone stores illegal content on Google Drive should Google be prosecuted? Of course not. And in this case we're not even talking about something that's illegal.
Apache Airflow is a platform created by the community to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows as DAG in Python. Originating at AirBnB, it is now an Apache project used by hundreds of projects around the world.

https://airflow.apache.org/
Plenty of other schools in the area offer better, more rigorous instruction. If that were central to the value offering, no one would go to HBS.
Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine (2018)[video]
AGI is very far away from being a reality. I am skeptical that classical computers will ever achieve it. We will need to build radically different machines to accomplish AGI.
Well, I don't care if people march with weapons... that is their right. But if they're demanding race-based preferences, abolition of government, etc, then I have no problem calling them what they are -- extremists, not reformers.
If maps is the only thing, you could easily replace it with a cheap dedicated GPS device?
PPP Loan Recipients
https://logicmag.io/nature/oil-is-the-new-data/

https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-au...
A lot of the aforementioned things happen spontaneously and not within the confines of a scheduled 1-hour seated meetings.

Has Harvard even announced that they are using more "mingly" online conferencing tools?
Maybe, but at least there’s a community around it is my point
Not sure if the most time consuming, but what really pisses me off is how much time I have to spend emailing/calling/etc clients to discuss project details, money, etc that I'd rather spend writing code. That's probably the worst part of freelancing
The Chronic Kidney Disease Solution Review
That's a trivial triangle. Modern papers go far beyond that and invent some partial diff operators, like "F.∇" which means "do the grad first, then dot product", use uncommon context-depenedent subscript and superscript indices that can mean fairly arbitrary things and so on. But my complaint is mostly about the use of unnecessary and terse formalism where a short full form is replaced by a 40% shorter form just to use a uber generic high order operator to look fancy and refer to couple mysterious (and useless in the context) theorems or other papers. This is when I have to read other similar papers and see wtf that cryptic equation really means (and often it means some mundane thing). Programmers have the same kind of mental problem: in order to look sophisticated, they intentionally use more cryptic and terse solutions to impress "less initiated" and to hide the fact that what they are doing isn't that complex.
I encountered weird scroll boundaries between sections (could not have a section split halfway down my window, basically) but otherwise ran into no problems.
One example from the US: Back in March, I was reading about people having trouble filing for unemployment because somehow faxes were deemed a secure communication method and they couldn't find a place to send a fax.
One of my favorite Morricone creations is main theme for one of the greatest horror films of all time, John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing.[1]

I can't find it now, but in an interview Carpenter said something like that when he first worked with Morricone on this film, the latter came up with a very flowery, melodic theme, and Carpenter went to visit him but had trouble getting his ideas across to Morricone because of the language barrier, so he just said (through a translator): "Less notes"[2], and this is what Morricone came up with.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfcc9U35hPY

[2] - Which reminds me of the "too many notes" scene from Amadeus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_eqxh-Qok), but unlike Mozart, who took offense, Morricone seems to have taken the suggestion in stride and come up with a classic.
Black people also find darkness and black things scary and bad vs light and white things. Night time and spiders etc are universal.

THAT's what makes this an argument that fails a "sanity check".

(They proposed "incoherent" as an alternative to sanity. Well, people can be insane and people can also be incoherent, and both are negative labels when applied to a person. What does the one improve over the other? I say nothing.

It's a mixed bag. I don't see anything wrong with at least starting to steer the great ship of inertia away from "him" and "man" for everything when we do have perfectly servicable, not ridiculous, not confusing alternatives without even resorting to hir/sie/etc. It hurts no one to say their in place of his. Even "person-hours" is fine even though it's an extra syllable. In fact the new term is simply the truth. It's simply the more accurate communication, which all these supposed rationalists should be all for.
I keep on getting robocalls from a Chinese scam for more than 1 to 2 years now. I don't understand Chinese but asked a friend to translate and it's obviously a scam aimed at older chinese expats. They always leave the same message. Im surprised it still works after all this time.
Yes and OLED has a decent roadmap of Cost Reduction in the next 3- 5 years along with other quality improvements. So I dont think uLED would replace them on Smartphone. Not to mention the possibility of screen without the cover glass. So your smartphone with reduction in weight, does not break the panel when fall, and thinner.

But for Desktop applications and VR Glasses uLED will have an advantage with no burn in issues.

I do sometimes wonder if WOLED could scale down to those needs. But I dont see any intention of LG going down that path.

Correct me if I am wrong.
The definition, origin and purpose of money
I agree with most of the points made here, though I think some of the bias toward up-front exhaustive documentation is probably not a good fit for most of the projects I've been a part of. Prototyping often reveals necessary changes due to resources constraints, or to unconsidered corner cases. Documentation needs to be a living thing as much as the code, and I think that pushes you toward documenting within the code more than externally.

One of the more important points the author brings up is that authorial intent and the 'why's of comments are the most important. A corollary I'll bring up to that is that the 'what's should be encoded in tests. Tests can be great documentation, and they have the added benefit of informing developers when the goals of the software is being voided (when they fail).

What has worked for me is conceiving of documentation this way:

- Design Documents: Historical use only, not to be updated.

- Readme: intro to project; why it exists, overview of how it's meant to function, how to edit, etc. Tends to be updated when big things change.

- Code comments: why something exists, what considerations were made in that code's creation

- Test descriptions and comments: binding goals of previous development to future development

This approach has done a pretty good job of keeping documentation from getting too out-of-sync with code while enforcing basic business objectives, still tilting the balance toward development rather than documentation.
>so chances are it's investors are probably the first to make an actual realized profit from food delivery ;)

Grubhub has been profitable for years now, pulling in $23m in income in 2018, see: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/grubhub-uber-eats-and-doorda...
I was genuinely confused at first. I was thinking "this this their marketing page for the coal vertical? or is this people talking about them not doing it" – and the language made it more clear.
If you repeatedly add 2 and then divide by 2, you approach the number 2.

If you repeatedly flip a coin to either add 2 or divide by 2, what distribution do you approach?

If you have a distribution, what random processes are identities for that distribution? Which are stable? Which will reproduce the distribution from any starting distribution?

It’s related to matrix kernels, but it’s hard to generalize to continuous numbers. I spent a while looking into it years ago and couldn’t find much.

My goal was to eventually take it a step farther and create simple stochastic functions for certain behaviors, such as bistable switches, memory registers, etc.
It is largely impossible to fully prove. CAs are supposed to keep detailed records of any issuing keys and what was called for was specifically "witnessed Key Destruction Reports" which involves third party independent confirmation of destruction of documented keys.

In the event that a key with a Key Destruction Report shows up again, the responsible party for that key will have shown unacceptable negligence and will potentially be subject to the exclusion of their keys as a valid certificate signer.

A lot of these companies core businesses rely on remaining in a position to sign certificates so it is in their best interest to protect that privilege by following the documentation requirements, and properly destroy their keys. It's effectively a pretty good stick.
It certainly puts my attempt to write a novel to shame. I should get back on that. :)
>The only bullshit I smell here is these peoples utopian views on the nature and purpose of employment and their entitled attitudes.

Shame on these people! Wanting to contribute to society in a meaningful way! The entitlement! Kids these days...
A generous interpretation: The "nuclear family" allows children to spend more time receiving personalized education from adult family members. Single parents working 3 jobs don't really have time to help with homework.
>Blackrock owns pieces of lots of things, and is not primarily in the business of owning fossil fuel companies. [...] Confused because this is such a weird and unproductive way to go about advocating for fixing climate change.

Blackrock and Vanguard are a promising, scary, and potentially very effective way to go about climate change change.

Blackrock has, in the past, taken a passive approach, not exerting its ownership to change the direction of companies. That is changing.

>Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects. Last September, when millions of people took to the streets to demand action on climate change, many of them emphasized the significant and lasting impact that it will have on economic growth and prosperity – a risk that markets to date have been slower to reflect. But awareness is rapidly changing, and I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.

>Given the groundwork we have already laid engaging on disclosure, and the growing investment risks surrounding sustainability, we will be increasingly disposed to vote against management and board directors when companies are not making sufficient progress on sustainability-related disclosures and the business practices and plans underlying them.

https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry...

As others have said, talk is cheap, we will see how they act on their new strategic direction. Maybe they continue to be their own version of a vampire squid or giant refrigerator perpetually keeping us unchanged and frozen in the past, or maybe they will be an NGO that both offers shared ownership of capital and votes wisely for the preservation of the planet.
I'd go so far as to say, at least within tech, your primary goal during undergrad is securing one or more internships.

I look at internships before grades and the school.

When I interview fresh grads, if they have internships, that's what we talk about.

When I have interns on my team, my goal is to hire them. At one large tech firm I was at, we had a goal of hiring 50% of our internship pool. It was the primary way we brought in new talent.
Yeah, I'm conflicted on this. Obviously I'm happy that companies are moving away from unsustainable practices, but less than pleased that they see it as unsustainable financially as opposed to environmentally. Which leads me to believe that they would embrace an equally ecologically-destructive practice if it was forecast as profitable for the next 50 years.
Portable Bookmarks – a bookmark manager that is browser-independent
I want to throw my phone away and switch to a "dumb" phone so I can rid my addiction to it, but I have become dependent on several core apps such as Google Maps. I wish Android would allow me full control to delete every app on there but the ones I most need. But unfortunately, its restrictions prevent me from doing so. For example, I want to delete all web browser apps so I am not tempted to the addiction of the internet, but Android won't let me. Does anyone here know how I can bypass this? I am close to purchasing the Light Phone 2 as a means to address my addiction, but again, it is missing Google Maps which I am heavily dependent on.
I have often thought we should have a military style group that teaches kids the discipline and self respect of the military but without the killing aspects and then out them to use rehabbing natural areas, cleaning up manufacturing sites, teaching kids, etc. It's sort of like the civilian conservation corps of the new deal but with a wider scope.
Someone called me this morning impersonating the financial investigations unit of the 'Bank of Canada'. Literally. I hung up immediately and called back, it was a spoofed number.

We need better controls over calling, source numbers etc..
I have the exact same problem. Feel like I spent 20-30% of my time chasing down new leads or going through the obligatory 2-3 rounds of intro/prospecting calls. Have you had any luck with building out lead pipelines?
Just to entertain an introverted perspective, flexible exploitation models (gig), narcissistic tendencies (creator) and cult followings (participatory) have "bad haircut" written all over them (someone will sport them though, Just ask Karen).

The added ponzi feel of crypto (hot start, flat finish) would require some pretty keen foresight/vision to counter the fad status returns.

From an extroverted POV, it sounds like paradise and an opportunity to grow with an extended circle (of global friends, peers, mentors,etc) outside of your local scene, though that brochure has been popular for ages now (digitally).

If you can avoid the pitfalls of greed, "social economics" and mental illness podiums (social 1.0), you may very well provide an alternative to the previous economic models.

In the quest to seperate business from pleasure, I think the participatory economy leaves much to be desired, but even WFA is still working on that facet.