skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you state a lot in a very aggressive tone of voice.

Help me out with that.

I’m really just asking for some support of the original statement that Deloitte will foot a $100M bill for a client when they fail to deliver a working system.

I mean Deloitte isn’t singled out in the article, the article really goes after IBM also. That said I wouldn’t even say the article has an aggressive tone, but it speaks for itself. Deloitte has delivered systems that don’t work on multiple government contracts, all of which have run significantly over budget, and Deloitte has requested new contracts to fix the systems (Instead if footing the bill) and when sued for breach of contract by the states Deloitte has engaged in protracted litigation rather than “footing the bill”. I think it’s fair, not aggressive to ask for some validation of Deloitte footing bills where their systems failed in light of Deloitte's practices detailed in the article.

The article is all about state unemployment systems, I mean really they aren’t complex and they either work or don’t. Even Deloitte‘s argument amounts to be well if the $xxM unemployment system Doesn’t work it’s because the state requested a non functioning system, of course it’s all backed by Deloitte Representative quotes denying the systems don’t work and championing how great the systems they delivered are, and otherwise blaming the client if these great systems failed.
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I learnt CSS in a similar way. I'd take Photoshop designs and try to recreate them in vanilla HTML + CSS:

https://jsfiddle.net/umaar/YNA5V/

https://jsfiddle.net/umaar/fu4TT/

I'd even make 3d graphics of things like the HTML5 logo: https://i.imgur.com/kuEYpSV.png

I posted this all to a community called "Forrst" (think of it like twitter, but curated for developers and designers).

I spent time giving feedback on other peoples work, I tried to ask insightful questions https://twitter.com/umaar/status/823915022917271552 to have an open discussion, I spent hours replying to comments every few days.

Then one day, Forrst got acquired by Zurb https://zurb.com/blog/zurb-acquires-forrst and later on it got shut down, and with that, I lost access to huge amounts of my work which I hadn't stored anywhere else (some stuff has been archived online, but not everything).

When it comes to web development tips, I now self-host on my own website and it's a really good feeling knowing that it'll be preserved: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/
> given the security incident we discovered yesterday

We discovered. Heh.
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I recently became Scheme-curious...

I'm not particularly interested in a web framework at the moment but I am interested in the process of making Scheme bindings for C libraries

Clearly it's fairly straightforward, at least for libs with small interfaces https://github.com/Mathieu-Desrochers/Schemings/blob/master/...

I've never used them directly but I know in Python there are libraries which can (partially?) automate the process of generating bindings, e.g. https://pythonhosted.org/PyBindGen/tutorial.html#header-file... ...it seems like this would be useful for libraries with a large API surface

Is anyone aware of such a tool in any of the Schemes?
I’ve found that non-technical management expectations are just too swayed by the AI hype machine.

I’ve also found operations research field to be more grounded and still have plenty of research opportunities. There’s something very fulfilling about optimizing a real-world system, particularly when the answer isn’t intuitive.
It should be declarative. Apply the settings like in Kubernetes/Terraform/Kustomize. Done.

A little naive I know. I don't see any other way to scale though.
But when was this? CSS grid has only really been viable for a few years in terms of significant browser support.
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I have seen RFPs that ask for machine learning based solutions without having any clue how they are at all applicable for their business, just because they wanted to eventually have some headlines with the updated software.
Wouldn't it be better for it to store it in a Sqlite file so that it is easier for third party programs to query it?
Knowing Twitter I imagine "improved" means more closed and with stricter rate limits.
They may need more chips but they don't necessarily need the same mix of chips, Huawei devices don't require A13's.

I mean the z80 was still manufactured until recently and used all over in devices, tsmc isn't going to make those on a 7nm prpcess.
I have been using Python with Jinja2 templates and Weasyprint[1] for PDF creation for a side project of mine. The libary does have its css limitations but the PDFs it produces look good enough for me.

[1] https://weasyprint.org/
Not the OP, but ultimately something that increases revenue or decreases costs by some measurable amount.

The best thing you can do to make yourself good at this is to practice. Get some Kaggle data and try to fit a model. Realise your data is crap, clean data, repeat.

Every useful system is hand made in the sense that there's a vast amount of set up and operational code. Mostly the model's the easy part (although it will take so much time to run).
I've been hoping for Microsoft branded Linux distro too.

I just don't like Windows anymore. So much of the modern development tools are Linux only, and depends on shell scripts. Running the WSL is not ideal either, even though it helps a lot.

Only thing keeping me from switching directly to Linux is the bad memories with the various Linux Desktops I tried in the early 2000s. Clipboard didn't work, font smoothing was very inconsistent, the fight with the (GPU especially) drivers, simple windowing animations was jerky, browser was always slower (e.g. scrolling on web sites, and videos).
Gnome's Evolution is quite good as well and the built-in exchange support for both email and calendar via EWS works better than the thunderbird plugin.
I used to use thunderbird, but after several troubles with the exchange plugin (e.g. meetings on Fridays disappearing) and calendar not working properly I switched to Evolution where it just works.
Here's there actual roadmap: https://trello.com/b/myf7rKwV/twitter-developer-platform-roa...
I see that you accept models up to 1 GB. It seems the inference time might be high for models of this size on CPUs. Do you use GPUs to speed up inference for deep learning models ?
This is one of the few people who connects math and music in a way that's both useful and interesting. I followed this channel back when I found the video on Fourier transforms[1], but never looked at other videos. I've never really thought about the math of consonance and dissonance, but I use it all the time without realizing it.

For example: a hypersaw. That's 7 saws slightly detuned played at the same time. The more you detune them, the worse it sounds. If you own Serum, you can hear this in realtime if you make a 7 voice saw and play with the detune knob.

You can use an LFO to modulate this and get a sound that's a little uneasy while still somehow being harmonious. It's perfect for dark/spooky music.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
hand-make as in:

- looking very carefully into the very specific challenge of your client

- figuring out how (and if) ML can help

- figuring if its still economically feasible (costs of research vs perceived(!) benefit)

- deriving a solution.

- tinkering tinkering tinkering. usually more with the data than with the models :-)

All my A.I. projects are essentially outsourced R&D projects where we deliver the brain and computing power. So far, it never was as easy like installing YOLO or any other off the shelf product.

Edit:
You also need very often custom software to create custom datasets. AI models are often only tested on academic datasets but I observed empirically that their performance transfers badly to real world datasets. So you need to create your own datasets etc. This is often a non-trivial problem. So I wrote a lot of dataset creation tools in my AI practice.
Security in 2020 is basically "if you can't be 100% guaranteed secure, then don't bother securing anything".
> The US will defend Taiwan by any means necessary, including nuclear options.

Exactly what do you mean by “nuclear options” here?
These would be great interview questions!

"So, you've been doing CSS since 1999. Please tell me how the width/height of a box is calculated?"
Instead of saying anti-correlated is better to say "inversely correlated" (or if you mean lack of correlation then "uncorrelated")
IMO that's a pretty good URL. For example if you drop it often in conversations, you can remember it, since it's short enough and has no numbers or awkward characters. I would have preferred lower casing and if you try it with lower cased letters, it doesn't work, but other than that ...

No, a URL doesn't necessarily have to give you the title of the article, even if having some related words in it might be good for SEO value. If you paste it in plain text or similar, add a description to it. Here's how:

Cool URIs Don't Change: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

There, now the reader will know what's this about.
I gratefully accept the information of your post, but I don't think it manages to make the intended point. Notice how many times you used the word "should", which was never a consideration in my post.

We could talk about should. As a starting point, it would seem to me most useful to preserve meaningful distinctions which convey information, and otherwise make language as fluid and relaxed as possible. But I'm not expert.
Good catch, I never noticed that. I'll see what's up with Docsify and submit a PR if I can fix it upstream.
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Search “Near East” using Google Scholar to quickly lose that belief.
The "in" animation on components like dialog or drawer doesn't seems to work on Firefox (78.0.2 on Windows). Very abrupt in, smooth fade/slide out.

Also there are small version of buttons but none for other form controls which is quite odd.

Seems nice and lightweight overall. I would love to see a dark version too.
What you described wouldn’t be e2ee. If a person can login and have access to read or write DMs then it means the device gets the key from the server. Keeping the keys on the server completely misses the point of e2ee. The keys need to be stored on the individual devices. Also, it would be pretty easy to share keys between your devices.
> Would I notice anything different when weightlessly orbiting something 300,000x more massive than earth?

Yes, due to tidal forces being stronger at one end of you than the other. You could use the formula given below but it looks like about a quarter of a newton.

One other thing: not sure you could "land on the surface" because it's all plasma. Flying through it might be interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
Yes. It adheres to the original six levels of trust, generating a confusing UI that in practice nobody but three people used. Easy mode was still confusing, with details like does the button show "the current state or an option to switch to that state"? An alternative plugin, autocrypt, was actually a much better beginner-proof way of having pgp.

I still think TB 78 isn't enough, but it's a step into the the right direction, where we recognize that there's a brilliant system in pgp, obscured by outdated and even counterproductive security insights (such as the trust levels). It also is included by default, important for secure by default mail communication.
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That's the problem with state-driven investment. Most people are lazy and/or greedy, and given a known state-sponsored payday, have no incentive to deliver quality.

So even if the Chinese state may want the projects to go well, the conduit by which the projects are funded and managed doesn't have much more than shame and prison as sticks, and that's only for people who are caught.
This does not happen on my end. I wonder why? I'm in Europe and using Firefox with tracking protection, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin (and no cookie popup killers of any kind). No sign of youtube, and the native element functions properly.

EDIT: Tried also on Chrome. Accepted only essential cookies. No youtube. (Chrome also has uBlock Origin installed, though I don't know how effective that currently is.)
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that was the primary driver to me moving full time into a linux VM for work. The corporate crap and antivirus made my overpowered laptop really slow.

I then moved to booting with an external Samsung T5 SSD drive straight into Linux and running Windows in VMs.

I still need the primary Windows for when I need to join the domain.
I am in my thirties, so I guess I fit the stereotype. (They're mostly limited to the homepage though.)
> ... the “mystery drone” wave also elicited serious expressions of concern from at least two U.S. senators and attention from Colorado’s governor and state public safety agency.

What concern?

> ... absence of evidence of criminal intent, or of a proximate threat to military assets or other critical infrastructure. Once the aerial activity stopped, it appears that both federal and state agencies quickly dropped the matter

And rightly so. Interesting oddity, but pointless use of federal investigatory resources.
Oh how times don't really change.
Last year. Around November and 91% unprefixed usage (https://caniuse.com/#search=display%3Agrid)
This is really a myth. Most ML jobs require very detailed understanding of statistics because the devil is in the details.

You need to understand things like multicollinearity, coding biases, missing data techniques, convergence of Markov chains, learning curves, mechanics of various higher order gradient optimization methods, how to really carefully evaluate goodness of fit in a huge range of categories of models (neural nets are the vast minority of all models used in production settings) and a ton more beyond this.

If you read “tensorflow for hackers” and believe you can write production neural nets, it’s a disaster.

Garbage in equals garbage out.
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I guess we’re arguing about definitions :) nothing about this is specific to threads, and to me, thread isolation means that threads are forbidden from writing to each other’s memory entirely. Maybe my understanding of the definition is idiosyncratic!
"not even 1.0 [...] isn't stable enough for production use"
This reasoning is as many others a probabilistic one but it make sense.
Being production ready (technically everything can be with enough churn, and duplicate work production) here means that it is at least decently competitive with others offering regarding productivity, performance and feature completeness, translation: you won't get fired/risk your product by choosing this lib for production use on a medium scale project.

If we agree on the definition, then it generally follow that being productive (e.g ergonomic API), optimised (polishing work), not having rough edges, and having implemented the many required features (a server framework actually require a LOT) all those steps are done AFTER the foundational work of pre 1.0
Those after work will probably sometimes break API stability as we are not omniscient and forward compatibility is non trivial hence the needs for production ready frameworks to have had many breaking change releases so more like 3.x than 1.x
Hence, it follows that the temporary but general API stability guarantees from a 1.0 are insufficient and general means that is can begin to be used, not that it should be used.

Rocket and any other rust server framework are not production ready as soon as you go beyond trivial use cases.they have dangerous foundational bugs and show stopper missing features.
I have built a startup product with actix web (but studied rocket too) and those are dangerous economic bombs.
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I agree with that 100% — if it isn't fun, it's work. And if you build enough knowledge about how CSS works in general, when it comes to implementing specific layout or responsive design techniques you have a good understanding of the basics to build upon.
No word on the most important thing: the limits.

Current limits that keep becoming stricter and stricter make the API unusable.
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You don’t need electron app. Chrome has built in support for creating apps from webpages. Tools->more tools->create shortcut and it will save the shortcut into your apps folder.
>the US public, is unwilling and has been demonstrably unable to muster any kind of support for significant military force over any issue that is complex and intangible

Americans would be directly affected by a conflict. Where do all of these electronics come from?
I would think orbiting near the sun still just feels like free fall (as far as gravity is concerned), but close to an extremely dense object like a black hole might have enough of a gradient to feel the "spaghettification" effect or even be ripped apart by it.

Yep, that's a word! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
It's not derogatory among WASPs[1] themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0 wasn't aired outside New England, for instance.

"We play croquet / and go rollerblading / here's to homies on lock / for insider trading"

[1] In the past, it was White, as opposed to say, coloured, Anglo-Saxon, as opposed to say, irish, and Protestant, as opposed to say, catholic. One might not, seeing pictures such as:

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images...

suspect that JFK and Jackie, both undoubtedly privileged, were not considered orthodox by a large segment of the US population.

https://www.courant.com/opinion/editorials/hc-xpm-2013-11-29...

(as to White: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_African_Am... says the US military already started integrating in 1948. Due to their long experience, in 2020 they may serve as an example for the elected politicians of ways to run a colour-blind meritocracy.)
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Thanks. If you'd like some more book and video suggestions I sent this to a friend back when she was looking to get into front-end development a few months ago:

Here are some book and video links (with Amazon affiliate tags snuck in). I've read all of these books cover-to-cover save for the RxJS one. They approach front-end as a set of technologies that should be understood and mastered rather than the "CsS hAckS to GET YoU pAiD!" style of most web tutorials.

Not sure where to point you with React but if you decide to use Angular or Vue I have some suggestions.

CSS/Sass:

"CSS: The Definitive Guide": https://www.amazon.com/CSS-Definitive-Guide-Visual-Presentat...

"Pragmatic Guide to Sass 3: Tame the Modern Style Sheet": https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Guide-Sass-Modern-Style/dp/...

This Sass book has the best structure of any introductory tech book I've ever read.

"TypeScript":

Mastering TypeScript 3: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-TypeScript-enterprise-ready...

"Programming TypeScript": https://www.amazon.com/Programming-TypeScript-Making-JavaScr...

RxJS: Reactive programming the most significant development in UI technology in 20 years. Once you get the hang of it managing asynchronous events (user generated, network generated, time based, etc) become a breeze.

"Build Reactive Websites with RxJS: Master Observables and Wrangle Events": https://www.amazon.com/Build-Reactive-Websites-RxJS-Observab...

RxMarbles - Interactive RxJS visulizations: https://rxmarbles.com/

Angular:

"Angular Development with TypeScript": https://www.amazon.com/Angular-Development-Typescript-Yakov-...

"Architecting Angular Applications with Redux, RxJS, and NgRx: Learn to build Redux style high-performing applications with Angular 6": https://www.amazon.com/Architecting-Angular-Applications-Red...

Videos:

I watched most of the Layout Land videos when I was getting a grip on the state of CSS. Jen Simmons is a developer advocate at Mozilla and has the best overviews I've seen.

Basics of CSS Grid: The Big Picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEnRpy9Xfes

Using Flexbox + CSS Grid Together: Easy Gallery Layout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQHtT47eH0M
It's still going to be AI/ML. The AI summer started with convnets, then generative models like GAN, and more recently transformer-based NLP. Each of these represents a step change in capability, fuelling its own wave of hype.

It's impossible to forecast these types of breakthroughs, but they'll keep happening. My bet is that in 10 years we'll have extremely life-like agents that come close to passing the turing test.
There is a game about that Democracy 3 (https://www.positech.co.uk/democracy3/).

I think it should be a mandatory exercise for any politician - and voter.
I like what you have done with the site — very simple and easy to check out the tips. I subscribed.
This post is like asking “What makes a painting good?” and answering in respect to realist paintings.

Likewise, photography is a broad discipline ranging from pictorialism to postmodernism and a good photograph is more than opportunity, emotion and execution.
I'm curious about your book, as it seems small enough for the kind of things I write as well [1]. Can I ask if it earns you enough for anything?

Sorry for coming out of nowhere, but I have lots of small tutorials I could use (I teach in a local college) which I could make small ebooks out of them.. Looking for some side money..

[1] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python
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There are many eye witnesses, but no pictures or videos?
Do you find that this culture leads to bad code slipping through, because people aren't as direct about its flaws?

I mean that on the macro and the micro level. Does it also lead to bad abstract ideas developing because nobody is willing to be critical, especially of broad approaches? I'm thinking along the lines of: "there are serious and fundamental flaws with the way you guys are approaching this."
Wow! This is cool.

You got me at, "This was back in 1999, when we’d write things like <font size="4" color="#000000"> and DHTML was a thing."

’twas the time when understanding the CSS Box-model was the graduation opportunity to be part of the CSS-Pros.
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That is not true. Section 86 StGB explicitly mentions "former National Socialist organisation" separately from other unconstitutional organizations. Since they were technically never banned in the FRG (as they didn't exist anymore), their symbols would be still legal otherwise.

Also the only parties that were ever banned were the SRP (replacement for the NSDAP) and the KPD (under pressure from the Adenauer government).

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
Not A imply not B,
does not imply that A imply B.
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The root cause of that isn't that you're not a famous movie star. It's that you have so ordered your life that all happiness depends on being a famous movie star. There's parts of that equation that can be changed: teaching you how to have reasonable goals might be one of them.

Ignoring the fact that you're sad because you're not a famous movie star and giving you a happy pill is the inhuman step.

It's the old adage in spades: "Give someone a fish and they'll eat for a day; teach them to fish and they'll eat for the rest of their life."

Happiness in pill form is not happiness.
There is one thing not mentioned there:

If you have a master password defined, the program won't open until you've entered it.

This wasn't the case before.
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