skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting take that self-directed development is a 'heresy' of academia, even more so, it's considered hokey and invalid. I've noticed that's somewhat the case, there's an attitude that Formal Education is the only education. I didn't even go to a 'bad college' like another commenter suggested would have an attitude like this.

I've had students try to tell me off (with great vitriol too) for not being a 'real developer' since I lack a CS degree or a Software XYZ degree, despite having worked as a developer for a while. Even professors were skeptical about being able to break into the industry. I did manage it, and it was surprisingly easy to do, which made me scratch my head about where those beliefs came from in the first place.
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Most are already charging more than the customer is willing to pay, thanks to scholarships/grants/subsidies/etc.
> This basically applies to all programming?

That's true. But if you should describe the essence of probabilistic programming to someone used only to “classical” scientific computing, what would be the key point(s)?

BTW, I'm sorry if I came off as dismissive, I'm only frustrated not to grasp why it's considered to be such a step forward. AD I get it, all the differentials are automagically imputed directly from the source code, which is something that practically could not be done otherwise. But what I get from Turing or Gen are just nifty DSLs.
I have never downvoted or flagged anyone on HN. It seems almost entirely politically motivated to me. The fact that this advertisement has not been flagged is evidence to me that the touchy folks who like to flag things are disingenuous when they say "I flag things because they don't belong on HN."
I'm not a Cisco employee nor am I married to WebEx in every way, but I do a mix of IT support and media production at a university and WebEx has been very useful for us so far.

From what I've experienced, Zoom is like a basic WebEx "Meeting" where you join a conference and it's an online approximation of a conference room. WebEx has a subsection called WebEx "Events" with a few minor tweaks that make it more useful for classes or seminars.

Mainly it's just about how they set up "roles". In a Meeting, you're all mostly the same (aside from the host). In an Event, you schedule the thing, add a list of people who will be "panelists", and then they get a special password that allows them to log in with their WebEx account and join with elevated privileges.

The "host" role is still the "admin" and can change settings and assign roles. The "panelists" can turn on their own mics and cameras as they choose, and they can be given screen-share rights.

Everyone else gets a different link and joins as "attendees". Attendees can't turn on their own mics or cameras. They can post in the chat box and they can raise their hand to be given mic rights. It effectively prevents the issues of "bombing" online meetings with disruptive behavior and allows the presenters to do the teaching.
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My brother wanted to start writing about his recovery process[0] and asked me to help him make a blog. He said he wanted to learn a bunch of stuff so he could be self-sufficient enough to not have to ask me/"need my permission" to go from written post to publish. He had already bought a domain that came with some bottom-of-the-barrel free shared hosting service. I pointed him towards Wordpress, he set up the entire thing himself, and now has a sense of ownership he really appreciates.

For me, Jekyll, Github Pages, and a couple lines of CSS were nothing[1], but there should be as little barrier to entry as possible if you have something to say

[0]: https://andrewtag.com (it's not self-promotion if it's someone else's blog)

[1]: https://amtunlimited.gihub.io (this is definitely self-promotion, feel free to ignore)
A good therapist can also be a mirror, reflecting your own unconscious reactions to things back at you so you can see yourself in a new light. When I sought therapy I wasn't experiencing difficulty maintaining rational thought. Everything I was thinking about myself and others was perfectly reasonable given what I knew. What my therapist did was expose the fact that what I knew was a very limited slice of the facts of the situation. She never halted my thought process or exposed every little thing. She asked interesting questions and challenged me to consider a different perspective in some situations. That was enough to get me on a path to self-leadership. And once I had that, she helped me change how I thought about myself and others so that I could trust instead of fear. I learned to have courage and it saved me.
Yeah, the idea of creating an environment that only favors young, privileged, unattached folks has always been pretty off-putting for me.

Larger checks certainly attract the 'free sabbatical' folks that the author seems to dislike so much, but it also enables entire classes of potential founders to have access to capital that enables them to focus on their business rather than their kids' stomachs.
Of course, but there is no profit in that.
Wow I'd argue the opposite. Large classes / lectures I didn't even interact with the professor in person, might as well just get that info online. Smaller classes I found in person discussions much more valuable.
This title is funny but it's fascinating to watch Americans now adopting the techniques learned by Hong Kong protestors.

They've got leaf blowers, they got umbrellas, traffic cones, gas masks etc to stop the tear gas.
Some reports suggest that G Suite has more users than Office 365?

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-g-suite-gmail-2-billi...

NB I don't know how credible these reports are but I'm not sure that Office 365 "dominates the market" to the same extent as Windows used to.
> a fan base which has had knock-on effects as the community he’s carefully curated intersects with some that have done incredible harm on twitter and reddit

You can say this about pretty much any group of people.

Everyone is now partly responsible for what the other adults they associate with do when they're not around?

This is not the world you want to live in even if you think you want it.
There is no real "collapse" in numbers, the number of hospital cases have been in a (noisy) straight line down from April and forwards: https://www.icuregswe.org/data--resultat/covid-19-i-svensk-i... (the graph with "Antal vtf" on the y-axis). Those graphs are directly from the hospital reporting systems.
The additional problem I see with Slack is that their calls/video chat option is really inadequate and almost everyone is opting for Zoom. Zoom + Slack is a very steep price point for a lot of companies, especially in an era of cost saving and insecurity about the future.

My company opted to move to MS Teams because the experience is better as it integrates calls + chats and we were already using office365 for emails and documents anyway, so it was "free". As someone said already, it's hard to compete with free.

I can't see Slack getting out of this in one piece. I see Amazon being the obvious choice here.
OK, but you'd be delaying scans by having to wait for the MRI, which takes significantly longer to setup and administer as well as being much more expensive (which would further reduce access).

Also (and this is according to the XKCD chart) you'd need 50 CT head scans before you'd hit the clear statistical cancer risk.

But it's not like the whole population gets a CT scan every year, or even during their entire life. If you need one anyways, there's probably a more pressing issue that 1/50th the clearly statistical risk level.
Def. not an expert and from what I gathered, it's a lifelong effort. But for me, it takes a few min just to concentrate on the breath and remind myself to observe my thoughts, emotions as separate from my self-awareness. So maybe try extending your sessions to 20-30 min before/after sleeping?
Why is Arc needed? It's a global singleton so we don't need to worry about dropping it. Just a RwLock<T> should be fine or maybe even Cell if you don't need RwLock guarantees.
I was always under the impression that using event sourcing, you would still denormalize your data for maximally efficient querying, while using events as a journaling system (for replayability and atomicity).

Even if your database is built from the ground up for event sourcing, the degree of query efficiency is the degree to which it does the above.
According to the thread it's not supposed to be enough. You're supposed to go deep into credit card debt because that's how you know you're a Real Founder(tm). You know, if you're privileged enough to have limits high enough on your credit cards to go into that sort of debt, dont have people dependent on you, have a safety net to make this not so big a deal, etc. Clearly the best founders are the ones starving themselves so they can lower their risk of having to file for bankruptcy. And the best thing to do to fund a high risk tech startup with uncertain cash flows is apparently debt. Equity financing exists for a reason, you know. And the point of incorporating as a separate entity is liability protection/equity financing etc. For an investor, pushing your founders to increase the risk levels of their high risk companies by levering up with a personal guarantee is ridiculous. They increase the risk level so debtors can get the reward if things work, which is now less likely because of the compounding interest and personal stress.
You can't force someone to use open protocols. What if their value preposition is exactly that, superiority to open protocols?
Interesting, especially considering pancreatic cancer. That one can be treated if caught early on, but it hardly ever is, making it incredibly lethal, even for a cancer to be.
Yep. They have a monopoly on the verification of knowledge and not knowledge itself. That's why brand names are so valued.
To know the actual mortality rate you would have to test every single person in a country. Right now is more of the cultural thing:
How likely is the person experiencing flu-like symptoms to go and test for coronavirus? Seems that in Italy only seriously sick people would go and take test, that's why you have this shocking 1 in 7 rate - because most of the mild cases go undetected.
Depends on the company. My company in the financial sector is always saying you need more financial acumen. I think it's mostly because out business people have no idea how to create a business process map or describe what they are doing.
Depends on what stage of life you're in. Ramen profitable works for a 20-something just out of college. It does not work for a married middle-aged person potentially with kids.

It's a lot harder to start a startup once you get to that stage of life because of this and other reasons.
It seems you can use the Postgres.app and install TimescaleDB on it

Here's some instructions on how to do so: https://github.com/slashdotdash/til/blob/master/postgres/ins...
if every definition needed to redefine definitions of its terms it would be impossible to discuss anything.

Within a certain domain, it is assumed you know basic definitions within it that can be used to talk about more complex things.
> I'm still furious they ever intended to do it, and held the sword of Damocles over his head for so many weeks.

I think the actual “Sword of Damocles” story does not illustrate what you wish it to. From Wikipedia:

“ According to the story, Damocles was pandering to his king, Dionysius, exclaiming that Dionysius was truly fortunate as a great man of power and authority, surrounded by magnificence. In response, Dionysius offered to switch places with Damocles for one day so that Damocles could taste that very fortune firsthand. Damocles quickly and eagerly accepted the king's proposal. Damocles sat on the king's throne, surrounded by every luxury, but Dionysius, who had made many enemies during his reign, arranged that a sword should hang above the throne, held at the pommel only by a single hair of a horse's tail to evoke the sense of what it is like to be king: Though having much fortune, always having to watch in fear and anxiety against dangers that might try to overtake him.”

The NY Times is equivalent to the King?
We have a silicon valley success story in our family. His parents were telling me how he built everything up out of nothing, clearly unaware of their own contribution.

He could pour all his money into his start-up because if he'd lost every dime he could have moved back in with them. He'd have his own bedroom, bathroom, and a fresh-cooked meal every night. He could have stayed with them as long has he wanted. Very few people have that kind of soft-landing.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but this press release is a bit embarassing. For most business use cases Slack is more expensive, and less featured than Microsoft 365, and it's having to work very hard to justify its existence.

Slack could be accused of creating a "weak, copycat product" in their file hosting, document editing, video calling and workflow automation features.

I think this is a long continuation of the awkward brand strategy Slack has had for some time. "...an open platform is essential" [1] just doesn't ring true from a closed source SaaS, but it's a good marketing message - so vague that you can't really disagree. And weirdly it's gone from being a poorly conceived guerilla marketing strategy (almost complete with bespoke emoji [2]) to a legal case.

It maybe explains how Slack has been racing to embrace Microsoft recently - in a bid to show how "open" they are, and therefore how much they have been damaged by "closed" Microsoft? But wouldn't that swing both ways - if they integrate so easily, then where is the monopoly?

Nov 2016 - Slack declares how thoughtful, craftmanship-y, open, loving, long term-y and un-Microsoft-y they are [1]

Jan 2018 - Teams launches app store

Aug 2018 - Teams offers free tier to compete with Slack [3]

Mar 2020 - Slack starts integrating Teams calls [4]

Apr 2020 - Slack launches Outlook and One Drive apps [5]

[1] https://slackhq.com/dear-microsoft
[2] https://twitter.com/stewart/status/793870058955104257
[3] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563710/microsoft-teams-...
[4] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/27/21197091/slack-microsoft-...
[5] https://slackhq.com/increase-everyday-productivity-with-offi...
That's a really good way of thinking about it.
Yes, the positive predictive value of the test may be low, with the PPV being equal to the number of true positives divide by the number of true positives plus the number of false positives.

Since this test is designed to identify cancer very early, a likely solution to the low PPV problem would be to re-test the individual, perhaps even multiple times. The likelihood of multiple consecutive FP test results, barring a biological reason for the FP, would at some point warrant a more accurate test, be it a screen or diagnostic test depending on tumor type. Also keep in mind that the PPV of the test would increase with a person's age - an 80 year old is at a greater risk of developing cancer than is a 30 year old. This test would also be useful for people with hereditary cancer syndromes.

The cost benefit would be huge - imagine if everyone could identify their cancer 6 months or even years earlier. Mortality would greatly decrease, as would spending on treatments, etc.
That seems like a pretty big deal.

Does a WAL backup approach work?
If I talk to my friends in a pub, I don't expect my boss to get a full report on my speech the next day. I also don't expect that report to appear at my next job interview.

Unfortunately, internet blurs the boundaries between the work and non-work life. We need to find out new ways how to navigate this. It seemed like using a pseudonym would be a solution (because you can hardly hide your real name from your boss). Unfortunately, seems like unless you use paranoid precautions, people will take pleasure at connecting your private life to your job.
Slack is in a tough position but they don't really sell "chat as a service" as much as they sell an incredibly convenient workplace experience. They're like the netflix / amazon of enterprise; convenience and ease of use is their product more than anything else. From everything I've read, heard, and experienced, Teams is way worse of an experience. What MS _can_ do that Slack can't is append Teams as a line-item it to an existing invoice, or shift spend within a contract. It happens; Salesforces does this with Heroku.
> it would not account for how geographically localized it was in Sweden. The Stockholm metro area got hit heavily, but the rest of the country was comparatively spared,

This doesn't match the statistics from here [0] [1].

The case rate in Stockholm county is 9.5 per 1000, making it the fourth hardest hit. 15 of Sweden's 21 counties, accounting for 80% of the population, have rates of 5 per thousand or higher - higher in the urban areas. The deep south of Sweden is the exception, not the rule - despite being home to a large city in Malmö, Skåne and the four surrounding counties have only 3 cases per thousand. I don't have a better explanation for this discrepancy but it's definitely not an outbreak localized to Stockholm.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/526655/sweden-population...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103949/number-of-corona...
I was immediately was curious how it would protect against image compression and/or otherwise de-noising these protection pixel changes. Their paper does address this question, and for those that are interested:

Even image compression cannot defeat our cloak.
We use progressive JPEG [57], reportedly used
by Facebook and Twitter, to compress the images
in our dataset. The image quality, as standard
by Independent JPEG Group [1], ranges from 5 to
95 (lower value = higher compression). As shown
in Figure 15, image compression decreases the
protection success rate, but more significantly
degrades normal classification accuracy.

I wonder how it works, but it works.

p.s. Mobile friendly copy-paste: "Even image compression cannot defeat our cloak. We use progressive JPEG [57], reportedly used by Facebook and Twitter, to compress the images in our dataset. The image quality, as standard by Independent JPEG Group [1], ranges from 5 to 95 (lower value = higher compression). As shown in Figure 15, image compression decreases the protection success rate, but more significantly degrades normal classification accuracy."
The (newish) mobile app on iOS is really confusing layout wise, I thought I'd get used to it but it confuses me every time. It's also weirdly slow for a native app, I'm not sure how they managed that.
Pachyderm is hiring K8s DevOps and Golang Devs
>You need to get acquired (by Google or Facebook), because I don't think you can innovate an office productivity suite fast enough to compete.

Dropbox, Box, Asana, Airtable, Zoho, Amazon, Adobe. There's other ways they could grow to become Microsoft that don't start with document editing. Adobe in particular would be an attractive mix. Google and Facebook sound like mediocre homes, because they already offer such overlapping suites, but maybe its just about user acquisition. Oracle would probably be interested in monetizing chat.

At the end of the day though, they will need a competitive spreadsheet offering. Everyone needs spreadsheets.
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one of those times, where I will say the big co isn't in the wrong. slack, has suffered the hand of the market. that the deck, the market dealt wasn't in your favor. is slack a product, could be ? but what are the advantages ? strategy 101. real business don't ride on fashion, but utility. teams is good enough.
Haven't followed YC closely in a while. Has anyone compiled objective data on how it's trending and the success of the program YoY?
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Interesting. This makes a lot of sense, anecdotally.

I am a tech worker in a highly bureaucratic and "political" type of company (finance). No wonder the "management" has been pushing the return to office so hard - they need the "face time" with their bosses.
Office 365 (actually Microsoft 365 these days) is, depending on what edition you buy, a set of cloud based services and licenses for installing the traditional desktop applications.

As with most Microsoft licensing & naming things it is surprisingly complex!
What happens if you need to use your code to migrate from one database to another, but all the low level logic uses a single global database connection?

How do you test that your program behaves the same way with a reference software renderer and the GPU if there’s only one global handle to the video card?

In both cases, how do you add more threads without creating a global lock?
Yeah people who use this phrase "noped out of it" usually have little tolerance for things they disagree with and won't continue diving deeper for nuance or any redeeming thoughts present in the article (which may or may not be there)
Facebook has an unusual share structure that gives Zuckerberg a majority of votes.
Is a sign that Y Co is a plant grown too large for its pot and needs to be split up and transplanted.

In 2019 the best business model was selling pitchforks to gold miners in San francisco, in 2020 the disruption happened. Big cities have a competitive advantage in terms of exploiting the Bezzle, but when that is gone then what?
Beautiful work. Will be using
The 90s Internet didn't have deliberate region blocks. The future is old, and it is dying.
What's interesting about new proofs for existing theorems is that they can give new insights about the problem and create new questions to be solved. Sometimes they can link two previously unrelated ideas, and create entirely new fields of study.
The best is to get agreement on the design is gdocs and then export it to Github so that the design and code live next to each other.
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Don't think of it as an exchange of money for a service. Think of it as making sure your therapist can continue helping you and that he or she doesn't have to take a part time job to pay for their vocation. It's like how some people tithe to a church and put money in a priest's collection plate. They're making sure the priest can follow his or her vocation full-time. The money doesn't create the vocation.
When your world before teams was :
Sharepoint
Mapped drives
Skype for fucking business
etc

Teams looks A.Fucking.Mazing.
I'm curious if the author has data that the 'free sabbatical' folks are less successful as founders than others. If YC is selecting the wrong types of people/companies for their batches, I think they'll figure it out pretty quick when those companies fail to pan out and their fund suffers as a result.

Is the author's YC company's success somehow contingent on YC not having these types of founders?. If so, I have grave concerns about their company anyway. If not, like, what are you complaining about? YC's decision to accept people who match that profile literally has nothing to do with you.
Agree-- the idea that limited means "always" fosters resourcefulness is a gross sentiment that has long been debunked. For many folks limited means just means extra stress with no added chances of success. Maybe the founder saying this is motivated by less money, but most people aren't and this would just further limit diversity.
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> very very reminiscent of exploiting Windows' dominance to push IE.

The idea of Windows pushing IE by bundling it seems laughably quaint to me these days where most people can't even install a different rendering engine on their device than the stock and choice is purely illusionary and very few seem to bat an eyelid or even notice.