skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is not apparent whether open source can even replicate it because with AI, unlike in the past, time and skill is no longer directly fungible with money.

Indeed. The creator of LuaJIT is only a single, very skilled, person with a desktop computer. People like Fabrice Bellard can produce gigantic amounts of FLOSS source code. Yes, those are only examples, but people with their skills and motivations to build FLOSS software will need access to lots of money in order to be able to build ML models.
The argument was not that cheap smartphones cannot handle email apps (or such); but these phones can only have so many things and definitely no expectation to have hardware based security features.
Can you reference the section of the Mueller report that covers BLM?
What about things people they say they don't know. You can't expect everyone to know everything. You definitely want people to work on things after company's has taken them on onboard.
OK, I will try again differently.

> if you actually need a tool like poetry, you've really fucked up.

I am using poetry for project X. What have I fucked up?

Thought experiment: take the best Python project out there which is not using poetry. Add poetry to it. Does that make that project "fucked up"?

Maybe you meant "you've fucked up" the Python community and not any particular developer using poetry?
They did something similar with power poles in the city I used to live in. The power company came up with cameras they would mount to read license plates. If a car went by with a stolen license plate the cops would get an alert.

In the first month they recovered more stolen cars than the previous year combined.
Too many Americans ITT to appreciate
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The one thing I have against learning in public is that it often seems like pandering to the lowest common denominator with generic learnings/advice.

I think the people who are inclined to be constantly learning are probably less inclined to focus on broadcasting their life to others.

That's not to say that there aren't people who learn in public and create valuable content in the process, they just seem rare.
Paul Graham's response to AOC's statement on billionaires
You did. Any USP to shout about?
I have recently come to the conclusion that benevolent billionaires operating in a democratic and capitalist society are best way to allocate resources.
...I do

learned it from CS50.
That's because there wasn't anything to inherit once the Oracle audit was done, right?
Reading the replies you're getting here makes me understand why there's so many rude people contacting customer service...

I have a customer facing job and I work closely with the customer service department so I'm exposed to a lot of this (I meet customers face to face as well), and it's shocking how rude and abusive some people can get to another human being.

I tell people all the time to stuff their attitude up their holes and start over if they want any help from me. I'm a human being; I will not accept people talking like that to me.

Those customers sure wouldn't accept it if I acted like that to them, why should the reverse be okay?
I'd be interested to see what contract you have with your customers that allows you to not support them without turning into a breach of contract. If someone were to litigate, what does the contract define your service as? Just having a system on, or having it function for them?

I'm not arguing against calling out poor behavior... I've just seen startups with this business model and attitude get absolutely crushed when one bad customer hires a lawyer.
It might work for you, but I wouldn’t work for a company where I had to spend 80% of my time pair programming. We could discuss architecture and high level requirements.

How are (at least pre-Covid) the developers situated where it isn’t noisy?
It's up to the person how deep he/she wants to go in learning. The idea behind wiki/notes is that you are the main user of it. You just open it up for everyone. Right now so many notes are done privately and that's a shame.

I also hope more people make an open learning repo [1] where they test out new technology in the open. It's been a nice productivity boost for me.

1: https://github.com/lpil/learning & https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/learning as examples
That’s an interesting idea, but I’m not sure if it’s available to people outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).
Computed Values: More Than Meets the Eye
"... the tunnel ran from Mexico to a disused Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant..."

Should have used "Los pollos hermanos"
It does look weird to the foreign eyes, because it looks nothing like what you may encounter in your life when learning a natural language or math. As a consequence, this notation cannot leverage any intuition at all. You need to learn the syntax. Nothing is explicit and helps you guess if you haven't.

It is telling that this is "just a typed api with 3 routes". Somebody who haven't learned all the specific bits of Haskell (or, for that matter, specific bits of this program that may be overloading strange operators to define routes) won't even start to guess that it's defining routes. They can guess it is defining an API, thanks to the words used at the beginning of the snippet. And even though you told us that it's defining a route, I cannot figure out what it is really doing. It is just not clear.

So, yes, it looks like a mess for the foreign eye. I have no doubt it looks straightforward as soon as you learn Haskell and practice a bit.

Mainstream languages also look gibberish for people who haven't learned programming though. That's also something that we have to humbly keep in mind while, as foreigners who practice other programming languages, we discuss the syntax of Haskell.
I found it almost unreadable, and I can tolerate a lot. Maybe something gets lost with the translation. As for the worst, I forgot the author's name. It was a military sci fi novel with an alien invasion theme, so you'd expect it to be bad. However, I love the topic and was willing to tolerate the focus on right wing US prepping. I'm fine with all of that, but, SPOILER AHEAD: The problem of the novel was that the fight was pretty much unwinnable, so in the end the author simply just introduced vampires who allied with the paramilitary preppers and swiftly eliminated all aliens in the last chapter. That was by far the worst plot I've ever seen.
As I understood the cheating, it was just skipping exhaust warmup during tests since the car was to be turned off at the start after driving it warm. Did it acctually have any effect overall?
If the law keeps harming the majority of people, society will devolve into anarchy. If the law starts to not make sense, judges will allow themselves more room for interpretation and this will be the ideal environment for mafias and factions. This will not be good for corporations - Without rigid laws backed by sensible moral grounds, corporations will split up and be devoured from the inside.
This torque multiplier lug nut remover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vesBDXCWrUw

All jokes aside - Learning a section of domain you interact with regularly just enough to be dangerous.

Example is, as a programmer, doing product management job for 6 months or vice versa.

Danger here is it's easy to wield that new found knowledge as a weapon for evil - such as talking down at people, when really you want to be using it to be more effective.

But thankfully, most people have seen it done well in one form or another - a product person who can speak technical and not be jerked around or an engineer who has a keen eye for product flow or growth efforts.
With Amazon's reputation I would be extremely hesitant to order anything health related from them. I'd greatly prefer a store with clear supply lines and no comingling.
You may find the collected set of the most popular articles from Harvard Business Review to be a treasure trove of force multipliers, various types of success mechanisms, well written compact general solutions rolled into a pithy sentences and paragraphs easily quoted. I was skeptical at first, but HBR is a surprisingly engaging read that rarely suffers from hubris or conceit, as one might expect from a publication with "Harvard" in it's name.

This is the entire collected set, but individual collections for each specialization are also available. https://store.hbr.org/product/harvard-business-review-guides...

It is shocking how fantastic this series is and how little the tech world knows about it.
The APL Programming Language Source Code (Computer History Museum)
Corncob 3D....real old :)
How is Facebook making any money apart from ads? Especially on a service like WhatsApp.
Using curly braces or parentheses to signify blocks of code is the trivial and natural way to implement a parser for a programming language. Doing anything else requires a conscious design decision and some effort and extra complexity. The C philosophy is to avoid complexity in the implementation in favor of a slightly more verbose language. The Haskell (ML) philosophy is the exact opposite. These design decisions have been cargo culted by later languages.
> if we want open, on-device voice recognition, we'll have to do the work and donate sample data.

We absolutely will not. The only reason people believe this is that they've forgotten how to do speaker-dependent recognition (SDR), which is more accurate and more secure anyway. We were doing SDR in the 80s with 1/1000 the CPU power and 1/1000 the memory.

SDR does require an initial training session, but once that's done any modern computer or smartphone should be able to handle it locally with no cloud server environment.
Beyond Smart Rocks
I think it's something along the lines of:

"Hacker News is," he said, "a website." (American)

vs.

"Hacker News is", he said, "a website". (British)

We Americans are taught to always put punctuation inside the quotation marks, with a few limited exceptions.

I gather our cousins across the sea are taught not to do this.

It's started to bleed into my own writing given the international nature of the teams I work with.
I quite often throw out the “raise your prices” viewpoint in casual conversation, based on my time (12ish years) as a contractor. When I do it, I’m aware it’s not always the best option, but I don’t have a catalog of personal experience to draw on for more nuanced advice.

This was a nice example of when not to. Thanks.
Yes. Surely a better measure than 'per hectare' is for instance, 'per dollar'. Until we run out of hectares, space isn't not the limit on annual crop. Where space would definitely limit 'indoor' total yields.
Probably going to get lots of downvote for this comment, but I am going to take it on my chin and not use a throwaway account.

I hope that whackadoodle rancher starves to death if not dead already. I will take that as a positive outcome of COVID-19.
The thing that's always turned me off Haskell is language extensions and the associated fractal fracture of the language. Sorry, I don't want to learn a dozen different styles of a language.

PureScript always seemed a little more appealing from that perspective, but doesn't seem to have really caught on (eg; https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...)
Exactly right. As an experienced software developer, there's a ton I don't understand about the intricacies of OS kernels and integrated circuits, but I don't need to know that stuff and nobody can learn everything. Popular science books can explain quantum theory well enough for a layperson to at least get enough of a clue to have an opinion. All politicians need is enough knowledge to make an informed decision about the effect of various technologies on society.
Now there's a good idea.
This is the 9th time you posted this in the last 3 days. A few repost are ok here, but somewhere between 5 an 10 is the limit of to much reposts. (And the other 5 post you made in these days are very related.)

The users will start to notice it, and flag this, and then the mods may notice and ban your account or your site.

Sometimes it is easier to get traction here writing about an interesting problem you solved while making the site, for example how do you make the evaluation of the user submitted code safe, how you avoid spam, problems with unicode characters in user submitted programs. If you meet an old friend and have to tell a funny/weird technical anecdote about your project, what would you tell?

Some feedback:

The "Get Started Now!" at the bottom must be clickable. I'm not sure to which page it should redirect, perhaps make the user login and then redirect to the main page again or to the "practice" page.

It's nice that the leaderboard is visible, but it's weird the the - between the name and the points is part of the link. (This is very minor, the previous recommendation is more important.)

Why I can't register with email?
It's still deterministic. It doesn't randomly do something different with the exact same IO. Just because it's hard to recreate the exact same state with concurrent processes on a modern CPU doesn't change it's determinism.

Also, undefined behavior in C only means a compiler can do what ever it likes. It doesn't make it random. People need to stop pretending UB in C is magic. It's not going to delete your hard disk, or make you a pizza unless that's already part of your program. GARBREPLEDFAH.../rant
I don't really know anything about ULA or the space industry in general so I find this to be a particularly unhelpful comment. According to you, what makes their business model like this? Could you explain why this is fundamentally different from any other contractor?
If you want to open all of your product's code, then you might want to use a public-private licensing model.
https://indieopensource.com/public-private/users

Have a look at the Parity Public License and the Prosperity Public License.
https://paritylicense.com/
https://prosperitylicense.com/

Those two licenses allow others to read, modify and redistribute your code. Parity requires that users open source their code, while Prosperity only allows non-commercial usage. If a potential customer doesn't want to be restricted by the public license you choose, they can instead buy a private license.

Also see License Zero's private license.
https://licensezero.com/licenses/private
> until such time vat grown meat makes ranching meat a premium product.

I suspect farmed meat will be able to reduce price significantly to demand. Reason is much of the price is based on the land values. Also feed, but that can be reduced with stocking rates as land value drops. And given much grazing land isn't useful for other formats of farming, I suspect in the future were going to see significant drops to cattle grazing land values allowing it to stay price competitive to lab meat as that scales up.

On the other hand the moral argument is hard to win, and I say that as a meat eater. I suspect justifying eating farmed meat is going to seriously dwindle in a few generations once the 'that's how its always been' mentality has softened.
New Zealand, Fiji and Vietnam mark 100 days without domestic Covid cases
I'll be honest, more or less I have the same functions as others. Could't find something really unique.

Except, maybe, SIGNL4 integration.

In plans:

- Customize everything as much as I can. Like you'll decide which messages/texts to show in notifications and how the status pages should look

- Badges you can put on your site, like "I have 99.99% uptime". Haven't seen this

- Some folks asked for CSV reports of uptime/response time, will add it as well

- Performance monitoring & analysis

But yes, I know, it's in plans so right now not that much to shout about =\
"It's interesting to see how NASA has been slowly being privatized"

We can only hope!
FunFact: As an undergraduate at UCLA in the late 1960s, I answered an ad in the Daily Bruin (school newspaper) for people to participate in a survey.

It turned out to be located at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, where on Saturday mornings we participated in RAND's DELPHI project, which was instrumental in establishing that non-experts working as a group could produce estimates and predictions that were way more accurate than would be expected about subjects they knew little or nothing about.
It's also funny (ironic?) how they defend this syntax while bemoaning mainstream languages' syntax.
A few glitches but not unimpressive.
Some people aren't motivated by trying to eke out every last cent out of a business venture, they're happy making as much money as they are currently making.

So while income could be maximized by acting differently, Stavros chooses to optimize for his well being instead.
Oh interesting. So basically instead of using 20 Arduinos I can make an FPGA into a custom LED driver where I hand it a bitmap and it communicates the image to the LED matrix? That sounds pretty neat.
Get enough sleep every night that you wake up naturally before your alarm goes off. Drink enough water that your pee is clear. Merely not being chronically sleep deprived or dehydrated greatly improves every aspect of productivity, learning capacity, and subjective experience.

Most workflows can benefit from multiple monitors. it's a silly thing to be bottlenecked by screen area on a fancy computer when used 1080p monitors are nearly free in 2020.

Take regular walks and use that time to think. There is something about a steady walk that seems to improve problem solving, especially for more abstract/creative things.

When working, put the cell phone out of view and out of reach. It's too easy to subconsciously pick it up and start scrolling a feed before realizing focus had been broken.
Would it be wrong to infer from this that letting a face mask sit in room temperature for a week is almost guaranteed to make it safe for use again?
Don't worry, I think the silent majority is on your side.

If someone is defending "customer is always right", then they've probably never had a client from hell.
Sounds like David Weber's Out Of The Dark
My company gave me a task and said good luck!
The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)
I've heard "square brackets" here in the US.

I'd also use the term "curly braces" over just "braces" but either is acceptable.
It does help the person in debt though. Have you ever had that kind of debt? Where they call you ten times a day? You can’t get an apartment if they’re going to run your credit score. It hurts your relationships and makes you depressed. Owing a few hundred dollars to a collection agency can really affect your life in a negative way.
Do you believe all software can be monetized like this?

This type of business model works for complex B2B software, but I'm not so sure it works for most other software.
Note how they have ignored the Raspberry bleeping Pi.
> Robert Burrows is not newsworthy without Gene Weingarten.

Are you saying that in your way of thinking, newsworthiness only arises from a false, disparaging accusation?
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I've only heard what the state epidemiologists say but here's the Finnish study that the current recommendations are based on: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/report_little_or_no_benef...

With that said, Finland is re-evaluating face masks it as we speak so it may change.
This is a misleading title and everything else under. From the site:

“How does the Transit Tech Lab work?

Applicants participate in a rigorous selection process that may include in-person presentations. At the conclusion of the application process, the MTA will select companies to participate in an 8-week accelerator to learn about the MTA and modify their technology to meet the transit system's needs. Following the accelerator, the MTA will select the most promising companies to deploy a 12-month, unpaid pilot with the transit system. The Transit Tech Lab offers companies an opportunity to demonstrate their technology in the nation’s largest transit systems and receive mentorship.

Do companies receive compensation for participating in the Transit Tech Lab?

There is no compensation for participation in the Transit Tech Lab, and pilots are unpaid. Companies may apply for limited grant funding from NYSERDA.“

This is not an “incubator evaluation” to anyone but the author of the comment. It’s a technology evaluation for MT(S)A that is designed to not waste their time through a selection process of applicants with a defined path of application and trail.
How I got my Japanese permanent residency
Worm gears, centrifugal transmissions, bridge rectifiers, ...
F22 Lightning II maybe
Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers
"The government also wants to maintain redundant capabilities..."

As a taxpayer, I'm totally enthusiastic on board with this strategy. Said another way, I demand that our government hedges and mitigates risks.

Many of our current challenges are because of previous ill-advised efficiency efforts.
>Of course, any time we do anything we "train" ourselves in it and get better at it, //

This isn't true AFAICT, we reinforce our method and knowledge - if that's wrong/limited then we reinforce a poor ability; I suspect that makes it harder to learn an improvement later. As I age I find I fall in to old habits even when I know better ways, the older way feels 'natural'.
This simply doesn't apply to software engineering, for two reasons:

1) Training isn't a separate exercise from doing the work. We learn in this job, forever. Whether it is a new tech, a new codebase, or simply improving our skills, all coders learn almost every day. We all look back at our code from a year ago and realize how much we have grown.

2) When worrying about "the customer paying the tuition", coders aren't the problem. That concept is more a problem when a new tech comes out, and all the consulting firms will send you expensive consultants to implement it for you - clearly, they have no experience either, so you are paying full rates for their learning curve.

Now that I write it out, it seems like the key difference is whether you are creating tech, or consuming tech. Training applies to consumption, but creation is a completely different process.
and let's not forget the touch bar.... Urgh. Still holding onto my 2015 MacBook from work and hoping it never dies.
By every single concrete measure, you're simply mistaken in saying that. In terms of death toll, sheer human misery and displacement, destruction, impoverishment, post-war political catastrophe (the Iron Curtain being just one part of this) and possibly even psychological scarring, World War II was so much worse for Europe than the first War.

If we look at physical infrastructure alone, the vast majority of Europe at the end of the first war was mostly intact. At the end of WWII, even this wasn't the case, whole cities and large parts of the continent's man-made landscape had been shattered into twisted ruins.

I am sincerely curious to see how you would qualify such a statement that WWI was worse for Europe than WWII.
Who's "we" in this context? Because just below you, HN has comments from willing donors.

My point being that while there may still be a market for SDR, there's a broader market for speaker-independent recognition (SIR) simply because people want the tech to just work rather than feel like they messed up training the device when the device can't recognize them.
Hurray, more government money being laundered to pay master Elon and his gang.

Let's keep increasing taxes and keep printing more fiat money and give it to Elon Musk so that we can all be good slaves, giving him and his gang tangible goods and services in exchange for what is left of the magic green paper which the government gave to him for free; much of which he burned off into the void of space. Long live master Elon.