skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it could be fun to compare how our own teams do on The Joel Test now. I estimate Beeminder gets a 68%:

1. Do you use source control? [1 point]
2. Can you make a build in one step? [.6 points for modernized version of this]
3. Do you make daily builds? [1 point]
4. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? [1 point]
5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? [1 point]
6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule? [0 points]
7. Do you have a spec? [.9 points]
8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? [.5 points]
9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? [.5 points]
10. Do you have testers? [0 points]
11. Do new candidates write code during their interview? [1 point]
12. Do you use hallway usability testing? [.8 points]

Details at https://forum.beeminder.com/t/20th-anniversary-of-the-joel-t...
By this logic - safari/firefox/chrome should not be allowed as an ios app because you can't review the usability of all the games on various websites that run within the browsers.
Learn sql, it's like javascript, it's everywhere.. and will open you expertise from a we framework to a lot of other places..
Certainly, I'm specifically talking about the highly-paid knowledge workers in cities. But if they move out to any large degree that cascades. You don't need the higher-end luncheon spots and other amenities those workers use at that point. There aren't generally factories or distribution centers in cities.

It may even be a positive for some of those workers to the degree prices go down, albeit with fewer high-end restaurants and so forth and fewer co-workers.
Cult Wars: The Making of a Cult Brand – By Jordan Odinsky – Aug, 2020
First Impressions of Rust
Any data yet on how covid has affected suicide rates?
Is twitter an actual linear timeline? I assumed it was the same as a Facebook feed where it's just a random smattering of who knows what.
One thing that's really great about JPEGXL is that it seems to be intended for use at the high end, e.g. larger files, more bits / pixel. Most of these newer codecs are based on the intra frame of video codecs, which are all optimized to look good at the lowest possible bitrate. (And even high bitrate video is usually much lower quality than what we use for static images.) I suspect there are a lot of easy gains to be had here, and actually I wish someone would look at doing a high quality royalty free video codec with the intent to target high bitrate applications. (It's noteworthy that a lot of professional applications like DCP use an image codec, JPEG2000.)

For anyone looking for some image comparisons between AV1 and JPEGXL, someone updated the classic "image format comparison" on Github and added it. [1] Important to note that all these are a little unfair to JPEGXL, because it's explicitly targeting higher bitrates than most of the quality levels you see here, and it still comes out looking pretty good at the higher bitrates.

[1] https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#abando...
Banks being bailed out has been national policy in the US since the Great Depression. Previous to that there were 3 national panics and bank runs, and banks were considered juicy targets for robbers as well.

The federal insurance program made it so people could trust in banking again.

Now I do think that the policy has gone too far. Bank investments should receive any bailout, those are part and parcel of the normal functioning market.
When does it matter to have month and day, but not year? Like the one time is for birthdays. The web is full of articles exactly dated with old day and month, neglecting year.
Isn't their whole management engine essentially one big (poorly secured) backdoor?
It is the other way around. The ORM sits on top of core, the sql abstraction.

This separation is what I like about it, if I know how to do something in SQL I can use the tools sqla provides and it maps very close to 1:1. Or I can use a more ORM driven approach similar to what Django does. I can adapt it over time as the project evolves.

But yes to write the queries in Python and not raw strings, you need to have either a Table or ORM Model defined, which you could generate from the database [1]. But I admit, except for some scripts, I have never used it where Python wasn't the source of truth, so don't know what it all involves.

I don't know about very old versions of SQLAlchemy, but at least in the last 4.5 years since I'm using it, I have been much happier with it for medium sized projects over any other similar tool in Python I have tried because of this flexibility

[1] Edit: Or use reflection to load schema information from the database

>>> messages = Table('messages', meta, autoload=True, autoload_with=engine)
>>> [c.name for c in messages.columns]
['message_id', 'message_name', 'date']
Intel under-NDA Documents leaked
They're investors. Investments are not guaranteed. They're going to take the same haircut either way, whether or not the suspension of payments is carefully handled to avoid bankruptcy or is forced upon them by bankruptcy. I think that bankruptcy filings by the lender offers a higher risk of the haircut becoming permanent, relative to temporary declarations of easement throughout the lending chain.
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But do we now if that part ever ended up in any CPU sold by Intel instead of e.g. engineering samples ?
Direct evidence for T-cell immunity as a factor behind Covid-19 heterogeneity
And give the dev the ability to switch out to a different database if needed. Thankfully, in Django it's just a config switch.

But for 99% of the business logic tests I write, sqlite is fine. Sure you might have an issue with Oracle, but for day to day stuff, sqlite is good enough.
Wickard was still ultimately about a restriction on personal consumption. "But he participated in commerce otherwise" is a distraction - who of us doesn't, when you get down to it? When it comes to weed grown for private consumption, it could be argued to affect one's participation in the labor market; i.e. one's ability to sell one's labor - or, perhaps, the quality and/or quantity of that labor.

Besides, why even focus on selling in the first place? The Commerce Clause doesn't make a distinction between selling and buying, so if participating in the market as a seller is enough to put any activity that affects your supply within scope, then why wouldn't participating in the market as a buyer do so just the same for any activity that affects your demand?

You're claiming that it didn't readily follow - but, well, if it wasn't until Raichs that anybody even tried seriously challenging that notion in court, then it sounds like it did readily follow in practice.
"What I don't quite understand is how do people make money from these things without getting caught?"

I'm not sure it's illegal. And it's pretty clear Google doesn't care enough to review extensions.
With CI that tests both, and a dev team that runs a mixture of both.

Also Django abstracts the differences away well enough that we've never noticed meaningful differences that aren't already well documented.
I am struggling to understand your analogy here?
To add data to this, Japan was similar to South Korea in 1996 (both around 2%) but by 2017 South Korea's share of deaths from suicide is 5.08% vs. Japan's 2.1% and USA's 1.71%. From my understanding, culturally Japan and South Korea are similar, please someone correct me if I am wrong.
Two observations:

1) Shipping-and-iterating is uncomfortably hard. Putting your product out there in front of users is painful. It's a lot easier to just constantly brainstorm ideas or hide in the coding cave.

2) As a founder, it's tempting to think that your startup is unique: what you're building is uniquely challenging, important and highly non-trivial.

Anecdotally, I've seen far too many founders (including my own past self) use 2 as an excuse not to do 1: most of the time, those never even launch. And not just in the hardware space, but also in: health-tech, bio, fin-tech, gov-tech, legal-tech, insur-tech, prop-tech, food-tech, logistics, and even B2B SaaS ("what we're building is hard and needs enterprise-grade robustness / security").

There may be ways to build massively successful companies that don't involve rapid shipping-and-iterating cycles, and in general there may be ways to build successful companies while ignoring or even doing the exact opposite of what YC advises.

But YC would know a few things about hard-tech from having funded possibly hundreds of such companies, including several massively successful companies. In fact, the top 3 YC companies of all-time as of 2020 are all in highly-regulated spaces: Stripe, Airbnb and Cruise [1]. Cruise in particular is a hardware company (self-driving cars) whose billion-dollar success was largely due to their ability to ship-and-iterate much, much faster than pretty much every other self-driving car company out there.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies
Yes, you’ll notice that I’m not saying his ideas have no place but that they’re not universally applicable. For example, the security “hole” is trivially avoidable by using a different settings file to do migrations on a separate server/container which doesn’t get normal web traffic.

If you want SQL, you can also generate it from your migrations and send it over to someone else to run. This is not uncommon in enterprise IT.
We're going to have to disagree.

The InsanelyMac site is riddled with bad advice from questionable sources. Eg. using the beast tools, binary patching kexts for dumb reasons, rando plist changes.

I did not have a "bad experience" per se, with the site. It's just full of unschooled people all too eager to offer bad advice.
it turns out AIs aren't very good at horses, particularly when mixed with humans in the same shots
you mean Atmosphere?
If someone is posting about Perl a bunch, I don't write a lot of Perl and my timeline is full of Perl content I would unfollow rather than block.
That's because you are not using the power of postgresql.. (if you can test and run locally with sqlite).. are you using transactions, no? Because Django doesn't enforce them O_O
In all fairness, it's vastly easier to put up a fence over a bridge or regulate firearm purchases than fix systemic social and economic issues wholesale.
That’s why the above poster suggests all owners forfeit equity. The company survives but it is nationalized, at least temporarily.

In practice, I think we will see companies being sold off the friends of the sitting president, and powerful senators.

Today, at least they must at least pretend to be equal in their bailouts, which gives non affiliated companies a chance to receive money.
This was interesting. The county I live in (Middlesex, Massachusetts) was apparently divided into two nearly 300 years ago. There is almost no county identity here now - most people identify with their towns and cities and may only be vaguely aware of other towns and cities on the other side of the county. The only county services I am aware of relate to the county court system.

But that's only our county. In rural parts of NY state, the counties provide important services for residents, as the towns and villages aren't always able to provide them. I sometimes see TV news from other parts of the country showing county sheriffs working side by side with local police, like in LA County. The sheriffs where I live don't have a public law enforcement role beyond transporting prisoners and dealing with court matters.
The Mona Lisa but her eyes follow you around the room
Right but if you just download without seeding, no crime is being committed, yes?

So seems like the barest you can do is "disable seeding", not "use a VPN".
Pretty sure there's plenty of people in rural second tier cities who don't get enough to eat, before any consideration of the cow's instagram following.
Also not the study, but the results would be in line with another study I know about from the book "The Righteous Mind":

"... we tested how well liberals and conservatives could understand each other. We asked more than two thousand American visitors to fill out the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out normally, answering as themselves. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out as they think a 'typical liberal' would respond. One-third of the time they were asked to fill it out as a 'typical conservative' would respond. This design allowed us to examine the stereotypes that each side held about the other. More important, it allowed us to assess how accurate they were by comparing people's expectations about 'typical' partisans to the actual responses from partisans on the left and the right. Who was best able to pretend to be the other?"

"The results were clear and consistent. Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predications, whether they were pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate, especially those who described themselves as 'very liberal.' The biggest errors in the whole study came when liberals answered the Care and Fairness questions while pretending to be conservatives. When faced with questions such as 'One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal' or 'Justice is the most important requirement for a society,' liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree."

Link to the study itself: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
For more than you ever wanted to know on the mathematics of a perfect shuffle, see this paper:

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/83_05_shuff...

I saw one of the authors, Persi Diaconis, give a talk on this paper, and then perform a perfect shuffle. I was floored.
I would love to get rid of my HOA to be honest. We have a property management company that interfaces with them. I put in a change request back in early June. I am still waiting for approval.

My neighbor mentioned something about bylaws and the requirement for HOAs is only 20 years. That is up in December. However, I have to confirm that.
For this code it might be export-controlled as well. Many things in Intel are export controlled.
I think what they were descrbing was more like this: A JPEG uses a Discrete Cosine Transform and then throws away the lower power (higher frequency) values, but does it in a fixed way(blocking). If you re-order the data such that you get all the blocks dc frequency first (rather than all the frequencies for block 0 first) you can stop at any time and you'll have the resolution you "paid" for - ie, your bandwidth is all used for resolution. It's not a bad idea, although I suspect the reason this isn't done is because you don't really need to decided between a 72kb and 73kb image, and in reality there's more to different resolution images than just saving fewere bits (read: interpolation techniques)
No one speaking here about aot scenarios :S How sad!
For an interesting read that touches on this question, see Saturday by Ian McKewan[0]

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/Saturday-Ian-McEwan/dp/1400076196/r...
There's a weird gap in that lineup in that practically every person on that list is pretty old (born in the 30s-40s) and their achievements usually date from around the 70s.

Is this just because achievements are usually recognized in retrospect, or is this because the 50s to 70s were the most influential portion of computer science (since all groundbreaking things were discovered in the beginning), or is this because women were pushed out more and more by the 70s?
The Early-Stage Funding Divide Between All Men and All Women Founding Teams
A while back I stitched together a "hyperlapse" of Stanford's Hoover Tower using lots of Flickr-scraped images. Everything was aligned using "classical" CV tricks and I was really happy with the results. I wonder how NeRF-w would fare on this data?

https://github.com/kach/hootow-hyperlapse
Twitter is unusable if you want to avoid Politics. I unfriended almost everyone but all it takes is a single Like from anyone and it's Politics galore.
You make it sound I don't know SQL. That's kind of insulting, you know?
The consumer view is always available, meaningfully personalized food produced on demand from fresh ingredients as an autonomous urban utility, 10-20× faster than delivery services. Technically, we're building the robotics, R&D and manufacturing capacities to define and dominate that market with a network of just-in-time contactless kiosk-format microfactories. As a consequence of the challenging form factor we've set for ourselves, the regulatory requirements of food handling and so on, let's just say the complexity and BOM length is arguably greater than most vehicles.
I think there are a few things like that in emacs lisp but not well distributed. Maybe people want to discover them for themselves.
That's the efficient market hypothesis.
Or buy a laptop from a manufacturer with the ME inoperable.
I don’t think it’s derision, just the attitude that people in power ought to defend themselves.

Banks have no shortage of money, lawyers, and friends in high places. They do not need you or I also apologizing their actions. If anything we should be extremely suspicious of ant bailout and scrutinize it to ensure it’s well deserved, and will result in a better society overall.
The US has never been a free-market and, honestly, the vitriol that folks use when talking about socialism has just hurt efforts to apply sane regulations that would help stabilize the market.

The US still uses SSNs for everything because everyone is too afraid of government identification to pursue a more sane approach, the result is a government issued identification that is poorly designed for what it's used for and extremely insecure. The same thing happens with our economy, instead of taking sane measure to fight against the penultimate death of capitalism (the slide into oligopolies) the vitriol against any form of government intervention has placed us in a situation where heavy handed government intervention is regularly required - we're avoiding a soft form of socialism and ending up with having to intervene like a planned economy about once every decade.

I really hope this can be solved by some smart people without trying to enlist wide-spread political support since I don't think that support is ever going to materialize.
Once I understood what he was up to, I didn't mind his notation. I found it kind of fun to compare the values.
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A thread on infinitesimally small spaces/non-reduced schemes in the real world
This guy, again? How can I bet against any company founded by the guy responsible for the "creation, distribution and use of software designed to evade broker licensing education requirements."[0]

[0]https://dfs.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/03/ea170407_y...
> Not every person under a universal healthcare system gets the treatment they want when they want it. Are you disputing that?

It's an irrelevant distraction. What's important is not to deprive people of care to such an extent that 71k people dies every year in a country fully capable of providing universal healthcare. You're using dogma to justify that. What you're calling "get the treatment they want" is just to allow rich people to get priority.
I think a generous VC could make it last for a while.
That threshold is defined by Gonzales v. Raichs at the moment, and it's low enough that it's possible for the feds to ban growing cannabis purely for personal consumption.

For state and local laws, it would be a matter of the corresponding state constitution - but it's less of an issue on that level, because state constitutions are generally not written in such a way as to restrict the power of the government to a few explicitly enumerated things.
No the worst is it there is some dirt and people find it like:

- copyright infringement

- patent infringement

- actual backdoors (the word backdoor does appear but there are many ways how it can already without they being a backdoor got spying including bad naming sense of engineers and code used during prototyping only
It is faster (same process, memory tables) but that’s my point: you can say you always need to test on your target database, which is true, but not needing to install things is a benefit, and that can matter when you’re doing integration tests with lots of data. I have seen plenty of projects where fast local SQLite + CI Postgres with lots of test data is reasonable.
While psychedelic mushrooms literally grow on cow poops in many parts of the world
The nVidia Web Drivers never officially supported eGPUs anyway. In order to do it at all you had to use a hack which—surprise!—also required disabling System Integrity Protection!

https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/05/nvidia-egpu-thunderbolt-macos...
I truly believe the Django migrations system eliminates the need for several full-time DBA positions at larger companies that use it. Things that would take a dedicated team of DBAs days to do are automated so reliably that you don't even realize the amount of engineering effort it would take to do manually.
So, you wouldn't really be liable for this right?
> This is my biggest complaint about Django's ORM -- lazy fetching of foreign keys is great in a management shell but rarely desirable in production, and it results in inexperienced developers doing database queries in loops all the time.

I may be misunderstanding you, but isn't this what select_related and prefetch_related exist for?
White House Moves to De-List Chinese Companies from American Stock Exchanges
This is more of an advertisement for all the cool stuff you can work on if you go work for Intel than anything.
Why do razor blades get dull so quickly?
I thought that was assumed? Of course no billionaire has the money sitting in a bank account or in a swimming pool of gold coins. Fortune doesn't imply cash money.
Aka socializing the losses, privatizing the gains.
The vast majority of people who use tabular data a lot in biology are already just using python or R primarily, and most do this work on a cluster. This article is what happens when you send your .csv to a PI who hasn't bothered to brush up on any computer literacy after somehow mastering punch card programming, or the undergrad whose breadth of understanding beyond the web browser starts with MS office and ends with g suite.
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They are the full chapters.
Who should we follow on twitter / blogs to read analysis of whether this is impactful or interesting?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune surpasses $100B
Mmm, sorry, if this is how you see it, what I'm trying to express it's that the dB by itself, it's the source of truth (and the state) of your application, Django it's just an implementation detail that you can swap whenever you need.
So basically this is saying that previous exposure to various versions of the common cold can lead to some covid resistance?
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It's a bit worse than that. The same practices that caused the 2008 crash came back in the guise of "non-prime mortgages". They are functionally identical to sub-prime mortgages.

The new laws did nothing to prevent this. They weren't meant to. We had a law designed to stop it that was enacted following the Great Depression. It was called the Glass-Steagall Act, passed in 1933. It was repealed in 1999 during President Clinton's administration... because Citigroup was too big to fail, and they promised to be good... honest.

2008 was an opportunity too great to pass up. Congress used the opportunity to enact a Federal bureaucracy that controlled banking and is not directly answerable to the Executive branch. This was the Dodd-Frank Act. Congress could have restored the rules in Glass-Steagall, which would have broken up Citigroup as a side effect. But they didn't.

Seems like recipe for disaster.