skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was pretty terse about my definition of instinct in my original post, because I thought the post had gone on long enough. But the idea I that am trying to get at is grounded in the concept that emotion and gut feel drive more decisions than we would like to admit, with logic applied to back-justify the decision. Then part two is that by the time someone has risen to the level of decision authority that SW/EE/ME are all answering up through their portfolio, they probably have baked in a lot of intuition about the branch they came up through. That intuition informs their decisions -- but may not be reliable outside of their comfort zone.

Someone who came up through software intuitively knows that while "it is only a 3 line change in each of 4 files", making the change in master is only the beginning. Also on deck are: back-porting and validating in the 4 release branches still running on the 4 hardware versions in the field, and pushing the update reliably, oh, and it changes the log format so our log monitor query needs to be updated and validated.

EE -- yes, it is just changing out one connector -- but we need the latching version and only two latching variants are available, and one requires moving a mounting hole which would require chassis rework, the other is expensive and has a 12 week lead time... and in any case we need to update the test fixtures. And we need to keep some of the old test fixtures around for the old rev, and while we could save some money by reworking some of our old test fixtures, who has time to write and validate the engineering change order for the test fixture rework?

ME -- yes it is only moving two mounting holes, but both the chassis and the skins need to move, so we either have to rework the fleet to accept new skins, or do two sets of expensive tooling for the skins, or do some kludge adapter that allows new skins on old chassis, but we need to vibration test that.

Intuition and instinct are about understanding the implications and the unarticulated risks buried with decisions.
Looking forward to AMD laptops with Coreboot support as well.
We had seamless synchronized open-standard multimedia (W3C SMIL) in 2000 but not 2020. There are now attempts to bring back a subset via epub standards. Meanwhile, most Internet traffic is now video and there's no standard mechanism to provide contextual timed commentary and other annotations.
> The Mac UI limited you to those three classful subnet masks.

And it assumed a specific network architecture -- e.g, if you have a class A network, the middle two octets of your address represent a "subnet" and the last octet represents a "node". This may have been appropriate in pre-CIDR networks where all local nets were /24, but it's no longer true today; it's not uncommon to have networks which split on non-octet boundaries.
> The VST integration is called Overbridge [0] and is available for all of the modern non-Model Elektron hardware.

Unfortunately overbridge does not support the octatrack mkI/II in addition to the Model series.
I think one of the underrated parts of using something like Kubernetes early (or even w/ simpler orchestrators like swarm or rancher), is that it encourages (and sometimes enforces) architecture best practices from the start. IE, you won't be storing state locally, you'll be able to handle servers being randomly killed, you'll already have horizontal scaling, etc. In my experience the hard part of migrating to containers in a legacy app is when they break those constraints, especially around local state and special servers. It's easier to do these things sooner rather than later, and the constraints kubernetes places on you aren't that hard to work around if you design it in from the start.

I good reason not to use kubernetes though is if you know your app is probably never going to scale, or if it's the kind of thing that can scale very well on a single machine, or if it's not primarily based on http communication. (I wouldn't write a real time game server in kubernetes, for instance, because I doubt it'd really help with a primarily UDP workload that is likely going to be attached to one server)
People in the US from other countries have often assimilated at least some US culture. Or will be expected to assimilate important cultural issues more rapidly in an office in the US with mostly US cultured people than in an office elsewhere with few US cultured people.

Many of the communication problems are rapidly addressed with constant realtime communication that happens in a shared office but doesn't with teams working separate hours.
lol wtf, how is SF in anyway extreme left wing or Bolshevik?
Apple’s 30% App Store Cut Became a Boon and a Headache
Playing Minecraft on Windows 98 [video]
Why does Google wants to be your bank?
I suspect that if incentives were more aligned, the program could have succeeded. People in general don't want to pay more, but you can guide people to certain behaviors if they benefit from the behaviors. In South Korea, people have to pay for bags for general trash, and for food waste. Recycling requires no extra fees. This incentivizes people to reduce general trash by increasing recycling sorting, and to reduce food waste.
uBlock Origin (with roughly default settings) has never tripped Reddit's new account security stuff for me. I could see how it would make financial sense for social networks to ban account creation from Tor and disposable emails given the high spam-to-legitimacy ratio, although it's understandably frustrating for people who want anonymity.
Things change, friend
Because I've already rewritten more of the standard library than is healthy.

I mean, it's clearly the right thing to do here but I can predict the conversation that will inevitably result... "You wrote your own tolower() function? Why?" "The standard one is horribly broken." "How could a function that lower-cases a letter be broken??? Jesus Kenton your NIH syndrome is out of control." "Sigh..."

(Slightly more seriously, any particular time I need to lower-case something, it takes 10 seconds to write out the code, but would take 10 minutes to find a good place to define a reusable function and exactly what its API should be, and so it never seems worth the effort in the moment. Just like how most messy code comes to be.)
Couldn't we go further, and just say "cities increase seasonal influenza mortality"? I mean, anything that is social, is almost certain to involve increased transmission of human-to-human infectious diseases. Live theater, classrooms, church services, drag shows, you name it, if it involves bringing a lot of people together, it's probably going to increase the spread of infectious diseases that spread by human-to-human transmission.
Not a single mention if this is only applicable to english or to other natural languages. Afaict this mostly lists advancements in ELP (english language processing), Especially the Winograd schema (or ar least the given example) seems to be heavily focused on english.

Relevant article for this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24026511
>That’s the situation these “woke” people are trying to avoid to help your lazy, ungrateful butt.

That's basically the crux of this whole absurd "movement." People bending over backward to maintain a high level of outrage on behalf of some other person who hasn't even asked for your help. Trying to bully or silence other people into adhering to whatever the flavor of the month is. Then you move on to your next outrage fix.

And the end result is unequivocally negative. Donald Trump is absolute proof of the absurd stupidity and failure of this "movement."

But keep fighting the good fight. The far right needs you more than you could possibly imagine.
Absolutely agree as well.

I've solved a lot if IT problems with a whiteboard, from networking engineering to server engineering to software engineering
It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area
Those Felicias are the majority of the tax base, and fund all of the initiatives that rebuild communities. Falling housing prices -> falling property taxes -> less funding for schools. Even the new revenue tax passed last year to fund homeless programs is based employees being in SF, when they leave, no more funding.

Not to mention all the money the Felicias pump into the local economy by ubering to brunch to buy their avocado toast and bottemless mimosas from local businesses.
Yep! The data is for the most part append-only, with massive writes once a month (that's how often the genetic repositories update their data dumps) with a few updates scattered in when annotations change.

What exactly do you mean by split it to several databases? It seems like to me that would make backup and replication and such more difficult, since now I'd have to manage multiple databases. But I don't have experience there, so I'd love to hear if there are easy ways to do that
Disabling is not removing. People have found motherboards that should ostensibly not support vPro (e.g. Asus gaming motherboards) that do report vPro ME functionality.

There is no reason to believe the software switch is working, especially when even a system integrator can accidentally enable the features. If someone wants them on they turn on.

Purism sells snakeoil. Presenting their offerings as FOSS-compatible would be honest. Claiming additional security is not.
I'd hazard a guess to say that actual Bolsheviks would be appalled by American liberals, many of whom engage in conspicuous consumption and are vastly more interested in the appearance of affecting change than in the actual work required to make it happen.

There is a vast difference between American liberals and left-wing politics.
Probaly won`t happen since AMD have their own secret code which no one could neutralize yet.
Yes, since you have to define the type of each field. If you have a managed schema (=you don't define a schema but let SolR auto-create it), SolR will pick the type for you. Any document with a field not matching the type will be rejected.
I work in an enterprise where we are transitioning thousand-plus apps from data centers to the cloud. It can be reduced to this, and we can also do a lot of what we are doing now by moving certain technologies into the DC stack, but if you equate the cloud to VPS’ (bare instances) then the missing “rent software too” changes the validity of that reduction significantly.

That “rented computer plus rented software”, when it’s infrastructure, doesn’t look much like the DCs, with scripts, of old.

I’m an old school sysadmin. Cloud engineering doesn’t feel like sysadmin’ing anymore. It’s different enough to mark a significant change. I like 80s music and root prompts... and at work, one of those doesn’t play anymore.
For plumbing stuff together it's probably great. Anything lower level that requires performance or real time constraints will probably not do.
I work on such a bot @Intercom.

A lot of support requests aren't actually intricate and special: there's almost always loads of simple requests that come in again and again.

When you ask a request like that and get the answer instantly, that really is ML delivering value.

You mightn't think it, but a lot of people work in customer support, and spend a lot of time answering rote questions again and again.

People talk about how much hype there is, or the chance of another AI winter. Yes there's a ton of hype - but I think they aren't considering the real value already being delivered this time around.

Everyone is excited about GPT3, but there's already been amazing progress in practical NLP already, over the last few years.
Why would you want to replace Lua in this space? At least why replace with another dynamically typed, imperative scripting language, but without tail-call optimization? What would be the gain?
Plus the humidity east of the Rockies makes outdoor anything unappealing, at least if you’re used to low humidity.
This is essentially the same issue with things like artists conception of dinosaurs. Lots of people probably have strong mental images of what color a T-Rex is, despite scientific evidence being very scant. Maybe "artist's conception" is a good term to put next to these sort of ML-generated images?
There are a few reasons. Number one, stability issues from heap fragmentation.

http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/reference/constrained....

Even if you are careful about manual allocation, Python is not a compiled language, and the interpreter will frequently request heap allocations on its own. So if you expect a program to run for a long time without crashing, you'll probably need to use much less memory than the system has available.

It's also quite slow. That's not a huge issue since modern microcontrollers are fast and you can write your own .mpy modules in C, but it does affect power consumption.

It's also pretty high on the "drama" scale as far as OSS projects go. Last I checked, there was a brewing split between the original maintainer and one of the largest contributors, and Adafruit have already gotten frustrated enough to make a hard fork called CircuitPython.

Personally, I would use it a lot more if I could trust it to run stably. For reference, I've used it in a Cortex-M0 clock which can run more or less indefinitely, but needs 16-32KB of RAM just to read an I2C clock and set some 7-segments. And when I tried to set up a simple wireless MQTT sensor with a supported Cortex-M4 board, I couldn't get it to run longer than a few days before the application crashed from memory fragmentation.

So from my perspective, it is only usable for trivial tasks, and even if it were more stable, I'm not sure which fork would be the right choice for long-term development.

Still, it's an excellent educational tool and I always like to see more of those.
I think the biggest failure of the open web is simply the lack of a "Publish" function. You can consume on the open web just fine, but for publishing you need to own a server, not just a client. That in turn gave growth to Youtube, Facebook and Co., as they allowed people to publish content with just a web client.

Search and payment are important as well, but only really become relevant when the content is on the web.
>I don’t misrepresent the Author at all

Wow. Lets recap:

You claimed the author never mentioned Epics' stated goal of running their own store: Provably false.

You claimed the author wanted Apple to get no percentage: Provably false. He never said that, you're inferring it (!?) from his support of Epic. Yet Epic earns 12% in its own store.

Presumably Epic thinks 12% is a reasonable take for an App store?

You claimed the author wants Epic to have their own store: Provably false. The author thinks Epic is bluffing (Epic may or may not want a store, but what we're debating is what the _author_ said, not what Epic said/wants/believes).

You've misrepresented the author at least three times (I've noticed others but don't have the time or inclination to point them out).

>Your read of the piece is based on assuming Epic is being dishonest in their objective.

My reading of the piece is based on the words actually written by the author. You're inferring a whole bunch of things based on the authors' "support" of Epic. Stop focussing on what you think Epic wants and read the words the author wrote.

Take a hint from the replies you've received here and try to do better.
Same as OpenTTD. Both were disassembled and ported to C(++), which was viable since the games were written in assembly. So depending on which country you're in this may or may not be legal.
I concur, for whatever reason, SF seems to have a larger density of people who are homeless who are also (sadly) suffering from mental illness or drug addiction, which has led to SF being the only city where I regularly expect (and do) see violent interactions between the homeless and others.
There can be. Let f(n) be the count of members of the set in question which are at most n. If ε>0 and f(n)=O(n^(1-ε)) then the sum of reciprocals converges. For denser sets I'd have to think a bit longer about it.

It's probably also worth noting that weird density distributions are possible. E.g. one could imagine a kind of oscillation where you include enough values to get the total density up to that point up to some decreasing threshold (e.g. 1-2^-k if we've flip-flopped k times) then omit values to get below a different threshold (e.g. 2^-k if we've flip-flopped k times), and repeat the process indefinitely. The count up to a point n for this construction has the interesting property that it isn't greater in a big-O sense than the count for exponentially sparse sets while also not being less than the count for any sublinear density function in a big-omega sense (using the Knuth interpretation).
Current NLP is bad. Still useful (Google search increasingly feels like it is doing NLP to change what I asked for into what it thinks I meant) but bad. A hypothetical future “perfect” NLP can demonstrate any skill that a human could learn by reading, and computers can read so much more than any given human.
I agree, SF/Oakland/Berkeley do not resonate with me as a life-long democrat as well.

Extreme-left wingers in my view stand head to head with extreme-right wingers. These people are the cancer of the society IMO.
We don't want to go back to that, but the replacement of that system with a choice between homelessness or incarceration hasn't exactly been a success. There has to be a better way.
so you are a non-transsexual transgender? or did you transition to a suitable body?

because yes, gendered stuff is all around us, but in most "though" cases, it mostly seems to relate to sex, because that's something which is easily determinable for a large fraction of human beings.

So your problem was that other people didn't accept you for what you are: is this really different from society not accepting that you would like to have 5 wives, your parents wishing you to be a lawyer, whilst you want to be a shepherd or any other discrimination? Why do we have to divide people on a spectrum (which also suggests that personality is a measurable, which is disturbing...) to remedy this? And why is it necessary for people to advertise their pronouns, when most of the communication, where you need that is non-personal anyway?
These HN comments don't seem to grasp that there are two distinct groups of people here, and these trends can/will counteract eachother: the ones that are in the city for work, and the ones that are in the city because they love cities. COVID creates an exodus of one, but people in the latter category are also moving into cities as well as prices drop and they are no longer priced out.

HN folks love to complain about the lack of value of cities (SF in particular), but as someone in NYC, the pandemic has only affirmed that I want to be here and see value in it. Even in the limited state, so many things I have access to simply wouldn't be in other areas, and I know many people who moved away temporarily for economic reasons who are very much not doing as well mentally and are looking forward to being back in the city.

I don't see why we have to polarize or categorize this trend as it seems like a win/win if this continues: people who don't like cities move out, that lowers prices, and suddenly more people who do enjoy city living can afford them. This has the potential to solve diversity issues in cities, both in class/culture (potentially slowing or even reversing gentrification) and industry (less tech people in SF). This sounds like it could be a second wave of white flight, sans racism, and I'm here for it.

If you don't like cities, I am truly happy for you to move out, both for your own mental state and happiness and for freeing up space in the city for people who will be happier. How long this trend lasts as remote work lessens along with the eventual (macro) end of the pandemic, we will have to wait and see.
Ah, that's right. I would have expected a refresh of that by now but the company has gone in a different direction with lower priced devices so who knows.
I second this!

Not math-focused, but you might love The Morning Paper:

https://blog.acolyer.org/
Spring with Kotlin – REST API Error Handling
I don’t know about SF specific policies, but I’ve met some people that consider parental leave, non compete bans, sick leave, environmental laws, and basically anything else to help the general public to be “extreme left”.
I'd suggest using targets within the dockerfile combined with buildkit. Targets allow you to build multiple images from one dockerfile or have multiple distinct stages that depend on one another. Using buildkit means you can build target dependencies in parallel.

Personally, I found having multiple intermediate dockerfiles more confusing than helpful, so having an easy to follow, centralised build made life a lot easier for me, especially if you produce multiple images that are pretty similar at the base.
I guess you've never had protesters try to block you from getting to work because you're an evil capitalist actually trying to provide value for society?
What does the current distribution of population by age in the US look like? I would bet that younger people tend to flock to the cities more, and as they age they leave for the suburbs and the country. If that's the case, there may be demographic shifts which will combine with other factors to affect a prolonged shift away from the cities.
But who decides what's racism and antisemitism? I'm asking you because I've seen countless times how some democrats being antisemites publicly and they are being praised. When they are asked they say that has nothing to do with antisemitism.

To me this looks more like "I'm going to censor only what my rivals say". Do you think they'll remove content that says "white people <insert stereotype here>"?

This is stupid no matter how you look at it. You can't censor. You cannot fight stupidity with more stupidity. And please, don't say again that stereotypes can end up with millions dead. What happened in the nazi Germany goes beyond that. You can't just synthesize hundreds of years of religious and ethnic problems into "stereotypes".
I get where you are coming from, but the original comment gets old very fast. A government not fulfilling its promises is something very common across most developing countries in most situations. After the first couple of occurrences, it just promotes low effort comments instead of nuanced discussions. Check out places like r/India or other forums online, and see the difference in quality of discussion versus HN (on topics which are native to western countries) to get example of impact of the low-effort comments.
Does NAT and Dynamic DNS count as a server?
At least in Africa it is quite overwhelming, the whole economy is kind of driven by WhatsApp, at least on the countries I used to visit before we got into the current situation.
There are plenty of competitive programming sites where you can grind rating just like you would for MMR rating in video games.

For example CodeForces, AtCoder, TopCoder, and even LeetCode have rated contests
WebAssembly without the browser
Agreed - the original article is written well enough that I got very interested in the result, but not well enough that I came away with much of an understanding of what, really, was proved and what all the important implications are.
Try a hiking loop in the Oakland hills parking at Redwood Bowl. The redwood canopy preserves a pleasant climate. It’s a popular spot but not bad like you’re describing. Yes you need to wear a mask much of the time, but you can get a comfortable mask that’s easy to flip on and off, it’s not a big deal.