skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing sorta similar stuff with GPT-3 since I got access, and I can vouch that it's effective. Not up-to-the-hype effective, but that's more a function of the hype. It's been really great at creative stuff that just needs to spark imagination. Like a super powered natural language version of encounter tables in D&D's dungeon master's guide. AI isn't there as an author yet, but as a brainstorming tool, it's full of great ideas if you sample and refine and sample and refine enough.
Wow is that old fashioned local software without a subscription. I didn't know that was available, sounds perfect. I'm a guy that only wants to upgrade every 5 years and the subscriptions are offensively expensive.
Your argument is as naive as saying politicians act in the best interest of their voters or that companies act in the best interests of their consumers.

Entities act in the best interests of themselves.
California proved that $100B won't even build you a high speed rail between SF and LA. The cost of convincing people to change their mind, is still cost.
Trying to translate some of designs I have, it looks promising!
Quite a few conda packages have patches added by the conda team to help fix problems in packages relying on native code or binaries. Particularly on Windows. If something is available on the primary conda repos it will almost assuredly work with few of any problems cross-platform, whereas pip is hit or miss.

If you’re always on Linux you may never appreciate it but some pip packages are a nightmare to get working properly on Windows.

If you look through the source of the conda repos, you’ll see all kinds of small patches to fix weird and breaking edge cases, particularly in libs with significant C back ends.
I've yet to hear of an Uber/Lyft rep putting a gun to one of their driver's heads and forcing them to work for them. There are other sources of income out there. However, I wouldn't have a problem with the government stepping in and requiring them to set rates to guarantee a certain amount of pay per hour. Seems ridiculously low right now. It seems like we need another "type" of employee outside of the 20th century definitions of contractor and "employee". Also it seems like healthcare should be in there for those who put in significant amounts of hours.
> I was amazed at the series Breaking Bad, that a teacher would take a summer job to make ends meet. At a carwash no less.

Breaking Bad isn’t supposed to be a documentary. Teachers don’t have summer jobs at car washes. Tutoring is both easier and pays better, as does summer school. Working at a car wash is an example of shitty choices, as is his entire relationship with his wife. It’s like his decision to go into drugs in the first place. He’s a public sector employee. He does not need to make drugs to get excellent health care. He does it because he wants to. Working at the car wash is not something he needs to do, it’s a way of expressing his martyr complex.
I'm sure I'll do a poor job articulating it. It's similar to bokeh that photographers are familiar with. You look at a light source and the light seems to bounce through the pupil and back out again. If there's a drop of liquid on your eyelashes you'll see a bokeh ring with interference ripples around the edge.

I just remember as a child I thought it was strange, then in high school physics I saw how laser light was always grainy, and even things like the solidity of matter can be thought of as optical illusion (caused by the wavelengths of visible light casting a well-defined shadow).

Then later I got into photography and realized what you can do with even a little knowledge about light and optics. I still have a sense of wonder about it even though I'm an average shooter at best.

Hope that all made sense.
I think the idea of a tipping is demeaning personally. You wouldn’t tip a doctor who worked extra hard for you, would you?
> That way Epic Payments could swoop in as an alternate gaming-focused app store for mobile devices

Oh yeah I'm so excited at the thought of a second app store filled with "games" that have no guarantee they'll actually respect data collection, privacy, etc.

As a consumer I like that Apple keeps a firm hand on the standard of apps in the store, I have no guarantee that Epic will bother doing that at all.
This article would've been better with some concrete examples, or a study, or really anything to back it out. "Slack can be used for bad things". Well, so can email, mailing lists, support forums, internal chat systems (jabber), etc.

Not even one example, just "A lot of my CEO and founder friends talk about this".

As with any tool, it's how you use it. Best implementations I have seen of Slack is when the rules are clear for the beginning. Maybe channels are meant to be public and private is an exception, or the opposite (everything private to avoid noise). And clear guidelines. And to be fair, the discussion is usually a reflection of the company culture that is already present: formal, informal, direct. The tool just facilitates it.
They mentioned caching full HTML responses so I'm guessing that's what they're doing.
Slow and steady is not useful if it's too little too late. I deal with so many broken websites, products, working with customer support that it is amazing how slow organizations are at reacting to customer needs. Sometime it takes 6 months before simple bug fix finally shows up in product. We are living in fast changing world and one need to weight getting things out now vs being perfect. The thing that matters is not eventually releasing perfect software but rather can you iterate fast enough to get there eventually?
That's fair. I come from a scientific computing background, where old code is sometimes treasured, even though there is increasing pressure to "modernize".

But the older code often has several decades worth of testing across many use cases, which is hard to beat.
A lot of these issues seem to come down to:

1. Just fire the shitty people. I don't know why companies don't do this more in the US - it's at-will, just fire them.

2. Why are you trying to stop your employees from organizing????

> “The onus is on the CEO,” Flory said. “Our focus has been on the values,”

Agreed on this last statement. Ultimately if Slack is becoming a toxic environment there are obviously other issues - employees being able to quickly communicate and organize is not one of them.
Wonderful to see an archeologist here!
This is not exactly true. It may sort of hold (see below) if you're a Swiss citizen but nearly everyone else who make up 25% of residents is liable to be deported, not be eligible for naturalization down the line, and/or face other consequences if they cannot provide for themselves.

Also, the social services for anyone from what I've heard (as I live here but haven't used them myself) are sufficient but not always comfortable. It's noticeably far from a welfare state model like Sweden is made out to be.
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I don't know if it's what you're looking for but there was a recent comment on another thread that mentioned ProjectWren [1] which is a PBC backed by YCombinator. While researching that came across Terrapass [2] for carbon-offset credits. While checking out the ProjectWren site discovered that apparently there are audit/verification companies that certify some of these projects [3,4] so they might act as a charity-watch type organization for climate change projects. Might have to cross reference, and there seems to always be at least some degree of trust that the money is being used as intended. I have no affiliation with any of these besides surfing the internet but I'm thinking about using ProjectWren specifically because of their affiliation with YCombinator, who again I have no personal relationship with as a company but I trust that at least the organization exists and does what they are saying and not fraudulent.

[1] https://projectwren.com/
[2] https://www.terrapass.com/
[3] https://verra.org/
[4] https://www.goldstandard.org/
Screen is an awful name. Recently I tried installing it. I knew the name and I tried googling to no avail for the webpage (screen share, screen code share, screen, etc.). So I went with a competitor.
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You're pushing the goal posts there. We're talking about California, not Qatar, no one is taking anyone's passports here. Please move the goalpost back to where it needs to be to have a discussion, per the article of this post.
How Coronavirus Is Changing the Dating Game for the Better
Its not just drm in the way. Even if I had a copy of the app I wouldn't be able to use it because no device I have could run it. Its the fact that apple doesn't give 2 shits about backwards compatibility. Which is not entirely a bad thing but it means games will all eventually be unplayable.
If you build what other developers eat, doesn't that mean working _lower_ in the food chain?
OK, seriously now...first Canon, now Adobe?

Am I missing something here, what's going on?!
It's not a walled garden if you have multiple options. If there are competing app stores you only need to publish on one of them. Based on what I've read a lot of users think Apple is the only one capable of running a high quality app store and since they'd be the default anyway you can continue to publish there and nothing changes.

How does also having the potential to distribute on another app store make it worse?
If decreasing the friction to communicate is causing problems in your company, then maybe you don’t have a tooling problem or a communication problem, but a culture problem.
There is no country on earth that is immune from willy nilly central bank printing right now. So everyone is in the same boat.

Now... If someone figures out how to stop the central bank printing and keep things going, that will be a problem for USD.
How many apps are iOS only and not usable anywhere else?

Is there something similar to this for iOS apps?

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/5/21355997/microsoft-your-ph...
Yeah, attacking all their neighbors, conspiring against rest of them, sending assassins across the globe... What's wrong with that, eh?
Taxis are a 19th/20th century invention, we can do way better. Uber/Lyft are far superior, we just need to make sure the drivers aren't taken advantage of; probably by making them raise rates a bit and giving that money to drivers as a base pay.
Challenges of Real-World Reinforcement Learning
That's an average of what, less than 1 per election? Even focused on a single election, it would not be sufficient to swing Bush vs Gore in Florida.
As someone who moderates a several hundred person mailing list, the arguments they listed are neither new nor unique to Slack.

If anything, Slack is much easier to moderate than e-mail or other mediums of communication.
I guess they never synced to the cloud at all, so they lost all their photos.
Also largely the reason we have such complete archives of old console games is because of piracy. Back when they were new games no one cared about copying them and building emulators for archives, they wanted to distribute them and as a result ended up with an archive. Most iOS games are so cheap that piracy is not a concern and there are so many games that your favourite one probably doesn't have a huge fanbase behind it.
This post matches up with every other "We're ditching Slack" post I've seen. It comes down to:

1. Our employees can't behave themselves
2. Our managers can't or won't do anything about it
3. Executives aren't willing to draw a line in the sand
4. I guess Slack is terrible?
But when I lose that heat through radiation it would presumably bounce around the room and not much reflects back onto my body.

So I’m not seeing how much this really helps. My radiated heat shouldn’t be returning to me anyway.
I didn't say, but yes, the technique did end up work for me with some very tangible positive outcomes :) And I still practice.
thats why the chicken outside US raised on small farms tastes 100x times better
Where did I mention the banning of a form of work?
Air conditioners are often more than 100% efficient- they move more heat energy than they consume.

(Of course if you start with a fossil fuel, turn it into electricity, and then pipe that into an AC unit, the overall efficiency will be dropped by the efficiency of the power plant, but it's still somewhat made up for by the advantages of heat pumps)
I also feel old fashioned imperative programming is much easier to debug than modern event-driven frameworks.

Technically unit tests should prove a system is modular and testable but I just keep seeing huge dumpster fires.

I'm not sure if I'm just old or it really is a problem.
same, but I thought it must be about underbidding Electric Boat on a contract, and at a glance I thought the story was about Canada. Depends on your perception of the most likely threat models :)
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Wonder if you can somehow combine foils with sea legs to walk that thing on the beach :)
Yup. We have an in-house MDM solution at work that is mostly composed of stored procedures, SSIS and small C# desktop apps. It could do with some improvements, but overall it works like a charm.

But we're rewriting it to use Snowflake and Kafka. With no real use case for the rewrite.
I'm not sure how you can pin this one on legislators. Legislators make laws, private companies (and individuals) follow them. If I don't want to follow the law, that's my own choice and I bear responsibility for the consequences. As for the HR org, I'm sure Uber/Lyft could have spent some of the $100 million they've spend so far supporting Prop 22 on such a thing. If they really cared about drivers, that would have been the thing to do.
A lot of my CEO and founder friends talk about this"... rephrased: "My CEO and founder friends are upset that their employees use a piece of software to talk about the toxic culture my CEO and founder friends have cultivated"
And the bank does get the interest, for the duration for which the money is not in their hands. A "pre-payment penalty" sounds to me like the bank asking you for money while they themselves can then also turn around and loan that (now repaid, with penalty!) money out to another person desiring a loan, and get even more profit.

> The interest they get from the debtors is more then the interest they pay depositors.

The interest paid to most accounts these days is a pittance, adding less back than is lost to inflation, and many accounts have additional fees.
Nice hack kid! Very clevel and VERY simple, though maybe not very practical.
I just gave a briefing today where I work, that had two conclusion slides: On the first, "None of this matters", and on the second "I've no idea".

One the one hand, that's pretty nihilistic. On the other hand, it's cool that I was able to explore it and come to the conclusion that everything is fine and some aspects of the past are unknowable.
This is 100% anecdote, but IME agile doesn't work well enough to warrant "waterfall shaming" like this.

So far, in 25 years of software development, the best track record I've personally seen for on time and on budget was a big defense contractor that had a bunch of senior engineers and a relatively old fashioned waterfall process with some "extreme programming" and agile practices thrown in. It was documentation heavy and a hassle to think things through up front, but it reduced surprises later on, and the rigid documentation and process made it easy for different people to take over work at different stages of the workflow (requirements -> design -> coding -> testing) for each feature.

It wasn't perfect, but it was predictable, and I never saw them toss features out at the last minute or deliver a half-assed release with a bunch of minor changes.

And I'm sure the response to this will be a dozen people telling me all the companies I've worked for have done agile wrong, and then everybody will have a unique idea on how they should've done it instead...

Agile might work great for CRUD websites, but it doesn't seem to work very well for other types of projects, and choosing something else seems reasonable.

I guess my point is, even if these projects aren't "real" agile, I don't know if it's a real problem. The goal isn't to be agile, it's to get software developed.
Ff-net: Feedforward neural network learning in real time
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if time doesn’t exist you can’t violate the laws of thermodynamics, right? Would the existence of energy (which has mass) at T=0 not be a violation of a law that can’t exist until the clock starts?
Are the rates similar?
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Which recently had an interesting discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208947
Love the idea but wish there was a better writeup. Transcripts of radio interviews seem stilted and miss the tone context that can indicate whether something was a joke or a casual aside.

I think the journal itself could be quite valuable and hope it succeeds. Perhaps this model can be generalized to other fields too.
We live in farm country, so we talk and hypothesize about the future of food frequently. I'm inclined to think that we're going to see a lot more vegetarians in the US middle / upper middle class. I also have to wonder if we'll see a time where it is only the poor and the very rich who eat meat - the poor eating factory "meat" and the very rich eating traditionally raised / heritage / "organic" meat. We've cut way back on our meat consumption, because we wanted to actually know the origin of our food. At least in our circle of connections, it feels very much like there are a whole lot of vegetarians / infrequent meat eaters.
But heat pump heating and cooling has coefficient of performance / energy efficiency ratios around 3-4 (or even higher than 5 for certain applications!), so you more than make back your efficiency loss there.
It's amazing how complex solutions get before someone remembers the $5 wrench approach
The first time you have to impose a lockdown it's an emergency. Maybe the second time too. But once it becomes something you're doing regularly, it's something you should have a process in place for, and there should be legislative oversight of that process.

The executive has emergency powers to respond to novel developments - and that would include unexpected outbreaks or anything that demanded a radical change in our thinking. But at this point the existence of a pandemic is not an emergency. We know it's there, there's enough time to consult experts and debate appropriate responses.

We managed to have legislative oversight when conducting wars. The president is allowed to unilaterally authorise military action for 90 days, but past that point Congress has to approve it. Surely we can manage the same thing for a disease.

If not now, then when? Seriously, this could go on for years; at what point is this just the "new normal"? Before the pandemic people were talking (with good reason) about a "climate emergency"; should that give the executive grounds to make arbitrary decrees for an unbounded time?

I don't doubt that these governors have the right intentions and are doing what they think is best. But our processes and safeguards are there for good reason, and it's not just about protecting us from moustache-twirling villains. When the stakes are high it becomes even more important to have debate, oversight, and review.
It is amazing how tight we can make buildings today. I had to learn a lot about HVAC on a remodeling job a few years ago. I had no idea that the drywall can be sealed so tight that when the HVAC system is running it can be next to impossible to open a door without a pressure release duct. Also saw how the HVAC system had vents to bring in air from outside with baffles controlled by the system. Can't remember exact purpose something about helping help control humidity as well as regulation to bring in "fresh" air to mix with the "stale" air in the building.

So some parts of construction techniques and building materials have improved significantly. However, when comparing the framing lumber used today to what was used in the 60s, I'm shocked that new construction doesn't fall over the first time the wolf huffs and puffs.
Coincidentally I've been feeling like my emails are becoming way too verbose recently. I'm not sure what it is, but I'm just taking longer to reply in a way that conveys my message properly, or I'm finding myself editing a draft to death before I ever send it. I used to be able to just reply and move it to the next bucket.
Should we sue Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft as well ?
You have to start somewhere, and you start with your local representatives, which have been overwhelmingly democrats. For all data science in HN, this is a pattern we surely don't want to see.
IEEE754 has both infinity and NaN. They are different. NaN is always the result of an invalid operation, such as trying to take the square root of a negative number. Infinity is for when the result would be valid, but is too large in magnitude to represent. There is both positive and negative infinity.
This sort of extreme cruel exploitation of living beings with brains & feelings will be thought of in the future similarly to how we think about chattel slavery.. At least the next step in the industrialisation of meat should be a huge improvement - just growing brain-less muscles..
No. It's not wonderful.

edit, I'll be more helpful with criticism. I feel like Teams is well integrated into their cloud stuff on the good side. The cons are it very much feels like it is aimed at checking some CIO and HR requirements around control and auditability. Spontaneity and usefulness suffer.
Under current laws you are correct but I think he is trying to highlight the point that maybe the laws shouldn't have this dichotomy and we should recognize there are instances where not being a full employee yet not filling the exact current definition of a contractor should exist
There is really no strong argument made in this article. It seems like most, if not all, of the problems they talk about are _employee_ problems not slack problems. Slack is simply a medium to chat with your company and team, one which is pretty easy to use desipite its flaws. Employees being toxic is just that, it's not because of slack.

As others have mentioned, this is a professional communication tool there is no need for fully private conversations. Chats should always be accesible by HR/admins.
I think OP is referring to things like working on cloud infrastructure, systems software like web servers and reverse proxies, programming languages, or foundational libraries and frameworks libraries—all of which are consumed by application developers
It's not only software.

1) What is the goal? What defines success?

2) What are the KPI's? How are we going to measure it?

These are baseline questions to any endeavor of substance. Yet, they are rarely defined.
It’s the same for my friend and I.

https://imgur.com/gallery/iDkW4qj
40 knots is already nasty on cruise ship. In this size boat you'd be praying to get home alive, let alone undamaged.
Sounds like a positive impact of AB5?
While Big Tech Prospers, an Eviction Crisis Looms Next Door
I was thinking the article would be about the deteriorating quality of Slack and the lack of improvement in their facilitation of perusing channels.

The article was instead that CEOs don’t want to get talked about behind their back and so are going to shut it down. While Slack might increase the ease of that, it’s not like employees couldn’t do it via email or at the water cooler instead. This speaks to leadership problems more than anything else.
That rubbish that I write.
> It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad inadvertently wiped users’ photos and presets that were not already synced to the cloud.

“Not already synced to the cloud”. Whatever you think about Lightroom, this headline makes it sound much worse. Photos on the device that haven’t previously synced are lost, not all your photos in your library.