skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reply - I agree & disagree with you.

On one hand you are absolutely correct stating that swiss restaurants are in general more expensive than anywhere (subjective - e.g. a 30$ small menu might be ok here, but we do have as well a higher income and going to the restaurant is not something that people do often), but on the other hand I did like airline food (which you basically describe as being "the worst" while for me was on par with one offered by restaurants), therefore we have a mismatch of our experiences.

(talking about restaurants, I must mention that Stockholm was for me a lot more expensive than Zurich)

Personally, I would have all kind of doubts about a $5 meal (in most parts of the world, if it's not something extremely simple).

> There are meal-delivery services here that are basically what you describe, but they usually deliver food weekly and they're kind of pricey. They're mainly targeting time-strapped single people who are trying to eat healthier and don't want to do all the mental work that goes into grocery shopping, meal prepping, cooking, etc.

I'm not currently aware of something like that in my area , but my profile is very similar (and I did try to cook different stuff, but the failure rate is quite high and the overall quality quite low). Still, I think that the concept that I described was a bit different than that?
I believe this will have all acccepted S-1 filings https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=&CIK=&type=...
Way closer to a junior dev than a C-level position ;-).

Edit: one-year sabbaticals aside, which aren't that common outside large companies, longer vacations are normal simply because extra paid vacation days are a standard benefit you get with a promotion.
We use Trello for a public roadmap and Asana for internal. Trello is much simpler so that may turn off some project/product managers.
Helm has a much narrower use case. Artifactory can host a wide range of artifacts. For example Artifactory can host and proxy maven, NPM and similar programming language library repositories.
I think this viewpoint can also be taken too far. "Don't be naive: if we are not aggressive then we will be wiped out" can be used to justify a lot of things.
American Well Corporation S-1
You can get nuget to work by having it put the packages under the Asset folder but you'll need to manually clean up targets you don't want. Unity has its own (a few actually =/) package system.
Investors will decide. Supply and demand.
Though, obviously, offerings in other (foreign) markets won't necessarily file S-1s because S-1 is a concept of the United States' Security and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Assuming "Date of this prospectus" is today (Aug 24), then 91 days from now is Monday November 23, 2020.
I hope this impresses the military enough that they carve out several billion more for AI research. The US spends so much on the military.

For some reason, we can’t justify more on civilian research but the military easily can, if it embraces it as part of its future.
Have you checked out Reddit?
France's peak energy consumption is more than 40% higher than it's trough energy demand [1]. Most years France generates ~10% of its energy from fossil fuels. Nuclear was indeed used to supply a substantial part of the peak energy demand. The substantial majority of its peak demand was fulfilled with nuclear energy. France's share of fossil fuels actually used to be lower than 10%. France's more recent uptick in fossil fuels accompanied by a drop in the share of nuclear power generation [2]. Renewable energy production increased, but its intermittency leads to an increase in fossil fuel consumption. A real world example of how the shortcomings of renewables as compared to nuclear power results in more carbon emissions.

As per your own comments, solar and wind even with substantial overproduction leave a quarter of electricity demand unfulfilled. The places that are fortunate to have hydroelectric or geothermal power available could go carbon free, but the rest are left supplying a quarter of energy with fossil fuels. The overproduction puts their price well above the cost of nuclear when you don't cherry pick one of the most infamous cost overruns as a representative example. And let's just be generous and ignore the ecological devastation caused by covering 2-4% of the Earth's land surface in solar panels.

So we have a more expensive option that leaves a quarter of electricity demand to be fulfilled by other sources (mostly fossil fuels), requires massive amounts of land to be cleared and covered in solar panels, and is subject the challenges of intermittent power generation. And we have nuclear, which is cheaper, much less land intensive, and generates consistent energy. The superior choice is unambiguous. And real world examples demonstrate this. Look at the disparity between France and Germany. The former is the posterchild of nuclear, the latter the posterchild of renewables. France's carbon intensity of electricity is usually more than a factor of 4 times smaller than Germany's. We've already put nuclear and renewables to the test. And nuclear proves to be far superior.

1. https://www.services-rte.com/en/view-data-published-by-rte/d...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#/...
So it’s a form of dialectics, very interesting indeed.
A peek at AMD upcoming V2000 SoCs
In your experience, what does Snowflake to better than Redshift?
"Hydration" is a term often used on the backend too. I believe I have noticed it for the first time in Doctrine documentation, Object Relational Mapper (ORM), which is similar to Hibernate in Java - it was about transforming data retrieved from SQL database (memory) into usable PHP structure (object) [0]. In my opinion, this term has been perfectly described on the StackOverflow [1].

[0]: https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-phpcr-odm...

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6991192
I was wondering how Docker-in-Docker works, but I couldn't find it dockermented anywhere. If it's using the host's Docker daemon, why do you need to mount the docker socket?
It’s not common to need that many pulls nor is it hard to build your own images.

If you’re deploying to a cluster with 200 machines, you could easily hit this if you use the public registry though. However, if you’re managing that size cluster you can probably afford the fee, but more importantly, you should probably pull once to a local registry and use that to deploy to your cluster anyway.
Hong Kong reports 'first case' of virus reinfection
60 Years Ago, the Modernist City of Brasília Was Built from Scratch
Do you have up-to-date experience on both? I ask because, this year is my first time using Jira in 10 years. I was in big corp 10 years ago and we were on Jira and it was a disaster to have to use. UI was a mess and it constantly went down or went slow (big corp; self-hosted.). My current startup started using Jira Cloud recently and I found it to be much better than my past experience, and better than Asana.

I last used Asana at my last company, which I left 2 years ago. It was slow and a resource hog even on our pretty beefy work MacBook Pros. Compared to my current Jira Cloud experience in 2020, I much prefer Jira now.
Suppose you remove the wealthy people funding research that interests them. Now you’re left with the alternative of doing no research?
> and can trivially host your own registry

That is far from trivial.
That’s an implementation detail — an optimization on Intel’s side of things. It’s the same effect either way, and I can’t just ask Intel to customize their processors for me.

AWS operates at a large enough scale that they do exactly that, and AWS already purchases directly from Intel, both of which are my main points. Baybal2 doesn’t seem to be aware of either of these facts based on their comment.
> As an example, we let the guilty go because of lack of evidence, where authoritarian regimes don't.

I mean, that's one theory. Here's Eric Posner:

http://volokh.com/2009/11/18/why-has-holder-decided-to-try-k...

> the Obama administration has decided to offer a two-tiered system of justice. We might call them the “high-quality” (civilian) tier and “low-quality” (military) tier. The high-quality approach offers greater accuracy; the low-quality approach offers less accuracy. The Obama administration will use the high-quality system against people when it has a strong case, and the low-quality system against people when it has a weak case.

> This approach makes sense. Endless detention without trial is no longer a politically viable option. The government will make a judgment as to whether a suspect is dangerous or not. If the case is good, the high-quality system will be used. If the case is bad, the low-quality system will be used. In this way, the government can ensure that people it thinks are dangerous will be locked up.

> This system is superior to the two possible one-tier systems. A pure low-quality system (military commissions only) suffers from credibility problems. People will not believe that all the people who are convicted are guilty. A pure high-quality system (civilian courts only) would result in too many acquittals. People who the government believes are dangerous will be back on the streets. The two-tiered system allows for credible convictions when credible convictions are possible, and (non-credible) convictions when credible convictions are not possible.

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Personally, I don't see how a system of "we'll try you according to the maximum standard of evidence by which we can 100% guarantee that we find you guilty" can be considered "credible", "reasonable", or really anything other than a "gross miscarriage of justice", but let's not just ignore what other people think.
I think the big part that everyoen missed, is that other than artifact storage (artifacts are usually what your code becomes, like the usable end product, and also stores info to reproduce and audit, etc etc) is that JFrog is also putting lots of efforts into full fledged software distribution pipelines, which is what these big enterprises need.
There is also the whole DevSecOps sections of their product, and though OSS is not as big, they are giving out plenty back to the community by hosting ChartCenter (Helm), GoCenter (Go-lang), JCenter (Java), and Conan (C/C++)
According to the filing Asana has 1.2m paying users. Each user is worth maybe $1000. That puts Asana at 1.2bn.

The median forward revenue multiple for public enterprise SaaS companies is 10x, and with 2020 revenues of 150mn that results in a 3bn market cap.

A third data point is they raised 75M 16 months ago at a $900m post money valuation. With growth at 100% annually that puts their current valuation at 2.5bn or so.

Three different 30 second valuation strategies that result in the same ballpark numbers.
> Monte-Carlo can and should be deterministic and repeatable.

That's a nitpick, but if the computation is executed in parallel threads (e.g. on multicore, or on a multicomputer), and individual terms are, for example, summed in a random order, caused by the non-determinism introduced by the parallel computation, then the result is not strictly deterministic. This is a property of floating-point computation, more specifically, the finite accuracy of real floating-point implementations.

So, it is not deterministic, but that should not cause large qualitative differences.
Collisions are guaranteed, yes, but, you also have to keep in mind that the only collisions that matter are the interesting ones. That is, collisions between two different messages written in different languages, and where both messages make some sort of sense. Although I don't have a mathematical proof of it, I'd have to wager that those types of collisions are exceedingly rare.

Edit: At least "exceedingly rare within the space of plain-text messages smaller than N characters," for some reasonable value of N.
> Why bring up New Jersey specifically and act like it's representative? Either use the number for the whole country or the number for Michigan

No, I'll use New Jersey because it's the state that I'm most familiar with. New York City, which is across a river from NJ and is the largest city in the US and has the largest police department, has similar rates for their police force.

You will find that police officers are some of highest paid government employees in towns, counties and states, and are the highest paid government employees in some cases.

In places where the median salary for police officers are lower, median salaries for software engineers are much lower, too.

My point is that police officers often make more than a lot of software engineers on this site do, and they're rewarded with benefits that are better than most engineers', along with a full pension after working for only 20 years. Yet we expect higher quality of work from junior engineers working on dating apps than we do the cops whose lazy investigative work costs people their freedom.
Yes, nothing could possibly go wrong with having a military minded AI.
If I understand your argument correctly, my response is the same, that the "of law" or "by law" has no bearing and never has.

People/organizations/governments will do what they have the leverage and power to get away with. If you, or your organization, or your government, don't/doesn't agree with the direction, then leverage and power are your means to change the situation. Those that have the power to make/change the laws, make/change laws.
talent, patents, less competition
How Open Source Can Drive Product Obsession
Absolutely phenomenal product and company. I have a huge enterprise SaaS crush on these folks. Very solid, thoughtful team as well in my experience.

Their massive marketing spend is interesting, I suspect that they perceive themselves to be the first (or at least, strongest) mover in a once-in-a generation land grab.
Natural Language Generation Software
This is obviously true. Nobody deserves to take pride in anything, whatever you consider "merit"; Mark Twain wrote an essay called "What is Man" arguing this. Everybody is a product of their environment.

On the other hand, remember what Roman Hruska said about needing some representation of mediocre people on the Supreme Court?

"We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos."

...and people still make fun of it.
Kraig Biocraft: Recombinant Spider Silk Techology
Tech that lets you to generate written reports from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking
They pay for the results they want.
It is because the numbers involved (and a little bit the blatant corrupt attitude by the former CEO). Uber by design was created to break laws and hustle (and had a lot of issues with sexual issues for example as well).

Seems like the current CEO is good, but the company gets the good and the bad from it's history. The good part is that they got a ton of money, like inconceivable amounts of money.
Today specifically? Not sure.

In today's climate? Yes. To give you an idea:

The overall market is being carried by 5 companies...all "tech" companies:

https://www.putnam.com/advisor/content/perspectives/7816

And most of the high growth SaaS companies are up YoY...by a lot:

https://imgur.com/a/xjI3JBD

Wall st is foaming at the mouth to buy up more of these companies.
Though I can believe there being a preference toward reducing competition, their argument is weakened by including homeopaths as maligned groups. Homeopaths are not competitors with physicians, as that would imply that homeopaths provide medical treatment. At best, homeopaths provide a placebo. At worst, they actively poison customers (e.g. belladonna teething tablets) and prevent them from seeking out actual medical care.
>> I think the sole question to be answered by such a measure is probability of the admitee graduating.

>A society where the only criteria for access to higher education is that one graduates - and then perhaps goes on to do nothing with their education, or even just maintains the status quo - is a failure in my book.

These two differing opinions showcase the problem with any meritocracy. That being - merit is ultimately subject to an opinion. This is not to say that a metric can be objectively used to determine merit (it can), it's that who's ultimately 'merrited' to determine what merits X?
> Lots of people are really good at marketing themselves, which inflates the number of people you think are extraordinary.

Yes, and then those people get all of the promotions, so now even just being good at pretending to be extraordinary is sufficient, which is even more frustrating.
NuGet is "one" of the packages that Artifactory can host (in addition to NPM, RPM, Python, etc etc etc)
You can also have unlimited private repos, and unlimited cache repositories for proxying public repos
Not a fan of the board/card focused view, mainly. I think it's visually cluttered and hard to read at a glance. Asana's list view (esp. with inline subtasks) feels a lot more like a to-do list, and I prefer that UI.
> The OP's point is that when measurement error is as large as it is for college admissions, using a simple lottery to narrow the cohort is as good as any other method wrt getting the best students

Not really. Lets say every student scores within 10 percentage point of their true "merit". So if you only pick the top 1% scorers you actually could get students down in the top 11%. So why not just pick top 11% by random? Because when you pick a top 11% scorer you extend your range so you now could get as low as top 21%. Ranking them still matters quite a lot even if error range is larger than their pick range.
We at Census (https://getcensus.com) are super excited by this S1 filing. Before Snowflake (and Bigquery and Redshift), data was seen as something only the fortune 500 could afford by buying Hadoop clusters and throwing an army of scientists and engineers at it.

But Snowflake has really led the way to democratize Data Warehouse the past few years and educating the market. You can start on a $50/month plan, and in our experience, the pricing scale nicely with the value you are getting out of the data. Snowflake (and Bigquery) also made it a lot less scary to get started by having an easy way to ETL data from 3rd parties (google ads, Salesforce, prod DB, etc.) to your warehouse.

Thank you, Snowflake, for paving the path for startups like Census, Fivetran, DBT, Mode to help (data) engineers and analysts do more with their data
Jfrog is available on AWS marketplace, so at least they have the same convenience even if papa Jeff still takes a cut.
IMO this is not in the same category as people complaining about a website requiring Javascript or using the wrong font. It's an unreadable title for screenreaders. And unlike Javascript or CSS styling or trackers, needing a screenreader is not a personal choice, or a limitation that people can turn on and off.

I think it's fair to point out when a good article makes itself inaccessible due to a trivially correctable problem.

I'm not even saying that the author can't make the joke they're trying to make, but even a small title change like "αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (actually portable executable)" would basically solve the entire problem without sacrificing any of the meaning behind what the author wants to convey with their misuse of Unicode.

It is a good article, which is why the pointless pushback over accessibility is so frustrating. There would be no engineering effort or large compromise required to make the title of the submission readable. It wouldn't suddenly make the article bad, or not worth reading. It feels like it's being exclusionary just for the sake of being exclusionary.
it's as inevitable as nuclear proliferation following WW2. you can slow it down, try and create a few key players and build around that, but it's always coming.
I do but try to rectify the exploitation. Always double suggested tips etc.
This is a serious dilemma because:

- If you don't, then the enemy will

- If you do, then you're inviting the enemy to do the same

So, without trust and mutual agreement on an international level, this is a self-propelling premise that cannot be stopped.

Game theory 101.
It just looks like WhatsApp – why not use that instead?

For those who miss the "Saved Messages" thing from Telegram: You make a group and kick out everybody. Then you are in a group – alone. Now stick it to the top of WA and voilá! There you have your simple notes :)

Great thing, since you can access it with your PC via web.whatsapp.com.
As a grad student in physics, I not only wrote code, but also designed my own (computer controlled) electronics, mechanics, optics, vacuum systems, etc. I was my own machinist and millwright. Today I work in a small R&D team within a larger business, and still do a lot of those things myself when needed.

There are many problems with using a dedicated programmer, or any other technical specialist in a small R&D team. The first is keeping them occupied. There was programming to be done, but not full time. And it had to be done in an extremely agile fashion, with requirements changing constantly, often at the location where the problem is occurring, not where their workstation happens to be set up. Many developers hate this kind of work.

Second is just managing software development. Entire books have been written about the topic, and it's not a solved problem how to keep software development from eating you alive and taking ownership of your organization. Nobody knows how to estimate the time and effort. You never know if you're going to be able to recover your source code and make sense of it, if your programmer up and quits.

With apologies to Clemenceau, programming is too important to be left to the programmers. ;-)
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but Im going to assume you are.

Your first example demonstrates that python does not have compile time type checking

Your second example demonstrates that python variables can dynamically change types.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. This is actually a really interesting question to ask.
$5/month isn't $5/month. It's convincing your boss you need $5/month, because they need to convince their boss, which eventually makes its way up the chain to C-levels, who don't know Docker from yesterday's rotting tuna casserole and view eating either that or the $5/month with the same level of disdain.

It isn't about the money, it's about the Mommy-May-I up and down the chain with emails and meetings and careful explanations to skeptical glares. It's a psychological and institutional barrier.
Apple didn't force in-app purchases on Wordpress
> Race conditions aren't undefined behavior in C/C++. Data races are.

You are right with the distinction, I had data race conditions in mind.

Race conditions can well happen in a correct C/C++ multi-threaded program in the sense that the order of specific computation steps is sometimes random. And for operations such as floating-point addition, where order of operations does matter, the exact result can be random as a consequence. But the end result should not depend dramatically on it (which is what the poster at lockdownskeptics.org claims).
Wrong dichotomy.
I did listen to it. Really nice podcast.

I liked you mentioned the innovation tokens and the guest focused on the simplicity of the whole architecture.

SQLite choice was surprising but I still like the mentality of "If it ain't broke...". It sounded like the move to Postgres and the React frontend might be a never ending project and another rewrite.

I'm kind of tempted to try and start a golang project now.

Thanks for sharing :)
> The New York Times concluded that in this case it led researchers “to give credence to some of Mr. Epstein's half-baked scientific musings.” True or not, it should trouble us that a corrupt man was making decisions affecting research at a major U.S. university.

True or not? Really? I would have liked if this article shared statistics instead of being so ambigious