skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the data science / ML code I've seen reminds me of academic researcher code. Hack and experiment until it kinda works, never write tests because what's the point, it works on my machine and that's good enough.

For a ML-heavy project I ended up being the "productionize this stuff" guy. My favorite was a bunch of python code that depended on a library that under the hood would spin up a new JVM instance to do some NLP work every time it was called (or whatever incorrect way they were using it caused this to happen). And they wanted to do this in the context of a synchronous HTTP request/response cycle.

My overall impression was that these were incredibly smart people, but they had no interest in understanding the context in which their code was going to run, or in understanding business requirements around reliability or maintainability. They just wanted to hack on cool projects that they found interesting.

Given that, it doesn't really surprise me that a lot of ML/data science people don't "get" accepted software development processes. There were some who made the leap and learned to understand why some of these practices are useful and tend to give you a better product, but they seem to unfortunately be in the minority. This is a pretty young field/subfield, and I think it's to be expected that practices are pretty raw and underdeveloped.
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LoL, just bought a dart board and darts on Amzn Prime Day...maybe that was the plan all along?
Evaluation of the MRNA-1273 Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates
Worth paying attention to https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm. It has a lot of features that TinyPilot doesn't have. Also TinyPilot uses uStreamer which was created by Pi-KVM for video transmission.
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>70% more devices per pallet (if I remember the figures correctly) is no joke!

I think that was the figure they used and it was more of a spin. ( Unless Flight has changed in recent years ) They were already flying at max load before the packaging got smaller. I did a calculation on HN some months ago and expect may be 30% increase in shipment unit due to weight saving from box, charger and earpiece.

Pretty Decent, but not 70% as they did like you to think.
So much this. My work allows me to work whenever I want (even move hours or entire days off to the weekend if it suits me better). Worked wonders for my mood and actual health. No more sleep stress and being tired at work (or while working from home). Every employer should take note that its absolutely useless to force strict working hours when some of your workers will be at the mental capacity of a jacket potato.

Same goes for school and early hours.
I know for school as well as for work there is a lot of productivity to gain when most people work at the same time (easy meetings, no need to repeat stuff, for schools that's basically the only way etc). But at least have an option of two to three core working hours?

Also, good thing my SO is catching on and understanding that I'm just not an early bird (unless I wake up at 1am and stay awake). She fully understands.
Hate when another company comes along and offers me better compensation for my work.
https://www.sbir.gov/about

Plenty of small companies are suckling on the government teat. From what I saw, the bar is pretty low, and some really terrible solutions are bought by the government. Someone with the patience to understand the process of applying for contracts could establish a very profitable business I think.
Only because the FCC recently loosened caller ID spoofing restrictions. It used to be possible.
I am a hiring manager who has stood up many teams in my professional career and have performed that role across multiple companies in different industries and vastly varying market caps and I have never seen a pay gap purely based on gender.

I have been exposed to hysterical propaganda about the mythical pay gap but never seen in real life and speaking about it with my peer managers neither have they.

This emperor has no clothes.
> The Church. The lambda calculus. The gay agenda.

I just about lost it with that one. Started laughing so hard I woke up my wife...

> ... balancing a binary tree was an interview question which I personally bombed in 2010 ...

Thank you, Kyle. That first snippet gave me joy. That second snippet, though... that gave me _hope_.
NTT Docomo has its quirks from the customer POV (in particular they are pricy), but as a company I see them as stellar and incredibly flexible in their operating context.

I mean, they brought customer installable java apps way earlier to the game, and it was miles ahead of the crap J2ME that stack of western phones. They brought imode when other countries where toying with wap. Then NFC based electronic payment years before anyone else, GPS apps etc.

I worked with one of their phone QA team for a while, and they were unsurprisingly pragmatic, very clever on the trade-offs and cared a lot more about what you had to say than if you came with a white shirt.

As much as NTT can be a very old and dusty company, NTT Docomo was at least for a very long time a very dynamic and forward thinking company.
>The average user isn't going to really notice faster downloads or lower latency relative to good LTE.

I can assure you user will notice the lower latency even if 4G and 5G had the same download speed.
If the president of the USA is allowed to keep posts up that are internally labelled as having broken their terms of service (generally regarding misinformation), and the posts are kept up in the name of public interest, I don't see how blocking the #8 newspaper in the USA benefits the public interest in any way. An obvious argument could be made that it detriments the public interest.
Yes. Support for prop 22 is a business decision that doesn't require the hearts and souls of every worker in Uber. I'd be surprised if Uber engineers, PMs, designers, etc - basically everyone other than public-facing leadership and the few involved in crafting Uber's public policy - were required to actively express support for prop 22 in the workplace or anywhere else. The average Uber worker should be perfectly able to go about their workday without diving into a political debate about prop 22.
Its actually a surprise to see one these days, they're that good.
I wish they still helped more, but they do still help.
I've heard that one of the side effects of going to med school is constantly becoming aware of symptoms of whatever rare condition one may be studying at the time.
You would think the printer manufacturers would have an interest in keeping this well maintained. Sadly I can't see it happening.
Got it. Thanks for sharing the thought process. And of course, thanks for writing the excellent article!
If Amazon cuts off the tap, some other major retailer would gladly step in to supply the data in very minimal time. Referral traffic is valuable.
There are 23 Open PRs.

So clearly some developers are willing to contribute and improve it.
> in reality, unless I'm wildly ignorant of my job, it's tiny relative to the quantity of imaginary things people make up about it.

It is a safe bet you would not have written this the way you did if you knew this was a larger problem that you did not reveal or you were an amazing thespian.

Apologies on the insultation, which is obviously unfounded at this point.
Zzzz. Yeah that's a problem, but come back with a proposal about how to deal with the existing misinformation and bad faith problem.
I get this error. Is this expected?

consent.cmp.oath.com's server IP address could not be found.
Printing on windows and macos has been pretty stagnant for years. Windows printing is still a pretty awful experience; the print queue gets jammed and windows is really slow to unclog. The worst part is finding and updating drivers. MacOS printing does a lot better with drivers and clogged queues but it too could still use some work.

It's too bad there doesn't seem to be much industry support for a common, open driver system. PS was a good try but seems Adobe licenses killed that one. Similar with PCL and HP. There was a glimmer of hope with XPS years ago but that quickly fizzled.
This looks pretty cool.

Thanks for doing this for the past twelve years! Although I've only been using it for the past twelve minutes. :)

Your 'about' page says:
"The primary feature of our site is the sending of email alerts when prices change. The user simply sets a price threshold at which alerts are generated, and we email you when that condition is met."

Just to confirm, the "price threshold" mentioned will trigger a set alert when the price is at or below the threshold. Is that correct or will it only alert when the exact price is found?

Thanks again for your very useful site!
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Recent Atlantic ocean warming unprecedented in nearly 3k years
You can fact-check anything, yeah. But there's definitely a range of ease. Tens of paragraphs of zero citations is not on the "easy" side.

As to the paxos page: yeah, that looks like the thing they fairly continuously delete, despite its usefulness. There are other ways and other places to have that kind of information. Wikipedia does not seem to desire to be that location, though it'll happily be a terser summary and link to it.
Amnesia and Soma creator Thomas Grip explains how he makes games terrifying
Yes it does, but it's very transparent - until you run into a few things that make it obvious, eg if you disk-image size limits, or memory limits.

I work with a few people who believed it was native, and used it for quite a while, until things started going wrong and we logged in to the vm to fix them.
Pointing to search engine results being varied for a specific query is not a citation.
What development needs to be done, other than bugfixes and security once they're found? Drivers should be able to (and do) exist outside the CUPS codebase; what ever happened to code being finished?
Fact check the information to see if it is false and then add an disclaimed that it was fact checked and proven to be false.
> That a Mac repair shop owner violated all ethical standards to spy on a customer laptop.

Repair shops look through equipment all the time-- they're one of the largest sources of reports for child pornography.

> instead of the FBI.

I think you've just proved you didn't even read the NY POST article? It claims he gave the laptop to the FBI and includes a supposed "federal subpoena showing the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI". The continues, "before turning over the gear, the shop owner says, he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello"

I have no idea if this stuff is bullshit or not-- presumably the FBI will come out and debunk it completely shortly.

But I don't think the discourse is furthered by opinionated comments from people who don't even give an appearance of having read the article.
Using that site will get your accounts and sites banned here.
Note also that, pedantically speaking, “Florence First” (Prima Firenze) is much closer to "London First" or "Los Angeles First" than it is to Brexit or "America First", which themselves are closer to Deutschland Über Alles.
Deeply Integrating Rust WASM and Vue
Printers or open-source, choose one.
Even AirPrint seems to fail with pretty distressing regularity for me.
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If curious see also

a small thread from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353746

and another from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=907190
I’ve had this thought for a while that the Desktop UI needs to be reinvented to fit the user in two main ways:

- People Centric. Associate files, notes, alerts, calendar entries, emails, documents with your contacts or contact group. Chat using an open protocol. This is in stark contrast with the data silo approach we have going on now.

- Project Based. Want to create a new app? Create a new project. All files associated with a project can live in a container and be shared in other containers. Filter for types of files that you are looking for. This basically reinvents the Finder/Explorer UI to avoid creating complicated hierarchies for the user.

I’d argue that this approach to a more people centric UI would be scalable to mobile as well.
Idiopathic rhinitis: you’re having a histamine reaction but you have no antibodies for any allergens.

Basically, you’re allergic to dust. I don’t think they’ve worked out how to treat for that.
I switched to https://keepa.com/. The alerts seem more consistent, and there's no affiliate links.
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I'm working on an application that's written in javascript, java, and python. It uses maven to build. I have it under git version control with git submodules. I don't have to context switch in Eclipse. I can do all of that without leaving the IDE at all. I can start a project, download all the dependencies, hover over methods to see javadocs, and I even have a terminal tab if I need anything like npm on the command line. All without leaving Eclipse.

The fact that you can do the same thing in your tool of choice, IntelliJ, further refutes the author's point 2. You and I arguing about which we prefer is beside the point being made by the author.

Elegance is subjective. The fact that there is a "huge community of existing developers" means Java is objectively more approachable to more people. Yet another way to look at it as elegant.

I don't smoke. You've reinforced my points in favor of Java.
> We haven't found that, and apparently aren't even close.

We do have ideas! Specifically, within the RNA world hypothesis, the transition period is called the virus world [0]

> given all the incredibly, insanely, unbelievably rare DNA sequences that exist in the world today,

We have a good understanding of where diversity comes from, I'm not sure what point you're making here.

> why is such a fundamental process not abundant as fuck already. Where'd it go? Why is this even a mystery?

I don't think anyone thinks this process need be 'fundemental', though it definitely is pivotal. It only really needed to happen once, and then DNA was off reproducing and spreading by itself. That said, it looks like viruses converting RNA to DNA could still be happening today.

In general, we don't expect novel self-reproducing molecules to arise today, because they are out-competed by existing self-replicating molecules. In a world where nothing is replicating the first replicator is king. In today's world a brand new replicator is food for something else.

> Maybe it's possible that your romantic view of how this all happens (pseudo-Darwinian circa 2020) isn't telling the whole story?

I don't think I, or anyone else really, is claiming to tell the whole story - just that we have good reason to believe this came about through physical processes, and no evidence to believe... well I'm not sure what else there could be.

What are you proposing?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world#Evolution_of_DNA
Doesn't that presuppose we already _have_ life, and thus is irrelevant to the question, or am I misunderstanding?
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I don't agree with you at all (though I don't think you deserve down votes but that is how goes around here now - I up voted).

I have raised high talent children (1 boy and 2 girls). My girls thrived in school while my boy did not. They are all equally brilliant and talented in their own way.

My son was on elite traveling basketball teams, all star baseball teams, and earned a podium medal for track at state. He hated school and failed to get his diploma -- one credit short. (He made it up later at a community college.) He excelled as an US Army Ranger in a high-skill combat role with the Rangers (fire support specialist).

He was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age, but I didn't believe in such a thing back then. (I believe it now given my late diagnosis and ongoing treatment and struggles.)

I hated school too what a boring nightmare. I still feel guilty about taking my son to school when he was 6 years-old and begging me to let him hang out with me instead.

That memory will always be a record of one of my greatest regrets and failures.
This doesn’t look to be true. Opacity is straight `opacity: 0.5` and the likes (no custom properties involved) and its background and text opacity things use CSS Custom Properties (`--bg-opacity: 1` and `background: rgb(…, …, …, var(--bg-opacity))`), but not this technique which is all about using custom property values containing only whitespace.
A commenter on the post points out that the author seems to be writing a replacement for CUPS https://www.msweet.org/pappl/
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Looks like the main developer is working on something to replace it?

https://www.msweet.org/pappl/
During Machiavelli lifetime Florence was a nation by itself.
I often see comparisons of traditional software engineering vs machine learning like this where the former is a linear sequence of stages without cycles and the latter is some kind of tight iterative loop.

But my work in both building backend services and building machine learning models has always looked like how the author describes machine learning models.

In my experience the "process" generally isn't that different; but the cycle times are long enough for machine learning that it can feel different.
The answers to all these things cost money to develop. Lots of it. And developers are on the whole a bunch of cheapskates who led the rush to demanding everything be free of charge, all the while bemoaning the fact that their customers were starting to feel that way too.

So while we do occasionally get nice things, they're paid for by "investor story time" instead of the people who use them, so they will go away. Either the companies go broke, or they're swallowed up by a behemoth who may steward it well for a while, but will nonetheless eventually want their billion back.
Speaking bluntly: you don’t know what you’re talking about here (you’re talking in generalities without specific knowledge of how CSS is implemented), and Lea does (she’s very expert in this area).
There is a question of where does the first self-replicating molecule come from, and how do we get to DNA from that, and how do we get the diversity of proteins that we see today.

Creating random DNA sequences and showing they don't produce 'useful' proteins has nothing to do with any of those questions (and how do we even know they are not useful?)
At or below, yes. When it passes the threshold. It’s kind of the definition of “threshold”, if you think about it.
Most large American tech companies have something akin to a “junior engineer” position as the lowest level in the full-time ladder, that’s handed out to new college graduates, industry hires with only 1-2 years of experience, and otherwise very rarely. Having a masters degree might let you skip it, having a PhD will always let you skip it. People are generally expected to get promoted out of this introductory position at around the 2-3 year mark you mention.
I like westerns. The action sequences are generally low quality, the writing leans on gritty tropes and they’re often just not that good but I like them. I like Star Wars. It’s action scenes are generally poor and the writing is stereotyped and the movies, more often than not, are bad but I like them.

I like Star Wars the Western. It’s exactly what I want out of the loner ambiguous good guy narrative crossed with space monk/wizard galaxy.
Not really, given that the genetic strains are pretty well tracked and regionally locked.

It's more likely that the reinfections came from different immune responses, where the first infection was beat with a cytotoxic T-cell response (viral defense) but not an antibody response (viral and bacterial defense), the latter of which increases immunity with antibodies.
A presidential lackey says the emails came from an abandoned, unencrypted laptop.

How dull. Is it too much to ask that these “breaches” involve some more elaborate spy tradecraft?

At least tell me that they were wearing wigs when they screwed the HDD into a USB enclosure and just mounted it.

Edited to add this article, which isn’t something I’d swear an oath on, but which has a great SoundCloud link in it interviewing the laptop tech himself: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...

...where he literally talks anxiously about needing to “find people who are better [than me] at political spy craft.”
I still have an original iPad and it had a big FireWire connector on it. It was FW on both ends. They rapidly switched to USB (w/30 pin at other end) in order to open up the PC market to the* iPod.

* I refuse to follow Apples pretentious (proprietary?) refusal to use the article “the” with the iPod and the iPhone.
Unlikely, unless that entity has all the supported hardware at hand and ready for automated tests. Refactoring without a thorough test harness is ref*toring.
The whole point of freedom is that it's risky, but worth it. The first people who attack freedom always point to it's risk as a reason to remove it.
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A city state. Nations weren't much of a thing before the eighteenth century.

Conversely, city-states are (pace Monaco, Singapore, etc.) not much of a thing now. Within the existing nation of the US, potential city-states would be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area#Eco... (USD 1,8T would put it between italy and canada)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles (USD 1,3T would put it between australia and spain)

Looking at
https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/drilldown.cfm?reqid=70&stepnum=4...

next would be the SF bay area, with 1T putting it between indonesia and the netherlands...

S'pore itself (0,4T) would be between Miami and Detroit.
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It's not monolithic vs modular...it's controlling a large amount of angular momentum / kinetic energy instead of... not having to do that.
Thank you. Next sentence

> In deep waters, methane is likely to be oxidized as it travels its long route from the seafloor to the atmosphere.

Coastal waters emissions does not imply all biomass. Open system — what escapes to deep waters stays there. Quote above implies dam water is warmer.
And it is not even management who makes the final censoring decisions. Does being content moderator require degree in any related area, or is it just group of trained low wage hires to review user or AI flagged content and decide on ban/leave? Honestly I would like to try out such job shaddowing myself.
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More freedom of speech is the answer to misinformation because then it can be challenged. Censorship allows convenient mistruths to spread unchallenged.
Yes, a quick Google search for Agile Vs Waterfall yields a comparison that looks exactly the same, so indeed Agile processes do work with Machine Learning (at least at a high level). Nothing really novel here, except "waterfall doesn't work for ML".

https://www.digite.com/blog/waterfall-to-agile-with-kanban/
Great. I had read about it but wasn’t sure if it was a better option than Scratch for younger kids. Mine are 6 and 7 and I they use something similar to Scratch. Does anybody know if younger kids use Snap! ?