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Classic reddit. Sorting by controversial is the only way to read subs like r/politics.

Looks like old.reddit.com (and Apollo app) are unaffected, for now. Not sure if that sorting is done client side or server side?
Low-power and very fast inference for a relatively constrained set of model architectures. Think robots, drones, surveillance cameras, consumer devices.
I don't think it's possible to say that one project management project is universally better than anything else. What a team needs out of project management tools varies immensely.

In this thread there's people saying that inability to host on prem is an absolute blocker for them, for others they have zero problems with their data being SaaS-hosted. Some people need deep analytics to measure how their team is doing and they can meet deliverables, and some people could care less. Some people have 10+ workflow stages with tons of rules, some people are fine with Todo / in progress / done.

If you have a small team and dont really care about reporting, Trello is probably a great option for you.

If you want reporting, but are willing to work with a somewhat prescribed workflow / process, across a few teams at most, clubhouse or pivotal tracker are great.

If you need full control and flexibility, and are willing to give up some ease of use and speed, JIRA probably is your best bet.
> I’ve got a feeling that swift is becoming a very polluted mashup of features that come from parties with conflicting interests. AFAIK, internally at Apple, teams pull in different directions (e.g. to get SwiftUI), at the same time there’s this half-baked differentiable programming / swift4tf manifesto, then there’s the backend swift initiative with vapour.

Cathedral and the Bazar..

You are basically complaining about how messy the bazar model is, and yet the bazar gave us Linux and in the end it won the race against all the others working over the Cathedral model and with millions of dollars invested in them.

Its fine to work at the bazar model, and it seems messy at first, but as long theres a 'cathedralization' phase from time to time it will work as a living entity, with constant organic evolution.
I don't think anybody's denying it exists. What hasn't been shown is if long-term consequences are more prevalant with covid than with other viral lung infections.
This is more or less what Texas has decided to do. I’m in California, but my entire family is there, and many of my younger family members are going about their lives relatively normally.

At least one of my cousins caught it and their whole young family (parents 30’s, kids <10) were fine. My 90+ year old grandparents are obviously being kept very isolated. Their kids (my parents’ generation - 60’s) are being careful, but not cancelling their entire 2020.

Everybody hated on Texas because of the Lt. Governor’s over the top declaration of sacrificing grandparents for the economy, but there are definitely aspects of their approach that I prefer to what’s happened in California.
While I agree, we must always consider the impact of lockdown. This is what is missing to me in the current strategies. For example, how do the rare, and very significant, long-term health issues compare to the fairly prevalent mental health issues caused by lockdown, unemployment etc?

I'm in no position to make that call, maybe lockdown is still the right answer. But we absolutely must do this analysis seriously, publicise the results and debate it widely.
This happens all the time on Amazon. Just search for a product, like shirt, and then change the sorting from "relevance" to "high to low". For this particular search at this time there is a nice women's $2,000 Nike tee shirt.
Thunderbolt/USB-C definitely has some non-intuitive behavior. I accidentally fried a dock and one of the USB-C ports on my macbook plugging in the power supply while it was docked (the OS said it wasn't charging so I thought it just disconnected PD from the dock, apparently I was wrong.)
I can't get over how much of a dick move that sounds haha. Hey you like this product? You want this do you? Sike it doesn't exist give me your email address lol
I have exclusively used vim keys for years now, but even after that time I find some of this just doesn’t ring true. Anything in vi that involves counting some number is usually faster with normal keys or the mouse. For example moving down 20 lines is way faster with the mouse, you just click. With vi you have to count the lines in your head - better hope you don’t lose count half way because two lines blur together. With lines you can use line numbers and mental arithmetic, but not really for any other number+noun combo.

I recognise there are other better ways to move around but they too often have drawbacks, like moving somewhere with ‘/‘. You have to parse the line you want to move to for a unique string that’s close to where you’re going. Then you have to scan over all the text in between to make sure it doesn’t occur too much there.

Maybe I’m still just doing it wrong.
You deploy to the cloud. The customer downloads a web page and that functions as a client that communicates with the python server. Just like how most programming is nowadays.

But if you want a customer to download an app, which is much more rare nowadays than you can do what Eve online does or iron mail. They deliver actual client side python apps. I don't know what they use internally or how they did it, but pyinstaller is one option you can use to build a python executable.
It's not even clear that lockdowns prevent deaths. A recent peer-reviewed study found lockdowns aren't associated with a statistically significant decrease in the number of deaths; what matters is social distancing: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/social-distancing-more-imp...
Excellent! Good luck with it :)
JIRA is essentially a platform. It is unopinionated and infinitely configurable. This leaves it open to abuse and many orgs will absolutely abuse it. Other products that are popular do very little by comparison. That lets them build a really tight and simple UI but any org with more than vanilla requirements will hit a wall.
this doesn't really track with the rock bottom interest rates we have right now

> even shaving 10 years off that time frame will net you a lot back in your pocket to invest and make money on it

what about just investing it in the first place instead of paying down extra on the mortgage?

why pay extra on 3% (or less!) debt to free up cash flow to use for some ~6-10% investment when you can just take the extra from step 1 and skip right to step 2
Instead of asking, "How do I test Roblox?", I'd ask:

"Is my idea testable with the time/runway I have?"

Assuming the context of a solo dev that just wants to make money: info products, simple apis, or simple apps should be easier to test.

I think that doing lots of small projects and launching them is probably better than working on "the one thing" - until one of them becomes "the one thing". This gives you more opportunity to test ideas and test marketing (which is probably more important than your idea). The canonical example of this is probably Pieter Levels [1].

Let's call this the "Test with Teeny MVP" [2] method as a opposed to the "Test with Landing Page" method. Important note - I suspect that testing with a teeny MVP is easier than a landing page when you don't have an audience. Interesting tweet on that from Rob Walling [3]:

"Out of nearly 1600 applicants to @tinyseedfund we chose 23 exceptional companies to fund. Of those 23, one (maybe two if you stretch) built an audience before launching their SaaS.

Audience helps, but so much less in SaaS. I've been beating this drum since 2012."

[1]: https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/

[2]: I'm sure that someone will point out that "Teeny" is redundant here. :)

[3]: https://twitter.com/robwalling/status/1306591312498405376
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I'm based in Europe, although I run my own early stage company and we're not hiring, yet. I used to be a part of the job market until about a year ago, although my last two employers were both SV companies. So that's probably is where many of my biases come from.

I have a couple of freelancers working with me and I never really paid much attention to their CVs. I value the technical and (written) communication abilities over anything I see in the CV. Especially because everyone is working remotely.

I seem to have have the opposite bias. When I see that someone has spent > 5 years in a well established / post growth company. I see it as a sign of compacency, which has a slightly negative connotation in my books. I totally undestand it if you're getting fat raises and stock refreshers every year at a growth phase company. But if you've been working at a podunk company for 5+ years, that's definitely a negative signal for me.

Also, the old cliche quote: "If you want loyalty, get a dog" comes to mind. Loyalty and ambition are anti correlated. I think the extremes of both are bad, and it helps to strike a balance somewhere in the middle.
You're 100% right! There are a couple of pet peeves that McMaster Carr does that I wished they fixed. Cough, cough,public API access. But I assume most of these points are used to prevent scraping of their site.
Love this. Instant install.
It feels to me in some cases there is a bit of a point of principle here: "look, we're inflicting so much pain on everyone, just to make sure you're safe".

If an evil alien race came and threatened to kill everyone unless we isolate everyone over 45, I'm sure humanity could do it.

If we can't be smart about fighting the pandemic, that's a super sad statement about humanity's ingenuity.
I dont have any new apps on my machine. Is it because I modified the hosts file with https://www.someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Also: https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1316511734115385344
This same comment posted 3 or 4 months ago would have been downvoted into oblivion. Now it's the top comment on this article. It's good to see peoples' perspective is becoming more reasonable on this issue.
not sure the nets ever were at some point in time, even in the internet's early days, 'unsupervised'
The withholding is based on Google’s understanding of the law (it’s not like they could just decide to not do it). I can’t ask Google to change their interpretation of the law since I’m not a lawyer.
We could do age-based lockdowns. Stores near me have ~2 hour periods in the day where you can only shop if you're 65+, I don't see why they can't make that the only time 65+ people are allowed to enter.
Real-world use cases wouldn’t typically have a powerful computer broadcasting video. Rather, this board would be used at the edge to drive a camera and offer on-device, low-power inference.

Useful for robotics/drones, surveillance cameras, vehicles, consumer devices etc.
Start with your connections. A 20 year career suggests you have worked with lots of people who respect you and trust your work.

Use them to test your market. Before making the move, send an email to coworkers you had strong relationships with (bonus points if those coworkers are nontech) saying you are starting your own consulting company that will build out sites/apps/tech. Ask in it if they know anyone they would introduce you to.

While I don’t think there is an answer other than “get lucky”, it’s important to get a sense what your early deal flow will look like, especially for financial planning.
My guess would be that they use the same technique as radar-detector-detectors. Essentially sniffing out the RF radiation emitted by an RF receiver

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector
Tucows!!!!! my ISP (Telsur) had a mirror of most Tucows downloads, so it was very fast to get the newest shareware :)

Oh, those were the days.
Show HN: Argos Translate open source neural machine translation in Python
Man Asana is a real mystery. It has fewer features and worse UX than JIRA. I constantly have trouble clicking on the right thing or having some auto action just do something unexpected. It's coasting on having a nice stylesheet.
>Maybe one thing is that people become more afraid of looking stupid. They may not ask for important clarifications.

This 1000 times. I learned extremely early there is great value to be found in being "the strategic dunce" in the room in any Engineering context, and it is the most difficult 'skill' to teach to Junior Quality people.

When you get a bunch of Engineers in a room, you can often follow what they think is going on, and if you only observe and question shallowly, everything appears fine.

Then you play the dunce and ask them to clarify a basic point. Do it once. Do it twice. Do it a third time. Usually by 3 or four, unless planning has gone off without a hitch, you'll uncover some misunderstanding or assumption someone made, but the rest weren't aware of.

It doesn't take much, just a willingness to hold people to make what they think explicit. It can seem like a tiresome practice, but by doing it, you can also short-circuit the pattern by which everybody delegates a complete understanding of the system to 4 or 5 people, and you start to have everyone able to delve into the details of larger and larger swathes of the system, reducing the chances of only discovering fundamental holes in understanding until it's too late.

I find 80% time investment making sure everyone is saying the same thing about the same thing any day; since at that point, the implementation basically lays itself out in front of the mind's eye,and you turn the builders into walking cross-check functions.
> From my experience (in The Netherlands) many jobs will give you just a very small raise every year and the only way to make big financial gains is to job hop every now and then.

That's a paradox I've encountered. Companies don't reward loyalty of their current employees, yet they prefer CVs signalling loyalty to the employer.

Contracting is underdog relation for the freelancer in many industries in Europe, some companies use it as vestibule to the full time employment contract.
I don't miss coax or terminators. Networks used to be harder.
UK put everyone who cannot work due to Covid on 80% of their salary (sort of). So surely it could do that to a smaller cohort too.

That US cannot do it is no reason to not consider it.
Santos does not offer neutral commentary, but he claims to offer objective commentary: it is objectively possible that public policy and immigrant policies will negatively affect the census. You can't discount that possibility and ignore the arguments made in favor of that possibility (read the article!) just because you don't like someone's politics.
Only two states have continued preventing elective surgeries, one state (Texas) that was overwhelmed stopped but has since re-allowed them.

Around 60,000 cancer patients will be under-treated due to corona virus. The current estimates are that 10,000 people will die due to missed treatment. Just for the "fun" of it, lets assume all of them died due to under-treatment, that is still 1/4th the death toll of the virus itself.

If the goal is fewer deaths, why don't we encourage more treatment AND continue practicing social distancing? We can have both in this case.

I am 100% sure that the number of people who have died due to the lock down is a tiny fraction of those that have died of covid...
New York has a rule about “convenience of the employer.” The name is misleading and doesn’t make any sense, but basically if there was no way to do the work in New York (e.g. your company sent you to New Jersey to hook up someone’s internet), it’s not considered New York-sourced income, but otherwise it is.

The issue with the current situation is that in principle I could be doing the work in New York (it doesn’t matter where I do it), but the office is closed and I don’t live in New York. So I have strong reasons for not doing my work in New York, but in principle I could be doing it there.

I guess there’s a further clause that you have to spend at least one day out of the year in New York to be taxed there, which unfortunately I have done (despite no longer traveling there for any work-related purpose).
Of course you haven't seen papers describing long-term effects, simply because the virus hasn't been around long enough for any long-term conclusions.

Therefore there are no studies saying there are NO long term effects either.

There are clues that long term effects/permanent effects even in mild cases may exist. E.g. some six scuba divers with mild symptoms/asymptomatic progression were checked afterwards (Innsbruck, Austria) and had what looked like permanent lung damage. Then again, the sample size here is far too small and the cohort far to "exotic" to draw any conclusions yet.
This work was done with a combination of funding from the US national science foundation and Japan's JSPS (see acknowledgements) and doesn't involve the NIH directly. PubMed/PMC are hosted there, though.

That said, animal models are extremely common for NIH-funded work, and birds feature prominently in studies of language and auditory processing.
We know how the public reacted to social media.

If you think adding more cameras to Washington would help things...

I guess if we are trying to maximize entertainment, it would be a good idea.
Gingrich was a master of playing the CSPAN game
I haven't seen any evidence, but there was a paper published recently that said that the lung damage dealt by covid is usually healed in ~3 months.
if they're invested. investing takes time, and if your job/career is on a natural rising curve, sinking time in the job to advance faster will gain greater returns, especially if you and the job market can stay in the "switch every two years for 15% pay increase" zone, very hard to beat that unless one is consistently very lucky all the time with investment, at which point it's better to fire yourself and start investing other people money as a job anyway.
One of the best way to fight for right to repair is to avoid buying products that make it difficult to repair.
https://stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html

"Don't watch TV coverage of Covid-19! (Or "social media"; the details are different.) Watching repetitive coverage of something frightening can interfere with clear thinking, even traumatize people. ...

In addition, it will make you more and more anxious. Someone I knew in 2001, who lived in California. spent all day on Sep 11 and following days watching the TV coverage. Afterward perse was afraid to go outside, watching for terrorist airplanes. TV made it possible for per to be traumatized by events 3000 miles away."

Spot. Fucking. On. Social media in my lefty social circle in a nutshell.
I talked once to a dev who does this sort of thing. Its common. It's also interesting to consider what options folks have for quick, easy short-circuit algorithms. Any ideas for clever hacks to prevent the totally absurd with minimal state retention needed?

When I started talking about moving averages and trend related metrics, the person I was talking to commented that they where doing this in Excel or an Access database and wouldn't know how to handle that with say 250,000 books they might know or care about... then again maybe the downside of having one random crazy price is not even worth a cheap hack.
> Perhaps what you would want is a hybrid: let the OS page stuff out by default so you can free up the libraries and startup code and data structures etc. But if your disk hits some thrashing threshold because the working sets get larger than memory, let some variant of OOM killer loose?

Linux does a form of this. File mappings are paged out to disk (reclaimed) by default, and the OOM killer is only triggered if this is not enough. This gets you pretty far, as it includes all binaries and libraries.
The solution for your situation is to connect with someone formerly in sales, or maybe a former CXO with an extensive rolodex that the two of you can systematically connect and talk with and discover needs that you can start to solution and then team build to solve. How you do that- can't offer specific advice. But 90% of consulting is relationships, and by the stage of career you either have them to mine or you do not. Ok to not have them, just need to connect with someone who does. Bonus if you can do this in the US, the lower cost model will serve you extremely well. Good luck.
Sadly doing more harm doesn’t prevent each side from attacking the other on this issue. Having a consistent stance that every vote should count resonances in a way that picking specific issues just doesn’t.

I am not saying you can’t play the game. It’s a terrible idea to split your states votes while the electoral collage is in it’s current form. Acknowledging this is how things are, and we should come up with a better solution is fine. Fighting each issue separately isn’t.
The WWW definitely predates the iMac.
A partnership interest is an ownership stake in the firm which has significant value. Typically you buy in by paying this value.

The firm could just give it to you, but the value of the interest would then be taxable income to you that you would need to pay taxes on in cash.

As others note, buying in also makes you literally and figuratively “invested” in a way that is thought to promote better behavior.
Worked, past tense. I’m perfectly happy paying New York taxes on the income I earned while actually working out of the New York office.
But my dear friend, the economy doesn’t give two fucks about what you want. It is making part time door dash delivery drivers and Uber drivers out of college educated people. It’s making Classics majors into web developers via bootcamps, it’s hiring out in India, and it’s making the tech you know today sound literally stupid on your resume within 3 years. You’re also in a ageist industry, so there’s time working against you too.

What you or I want is no longer a question afforded to us sadly.
This is my project it's a Python library and GUI that lets you install "packages" which contain all of the files for doing neural machine translation locally. I have pretrained models packaged for translating between English and Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. Argos Translate also manages "pivoting" through English to for example translate between French and Arabic. It can be installed with pip from PyPI and is available on the Snap Store for Linux pre-packaged with translations between English and French.

The main translation is done using OpenNMT with SentencePiece for tokenization, and Stanza for sentence boundary detection.