skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be fine with that, but let's be clear that that's not the system the Democrats move towards. Instead we have this weird system where a bunch of people jump through hoops to be here legally and a bunch of people don't, and Democrats pick and choose when they care about either one. There's no predictability, rule of law, consistency or sense on this issue from either party.

I began immigration to the US under a Democratic administration and finished it at the end of a Democratic controlled Congress and another Democratic administration. It was consistently a badly run, non-sensical process. So FOH with claims that Democrats would like a country with open borders or that they're much better at running a sane process.
Dan,
I think the sales of the book might be stimied by the price point. $37 is a bit steep.

I would put a book cover in the right sidebar of your wordpress site too to give a bit more visuals. Possibly also redesign the hero area to give it more pop. You're also not prompting for a newsletter signup anywhere.

Happy to give you a few minutes of loom or zoom feedback if you think it would be helpful to optimize the site better since your content is already good, its your marketing that could use some help.
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I don't think the problem is getting paid, but producing quality content that people will want to pay you for.
One of my best behaviours for actually writing one of these things is to have a single page that only has inputs/assumptions on it and put an annotation/note on every last data item/series saying where you got it from, because someone on the warpath will want to know where you got that BS number from two months later, and it's very satisfying to show it was them.
Like a Business Analyst, sorta?

What is the first tool a BA would reach for for most of these problems?
> My only guess is that various teams are internally competing with no core customer focus. Is all of this because of the nebulous management structure at Google?

Conway's law strikes again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
The Jetson nano has 2GB of RAM and is $59.

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/945-13541-0000-000/nvidia
> Unlikely. The only candidates for replacement are Rust and D, none of these are anywhere near the adoption of C++.

Neither C nor C++ have replaced Fortran in that sense, either. Yet, as far as I can tell, Fortran has peaked a long time ago.
It's pretty damn easy though. Current minimalist method I use is to load all the guff that business depts want in with Google tag manager. Then only load that code when the person accepts third party tracking

The problem here is they just don't give a crap. The fine is a cost of doing business. Someone needs to stick some bollocks on the GDPR and start issuing fines in the billions. Big billions.
If a poster printing company started making editorial decisions about which posters they printed, they would be at risk of being considered a publisher and as such being liable for the content of the posters they printed.

That isn't true for internet content providers due to section 230.
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Is it really giving you reach though? It's probably giving you some discoverability, albeit with something of a paywall. That said, I've never been a big Medium fan although I used to mirror some posts to it. But, then, my goals are different from someone trying to build a business and I mostly write on some sites that do a fair bit of organic promotion.
thought it was sarcasm at first, but it appears rubyistSeva genuinely isn't aware that the Democratic nominee was blocked four years ago on the basis of it being an election year, only for the Republican party to turn around and do exactly that this year.
It's difficult without digging into the topic that these commissions exist because those kickbacks are fundamentally unjustified (and largely contested by restaurants). The current situation has caused restaurants to be more and more dependant to this revenue stream and are not in a position to negotiate.
The WHO is a political organization - much like the WIPO, WTO, UN and many others. It does not exist for the benefit of mankind, but rather for the benefit of its member states - and those have differing agendas.

Current WHO head was elected in part thanks to chinese votes and influence. When the WHO recommended not closing any borders, how can you disentangle the professional epidemiology opinion from the political push? You can't.

Which is not to say it is evil or incompetent (it may be either, both, or none - I don't know enough) - but it seems to have an aura of "professional only" organization, which is unjustified.
kubeflow is pretty horrendously bad unfortunately. Most of the installation docs are incomplete and inaccurate, and since the workflow requires building a separate container for each submitted task (instead of separately specifying version control commit) you cannot actually get reproducible results. You’d have to scrape the state of the code out of the identified container tied to a job, since the circumstances under which the container was created for the job can be any arbitrary, out of band changes a developer was working on, such as from a branch they never pushed.

This workflow also doesn’t work well in hybrid on-prem + cloud environments because, for example, your model training might run in a cloud Spark task, but your CI pipeline (responsible for building and publishing a container to an on-prem container repo) might run on-prem. kubeflow, for example, has a hard requirement to put containers into cloud container registries, and makes assumptions about what the networking situation is allowing connection between on-prem and cloud container resources.

I think industry shifting focus to kubeflow is actually a giant mistake.
You want to drop some links to back up your claims?
Your opinion lacks a nuanced view of the situation.

They have telemetry. They force updates. They purposefully intertwine their applications into the packaging system so attempting to disable them will uninstall unrelated but critical parts of the system.

They take a pages out of the playbooks of the actual big fish and dial back respect for the user.

orthogonal to all this are the technical merits of systemd and snap.
How to Lend Support Without Burning Out
Perhaps there is some regionality to the issues? I live in Brazil, and Slack is often somehow unavailable: images not loading, message delays, failure to load threads, and the built-in bot commands (not third parties) not responding. And mainly, voice calls having all sorts of connection issues imaginable.

In the last 3 months our team has had to (against company policy) fall back to Discord to be able to do our daily meetings about 6 or 7 times.

I wouldn't run Discord on a large company either, but not for stability's sake, but because their (free) screen sharing is possibly the worst if you want to share a desktop rather than a game (it is very much optimized for low delay, and the downscaling makes text unreadable).
I get the impression of a certain style of children's book illustration.
I'm surprised they're not just cancelling or postponing it. In 2011, earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, displaced thousands of people. The national census scheduled for the following month was cancelled, and a replacement was later organised for 2013. I think the theory was that delayed statistics were better than unreliable and incomplete statistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_census#History
A binary heap has some advantages over using a balanced tree that could have significant performance impacts (and vice versa). Particularly in a situation where you need to roll your own priority queue.

That's why I said it's likely the person who built it would done a bit of research. When hiring someone I care that they remember enough to realize that and are capable of doing the research, more than that they remember exactly how to implement some data structure.

>If I could have this conversation that we're having right here, right now with them then they'd probably pass my hiring bar.

I think that's a totally reasonable. My problem is that this isn't what people are complaining about when complaining about white board interviews.

99% of the time the interviewer is asking for the answer to a very specific problem that is highly biased towards new grads who would have just seen it on a test.

And even if they say you don't care about the optimal solution they will always hire the person who gets the optimal solution in 15 minutes b/c they memorized it versus the person takes 30 min to bang out something that kind of works.

Here's my approach:

I ask someone else on my team to come up with an interview problem, so I haven't seen it before hand. Then I work with the candidate on hashing out a solution.
I'm not sure I count Lec & Vet. Vet is leaving next year and I am sure he is a pure testing car right now. You are spot on about Ric and Oc. Ric is driving superb compared to him.
> Do you reboot your machine regularly as a matter of course? I do not. My desktop machine is always up -- except when I am forced to reboot by Microsoft.

I don’t either, but also the forced reboots only happen once a month for me, right after patch Tuesdays. I’ve found that setting updates to manual and proactively updating on that day gets rid of almost all forced reboots. Of course now you have an extra thing to remember, but it does generally fix the problem.
> [...] fully control the memory layout of your data.

Is that actually guaranteed by the standard?

> * Try doing anything non-trivial on a microcontroller with 32KB of RAM. You could theoretically use a higher-level language, but you will end up using >10x amount of RAM.

It's a shame Forth never took off. Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to live in an alternate universe where Forth had been the lingua franca instead of C.

(Ie imagine that universe's equivalent of Unix being implemented in Forth as its killer application and going from there.)
Yeah we got a bunch of 8-bit NE1000 cards for free and did the same thing around that time. I remember the three-step setup process of LSL / NE1000 / IPXODI. The file sharing thing might have been NWLite?
Have you tried installing it through anaconda? I was using tensorflow 1 (1.14 maybe?) just a few months ago (once I realized tensorflow 2 was running twice as slow for some reason). I think there are some really big projects that still can't use tensorflow 2.

But I certainly agree with the frustration with google breaking everything. If I wanted to use Chainer (or for that matter Keras) I would just use that. I don't need tensorflow to imitate it for me and break the alternative approach I was using.
And if your my kind of programmer, you start to move to programs that have VI keybindings, swap out for ones that do, and hack into the ones that don't to make them do!
I absolutely loved the seek bars in iOS video player back then (didn't use iOS in a long time).

The video seek bar works as a normal seek bar with left/right dragging, but the seek rate can be slowed down (finer seek) by dragging the finger up, and then moving left/right.

I have yet to see good video seek features in Android.
You are spot on. At the core F1 is less about racing and more about the pinnacle "formula."
I created a raspberry pi cluster with the usb coral sticks and some ssds. Coral sticks do get pretty hot. I wonder how this will do.
Its all fun and games until you lose a couple billion in your sport from tobacco sponsors.
On HN it all comes down to having 5 people upvoting your post in the first 30 minutes, so of course there is a lot of luck in here.

The rule I follow when I want to publish one post is this one:

- Publish it one time first and see if you get at least 2 upvotes

- If you got them, try again to post it the next day at 9am (sf time)

- If still not successful try again in 3 days

If you dont get those 5 guys interested in your post in 30 minutes you will never get the frontpage, when you are on the frontpage, then there will be enough people seeing it and deciding if it should stay on the frontpage

On HN there are also a lot of emphasis on the title, and clickbait helps a lot also (look at this current post)

(I manage this [1] newsletter of 'HN blogposts which went unnoticed' and very often a post is linked in the newsletter and then a few days after that reaches the frontpage, because it gets re-posted or included in the second pool chance)

[1] https://hnblogs.substack.com
Teams is an Electron app.
Drove a Grubhub sales rep around. Usually between 15-30% depending on the package they picked. Which would also determine where they ranked on the site when someone searched for their cuisine. This was when they were just starting out their delivery program.
"All modern carnivorans, including cats, evolved from miacoids, which existed from approximately 66 to 33 million years ago."

Say no more.
And how does knime/everything else compare with PowerBI, given how aggressively it is being pushed by Microsoft, and the fact that it would come bundled as part of most organizations Office 365 deployment.
Yep paying does help to move things forward.

The only exception to that is domain names of course.
The three things I have in my .vimrc are

se ts=4 #1 tab= 4 spaces

se ic # ignore case when searching

se nows # don't wrap to top when you reach end / beginning of file in a search.

I could add a lot more, eg a json / xml formatter but never got around to it in 21 years.
I’ve heard this a couple times but it still makes no sense to me. How do you test your product hypothesis without a product? You’re essentially testing the viability of an idea with what you’re proposing, which is vastly different than having an actual product with features that you can iterate on when given feedback.

I think for very niche categories, a landing page might be the only thing you need but I honestly believe that if you’re pitching a product with features, people want to see that product, not a page with text.
Summarizing my experience: I have published a single article with the goal of better understanding the subjects and be able to correctly teach it (ofc a side income would be nice as well). Wanted to provide more value than what existed and posted in my own blog (powered by Telescope.ac), Substack, Medium, Dev.to and HackerNoon (sent for approval and got approved). Medium editors liked it and recommended it in the frontpage and their newsletters and "The Startup" magazine invited me to publish the story as theirs as well. And, as your belief, it suddenly "exploded": https://i.imgur.com/JHIoUIy.png

Too bad the post received a somewhat bad criticism and my moral went down to keep writing at the time. I will get back to it someday for sure.
Your position is more reasonably explained than most of the Excel Haters' (I am a card carrying member of the group, btw) but there is an additional problem.

Even if/when the "average Excel user" finally sees the Light ... s/he still has to work in an environment where excel files (including .csv) are the lingua franca.

It's a bit like working for the German (or French or Japanese etc.) branch of a US large company. Of course the official language is English, and all documents should be written in English and emails should be in English and so on.
Even if everybody (down to the Janitor?) speak acceptable English and are perfectly able to talk business in English... everyone will still use German unless they have to communicate with someone like me, whose German fluency is rated in Imaginary Numbers.
> Why not give the new feature to paying licencees immediately and to open source 12-24 months later.

Right. That's the GhostScript funding model.
SQL is how I want to talk to my storage abstraction layer. And I want it to do that one thing and do it well.

Syncing to a server is another issue and I am not sure if it should be part of the same library.
Republican presidents placed 11 supreme court justices in a row, from Nixon through GH Bush. Clinton placed two, and republicans have been whining about needing to fix the liberal supreme court ever since. GW Bush placed two, Obama placed two, and it looks like Trump will place three.

You are quoting someone, but I want to add on that "legislate from the bench" is a phrase that is invoked when the speaker doesn't agree with an outcome but never when they agree with an outcome. It means nothing.
>I was super discouraged and didn't feel like writing more about this topic...This time it exploded and landed on the front page

I read something along the lines "Doing is often better than thinking of doing" somewhere and made it kinda my personal motto. Little things add up and you never know when the momentum builds and things start to feel better. I failed to get donations for my tutorials for about a year. Then I tried out converting them to a book. First one didn't give me much financial benefit but the second one did well enough. After 2 years and 7 books, I have sustainable income for the first time since leaving my job 6 years ago.

I have more ideas than I can ever implement, but I try to note them down and work on what I can. 2 hits out of 10 is still better than 0 hits out of 0 attempts. Those hits need luck too, as you mention. Seeing my idea come alive is immensely satisfying too.
Dutch census recording religion enabled the Nazis to quickly round up the Jews living there a few years later during the occupation
Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel
Of course, it's not inherent to a language whether it's compiled or interpreted. That's just an implementation detail.

You can total write a C++ interpreter. And there are Python and JavaScript compilers.

C++'s memory management isn't even necessarily particularly manual. Nowadays people use reference counting in C++ occasionally. (They call them 'smart pointers' I think.)
> Internet just got mainstream and popular, so people lacking time, interest or skills to create their own websites just use pre-built solutions.

They don't lack any of time or skills. Take the example of websites of local sport clubs: they all had a proper website with all info and news and stuff. Now they haven't any more, they've changed to a shitty Facebook page with everything mixed together into an incredible mess. (By the way, the traditional website is typically still running fine without maintenance, it just hasn't been updated since around 2015-2017.)

I don't think the people from your small town random sport club, who built and ran the site in the 2000s, had special computers skills or time compared to those of today.
It's not perfect, but it works very well. None of my contributions to open source projects happened because they were required by license. On my own projects I've had people give generously of their time and expertise out of community spirit. Are some people jerks anyhow? Sure. But a different license wouldn't have changed that.
I am sorry to hear that.

With regards to your point about liquid biopsies.

To have a minimally invasive sensitive and specific test would be a great addition to the toolbox against cancer. However, if it comes back positive, then what comes next? Maybe surgery? But if we had therapies that were highly effective and could concentrate the cancer drug at the tumor with minimal side effects that may be preferential or supportive to going through the operating room, anesthesia and necessary morbidity of surgery. And potentially you could do this multiple times if needed.
"They measured how long it takes for a photon to cross a hydrogen molecule: about 247 zeptoseconds for the average bond length of the molecule."

24-7? Say no more.
Exactly! Single page websites with a call to action!

Its always entertaining getting some 23 year old programmer on later after the project has made some traction, and they are like “noooo this code is so bad, what, jquery!? An old version of jquery at that!?” because I’ve been copying my same landing page template for 8 years.

it is so just like the meme because I’m like “haha money printer go brrr”

translation: I just made a million dollars who gives af. turn your ideas into money, it has nothing to do with the stack you used, whatever level of discipline you’ve honed or anything.
We're using Jira on prem and it's pathetic in every sense, Google Docs and Sheets are better in all respects
> I am really mourning about usenet. It was dying but still kicking, then google destroyed it with google groups.

There's this website https://www.usenetarchives.com/ providing an alternative, recently seen it on Hacker News.
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Hope this is not as ineffectual as the scientific consensus on climate change, or the scientific consensus on the shape of the earth.
I wouldn't call VSCode an IDE. It is an editor with plugins that give it IDE features. If that's your goal, you can really customize vim to similar place.

VSCode is at the edge of an editor and an IDE though, or so is my feeling at least. I feel like the massive need for ease of use and speed clashes with the needs of power users (e.g. for Java EE or database developers), and that this push vs pull might to be the downfall of VSCode in the future (unless MS throws a pile of money and devs on the codebase).
I believe you are entirely correct: it is testing an idea rather than testing and iterating on features. That's the point: people who love programming might skip directly to testing features without testing the idea. Testing the idea is essential and can be done 10x faster and cheaper than testing the first feature.
Businesses aren't actors, they're fictions. Humans at businesses demonstrably do act as community members.
73% of all arrests are male[0]. This imbalance does not mean that there is systemic bias against men, though. It means they commit more arrestable actions.

[0] https://www.drugwarfacts.org/node/986
The constitution specifically says the census is a count of all "free Persons", not only citizens. Obviously SCOTUS will weigh in now, but I think it's important to realize the actual wording of what the census is.
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> WHO has been advocating for these measures since early in the pandemic.

Yeah, well, not all of them.
> deriving evidence-based conclusions

No, it's a way to derive evidence based hypotheses. A model that does not include a confounding variable (of which there are many) cannot give any conclusion about that variable - at most a hypotheses.

I've spent some time looking at the models, all of them fail - some spectacularly so (those that inform policy much more so, unfortunately). To the point of being useless, I might say, because their stated assumptions usually apply almost everywhere, but their prediction (and back testing results) match only a small sample (e.g. a few specific countries or cities).
C++ type system is pretty weird to be honest. It's overly verbose, and at the same time too loose and too limiting.
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Smell is the primary sense and the sooner that Computer Vision embraces that fact the better it will be for any system that needs any form of context sensitivity or relevance detection.

It's all well and good to have awesome algorithms for detecting X, Y, or Z in a stream of stimuli but it's smell that tells us which things to anticipate.
In a nutshell, individual freedoms (freedom of speech) trump collective safety (censoring misinformation). The answer is more information, like fact check panels.
Great insight. Are your rules based on analysis (which would be a fun project!) or experience/instinct?