skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a tipping point at which capital is sufficiently concentrated that the capital advantage outweighs the leverage of a four-sigma founder (.99994)? I don't know, maybe, but the capital can certainly make a two-sigma (.95) founder competitive, and a three-sigma (.997) founder without capital is probably f'ed. Or maybe a two-sigma founder with access to capital is the definition of a four-sigma founder, because how could you be recognized as that without having the capital.
I know how they sound, I'm a software engineer and users are whiny little bitches, especially on public forums. A professional wouldn't even engage with me, they'd note my feedback and move on -- I wasn't replying to him and didn't know who he was until he told me just how wrong I was.

Now I know he's an asshole. Simple. An asshole with a really shit reference implementation for an overcomplicated protocol that only technically does what it claims, with little practical benefit.

Frankly to me, Matrix belongs in the same basket as Urbit: weird software for nerds written by eccentric assholes that are too pretentious to explain it to regular people because doing so would make their protocol less special and thereby self sabotaging adoption

The sooner Matrix is forked or better yet, dies, so that it stops stealing mind share from better projects, the better.
For the language and the framework the official tutorial/documentation are pretty good.

Also Pragmatic Programmers has very good books on both, written by the creators.

I love Phoenix but I will disagree with the OP in 2 points.

Yes probably Elixir/Phoenix will manage better thousands of concurrent connections, but if you are doing personal projects or are a start-up that condition is irrelevant in the meantime. So that only lefts us with the big established applications. That does not mean Phoenix is not good, it only means you will not notice a difference with Rails for most of your projects.

The second thing, that OP failed to mention is that the Rails ecosystem is at least an order of magnitude larger. From the gems available, job opportunities,developers available, instructional material, SOP for many tasks and so on.That is boring, but valuable.
> give me good-faith context to understand the background of the events

By replying repeatedly to people providing context not in the article, you're indicating that reasonable people can't disagree with you regarding what's "good-faith context." Do you think the author of the AP article would react to feedback about it this way?

Personally, I think more context comparing this polio vaccine to other polio vaccines is relevant and valuable, in part because of the general rise in unfounded fears of all vaccines. While we are in the midst of a pandemic for which we hope to have an effective vaccine soon, I don't think every story about any vaccine has to be related to COVID-19.
Even in your scenario, we wouldn't expect per capita energy usage to increase faster than population growth (as the physicist claimed) because now everybody who wants climate control has it. The whole point is that per capita energy usage isn't growing exponentially in the developed world.
Butterflies do glide sometimes.
I collected custom audio and had it transcribed by hand for cash, then evaluated it on wav2letter and vosk. At least for that domain, wav2letter outperforms vosk.
It will be really easy now for white hat developers to fix the exploit now that there's no reference exploit code. /s

Is this actually github pulling it or the researchers being strong armed by someone else?
The winning candidate in 2016 wasn't even popular: he lost the popular vote.
Not everywhere in the UK is London.
Maybe not all of them, but you can use macros in IntelliJ and VSCode implementations (and, of course, Emacs).
very valuable advise. DS itself is nothing unless it is implemented in a specific domain.
There are many aspects underlying digital transformations that large enterprises are undergoing...among the many, is to empower more "citizen developers" with tools that are lower-code and no-code. (I'm not convinced that no-code is a great thing just yet...but not because of the tools, rather the mindset...so we'll see how the next generation adopt these no-code tools...or not). Within these transformations, the premise of "no code" is becoming bigger and more popular...so if you're not seeing it yet, you will soon enough more and more. Not that my following note is a large representation, but when i was applying for a new job during latter 2019/early 2020, over 90% of the jobs that i applied to made mention of some sort of "digital transformation", and no-code/low-code goes part and parcel with those types of efforts. Again, low volume of data, and biased towards mid- and large-sized enterprises...but, it is a thing for sure.
Definitely, I started coding at the age of 10, it doesn't matter how much help he has gotten, rather that he is interested and has discovered what might be his future path.
Popular mediums are fads. Magazines, genres of music, social networks, chat applications, whatever.

Far more interesting questions:

Why are Facebook and Twitter more durable than the historical average?

Where are they in their lifecycle? How much time do they have left?

What are the lessons learned by their outsized success?

My personal hot take (prediction market bets):

Facebook (et al) has plateaued.

Twitter will tank when Trump leaves and takes his following with him.
Plan your 2021 with personal OKR
I would also prefer a very strong carbon tax (or something similar like cap-and-trade) over a blanket ban on specific products, but I'm not sure it makes much difference in practice. Isn't forcing people to pay more on the second hand market more-or-less equivalent to adding a tax?

And, eventually, you'd need the number of ICE vehicles to be low enough that ubiquitous gas stations won't be economically viable anyway.
"IINA is the modern video player for macOS."

I can scarcely imagine a descriptor more empty of meaning than "modern", in this context.
Has your friend blogged about this approach? I'd be super interested to hear more!

I'm one of those annoying people with a donate button. Despite my project's size (~10.5k stars on Github), it pulls down only about $60/month. While awesome, and I'm legit thankful for the people who back open source, it's obviously not yet at an amount where I could devote my time to open source entirely or even part time (which would be the dream!).

My recent minor release took about 45 hours to prepare, then another 8 for a quick followup tacking on some additional functionality. Which is to say, open source gets me about $1/hr ^_^
I'm sure this is how they perceive themselves and I'm sure they spend at least a few hours to talk about this stuff. But in my experience, the SNR is low. It's hard to find the new MKULTRA hidden in the pizzagate, qanon, and birtherism.

And ultimately, that's it. But be my guest: go be informed about subtle government interference by the guys who are convinced that Democrats are injecting old people with SARS-CoV-2 so they can steal their identities to vote.

And obviously the 'you' is a "generic you"¹. It doesn't mean you specifically, dude. Substitute with "one" m.m. if you find it confusing. It's not an insult targeted at you. It is an insult targeted at the loons that seem to populate every one of these "free speech" sites: voat, gab, whatever.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you
I don’t use any client from Twitter (such as the official Twitter app or the Twitter dot com website) and I’d probably rather stop using Twitter than use one of them.

That’s my point: Twitter isn’t half as good if using the official clients.
Chicago Public Library says eliminating fines has paid off
What infrastructure is missing? People's homes have electricity. And the longest road trip you can do in the Outer Hebrides (Rodel to Ness) is 80 miles, so there's no obvious need for mid-way charging stations.
> Many of the people who make civil war/anti south jokes are the same people who want California to secede

Citation needed.
Sugar processing plants have far more bagasse than they can ever use. My father and great grandfather both worked at sugar mills in Louisiana. Most bagasse sits in gigantic piles that need to be constantly soaked with water (we're talking about a 10,000 ton pile of sugar-enriched fermentable plant matter sitting in the sun during a tropical summer) until it is harvested by companies that make particle board.
Right, but we also recognize that eventually the impact of something is so small that it's not worth banning. Why are Lamborghinis allowed to be sold despite emissions easily going into hundreds of grams of CO2/km? Because legislators have correctly recognized that the number of Lamborghinis sold each year, and the average amount of miles they are usually driven is absolutely negligable and has close to no impact on climate change. That's why small car manufacturers who produce few thousand cars a year have an exemption from the new emissions regulations enforced by the EU from next year - they just don't matter at all.

Once the market gets to a point where the sales of ICE cars are around few percent out of all, maybe even less - then there's no point in banning them at all. Clearly only people who absolutely need them are buying them, because no one else does. So....why ban them? And it looks like the market is absolutely heading towards that point anyway, with truly draconian fines in the EU introduced soon and general apetite for electric cars showing strong growth in the car sales. We'll be there in 10 years, full ban or not.
Vi also benefits a ton from being installed pretty much everywhere. If you use the default vi keybinds you rarely have to rethink your muscle memory for actions.
Okay but there is no reason that adding this library would mean anything has to happen to VLC's ability to play a file without doing anything to it or organising it first. Many music players offer both a library and will play individual files thrown at them without any importing ceremony. eg, Winamp.
If you're living in an urban are, then you're better off NOT buying a car and using public transport instead.
100% agree with this sentiment.

As a student, using emacs was part of the big push to get me to live in the cli and explore and love that world.

Now I use graphical IDEs, and all sorts of tools, but I appreciate the power of cli and am not scared of it (and I went into college being almost computer-illiterate). That foundation is key and very important
Very funny; not arguing for censorship here, but for the design of social media technology that reinforces humanity and not primitive dopamine hit engagement driven advertising. What people say is not the problem.

Anyway, we are already in a balanced system that keeps people in line with society's values while still giving them an impression of freedom. The question is just which direction you go from there.
I don’t disagree with your pessimism, but at the same time 9 years is an eternity to just install electrical infrastructure. Hopefully laws like this will put a fire under people’s asses.
I have a pretty similar story. I was in senior year of high school and one of the colleges I was applying to had a “sleeping bag weekend” where you could sign up to stay overnight with a random CS freshman in the dorms and stroll the campus.

I saw someone working on their homework and their terminal had colored text and it blew my mind (I had only ever seen cmd.exe using black and white with that ugly font).

The summer between senior year of high school and starting college I installed Ubuntu and googled that program called “vim” that freshman had demoed to me. From there it was just like you say: vimtutor and reading :help pages, and now almost 10 years later I can’t imagine trading Vim for anything.
Site doesn't work well with disables JS because of AMP. please disable this useless crap.
Can't say what it will look like from this distance, but you can expect more Gemini+SourceHut stuff in the future.
Network Switch
Exactly this. Vim is special because it's what we've all agreed on as a standard for modal editing. Luckily, it's also pretty darn good, but that's secondary. Learning one set of commands that can then be used across editors, operating systems, and even terminals is amazing.
I see what you’re trying to get at, but look at Toyota (who sells about 10.7 million cars a year annually) trying to push fuel cells when EVs are the clear winner and there is almost zero hydrogen fueling infra (Honda and Fiat have to pay Tesla billions because they aren’t selling EVs in Europe, but still get to sell those combustion vehicles they do sell). I think market forces are important, but sometimes, when the situation warrants it (global emergency), you have to use the regulatory stick. We’ve run out of time for the Imaginary Hand to save us.

During World War 2, the US gov didn’t go to manufactures and kindly ask them to retool for the war effort. They demanded it. Similar situation, similar (but not quite as draconian) implementation. “You will build only EVs now, retool accordingly”.

Governments are even willing to invest in manufacturing and charging network costs, and green/central banks are coming with easy money. I’m unsure what other support you can provide at this point to make the transition smoother, considering petroleum consumption externalities are already unpaid for by the entire supply chain.
vim is not for everyone. The cartoon poking fun at Emacs chording doesn't resonate with me at all. The statefulness at the core of Vim is maddening for me, where Emacs chords, perhaps because I have been a musician, are relatively easy for me.
Twitch won’t fix its copyright problem
WindowsHacks – Doing More with Windows
> and somehow, in 9 years, the infrastructure will be amazing...

It doesn't have to magically be "perfect" on Jan 1, 2030.

In the UK around 2.3 million vehicles are sold per year[1]. Which means in 2030 about that many electric cars will be sold, and so on for each year. The ICE vehicles that were sold in 2029 won't magically stop being used, they'll just slowly fade out.

So in reality they have until well into the 2030s (even 2040s) before the very vast majority of vehicles will be all electric.

Of course this is a big challenge, and it will require effort. Anything worth doing is difficult.

The other choice is we sit around and do nothing. I know which option I prefer. And at 38 years old, it isn't up to me. Talk to people who are 15-25 and ask what kind of air they want to breath and what kind of world they want to live in. This is a decision for them, not for us.

[1] https://www.marklines.com/en/statistics/flash_sales/salesfig...
In case you hit the paywall:
https://archive.md/NUyam
> we are talking about Google today

We were talking only about Google yesterday and probably will tomorrow too, but sure "we are talking about Google today".
While I fully agree with your points and I truly have set my expectations for long-distance EV-travel to be as cumbersome as yours (you have to plan for that, because you can't know in advance). Still, I don't think that is enough to be against it.

I live in an apartment and charging an EV would cost way more than gas. Even the cost of having a charging pole would be more expensive per month than I pay for gas (charging not included and likely also expensive). And, as you mentioned, be way more inconvenient in some situations.

But can't it still be worth it? It is just one, very minor, out of countless sacrifices we will undoubtedly have to make.

Why fight this one?
Good for you, it's the only way to know which tool works best in your case. I did the same for my use case and arrived at the opposite conclusion.

What most people don't realize is that it heavily depends on your use case and domain whether any given model/algorithm will work better.
Can you post WER per dataset? Bucketing all of the WER together means you can only directly compare to models that are validated on the exact same combination datasets. This excludes all other ASR systems from comparison, as well as your own models if you decide to add validation data in the future.
> I don’t want to second guess technical decisions I know nothing about but: no, Rails shouldn’t be streaming video.

Yeah, if you are serving video at that rate, there are plenty of CDNs to work with, why would you submit your app engine to that.
A curated list of console services
Honestly, that email explaining the decision explicitly that he decided to FYIQ over was entirely reasonable.

Him responding by being passive aggressive about canceling his account was the first rude email in the thread.
The worst argument for designing an experience is that users want it.

We can do far better.

But I get your point. Realistically this has to be a societal change that demands better social media platforms, not something just thrown into the market with no demand.
I still have my files from 20 years ago.

I don't have my "media libraries" from 20 years ago.

As soon as a tool tries to move my files into an internal representatation I cannot control, I delete the tool.
But cool effect without expensive tools :)
I can't agree more. It's like the CADT model (https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html) but on steroids.
It uses low-power components (U rather than H CPUs for example) and isn't capable of generating nearly as much heat, regardless of what you're asking it to do.
> they are loud, having to have gears is stupid,

It's the beauty of driving

I'm all in favour for people to stop driving if they don't like it, I can't wait for the day where I can be among the few owners of a mechanical car that I drive when I need to relax, outside of the cities, just don't call what other people enjoy stupid, please

Before anybody jumps at me, I quit driving for commute or day by day activities 7 years ago and when I need a car now I use car sharing (I spent around 25-30 euros a month, it really is nothing compared to what I used to spend when I owned a car).

But please don't tell me that one of those electric smart is a real car

The feeling is just not there
> am looking to pivot into something that gets me out of the lab

Will data science get you out of the "lab"?

Maybe you can become a farmer, and iterate on patentable new agri-tech you will inevitably develop along the way; then sell that.
>driving from Brighton to Glasgow today in 2020 is 7h10m of driving and 36m of charging with a tesla model 3

Is that under the assumption that it's a warm day?
Is the learning curve going to progress that quickly? The Tesla Model S came out in 2012? How much has it improved by 2020? 100kW instead of 75kW? At the same price?

Yes, I know soothsayers claim battery packs are $100/kwh, but even at those prices, we are seeing $100k pickups with roughly equivalent capabilities to a $45k ICE version. Factor in 200k mile lifetime with 20mpg and $3/gallon fuel, and an electric pickup is still a hard sale.

I’m skeptical the industry will make a 2030 deadline.
> The No.1 reason for me is that it makes you use git like it is supposed to be used: Via email and your MUA.

Welp, that puts me off using it entirely sadly. I hate dealing with mailing lists and refuse to contribute to any project that requires dealing with text patches in 2020. Like it or not, the pull request model is simply easier to deal with and is easier for new users to use.
Well obviously it's not title per se, but title in relation to the authors of the book.
hybrids were always a stop-gap technology on the path to full electric. With the price of batteries dropping so rapidly, hybrids make less and less sense.

I'll wager no manufacturer will be making them in a couple of years.
And yet, today, it's all on the much maligned Tik Tok.
The climate doesn't wait and doesn't care. it's better to accelerate the adoption of Electrical cars by any means necessary before the occurrence of apocalyptic events.
The root comment here appears to be the only currently extant comment of a relatively new and otherwise minimally active account.

I sincerely doubt any (further) engagement on your part is actually worthwile.
How do I successfully outsource my MVP?
I have an idea, but no coding skills therefore I want to outsource the development of my MVP.

Does anyone here have experience with that? If so,
- How was it?
- Which site did you use? Is fiver any good for something like this?
- How do you protect your idea from being stolen?

Thanks
A lot of benchmark claimed M1 is fastest laptop chip https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
Fair point, here is a pull request that addresses my criticism: https://github.com/boramalper/pydis/pull/15
Reuse of plastic soft-drink bottles in northern Europe is somewhat controversial, inasmuch as vast amounts of water must be used to wash and sterilize them.
Sounds like a great and valuable blog post to help teach them the right heuristics!
somewhat related:

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/...
On the basis that it was entertainment and that noone should believe the top gear episode reflective of real world.
Helicopters fly by trying to tear themselves apart, and mostly failing at this.
It's mostly just clean UI that I like. And that it's in Swift, makes it easier to contribute than C.
mpv does what you are looking for. I think there's a place for both. The media library is a great feature actually, especially for computer users who don't organize their media in the filesystem (and why should they have to if a software can do it for them?)
The pull request model is not easier to use, you just already know how to use it. Anyone who maintains a large enough GitHub project can attest that there are many people who don't grok GitHub pull requests, either.

If you prefer to use a web-based workflow, then you can both prepare and review patches on our web UI, and they're automatically sent as emails. You don't actually have to interact with email directly at all.

And, once you're used to it, pretty much everyone who uses email can assure you that it's much easier to use, much more efficient, and much more scalable than pull requests.
Use of glass bottles is somewhat controversial in that glass containers mean considerably heavier weight in transport, which in turn means that more energy must be burned to move those trucks. The introduction of plastic packaging immediately led to fuel savings in transport.
Somewhat related to this thread: a frustration I have with most CI systems is how hard it can be to reproduce the run locally using (ideally all of the) same configuration.

For example, Gitlab CI has a local runner but it's not really first class, definitely isn't kept up to date with the real runners. It seems like it's more of a recreation of a job system based off of (an older version of) Gitlab CI configuration files.

Circle CI has a more decent story around this if I remember correctly. But first-class support for local reproduction of CI runs is the kind of thing I'd like to see as table stakes today.

It can be challenging to debug certain things in the live CI system for developers without being able to recreate locally (otherwise you have to bring in the team that manages the CI system to help them debug with you which takes time).
> Rails handled Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic for an ecommerce company I used to work for just fine.

That says nothing about the added cost of running inefficient services, which require additional nodes to serve the same requests and thus increase operational cost and also risk to perform the same service.
Thanks! This is exactly the kind of mistake that annoys me.