skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Every minute of time you task this person to instead work on devops, kubernetes config, REST API minutiae, etc., you are throwing money away. So structuring it with a platform team to support them is critical even for people who can “do it all.”

Yup. One of the reasons we're building that is that we did consulting and we got paid Total = sum(role[i] * rate[i] * number_of_days_of_role[i])

Say a team member has a role with a rate of 1,500 euros/day invoiced to the client. A lot of these days go to things like:

"Oh, I upgraded Ubuntu and now NVIDIA drivers and Docker engine or Tensorflow isn't working anymore". There you go. Non productive time.

"Oh, the notebook isn't working on my machine because you used a different library version but I can't install it because my environment would break (or I'm afraid it would)".

"By the way, which notebook produced this model? I don't know, let me check my Excel file for which parameters I used. Oops, I forgot to write them down."[0]

"Where are the weights? Is that the last model? You have them saved by date?"

"I produced 15 notebooks but I can only show one or two to the client. I'll have to spin up a VM and "deploy" the model to show it. I'll have to write a Flask application. Meeting is rescheduled. I forgot which VM it was."

How many days per month would you say does anyone involved in machine learning waste doing this? What's the combined loss as is? What's the combined interconnected loss when something happening to you impacts someone else, for example when there's task dependency.

Yes, yes... These would not happen with "good" engineering practices, but they do happen because good practices take time and money to learn. There's very little, if any content, on actual problems in the real world. Most write blog posts with Iris dataset, nice CSVs, and toy projects one can do alone.

Do anything slightly more complex that involves more than one person, and things start to break fast. Even for people who are good developers and follow good practices in software engineering. [good workflow, code reviews, version control, CI/CD, automated tests, etc]. Things break not because they don't know how to do these things.

That's also what's funny when I see tools and platforms created or founded by people who have a background in web dev who'll tell a story of getting into ML and being shocked people don't know how to use Docker or Kubernetes and deciding to fix the ecosystem. Coming from the outside, they think that they'll illuminate people and make them discover Docker. It makes me smile.

Many organizations develop their own solutions to mitigate or solve these problems. So, have you looked at our product and do you have any feedback? I'd very much appreciate it.

- [0]: ~68% of data scientists in a Kaggle survey said they don't track experiments. 68%. https://storage.googleapis.com/kaggle-media/surveys/Kaggle%2...
I'm no fan of McKinsey but the story told in this article seemed very incurious about some essential questions. Like, what was Restart, in terms of specific policy changes? What was the motivation or rationale behind it? Was it just about sorting inmates based on the HUB algorithm?

This happens a lot when I'm reading ProPublica. It's fascinating while I'm reading it, but at the end I'm left wondering what exactly just happened, and whether I got duped by sophisticated outrage porn. They look for dysfunction with tunnel vision to the detriment of coherence and context.
Do you know why that argument didn’t work for Microsoft?

It’s not because they dominated Windows. They owned Windows, they could do what they wanted on Windows, but for something very specific. In fact, it was a key element of the case that the government had to prove before they could proceed with proposing a remedy.
Or read about agile user story mapping, user personas, user stories and write your requirements that way. If that is not enough - get a UI/UX designer who'll translate your requirements into interactive prototypes which will somewhat serve as requirements for the developers.
The point is that the “ethos of the nation” is, and has always been, authoritarian hegemony — and the intent of the founders in particular was one of the more totalitarian versions of it.
Yeah, OP may need to look into picking one or two favorites and selling the rest. Either that or keep his job a few more years.
You could do something like that, but it adds a lot of complexity. I suspect if I can get the time down to 75 ms with a frw minutes of fiddling, someone who actually cares to run this could spend a couple hours or days on it and get it down to 30ms, which should be tollerable. Reduce as much runtime startup as possible (probably allocator tuning), and then reduce or postpone as much OTP startup as possible.

Otherwise you have to deal with things like how do you kill one script without killing the others, version fun including what happens if you are running scripts and update the beam, how to keep scripts separated for reals, etc.
Simple and functional are completely subjective. To answer your question: they have to choose because there are dozens, if not hundreds of options to choose from. That is like one of the most common espoused benefits of the platform, from Linux evangelists and open source maximalists alike!

Apparently you are unable to differentiate between nostalgia and an actual technical issue. Yeah, I remember sysv init too! Why should I have to choose between that and systemd??? That isn't exactly the same as having a library issue. hth
Kill 99% of pathogens in 20 seconds, and at the same time – recharge your phone
Creators who are making more money off of the thing they make are creators who can keep making the thing they make, or make more things that you might like just as much as what they've already made.
That seems limited to specific types of media, though. Datatypes is a general purpose framework for creating a hierarchy of parsers for file formats.

It can be images or sound, but also text, or anything else. E.g. here's a small sample of datatypes from Aminet, excluding anything sound and graphics related:

* Datatypes for transparent decompression

* Datatypes for syntax highlighting

* Datatypes for parsing document formats (word etc.)

* Assorted hypertext datatypes

* Assorted datatypes for showing debug information and structure of various binary formats, like executables.
This is also Joe Rogan and his "just eat mushrooms" ideology
It's nice you are concerned for the kids, now you just need to collectively remember it when it comes to buying trucks & SUVs that have the grille on head height, sight angles that make it impossible to see small kids just walking in front of you on a crosswalk and with their height rob kids of the ability to see anything but a wall of metal around them.
Bwahahaha! Thanks xD
That's a fine snarky retort if you only consider idealised abstract scenarios. In the real world, streets are lined with all manner of visual obstructions that children, deer, etc may be hidden by. Bushes, cars, buildings or garden walls; any speed above parking lot speeds has the potential to kill somebody or something in real world scenarios. Shit happens.
That one would be a game changer. Lazarus has been ported everywhere, from x86 PCs to ARM64 embedded boards.
Tree from Nova Scotia Is Now in Boston Common. Why?
> you choose Steam not because it's superior in any ways, simply because it's the default choice.

Well, how many platforms even run on linux?
It’s even weirder when you realize how much more resolution we have now.

A favorite implementation of mine was 4dwm on SGI. You could middle-click on the trough and it would go directly there, rather than the normal paging by left-click. Still try to use it everywhere and am disappointed.
Apparently at least some of the limitations are actually due to an EU import tax on video recorders but not on cameras. [1] Though this also says that that will be fixed in 2019, so I don't know what the current situation is.

[1] https://www.borrowlenses.com/blog/video-recording-limits-in-...
No thanks. The point of cars is fast travel times and I - and I suspect much of society - would not want to see 25 mph speed limits increasing our travel times and stealing from our precious free time. It’s a tradeoff and I don’t think we have a bad balance with higher speed limits.
> If Donald Trump had just spent 30 minutes more a day reading books or briefings, we wouldn’t be litigating misinformation, disinformation, flat earthers, fact checking, conspiracies, boomers, etc.

He was elected to lead, not to read!
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k39td1/pijul_t...
Map: A look at world population density in 3D
You should try setting up a market stall inside your local Walmart and see how well that works out for you
I'm assuming this is for the kernel itself. After that, does the distro matter?
Someone should price this out on transcript aka https://strateos.com/ cloud lab...
“According to Oracle benchmarks, Nashorn performance is several orders of magnitude faster than the alternative Rhino JavaScript engine.”

Interesting
My favourite is FrexxEd (co-authored by the author of curl) - a text editor - that exposed all open buffers as files, so you could run script directly on the contents of the open buffer.
https://twitter.com/undertheraedar/status/133273313671578009...

For full map^^
I had an Atari 800XL, then a 520STfm, then a Falcon 030.

Back in those days there was quite a bit of tribal rivalry between Atari and Amigas - but I have to admit that the Amiga's OS was way ahead of Atari's, which didn't even get true multitasking until the Falcon (which almost nobody bought).
Concerning the brick with the red symbol and the black symbols. The black symbols are the characters for 1 to 9. The red character means "ten thousands".

The flower pot seems to mark your progress. The flower grows by stage when you have been connected a certain number of bricks.

I agree that the depth perception is not optimal.
The solar discs that could power Earth
If only crosswalks were the only places children might approach a street, stopping distance might not be so relevant. And you need to remember that not all vehicles are SUVs or pickup trucks, even in America, and regular small cars benefit from larger tires as well.

No matter how small your car, and no matter how perfect your attention to your surroundings, larger tires are safer.
And all of them are universally loathed.
I have no insight into this but for the sake of curiosity and discussion:

I wonder if it has to do with how Stripe leadership is reading the market. There are different opinions I have read that I wonder their thoughts on: some percieve the market is doing great and will do better as we head out of quarantine with these vaccines, some percieve an incoming correction and recession due to some hollistic snapshot of economies internal and international; some speak of incoming devaluation of the dollar. I just wonder if things like these are weighed heavily when thinking of going public, and I wonder if they should or shouldnt be. I know little of economics and markets so I cant say.
Children aren't the only suddenly-appearing risks, even in otherwise blue-sky, fair-weather, controlled-access conditions.
Is ineffectiveness of caffeine a symptom / indicator of a mental difference? I, too, am not phased in the slightest by caffeine and have had sleep schedules vary, though not as large of a range... just curious
I think you’re massively underestimating the impact of automatic braking
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve played with Tesla infotainment and I’d much much rather my CarPlay system and physical climate controls. I do want an EV and love the drivetrain of the Tesla’s but that’s the only part of them at all that seems to be better than any other modern premium car.
It does allow that, to some extent: by changing the diff algorithm. On thing you can do in a diff algorithm for Pijul (not written yet, but totally possible) is to treat whitespace as their own binary blocks, so that reformatting commutes with other changes.
You're probably being downvoted for your comment. Does that make you the problem?
Suppose they did come to that conclusion:

(1) Partners would gladly communicate that back—the payoff to keeping one gig on track is far less valuable than avoiding public scrutiny

(2) If they did ask to move the goalposts, I suspect the city would have been amenable

Doubling down to bet on moonshots is not McKinsey’s MO. What are managing consultants good for? Starbucks on two corners of the intersection, breakfast menu at your favorite fast food eatery, and many (MANY) restructuring plans (rightsizing initiatives, aka RIFs)
> the industry is on the decline. I wrote about this 7 years ago

Thanks. That would explain my perception that McKinsey has been trading on its reputation for the last 15 years at least.

At this point I'd only consider Bain, of the big three - and that's because I don't know much about them.

It's one of those system traps they liked to talk about: the industry is in decline, so the good people leave.
Wild video.

I was thinking more breaking bad: https://youtu.be/NPRZMtrEgus
I did not mean that OP deserves any less - that comment was made in the context of OPs statement that they are financially independent and a raise would have no impact on their wealth.

In such a scenario, it does not seem to harm them for others to make more. So their frustration with the situation may be ego-driven. And while that is understandable, it is also worth taking time to really think about that and decide if this is a battle worth fighting. It may be... but that is up to OP to decide.
Why?

If the tax attaches at point of production, the incentive is to use the output that is cheaper including the tax, or the best mix possible, shifting to less consumptive processes over time even if they can't meet demand at the start.
> "What do you think would happen?"

Microsoft would sell something else (e.g. Office365, or hardware) and give free Windows licenses with it, or sell them via a different government (international sales), or lobby so the law gets undone 1 minute after the deadline, or some other loophole.

> "Hell no! What would happen is the world would move on from Windows and the world would be a better place for it."

Linux users can't make Linux desirable, so they want authority to ban the competition. So much for "freedom".

> "Something that's been desperately needed for like two decades now."

People weren't interested enough in buying BeOS, and Linux organisations can't even give it away for free. What evidence of "desperate need" are you seeing?
Don't you mean Windows subsystem for Android? ;)
This. They also hire very smart people and they may well have the smartest people in the room at client meetings, so they have credibility.

It's a good business model, kind of like hiring a flashy hairdresser that gives very expensive but often terrible haircuts - but when people are told that this famous stylist did it, they all just go 'ooooh...'
I think a significant (maybe the most significant) factor that needs to be considered, is the quality of the teaching. I'm sure most people here had an experience trying to understand a particularly difficult concept in Math class, staring at the equations spanning many pages, full of Greek symbols, feeling hopeless, only to have it explained by someone in a really intuitive way. When this happened to me I felt a combination of joy and frustration - if only every difficult topic could be presented in such an intuitive, way I could understand everything! Conversely my previous attempts at understanding the sea of Greek symbols on the paper was wasted effort, even after cracking the problem it didn't bring me closer to enhancing my understanding.
The improvement was not a factor of time investment, or increased intelligence on my part
Thanks for reminding me of that thread.

Agtech is very easy to understand. It is a data play.

When you think of Tesla, do you think of it as an automobile company or a data company? Some(like me) would argue that they are in the business of data rather than cars.

It’s the same for Agtech. Are they about agriculture or are they about data? For now, it’s the latter.

And this doesn’t help farmers. Maybe we need FarmerTech rather than Agtech.
How hard it is to do is not the determining factor. The question is whether the compan(ies) already in the space have created illegal roadblocks to your success.

I’d say creating a new mobile device is more easily possible today than at any time in the past, and in fact can be done on a relatively modest budget. [1]

Take for example Purism, maker of the line of Librem devices, which has raised a few million dollars over the years and has about $1 million in revenue.

[1] - https://medium.com/os-alternative/2020-will-be-the-year-of-a...
Burdening all five users of FX or Nashorn with the one time act of dependency management setup is a much lower cost for java popularity than burdening all other users of java with the repeated minor annoyance of JRE bloat. As a bonus, both have a much better chance of seeing continued development outside of the stifling rigidness of the JRE development process.
To simplify too much, yes.

Firstly, demand is not always a given. Sometimes it's built in to a market, other times it needs to be created. Other times, there's demand but no known solution if your work is novel, so you need to educate the market as to the benefits of your solution and to win trust in it.

Also, it's entirely possible to supply a product which meets a demand at good unit economics but fail because of other issues - recession, international political issues, governmental pressure, societal or social issues...

Finally, you need a market to be willing to accept a solution. It's entirely possible to have a better product, but lose the Comms/trust game in a winner takes all market situation.

Failure can come through issues in any of about nine different areas, but it always boils down to an issue in profitability or marketing. How that's expressed can take lots of forms. Hence you can simplify that far, and no further.
> I expect to pay for Android and iOS while I buy the device

I think when you buy an Android phone you aren't paying for the OS (based on a quick search it seems that Google doesn't get a cut of Samsung phone sales and doesn't charge OEMs any licensing fees).
I think thats the point of dream journaling - the dream itself doesn't matter, what matters is how your subconscious mind fills in the blanks to create meaning relevant to your waking life.

Very interesting ideas in this thread:
1. Remembering the dream you were just having re-induces sleep
2. Writing a dream journal first thing every morning as a means of warming up higher levels of cognition (to help break through the morning haze)
3. Given #1 and #2: if you stop journaling, you might end up with a habit that puts you back to sleep in the mornings.
That feeling when a stable version of Wayland will be released on Windows faster than on Linux ;(

(disclaimer: i've tried to use it on Nvidia, but it's far from being usable, also tried to use it on Radeon 5700, it hangs on start, even mouse didn't work)
DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself
Very few people are really interested in epistemology: https://jakeseliger.com/2020/11/10/personal-epistemology-fre...
The difference is that Newton's theory of gravity comports with what every single person experiences in real life, in the same way. So nobody's really prone to believe it's some sort of hoax.
Ah yeah, the Rudy you’re thinking of is Rudy Huyn - he’s now working at MS on first-party native Windows apps.
The flip side of this is that Sony (finally) made an APS-C mirrorless, in the α6600, which has a recording time that's only limited by power or storage.

So it was never impossible, and it isn't just a Nerf to segment customers into the cinema bracket. It's just an area where they're willing to compromise.

Without IBIS, the αN < 6500s aren't great for many video applications, they're photo cameras which can also take some video. I suspect that Sony just didn't realize the degree to which the YouTube generation would be using their entry-level mirrorless systems for extensive video. Consider that it took them a generation to make flip screens standard, and that they bumped the battery size and ability to record indefinitely on (only) the model which has IBIS: that's a nudge, saying "If you want to record a lot of video, the α6600 is the model you want".
How about the Dragon Hoard? Files are hosted on Archive.org, and have been for a year and a half without being taken down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19569865
I doubt they would just dump heat to the threaded base for a few reasons:

1) Heated metal expands, and different heated metals expand at different rates, changing tolerances for threaded mounts and possibly causing thermal locking and/or looseness.

2) Managing heat over time is about diffusing the dangerously high temps (e.g. near boiling) to areas large enough stay safe for human contact while also being exposed to air to shed that heat. A pinch point threaded mount under a rubberized/plastic body will absorb thermal shocks (quick use) but will equalize to very close to the junction temperature of the processor over time, aided only slightly by the other parts of the camera that are poor thermal conductors. Basically, that spot would become a burn risk.

See ASTM C1055 - https://www.astm.org/Standards/C1055.htm

The short version is that you need to keep things under 60C/140F if there's a chance a person could touch it.
"Last Thursday" and "An hour ago" were part of the stock Amiga OS but it didn't include "Christmas 1990".
Software Development and IT weren't sexy or mainstream during the Dot Com bubble? That is quite an ahistorical opinion imo. I'm old enough to remember the mountain of 'Learn Java in 24 Hours' books at every bookstore in the 90s.
Andy Grove: Rich, Famous, Smart and Wrong (2007)
I got involved very early and had to roll my own implementation using terraform and shell scripts.

It has been in productions for a long time without issue. Only downside is that we have to do blue green upgrades for major versions instead of in-place upgrades.

I keep pushing for our customer to adopt eks or gke, anything but my custom code base.
The second edition of the book is actually slated for release in July. You can preorder it on Amazon.
You probably mean the Secure Enclave. The Secure Element contains payment applications and keys for Apple Pay.
LOVE this map style. Thinking about moving down to Namibia.
It’s even worse. Systemd, dbus and journald are basically service manager, DCOM and Event Log from windows, but worse!

It’s not the wrong type of solution but systemd is somewhat stinky compared to what we could have had.
> revealing them only on interaction

but you can't interact with them except by bringing the mouse over the right side, and you can't see them so you literally have lost a visual cue of the very thing you want to interact with. It's just amazing.
When I see articles like this I always think about a few things:

1) Hiring a consulting firm is a great way to get the heat off of your own back. It's amazing this works too, because, at the end of the day, the consultants don't have control! They just make recommendations that you can choose to accept or not. NYC was in full control the entire time but here they get to shift the blame to a 3rd party without any actual control. What a great deal as a manager to remove culpability.

2) It's amazing how much everyone hates consultants and immediately begin to pile on them in these cases without any consideration for the culpability of those who took the recommendations. It makes #1 that much stronger!

3) Ultimately whenever I see this I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the people who took the recommendations and implemented them. Don't let them (the managers of NYC jails) shift the blame to an out group you're conditioned to hate when the entire locus of control is on the managers!!!