skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate JS and PHP but I do reach for Elixir for most of my web work because it parallelizes transparently, unlike PHP where you literally have to spin several interpreters -- separate OS processes -- and somehow coordinate through them. And this "coordination" turns out to have a lot of holes. So why not use a language that's explicitly made to coordinate between a lot of tasks easily?

An experienced programmer might appreciate most tech (I certainly do and I recognize what they brought to the table) but there also comes the time to retire some of that tech because you have something that has all the benefits of the old stuff plus new goodies that make productivity objectively better -- we're not talking some fanboyism here like "I like the syntax better!", we're talking "I can make it in 2 days as opposed to 5, plus it will have less bugs on the first deployment" (which is something that statically and strongly typed languages like Rust bring to the table).

I worked with PHP, with Java, with JS, some .NET, and a bunch of others. I wouldn't reach for them nowadays. I recognize that rewriting some systems might cost millions and I am sympathetic to the companies who can't just spend that much and are keeping their old giants alive and well. More power to them. But there are many situations where new and improved tech can be picked, yet people still refuse because of the fear of the unknown and because they became way too set in their ways.

A lot of modern tech -- Elixir, Rust, F#, BuckleScript, Nim, Zig being a few good examples -- only lacks the network effects of Java / PHP / JS and it beats them in almost every other aspect.

Inertia. Problem is always the inertia and people becoming old men in their 30s, yelling: "Back in my day <this> and <that>...!". (Hell, I've seen people being like that at 27 years old; quite sad.)

So no, languages aren't just a hammer and a saw. Some languages can only be a saw ever, some can be a lame hammer and a lame screwdriver at the same time, others can only ever be a good car to transport tools from one place to another.

What a "good developer" is, is a guy/girl who can use one or more of them in a team where each shines in their strong area.
Yeah, although not on the AGPL licensed services.
A faster compiling machine is the difference between sustaining a state of flow critical to developer productivity, or not. Paying even $5000 for a desktop that yields probably a 2x improvement in productivity for someone paid at least $10K a month is a total no-brainer.
Yes I've looked at these ones first, but they were more expensive and I went the safe and cheap route with Lenovo.
The AZ vaccine style has seen somewhat wider deployment so we know a little more about it, but it's still a mixed bag: https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/Adenoviral-vect...
The often are non-binding. Read up on "contracts of adhesion". Business doesn't fall apart because at the end of the day it mostly doesn't matter if you obey TOS. This has nothing to do with privacy though, since there's (in most cases) no law against what the companies are doing with the day.
> LeCun mentioned that there would have been opposite problem if it were trained on a dataset from Senegal. But why wasn't it trained on a dataset from Senegal? Why do we always see these errors where white-centric datasets produce white-centric results?

Probably because it was a research AI not a production AI. Having a very diverse dataset at that stage doesn’t help with your research, so it is fine to use whatever is easily available.

At that stage, you are trying to show that your approach can work in some cases. Once you've got that, it is time to expand the research with a wider range of inputs to find out what the limits of your approach are.

For example, if I were trying to make a US English speech to text transcription system, I might start with recordings of assorted NPR programs, because NRP often makes the recording available online along with they transcripts.

That would be great for determining if my basic approach has promise. Once I have determined that, so know that the whole endeavor is not just a waste of time, I could go looking for data that includes speech that has characteristics that would be missing from the NPR data, such as heavy regional accents.
I'm all for the Amazon hate train but this is pretty weak. The journalist first says Pinkerton was hired in Poland to investigate irregularities in their application process. Amazon says they only hire Pinkerton to "secure shipments". The "acquired document" says that Amazon tracks social media information about labor organization and strokes. It's all over the place, and even assuming all parties report the truth, no one actually says that Pinkerton is doing surveillance related to unions.

Maybe NPR is missing something from the original article, which I couldn't find linked, but come on.
I am responding to the complete CDC advice. The comment before that is the virtue signaling I am talking about. They focus on mask wearing only without also advocating for social distancing.
I still do not understand any of the value add of Sagemaker.
Stripe Treasury does not violate our terms, and allows SaaS platforms (and similar) to provide their business users with access to capabilities which are regulated with those capabilities fulfilled by entities with the appropriate licensing and backed by our financial partners. This is similar to how our Connect product lets our regulated entity do money transmission on behalf of a demand economy company without them needing to do money transmission themselves.

Goldman Sachs is one of our financial partners for Stripe Treasury. Specifically, they provide custodial services for the money management accounts. For more details on this sort of thing, I'd recommend reading or having your lawyer read the contracts.

KYC goes through Stripe's processes. This is both operationally complicated and something that we generally do not go into detail on.

Given that the implementing SaaS business will control the UX around initiating a payment, they could control how much or little bookkeeping to do at time of a payment or transfer. Let me know if that doesn't answer the thrust of this question.
Well mongodb is a much better product than it was a few years ago. not saying its a good one but...

and aws elastic is just a fork of a stable elastic release. it makes sense if the cost is competitive
My experience is it is possible earn a lot more than that in the UK as a senior engineer, even outside of London
There was a video the other day from Gamers Nexus[0] that explained that in the pecking order, the DIY builder/enthusiast community is down at the bottom of the list when it comes to orders... Microsoft and Sony are at the top, followed by the OEMs, then the builders.
[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZHYCN-vw4&t=1562s
Again, you're thinking of an era where slide rules were relatively affordable. That's mid-twentieth century stuff (although the key word is relatively; my first good slide rule cost more than a month's rent at the time).
Some times new decision makers join the company and they want to use other cloud providers. That's a valid concern that most people should have as they're building out things specific to one vendor.
There's a reason "marketplaces" get a call out on this landing page. Every single startup that has to manage buyers and sellers ends up needing to implement their own bespoke "treasury" operations. There are other players in this space (Modern Treasury for example), but obviously the distinct Stripe advantage is integrating with the payment stack.

This would have saved years of development efforts and maintenance on treasury operations for my team at a previous gig (in the live events/ticketing space, who are probably going to read this comment - hi guys).
Hardly any sidewalk in America is wide enough for two adults to pass at a distance of 2m.
The locations of the engine necessitated flawed control mechanism designs which caused the crash.

The locations of the engine and a plane flown without mcas will also cause the plane to crash.

The technical debt transferred over to the control mechanism and now all the engineers and people who worked on and funded the plane are responsible for killing over 300 people. These are peoples lives at stake. Fix the technical debt. Saying the control mechanism crashed the plane and just fixing that is like saying you didn't put enough duct tape over the real problem.

Don't Cover it up.
BPF for Observability: Getting Started Quickly
That's true -- the parser can just translate any lookalike errors into the canonical character.

But I wish the standard was to keep all digits and drop the lookalike letters. I can't think of a reason for the extra (human) burden of remembering whether it's 0 over O, or I over 1, etc.
The point about being able to upgrade ram or upgrade to whatever you want doesn’t make sense.

A ram upgrade will never compensate for a less efficient memory architecture.

There is no CPU architecture other than Apple’s that will make your laptop faster because AMD and Intel are thermally limited, so there is nothing to upgrade to.

The only situation in which you are right, is if you are talking about a high end desktop tower.
the Financial Times has been tracking this: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest, although it seems to lag somewhat.
Unfortunately the USB-C is only USB 3.2, not Thunderbolt capable. It's not a thinkpad, it's sold as a "gaming laptop" that's why it's cheaper.
hi - US Citizen in College Town with low covid19 and high compliance here.. One liners, either from Public Health Advocates, trendy social media people, or well-meaning neighbors who exercise control statements as a method of interacting with others, are not going to "fix" the problems of covid19 today.

As an avid bicyclist I do not wear a mask on long distance solo bike rides, and I get harsh or worried looks from seniors. However, I understand the details and am not exposing myself or others.

A major challenge in public health messaging is the intractable problem of lack of context and lack of intellectual effort by all parties. Mix in serious consequences and you have a recipe for conflict quickly.

So "virtue signalling" is a one liner, my post is a one liner (almost) and, public health officials face millions of inconvenienced, ill or panic'd people with their "one liner"

Please wash hands, be mindful of others, take it seriously and no, I do not wear a mask on my long distance solo bike rides.
Focusing on masks alone while ignoring the complete CDC advice is virtue signaling.
The numbers say otherwise.
I completely share your opinion.

Some things blow my mind: fellow good earning engineer uses subway few times a week he goes to the office. Afterward his corona app tells him to go and do test. He does test like every 2 weeks. And he owns a car:-/

My colleagues never wear masks in the office. My manager starts always with “this is another flue” story, but he at least wears a mask.
> It’s also hard to find good people to lead enterprise sales, particularly if you’ve been a product led founder and don’t know what good enterprise sales looks like.

Reposting to emphasize this excellent point.

If you’ve never been part of an enterprise sales effort you need someone to help you get it going, much less make it happen. It’s a completely different world: very expensive, very slow, weird, and very lucrative if you can get it to work.
"Virus" is also a word that frequently gets pluralized incorrectly, if you're thinking of it as a Latin word used in an English context. The only plural form that makes sense in English is "viruses," mostly because the Latin form actually has no plural. [0]

That doesn't stop people from writing "virii," however. Both "octopi [1]" and "virii" are examples of linguistic hypercorrection [2], in which a speaker misapplies a known linguistic rule that seems to fit, but does not. Neither of these examples are attested in the source language the word derives from; people literally use them just to sound smart, most of the time.

Other examples are using "whom" in places where the correct word would be "who," not using a preposition to end a sentence or clause with [3], and to not split infinitives [4].

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[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#Etymology

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection

[2]: I kinda like "octopodes" myself, but that may just be me.

[3]: Winston Churchill is frequently quoted saying something like "this is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put." This is most likely apocryphal. See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/04/churchill-prepositi...

[4]: My favorite origin theory for this one is basically "you couldn't do it in Latin, so don't do it in English." Early grammarians frequently took inspiration from Latin, because its grammar was already well-codified, mostly due to it being a dead-ish language. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive#The_argument_...
> The programs for coca eradication each year cost four trillion pesos ($1 billion). Buying the entire coca harvest each year would cost 2.6 trillion pesos ($680 million). It costs less to buy the harvest than to destroy it.

Yeah, I don't know how long that'll stay true when you have a guaranteed buyer for a product...
Electrocharged respirator fabrics with common materials: A candy machine N95
Is that really true? Maybe it takes 30 min to calculate from first principles, but I'd expect you could have a book of tables that tells you with just one or two lookups.
> Some start companies and risk their life savings, others prefer the safety of salaried position.

Yet Scandinavian countries have higher rates of entrepreneurship than the US does.
I agree with every word you say.
Got any hard evidence for these anecdotes? Your comment reads very poorly and is likely against the community guidelines here.
In short: contracts are only as valid as you want them to be or as a powerful entity can force them upon you.
For the most part, people don't even try to make drugs for proteins that don't have structures, so that's one. As was mentioned in the anecdote, even as it exists AlphaFold can be an extremely powerful ally in structure elucidation in combination with lab methods. So this will help us increase the targetable list of proteins, especially the tricky ones that were harder to crystallize.

Once Alpha Fold or future programs get better with side chain modeling (not even for the entire protein just some parts), they will also allow complete computer based design of new antibodies against any target of choice (this is currently only possible through experiments and the technologies that allow this are all heavily patented and proprietary).

Variations of AlphaFold will also be significantly useful in research in general, potentially becoming fundamental enough that every project working with proteins might reach out to this tool like they reach out to to say mass spectrometry or flow cytometry.
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Don't bother. You can't tell Americans anything. For every aspect of American society there is a great example of some other country that does it better.
Stripe Treasury presently supports USD only, but we do envision multicurrency accounts as we roll it out to more markets.

Depending on where you are, we may have like-for-like settlement available for you (allowing you to receive EUR to a EUR-denominated account you have and USD to a USD-denominated account you have, saving conversion fees). Write support@stripe.com for more details on whether it is available for you specifically.
it's not just the way the world works. it's the way capitalism works. I don't think it's unfair for people to be fed up with watching these things happen while the root causes continue to be largely taken for granted.
Seems more helpful to link to the original article on Motherboard: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...

Among other things the article differentiates between the internal Amazon org monitoring union-forming activities and the Pinkertons who were tasked with looking into warehouse workers for unrelated reasons which the NPR headline seems to conflate.
Stryd, Boulder, CO, Techstars Boulder 2015 | Growth Marketing Specialist | http://www.stryd.com

Stryd is a talented, multidisciplinary team that is redesigning how runners train and race, bringing together the human desire to move, and the science to do it smarter. Our informative and guiding technologies are integrated into wearables that people are excited and proud to wear.

We are looking for a Growth Marketing Specialist. You’ll work closely with developers, hardware engineers, scientists, & customers - to identify and understand what runners want & need most, and work hard to build great sales solutions to connect a necessary product to a motivated market and delight runners of all levels.

We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Our work environment is open, supportive, and fast-paced. There is tremendous room for growth.

You may be good fit if you have

* Proven results in driving growth for a start-up or small company with tactical utilization of media tools within advertising channels/platforms, including tag management systems; build reports and analyze data; and implement A/B testing and experimentation that’s both accurate and rapid.
* 3-5+ years of experience in digital marketing in e-commerce, sports, entertainment, or related industries. Consumer Products, or DTC startup experience.
* Previous experience with defining adaptive digital strategies measured and improved over time through attributable-purchase metrics (e.g., ROAS).
* Strong strategic, project management, organizational, problem-solving, and analytical thinking skills.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills – both verbal and written to clearly convey market dynamics, strategies, tactics, rationale and results, to peers, agency, and executive stakeholders.
* A shared passion for running to compliment the Stryd customer base and team.

We offer:
* Competitive salary and equity.
* Roth and traditional 401k with company matching.
* Excellent health insurance.
* Flexible paid vacation and working schedules.
* Yearly tuition benefits for qualified post-secondary learning.

Being able to relocate to Boulder for the position is preferred. If interested, please send an email to kun@stryd.com.
using the tech still takes effort, which is preferred to be spent on incarceration than public health.
Okey, calling it a "long-term gamble" only sounds fair to me.

Talking about value, isn't blockchain / crypto analogous to a medium that enables moving money quickly? If yes, internet would be similar in some sense (we have instant local money transfers these days) but we don't have anything that tracks internet as an investment.

Coming back to it, I can rationalize myself investing in a money transfer business that is build on blockchain (think Transferwise that uses a mix of technology and banking agreements) and generates some revenue for me. But if that middleman can be removed, I cannot suddenly start considering that piece of technology, an investment.
Flying the Nest: WebThings Gateway 1.0
Couldn't the facebook app just listen for signal fingerprints? For example, Nielsen embeds digital fingerprints into songs so that it can tell what you listen to without listening to the full audio stream. They simply listen for a certain pattern, and make note when they detect the pattern. You could do the same with with "coffee" or "jogging" or "yoga mat". You don't listen to the conversation audio, you detect audio fingerprints.
I may not have a full understanding on the project, but I have doubt.

One benefit of Push is that the server can potentially generate a group of responses together, which can be much cheaper than generating them individually. When prefetch is used instead of push, the decision on when and what to fetch is on the client, so if the server could generate them as a group, a proxy like Vulcain would have to buffer the results somehow until the browser asks for them, which is not ideal. I might be wrong, but I don't think their server ever intended to fix the Query+1 issue.

If Vulcain and Push already worked well for you in the past, maybe it's still as effective without Push though!
It is reasonable to think that the first vaccine will be approved next week and a few million people will have their first dose. The second dose (3 weeks latter) will be next year, and it is a week after that before full protection arrives.
From her Twitter a week ago:
“Nothing like a bunch of privileged White men trying to squash research by marginalized communities for marginalized communities by ordering them to STOP with ZERO conversation. The amount of disrespect is incredible. Every time I think about it my blood starts boiling again.”

And making it clear that it’s about Google: “Where I'm currently working.”

Surprised she wasn’t fired then.
I think part of the confusion is the word “currency”, which implies it’s something like USD.

Ethereum’s ETH token, for example, is an asset that will appreciate if demand of the Ethereum network increases for real-world business applications (not just financial payments). That makes it much more like investing in a limited resource (ex: oil) that will go up in value.

It’s still speculating, but most stock investments are close enough to speculation that you can’t really tell the difference.
The Collapse of the Intrinsic/Prudential Judgment Distinction
I am college-educated and live in a diverse urban city, yet when I saw Gebru's Medium photo I did not realize she was a Black woman. If a human has trouble with facial recognition, then A.I. definitely needs a lot more help and guidance.
All versions of SQLite from 3.0.0 (2004-06-18) through 3.34.0 (the latest) use the same database file format. So if two applications use different versions of SQLite, it shouldn't matter. The database file will be the same.

Now, if one application uses a more recent version of SQLite and also makes use of some new feature (say, for example, generated columns which were added in release 3.31.0) then that might result in a database file that is unreadable by older versions since the older version won't be able to interpret the generated column syntax. But if you assume that all different versions of SQLite that you use have support for all of the features used in the database file (a reasonable assumption in most cases) then the database files are completely portable across versions. Different versions of SQLite can read/write the same database file concurrently. And newer versions of SQLite are always able to read/write databases created by older versions of SQLite, without exception or precondition.

So perhaps the "sqlite format conflict" example was not the best, in as much as it will always work as long as the package manager installs the most recent version of SQLite.

All of the above is also true for the API.
Being baptized doesn't transform anyone into anything. Catholicism is a belief system, not a law of physics or chemistry. If you don't adhere, then you aren't an adherent.

TIL there are people who call themselves Catholic who don't follow the Holy See and think that that's not a contradiction. I guess that's neat.
Check http://madlib.apache.org/
Clinton, Bush, Obama volunteer for public COVID vaccination to show it's safe
Then it is literally "virtue signaling" but in this context it's entirely appropriate to require people to virtue signal.

It's also an interesting illustration of why things like virtue signaling are a sociological phenomenon to begin with. They're hard-wired into us, for good reasons.
The real puzzler is how they used both spellings in one headline.
You can't even buy them though. Sold out everywhere. Hopefully next year they'll be back in stock.