skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Free speech doesn't apply to the workplace"? What a fascist view. We're supposed to shut up and happily serve our corporate overlords for the majority of our waking lifes?
I don't think I underestimate the speed nor velocity of the advancement, just being realistic about the scope of the advancements. I follow conferences and read ML papers (DL & DL/ML application in Robotics) regularly so I think I have a some grasp on the advancement in the field. GAN sure have been a big step, and have found a great usage. (deepfake etc) but I'd say it is still highly overblown. Like GPT3 it will see wide adaptation enough to make visible improvement (and problems) in certain industries, just as better classifiers changed a lot.

I also don't like the blanket term of "automation" because it is like AI: too vague and often used by someone who don't fully grasp HOW hard automation tasks are (and how the complexity scale and differs from the task ). Just as optimism in Self-driving car is now more on low-fire.

The over-promise of ML is something akin to people expecting "it to just get better" similar to Moore's law. If you take a look at what direction the algorithms are improving, what incremental advancements are being made the scope of the speed and velocity become much more clear; and just because cars get faster, doesn't mean it will one day fly to space like a rocket. If we one day in short term future see great improvement, it will probably not be the ML improvements, but due external factors (hardware, network speed, etc)
People have been killing each other and themselves for the supremacy of fairy tales since the beginning of time, but please tell me how getting someone to believe a conspiracy theory and vote "badly" is somehow a society-breaking new invention.
Big companies keep getting away from having union being created. Why can't the government make creation of unions mandatory for companies of a certain size?
I've been using preact with parcel for over half a year now and it has been a blast!

It seems to be 100% compatible with React. It's fast, it's small. And with preact/compat you can use any third party react component.

I'm a particular fan of https://github.com/developit/htm, which is an alternative to JSX that simply uses JS template strings and needs no preprocessor.
It's not true that there aren't engineers with these skills - there are thousands of them in the US and more worldwide - so if you can't hire them then either:

* you aren't looking (seems unlikely)

* there's something toxic about your team that means they'd never work for you and you should fix that (hopefully unlikely)

* you aren't paying enough to make the move worthwhile for them (seems likely as people never want to pay the going rate)

That's why I presumed salary. Double your salary and you may suddenly find you're being flooded with contacts from the compiler engineers at places like Google. If that's the case then your only problem was the compensation you were offering and not a problem with education.
That seems pretty ignorant of the history involved.
The reverse charge is still VAT being paid, just differently.
The DNS name sounds easier to say over the phone...
There are several traces of light that don't seem to be made by the sun, a zigzag pattern running vertically on the right among other things. Wonder what those could be?
As long as the epidemic doesn't run close to saturation (and given the multiple effective vaccines it likely won't, ever), NPI-induced relative spread advantages of one strain over another don't make a difference unless they are also absolute advantages compared to non-NPI-scenario. And given the strength of pre- and asymptomatic spread of this particular virus, it's almost immune to selective pressure for weaker symptoms anyways (scarcity of PCR and deep connect tracing can cause some pressure).
"And [google] also accessed an employee slide presentation that was part of a union drive, the complaint said."

Does anyone know if this means that they accessed customer files while doing a 'completely unrelated' investigation?

In other words, if a member of a homeless shelter association is complaining loudly enough about google security's behaviour, will google read their files to find donors they can pressure?
There's a few different actions. First, since it isn't developed the paper effectively acts extremely slowly. Whereas normal photographic paper would be around 6 or up to 20 ISO, doing it this way is almost immeasurably slow. Getting similar results without a pinhole and just something layed on top (photogenic drawing), it would take several hours in direct sun to get a decent image. The next contributing factor is that some papers "print out" easier than others. The hard ones will take hours in direct sunlight, while the easier ones might take "only" 30 minutes or so. The final factor is that pinhole is a very slow and low contrast method of exposure. Silver halide paper suffers from "repricocity failure" where basically during a very long exposure, the material becomes massively less sensitive. This is why film is so hard for astrophotography. A 100 ISO film over several hours can become something more like 1 ISO. Either way, the end result is that the paper gets very slow and gains a very wide exposure latitude, nearly impossible to over expose.
Not an evolutionary biologist, but I think it's better to think of it as potentially killing off an earlier, less virulent strain.

Putting it in concrete terms, if you have two versions of the virus, X which for each infected person tends to infect 1.8 others, and Y which tends to infect 2.8 others, then after ten days there might be more people infected with Y than X, but X would still be around.

Now if everyone takes precautions, maybe those rates are cut in half. Now X only infects 0.9 people per infected person, and thus dies out, while Y is still infecting 1.4 people per infected person, and thus is still spreading, just slower.
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Funny how it's always brand new throwaway accounts that pop up to do this grovelling corporate apologetics for these poor innocent long-suffering megacorps.
The bone problems are caused by nutrient deficiencies and inflammation from the digestive issues, correct?
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But will it run modern web pages and youtube?
If anything, Google's employees are in the best position to unionize. The original concept of organized labour was conceived with skilled tradesmen in mind, since they would be the hardest to replace, and therefore would have the most bargaining power. The concept of the unionized factory floor worker came much later.

From a pure leverage perspective, Google employees, especially in highly specialized areas like ML, are in an excellent position. They are legally entitled to that power, so why shouldn't they wield it?
Perhaps Google has a strict security policy with lax enforcement (i.e. regularly violated by employees and normally tolerated) which makes it useful for selectively enforcing against people you need a good reason to fire?
There’s a great Wikipedia article which is apt here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect?wprov=sfti1

It’s perhaps best encapsulated by Douglas Hofstadter’s quip: “AI is whatever hasn't been done yet”.

The point being, AI is a moving target, and the threshold for reaching it migrates further which each new accomplishment in the field. If you showed the ML of today to someone in the sixties, you’d have a hard time convincing them it wasn’t AI.

But I don’t believe this is an issue reserved only for the press. At least anecdotally, practitioners don’t think of it this way either.
Yes, because the maintenance of such a library is astronomical! </sarcasm>
These conversations always go like this. It becomes tedious.

1) I don't care what Rothbard became in the end. It is completely irrelevant. Rothbard's critique of the state is an interesting perspective and some of them seem particularly apt when the leviathan of government is eroding people's rights because of COVID.

2) As for the Hoppe quote. The "neo-reactionary" you mention can be counted on one hand. The activist left (which is why that quote is on wikipedia in the first place) will take quotes and call someone alt-right based on one spicy paragraph in a book (which is exactly the trick you've tried here and I am not that naive to fall for it).

I haven't read "Democracy the God that failed" (yet) and I will decide for myself once I've read the book. I very much doubt it is a new feudalism and I very much doubt you've read the book either.

From watching him speaking. Hoppe's construction seems to be that given the choice between King and a Politician, a King would be better. His rationale for this is sound IMO. The most important part of it (for me) is a King will care about his legacy and a politician typically won't.

My own feelings is that I've never thought that democracy is effective or desirable. I've found the act of voting to be completely pointless due to the fact I have nobody to vote for in the UK that represents my interests of decreasing the state.

The only time when voting is effectives is during referendums when it is a single issue. Even then it isn't effective The UK's politicians and press did everything they could to deny the referedum result (and are still doing so btw).

I have heard arguments that the whole idea of democracy itself has been perverted during the enlightenment of those putting a Christian/Individualist perspective on Athenian ideas. But I won't pretend to know the argument well enough to have any opinion either way on it.
What kind of entities does your broker rent them out to? Are you worried at all about tenants trashing your IPs' reputation and future market value?
Not sure. I had COVID recently, so according to the current research I should be good for a few months at least. I guess will see that science says then and act accordingly. In any case I'd be at the end of the line for people who need to be vaccinated.
I completely agree.

Conceptually, no and low code tools allow you tred along the _trodden_ path.

Sooner or later you're going to want to go somewhere new, and when you do want to provide something custom where do you go?

Dreamweaver tried to do this in the 90s and failed, personally I still think we're a long way off from a generalised solution.
Neither. Google is selectively enforcing their security policy. The article explains: "It fired a number of staff for violating data security - but the NLRB said the rules were applied only to those engaging in union activity."
Well, personally, I wouldn't want to be thought of as disadvantaged. Nor the other way around, though I guess that's less bad. You could give the "right" answers to get the "result" you want. But lying isn't too great either. Hence, not answering or answering randomly seems like the best choice.

You can just let people request help if they want it.
Orwell: Predicted a dystopian surveillance state where every word is monitored, unacceptable speech is deleted, history is rewritten or deleted altogether and individuals can become 'unpersons' for holding views disliked by those in power

Revelations: Predicted that "both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, are to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark"
Almost every one at all institutions I have worked in the past was guilty of a security breach of some sort. One org mandated that you were not allowed to have the 2FA token and your laptop in the same bag. But almost everyone, including me, at some point had their token on the keyring - if you’d throw that in your backpack, put the laptop in you had a security breach. In another, you were not allowed to leave the laptop in a car unattended - leave it in at the gas station while going to pay: security breach. And so on.

Security breaches are convenient as cause: If rules are sufficiently byzantine, everyone breaches them at some point or another. “Security breach” also sounds bad enough that few will question the decision to fire. “But everyone does it.” is no defense against an alleged security breach. Whether the rules actually increase security doesn’t matter.
Another apt article: https://link.medium.com/hLkrmNzD9bb
Thank you very much for your very thoughtful suggestion. This is absolutely the sort of technology/design that we are drawn to and will be looking at.
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To be fair, they did the right thing in dismissing it. They could completely demolish it though.
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That isn't that clear to me, I feel that you are reading to much into it and seem to be looking for a fight where there is none?
Sorry, can't sympathize. When I compare Elon Musk to Tory Bruno, it's a vast difference. Tory truly is a rocket man!
Are you simply stupid or is it something worse?
We have a different culture in the UK, no one will confront you for using the disabled spot even if you look fully able bodied. They announce in supermarkets "some people have an invisible disability and are not able to wear a mask" so people don't get harassed for that too. It's pretty good. Unfortunately this trust does get abused but when it works it's good.
Lex malla, lex nulla (bad law is no law). This is one of the best arguments in favor of either enforcing laws (or rules) to the letter or striking them down. This is the ugly side of leniency.
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Only devs that don't code for Android can ever consider it an open source Linux based OS.

The fact that it uses Linux kernel and related features is an implementation detail, only visible to Google and OEMs.

What regular developers see is a Java/Kotlin based userland, with a native layer having a set of predefined stable APIs, which includes ISO C, ISO C++ standard libraries, a POSIX subset, GL/Vulkan and a couple of Android specific ones.

Tomorrow Android can be another Fucshia subsystem, and again, only Google and OEMs will notice the change.
Interesting premise. But why doesn’t anyone look at the bigger elephant in the room?

Sometime in April 2019, reports of a mysterious illness started surfacing. They thought it was related to vaping products. [1]

Then in July 2019, a respiratory illness hit a retirement home in Virginia, and killed a bunch of old people. [2]

Then the Wuhan military games was in mid October 2019.

Then China reported of an unknown pneumonia in early December. They thought it came from a seafood market, which was proven incorrect.

The western world harassed them and accused them of eating bats, and transmitting the disease, which is also proven to be incorrect.

China then back-traced the earliest case to mid November. Which happens to coincide a few weeks after the Wuhan military games. Just the right amount of time for the virus to incubate and wreck havoc.

New evidence is suggesting that the virus was in Italy before it was in China. [3]

But the interesting thing, is that when they took MRI scans of the vaping outbreak patients, they saw white orbs in the picture in their lungs. Coincidentally, Covid-19 victims also had these white orbs in their lungs.

The whole origin of this virus was always very mysterious. Something just never seemed right about it.

The vaping thing just came and disappeared. Nobody really knows what caused it, just a few random theories about contaminated cartridges. But here’s the strange thing. Those vaping pens, are all made in China. And are sold all over the world. People in China uses those vaping pens everywhere, but there were no reports of a mysterious illness from it in China. Only in the United States and a few in Canada. Not even Europe reported any issues.

Why was it reported only in the United States? Then soon after, all the other pieces began to fall into place, one after the other.

To get down to the true origin of this virus, then they need to check those vaping people. Check them for the Covid-19 antibodies.

Then check the nursing home people from Virginia, for those that survived, for Covid-19 antibodies.

Then check the people that went to the Wuhan military games for Covid-19 antibodies.

Or not. And just conveniently blame China for being the origin of the virus, just because they were the first ones to detect it, and report it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_vaping_lung_...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/us/virginia-retirement-commun...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...
The corrosion problem has been blown way out of corrosion, and I suspect, you're confusing it with the graphite swelling problem.

Pure nickel won't corrode in fuel salt, so to a first approximation, Hastelloy N works fine and lasts forever. Chromium is dissolved superficially, but this process is self-limiting. Two more corrosion mechanism were identified: some nickel transmutes and releases helium, which migrates to grain boundaries, and the fission product tellurium reacts with the metal. Solutions for both problems were identified by 1974, but never tested, because the MSR program was terminated.

What is more likely to limit core life, is the graphite. Graphite, when irradiated, first shrinks, then swells. MSBR had a very complicated core made of precisely manufactured graphite pipes. These would crack and deform, and then they need to be replaced. Everyone who is considering a graphite moderated core seems to plan for a long life of the pot and a four year life of the graphite inside it. Copenhagen Atomics plans to use heavy water for moderation, so there is no graphite to worry about.
Don't have a mac, but looking forward to testing it on linux!
>> Why are compilers ones behind the curve?

I suspect it’s because there aren’t a lot of high quality libraries you can integrate into the backend of compiler tools that don’t run into license issues pretty fast. Imagine if GNU binutils was more permissively licensed and as modular as clang? Then developing novel, non-GPL’d compiler infrastructure could depend on BFD - the boring part that working on won’t bring bonafide improvements to your new compiler. Another factor is that LLVM’s quality and ubiquity has reduced the monetary and technical upside to pursuing new opportunities in compiler development.
Maybe I mis-understood what's supposed to be being checked here. I thought the point was surfacing critical projects that are under supported.

So a highly dependent project that has plenty of support for its needs should not need to be brought to anyone's attention. I'm guessing python, llvm, clang, chromium, webkit, C#, visual studio code, off the top of my head are all well funded and supported open source projects.

I don't know what good examples of under supported but critical open source projects are. I guess I've read that OpenSSL was massively under supported but apparently the solution chosen was to throw it under the bus and promote libssl or boringssl or something like that (completely out of my expertise)
I spent about fifteen years working at Melbourne House in Australia (which went from being independent to being bought by Infogrammes/Atari, and was then bought by Krome, before finally being wound down, but it was mostly the same awesome group of talented folks for most of that time. At the end, I’d been there for fifteen years and still wasn’t in the top ten list of longest-serving employees; I felt like only a medium-sized fish in a very large pond).

After that, I went to an EA studio for a couple years (which was very difficult for me, as I was put on a smallish team where I literally had more years of experience than everyone else on the team added together; I was suddenly in the very strange situation where any silly thing I said would just be taken as gospel and acted upon, and it took me a very long time to figure out how to behave to mitigate the risks of that). Then I did a couple years in (non-games) statistics software to pad out my resume a bit and show that I could do non-games work as well.

After that, I started freelancing, doing both games and non-games work, to support myself while I worked on my own game, which is now up on Steam in Early Access. Freelancing was a lot of fun, and I love the freedom to switch between projects and solve the most difficult problems of one project and then moving on to a new, different project with a new ‘most difficult’ problem to solve. Though obviously the lack of job security was a bit of a strange new experience, after spending my whole career on a salary!

I also spent a couple years acting as an advisor on the local Film Victoria’s games funding grant program, helping select projects to allocate grant funds toward and just generally advising applicants (whether or not they eventually received funding). I’m super proud of the work those folks do and that I got to be a small part of it for a while. I feel like the blossoming we’ve seen here in the local indie games scene has a lot to do with their support for the industry.
Not commenting on this particular scenario. But one reason for the continued existence of absurd laws impossible to comply with, is to selectively apply it against inconvenient people.
Out of interest, what was your disability that caused you to need mid day naps?
So basically what many of us still do on iPhone and Android devices.
What you're saying is not wrong, but that's only about developers. Users have no say in the stack used in an app, so using that app in today's landscape of walled Gardens makes no difference in terms of chrome's dominance.
Imagine if half the comments in a thread were "thanks" or "this!"

It would make the discussion worse, even if it makes individuals happier.
It always existed and education is a great way to treat it. Banning certainly is easier.
Thanks, I'll check it out! :) ;p xx
> where Alexa, Siri can help us do lot of those tasks just by commanding over voice

How "many of these tasks" can they reliably help you do? They screw up even the simplest tasks like setting a timer.
> .. where the UI matters less than in consumer software

It's this statement that goes a long way to showing why we need UX professionals and UI designers.

A good UI directly affects the bottom line of a company.

A badly designed UI costs money. It's as simple as that.
Having sexual harassment allegations against executives taken seriously was an example. Ensuring that you can’t be fired for unionizing is another.
it's a global pandemic
This one is trivial to learn by example and by reading through a lot of books.

What's an absolutely fucking black magic is the use of articles. The frivolity with which a's and the's are sprinkled through an average sentence is genuinely infuriating. There are rules, but "they are more like guidelines". In reality asking native speakers why they used the here, but not there typically draws blank looks. Having used English daily for over 20 years I still have to resort to A/B testing the placement (or not placement!) of articles in my head and check which option sounds "more English."
Good Demo Atul!

But I think the title is misleading. It is not gitops what you demonstrated rather just a push way of deploying apps into k8s using github actions.
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Startups with this mindset need not apply. The market for agricultural technology will always exist, and there's no reason a new player needs to "exit" instead of growing and sustaining the business.

See the comments about repair parts. These aren't cheap toys like smartphones and eyepads that are only meant to last a few years. Ag machinery are capital assets that should function for decades. The people buying this equipment are in it for the long haul, and anyone financing such a venture should be also.

If SV VC prefers scale-and-exit schemes, then it's not a good fit, but SV VC isn't the only source of capital.
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Germany has „workers councils“. All my interactions with them were negative - they’re extortionate bureaucrats. The idea behind it sounds nice, the reality not so much.