skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sorry I can't remember where I read it.

one quote I found:

Q: "Erlang is currently a dynamically typed language. Are you saying you would like some static type as optional typing or both, or would you change the nature of Erlang to static typing?"

A: "No, I wouldn't change it, but I would like subdomains where it is statically typed. You could actually encapsulate parts in statically typed."

So it sounds like he stands by dynamic as the correct choice for Erlang, although not all of the time.
You can put all the money you want to increase the speed of light, and you will certainly see a lot of snake-oil startup promising an increased speed of light, and their share of Kool-aid drinker here on HN, but the speed of light will never increase...
I don't believe Elon is selling
I think your situation is atypical, actually. Certainly there are domains where the problem complexity necessitates learning more complex algorithms. But the vast majority of people coding for businesses, that's not true. Most of that type of work is fundamentally CRUD work. The relevant skills in this type of job are writing clean, maintainable code; designing good data flows; working with stakeholders; building resilient systems. In short, about building stable information systems that are easy to modify.

At some point, there are diminishing returns to increasing technical knowledge. As a former coder and now hiring manager, I value people who are good communicators and problem solvers (not just coding problems). If you want to remain an individual contributor, then sure, by all means keep focused on technical skills. But at some point, so-called "soft" skills actually become more important to advancing your career, and your career will plateau if you don't actively develop them.

So maybe what you are seeing as complacency is really about people around you applying themselves in ways other than improving technical capabilities.
haha this gave me a chuckle. underrated comment.
I think the reason is - we believe that the 'school' is the system that transforms students. While it is to some extent - it needs good inputs.

The 'first order finger pointing' for failing students is reasonably schools.

But once you understand they are the same systems that are in other places, and often the teachers in these places are heroes and part time social workers - you realize it's the inputs, not the system.

It is not the schools responsibility to get students to show up when 70% of them don't want to show up. It's not the schools responsibility to be full time guidance counsellors, mentors, and provide every need.

It's utterly ridiculous. They'd have to have 1 non-teaching staffers for ever 2 students just to cope.

Not even a top prep school could handle that.

The 'best performing schools' also have the most conscientious and engaged students.

There are deep social problems in those communities, blaming the teachers is quite insulting.
I agree, I do not see eye-to-eye with those who, never having commented on how a book publisher manages their inventory and resource allocations, decide that a private corporation ceasing publication of select books with racial epithets they consider dehumanizing is analogous to "banning" of the material in any way.

Indeed, the fact that the first time you've ever hopped into a conversation around book publishing is to decry the fact that a publisher isn't generating more pictures of Africans represented as monkeys distances us even further.

Finally, the fact that you don't think "slaver society viewpoints" persisted in a society that murdered an entire city block of Black people merely for being Black people really hammers home how ignorant you are.

If you do not like Fox News, you should question why you are parroting their ridiculous mischaracterizations of a private corporation's normal business actions.
Possible solutions:

Have a demo so users can tell how well supported their platform is.

Be clear about the target platform (E.G. Tested on Debian 10.8 + NonFree, Ubuntu 2020.04 etc; also include the minimum supported OpenGL / Vulcan / whatever version etc.)

Document the product execution lifecycle, and how to manually skip steps. (E.G. steam calls X to start the launcher, the launcher calls Y to start the game. These are the arguments each take to modify behavior.)

Have developer level debug checks in the logs. Print to standard error where you're trying to open a log file ("Opening log file: %s\n"), have an example of what a healthy log file should look like. If a native command is missing say so, and if there's a test-platform link to the package page for that platform, as well as the source website. (Eventually historical gamers might need to visit Archive.org to grab the last published version.) Have debug levels to increase verbosity (even if it's just "production" vs "collect crash report") validate every assumption and requirement in the crash report log level. You shouldn't need to ask the user for any additional information other than the log file, because it should all be right there in the log file.
The weird stereotyping isn't appreciated.
It has always been like this, since about when it stopped being a little community for programmers. r/politics, for example, has never been any better than it is currently.
Seeing the horrible conditions homeless and desperately poor people face in the US is one of the deeply shocking things about coming from the EU. Even in poorer countries in Eastern Europe, you don’t see the kind of totally fucked up living situations that you do in SF and Seattle. What can a person do to help with this, as the government (at least federal/state level) seems to have no desire to do anything about it? Is it because there’s no medical care available? Is it because of housing? Wages? What? How do we fix this?
What did the teachers even DO to be heroes? It's not like they tried to turn these kids' lives around or something. They didn't even to the bare minimum of their jobs...

They basically just showed up to work and rubber-stamped everyone on to the next grade. Tell me what about this makes them heroes.
That headline is a bit misleading. The facial recognition has to see two faces known to have different political orientations in order to deduce which face is which. The 72% classification correctness is about what one would expect if only 25% of persons had visible features that identified their political orientation and the other 75% were completely inscrutable.
We won't. Handpicking jobs with relocation assistance takes quite a lot of time, but will do our best to expand the list of available job offering as much and fast as possible
WinUI 3 improves the ability to embed fluent UI “xaml islands” in Win32 apps (like Qt processes) but it’s extremely convoluted and requires a lot of boilerplate (that I believe Qt could theoretically abstract over being at a high-enough level).
Most startups make their money selling stock.
Please consider that "conservatism" in 2021 isn't just a political leaning - it requires one to believe a very great number of hateful beliefs that are provably false, and therefore to be constantly disgusted and angry.

Is it so unreasonable that these feelings of disgust and anger are simply readable by machines on people's faces?
> 235

You can avoid HN's * = italics by using spaces (2 * 3 * 5) or escaping the * with \ (2\*3\*5 gives 2*3*5).
The link in that blog redirects to this new service.

https://workers.cloudflare.com/sites
No.

That's what I want to believe anyways.

It would be interesting to see an actual study, though.

Team A does project 1 with Scrum.

Team B does project 1 without Scrum.

Let's say over 3 months.

Who wins?

We could look at time to finish, bugs, code quality/resilience, etc.

I know there is a 'study' out every other day from some Project Mgmt org saying, "500% of IT Projects are fail!", but obviously we need real studies.
> Reports citing people familiar with Apple's plans have indicated that more Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pros are coming this year, as well as significant redesigns for both the iMac and MacBook Air, which will also have Apple Silicon chips.

Another significant Macbook Air redesign this year. So there's clearly no point in rushing to buy the first generation M1 version is there?

Sounds like the early adopter hype train just derailed sideways and burned once again by Apple's mistakes only to be replaced by a second generation model.
If you use services located in the US to defraud Americans, the US can come after you. There is nothing wrong with this. If I were a victim of such a fraud, I would certainly want the US to go after the perpetrator.
This is 2+ years old, and the Github has seen zero updates. Seems like a dead-end effort to me.
You cannot reach the level Musk has reach without using all the tools to reach these levels, including tax evasions... with the complicit agreement of many "people in power". It just happens their interest coincide today, tomorrow's another day, interest shifts.
No mention of Eleventy [1] here. Definitely worth a look, my personal view is it nails the balance of simplicity, power and flexibility. I have used it for all sorts of projects, from marketing websites to quick client docs and presentations. For non-trivial usage in a project see google web.dev [2].

[1] https://www.11ty.dev

[2] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web.dev
Are you stating that it's NOT cheaper to pay for hotels? The article explicitly addresses this

> The cost boils down to $190 per tent per night, which includes 24-hour security, bathrooms, maintenance, and three meals per day. This is cheaper than the per-day cost for the hotel program, but the hotel program is getting 100% federal reimbursement. (Thanks, Biden.)
Also: "Overall, the average out-of-sample accuracy was 68%..." (again, this does not control for demographics).

I would not call it "prediction" when the "predictor" was trained on the data set you're testing it against. The out-of-sample number would be more fairly called prediction. It's unclear what the number would be for out-of-sample accuracy corrected for demographics, but we could extrapolate a guess of 64%.
Sure. But it is also the right thing to do. Online privacy laws is best at federal level (not state and county levels).
Besides everything being "securities fraud[0]" tweets are only market manipulation if they are false/deceptive. With the right disclosures it's business as usual.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
Anyone who sincerely believes electric leaf blowers are - on average - even close to as loud as gas-powered blowers has to be arguing on the smallest of small sample sizes or bad faith. They're not comparable, there's a reason community-driven pushes to ban leaf blowers focus on those with combustion engines.

Can an electric leaf blower be as loud as a gas-powered one? Sure. I'm sure under the right circumstances a Prius can make noise comparable to Corolla too. Electric leaf blowers aren't silent and are often loud, but not aggravatingly loud. They won't make your next-door neighbors lose their mind, much less your neighbors two doors down.
Yeah - even regular 1gbps down/35mbps up gigabit was hard to get when I first signed up.

I called and asked the guy if it was available, he said not in my area and they'd contact me when it was. This seemed wrong since I'd read it was available (and I guess he was just lying about contacting me?).

I called back and got a new guy, he said it was available but 'installation' was $300. This seemed wrong.

I tried a third time, this guy said I was confused and the word 'gigabit' didn't exist - I must be talking about the 'gigabyte data cap'. I begged him to click around his screen and look for gigabit service. He did and finally found it, "first I've seen this". I asked this guy about gigabit pro and he said it didn't exist.

I'd since switched to using comcast twitter to get someone at least moderately competent when I want something (they know about gigabit pro). Thankfully now I don't have to use them at all.

They are insanely difficult to buy stuff from.

During all those calls they keep pushing TV packages and get upset when I say no thank you. When I called to cancel they kept pushing promotional rates and asking me not to cancel. Even though my new service is less than half price, uncapped and has 30x more upload.

All that said, when the service itself is running it at least works pretty much all the time without issue.
Oldest known wild bird has another chick at age of 70
The paper says predicting based on sunglasses use is only 52% accurate, so probably not.
Lawn equipment tends to have proportionally huge non-CO2 pollutant emissions because they are meant to be portable and thus have been exempted from emission standards. From what I've read, it seems like lawn equipment manufacturers do not consider pollution as a parameter when designing their equipment.

Electric lawn equipment has only become viable in the market in the past decade or so due to improved batteries. Now that electrification is feasible (and often nicer to use than gas-powered), seems great to ban or at least disincentivize combustion engine equipment.
This looks nice !

However... "Low CPU and memory footprint (...) memory usage is under 20 MB for a Hello World program" : I am the only one who still thinks this is huge ? (-> https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment )
Revolutions and NAND Gates, Eight Cents, Wholesale
Reluctant to give a quote without knowing whether there'd be any custom buildout, integrations, etc. If you're interested in learning more and talking pricing, feel free to shoot us a note at info@procoto.com. I'll personally respond and we can take it from there!
I mean if someone is willing to go through the effort to copy paste the code bit by bit from inspecting each element rather than spending a few bucks they probably were never a customer to begin with :D
> these devices are pretty big energy consumers
> go through 2 240WHr batteries

Is that a big energy consumption? It's about 0.5 kWH, or about $0.10, depending on where you are. How much would you spend on gas & oil for a 2-stroke ICE system?

(I can understand that it's a bit of a hassle from a charging process point of view.)
Because this project might provide value in aggregating and filtering the data (i.e. remote job postings) in other ways that still add a lot of value to a certain kind of user.
Consider what thin gruel an ideal would have to be if you could always live up to it!
I don't see how this can hold, without some severe restrictions on what you actually mean by 'bias.'

As a kind of silly example, I posit that muggings closer to police stations are more likely to result in an arrest. Now we have bias in enforcement based on police station location. Do we need to build floating police stations equidistant from every place a mugging could take place? And this is generously assuming muggings in police stations are discounted from this analysis. If you don't, perhaps muggings in police stations are legal?

I strongly suspect you're somehow only applying this particular standard to (potential) white collar crime, which seems absurd.
Here you go: https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/putting-nuclear...

"These figures have profound implications for the industry’s bottom-line. Based on a review of per-plant profitability, there are at least six plants nationwide where regulatory burdens exceed profit margins."

Regardless, as I mentioned, the entire process is safer from a proliferation perspective.
FBI director discusses threat of end-to-end encryption
One evening we are watching some reality show where they show up at your house and fix things, and this one episode they introduce the owner. Owner, nothing, that’s Ginger Lynn. They never did name her. The whole episode she was just “the owner”. I had nobody to share this realization with, as you can imagine.

So she is still out there somewhere, living her best life from the sounds of it.
The more I read about fusion, the less I think it's anything near to a star. The kind of fusion is completely different. A sun wouldn't work on earth because it doesn't produce enough energy per square meter. It isn't even in de same ballpark. The only reason why our sun produces so much energy is because it's so incomprehensibly large. A compost heap produces more heat per square meter than the sun.

Fusion reactors are incredibly cool. But they're not "harnessing the power of a sun".
I was thinking along similar lines the other day. One of the things I realised was that imagination played a much bigger part in my enjoyment of games than it does now (as it did with playing with toy cars, lego etc. back at that age).

I vividly remember playing one of the Shinobi games on the Sega Master system, and spent a huge amount of time wandering back and forth in the levels thinking about the townsfolk who occupied various buildings and their work days.

There was also a mountain range in one of the backgrounds on one level, and I recall spending time planning to explore it later, even pausing the game to draw a map of an imagined village there.

Of course now the vocabulary of games (and my understanding of them) has changed a lot, and it's far more obvious what the limits of a game and its interactive areas are - to me they're now throwaway pieces of entertainment, no longer worlds to inhabit and explore.
One thing I don’t understand is why in the good lords name do I have to consent to being tracked every day when I have already agreed to the goddamn cookie jar? Often several times per day as well!
Is Qt considered native when you use KDE and not native when you use GNOME? Is Qt 3 considered not native when you use a KDE release that uses Qt 4 under the hood?
Soundguard: Soundproof Paint
In that case, why not go all the way and use the the exciting new ->->><?as->cond->! macro demonstrated in Every Clojure Talk Ever? ;-)

https://youtu.be/jlPaby7suOc
So is it Chromium-based or not? "which makes it CPU- and memory-efficient when compared to other Chromium-based solutions like Electron"
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but ResNet-50 is an old model. I would probably expect multiple-percentage-point gains from using a better (or honestly just larger) architecture and better training methodology.

Throw an ML engineer at this task and you could probably do * way * better than 72%.
This is one of the things that changed over the past 20-30 years in an effort to boost the US international rankings. Every level in the system has attempted to remove control from the lower layers. At this point the teachers are mostly functioning as little more than preprogrammed robots. Even in the less restricted classes, you have district level mandates/guidance on what kind of CAD software/etc can be taught, and how much time is given to each part of the subject, generally down to the day.

I had a middle school English teacher who spent a couple weeks at the beginning of the school year teaching a basic calligraphy style. His general idea was to instill a respect and love for penmanship believing that would extend to the words being written as well. I can honestly say that in my 14 years of English education (including a few mandatory college classes), I both enjoyed and probably learned more in that single English class than any other single English class (which was generally my worst subject).

I happened to run across some of his pictures a few years back, and had a short online conversation where I learned he had been forced out of education after 30 something years teaching because the school refused to allow him any flexibility to extend the curriculum. That particular school where he taught, and I attended was likely the worst school I ever went to (and still today has very poor rankings) yet, it had five teachers who I consider to have some of the largest affect on my education. Including one that encouraged and helped me to enroll in her C programming class at the local JC when I was in middle school.

So, I haven't any idea how those teachers that used to have the largest affects on some kids survive without the flexibility to diverge from the curriculum to make the subject interesting for their students.
This is the worst way to learn how to draw. It is a short term satisfying thing to do and produces great result.

The litmus test for someone who knows truly how to draw is to ask them to redraw whatever object they drew but from a different angle or perspective. Most people to learned by measuring and training their eye won't be able to do it.

In order to draw, you need to internalize the 3d shape. Start from basic shapes and learn to draw them in different angles and perspective distortions - surprisingly difficult.

Then increase the complexity. As you draw, you need to not think in 2d, but in 3d and it needs to be more intrinsic than just "translation". You are so into it, you forget that you're drawing on a 2d plane.

When you learn it this way, it gets easier to do follow up tasks such as shading and coloring.

Syrcra is a great resource on YT and expands on what I just summarized: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHAxHY8zvaMOCO6zeYxq...
Having just moved to the suburbs during the pandemic I feel like I am taking crazy pills. So we all have lawns that we dump thousands of gallons of clean water on, then everyday from 9am-11am gardeners trucks pour into the suburban neighborhoods, make a huge racket mowing and blowing, and then an hour or two later they all flow back out. And the end result is all these neat squares of grass in front of everyones homes that serve no purpose. It is really baffling.
The Doublethinkers
It doesn't help that game dev (IMO) is literally the most difficult software development possible:

- massive front-end visual dev, both static and animation, that often require logistics and endless fiddling to get it just right
- hefty back-end dev, especially when dealing with massive latency questions (e.g., MMOs) and calculations (e.g., 4X strat)
- audio design that must sync with graphical elements
- on top of all that, higher standards for input syncing to video output than almost any other type of app

...and then overworked and crunch-time to top it all. I'm amazed that we're even getting finished games these days now that devs can sell a near-playable v0.6 as "Early Access"!
Can someone tell me how this differs from what McAfee 2.0 (Michael Saylor) is doing as we speak?
Did you read the book? I just did and did not find the page where it refer to an African Man. I might be wrong or it already got modified in recent copy of the book.
The generator will be 4-stroke and probably running at a mostly constant rpm so it should at least be less polluting than 2-stroke. Extra points for a propane generator!
Ok, except you're forgetting the CTO who doesn't believe in testing and will yell at the tech lead for wasting time writing them. And the CFO who won't approve budget for a CI system. And the CEO who just wants the feature pushed so he can sell it to clients whether or not it works.

The system is broken and in cases like these the school is put in an impossible situation. And remember this isn't just one kid they're trying to deal with: it's more than half of the student body. So the tech lead probably has dozens of junior devs constantly pushing code that he has to deal with.

You're probably right: the tech lead makes a nice scapegoat when a news article gets published that riles everyone up. Firing him won't solve the problem though.