skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pick a low number to win the bid, blow the timeline/estimate, require more money to do anything at all.

Except that there are penalty mechanisms in place to prevent this from happening.

So your company was slow to deliver the product and needs more time? You better be prepared to work for your own resources, otherwise the escrow won't get released, as per the contract.

Or perhaps you cannot finish it at all? Get ready to either not receive a large portion of the money at all, or to be sued outright. For an example, see here: https://www.consulting.us/news/2197/accenture-sued-for-32-mi...

Disclaimer: i have nothing to do with Accenture or consulting in the US, though consulting, government contracts etc. all share certain similarities and bureaucratic processes in most countries that don't always align with the realities of actually developing software.

If you can, steer clear of all of that and instead work for a technology oriented company that develops a product that they also sell themselves. One, in which the developers are viewed as a profit center, instead of a cog in a ROI generation machine. Ideally, an engineering led company.
Yikes, talk about pressure to conform to an imaginary culture that is superstitiously treated as if it existed and was good to begin with.
The former yugoslavia
TVA gives up construction permit for Bellefonte nuclear plant after 47 years
If there are more prospective immigrants each year who are qualified for US jobs paying (say) $250k+ than the total number of available slots, that’s a pretty clear and unambiguous signal that the cap should be raised. Really I don’t see a reason to have any cap whatsoever on immigrants with that level of earning potential as long as appropriate anti-abuse measures are put in place.
The Queen of England is hardly unknown.
Also on slashdot:

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/09/26/0130228/after-4...

Opinion piece:

https://www.yahoo.com/now/opinion-tva-look-sun-bellefontes-2...
I seem to be able to use my toy for quite a bit.
Some of the mathematical equivalences worked out on the underlying article are quite interesting. The broader implications part is fairly hand-wavy vague but you can skip it. Part of me wonders if Smolin is trolling the string theorists with “well this idea is mathematically consistent if untestable too…”
Apart from the US (where paper checks still circulate and I assume fax machines are everywhere) are there other places where blinking the red tail light is an acceptable indicator signal? What’s wrong with just mandating indicator ligts? Every car manufacturer can make them - because obviously they are required elsewhere - so why go through the trouble and cost of manufacturing a worse solution as well?
Australian healthcare has left me unnecessarily hospitalized, waiting for care, and generally unsatisfied. Do not recommend
It kind of stretches credulity for him to say these are just test projects that he doesn’t want people to use when his profile is bragging about having 1000 open source projects.
I always look at how the gender ratio is in high-ranking and low-ranking party members. Usually the ratio is quite similar, which is most likely optimal from a equality perspective I'd say.
Any convolution kernel is equivalent to a FFT (aside from wrapping effects). The advantage of using a convolution kernel (instead of a hand-painted FFT mask) is that it's purely local and doesn't cause halftone dots in one area of the image to affect the rest, and is faster than a full-image FFT (which is O(N log N) in both the width and height).

A halftone dot whose size/shape changes gradually across the image acts like slow PWM in a pulse wave, changing the relative amplitudes of the harmonics (but not their locations). However, steep discontinuous changes can have nastier effects (which aren't handled well by either a convolution kernel or FFT).

I suspect it's possible to handle edges better than a FFT using a specialized algorithm, but I don't know if it's possible without inordinate runtimes, and if the end result is significantly better than a FFT or not.

(Also, FFTs won't work as well for non-uniform hand-drawn halftones, like the charming https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Julemoti....)
There's a lot of life to experience, but at some point you want to share your life with someone more than just on social media or whatever. Or at least that's how it was for me.

After you've met people around the world and had fine food and hiked tall mountains, it's like, what's next?

Not necessarily marriage and/or kids. But probably some kind of sharing, and marriage and kids are a great way to do that.
If you think it is time to go, then go.

None of the alternatives you are considering focuses on moving on.
Not after the entirety of the liberal press branded him a Putin stooge because he emabarrassed Hillary Clinton, that's for sure. Embarrassing the Clintons generally doesn't do any favors to one's life expectancy in this banana republic.
5.7-magnitude quake shakes Philippines' main island: USGS
> It still is.

It is a relatively well defined problem - removing periodic pattern due to physical arrangement of printing device. This is where algorithmic approach shines over ML approach. I think nowadays a lot of ML is an attempt to outsource the problem understanding part. These are hot dogs, these are not hot dogs. I don't know what defines a hot dog, but is this picture a hot dog?

Hyperbole, of course.

On second thought, I think the author shouldn't remove the periodic noise at all. He was preserving "a copy of history", not the first occurrence of history. It is a property worth preserving. It is a beauty of itself imo.
> Logic is one of the fundamental axioms of the universe

This definitely a very opinionated view on what is logic. There is no reason to embed anything in universe/anything else. If you remove expressability, I’m not sure what properties remain. At the same time you can have rules outside of anything physical (in a sense of denoting something that subsists). Consistency of re-writing rules (in a sense that one can always write a propositional string that cannot be reduced to true or false), is an entirely separate beast.

> Logic is just a special case of probability

This is factually false. Probability is embeddable into predicate logic, but predicate logic is not embeddable into (Bayesian) probability. This is actually an open problem (how to define a probability theory that is equivalent to predicate logic).

> Science is a whole different beast

On this I do agree, I wouldn’t call logic a “science.”
No Time to Die (Film)
For those not from Australia; we are not about to become a fascist state. The parent comment’s other complaints about inequality are indeed true and our government has failed them.

Lockdown sucks and is problematic. There are riots and the media is of course following the government line. But these lockdowns will end and some level of normalcy restored.
Servant states like the UK do not have autonomy in such matters.
The in-between is Forth. BASIC (and Python) are 50 times slower than assembly or C. Forth is 5 to 10 times faster than assembly or C and 5 to 10 times slower than BASIC or Python.
If bang up to date software is what matters to you, Debian's the opposite of what you want. Maybe try Arch, which operates a rolling release approach and is well known for following the bleeding edge. FWIW, its firefox [1] and chromium [2] packages are currently at the latest versions and were both published on the day of the upstream release.

[1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/firefox/
[2] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/chromium/ (latest update was 24th sept, but there was also a 94 version published on 21st, the day of the stable release)
Do you have links where i can read more of this?
I wish you luck. Thanks for writing accessible software.

I am not (visibly) disabled, myself, but write software for a demographic that has a statistically high number of folks dealing with various challenges. Accessibility is a big deal for me (as is Usability –Accessibility's redheaded stepchild). I do things like provide localizable accessibility labels, as well as support for things like colorblind access, high contrast mode, and reduced transparency mode.

I have also released over 20 apps in the App Store (myself), since 2012, and am the proud recipient of many app rejection notes.

One of the more annoying things, is that the reviewers are required to select from a menu of rejection reasons. They can't just write "You need to add a plist row to ensure the new permission we just added is presented to the user." Instead, they have to send you some generalized "blanket" reason that includes that requirement, among a list of others that don't apply.

It's easy to panic, when we get these.

In my case, I sometimes need to break out a Ouija board, to figure out what they mean.

Fortunately, I have had very good luck in getting folks on the phone. They still tend to "beat around the bush," but you can usually figure out what they want.
Certain elements of successs are best deployed by actually showing up in person.
It’s not so much about the price or availability. I just prefer to have my own space and not have to share a resource and be in a crowd while traveling.
Then what does this flashing arrow on the back of the vehicle mean?

https://trafficsafetyzone.com/product/magnetic-led-direction...

or this which looks a lot more like the Mini indicator:

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/2304413-red-light...

Of course you can work it out with context and time, but are you sure your reflexes can work it all out quickly?
Can you be a bit more specific? This article? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28663221

Can you explain the two sides of the coin and the connection?
It’s one game that lasts so long.

This was traditionally played by players exchanging moves via letters sent by post.

Naturally people use the internet more these days, but with a lot of time allowed between moves to keep the slow pace of correspondence chess.

Allowing this amount of time between moves completely changes the character of the game. There’s ample time of deep analysis and research. There’s more incentive to leave the beaten track if you need to push for a win.

It’s an extremely different game to over-the-board chess.
Yeah no shit.

The dude goes out of his way to release private and confidential spy agency information to the public. None of this is surprising.
You're making a tone argument but calling it a thought-terminating cliche. Anyone who's capable of forming an opinion on the CIA's policies has already settled on one. On the other hand, the parent downplays the CIA's actions, starting off with "Whatever one might think of US diplomacy", which oozes of propaganda and should be called out.

Talking about places like "the Other Site" certainly sounds like tribalism though-- I hope that observation helps you on your journey!
I don't get it? What happened in 1980's that would make women less likely to go into politics?
Yep, basically. I looked into Racketscript a while ago, seems like it was a graduate thesis project that heavily built off of a similar python project iirc. It's based on a very old version of rkt, pre-chez, and probably would need a huge investment just to work with the newer ecosystem.

Iirc, an interesting bullet-point in their backend rework to make the move to chez meant that doing things like targeting js might be easier now than ever. I would absolutely love a js backend for rkt, it seems like it would be a huge boon to the ecosystem.
pyenv as he mentioned is a common tool. That it happens to compile under the hood is an implementation detail that users may not even be aware off.
just classic apple hostility towards their users and developers
As an immigrant (first in the UK after than in the US, followed by return to the UK), I can say the annoying things about different systems are unpredictability and long delays. I agree that it is up to every country to set up the rules who gets to stay and under what conditions, but they need to be clear and predictable. I have found the UK system reasonable (although expensive) with a standard path of 5 years of working visa, followed by the indefinite leave to remain (green card) and then citizenship application (after another year). My impression of the US process was much worse with year long queues depending on nationality, quotas that are taken in first few days etc, and rules being changed on the hoof (in the last administration). I think that creates a really bad climate for people. And I do think the countries are responsible for making sure that migrants are treated fairly with clear well understood rules that are not changed unpredictably. For me this was one of the reason to go back to the UK as I didn't want to jump again through all the immigration hoops in the USA.
Is there a non twitter write-up on this including technical details, impact, mitigations, etc?
Because Epic didn’t launch the lawsuit out of the kindness of their souls, I doubt they even have what passes for a soul. They also put their case into jeopardy by knowingly breaking the rules first and then complaining the rules were bad.

But they have definitely stirred some publicity (including nongeek audience) around all these practices, which is good, maybe someone is going to have a better case riding this wave.
Turn your camera on if you want. We're talking about the opposite here, not being allowed to turn it off during meeting.

If you feel strongly about your right to turn it on if it pleases you, then you should agree with people who want the right to turn it off if they want.
Humanity reasons? The US is getting old and it brings two problems: old people need tons of cheap service workers who would work for food; and old people tend to be very conservative and vote red. Importing hoards of refugees solves both problems. This is also why we see this counterintuitive drive to fast track those refugees to green card status and to give them voting rights.
This is a curiously US-centric view to take that simultaneously also doesn't acknowledge the U.S.' advantages and history.

The U.S. population is under 5% of the world population — our competitive advantage has always been our ability to poach the best and brightest from across the world by rewarding them appropriately.

It's very reasonable to say that our population alone can't compete with the best and brightest of every other country in the world, and that it's more important to continue being a place that attracts immigration.
> Certain elements of successs are best deployed by actually showing up in person.

Sure, but how does that relate to video calls? They are by definition not in person, camera or not.
Oh come on. The guy was going from living in his own personal hedonism for most of his life to a slow death behind bars, and he was already no spring chicken at that point. When faced with a hand like that, I'm surprised more people aren't killing themselves in jail to be honest.
I've been a Plex-to-Jellyfin convert for a long while now, and I've nothing bad to say. I switched because Plex kept pushing their streaming services, and the fuzzy feeling I get from running FOSS.

Jellyfin used to run on my desktop which has a beefy CPU/GPU, but runs fine on my puny Synology NAS.
When I did OS development we used MacBooks for x86 development. If a "standard PC" exists the Apple fell far from it, but they have to keep their OS running more than they need to save a buck on the next 10000 units.
Does Australia still think that lockdowns do actually anything good? Lolz

My condolences to all victims of lockdown.
I live in Melbourne. Trust me, I’m not misinformed.

You can leave the country by the way (I’ve done it), what is your source?
Yeah, I think the amber horizontal bar in the middle for EU cars is an acceptable design. Cutesy, but no risk to the health and safety of the driver and others.

It's the US spec that seems incredibly poorly thought out.
> Plato spoke of a golden age, now long lost, where the flaura and fuana were so plentiful that men didn't need to work.

That's an example of the belief that all things were known in a golden age, and that the process of discovery is actually rediscovery of the knowledge of the elders. Common in a lot of pre-modern societies that had ancestor-worship. In old B.C.E. pre-imperial Chinese philosophy, before deductive reasoning had been formalized/discovered, one of the basic tests of whether a thing was true was "conformity to the teaching and practice of the ancient sage kings." Which meant that you had to cite a mention in works about the ancients of the practice or belief that you were recommending, or grounds for a reasonable belief that they practiced it.

It's the opposite of Whig history.
Thats why Firefox have lts realices
You have it backwards. If Apple doesn’t review every update, how can they justify 30% transaction fees?
E.g. marginalizing women historically: Florence Nightingale was an administrator and empirical scientist, in charge of various nursing organizations for her entire career. How is she remembered? "That nice nurse lady that cared for our troops", often pictured out in a tent on the battlefield. No, she was not an individual caretaker; she was a competent head of major organizations and revolutionized the way nursing is done.
We’re not discussing general health benefits of alcohol such as reduced blood pressure. We’re talking specifically on the effects to the brain, I think?
Talk to them. Apple is a huge company, but they really care about user experience (developers or otherwise), even if sometimes they fail at it.

It's a staple of large corporations struggling scale processes and at the same time properly handle edge cases.
Subtracting the Fourier transform of a dot pattern from the Fourier transform of a photo is equivalent to (but slower than) subtracting a dot pattern from the photo. Subtracting an average-sized dot from a random dot would leave behind a ring, and subtracting a cone from a random dot would instead leave behind odd sloped shapes. It might be a good first step though.
FFTs are amazing! Also throwing ML at any problem is the root of all evil.
It’s in North Bend actually.
Fun fact: large correlations (hundreds or thousands of samples in 1D, unsure in 2D) can be efficiently computed using FFTs (if the needle is smaller than the haystack, you can use chunked algorithms like overlap-add/save).
You should try a virtual office space. It's a nice feeling of we're jamming together for small teams sometimes.

The recommendation as written is Here.fm or Gather depending on your vibe. Teamflow was good too so it's really about your energy. Wrote up a list to help you decide. https://tooltip.com/reports/virtual-office-space if you'd like to read the whole report
Indeed, we are falling behind in various important areas like dental care and elective surgery waiting lists, but if you have cancer or appendicitis or some other emergency you get good care with minimal out-of-pocket expenses. When COVID happened there was never even a question about whether you would have to pay for tests or vaccinations, everyone could just do it.

Edit: I heard a funny anecdote from a friend working for a large US tech company. The corp wanted to benevolently pay for everyone's private health insurance but employees would have to switch over to a policy provided through work. That doesn't happen here and the Australians were like "uh I like having control over my own policy, I'll just pay for it thanks". Bit of a culture clash.
With respect, this sounds miserable.

The only redeeming fact is the commitment to your children, which is honorable and admirable.
Part of the problem is that philosophically, Wikipedia wants to pretend that contributors are "thin" interfaces for pure knowledge. That there is a well-defined set of "reliable sources" and all contributors have to do is summarize and create hyperlinks to them.

Not surprising given the ~Objectivist philosophies of its creators.
At a previous company, when I was developing an iOS app, it was difficult to impress upon the business people that there was a very real risk of Apple simply cutting us off. (When Apple wanted to compete in our space, or they cut a deal with a competitor of ours, or they came up with some new idea about "security" or "experience", or simply Kafkaesque random bureaucratic whim with no appeal.)

I then had to explain why "the market" hadn't already corrected that, and why regulators hadn't.

Separate from my professional career, one of the more personal reasons that the reality of the iron-fisted mad-king Apple iOS app store made me sad is... I had hard-won skills at some tricky iOS things, and it would've been very tempting to moonlight on some creative apps that did something new, while also generating side income. But, for this and other Apple developer-hostile reasons, I'd end up aggravated in my spare time, and always with the risk that at some point Apple will stab me in the back. That's no way to spend one's spare time refreshing from the real job.
Seeing how Jellyfin runs on raspberry pi 4 your Synology must be very fast with lots of ram.
Not necessarily - it was literally anything. Any publication whatsoever in Europe up to about 1800 was apt to be in Latin. Science, history, geography, correspondences, laws, records of all kinds, etc.
> by claiming an independent parsing library improves compiler performance.

The library is not independent, and one of the goals is to improve compiler performance.

You wrote a criticism of me of me based on your own misunderstanding of the project, in response to a comment that wasn’t addressed to you.

Leaving aside that the personal attack was pointless in the first place, it’s not obvious what value there is in trying to defend it.
I would say the parent author has been too polite in their response.

Your comment is offensive and nonsensical. Why on earth would genetic relations matter in any way for something like this? As far as I know basically nowhere on Earth is it possible to trace direct genetic lineages back thousands of years to some specific ancient population living in the same area.

Perhaps things are different in Australia, or other isolated places, but I think pretty much anywhere in Eurasia + Africa you will get an endless flow and mixing of populations, cultures, religions etc. With this in mind, it's safe to say that your view would justify all kinds of imperialist atrocities.

I think at any given moment in time what matters is whether the population currently inhabiting that place voluntarily and democratically decided to relinquish/sell certain artifacts. Whether that population is genetically related to the people who created the artifacts is irrelevant.
CL supports whatever implementation technique you want: hardware Lisp Machines with compiling into LAP, native compilers with a small runtime, bytecode compilers - with OR without JITting native code, or simple AST interpreters. Some implementations even support multiple techniques at once (such as CMUCL which supports native compilation, bytecode compilation and interpretation, and direct interpretation). The standard doesn't prescribe implementation techniques.
> Also, how frequently do hardware and life science projects go far over budget and under scope? Do their estimates matter?

Most of the time, in my experience. At a bigger company that may not matter so much but at a startup it can be fatal.
> old people need tons of cheap service workers who would work for food

I don't think this is the reason why we accept refugee... to be low-skilled low-paying workers.

We accept them because they cannot live in their home countries due to political reasons (and etc.), so we extend help for humanity reason.
> If you think these lockdowns are not a concern, I'm going to flat out say it here - you are sitting in an immense position of privilege

I'd even say if you work from home then you should not have an opinion about lockdown. Because it's more about protecting other people and it's neither you who has to make any kind of decision, or trade-off because of lockdown.