skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's a neat idea but it's extremely frustrating to use. A really really basic web frontend would make it so much more usable.

On the upside (for MidJourney), you're seeing a HUGE stream (they are hitting the 1 mil Discord members ceiling) of generated pictures and that kinda grows your appetite and you want to also try more and more prompts..
Why open yourself to random $300k bills from Amazon when the alternative is wasting a $5/month server?
Just a small nitpick about your comment:

> Functional programming is a reaction from the shift to the dangerous quadrant of the immutable-mutable/unshared-shared "Magic Quadrant" chart.

I might rather say "The recent focus on adapting functional programming is a reaction...". Functional programming itself is nearly as old as the modern computer (McCarthy's first LISP paper was published in 1960), but your phrasing kind of suggests that the entirety of FP is a recent innovation.
Hmm I got lost at "proof of". I wonder if this is validate of tweet by PG about "old people dont like new things because they consider them undignified" (or something similar). Seriously I dont actually get this. I do work (listen to music) to earn (coins) so I can do things? Isnt that what my day job is supposed to be?
10 years ago I had a site running on an 8GB of ram VM ($80/mo?) that ran a site serving over 200K daily active users on a completely dynamic site written in PHP running MySQL locally. Super fast and never went down!
I'm 45+ and headed into the 50s was so scary, I am headed off to get an MBA to future proof my income a little before I die off in coding because of cognitive ability escapes me on remembering more than 3,945 places of pi.

The one thing that's tough working at a start-up is trying to convince those who (of the same age) that you can indeed lead more than your co-developers in something more than a dev/project meeting. I saw literally 3 promotions pass me by, most likely because of the perception that at my age if I hadn't started my own company/become a corporate C-suite leader/done it by now I couldn't.

Thing is, I can feel I can do everything UP to the CTO level of work - naturally, given the chance. At least I got them to give me a raise to equate to the level of paying for my education I'm taking on at my age.

Regardless, at least now I can have the chops, the cohort network, and hopefully if we exit - the money to have the last laugh.

Revenge is only bitter sweet if you can execute on it by being a better shark in the water that knows a few tricks the young lads (and lasses) don't have.
No one is hiring developers via indeed.
I think autodiff is mostly interesting because of optimization by gradient descent, and gradient descent is only efficient using reverse-mode autodiff, which can't be done with dual numbers.

I think optimization by gradient descent (and its variants like Adam) is interesting because it's the only optimization algorithm family I know of whose runtime scales linearly oreven near-linearly with the number of dimensions, so for large-dimensionality problems it's the only computationally feasible algorithm. Also, though it's only guaranteed to find the optimum for differentiable convex problems, in practice it seems to work well enough to be interesting for nonconvex problems.

I think optimization is interesting because it allows you to solve arbitrary inverse problems, or at least continuous relaxations of them.
> "all enums and integer IDs start at 1"

then whoever takes over maintenance from you and wants to make improvements says "hey, we can add this new v2 feature through the 0x0 which is available for future enhancements"
https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=491159&brand=fiverrcpa&land...
It would be crazy awesome if someone could figure out how to layer python underneath this. There is a very nice feature set in livebook that doesn't really exist in jupyter.
helpful, thanks. seems like it still needs an extra step. i was hoping that the paprika app had this native functionality so you can scan right into the app (i'm not a tech guy but i assume that there are OCR APIs out there...?)
Renting is not very expensive. 30 months is a large share of a computer's lifetime, and you are paying for space, electricity, and internet access too.
Because there is an essential complexity to programming in general that you cannot escape. Avoiding functional programming is like navigating a dark cave by bumping into obstacles when you have an assistive technology that can guide you.
Do you have evidence that North Korea makes up any significant amount of "Web3" exploits?

From my vantage point, it seems to be mostly bored twentysomethings.
Anyone can learn to read and write, but Stephen King and J.K. Rowling still make bank.
I think they were making a jab at the Electoral College system in USA.
Location: SF, CA (but fully remote)
Remote: Y
Willing to relocate: N (we're fully remote)
Technologies: Java, Kotlin, PostgresSQL, Typescript and React
Résumé/CV: Y
Email: people@cortex.io
EDIT: Removed.
I'd assume that computers with an OS installed consume less power, because the OS can tell the components to switch to a lower power state.
The real concern is they think showing more toothpaste ads to grandma is a "mission". "Its not about the money, its about the mission guys". Corporate robots should be classified as a separate species at this point.
I wonder if it's possible to just interleave statements from k different (loop) functions? Then it would seem mostly equivalent to an arduino at 1/k Clock speed.

I think it's not possible to interleave instructions per se (because of registers?), but a compiler should be able to figure out the correct instructions of statement interleaving.

This should eliminate problems with blocking.
The picture does not do Mehrangarh justice. It is quite an imposing citadel looming over the city. It is particularly grand at night.
> They probably ate most of the former team's lunch.

Are you able to elaborate on this?

I’m assuming that teams wouldn’t be sharing strategies with other teams. Is that accurate?

Would these other teams be independently finding some strategy that is either directly better than another internal team or is having some indirect impacts on other teams?
I think it's a typo. The DMX protocol is subset of Rs-485
This is a different argument though. You're making an argument about which system is better. I'm saying that Putin was telling the truth when he complained about the US interfering in their elections first, and our intelligence agencies were lying when they claimed we don't do the same thing we accused Russia of doing to us.

So when Trump said he believed Putin in that instance, he was correct.
Agree. Nothing worse than having different programs changing data in the same database. The database should not be an integration point between services.
> If it sounds like you could simply replace Airflow with basically any other job execution engine, that’s because you could.

Has anyone tried Luigi for data engineering pipelines?
Sorry, I’m not really sure what you’re trying to add here?

Yes, the foreign company can obviously decide to ignore the Polish government. As a consequence they will have to stop employing all their “contractor” employees in Poland. If they’re happy with that situation then… congrats to them?
Even so, it's still better to start something and make mistakes (thus gaining experience) rather than getting stuck in analysis paralysis.

Technical debt is real, and has interest rate that would make a loan shark blush, keep that in mind, and you should be just fine.
The problem is not agriculture per se, but the inefficient way it uses water due to the perverse incentives of California's water rights system. They could get the same output for way less water using drip irrigation, but that costs more than simply flooding with water. The first step is to abolish senior rights, the second is to remove subsidies so all users pay the same rate at actual cost.
A little whimsy copter based on a PCB frame
> Pretty much every CRUD app needs this at some point and if every join needs a network call your app is going to suck to use and suck to develop.

_at some point_ is the key word here.

Most startups (and businesses) can likely get away with this well into Series A or Series B territory.
Super interesting study! Other studies also associated the oral microbiome with cognitive health, like depression and Alzheimer's, but this is an interesting finding.

>H2S-producing bacteria exhibited disease-stage-specific enrichment and could be potential diagnostic biomarkers

This would suggest that people with bad breath may have higher risk of schizophrenia? Or maybe the reverse? I also wonder if this was controlled for oral hygiene routines and oral health in general? I would assume people with uncontrolled schizophrenia have worse oral health, which may be a factor?
A lot can be said for having an engineering team with the experience and maturity to recognize both strengths and weaknesses of their technology choices.
> It seems like the majority of the cost savings is due to skipping outsourcing and a company that pays local taxes and insurance.

None of the cost savings are related to local taxes and insurance since they still need to pay for these things. ~15% is what's charged collectively by the outsourcing company, their bank, and their local partner. I agree that they provide a valuable service, but it's not clear to me that the service is worth 15% of the otherwise-gross cost of employing someone. One thing they could do to convince me it is worth more would be to transmit the funds promptly to the recipient.

> The only times I've transferred dollars -> crypto -> transfer -> crypto -> foreign currency the costs were much higher than 3%, not to mention there was far more risk because you couldn't reverse the transactions if you fat fingers an amount or a recipient.

Some centralized crypto exchanges currently have pretty competitive forex rates. You'd basically have to go to IBKR to do better.
Infrastructure should be the most resilient part of the system, that's why your organs are mostly surrounded by your ribcage and your arteries are on the inner side of your limbs. How are you going to recover from any given disaster if your infrastructure is too unreliable to deliver resources?

Sure you assess probabilities in your design, but not to the point of assuming the most probable outcome will always obtain. If there's only a 2% probability of some unwanted outcome need to consider not only the probability but what's at risk if your probability assessment turns out to be wrong, and make sure at least some of your infrastructure is bomb proof.

It's unreasonable to expect those things as the norm, it's not at all unreasonable to expect that they might occur and have some sort of contingency plan in place. You'd have to have been living under a rock for the last 30 years to ignore the possibility of freak weather events.
> They didn't actually propose communism as an alternative, it's not likely that there are only and exactly two possible systems of organizing markets so plausibly they had another one in mind.

What other ways are there to organize markets or the economy have there been that we've seen at a country scale?

>Anyway you don't even need to endorse communism per se to point out that the current setup is pretty fucked and entirely incapable of cleaning up the mess it has created.

I think it's easy to blame every woe that we have such as climate change on "capitalism" without offering an alternative. The reason we have emitted a lot of carbon is capitalism made us a rich, and we don't care enough to stop it. Capitalism is at fault only in the sense that it made us rich.

> The conflation of democracy/capitalism and dictatorship/communism is dated and not very useful either. We haven't seen a new communist state rise in a generation or more so it's not clear if that cold war logic holds. Meanwhile we've seen plenty of capitalist dictatorships, and an increasingly authoritarian swerve in a lot of solidly market-based economies so idk. Doesn't seem like a strong link to me.

There are plenty of market based economies that more or less function like a democracy. I'm not aware of any communist countries that function like a democracy.
I see. So for example, India's government revoking Kashmir's independence and imposing demographic change on it [1] is progressive, and resisting it is conservative. Likewise, unifying China is progressive, while ethno-religious resistance by the Uyghur's is conservative. The Republicans efforts to advance from a country of immigrants, to a country of natives, is progressive, while Democrats wishing the US remains a country of immigrants is conservative.

But these are just a handful of counter-examples, sorry, exceptions, sorry, sleight-of-hand. Add more epicycles to your theory of how your ideological opponents are just irrationally evil and want to bring back all the worst parts of the past, and all these exceptions will be explained away, and we shall see that the Earth stands still.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...
The American Society of Civil Engineers might have some bias towards ensuring Civil Engineers have jobs, seeing as how that's part of their mission statement. This might additionally bias them towards suggesting that infrastructure needs improvement more often than strictly necessary.
I have, of course, no opinion: this is purely a matter of fact. I merely echo complaints by NASA insiders.

I may speculate that their requirements were such as to be able to loft the NSA equivalent of Hubble into a polar orbit, but that by the time STS was flying, they had retired that design and were using rather smaller birds.
If that’s the case why have they always had such astronomically high hiring bars? I’d they wanted to deny anyone else talented engineers why would they reject so many?
What the hell is up with random people trying to character assassinate Scott Adams all the time? With complete falsehoods too. It's bizzare!

I listen to his podcast every now and then. The guy's funny, and has a knack for disassembling news into their dark patterns and pointing out absurdity. Definitely not the same guy portrayed in this article.

> [Dramatic pause] And inevitably, this will be what leads to the downfall of Dilbert.

Geez. Drama much? I can almost see the author patting herself on the back when she wrote that sentence. What a waste of a life.
By technical level I meant that the security chip only allows admin users to change the security level to one that allows booting linux, and in order to create admin users, you need to accept the EULA. Also see my reply to your sibling comment.

How much this mechanism enforced by the SEP can be circumvented with physical access by e.g. desoldering some components and replacing them with alternatives, I don't know. If the SEP is located on the main M1 SoC, you will probably have a hard time though.

Also note that this thread is talking about laptops, not phones.
> Objects are excellent for data

Objects are great for modeling data as long as you still think of it as data, and you can write good data processing programs using OO language constructs.

OOP as an approach to programming gets it backwards, though. OOP encourages you to think of the objects as primary and the data representing them (on the wire, in a datastore) as a secondary, inferior manifestation. This is the opposite of true. The software's value is created by its handling of data on the wire, reading data from other systems and writing data to other systems. OOP objects provide no value except by reading and writing data. If you start believing that the objects provide the value and the data exists to support the objects, as OOP encourages, then you start to suffer from all kinds of delusions.
Unlikely, unless OP is lying about doing sketchy stuff. Free-tier services are notoriously abused, and notoriously unsupported. It's more likely that it tripped up some compliance/fraud business rule. Front line support at any large corp will stone wall you in this case.
glibc – GNU C Library 2.36
Ah, so it's the attention economy, implemented in BlOcKcHaIn, folded in on itself until there is only a contrived utility that has zero basis outside of the narrow context it creates for itself.
>these were known to be very imperfect implementations even when they were originally added, but they were added anyway in the name of velocity, with an implicit assumption baked in that they’d be shored up and improved later

I've heard this a million times but don't remember ever seeing it actually done, at least on full coverage. This is why it's critically important to get the right first team of developers. A team who also knows this strategy is rarely implemented.

Don't feel too bad, it's probably in every live codebase on the planet, just a matter of degree.
Last year I did some consulting for a client using Google cloud services such as Spanner and cloud storage. Storing and indexing mostly timeseries data with a custom index for specific types of queries. It was difficult for them to define a schema to handle the write bandwidth needed for their ingestion. In particular it required a careful hashing scheme to balance load across shards of the various tables. (It seems to be a pattern with many databases to suck at append-often, read-very-often patterns, like logs).

We designed some custom in-memory data structures in Java but also also some of the standard high-performance concurrent data structures. Some reader/write locks. gRPC and some pub/sub to get updates on the order of a few hundred or thousand qps. In the end, we ended up with JVM instances that had memory requirements in the 10GB range. Replicate that 3-4x for failover, and we could serve queries at higher rates and lower latency than hitting Spanner. The main thing cloud was good for was the storage of the underlying timeseries data (600GB maybe?) for fast server startup, so that they could load the index off disk in less than a minute. We designed a custom binary disk format to make that blazingly fast, and then just threw binary files into a cloud filesystem.

If you need to serve < 100GB of data and most of it is static...IMHO, screw the cloud, use a big server and replicate it for fail-over. Unless you got really high write rates or have seriously stringent transactional requirements, then man, a couple servers will do it.

YMMV, but holy crap, servers are huge these days.
Oracle Layoffs
I think they've mentioned that they expect that their generics spec will evolve, plus they're waiting to see what idioms emerge before refactoring the standard library.
You also wrote major parts of Linux, so it's possible your contact with Googlers might be biased towards the more functional parts of the organization. Your bar for "talented engineer" may be higher than average parts of Google.
Despite not having studied history or economics or politics or war, surely you must see the risks of dismantling an economic system that has raised billions out of poverty without any type of replacement?

It's like a diabetic stopping their insulin in the hopes something better will come along.
I actually tried doing something similar with dall-e mini for one of my projects but the results were bad. It was especially struggling to draw the octopus' limbs. It's impressive to see how much better dalle 2 is at the same task, even if the results still aren't good enough for professional use.
Simplifying Measurement with the Google Tag
Entering these same search strings into Craiyon it’s remarkable how much better Dall-E is.
Then how do you explain the business troubles of companies that ban political discussion, whether Coinbase or Basecamp?
What would such a list even include?
The only Ford vehicles with that sort of markup were the Mustang EV and the 150 Lightning.

The Mustang is a great car if you're looking to have fun, but it's not very practical.

The Lightning is amazing. I've gotten to ride in my neighbor's Lightning a few times, and I would buy it in a heartbeat if it weren't sold out through the end of next year.

My neighbor did not pay a dealer markup on the vehicle (in SoCal). I don't know if that's because the dealer was playing nice, or because Ford threatened to withhold Lightnings from dealers that added markups and they didn't want to lose out on future shipments.
I would want the memory slicing + isolation, plus a hypervisor like Xen doesn't need an entire host OS so there's less complexity, vulns, overhead, etc, and I'm not aware if LXD does the kind of isolation that ex. allows for IKE IPSec tunnels? Non-hypervisors don't allow for it iirc. Would rather use Docker for containers because the whole container ecosystem is built around it.
I don't think you live in Texas. Considering I do, and Texas has been telling people how to live for as long as I've been here, I'd say my experience stands in stark contrast compared to your ideas of what Texas is or does. Especially as Texas has been specifically waging war against the metros and enacting state laws to supercede any local laws that might be passed.
The 14” MBP screens are $40 BOM? I don’t believe that; if it were true we’d see incredible screens in more places.
Most perhaps, but stories of people committing suicide after every crypto crash are far too common...
Yes, I can definitely explain monads to a 5-year old.

See, a monad is like a box. You can put something in the box and close it very easily. But once it's closed, you can't open it anymore. The action of closing the box is called the wrap operation.

What you _can_ do though, is tell someone else to do something to the thing inside the box. For example, if you put a toy in and close the box, you can ask a friend to go ahead and add a new one in. Or remove the toy. These are monadic functions.

That's it. That's literally it. It's just a pattern of hiding the data and letting monadic functions be the only ones that deal with it.

In the case of the Maybe monad for example, you'd have the unwrap function that tries to get whatever is inside out, but it might not be able to (if the box is empty).
Clicked this thinking it was about the double slit experiment observer-effect. Maybe that's not exactly a paradox, but I still can't wrap my head around it.
'Back in the day' the graffiti artist who painted the first Facebook office got shares that ended up worth $200 million [1] because in those days, investors hadn't figured out they could get away with offering a lot less.

More recently, last time I was on the job market and interviewed with startups, their offers were more along the lines of "If the company value rises to $1 billion, your stock options will be worth enough to buy a 3 bedroom family home within 30 minutes of the office" - a decent chunk of change, no doubt, but not enough to retire on, and far from guaranteed.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/graffiti-artist-painted-face...
And that's a good thing! I am in NO way advocating for a one-size-fits-all approach. There should be many different avenues available for those who wish for different experiences. For people who aren't experienced with psychedelics, doing it in a place they are comfortable in is of utmost importance. The same logic applies to those who are experienced with the substances.

If you want to trip in nature, or on your couch, or in your therapist's office, or wherever else you might find to be the optimal set/setting for your experience, you should be able to do so.

That said, I'm all for taking whatever works in a setting that works for the user.
Funnily enough, I disagree — I find that the overwhelming majority of problems with OOP come precisely from trying to use it with data. The only thing it’s good for is precisely control flow at the macro level.
It takes a while to get to the meat of the article, about five paragraphs in when they start to describe the studies.
The HSMC failure seems to have been the former:

https://youtu.be/OZSvDYDfd78
If you get your services right there is little or no communications between the services since a microservice should have all the data it needs in it's own store.