skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd actually be fine with a mandatory year of military service, but not sure how well that would sell politically to other Americans.

Personally, I think it would do a lot to connect Americans from different walks of life. I know a lot of people in SF that have no idea what rural California looks like, and that works the same way in the other direction.

As far as licensing goes, that's off the table for historical reasons, and also why I say that we should make gun education universal.

Pretty much every gun control law in the United States, starting after the Civil War, and up to and including California's Assault Weapons Ban and Open Carry Ban, have been primarily to limit gun rights for the poor, and for minorities. It's why the laws are so patchwork, and make so little sense.

So, given that history, public education is the most sensible way to promote responsible gun culture and firearms safety, without imposing the licensing burden that is still used today as a means of discrimination.
Another vote for sshfs!

If you are lucky enough to use linux on both ends, sshfa can make your life so much easier.
Ask HN: Really hard take home interview, what to do?
I got offered an interview at the research division of a tech company. They sent a take home test that am supposed to work on.

It involves building a backend with some sort of machine learning/AI, basically pretty advanced stuff.

I only have a weekend to do it, since I have a job and can't work on it on a week day. I would love to work in a research division but don't think I can deliver sth meaningful within such a short time span. I've also been brushing up my algo skills in readiness for a gruelling on-site interview so that's another time sink.

I am very comfortable with interviews but I don't feel confident about this one.

What should I do?
Definitely do not take this guy's photo advice. But DEFINITELY hire a pro and let them do their work. The existing photos on the site are a huge turnoff. It should cost you a few thousand dollars to hire a top notch photographer - their work will pay you back tenfold at a minimum though.

"Large sensor, low f number, go wide angle" means absolutely nothing...don't go to a photographer saying some shit like that.
Perhaps- but most Christian sects consider God to be 'incomprehensible" or something similar- so it would not surprise them if God was different from what they imagined.
Not to my knowledge. Gaining familiarity with the different venues in your subfield is an important part of the graduate (and beyond) education.
The only solid info I seemed to get out of this article, is that it's a sugar-content analyzer paired with a food database.
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You didn't address my comments at all.

Sure, you prioritizing having a big house over not worrying about having to cough up $5k in even of an illness. Or worrying about losing your health insurance. Medical expenses are covered somewhat by insurance but you're still getting a huge bill if you're significantly ill.

I was damn lucky I could afford it but if I go sick a few years earlier I'd be totally and completely fucked. Of course, if you can't imagine it you can't appreciate it.
>I'm glad you've agreed with me that life has done nothing but get better. We're all winners, whereas by modern standards our parents were all losers.

Only in the sense that being a loser with a cellphone makes you a winner over a winner in the 60s without a cellphone.

But I don't think "availability/access to gadgets and avocados" is of primary concern when one considers whether "life getting better" over access to housing, steady employment, healthcare access, savings, and other such things.

An example of this "winning":

In 2015, when researchers Ann Case and Angus Deaton discovered that death rates had been rising dramatically since 1999 among middle-aged white Americans, they weren't sure why people were dying younger, reversing decades of longer life expectancy.

In a follow-up to their groundbreaking 2015 work, they say that a lack of steady, well-paying jobs for whites without college degrees has caused pain, distress and social dysfunction to build up over time. The mortality rate for that group, ages 45 to 54, increased by a half-percent each year from 1999 to 2013.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/52108333...

>College enrollments (as a % of new graduates) has done nothing but climb.

That's the problem of numbers, they say nothing without context.

Though this one is so obvious I'm not sure it's worth discussing.

Isn't it obvious for example that college enrollments have mainly climbed because getting by (getting a job above minimum wage) without one is not as easy as it was in decades past, and are thus becoming de facto mandatory?

Remember those "middle age despair deaths" I mentioned above? "But whites with college degrees haven't suffered the same lack of economic opportunity, and haven't seen the same loss of life expectancy."

And isn't it also obvious that this "climbing of college enrollments" is happening only with increased student debt (from even 0 back in decades past), that has reached enormous amounts for millions of people?

If people in the 40s and 50s has a gun in their head to get a college degree to find a job, and if they took huge loans to be able to afford it, then they would have the same percentage of "climbing college enrollments" too...

>That's because we get more non-wage benefits and fewer dollars per hour. Real compensation per hour has done nothing but rise.

Yeah, wonder what these millions of working class losers are complaining about... Entitled scum, the whole lot of them...
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I too found these statements entertaining - it makes the process of raising a child seem utilitarian for the family and society (which is a valid / interesting perspective).
I love tmux and use it locally as well as on remote servers. However I have not found a good way to nest remote sessions in a local session because of conflicting key bindings. Does anyone have an easy solution to this? My current solution is a separate terminal window for each remote session (connected via mosh user@host -- tmux attach). This is a minor annoyance.

My other problem is that when I restart my laptop I lose all local tmux sessions. It looks like this might be a solution via `tmuxp freeze`. Will this save bash history and stdout or only pane layouts?

I am also looking for a way to grep unified bash history across all hosts I use.

One idea I have to improve workflow / keep state across restarts is to vpn to a remote server and use my "main" terminal from there. When I need to run something locally I do it via mosh to local IP on vpn. This way local screen state is saved even across restarts (since server is up 24/7). However this is super convoluted and not ideal for many reasons.
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Echopraxia is nowhere as good as Blindsight, but it was worth reading just to discover about Portia spiders!
It's not a scam. Iirc when the driver cancels they have the option of not charging the customer, or charging the customer. It was the driver who decided to charge the customer. But when the driver cancels the ride it affects their metrics so they can't do it all the time. I imagine if they keep charging customers they will get kicked off the platform.
it would be ideal for remote working!
I do the same as you (pay for NYTimes + Netflix). I also like Medium a lot, but can't see the benefit at this time for paying them.

On the one hand, having superstar writers/journalists might be an inducement. On the other, some of the best reads from Medium have been deeply intimate pieces from non-writers.

The publications concept in Medium has sometimes been great. I really like "Backchannel" and "Bullshitist." But these publications have a tendency to die out (eg "Matter", and some I can't remember).

It would take an amazing "federation" of thought-leaders curating phenomenal articles to convince me to fork-over a monthly fee in addition to what I pay for the NYTimes.
Curious if tag URI was considered https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_URI_scheme
Something I somehow missed in school and only found out recently is that temperatures in the upper atmosphere are super high. The thermosphere is often reported as going up to ~2k degrees Celsius. (And you wouldn't even know it if you were there, due to the low density.)

I'm curious what supersonic means in this case - what is the speed of these plasma jets; what is supersonic speed in the ionosphere?
I didn't know that. Ok.
I was there! I remember seeing them win. Blew us all out of the water.
When you go north, and more generally away from population centres, the houses do seem to be quite a bit larger. There, of course, there are other limiting factors, most often wages.
People always seem to grossly underestimate the cost to crew-rate, and then passenger-rate vehicles. Especially with new technology, which usually involves killing people along the way. It is much, much, more expensive to develop a system to the point where you can put a fare-paying passenger on it than it is to take it to where you can reliably put a sensor package in it or even a test pilot that you expect to survive.

The cost of an uncrewed scale model isn't even noise in the cost of a full-size passenger-rated project, and its success isn't particular predictive of the actual project.

The sonic boom problem isn't trivial. You need to be able to land the vehicle near cities, because that's where the customers are. That means you have to spend a good chunk of time (maybe a long chunk of time if you have to orbit waiting to land) flying low and slow---a vehicle designed to use fuel efficiently when high and supersonic is almost by definition going to be less efficient than traditional vehicles when forced to fly in that regime. Which means it has to carry a lot of fuel, which means weight, which means ... etc.

As other commenters have noted: shaving an hour or two off of time spent at the terminal will generally be much more effective in speeding up travel. There is another city a three-hour drive from where I live, and it is faster for me to drive there than fly. And replacing the aircraft with a missile wouldn't change that.
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Make a C file executable with those few lines
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939040 ~34%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13938690 ~40%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13938953 46%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939181 ~86.8%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939399 95%

One... two... three... four... five theoretical maximums in comments.

Something tells me that there's a lot more research to be done (or knowledge to be learned, at the very least) available here than we realize.
OpenBSD is more secure than Linux will ever be, FreeBSD is more secure than Linux current is now; while Linux has more eyeballs looking at it there is also a significantly larger amount of kernel bloat in which weird bugs and future priv escalations can hide. What is probably less secure on the *BSD side is userspace, where there is less attention paid to security review and automated fuzzing than there is in many Linux distributions.
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The engines don't create the ludicrous sound; the force of an object moving through the air faster than the speed of sound creates the sonic boom. While some designs can mitigate this it doesn't seem that Boom has an answer here except for keeping the aircraft small.
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Fascinating. As I recall, things like negative look-ahead (or look-behind) aren't formally regular expressions (i.e. the languages they recognize aren't generally regular languages). Is this "absent" operator like that too?
Most terrorist acts in the U.S. are committed by white people, and the people pushing to make their religion the basis of law are also Christians, not Muslims. Your statements have no basis in facts or data, which leads me to suspect plain old racism.
This article is damning the product with faint praise. It's basically worthless for the purpose they use it.
I'm working on a tool to automate a fair amount of the web development process (or in other words, bring it to a higher level) and having an available library of components is basically part #2 of that process. If we can share units of functionality then we can speed up development massively in the same way that the advent of the book increased the rate at which people could learn.
It doesn't. .metadata/.plugins in the workspace contains just the plugin metadata(settings, temp files, caches etc) related to the projects in your workspace. Plugins themselves are stored in the eclipse installation directory (%eclipse_home%/plugins to be specific).
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They still make the biggest chunk of profit in the mobile space by some margin. Google might beat them in all technical departments, but Apple is making tons of cash from iOS.
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Yes

(for more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency)
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I don't really agree with the "playing the system" sentiment. It isn't as if we took the same paper 10 times and just submitted it until it stuck somewhere. Each time we got valuable, actionable feedback, which we then acted upon; the final paper was almost unrecognizable from the first submission except in the core ideas. We gained a lot of experience as a team from this process, and the end result is a much, much better unit of work entered into the literature.

None of my other publications have taken 10 submissions, so this case is also probably an outlier.
except the values will change from day to day as providers change their source mixes. nobody really cares what the exact sugar or protein content of their fruits is. It doesn't correlate with "quality".
To me the tone implied that all hotel workers must hate what they do or even see it as demeaning.

Perhaps I read too much into it.
Most devs do not work in San Francisco and the salaries in cities with more reasonable costs of living are still pretty good.
That makes sense, do you have any examples? The input doesn't have to be JSON btw.
T-minus 10 minutes until Musk explains there is a way to easily harness the electrical energy from these jets, and it'll only take Tesla a year to do it.
>>You attribute far too much of a person's wealth accumulation with skill. Is Bill Gates the best programmer of all time?

Bill Gates is good at a lot of other things including programming.

And I'm not talking about skill. Its also work, persistence and variety of other things that add up.

>>It's hard to argue with this, but I don't see it coming up much in the gender or race discussions. I wonder why.

People are only equal by rights. They are definitely not equal with regards to hard work, persistence and range of other skills.

Isaac Newton being better than me in Physics, isn't exactly racism.
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Having done that does not mean our borders had to open for bitter, fighting age men.
I'm working in this space (check my profile) and I'm betting pretty heavily on the idea that the problem there is not the user's conception of their idea, but the flawed nature of language. If users can interact with their concept as they build it, and shape it like you would a physical product, they can get much closer to the ideal stored in their head than if they have to describe the idea in minute detail using ambiguous concepts.
It's rather the other way around, it's that reseachers read only/mostly works designed for a niche audience; and thus only value such works. We measure "the most impact" as "the most impact on us", i.e. how much the work impacts the research community.

Works have an impact if I read them - a publication that targets a wide audience and thus by necessity is three times as long and "too introductory", is a publication that won't be read (by other researchers), won't be cited (by other researchers), and thus won't have an impact. If lots of laypeople read and understand it, well, that's nice, that's how textbooks work, but it doesn't help advance the science. A citation in mass media doesn't count as a citation. If someone silently adapts your method in industry, that's nice, but it doesn't really matter as well - that's a sign that your tech is mature, but "impact" measures the impact that your paper has on future progress - if the next thing doesn't rely on your paper, it doesn't have an impact on your research field anymore. Reviewers are actually representative of the intended audience of readers, so targeting for people like them makes sense.
How is this ironic? It's totally possible to repress and hurt drivers while still giving them the option of cancelling.

I know you're not saying this, but it doesn't make sense to cite this as evidence that "Uber really is treating their drivers well! Look look, they get to push a button that cancels the trip! Wouldn't that make you feel empowered if you were a driver??"
If it's correct, why do you say it's unintentional?
People who have seen their work destroyed in a failed rocket launch
Not too long ago people had children because they needed people to help work the farm.
They are, but the OP's point is fair even if we're looking at more "typical" US salaries for software engineering.
That's true; But Uber certainly should send the customer a mail to inform him he was charged by the driver $10 for not taking the ride, I think?
Apologies, I did not mean to say that the information was not in the article. It mostly was. (I think the only thing missing is that you are saying that of that 168 megs, 104 are the weights and 64 are the activations. This gives 64 * 32 for the 2G of memory. Right?)

The difficulty for me is merely in visualizing.

And I should have said that I was not looking for a single answer on whether GPUs make sense in predicting. A chart with rough guidance on when you will target specific execution environments is all I'm hunting for. My bias is that lower power targets are more common. Phones and the like. But, I would not be willing to bet heavily on that.
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Couldn't you organize the input data in a "pre-strided" layout? Not sure if that makes any sense.. But I mean, re-arrange the pixels so that consecutive pixels per stride are consecutive in memory.
It's all right -- I used Emacs for ten years before I learned there was a profiler! The FM is quite large. :)
I up-voted you because I didn't think you deserved to be down-voted and because I believe that there is a problem with including blog articles in news results because I think it waters down the word as few blogs do original reporting. Rather they just add spin.

(I also don't think there is "liberal news" or conservative news. Rather there are different interpretations of facts. And because those generate so many arguments I think an interesting browser plugin would be one where readers could engage in a Lincoln-Douglas debate about questions raised by news.)
In the US increasingly NPs and PAs are being used instead of regular doctors for primary care.
> if that doesn't fit the bill of "propaganda" I don't know what does.

This election was a big switcheroo. Historically, FoxNews (FauxNews) had very biased coverage and not much balance. Now CNN has taken their place. Their webpage reads like a scandal sheet. Everything that Trump or the Republicans do is wrong. On Fox you'll see some criticism of Trump.

I think it's explained by the fact Fox was always ambivalent about Trump because there's a base/establishment split in the Republican Party. CNN was "all in" against him from the beginning.
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> How is Europe's open door policy working?

Pretty good, all things considered.

> I'd prefer they integrate, speak the language, and stop blowing shit up.

Guess what: For 99.999% of them this already holds true.

> Apparently that's too much to ask.

No it isn't, and the refugees actually agree with you.

> I'd also prefer they stop preaching support for fucking Sharia law, but that's too much to ask.

Oh, the old Sharia law saw. Again, in no Western country is there a realistic chance of Sharia law being applied to you or me. But if two parties consent to having a non-official arbitration done then they are welcome to do so. Similar things happen in the Vatican and in the Jewish community and nobody ever thought that that was a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Vatican_City

(Note that the Vatican holds a very special position in spite of being inside the borders of Italy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_din

> You've got some real cognitive dissonance.

Do you see me as supporting Sharia law? As for being against integration, teaching immigrants the local language or being pro 'blowing shit up':

I'm against Sharia law as much as I'm against religion: but I recognize the law of the land here that says that people are allowed to do this since they are consenting adults, even if the net effects of both are quite possibly negatives. Just like I can't stop you from eating bad food or from smoking. Those are freedoms we give to everybody in order to not limit ourselves. Reduce those freedoms for others and we too will end up with reduced freedoms.

I'm hardline against genital mutilation, whether done by Islam adherents or Jews is not relevant to me. That is the sort of invasion of bodily integrity that I really strongly disagree with and that no person should have the right to do to another, even when we're talking about parents and children.

I'm 'pro' integration, but I also recognize that not everybody integrates equally well. And some simply don't care. Most notably: American, British and Japanese friends who after having been here decades still don't speak the language because they simply do not need to. Contrast with most Turkish and Moroccan immigrants who speak the language just fine.

Other than that their 'integration' is their affair, not mine and the embarrassing integration courses that the government forces on refugees here are more hinder than help (and cost a fortune). Who gives a damn where our (immigrant) queen comes from?

As for blowing shit up: the people that have the most to lose from assholes blowing shit up (or, you know, white guys running people through with swords) are the refugees and the immigrants. Because they (and their children) are going to be the ones to pay the price, not the idiots that blow themselves up.
> I think it's interesting to speculate what the simulation argument means for religion.

Not much; from the perspective of anyone in our universe, someone running the simulation is a god, and could quite reasonably have many of the specific attributes of gods envisioned by particular religions (including running "after-dinner" with different attributes from the universe someone to which intelligences from the universe someone are transferred after death.)

OTOH, the situation the ultimate "ground" physical universe may or may not be the creation of a dod, who may or may not have the attributes attributed to God by existing religions.

More to the point, the existence of the argument doesn't do anything to religion because religion can simply dismiss the argument; were it a testable hypotheses, it might be more challenging to deny (but then, religions deny empirical results all the time, too.)

> How do you know that any given miracle was caused by the ultimate god and not the simulation sysadmins editing the simulation?

Attribution of alleged miracles is not a new problem for religions, or one that they fail to acknowledge; after all, many don't hold one God out as the sole supernatural entity, and they often believe that one or more of the others are decievers.
It'd be literally impossible to do worse than the US though.