skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agreed. I understand that he's mentally ill, and I wish him all the best in that regard. But I can't help but see him as just another racist hick. Super cool project he has, but I want nothing to do with him or anything he works on.
Thinking some more, I am realizing that, as someone who believes in anthropogenic climate change, I ought to be open to the possibility that in the future further evidence will disprove it. That said, at present that seems to me pretty unlikely.
the first laser was built in the 60s, DNA was isolated in 1878.
Yeah, I meant MSVC debug backend.
As someone with a degree in political science, it absolutely does not change faster than technology.

What massive political science paradigm shifts have happened in the last 7 years, the same timeframe that has seen the advent of cloud computing, containerization, hyperconvergence, agile, ect?
"I would not buy what Tencent is buying."

Tencent own a lot of stock in (international) companies that are doing well too. For example, Riot Games, Epic Games and Snapchat.

Similar things can be said about Alibaba.
> but in exams like X-ray, ultrasound etc you cannot make it work( at least now)

Why not? An image is an image.
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Facebook just did something big with Facebook Stories launch in the main app
We actually almost delayed launch to get linux support in because it's very close to ready. Several of us internally develop on linux and have been using Kite on linux for a while.

Regarding features, there's actually more than just autocomplete and docs: https://kite.com/tour/atom
This is not my proposal, but I think this is one that I like most with regards to Go and metaprogramming/generics.
It's interesting that you mention the criminology scenario. Courts are starting to use software algorithms to predict recidivism rates for purposes of setting bond amounts. The reports are even given to judges to inform sentencing. However, there is an enormous backlash against them, because e.g. they predict higher rates for racial minorities: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm....
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Sweet..

So..
Anyone have any insight on what these actually provide, feature wise over v7?

Have often wondered about these 'mystery unices'..

Am sure I will trawl the source archives..
but pointers would be useful.
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is there a list of sites to find startup jobs, it seems to be difficult to find a single , reliable site for quick search/land
> handled by special code which runs a lot faster

This is just another way of saying "we don't have a compiler, so don't process data at the element level if you want speed".

It is not an advantage of the language, but a disadvantage.

If you have a compiler, then it's only valid for aggressive, machine-specific optimizations. This is articulated by statements like "the library function is marginally faster than an open coded loop, because it uses some inline assembly that takes advantage of vectorized instructions on CPU X".

If I write an FFT routine in C myself, it will not lose that badly to some BLAS/LAPACK routine.
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I agree, providing context-sensitive example-based documentation would be great, but is also very hard to do without a full-blown parser for every language one supports.
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Port LLVM to it, you're halfway there.

Such a restricted machine unfortunately is not amenable to any abstraction and I have no idea what such bad hardware would be used for. Nor why.
There's low storage overhead, but there's definitely a quality control cost. You have to have editors maintaining these pages which (if they are being deleted, generally) are not notable enough to have significant reputable sources devoted to them. As such, you can accumulate subtle vandalism, pranks and biased editing.

There's also a search, navigation and organization cost associated with these sorts of things. They need to be linked together, organized into categories, and if you include a bunch of non-notable garbage it's much harder for people to find the high-quality articles about notable things out there.

"Deletionists" aren't running around deleting things out of spite or something, there are good reasons for the notability guidelines.
Of course, but that doesn't mean both aren't being economically exploited.
I agree with the reasons you ended your last comment on. Ignorance and lack of availability (or rather a mismatch in supply and demand) would surely lead to drop-off. In addition, laziness will lead to drop-off i.e. "Uber was marginally better than taking the next best alternative for me. I'll just go back to that now because I'm too lazy to figure out this Lyft thing".

I'd guess the difference in our conclusions is based on your belief that these are "easily countered with some advertising".

Most of my background is in paid advertising, and reactivation on defunct company contacts is never close to 100% -- not even close.
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I'm a woman, and my best friend is a man. I have many more male friends than female ones in general, just due to my interests.

I've never once had the faintest idea of sex cross my mind when making relationships with co-workers or other male friends (I've been in a steady relationship for 7 years though, so it's not like I'm looking). Never once. And all my male friends I've made have never once conveyed anything sexual to me because they either don't feel that way, or if they ever did, they respect me enough to not make me feel uncomfortable (with the exception of one former coworker who I refer to as a harasser for his continual flirting + uncomfortable advances. I cut off all contact with him)

You're projecting tbh, many women are perfectly capable of creating strong platonic relationships with men. Usually it's the man who has an issue there, but that's not really my problem is it? If you think of sex any time a female befriends you and you let it get to you and damage your friendship, that's something you need to work on personally.

Also, do you think Gay dudes are unable to make friendships with straight guys for this reason too?
Thank you for adding the instructions. I wanted to use Kite until I realized I had to upload my code. I think you guys need to mention that in your landing page's copy.
Watch it work so well, just like every other identitarian shame campaign.
I did RTFA and this paragraph threw me off:

> All in all, emails about defunct links of sites that weren’t saved are annoying, but harmless. Finding archived materials to replace them add maybe 20 minutes of internet searches to my day – and a bit of anger at the state of the country.

The way I read that was that the articles still existed elsewhere. But reading the article again I can see they are referring to other people's citations of the things that are deleted.

Also, the title itself:

> I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations

Citation is defined by the dictionary as:

> "a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work."

Not the source data.

So my apologies. I misread what the author was intending to say. But in defense if the author was intending to say that then the word citation in the title is used completely wrong. (or scientist have a different definition which I find odd)

Actually readying the article again. I am still not sure I was not right the first time. Deleting a citation is NOT deleting the source material. Deleting "cited material" is.
> Yes, I know that's also how other sites like Reddit works

Reddit separates the two types of karma.
Any other aviation nerds will appreciate the slaved guns on the B29.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18343/the-...
In most industries, this is not a red flag at all. Nobody doing anything serious would let normal applicants look openly at their codebase.
Because this guy is just trying to get some visitors to his startup. And he thinks these visitors will turn his/her startup a billion dollar company
This would basically be my list as well, with a strong emphasis on #2.

I go further on #2 and ask myself, "Do I want to work for this person?" (in terms of character, trust, will he/she have my back, do they care about my growth, etc.) and "Will I learn a lot from this person?" (skills, experience, industry knowledge, etc.)
No we don't do anything with the terminal any more (and in particular we do not record terminal commands in any way)
End to end encryption and all the changes are logged in a secure journal are two major differences.

I have a short FAQ entry comparing it to other solutions, but it's far from exhaustive. I'll take a look into expanding it. Thanks!
I never tended towards hypochondria. I do however have trust issues given the malpractice that I've witnessed over the years. I thank my lucky stars that I've never been directly on the receiving end of it. I'm firmly of the belief that we should treat our medical professionals as consultants and advisors, but we should be fully cognizant of our own health requirements.
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It's an economics term. Basically, how much output to you get for a given amount of input. It's more about the market value of the components than about how much physical stuff was produced.
Except that the UI is so bad that you can only discover a few top ranked (whatever it means in this UI) projects or the project you already know it exists in there.
There's a difference between listing three to five examples of a given usage, to demonstrate that it occurs in the wild, and exhaustively cataloging every single time a thing has been mentioned by anyone.
> you are saying that skeptics and lukewarmists would change their minds if GMT went up significantly more than their present views predict?

Yes, absolutely.

One thing which makes this seemingly completely empirical topic difficult though is the ~20x noise-to-signal ratio and the "red noise" inherent in the process. This means end points for the analysis make a huge difference. Both skeptics and alarmists will cherry-pick when they can, and will reflexively dismiss each others trend lines as cherry picked.

My view is the "two sides" act as the prosecution and defense in an adversarial courtroom. Neither should be expected to raise evidence or lines of reasoning which detract from their own agenda. And both will constantly try to get the other side's evidence thrown out, even if they know it would get the general public closer to the truth.
In my understanding, it has to do with variance. This happened a very long time ago, before 1.0, and so I don't know where the discussion happened, off the top of my head.
> I wonder if the Walmart strategy of destroying your competition by undercutting prices can work for Uber.

Big difference though because Walmart doesn't incur a massive loss to do that.
What's the difference between a regular facebook post and a "story"? It auto-deletes in 24 hours. Is that the only difference? Why would anyone care? I don't get it.
That is not one bit surprising considering that Google does everything online.

Google no doubt has some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary. Also they probably have code under other licenses that they would like to remain under those particular licenses.
I mean, if you perceive "lack of free time with which to enjoy six figure salary" as economic exploitation, you have a pretty awesome life. The plight of the service worker and the plight of the software engineer aren't in the same galaxy, it's silly to group them together.
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The problem with "climate science" is that so many things about it set off my internal BS detector.

But on specifics, it would be good to get a clear answer to the question - how come CO2 concentration was much higher in several past periods and it didn't turn the Earth into a desert?
Maybe a synonym aware documentation searching autocomplete?
I'm sorry, but shouldn't it be the responsibility of the party making the claim to provide evidence of patent infringement before the defendant is ever even affected?

What a sad state of affairs our court system is in if even a known false lawsuit can be devastating.
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For stylo I've taught bindgen to be able to insert borrows in the binding functions in the presence of certain types, so on the C++ side you define it as FooBorrowed bindingFunc(BarBorrowed b), and on the rust side you get fn bindingFunct(&Bar) -> &Foo, which elides correctly. As a result a lot of the rust-side FFI code is actually 100% safe and the burden of safety has been pushed over completely to the C++ side. It's pretty neat.
It wouldn't be a viable business unless we thought we could add real value _and_ thought that we could capture some of that value. Yes, being on the cloud allows us to set up an attractive subscription model. But Kite won't succeed as a business unless it turns out to actually be a value-add over local solutions. That's what we're betting on.
> I have no problem working long hours when it is necessary. It happens, even in the best of places

Actually, once in a while, having to put out a big fire is kinda stimulating. Sure it sucks that something's burning, but the challenge can be awesome.

Well, as long as it doesn't happen too often. :)
> They will also (should you request it) record the calls and store them in S3...

My first thought was this was a way to get an enormous amount of recording call information to train the AI inside of Amazon.
> You're practically a serf, with no real control of your own life, owned by a huge corporation that will discard you like wet tissue paper the moment you ask for the privilege of having a human life.

To be fair, if you're willing to move somewhere cheap you could easily retire after 15 years as a software engineer in the Bay Area. So it's just ~20% of your life.
Okay, but that's kind of an unfair comparison since Facebook, Google are corporations. Elon is a person. But if the point is tech founders should actively invest on their own outside of their company, okay that's fair. I am not sure how often Jack Ma, Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos invest in for-profit companies outside of their company's investment arm, but I think they do.
And so it turns out once again, in every field, people really are the problem ...
If you're in Silicon Valley and you comp is partially equity based, I would ask for the high-level financials and strategy for the business. Your job offer value is predicated on those artifacts.
It may be, but there isn't a real good metric for societal improvement. And it seems like progress would always have ebbs and flows as different technologies have new opportunities that are squeezed -- and then other technologies look plumper, so they are squeezed, and so on.

And that's fine. I don't think anyone is complaining today about timepieces not keeping even more accurate time. Clocks today (in whatever device they are embedded in), while not 100% accurate are pretty good. The ROI in improving them further just isn't there -- in part because the good they'd serve humanity isn't there.
There's a lot right in this, but I feel he's chosen the wrong enemy by harshly criticizing Daniel Stenberg (the curl dev). He's not a C zealot, he's just accepting realities.

Curl should be replaced by something memory safe. But it cannot happen today, because the infrastructure isn't there. We don't have memory safe languages suitable for system programming that's widely available on all kinds of architectures. Rust may become that language, but today it is not. It's not as portable, not as easy to integrate etc. pp.
Tencent Holdings is more of an investment/VC company. WeChat is just one of its subsidiaries it funded that became wildly successful. Its primary focus is still investment in technologies. Pretty sure it can find some synergy with Tesla among its wide reach of portfolio. Does it hold solar related companies?
Shouldn't they have bought ten(per)cent?
Their strategy is reminiscent of Softbank's.

There may be some synergystic stuff from time to time (ex: Yahoo! Japan), but most of the time it's a pure investment move to amp up their returns.

Berkshire plows the cash flow from their insurance business into acquiring businesses (though they get a controlling stake), Softbank plows its telecom cash flow into speculative VC bets, and Tencent seems to be plowing its own revenue into VC bets as well.
I certainly would not. Thanks for pointing that out. Their landing page does not mention it at all.

There is a lot of publicly available source code which Kite can scrap and use. Expecting that users will be happily uploading their code into a private cloud is weird.
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Employee burnout happens because the majority of businesses today cling to a 20th century, mass production designed, work model (9am-5pm workday, ass in seat productivity measure) while employees are forced squeeze their lives around a corporation for "security".

I recently wrote a post which outlines this idea in a slightly broader context (those interested can visit https://allidina.me, feedback & constructive criticism welcome).

Cheers!
I know very well what UB is and I bet there is not a single big program which does not have undefined behaviour. I even rely on UB sometimes, because with well defined set of compilers and systems, it's in reality well defined.

I was talking in general about "unsafe" languages. I use c++ in my projects and use custom allocators everywhere, so there is no problem with UB there. The custom allocators also do the checking against double-free.
Best case: you're shorting Sun Microsystems at the beginning of 2000, and it goes from $300/share to $3/share in the next 3 years. (http://www.1stock1.com/1stock1_211.htm)

My advice is to just not touch tech stocks; going short on them is just as dangerous as going long.
Your friends sound like assholes
There's an (underrepresented) idea when looking at the history of tech called a Kondratiev_wave[0] that says global economic changes happen in a series of predictable peaks and valleys. If the recent trends of computing really took off in the late 1990's, we should expect the wave to stagnate between 2015 and 2030, and recede into stagnation and negative growth around 2030-2050.

I don't think this is foolproof, but it _is_ a tool and a perspective for analyzing history, and one that runs counter to the most common narrative of increasing acceleration in technological development. The physics way of saying this is that velocity is always positive (we're always going up or near-neutral) but the rate of acceleration isn't spectacularly greater than the new ones. If we really are talking about the rate of change of economic/tech growth (the rate of change of market size/capability), then we're talking about acceleration!

Anyway, this was a whole rant, but my personal take is that we tend to underestimate the amount of turbulence in history, leading us to believe that the past was a stable, peaceful and simpler time, while the present day is going nuts. This kind of thinking has fueled messianism, apocalyptic cults, futurism, dreams and nightmares for centuries, and will continue to if we don't blow ourselves up. We forget that even in places like Ancient Rome the rate of change in tech and human growth was still positive and rapid, that during the Dark Ages science and technology were still exploding in the Middle East, that the differences between 1650 and 1750 were vast in terms of human thought, that between 1850 and 1950 they were seemingly greater. There was no time of mythological stasis before the present day, and it's unlikely that there ever will be as long as we're still human.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave
Really?

http://www.dave.rainey.net/calendars/dystopias/process3.html
The way many countries treat their doctors is indeed pretty abusive, but that's orthogonal to the fact that effective medical care right now requires a shit ton of training. This is not artificial complexity. I hope one day soon machines will surpass MDs and we'll all have access to an autodoc, but until then - and since you brought abuse up - I think it's worth considering what conditions we create for medical care people to work in.
Certainly, but what's the cutoff? Maybe that should be a policy ("three to five inbound references are acceptable; more are not") so there's consistency.
Isn't practice repeating the same thing over and over again, and getting slightly better results every time?
This doesn't match my experience at all. Bose noise cancelling is excellent and completely blocks out my coworkers' voices.

At home I use Beyers and Sennheisers because I enjoy the audio quality, but at work these headphones are as essential to me as my keyboard and mouse.
I agree, getting ACS molds for my ER4p is one of my favorite audio purchases. All day comfort + maximum isolation
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Sure these people are harmful, but Wikipedia rules and significance guidelines pretty much encourage this behavior. I remember musician's (it was Asura, a quite notable ambient music composer, if I remember correctly) biography being deleted. For me, the fact that I was actually searching for his biography when I found it's being deleted already shows it wasn't useless. The argument was that there's nothing that shows his significance, and relying on Wikipedia's definition of significance it was kinda hard to argue. I mean, yeah, I don't think he's got any Grammy or MTV awards or if his albums were sold in millions of copies, or some other shit relevant mostly for pop-music. It's not like he is Madonna, obviously. But within the genre he's very much well known, and if he is not notable — well, indeed I doubt even 50% of articles on Wikipedia are.

I tried to argue, and checked it later — the article was removed.

Instead, "Asura" redirects to (along with the original meaning, of course) to a dozen of movies, games and, you've guessed it — anime characters.
The spam is in the external links sections of articles that aren't under threat of deletion. For example, about half the links on the Lemon Law article point to pages that are essentially lawyer lead funnels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law
just a blank page for me: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_fqMwJbAXzURzRTWlNhN25INW...
> In SF/bay salaries are quite high, and talent is hard to find.

That's because they are high in absolute terms, but not high in relative terms.

In other words, if the pay was actually high, talent wouldn't be hard to find.
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It's possible, even plausible, but I think it's not so. My guess is that in the decades around 1900 America and western Europe were considerably more dynamic -- there was less overall resistance to innovation. To pick a tiny example, driver's licenses weren't required in all states until, iirc, the 1950s. Radio had decades of development before the FCC. Some doctors tested new treatments on themselves. Immigration from Europe to the U.S. was unlimited. I'm not promoting going back to those days -- I don't want to get into that argument -- but I'd like to reach better understanding of how much the growth slowdown since 1970ish is about the intrinsic difficulty of innovating vs. how much is about the way we collectively think and coordinate.

Here's some fruit that looks low-hanging today relative to its value: atomically precise manufacturing. http://www.foresight.org/roadmaps/Nanotech_Roadmap_2007_main...
Right, but the python standard library docs are just a tiny tiny fraction of all the documentation in our index, and the documentation itself is just one corpus out of many.
In general, I wish there were safer ways to short.