skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the number of times they try to call someone on my contact list when I ask where the nearest restaurant is.
How to Apply Machine Learning to IoT Sensors
I once worked for a company that aimed to replace investment bankers with their robots. Basically an AI that reads news and other data sources, and gives stock trading advices.
So I don't know about all fields, but I know about programming.

Do you know how much value a high school type person has in writing computer programs for an actual software company? Something fairly negative. Say -$10 an hour or -$50 an hour, based on how much experienced person time they take up and how much damage they do.

If you run a small profitable business, even if you could get high schoolers to work for free to write you code, you should not do it. If you need to pay them minimum wage... even MORE reason not do it.

I feel this is a situation that other industries have dealt with for 100s of years. For example the day 1 statue carver was probably a huge negative value also. I suspect they had to sign something like "I will work for enough pay to feed myself for 2 years, and then work for a industry standard wage for 2 years after that if you agree to train me". So all in agreeing to 4 years of work for training. (And some pay, but not really break the bank pay). At the end of the 4 years, the company got a decent amount of value out of the statue carver, and the statue carver learned a bunch of skills without going to college.

Not really anything like this in programming. Not even sure it would be legally enforceable. But I think that is a big reason why there is a gap in needs of programmers vs people willing to train people to do the job. It really would suck for most people to train someone how to do a job for a year (losing tons of money), and then the person job hops to someone who pays higher and bears none of the training cost. This is why so many jobs advertise 1-3 years of experience required. They want people over the initial learning hump, but not making the big bucks yet.

So perhaps I am proposing a way to bring back bonded labor apprentices? Hum, seems terrible. But also seems like it could work...
> and fortunately the only people at risk are those that have not been vaccinated yet

No, vaccines are not 100% effective. For example, the H3N3 vaccine was 90% effective[1]. So the only people at risk are those not yet vaccinated...and an additional 10% of the people who did get the vaccine.

Also, as noted in another reply, many, many people can't get vaccinated and rely on those of us who can to not be spreading the disease around. You can't vaccinate a newborn, for example.

There's a lot of value in bodily autonomy, and it's definitely questionable to mandate vaccines, but that has to be weighed against the costs, and that requires understanding and honestly acknowledging the costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_efficacy
It is legal for Grammarly to read, share and store forever all my emails?
The problem is the look. To someone new to audio editing world, there is no need to mimic the look of the old hardware interfaces. Knobs in particular were used in hardware because potentiometers were the method of controlling signals, but there is no longer the need to replicate such an archane control for UI. The look of a pot has little to do with its function. But with software we can make the look of the control express its function.
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Agreed. Also it makes you appreciate more the good things about your home country as well!
As far as fanless micro computers go, they usually tend to go with an enclosed design with the unit itself acting as a giant heat sink. However, with this many disks, maybe it needs an open design? Possibly only for cost.
>You're giving too much credit to students, they don't know what is best for them. This $100k will be exploited in some way by profit-seeking companies before you have a second to glance back at the money.

Like the near limitless non-dischargeable loans those same students are able to take right now? At least after it was taken by those same bad actors that are taking it right now, they wouldn't have to spend the rest of their lives "paying it back".
What distinguishes the Mac ecosystem over other PC OS'es is that the small number of supported hardware configurations makes it possible to do much more thorough system-level testing and optimization. The result is a much more stable and secure OS. As soon as you start letting users swap out components without restriction, you're going to see user experience decline.

EDIT: I'm still fully expecting Apple to allow change-outs of key components through Apple-supplied upgrades.
That is a bullshit rule and I would rather be banned and crucified than even attempt to be

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I didn't cut anything out I actually reposted verbatim the entire problem description in my post. Or did you choose not to read that part?
> While they are in the exact same repo/collection, they have clashing gradient names. If you grabbed those and put them both inline, in the same page, it wouldn't work.

Seems like the only way around that is to take a hash of the gradient.innerHTML and use that as the id of the gradient. Of course that increases the size of the svg file, but as you point out it's necessary (comically so, given all the complexity of xml namespaces don't prevent this clash).
I don't think FreeNAS has an ARM version at all.

Seems like MediaTek MT7621A is supported in FreeBSD… except… without SATA :D Shouldn't be too hard to add SATA support though…

UPD: oh, they use the ASM1061 PCI SATA controller, that one is supported!
I mean with all do respect WTF am I supposed to do lol, get a PhD in Italian language and cuisine before touring Italy?
Your first paragraph makes your point. The rest is an over-the-top response to a fairly innocuous comment.
Sounds awesome! I do have some built in methods to instantiate mobs, objects, and rooms, then save them to disk, but they're pretty basic and don't allow more advanced things like scripting events or locking doors and things like that.
Actually in Italian you can say a "parmigiana di melanzane", but "parmigiana" by itself is meaningless, there are "parmigiana di carciofi", "parmigiana di gobbi", and of course "parmigiana di patate" (that has completely different ingredients).
Could you expand on why you think this?
For example on surgery advertising in a non-rich area of the US:

http://www.scrantonhipandknee.com

Landing page is all about how great hip and knee replacements are.
I agree with the author's conclusions that college is mostly an expensive waste of time and money. Job training can and should be done in a more cost-effective way with paid apprenticeships. Universities should focus on pushing the boundaries of knowledge (research) not job training.
I have a prototype to optimize a caching policy using a hill climber. It favors recency or frequency by adapting the partition between the two regions. It works really well in early experiments.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NlDxyXsUG1qlVHMl4vsU...
Most people are in the middle

Of the income or wealth distribution - not a hope, it's Pareto all the way. You've got a really warped view of the world there.
They say that fan cooled enclosures collect more dust. I can confirm. I have a ReadyNAS NV+ with a 92mm fan and it accumulates tons of dust extremely quickly.
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Like the nVidia shield?
Salami and zucchini are actual English words, and salami is actually the plural for salame in Italian anyway.

Italian Wikipedia on the aubergine dish: "La parmigiana di melanzane, anche melanzane alla parmigiana o semplicemente parmigiana..."

And biscotti encompass cantucci. So I don't know what the big deal is.
You can try looking at your web server logs, we started using https://goaccess.io/ a while back and has given us great insights of our actual traffic and sudden spikes.
Oddly enough (and anecdotally of course), I actually needed the classroom environment to learn some subjects, but not others. So it can't be that my brain is locked into a particular mode of learning.

I learned computer programming and electronics, completely on my own, except for one introductory course in each subject.

On the other hand, it would have been hard for me to learn math and physics on my own, and those subjects became my college majors.
This is like the definition of an ad-hominem attack. Your argument is basically "he believes some unpopular things so all his ideas should be discredited." I dont know this guy and I doubt I think the way he thinks, but the essay is the essay -- it should stand or fall on its own merits.
Yes, and doing the diploma thesis (or the undergraduate thesis) in his group was one of the rare opportunities to get your hands on AdaCore's compiler, not the neglected free gcc version.
I might have to add my Instagram SVG to this collection. Mine is 4 lines of SVG with a def for the the gradients. I started with the 1.8 Mb file provided by the Instagram brand guidelines and set to work.

Inline SVG is the way to go, however, if you have a large SVG stylesheet then some hacks are needed to load it as a cached image and get the thing inline on the page. Greatest fun since LEGO though!
Yes, you are participating in a low-level wealth transfer from the poor to the wealthy. I do too, but you have to understand what it is. I find it to be one of the least morally acceptable practices I participate in.

Every single person in the US now effectively pays 2-3% more for goods, and that goes directly to pay for your benefits.

I don't consider this a positive, and I honestly feel really scummy using my card in such a manner - but it's one of those things protesting doesn't really help any longer.

I also actually do value my privacy quite a bit as well - and giving banks free marketing data annoys too.

I feel the first complaint is a huge social problem, but the second rather trivial.

Also, credit cards are only faster these days vs. cash due to the insanely bad cash handling skills of the average cashier. 30 years ago this was exactly the opposite - and once in a while you'll get an old-school cashier who has worked a cash business for years and you will realize how utterly slow credit is in comparison.
Eric (who wrote TFA) and I worked together at Electric Cloud on GNU make stuff. He took over from me writing a column called "Ask Mr. Make".

The columns I wrote are all available here: http://blog.jgc.org/2013/02/updated-list-of-my-gnu-make-arti...

Or, if you like, there's a book version: https://www.nostarch.com/gnumake
No I am saying what I said originally that there are issues with the single payer system as it's based on tax money and thus can't make it's own money.
I think things make a lot more sense if fascism is recognised as a far-left ideology: the notion that it's "far right" doesn't really make any sense when examined and so we should really just question if it's been misclassified - possibly deliberately.

Mussolini himself said that fascism was basically a form of socialism, and his beef with socialism was more that - at one time - it had an internationalist and interventionist outlook. That didn't last long before "Socialism in one country" came along though and at that point the distinction between fascism and socialism largely disappears.

After all, what are the characteristics of the right? I'd say a preference for free markets over state intervention, a reverence for tradition, desire for a strong military, a leaning towards democracy and localism, and a general sense that government should do less. Would a far-right society then not be something like anarcho-capitalism? Whereas under Mussolini about 75% of Italian industry was state controlled and arguably fascism is about the fusion of the state and industry into a single whole (hardly distinct from bulk nationalisation).

I'm not sure there are any examples of far right societies in the 20th century, although perhaps Victorian England and the early years of the independent USA could be described that way.
Alphabet's Verily built a health-focused smartwatch with 1-week battery life
Is apprenticeship where you do not get into debt but not remunerated for you work any worse form slavery than the 4-year degree that leaves the student with 100K debt, which the student has to service the next decade or so of his life?

Not only you are cheapening "slavery" as a word, but mis-framing the issue.
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Naah, it is not necessary at all, you just enter a bakery (or other similar eating shop) and point your finger on something in the showcase, the natives will understand that you want that product ;) and almost invariably it will taste good.
Do not go to the restaurant and try ordering spaghetti with meatballs, however.
So the thing is that it's not like I wait 30 minutes then see the nurse and then immediately see the doctor. It's wait 30 minutes, wait 5 minutes for the nurse, wait 20 minutes for the doctor and then she is like rushing through her appointment with me. I spend over an hour for 5-10 minutes worth of doctor time.
The problem is:

Doctor Revenue = Number of Hours Worked / Yr / Duration of Average Visit * reimbursement for average visit

That's capped, and everyone is squeezing down on it constantly. Every bit of healthcare reform in the last couple decades has been unfunded mandates (aka, increased overhead) coupled to ongoing reductions in reimbursement rates. For that matter, as is usually the case when price ceilings are implemented, demand > supply, and docs are booked to capacity in most places.

This creates a problem when it comes to hiring staff. Better staff comes directly out of your pocket, and it doesn't translate into higher revenue: it's just a cost. Er... most businesses don't throw money out of the window if they can avoid it.

The exception is billing staff (some of whom are better than others at maximizing your revenue from insurers), and if you plan on moving into a luxury all-cash niche, in which you can demand market rates for better service.
It's from moving your wrist in an arc around your elbow. Since it's down and to the side, it makes a diagonal as you move it across the paper.

Keeping your elbow under your wrist helps.
Without going deep into what 'functional programming' means, a remote procedure call is not necessarily functional. The use of "procedure" versus "function" in the name might be indicative that the remote endpoint maintains mutable state. The possibility that the remote endpoint is inaccessible indicates that the result of one call may be an (expected) integer and the result of the next call may be a (hopefully anticipated) network error.

Haskell jumps through mathematically monadic hoops to fit this class of behaviors into its functional programming paradigm. Clojure, being more practical, offers its transactional structures as a possible way of reasoning about remote calls in terms of asynchrony (a failed procedure call might be considered a process that never finishes (or not)).

Good luck.
If you're going to write nice things about Richard Stallman, you should use the name "free software", not "open source" :)
Actually a pretty interesting article.

The ease at which you can 'fool' machine learning right now adds an additional layer to practical machine learning in the wild - risks from malicious attacks.

Imagine someone putting up a lawn sign that tricks self driving cars into seeing something that isn't there and applying the wrong behavioral pattern because of it. Or even simpler, someone taping a sticker over the self driving car's cameras that cause erratic behavior. Can have really bad consequences and seems really simple to do.
Note that to generate perturbations you need access to the underlying model. The attack is just optimising towards a specific class with added cost for visual differences.
I may be putting words in your mouth but I think you are saying that non-graduates who are not soaked in debt have more choices, and if so I'd agree.

Employers want in order of preference:

* h1-b - work late or life as you know it ends

* big mortgage with family - work late or I ruin your family's life

* big university debt - work late or I ruin your life

Debt is a tool of control.
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The institutions and endeavors we regard as ironclad — from
parenting to politics — are actually held together with chewing
gum and duct tape. Nothing truly works, at least not for long,
or not in the way it’s supposed to. This reality is terrifying,
because it exposes the precariousness of the existing order.
But it’s also liberating, because it encourages the individual
to act, to defy the ominous mythology of competence and control.
How do you think student loans will "sink the boat completely"? They aren't traded, the money is mainly
owed to public institions and banks, and it isn't the biggest piece of the debt pie. I'm even more confused how you think gold and bitcoin are hedges against a crash in the dollar. Historically, real gold returns have been worse during higher inflation. And during previous currency devaluations, holding commodities only worked out if you held the right ones. Oil has done far better than gold depending on which time period. Foreign currency can do just as well and is easier to trade than gold. To properly hedge the dollar you need to hold more then just bitcoin and gold, you would need silver, oil, and a basket of currencies as well.
This isn't surprising to me at all, since these systems are only "developed independently" in a very narrow sense. Each company may have it's own implementation (Tensorflow vs. Torch, etc) but they are implementations of nearly identical underlying models, namely deep convolutional neural networks. We shouldn't be surprised that they all agree since they are all the same under the hood, probably even down to the level of choice of hyperparameters (stride length, filter size, etc) since there is plenty of research on what kind of deep net works best on particular applications.
Depending on the time gap between your leaving and calling for an inhaler refill, that may have violated state ethics regulations and constitute malpractice. Docs have a standing obligation to former patients, generally regarded as something like 3-6 mos., to address emergency issues (e.g., writing a script for a life-saving inhaler).
Good point. Didn't Yahoo abandon remote work as soon as Mayer took over?
>"The most elite companies in the valley have correctly found out that remote doesn't work (in most cases)... and yet we're going to do remote with our students?"

I'm curious do you have a citation for this? Have those "elite companies" - Google, FB, etc ever actually embraced a remote work force? My impression was they were always on-site shops. But maybe someone here knows more?
Not sure exactly what you are confused about.

I was responding to a post who claimed that if there isn't free checkup for all then people wouldn't go to get checked.

I simply pointed out that even in a country like Denmark which is 100% free people thats not the case.

So you would have to show causation between general checkups and cost of healthcare I don't think you will be able to find that.
You're ignoring the quality of the teacher. If you learn remotely, you can learn from good (or at least adequate) teachers, at a pace that is right for you.

I wish that resources such as Khan Academy existed when I was at school. I don't know about you, but many of my high school teachers barely understood the material they were teaching.
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Physiatrists. Physical Medicine & Rehab doctors. They're the non-surgical equivalent of orthopedists.

PT's... are fine folks. But if you want to avoid surgery and need a proper injury evaluation, you go to PM&R.
Was the college degree itself really the difference here though?

I would guess it was more of a high level indicator of someone who has ambition, some base level of intelligence, perseverance, etc.

That still leaves you with false negatives and false positives. Just something somewhat better than hiring randomly. There are other criteria you could have used that had nothing to do with a college degree, that would likely have similar results.

The enlisted ranks of the US military, for example, use something called an ASVAB test as a bar for certain highly skilled jobs. It's also not perfect, but yields at least similar results. And the pool has very few college grads.
I said that in a system like that Danish which has single payer, that's not the case. I.e. the claim that single payer encourages that isn't true if you look at Denmark.

Make of that what you want.
Thanks for an interesting read about Italian bakeries! I do feel compelled to point out, though, that an "Italian bakery" is a very specific, regional thing easily recognized by the readers of this local newspaper. If the term were a little more honest it would be called an "Italian American" bakery, and as a visitor and native Italian you would find quite a bit more to take issue with than the selection! What is undeniable though, is how delicious and truly special the cookies are at a good Italian bakery. Some of the best things I've ever eaten are from Gencarelli's Bakery in Bloomfield NJ.
Most major cities in the world? All those major cities that don't get snow and icy roads? Major cities like Chicago, new York, Moscow? Any big city in northern Europe? What about Canada?

I think the snow question is a good one.
I'm in it for the money and haven't failed hard enough to prompt much supervision in a while. Intrinsic/extrinsic has nothing to do with it (I struggle with some things I'm intrinsically motivated to do more than programming.) Certainly "person X doing Y" requires different amount of supervision depending on X and Y but I think we know little about exactly how and why it varies.

One source of variability: some care about impact on coworkers, some don't. Guess who will upset you more. Intrinsic/extrinsic is orthogonal to this.
At some point in the future there will be a silicidal holy war between different sentient AIs and it will be fought over Tabs versus Spaces.
Cool! I'm not literate in Lua so the context-switching is rough on my eyes, but I think it's a neat synthesis none the less!