skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a woman, but I feel the line is a bit blurry depending on the scenario. If it's genuinely unclear what this person is coming to you for, then I think this is a reasonable message to send. If you're already half way through hiring somebody, then it's clearly inappropriate.

Not propositioning people you're attracted to is a sure way to be alone in life; I tend to think it's fine as long as it doesn't interfere with your professional obligations.
I imagine it would look very much like the plots of unique words given in the article. As you suspect, the chances of coming across one of these is much more evenly distributed.
Agreed about that last part. And not just for music (although I do not use Spotify and that stuff anyways; I use local files or CDs), but also for television, where there are many other issues too, that would be corrected by analogue (although there are other ways to solve it too, analogue seems the simplest and neatest way).
John Gustafson is on the board of Rex Computing, a small semi startup. They claim to have taped out last year, but I don't know if the chip has been validated or if it had posits in silicon, but I know that is one of their longer term goals.

I find Gustafson's UNUMS 2.0 more compelling than the first version.
Dismissing would be wrong. Absolutely!

The poster above me said (and emphasized) that when there's constant murmurs, you should _believe it_. Very wrong. Keep an open mind, but don't "believe" it outright just yet.
That has changed.
A qudit expands the state space, sure. But now you need universal control over this system so I'm not sure you've bought anything. Also, a system will decay from energy level n to n-1 faster when n is larger... so like eh.
I've just read a few other comments here and it seems that I might be a little older than most of the HN commentards, these days.

When I was a lad you put your finger into the bottom left hole of a rotary dial and moved the dial clockwise until it was over the chosen number. You then released your finger and allowed the dial to roll back to null. You then dialled the next number etc

You did not press keys. That is why 999 was chosen. Telephones with rotary dials had obvious clues to where the home "hole" was - where you would dial from - and you would hit the backstop when you hit nine when you rotated the dial.

It's not rocket science 8)
Andreas Gal and I wrote about this question here:

https://brendaneich.com/2014/01/trust-but-verify/

Our plan then (while we were still at Mozilla), and my advice now, is to avoid blind trust. Use systems where you can both trust and verify that your data is not being secretly surveilled.
Something like Deror, perhaps?

http://deror.org/currency.html
> What's less obvious to me is how such machines would do at fundamentally discrete tasks.

I might be talking out of my butt but fundamentally I think that eventually we'll realize that a lot of the currently supposedly solved problems might need to be rethought. I'm inclined to believe that hashing falls under these but don't quote me on that.

As for literature, I can't recommend anything in particular. But there's something on amazon, arxiv etc. I'm not sure what part of this are you most interested in, I guess what you are talking about could be complexity?
If your counting the money it will never be worth it. It makes no financial sense to go work for the USDS, you will get paid less, you will work in a much worse environment, with more frustration then you can imagine. However you will directly impact the lives of millions of Americans. People who would have died, might live. Educations can be obtained for those who might never have had one. Doctors will get paid more efficiently and will take on more medicare and medicaid patients.

You might not have as much disposable income, but you can live a good life in a nice area for 161k. Thats more them most people in the DC area make.
Free – Jeffrey Armstrong
Does the red-light blink around your sister or Mom?

Put your female colleagues in the sister compartment of your brain.
Good. Hopefully this change sweeps across all occupations are areas of the US and abroad.
I do actually, but analog computers are potentially even more powerful. Quantum computers have bits and you don't want those.

Also when I say quantum I really mean digital quantum computer, I still have to decide what to think of quantum analog computers.
* pylint / pep8 doesn't parse comment-based annotations, and thus flags imports that are in use as "unused"

* numbers.Real / Union[float,int] do not work correctly; I basically can't figure a way to annotate a function that takes an int/float/decimal/etc.

(mypy doesn't think "int" is a valid "Real", and it doesn't think you can add two Union[float,int] objects.)

(mypy has nonetheless been very helpful, and overall I would recommend it.)
Another factor is that previously the last point update of an iOS version was always jailbreakable. So there was the long period over the summer where there was a stable jailbreak that people could experiment with and utilize while Apple was focused on the next big iOS version. Now Apple is very aggressive about making sure the most recent iOS version is locked up and preventing downgrades.
A bit worrying that this is ambiguous, but I would say that it is largely because of the position of power. Like someone mentioned earlier, "hire" and "hit on" should never be in the same sentence.

And as a common courtesy I believe people shouldn't be hitting on their co-workers in the workplace in the first place. That makes everyone uncomfortable.
That's not true. I'd be interested in hearing how you think you know it.

The thing that makes HN valuable is being interesting (a.k.a. "gratification of intellectual curiosity" as the site guidelines say), so that's the one thing we try to optimize the site for. That's the way to maximize its value, including its value for YC. If that weren't true, I doubt I'd be doing this job.
Our team is very careful at choosing technology that is stable and well proven. In fact, it took a lot of debate for us to move from Rails static pages to React SPA.

As for government being slow and only change once a decade, you might be underestimating engineers in the government.

Here's the disability claim processing project I worked on when I was on SSA Digital Service.
https://federalnewsradio.com/ask-the-cio/2017/01/ssa-turns-c...

The team I worked with managed to pull off React/Node.js/Redis/Zookeeper microservice framework over AWS using Jenkins as CI/CD pipeline. And most of the team came from an older enterprise stack using Java and IBM WebSphere. They were able to adapt to the new framework.

Be conservative, yes. But being overly conservative is part of the reasons why government is so far behind today.
Well, I disagree, as someone who has used Linux, Windows, and mac pretty extensively.

Any of the interfaces anywhere approaching "easy to use" all have pretty severe limitations at some point. At that point, you rely on the application ecosystem to fix it up.

macOS has a good application ecosystem. Where the base system doesn't fit your needs, where you prioritize spending your time, you bring in the 3rd party applications. Just like you don't write code in Notepad, if you love window management to death, you go and install something like slate.

So in my opinion your real day-to-day experience depends on your priorities and application ecosystem, regardless of platform. macOS seems to have a healthy application ecosystem, perhaps because mac users tend to buy apps. You have a smaller system overall, but in a hand-wavy sense, the median mac application feels more polished than the median windows application.
Lost me at Javascript
I miss having the date in the status bar[1] through SBSettings[2]. I still keep a jailbroken iPhone around to auto-reply to text/iMessages[3] via iBlackList[4].

[1] http://www.iphone-tips-and-advice.com/image-files/sbsettings...

[2] http://cydia.saurik.com/package/sbsettings/

[3] https://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/201307210700_iphone_text_auto...

[4] http://www.iblacklist.com.br
Why I developed an entire system for the government and then gave it away
I build an alert system to the national meteorological office of my country for free, here is why.

https://medium.com/@erikmejias/bootstrapping-my-developer-career-5a71b69914e1
I really like your front-end design - it looks crisp and fun at the same time. Did you outsource that or did you do the design yourself? Every time I try designing a front end for one of my web apps, it just looks like a generic Bootstrap page.
> “We’re currently getting comments from all the underground utilities and agencies who have live underground substructures” that could be impacted by the project, Shadbehr said. “Tunneling has to meet all the regulatory standards and requirements by the state before we even consider issuing permits. We’re not there yet.”

And they never will be. Way too much bureaucracy. Musk will drop this project like a hot potato on steroids once local governments start to regulate it and pile on the costs. Just watch ...
You should talk to a therapist. It will affect your career sooner or later, if it hasn't already. You better get help on how to control these thoughts, and more importantly your actions, especially if you sometimes give "eyes" to your coworkers.
They threw them out because they’re just there to compensate for specific distortion in the analog vinyl medium. As far as I understand the riaa equalization in your phonograph is just to undo the premphasis put there when it was mastered. It’s completely unneeded in digital audio.
John's presentation more or less mirrors the topics covered in the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y
>With few exceptions, I cannot work with a woman without thinking about having sex with her.

Its fine to think whatever you want, imagine murdering your boss, having sex with the coffee machine, whatever you want, that's happening in your brain, doesn't effect anyone else. It's a bit much for >every< girl though, that sounds like a deeper issue.

>This normally doesn't leak out, but for some women, I will give them "eyes" and usually feel bad about it afterwards. But that can be persistent, and for the woman, must be kind of creepy feeling.

Unless you are being creeper and staring like a weirdo all the time then I doubt they notice.

If you are being a creeper and staring 24/7, then you have deeper issues with restraint and politeness that need to be sorted out.

>I'm at a loss as to how a man changes this somewhat foundational part of the brain.

I think most guys can cope fine, I'd wager most guys have some racey thoughts about co-workers, but the difference between that and being creepy/unprofessional is that its in your brain and you keep it there. Restraint is kind of a "foundational" part of modern life.
"Where are you working that you can reasonably imagine this happening?"

It's happened a bunch of times at my company just that I've seen personally. I'm not even talking the ones that did it to me. It's a "reputable," Fortune 100 company with diverse staff and plenty of turnover currently due to management. My part of it has maybe 100 people or so. There were also real cases of sexual harassment male-on-female and female-on-male mostly resolved by employees themselves without escalation. Younger people just being stupid with some coaching and strict warning. Those that were a bigger problem, such as smacking asses or continued harassment, get escalated to management who investigates them, gets witness testimony, and fires them if witness or camera confirmation is strong. I helped get rid of a long-timer recently where you hear stories with no evidence. He got transfered to a shitty job with more people around due to poor work ethic. This time, there were 2-3 witnesses to his behavior that escalated in his irritation and we got rid of him immediately.

So, it happens both ways in my company. The thousands of women I've talked to from tons of companies also told me both happen: sexual harassment; people using fake claims including sexual harassment as a tool. We call it the "he said, she said bullshit." Fortunately, my bosses cultivated a good team where we deal with little to none of that stuff. I mainly hear it from others acting as a witness for them or developing strategy for trouble-makers on occasion.
I know many people like that, and no, they don't derive an enjoyable power trip out of being rejected at all. Theybdon't know they can get away with it. They don't know that they are doing it. These people are rarely evil and predatory. They usually genuinely believe that the behavior they are exhibiting is desireable. They think that this is how the game is played, and these things are a form of peacocking. They think confidence is attractive, flattery is wanted, and that women are constantly searching for signals of an Alpha.

They also think they're exceptional. They don't understand boundaries, and they don't understand that women have to deal with that shit from other guys who also think that, everywhere they go. Whether it be cat calls at the grocery store or advances at work.

I don't know Sacca or McClure, and from their writing and the way they project themselves, I don't think they seem like the type of people I care to spend time around, but it's pretty clear that this is a bad combination of arrogance and ignorance rather than malice. I had to stop reading Sacca's post after the 5th page of him talking about how great he is, but it sounds like he definitely had his Come To Jesus moment and is genuinely remorseful and working on not being an ass. That's a far better outcome than premature ostracization. Save that for the Bill Cosbys.

In order to make progress, I think it is important to recognize this distinction. There are no doubt some actual predators out there, but they need to be dealt with very differently than the dumbasses. I say that in part as a recovering dumbass myself, and as someone who faced accusations of malice and manipulation (in matters completely unrelated to women) when that was absolutely not the case. Hanlon's Razor and all.
I think this is a very useful idea - it could be used to "rate" the books for English learners to see how difficult they are.
It sounds like you may be suffering from a form of scrupulosity [0], a disorder in which you feel excessive guilt about moral or religious issues. In your case mostly moral. Fantasizing about having sex with women you work with and making eyes at them isn't really the same as what's going on in this article. Thoughts are just in your head, they don't affect the outside world unless you express them and "making eyes," unless you're intensely and persistently staring at them is unlikely to have the same effect as the actions in this story. You should cut yourself a bit more slack, you obviously care about not making women uncomfortable and from what you've described here I doubt you do make them uncomfortable.

If you're interested in reading more about this there's a great Atlantic article about Scott Aaronson going through something similar. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-blo...
I would highly recommend you talk to a therapist about this.
"A technique called weight quantization, for example, represents each neural network parameter with only a few bits, sometimes a single bit, instead of the standard 32...The models are equally accurate, but the compressed version runs about 20 times faster."

This is pretty great. How can we tell if a particular ML problem is amenable to weight quantization without sacrificing accuracy?
Even so I don't think it would be surprising if they used the popularity of certain jailbreak tweaks to prioritise their own implementations
Maybe this is easier if you've had a sister. I never did. And I can't sit across the table from a skin-flashing admin assistant and think of her like my mom, who is in her 70s. It doesn't work.
Partisan political tangents definitely aren't going to help here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674213 and marked it off-topic.
I'm not commenting on the ethics of this, but the woman who was "groped" stated that she consented to it. I know this may seem distasteful, but whether she allows the kissing/groping because she's attracted to him or because she just needs his help, it's still consent in my mind:

"I felt like I had to tolerate it because this is the cost of being a nonwhite female founder,"
While the USDS does build things, the model is to have them partner with career civil servants and contractors and get them to implement industry best practices. So there is still overhead when handing off between tours, but the bigger problem is finding capable contractors and vested partners at the agency's who can champion the new way of doing things.
I'm not a mind reader, but all men think this way to some degree. For myself, I don't possess a visual imagination, so the thoughts don't stick, but they do re-occur.
However, I also have no difficulty ensuring this doesn't interfere with my relationships with my co-workers. I know whatever ideas I have are just transient thoughts, and there will never be a point where acting on them is worth the damage I might do.

Of course, as a disclaimer, I telecommute, so I'm rarely in physical contact with the women I work with. I'm also a Buddhist, so I have a lot of practice letting my thoughts go.
The Westermarck effect attempts to explain why that is not a simple mental adjustment. It's a theory, but it states "people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to sexual attraction." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
I wouldn't either, but there's really no evidence to suggest that.
I turned off syntax highlighting long ago. You may find you don't need it.

You either understand the code or you don't.
I envy that. I eat out or hide my food just because they won't put a camera in ours. Too much stuff stolen. I did get a thief once by putting a special ingredient in it then leaving it clearly marked with large letters and warning. They probably thought, "Screw him. He can't prove nothing." Jokes on him. :)

Just did it once, though. I put a lot of effort into avoiding harming innocent people. The bar is getting lower and people are often tired so someone might grab it thinking it was a sample or something. Just too tired to be smart or something. So, continuing to avoid the fridge except looking for any freebies company provides. :)
Is sexual discrimination in business actually a crime in the US? I thought it was typically handled in civil court.
A bit out of left field, but you might enjoy the book Every Man's Battle, written from a conservative Christian perspective, about exactly this problem. (The Christian man's problem with this inclination is that Jesus said, more or less, that making "eyes" at a woman is as sinful as actually committing adultery with her.)

As a not-particularly-conservative Christian, I kind of hated the book. Among other things it's got a sort of warped view of the problems with non-consensual interactions / objectifying women (there's one particular scene where there's a youth group leader and a member who's literally too young to consent, and the book puts more emphasis on the youth group leader being unfaithful to his wife than on him statutorily raping the kid). I also got the distinct feeling that I have this problem far less than any of the people in this book. But a number of friends have told me that they got a lot out of the book, so, maybe it'll resonate with you.
How incredibly odd, it is almost as though we are, perhaps, driven by biological imperative to find members of the other sex attractive. I'll just let myself out with these crazy conspiracy theories.

In seriousness, I'm pointing out the absurdity of being so surprised that this kind of thing still exists. We are fighting one of the most fundamental drives of not only the human race, but [non asexual] life itself.
Of course vinyl has the same issues. How close are your groves? How rigid is your material? If you spin it faster you can het higher frequencies but then the needle has more chance to grind down those physical grooves each time you play it.

Uncompressed digital audio is going to sound equal to or (more likely) better, and it doesn’t have the degradation problem.
While I admit I cringed at a few little things, on balance I didn't find it creepy, and I think that assessment just adds to the feeling among many that it's easier to dodge the issue than to try to get involved.
"What I said originally was that 999 is a bad choice as it takes considerably more time to dial."

You are probably not old enough to know why you use the word "dial" when you refer to pressing keys.

999 looks wrong on any phone and hence elicits a response, 112 looks like yet another extension. The only reason you associate 112 with emergency services is because that is what you have learned from an early age.

I'll assert that 999 is a far better number for an emergency - it does not look anything like any other number that you would want to dial unless you have a real problem.
Poor AI and these goal posts we keep moving.
Oh, for goodness sake, Sony, would you please just master CDs decently? I know, that would mean that you release your intellectual property to the world in uncompressed¹ quality, in a world where people frivolously commit abominable criminal acts such as copying and sharing their media.

But pretty please? I don't want to resort to an archaic medium with 10 bit effective dynamic range if I can have 16 bit on a CD. I don't want your petty streaming services. I don't want to download music amateurishly encoded in a lossy format (almost) older than me.²

I know. I'm probably the weirdest of all, longing for this sterile, lossless sound of digital awesomeness. But can I please, for once in ages, buy a CD that has been decently mastered, that I can copy onto my computer and listen to with my headphones and enjoy?

I think I'm now going to put on “Dark Side of the Moon” from 1973 and cry myself to sleep, weeping, because something so old can sound so good, whereas decades of modern music, decades of culture and art have been sacrificed to the capitalist gods of the loudness war.

¹ Both in the dynamic range and audio codec sense.
² MPEG-1 Audio Layer III.
If I create my own medium of exchange (MoE) it's only valuable to someone else if that MoE can be used to purchase goods or services from anyone in the system. What would incentivize Amazon or my local baker to accept my currency?
Hi Saurik, my reasoning was obviously not very well researched; actually I can see its a damaging assumption for the PR of jailbreaking when I (or the public in general) makes assumptions that jailbreaking is strongly linked to game piracy, so its appreciated you were able to clarify.

I personally have held my iPad back on iOS 9 for the reason that maybe some day I could jailbreak and install another OS, home brew apps etc. but I made a generalization about piracy I guess because I did see a bunch of demand for that in 2010-2012 which shows you how out of date my iOS knowledge is (since I have not jailbroken any devices between then and now). By the way, thanks for Cydia :) its synonymous in my mind for any discussion about jailbreaking and iOS.

I just think there is some demand for jailbreaking, and lack of public demand isn't a significant explanation for lack of jailbreaking progress on iOS 10/11. I mean, there is no clear argument I've seen yet which establishes a link between public demand and frequency of jailbreaks; after all it only takes a single determined developer/hacker to craft an exploit and deploy it for reasons not connected to public demand.
It's not disingenuous, it's just (probably) incorrect. Why does "disingenuous" get used so much around here? It's almost never used correctly.