skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few notes:

The author writes "Meanwhile, at least one influential researcher (whose work I respect) had harsh words publicly for her result", and then quotes some of these words:

Note that (smartly enough) the PCG author avoids
carefully to compare with xorshift128+ or xorshift1024*.

However, the author fails to note that said "influential researcher", Sebastiano Vigna, is the author of xorshift128+ and related PRNG.

In the linked test [2] by John D. Cook (who uses PactRand, a test similar to the (obsolete) DIEHARD), xorshift128+ and xoroshir0128+ fail within 3 seconds, while PCG ran 16 hours producing 2 TB of pseudo-random numbers without any suspicious p-value detected.

On the other hand, Vigna claims that the xoroshiro family does "pass" PactRand.

I've submitted an answer to StackOverflow a while ago [1], recommending xoroshiro and PCG, thus I'd be concerned if PCG turns out to be flawed. It's actually quite hard to get academics in the field to give an authoritative recommendation (I've tried) - their response is typically along the line "It's complicated"...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4720822/best-pseudo-rand...

[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/08/14/testing-rngs-with-...

Edit: remove italics due to asterisk in PRNG name, & add link to John. D Cook's test.
Question, are you using a lens filters on your Mavic's camera, or solely adjusting colors after the fact?
Probably the same amount not data and experience that I have to express the contrary.
It doesn't seem that the skills in that link are relevant to this study:

> The non-cognitive score is based on behavioral questions in a 20-minute interview
with a trained psychologist. On the basis of the interview, the draftee is scored along
four separate dimensions (see Mood et al. (2012)): (i) social maturity, (ii) psychological
energy (e.g., focus and perseverance), (iii) intensity (e.g., activation without external
pressure) and (iv) emotional stability (e.g., tolerance to stress). There is also an overall
non-cognitive score on a Stanine scale, which ranges from 1 to 9.
This is super cool, I also appreciate the demo's you have on your website (airlines, MBA schools etc.). Makes the end result super clear.

I don't know much about NLP but are you only using unsupervised learning on the raw data? I would think you would need an NLP layer as well that sorts out basic synonymical issues, phrasing differences etc.?
Two things. Im surprised no one at the apple store caught this.
Surely they tried to use said phone to stream to a bluetooth speaker or something to verify audio was working and would notice it had NO songs to play?

Second, I wonder how much PEBKAC issues like this cost apple per year in replacement devices?
Thanks! This is good, practical advice.
That full section.

>Pyramid schemes now come in so many forms that they may be difficult to recognize immediately. However, they all share one overriding characteristic. They promise consumers or investors large profits based primarily on recruiting others to join their program, not based on profits from any real investment or real sale of goods to the public. Some schemes may purport to sell a product, but they often simply use the product to hide their pyramid structure. There are two tell-tale signs that a product is simply being used to disguise a pyramid scheme: inventory loading and a lack of retail sales. Inventory loading occurs when a company's incentive program forces recruits to buy more products than they could ever sell, often at inflated prices. If this occurs throughout the company's distribution system, the people at the top of the pyramid reap substantial profits, even though little or no product moves to market. The people at the bottom make excessive payments for inventory that simply accumulates in their basements. A lack of retail sales is also a red flag that a pyramid exists. Many pyramid schemes will claim that their product is selling like hot cakes. However, on closer examination, the sales occur only between people inside the pyramid structure or to new recruits joining the structure, not to consumers out in the general public.

It notes "lack of retail sales is also a red flag that a pyramid exist". What percentage of Bitcoin sales involve actual transactions of goods or services and not just a speculative investment? The price of Bitcoin has gone up some 2000% in the last two years when it simultaneously seems harder to spend when companies like Dell have stopped accepting it. It certainly seems like Bitcoin shows a lack of retail transactions.
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> "The problem is that anybody, anywhere, can sell just about anything on Amazon and eBay, including counterfeit glasses that may be dangerous. Buyers won’t discover their error until after the eclipse, or they suffer serious or permanent eye damage. The sellers will be long gone."

seems like a perfectly reasonable case of due diligence on the part of Amazon.
The first registrar (GoDaddy) gave them 24 hours to GTFO. They could have moved to any other registrar, but their next try also told them to GTFO. So what happened is exactly what you're calling OK.
i don't understand how us the public are allowed to read a private conversation. Don't take me wrong i enjoyed reading it, it felt like snooping, but isn't it a blatant privacy violation?
You must definitely add investor pressure in all of this, and if history is of any indication, that pressure can and will kill any creative efforts. It's all about being first to market, making a big buck and having a lucrative exit nowadays.

Nobody is interested in the tech becoming more comfortable.
Mea culpa. I just read the heading and remembered the old times when they told us that Lycos finds everything.
The author only briefly mentions Usenet. That was great fun at the time though.
Are you saying the silver market behaved as a Ponzi scheme?

No. A person was using the silver market as a ponzi scheme vehicle, it doesn't mean the silver market itself was a ponzi scheme.

Same as Bitcoin here. A devious actor could use Bitcoin as the product for a ponzi scheme, that doesn't mean bitcoin is a ponzi scheme as much as the tulip bulb market itself is a ponzi scheme.
Over made-up micro-regressions and gaps, no less. I'm not seeing a benefit to any of this.
What's the definition of placebo? Was always sure it's used as a control when testing medical treatments in which the patient doesn't know if they are receiving the treatment or not, leading to a genuine change in state from the belief they're in the experimental group, from which clinical significance is measured from as a baseline.

I'm saying that psychological healing can have physiological effects above and beyond placebo due to the very real influence psychological state has on hormones.

If you believe that it's a placebo effect, I'm not sure if it can be called a placebo effect? The whole point of a placebo is that you don't know it's a placebo otherwise it'd have stopped working long ago.

Perhaps the common thread is the belief in its efficacy.
SV is not high crime.
Thanks for the nice reply. I do confess though my comment was a bit rhetorical as I'm a programmer myself.

The list of things you point out consists of mostly external factors. I know where they come from and that they seem essential since those are the conditions that all of us are familiar with, but to a large degree, they are ultimately historical impositions: that is how the job has come to be practiced. (There are of course practical concerns that shape how this came to be; namely, the difficulty of getting all the pertinant information necessary to make any changes on a piece of software or debug it).

So there is definitely a cultural aspect of it, but much of the culture may not be strictly necessary to the product. Consider for example Torvalds' rather blunt manner. I am fond of being blunt and I enjoy being a bit combative and adversarial when it comes to advocating ideas. I've seen this attitude commonly in various academic/industry/scientific. To an extent it's useful. But it can become a sport unto itself and mean-spirited easily, especially in unskilled hands. I suspect a great many people would not like to work in such an environment.

My own suspicion is that technical fields tend to attract a lot of people who have trouble reading/relating to emotions and males who've had little contact with women, a lot of contact with bullies, fragile egos, and a need to fit in. It gets ugly fast.
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All things you mentioned can be done in PGSQL with similar performance, actually.

I have to build a search product in PGSQL, and I’ve done exactly that (and compared it with ES, Solr and Lucene).

For datasets below 50GB the performance is basically the same, you get about the same features, and it works well enough.

But you are right, as soon as you want to build more complicated search products, or as soon as you get larger amounts of data, you want a dedicated solution.
Eh, mostly quotes since the definition of civilized is up for debate for the given discussion.

Does an African neighbor qualify? European only? etc
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Interesting talk on the subject from a data scientist at Instacart: https://blog.dominodatalab.com/data-science-instacart/
Just make sure that your process destruction doesn't involve a lock in kernel space. 900,000 threads waiting for a lock... yikes!

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and...
If your investments make a better return than you'd pay interest on debt, it makes sense to take out a loan. If I'm earning 7%, and the interest on the loan is only 3%, I should take out the loan.
> if I understand correctly, not allowing it to be registered elsewhere.

Citation on that? From all I've read GoDaddy and Google refused to provide their service to them and haven't done anything to prevent a transfer? (They possibly technically could by keeping the domain registered on them, but AFAIK they can't legally do that)
LOL the link to Vice didn't even work for me.
Usually around colleges and in large cities.
Well maybe he realized Swift is a terrible programming language he should do something else.

(Yes I know, he's still involved in Swift. Its a joke. Though Swift really is a terrible programming language).
Yes, but at the same time there are news articles going back to at least late July (google 'amazon policy eclipse') to Amazon giving refunds for shady (pun intended) sellers of fake eclipse shades. If his ability to pay rent is literally hinging on this get-rich scheme, you would think he would be more diligent. I do think Amazon acted correctly in suspending his account until he proved his items are legit.
Here's one Googler who says he regrets doing it:

https://garymm.blogspot.com/2016/07/i-regret-getting-masters...

Look for discussions from the author, I can't link it here.
It's probably coincidental. I don't think he decided to give 4.6B overnight and I don't think he could have estimated what AMZN would be at on the day of the announcement.
Yeah, except that is exactly what he did not say, one of the many straw-men in the criticism of the memo.

From the memo:

"Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech"

and

"the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership"

So "could", "in part", "may". None of this either-or dichotomy that the critic somehow inserts.

Similar for the wired article.

'But trying to use that data to explain gender disparities in the workplace is irrelevant at best. “I would assume that women in technical positions at Google are more thing-oriented than the average woman,” '

No shit, Sherlock! This is about explaining the gender gap, so the people not at Google.

"forecloses the possibility of changing sex roles and representation at Google"

No, he does the reverse. He proposes changes to increase representation. Whether these proposals are any good is a different story (I don't know), but the claim is a simple lie.

And so on and so forth in tedious repetitiveness.
We did have search engines, just not as fast or encompassing as Google. Archie came online in 1990 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine ). Jughead and Veronica followed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughead_(search_engine) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(search_engine) ). More often than not a search started with a Usenet newsgroup FAQ.
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What does revoked mean, in this case?

I would so love to be misunderstanding.
Wait, there are easy return locations for Amazon? Do I have to deal with packaging? I honestly hate having to keep old boxes around on the off chance I'll need to return something, so that would be a nice change.

Honestly my biggest use case is furniture. Stores in the Bay Area are too small to hold a decent showroom selection because real estate is so expensive so everything is online. But they want insane fees to ship and return which I refuse to pay because I'm not paying $50+ to find out the photo was deceptive and the furniture build quality is crap, or the color is nothing like online.

Being able to buy online, pickup from store or have delivered to home and then free returns at a store location would be great. Right now I'm mostly limited to Target and BB&B with those criteria which stinks.
Here's the report. [0]

And the official complaint. [1]

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/08/...

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/152-3054/u...
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I don't know, we haven't hired anyone yet; we're a partnership.
I refuse this terrible term and invite everyone to use (following zitterbewegung's udemy link) to use "metacognitive skills" instead.
For portfolios, you should really also look into https://webrecorder.io/

It's _not_ a video recording service. It saves and can replay all network requests during a session (including authenticated requests). It's open source, you can self host, I'm not affiliated even though I'm very happy that it exists
The article talks mostly about the methods for controlling costs in a German style system.

It doesn't talk much about single payer, but that's trivial. Single payer is a monopsony.
Whatever debate there may be about how Uber drivers should be classified, there's no way it directly impacts Uber's customers. Please provide a citation, if you have one.
> In my view, the problem is economic inequality which is ratcheting social pressures up to a fever pitch.

This is something I haven't read before regarding this debate, I think it makes a lot of sense - if the economic consequences weren't so significant, people on both sides would likely be far less passionate about this topic.
If it truly worked you should be able to just follow the process.

IME tech debt gets worse under "scrum done right" and velocity is a bullshit measure. Those two things alone are enough to reject it.

It's a shame because scrum gets, like, 70% right.
I loved that line too.

"A constant and successful fight against knobs" really gets at a lot of what makes Go (often) a joy to use.
China is going to build 700 coal plants around the world:

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-firms-to-...

Sure, it’s great to celebrate our wins, like planting trees, but unless we examine the big problem those little wins really aren’t going to matter.

I understand that per capita China and India emit less CO2, but China already has double the US output.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

The world simply can’t handle burning all of that coal. Getting China and India to use nuclear or natural gas would help a lot.
No, but they are constrained to be less than or equal to 999,999.

See http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/586c43085f...
You argument only makes sense in the US. In most countries, hate speech is outlawed.
>That's pretty much the definition of the worst people you can find. However, much like I believe they deserve rights

It's possible to "deserve" some rights and not others on a case-by-case basis.

>Still, they appear to have been deprived of property and due process,

What property?
A lot of people, even those in the developed nations, rely on libraries for internet access.
Wonder how legal taking a percentage of future earnings forever is?

For example, could I sell you a car and say "the price is 1% of all your future earnings"?

Legally I guess I'd have to say "The car is $30k, but I'm giving you a loan at 999% interest, with repayment demands capped at 1% of your salary (upon production of salary evidence), and the loan to be forgiven in full in the case of death".
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>No one's covering up the problem, people are just refusing to listen

Refusing to listen would mean not visiting their website. Covering them up would mean driving them to the dark web.
This isn’t a PEBKAC issue the way I’m reading it. Sounds like the ~~phone~~ (EDIT: the car) wouldn’t play audio from any source if the phone had an empty iTunes library.
Here is how I reason to my conclusion;

We know that every cancer is the result of a genetic change in the cell DNA which disables apoptosis (cell death).

We know that we have a system in our bodies that is tasked with destroying cells with damaged DNA. (our immune system)

We know that when the immune system attacks cancer cells, it reliably removes the cancer from our systems.

What we don't know is how to reliably program, and deprogram, our immune systems on demand. If we knew both exactly how the immune system programming system worked, and could build tools to enable us to use that knowledge to actually program or deprogram our immune cells ...

Then we would be able to cure all cancers and autoimmune disorders.
If I had a job that required COBOL, I'd be interested in hearing from anyone with a genuine interest in it, regardless of experience level. Apply!
> given how much wider monitors are.

Monitors might be wider, but screens in general are much narrower.
Good brag, but fix your https.
Some would say this is a pretty good source too:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-algorithms
Our general strategy is to rely on the community for most of the moderation. Right now, users have simple, equal voting privileges on every question/answer. In the future, we're going to incorporate per-channel reputation that is accumulated through the bounty earning process. So each user would start with 1 reputation, and as they answer questions and have their answer voted on by others, they accumulate reputation. This reputation in turn translates into greater voting power on other answers within the channel. Certainly not a silver bullet, but that's where we'll start.
A little over a year and a half ago, we started diving deep into the serverless space. We spoke to many users of AWS Lambda and found that the biggest issue with building complex serverless application was a lack of visibility and instrumentation.

It's difficult to know when issues start bubbling up, and relying on so many services as part of your application can be scary. We've built a set of tools to help dig deep into functions, and view outwards by tracing triggers and external calls performance and metadata surrounding it.

I'd love to hear more from Lambda users about their experiences building and operating serverless apps.
MBone lost its reason to exist when the internet backbone turned out to be much easier to upgrade than the edges. There's not much need to implement a complicated proxy system to save bandwidth on the backbone when almost everybody is constrained by their last mile link.

For years I thought TV stations might connect to the MBone to do simulcasts for people on the Internet once broadband became widespread, but the world moved on before it could become a reality. Part of me still thinks this is a missed opportunity but it's too late to cry over it now.
My sole point in this entire thread is that white supremacy is bad regardless of source.

I merely used an extreme example to show you that you were missing the forest for the trees, and you still are. I'm sorry that you're having this problem.
I hope so, but revoked appears to mean taken away. That's different than not allowing to register, I think?

I would be pretty happy to be mistaken.
Parent is making a joke.
Thank you! No training data is required to use Thematic and customers don't need to tell us what they want to find in the data. Hence we say "unsupervised". And yes, we extract synonyms and paraphrases from raw data.

However, we do have tools to review and adjust the results of Thematic by hand. For example, we have an internal drag and drop interface. Some customers really like to change the themes based on their view of the data. But it also helps to remove any inaccuracies, e.g. an incorrectly merged theme.
To counteract pressure and influence that's already present in the other direction, dissuading some people from doing these things even though they would actually enjoy them.
All these elaborate workarounds.

The root cause is Apple, as usual, has a set of use cases cast in stone and refuses to give customers what they want: a configurable experience.
Simply not true. Runs on Unix and windows, built on free pascal.
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If you're already writing Rust, why would you even bother writing Go?
The article linked above.
I use an adblocker, so it's hard to know what ads do (though I disable it on some sites that I believe to be reasonably trustworthy about ads, and that I want to support, like reddit and some major newspaper sites; though I tend to pay for a subscription for sites that I really want to support and continue to block ads).

But, generally, it's fine. Most sites are entirely usable. There's a few that are quirky, but generally, modern websites are designed to scale down to tablets and phones, so they don't act too weird for a narrow lapptop/desktop browser.

I think the most common problem is sites that switch to hamburger menus at too high a resolution (so I get the mobile hamburger navigation on some sites, even though it's kinda silly looking and slightly less ergonomic). It's not super common, though. Most switch to hamburger a little lower than my browser width.
What's the point of this? In light of the recent car-ramming? Imagine what would happen if engineers did this in Europe for every company that supported Muslim immigration - and those folks have run over FAR more people than this one guy did.

Quitting your job because you don't like your company's clients is a good thing to do to keep your moral fiber - whatever it is. E-mailing your CEO to signal your virtue to him probably has diminishing returns, and I'd argue you gain nothing by publishing it now other than stroking your own ego.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
Most western countries have law censoring hatespeech, although the web is very much open in those countries.
Much of our civilization depends on food and natural resources that come from sparsely populated areas of the country. On top of that, real estate and rent are ludicrously expensive in most of the nicer large cities. It makes sense economically for people to spread out if they can find the employment, education, and services they need in smaller towns.
The AOL disk in the back of the book doesn't work either.
It depends on how they enforce it. One of my former employers would pay out unused vacation days under vaguely defined terms of being in good standing with the company, which I understood to mean that you have to give them the full notice period that they asked for. In a lot of states I think it isn't allowed to not pay out unused vacation days, but I'm sure other things could be done to enforce the three-month policy.