skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more I read about others' experiences with remote work, the more it seems that it depends heavily on whether the company embraces remote work, accepts it, or merely tolerates it. The resulting experiences really need context. Unless a company is truly committed to remote work, it's going to be an uphill battle.

Much of this advice is true in every context, but much of it reads like it's coming from a place of fear and having to prove your worth and presence. I imagine that if you're one of very few remote employees of a primarily centrally located team that makes sense, but it feels really unhealthy.

Half of our team at Wildbit is remote and across many time zones that make meetings difficult at times, but it doesn't feel anything like this. Even the half of the team that's based out of HQ spends a lot of time working from home.

We also activley promote disconnecting and not being constantly available to get focus work done. And everyone's encouraged to not be constantly available because that makes it nearly impossible to get the most important types of focus work done. So in many cases, team members are explicitly unavailable. We even promote email as one of the best ways to communicate because it's less disruptive and let's people stay focused until they're ready to come up for air and respond.

Another thing that makes a difference is that we strive to incorporate the remote team into the daily life around the office. We have team retreats once a year. Everyone regularly spends some time in Philadelphia at HQ. And we have someone who spends a lot of time dreaming up ways to incorporate the remote team so we're not so disconnected. It's a constant effort on everyone's part to ensure we're supporting and fully embracing remote work as a single team.
Isn't "athelas" Tolkien-inspired? The Tolkien estate isn't super friendly with regards to this kind of reference. Try to find out how much Palantîr paid for an agreement with them (my understanding is that it's a very large number), and ask if that really makes sense...
FCR: Open source command runner for network devices
Sorry that's terrible advice. If everyone had that attitude, nothing would ever get disrupted.
So why use that Hitler example?
The userspace part of the driver is still called the driver.

A driver does not mean a kernel module. It's often that, but it does not exclusively mean that. Userspace drivers are still drivers.

The library that gets loaded into the process is part of the driver. It's provided by the GPU vendor and it's specific to the hardware you're running. It maps API calls to hardware-specific commands. Aka, it's a driver. It just happens to be implemented as a userspace library for most of the work.
I use Trello for task management and Harvest for time tracking and billing. I sometimes get envious of people with more tightly integrated and automated systems but so far I have needed the flexibility that comes with looser coupling much more than I've missed the added time required by my current setup.
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The other thing to remember is a 5 year flood and a 100 year flood are often not very different in size.
Did you submit a 513(g) to get classified as (apparently) Class I Non-Exempt?
>First, it's not "milk" only because it's a white liquid.

A good discussion about this: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/76006
Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships
Air pressure at 10 km altitude is about 30% or so of sea level, it is much less but definitely not near vacuum.

If it were a near vacuum any airplane would stall...
I am a recent remote developer and I found these insights to be very valuable, especially the "going out of your way to be human" one.

I was in senior/lead position and part of my responsibilities were to mentor younger (professionally speaking) engineers and make sure the team is executing effectively. While these are not explicit responsibilities in my new gig, I wonder how would one go about doing them as a remote senior/tech lead. One thing that I miss is that having a finger on the team's pulse. I don't know if the teammates are motivated. Emotions are often filtered out of communication through email or slack or whatever. And you get a limited amount of video call time per day with the whole team. Wondering if anyone else went through the same problem and figured out a way.
I also do those. I also climb, slackline, paraglide, ride motorcycles, surf, ride bikes, and read on the beach.
Yes we can set definition of what is bad and what isn't. Enjoy my exercise of it with this downvote.
This
https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Statistics-Engineers-Scie...
is the newer version of the stats book i had in undergrad,
But @anst makes a good point about scikit learn. there is alot of good math to learn just from the docs and you can then investigate further on wiki, quora, stackexchange.

for the what's up in Data Science i like datatau.com.
and there are some great podcasts too, like datascienceathome and partiallyderivative (there are lists).
Hi, pathologist here.

* How do you account for interstitial fluid expressed into the droplet?

* Do you use the same flags as a CBC analyzer?

* Have you tested blasts?

* Have you tested leukostatic samples (very high white count: over 100k)?

* Have you validated against platelet clumping?

* Have you validated for basic sources of interference (lipemia, hemolysis, icterus).

* Have you engaged Cerner? Epic? DrChrono? AllScripts? Other EMR providers?

* Have you engaged a pathologist?
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Modern airlines are not mostly autonomous. I'll define it this way: remove the pilots from a flight at various stages along its route and see what happens. Multiple outcomes are possible but one is certain, it's not landing at the intended destination. If it were mostly autonomous, it'd land at destination at least some of the time. The chances of this happening today are 0.
Predictable Network Interface Names
Would this be protons? Can vacuum contain photons and still be a vacuum? Not sure :-)
Nah, we'll create qunit. It'll run your quantum unit tests in parallel for each of the universes! :)
yup, bias is unavoidable. human rights organizations are obviously biased and not only am okay with that, but I support it.
You're off by three years, good advice in 2000
This seems an oversimplification.

Yes, some stuff is arguable, mostly when it involves politics, but there is a ton of stuff on facebook like "Bolivia expels McDonalds and Coca-Cola", or "check this video on why positive ions released by salt lamps can cure cancer".
water on the roof will not last as long though.
60 fps is what mobile VR works at. And is used only on integrated graphics.
Important to note, the WARR team doesn't receive any funding or direct support from the university - not even professors or Ph.D's.

This is a 100% student created and run initiative
Yup -- whole heartedly agree. It's so easy that at this point, most of my worry is wondering how I would deal with a disaster scenario, whether the server getting wiped or any other kind of catastrophic failure -- is my automation good enough that I can go from bare-machine to all my projects fully running?

One thing I was a little disappointed with was the ignition provisioning system (https://coreos.com/ignition/docs/latest/) -- it's revolutionary (I mean not really, but it is to me) in the amount of the setting-up-the-server routine that you can skip, but I was disappointed that you can only run it once (by design, that's exactly what it's supposed to do, set up the machine ONCE). I currently manage one larger dedicated host that is more pet than cattle, but if I was truly in someone's cloud spinning up instances, then I could take time to build my perfect ignition config, but I only got one shot (and it worked the first time so), and didn't want to wipe the harddrive.
Considering that they left the HAP flag in the open and even commented it in an XML file; considering how it does not disable all of ME, but only certain bits; and contrasting it with the otherwise inscrutable, encrypted, and tamper-proof nature of ME, it's hard not to see it as a honeypot or bait.
Very happy. I was working at a firm full time for about 7 years. I told them I wanted more time to be with my family, develop personal projects and live abroad, and that I would really love to continue working part time and remotely. So now I consult part time for them from abroad. I took a pay cut, but I'm still very decently paid.
They're actuated by piezoelectric strips. The PZT ceramic is low power and robust, but heavy-ish (lead), large-ish, and shockingly expensive.

History: https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm00/bm0001/bm000...
Definitely an important thing to remember. Mastodon being decentralised means every instance has its own rules and norms, and you'll need to choose the one that best aligns with your own (or set one up).

Is it more complicated than using a centralised alternative? Sure, a tiny bit. But it's a necessary part of such a system, and provides a better solution than 'let a single person or company dictate everything that's allowed on the network'. A small instance owner is a lot more reasonable than a Silicon Valley CEO trying to 'avoid offending' as many people as possible.
Charles Lindbergh [1] has the best answer:

"[W]hen I decided that I too must pass through the experience of a parachute jump, life rose to a higher level, to a sort of exhilarated calmness. The thought of crawling out onto the struts and wires hundreds of feet above the earth, and then giving up even that tenuous hold of safety and of substance, left me a feeling of anticipation mixed with dread, of confidence restrained by caution, of courage salted through with fear. How tightly should one hold onto life? How loosely give it rein? What gain was there for such a risk? I would have to pay in money for hurling my body into space. There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing. Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain.

It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant. "

[1] 'The Spirit of St Louis,' Charles A. Lindbergh, 1953
Dogs needing bone is incorrect. Plant sources can meet all their food requirements. But the science around if plants can form an ideal diet isn't clear currently (similar to humans).

Not sure why you are bringing wolves into this.
$50 or $100 for turning off the spyware in my own CPU is hardly reasonable.
I would think bucket sort (into the suits) would be the most common. Whenever I am sorting named papers I always do it with 26 piles.
Its actually pretty great.

The not-Pets.com of pet consumer products.
So are you saying Waymo's cars are capable of passing the Turing Test? Because they are arguably at level 5 capability.

I highly doubt it, though.

The thing is, while I believe they are already at this level, their technology is obviously not perfect. It never will be. Perfection in any space of technology is just not possible, because perfection is not possible in the physical world for anything. Perfection is a mathematical abstract at best.

Instead, what we can hope to achieve is "better than human drivers", and Waymo's vehicles have certainly achieved that, imho. They have logged more miles with their self-driving vehicle technology than most people will drive any single car of their own, with an accident rate far below that of the average human driver.

For the accidents they have had, most of them were when the car was in manual mode, and for the rest, they were low-speed incidents. None of them, that occurred while in self-driving mode (that I am aware of) caused any injury or death to any occupant of the vehicle.

I'll leave this comment with this video, to show what was capable of autonomous vehicles in what now seems like the distant past (and I honestly know it wasn't, but time sure flies with this tech):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_piO849uRdI

Note that this was in 2010, using the tech in Stanford's Junior car (tech that would eventually lead to Google's and later Waymo's vehicles), and far from perfect; I can guarantee you that the systems used are much more advanced and better at control today.
There's also automated take off. Fighter pilots taking off carriers have to grab a couple of handlebars in the cockpit, whose purpose is only that the pilot doesn't instinctively intervene during take off.
I was a mechanical engineer for many years... And hated every job I had. I woke up every day dreading my work. I honestly believed that I would hate work forever.

Now I'm a coder (actually now I'm a manager, so less coding, but still a bit) and I really love my job. I wish I could work more. I love coming to work, I love my team, and we really have a ton of fun.

Our office is really chill but I have my own desire to be productive and write high-quality code. My teammates are great.

So my advice is: Don't give up. Like relationships, you can't stop searching for the right now, but because all the others have been terrible so far. Good jobs are out there!
If we're talking about car racing, rather than just driving a car, yes, I agree it is pretty dangerous. Probably still not as dangerous as trying to navigate canyons in a wing suit.
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Not reinvented, the author is aware. For example, the Watchdog has an option called "cgi_headers", which controls whether the headers should be parsed and sent as environment vars (like in CGI) or passed raw.
> rock climbing is not that dangerous. It's about as dangerous as driving

Expert mountain climbers: Annual mortality risk of 1 in 167.
Skydiving - Annual mortality risk of 1 in 1,580.
Recreational climbing - Annual mortality risk of 1 in 1,750.
Driving in the U.S. - Annual mortality risk of 1 in 6,700.

So, mountaineering is indeed 10x more dangerous than rock climbing, but rock climbing is still 4x more dangerous than driving, which is enough that I'd personally hesitate to equate them.

Source: http://www.besthealthdegrees.com/health-risks/

P.S. I hate sharing this because the infographic at the top is wrong on skydiving. (The picture at the top uses annual mortality rate for all other sports, but compares skydiving's risk per jump, so it's invalid to compare them together, but a lot of people aren't looking at the fine print. A single jump is a 1 in 100,000 change of dying, but skydiving lost an annual average of 1 per 1580 participants over the last 5 years. http://test.uspa.org/facts-faqs/safety)
The mistake was with the fact, that 8086 has 64kB-16B worth of user visible memory addresses that are beyond what the harware could actually address due to width of the physical address bus and thus got aliased to the other end of address space. People say that there was software that depended on this behavior, but I can't see any sane reason why somebody would write something like that (given how the address layout of PC looks like the only sane application of this aliasing is in the early initialization BIOS code, which obviously had to be significantly rewritten for AT)

Edit: the reason why 486 and later CPUs contain the A20M logic internally has nothing to do with "memory mapping". 486 has on chip cache which has to know, whether this memory region is aliased or not. Additional effect of this logic being in the CPU is that it can be controlled by writes into MSRs, which are significantly faster than sending commands into KBC which controlled this thing on AT. (Also, in vm86 mode this compatibility hack could be implemented by MMU without dedicated hardware cludges, which is what essentially all DOS XMS managers do)
That’s how I understand it now after a bunch of exposure to type theory and internalising Curry–Howard. But as a programmer my earliest practical way of thinking of it was “How would I use an ‘implies’ operator in programming?” Things like these:

(a => b) == (a ? b : true) == !a || b

if (a)
assert(b);
// ==
assert(a => b);

#if !defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(_NATIVE_WCHAR_T_DEFINED)
// ==
#if defined(_MSC_VER) => defined(_NATIVE_WCHAR_T_DEFINED)

if (!p || !p->buffer) return 0;
// ==
if (p => !p->buffer) return 0;

That is, just talking about truth values, the results of proofs rather than the proofs themselves.
I would not want to ride a train where a memorization error can lead to a crash.
These experiments are nonsense.

Firstly, from the article: “In principle, natural selection predicts individuals to behave selfishly” is a faulty premise. Obviously humans who cooperate to raise children to sexual maturity will have more descendants.

Secondly, in these simulated games it seems likely to me the participants would be, at least to some extent, randomly selecting cooperate / defect because a potential monetary reward for participation isn't the same as "cooperate or everyone freezes to death in their car tonight", or whatever real-world consequences might apply where you don't get "12 iterations".

The way I see is: while our worldview is "everything is a competition" that is how we will interpret what we see. Evolution and economics being the most strident examples. Anything that doesn't automatically fit the worldview needs explaining by science, which is code for "publish or perish". If we had a different worldview I'm sure we would shoehorn everything to fit.
A large metro after the flood will have emergency help coming from all over. You just have to live a couple weeks. As all the scavengers outstrip the local supplies aid will come in.
but look at how you're framing it. the undesirable speech isn't a disease the body has, it's a part of the body. we are the collective, even the gross parts. if we want to change what we don't like, we do it with competing ideas, not by cutting them off
Yep! Love my job. It can be annoying sometimes but in general I work with amazing people, which is probably the most important piece of the puzzle.
They got a lot of flak for getting rid of the editors, too.
> edit: there is some heavy downvote brigading going on here. I've alerted the mods.

You'll likely attract down votes with this edit regardless of whether members agree with the sentiment, as it's counter to the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This! Be honest and open about your needs, goals, and desires.
How do you avoid receiving spam messages?
A "Pair of scales" does mean the same as a "balance", but "scales" on its own sually means a device containing an electronic (or spring) weighing mechanism.
There was an additional dispute about affiliates. The tax dispute over warehouses went through several iterations.
The idea is to build the first one sooner rather than later. Then everyone who wants it can build it.

Sort of like Bill Gates working with China to get the next generation of nuclear energy developed in China.

https://qz.com/627113/bill-gates-says-china-is-the-best-plac...
I'm so sick of movies that end with a giant, epic, battle scene. These are movies with minimal conflict for the first 90 minutes or so, and then all of a sudden turn into a boring epic battle to the death. Ugh.
> Man sure would be cool if any concept car ever presented were actually released.

Not many are, but some are occasionally. I personally own one of the few existing Isuzu VehiCROSS vehicles. It started out as a concept car in the 1990s, then went into production virtually unchanged (only a tad under 6000 were ever made).
I tried a rust one as well [1], (antirez based). It's a decent amount of fun, would like to try implementing some of the more interesting features/data structures.

[1] https://github.com/khadiwala/kilo-rs
Human expertise, in this context often called "subject matter experts"
Just to add more to the post -- there are lots of options outside of SSH-to-the-box and kubernetes out there, you don't have to go to the new hotness quite so quick. I heavily considered:

Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku)
Flynn (https://flynn.io/)

I didn't discuss them in the blog post I linked everywhere (I should have), but they're a great option for no-worries deployment, and simpler to set up than kubernetes. I didn't ultimately use them because I felt even messing with copying code to a server wasn't the way forward -- I wanted to just pass a container, and be done, not even adhere to some heroku buildpack (even though they're pretty darn convenient) or anything, just push a container up and things are in production.
automated diff counters are relatively new compared to chemistry analyzers (diabetes, heart disease). Cancer is a whole 'nother league.
Whether it's done by a government or Facebook, mass surveillance is still mass surveillance. But at least, with WhatsApp and Signal, only the metadata are observable, but not the content of my messages. It's still an issue, but something I'm willing to accept in exchange for a communication tool I can use with my non-technical friends, family, co-workers, etc.
As a former anemia patient and deep learning practitioner, I'm really rooting for you guys. This is a great approach.
This is basically the structure of most This American Life stories. A recounting of some events, interrupted by incongruous new information, and then a resolution where the mystery is resolved.

There's a YouTube video where Ira Glass describes storytelling as asking a series of questions that demand answers.
Of all the companies you mentioned, only Toyota is a top ten automaker, and is indeed number one by many measures. I guess you think experience and a track record of phenomenal success is a disadvantage. I could agree with you in some contexts, but not this one. The autonomous car hype is the emperor’s new clothes, and Toyota is not your average industrial behemoth. Those guys literally wrote the playbook on nimble manufacturing.
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> information theory isn't much more than the logarithm of probability theory

stealing
It's a mistaken spelling of an expression, "I'd've," pronounced exactly the same way.
Sounds awesome. It needs a better name though, QUnit is jQuery's unit test runner though, it brings back awful memories...
Getting a 50% discount on taxi rides would make me never consider any other option when I need a taxi.
That's a good step, I wonder how that effects pages which host widgets from "Outbrain" and the like. So Salon (for example) has a block of "you might also be interested in" articles scattered around their content.

Articles is a pretty charitable term for them I guess but headlines like:

"Tiffany Trump's IQ will shock you"
"You won't believe what she looks like today"
"Plastic surgery nightmares"

and so on... does Salon get docked for Outbrain's lack of integrity? Does Salon's "organic shares" get penalized? What about sputnik news or Russia Today (RT.com)?

I think it is a great step in the right direction, but they have far more responsibility than just refusing money from them for ads.

Bots on the Hamilton 68 dashboard http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ clearly work together to amplify the voices of antidemocratic forces. FB & twitter should (in my opinion) detect and prevent fake-viral root and branch.
iTerm2 + 1Password + sudolikeaboss is an amazing workflow that I depend on on a regular basis.
Thank you for understanding this is complicated, it's a relief on this site.
"Wokeness" being the cynical term for a leader that doesn't tolerate sexual harassment in the workplace like the former one did.