skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that, microphones and cameras are universally available but it doesn't look like the hotspots of the creative industry changing that much - despite local successes like Bollywood or the Turkish TV series.

I think the troubles caused by the decline of the old industries are largely due to the culture of investing your life in a company and only getting a salary out of it.

The software industry is closer to the creative industry where you try to extract as much as value possible and move on. Blockbusters and failures, agism, giants becoming outdated and loosing value like ageing milk and more culturally appropriate ones taking the scenes is not something that you can outsource.
I don't really see the need for 'indie' to be a brand qualifier since most games nowadays due to mobile have sub-aaa production values anyway. It's cool to have a few guys in a garage hitting it big, but the production methodology or distribution does not engage me. FTL and Witcher are very different sort of entertainment and I like them both.
> but it's not exactly what makes them qualified for it.

No, which is why the interview should be testing on more interesting stuff like system design, team based skills, other technical minutae that might be relevant to the job.

I just feel like compaonies waste a lot of time and resources on "reverse a binary tree" and "do the travelling salesman" type problems. I understand why they have to, because there's nothing out there to say "X candidate knows how to reverse a binary tree", so they have to test on it to make sure at least the baseline stuff is there.

And they keep retesting. If a candidate moves from company to company they get the same test, regardless of levels of experience. It just seems like something that could be nipped in the bud with a certificate/qualification
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It would think that is possible, but the author seems to be claiming otherwise in the third-from-last paragraph.

One consideration (not raised in the article) is that perhaps the people of South America (unlike the Polynesians) did not have the seagoing technology or know-how to make a round trip to the island, prior to the arrival of europeans.

The English were relative latecomers among the European colonists of the americas, and by then smallpox and other diseases had spread widely. Apparently, the Wampanoag had suffered from an epidemic, now suspected to have been smallpox, in the years prior to the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag
>Then I started sitting the other side of the table...

I think everyone should get a chance to participate in their company's interview process, even if it's just shadowing while others conduct the interviews. It's one thing to hear stories about people with 10 years experience not being able to write basic code. Seeing it in person really drives the point home.
> For the people located in areas where jobs have entirely vanished you would have to relocate the population but that goes against the dream.

Relocate them where? American's are incredibly mobile in my experience, from going to college in another state, to having families sprawled across different states. If it were as simple as moving, people would be doing it.

> You could cut regulations in order to entice companies to come back...

Times have changed and we need to adjust to it. USA Inc makes a huge amount of money. In the past that required a lot of people in the workforce. Today it doesn't require nearly as many but we're making even more money! So the solution is not to remove regulation to have more people taken advantage of in dangerous factories and so we can pollute our environment. That does not benefit the Americans who live here who do not have jobs.

We need to come to an acceptance of the changing times and decide what it means to still have a society. Either we agree that we (USA Inc) make more than enough money for everyone in the country to have a good life (which we do), and work out the redistribution problem (which could take many forms), or we continue as we are with a whole lot of fellow citizens suffering needlessly.
This presumes you're the only one at risk here- you aren't. In a modern society, risk is shared.

When you build a home in the middle of a flood plain, you're putting the emergency services workers who have to try to help you at risk. You're having the city build infrastructure that has to be repaired/replaced every time there's a disaster. And we all know full well it will be the poor who live in these areas and lose their homes when disaster strikes- putting themselves onto welfare and bankruptcy that the rest of us wind up paying for.

There is no such thing as individual risk anymore. Welcome to the 21st century.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#Size_and_composi...

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

More like a giant lump of ice and rock with a frozen atmosphere, a so-called “Ice Giant” like Neptune or Uranus.
Without guaranteed full Linux compatibility, it's not worth the risk on many of those vendors. OEM (adulterated) Windows just isn't an option and unless there's an ad-free version of Windows 10 (I haven't researched extensively but I don't think I can just buy one that won't spam my Start Menu) I'm going to have to revert to another OS - having ads built in simply isn't an option.

I'm no Apple fan but the competition is embarrassing at times.

For the record my two notebooks are a MBP 2014 and a Dell XPS13 Developer addition running Arch. Both are equally competent as development machines.
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Sure, but the Game Boy’s pseudo‐Z80 has no branch prediction, register allocation, or instruction reordering. The assembly is almost one‐to‐one to the machine code, and the CPU basically does everything in the straightforward way you’d expect.
> In an ideal world, Windows should replace its entire NT underpinnings and either build their own BSD-inspired infrastructure (like Darwin) or create their own Linux distro using off-the-shelf Linux kernel as the main driver (probably can't because of GPL).

No, no! This is the exact opposite of the ideal world. What we need is for the NT kernel to stay, and for Win32 to get replaced.

Look, people from the Linux world can have trouble admitting this, but NT is a really good kernel. Better than Linux in some ways- not all ways, but some. The shittiness of Windows mostly comes from Win32. That's what should go away, and WSL is taking the first steps in that direction, even if Microsoft isn't planning on "going all the way" with it.
In a nutshell, what normally happens is light decreases, your body releases melatonin, and you feel sleepy shortly thereafter.

With the advent of artificial lighting, we started delaying our dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO). It most strongly responds to blue light, but it does respond to other wavelengths, too, so some people find that any light is too much.
I have a WebAudio modem that works reasonably well, and I went a different direction with it. Mine uses a C DSP/SDR library with good error correction, run through emscripten to generate the samples.

You can try it here https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js
We've never prized docility in horses the way we do in other "pets"; in most cases, we've either bred them to be easily-spooked speed monsters (race horses; courier horses), or angry muscular bulls (war horses.)

And there has never really been any kind of long-term eugenics project for cats; they mostly domesticated themselves, which had different results. There are no "work cats" that we've selectively bred with other "work cats" to improve their demeanour; there are purebred cats, but they're basically assholes and we basically don't care. (Why this is, I'll never know.)
I'm not an astronomer, much less planetary scientist[5], but it's got something to do with the size, and location[0].

Rocky planets are suposed to be formed near the star, and the stellar winds "blow" the gaseous elements away from them. The gas giants, like Jupiter and Saturn, form farther away and hence get to hold the more "volatile" elements. Hot jupiters, a class of giants that orbit very close to their stars, are weird and there a two competing hypothsies about their formation[1] so we could say that the precise mechanisms aren't fully understood (but we do have a pretty good idea).

As for ice giants, the precise mechanisms for their formation are not completely understood[2]. But what we do know, and it gives a strong(er) foundation for Planet Nine, is that super-earths (or Uranus/Neptune sized planets) are actually the most common type of (exo)planet we've observed so far, and it's a class that's surprisingly missing from our solar system[3] and a "slot" that Planet Nine would fill[4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebular_hypothesis#Formation_o...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Jupiter#Formation_and_evol...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_giant#Formation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Earth

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Earth#Planet_Nine

[5] I'm a sort of an astronomy geek though, and I pretty much enjoy reading this stuff up until the point I don't understand any more. Which over the years has luckily been moving forward. If you're interested in the subject, follow @plutokiller and @kbatygin on twitter, they're active and link to a lot of articles and their scientific papers.
I made this to collect all the first-party applications available for Linux that aren't directly focused on development. I'd like to see Linux being treated as a regular OS by companies, and not have them ignore it or rely on third party alternatives. I'd really appreciate any feedback or if you have any recommendations for apps to add. Thanks!
"No one wanted the city to lose that park, but the private property was owned. Doesn't the owner have the right to do with their land as they please? But really, it is in the interest of no one except the owner that the owner should build there. Even the people who buy the appartments are getting screwed in a way."

I think this is easily solved by requiring the owner to post a bond that approximates the future risk exposure that public entities (like FEMA, the National Guard, state police, etc.) face due to the new buildings now in place.

That and, of course, full disclosure in sales literature/contracts.

In this way the private property owner exercises their right to dispose of their property as they see fit but the general public is not shouldering a public cost.
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Do me a favor and check up on it once in a while.

If it becomes self-aware, we may have a problem.

I've seen this movie before somewhere...
>> 1) Most modern programming languages have ready-made implementations (by way of libraries) for almost every imaginable algorithm,

> I really don't think this is true of any programming language, modern or not.

Moreover, for this attitude (overreliance on external libraries) you get
another left-pad.
I wonder if that's the reason why he wasn't at one of the big 4 anymore :)
Given the track record of security vulnerabilities in anti-virus products, they clearly put the emphasis on the wrong things.
Ask HN: Are bug bounties leading to bad outcomes?
More frequently I see bug bounty programs which list whole swathes of issues as "out of scope", even including things such as CSRF (not just logout CSRF (which is mostly harmless) but all CSRF).

Also, you see issues which are marked "duplicate" where the original was from months prior. This suggests that reports, even when accepted, are left unfixed.

Meanwhile a budget for bug bounties will I suspect reduce the budget for other methods such as traditional penetration testing which could lead to a cheapening effect on that sector too.

Are bug bounties leading to a false sense of security as participation widens, or do you consider them still a massive improvement over what came before?
Already implemented with Phillips hue as well as xiaomi yee lights. Probably with others as well, they're the only ones in certain about though.
Heh, true. Though when I take a step back, I find both groups still have a long way to go.
Can I ask why app-based 2FA is significant to you? If you're on your phone, wouldn't someone who can access your password manager on it also be able to access your 2FA app on it?
I'm a fan of using open-ended discussions rather than testing "book knowledge". Some simple textbook questions to gauge a candidate's approximate level of skill and experience are fine, but that's just the introduction. For the main event, I might give scenarios that have a lot of potential depth for them to implement, or I might ask them to review existing code for such scenarios that is relatively crude in its implementation and perhaps contains some errors or oversights. In each scenario, I'm more interested in the way a candidate is thinking and what sort of level they are working at than any specific details.

For example, assuming the candidate can give me a correct implementation of some specified behaviour at all, do they just take a brute force approach? Do they demonstrate some basic awareness of different data structures and algorithms that might help them, and make reasonable choices? Do they immediately start looking at the required data and access patterns carefully, and automatically consider whether the standard library provides the required tools, whether other well-known libraries would be better, or whether something completely new will be best? What sorts of constraints do they take into account in making these decisions? Do they consider issues like how we might ensure the correctness of the code or measure its performance? What tools do they use? What sources of information do they automatically turn to for reference?

I would always prefer to use a natural environment for this sort of discussion if possible, so the scenarios would be realistic and relevant, and within reason I'm OK with the developer using whatever tools or information sources they normally would for any programming involved.
In theory, yes: NT has always had the capability to have multiple subsystems. But apart from some attempts in the 90's that were aborted, it has gone totally unused up until WSL arrived.
I am so sold I want to learn right now.
There is one more aspect. Open source tools can not be taken away from you.
Fire this person immediately.

Is it cool work? Sure. Is the person technically proficient and could find work elsewhere easily? Yes.

Did they purposefully violate the policies put in place on them? Yes! I hope their client finds this article.
Seems like a nice way to distract from the layoffs over at Tesla today.
My German shep learned to stop chewing shoes this way.

Nothing we did could get him to stop - it was intolerable. One weekend we went to visit a friend of ours that owned an older shep (actually a cousin of our shep's, from the same breeder.)

My dog went for one of the owner's shoes. The older dog gave him a nip on the muzzle, and that was the end of it. He never again, even after we came home, went after a shoe.
I don't see how Clojure is "close to the metal". To me it seems pretty high up in the ladder of abstractions.

In Java, we have Lambdas and Streams and some concurrency APIs and Clojure only seems to build _on top_ of these, making them much more ergonomic, simpler, AND encouraging immutability, to boot. Novice programmers love mutability, but in Clojure you kind of have to go out of your way to solve something with mutation. So to me (as long as users aren't getting carried away with writing macros) it seems you should land in a better spot with Clojure. If you're not seeing that's the case, then what is it? What are the common mistakes that you see these novices making that make for unmaintainable code---that somehow is not found in the same proportion in something more mainstream? Would seriously love to hear.
Space-X has the advantage of competing with high-cost producers. Tesla is trying to move downmarket, where they have to compete with Chevy. Tesla should be able to make a good car. The question is whether they can make money on the Model 3.

In reality, Tesla's pricing strategy is to charge $50K-$60K for the Model 3.[1] This is BMW / Mercedes-Benz territory.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/08/06/surprise-the-real-...
Do you have evidence to support that circadian biology is controlled by light? I was under the impression that light was only one part of this puzzle.
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Isn't it natively supported at this point? I switched through several ROMs and all had it. It's just not enabled by default.
> Do you have control of that part of your biology or does it have control of you?

I've personally found that I have a pretty heavy degree of control over it via the orexin† pathway: if I force myself to wake up and eat immediately for a few days at 8AM, then my body will associate 8AM with eating and shift everything else around (when I get hungry; when I get tired at night; etc.) to ensure I'll be wide awake at 8AM to "catch that meal" (that in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness was probably a rabbit or something.)

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orexin
If we're talking geology, then we might as well look at the tectonic plates [0][1].

- 14 or 15 major plates

- 38 small plates

Yet people will talk about 5-7 continents all the time.

Because people will be confused no matter which ill-defined definition is used, I'm switching to the botanical one [2] with 9. It seems to at least have some practical value.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_plate

[1] http://peterbird.name/publications/2003_PB2002/2003_PB2002.h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Botanical_continents
What is q-calculus? (Quantum Calculus)
I think it can safely be said by any programmer, at least, that succinctness and terseness are correlated.
I have a Golden. I always have a Golden. He's a working dog and he was trained by the Golden I had before, who was trained by the Golden I had before, etc.

When they start to get old and hip trouble is setting in, I get a new one and the old one teaches the puppy. I've done this for years, though my first weren't working dogs. It's always a Golden and only a Golden. I've never had any other type of dog.

It's neat to watch the pup learn from the older dog. They have retained a number of behavioral characteristics over the years. I'm not sure if it is breeding or nurturing.
Checked with fidelity, they don't offer read only and state 'There is no need to create them as Mint is naturally read only' hah.
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Not sure of a good place to ask this but I've been wondering for a few years, so I'll try again in this thread. Does anyone know where to purchase a Symbolics machine in 2017? Is anyone here looking to sell their LispM?
Problem is no real reputable free software project (in order of rising significance) downloads, installs, or usage hours because most people that want liberated software also don't want tracking.

Also, different projects disclose their funding differently (if at all). Just in this context as an example Krita lists their monthly donations on their site but Gimp is just considered a part of GNOME - there is a Krita Foundation whereas Gimp donations go to the GNOME Foundation, so it would be hard given the Gnome Foundations budget statements to deduce what money is actually going to Gimp and what amount is coming in to Gimp.
Vacation? Irrelevant. Live? Again, doesn't matter. The thing that matters is ownership. And as long as rich people want to put massive house on the beach, the whole lot will be underwritten.

"Stronger than the storm"? Or come on now. And the taxpayers paid for that spin as well. After Sandy there was zero sense of "wait a minute, maybe we should think about this?" Instead, the politicians did what they do best. They bought votes with taxpayers' money.

Yeah, all types are there. But who benefits the most?
I'm guessing the answer is a combination of synaptic latency and ethics. The human brain's latency is relatively slow relative to traditional computing. The brain's synaptic latency is measured on the order of milliseconds, while a modern IC's latency might be measured on the order of nanoseconds or even picoseconds.

As messed up as it is, using biology as you describe might actually be safer once we get close to AGI, even if it is creepy as hell. There's something to be said for having a machine that's physically limited to thinking as fast as a human can (even if it is vastly smarter), versus one that can figure out a new branch of physics in the time it takes to blink.
While part of me agrees with your analysis, I'd like to point out what I think could make this wave of ML/AI more serious. You are absolutely correct that deep learning is not very biologically accurate and that what today's models do seems a long way from AGI. However, in my opinion, the most fundamental aspect of intelligence is the ability to form useful abstract ideas to model reality. To make that more concrete, as a rather extreme example, consider the invention of numbers. The process by which people developed the notion of abstract quantity separated from any particular real experience is, to me, the most archetypal example of what it means to be intelligent. Of course, deep learning can't invent abstract math, but it seems to be able to mimic this process in a very rudimentary way. It's not a faithful representation of real neural networks, but perhaps it has just enough of the right ingredients, scale, depth, non-linearity, hierarchy, such that it is able to demonstrate a spark of that magic, hard-to-define process of intelligence. When a deep net learns MNIST, it seems to come up with an abstract notion of what a handwritten 9 looks like and it's hard to argue that there isn't something very mysterious and special happening.
Thank you :) Yes, the use of multivariate analysis was a crucial insight for me, and I'm hoping these ideas will push the monitoring community forward!
funny how life is. in 2012 Sprint wanted to acquire T-Mobile. Deal goes bust. T-Mobile gets free funds. Funds expansion. Now T-Mobile in a position to acquire Sprint.
This does feel a little bit like watch a science fiction TV series, or something along these lines.
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Seeing it in person really drives the point home.

It does. The only thing I've seen that drives it home more is being part of the process to fire someone who was a bad hire, particularly if you were also part of the hiring process that gave the wrong answer. If that individual is basically a decent person and just doesn't turn out to be very good at the job then it's never pleasant to know that you're taking their source of income away and especially to be the one breaking that news to them, however much it may be necessary objectively and professionally to do those things.
Only publicly traded companies.
Data attributes seem like the right way to me.
My brother wrote an alternate Gameboy BIOS for his emulator, including the Nintendo logo animation:

https://github.com/Steveice10/GameYob/tree/master/bios

(The emulator itself started as a fork of Gameyob, but he ended up rewriting it entirely, piece by piece.)
Normally you would have an accountant you trust, (i would highly advice against trying to do GmbH paperwork yourself) he/she would get directly in touch with the company that does the current tax and accounting work for my GmbH and do the vetting for you. Germany has very strict publication and documentation laws for GmbH's so there is not really some hidden liability possible, if there was that could get me to jail even if i wasn't trying to sell the company...