skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From your description it does look like some sort of hazing ritual - you aren’t junior in technical competence but your are junior in political and social experience in this company and they are “teaching” you what is socially acceptable in this company. Either you are or want to be a similar kind of person and appreciate their efforts or you aren’t or don’t want to be and plan your exit. Before you think about whether you are technically appropriate for the job you must think whether you are socially appropriate for the company. Your life is way too short to spend a third of it pretending to be someone else, so be at a company where you feel like you’re chilling when you’re talking with colleagues.
United Nations panel considers banning laptops in checked bags on plane
Inlining assets is even less important and more of an overoptimization as HTTP2 pipelining takes over. Its like threading..used to be expensive and a sign of bad code whereas now, since everyone has cores to spare, its a sign of good algorithm use.
People religiously believing anything are annoying, but how are people believing in tech a little too much "the worst thing to happen to tech"? Surely there are much better candidates for that?
Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital on the Paradox of Ego and Humility
It doesn’t matter both SpaceX and Tesla might flop eventually my money is on Tesla more likely than SpaceX but they’ve effectively were key pioneers in those markets.

The “solar roof” is more of a gimmic those tiles are less efficient than other roof mounted cells but they at least are not as ugly so they are a luxury item for people who want to have a nice looking roof over their nice looking house.

They also might be a way to get solar installed in some places with very strict homeowners association regulations but they aren’t exactly a paradigm shifting innovation.

The Boring Company and the hyperloop might again flop and yes this isn’t as important as SpaceX or Tesla as far as worldwide impact goes but it’s an important step at taking a new approach at the US mass public transport problem.

Hyperloop is less important to other parts of the world like Japan or Europe which already have pretty decent high speed rail systems but it might be important for developing regions like Africa, India and China.

Many times before pioneers and early innovators were side lined due to various reasons but their impact is not any less meaningful becuase of that.

Even if Tesla disappears in 10 years it sparked an arms race in the car industry and even if it flops next year it’s too late for all the other car manufacturers to backtrack on their commitments and investments in getting EV out to the masses.

If SpaceX fails it did showed that commercial space flight is possible and that reusing rockets can be done on a commercial and economical scale.

For all that either company can still achieve they’ve done more than enough on their part already.

As for the Boring company it might fail in a way that some one would pick up the mantle and refine the concept, it might fail in a way that would make people say whelp... this won’t work let’s build a high speed rail system finally but at least it’s not a $400 juice bag squeezer or yet another wireless speaker.
Context? I have no idea who this is or for what he is apologizing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble#Controversies

for those like myself who didn't know what this was about.
I have similar anecdata. I have an email list at work for my company’s dealers. When I sent a “service bulletin” formatted as a plaintext email I got much more engagement as judged by the actual replies to that email.

I agree that in certain cases this method is a clear winner.
>The typical young Australian male is a pretty special breed - lazy, entitled, willfully ignorant and undereducated - the result of having it too good for too long.

I like to think HN hasn't digressed into the equivalent of youtube's comment section but reading comments like yours makes me reconsider. Pathetic comments like yours are destroying what was once a great community.
It's amazing how much hand wringing is done about the symptoms of problems in academia (especially life sciences) without anyone actually addressing the root causes. The reason all of these problems exist is because the space is over populated, ruthlessly competitive, and under funded. It's really that simple.

Create many more professorship positions for post docs, raise the NIH, NSF, and DOD research budgets to where they should be, and all of these problems will go away. Trying to solve these problem by throttling the number of papers people can publish is putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound.
The EV1 was either a setup or government Pork. You put all the troublemakers on a project and then kill it and get the stink of failure all over them. And you get money from the government at the same time.

The only real benefit that came from the EV1 was the Toyota Prius. Because Toyota thought the US was serious about The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles and they built the Prius to compete.

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

Didn’t know at the time they would be the only ones to show up...
Meanwhile most cities in the interior have a deficit of good paying jobs and young people are leaving. A lot of those cities would give anything for Seattle's problems.
Some context on HN :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15511285
> No. The BIOS needs to perform some touchy, hardware-specific initialization -- like detecting and calibrating RAM -- before releasing control to user code. It's not something you'd want the OS to be responsible for.

I don't feel like the person you're responding to suggested that the OS should be responsible for it; he/she just wondered if it is possible to have the CPU not have to jump through 16-bit real mode and 32-bit protected mode just to get to 64-bit.

I see no fundamental reason why it should be impossible for the BIOS to do its initialization work in 64-bit mode. There's the issue of paging and the page-table perhaps, but it seems trivial enough to suggest that the CPU could initialize with a very basic 1:1 mapping between virtual memory and RAM.

That said, I don't know if such a thing would ever actually happen, since I imagine that it would suggest re-writing a lot of code.
Which is why I avoid the whole investing charade all together and just cut my expenses instead! Woohoo!

No mortgage, no marriage, no restaurants, no fancy gadgets, just a nice relaxing low cost of living life with friends who feel the same way.

Every once in a while I take some controlled investing risks, but hell if I would ever plunk 300k in a mutual fund and just safely assume everything will be fine when I check it 30 years from now.
I don't mean jobs that provide real benefit. I mean making cars or consumer products in cases where the local industry is dependent on import tariffs to survive because the same thing is made cheaper overseas.
How's Hilltop? I remember it being pretty dicey when I was young.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425632
I've been watching their htm school videos and really enjoying them. There are a lot of new concepts, but I find it remarkable how much it matches my intuition of how my brain could work.
All this is true, for elite athletes performing at the limit of human ability, you can out-train a bad diet.

The thing is, this only applies during high-level competitions, and in no way counts for the rest of the time. Nobody can compete at that level endlessly, obvious. More importantly, it doesn't raise their basal metabolism beyond a certain point, and the basal metabolism is what counts in overall long-term caloric consumption.

For regular humans, there's simply no getting around the fact that running a mile only burns 100 kCal or so[1], and it's possible to eat more than 100kCal in seconds simply by eating a single Reese's peanut butter cup[2].

1. http://running.competitor.com/2015/03/training/many-calories...

2. https://www.hersheys.com/reeses/en_us/products/reeses-peanut...
Additionally, the Facebook apology was immediately posted after new accusations on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/20/robert-scoble-has-allegedl...
Don't forget the nearly $2 billion in operating losses from the handset division while they had it.
It doesn’t affect traffic that hugely if people are fine with living out in the vicinity of the suburban and exurban campuses. Which for a number of decades including when Microsoft was being established, they were. There was a net outflux from many cities in the US. Most people wanted to live out to way out.
Sounds to me like an issue with the boss, not the hire alone. Why torture applicants?
Can developers sell you iphone software without Apple in the middle?
Please point me to a technologist who believes the brain to be a von Neumann architecture.

The existence of misunderstandings by lay outsiders does not, in itself, invalidate the use of the metaphor, especially as it's used within the actual research community.
> Australian men are two inches away from overt racism on one side,

I used to have several Australian coworkers who were generally quite pleasant and easy to work with, but several of them had an attitude and their interaction with dark skinned individuals was shocking. Having overheard them arguing with another Australian coworker about the case of the "abo gal fucked to death", I'm not surprised by your description using the terms "overt racism on one side, and super-duper-liberal-moral-high-grounder on the other". Their conversation was peppered with racist stereotypes, going as far as to blame the victim as being an "abo whore". I found out later that the victim was Lynette Daley, a young aboriginal woman who had been drugged and then, shockingly, literally, raped to death "blunt force genital tract trauma". There was little to no coverage of this here, but it does seem to have attracted at least a little attention in Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-09/nsw-dpp-under-scrutiny...
"Information is nonsense" states the person communicating by computer.
Skepticism is merited after a certain volume of debunked claims.
Police departments have budgets, not blank checks. If the police come to the local government saying they need an extra umpty-million this year because they keep getting sued for brutality, questions are going to be asked.
I grew up on a farm about 100 miles outside of Seattle that started as a homestead that my great grandmother and great grandfather from Germany started and my family still operates.

I moved to Seattle in 1978 after graduating with MSEE. So I have seen a lot of changes over the years, but my family going back generations have seen even more.

I recall fondly living on Queen Anne Hill (first hill north of downtown) which was my first place here in Seattle. I rode the trolley to work every day and would stop by and get coffee at a goofy place down in Pike Place Market called "Starbucks" and would tell people at work " hey you gotta try this Italian coffee, it's really good".

But the "old Seattle", pre-Amazon and pre-Microsoft had a real grungy industrial patina to it (maybe that is where the music got influence?).

Do I Love the old Seattle? Absolutely. Do I long for it? Not in the least. Every phase this great city has gone through has changed it, before Amazon, Microsoft, before that Boeing before that Weyerhaeuser. Each transformation, in my view, has brought in new people and new character and for me, I welcome it.

I am going to post here a poem from a book of poems my Great Grandmother wrote for family back in Germany. It is about this area as it think it expresses my view of the changes, maybe I see it the way she did?

The Sleeping Washington
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The forest, a sound is not quiet in.

Washington sleeps and with nature.

Small bird mutely and the bear rests hidden,

Fleeting often only one deer hurries as frightened.

Even the Pine Trees, deliberate,thoughtful and old,

Bend the heads and nod soon.

Slumber sweetly, only lock the eyes,

Know not for a long your power rests.

If light clouds in the sky draw

And your persistent rushing wind shakes.

Sleep only, State of Washington, as child.

Sunday is today, in the solemn silence The forest is.

The serious pines their treetops bends as to the prayer.

But the environment of God's spirit and breath everywhere.

So I want to bend myself in deep humility Before you,alone

With fervency, for your benediction ask you, God the father.

Retain also all my serene love

Also ask I you, carry here a flowering Of colonies;

With work, quite soon, railways, churches, schools, Culture drawn in

The jungle country, a rich bit of earth in Washington.

Therefore, I beg you, O Father, Thy blessing

that it draws them not.
FWIW, Quinn Norton's post that seemed to set off yesterday/today's spate of accusations happened sometime in the early 2010s. Scoble had announced in 2015 that he was going sober. However, at least one of the accusers has said that Scoble propositioned her (repeatedly) after 2015:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/20/robert-scoble-has-allegedl...
It's a joke :) Tacoma is a pretty awesome place and I love it. Yeah it's violent but in general it's not too bad, just certain places (Hilltop) can get really bad. Compared to Seattle it's crime is much higher; the stats don't lie. But much of that is concentrated in specific parts.
Even swapping 1 meat meal per week for 1 vegan meal can make a difference if everyone did that.

In my experience cooking for meat loving friends, there are lots of vegan dishes they like. Switching 1 meal a week does not really impact their “meat menu” pallet. Don’t try to replicate meat. Enjoy vegan cuisine for what it is.

FYI I eat meat but I enjoy a lot of vegan meals. I don’t like vegan “tastes like meat” dishes though.
"I firmly believe that this problem cannot be solved by more government money. If federal support for basic research were to be doubled (as many are calling for), the result would merely be to tack on a few more years of exponential expansion before we'd find ourselves in exactly the same situation again."

David Goodstein, "The Big Crunch"
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
Why is he apologizing to us? Seems very self-serving.
Much better than it was. They had some big gang busts around 2009 if I remember correctly. No huge shootouts since '89 ;)
That might be a problem, but it's not democracy or civil society. Maybe they'll get a worse deal on some international agreements or whatever else could be caused by not enough diplomacy, but there'll still be democracy and as much safety for the people.
They care when the chief has to explain to the city council why they need an extra $2 million in the budget this year. Shit rolls downhill.
The hardware is certainly good enough to assist a person with a disability living in a ranch house with typical household tasks. As demonstrated by human in the loop operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQckUlXPRVk
I used to work at Toyota in Australia, which also shut down recently. A lot of people here are saying this is about quality, but it's really about profitability.

Australia's economy is heavily dependent on mining, and China's economic growth created a local mining boom. This resulted in heavy demand for Australian dollars, and at its peak in 2013 1 AUD was worth about 1.05 USD.

It was at this time that Ford (the weakest of the three Australian manufacturers) made the decision to close its Australian manufacturing operations. The high value of the local currency meant the factory was unprofitable and uncompetitive with other factories around the world.

The conservative government at the time, led by Tony Abbott, refused to provide subsidies to help close the gap (even temporarily).

Toyota and GM Holden had similar problems, and all knew that the local automotive parts suppliers needed at least three companies to sell to. So once Ford was out, the supply chain for parts became unsustainable, and the others quickly announced that they would pull out too. It takes time to close an entire industry, which is why all three companies closed their factories in 2017.

Around 2015 the slowdown in China's growth led to a slowdown in Australia's mining industry, and a drop in the AUD. It dropped to around 0.80 USD, and interestingly, Australia's car manufacturers became quite profitable again. But the wheels were already in motion and the decisions couldn't be reversed.

Australia's mining industry has bought in a lot of money, but its impact on the dollar has done a lot of damage to the country's export economy. There's a term that economists use to describe this: Dutch disease. Australia has a bad case of it.

Edit: s/80 USD/0.80 USD/
For a moment I hoped this had something to do with HolyC
It was against the agreement then, too (but commonly advised anyway). It is probably against merchant agreements to accept a card that is unsigned as well.
The US was the originator of credit cards, and the number of merchant deployments here was one or two orders of magnitude bigger than in Europe when EMV was standardized, so the cost to retool was dramatically higher.

Next, credit card fraud in the US is currently limited through various Orwellian big data measures, whereas Europe was rife with credit card fraud when EMV was originally deployed, so the cost benefit analysis made it much more appealing in Europe.

Basically, path dependency is a thing. Americans routinely use checks to pay rent for similar reasons.
Possibly they shouldn't be using bug ridden trash either seems like a compromise ought to be possible.
Business check printing for startup
To put in perspective Ferndale, MI, an affordable but awesome neighborhood of Detroit, is about 4x safer. 800 to 200 violent crime per 100k per year
Well, look at that. Another Mainer on a SAR team on here.

2 sympathy hikes, a couple of Baxter coverage weekends, and ringleading at the MASAR conference so far this year for business.
Not easily, but they certainly can sell Android software.
History is full of murderous monsters who were nothing but kind to their families and neighbors. I recognize that these cops are not mustache-twirling villains but humans subject to various emotional pressures, but if they're enabling and protecting murderers then they are not good cops.
Nothing specific really, these days you just gotta cover your bases though.
Would be nice if there was an open source attempt at an alpha go clone on a 9x9 board, so it could be run on commodity hardware and maybe trained in more reasonable time. Also would be interesting to see if human would still win on a 190x190 or some arbitrary size board against alphagozero trained appropriately.
Hey I love the domain name. Please create a form using google forms and post that to a few places including here -- i know I'd fill it out.
Yawn, this is really getting old and tiring, I didn't really there were so many bigots on hn.
I have some "old Seattle" credentials. I grew up in Capitol Hill. I absolutely believe that Amazon is unfairly scapegoated, but at the same time do understand the gripes that many have about the city's changes. The most bitter are just the vocal minority, but there are many more natives who are uncomfortable to some degree. Given that I'm also a tech-yuppie-gentrifier, I think a lot of the toxicity is unfortunate and misdirected.

While it's definitely a terrible idea to fossilize a city, some parts of town are entirely unrecognizable, even from what they looked like three years ago. I don't long for the SLU of old or the abandoned lots of the Denny triangle, but there was an entire "sense of place" that was wiped out almost overnight. The wrong people are blamed for it, but I can completely understand where the grievances originate.

I'd place the blame most squarely on the NIMBY establishment and our single family zoning. There were bound to be growing pains from all this growth, but they didn't have to be so extreme. If we could upzone Magnolia and Wallingford, it would give the CD/south seattle renters quite a bit of relief.

I also think that the HQ2 stuff has much more to do with hitting the limits of our transit and housing infrastructure than the leftward swing of city politics, but that's probably best left to another post.
The real problem is when half your friends are priced out of the city and have to move away.
Thank you for your insightful comment, you learn something everday :)
Isn't this ironic, even hypocritical, that while they mock how chrome publicly discloses vulnerability before patch, they themselves do something even worse by publishing this blog before it was fixed, with thorough explanation of everything, also saving significant amount of the research effort for those would-be-attackers they pretend to be so concerned about.

This is such a cheap PR stunt this is disgusting. They can pretend their motives are to improve security but you would be naive not to realize their real motive is just to shove their edge in your face, showing 0 regard to the security of their own customers in the process.

I wonder if their security research team funding comes from their advertising budget, because it should.
Hence public announcements and public apologies are too be taken with (at least one) large grain of salt. It's up to his victims to forgive him -- not us.
Alphabet’s Project Loon Deploys LTE Balloons in Puerto Rico
> Google is a world leader in ML and AI. You really think this is so difficult for them?

Yes
To expand on this a bit, NNVM is mostly a graph serialization format and graph optimizer with a cuda/cudnn (and now TVM) backend. In this NNVM is very similar to XLA. Our approach handles both full graph optimization (though we have a lot of work to do there) and kernel creation and optimization through an intermediate language called Tile. TVM seems somewhat derivative of our approach, though it lacks a reasonable mechanism for optimizing kernels.

PlaidML and Tile are able to create optimal kernels for just about any architecture. This approach reduces dependencies and ensure that new hardware will just work.

We intend to have NNVM and Tensorflow backends in the future. The keras backend is only 2000 lines of code (thanks to tile).
Link for those interested:

https://github.com/propublica/nyc-dna-software/blob/master/F...
I find this blind unwarranted defense of elon that happens constantly every time his name is mentioned in an even remotely critical context, just increasingly annoying. I guess the smug hipsters found their new steve jobs. Literally the worst person happening to tech was probably larry ellison though.
You are arrested for murder, rape, or sexual abuse of a domestic pet, following proper procedures, etc., etc.

Video of the arrest goes viral. Hundreds of millions of people across the world see it.

You are later acquited of the charges. But a fat lot of good that does....
How long does this stuff typically take to run on a dataset?
How Additional Permissions (aka Exceptions) Impact a Project's License
I put Xs and squiggles for both checks and credit card bills as my signature and haven't hard a problem yet. Probably varies by bank.
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge [pdf]
The Wisdom of a Universal Basic Income
Thank You GitHub
I think for the audience I would want much less an apology and more an explanation: what was he thinking and how did he view women when he sexually harassed them and how has his mindset changed in how he views women that will cause him not to do it anymore?

It’s not for me to forgive him, but I can’t see an apology without an explanation as for how his mindset has changed and a full admission of not only his actions but the mindset that has caused these actions to occur. Otherwise he is being cheap and saying that just because he’s sober now his actions will drastically change without any evidence there’s any motivation to that change other than “oh shit got caught”.