skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the advice. The advice is 'avoid this particular form of expression/communication' with the 'garbage' aspect only tossed in as an intellectually bankrupt attempt to form negative associations in the mind of uncritical readers with the form discussed.
That wasn't the argument though, the argument was it "discriminates against people with lives". That's an offensively wrong argument. If the argument was that it discriminates against people who don't hobby program, than yes I'd say that's correct.
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I have been trying to use Amazon's visual search for the past week or two and out of many trials, it has only worked once.

I wonder whether eBay will beat Amazon in this category as the types of photos they have access to (amateur/home vs. professional/stock) are very different. Either way, I am not confident that taking a picture is a better solution than just typing in the name for the vast majority of items.
It is embarrassingly similar. Pointing at foreigners as the bogeyman to blame for things is a very tried and true technique. Nobody in this discussion has pointed to any specific stories run by the RT that are problematic. They all just believe that they know the intent of all of RT's journalism simply because of the origin of RT the network.

There is also no corresponding scrutiny of American "news" outlets and the heavily biased stories that they run with impunity. We really don't have news anymore, it's just partisan entertainment. RT is at least as newsworthy as any of the major US news outlets, and I think quite appropriately focuses on issues of concern to the poorest and least politically empowered Americans.
I think it's a) really bizarre how invested you are in defending this obviously exploitative process -- do real work for us and then work for free for 3 months, sure, all the Django devs line up, it's easy game; and b) ridiculous the extent to which you are minimizing the requirements of the exercise. It's a code screen -- reasonable is making sure the candidate can write code, not that the candidate ships you a full stack functional product with a test suite and design pattern justification document. What is insane is trying to justify this with "its ok Django is basically magic lol". I don't think we have anything further to productively discuss.
WebGL isn't trying to be competitive with full blown game engines, is it?

Sure it is! Not right now maybe, but the web standards people working on it would love to be a viable platform for AAA games. Every so often they tout a new WebGL port of a well-known game as the harbinger of things to come.
Techdirt is a self-proclaimed rumor mill. Taking a particular viewpoint and expounding on it endlessly as proper context, leaves a lot of telltale quips like how "clueless" actors are being. Postmortems years later consistently show a misunderstanding of what the goals were and why the actions seemed misdirected. The DoJ almost always has a strategy. With the litany of secret processes the US Government navigates, there's no reason to think that they are acting "crazy" when we know there is a lack of information about what is possible.
It has everything to do with politics, though. And that’s where this ultimately plays out.
Would you please not create bulk accounts to post with here? Throwaways are fine if there's some specific purpose, e.g. something personally sensitive, but we ban users who do it routinely. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Hacker News is a community. You don't have to use your real name, of course, but users should have some consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be an entirely different forum.
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Getting an offer requires you write a good portion of their needed code for them and hand it over before you even do a phone screening call, so they might be perfectly fine for you to laugh all you want.
Based on the descriptions in the article, aside from isolating the teams, this is very much what they did.

The difference being that they didn't have a second team dis-assemble and actually reverse engineer the product to write a formal spec for how it functioned. Instead they did A/B testing to ensure that the output of the known product produced the same output as the reference implementation, reportedly without examining how the black box worked.
Russia Today are well known as a fake news org.

Are you reading the Russian language articles they put out?

https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage_en...

https://euvsdisinfo.eu
Wow, well done twitter. About time. Now how about those Nazies and Russian bots can you block them???
It was thought in the 1850s that chess would destroy the minds of young generations

https://medium.com/message/why-chess-will-destroy-your-mind-...
Never zero? You know companies do go bankrupt, right?
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I wonder if the farmers are cheeping out and using the new stuff or the old illegal stuff also. When they got approval wouldn't they have had to submit the test plot data and methods?
Depends on the kind of stock

RSUs are already taxed, so not selling them is like a conscious decision to buy the company's stock.
Yes. If you are hiking behind someone, lots of dust. Horse shit in the dust. Not very pleasant. In conditions like that I hope for a little rain.
There's a way to test for that: People with actual opinions will engage in conversation, whereas shills can't, because, one, their scripts aren't that long, two, they aren't paid for that kind of thing, and, most importantly, they can't risk the conversation spinning out of control.
The Learn More section has a very nice description of the concepts. The compression page [0] seems to say that they group each attribute for a fragment together and then apply compression.

[0] https://docs.tiledb.io/v1.0/docs/compression
See also anyone commenting on a "fashion show": that's ridiculous, who would wear that in real life?
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It looks like the main purpose of this repo is for open source project developers to open issues to get someone to help edit their projects' readme's. That's kinda nice!
Where's the sarcasm?
You can't gerrymander the discussion topic to support the propaganda you want to parrot. If you can refute my points, then give it a try, but declaring them off-topic just means you don't want to go there.
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John Philip Souza said that recorded music would destroy music, as amateur musicians would be so disheartened by hearing the performances of virtuosos that they would feel any practice would be futile. He also described a person listening to music by themselves as a sort of craven masturbation, using great imagery to have people imagine an emaciated antisocial hollow person curled up next to a phonograph.

Next up: VR is craven masturbation, and the increased immersion will turn children into psychopathic killers incapable of human kindness!
Maybe, but we know astroturfing is real. Imagine that.
> propaganda

What is the propaganda you are referring to? You seem to assume all of RT's content is propaganda but can't name or link to any stories that qualify. Lol.
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The problem isn't strong opinion, it's outright dishonesty.

You can check Sputnik and RT here:
https://euvsdisinfo.eu
How about D[1] or possibly ante[2]? Ante has significant whitespace (sorry), BUT it has fancy macros. Goto is implemented as a macro, for instance.

1: https://dlang.org/
2: https://github.com/jfecher/ante
Well, I disagree. Reddit is not "purging violent content", it's simply targeting right-wing subreddits.

They're not removing r/fullcommunism or r/latestagecapitalism, for example - which are just as promoting violence as the banned sites. "Violence" is actually just an excuse.

(see also https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/reddit-is-banning-nazi...)
Did they record it for posterity? The pictures my parents took of me in the bathtub as a 2 year old are not something that should ever be public, even though in theory they will fall to public domain in a few years.

In the 1920s Harvard took naked pictures of all their students for research purposes - again things that should never be public. (this was an branch reading someone's personality/fortune from the bumps on their skull - at the time the idea was taken seriously) The pictures are available to serious researchers, but you have to go through great hoops to prove you are serious.

We do not know what is on those recordings. There might be some things where it is as obvious as the above why those who did the recording may not want anyone to know they did it.
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I interpreted "easier" as in "I don't have to work 16+ hour days regularly"
If you're applying for a jobs you should probably make sure you have at least 2 hours of spare time to do an interview... Take home or not, it's an interview, and if you want the job you can find 2 hours - it's a completely reasonable amount of time for an interview to take.
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I don't feel like that should be something which /could/ get you in to trouble in a legal system focused on the good of the public.
This happened to me on a road trip. A traffic jam on a highway caused a large amount of cars to be re-routed onto a route made up of local roads. Unfortunately, a small bridge along that local route was closed for construction, so all of the re-routed cars were being funnelled into a narrow dead-end. It was difficult for cars to turn around because the long line of cars couldn't effectively reverse to make space. It was a long time before I made it back to the highway and was able to re-enter the original traffic jam I was avoiding.
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It's in the works. I'm hearing radio law firm ads in the midwest asking for farmers who have suffered Dicamba crop damage to call them.
I like it in cases I just misunderstood something and they point out, why I'm wrong. Ofc with a disclaimer but even without they usually have good knowledge of the topic so they should also be heard.
I have an idea, but it's pure speculation. Fear. Going up against Monstanto and the like is a good way to get into trouble. [0][1]

There are many other examples. Often, they are mixed with sentimentalism or sensationalism (and these examples might be, too-- they're the result of 5 seconds of Googling). But beneath the ones I've read/watched, there's clearly some truth.

[0] https://modernfarmer.com/2015/09/seeding-fear-the-story-of-a...
[1] https://www.rt.com/news/206787-monsanto-india-farmers-suicid...
There is a racket in Ivey league schools where students with bad grades will pay for help getting internships.

These middle men will the go pay companies to secure internships.

I’d expect more of this happening as the divide between rich and poor deepens.
Have you tried uMatrix by the author of uBlock Origin?

It takes getting used to but really allows you granular control of 3rd party requests on both a site-by-site and global basis.

Word of warning, most uMatrix users I've met say it becomes depressing to see how many 3rd party requests most websites require before they are even usable. It becomes very obvious very quickly.
In some (many?) jurisdictions, it is unlawful to trade while insolvent. If you cannot pay your employees, you are insolvent. If they work for free, for equity, they are not employees (and therefore should be getting a lot more than a percentage or two) and are essentially co-founders.
The CPU is going to do some more work because WebGL can't allow the GL app to crash the machine or break into the OS kernel, which regrettably current OpenGL (And DirectX, And Metal, and Vulkan...) drivers allow.
One specific outlet made a correction about one specific story.

What do you mean?

Both the NYTimes and the Washington Post published major editorials saying how they got it wrong. I'm sure other papers followed as well, but they were some of the more notable.

And it was hardly one story - it was a whole narrative about how they trusted that the White House was giving them information in good faith, and how they should have paid more attention to signs that faith was misplaced.

And yes - that faith was misplaced, and yes they should have paid more attention.

It is my opinion that absolutely nothing changed

Well, both papers became much more doubtful about any claims from the Bush administration after that.

And you may have noticed they were pretty harsh on Obama's claims of how easy health care would be. They also seem to be asking questions about some of the Trump administrations claims - or at least he seems to think they are being very unfair to him.
Now that Twitter has an algorithmic feed, perhaps content that is from banned advertisers gets penalized in the algorithm. It's all very shady and disappointing.
Well, what guarantees that is the "growth hacker" intern they have working on "an interview project" before their phone screening.
I think a lot of that is perception. I know the AWS RDS team has a pretty close knit relationship with the Postgres team, it's just not super obvious.
Start by reading https://www.amazon.com/Four-Pillars-Investing-Building-Portf...

Your intuition is correct. Holding your employers stock means that if your employer implodes not only do you lose your job you lose a nice chunk of your savings.

Money is fungible. Your vested stock is just the amount of money it's worth today. If you wouldn't go out and buy that much of the stock today then you shouldn't hold it. You should sell it and go buy the thing you would have bought with that money instead. Don't be anchored by the wrong thing.

In my case I strongly prefer diversification and reducing tail risk over potentially more lucrative outcomes that I might get from having concentrated holdings in successful companies.

I would like to say I sell the stock as soon as it vests, and that is my goal, but I've been misbehaving and had a limit order open for 6 months. I really shouldn't do that considering the risk and upside are not at all proportionate.

RE financial advisers:

The #1 rule of financial advice is never take financial advice from someone who takes a percentage of your investments. Anyone who charges based on AUM is only interested in soaking you for fees with expensive investments that give them kickbacks.

You want a fee based adviser if you want one at all. I don't think you do if you are in the accrual stage. Just invest passively in the entire market of things you can cheaply invest in using index funds with a low expense and pick a ratio of stocks to bonds that you are comfortable with and let it grow. The most important skill is staying the course, staying in the market, and purchasing regularly (don't time).

I only own one fund. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I...

It's a wrapper around several other index funds. Simple. I don't have to think about rebalancing or anything else. I'm going to keep buying this fund until I am in my 50s or 60s and have to rethink as my time horizon shortens. When this fund is not available such as my 401k I mimic it's allocation using the available index funds.

I used to try and do it cheaper by buying the underlying funds with lower expense ratios. Gaming taxable vs tax deferred. I lost interest.
This article needs to be flagged. Popehat or 3rd-party scripts there are triggering redirects to malicious ads about my mobile device being “infected”.
LIDAR typically uses lasers in the so-called eye-safe range (around 1.4 micro meters). This range is precisely around the absorption peak of water so that LIDAR cannot damage the eyes of pedestrians and other by-standers. By construction, LIDAR sucks in the fog, rain, snow, etc.
It seems like ebay would have a ton of user-provided photos which would be a possibly huge corpus for machine learning to help identify objects like this. It will be interesting to see how well this works!
OK, so your point is that RT's coverage was germane?
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When's the last time a communist drove a car into protestors, or shot a gun into a crowd, or shot up a church, or any of the other acts of violence carried out by far right extremists all the fucking time in the US?
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Only if you want to learn about the greatest piece of extensible software. Most software written nowadays doesn't have the same objectives as Emacs. Emacs unfortunately gives me RSI.
> it was gauche in 1790 and it hasn't improved with age

You imply, but give no evidence, that the writer in 1790 was wrong. Maybe the young people in question were poisoning their minds. The fact that a quote is Old Timey™ doesn't make it wrong.

Do you not believe that art and literature have the capacity to change the audience? That is the stated goal of much of it. And if it has that power, wouldn't you be careful what you allow to shape you?

As far as digital media, there is at least some evidence that screen time can be harmful.

> The Monitoring the Future survey, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and designed to be nationally representative, has asked 12th-graders more than 1,000 questions every year since 1975 and queried eighth- and 10th-graders since 1991. The survey asks teens how happy they are and also how much of their leisure time they spend on various activities, including nonscreen activities such as in-person social interaction and exercise, and, in recent years, screen activities such as using social media, texting, and browsing the web. The results could not be clearer: Teens who spend more time than average on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time than average on nonscreen activities are more likely to be happy.
-- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the...
Thankfully most people don't currently use Google maps for their daily commute. This will be a problem with self driving cars if people aren't allowed to choose their own route.
The response from RT: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/407858-rt-twitter-us-election/

Also the news of the ban: https://www.rt.com/news/407861-twitter-policy-rt-accounts/
Unreal can target WebGL:
https://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/Epic-Games-Releases-...

(There are also older demos for asm.js + WebGL 1)
> what if some outside force were causing the 111 elements transitions to speed up, but that outside force had no effect on the 1 who was immune to that cause? How can we ever be sure of anything?

If two models generate the same predictions, they are the same model, and the simpler (in the Kolgomorov complexity sense) is best understood as the truth (in so far as that concept is meaningful at all). A force acting on everything in the universe except one atom, or a (equal and opposite) force acting on that one atom, is the same thing[1], just as a universe where all distances are multiplied by two is indistinguishable from the current universe. Again, there's no way to make an observation from outside the universe; we can only make relative measurements, observe patterns, and use them to make predictions.

[1] ultimately, this comes down to: they generate the same sense-impressions that I subjectively experience - but for simplicity let's assume an objective universe exists, other humans exist, and we can observe the same things - I believe this assumption is justified as the most parsimonious explanation of the patterns I perceive in the sense-impressions I experience
I am in no way, shape, manner or form affiliated with EnviroKlenz! That out of the way, here's a blurb from their article:

"Activated carbon filters will remove chemical gasses. They work by adsorption, a process by which the toxic gasses are attracted to and stick to the carbon But there are problems with carbon filters. Since activated carbon simply collects toxic gasses and stores them, when the carbon becomes full of gasses, the gasses can release back into the air."

That is what I was referring to in terms of carbon not being a cure-all.
You could add Google marketing tracking and get some insights into who uses it.
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Totally agree and recognize that. But a bummer to see it disappear into the background (and thus get discontinued as a result).
You are saying that an engineer from my already resource-constrained team should be allocated to:

- make a quick onboarding of the candidate

- explain the general architecture of the system

- find an issue/story that is "superficial" enough to be taken by someone with zero-experience at that job, but "deep" enough that you can test their experience and knowledge (oh, and that story better not involve anything that might be related to core company IP.)

- do a pair-programming session with the candidate, and be the main driver ALL OF THE TIME (because the candidate does not have any git access, so their development environment is useless)

- evaluate the candidate

You really think that is something for "a couple hours"? Even if it were, do you think it is a good use of the time of the engineer that is going to be allocated to the task?
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From a structure-function perspective, the human vermiform appendix is simpy the terminus of the tiniae coli ...

Are you an anatomist/pathologist ? Your post brings back memories of my med school years :)
I tend to agree with you - the appendix may be a vestigial organ in the sense that it has a common derivation and serves an immunologic purpose in evolutionary relatives, but we can posit that it may never have done so in man
If you use 23andMe, you can get a methylation analysis here: https://geneticgenie.org/methylation-analysis/

I'm not connected with Genetic Genie, I'm only sharing a way I found to discover if I have the MTHFR mutation.
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They're spamming HN with catchy titles linking to their blog. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15559661
Their Python, R, Matlab, and Excel bindings are in-progress.
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If you've been following Twitter's business decisions over the years, this is neither surprising nor unprecedented.

Twitter has a set of moral values, and isn't afraid to hurt its bottom line to keep those values. For example, it has previously blocked consumers of the firehose (companies in which Twitter has some significant ownership) from selling aggregates of that data to the three letter agencies in the US government.

Whether this move is good or bad for their bottom line, I have to applaud them for sticking to their values.