skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You pour work in and potentially don't see anything for it

I guess it depends on what you expect in return. I was so crazy amazed at the process of watching my daughter solving the 3D puzzle of putting the dummy back in her mouth. Plus just watching the process as a crying baby gives in to tiredness and falls asleep.

The first three months were a nightmare, but the payback was also there at the same time.

My dad missed out on this and I'm sure his life was poorer for it.
I probably don't need to be competing to hire the "fuck you I'm too good to do take-home problems" developers. Candidly: a significant fraction of those developers don't do take-home tests because they're extremely good at interviewing and... how shall we put this delicately... not so excellent at the skills required to solve straightforward programming problems. It's rational for them not to want to interview at take-home-test companies and rational for me not to want to hire them at all.

That's why we started doing take-homes: because we kept having the experience of interviewing people with impressive resumes and sterling references who did not deliver at the caliber of the rest of our team. But even though we started doing homework challenges as a way of screening out bozos who interviewed well, we quickly learned something much more important, which is that for every talented developer you'll talk to with a strong resume, there are many --- probably at least 10's --- of talented developers who are underemployed because they don't have strong resumes.

You also assume a job ad that basically says "We're the world's leading cat sharing company. Wanted: senior developer. Requirements: 15 years Python experience, must do homework problems". I don't blame you for assuming that because for some reason not a single recruiting team in SFBA seems to be able to write a decent job req, but that's not what our job reqs said, and we had zero problems.

Finally: what's a company that hires software developers at any rank with less than a day's worth of interviews? I think you'll have trouble naming one. Even if you can, I don't think you'll have rebutted my point about the amount of energy it takes to complete a typical interview-based process.
Why Accessible Credit Will Not Lift Individuals from Poverty
He's saying if you built a new innovative OS with cutting edge OS research. The OS itself would be great to use and fast and have tons of features,etc etc...and you use virtualization for other things that aren't compatible.
I think you have it backwards:

Atheism is saying "I don't know."

Agnosticism is saying "I don't think it's possible to know."

Most religions are saying "I do know - it written in this book."

Being an atheist does not preclude you from searching for answers, it just means admitting that we haven't found them yet. Agnosticism and religion are excuses to either pretend we can't know, or that we already know.
Yes but it's not comfortable for writing in multiple languages. I use Capslock both on Windows (Punto Switcher) and Mac (Seil / Karabiner Elements).
Wishful thinking on the part of the parents. It doesn't have to actually be effective for that to be the intended use.
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To me it looks like they just took a bunch of specialized NN classifiers and glued them together. Not to belittle their work, this is still impressive and an important step towards generalized machine intelligence, but we're still a very long way off.

The next level above this would be to give it some input and without telling the classifier what to do with it, it decides which task it's supposed to do on its own, and then executes.
Brilliant. Definitely interested to see how this space evolves! Metamask is a great first step to helping bring wallets to the masses in the web browser, and it continues to improve, but it certainly isn't what a mainstream web wallet extension will look like in a couple years.
https://youtu.be/XPhIW3EF8iU?t=130
> So while Google keeps trying to make Android devices sell for iPhone prices, Amazon just sold me a Kindle Fire for $25 that outperforms my Nexus 7.

Isn't this being subsidized heavily by Amazon? Which might be your point about "long term bets," but I don't think it's unreasonable for Google's long-term bet to be that they want their hardware to be self-sustaining and not reliant on their other revenue (namely advertising).

(Also, it looks like it's $50 on their website - did you get a refurbished one?)
I'm surprised nobody else mentioned Google Caja.
No, the money materialized from the lender when the loan was taken out. Some of the money might be recouped before or upon the death of the borrower - some might never be recouped.
Is this the link? https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/11/daily-...
You can't really evade market forces, you can only dodge them for a limited time. The only solution you are really going to have is fixing housing prices. Sounds like a winning plan!
The Pune I remember from my childhood was a nice, if quiet place with lots of trees, and the wonderful Deccan climate so I can understand not wanting to move.

Now it's become just another huge city IMHO.
The title made me think that Bezos leaves Amazon.
Also most of the "remote stress" can be compensated by home food or lying in your bed for an hour.
Inside Uber’s $100,000 Payment to a Hacker, and the Fallout
"These are used by Mozilla to spy on you, and are as such a significant risk to privacy."

Wow that's a big claim. Any proofs that the data collected is not anonymous?
It sounds a lot like fear-mongering
Even in the later stages of Steve Jobs' life, he was not fully "bald" (as is Bezos or Ballmer) even though he appeared to be losing his hair. For example: http://community.digitalmediaacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/...

And the Steve Jobs of early and mid Apple was definitely not even close to bald: http://www.designbolts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/steve-...
Similarly, I've heard that motorcyclists should not leave their passenger footpegs folded down when riding solo, as emergency responders will look for an ejected passenger in event of a crash.
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Ask HN: Why fund or invest in open source software?
Hi all,

I have been struggling to justify to potential funding sources and investors why they should to invest or fund open source software (or open source "anything" in general).

I commonly receive critiques that there's a lack of IP protection, and no revenue model associated with it. I, admittedly, do not have a good defence beyond some of the purist views (open access to everything and broadly benefiting to the community).

For context, my experience has been in healthcare and medicine where privacy is, to a large degree, a concern.

What are your thoughts on this - both in healthcare and in general?

Thanks!
At first glance, these results appear fairly impressive as far as deep learning transfer studies go.

However, standard caveats about the limits of those approaches should still apply: e.g. https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sen...

In other words, I don't think MultiModel will be immune to fairly straightforward adversarial image attacks (although you might need a different adversarial network to generate them).

Furthermore, the problems being addressed by MultiModel (image recognition, natural language processing, machine translation) are problems that already have fairly robust deep learning results.

I'd be more interested if MultiModel showed significantly better results on problem areas that are currently difficult for standard deep learning approaches.
Walt is a JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly text format
It would be really depressing if java normalized NaNs, but i wouldn't put it past some author thinking it was a good idea.
Speaking of the problems with Cartesian dualism, here's a marvelous article by Anthony Gottleib about a Bohemian princess whose critique was so persuasive that Descartes himself admitted the theory is wrong.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-mind/ghost-and-princ...
The `outrage' (at least the imagined outrage) is that it's considered really unfortunate/unhealthy for your children when you say that you regret having children, because children generally will think themselves to blame.

The rest of your post...I think doth protest too much? Some people have children. Some people don't. We're a product of an evolution that makes many of us want to procreate. Strange obsession? What a bizarre statement.

Secondly, many of the things people complain about are only tangentially and superficially actually related to the child. Every Christmas some parents go to herculean lengths to get the must have toy (or the $900 stroller or only the best school, etc) not because their kid actually wants or needs it, but as a status symbol/achievement among their clique. Humans are imperfect - story at 11.
Sadedin quotes Damore directly and addresses his argument directly.

I get that you support and want to make your own personal argument in for Damore's memo, but if you would read the Sadedin's criticism of Damore's memo, rather than dismissing it with an ad hom attack, you would see that the points you and Quillette are raising are addressed.

You can't ask me, "Did you actually read the memo?" and then make excuses to not read an expert's criticism. It smacks of confirmation bias.
Sounds an awful lot like Epcot.
I would love to see Jeff Bezos run for President in 2020. The trust he has built in the Amazon brand, the value he has placed upon investigative journalism and the survival of the free press, his deep knowledge of and interest in technology, his (presumed) familiarity with U.S. tax law, and the enormous success he’s achieved as a businessman would all work in his favor. I think Donald Trump senses this, and that’s why he singles Jeff out for criticism.
Also see NASA JPL's HEALPix v3...

"A multi-resolution HEALPix data structure for spherically mapped point data" (2017) http://www.heliyon.com/article/e00332
>worthless degrees like gender studies

Worthless eh? I bet if companies Uber hired some of these gender studies majors they might not have fucked up?
The organization of schools plays a big role because, at least in many areas, that where most of the property taxes go. I don't know the exact numbers in my town but I think it's 80-90%. (Where schools are a combination of by town and a regional system with a couple of adjoining towns.)
Both young and senior age brackets have incentives to believe that they are the ones that should be providing difficult feedback. It ought to cut both ways, and I'm sure it's frustrating when either defects.
Faces of the Federation – Jason Robinson of Socialhome
Pg_hexedit: PostgreSQL relation file hex editor with tags, annotations
Some other amusing related stuff: so, Plato, was called for for the ancient greek word for broad/wide.

Modern english words that stem from the same root: plateau, platitude, plat, plate -- via French and Latin (plattus) from Greek (platis "flat, wide, broad").
> it seems that every value is defined,

> there is no defined pattern for NaNs

?

I was referring to using a NaN value without a zeroed mantissa.
When AI Meets Sci-Fi: A Talk with Award-Winning Author Ken MacLeod
Having a separate privacy conscious fork of FF would be a better solution. They can easily workaround such tweaks.
Wouldn't you "just" need to train a classifier on top to select the best fitting model? Or use ensemble learning? I dunno. My point is that it wouldn't be much more generalized even without that input.
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You should always think about how your investors can help you, and ask them for it.

It's about engagement, sure. But it's also about realizing that you need to better leverage your network and supporters. Investors can't help you if they don't know what you need.
I'm not arguing with you. Just saying the attitude is (or was) rare in my experience.
Out of curiosity, who should we blame? Team change?
Sex, crying, and ice cream... I don't really have anything better to offer. We tried seeing a therapist but they (basically) said 'that really sucks', and the ice cream and sex were working better anyway.
You could definitely say they can learn more in the States as the quality of basketball is higher, but they won't be paid until they're in the league.
I think he knows that.
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I seriously doubt people are "investing" in Doge.

Interest in coins are going up, so of course that will spill over to the easier, less risky coins like Doge that people will want to experiment with to see if they like the model.

And with that increased demand inherently comes increased value, not because people are pumping up the meme coin, but just because it's becoming more active, along with the rest of the ecosystem.

It also probably serves as a reliable intermediary coin to use as an exchange or more common coins.
TLDR of a much longer, more bitter and angry reply:

I think no one wants to hear because of 17 years of being shit on for trying to talk about it.

My story is not just that I have a form of CF. It is that I am getting well. People straight up tell me I am deluded, I suffer Munchhausen Syndrome, etc.

The degree of ugliness I have been met with is pretty extreme. So I don't really want to tell my story at this point. I am mostly well. I want to get a "normal" life. That was the entire point.
I thought this was going to be a retrospective from the HQ Trivia team about how they were mediocre given the scaling challenges and hiccups they are facing and then they solved it through ML!
I have a very small violin. I shall learn the Friends theme song and play it for the offended while they cry for me and I shall do a jig in the puddle that forms from their tears.
Seriously 'one model to learn them all'? Isn't that a tiny bit overreaching?

The results are not very surprising after the Google translate post about multi language translation.
But doesn't that lead to the extinction of the human race? What good is it for mankind to save the environment if it sacrifices itself in the process?
Unneeded consumption is not unique to this period. Cynicism could be seen as an attack on modern consumerism.
There's an entire section of IIoT, the Industrial Internet of Things that most people don't know or think.

I'm guessing they called it IoT so more people would click on the title.
I'm a clinical psychologist in the US, and it is a complete total shitshow, a combination of stigma and bigotry from outside the system, and self-inflicted nonsense from within.

People misunderstand and have trouble thinking of mental health to begin with, so you end up with general attitudes of "people just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps" or "just get over it," not understanding that the problem is often that people lack that ability. Other times it's just sheer lack of empathy for people who have had to deal with more difficult circumstances (or even just different circumstances). And then there's the recurring idea that behavioral sciences should just be like all the other sciences, or that it's not worth paying attention to because we don't have it all figured out like basic Newtonian physics.

On the other side, within the field it's a mess too. There should be many more professional models, for example, and a lot more to offer, but territorial battles screw it over for everyone. Psychologists, for example, shoot themselves in the foot with bullshit licensing requirements for reasons I don't understand (maybe to appear more rigorous? to keep competition from entering the field?), requirements that are even more stringent than for MDs in certain ways. There's also no reason psychologists shouldn't be able to learn to prescribe--many people enter clinical doctoral programs with as much natural sciences as premeds, and leave having all sorts of neuro-genetic-chemical-physiology coursework and research experience, often more than MDs in the area of neurobehavioral sciences per se. But psychiatrists bristle at the competition, and certain segments of psychologists want to control the field with their romanticized idea of what psychology "should be," again, for reasons I don't understand.

On top of that, there's various trends in treatment that have led to screwing clients over, to put it bluntly. I can't tell you the number of times I hear colleagues (not all, but a sold number) argue that treatment should be limited for its own sake, to prevent dependency or to encourage change. Sometimes that's true, but you wouldn't say that a cancer patient in need of treatment should have their treatment stopped just to teach them a lesson. And drugs are great for some people, but not for others, and in general, the administration of those drugs has become divorced from any kind of real monitoring of peoples' situations. Add to that the fact that many people's problems derive from the collapse of societal safety nets, which also means lack of funding for mental health services, and, well, you get the point.
Having a Heart Attack? This AI Helps Emergency Dispatchers Find Out
Just read the text in that link, and didn't find the part about top soil. Coul d you be a little more specific?

FYI - I'm pretty sure central Minnesota is gonna be just fine.
Websockets are used for nefarious purposes?
They're ubiquitous for the same reason as those Apple stickers: bundling, in this case with baby car seats.
I'm all for privacy protections and private sector solutions. I think that's just a good idea in general even in the absence of government surveillance. The network is compromised, etc.

I don't think we should throw up our arms and say that it is a waste of time to try and change the way DHS and TSA conduct themselves. If we do not protect our rights we will lose them. There is nothing new here. You seem to believe that citizens of the United States have no power to influence their government. I reject this belief.
Brave are just a different kind of evil. They basically want to hijack advertising and tracking so that they get the money rather than google, but it’s the same crap.
One model to rule them all, one model to find them,
One model to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Frankly I don’t want any inexperienced people running for President anymore.

Would you hire someone who knows nothing about technology (aside from being a consumer of it) to be your CTO? Probably not... similarly, we should expect people to gain experience in government before they are considered suitable.
Application management, window management, resource management, document management, etc. OSs are more than just the applications they run, they provide the user ways to manage their workflow.

On the other hand, you know what OS was practically invisible? DOS. And DOS was pretty great, so maybe you're on to something.
Moral hazard is just a price you pay for stability. It's impossible to avoid. You need a middle ground where if you do something really stupid you're still punished but if you're "still dancing" like everyone else (Chuck Prince, 2007) then you aren't completely hosed. When I used to be a banker, I remember plenty of times where others would make bids on a deal that we couldn't come close to as a small player without a balance sheet. That's why things always get more aggressive in bull markets because you've gotta win deals to make money. It all ebbs and flows.
> Sadedin quotes Damore directly and addresses his argument, point by point.

No she does not. I read Sadedin's response when this Damore thing blew up. Sadedin's mistakes are so blindingly obvious that I can't even... Here's Sadedin quoting Damore and responding to it:

> Damore: I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions.

> Sadedin: At what point did we jump from talking about personalities to abilities? It’s a massive leap to conclude that a slight difference in average personality must undermine women’s professional abilities in software engineering.

Except Damore didn't say anything of the sort. Damore literally said nothing about ability in his entire memo except this one off-hand remark that some differences in ability might exist due to biology, and Sadedin spends half her text attempting to debunk something Damore didn't even claim.

Sadedin clearly has an axe to grind, and Damore's memo was a convenient outlet. Sadedin's reply is riddled with exactly this sort of pattern, building up a nice Damore strawman and easily knocking it down.

And now I suggest you read the other expert's opinion that I linked in my previous comment, as he provides an overview of over 4 decades of cross-cultural research on gender differences which actually explains the data we have, rather than some bizarre conspiracy theory of nationwide sexism, oh but not everywhere, just in these specific fields for no reason whatsoever.

I'm not even going to bother responding to any more uninformed comments on this topic. You believe what you like, but if you're interested in evidence-based measures to improve gender disparity in STEM, then inform yourself. If you just want to wage some gender holy war, then I'm not interested in hearing about it.
A triangular grid (or if you like, a grid of hexagonal pixels) is more efficient and closer to isotropic than a square grid. Circles pack more closely in a hexagonal arrangement than a square one.
So is HTTP. Better disable that too.
That's the vision of the future that makes me want to give up computing and live in a cave.
To any future hackers: You don't need OCR. HQ has a simple websocket server that will stream the questions and possible answers in real time. Set up an http proxy on your phone to inspect the requests the app is making. You'll find lots of helpful stuff.
Here's an anecdote for a different approach that wasn't intential, but wound up giving the company a good sampling of my skills and personality, and me a good sampling of what it was like working for them. I volunteer some consulting and IT services for a local non-profit. They were having another company build some business specific software for them, which had been recommended to them by their board(client is part of a franchise structure of sorts). It was far past schedule, and from my perspective the client had misunderstanding of the scope and timeframe for this type project, which let to the client questioning me "should we just scrap it?".

By volunteering along side the company doing the software build(which was also volunteering, mostly) we were able to get the project on track, and update the client's expectations to a more realistic view of the timeframe and outcome.

By volunteering alongside them, for another org that we both were happy to support, I didn't feel like I was doing free work for them, and they weren't struggling to pay full salary and onboarding cost to find out the same.

Just a thought for an approach to get a sample of each other without one party doing free work for the other.
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I think Christian Theology smothered some of the thought that developed along those lines in Greek and Roman philosophy.
Yeah, that would just be one step out of the however dozens/hundreds/thousands more to go before AGI.
Bloomberg did pretty well for himself.
>>Barring trading, you'd be hard pressed to find a job that routinely pays 200K+ to 25-year olds

Routinely? Hahaha.

Those salaries are pretty much exclusive to a few locations, primarily Bay Area and maybe NYC.
That's interesting. It looks like the ideas are similar to a Haskell library I wrote awhile back to tile a sphere with hexagons (and a few pentagons):

https://wiki.haskell.org/IcoGrid

My tiling had a fixed resolution that you specify up-front; I didn't really consider how to make my grid hierarchical.