skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of the generally superior command lines and command line tools you get with UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems like Linux or macOS.

Recently, Windows has somewhat caught up in that respect but so far nothing beats a native Bash (or similar shells) environment.
Great conversation here. Unless you're going to a Costco, I'd say you'd be pretty hard pressed to find $1 pairs of pantyhose in the US or Canada (which is I'll admit where I have the most market familiarity). And even if you could get a "disposable" pair for $1, the problem generally is that you don't know when during that first where they might rip. Having your tights get a run mid day is a major inconvenience. It is why a lot of women say they no longer wear pantyhose. Not to mention the waste of the single wear product (which takes about 50 years to decompose in a landfill). I don't think everyone is going to immediately start investing in indestructible pantyhose, but I think there are very clear benefits for those that do.
You're looking to take still photos? Because the 2 megapixel one would take video at 1080p.
This would be a great 'part 2' if you had time. You could also consider demonstrating some vowel synthesis [1].

Great work by the way!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx5KNQYY_cg
Author here. You have a very good point. I tend to default to using Iris for articles like these because of its simplicity, ease of setup, etc., but you're right that it isn't as informative in showing readers the algorithm's capability. I'll have to try out some different datasets for upcoming articles :)
That's the biggest thing some people don't take into account when it comes to salaries: cost of living. $300k is not always more money than $200k.
Just Banks? No, “tech” - which stands for information technology- is just about everything, every industry and job is affected and will change. Information is like electricity...
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Thanks. I actually already implemented comments on "change request" on the server and a bunch of the handling there but haven't completed the implementation.

It does not yet use PWA, though I'm intending to add it, so that I have offline support. It does however work pretty well on mobile right now. The entire SPA is rather small ~180KB (+ React). On my old phone it refreshes the entire app (initial load is slower) in 1 to 1 1/2 seconds. Reviewing on the phone is pretty good and I use it myself.

The course you're learning will be under "notebook". My course is really only the courses you created.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this fiber was already used in space suits! But definitely a great application if they aren't already.
Agreed 100%. I did a bunch of js work about 3 years ago, used tons of promises. Then started a new job using Scala. The futures api in Scala is exactly what the author advocates, and it is definitely better for the reasons he gives.
Thanks for the added info! Indeed, sounds like borrowing only ideas but not code from Zephyr was wise. :)
Question: How do you know if your simulation is correct?
He's also a citizen of New Zealand
Do you mean full node or archive node? (ie is the 149gb a requirement for storing the txo set or the utxo set)
I wonder if the 'men have worse socio-emotional skills' idea can at least partially explain the male/female divide in CS? Right now we take men as the baseline, and say that women are underrepresented. But what if it is men that are over represented, because for whatever reason they are drawn to computers(more so than women) because of some lacking social skill?
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"50% reduction" sounds impressive, but it starts to lose meaning when cars are already so safe. These are pretty low numbers, out of a million. My annual survival chances go from 99.993% to 99.997%, which is great on a population scale but essentially meaningless on a personal one.

For age groups 25-64, car accidents aren't even the most deadly type of accidental injury: accidental poisoning has twice the fatality rate [1]. If this were a software system and I proposed buying a newer car, my manager would be annoyed at me for micro-optimizing the wrong thing.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...
aren't they still limited by a Carnot engine efficiency limit.
Love all the support this kind of research is getting. Crossing my fingers it reaches approved treatment status within the next decade.
On the contrary it is very imaginative. Seeing far beyond the horizon. We know (or think we know) the universe has finite entropy. Therefore there's an end somewhere - regardless of how far away that is.
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1%? Are you kidding? That's over 70 million. It's on the order of population of Germany, and 10 times more, than Swedes.
By a factor of 30
Tech and finance are two very broad brushes that both paint a large swath of the business landscape.

When speaking of finance there is everything from regional banks or loan originators to investment banks and trading firms. They are often very far apart in terms of culture, abilities, and pay.

On the higher end in tech you get front desk trading, and they are most definitely a tech subsidy inside a larger institution. Some of the best tech teams I've ever been exposured to. I would take the best team GS over the best team from Google any day of the week. Even a mediocre front desk team are far far above average for the industry because they focus on getting the best talent.

Even companies like Bloomberg that you wouldn't really think of beyond their news service is a massive tech company on the back end. They also have trading and low latency data infrastructures. One of the best teams i ever met was the core bond team at Bloomberg. I was blown away at how good they were.

All these places know they are tech companies and pay appropriately. On the other side you have regional banks or even old school trading firms where they aren't really tech companies, but are mostly admin work with average pay.

I've worked at tech companies and finance (hfts, algo trading, dark pool, banks), one thing i really like about finance is how difficult and interdisciplinary it can be. The tech problems I've encountered at finance firms have been so much more difficult than any other place. Google scales by throwing more machines at it, as most other web tech firms. Many times you don't have that luxury in finance. You have to be smart about it.

Remember, Google gives it developers Go because it considers them above average cogs. Finance firms gives it developers APL/A+/KDB :) I jest a little, but I think there is definitely something telling in what is expected of you.

You can go into a big bank and be a 9 to 5er in an auxiliary role. Or you can go in and workn your tail off and move up. But be prepared to work a lot for those bonuses.
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Couple of points:

- I can't take Sheryl seriously; she's not a prototype of a woman that risks a lot to achieve success and her dating advices IMO just poison the well to most regular women, as not many men contemplating serious relationship want to have anything with women following her advices

- from my personal experience of running multiple companies, I once offered significant equity in an e-commerce startup to a woman as one of two founders. Her reaction was that once the company nets $1M, I can give her 50% stake. This risk aversion is the norm. I have only one counter-example of a female CFO that was driven to succeed against all odds.

- young males are now seriously disadvantaged; they have to be like 50% better than females to even get to interview stage in most lucrative tech companies. This is obviously not sustainable nor fair and a backlash is mounting. Either they completely drop out of society, or become associated with extremist male-only movements. This is very troubling and a waste of potential.
Paul Graham would argue that since human desires are unlimited, we will never reach a point of not having any problems left to solve. This may be true. But... The question is what if we run out of SOLVABLE problems. There are sooo many extremely important problems that humanity has (housing, transportation, food/water, education inflation, medical) that can't currently be solved due to either barriers to entry or mostly due to government regulation.

In fact, I think we're starting to reach a plateau in the last 10 and the coming 10 years. With the exception of medical science and the entertainment industry, I feel there hasn't been much meaningful innovation that changes consumers lives. Sure, we have google maps and millions of apps, but honestly, 10 years ago, I didn't have any problems finding my way around the road, even if I had to draw out a map by hand (lol). Today, Transportation is still at the same speeds and costs, housing costs even more, medical insurance is everybit as expensive, etc.

The most dire forms of innovation needed by humanity today, are at the bottom of maslow's heirarchy of needs: shelter, food, water, and by necessity: transportation and medical insurance. These areas are not being worked on, due to the above reasons i mentioned.
Omnicom: $15B revenue annually, $17B market cap
WPP: $18B revenue, $23B market cap
Google: $110B revenue, $750B market cap

Seems like a good argument that being tech-forward provides a multiplier on value versus doing the same old thing, if you believe that these are all just advertising companies.
Good job! This is a really cool project, I think I might try to contribute some content. Just a few nits: tooltip in sidebar is really distracting, it should have a slower animation and pop up after a brief hover. Also login/create account form should listen to enter keypress for submit. Should I send these observations to the contact email in the future?
<nitpick>All Unicode characters map, one-to-one, to their code points. A code point being a numeric identifier. It's a grapheme that combines multiple characters to form a unit of writing.</nitpick>
Elaborate? You lost me
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Yea, I saw the women in machine learning group at NIPS and was really wondering if this is a good thing or not.

Now they are considering Black in Machine Learning too (or something like that).

This all just seems sexist and racist. Mathematics and statistics shouldn't be conditioned on race and gender! What's next, there are too many Jews who win the Nobel prize?? Doesn't this type of thinking remind people of the horrible past?
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Given that the media and all of Damore's other critics have to overtly lie about the contents of the memo in order to cast it as "offensive", I think it's abundantly clear that the memo itself is innocuous.
Totally agree. I just wanted to say thank you.
There are a significant amount of stories out there (and shared here) that directly disagree with your assertion.
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Parent didn't define college that way, you did.
Might it not be Google?
From my perspective, I see a lot of R&D in the company's future, not to mention a need to invest in growth/marketing - things we wouldn't be able to do quickly, if at all without VC funding. But I'm curious to learn more about your perspective - can you expand on what made you think this was less VC suitable? Would love to hear as it will prepare me for what questions I might get fundraising!
Of course. Nobody's on 5G yet.
This is originally how Memrise worked. Courses were references to a database entry that people could contribute/improve upon but it failed to scale to large amounts of users and especially failed when the language maintainers found themselves too busy to update 'cards'. I used to volunteer my help in maintaining the Japanese/English databases. The largest issue was curation - many duplicate entries would exist due to anyone being able to add words. Sometimes a user would add a word instead of selecting the already existing word from the database - meaning the words later had to be merged as users could add mnemonics or parts of speech or example usage. One course might use the "has all the information" copy while another course has a barebones "just the word".

It was a fantastic idea that ultimately requires a lot of volunteers/manpower in constantly keeping things updated and pruning/merging duplicates. Eventually they (Memrise) moved to curated dictionaries that course creators could then pull from to make their own courses without affecting other course creators' copies. Creators can add new words but their words will not be automatically added to the curated set.

I wish you the best of luck! You may want to find curators, equivalent to higher-standing Wikipedia editors to make sure the word databases stay (1) accurate and (2) everyone can actually benefit from it without fear of selecting the wrong "Monday" in a list of 19 "Mondays".
> I'm learning coding. I use Windows. But I have heard that Linux is the best choice OS to start learning programming. What do you think?

There are a number of interesting technologies that have better supported dev environments and less frustration for the inexperienced on Linux, but there is plenty you can learn and do fine on Windows, and that avoids the cost of learning a new OS just to learn the basics of programming.

Linux can wait.

(Note, if you have a particular thing you are learning for, and the best tool for that is heavily Linux -- or, at least, UNIX-like-OS -- biased, you might want to learn Linux early on so you can use it, but otherwise, there's time for that later.)
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From a consumer point of view, Facebook is pretty much a news source. For some even the only news source.
Come on. Firewall rules is one sed call. IDS are dinosaurs and junk that are generally worthless (feel free to show me otherwise).

Since all major OS support ipv6 there's nothing to educate about other than perhaps new IP address form.

Software upgrades? Like what software, OS to support NAT64? Which every major OS supports? (Including Windows 7. The holdouts are ancient telephones and tiny embedded trash.)

Toolchain updates are important... if you use IP addresses directly, bypass the OS network stack and so not support names. This likely means that software is junk that should've been replaced years ago and likely some internal cookery.

This leaves tests and dynamic DNS.
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A while back, Gmail began blocking .js file attachments, but I didn't realize until today that this means my old JavaScript file attachments would be retroactively blocked. I tracked down an email from two years ago with a JavaScript file attached that I needed, but I couldn't download it!

I was eventually able to get it by doing "Show Original" in Gmail and copy/pasting the base64-encoded attachment data and decoding it. But it made me nervous about using Gmail as a way to hang on to files, since things I attach now might not be available later.
Just did. Still no crash.
Thanks Jen - so glad you liked it. Videos are always so hard!
is 2.93% really such a scary rate? It's still historically very low.
The problem with that alternative explanation which is also offered by the
article above is that in the very big part of the world that lies outside of
Silicon Valley, the top salaries are accessible not through the technical
career paths, but though the managerial ones. So anyone who's just looking for
the highest paid job would not go for a technical career. [1]

What this tells us is the opposite of what the article concludes. If women in
more equal countries, with an absent "glass ceiling" that keeps them from
attaining the top-paying positions, choose non-technical careers, that is
because (they expect that) those careers pay better than technical careers.

This choice however, does not allow us to conclude a lack of interest in
technical subjects. It merely suggests an interest in a better paid job.

Note that we also can't conclude that women in less equal countries are more
interested in technical positions. However, this is not what I'm claiming. My
point is that it's not safe to infer "interest in X" fom "works in X".

P.S. I see below you say you didn't read the article. It basically says what you say in your comment.

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[1] This comes from my personal experience, but I don't expect it to be
controversial. In many companies I've worked, men and women, even if they
started out as technical workers, jumped on to a managerial track as soon as
they got the chance. In one particular multinational financial company I
worked, this was so common that the company had very few technical employees
and had to outsource most of its technical work to contractors- which should
also not come as any news to anyone who's worked in the financial sector.
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Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video - and some of our corny jokes :)
Exactly what do newspapers and cable news have in common with each other that Facebook doesn't?
But the whole point of almost every kind activism is to change what has so far been called the traditional way of life -- from the struggle of the plebeians and patricians in ancient Rome, through the French Revolution and abolition to women's suffrage and desegregation (and even, you could say, that of vegetarians) -- because the traditional way of life distributes power unequally (that's an objective fact) and unfairly (that's a subjective opinion). It's fine to say that you think that the current distribution of power should remain (because you think that this unequal distribution is fair for some other reasons or because equality of power among large groups of people is not one of your values) -- that's what conservatism is about -- but it's not fine to deny it or claim that those who want to change the current distribution of power are "obsessed". The tactic of claiming that the marginalized don't even really want their share of power is also an old and ultimately unsuccessful one. The argument that we want more women but they aren't there is also weak, just as saying "we want rich and educated black land-owners to run local farming associations but there aren't any" during the reconstruction would have been. Social change occurs as a result of activism; it's a slow process and one that always meets plenty of opposition.

The real argument is this: do you think that women should (meaning that it is our priority as a society to make that happen, and that means changing things) have equal power or not?
Microcells are good for carrying lots of traffic from lots of mobile stations. In rural areas, coverage at the lowest cost per square mile is more important. Also, farmers aren't always near the highway, so microcells on the highway would not work well for them.
Case in point: Dick Cheney changing his position on gay marriage because his daughter is a lesbian.
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There's roughly 6x to 10x more money to be made in government prisons than in private prisons. Sessions is a big government fan, as are most politicians in DC. That government prison complex money goes into the pockets of lobbyists, millions of voters and contributors (including powerful unions), that are employed in/by the government system.

Currently ~85%-90% of all prisoners are held in government prisons and jails.

There are at least a million people employed in government law enforcement, whose jobs are solely supported by the government's drug war and the government prison complex. Sessions, like Trump, is a very big supporter of law enforcement employees.

Sessions is doing it to support those million plus government employees who have been overwhelmingly supportive of the Trump Administration and the pro drug war side. Those million unnecessary government employees represent a hundred billion dollars per year in pockets getting lined between pay and benefits over time. The scale of that puts the private prison complex to shame.
This was a weird blog post to read. I think I agree on all of your points (Promises should be lazy[-ish], cancellable and optionally synchronous) but disagree on all of your proposed solutions.

I do think `p = new Promise(fn);` shouldn't kick off the `fn` immediately. But that it should start right away in the next event loop. I haven't had issues with creating promise getters for repeatable calls. And think it organizes the business code away from the low level code.

I don't see a problem with the original Promise.cancel() you proposed or how your lazy promises makes canceling them any easier.

And don't we have `await` for the synchronous problem?

console.log(await Promise.resolve('hello'));
console.log('world')
// outputs "hello" "world"
I mean, if you're that worried that something is going to happen to you, then you do think you're that important.
If it's the kind of screening I've been to (e.g. Disney D23) then you are instructed not to take your phone out for any reason during the screening.
Microsoft attorney Bonnie MacNaughton wrote to Hurley, the judge, describing the case as one of “software piracy,” costing the computer industry billions annually, and saying that prosecution was important “to deter others from engaging in the illicit global trade in decoupled product activation keys”

Yet earlier in the article it's stated:

Microsoft filed a letter seeking $420,000 in restitution for lost sales

So which one is it?
Yeah, we're certainly in an interesting environment. It's funny to think that to anyone who entered the financial industry after 2008 this is normal.
Probably, but a person trying to CAM a movie would have it out all the time, not just for a brief moment.
I'd say a fairly large portion of people getting involved in neural networks do so out of a desire to be better than others. A domination mindset rather than a curiosity mindset. Another large group is the pragmatic mindset since there's so much money.

The domination mindset leads to arrogance and in my opinion a chain a dehumanization that results in an inhuman product because it is not rooted in happiness.

The chain starts with the dehumanization of human graders. Incredibly complex and amazing neural networks that are paid minimal wage to improve much worse ones. The developers and managers above them feeling snug in their much higher salaries (and implicitly higher ability and worth). Not realizing that they are viewed the same way by many deep learning folks.
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And android could sync my contacts through the cloud (google servers) to a new device and edit online, syncing the other way before iOS. What's the point?
Ah. So if you start a course it's automatically added to notebook?
I'm sure that's part of it, but there are plenty more factors. I was in school 2007-2013 and I saw a huge decrease (> half) in cost over that time because a local business started doing rental/buyback systems that significantly undercut what the school was doing. I also saw more courses going with cheap/free online content.
Firefox Developer Edition 59.0b9 here on latest High Sierra. Opening the link doesn't crash anything, but highlighting the paste did. I would have expected the tab at most to crash, but it took out the whole browser
Yes! And if you have your own domain, you can just setup a *@example.com to be your one email address. And then you can give a different email address out anyway even without needing to go +. As you said each system can treat it differently.