skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>think the Call of Duty's

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>Fallout's

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>Wolfenstein's

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Describing a gender with a negative adjective is never ok? Is it wrong to call men "clueless"?
This is awesome. "Seldom do more than a few of nature’s secrets give way at one time."

Resonates with the application of (to practitioners) blackbox ML techniques to other domains. I saw an economist stuff an XGBoost model into a talk about demand elasticity a couple years ago. I think there can be insight generated by casting a wide net in applying new methods, but the really fundamental breakthroughs seem to be generated by careful and informed application of the scientific method.
The NYT article pointed out that Tom Wheeler, the previous FCC head, was also investigated by the FCC IG.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/technology/fcc-sinclair-a...
When you pay for cable, your $60/month bill pays for programming, as well as the wires that deliver your television to your home.

When you pay for Netflix, your $13/month bill does not pay for the wires that deliver your television to your home.
Contributors generally had close relations with Ben Whately, at least if they could speak English or Mandarin, and could get access to the data so that we could better help contribute or come up with improvements. Once upon a time I had a copy of the JP/EN database, but have long since deleted it once I stopped being a contributor (when the data model had changed from the community-made wiki-like structure, so it wasn't much by choice).

A very large portion of the "original" Memrise community were people who had been abandoned by smart.fm, a free-to-use site which later became iknow.jp (subscription model). Our motivation for helping was a mixed bag of mostly the following three reasons, though I don't pretend to have known every original contributor or their motivations.

1) For our own educational use

2) Because we wanted to be able to help others learn our language or a language we had interest in

3) Because we wanted to see the smart.fm community stick around in this new home, Memrise

Personally, I fell mostly under the first reason. I never found Anki good to use and preferred having a website to navigate to and easily sync across devices (even in the early days Memrise had plans for the app) by well... letting someone else handle things. So smart.fm/Memrise were more convenient for me and my learning.

I've played some part in many of the Japanese courses with 50,000+ users. So the work I contributed has helped at least some portion of them begin their studies and I take satisfaction in being able to have done that for them.

E:

I didn't answer all of your questions, so in short. Yes, their data was closed, but they were willing to share large portions of it (except user data, even anonymized user data!). My contributions have my "by {Username}" for my courses - although many of the courses I built/contributed to became standard "Memrise" courses under their name I don't mind getting or not getting the credit - so long as they continue to help people learn!
Wine recently got a DX11 layer, so we're a lot closer to that than before.
True, there is a system which works to make and keep them poor. That's undeniable. It's sort of this abusive relationship between the rich and poor, wherein the rich work really hard to keep the poor poor, but then blame them for it as well. But is there not a way that poor people could escape this system? Is there not some set of actions that the poor could take—and the poor are a strong majority of humanity, right?—that they would extricate themselves from the vice grip of the rich? Have they any agency? Or are they just so hopeless that it's impossible?
> Lundgren claims that the assistant U.S. attorney on the case told him, “Microsoft wants your head on a platter and I’m going to give it to them.”

Are you kidding me.
The Fork in the Road Is the Wrong Fork
>It's never that simple, especially for professional users and gamers. Those whose applications are only available for Windows.

I'm both, and you're definitely wrong. 155 of my 343 steam games have direct native ports. I've just stopped playing stellaris and started playing KSP. I've been a linux gamer for the last three years and it's been a better experience, not worse. I dominate on ballistic overkill because the input lag is noticeably lower on linux.

I'm also a software developer, and with the exception of dotnet development, software development is a considerably smoother and more consistant experience on linux. It grates every day to have to use windows at work, and I do half of my work inside a linux VM.
That’s like saying “Sure I’m being investigated by the police, but that’s not notable at all, because investigating people is what the police are supposed to do.”

Yes, it is notable, because of the target.
As much as I dislike MSVC, I'm still not sure that's a fair comparison. I've used cl.exe in large, complex makefiles to build programs that could also change CC and CXX to gcc or clang. And as far as output suppression goes, couldn't you pipe it somewhere else? I've had to do the same trick on Linux utils (pipe to /dev/null).
Investment banks also do huge volumes of transactional business - dealing in shares, bonds, fx and derivatives of those. And all of those need hundreds of risk reports either for management or regulators.

The deal-makers can get by with a spreadsheet and a BlackBerry, but the rest needs serious amounts of technology.

Ideally advisory business is balanced with dealing and financing, but different houses will be slanted one way or another.
Our societies are already so hopelessly rigged that it's hard to feel too upset about these rather tiny wealth transfers to people who need it, even if they didn't "earn" it.
In normal times, I could understand that shock. But looking at everyone else that's a part of this administration...
I think you forgot the "/s". Kudos on keeping a straight face after the initial quote, though.

But seriously, this line:

> To us, your experience on the web is a higher priority than the money that these annoying ads may generate — even for us."

Is a flat out lie and you should know better by now.

Unless the "us" speaking here is a very specific (and powerless) subset of whoever could be speaking for Google. Which would make it merely disingenuous.

And even then their actions require a lot more before they deserve that kind of trust again.

> We've been trained that every corporate action is selfish, by definition against our interests.

If we had been trained we might've gotten to this conclusion sooner and prevent some of the worse shit that's happened because of it. But we weren't trained (what would have trained us?).

I'd rather say we've been extremely slow to recognize that even though the law recognizes corporations as persons (in some places), they are in fact, inhuman. And they will continue to act with complete disregard to human interests. I think it's still useful to think of corporations as organisms, just not of our species, in the same way that a fungus is not the same species as its substrate.

Some people "at the top" believe they are in control, but they are in control as much as you can be in control sitting on top of a wild, untamed beast. And you've seen it, corporations replace "the top people" like any other employee and it doesn't change much. Not nearly as much as they want you to think. It's more like trimming your fingernails than getting a heart transplant.

Of course, nation states are just the same. Conglomerate hierarchies of humans, doing whatever to stay in existence as a sort of entity. Problem was they were caged by design, rules, from the bottom up. This was because we needed them to be, we saw tyrannies rising when we didn't. So we made rules to bind them, deliberately stunted like bonsai trees, to preserve our individual freedom and not become cogs or ants. So they subverted the meaning of "freedom", because we should be free to make new corporations (conglomerate hierarchies, egregores, group minds, call them however you like), because you know, freedom! Except this exploit existed even within the nation states that were deliberately stunted to not grow out of control. Just don't feed them after midnight, okay?

And then we were free to create corporations, without stunts, or rules or restrictions to preserve actual real individual human freedom.

And of course these new corporations quickly grew to become more powerful than many nation states. REALLY quickly, if you think about it, if you compare it to the speed at which nation states exchange power and conquer one another. But corporations kill at sub-decade frequency currently.

I went a bit off a tangent here sorry, and I doubt this is the proper forum to share this kind of thing either. But just stop and think for a moment, who or what is writing those words you just quoted. It's not something that could ever be your "friend".
But if we do that we have to accept that there are tradeoffs in the first place. We have to recognize that reasonable people might disagree about which tradeoff to make. We have to accept that even good decisions are likely to leave someone somewhere worse off. We might even have to gasp understand the historical and cultural context in which the current system arose.

Applying a slogan is so much easier.
Not directly, but there's been some work on changing the compiler's interfaces to ones that would work with that model, in my understanding. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
I'm a very strong advocate of Open Source Software, and all things Linux as well.

I've used Gimp, Inkscape, and others... but sometimes you just need to get work done, and the closed source proprietary application is what you need, I'm sorry to say.

Donating thousands of dollars to Gimp today isn't going to put it on par with Photoshop today... I wish it would. Maybe it could be in a few years... but I need to get work done right now.

Sometimes you do need a commercial interest behind something to drive it's progress. That doesn't mean it has to be closed and proprietary, but they often are, sadly.
This feels analogous to the problems w/ futures in Scala/Java as they were first introduced. And the solutions are provided by libraries like https://monix.io/.

So why are promises the problem instead of the lack of libraries on top of them? I understand cancellation cannot be fixed, but laziness sure can. As for synchronous execution, that's just not gonna happen in event-driven-land. It doesn't with other callback-based APIs (except AJAX which is deprecated) and I don't see the complaints there.
How would you tackle prioritized learning? When I research spaced repetition topics, the algorithms are normally not well suited to reviewing something before than its turn...
At launch the car was inside an aircraft, but once in space the aircraft ("fairing") was separated from the rocket, leaving the "car" in space. And by "car" I mean a rocket engine, thrusters, control unit, fuel, payload adapter, and oh yes, a car, all connected and hurtling through space.
- That's not what they said.

- You think people replace a MongoDB cluster by a single Posgres instance? You guys should really use HA, cluster in real life and stop reading reddit / HN and the hype behind PG, with 3.5M+ CCU no one would use an architecture with a single master / slave ( that's what pg is ).

MongoDB / MySQL have bad press by people that never used it in real life and just repeat what they read online.

I could tell you horror story about pg not have an official replication system until 2011 when pg 9.0 landed.
Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting
The GNU C Library version 2.27 is now available
The majority of people who could use Linux exclusively (only need a browser, don't need Office compatibility, nothing fancy) buy a "just works" Windows laptop or tablet and I bet 99% of them don't even know what Linux is. Even then you get some weird cases like banking software not working on Linux and they ask you to install Windows again. And kids wants to play what their friends are playing, it's hard to break the cycle. Oh you want to play PUBG? Too bad. Some games you might even be able to make it work with some baby sitting but it will drain all your energy and you are not getting paid for the job.

If you want Linux to have a chance it needs to play the long game and that won't ever happen. Everything I own except my gaming PC is Linux but it's not even worth trying to convert others. I find pretty immature to suggest "if your job demands Windows, just quit", "just spend 20 hours trying to make this thing that just works in Windows", "you don't need AAA games". I say immature because I was doing this shit a few years ago and I still cringe about it.

In my experience trying to teach people about the importance of privacy is mostly futile. What worked was, and I only did this to a close family friend, to show him what I could learn about him just by showing what was stored in AppData and many other folders. Some thumbnails will be forever ingrained in my mind.
Excellent point. AGI will only arise once we can figure out how to create metaphor machines.
While there is overlap between problems that might be sanely solved using python and problems that might be sanely solved using rust, the languages target very different problems.

You could write parts of a network server or parts of an OS kernel in python. You could write nearly the entirety of it in rust.

I would say that you need not use rust if python works well for you, but rust is probably better than C for implementing libraries that might be called from python.
Basecamp releases Stimulus – A modest JavaScript framework
More on this - Toptal does have a much more challenging screening than upwork does. I signed up and had a skype interview with a real human, mostly to make sure my English was good. I then had to take a programming challenge. I think of myself as a reasonably good programmer but I failed the test on my first try.

I haven't taken it a second time yet, but its enough to show that you have to be good to get on their platform.
EDIT: Read the comments below, I was off a bit.

EDIT2: I can't proofread - edited to clarify that DJT isn't the 55th POTUS.

To be entirely fair, he isn't a partisan issue, and not one entirely of this administration. He was appointed by the 44th President and got a promotion by the 45th.
Rend: Memcached-Compatible Server and Proxy
I-T-S A P-A-T-H-O-G-E-N

Read Paul Ewald and Gregory Cochran
Source : https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
I think it's a complaint about the clickbaity phrasing. "by his own agency" vs. "by the FCC inspector general's office".
I mean just google it, there is no lack of personal experience writeups from people who have done thumbprints or even higher doses.
I find it telling of MongoDB's sales strategy that this is being covered by Techcrunch. I don't think you'd get the same coverage on Postgres (granted MongoDB is a company, vs PG is a project).
This sequence begins the Telugu word for "knowledge" so maybe someone texted that to someone and it went viral from there. This is, of course, only speculation.
Yeah... the result may be relatively simple, but getting there isn't.
I understand you're talking about the reputation, but Linux UI has gotten really good over the years. Recent Gnome, Mate, and Cinnamon builds can be truly beautiful and the Ubuntu based OSes are legitimately beautiful out of the box. I've haven't used Ubuntu since 12.x, but even then it was a legitimately good looking OS, certainly better than Windows. Mint looks and functions intuitively for any Windows user. Anyone who says Linux UI is bad has either not used Linux recently or picked an obscure distro. I've used Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, CentOS, and Arch within the past 5 years and they've all been solid. I would take any of those out of the box over an out of the box Windows 8 or 10. Windows is basically non-functional to me without classicshell.
Hyperinflation meets tech: Cash-scarce Venezuela sees boom in payment apps
A beginner, by virtue of being a beginner, does not have the experience to evaluate the tradeoffs as applied to their unique circumstances. On the other hand, sticking with the goal of learning to program is going to mean overcoming a mountain of technical issues no matter what. Overcoming technical issues and persevering through difficult problems is the heart of programming.
I have done this a few times. Do one job on the upwork platform with a given client, then move to working independently. Its an easy sell to a client: "hey, now that you know I am good, lets work without upwork. I can charge you less because upwork won't be getting a cut of your payments."
I believe the renderer is a brand new metal 2 for high sierra. The crashing 3rd party apps for iOS are using this new rendering too?
I’m on the same page as Garver on space policy, but I suspect she is wrong about NASA’s (and the Air Force’s) motivation for declining.

Anything that NASA wants to launch into space is an extremely expensive, one-of-a-kind science instrument that a team has spent years of their time on. It would be highly imprudent to launch something like that on a test mission. No one does that. The usual payload for a first flight is a concrete block or other mass simulator.

NASA and the Air Force made the right call in saying no. And Elon made the right call in turning this into a phenomenally inspiring event instead of a boring launch of a concrete block.
Who are you to tell me what to ignore? I do what I want, bro.
TLDR:

Because it gives more weight to one big error then to multiple small ones with the same sum.

We want the errors to be noise and not systematic. Noise usually has a gaussian distribution. And in a gaussian distribution multiple small values are more likely than one big one.
> Every time my family had any money, they bought stuff. Not stuff we needed, but stupid crap. Definitely not calculated decisions to make progress to getting out of poverty.

I've seen this repeated by most everyone who's been poor, including seeing my GF do that. There is a psychological difference in how people look at a windfall. I was always middle class, give me $10k and I'll stash it for 'later' because I assume there will be a later. Poor people think they'd better use now it before it 'disappears'
What I mean is, without doing these kinds of tests we don’t know what level will actually make a difference.
Just saw a game I'm absolutely sure I never installed voluntarily popping up on an old laptop yesterday or today. :-/
> What about RNs vs. junior devs, which you completely ignored?

I didn't ignore it, I addressed it implicitly with the reasons I rejected the validity of NP to software developer comparison; but to address it explicitly:

The median RN plaisibly makes in the same rough range as the median junior dev (“junior dev” being a seniority level within an occupational rather than a distinct tracked occupation in the BLS data, this is hard to tell with certainty, but plausible.)

OTOH, “junior dev” is the entry level of software development, beyond which people are expected to progress with a few years experience. RN is the full working level in nursing; the median across registered nurses includes a much wider experience band than that across junior devs, so they aren't really comparable: at the experience level of a median RN, a junior dev wouldn't be a junior dev any more.

> I'm also trying to figure out what your point in the third paragraph is, exactly.

You claimed that looking at Chicago rather than national numbers would shown that the latter suffer gross distortion in tech wages due to tech hubs like SF. In fact, the relation between the nursing sub-group you chose to focus on and software devs in Chicago is very similar to the national relationship (both are a little under the national level in Chicago, and software developers a few percentage points moreso than NPs, but not enough to make a significant difference in the relationship.)

> Again, that's the whole point - if you look only at national medians or averages, you're completely ignoring the effects of regional outliers

But I'm not looking at only the national numbers, I just compared them to the numbers for your chosen non-tech-hub locale and found that the gross distortion you claimed in the national numbers, compared to non-tech-hub locale, doesn't exist.

> If you can't do that, look at non-tech cities and countries for an indicator of what unskewed salary comparisons look like between professions.

But I just did that with you selecting both the non-tech-hub city and the non-tech profession, and the national vs. local comparison wasn't materially different. (I suspect that the reason is that locality has only modest effect on the median and a lot bigger effect on the total number of positions and the shape of the high tail; if we were looking at means rather than medians there'd probably be more distortion.)
That's exactly how they do it in public schools before college: the school buys the book and you get to use it for the duration of the course. Oh, and you have to get a book cover (in some districts) to protect it from damage.
Somewhere on Amazon there is a screw camera that has a product photo of the camera installed on what appears to be a bathroom stall door. I can’t find it right now, but it totally blew me away that they’d be so blatant.
Was it this one?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3118343&...
Google / Facebook / Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have equivalent grades and conditions. Employees regularly goes back and forth between them.

More important than the company name, you should make sure to join the right role for you in the right group.
It's possible but what happens often now is the professor is getting paid twice. Paid sabbatical and bonus money for the book. If the University was doing it, they wouldn't pay a person twice for one job. At least that's how my university would view it. Also, I'm not sure if a professor gets much credit from the University toward tenure for writing a book. Because of this, if there is no money involved, I doubt many professor's would do it. They do it for the money only right now.
I think I also may have had some ads back with a major update (e.g. Creators, Fall Creators), but I don't remember having them back ever with the normal updates.

In any case, it really is just a breeze to remove UWP apps, and they leave no trace either, so I cannot rationalize how it can be this so annoying to anyone.
Intel and several others successfully abandoned China without issue. The rational choice in high tech manufacturing is to say as far away as possible.
TIL about punch card hot code swapping
The problem with that thinking is that the replication mattered. I'd argue it didn't, it was essentially a scam that people fell for. Who cares about failover when you're losing data due to a bad implementation? Who cares about replication when you can gain the same performance by using a performant database on a single node?

Did mongodb truly allow anyone to really horizontally scale? Most places that need massive horizontal scaling using something like mysql as far as I know.
That's not really how it works, but I also didn't comment on it's effectiveness, just that it's not anti-poverty. If you're rich and a minority you get the same advantage. The test for eligibility isn't means-based. Hence, not anti-poverty. The intent is to get more minorities into colleges and into jobs. You can argue whether or not that's fair, but it probably works pretty well as intended.
I hope President Camacho wouldn't promote him.
Time moves inexorably forward. Donate today and "a few years" will come.
I'm still programming, but I now work for a company that encourages proper work/life balance. It was one of the things that most attracted me to them.