skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still sounds like fun to build.
Out of curiosity, how did they get the cast ballots with the voters race to do their count? Polling, particularly in the last election, was atrocious.
Uber Creator Invents New Cryptocurrency 'Eco'
Compensation was higher, but to me there was much more, just as the employer/employee relationship is... much more.

Generally speaking, it "freaked me out" that this negotiation (happening at the very beginning of employment) would decide so many things going forward. The feeling of "this is my only chance" was weighing down on me.

In using this service:

- 10x both coached and represented me during the negotiations (reducing my stress)

- they (10x) validated that I was getting a good deal in terms of compensation

- it definitely changed the employer's perspective to see that I had an agent working on my behalf (they understood that I was taking this seriously)

- benefits-wise, I received a generous PTO offer and remote work options that suited my travel plans
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Actually the MBA battery is quite easy to replace. I did my own replacement when I got home. The only real obstacle is the pentalobe screws, and I don't see any possible argument that those add value for the consumer.
> ”I would suggest that articles like this focus on incidents that everyone can agree is atrocious and actionable behavior. If failure to interrupt a group of women talking amongst themselves at a conference is now a #MeToo moment, it's just going to cause deeper concerns about liability, which will in turn cause even more backlash.”

I’m reading this on the phone, so it’s likely I might have missed it, but does the article mention #MeToo in the context of the men vs. women groups complaint you mention? If not, it’s uncharitable to imply that the complainer here is trying to equate sexual assault with discrimination.

IMO the main problem with contemporary gender conflicts isn’t going to be “incidents that everyone can agree is atrocious and actionable behavior”. Because it’s not hard for society (usually) to act on such egregious incidents. It’s I guess a good thing that professional women don’t have to constantly worry about violent sexual assault, but the author is raising the issue that seemingly innocuous behavior can still be substantially harmful.

What is innocuous and what is not can still be a matter of healthy debate. But it’s worth noting how difficult it can be for even egregious behavior to get called out.

I think many people can agree that Susan Fowler’s blog post about her time at Uber constituted outright horrible behavior. HN commenters seemed very united in this sentiment [0] and I think many tech observers would agree that it wasn’t one very huge chip that set off the clusterfuck that was 2017 for Uber.

It may seem looking back that Fowler’s whistleblowing would inevitably cause such massive outrage. But re-read her post, which is almost as nostalgic as it is outraged. It’s not just about the harassment she faced, but the institutional resistance and denial that she, and more than a few other women faced — clearly, their complaints back then were not the level of clear cut incidents that you think should be focused on. And Fowler’s whistleblowing was just a personal blog post — not a big NYTimes expose —- written months after her departure, and likely only possible because she had the time and means to think about things and not worry about career implications. It’s very easy to imagine an alternate timeline in which she just didn’t get around to writing about Uber because even she, as she says herself in that post, was incredibly thankful and fulfilled from her work at Uber, sexual harassment aside.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
I assume mine is counterfeit, since it was $42.50 for the hardback, from a seller on AbeBooks (College Booksstore of Newark, Delaware) who no longer appears to exist.

If it is a counterfeit, it is flawless as far as I can tell. It has none of the physical problems listed on that link. They only thing suspicious is the price.
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Really? You’re aware that people have had their information compromised, including driver’s licenses, and you do an “internal investigation” for months before notifying them?
No, you patch the hole and let them know, not wait until you have a scapegoat for better PR.

And Aug 30 to Nov 21 is very much “months”.
When making up what I wrote, are you hoping nobody bothers to read what I wrote, or what?

Quote me ranting about a "grand conspiracy".

Quote me "attacking the user personally".

> considering you're doing exactly the same thing you're purporting he's doing.

What is it you imagine you're doing with this post, exactly?
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So, there's a lot wrong about plea bargaining.
Don't quote me on that number; it's from memory. Point is, it was a fraction of the total, and then they released it to everyone without solving the problems in the trial group.
Your statement and the one above are part of the problem, not part of the solution. My mind boggles that you are fine with arguing that your guilt is lesser, thus somehow apparently okay in your mind.

This is exactly why progress is so painfully slow. For every one man pushing a woman into the river to intentionally drown her, a thousand more stand idly by and say "Not my problem" and then worry vastly more about defending their right to do nothing than about the injustice they witness daily.
Came here to ask this. I'm an extra-class ham but I've never done any SDR. Are these suitable for regular ham use for voice and digital modes? (assume you'd want a big amp)
While I like the idea, in principle, that you don't need a CS education to use AI/ML, I doubt it. Here's a problem that cropped up today: Our instance ran out of hard drive space on a training set of ~400,000 images. The individual images were only 375 GB, but took up 1.5T when converted to Numpy matrices. Why? The arrays were converted to standard int arrays (32-bit x 3 channels) when they could've fit into short (8-bit x 3 channels). Each image was 4x as large as it needed to be.

You can certainly use high-level ML tools (like Keras), but it takes a great deal of work to wrangle your data into a usable format, and even more knowledge to debug an ineffective network.
I'm curious why you use "scoffing" when The Fine Article simply says "suggested" to describe the manner of her response. What, in her two-sentence account of this experience, suggests she was overtly dismissive of his efforts?
This is a pedantic point. The source of the wealth employees are paying taxes on comes from the corporation.

Amazon either retains the earning (doesn’t grant options) and pays income tax on the retained earnings OR grants the options and the grantee pays the income tax on that amount.

What both ways are you talking about?

The 1B dollars got taxed. There was no free lunch.
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Predicting and profiling for the purposes of security defense is then illegal? It’s not a legitimate interest?

Then every system implementing fail2ban or email tarpitting (so everyone running Ubuntu or MS exchange in default configs) is automatically violating GDPR.

Never mind the built-in catch-22 where you can’t store any identifiers of persons who have opted out, so you cannot remember they opted out and have to ask them repeatedly!

This law is completely unenforceable, and that is the worst kind of law. It results in inconsistent, politicized and malicious enforcement.
The unexpected benefits of re-reading your code
> Anyone from Google or YouTube--or people who applied to work at either org in this time frame--have perspectives to add regarding this claim?

I'm a white male and received a Google offer 8 month ago (turned it down to go work at twitch, because I love gaming). So this is not an across the board discrimination against EVERYONE, if that is what you were implying.

I am just 1 person among thousands, though, so I guess you'd have to get info from someone who applied exactly in the spring, to youtube, and had their interview cancelled.
How do you select features created with featuretools? The problem with automated feature engineering is that you end with too many irrelevant features, and I haven't found a good guide on feature selection.
Do you happen to know if Datadog are looking for interns in Boston area?
I distinctly remember learning that Saturn would float in a bathtub at gradeschool!
fpvracing has already worked for free: spent effort to design a product, without any revenue, and apparently now having given up hope of getting any revenue.

I made two suggestions: one of which might provide a path to revenue, and another which, whilst providing no revenue, would also cost nothing, and require virtually no additional effort beyond that already expended.
How long until we can co-locate application services in geosynchronous orbit to cut that latency in half?
Mac filesystems case-fold by default, so the script could be invoked as cd, CD, Cd, or CD. Only the lowercase cd is shadowed by the builtin.
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I have sold on Amazon for about 3 years now, over 2000+ skus FBA. The items I sell are pretty easy to counterfeit (much easier than OPs). There have been plenty of sellers come in and undercut price and subsequently destroy my products ratings because customers received fakes.

I started moving my products into the Brand Registry and all of a sudden the counterfeit sellers started disappearing...and now they don't exist anymore. So at one point a few years ago I was on this guys side and was starting to write up cease & desists but I believe Amazon is getting better at it. Haven't seen any counterfeit sellers on my listings that last for more than 30 days in a while.
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One step at a time, man :). Said With compassion and sympathy.
I really do not consider that the lede. It’s not even 95% of what the story is about.

It was literally a collection of very negative experiences that women in tech faced because of their gender by men. It’s many examples of things men would never experience. It doesn’t matter if they’ve had many positive experiences — the consistent negatives are prevalent across most women in tech (and probably non-tech), not just isolated examples of a few.

Most of these jerks probably don’t even understand what they’re doing or the impact they’re having. It’s important to raise awareness to prevent as much of this as possible, and I applaud the author for sticking her neck out and being willing to put her name on it.
>As in the last time you hijacked a thread as an excuse to complain about other people expressing an opinion you personally disagree with, you haven't discussed, or shown any interest in discussing, a single issue in the article.

>You flag people left right and center, simply because they don't happen share your personal views.

These are personal attacks.

>Remarkable that in both threads two other usernames specifically namecheck you, "IntronExon", the 40 day old account (with ~3000 karma, that posts like a veteran).

This is an allusion to conspiracy.
One is not lacking in compassion for the father by also wishing to improve the situation of the murderer.

Compassion is not a zero-sum game.
You mean you got your brain measured to see if the swelling decreased ;)

(iirc slight brain swelling was mentioned in the article).
P&G Contends Too Much Digital Ad Spending Is a Waste, Slashes Spending By $200M
2010 iMac, 2012 Mac Mini, 2013 iPhone 5S. All of them are running the latest version of the OS without problems.

The only problem with the two computers was a lack of SSD but a kit from OWC fixed that for both of them.
The phrase "historically underrepresented groups" in the US hides the truth that:

historically underrepresented = minorities - Asian-Americans + white women

Imagine if a policy were instituted that benefited minorities, then someone proposed that it should be tweaked so that it didn't help Asian-Americans so much and helped white women instead. They'd be laughed out of the room.

Engineering is one of the few fields Asians in the US have been able to do well in. Consider law, where Asian-Americans make 10% of graduates at top-30 schools but only 6% of federal law clerks and 4% of state law clerks; by comparison, the numbers for white Americans are 58% graduating and then 82% and 80% becoming law clerks. [1]

And now policies like this are in vogue--removing one of the last reliable paths to the middle class for immigrants and the children of immigrants.

The phrase "historically underrepresented" should be a red flag. It neglects context and is virtually a euphemism for discrimination against Asian Americans and for (and it feels so bizarre to be typing this) white women.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/07/31/538299755...
If so, and they are better, just band together and create the next Google.
The Bright Future of Reinforcement Learning
If you're not running a current or near current version of iOS the App Store won't have software available for download.

I know people that've reluctantly retired their otherwise fully functional iPad 2-era devices for the same reason.
As someone who has done rad hard fpga design as well as radiation testing of components, I can say: that's too bad. Rad hard parts are so behind commercial, and have such high unit costs (RTG4 is ~90k each, 300krad TID), and the verification is grueling. It's fun to see your stuff leave the planet, though.
https://www.amazon.com/Display-Wishpower-Receiver-Miracast-A...

Wishpower is the brand, yet Chrome logo. Supports Airplay, I thought that was Apple exclusive? 2.3 stars.

Does seem odd to me, unless by some coincidence they licensed the Chrome logo from Google and Airplay from Apple and then also happened to get badly reviewed.
Maybe Neptune? Would make more sense.
Well, the top listing is manufactured by "Wishpower" so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's probably not Google.
> If it genuinely screens for basic math, then there's nothing racist about it.

Lets say that Google added a test for its engineers, that screened for writing and communication skills. Think, SAT verbal questions or something. And lets say that it just so happens that women are a lot better at SAT verbal questions than men.

Would you call that meritocrat, to ask vocabulary questions to software engineers, given that they know that men will do much worse on them?
Methane. It is only really transiently generated by geological means and decays quickly when exposed to cosmic radiation. It is also very likely made by any carbon based life ecosystem.
SpaceX to launch SEO CEO's REO into LEO.

(I expect this post will get 0E0 upvotes)
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"Understand" != "Empowered"

One of the things people grossly underestimate when dealing with government is that nobody ever really has enough power to make unilateral decisions.

I'm not even putting the bar at a correct decision, simply A decision.

Just try terminating a person or a contract with the government. Good luck getting the 12 signatures you need.

Even IF IBM screwed up this badly, who with sufficient power in the government is going to sign off on the order to fire IBM? It's a small world, and if you piss off somebody more powerful than you, your position is toast.

The cardinal rule of bureaucracy is to never sign off on anything unless you absolutely have to.
This does not demonstrate Spectre! This just demonstrates different timing of cache access to memory you DO have access to. This dumps memory from the actual process which already has access to it!
You can "buy from" a seller that provided 100% legit units and still end up with a counterfeit because Amazon threw them all in the same bin ("commingling"). This is the basis of the Daimler lawsuit: there were counterfeit items "sold by Amazon.com", whereas Amazon had previously gotten a pass because they weren't actually selling the counterfeits themselves.
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Good point!

I've only bought ~10 Kindle books over the years because DRM, but had been getting more open to it. Then just recently they started delivering ads to the iPad reader as 'notifications' with a red icon that won't go away until you tap to see. They may think that's a minor new feature which they only use occasionally, and which their average user will appreciate. But to me it looks like the start of "I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further."
What if the candidate went to Wellesley or Howard? What happens if the person went to university in Africa or Latin America? What if you puts SWE or NSBE on the resume, or obtained a merit-based UNCF scholarship and mentioned that as an achievement? The blind hiring system would fall flat pretty quickly.

What happens after the person is hired?
Overt is strong, but it does seem dismissive. And the fact that it's listed in her experiences of having to deal with sexism makes it clear how the interaction was perceived.
. . . because stock is taxed differently than income.

This is a huge incentive behind how our system has become so broken.
They make more money getting a cut from people who do take the risk of selling online. This is probably the biggest contribution/problem of the modern web economy; it offshores risk and effort onto others and just provides venues and processing. No one wants to open a store, they want to be mall owners, but with barely any real upkeep for the mall.