skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental problem is when people want software to prevent people from ever messing up instead of simply enabling people to do their jobs better. I heard someone say the other day that they wouldn’t use a simple workflow tool becuase it didn’t provide read only access for other company employees. Look, other people could walk over to your desk and throw all of your papers in the trash too. You still use paper. Why must software prevent malicious actions perfectly?
I would argue that having $3MM net worth is more than enough to "buy" one or more (local) politicians for an election cycle or two in many parts of the USA.

https://ballotpedia.org/School_board_elections,_2016
https://ballotpedia.org/Money_in_local_elections_(2016)
Yes!

I'm looking for qualified candidates for the particular team I am in and decided to take some matters into my own hands. Last month I saw lots of great candidates from HN

I know it looks wonky but good resumes do end up in the hiring pipeline!
> Atleast that is what the Chinese Communist Party is all about. They are significantly engineering and technical backgrounds, not politicians. They cannot weave and deceive through people issues.

That must be why they're so worried about Winnie the Pooh then ? "Somehow" and like with every other authoritarian there seems to be a LOT more concern about the ego of the leader than about China itself. Wouldn't you agree ?
> oddly enough, being willing to be unhappy has made me happier.

Suppressing, fighting, and avoiding feelings usually strengthens them. By contrast, calm compassionate and curious observation will often allow them to dissipate "on their own".

Deal with bad feelings like you deal with an angry person: listen seriously. Often they just want to be heard.
A more general/robust implementation of this functionality (and a whole lot more) has been developed by http://www.compilerworks.com

Covers many SQL dialects:

Proprietary: Teradata, Netezza, Vertica, Oracle PL/SQL

Open Source:Hive, Presto, Postgre, MySQL, Derby, Splice Machine

Cloud: RedShift, Snowflake, BigQuery
I can readily agree with this approach. My handwriting is... suitable for a doctor at best, so a word processor is pretty important to me when it comes down to implementation, but I've had so many problems just melt away in the face of a pencil and a good graph or summary.
When I looked at Calcite, the branding was very focused on query optimization, which was sufficiently unrelated to what I was doing that I didn't dig in. Had I, it might've been the starting point instead of my personal project, although at the time it didn't have Vertica support (I think that was ultimately added by a different group at Uber).
The original LimeSDR was able to receive from 100kHz - 3.8GHz.

This is incorrect, and it is the source of much pain. The chip that provides the ADCs and DACs, the LMS7002, has an input range of 100kHZ to 3.8Ghz but the design of the LimeSDR front end filter banks made its minimum usable frequency with decent SNR about 200Mhz[1]. Initially you couldn't even pass a tuning frequency below that through the API.

Even with the vendor/factory supplied "fix" the LimeSDR has a hard time getting below 100Mhz.

A lot of people read the chip spec and expected the card implementation to be able to do the same, they were unpleasantly surprised to find out that was not the case. Hence a lot of griping early on. On the plus side, since it was deaf to the FM band it was more sensitive to higher frequency signals. Other SDRs like the SDRPlay RSP2[2] are actually quite usable down even into the AM range (500Khz - 2Mhz) and have a notch filter for the FM band to keep it from swamping the input and eating up all the dynamic range.

[1] Firstly, we would like to highlight the fact that it is not possible to achieve optimum performance across the entire operating range of LimeSDR — all the way from 100kHz to 3.8GHz — with only a single matching network. -- https://myriadrf.org/blog/optimising-limesdr-matching-hf/

[2] https://www.sdrplay.com/rsp2/
I could build it in a weekend.
Depends where you chat. Some rave/techno channels are still very active since the last 25 years. For English speaking crowd, at least #haskell, #rust and ##ibmthinkpad are having lots of discussion every day. But maybe it's just me. I've been using IRC since 1995 and I see it much nicer compared to the centralized bloat of a chat Slack is.
Roughly a quarter of households in Canada own at least one firearm. Most of those are long guns.
I thought it was established that it wasn't chance, that it was basically family wealth? I.e., your family is rich, therefore you can afford to take risks and fail, therefore you're more likely to make it big.
Well, if you build a clinic it needs to be wheelchair accessible, and have access to parking for all the patients that might be present at one time, for example. If you visit patients then they either live somewhere accessible or not and you just need to get one car to their place.
I'm not a photographer, when I take pictures it's for functional purposes like saving a food menu, hours of operation, or some other text that is too much of a pain to copy as text. Any other photos have been of adequate quality for me for awhile, I don't instagram or snap.

As I mentioned in another comment, I don't use TouchID because I prefer my passcode as it requires my conscious awareness, not just the presence of my finger... see the guy who had his wife unlock his phone while he was passed out. I'm surprised there aren't more cases of people being roofied or blackjacked in order to steal all their phone data.

ApplePay... why? I need my debit/credit card on me at all time anyways and they never fail me when I've been away from a charging station for more than a few hours.

I also mentioned AR in my other comment, nobody has impressed me with an AR app... the only one I know that used it was Pokemon Go and nobody has told me about any other killer AR apps, but yes, I'm sure they're coming... and when they do and someone comes to tell me about them, I'll look them dead in the eyes and tell them to GET OFF MY LAWN!
They say the same thing in the second sentence:

"We are sharing these experiences in part because of encouragement by male colleagues who found them shocking. We are all still here because the rewards and great colleagues out weigh the bad experiences. However, we want to raise community awareness and instigate change."

And, the support of their male colleagues exercising what should be common human decency is not the lede of this article.
Apologies for the off-topic question but I am simply too tempted not to ask them, I admit:

How does one make a living out of being an AGI researcher? How does one pay mortgage and has money and freedom to go on impulsive vacations with their wife?

And what does an AGI practitioner even mean?
> But I have not had a battery completely stop working in the winter, ever. My car battery continues to work just fine. My camera works just fine, so does my laptop, so does my smartwatch, so does my TV remote, so does my powerdrill, so does my radio, so does my torch, so does the wall clock. But who knows, maybe I've just been lucky all these years. And BTW I'm not talking about some crazy Siberia winter. I'm talking about 30-40F here!

Weird, my history with car batteries suggests that they do, in fact, completely shut down in cold winters. They do it with such regularity that many people carry specialized equipment in their cars to deal with this eventuality, and roadside-assistance crews regularly deal with it as well.

I happen to have had my camera battery drain completely within minutes of full charge when used outdoors in mid-winter, but I don't often take my DSLR outside in mid-winter any more since my phone fills that need.

I don't usually take my tv remote, power drill, or wall clock outside in mid-winter, but your mileage may vary.

Apple doesn't have access to a different set of physical laws than other companies. Physics is physics, and those batteries don't deal well with cold, period.
People Don't Actually Know Themselves Very Well
Pupillometry Reveals the Physiological Underpinnings of the Aversion to Holes
I learned cursive in grade school (xennial represent) but neither I nor my classmates wrote like this. This is some Declaration of Independence shit right here.
Concrete AI use cases are here – find out yours (VB Live)
I for one was expecting the author to be Slartibartfast.
> Yes, AI/ML MOOCs teach the corresponding tools well, and the creation of new tools like Keras make the field much more accessible. The obsolete gatekeeping by the AI/ML elites who say "you can't use AI/ML unless you have a PhD/5 years research experience" is one of the things I really hate about the industry.

The problem is that having a hammer makes one see everything as a nail. Sure, given a suitably clean set of images, anyone who's done a couple of tutorials will be able to apply a pre-trained neural on them to get something.

The hard part is getting an understanding of what tweaks to use when, and when to give up on a method. Otherwise, it is very easy to get carried away and waste time/resources.

For that, one needs to develop a good understanding of the landscape of ML algorithms, why each of them works and how they could break. That typically takes (intensive) experience or an understanding of the theory. Otherwise you'll be doing a brute-force search through a list of possible algorithms. As they say, "a few days in the lab might save a few hours in the library..."

Yes, things can get painful during hiring because the process is broken as it is, with additional complications due to not knowing how to vet for quality in a nascent field. But the "ML elite" are not morons and they don't mean to be obnoxious gatekeepers.
How a Mining Boom Led a Mormon Florist to Invent the Pisco Sour
Interesting idea.

What if X wasn't defined to begin, besides a high level of saying "one way or another we'll get you a working result".

Any reasonable firm is hired to map out X to Y as best as possible, or at least be sure they did everything to uncover the possibilities, as much as they may, or may not occur. I have a hard time believing IBM has only experienced this once. I'm not saying IBM would do this, but maybe it happened that certain risks or unknowns didn't get the full attention or support from either side.

Contingencies in contracts are often for when things go to hell, taking up any action or arbitration is still not getting the client the result on top of taking resources away.

Saying we tried when we took a lot of your money isn't exactly a satisfying experience and use of taxpayer dollar. If this had been in the private world, would it have happened as easily?

Your point about competency in procuring digital solutions is a neat one - I don't know of many organizations, be it commercial, government, or academic that are good at this.
As a male in a professional industry in the US, it's also unthinkable to expect someone who is pregnant to quit their job.

But apparently it happens.

These stories wouldn't get the attention they're getting if they weren't shocking to many (men?). So I'd be careful of believing too strongly that it's that different where you are just because you don't see it.
How many hours a week do they work? How many of those are overhead hours that Heal takes care of for them? How many of them are average? What other costs of running a clinic are there?
My newish Pixel 2 lasts about 14-24 hours on battery. It's not great.
it's worth noting for others that this was almost certainly a hospital policy violation, not a hipaa violation. There's nothing in hipaa that prevents a person from accessing their own record (though I have heard hospital administrators try to claim otherwise).
You need not abuse women to bear some responsibility for the culture where it's tacitly okay to do so. #MeToo was nothing new; these problems were obvious to me as far back as my first job and while I've done what I've been able to do when it's arisen it has certainly not been an effort about which I have seen more than token work from the male-dominated, male-directed structures of power in tech and elsewhere. Doing nothing makes you complicit; to not be complicit, you need to do some work.

But, then, your username has an obvious allusion in it that made me look at your posting history--and suddenly I understand what you are trying to project when you Just Ask Questions on this one.
Check out the SDRPlay RSP2[1]. It is less expensive and covers 1khz to 2Ghz. It comes with nice radio package (SDRuno) as well.

[1] https://www.sdrplay.com/rsp2/
when did correcting your message become so hard that we needed editS?

*edits
This comment is a milder version of this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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People who had their home buttons replaced using third-party kits that didn't preserve the relationship between the fingerprint sensor and the secure enclave often blame the iOS release that blocked access to the enclave rather than the repair that broke the security.
Was the subject of the book technical?
Thanks for the response!

> There are various feature engineering and feature extraction techniques. Filter methods, wrapper methods, and embedded methods. Principle component analysis, autoencoding, variance analysis, linear discriminant analysis, Gini index, genetic algorithms, etc -- the feature selection process will depend on the dataset, the problem domain, the analysis algorithm you ultimately use, etc.

Obviously thats a big toolbox and Im sure it takes time to develop an intuitive understanding for all these techniques. What I hope for is some sort guidebook on what to look for when I stumble across problems. So lets say you try out an algorithm and your accuracy(or whatever evaluation criteria you might have) is low. How do you figure out if thats due to the algorithm, or is it due to (or due to the lack of) feature selection?

An analogy that might be useful is, when I see my database queries are slow, I can use EXPLAIN to guide what knobs to tune. Obviously it requires understanding what indexes are, what a full table scan is etc. etc. but the EXPLAIN plan provides a guidebook of sorts.
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Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALd-ApLeIxQ
Depends on the time-scale you're using...
Thank you! Hopefully this will help with squats, I can NEVER do them without hurting my back, but I can deadlift 110% bodyweight fine and I've never known why.

Sadly in my country proper form isn't all that common and I've seen so many people do squats with plates under their heels, so finding a knowledgeable expert isn't easy.
I'm literally playing with now and first impression is its not processing photos as shown in README file. I might be doing something wrong but I am just following installation steps with docker. Its running fine but results are not as expected.
I chose cardiologists and senior partners because they make significantly more than the threshold without being some kind of Machiavellian supervillains that everyone hates. Regular doctors and lawyers still make about that amount of money at the senior level.

Senior Associate Attorney: $239,270

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-associate-attorney...

Senior Physician: $225,076

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-physician-salary-S...

This is also not at all out of line with what trade professionals like electricians are making when they start out on their own but by the time they retire have half a dozen people working for them.
A guy builds a 'tree house' around a crane in Bristol, UK
2011, amazingly. If it wasn't for lack of updates many corporate users would be too(i had to drag my work away kicking and screaming "but the apps still work!" and i've heard many similar stories)
Is Jeff and Amazon great business people or a shady tax evader?
Awesome. This Kevin Rose podcast is what got me interested, and I've been paying attention to Turtle for a few weeks now. I feel the same way you do about the community.

Turtle is my first experience with mining, JSON-RPC / interfacing with a blockchain, CLI wallets and various other cryptocurrency concepts. I've learned a lot in a short time.
I'd guess Star Lab https://starlab.io/about-star-lab/starlab/
"escalation does not deter escalation"

I think there are examples both ways. Hiroshima, Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Crisis, involved escalations that were not met with further escalation.
Scanning the docs, it's unclear whether that's just the parsing or also analysis.
As a man, I'm clueless on how to help. I certainly don't make any comments of similar nature or perform actions described in the stories.

However, if I were to observe such an event happening, I'd be frozen. One half of me thinks, the woman is an individual and can stand up for herself. If she's uncomfortable, she'll say or do something. She's of equal standing.

The other half of me, I feel like I should say something. But by doing so, that asserts my male patriarchy views, protecting women from the danger. Women wouldn't be considered an equal in this scenario.
Population Heat Map Syndrome
> Respondents across the world were asked to rate their lives on a scale of 0-10, where 0 is the “worst possible life” and 10 is the “best possible life.”

I don't think the study properly correlates to 'happiness'. As the article describes, it's more like 'satisfaction'. These are not the same [0]

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-distinction-between-happin...
However, spherical masses are much more stable gravitationally because the total gravitational potential energy of all mass is the minimum.
> And they generally happen out of the sight of other men.

Some does. Others don't. In my experience it is very common for privileged folks who feel that they are of lower status to try to exert some (generally undue) authority or dominance in group settings, usually by ha-ha-only-serious'ing nasty jokes at people who they feel that can be superior towards. Women, ESL folks, ethnic minorities--you get the idea. And the article makes mention of this--calling another employee "token", that sort of thing.

On the other end of the ladder, I've tangled with quite a few people in managerial and executive roles that thought that their, again, ha-ha-only-serious racism and sexism was somehow Not A Problem.

It's not just that it's pervasive--it's that we've allowed, for a very long time, the sorts of social shittiness that are sometimes termed "microaggressions" to set the tone for the social arrangements (and work is a social arrangement) in which we all participate with varying degrees of willingness and autonomy. The little stuff in public creates permission structures for the big nasty stuff in private.