skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does knowing that it's impossible to predict whether an infinite loop exists in a piece of code yield an actionable piece of wisdom that this ML expert should have?

I'd suppose that most developers, formal education or not, would have encountered an infinite loop at some point in their initial work with iteration or recursion.

How does knowing that Turing proved you can't predict this bug in a piece of code change anything?

I might genuinely be missing something important here - not trying to be snarky in my questioning.

It seems like obviously infinite loops are a disastrous bug for critical code - but what does knowing the formal name of the problem and background of its discovery give you?

I could understand if you were arguing in favor of test code or static analysis.
The price of RAM is not a relevant parameter. Why should 20MB hold less information today than it did in 1990?

Especially for this application, which presents a UI from 1990, and the functionality of an IRC client.
> If there is a new fleet, then, it's likely that the vehicles would have none of the medical equipment that ambulances do.

Apropos of anything else, most if not all states require ambulances to be individually licensed as such, and have a specified minimum complement of equipment including but not limited to oxygen, defibrillators, etc.

They also require the company/agency to have a overarching license to transport patients.

Something tells me, as an EMS provider, that state Departments of Health would likely come down hard on attempts to use (or indeed advertise) this service as such.

> and probably in recognizing imminent life threats

If you're looking at that, you're probably getting to 80 hours of training (most Basic Life Support courses are around 160-200 of practical and classroom training). I can't imagine Uber doing this, or the liability nightmare that could ensue.
My friend partner was out dating his friend at work and he needed an hacker to help spy her device. He got (Roccoshadow (at) gmx (.) com) to help spy her iPhone,facebook,email,whatsapp,calls,skype and others.They literally helped him and now he have her whatsapp Spyed without her noticing.
In addition to IntronExon's points, the very headline of the article points out that these experiences don't happen as often to men. And they generally happen out of the sight of other men.

Thus even the men who are aware of the presence of bad actors are sometimes blind to how many of them there are, just how horrible their actions are, and more importantly who the bad actors are.

And because of this, a) it's harder to grasp the extent and severity of the problem; b) they may not know whose behavior needs to be corrected; and c) they may rationalize or deny a bad actor's misbehavior when someone does point it out because their experiences with him have been positive, so the accusation causes cognitive dissonance.
>it's a free world

Not as free as it should be.
yeah i think this is a gooid practice rather then diving right into the editor. Of course certain tasks you might know exactly where/what to code so you just get it done. But if there is any uncertainty or open-endedness i find it's very helpful to write out a set of steps to accomplish. breakign down the problem , smaller chunks etc. many benefits for me not limited to better code less bugs. Biggest one for me is the ability to turn off my dang monitor for a while and look at something that is not a screen. I'll grab my notebook, go sit by a window or something and start brainstorming. it's a nice refresh, plus when you get back to your terminal it's moreso a translation exercise and you can really pump out the code fast.
I've started keeping a sleep spreadsheet (bed time, wake time, get out of bed time) to give me some actual data for myself for exactly how much sleep I'm getting.
These stories upset me deeply. But as much as they upset me, they surprise me. And that's because until it was just recently, after 20+ years in the computer industry, that I discovered how pervasive such behavior is.

I'm not happy that such stories take place. But I am happy that a growing number of women are telling their stories, shocking those of us who were able to be blissfully ignorant of what was going on, and forcing us to realize just how poorly our female colleagues are sometimes being treated.

Let's even assume that 90% of the time, things are great for women in high tech. How many women are willing to put up with even 10% (or even 1%) of their time dealing with such behavior? I'm not sure if I would. And then we wonder why so many women aren't interested in technology careers, or leave after a short period of time.

I hope that these stories eventually end. But in order for them to end, we need to hear more of them, to realize just how bad things are, and to make it completely unacceptable, in every way, for things to continue as they currently are.
I am fascinated to learn that Equifax will be reaching out to these affected 2.4 million individuals to inform them their personal information has been compromised. Equifax did no such action for the first 175 million people.
What are some synonyms to Kahneman's System 1 and System 2 then? Because Type 1 and 2 errors seem to be completely equivalent to false and positive negatives. I think Kahneman motivates his decision to introduce the terms System 1 and 2 quite well in his book, and I don't know of any direct counterparts.
Does it matter to a woman whether their harasser is a "real" bad guy or they're just accidentally doing a good job at playing one? The idea that us 'good' men can have a bad day, misstep, or misinterpret things is definitely true, but the following idea that it some how disqualifies the action as harassment is very much not. If you don't want to be put in a bucket with Harvey Weinstein, then you need to realize that everyone has the capability to be the villain sometimes, and if you've found yourself toeing that line, you need to strongly consider what brought you there and you need to make amends in the right way.
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> I'm probably seeming kind-of ranty here, but I think a lot of these sort of "Rust isn't consistent/is too complicated" discussions come down to familiarity.

Not at all! I'm honestly really grateful you're engaging. Let me get home and I'll respond fully :)
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What you probably don't know is that this is a problem with almost ALL tech companies in general. Early Facebook engineers can look up ANYONE's personal information. Same with Google. There was an article a couple weeks back about accusing Lyft employees of doing the same thing. This is the problem much bigger than one pre-ipo transportation company.
http://mrale.ph/blog/2015/01/11/whats-up-with-monomorphism.h...
As a european, you must be a huge fan of gypsies.
Is it possible to generate an api with transom from my swagger.json?
I use digicert and I can get as many certificates as I want with my wildcard cert. In fact I run different certificates in different contexts.
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It is common for a very small portion at the very top of a job that already pays more than most jobs. The BLS, which uses reliable statistical methods to estimate wage information for occupations, found that only 10% of software developers make more than $157,590[1].

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i would request that you stop critiquing "machine learning" based on the presentation in introductory online materials like this and the ng coursera course. you provide a lot of signal in general but i think these critiques do decrease your SNR.

i am certain that you are familiar with the "usual" statistics sequence. (for others: there are lower-division courses that use calculus in a few places but otherwise avoid it, focusing instead on memorizing procedures. there is the upper-division probability/math stat sequence that uses calculus heavily but avoids analysis. and there is an intro phd sequence that finally gets into measure theory.) if you look at a coursera course that gives an high-level overview of practical statistics and simplifies its presentation to be accessible to people who never took calculus, you can criticize the very idea of a course that does not explain the measure-theoretic issues, but it makes no sense to use it to criticize the field of statistics, or to criticize the competence of others in the institution that produced it.

here, google is producing introductory training materials for developers. many developers have never taken calculus, let alone optimization, statistics, or analysis, and when i took MLCC internally, you were supposed to go through this whole thing (lectures and coding) in two days. it's supposed to give you enough understanding of the concepts to understand the API and apply it.
> The time required vs. value does not make sense for startups (unless you've already been told you'll win and the RFP is just a formality).

That's also true for more-established companies, who often are just column fodder so that the procurement people can say that they've done their due diligence.
Having worked on ERP software for medium businesses, that sounds spot-on to me; in my experience the biggest challenge was not so much technical as getting clients to change their processes so they can be systematized in a sane way.

There is a lot of resistance from employees not willing to change the way they work. Even seemingly simple things like standardizing language / glossary between departments so we can have a single representation in the system can be an uphill battle.
I could have the same reverse worldview:

"I attended a big software dev conference. Someone I met did not know about data bias. They heard of gradient boosting but nothing more than hearing them. If so-called dev experts don't even know undergraduate statistics, that should really give you pause before you open up your wallet for them."
How did you publish and promote? I’m sitting on a finished book now and I’m sort of at a loss for what to do with it. I put out some of the audio as a podcast that has done “ok” but haven’t pulled the trigger on actual publishing
I agree with everything you said but it still leaves me with nowhere to go in terms of combating the pervasive culture that results in sexist violence. Sure, everyone has struggles in their lives but certain groups have added difficulties that cant be fought without solidarity.
> they would highlight the country where they are writing them from

If people don't mention their country, they're American.
> Ironically, it's when we heal ourselves that we can actually be of the highest service to those who are hurting.

I think it's a two fold improvement, you stop being an emotional burden to others who worry about you and you are also more able to support them with their other worries.
So you want blame all men for what the authors even noted is a small few ?
The most important difference is that that HackRF has a huge ecosystem of established software now than it's been a handful of years since the kickstarter.

With crowdfunded SDR devices expect a 1.5-3 year lag between hardware release and the software/firmware being there to do what it advertises.
Slack is a billion dollar company because they made IRC accessible to the non-technical people. Technical people write a terminal client for it because they like being in a CLI for reasons. Making a popular service look and feel like the older service that inspired it is completely reasonable.

Different people, different needs, different drivers. Just don't expect the actions and motivations of different groups of people to align with each other. Sure as a while it doesn't seem to make sense but each individual part is reasonable on it's own. There must be a powerful German word for things systems that look crazy at the macro level but are reasonable at the micro level.
When did you form those thoughts? The last 10 years has had pretty monotonic progress in the opposite direction. It seems unlikely for the technology to suddenly stop and certainly not go backwards.
That would be a hardsell for an investor. I put in 535M USD, and nothing goes towards making the company grow, everything goes towards payouts?
it's pretty safe to assume they're talking about the US. quit whining.
> Jaccard indexes

Funny you mention Jaccard; I was looking up if IoU (Intersection over Union) has any other name known to ML people when I was preparing my self-driving car presentation (IoU is used in semantic segmentation), and found out it is called Jaccard index as well. To my surprise, all ML experts I know knew about IoU but nobody about Jaccard. I guess it might depend on which university you attended?
I've watched his youtube videos/lectures. I have nothing against his advice to sort yourself out, that's common sense. I have a hard time believing that underperforming white men never hear that anymore considering I am a white man, know many other white men, and none would tell you that all of your problems are someone else's fault. What I object to is that he's just used as a useful idiot (not really an idiot though considering how much money he makes from speaking) for people looking to spread an agenda of hate and who are rallying against "neomarxism," which is just a loaded term people use to engender dislike for things like gender rights. It's an extension of the Nazi conspiracy of "cultural Bolshevism" and later the alt-right's "cultural Marxism".

The original poster was right, you don't need to look to someone like him hear a message as basic and timeless as "happiness is fleeting and some of your problems are your own fault."
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I'm explaining to the parent why "I don't understand this world" isn't a reasonable response. If you've used Slack and IRC for 5 minutes, you should know why most users prefer Slack, even if you prefer IRC.

I don't use Slack regularly, but I have tried it, and it is instantly obvious what the difference is. If you don't see it, then you probably have never designed software for end users. (FWIW, I also agree that Slack is bloated and that's one of the reasons I don't use it.)

As far as contributing to free software and open protocols, I'm working on fixing Unix shell. It would be great if IRC developers would take some inspiration from Slack and other proprietary services and fold them into IRC. Although, as mentioned in this thread, some of that may be very difficult or impossible without a commonly accepted client.

And I understand it's not a one person job. It probably requires a more coordinated effort. Decentralization has drawbacks as well as benefits.

What is not OK is pretending that problems with IRC don't exist. If you have that view, and spread it, then you guarantee that open protocols won't win.

I prefer open protocols, and I lament what has happened to Usenet and e-mail (trying to set up a mailing list for my open source project has been frustrating; spam causes problems for mailman-type lists). But honestly the proprietary services have innovated. They're not better in all respects, but they are better in some.

Open source doesn't mean being ignorant of users and dismissive of their complaints.

(FWIW I didn't know about IRCCloud. It looks interesting and I may check it out.)
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It's an implementation detail that can and does go either way in many real world systems, depending on the technologies involved.
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Would changing the disk high water mark setting help?
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...
I had a pleasant phone call with the hiring manager. I just had the impression that someone else has set frustrating restrictions on candidates. No idea why they posted twice in this thread.
I don't know if the "Update" by Julia Evans was in the article when you posted this. But I'd point to that as a piece of useful insight about how it works at the syscall level.
This sounds like a good application of Gall's Law:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
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I said I don't endorse it and don't think it's a good idea but e.g. you can have AWS generate your private key (for SSH though not for a cert AFAIK) with the warning that they can't recover it if you lose it.

I just figured there might be some compromise to accommodate users who don't know how to generate their own.
Not the OP, but I also got into meditation a while ago, and it helped a lot with my seasonal depression. I followed the instructions from John Yates' "The Mind Illuminated" book, which I actually found from someone on Hacker News raving about it. It's really straightforward with describing the goals and techniques for each stage.
what local planetarium is this? that sounds worthy of a visit.
I really wanted to see it used for type checking (of domain-relevant types, not just the sql representational types), but I left before that got anywhere.
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I'm wondering if anyone could explain what the "right" thing for Trustico to do?
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Over the long run, we are all dead or retired. If someone maxes out by job hopping for the first 10 years of the career and then just sees cost of living raises and someone else stays put and maxes out at the same salary in 20 years. The first person still comes out ahead.

Not to mention more than likely that person who stays put in technology is more likely to see their skills get stale and be less employable.
That's not how I read the comment and in fact seems almost unrelated.
Error, wrong, incorrect. Modern day big-pharma developed vaccines such as HPV. Current market forces incentivizes "best" treatment (heavily regulated of course as it should be). Don't spew false facts to try to push an agenda.
Is remote a possibility for everyone or for people living in the US?
>rely on some older aspects of Monero no longer present

My understanding is Monero recognized these weakness and patched to avoid them.
What they actually had was probably more like:

system('openssl req -config /prod/prod-config.cnf -subj "/CN={$DOMAIN}" ....'

And whoever wrote that function assumed someone else had sanitized DOMAIN.

It looks like a lot more understandable of a mistake when framed like that.
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Aren't they in the pre-IPO quiet period now? How'd they let this out into the wild during that timeframe?
I get quite a lot of emails from day-to-day work and I wanted to have this separate special inbox for new hires.

I know it looks wonky but good resumes do end up in the hiring pipeline.
And everyone here complains about it being hard to pay housing instead of bragging how great everyone is. If th norm in SV would be so great, I would expect them to.complain less.
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Speaking as a Swede, that is not entirely true in my experience. It's still expensive for employers and they don't like hiring women who will soon be pregnant.Or their men for that matter, but those are harder to spot :) I have female friends who changed jobs just before getting pregnant or visibly pregnant, and those employers were not happy.
IIRC 10+ years ago MySQL already had one of these and it was Lua based, the primary intent was for transparent sharding.