skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I fully agree on what you said.
But the question is, as always, about proportions and statistics: how many people adhere to a religion today because their parent told them they would go to hell otherwise, versus how many choosed actively by seeking a spiritual answers in questions not answered by science?
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One example. A friend of mine who works at a hospital told me about a colleague (a nurse) who looked up her own test results since she was anxious and could not wait using her login to the main system (for providers). She got flagged in the system and reprimanded. Every access is logged.
What about vendors wrapping their HAL's to rust with bindgen(or an improved version) ? will that be enough ?
> These guys have "trust" literally in their name.

Generally speaking, this is more a red flag than an endorsement.
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Using a Bible is a good idea (and also amusingly ironic), because it would allow you to open to a random page, point at a random word, and use the chapter and verse numbers as your random elements, no script required. The statistical distribution might be a bit curious, though...
Ask HN: Is it tacky to include app revenue on a resume?
I have one line that says I have 8 apps published with over 500k combined downloads, would it be tacky to include that they have made $1x,xxx amount in revenue? The revenue is not super impressive number, but it's not insignificant either. Should I save that info for an interview and only if they ask?
Jay-son (like "song" without the g though)

Not jay-sun, the name.
Wish they had a prototype to show off. It will be interesting to hear what users think of it.
now their creepily stalking methods will allow them to know when someone famous or a loveint is sick
What's topic drift?
So you get students who can parrot what they memorize but cannot think, reason and solve new problems.

Maybe that's OK for philosophy and sociology, but in other fields students will be actually asked to contribute to the world and so must be trained to do rather than to memorize.

Except for scholars (who are primarily historians) what of philosophy and sociology is worth remembering anyway? Most of philosophy was written before Darwin and certainly before any significant brain science research was done. Much of sociology is also questionable:

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=half+of+sociolo...

The only reason education focuses on memorization is because in 1892 a committee chaired by the President of Harvard decided that high school education in the USA should prepare students for collegiate study in particular subjects of his choosing. Should we, today, continue to follow the direction of those professors, who were only interested in ensuring that, when students arrived at their departments, they were sufficiently indoctrinated to be scholars in their fields?

https://kamccollum.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/school-is-profou...
http://p.migdal.pl/2017/04/30/teaching-deep-learning.html -> "What mathematicians thing I do"

(Full disclaimer - I did theoretical physics, so understand both sides. :))
Or changes in the brain cause depression?

Isn't it more likely that depression is a symptom of the brain rather than the brain being a symptom of depression?
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What's the goal of your question? Are you asking for the common and accepted definition of capital, or for any possible definition.

Language itself is a common set of symbols and pointers providing for a shared set of mental models amongst various actors. Generally the most common definition should be the guiding one, much as the most preferred medium of payment becomes a de facto currency (and for many of the same reasons).

If you want a standard definition of capital I'd suggest looking at those provided by a source such as Investopedia or leading economics texts, probably Paul Krugman or Gregory Mankiw's, though there are many, with one fair list at Reddit's /r/Economics: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/wiki/reading. Otherwise, you might hit up DDG for econ 1 or econ 101 syllabi and recommended readings.

If you're looking for the broadest possible set of definitions, well, there are many, with varying levels of acceptance, but the answers probably aren't particularly useful.

Another possible angle would be to ask what I personally think about factors of production, and what they are. My thoughts are in flux. And, as a Space Alien Cat, they frequently have little or no real world significance or impact.

Steve Keen, though, is doing some very interesting work, in and since Debunking Economics, and I'd strongly urge following him. Among other elements, he's looking at the role of energy in economic production (he's one of numerous people to have done so, over the past century or more, though the idea's never really caught on, far the worse reflection on the economic orthodoxy than the notion itself).

I've been looking at the question of what technology itself is, or more specifically, what its mechanisms, of which I've identified roughly nine: fuel and fuel-based systems, energy transmission and transformation, materials, technical knowledge, scientific knowledge, information, networks, systems, and hygiene factors. (Concept still under development, some discussion at https://dredmorbius.reddit.com) It's recently occurred to me that virtually all of these are factors of production, though they're not all the factors of production.

There's the question of what labour itself is, and what its components and mechanisms are, and how they've changed. It's useful to keep in mind that until roughly 1800, a tremendous percentage of actual motive force was supplied by human or animal muscle. And our sense of what these contribute has changed markedly. The present formulation of labour does have many elements of capital to it, and that's reflected in extant terminology (e.g., "human capital" and "intellectual capital"), so your observations have some validity and currency.

As noted above, much of the mainstream factors-of-production has far more to do with tracking payments than functional mechanisms. I see considerable room for refinement.
Cause time is really what I'm giving the company. And time is extremely limited; I only get 24 hours of it a day, only 7 days of it a week, etc.
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That’s average for a senior dev in SF according to Glassdoor.

I know people in tech who have been making that for years with just a bachelors... and not even in CS. My stepdad, my girlfriend’s father...
Which location is that for a cap like 150?
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10x played the roll of an advisor/mentor, guiding me in the negotiation -- on salary, benefits, figuring out what I wanted, etc. They were fantastic in this: instead of feeling like I was in the dark, not knowing what I could ask for, not being sure of my next move, I was coached into asking for the things I wanted (and/or that I didn't think I could get) and ended up very happy with the resulting package (PTO, clear definition of my role, etc.) Having an experienced "wingman" helps, tremendously...!

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> You cannot tell your selection committee 'I refactored code and that'll save us probably 100 bugs in the next year, times 2 hours per bug, at $300 per man hour, a $60000 savings.'.

You can't? Especially if you have documentation of the bugs that were previously happening, this is very solid evidence. Another one I've seen, "This would cause a weekly page a 2 am, and half the time ended up being an all day problem that needed to be put out. This no longer happens and is worth $X of engineering time."

I would agree though that second example "built a feature that saved $60000" is a stronger statement because it's so much more quantifiable to the businesses bottom line.

To go back to my original point though, we all (not just managers, but the entire team) should constantly be pushing to get ourselves to objective measure. The more subjective measures are used ("I refactored this code which is now easier to read") the more you allow the bad politics I outlined earlier where a boss and his buddy team up to get raises. It's very toxic and should be avoided at all costs.
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This just in, long term anything changes something. Don't forget your pills. /rant
I have a feeling that they're trying to get people familiar with TensorFlow and thus very compatible with their cloud computing services.
Ultimately I think they are pointless at most companies since the raise/bonus pool is going to be defined by something out of your control. I have experienced mostly self defined objectives where the completion of those objectives are reviewed with a manger at EOY.
It's being used to manage the ordering of that with other rules, and to run independent steps in parallel.
OTOH, automating feature engineering is a thing. There are papers on using unsupervised methods to do that.

The 1st place in Kaggle's Porto Seguro competition trained an Autoencoder on raw data to extract features.
Maybe something akin to this: https://blog.openai.com/interpretable-machine-learning-throu...

My thinking is you could train the first generation without simpler tasks but it would pick up crude skills along the way. Have the first generation generate tasks that convey the basic skills it learned and use that to teach the second generation.

Edit: Or just feedback the generated tasks and not train a new neural net...
I agree with that. This service also doesn't seem to cover the situation where you don't need an ambulance but you do need to be met by a specified adult (e.g. out-patient surgery).
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Sounds like the confusion here comes from labeling matter outside the event horizon as "not the black hole". With this wording you can say that nothing escapes the black hole by forever shrinking the region of what constitutes the black hole.

In the end, matter/energy that was inside the black hole can eventually exist in a region that is no longer referred to as part of the black hole.

^ This being my non-physicist layman interpretation, I'm happy to be enlightened if I'm wrong.
Wow! I’m a little jealous of his handwriting. I don’t handwrite code/pseudo-code very often, but when I have a complex issue, writing things out can really improve the thought process.
Show HN: Secure Storage and VMs based on crypto [pdf]
Given our current understanding of Uber's business model, do you really think that 'specially trained' drivers are going to be subject to more than a powerpoint presentation or two?
How are you going to block a CIV 6 game? ;)
What does Dropbox do for me that going all the way over to Google Docs wouldn't?
I have a new project at work: I need to take in a free form text of recipe ingredients (e.g. "1/2 cup diced onions", "two potatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes", etc.) and build a program that identifies the ingredient (e.g. onion, potato), as well as the quantity (e.g. 0.5 cup, 2.0 units). Would machine learning be an applicable approach to solving this? Right now I'm just planning on using an NLP library to parse out the various parts of the ingredient text.
The battle is lost now, but I think it's unfortunate that we use "OO" both for class oriented domain modelling, and object oriented state persistence with message passing for composition.

Technically the latter is about object instances, the former about object/class (data/domain) modelling.
FWIW, my SE was fine with iOS 11.
This is amazing. Thank you for sharing this!
We have some form that we and our direct supervisors fill out and discuss. Supposed to be quarterly, but we haven’t done it in a year. It has literally no effect on anything. There are no raises based on merit and you only get fired if you do something egregious or funding gets cut. We get cost of living increases. The perils of academia...
> 1 in 5 humans live under this dictatorship

There's a fairly decent chance all of our grandchildren will live under a Chinese dictatorship.
There is evidence of the strongly interacting, superfluid dark matter every time a double slit experiment is performed, as it is the medium that waves.
The computer vision is not to detect if the game application is running, it's to detect if the game application is running and the user is in the middle of a "match". In other words, if the application can be shut down without negatively impacting the player's stats or team members.

I don't think that whether or not someone "needs" an app for self-control is the question. It's whether or not outsourcing that self-control is useful. I've seen many comments from people who get benefit from blocking HN, reddit, and FB for specified periods of time.
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>But I don't think it's fair to blame capitalism in an environment where there's only a handful of entrenched players.

This is literally the endpoint of Capitalism without regulation to prevent monopolies and a floor of public goods. You absolutely should blame it and those who fail to either check or dismantle its power.

Throughout American history, corporations have explicitly undermined and destroyed public transportation so they can profit from it. That’s why things are so bad. First they did it to sell individual cars and now to sell taxi services. Uber’s express ambition is to become the transportation monopoly you decry.
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Thanks for the feedback. Fixed it with CSS text-shadow
I'm a big fan of Pinboard, personally. It's super cheap and the creator is committed to never selling off my data (obviously there's an element of trust there, but then again, all web services involve an element of trust). Oh, and the $25/year plan offers link archival too.