skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am inexperienced, so please correct me if I am wrong - but conceptually this way doesn't seem much more effective or different than UUIDs if the purpose is a non-consecutive unique identifier. Also, could you please explain what you mean by "...which are resereved as batches from a global id service"?
Updated post with source - Yves Smith @yvessmith
It sounds like the best thing that could happen to them is to be fired.
Yes. It's not "profit" because they aren't paying themselves a wage for working. I own a business that I work at, so personal profit only counts after expenses, including at less minimum wage for hours worked.
I no longer read "one" tweet that is spread out over multiple tweets, it's too jarring and broken and hurts my eyes. I'm surprised it's still going on.
This has been discussed for as long as I remember myself (am 30 now). First it was the influence of english in TV (we only dub childrens shows and movies). I came unscattered from my youth and really doubt that my children won't be as good or better at icelandic than me.

Everyone has learned icelandic, basic danish and advanced english at age 16. From the age 16-20 majority of kids add a fourth language which is either french, german or spanish. I'm now extra grateful for all the languages that I was exposed too in school even though I didn't find them interesting at the time. It's easy to communicating and understanding the basics when travelling.

And I really love my language and I'm sure that it'll hold up just fine for the next decades. I know few examples of families with children that have grown up abroad and yes, their grammar often is strange but they speak quite well and they feel a connection back "home" through the language.
You are correct that I used a hypothetical methodology.

That's because -- and this is the real problem -- finding the flaw in a specific methodology is a lot of work. It's often not just one thing that throws the numbers off by 200%, it's one thing that throws them off by 12%, then another by 7%, and twenty other little things that add and multiply up to an inaccurate overall conclusion. It can take multiple hours to figure out what actually happened and people don't have that kind of time, so the majority of people only have time to read the conclusion and who sponsored it.

In theory the solution to the problem of everyone having to personally evaluate every study is for a trustworthy reporter to do it for you, but that hasn't worked ever since reporters figured out that "Uber eats souls" gets more clicks than "wage study methodology miscalculates wages."

But if you want a real flaw in this study, how about this one -- most other jobs don't let you count transportation expenses against the hourly wage. Obviously an Uber driver's transportation expenses will be higher, but that doesn't mean you can discount them in the other cases when you count them in this case.

If someone has a 30 mile commute (because living closer to work is even more expensive) at $0.53/mile, that's 60 miles a day, so $31.80 in daily incremental expenses to take the job. 8 hours at federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr) is $58, so after transportation expenses their hourly wage is $3.28/hour. For someone with a 50 mile commute it's $0.63/hour. Suddenly Uber doesn't look so bad.
> Do they allow you to set a destination area so that your fares are limited to this, or do you just get to review and accept fares so you can choose ones in the right direction?

Uber didn't last I checked, but Lyft does.
When you flip burgers you have to show up at predetermined times, no matter if you're having a bad day or something inconvenient comes up, have to wear a cheesy uniform and put on a smile, tolerate whatever coworkers you get thrown in with, and of course you are about as far from your own boss as it's humanly possible to be. It's totally plausible to me that the sum of avoiding these costs is equal to five bucks per hour.
Or, maybe we shouldn't just roll over and accept artificial scarcities driven by archaic, guild-like gatekeeping and capitalism.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/11/its-doctors-w...

> So the number and composition of residencies is controlled by doctors, even as they’re subsidized by $13 billion in taxpayer money every year. And doctor pay, which almost everywhere is based on Medicare rates, is controlled by doctors. It’s doctors who are directly responsible for both their own high pay and their own low numbers.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust-2013/first...

> The U.S. spends $13 billion a year subsidizing graduate medical education. Yet almost all of this money winds up producing the wrong kinds of doctors in the wrong places, with America’s most elite teaching hospitals being the worst offenders.
Scope | Stockholm | Full-time | Backend Engineer

Scope is a search-engine that makes it easy for brands to find relevant influencers. Phase: Early, on-boarded our first customers (mostly fashion brands), nice growth.

YOU: You love working with crazy and talented people. You want to be part of creating something new and scale from scratch to thousands of users. You might like neural networks, spend time with your family or sing. You might just like building a kick-ass search engine.

Are we getting close? If so, you should talk to us.
Apply here: http://scopeapp.io/jobs

Salary: ok.
Potentially moving to SF or LA within one year.

More about our product here: http://scopeapp.io/product
How long have you been working at Google and what's your position (if you don't mind the question)?

Both factors may make a significant difference in the judgment of "working at Google" (I don't imply anything, either negative or positive).
What kind of uniformed user uses a YubiKey?

I supposed you could trick them by saying that the login process has changed and they need to enable WebUSB to let their YubiKey work
People are _really_ bad at self diagnosing. So who's to say that the risks of going to the doctor are greater than the risks of self diagnosing?

Off the top of my head I know three family members who now suffer some disability because they didn't go to the doctor for symptoms they thought were non-threatening.
The last presidential election in the US had both OECD and OAS observers. See http://www.businessinsider.com/international-observers-at-us... for example.

According to that article, there have been OECD observers since 2002, though not many.
The article.
They are legally obligated to monitor all communications from and to a foreign country originated by a foreigner in Norway. The dragnet approach, monitoring all in order to filter down, seems reasonable as long as they only store the filtered data and not full stream.
For what it's worth (I'm in Israel too), I also recently gained a new perspective on the problem of sexual harassment, though not specifically in the hi-tech industry. This was a few years before the #MeToo movement.

In my case, it was because I had a frank conversation with a female friend, where she told me a few typical stories. Things like her sitting on the bus, and the guy next to her will suddenly start touching her, or trying to kiss her. With her giving absolutely no sign of interest and not knowing the person beforehand (she's actually gay). And similar stories in other situations.

She said it happened to her about 10 times already. This is the kind of clear-cut sexual harassment which I naively thought was rare, but apparently is so common, that it's just shrugged off as a nuisance in many cases. It completely changed my perspective on just how common this is for women, even if I believe only a minority of men act in this way.
They are a "hm, that's interesting" kind of a signal. They simply mean that a simplistic chemical view of the atmosphere does not explain the observation. It could mean the presence of life, or it could mean some other unknown, inorganic process.

See for example the Viking experiments: they detected signs of life on Mars, only to be disproved later by better understanding of soil chemistry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_lander_biological_exper...
The "fight a multi-hundred-billion dollar corporation's legal team" approach has pretty dismal success rates.
20% projects have been cut? I wish someone told me that before I started a 20% project which spanned multiple quarters, and still did well in my last performance review.

If an engineer isn't doing well on their 80% project, a 20% project might be frowned upon, that is true.
Amazon has been highly criticized here. Apple much less so for reasons that aren't clear to me.
Drivers have the ability to set an end-destination so their last ride is near there ultimate destination.

Source: I asked an Uber driver about this a few months ago.
Yeah... In defense of the Go folks (1) they are working hard to make the transition as smooth as possible (2) dep was always just considered an experiment (though with aspirations by the author to have it become the official solution) (3) vgo almost certainly marks the end of the churn, and looks really nice.
Project Pigeon
I thought this excerpt from the article you posted was interesting

"The researchers caution that most medical errors aren't due to inherently bad doctors, and that reporting these errors shouldn't be addressed by punishment or legal action. Rather, they say, most errors represent systemic problems, including poorly coordinated care, fragmented insurance networks, the absence or underuse of safety nets, and other protocols, in addition to unwarranted variation in physician practice patterns that lack accountability."

I've seen this statistic before and had not looked into in much but it sounds like determining if docs cause more harm than good is perhaps a little more nuanced than the statistic first seems.

On a related note, below I've linked to an NPR article about how women that gave birth under the care of a doctor in the 1800s were 5 times more likely to die than those seen by a midwife because doctors were not washing there hands or medical interments.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/3756639...
Not doing code reviews I guess works for very small companies. Code reviews are more for blind spot checks. And everyone had blind spots in a large system.
...and ~50fps on the integrated graphics of i7 mobile 8th gen (oh, and on battery, with power saving features activated). WebGL performance is a weird beast.
What you think is fair is not particularly relevant: you're not going to get anybody who's actually good to give you the time of day.

20% and you can shoot as many bullets at the target as you want is a better deal than 1-5% and you can shoot one bullet at a bunch of targets.
IBM to become the world’s largest and most sophisticated design company
The point is that at the time of the coup d'etat most of his former allies were against him.

You contested the claim that he was democratically elected. I don't see how this is relevant to that claim.

In any case, I don't see evidence that his former allies were against him. Congress wasn't his ally, and besides - as the text you quoted says - there was an election in between, so they weren't all the same people. His allies were the UP, and as far as I can tell, they still supported him.

Finally, losing support from your allies means nothing. That happen just five years ago in my Western European country, and it might happen again soon. It's an expected development in a country with a diverse polity.

Where vague accusations?

"destroyed essential elements of institutionality" and such.

The economic situation of Chile

Which might make him a bad President, but still a democratically-elected one, which was the point being argued.
the limesdr is not good for HF though. other sdr's are better.
One cool thing I like about Sortix is how it handles threading. TLS is set up by the kernel, so errno can be a thread local variable.
In this case, the svn repos and samba shares are way over 100GB and even with classic HDDs, the machine can saturate the network and still be basically idling. No need for SSDs, classic drives were more cost effective.

The compression was just something nice to have. Lz4 in filesystem is basically for free.
I think, or hope, one day we'll come to realize the only fair way to do any sort of affirmative action is by evaluating on economics, after ability.

That's to say the objective is not to hire underrepresented groups based on loose ethnic lines, but rather on their circumstance in life, all other meaningful qualifications being equal and lawful.

That said, regarding women, that's a special case where we want to improve things at the input side, get pupils when young excited so that one day they may find it's what they want to do to contribute to our society.
People have tried fully anonymised hiring processes. The problem is that in tech women and minorities don't even apply, so it's attacking the problem too late in the process. When they do apply, there's stereotype threat to take account of as well, so even if the employer doesn't know anything about the candidate, that's not enough to correct the bias.
Exactly, two engineers could have an entirely different experience based on their team. Engineers can transfer to different teams too, though that team will obviously look at the engineer's history of performance.
Then why are you wandering out into the woods instead of going back to the car and driving to a supermarket?
Thank you for your reply and assistance danial.
Oh, didn't see that since it's linking to a different page
Looks like - have been out for over couple of hours now
They should be though. As in, it should be a lot more nuanced, gray areas, and yes there is a middle ground between ban all guns and arm all teachers.
I see bitbucket is not letting me push code. Is this connected?
"Hire people not due to the content of their character, but by the gender they identify with and the melanin in their skin" #civilrights2018
Actually they were very much intertwined.

Colonization was how slavery was justified, commercialized and gone global, and colonial subjects were treated as an abundant work force for their colonial masters (when they were not hunted for fun, treated as animals, or displayed on "human zoos").

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/europe...

But even if I was "conflating" the too, that would at best a mistake in the use of words, not a "horribly" (sic) thing to do. Slavery and/or colonization themselves would be actual examples of horrible things to do.
Whenever there is a panel discussion, it is always a bunch of dudes.
At $0.59 per mile these guys are stiffed really really hard. The IRS recommendation is over $0.50 per mile:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/standard-mileage-rates-for-2018...

Perhaps these companies should charge at least that rate, not to mention the drivers should be setting their own rates on top of that.

With an average speed of about 20mph (EPA urban drive cycle) you would need to "profit" about $0.50 per mile to make $10 per hour. I'm not gonna look up minimum wage and it varies per state, but anyone charging less than $1 per mile to give you a ride would seem to be screwing themselves over and would be better off flipping burgers.
This isn't a misstatement it's a lie and you can't back it up.
> That is exactly sexism – the subtle, insidious kind that us men tend not to even notice

Suppose there is a group of girls at a high school is approached by a single guy that doesn't know them. What is the odds of being welcomed into the conversation without any questioning looks? At least at the high school I went to, it'd pretty low odds. As a consequence, guys learned not to do that.

That stuff carries forward, even if the situation has changed somewhat. You have a population of men trying to be polite. They're not going to approach groups that have given them negative feedback before, because they don't want to be a jerk.
I vouched for this comment - why would it deserve to be flagged?
Why doesn't Apple release their internal roadmap? Because others would take advantage of that information.

Same thing with intelligence. People don't know your gaps in intelligence gathering if it's all secret. If they do, they'd take advantage of of that information and just work around them.
Bitcoin ads were kicked off FB for being 'misleading'. Now they're on Twitter
That's definitely a bug. Hmm.. I don't know why it would be. Which OS? I would be happy if you could profile the javascript to see what is up with that, but should be on a dev build. Open an issue at https://github.com/emnh/rts-reasonml/issues so we can communicate on it if you are interested. A dev build is at http://emh.lart.no/publish/rts-reasonml-dev1/ .
I'm not sure I'm following, at least one of us is misunderstanding the other.

I'm not making a normative statement. I'm saying that [1] (for example), Russia will not deny itself a tool that China pocesses and [2] when it comes to dragnets, I have very little confidence in mechanisms to separate citizens from foreigners. Even if I'm wrong and it is possible to regulate dragnets in this way, you are then spied on by everyone but your own government (which is better than nothing, but not exactly inspiring).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501017
Agreed, that may be the cleverest thing the AI did.
Reading this hurt. Life's to short. Quit. There are plenty of places that pay just as good or give you much more than just raw cash. If you've a family to feed (like me) I totally can get why you'd want to say. I know it's easy for me to say quit and find something else too. But please take it from a dumb guy who pities others that he feels are making the same mistake as he did. Quit. The world is too beautiful and miraculous to lose days to feelings like that.
Or they have pre-existing appointments at certain times of the day (drop-off/pick-up kids at school or spouse at work if there's one car, etc). I wouldn't be so quick to assume what the flexible hours are often being used for, since it might be very different based on age group and location.

Work flexibility helps a lot of people in lots of different ways, which is why it's such a bit deal.
The logic there is just terrible. Maybe her point was that even if eight women were sitting, we'd still be considering women candidates for the open seat? If so, it didn't come across in the text.
Remote blockchain dev positions
> on a modern laptop with Intel embedded graphics

~50 fps (Chrome, Linux, i7 8th gen kaby). but I'm on battery mode and not sure which power saving features are active.
Starting in Windows 95, you could stack periods to go back further than one directory.
"cd....." instead of "cd ..\..\..\.."
I'm here to report to you that unfortunately they are not that company. I hear they used to be everything the nerds dreamed, but as the company grew, the original culture was unable to defend itself.
I find the whole thing offense. I'm 'white'(ish coloured), I'm also half-african, half-asian, due to geography, and I'm sick of the identity politics. At the end of the day, I can be ~28th generation African, 28th generation Asian, 100% white, and not meet a 'quota'.

Years ago, working with a US company going after 'Section 503' funding for something, I was the randomly pulled auditee. The auditor freaked out at the notion that I can be half-african, half-asian and white, and I refused to 'update my answer' on the government survey. Seriously.

What happened to the idea that in Tech we'd have a legitimate meritocracy. It really doesn't matter what someone's skin tone, language, gender expression, or sexual preference(s) are. We do work, we do work individually and collectively, and we put our best into it. Anything else is simply disingenuous.

/rant over.
>> I'm not sure what you mean by abstraction

> There is no way to abstract queries over tables, joins, etc. Views allow me to re-use a particular concrete query, but I cannot parameterize a query.

Not the person you replied to, but to me, you can "parameterize a query" by abstracting it away into a function or stored proc (SQL Server). Can you explain what you mean by it?
It's remarkable how quickly the west has embraced a culture of censorship.
I have an Indian passport I know how you feel. It’s 2018 and just entering a country can be so difficult!
Bear in mind though, the lawsuit is a one-sided presentation held up against millions of dollars of PR investment in publishing an image about how great it is to work there.

Yeah, reality probably falls somewhere in the middle, but the default narrative is already slanted incredibly far the other direction.
Id like to see the same study done to taxi drivers. I suspect the situation is no better if you look at their return on invested time and money.

The concern you suspected is the same one I suspected too. In 2015 i did some uber driving for "fun". I quickly realized that it was just a way to extract the net worth of a car, from the car, without selling it. When you think of it that way, i see some significant utility...however Uber doesn't position it to drivers as "get the money stuck in your car, out of your car!" instead they say "earn cash" and stuff like that.
I have a Kenyan Passport. Every country I visit, I need to file a visa.

I can’t imagine the grief of someone from Afghanistan. I think about that and laboriously file the visa and play the waiting game.
Larger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501330
In other words, the fat cats and special interests he annoyed?
Digitalisation and nuclear power
What if an external C library defines readFile and read_file and you want to refer to read_file as readFile?

If you explicitly rename your functions as you import them, that should have more predictable behavior.

Still, it's a nice sentiment.
California cops use decoy to catch whoever is shooting at Apple and Google buses
What Is the Use of Yii Framework
Look at the list of top 100 favorite books on this site. At least half are self-help.

Taleb sure knows his audience.
Take a deep breath, take a walk, something. I worry a bit when conjecture over a comment on HackerNews leads to feelings of hopelessness. Please, connect with a person IRL and talk with them about something good! Read the Bill & Melinda Gates letter, go see Black Panther, something!

On-topic:
I do remember the story you're talking about; it happened to a tiny percentage of the people the story I mentioned did, but one of those people was my daughter, about six years ago. (Time flies!)

My daughter also had a cracked screen and generally did not treat her phone with the care an expensive piece of electronics merits, so I didn't think much of it, and she use the on-screen home button for a year or two. She liked it so much that even after she later upgraded, she kept using the on-screen home button!

I remember people blaming a software update, but mu daughter hadn't updated. I wondered at the time whether that was a coincidence, or multiple issues that people were conflating.

It's also worth noting that while you call it a "scandal" and say the community found out it was a software bug, iFixIt seemed to have a good handle on the exact flex cable that caused the problem: https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/56206/Home+button+someti...
I've taken the CNN and RNN (parts 4 and 5) classes of his new DL specialization, and they both area about as rigorous as you wanted. I do have to give a warning though that the last class starts so see some confusing mistakes in the HW. For example, the expected output given is from an outdated HW version.
This comment in particular wasn't flagged: 'junkscience2017 is banned. Note it was marked [dead], not [flagged].
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
It's all anecdotal, so I guess we can all take each other's stories with a grain of salt, but long waits and impenetrable bureaucracy has been my experience, as well. My wife is currently trying to get treatment and she's had to wait months to see various doctors and specialists. We live in a metro area in the US.
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