skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It demonstrates a clear willingness to to disregard law for personal gain.

I agree completely. I think it very much depends on what law is disregarded. Violators of immigration law are clearly guilty of this. My observation regarding marijuana was that it's very much tolerated, and the serverity the penalties are way out of line with public opinion, which is why the sentencing guidelines are rarely followed. In my specific circumstance, I did not get off free, just didn't go to prison. Knowing what I know now, given the option I would have happily traded a year or two in prison for the option of record expungment.
I wish more employees would have the kind of job posting you have in your link. It would tell me I wouldn't want to go anywhere near the company.

Pick Florida or Texas to live in a place with solid gun rights and no state income tax.

Why do I care about gun rights when I'm applying for a job. That implies a culture that is always bringing politics into the job -something I avoid like the plague.

We proudly fly the American flag. One in our cafeteria looks to be about 8x15 feet. Our veterans hold an annual Flag Folding Ceremony in honor of Veteran's Day.

I respect veterans (my father is one) but along with the gun rights statement it still feels like bringing non work related stuff into the job. I just want to do my job and go home.

Many employees choose to go shooting together, but there is no pressure to participate. It's just a normal all-American activity.

Another red flag....

When someone asked about salary range, the response was

We are hiring at multiple levels and in multiple locations, so it's a big range. You don't want an upper bound on it, do you? That would be limiting. :-)

Another red flag....
Have you considered that people (1) need and want to consume and (2) want to invest into things that bring in more money, and/or other goods?

Forcing people to consume and invest, because else the money will expire, leads to mindless consumption, reckless unwise investment, and the lack of safety nets provided by savings.
You've stopped shedding skin, opening windows and doors, and stopped cooking? That's pretty amazing.
It very much depends. There are genes having a strong influence on vitamin D metabolism, and there are people for whom 5k I.U. are too much. (Essentially, they are metabolizing D3 into calcitriol and the other form I keep forgetting too fast)
While I agree with you in general, you're just describing the hassle of moving, which has nothing to do with the EU.

Requiring a work permit for EU citizens (like the UK did) is a better example of a bureaucracy designed to limit immigration but that doesn't generally fly with the EU.
(throwaway because I don't want to identify the company)

That works for some things, but not the others. For instance, right now I can almost mathematically prove that we're building the wrong thing, starting from 2 very "common sense" and reasonably easy-to-believe "axioms". I have no trouble convincing fellow engineers that we're not building the right thing, but that's more harmful than useful. I've managed to convince some director-level people, but trying to bring this up to VP-level yielded clear warning signs that not only will I achieve nothing, but it's going to be a career limiting move. The Upton Sinclair quote is quite true - "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

In the meanwhile, my company spent in excess of two years, and increasingly more resources trying to build the same thing and being not an inch nearer to their true goal - I wonder how soon till the outside world starts to notice. The CEO is frustrated because the strategy is sound and he doesn't get why it's not getting done. In the meanwhile, trying to tell to the VP that the tactics is wrong (and how it's wrong, and how to fix it) gets you the axe. It's messed up, but all I can do right now is say "it's not my job to fix this mess" and play along with it/ learn interesting technologies & cash my cheques. :(
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis on HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
And this is exactly why "agile" has become a religion more than anything — if it's not working, it's because you're doing it wrong. You just need to agile harder.
Docker makes the base OS largely irrelevant for testing in my workflows.
I learned Go mostly by doing the Whispering Gophers tutorial over a couple small meetups: https://github.com/schmichael/whispering-gophers

There are lots of aspects of that learning experience that I think are worth repeating:

- social: we all had to figure out GOPATH together!

- playful: it's clearly a toy which means you have the freedom to explore, goof off, stretch yourself, and be creative

- comprehensive: it actually covered a ton of pertinent Go knowledge: goroutine, networking, interfaces, chans, select, etc
Meanwhile big pharma who do the same thing all the time are at home with their wives and children. This judge probably thinks they did a great thing for society but they further debased the legal system and society.
Hi and Thanks for replying!

I did warn I was going to be "bitching" about that bit :)

I read your paper- I agree that you didn't make any claims that you're the first to notice the effect of strong priors on sample efficiency. Like I say above, I think your paper is really interesting and that your experiments are a great idea- it's a little disappointing to see it did not get as much interest on hacker news as other recent work on deep reinforcement learning posted on here (but then, this is a popular forum, not a scholarly journal :).

One thing I felt was missing (unless I'm the one who missed it) is some examples of what happens when a human player has played the original game once, before attempting the ones with the various ablations. I tried that- I played the un-masked game once, then tried the "hard mode" game, the one with visual similarities masked, and I was able to finish it without dying, although I kept falling off platforms (I guess I got lucky and missed the fire pit). I even managed to kill the blobs. This was all done from memory, of course, but that's memory of object affordances, identities and semantics, not specific keypresses. I think that's an interesting thing to note.

But, you know- just a minor detail :)

Thanks for writing the paper and making it available on arxiv.
ITER isn’t really a source of breakthroughs in necessary materials; it didn’t develop new superconductors, hasn’t solved the fusion blanket problem, it won’t be breakeven, Stellerators already are superior in terms of containment, and ITER’a fusion vessel is still intolerant of sputtering. The delays are famously a result of so many countries vying for contracts, and the result is a high performance machine built by committee.

It doesn’t even attempt to generate “new insights” it’s just a bad, old idea at scale.
Not enough data points to really count, but I have had a lot of bad experiences with Debian updates failing or suddenly deciding that vim conflicts with something so it has to remove half my packages... Arch, however, has always been dependable in the five-odd years I've run it full time. Including machines that don't get upgraded for many months at a time. I don't know if I'd put in on a "server" that I ran for other people, but personally I have yet to see problems arising from the rolling release model.
IMHO, Hours reading a programming book > hours practicing, in term if knowledge gains.
I love lubuntu, on my laptop
Intuitively, based on what you're saying people around the Mediterranean (to take one region with a lot of Sun) should be dropping like flies due to these dangers you outline. Why don't they have a mortality rate affected by skin or other cancers? The Anglo world has been studying their diets due to the opposite perception.
> The amount of micro-management that goes into most programmers day to day work makes it extremely hard to be innovative, because you essentially have to justify what you're working on daily -- and any creative person knows that not every idea pans out. You need managerial support to occasionally make mistakes.

There have been a lot of times in other jobs where we'd have a slack in our schedule and I used the down time to make a change that was really necessary and took a minimal amount of time, mentioned it in a standup meeting, and got blasted for not working on our "commitments" for the "sprint" (even when I had nothing to do).

> The worst part is that it's not just management creating this mentality, it's the other programmers. I've noticed that younger more inexperienced programmers tend to crave the structure of agile, whereas the older more experienced programmers chafe at it.

> I think if programming had more of a culture of apprenticeship and mentorship, and a deeper appreciation that this is hard and it takes a long time to get good at it, our industry would be a lot healthier.
Good. Variety is key to selection which is the basis of evolution.
Cheers.

I still don't get it, but at least I got visuals now :)
Based on what my own tests have shown, it seems that Netlify serves content from EC2 instances in the AWS region that's closest to the visitor (presumably using NS1's Geo Routing). That definitely results in better performance compared to a site served from a single data center or S3 bucket, but it can't quite keep up with CDNs with hundreds of PoPs like Cloudflare or Fastly (which is what GitHub pages runs on). For me, the convenience of Netlify won out over the still relatively minor performance impact.

(IIRC Netlify also has an option you can enable to serve some assets via CloudFront, so that should speed things up for subresources.)
Thanks. Well I just don't really like the overall design, and feel of the app. Feels too complex to me.
https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes lots to choose from and they're decent
Same here, though I don't recall much crying, more a lot of curious kids asking questions who didn't truly understand what had just happened (The TV was shut off pretty quickly after the explosion, if IIRC, but I probably don't because I was 6 years old).

EDIT: Turns out it was early in the morning. I lived in California at the time - there's no way I could have seen it live during the schoolday. Wow. My memory is broken :)
Britain is special in their extraordinary accommodation to money laundering. It just looks cleaner and respectable when it reaches Britain. https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cri...
How is proper enforcement of white collar laws not pragmatic?

I think letting big companies do shitty and shady things is in the name of GDP is utterly bonkers and almost unbeliveably simplistic, so kind of faith-based, almost like a wishful idealism.
Disclaimer: I rented at two different co-ops in my life. My experience was great. Renters are „invested“ because they are: they buy shares, that spill dividends, they have a say as shareholders of private companies do.

Attempt at answering:
Co-ops try to provide affordable quality housing thus gains are usually reinvested via repair work and they don’t engage in selling their housing stock on the free market. Property they built, usually stays theirs forever. I think the biggest leverage on prices comes from land allocated to them by a city. As most shareholders are also renters they push the co-op leadership into keeping rents low and over time prices can diverge quite a lot from free market rates.
This hits home for me pretty hard. Honestly reading it felt kinda therapeutic as I still occasionally have bad dreams from a previous company (ideas being shot down, trying to fit into an existing team, etc..).

especially this comment -

> Existing teams have established relationships, and are easy to offend collectively

https://medium.com/@prajjwalsin/this-sort-of-thing-can-even-...

Fwiw, there are companies/teams who act quite the opposite of this article (encourage ideas..). I've been part of many of them and it's something I try to look for now.
Ken Silverman releases demo of Build2 engine
Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Asbestos
Yes! You're right that companies say they want ideas and then dismiss them, and that this is something co-workers often do to each other. I doubt this is a scrum/not-scrum issue. I think a manager (or master) can be dismissive within almost any work organization structure. The example you give looks like someone a) feeling entitled to blast you (What gave them that idea!?! I'm not an agile expert, but I'm sure "Chew people out" is not a part agile.) b) They blasted before understanding your thinking and decision making, thereby appearing to be stupid to you and to all us Hacker News readers years later.
When I was in kindergarten, there was a proposed (Washington) metro station down the street. Metro put up a sign, "Coming soon...". Twenty years later the sign fell down. The station was eventually built. The first time I used it, I took my daughter, who was just about to start kindergarten. Now, I live in northern CA, just a mile from where the proposed bullet train will run. When people talk about the impact, I tell them, that's our children's problem, and reference the above story.
That's a fair criticism. I tend to think of maturity as:

* Separating one's immediate emotions from a decision making process

* Proficiency with perspective taking

* A basket of traits along the patience/conscientiousness axis

Those traits often improve with age which is why I tend to lump them under maturity.
When you say economic consensus, do you mean there are testable predictions based on the consensus that have been shown to be reproducible in multiple real world experiments?

Lots of economics seems to me like it's models that appear to work but don't generate testable predictions that turn out to be accurate.
Circadian.el – Emacs theme-switching based on daytime
In recent writing it's usually seen as more clear to treat them as distinct (though related) disorders rather than bipolar being a subset of depression, although that usage is still common. The ICD, for example, classifies "Bipolar affective disorder" (F31) and "Recurrent depressive disorder" (F33) as two distinct disorders under the parent category "Mood [affective] disorders".
Fan of Geany using it from time when I switched to Ubuntu for last 5-6 years both personal as well as work computers. Its very lightweight. Good to see Geany here
I was gonna guess BB, things are more fast-paced and everyone's wrapped up tight that it's a bit harder to get the time to set those kinds of deals up (but it's not unheard of ;). As for HFT, I assume you were more systematic than discretionary (like our OG), and that would lend itself to not having the leeway needed to carry anything like that out.
My first thought was that I wouldn't do it at this point in my career.

Then after thinking about it - especially if they will actually pay you a token amount for it - meaning it's not exploitive - I might do it just as an interesting challenge.

I once took a coding test for a job after I already accepted an offer somewhere else just out of curiosity. It helped me know where my weaknesses are.
I'm not much happy to defend the EIC, but Tharoor sits at the sharp edge of nascent Hindu nationalist resurgence and is known to have a bit of an axe to grind where the Raj was concerned.

https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/aakarvani/dear-sha...
Point taken. I'll have a look at the list you've linked to and try again. Thank you for clearing up my ignorance :)
25m pounds for 5G projects on the anniversary of the UK's Digital Strategy
I believe I watched it live in the UK. Same disclaimer about not being 100% sure though. This was in the afternoon while I was supposed to be in some class at college but wasn't.
when you show a single example of "a toy" (let's say- a fire engine) to a child, they don't just learn to recognise the unique object you showed them as a "fire engine"; they learn the concept of "fire engine" that they can subsequently correctly recognise in different objects

I don't have that same experience at all. In fact if anything it's the opposite. My kids called ambulances "fire trucks" until I - the supervised labeler - corrected them.

that machine vision algorithms are many orders of magnitude less sample efficient than humans.

I don't think anyone disputes that - but they are at least in the same ballpark in terms of structure, especially if you look at the way RL works.
Fwiw, there is mounting opinion and evidence that vitamin D recommendations need to increase by an order of magnitude, essentially casting those levels as experiments in vitamin D deficiency.

>A statistical error in the estimation of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin D was recently discovered; in a correct analysis of the data used by the Institute of Medicine, it was found that 8895 IU/d was needed for 97.5% of individuals to achieve values ≥50 nmol/L. Another study confirmed that 6201 IU/d was needed to achieve 75 nmol/L and 9122 IU/d was needed to reach 100 nmol/L.

>The largest meta-analysis ever conducted of studies published between 1966 and 2013 showed that 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels <75 nmol/L may be too low for safety and associated with higher all-cause mortality, demolishing the previously presumed U-shape curve of mortality associated with vitamin D levels....

>This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and around 8000 IU for young adults and thereafter. Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/
> there should

Or, we could accept that different people learn better in different ways. It's wonderful that a variety of learning resources are being made, so more people have the opportunity to learn complex and interesting topics.

> the information bandwidth or payoff is too low

Perhaps consider that you might not be the target audience?
A fair criticism. May I add that while people can work in the UK while waiting for their NI number (effectively UK tax code), the German residence/ID system seems to be necessary for everything starting at language courses and going up?

https://www.gov.uk/apply-national-insurance-number

https://www.settle-in-berlin.com/anmeldung/
> it seriously lacks the inner beauty of any *nix system

When I had to dig into the structure of Windows for a project, I came away with the opposite conclusion. The Windows core APIs are beautiful. They're entirely different from those in Unix, and come from a parallel tradition.

The Windows environment was frustrating, but that was mostly because I've got decades of Unix experience (read: reflexes for working around Unix frustrations). Fortunately I had lots of ex-Microsoft colleagues around me and they were able to quickly unblock me.
Problem is, as far as the coder is aware, the ideas are dismissed before the manager knows that the ideas were. Maybe bright; maybe not. Usually no explanation is made for why the ideas were dismissed. If an explanation is made, the coder isn't being disrespected and doesn't go down this path.
Type in every line of code from whatever book (dont just read it)
So this is setting video encoder options on a per-shot basis...?

Does this mean some shots have higher bitrate and others lower bitrate to keep a constant quality? If so, it hardly seems fair to show screenshots for comparison. Surely you're simply showing the shots which use a higher bitrate?
A reminder on (your) security
There is very little you have to add to "keeping everyone informed of what you are doing" to end up at micromanagement.
> Creating unit files is trivial [...]

Unless you expect anything but most trivial use cases, e.g. some user-owned
directory under /var/run (/run). Then you need to wild-guess at what
combination of options needs to be set. Good thing that those options are at
least described in docs.

> Seeing the logs of every service is also trivial since it's standardized. No more spelunking through /var/log or some random location.

syslog already was standard. We gained nothing really from journald.
They invested in competitors
But I thought it has been shown putting simple furnace filter on a fan is good enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU

Are you talking about other filters to filter the larger particles, and carbon filters? Because aliexpress sell them too.
That tends to happen when people are given anonymity.
Apologies ahead of time. I'm typing this on a small screen phone, and trying to not ramble :-)

We might be more on the same page than I realized On the one hand, I agree that it doesn't imply that it is necessary to have access to more than one sense.

On the other hand I do think that having access to more senses may make the problem a LOT easier, especially during the training process for teaching systems to do things like try to distinguish objects by sight.

Don't get me wrong, the progress made so far has been incredible, but it isn't surprising that we are eventually running into limits given the limited amount of data these systems have to train on.

Sort of riffing off of this - In particular, my sense is that when you are training on 2-D pixel data only, it is no wonder that no matter how clever your network is to extract high-level features from the data, you are going to run into these kind of issues. We are asking the system to perform a task (describing, classifying, etc.) about a fundamentally 3-d world, using only a 2-d image, when it has never had a "concept" of the world in 3 dimensions. I think that we take for granted that when we are learning, not only do we get information by seeing, but also touching and manipulating objects and existing in the world around us. We can see things in different lighting conditions, and we can also move our heads and our bodies and around the world and see things from new angles and manipulate them to learn the rich set of correlations between what we see, and what we experience...basically the rich structure of the world around us. A system which is trained on images alone doesn't have the integrated knowledge, which is what I was hoping to get at with the anecdote of adults being cured of blindness.

When you look at some of the work we do to augment visual data sets, by scaling images, cropping them, rotating them, skewing them, etc. its basically a poor mimcry of something that humans and animals get just by being in the world...this idea of learning that things remain the same and have a certain structure, regardless of the viewpoint we see them from. (From what I understand, this idea is also part of what inspires capsule networks).

Anyways, to come to my main point. Yes, you can absolutely identify objects, even a completely novel object after only seeing it once or twice. But I would argue that this is only because you already have a rich framework of the world as 3-dimensional spatially, along with all of the other priperties that object have that you have learned. So when you see a 2-dimensional picture, your brain can form a 3-d image of the scene, identify materials of objects, etc., which you can leverage. Things that our current AI systems have no idea of... so perhaps its a miracle they made it this far, and no wonder that we find they can get fooled by flipping pixels!

(I'll end my rant here with the caveat that I am a roboticist, so perhaps I have very skewed views of intelligence and feelings about embodied intelligence, but I'm willing to learn and be disabused of my notions!)
Why NASA's Scott Kelly Hailed Space Travel as “Fountain of Youth” – Inverse
>Many cryptographers and organizations, including the US Government, have recommended for a long time that people migrate from older "big prime cryptography" based cryptosystems to ECC based cryptosystems for increased security.

Not what I've heard.

https://threatpost.com/nsas-divorce-from-ecc-causing-crypto-...