skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think GP meant forced binding arbitration, where you can permanently sign away your right to sue in advance of an actual dispute. I believe this is a fairly unique issue to the US. Or are you stating that you can do the same in e.g. Canada?
As expected, the article seems to be a typical content marketing piece. If you're looking for real insights into evolutionary algorithms, specifically "neuroevolution", I highly recommend to read this article: https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/neuroevolution-a-different-kin...

I enjoyed it much more than - what feels like - a quickly thrown together marketing piece with no real value for the reader.
Every time someone says "this is about politics" or "they should leave politics out of it" what they mean is the politics they don't agree with. Same applies to the use of "identity politics".
It's funny because 95% of what he points out about Facebook applies equally to Google.
what makes it different than ordinary webhook ?
Let me summarize it for you, since it's worth taking seriously:

1) Facebook has a view into the opinions and behaviors of the people that use it. Hopefully this statement is not controversial.

2) Facebook also has the ability to influence those opinions and behaviors, by controlling what you see when you use it. This statement may have been controversial at some point, but experiments have been run (by Facebook!) that demonstrate this is true.

Put the two together and you have a feedback loop that can be optimized to produce a particular set of opinions and behaviors. To pick an extreme (and extremely obvious) case, if Facebook decides it needs to goose revenue, one way to do that would be to selectively filter in the posts (both ads and non-ads) that reinforce purchasing things through Facebook ads.
Mastodon? It is decentralized. So, you can create your own instance and get everyone you know added to that instance.
Developers are very quick to level the finger at players for the emergent behavior that their game systems create.

Frustrating game experiences where players feel like they've had no agency in their loss lead to people being upset, which leads to people venting, which leads to people avoiding communication unless they vent. Most games that have this cycle start off fairly pleasant, and become increasingly angry places over time.

I'd be exceptionally surprised if this initiative actually deals with the core issues of frustration and poor skill conveyance rather than improved methods of having people suppress their anger while playing.
Life long Texan and agree San Antonio has the best Tex Mex. Houston & Austin are close enough to be very good (and where my expectations come from, first 25 years living there). I live in Dallas now, the Tex Mex here is just horrible (comparatively). It's more of a Cali/modern inspired style. I've only found a couple places that are close to what I consider authentic, but they're in odd locations that are difficult to patron. This, well the Dallas food culture in general (it sucks), is my biggest complaint about living in this city.

That said, I still eat Tex Mex 2-3 times a week, but always look forward to my visits back to Houston/Austin. Unfortunately don't make it to SA too often but will give that place a try next time I do.
It's a lot harder to quit the NK government than it is to quit LoL
>Not surprised at all.

Neither result would be surprising, that is why this issue requires research.
I hate Confluence. It's a worst piece of software imaginable. Their wysiwyg editor is not just total crap, it feels like its intended purpose is to make you mad by irritating you inexplicably.
Its UX is a complete mess. It makes me really sad to have to use such crap in 2018 - age of distributed computing and cryptocurrencies, dawn of AI and self driving cars.
Sure.

1. I'm friends with multiple people who used to work at Renaissance, and I've directly spoken with folks who are currently there (among other, similar firms).

2. I've read the research published by professors and post-docs before they were hired.

3. I have first hand experience developing forecasts for various market research firms and many hedge funds. I've seen first hand what the difference is between the firms that say they're quantitative and the ones that are quantitative.

Not to discourage you (and you probably already know this) but: since you've already worked in the industry, Renaissance is very unlikely to take you seriously as a candidate. I'm not sure if that's what you meant when you said you're interested, but I figured I'd put it out there.

In any case, contrary to popular belief it's possible to connect the dots on what firms like RenTec do. But just having a high level idea of how they work isn't nearly enough to replicate their success. Their success relies on a large number of interdisciplinary scientists cooperating with the support of an incredibly specialized infrastructure. Getting the cliff notes on how they achieve e.g. dimensionality reduction doesn't come close to cutting it.
That’s a good question, and an interesting point.

(though I think they mostly hang themselves)
This helped me:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976563870322999296.html
According to [1], a high-end FPGA can do "AlexNet inference performance: int16 over 2,400 img/s, int8 over 4,500 img/s.". Plug in your favorite nVidia numbers and compare.

[1] http://mipsology.com/zebra.html
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Facebook also tracks users across the web, isn't that what the like buttons are for?
Unfortunately, I screwed up the question. As downvotes will have me in the penalty box until sometime later tonight, I made a new username in hopes of salvaging some value from my incomplete original asking of the question as I feel it is an important topic.

A hopefully improved asking of the same question:

Two employees, one 22 years old, one 50 years old. The younger employee makes $46k, the older employee makes $127k.

While the older employee has slightly better useful to the company experience, an omniscient (this is an sincere attempt to stop people from avoiding the question being asked) being would judge the younger employee to have objectively superior cost/benefits to the company. In other words, for the context of this particular question only, the older work does NOT offer experience-based value superior to the younger worker.

In some countries, such as the USA, the older employee would be protected by age discrimination legislation. However, not all global companies are limited by the type of worker's rights legislation noted in the article.

While this survival of the fittest, hyper-capitalism approach will optimize return on investment and technological innovation, I suspect it is also ~destroying the careers of many high achievers who would likely have outperformed in other fields without having their careers derailed.

As well, in a globalized free trade world, this would limit the competitiveness of countries who have passed such legislation. (Once again, our omniscient being above has confirmed this assertion.)

Does anyone see a way to reconcile this? Or in other words, how might one explain how this is "no problem, at all"?
Well, you could try: https://kuende.com - still not mature as a product, but not far from it

I'm part of the team, we are running a token sale somewhere around the next couple of months (https://ico.kuende.com <- easier to understand the vision from here) and planning a "paradigm shift" of social media, so to speak.

I guess, given the current drivers within traditional social media and all the associated bull*t, we might have a shot at fulfilling our vision.
Did schools stop offering programming classes?

Basically. Sometime around the late 90s - early 2000s many schools started to drop computer classes.
What I've sometimes done when I've needed a second level quote, or needed to both quote the parent comment and something else, is use a code block but word wrap it at some length hopefully not too wide for mobile.

Here is an example using blocks wrapped to 40. How is this on mobile?

>This is a top level quote

second level quote something about the
quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
poodle

third level quote the fox was Scottish
and wearing a kilt, and nothing else.

fourth level quote when he jumped over
the poodle she saw his junk and
complined to HR

fifth level the fox got in trouble for
harassement, and the poodle got in
trouble for cultural insensitivity to
Scots

sixth level also the company got in
trouble with OSHA for putting the
poodle's workstation in a place where
others had to jump over her to get in
and out of the building
Scuttlebutt, a decentralized social network protocol. Currently a small niche community that is reminiscent of early internet communities.

http://scuttlebutt.nz/

Since it is a protocol, there are several clients that behave differently and you can create your own. ( https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ )
Wow, that webcomic is really well drawn and interesting as well. I'll have to keep my eyes on this one.
We've updated the link from https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/22/gitlab-adds-support-for-gi... to this announcement.
If you prefer to put faith in people's abilities (at this point in time) you're being intentionally headstrong in the face of overwhelming proof that that doesn't work. It's been a very long time since the games in question have launched and they're filled with toxicity.
> [I unfollowed all my friends] [...] I still get to use it as a address book.

I'm not understanding something here. Is that an empty address book, or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to? I was under the impression that the default information visible to folks not on your "Friends" list was pretty limited, which is why [Cambridge Analytica/Kogan] needed to use an app to scrape data from users' friends.
I think you've hit on the core of the problem but the solution is always skated around.

"But in games you are forced to interact, either as co-op or opponent."

The typical response here is to give players a greater degree of blocking and selection, which I find to be particularly unappealling as it becomes a case of "whack-a-mole". Similarly muting toxic players works the same way, you have to expose yourself to it to find out if you want it blocked.

For me, I'd opt for an option that is muting/deafening myself. Allow me to say I don't want to interact or be acted upon and have that apply globally. There is never an instance where I'd turn this back on and have these set throughout the duration of the game (I.E, I can't turn it back on, just to emote my fuck you and block the opponent from replying.)

My ideal scenario in multiplayer games is to have the skill and randomness of human players without any of their personality. Games that do this reasonably well are games like PUBG, where I can mute the mic and there is no text chat. Similarly the game is frantic enough that taking the 20 seconds to emote your way to some obnoxious point backfires more routinely than not. (However I'm not a fan of the fact they have just introduced emotes... it bodes not well.)

I think because of this there is a class of "not-multiplayer" online game players who want all the game play aspects that multiplayer has to offer, but none of the interactions. I'd sacrifice the respectful people matching rewards (and you're right, it's awesome when that happens) if it meant getting rid of dickheads. But that is up to the individual.
There are apps that let you send SMSs from your PC. Telegram also has a desktop version.
Training simulated datasets before real data is collected
True, but it does have end-to-end encryption so their ability to leak or abuse your data is a lot more limited.
I think that's the point. You choose the best tech at the moment given the requirements with some headroom. Why waste engineering time to make sure it is hardened to support 10x load? Sometimes it is easy (use a different library) but most of the time it is hard.
To anyone reading, please do send a pull request (or an email, see my HN profile) with examples. I put this together in my free time, but would love to crowdsource more examples and general points.
Surely the power of Facebook is in how the data they have on you can be used to influence you. That is, it's about what you are fed. You just need to be a conscientious consumer.
People kill each other mercilessly in games all the time; that doesn't happen too much, at least overtly, in most countries' political systems.
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Cloudflare Bets on ARM Servers as It Expands Its Data Center Network
There’s a lot of nice players that play hearthstone, and most of the time that people add me after the game, they say something nice, but that 20% that is just like ‘I hope you get cancer’ just makes me never want to accept friend requests.

Blizzard has no way to report people for making shitty comments in chat. So you just never talk to anyone.
what kind of magical thinking is that, that what the constitution says determines who has guns? anyway, it isn't the point. the point is that the majority are if anything more likely to support a tyrant than not, so the idea that gun nuts will save us from a tyrant they have at least a 50/50 shot of supporting is silly, and that's without considering the possibility that they'll save us from a tyrant who actually isn't a tyrant at all.
That's just the thing about Tex-Mex: it's a dumpy-looking plate. A truly authentic plate of chile con carne enchiladas consists of corn tortillas softened in hot oil, then filled with greasy cheddar cheese (never that white-and-yellow mix crap), then topped with enchilada gravy (a roux), and greasy all-beef chili (no beans!!!!) and more greasy cheese. It's assembled and then put under a broiler to melt the cheese. The result is a melted mess on the plate. Not fancy, but oh, does it taste good... Blanco Cafe is a dingy little hole in the wall with chipped tables and dirty fluorescent lighting on the ceiling but it's the best plate of enchiladas you've ever had. Order the Mexican Dinner plate.
Google! I joke, I joke.

Just send them all an email or a last FB message with your contact information. Seriously... you are not that important for 90% of the people in your FB contacts to care about. Go outside and get some fresh air and enjoy life. the people who you really matter to will either email or call you.
The Twitter essay is my least favorite thing about the future we live in.
I knew from the headline his company sounded familiar. He sells coffee mixed with snake oil - I'm sorry, I mean butter. Wait, no - medium chain triglyceride oil. Now that sounds more like it does something.
This article explains very little about the actual technique. Digging into the paper, it seems like this has to do more with training a network with multiple data sources at the same time, to take advantage of related patterns across data sets.

I'm not professionally versed in NNs myself, but what would be the closest equivalent to recreating this sort of training with tools available today? (in Keras or R for instance)
And energy efficiency with all things equal: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/976560820611031040
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Yes I just use the messenger app for this reason. I haven't opened the actual FB app on my phone for ages.
The death is fake, the racism isn't.
Or you could find a node that's run by someone you trust, or at least trust more than FB.
Why not build it rather than "going to it"?

https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi...

YOU are the next Zuck.
I agree with everything. Going by that logic, I think we should all celebrate that Google Plus is not as successful as Facebook. But for all your concerns, Mr.Chollet, what assurances can you give us about Google being not involved in something similar?
I don't really understand why you would think that "avoiding change" is an offense to be fired for.

Your opinion seems to lack every bit of possible nuance: say i'm manager A trying to raise awareness about tech B in company. I have every right as employee C to be skeptical because if B is bad and pointless, I'll be punished for following A's decision. Of course A has every right to spread B even if bad, because it will make A seem awesome in the process.

My general point is: resistance to change is a spectrum and is often mixed with office politics and strong opinions on both sides. Trying to blame someone merely for wanting to keep the status quo is absurd.
Whatever happened to Path ? This was supposed to be a "private" version of Facebook that you had more control over.
Tax advantages, and the fact that you shouldn't put your entire net worth into a single illiquid asset.
Food photography is insanely difficult: just like they say, "the camera adds 10 pounds", lighting and color differences between direct vision and photos make food look slightly off. Our brains are attuned from millions of years of evolution to see anything slightly off with our food to be gross. As a result, even food that looks delicious in person looks disgusting in photographs unless you're extremely careful to get the lighting just right. Professional photographs like this[1] are carefully lighted and highly edited, and even slight variations can make the lettuce look a bit off and the bun a bit burnt[2] or the pickles seem old and the cheese fake[3].

Long story short: people's low-res cell phone photos of half-eaten food taken under fluorescent lights basically indicate nothing about the food.

[1] https://www.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/usa/documents/newbigma...

[2] http://louiseroserailton.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/mcdo...

[3] http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/10/article-2171302-13...
Toxic communities is the strongest reason why I am not playing online games at all.
Bad players drive out good players. If you had a game that had zero tolerance for shitty behavior and an enforced code of conduct, you’d have a better community.
More power to them!
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The original title was "GitLab adds support for GitHub".
Now that GitLab supports GitHub, I'll go to GitLab for all my support questions about using GitHub!
Typo on traditional Welsh:

The traditional system is basically vigesimal (base 20), but it calls 50 "half-hundred" and 19 "two-nine", and it also uses 15 as a reference point.
Try opening about:performance from the address bar to see if a particular site is slowing it down
>It is an interest idea and a great starter for philosophical thinking, but no-one is treating it like literal gospel.

Of course not. "Gospel" is a religious concept. They're claiming that it's a plausible, scientifically-supportable theory.

I don't think it's an interesting idea at all, nor do I think it's a good starter for philosophical thinking. I think it's Creationist nonsense.
Train Buffs Are Traveling in Super Luxe Railcars Hitched to Amtrak Trains
Read the OP, people. OP clearly said "Facebook for me is mainly a self updating address book", that's what they need a replacement for.
You realize you're talking about a video game, right? Calm down.
Thank you, saved it for later. Do you have any other links to offer?
Is there a photo of these Daleks?
He's ignoring the fact that YouTube is as bad if not worse than Facebook.

They might demonetize some radical channels but they're still making money on users who get to YouTube through those channels.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/media/youtube...

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/d3w9ja/how-youtubes-algo...
I doubt they'd need the word "coffee" to infer what's happening when said message gets sent. Who sends it and to whom would be just enough thank you very much...
> or does FB allow you to still access the information of people you're no longer connected to

Unfollowing removes someone's posts from your wall but they remain connected as friends. (You can also like a page and unfollow it)
a towel isn't a good defensive weapon. a firearm isn't so good either. it's a great offensive weapon though.
Saying "No" or shutting that door down is a bad thing that I don't like either. Rephrase it by using "sure, we could build that, however it will require X person-days with a team of Y senior level engineers."
>>>Instagram

>>Instagram is still Facebook!

>Really!!!! I will use WhatsApp then

While the whoosh and snark are amusing, they may not work out well for any involved....
That's a great point, I'll make it clear in the intro that it is for both.

I wrote it initially for engineers, but then kept finding examples in other fields.

For engineers, you can read part 3 in my MongoDB series ("The Marketing Behind MongoDB") to see a common playbook at dev tool companies specifically:

https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html
Clean code: takeaways from a love story
On the other hand, it encourages writers to make every individual paragraph as inflammatory as possible (I've never once read a quality newspaper article with "Let that sink in" in it), wilfully encourages paragraphs to be taken out of context, and means that 'readers' get a half-baked thought from the middle of an article dumped in their newstream. This is entirely not how media was meant to be consumed.
Same here, and our experience with them has thus far been great. Many times IBM doesn't know what they're giving up -- or they simply don't care.
As someone mentioned in a comment section elsewhere, "It is very easy to sacrifice another person's job."
Are you advocating for government subsidized ammo and training? That's something I could get behind!
With this, you remain friends with them, you're just not "following" them in the RSS sense - it destroys the news feed.
Unfortunately not in this domain.
You don't know what school your kid is going to end up in, because of the lottery system. You might have your kindergartner going to school across the city.
> Talking about all that as if it would be all just about badly written literature is misleading.

It's dishonest. And they know they're being dishonest.
El Paso would like a word with you.

Agree with you on the food situation in Dallas in a general sense. But you can find loads of great tex-mex in East Dallas and Oak Cliff.
The importance of stupidity in scientific research (2008)
I didn't even know that was a brand name until now, I've been making it myself for months.
Among professional jobs, software is the only one where you go out of demand as you age. Doctors, lawyers, civil engineers, architects routinely peak in their 50s, but in tech if you haven't transitioned into management by 40, you're not valued anymore.

How did this even come to be?
The comment I replied to quoted those stats and said that mass shootings (not murders, shootings specifically) aren't a US specific phenomenon nor linked to gun availability.

While of course no country can ever be mass shootings free and immune to them since a determined person (ISIS, Breivik, etc.) can always get a gun eventually I was just pointing out that based on the cited stats USA is standing out with regards to frequency (even compared to much more populous China, India, EU+UK+Norway, etc.) so there is some US specific phenomenon related to mass shootings (for whatever reason, gun availability, society, heat, magic, that's beside the point I was making).
I can't be the only one who would donate to a Kickstarter (or similar) to fund this. :) If you've already got it scanned, it would be easy to outsource some of that work.
Are there any possible holes in the making you see now? I was curious for a while if crypto was going to pose a systemic risk, but the total market cap[0] was never really high enough.

[0]https://coinmarketcap.com/