skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sure seems that way but we also see the same tendencies in many other disconnected cultures. It’s widely associated with consumerism. Do you think that’s a misconception? I don’t. I am really far from being an expert but I grew up around a lot of I think was protestantism aftermath. I get the impression Puritanism was a culture founded on demonizing symbolism by way of different symbolism, which making it ripe for commercialism thanks to simplistic abstractions of pride and honor and whatnot. Protestantism/Puritanism in the US seems like it was an optimized for agrarian life, which from my POV sounds pretty dismal. It was latent with judgement but not irreverent to social commitment; in many ways the opposite. I think it’s nature made it particularly vulnerable to consumerism in so many awkward ways. I think the stubborn social roles have persisted to an extent because they are still serving the existential purposes they originally served. Something many don’t realize is these tendencies are only amplified under the pressures of poverty. It looks like a paradox from the outside but on the inside, it’s a psychological survival tactic, which I relate to the isolation and precarity of agrarianism. But I can’t imagine it being so incredulous if it were not exploited and reinforced in consumer culture, ridiculous pop politics and advertising.

I might be wrong about some of this. It’s been a difficult subject to learn about.
I don't agree with your analysis.
I had success with GP because, as a programmer, I found it straightforward to map the problem domain onto a set of operations. Mapping the problem domain, IMHO, is the hardest part, and in all of my problems, it was hard to map it to differentiable functions. GP doesn't have that problem.
Near as I can determine, VSX in POWER9 is still 128-bit.
To be fair - the S Class is a relatively low volume car. I don't have exact figures, but I'd expect it to be in the range of 2-3% of the cars Mercedes manufactures.

BMW made nearly 2,000,000 cars in 2015[1], and this year, best case, Tesla will make 150,000. That's an order of magnitude difference in scale.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW#Production
Funny thing about "declining companies", some of these will see more money in their bad times than the sexiest startups in their heyday. It's cruel, but true.

I wouldn't look down on a manager who comes from such a company; they bring a different set of experience that a startup has not gotten to yet. I also think having access to relatively more money allows these managers to develop different kinds of skills.
That stuff is hot right now.
There is also something else: some funds have become so good in putting the right orders in the book that they don't need statistics so much to generate alpha.
Are document vectors supported analogously to word vectors? It's a bit peculiar to me that gensim withholds useful word2vec methods from the Doc2Vec class, like most_similar_from. I'd really enjoy having a common interface to both vector spaces.
I'm really excited to get my Talos finally in my hands (was one of the early orders). Good to see Tim Pearson and the demo system. I'm very hopeful the wait will be over soon.
I submitted 4 bars of a Boston song and what the AI generated was incredible if you're deaf or enjoy bleeding from the ears.
Bending and not-creasable sounds like a tough ask. Those tend to come hand in hand.
Be careful about taking on too many obligations. If you're single and your day job is not too demanding, you might make it work, but if you have a family, it can be tough.

I recently found some work through one of the freelance websites but had to back out. I'm a full time software engineer but I am also a full time dad and husband, and between shopping, cooking (I work from home so these tasks tend to fall to me), going to dance and music recitals etc., it was just too much.

Regarding networking, if your employer sends you to technical conferences, it's a great way to practice. Quite often I strike up a conversation over the breakfast buffet. People are usually quite relaxed and willing to chat while sugaring their coffee and grabbing a pastry. Everyone is in the same boat as yourself; they all want to network, build up useful contacts and potential business partners etc., so they will eagerly tell you about themselves, exchange cards etc. After you have been doing it for a while, networking can become natural and fun, and it's very worthwhile to cultivate a friendly and outgoing manner. You never know but it may result in your next job offer. Good luck!
Any reasonable or legitimate circumstance for short job periods can be explained with a well written resume, but yes it should be extremely clear one way or another that you aren't dropping into a series of short jobs and either getting fired or leaving for better job offers.
Answering job board ads is a numbers game - I can't get better than 20:1 even being very selective.
I don't think it's a fair comparison, people weren't (or at least, fewer people were) screaming fake news back then. It's not micro-targeting or advertising that has people riled up, it's the way it is being been used.
Rust is a very different beast indeed. The fun clearly doesn't come from the "flexibility/easiness" of the language (compared to Ruby), but really from the feeling that we're all still discovering a new paradigm, new ways to do things using its various features. Building state machines out of the type system is an example. Rust is still kind of a blank canvas just asking to be painted on.
Deutsche Post uses a fair amount of the standard "van-type" vans by VW, and even if someone else is making a custom body electrifying the chassis is clearly a job for VW.

Given that VW's CEO has been whining to the press about how annoying it is that VW is now not their customer but a competitor, they clearly now think that they should have wanted the job more. My guess is that they did not expect the Post (which as a massive, formerly state-owned company you'd expect to be fairly conservative) to risk going their own way and succeed with it, and thus misjudged the risk involved with letting them pass.
Sure, maybe they are good at getting right to work. But then they are gone and all that institutional knowledge goes with them and you have to start over with someone else.

There is a lot of value to having long term employees that have been around and know what is going on.
agree on the latter statements.

definition of words matter, word choice matters to avoid confusion it may cause.

if the original argument is that mostly good/moral people are the gun owners, i wouldn't know where to start on how they got that data, and came to that interpretation as both words are relative.
They are two sides of the same coin.

We understand that discrimination by race, gender, etc is wrong, as well as age, arguing anything else makes you (ironically) an old-fashioned pariah, haha.
remote friendly?
> We can't even create life from non-life.

We can't really define life in the first place.

But this is not necessarily to your favour. I think it's more of an indication of how the world doesn't fit into our... anthropomorphic way of thinking. That is, everything follows the laws of physics, no magic involved. We aren't special.
Graphs that connect users are not all the same. For example, it's much more common to follow relatives and people you know in real life on Facebook than on Twitter. (This is one of the reasons Google tried to build Google+: they were worried that not having a real social network would put them at a disadvantage.)

It's all privacy leakage but it's not at all the same data. Facebook's graph is still noisy but it's better or at least different data than other companies have.
Thank you for the explanation. I've created an issue. Feel free to continue the discussion there.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44553
I’ve experimented with this for a while. My clients often have very locked down windows laptops but they oddly allow hand typed powershell scripts to run.

If you “play” a series of qr codes with checksums and record them from a phone and process the video on the phone you can exfil data without tripping any IDS.

Opening a port often requires privileges or can at least trip an IDS. Silly really.
That deserves a serious wat. How could you be so dumb as to release internal non-opaque IDs.
I def don’t think your point is wrong, but doesn’t it fall far short of explaining the multi-cultural libertarian extremism we are seeing today?
Internships don't count to the general rules around job tenure.

You should probably be putting "Intern" after your job title on your previous roles, if you aren't already.

It might be worth it to also clear up your work history during the on-site interview too.
I wonder where it's going to go. Will the field fully stratify by tech stack? Kinda hard to imagine with how new stacks still pop up every 5 years or so.

I'm already kinda leery of taking jobs outside of my specialty. I'm not at the point yet where I won't switch stacks, but I can see it getting there.
The point is that machine learning algorithms' decisions always have some amount of error, and that this error goes way up in the real world.

The auto-car industry's marketing claims that self-driven vehicles are safer than humans just because computers have faster "reaction times" (they probably mean faster retrieval from memory).

But if your reaction is completely wrong it doesn't matter how fast you react. Reacting very fast with very high error will just cause a very fast accident- and make it harder for puny humans' reflexes to avoid it, to boot.
Also, chains seldom can keep their good quality, there is always someone that starts optimizing profit before quality. The small places lives by their quality and wants to be proud about their food.
I'm assuming a simpler model, no need for magic, because so far I don't see what behavior/data this simple model cannot explain.

> Clearly it's not that simple or easy, or we would have done it.

We don't have the computational power yet. Not to mention the vast amount of development required. Think of the climate models, that are huge (millions of lines of code), but they're still nowhere near complete enough, and they only have to model sunlight (Earth's rotation, orbital position, albedo), clouds, flows (winds and currents), some topography (big mountains, big flats), ice (melting, freezing), some chemistry (CO2, salts). And they only have to match a simple graph, not the behavior of a human mind (eg Turing test).

So, it's not easy, even if simple.

> We can't even create life from non-life.

We understand life. Cells, RNA, DNA, proteins, mitochondria, actins, etc. It's big, it's a lot of moving parts, and we understand it, but we can't just pop a big chunk of matter into an atomic assembler and make a cell.

And I think intelligence/sentience is similar. It's big, not magic.
Yes, but even when throttled, it can often be faster than full-clock less wide instructions, if your workload allows for it. So it's sometimes worth it and there is a benefit.
Opportunistic investigation of Monero miners during March 2018 network update
Trump isn't mentioned once in this article, nor is any theft of an election.
Epic Games shows off amazing real-time digital human with Siren demo
The S class is a prestige product for Mercedes, its volumes are minuscule compared to other models.

Tesla made about 100 000 cars in 2017. Mercedes produced almost 2.4 million.
Clipboard API Improvements
IBM already released patches for this, at least for POWER7+. Interestingly the Meltdown issue seems "only" to affect the L1 cache, so L2 does not need to be evicted. Raptor says all Talos systems will be patched prior to shipping.

https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Speculative_Execution_Vulnera...
A better way to visualize what’s on our networks
> I have a big problem with the general theme of this article, which is that plagiarism detection software is infallible and every student who disagrees with its findings is wrong and dishonest.

These claims were not made.

> You claim

> > We have virtually eliminated false positives at this point

> but offer no explanation for how you verify this.

Yes, he did. He described the process that arrived at the conclusion including "keeping only the cases that contain indisputable evidence — for example, hundreds of lines copied right down to the last whitespace error". It's clear from the context that this was verified by following up with the alleged plagiarizers. Indeed, he notes one false positive.

I'm not sure what your concern is. The article presents the process they've used for catching plagiarism and rather than point out any actual flaws, you attack the strawman of blindly using anti-plagiarism software and treating it as literally infallible.
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I'd heard rumours... Nothing concrete though, so I could be wrong.
Yes, but in the context of a single production line that I feel like that reasoning doesn't stand. Yes Telsa doesn't make as much in volume, but we're already only talking about cars in the EV segment.
> Arbitration itself is not a problem. The selection of the arbiters is.

That's true, if the goal is to settle a specific unique dispute between two parties.

The problem is that arbitration in the US isn't used as strategy to settle such disputes, it's used to keep disputes secret and divide-and-conquer wronged parties to make dispute settlement impractical for them. Basically, it serves to tip the scales further in favor of the largest, savviest players.
When I do freelance (which is never these days), Codementor (affiliate link): https://www.codementor.io/i/3tiesmnbt9

HackHands is pretty fun too (https://hackhands.com) but very short term stuff and very low volume. If you have spare time it's nice though.
It's banal but sensible in response to someone claiming a large difference between two fundamentally similar things. Either both or neither "invents".
Other than the one in my house, you mean?
Hey, I checked you site, great work!

Only issue for me is that you only support stripe for payments and is not available in my country, Uruguay.

Why is that? Why not leave the payment chanel free? Or use paypal or something else?
Not bad for a roof of concept...
Uber crash ‘catastrophic failure’ of its self-driving technology, experts say
I think the issue is that it's $7500 in one transaction if a battery goes bad, versus the cost of fuel which is spread out over the lifetime of the car.
> Based on the screenshot, one security expert WXIA showed it to said that it resembled the message from a variant of Samsam, a family of ransomware that struck a number of hospitals two years ago.

Could this be one of those that exploited a Java de-serialization vulnerability in Java-based application servers a couple of ago as the excerpt says?

Java is an absolute buggy bag full of vulnerabilities, can't believe people/organizations still run this shit.
But I don't use it for painting with a tablet! I just want to crop screenshots and draw arrows on them. On a HiDPI screen, without the whole app being blurry.

Why not provide a --no-tablets-i-just-want-wayland option that would not force the X backend?
Ok. A fuck ton of metrics show the market is currently overvalued. Are you going to put on a short and just sit and wait? How much money might you be losing in the meantime? What's the opportunity cost of having your money sit there while it could be earning returns elsewhere?

Last year equity index vol was ridiculously low. Tons of hedge funds held long volatility positions and kept rolling. Even with the events earlier this year, they still ended up down money on the position.

If you really think investing off business cycles is long term profitable, you don't know what you're talking about.
Which is then no different to DL or any other learning algorithm.
Grandma’s Harajuku: Tokyo's shopping street for the elderly
Focus on a niche and become the go to person in that field. In my case, I work specifically with non-profit organizations that focus on Native American/First Nation issues. By narrowing down my target, I have been able to build a profitable network because I have specialized in that specific niche.

Once you have narrowed down your niche, its just a matter of being in the same room as your potential clients. For me, it was attending conferences and networking. But you could also hang out in subreddits, facebook groups, linkedin groups, forums etc if you are an introvert.
Also a consideration if hording tabs.

I am mildly annoyed by the memory usage taking almost 8 gb of ram for a mere 70 tabs [1].

I thought chrome had superior history search indexing full text once. Was that feature culled?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16560655
1. You can try cold emailing the cofounders or department chiefs (CTO, VP of Growth, etc.) of small to mid-size companies with a product that requires dev work.

For example, you can try targeting startups who just raised a recent round (= more aggressive growth goals) to pick up some dev/engineering slack on a project basis as they scale quickly.

There are tons of email finders (hunter.io, voilanorbert.com) that let you enter someone's full name and company name to find their email or their company's email format.

2. Keep your cold email short and frame hiring you as a way to launch and scale experiments, product test features, etc. on a project basis without needing to hire an additional full-time employee .

3. Briefly provide 2 examples of how you used your engineering skills to achieve an important business goal or solve a problem for companies you've worked for. Provide 1-2 reference quotes vouching for your work and reliability with links to their Linkedin profiles.

4. Offer to work on a project basis and offer to start on a small project with a defined deliverable to show them what you can achieve and how you'd be like working for you.

5. A/B test different email approaches. For example, you can also try asking the prospect "What are your top 3 roadblocks that require dev work? I can provide you insights on the most time efficient solutions that take up less people resources" to open the conversation and demonstrate your expertise.

6. Ask your current and previous colleagues to leave testimonials on your Linkedin profile to further show you're legit and skilled.
For those not in the know:

Each Power9 is consisting of either 2-super slices or 4-super slices, depending on which Power9 you get. (Corresponding to 4x SMT or 8x SMT respectively).

Threadripper has 4x integer pipelines, 4x floating point pipelines, and 2x load/store units (called AGUs by AMD) and supports 2-threads (aka: 2x SMT).

So Threadripper definitely is "broad", but Power9 is "broader". The 8x SMT Power9 can perform 8x loads / stores per cycle per core, while AMD's Threadripper can only perform 2x loads/stores per cycle per core.
Apple’s Getting Back into the E-Books Fight Against Amazon
If you were the owner of a small company and you have two employees who look identical on paper, but one seems to be jumping ship frequently in order to get higher salaries and one seems to be sticking with the same company for years, who are you going to hire?

If I'm giving advice to job seekers, I'd say move around enough to get good salary increases, but don't do it too frequently or potential employers will start to see it as a red flag.

If I'm giving advice to hiring managers, I'd say hire great people, but keep in mind that the best people often get bored or want salary increases, so they tend to move around. If you see someone who has moved around very frequently in the past, then there's certainly a good chance they'll be moving again in the near future.
It doesn't stop everyone from saying they make $35,000 cars. So it's a success, not a failure on the part of Tesla.
This is just a silly point of view. What if someone is the victim of a huge restructuring, like a whole business unit or a whole team is let go?

What if someone gets bait-and-switched by a hiring manager. (This happens all the time with machine learning, for example... in which you are expected to display an astronomically better quality set of skills during hiring than what the job will actually afford you to use or develop once you start working).

What if someone has family problems, illness, etc. etc.?

What if someone experiences _multiple_ of these things within a given ~5 year period?

Truly, people complain all the time about job-hopping employees, but I don't see companies offering loyalty. People get randomly laid off for no fault of their own, sold on a vision of a job that never comes true, ripped off on their bonuses, or any number of other legitimate reasons to start looking for a new employer even after a short time.

Also, if you find yourself in a position where you are reading 300 resumes, you're clearly going about this all wrong, and with the attitude you describe about dismissing people without even the tiniest bit of critical thought put into it, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
It might not be okay but it is different. At least in a technical discussion, we should be able to make distinctions rather than treating all data or all breaches the same.
I agree it was wrong to label Obama a political genius for that, but that doesn't make the current movement wrong too.
And articles such as this one only perpetuate the problem, continuing to push this broken paradigm where people should engage with these surveillance bureaus any more than suing them for libel when appropriate.

> Fundera said the percentage of people who froze their credit in response to the Equifax breach incrementally decreases as people get older... Thirty-two percent of millennials

This is truly sad. I'll give older people a pass for clinging on to a system that they remember as having worked, but younger eyes should see through the nonsensical status quo. Unfortunately, they're still naive and apparently doing what nebulous authority tells them to avoid marks on their "permanent record".
There doesn't need to be any physical impactors for there to be a significant effect on climate and life. Ice ages can start and end due to tiny changes in the Earth's orbital wobble.

https://phys.org/news/2016-12-ice-ages-linked-earth-orbitbut...
The only time I hosted a booth at a trade show, I got a few people who sounded interested in our product at first but who quickly tangented off into more general questions.

As one of my coworkers explained, there are investors of varying caliber wandering around and they often aren’t interested in your company. They’re getting the gestalt from the show floor by picking any brain that will give them the time of day.
Regarding your list of cons, what was "extremely racist" in Portland's past? I am mostly unaware of the city's history, but I visited the city recently and it seemed quite progressive in that regard (lack of diversity notwithstanding).
That's true, and is a good choice if you ask me, but that's an exception, rather than the norm.
I agree, although not sure if the current main legacy car manufacturers (VW, BMW, GM, even Toyota) would necessarily be the leaders in non-western countries. They might be losing on both sides, the high-end electric vehicles (less volume, lower margin) and the cars needed for developing countries.
Feels like, current car manufacturers have a lot to lose in the coming years...
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, because of the last two words. If it's in ernest, could you explain why you believe this?
why not

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These were executive orders, not legislation. It is quite common for new administrations to rescind or override executive orders of previous administrations. EOs usually direct an administration to enforce department rules a certain way and a new administration is within their right to interpret them another way. Enacting legislation that specifically spells out how certain rules are to be carried out is the best way to make them concrete. Nowadays it is very difficult to enact any legislation let alone remove it.