skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question. How much of this is cultural or psychological? Can people be trained not to take so much shit from bosses or automatically make the company's problems their problems?

I ask because at my current job, a lot of work is explicitly motivated by the threat of getting yelled at or publicly shamed in some way. I often wonder if these stressful interactions could just be handled politely but in a way that doesn't automatically turn into work that gets handled invisibly or passed down the chain to some other poor sap.
You keep editing your comments, so not sure what I'm responding to anymore. Anyway, I think it's disingenuous to argue that YouTube is not a common space, given that's how they describe themselves and how any reasonable person would describe their platform. Then to argue that virtual spaces are not protected by the first amendment contradicts the principles of free speech, and recent case law.
Pretty sure whatever she knew already (e.g. oil painting) at least had anti-aliasing; what I mean is that there are tools that are even simpler than MS-paint but produce better results ("better" as in art more likely to be liked by more people)
This is what I was hoping but not expecting to see here really.
There are liability reasons for not giving feedback. If I’ve had a good connection then I will give informal feedback on the phone only.
Interestingly, a lot of the low-end TVs in Europe are made in Turkey of all places (including panel manufacturing, I believe).
I Work alone and make sure I do awesome work for a reasonable fee. Working alone keeps costs low. Awesome work keeps referrals high. Reasonable fee keeps repeat business coming in.
Right, but what would be the difference if this program was produced by Deep RL algorithm, where the state is the current program (an encoding of the program) and the actions are valid instructions in your stack language?

An episode in this case is an iterative call to the Deep RL system until it outputs <STOP> at which step you give it a reward (negative number of collisions say), and before that you can send the actions to your stack machine.

Once you're satisfied with the final number, just concatenate all the produced actions to get your final program.

I just don't see a fundamental difference, especially once you start doing things like Asynchronous Actor-Critic et al.
And then you can start doing Monte Carlo Tree Search on top of that since you have a simulator available...
Yes, the shit they ship on their phone is horrible. I would never use or recommend one of their horrible phones.
I've had the chance to see the toll that a stressful environment (big tech company) can have on physical and mental health - I've experienced it personally and noticed it in others that I work with.

The part about a big tech company being a stressful environment isn't the thing that surprised me, but rather people's responses to how they react to either being on the receiving side of the stress, and management's failure to respond to this or even try to talk about it.

The thing that bugs me the most about the entire situation is that most of the stress that seems to exist, mostly exists because of people who have no idea what they're doing, make decisions they have no business making. Then you have engineers that either come from cultures that are high in agreeableness, or they've never been very assertive themselves and just accept these decisions, thinking it's a situation of "if I don't do this I'm going to get fired".

Most of the people I work with don't even consider the option of just taking an extended period of time off to prevent being burned out because they're basically tied to their employment due to work visas (you guessed it, Indian and Chinese workers) and a lot of them are trying to support family back home. So even leaving their job and taking extended time off isn't a viable option.

Don't even get me started on how I've seen people's physical and mental health completely deteriorate. I know lots of people in my organization that are extremely depressed and wouldn't even be the least bit surprised if I heard they ate a bullet tomorrow.

This whole industry has just motivated me to work to achieve financial independence/early retirement as soon as I can just so I never have to think about working with incompetent people in my life again, or at least, have the financial freedom to cut those relationships once they do arise. It sucks because I know I'll be working on tech related projects for the rest of my life, but I have to ignore the desire to work on things that will actually make a difference so that I can build up that nest egg to have the financial freedom and peace of mind to actually pursue it.
Couple this with algae growing and you could have a sustainable source of both food and water almost anywhere.

Yes, algae cakes are nasty but beggars cant be choosers.
That and, TBH, it's in China's best interests that they be in control of the narrative with other countries.
I wrote it in Scala below; it's a bit shorter, and I really like the map(base). Getting the digits from a number turns out to be most of the work, and the int->string->int conversion also seems to be the best approach.

val base = List("noa", "taha", "ua", "tolu", "fa", "nima", "ono", "fitu", "valu", "hiva")
def tongan(n: Int) = n.toString.map(_.asDigit).map(base).mkString(" ")
Don't worry, wage slavery is just a phase we're going though because right now we can't see out of the capitalist bubble we're in.

It doesn't have to be like this, and we will find our way out one day, be it through UBI, AI or other post-capitalist mechanism. Might take a few hundred years though, mind you. Once Trump has been flushed through at least.
I did something similar, though not for cheap :)

it does have the downsides you talk about, I did choose something which I was interested in exploring more. But it did begin to feel "painful" and was happy to finish it.

Now I just do my own side projects.
I doubt NetRegistry were sending you that web dev spam - there's really no need for them too - it happens _all the time_. The spammers are trawling the newly registered domain lists and looking up the domain contact details via whois. Doesn't matter _who_ you register domains with this happens (I've got several this week from a domain I registered using AWS Route53).

Net Registry are _very_ marketing pushy, so they've almost certainly recognised this and are trying to monetise it - but I strongly doubt they're going anywhere near "extortion". This is (in my opinion) less like "Nice place you've got here, it'd be a pity if something happened..." but closer to "Hey, we noticed you've moved into a kinda dodgy neighbourhood - have you considered one of our great insurance plans?"
That's a dual socket system with 16 cores per socket. Dual socket Epyc 7351 (also 16 core per socket) is faster and more power efficient than that. 3200H/s at 332W.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=226&v=CS7M392Ia_...

I'm sure there are workloads that really do benefit from the huge unified L3, but it seems like a pretty small niche.
Shouldn't this argue for everyone having long tenures, since it's unlikely you'll actively fire competent employees just because they started at their job too long and got too well trusted.

Having a few long term employees and a bunch of short term ones is the worst case scenario, since it only accentuates the disparity in company-specific reputation and clout.
Brilliant! Thank you for taking the time linking the paper looks very interesting.
> Once again, the point is that software will continue working beyond that deprecation event.

Yes, python 2.x code will work - but in the event major CVEs for a piece of software stack that's deprecated, you are left to no choice but to fix on your own. Those sometime are by no means no small feat! And mind you this is an ongoing battle to patch up security holes.
Hmm. Cloudflare provides free TLS certificates automatically. The feature you're describing is for if you want to upload your own certificate and private key to Cloudflare for it to use on the edge. Do a lot of small projects really need that?
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Completely agree with these awesome tips.

I began to get problems in my right wrist from too much mousing (and probably using wrong mice for too long). I started switching between right and left mouse usage, and not only did it reduce the pain in the right side, but I found I adapted to left mousing fairly quickly and easily.
> Time with kids, no worries about the future, or how you are going to eat when you retire, if you get to retire. Good times.

The numbers say you're wrong: http://www.nber.org/aginghealth/summer04/w10466.html
Seriously, when is the last time you ate at a good restaurant serving Canadian food. :-)

On a more serious note, one of the interesting things about the IBM Watson Cookbook was looking at food not by region but by k-means clustering around a set of spice vectors. It really drove home for me the notion that 'regional' food really was more about the reliable availability of certain flavors and spices than it was around culture or people.
There is irony in this coming from a business school professor who sends his students into jobs with terrible hours.
If the candidate lives in a one-party state your ass is toast!
> you'd just need to suck Death Valley's air dry to an altitude of 10,000m or so

It seems likely that, as the atmosphere becomes less dense with increasing altitude, so does atmospheric water. One cubic meter of air at sea level contains a lot more air than one cubic meter of air at 6,000m. Does your figure include that effect?
I want to build a gaming review site using machine learning and neural networks
I want to build a site which takes data from amazon, reddit and other forums and organises the data to give reviews on gaming products

In the spirit of this, but tailored to gamers:

https://thereviewindex.com/us

The ultimate aim would be to have a website where you could at a product and get a score based on amazon reviews, reddit comments and other metrics.

Like this, except for gaming products:

https://www.gurufocus.com/stock/AAPL

I have a few questions:

-Would this be difficult to build?

-How much would it cost to hire a freelancer to do it (obviously a ball-park figure)

Also, if you have any criticism would be glad to hear it!

Thanks
Do you mean liability as in liability for discriminatory hiring practices by providing feedback?
I hope companies would be willing to donate to oss after seeing this
2020 is only 2 years from now.
Actually, evolutionary strategies make use of either empirical or naturalised gradients on the search space.
A person on his way to Burnout Paradise.
In a lot of browsers, if you right-click you can choose "copy URL" to see what it says (and then maybe search for it online without visiting it).
It's hard to evaluate a percentage, especially since culture and psychology are intertwined. However, there's much research going on about resilience in several contexts, and as far as I know, there are ways to take it easier, however there tends to be cultural factors at stake.

Anyways, while teaching resilience could be interesting, imo we should also make the world a place where we need less of it, for both moral and practical reasons : not everyone may be able to develop enough resilience to deal with it.
‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ Video of Mating Deep-Sea Anglerfish
Certification isn't a necessity in the face of accepting uncertainty. Once we accept the lack of certainty around hiring people, we can start coming up with solutions to overcome certification.

The companies experimenting on such things are more likely to be able to adapt to a climate where certification is becoming meaningless.

Hopefully, more companies will realize certification designed for the industrial age has run its course and academia will no longer be incentivized to continue gatekeeping via certification and will get back to focusing on education.
I'm sure you're aware of this, but a lot of people just don't have the financial freedom to even begin thinking about a decision like this, or it ends up requiring a lot of energy to make that plan viable. And as you've probably experienced, energy is not exactly abundant after a day/week/month/etc in an environment like that...
100% true.

> I don’t think this way of working has hurt my career progression

I am sure it has helped.
Most any form of helping someone out carries risks. Part of what makes acts of kindness praiseworthy is the acceptance of those risks for the sake of another person.
> The irony of your statement when guns flow from the US to Mexico, not the other way around.

Does it make my statement any less true?

Does the current direction of gun flow matter when we are talking about a future US gun ban?
"Not take shit from your boss" = "get fired by boss for 'insubordination' "
I interpreted "the workplace" as him referring narrowly to white collar work (either in an office doing clerical/technical work or in a mobile setting like a salesperson).
> We don't need redundant brakes & steering or a fancy new car; we need better software," wrote engineer Anthony Levandowski to Alphabet CEO Larry Page in January 2016.

Looks like Uber has attracted Levandowski due to his cultural fit.
Judging from his profile he consults now: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=osrec
And there are competing humanitarian reasons for giving it. The sadness is that our laws choose the institution over the individual.
> areas that would not significantly suffer from a marginal reduction of rainfall (the oceans, the arctics, mountain ranges)

Agreed as to the ocean and the arctic, but precipitation over mountain ranges is generally recovered by lower-altitude communities when the water eventually flows down to them.

Snowmelt has been a major source of water historically.
UK passport to be issued after Brexit will be made in France
As I was reading this I was thinking "uh oh, here comes the techno-utopian nonsense", but then I got to the "few hundred years" part. Yup, sounds about right. Cheers to dialectics.
Doesn't normaly make the news

One of they ones I heard was about a painter who when painting the walls of a small exchange put the paint can across the bus bars which shorted and exploded the can of paint.
What about just curved displays? Like in a car, it seems there could be some interesting applications (screen embedded in windshield, or wrapped around the dashboard or center console). Is curved glass tech also a barrier, because I feel I've seen very few applications of curved displays other than TV's.
> I started the process of signing up, but stopped when you wanted me to sign up for a stripe account. I would prefer to look around more, see what kinds of things jobs are posted before I go though the hassle.

Valid feedback. We have been concentrating on improving the client signup experience for the past couple weeks, and it has made a huge difference. We will focus product efforts on improving the contractor signup experience soon.

> I'm also confused about what exactly you offer. Are you more like an online recruiter, or more like upwork, or a job board?
> How do you make your money? Do you charge people to post positions, or do you tack something onto the hourly rate, or?

It's more like upwork. Clients can post jobs, or directly hire you through your profile. Moonlight has some product management capabilities, and we manage weekly invoices. We add a 15% processing fee on payments. You get your full hourly rate.

> I don't want to sign up for something unless I know what I'm getting into and out of it.

Email me and I can setup a video call to show you the product!
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crofton_formula

Also see page 41 of Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Manfredo Do Carmo
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As I type this comment, there are 46 other comments, not one of them using the word "union". That's the only feasible method I can see to enact large scale change. CEOs and other executives aren't going to change out of the kindness of their hearts, as evidenced by the fact that they could start at any point and still choose not to.
> I 100% guarantee it.

Your one experience doesn't guarantee the next person's.
It kills me every time, but I NEED my paycheck more than I prefer to help my fellow human.

You're not wrong, or a bad person for doing this, and I do it too. We are weak people though, and as a group we're the reason why the line keeps getting pushed and pushed until we don't even remember where it started.

At some point we're going to have to push back, and the longer we wait, the harder and longer we'll have to push.
All of IBM DNA is structured to sell big contracts and deal with a relative small number of customers with very deep pockets.

Even when they try some new trend ( aka cloud computing for the masses ) the economics aren't that good because the way they are structured, it's a culture thing.

It's like Intel developing ARM CPUs, they have the means, but they can't do it successfully.
Apparently they fixed the design a bit, previously (at least here in Austria) you couldn't order one without the fugly blue lining in addition to the 2 main colors.
I'd assume that since the thing depends on the day/night cycle, it'd be millimeters / day.
you think developers aren't going to game the system big time
The author is making a distinction between whether Uber was legally at fault (as stated in the article, likely not) versus whether the accident was avoidable. I agree with the author's position that the accident was likely avoidable.
Both this comment and the parent are clearly false; the e-Golf looks just like a gas Golf.
Yup suddenly you can't walk and they find your spine has decomposed and you're facing major spinal surgery and partial or full disability. That happened to a friend of mine a major retail manager for 10 years then her back literally gave out and she had to have steel implants then was on opiates for 7 years coping with the chronic pain.
Note that it's black and white, you may have different perception with this screen compared to LCDs.
You apparently missed the whole "100 inch TV" craze of the early 2000s...
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We (Oregon State University Open Source Lab) have been working with IBM for the last few years to help with this problem. We host a set of P8 (and soon P9) machines for them so FOSS projects can work on porting issues. You're welcome to sign up if you're interested [1].

[1] http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/
Ask HN: Why not make Facebook a paid service?
If Zuckerberg / Facebook truly care about thier users and its data and privacy - why not just charge users to pay for the services and remove ads?

It would be great if somebody can break down the incentives to keep it free (and have ads) vs to make it paid (and have no ads) from a Product and Market perspective.

All you Product Managers feel free to have a go at this! Gauntlet has been thown - no pressure :)
Yeah, I have no doubt NetRegistry aren't doing it directly. I've never had this happen with other registrations and I thought NetRegistry was a good company that was aware of this, I mean why couldn't they include this in the price? I would have paid even if it was $1 dearer.
Anyway, I take your point about their marketing, thay could do a lot better though, thanks for your level headed response :)
It’s infinitely cheaper if you want a display on your windshield to just do what aviation HUDs do: project upward onto the glass.
Uber is the Blackwater of Silicon Valley
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Right, I'd recognize a tesla because it 1) a good looking car that draws my eye and 2) has no front grill.

Nothing fancy about it.
I really like the sound of this! I've been using a bullet journal for my contracting work and it's been great, and yours sounds like a good system for managing personal projects. I've tried using digital tools and run into the same problem as well - too much ceremony which I don't have a lot of time for outside work anymore.
Do you mean state-sponsored social media activity? The commenter's account was created within the last hour....
I used to have 300dpi Kindle Voyage so I know where my threshold with e-ink lies. 220dpi is on my 4k monitor, which is fine from 3ft/1m but not closer.
But is the term actually valid signing a contract with an illegal term makes that term invalid.
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Nowadays, modularization is key. A common toolkit/template, optimized for keeping large parts of the manufacturing process the same.

Take VW for example, with their Modularer Querbaukasten (arguably the most well-known example, although others like Toyota have done this for longer). Cars from the Polo up to the Passat are based on the same platform, retooling is kept as low as possible.

All big players have gone modular. Everywhere, the number of different models based on the same platform has gone through the roof, with new (often relatively low-volume) variants arriving each year. (I swear, one of these days Mercedes is going to run out of letters! :) )

The biggest issue yet: Current toolkits aren't really geared towards EV - but: this is rapidly changing. As soon as the new generation of toolkits arrives, things could happen really fast.
"Move fast and break things" is exactly the opposite of what a responsible driver must do.
The day I discovered all Likes were public I went and deleted all of them. God knows who got them before I did that (and I’m sure Facebook still uses them).
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In the US a a couple years ago you were seeing leases for the i3 starting $250/month thanks to tax incentives.

There were a couple of municipalities in my area who caught flak for giving public employees BMWs to use on the job but they were quite literally the cheapest option.
I think the familial boundaries defined within most societies promotes us-vs-them mindsets and a more inclusive, integrated framework is needed for peaceful coevolution within within sectors of life.

> Dying for a Paycheck, published by HarperBusiness and released on March 20, maps a range of ills in the modern workplace — from the disappearance of good health insurance to the psychological effects of long hours and work-family conflict — and how these are killing people.

Thought experiment: How can the world be different if we changed the understood definition of family from "home life" or "family of current origin" to "family of choice"? What then happens if the majority chooses humanity as its family, followed by collectively choosing to meet the needs of all in the family?
"Testing" of driverless cars seem to be the wrong way around. Software should try to learn from human drivers: watch them instead of being watched by them.

The way it would work would be: the human is driving and the software is, at the same time, watching the driver and figuring out an action to take. Every time the driver's and the software's behavior differ, is logged and analyzed to figure out why there was a difference and who guessed better.

But the way testing is currently going on, it seems millions of miles are wasted where nothing happens and nothing is learned.
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Also the artics are essentially cold deserts, they don't get much precipitation and there is likely very little that could trace its origin to the hot deserts of the world.
So they have an advantage against other hedge funds, but . . . most hedge funds underperform the market. So all you're doing by doing research is closing the deficit.
Why don’t we require software engineers who work on self driving car software to go through licensing and certification.

And then, if their code results in a death, they are liable and can have their license completely revoked, and they would be unable to work on self driving cars again.
The extreme numbers are for static cameras mounted on a tripod with a slow shutter speed. They won't do a tenth of that in a moving car at 45 mph.