skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Clearly we are fans of spaCy. I appreciate the offer on the pull request and would like to do so. Also, thanks for mentioning the clarification about the is_x attributes - I'll update the pages to improve the accuracy/clarity on that!
I think the standards are different in this case. While the pedestrian definitely should not have been where they were, and if this were an incident with a human driver, you would probably say the driver was not at fault, I think this is slightly different.

They are on the road with conditions because what they are doing is somewhat experimental still.
There is a safety driver for a reason that did not respond.
A human driver may have collided but would have responded and potentially avoided a fatality (if not a collision).
The benefits of autonomous driving completely failed on all counts in this case, which imply that being on a public road is far to early for Uber - suggesting some fault to lie with Uber or the regulators.
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> Summed up elsewhere, they are not being denied the right to say a certain thing, just the right to say it in a specific place (Reddit or Youtube).

YouTube has been running at a loss for over a decade. This has allowed it to become a monopoly and have undue influence on policing speech.

Censorship like this is an abuse of their monopoly privilege. The most appropriate free market solution is for the government to forcibly split YouTube off into a seperate company and let it compete in the marketplace.

In addition we can remove safe harbor provisions and start holding them responsible for the shady other content they don't remove.
Please tell us more. How does the stress compare? How does the pay compare?
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Indeed, it might be even worse. You generally aren't allowed to take a job outside your specialty these days unless you've got a friend on the inside, or very early in your career.

Or you can answer with 100% certainty a selection of twenty random questions on the new stack. Because there will always be one other candidate who dedicated their life to it. What you know right this second takes precedence over anything you might learn, even if you could look it up in thirty seconds.

There is a book about "mindsets" I read recently. The growth mindset (teachable) and the fixed (born smart/dumb) mindset. Tech interviews are firmly in the later category, to our detriment.
Should gun manufacturers be liable for shootings? Car manufacturers for hit and runs? What about the USPS for when people ship drugs or other illegal contraband?

This seems like an awfully slippery slope where companies are are not only responsible for their own actions, but also for the actions of their customers as well.
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head...

Google is already at least experimenting with POWER9, but it's not clear just how far that goes.
Sorry, cracking wise.
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I don't see China playing fair re IP theft anytime soon. They undercut everyone by exploiting their poor in their factories. So, in order for the manufacturing to start happening here in a way we can afford, wages would have to be very very low, or else robots. So, probably robots. I don't see this creating any jobs here.
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Making goods more expensive for Americans seems like short-sighted protectionism. But the desire to protect sensitive industries from Chinese takeover and IP exfiltration is a valid national security concern. So I'm both for and against this measure.
why are we counting hybrids? I'd really like an all electric car, but right I literally only have 2 options right now because i have a long commute. Tesla or Bolt. Nothing else has long enough range for me to get to work and back with any kind of leeway if I need to run to the store or something after work.

It's incredibly frustrating that there aren't more competitors making serious cars that aren't just compliance efforts. 80 miles of range is just silly.
That is the case as I understand it - you cant sell your self into slavery
I have an LG OLED TV, and I would recommend against purchasing an OLED for monitor use.

Burn-in is still a huge issue. I've used mine for about a year and the red channel is full of distracting burn-in patterns from still elements on my screen from things like wallpapers, tiled window borders, taskbar/docks, HUDs from games, etc.

Does anyone know if MicroLEDs could suffer from burn-in as well? I.e. do they also degrade over time based on usage?
I suffered from significant pain from 2012 through 2015 and finally I made the below changes to solve my RSI. Each one provided additional comfort.

COLEMAK keyboard layout

Contour RollerMouse Pro3

Regular wrist stretching

Apple keyboard*

*instead of Mechnical keyboards that require more force and vertical movement to depress a key

Edit: formatting
The market access you are referring to presumably involves setting up factories in China on a wholly-owned basis without forced technology transfer. That is all good but in what ways would that reduce the trade imbalance? So even if China agrees to that it would stay the perennial whipping boy, no?
There is substantial evidence suggesting highly processed foods are bad for your health. Sure, people might have other vices but I don't see the harm in realizing that the products that make food cheap and shelf stable may not be the most compatible with a healthful diet.
That's probably preferable compared to building prisons.
Yep! Completely agree that spaCy's docs are great, and have benefited from solid attention.

Our motivation in making this is to build up the site as a destination where you can map a conceptual ML problem to copy-and-pasteable code that immediately works and is readable / learn-fromable.

For the two of us (Mike Sall and I) creating the site, it's basically something we've often wanted in our day-to-day machine learning and data science work.
> "Whenever there’s an issue where someone’s data gets passed to someone who the rules of the system shouldn’t have allowed it to, that’s rightfully a big issue and deserves to be a big uproar"

That statement describes Facebook itself. Most users don't understand what data they are sharing, so they are not able to give permission.
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"it is still much lower than what it would be in an unregulated environment."

Counterfactual. The article you link to is laughable on the face of it. "A new study for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University" carries about the same intellectual heft as "A new study for the Eat More Beef Center at Hamburger University."

You seem the sort of person able to recognize others' ideologies while incorrectly assuming your own beliefs are rational and well-founded. Are you generally tolerant of or convinced by counterfactuals when they don't support your ideology?
Yes, it’s appearing but it’s not anywhere near a given, especially on corporate and non-gamer systems — exactly the majority of users who don’t care about bandwidth if it means their CPU fans are on high driving a slideshow.
At some point you still need to switch roles. We’re at that point.
This is excellent advice.

Similarly, I don't ask friends in other professions to work for me -- I ask for their advice on who to hire. If they suggest someone to do the work, good, I know they'll recommend people they respect. And if they say "Oh, it'll take ten minutes -- let me show you" then I take them out to dinner. Either way our friendship continues.
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I hope on-road testing could be more like human drug testing. After all, both affect human lives.
You get to choose your actions. All actions are allowed, though you may not like the consequences.

> "It kills me every time, but I NEED my paycheck more than I prefer to help my fellow human."

What's killing you here? "It" is your decision to comply. A more active phrasing might be "I kill me every time I choose to comply with management's requests..."

Also, it sounds like you chose to believe, if only by accident, that money is a human need. This is false...we simply have cultures around the world where asking our community for support is not considered acceptable. Again, this is a lie. If you ask enough people for help, you'll eventually find someone willing. There's more than enough of everything to go around, especially money.
Why should a company give one then?
Comments like these are naive, if well-intentioned. Work cultures permeate industries, cities and more. Moreover, for most people, even in the lucrative tech industry such as ourselves, don't have the luxury to peacefully and calmly pick and choose the ideal job: rent is due, mortgage is due, savings go down, or anxiety goes up and we take what comes up.

The myth of equal contactual relationship between employer/employee is painful to see turned into a helpful platitude of the genre "if you don't like it, find somewhere else."
And entrepreneurship becomes harder, so it becomes rarer, and of course people by far tend to go into business only if they know other people who do, and so inequality continues to grow.
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Neat! I've got a similar library, Cliffy[1], also written in Typescript. But it's designed to be run interactively in-proccess.

https://github.com/drew-y/cliffy
"They have developed a completely passive system that is based on a foam-like material that draws moisture into its pores and is powered entirely by solar heat."

http://news.mit.edu/2017/MOF-device-harvests-fresh-water-fro...
That statistic is about funds only, not retail investors...
My guess is that it's because the field is so new that there aren't really any experts that can define what are reasonable rules for said licensing and certifications
I disagree, from most of my experience, toxic managers take advantage of the people they feel they CAN take advantage of.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's spiteful managers like you're hinting at, but from my experience at two major tech companies, a healthy two-way respect is earned by pushing back on management when they're out of line, as I think they know a lot of the time that they're being out of line but they can get away with it.
I'm not the person you replied to, but in early 2015, after a company went down from under me three months after I started, I figured out that maybe it was a bad idea to go join another one. I've been consulting, between twenty and thirty billable hours a week, ever since.

Pay: A little less. But I'm working about half the hours. I've had time to start a little side company and to work on another I'm most of the way through, as well as explore other maybe-careers (photography, videography, audio) without impacting my cash flow. I spend a little less money, but some of that is willing: I'm not at work, I don't have to pay $10 for lunch, I can make a small salad. I've had no trouble keeping up my retirement accounts. If I retire.

Stress: much lighter overall, but the occasional terror-spike. Finding work is challenging, and there have been dry spots that made me very antsy, but I enjoy it, and the company I do most of my work through is good at keeping me busy without having to spend my time on sales. I'm moving in with my girlfriend, and that'll just about halve my expenses while placing me in a much more convenient/walkable area, so this should go down further. (She is sometimes a little miffed that I work so little. But I cook, and I cook pretty well, and I'm paying rent, so.)

If you have an in-demand skillset, you can do very well. For me, it's devops, but it's devops informed with the way that I've done everything else in a tech group, from web and mobile to databases, so I'm not approaching it either from a sysadmin point of view or some dogmatic Agile-esque one, and I can help in a lot of ways.

Also, shameless plug: i'm always willing to chat with new prospective clients. ;) Email's in my profile.
Agree. I think Guild Wars 2 is a good example (in stark contrast to GW1). There are a lot of people but you don't really have to bother dealing with them. But the game itself embraces anonymous "the more the merrier". You don't have to group up or talk to others. But the more people are around, the more enemies, the more loot, experience etc.
Everyone can res and you get experience for ressing. I haven't seen any other game where you die and a dozen people rush in to ress you.

That being said, as a teen I loved Ultima Online exactly because you could steal from players, block them, kill them, loot everything, kill their horse, steal the house key and loot the house, steal their boat etc.

The thrill was amazing because it didn't happen all the time. Might be you are on a guild trip and a group of other pass by and kill you all. But often it did not happen, or you needed a couple PvP savvy people with you as escort.

When they later split the world into a PvP and PvE mirror, the thrill was gone. The PvE world was boring and the PvP world was only full of people attacking you anyway (actually it was awfully empty but the couple of guys you met wanted to strangle you)
Everything appears to be a liability these days - that is the problem.
Id agree in the UK its common to settle out of court (well employment tribunal) and employers must pay for your selected lawyer to check the "compromise agreement"

Your employer cant say ah you must use my mate Saul the solicitor that did my last house purchase who I know from the golf club.
I find this idea bizarre. It's like humans enjoyed their time for millennia and only now we have to work.

For all human history, the conditions of people were dire. Today people might be stuck in an office in their "best year", but people in the past had to toil all day to barely scrape by and didn't even have that many years to live.

It's only now that we live these comfortable lives with houses, heating, electricity, technology and a sea of information at our fingertips. These things all exist and keep functioning because people work.

And yet some think that "society has gone wrong", as if the past was paradise.

Work has been a human universal through history. There is surely an argument to be made about the fact that now we are so productive that we might not need to work as much as we had to.

At the same time I think we should be grateful that we live in the best life conditions ever seen by humanity.
You're taking something simple and making it very complicated.

The reason clouds form is not because there's more water up there, but because temperatures and pressures are lower and the air can't hold on to the water anymore, and the water separates into droplets of liquid water or ice.

There's plenty of water at ground level, even in lip-cracking low humidity, as long as it's not also freezing.

The trick is getting what water there is to leave the air and to collect in your bucket, and collecting a meaningful amount.
I haven't registered a domain thru them for several years - but I'm close to 100% certain they did offer you that - along with all the other upsells you just clicked through thinking "just sell me my goddamned domain!" I'm guessing you didn't buy their $5/month webhosting offer or their email hosting or their web-site-builder service or, for all I know these days, their mobile phone plan and six steak knives...
Technically feasible, practically worthless. This is a weapon that in no way alters the balance of geopolitical power, it isn’t an effective first strike, and it would be an insane vehicle for a conventional payload. This is posturing, dick swinging, whatever you want to call it, and possibly cronyism depending on who did the R&D.

Unless Russia has airtight missile defense or a means to track down every nuclear sub in the oceans, nothing has changed. The one thing this might do is further terrify their regional enemies, most of which were already terrified.
Note that this blog post is not an article per se, but an overview of a research website (https://sentient.ai/sentient-labs/ea) built around five new research papers. The website offers demos that illustrate neuroevolution and evolutionary computation concepts at a much more concrete level than the papers can.
> even if China agrees to that it would stay the perennial whipping boy, no

These tariffs were sloppily executed because they're for a domestic political audience that doesn't understand economics. Better tariffs would involve terms for release. If you do X, we release the tariffs. What China has to do to get these measures reversed is nebulous, but even the tacit link to forced tech transfers and the blocking of China's domestic market adds another variable to Chinese policymakers when considering additional measures.
Yes there has been some very interesting recent work. In particular, how evolvability emerges and is harnessed in evolutionary computation. A few papers come to mind:

1. Evolvability is Inevitable: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

2. Extinction Events can Accelerate Evolution (2015): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

3. Evolvability Search: Directly selecting for evolvability in order to study and produce it (2016): http://www.evolvingai.org/mengistu-lehman-clune-2016-evolvab...
Drugs are tested under informed consent, not on unwilling third parties.

Maybe testing of autonomous vehicles should be done off public roads (at least at this stage of development).
You have to remember there’s a huge gulf between building something once and mass producing something, putting it in market and having it produce profits.

Electricly powered vehicles existed before the American civil war, it’s taken until now for them to have any hope of success in the market.
I empathize. Had major trouble myself with the same. This is a run down of everything I tried to some positive effect:

* Hand, forearm, shoulder and neck massage. Weekly if need be. Don't discount problems in your shoulders causing issues in your wrists.

* Stopped using a single hand mouse, learned keyboard shortcuts. My RSI was worse on my mouse hand. The constant moving right hand off keyboard at 12 o'clock to 1 o'clock to click with mouse was a killer. Keeping hands centered and relatively immobile over keyboard helped.

* Bought my own office chair that fit me. I am short through the torso and chairs could never lift me high enough for me to avoid lifting elbows.

* Bought an ergonomic keyboard and mouse.

* Bought an ergonomic keyboard augment (kind of a tray that the keyboard sat upon, that had padded extensions under either side of my wrists) that kept my wrists off the edge of desk, edge of laptop, etc.)

* Every job I got, I brought my own chair and equipment and tossed whatever my employer provided.

* I had an ergonomics consultant come in and check my posture, desk, and chair set up.

As a heavy traveler, I'd really try the massage because you can get a massage in lots of locations. My shoulders were a great part of the problem.

Good luck.

Edit: I think I should also explain some of the difficulties I had with employers. Occasionally I got crap because I created an extra chair by bringing my own. I explained that I spent more time in my office chair than I did in my own bed, and I didn't purchase my bed by finding the cheapest mattress. Since I was in my chair more than my bed, I had even higher expectation of fit and comfort. If they had a problem with my asset being on their premise, they were free to buy the chair from me at my cost. Please see copies of medical bills which I'd be happy to claim as an expense.

The other issue I had was with IT. They would see all the nonstandard equipment and then say "we can't support X because of specialized keyboard or mouse". My response would be "I completely understand the needs of IT for support-ability. Please see copies of my medical bills for RSI and massage treatment. Please have IT procurement buy replacement equipment under IT's procurement control to ensure support-ability."

Both of these strategies proved successful with employers and the IT staff.
I don't understand why A.I. can't be explainable. Can't they just add logging every time it makes a decision and then trace through the trail of decisions to the final result?
This a thousand times over.

Never sell yourself the first time you're meeting someone. Explain what you do and turn the conversation back the person you're talking to. People love hearing their own voice, so let them talk. Take a genuine interest in what they do and they'll remember you as a good person.

If you can help them, reach out the next day with the whole "I was thinking about X. We do Y, perhaps we could help." If you can connect them to someone who can solve their problem that isn't you, do that as well.

As the parent says, people remember and refer / think of you first when you're needed.
Nice summary. Did you test support for handling multiple changes to a single project in parallel? The only CI Platform I've found that tries to handle this in any meaningful way is OpenStack Zuul (https://zuul-ci.org/) and https://docs.openstack.org/infra/zuul/user/gating.html#testi... for details of the parallel support.

Do others have this need? Or are people generally focusing on keeping CI runs short and landing changes in a serial fashion?
There's a sizable number of shareholders that are happy to be doing so; an electric world to them is better than an ICE one.
Thanks for all of the detail! Your parting parenthetical is something I find myself doing to people too, but in reality maybe we all ought to work less.
> Software should try to learn from human drivers

Yeah, that doesn't work though. Basically because you would need to have an excellent situation representation to really understand the drivers' reactions to outside events. But that does not exist.

Perception and situation representation are key to mastering the driving task, and they both differ greatly between humans and machines.
> Around the same time our ancestors left Africa, a dim red dwarf star came to within 0.8 light-years of our Sun

So that's within the Oort cloud. If this happened again should we be more concerned about the star disturbing our Oort cloud or about us travelling through the other stars Oort cloud?
Apple may have to move iPhone production to the US.