skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very happy they list "Opening up the black boxes of AI" as a main point.

While we have very powerful classification devices able to navigate the subtle hidden topology of a problem, this is still correlation.

To me Explainable ML will be key to go from correlation to causality. Explanability will help by pointing where to investigate and hypothesize and test for some causes. It could be the missing link between ML and Judea Pearl's causality theory.

DARPA has a program on it [1], NIPS a symposium [2]. This is a significant dimension that is growing in the field.

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelli...

[2] http://interpretable.ml/
Compiling will go faster if you use a video card :-P
More and more like a robot, to some extent, but more and more skilled. This, I believe, instills a sense of pride and accomplishment. And when the same worker is rotated to another job, there again, he builds his skills. Of course, some may be unhappy, but I don't see any particularly negative aspect to being process oriented.

Moreover, even with the process automated, often, a finishing touch is given by the operator. And, often, Japanese manufacturing facilities, depend on human skill and ingenuity to extract maximum quality from the process, even if the process is heavily automated.

In addition to all the above, one unique aspect of the Japanese workforce and management, and I have seen this first hand, is that even the lowest level worker can freely give his inputs regarding a process and then the upper level workers, engineers and managers actually listen and discuss the inputs.

In the plants that I have been to, engineering, design and workers are all located on the factory shop floor and are expected to work together in unison.
If a credit company doesn't know who you are they will not loan you even one dollar. If an insurance company doesn't know who you are they will charge you the maximum to account for the risk. If a health company doesn't know your data they can't accurately diagnose trends in your health. Still want to play this game?
Did Facebook Break the Law to Help Obama Win in 2012?
Trying to use the latest, greatest new methods. You'll have to balance when to fight for the new ideas with when sticking with old tried and true methods. A lot of times its turns into political game instead of a technological challenge.
2200lb for gas, 3000lb for the engine, 700lb for the transmission. Say 7k lb total. Compare this now to the electric one. The battery alone would weight 33k pounds. Engine and transmission would add another 2k. 5 times more than ICE. The battery would also cost $200k.
Calm down. You are part of the problem. You piss off otherwise inclusive and reasonable people with such nonsense. JourneyMAN doesn’t mean an actual “man.” That is an archaic interpretation to suggest a journeyman means “man.”

We don’t call “fishermen” “fisherpersons” — that’s just silly. You can have female fisherman.
The funny thing is FB would be wildly successful without all the nonsense, just make a bit less profit. But this insane obsession with money is what drives companies to act against their ultimate self interest, it is classical short term thinking over long term thinking.
Amazon stock nosedives over rumors of govt action to check tax collection
> I might catch some flak for saying this, but as a marketer this is a pretty significant change and will make running campaigns more difficult.

Poor thing.
Apparently $14MM is not enough to buy a bridge that works.
> If there's going to be a new made up system for standardizing and measuring the proficiency of software developers, then we may as well make up new words too that don't have this baggage.

This proposal is explicitly not making up a new system, but rather adopting an existing one.
Oh how I remember Ackoff. Required reading for undergrad Systems Design Eng. What is a system..., Good times
Suicide rate and depression issues are, atleast in Japan, not usually related to work pressures, but due to social issues.
Could go even easier by installing Git for Windows and using the included bash prompt.

It's a MinGW environment with very good factory configurations. It won't let you apt-get and run any old app, but it does get you all the goodness of a bash prompt and all the standard Unix command-line apps. All right there in Windows, without having to also learn and get comfortable in a new operating system.
If a credit card company or health company relies on a social media entity to decide whether to give you credit or to be able to accurately diagnose your health then they have other problems.

None of that needs Facebook.

Still want to play this game?

Credit card companies were extending people credit and doctors were making accurate diagnoses long before the internet came along, they are definitely not a necessity for the functioning of society in ways that really matter.
> No, only if you allow to track you even when you’re not using it.

I possibly wasn't clear enough. That's what I meant when I wrote "If you have all location services turned on". Location tracking is part of location services.
We could call the resultant algorithms "simulated ant kneeling".
The fact that you can't tell pretty much sums up what's wrong with the npm eco system :)
Maintenance of old infrastructure in large projects is difficult and budget for this purpose is hard to justify, while building new things gets harder due to (self imposed) new regulations and higher costs (outsourcing might be cheaper, but always has some risks...).

I don't know, sounds very familiar :)
Generative neural network models of reinforcement learning environments
Reducing the friction of online payments
NIMBY is one of the worst and most elitarian movements that exist out there and the opposition to Nuclear Power by environmentalist is not only ironic but it's hurting both the environment and making people poorer than they needed to be.

Even Democrats are starting to see that now.
Show HN: Developer Console and inspect DOM on Android
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Not being apocalyptic and all, but reminds me of this:

http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Operation_Dark_Storm
How the World Has Changed Since 2008 Financial Crisis
Interesting old thread comparing actors to software transactional memory (STM):

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/175tjj/stm_vs_acto...

Seems like pre-emptive actor-based concurrency is simple to implement using STM, but much harder to implement STM with actors.
Again this is not about millions of lives saved, but about potential millions of lives saved.

Where is the _actual_ evidence of GMO’s salvation of millions?
The Unix model is really useful in my systems thinking precisely because thousands of components all use the stream in/out approach. This made then reliable within a system to be used together in many different combinations and interactions.

Also a good example of loose coupling that allows for good thinking of systems.

In school we watched the 1990 movie [MindWalk](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100151/). You can watch it on YouTube https://youtu.be/Uec1CX-6A38
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Wait, did no one build a product which solves all these issues?
An Elite Grad-School Degree Goes Online
Which is why I don't have one of those but I make myself no illusions about the grocery company being able to track me anyway based on the bank card used to pay for the groceries.
I don't have any specific links, but ISTR that INCOSE has a lot of publications & recommended practices, etc. However, nothing beats working with an experienced Systems Engineer (as in: someone with a degree in Systems Engineering who has practiced it for many years) if you have the opportunity. I learned something every day working with those guys.

https://www.incose.org/ProductsPublications/Papers-Presentat...
[Poland] 3 IT Conferences with Speakers from Twitter, IBM Etc.
So what are some alternatives?
Wow what a nightmare, in the article that poor women couldn’t even get it taken out after dozens of x rays and attempted surgeries. I saw from another comment this is from 2016 but somehow I missed it and appreciate the link. Throwing mine out right now.
This is exactly what I was thinking yesterday, that I either wanted to use such a service, or if it doesn't exist, build it, except I don't want to build it because I have other things to do. YAYYYY!!!

I totally wish it will take off for you!
These products need to be pulled from stores. Use a copper sponge with soap and water. Cleans the grill up great.
I generally have a worktree to develop in, and one for code reviews. So I can leave some indexed and some uncommitted changes in the first one, open a second IDE against the second one and use "find usages", "go to implementation" and other code navigation features missing from GitHub.

You can also create a worktree for a quick experiment (eg how many conflicts when I merge X and Y) and just rm it when you're done.

Sure, all these things can be achieved with git stash and git reset... but they are both difficult to keep track of and will cause your IDE to run its expensive reindexing.

It's kind of like how you could use pushd/popd and open subshells to work in one shell, but people prefer to just open another terminal window.
copper sponge
On Mac, I find lldb is terribly low level. IIRC Linux gcc isn't great either. Even delve will frequently seem to have missing/optimized variables that cannot be printed.
Checklist Manifesto is a great (and short/easy) read that I also recommend, but I don't think it's going to be especially helpful to someone looking for techniques to develop new systems thinking models.

At most, it's a recounting of someone else's very specific systems work that has some unexpectedly strong outcomes from surprisingly simple drivers.
It focused on usability over accuracy, which turned out to be a bit of a breakthrough for emulation of the time... His work was eventually superseded by emulators that took advantage of the fact that the end user was probably using something better than a 486-processor.

I remember Zophar.net giving a little blurb about an emulator's speed or accuracy. Having such a bad computer at the time, that was NOT using something better than a 486, I appreciated this. My computer couldn't run many contemporary PC games, but it could emulate Mike Tyson's Punch Out just fine.
If road conditions would be the only attribute of modern society that US puts in 3rd world country bracket - but there is poor state of public education and healthcare, ridiculous prison state, very real police state, whole corporation/cash-oriented legislature compared to citizen-oriented like in Europe (often EU has to be the one fining/limiting US corporations when they don't give a fuck about human decency and moral behavior). Plus your taxes directly sponsor killing of hundreds of thousands innocents and pushing tens of millions into miserable life and making whole parts of this tiny little blue planet unstable for generations. Add semi-caste system in many parts based on your net worth. Real freedom is much lower too.

Compared to EU, it's a great place to start/do business or just be really rich, but can be pretty miserable to be a regular human & employee.

Sometimes I think the only remaining things that US shines with is the military power, high level of some universities and financial power from USD. All results of successes in 20th century and nothing China can't surpass if they decide to (and they the necessary ingredients - patience and focus).
Yet, given the choice, would you rather learn to turn a screw perfectly 10000 times or learn programming ? If so can I hire you to do just that ?

One seems way more satisfying than the other, not matter how good one can become at turning the screw.
Scrub with a crumpled up a wad of aluminum foil.
Battery alone (for 500-miles range) will weight more than double of engine+transmission+gearbox+fuel of 2000-miles range ICE semi.
Grill stones: https://smile.amazon.com/Grillstone-Grill-Cleaning-Refill-Pa...
I was just thinking about this. I’m thinking of laying a wet towel over it and scrubbing it furiously with this mallet looking smashy thingie my wife hasn’t used once in 20 years.

Edit: I’ve been thrown out of the kitchen. I will look into some other peoples suggestions.
As I remember, they suggested mumbled aluminium foil.
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To be fair, I know 4 teachers, and all abhor their 'unions'. Its crooked, but they fear the alternative (loss of collective barganing power) more. Its a self-perpetuating problem of actual well meaning people playing CYA.
> So, preemptive green-threads? This seems like a counter-productive and highly complicated re-implementation of what the OS thread model does, but inside the Go runtime.

It would be indeed a reimplementation of what OS does, but note that such
a reimplementation is the very reason why quite straightforward Erlang code
can easily handle hundreds of thousands active connections on modest hardware.
While I agree to an extent, I think it does a disservice to those that want to be involved in tech and can't take 3/4 years to get a degree to get past HR for an interview.

I've worked with a few bootcamp grads in the past. Some have been absolutely woeful, and others have been some of the most skilled developers I've ever worked with. While the bootcamp itself might be a way to get cheaper workers in, I'd argue that if it's producing good developers then it's a necessary evil.

Also, experience will always be valued by good employers, and an injection of inexperience into the workforce often means rising salaries/rates for senior developers.
in addition while 100 bilion were/are due to be created, that is not a hard limit and an infinite number can be created at any point.
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> Nobody cares if your SQL is written by nazis as long as nobody knows they're nazis.

If they're posting nazi stuff on Facebook, everybody knows they're nazis.
> But it’s hard to have the patience to wrap your head around a disorganized mess that you don’t care about. Only if the disorganized mess is your responsibility, something that means more to you than a case study, can you wrap your head around it and appreciate improvements.

This really hit home for me. I personally find it very difficult to get emotionally invested and therefore effective when working on a codebase that I don't personally like. But that's not very professional, so I tend to phone it in when in that situation, at the expense of really using my talents or dedication. But I know that other professional coders do better than me and somehow find a way to be very interested or invested in things they don't care about, perhaps because for many coders, the code itself is enough to warrant the personal interest, and less so what the actual code is used for? If I don't have a big-picture appreciation of a project, I don't enjoy the small stuff either. Perhaps that means I'm in the wrong profession.
When you spent 8 hours a day, half of your conscious time, in a situation, I have a hard time it has no impact on depression and suicide. If you have a fullfilling activity for 8 hours, it's hard for me to picture the rest of the day canceling it to the point you want to kill yourself. I tend to think it's a general context, and it includes work.

But let's be honest, I haven't worked, let alone lived in Japan, so this is just uneducated gut feeling.
Have you ever used an app? They seem to find a use for animations :)
Can you say that with any certainty? You don't know what you can do with data really until you have it all available at your disposal.
Back to the people who earned it? That is their party platform, and the source of their 'small government low taxes' position. I care less for politics, but lets pretend to talk intelligently if we are going to broach them.
You're referencing a quora post by an American about some time spent in Spain. How is this an authoritative source? The following answer specifically rails against fast food and contrasts it against "restaurants and tapas bars", implying a difference.

Sure you can use restaurant as a term to refer to a "place where food can be ordered" -- but if someone speaks the word, fast food is not what comes to mind.
They should just make it possible to add safeties manually
Every successful person has struggled at some point. Usually someone helps them through it. They are grateful and want to pass it forward, or sometimes resentful of the thing that caused them hardship. These people are satisfied by mentoring.

Very often, if you work hard and struggle, people who have been through the same struggle admire you for it. The key to finding a mentor is to have one observe you through the struggle. Sometimes this means just blindly moving into (and possibly failing) at something. This was how Eminem met Dr Dre. But it doesn't help to work at and fail at something silently.

A potential mentor will sit, observe, and cheer you on. They may offer to help you. But sometimes you have to establish the relationship.

This is a lot like dating. Both sides want a relationship but don't want to seem too eager. It's awkward to say "will you be my mentor?" Sometimes you need to ease into it. Spend time together, discuss similar topics, especially in your field of work.
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See the pineapple fund for how this sort of thing can be done well in the crypto space.
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As an aside, I see that while amazon.com currently lists them quite highly priced right now, alibris.com can find some much cheaper versions. Second hand prices on amazon are sometimes surprisingly high, and sometimes, their new prices too - I routinely check bookdepository, wordery, booksplea.se, agreatread, thriftbooks, abebooks and alibris - each of them bests the others and Amazon frequently enough to keep checking them all. My list of sites to check is UK focused, but I expect there are US equivalents.

Looks like alibris will do a copy of the book in question for a bit under 20 USD as I type, with some searching around.
“An hour or two coding assessment?”

You can fuck off if that’s is your first contact response.

I’m interviewing YOU just as much as you are interviewing me. There is no shortage of companies hiring. There IS a shortage of quality candidates. I don’t need your job — but you do need developers. I am not going to invest 1-2 hours of time on some bullshit variation of fizz buzz or some equally ridiculous and real-world irrelevant academic game from HackerRank.

If you can’t be bothered to have even a quick 10 minute conversation, I can’t be bothered to do your stupid coding exercise.
Aluminum smelting.

Desalination is a good idea too, but instead of selling the water they could use it to grow forests and then sell carbon credits.
Facebook blocks data brokers; tech workers say they will delete accounts
I was thinking along similar lines the other day. I was thinking about whether I've actually improved as a software developer over my career. It occurred to me that most of the languages and frameworks I use are either less than a few years old, or have been changed or reinvented in substantial ways. As such, not much of the declarative knowledge from my early career is of much use. But have my skills improved?

I came to conclusion that my ability to code on the micro scale, e.g. at the level of an individual method or algorithm, probably stopped improving after 2-3 years of professional experience. I think you could take the 24-year-old me, ask him to work on a narrow problem, and he'd do about as well as I would now.

But where the 24-year-old me struggled a lot was at the macro scale. He didn't know how to compose those individual pieces into a cohesive hole, and instead fell back on a handful of patterns like singletons. I remember horrible days trying to unravel my own code and figure out how component X was going to communicate with component Y, and the result was often a mess.

I think this macro-scale ability really does improve continuously over time, as you are exposed to more and better patterns for integrating components and managing dependencies.
They were pre-mined but the supply is infinite, as I understand there is nothing preventing them from creating more at any point.
On the other hand, paying that in taxes would benefit even more long term, but not have a ribbon attached. It is marketing first, philantropy second.
Drupal finally addressed the critical CVE-2018-7600 #Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability
There are non-bristle brushes available such as this one. I have one and they aren't as effective as a regular brush but at least you don't have the risk:

https://www.konabbqstore.com/products/safe-clean-grill-brush...
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Sounds like you're suggesting we should implement a citizen social credit system based on social media data?
There are brushes that don't use bristles. For example: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B073VHLQNW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=U...
Huawei’s P20 Pro is a hugely promising phone that will upset Americans
I use the metal scraper on the back side of the brush and then a conventional kitchen scourer pad. Or pop it in the dishwasher.
Abebooks lists several copies in the 20-25 USD price range though. Some even with CD-Rom... they all seem to be “International Edition” whatever this means.
> Rather than a complaint, the documents revealed Wednesday were informational, suggesting that the government may have secured a plea deal in the case.

Ah, there you go. I didn't even get to that part and I thought they're doing this to reach a plea deal.

I don't think any rational judge would actually convict a whistleblower who leaked any type of super-ultra-mega-secret data to the media under the "Espionage" Act. It's not going to happen.

But of course the government scared him with that to take the plea deal.
Something like a wooden Cedar scraper https://www.thecedarscraper.com/en/ Over time it will burn to form ridges to match the grill plate
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Cool, so you'd have no problem if the title everyone had to use was journeywoman?

You could have male journeywoman, so there'd be no problem there.
I'm not sure if it was exactly the same type of brush, but a number of years ago I found a wire from a grill brush in my mouth after taking a bit at an Outback Steakhouse. The restaurant was profusely apologetic and comped our meal without our asking them. I feel very fortunate to have felt it before I swallowed in light of this, and other articles I've read, since that meal, but unfortunately there's no way to control whether restaurants change the tools they use in-light of these warnings.
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Look at how bisq does it. Trustless, private transactions of relatively large sums, with escrow and arbiter resolved disputes. Bisq is the best crypto-fiat exchange system if it's ok for the transaction to take a couple of days.
FYI that one is a Chinese knock-off of the Kona brush I mentioned in my comment.
As much as I hated my HS principal, you still need administration. Sports, are underutilized and also needed by healthy humans. Sure, some schools disproportionately spend on sports, but they are in the minority, and tend to self fund. Why not kill art, music programs too? Just email assignments and hope for the best...