skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any interesting result that comes from casting a point as being any shape (presumably the point-sphere is also a point-dodecahedron, etc.)?
Wow. Could there be any explanation for this or is this as bad as it looks? If so, serious question, how do they get away with things like this? It's at Cambridge, I mean you would have higher expectations? Maybe not?
The title seems to imply that there’s something wrong with sympathy being a factor. I don’t think there is. Working with people you enjoy being around is probably the single largest factor for my productivity, and ignoring it would be a catastrophe, long-term.

There is, however, a certain obligation to try to get along, to help new hires to become part of the group, to overcome all the biases we all have etc.

I’ve also not seen too great a tendency to streamline personalities for the sake of “getting along”. Indeed the most fun and productive groups were rather diverse sets of characters, including the stereotypical “asshole genius”. Somehow, they managed to keep insulting peoples’ work yet showing enough self-awareness to make their subjects not feel personally hurt.
I thought bots weren't allowed? Also a DL bot by the house would probably have an unfair advantage.
Don't think it has a bright future since Rust and Kotlin share much of what brings people to Scala and are better in many ways, including and perhaps most importantly the fact they are improving faster than Scala.
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It doesn't sound like the ad blockers are fake, only that they exploit their users. Facebook does this too. It's an ad company masquerading as a social network /jokes. Remember when Grinder was giving its advertisers the user's HIV status? That was certainly very wrong, but it is any different from an ad blocker that tracks their users?
Getting a (new) job in IT is an exercise in futility if you don't know someone inside, so essentially there's not an interview but an invitation.

It's lower-status, more degrading and has worser odds than cold-call telemarketers trying to sell you some new credit card.

By the way, when a telemarketer tricks you into answering his call, you don't subject him to a 3-days intensive rectal exam ("homework") just for the remote possibility of getting a new credit card, which at the end you still don't buy anyways on some made-up pretense.

So developers agree to way worse level of abuse and degradation than the lowliest sales guy.
> Said space shuttle firmware engineer probably never had to solve a pop-quiz problem on a whiteboard. It's much more likely that he/she deliberated for weeks about a simple change with the rest of their team, and perhaps even with the person/astronaut they might kill if the change had a bad bug.

> Who cares if this person can't solve fizz-buzz on the whiteboard? That's probably not even a relevant skill to the job opening you're filling, or a skill they have ever needed to hone or practice.

Thing is, shuttle-style development is also probably not even a relevant skill to the job opening he's filling. Odds are, that job requires something more akin to FizzBuzz ('I want to do something. How do I do it?') than to shuttle-firmware.
Not everyone is getting into .NET Core.

In fact, Microsoft has to advocate library writers to actually care about .NET Core and .NET Standard.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/NET-St...
Are you facing problems with your AC like AC not cooling or water leakage?
I'm curious: in what ways is Europe more 'backward' than the states?
Twitter is still very much heavily committed to Scala.
Some one managed to put a 486 to 1GHz using liquid nitrogen (Probably I read it wrong)
> got great experience...

Which, of course, tech companies don't value at all. From what I've seen, they much prefer to hire a fresh grad over somebody with a long record of proven performance.

So, I agree that one should seek work in tech at a non-tech company.
Well, I think random forests on a feature set probably plays a big role and is probably easier. But to use a deep neural network maybe, you might be able to get away with a convolutional network to extract higher order associations among some input set.
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For me, the issue seems to be fixed.
You do realize that many students spend a portion of their income on beer and pizza even while getting government aid. I can't say crypto currency is any better, but whatever.
You're doing it again. If you truly believe you can't bring in that kind of money unless you're "top 20" then you're never going to try.

And it's to your detriment, because there are a lot more than 20 people making that kind of money in software today.

Note further that AI is in fact a subset of software. There is nothing magic about it that somebody like yourself or anybody else here can't pick up.

You seem to grudgingly accept that doing so can make you a lot more money. But still you go out of your way to insist that you, personally can't do that.

Why?
Deconstructing Xen (2017)
Years of training to dive that deep and hold your breath that long tell me this is something beyond the abilities of most people. Compared to everyone else they are certainly "marvels". Give yourself some credit for having the discipline to accomplish such things!

One could say "it just takes training" for anything that someone becomes really good at. It just takes training to become an Olympic athlete too, but there are only so many of those and their abilities seem almost super-human at times.
Mostly, although the Pentium D used two Prescott P4 cores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D
It has to do with what kind of dependencies the incremental compiler wrapper (e.g. zinc) can extract from the baseline compiler (e.g nsc or dotc). The Scala 3 compiler dotc handles that itself, which has the potential to achieve better accuracy. But I am not sure how much it matters in practice. We'll find out.
Twitter now is running its Scala code on GraalVM.
> So yes, by choosing a JS-only environment you’re prioritising developer needs over user needs.

Even according to your own statistics, we're prioritizing 98.9% of user's needs over 1.1% of user's needs (or more accurately 99.2% of users against the broken 0.8%, since we won't do anything for the 0.3% who decided to break it on purpose).

Resources allocated to 0.8% of the userbase aren't free, they come from time that could be better spent improving the experience for everyone else.

> That’s potentially fine if the cost balance equation works out that way for you, but it’s a specific choice you’ve made to not support people who through no fault of their own don’t meet the requirements of the environment you’ve decided to create.

That's fine. The same 0.8% with a broken browser or proxy won't find elsewhere on the internet any more friendly to them. The best they can hope for is a small slither of sites with fallback, but the user experience will be so terrible they're better off just fixing the issue than continuing.

I find it funny that people spent years making these same arguments, but used assistive technologies as their cornerstone, now that assistive technologies (and the aria standards) fully support rich JavaScript sites, the argument has shifted to some hand waving minority that cannot even be quantified. We both know this is really about the NoScript crowd (and similar, like RequestPolicy), the other people with a broken web experience have far more significant issues that no one site can hope to mitigate.
Perhaps this explains why I often pass technical screening with no problems but tend to fail 'cultural' fit interviews. It seems that to meet jcadam is to hate jcadam.

I probably don't come off as a very nice person (my wife tells me I have a 'death glare' as my neutral face), until you get to know me. I once had a technical lead admit about a year after I had started a job that she had recommended against hiring me and was overruled by her boss. "You seemed like a jerk at the time, but now I realize you're just an introvert."

So, these days I try to paste on a fake smile when I interview, but to no avail. I suppose it might make me look a bit scary -> vacillating between "death glare" and "creepy smile."

Funny, I got (and turned down) a job offer earlier this week that was based solely on a couple of phone interviews. I turned it down because it was a large corporation and seemed very much like a butts-in-seats sort of place (hence, why would they care about culture fit and actually want to meet me in person?)
Some hard lesson's i've realized while working in "professional" environments:

1. You must earn respect before you trash the system, no matter how shitty their code is or lack of tests. It's usually best to start by "doing your job"- whether that's issues assigned to you or bug fixes; you are at the bottom of the totem pole right now. Once you're "respected", implementing better solutions will be a lot easier.

2. Excuses for why shitty code is in production are probably legitimate excuses; a company that makes profit on a SaaS product needs to launch and iterate quickly. Product managers/sales/marketing do not care about your unit tests. Your users also don't care about your unit tests. Unfortunately this is a dilemma that's hard to swallow, because when things break, it comes back around.

You have to realize a team that's been there before you has done things in certain ways for certain reasons- whether that's good or bad, you must adapt to it before you go king kong on their shit.

Or you can just start your own company and make your own rules.
I was really hoping they implement python-ish syntax https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/2491

But no, "Implicit Function Types" instead. Ok.
Yep - you're right... F# definitely can't be used in the browser: http://fable.io/
The problem is that a lying liar will also have a resumé like yours. How can I — who have never met you, and have no-one I trust recommending you to me — differentiate between gaius the awesome developer and gaius-prime the lying liar? I've got to administer some sort of test to distinguish the two, and the likeliest sort seems to me to be one which attempts to discern whether one knows the sort of stuff gaius would know, and gaius-prime wouldn't.
Idaho! Thanks for the correction.

It's rare to see a community come together to help out like that, at least for hands-on contractor related work.
Unfortunately that puts you at a disadvantage and is a small downside of your previous job. Many professions these days require a portfolio to show, and programming is quickly becoming one of them (and it's better for your career if you can accumulate it while working). I guess your options are either making a portfolio weekend project or submitting to interview homework or other coding test.
I challenge the fact that Rust and Kotlin are improving faster than Scala. Scala is not only more stable, but is under active development and there are lots of discussions to improve the language over time (check our SIP meetings).

Kotlin doesn't even get closer to what Scala is, and Rust is for those folks with the mentality that memory management is something worth keeping track of.
Yeah, lines like this are ridiculous.

“I would think, as morbid as it is, that if they didn’t have this, it would kill them,” she said.

Yeah, and by a similar leap of logic, if we didn't have two legs, we'd flop around on the land like fish.
Not fully, but implicit type conversion must be marked explicitly: https://medium.com/bigdatarepublic/key-takeaways-from-the-sc...
> If the choice is between making the site richer and more immersive for 99% of users, and leaving 1% of users who wish to be contrarian for no reason out in the cold?

There is no choice. You can either make it properly, in accordance to best engineering techniques, that make it work good enough with those restrictions and still work as rich as you want when you don't impose them. Or you can make it broken by doing it the lazy way.

Also, there are plenty of reasons to disable JavaScript. It often makes the web browsing experience better, faster and more energy efficient. Sometimes you care about those things way more than any perceived "richness". In many cases, lazy webdevs and their broken code are the only reasons why it might be worse.
Just off the bat, you could have feeds that handle complaints and publish blocklists that users can freely subscribe to depending on their content preferences, or just block whatever you don't like when you see it.

Scuttlebutt is "against consensus" in that the only enforced consensus is that its users are using the same basic protocol—you can block content, but that doesn't mean everyone else has to agree to it and block the same content.
See the top comment and see how this DID not happen. In any case, if it DID happen this would not have been "evolution" it would have been adaption; in other words selection for genes that are already there. It would not have been the result of new genes.
Scientists are under intense pressure to post amazing results. How do they get away with it? All the other scientists are doing the same things and nobody wants to stop the merry-go-round.
Segmenting Brain Images: A Deep Learning Approach
That assumes that child will do homework if left alone and that the homework is within child skills. Which often is not the case - many kids will start to play simply because there is too much of it and their attention span is not there yet. Homework also often basically expects parents to contribute, because the child is not able to fully do it.
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There is a well known affect when joining a new group with some studies behind it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNG_syndrome

Anytime I deal with new employees I am constantly focused on this bias.

EDIT and here is more of a general theory/subject on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_cohesiveness

(a quick read)
I've been using .NET Core since it was released. Sure in the beginning library support was spotty at best, but that was quite a while ago. I have yet to find a popular library that doesn't support .NET Core/Standard.
No it is not. I mean, that would be like saying that argument can be made that sky is green - argument can be made, but is rarely true.
Here's a trick for introverts. During those culture fit interviews, as soon as possible, try to have the interviewer let you speak about something you're passionate about.

Few people can speak about things they love with a deadpan face or a frown on their faces. And a smile makes everyone look nicer and friendlier ;)

Especially an authentic smile!

(Note: Don't go on a half-hour story, though, a few minutes should be enough to lighten the mood.)
Yup - they want top talent and while offering lots of money helps, having a great culture can mean a lot (for the right people.) This shows how much they focus on their people in that they are spending time and money on it. Also hints at the culture with things like the hackathon and some of things you see written in the examples.
I would guess that you've never been a teacher. The problem is that any teacher has a classroom with students with abilities and aptitudes that range between some Low and some High. The teacher must always teach to the middle kid in that spectrum. Going slower/lower bores the kids in the top half and going faster/higher completely loses the kids in the bottom half. Half of the kids may just "get it" and not need help but the bottom half will need help that the school system can't provide. Note: I don't condone the parent just doing the homework for their kid.

The problem here is that the parents best able to help their children are more likely to have kids in the top half (who don't need help) and the ones least able to help have the kids who need help the most. This can be solved with a restructuring of our school system but very few schools are willing to try. Instead we stick with the ridiculous age == learning level method.
100% agree, through the years I've learned that, as you said, it might be impossible to change and what has helped me is to stand in the shoes of the other person knowing how much they've invested.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
The President has the power to decide what gets prosecuted or not, and Obama directed his Attorney General to not prosecute minor drug cases. Only congress can change laws, though.

Are you blaming Obama for failing to enact single-payer healthcare? After the years he spent just trying to get the AcA through Congress?

Congress makes laws, not the President.
Free speech is one example, through probably not for all european countries. See Germany's defamation laws as one example.
The Scala team appear to have their hearts in the right place. They seek to empower their users and have respect for them. I can't really say the same about the Go team, based on at least one Google presentation I have seen. This isn't that surprising given the goals of the projects.
Bitcoin proponents like to stress the rationality of their investments and deny that it is gambling or an asset only fit for the black market - hence the large potential. So they surely would take taxation into account.
It might be an opportunity for a cloud startup to create a whole business around AMD, it may be too hard for the established players to switch at this point.
> F# only has access to a subset of .NET deployment scenarios, where Scala can be used pretty much everywhere there is a JVM.

This statement is wrong. F# can use .NET Core, and it works same as JVM.
> Technically, it's a flat tax.

It's a flat tax on consumption, which is a regressive tax on income; when unspecified, progressive/flat/regressive in regard to taxation conventionally refers to relation to income.

> but it doesn't really matter since as long as the prebate value is large enough, the poor still come out ahead.

The size of the prebate (and the 23% rate) is part of the FairTax proposal (though a slighlty incoherent part, since it is defined in terms of income, not spending)—it is defined at the level that a taxpayer would pay 0 net FairTax with poverty level income (presumably, this assumes 100% spending at poverty level.)
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Thats cool, I can spin my legs at 200rpm on a child's bicycle for 1 minute before it breaks.
Well, one needs to understand that coding and architectural standards are different from company to company. One can't expect the highest quality everywhere.

Another thing is how people react to changes, even good ones, can also be different. Just try little by little and observe if it's ok to go full-on or not.

After all, by choosing a job, we agree to accept a certain state of things which might go against what we want/used to.
Proxy Patterns on Ethereum
It could never be used for that purpose. It only allowed you to easily distinghuish between amateur malware and slightly-serious malware.
Then isn’t the answer 1? For 2 dimensions, one circle fits in a square, in three dimensions one sphere fits in a cube. Should be the same for any value of n?
Then you may find the discussion of NULL vs DEFAULT and Maybe's in https://ren.zone/articles/opaleye-sot interesting.
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Most of the rentier class also don't have a "job". Dividends, leases, and IP checks arrive into their bank accounts and they are free to choose what to do with it. Invest wisely or blow it on vices.

In concept UBI is closer to welfare than the tribal or Saudi model. Gamblers willingly go to their casinos. We willingly purchase Saudi oil. Since the government owns the means of production they are within their right to give it to their constituents. If fewer people gamble, buy tax-free cigarettes, or use less petrol that is less money the tribe and Saudis have to give out.

UBI is not voluntary. The government extracts that cash from me in the form of taxes to distribute it. I cannot use fewer government services and therefore give less money to them.
I used to be like the author when I was in my 20's. I had to learn some lessons the hard way just like he did here. Take these to heart young know it alls:

1. Things aren't always black and white in terms of right/wrong or better/worse. Things usually have tradeoffs, and what might seem like an obviously worthwhile tradeoff to you might not be to everybody else.

2. You're wrong way more than you think you are. Be more open minded about others' views, and don't take one instance of being right delude you into thinking you're right about everything else. Stay open to being wrong.

3. Be nice! I still have to work on this one. Even if you are 100% factually right, don't be a jerk about it. Don't be insistent that things have to go your way. There's other factors (like time and resources.)

It may be unsatisfactory to hear "We don't have the time and resources to do things the Right Way(tm)." But it's reality. Every organization has to deal with that.

And yes, being liked by your coworkers is as important or even more than being technically proficient. If I hate working with you, that's probably not something that can be fixed. If you lack technical skills, I can probably teach you. So I will always choose the person who is pleasant to work with over the Ultracoder 3000 who's always complaining and miserable.
NK has a system where everyone with any kind of outside contact is paired up with a stranger who might be an intelligence agent or just a regular person whose family has been taken hostage, but in any case they're fairly likely to snitch. The East German Stasi used similar methods, and quite effectively.
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To deal with the citation problem, many FPGAs and ASICs that implemented BLAST guaranteed "bit-identical output". You could easily verify anything found by the accelerator using BLAST, just more slowly.
> Weather, distance, all the other cons of cycling (groceries, passengers, other large cargo).

The same applies for driving, yet somehow the Dutch manage to continue a high participation rate even during bad weather.

> Yes a bike is better in terms of absolute freedom but only in situations where the trade-offs are tolerable.

We are talking about tradeoffs here - perceived or otherwise. There isn't a perfect scenario, but what systems Netherlands has in place is arguably better. Better freedoms both for riders as well as those who must drive. Perhaps also think of it in terms of gun laws in Australia vs gun laws in America, and measure where the fear lies (are schoolchildren afraid? are parents? or just mostly men?)

> I can't go pick up a piece of furniture on my bike.

Perhaps. However there are many cases where it can be and is done without a great deal of drama. At worst, you can still use a car even if others have access to alternatives - it's not a total ban we're discussing but rather higher standards before vehicles are deployed. It should be about fairness when it comes to ownership of public space.

As it stands in much of the Anglophone world, driver licences are easier to obtain than they are to lose. In fact, it's commonly possible to continue driving the very next day (or hour) after being booked for drink driving. The system is broken, and lessons need to be learnt from not only aviation safety, but from countries that do it better. However, what's somewhat evident is that places such as Silicon Valley would rather reinvent the wheel and solve any social or community problem by selling more software rather than learn from existing best practice.

Right now, the system is so imbalanced in favour of private motoring that nobody wins (not even drivers). Suburban sprawl and "might over right" however is a very popular western platform for voters, for now. Driverless cars won't come soon enough compared to the other options that already exist in Netherlands, Sweden and even perhaps Germany.
Yes. Transitive trust is a core concept for Peer Mountain. And they call it exactly that.