skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was some speculation back when the first Ryzen came out that Anandtech (among other reviewers) were pressured to not do the gaming benchmarks at all, or to do them last, since the gaming performance was so abysmal. I think they delayed those numbers for a few months.

It's very suspicious when Ryzen 2 numbers are that far off and whilst they keep getting all this amazing access to AMD for trips and CEO interviews and new toys.
They do currently but it's sounding like they might not for much longer:

Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/19/facebook-...
"Annoyed by having toolbar take up vertical space. Easy, just change OS."
The Cost of Refactoring – Jay Bazuzi – Author of Unremarkable Code
He said that's an intermediate step so that they can get to testing faster.
Meanwhile the site has a fixed header taking away vertical space, like many others. Maybe interface design should accomodate the fact that every single desktop user uses a widescreen display and start putting navigation on the side.
Vertical tabs and taskbars can also be done in most browsers and OSes. There would probably be a lot of friction if vendors made that the default, but it's still easier than replacing every monitor in existence.
I don't have time atm, but you can check yourself! Compare versions of the bill over time using the official CA Legislative Information site: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompare...
iPad is 4:3 HiDPI/Retina.
It's a problem everywhere, but many places have some kind of safety-net working to prevent it.

The idea of UBI (at least in theory) is to make that safety-net universal, remove the barriers to use it, lower the overhead cost of administering a system like it.

Remove the need for applications to benefit from it, remove the wasteful "taxing unemployment income" that happens currently (at least in the US), remove the stigma attached to having it.
Palantir's repeated forays into politics are a bit troubling as well, particularly when combined with the issues you mention.
Thank you for sharing! This is great
This would be additional income complicating tax, and many companies restrict employees from taking on outside paid work without approval.

It seems wrong to reject a good idea because other bad idea will interfere with it. Maybe I'm fortunate; I take extra irregular work in the sum of about 30 days a year, and at the end of the year HMRC and I settle up very simply and easily. I couldn't imagine taking a contract that said I couldn't do any other work; it's by no means uncommon in the UK for people to have extra part-time work that fits around their main job. I think we shouldn't reject a good idea - paying people if you want them to do multi-day interviews - just because other bad ideas (tax systems that can't handle earning extra cash, employers who view their staff as property) will make it awkward for some people.
> In Florida, the Seminole tribes distribute thousands of dollars/month, to each of their members just for being alive. Many of them end up having chronic issues with drug and alcohol abuse.

Okay I was with you for a little bit but this part of your comment is completely off the mark. The casinos are built on tribal land. And in many cases owned by the tribe. For all intents and purposes the tribe is a corporation. Members get a monthly dividend based on their percentage of native american blood. It is not UBI and not a welfare. If you or I, assuming you aren't NA, move to tribal land we still wouldn't be entitled to that money, nor through marriage. We aren't a stakeholder.

I've been to Miccosoukee and Seminole country before and after the casinos. The additional income has made a lot of difference in improving their way of life. Hurricane hardened homes, fully funded schools, and reliable cars.

As for alcohol and drug abuse. That is an issue with tribes who don't receive any money at all. That is a separate issue related to education, job prospects, and, yes still, racism.

BTW, the Seminoles didn't just spend their dividend money on alcohol and opiates. They've been busy investing that money as well. They have bought the entire chain of Hard Rock restaurants and resorts.
No, the 8700K also beats the AMD cpus in every other game they benchmarked, even without overclocking. Including the benchmark image you linked to?

I got word on reddit that pc-per said they did apply the spectre/meltdown patches for their benchmarks. https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Ryzen-7-2700X-and-R..., the results are as one would expect.
How to automate your personal productivity
> Several companies (Graphenea etc) have scaled up CVD and continue to work towards much lower $ / m^2 targets in the near future.

What is the approximate commercial cost of CVD-produced graphene sheets?
Picture two coins and 2 flips and count the H's there (2x2) = 4 options and ((2x2) x 1/2 x 2(flips)) = 4 Heads.

HH, HT, TH, TT

However, if you count the sequences with at least one H there are (4-1) = 3 with at least 1 H (HH, HT, HT) as the HH eats up 2 H's.

Now, Picture 3 sided dice, that's (3x3) = 9 options. You will see ((3x3) x 1/3 x 2(flips)) = 6 2's.

00, 01, 02, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22

However if you count there are (6 - 1) = 5 sequences with at least one 2 you get 02, 12, 20, 21, 22 as the 22 eats up an extra 2.

Now, what do you think happens with an N sided dice? What if N is 6.

PS: This seems less clear as I added more info...
”..format that involves reviewing code together and talking about it. The process typically takes between 30 minutes to an hour.”

This sounds like a good idea to try. Much less time consuming than having to create meaningfully things from scratch. Also more relevant as you don't usually need to write code in front of others, but you might need to review existing code.
Is there a way to filter for only remote positions there?

EDIT: Yeah, there's a big switch there, didn't see it before asking. Thanks
Not only that, but many websites tend to have very large left and right margins. One would expect that by reducing the width of the browser window the margins would be adjusted but instead the website either "won't fit" in the resized window requiring you to scroll horizontally or will reduce the width of the central column.
I think I heard the maxim once "If it can be abused, it will be abused."

We need to start getting ahead of worst-case scenarios and to hell with people that think that approach is paranoid.
I have been trying to "export" but can't quite get the sizing/location right.
> Why not get people at a desk quickly and evaluate them on the job?

Because then the other developers would not be able to haze the candidates. Seriously, there's way to much ego involved in development these days.
How Europe's 'breakthrough' privacy law takes on Facebook and Google
I don't specifically remember an option to weed out searching, but I'm reasonably certain there were advanced options that included "does not equal" or "does not contain" type boolean searching. From my experience though, it wasn't common practice to weed out from the start, but rather to start with a general search and slowly narrow it down to the targeted data. A lot of data sources weren't automatically imported, they were more like extended queries. So if I wanted employment records, for example, I had to initiate that as a custom search to query that external system, and pull back the data for the specific individual I was investigating, it was not available in the database by default. But once it was imported and tagged, it was available in any future searches for the remainder of the data retention period.
Isn't this just saying "if you make the screen bigger, you get more space"?
Creepy sculpture is ad for Soylent
I wouldn't have ever guessed I'd love the 3:2 of my Surface but I agree with this article.

I'd still probably choose 16:10 because it's close enough, but 16:9 bugs me to no end (LENOVO) when there's a huge bezel above and below the screen.

At high enough resolution the side bar development doesn't impede me anymore (1600x1200 seemed good, 1400x1050 a little less on my old Thinkpads).

If the Surface were just more reliable I'd consider it. Until them I'm still using Thinkpads (in spite of their own shortcomings).
> > If one thinks their privacy rights are not respected they are free not to associate or contract

> We tried that. It didn't work.

It did and still does work. People freely give away their information, giving up their rights to privacy, in exchange for services they want. I really don't see what the big deal is, and GDPR is a massive overregulation.
Would you still do it if you were paid for your time? Say $500 for this 10 hour project.
Unitron’s Latest Technology – Revolutionizing the Hearing Aid Industry
> The idea is to use something that gives a fake readout of your fingerprint thus making you look normal but keep changing it occasionally so it leads no where for long time.

What is "normal" in this case? One correct way to counter fingerprinting is to standardize the fake readouts to a specific value and not change it every so often. So if everyone's browser is reporting the same value for this feature that feature will become meaningless in the context of fingerprinting since its entropy is very low.

That's what Tor Browser has been doing with font enumeration, reported windows size, screen resolution etc. - they all report the same value. On the other hand, you can correlate these values and identify Tor Browser users.
I think it's heroic nonetheless
It seems like a weird and rather amorphous goal, since there's never any way of knowing whether or not someone is the best person they could possibly be. I certainly doubt that many parents have this goal in mind.

>There are informed answers to that question.

To an extent. There's also lots of contradictory advice that's difficult to verify.
What happens if someone is a dual citizen in the US and an EU country but Facebook doesn't (yet) know that?
Striking a balance between bufferbloat and TCP queue oscillation
Always showing?
You're just repeating the same thing as the parent. I don't think that's true. People legitimately love JavaScript.
Why do you say that? Because they already have a large code base that would be too much work to move over? Or superior features in CUDA? This is actually related to some ongoing research for me, be very interested in any insight.
Who is going to read the book he recommends at the end -- 9 Minutes, 20 Seconds? A well-written in depth look at a 29 person plane crash and the people involved? Sounds terrifying.
Technically solvable if somebody writes a LSP proxy server that merges together backends.
I didn't say anything about not using scientific knowledge.
The homework is, in part, a personality test to see how much the company will be able to take advantage of an applicant. This may or may not not be the intent, but it is a result.
And yet they are building nothing of any real value. They could all disappear over night and the world would be a better place, not worse.

I see a lot of smart people be totally inside their bubble, specially bosses. When confronting them with reality, they seem unable to process the information. It's not even funny anymore.
SoftBank Fixes Four Years of Tax Filings After Failing to Report Some Earnings
https://www.graphenea.com/collections/graphene-products/prod...
This is where I mourn the discontinuation of the Chromebook Pixel with it's glorious 3:2 high res display. A moment of silence please
> P(A|B) != P(A)

It is if P(A) is 1, which is what you stipulated when you asked "How can u get a wrong positive result if you only test correct H1s?"

> "... using a p threshold of 0.05 ... will generate 5% false positive results" is just plain wrong

No, it's not wrong, it just makes a tacit assumption that most hypotheses that get experimentally tested are incorrect. Which is a reasonable assumption. If it were not true, making scientific progress would be a lot easier.
> Because in the end, nothing too great happened

She fake-doxxed another school's crisis hotline, made that resource unavailable to students who needed it; she embarrassed her school and forced the administration to issue a statement when they had better things to do.

> Or that they don't deserve second and third chances.

If she's fired, she has as many chances as she wants to apply to a school that wants to risk having to clean up after her irresponsible bullshit.
I don't think there are any "must-reads", but I'll recommend the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary as fantastic read-alouds for kids age five or older. My older child (12 now) and I really enjoyed Bill Bryson's "Made in America" and "A short history of nearly everything".
>Everything in the universe can be calculated...

I'm afraid not. There are real limits (physical and otherwise) to what can be calculated.
Lol as an American living in Germany I totally empathize with you, it made me smile.

Germany also says it suffers from a lack of developers, but in my opinion what they don't say is that they need more developers to treat poorly and with a low salary.
Cloudflare operates under US law and most likely is concerned about action by the US Department of Justice against them in the event they continued to provide services to Switter.
Did you miss Silicon Valley season 5 episode 4? ;)
That's literally every job ever. You aren't going to have a successful career at Google if your manager doesn't want you to. The org golden handcuffs are gone, so if you have a bad manager, change teams.

For the record "bad managers" are no more common or less common at Amazon as any other company.
Aren't the higher frequency bands wider so data rates are higher?
Agreed.

Here's the URL prior to redirection to private user space.

https://www.breakdown-notes.com/makemap/load/biases
Weekly Machine Learning Opensource Roundup – Apr. 19, 2018
Hi, I am one of the lead engineers developing dr-provision. We have a few interesting features:

* Written in Go, for that single binary install goodness.

* Stackable read-only content layers, to make change control of your provisioning infrastructure easy. We also provide several content layers that include common provisioning tasks such as installing Ubuntu, Centos and Debian, performining initial system discovery and inventory, and a bunch of other stuff.

* Full REST API. All aspects of dr-provision are managed via our REST API, and we also provide a CLI interface and a React-based Web UI.

* Integrated DHCP, TFTP, static HTTP and BINL servers. No need for dnsmasq, tftpd, or nginx.

* Tasks and Workflows: You can define provisioning workflows to manage all aspects of provisioning a system, from initial system discovery through installing your OS to handing control of the system off to Ansible/Chef/Puppet.
Because those are just numbers that work. The only way to roll a 2 (for example) is to roll 2 1's - which is obviously 1/36, not 1/3.
What do folks here think about an interview assignment where an applicant is asked to address an existing issue from an open source project, presented as a variety of cherry picked issues from popular projects but selected by the employer? The code would then be discussed during interview.
Deep Confusion: Tensions Lingered Within Google Over DeepMind
What a moronic article. More space is always better. On Windows/Linux just chuck the taskbar on the left/right of the screen and enjoy the extra visible space.

The shit some people complain about , unbelieavable......
If the criticisms of a policy is that subsidies for the voluntarily economically inactive can only be funded with massive tax increases and cuts in benefits for some of the poorest members of society, that the biggest chief beneficiaries will be house-rich early retirees and that it isn't economically sustainable, then a test which tops up a proportion of people's existing benefits out of general government funds for a short period and discovers they like free money isn't very informative.
That's not correct as a non-EU entity I'm under no obligations to register for MOSS or to collect VAT unless under TBES (which is nothing new since it's an extension of the old VOES scheme) which applies to a limited number of services only:
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/telecommu...

Even if by some chance you are a small business that for an inexplicable reason does fall under this you can get out of this scheme fairly easily (VAT exemption rules apply) and more importantly VAT can be handled by a proxy e.g. a payment processor.

For businesses there is no VAT collection at all and all businesses must pay reverse VAT when purchasing (or providing) services from (and to) outside of the EU regardless if they fall under TBES or not.
I don't agree. They're very useful (ex. graphic design)
Inspection opened into Tesla for workplace safety
> If the warrantless surveillance includes information such as the time and place of where you plan to commit a crime, law enforcement can stop you for a random check on the way there, giving them actual evidence for prosecution.

why is that a bad thing?

If the crime is victimless (such as any drug usage "crime"), then the issue isn't with the police, but with the state defining what "crime" is, and that definition doesn't align with the people's definition.
One thing that surprised me about PD is that their enterprise sales team didn’t want to play ball on an all you can eat license for a flat annual price.

Because of this, they are really at risk of being replaced in large companies that can fund a team to maintain a paging system as that ends up being cheaper than 5k licenses.
Are FPGAs Suitable for Edge Computing?
I still don't think this addresses the parents comment about the UBI operating on a country-wide scale.

The Native American tribes, people in Alaska etc. are still a fraction of American society. Not to mention... there are other socio-economic factors that prevent the American tribes from being successful (e.g. perhaps a genetic pre-disposition to alcoholism as well).

I would like to see what happens when a major population center, either a US state or a populous city, implements a form of UBI. That is when the true economic impact may be evident.
Not sure what you're thinking of but check out the Tree Style Tabs browse plugin to see what they mean. Tabs with text work perfectly.
There's two classes of knowledge you acquire here: things you know you don't know, and things you don't know you don't know.

You're focused on what you know you don't know. You don't have a performance problem, so is the information worth acquiring if you don't have a problem? Maybe, maybe not.

What you might not know is ways to use the data in your database to make your application simpler or dramatically faster, not because it's a problem now, but because you don't know that there's a way it could be much faster or better. It could be reporting or some other kind of statistical output, something around import or export, or some features that could be possible that you simply didn't think were possible.

IMO relational models are usually superior to object oriented models. Much pain comes from trying to fit a relational model into an OO skin. Once tightly wrapped up in OO, a lot of the power of the relational model becomes hidden. OO turns into a straitjacket for your data.
I worked for a company that did a 3-day, challenging take-home problem. It was a big ask, but it was amazing for getting a sense of people's problem solving and coding abilities. (The final result would only be 1000 lines of code or so, but 3 days provided time to think and experiment with different approaches.)

Maybe paying people for the time if you end up saying "no" is a nice compromise?

If you are potentially serious about hiring the candidate and they are serious about potentially working for you, doing some "homework" does not seem like a major amount of effort in the grand scheme of things to me.
Over+and+Out:+Savedroid+Calls+it+a+Day
Update: I decided to try through the Google console, and also try Amazon's speech recognition through the AWS console.

AWS just let me transcribe my MP3 in a pretty straightforward way once I'd uploaded it to an S3 bucket. The transcript is done in 2-3x real time, and the quality seems decent. It comes as a complex JSON file with confidence numbers and timestamps for every word, with alternate words when it knows it isn't sure. It's pretty neat.

Google made me use a sort of query builder interface to construct an API request. The query builder did not actually match the features announced in the blog post, so I just tried going with what was there. When I eventually got a valid-looking request, it blew up because it turns out it can't parse MP3s. So then I reencoded to FLAC and uploaded that. I tried a variety of queries, but none of them worked. The one that got closest complained about a bad value for a field the query builder apparently would not let me add.

I gave up. Squeak, squeak, squeak!

And I should add that the people I know at Google are all perfectly smart, so I don't want anybody to think I'm saying that the individual engineers who made this are dumb or bad. This seems like a giant organizational failure, where what gets built is deeply disconnected from user need and the lived user experience.

Normally when I get insight on a place where this happens, the priority is not actually delivering value, but making managers look good according to easily measured but harmful metrics, like, "Are we at competitive parity at a feature checklist level?" or "Did we launch by some made-up deadline so that a manager could claim success?"

If anybody at Google wants to send me their horror stories, please do email or DM me on Twitter. I'd love to know what the hell happened here, and I promise to keep things as confidential as you like.
Most people is not extremely bright. It can be very frustrating to attempt complicated things and not succeed. Even most bright people would rather do something boring from time to time. Maybe many "boring" jobs would get better social recognition, and would be seen as a contribution. Maybe we would develop a sense of duty towards that. Maybe many people would even do some of those jobs for free. Maybe people will start trying out many different jobs, changing between them a lot. Maybe jobs would change and become way more diverse: fun things on mondays and tuesdays; wednesdays reserved for the most boring tasks. We will never know without trying. There are many objective issues with UBI, but many of the problems we imagine are just due to our lack of imagination to see the ways in which society might evolve around them.
I've worked in a pizza place and known other people who have worked for pizza places, and none of us described it like a prison or felt the need to piss in a bottle.
But they are in international markets and this particular customer was in Australia where sex work is legal.
Too Many Men
It's because this is all a little more complex than that.

Clang does have a wasm backend, same as the unknown target. It suffers the same problems; that is, one of the things that emscripten does is provide a runtime/support code that does things like "automatically translate opengl to webgl". That is, one of emscripten's major goals is "get code that was never assumed to be able to run on the web to run on the web with as little hassle as possible." Outside of the web, those C libraries were very much intended to work on the native platform. So there's extra complexity there.

We continue to support emscripten for when you need this use-case, but it effectively only works if you're building an application, not a library, and we want to support people writing libraries.
After September 11, thre was a big push for "Visual Analytics," which is basically rebranded statistics plus visual data mining tools. There's a report called Illuminating the Path that lays out the research agenda. I read it in grad school when my advisor was trying to tag everything under the sun as Visual Analytics in an attempt to get access to the Visual Analytics money pot. (We didn't.) It's creepy to see it come back around, fully realized by Palantir.