skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right? If we judge every decision by the actual results instead of the information we had at the time, everyone made a stupid decision by not buying a lottery ticket that had the correct numbers on them yesterday.
hahaha what a joke.
who will trust google or fb of anything...
> Few complain about middle eastern or american companies buying up europe. What exactly is so different about China?

pretty simple: They aren't part of the free-market democracy petrodollar regime..
‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism
https://www.google.com/search?q=fox+news+misleading+graphs
when I think of no code/ low code. I shudder a bit as I think about ServiceNow.
How to fix one of Bitcoin’s biggest problems
The amount of energy needed will increase even though we become better and better at optimizing the individual items power usage.

In other words, wind and solar are linear solutions to exponential problems.

I have nothing against wind or solar but the idea that wind and solar will be able to solve our energy problems is based on a political mandate, not on science or any realistic evaluation of the energy needs of the world.

Wind can't run as long as nuclear can without maintenance and the cost is also going to be higher to maintain because of the large area it occupies.

The cost of Nuclear is suffering under the lack of political support compared to alternatives.

Furthermore, alternatives are not without problems:

"The first thing he discovered is that solar panels, in fact, contain significant quantities of toxic metals like lead, chromium, and cadmium — known carcinogens — and yet no nation outside of Europe has a plan to safely dispose of them. Many could end up in waste dumps in poor communities in Asia and Africa and poison drinking water supplies.

How much solar waste is there? About 300 times more per unit of energy than there is from nuclear power.

As a result, if solar and nuclear waste from producing the same amount of electricity were stacked on football fields, the nuclear waste would reach the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (52 meters), while the solar waste would reach the height of two Mt. Everest (16 km)."

http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/6/22/the-case...

And here is a study debunking the idea of alternatives as a realistic alternative (I am not saying you claim they are but that was my main point)

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/16/1610381114.full
It was an attempt at humor. Take a deep breath and try to do something useful today.
You need to be your own honey-badger. :)

There are two very important tests to consider hiring someone:

- how a candidate handles feedback and negative situations like disapproval and rejection

- whether they delegate thinking or take ownership of solving hard problems

If they fail either, that’s a deal-breaker. Also, make the candidate pipeline as uniform,
fair and repeatable as possible.

- anonymizing resumes by masking pedigree, names, addresses, etc.

- ask generally the same questions, while branching differently based on their responses

- perform social and skills tests as similarly as possible

”Be the change you seek”
why people still uses facebook ?
how much you want to disclose your life to them ?
The framework is intended as complexity management. Instead of picking each of 20 components each of which has 7 choices with different tradeoffs and figuring out which subset of choices delivers an acceptable complete picture just read how to use the components we have picked for you in a suggested fashion.

The result may be complicated under the hood but may be easier to operate as well.
We should just use category-theoretic diagrams for everything.
I was thinking blockchain as well, but as a source of truth.

Imagine if all information on the web was spidered and added to a blockchain, then as new details emerge, those would be appended to the original data. So when someone fakes a video, the original video could/would get appended to the fake, along with the source of the fake, its financial connections to propagandists, etc etc etc. The problem will eventually become sifting signal from noise, because the "proof" will be everywhere.

I still believe that in the light of full information, most people will come to see the truth. That depends on a lot of things though, like being educated, like having the time away from work and family commitments to ponder the deeper questions of life, like understanding the difference between deductive reasoning and dogma, etc. These are all things that authoritarians work tirelessly to take away.

I guess what I'm saying is that the problem will become political, not technological.
Wow. I read that page, believing it to be satire, but then clicked through to pega.com - https://www.pega.com/technology/software-writes-your-softwar.... And I'm still not sure if this is an elaborate in-joke.
Bill Gates Fails to Guess the Price of Basic Household Items
you mean....like emacs?
> When big box stores fail they often sit empty for years causing blight in the area

Are you accounting for general economic climate? Toys 'R' Us locations appear to be getting purchased [1][2]

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2018/0...

[2] https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/toys-r-us-ends-canadian-stor...
If every one of your functions are type asserting at run-time, I think you should just switch to a statically typed language.
> Modern desktops also have GPUs, however, which are fast at running deep neural networks (DNNs).

That's the rub: deep learning is restricted to CUDA/cuDNN/NVIDIA GPUs, which exclude a large amount of desktops with AMD graphics (e.g. all modern Macs).

Current cloud GPU prices have dropped enough such that this approach may be pretty effective with spot/preemptible instances.
Yeah, I'm confused about that too. I always had a positive experience with the PSoC, unless the author considers it a niche chip that most mainstream embedded developers will never encounter.
I did the same thing before moving into data science. I'm curious, do you really get sky high offers for your related knowledge? What range are we talking about here?
I've had a long aversion to iTunes, as well.
I've been a happy Spotify subscriber for nearly 10 years now, but I've also
been using Audirvana on the Mac recently to play FLAC files. It's a very lightweight player in comparison to iTunes, but still based around the album thumbnails you mention. Not stuffed with features, but a lot of attention is given to codec and playback options to get the best audio quality possible from your gear. Handles your material regardless of sample rate (44.1 to 192) and bit depth.

If you've got a collection of CDs, I'd recommend XLD [1] to rip them to FLAC.

I still use Spotify, mostly for discovery, but also have sessions with Audirvana where I listen to classic albums from beginning to end. Through some A/B testing, I noticed a modest improvement in depth and clarity over 320kbps MP3. The tradeoff is storage of course, and the growing album collection can start to take a chunk of your HD.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/
AV detection rate is not very good. And of course targeted stuff can just test against your av.

Yes, lowest hanging fruit, I know. So at this point you have to start managing your compromises instead of altogether preventing them.
Wouldn't feature be a better term? or Am I missing something?
Even better, replacing

for i in range(len(imgid)):

and similar lines with:

for i, img in enumerate(imgid):

would allow one to get rid of all these list accessors.
Right, it looks like the tech progress has been exponential.
The address is probably the most important. It's really hard to find remote job.
Totally fair feedback, thanks. I thought about phrasing it in a different way, but ended up letting my emotions get the better of me.
Outside of Europe, China has also been lending huge amounts to developing countries with corrupt and incompetent governments. When those borrowers inevitably default years from now, China will have a lot of leverage including the ability to buy their votes in the UN in exchange for debt forgiveness. I suspect it's a long-term play to generate some international legitimacy around their ambitions to seize more territory.
Police Tried to Unlock a Dead Man's Phone with His Finger
How social networking sites may discriminate against women
There're already tools which choose to do "automated" tracking. HoneyMoney caters to people who want to do it manually (more control, security, precision).

The thing is that Excel is not designed to help you with manual tracking. HoneyMoney is. For example, you can plan all recurring transactions and then you just confirm them as they happen. Or you can combine multiple transactions into one. Those things simplify the process a lot.

"Accounting" can be enjoyable. Some people do enjoy the level of control they get from doing their personal finances.

For example, you spend $120 at a restaurant last night. Today you enter that expense into HoneyMoney, and have a chance to see how this expense changed your situation, and think for a moment a second time about it, was it worth it or better not go there again. Computer won't do it for you.
Today is FOP day (super rare genetic mutation where tissue becomes bone)
http://www.ifopa.org/fop_awareness_day

FOP affects 1 in 2 million, with 800 known cases worldwide. FOP is the only know disease where one normal organ system turns into another - soft tissue becomes hard bone when injured.
I really wish we could disable macros, but it turns out the hoops we'd have to jump through just so accounting could continue to do their jobs wasn't worth the effort.

I'm sure some academic out there will berate me for not insisting that we disassemble an entire department's workflow and rewrite it in SQL with some web frontend, but I work in the real world where costs need to be justified and the truth is they couldn't be. There were much simpler and cheaper ways to mitigate the threats we were worried about.

Ad blocking interferes with the Marketing Department occasionally but covers such a huge range of problems that it really is worth it.
Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth
Do you believe the batteries should be subsidized instead of the power going back into the grid?
You don’t have to pay full. When you’re done, you can sell.

Buy for $500k, put down 100k as downpayment. Suppose it’s an interest only loan and you pay $1500 a month for all house costs. In 5 years you’ve paid 90k. If the house price doubles, you’re walking away with 410k.

Renting you’d be putting at least 2k a month, so total 120k. 190-120=70k.

For 70k in stock market to become 410k , that’s a 5.8X growth. Really hard.

In a booming market, with low interest rates, buying makes sense because of leverage.

Obviously you have to do the numbers for rent/buy scenarios and make a decision yourself. There is no right answer.
By tracking, I mean MicroG/Google Play Services controls location services, not Android OS.
The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
Using that logic, centralized systems have zero trust since single parties own 100% of the networks.
Oh cool, 'weather widgets' are a fun first project for small screens and LED displays.

I like showing people how to hook up ESP8266s to the OpenWeatherMap API[1] - it's a quick and useful example and it seems to get people thinking about home automation. One fun way to display the results very cheaply is to use just a few of those colored LEDs for things like temperature ('blue->yellow->red') and conditions (yellow for sunny, grey for overcast, blue for rain, etc.)

[1]: https://openweathermap.org/api
I hope none of that stuff makes it into your main codebase? If there is even a remote chance of requiring maintenance by someone other than the person that wrote it, that is. Which is probably 99.99% the chance, unless it's temporary/throwaway code.
> It's a special option you have to select, but when done properly […]

So not really reliable, I wouldn't trust ordinary office users to use it correctly. Exporting to CSV is safer, because you can open the file in a plain-text editor and see what you're actually going to share. CSV won't hide anything from you, unlike the proprietary Excel file format (I know it's XML-in-ZIP but who can be bothered inspecting the contents).
In such case you might want to use this thermal lag to your advantage. Set AC to cool your house as much as possible during the midday and you'll come back to hopefully much cooler house in the evening ( so no need to run air conditioner ). Here essentially you would be using the thermal mass of your entire house as an energy storage medium.

With washing, if you have to do it every day you might want to start it right after the sunrise when you're likely to to leave for work. If your kids are old enough you can instruct them to take the washing out and put into a dryer as soon as they get home.

The point is you'll need to make some changes to your lifestyle and habits but these changes are not as severe and problematic as some people claim.
Indeed, and I would love to know about an alternative to iTunes. I wasn't offering it high praise, simply describing my use case.
Fair question. I am an Apple Music subscriber, so iTunes is the only Apple Music desktop client I'm aware of.
Problem is, this often backfires - you end up using 5% of the power of the framework, but spending 95% of the dev time fighting it to achieve what you really want.
Drupal 7 and 8 core critical release on April 25th, 2018 PSA-2018-003
> G11N -> I18N and L10N.

That's a new one to me, but makes sense. I've been lucky enough to have heard of i19n and l10n for years (almost decades, and this point) but not had to deal with it much beyond tracking down a string in some open source webapp I was patching before deploying.

> can't we all just use ISO-8601?!

Preach on. I sometimes find myself filling out date fields in paper forms in YYYY-MM-DD without thinking. The elementary school my kids attend probably thinks I'm a weirdo. I know my wife does...
As a white American, I carefully watch what I say around police and generally do not trust them.

Most police are incentivized to "solve" crimes, not solve crimes. They are exposed to the worst our society has to offer and this takes a toll on them. We as a society also feel that every crime can be solved and that an inability to solve the crime is incompetence.

Sometimes the evidence doesn't quite match the person the police strongly feel committed the crime, so words get twisted, evidence gets adjusted to make things fit a little better.

That conversation you had the other day telling an officer about your vacation in Florida can be turned around and then used as evidence against you in your trial for a murder that took place in the vicinity of the hotel you stayed at.

It doesn't matter that you told the officer you were with your family the entire time, he may not remember that or remember it a bit differently than you. Now it's your word against his in court. Who is a jury going to believe?

Of course, they would have to have other evidence to convict, some of it possibly slightly adjusted also. Even if you are cleared of the charge, that's not something anyone wants to go through. The humiliation, the cost, the damage to your relationships as people start to doubt you.

The less info the police have about me and the less interaction I have with then, the lower the chance my name might pop into their heads when they're looking for a "person of interest."

I'm not saying police want to send innocent people to jail. I'm saying their internal biases and desire to hold someone responsible for a crime causes them to twist the facts to ensure that the person they suspect gets convicted.

If you have the time, you should watch this[1] video. It may provide some insight into the American criminal justice system.

[1] https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE "Don't talk to the police"
Yes, the poster above has assumed the meaning of 'orthogonal' from its etymology, but the use he criticises comes from statistics (https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/12128/what-does-or...)
Hardcore bash sure sounds like fun, but when things start getting too big or messy I usually find a Python script with some `subprocess` [0] tricks to be way easier on the eye.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html
There was precisely nothing regarding exploiting AV vulns in the CIA leaks.

The leaks did contain some really basic obfuscation techniques to defeat AVs, but that's nothing new.
Paper title: Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks: The effects of social recommendations on network diversity
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3178876.3186140
Research: Malaria in Africa Is Developing Resistance to Drugs
Each new major generation of NVIDIA GPU was accompanied by an upgrade to the power transformer to the building that the software teams sat in, because it turned out during bringup that the building was already exceeding the capacity of the transformer.
Thanks for the counterpoint, I appreciate it. FWIW I've generally stuck with it since 2003, but I've been more and more frustrated with it recently.
It's not satire. It's "real world" marketing bullshit. Would you hire an accountant that tells you that numbers (and mathematics) are so last year. What really count is your customer experience (CX) journey and so on. Welcome the wonderful world of highly-paid buzz-word C-level business executives. You might also enjoy the Get Rich Quick "Business Blockchain" Bible - https://github.com/openblockchains/get-rich-quick-bible Reads like a satire too (but all "real world" examples).
Despite plenty of experience to the contrary, I'm still a believer that there's some way to disentangle what needs to be done from how it needs to be done. I do think the business people have to understand what they're asking for, and how to tell whether they've got it. I don't think many of them are going to learn code to do it. Maybe there are documents out there, somewhere, that unambiguously describe what business people want and whether they've gotten it, but until I see those mythical creatures, I'm willing to cut Cuke some slack.
Totally agree! There are no happy cows in farming. btw the cows that are killed for meat are babies, killed well before their natural lifespan.
Is there any analysis of leveraged buyouts over the last x years? Rather than selecting the ones that end in disaster. For example the Dell buyout [1] doesn't seem to have caused a catastrophe yet.

Purely anecdotally, but I am typing this on a Dell desktop and regularly use a Dell laptop and I am very happy with both, I am particularly happy with their Linux support.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell#2013_buyout
I think that many potential customers want to see a comparison of features. That does not mean trash talking competition. Rather educate the customer and let them come to the obvious conclusion.
Robots are trying to take our job. Let's acknowledge they're already here
Even if your employer's contribution is zero there's significant tax benefits for contributing to a 401(k) vs "doing your own thing with Vanguard or Fidelity."

You can also "do your own thing with Vanguard or Fidelity" in an IRA, which has the tax benefits of a 401(k), however, the yearly contribution limits are unreasonably low, especially compared to a 401(k).
Fast-check 1.0.1 released – feedbacks welcome
The Curious Case of Lois Schwich: A Victorian Girl in Boy's Clothing
Sure, but we vote with majority of uninformed voters.

So democracy has to relegate information to second place, and rely on emotion and narrative to motivate voters.

This doesn't mean democratic leaders can't separate campaign from implementation ( campaign on emotive issues, deliver substantive ones ), but it does make the whole trajectory subject to the gravitational downward pull of fickle/merit-less but emotionally compelling issues.

Hence democracies demonstrated inability to deliver long-term plans and rapid large changes. But technocracy beats democracy there -- there they really care about information at the state planning level.

Hence, say what you want about China's media/mass PR exercise, but look at their results. Go and see them for yourself.

Their system kills a democratic system for delivering large meaningful changes.

And just ask FB. If FB was democratic, instead of autocratic/technocratic/data driven you really think they would be where they are now?

So why insist on it in government then, and pretend you are all so clever / right for doing so?

Seems to me you're just selling yourselves short-changed future in exchange for short-term feeling good about yourselves.

A poor and stupid bargain. But one you are happy with. Why? That's the question to investigate. The why. I think you've been sold on the idea of democracy because it's simply an effective means of keeping you all under control, and of maintaining the status quo so that nothing much ever changes -- and of amplifying and concentrating power in the unaccountable / secret / deep part of the state. You "feel" you have a voice, they give you an outlet, so you do nothing to uprise against it. Very effective control.

The architects of this idea must be laughing to see you all defending your system of bondage so hard. Socrates surely is laughing at you, too.
What would be the environmental impact of ubiquitous rocket launches for business travel?
That should be covered by homeowners insurance, at least in part.

That your old crumbling house was under-insured is no argument against homeownership in any way shape or form, just an unfortunate anecdote.
Well, if you have such a trait then you can figure it out yourself.
>“Ideas were not coming from me, they were just passing through my head,” one subject reported.

Is consciousness even real, man?

Great books if you wanna chew on basically (for now) unanswerable questions:

Peter Watts' "Blindsight" and "Echopraxia."

Neal Stephenson's "Anathem."
When I hear something I know to be untrue that knowledge is not enough. It's not enough to tell that speaker that what they said is untrue. It's not enough to tell any potential listener that what the speaker said is untrue. Nope, I need to make sure that there is no listener for that speaker. Nothing less will satisfy.

If necessary I'll use a public club i.e. the government. Everyone will rightfully shout "Free Speech!" Maybe I don't use the government though and just get the speakers platform to walk away by asking platform to do that, or yelling at them.

And the I'll sleep easy with the knowledge that no one will hear those lies. No one will think those lies.
Oh, great, people are still latched onto the Electron hype.

We now have another 150MB/window application. Great. How about pushing the envelope further and using a Quake engine as the base (it has a console).
PVS-Studio Team: Check of the Krita 4.0 Open Source Graphics Editor
I enjoy them and regularly do both. I still wouldn't mention it in an interview since they're something almost everyone does (gaming especially in tech fields). If every candidate is similarly skilled/experienced then it mainly comes down to who the interviewer likes the most, and if you can't hold two minutes of small talk on what you do in your spare time then you're at a disadvantage.
A large size nuke plant does about 1300 MW nominally (it is initially about 3000 MW thermally but only 35% or so is successfully converted to power for the grid).
I can barely lower the tray table over my legs when the person in front in me is not reclined. When the seat is reclined, I have to start doing a contortion act to use the table.
> a run that takes 1 hour on 720 cores can be run on the CPUs of a 48-core personal computer in 16 hours

Is calling a 48-core machine a "personal computer" a bit of a stretch, or am I missing something?
You could, depending on your requirements. If someone needed proof that this was indeed signed and sent at that time, it gets more difficult with e-mail.