skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good instinct. certainly the personal reward of getting something interesting running dims. and I find myself working considerably slower, and its quite a bit easier to get distracted.

most importantly the kind of work that was available for me 20 years ago was just inherently more interesting than the kind of work I can find today.

if you don't get 'retirement money' early on, I would highly recommend spinning up another vocation to spend your later years with. at the very least you're in a privileged position where, ageism and market conditions aside, you can always backfill with a little drudge work.
But engineers that make 170+ are above average, not average.
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Right now in San Francisco, Sunset is at 7:56pm and Sunrise is at 6:19am. If I went to sleep a little after the sun went down and a little after the sun came up, that's still at least 10 hours of sleep a day. I'm a little surprised - I've heard that this amount of sleep is actually unhealthy!
Yeah it's a weird mix of helpful content moderated by an irritating hall monitor like community wielding power and making changes nobody wants.

I've been frustrated when trying to contribute - you'll have two people helping each other and then some third party comes in and declares it not valuable, incorrectly says something is a duplicate, or starts deleting things for arbitrary reasons.

I just want the moderators to go away and leave us alone, it also makes me think stack overflow is successful in spite of this - not because of it.
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I think there's a pretty plausible answer here - StackOverflow is hostile to everyone, and that means people who already feel insecure or burdened by impostor syndrome or like they have to struggle to be recognized - even if they're not technically being treated any worse - end up experiencing that hostility and intimidating attitude even more.
ha, this reminds me of once I left my badge at home and snuck into my office from the mailroom entrance instead of the actual front-door entrance with badge scanners and security guards.
> My rule of thumb: solar power generates 10 watts per square meter.

> There's a fixed maximum of 1300 watts per square meter of sunlight.

I'd suggest you qualify your numbers by noting that you're talking specifically about Solar PV.

Solar Thermal appears to offer 3x the kWh/m2 over Solar PV -- and mitigates at least one of your concerns ('night'). That ratio will doubtless change as PVC efficiency improves, but if that 3x factor is accurate now, it'll be a long time before PVCs match or exceed on square metre ratings alone.
I have absolutely been there. (Especially the "now in hiding for the rest of my life because I forgot to respond to someone for a week" part and the "two months to fill out an application" part and the "emotionally incapable of doing anything, stopped believing anything else is possible" part... so, well, all of the parts actually.)

For me, what worked was getting another human being (my parents, in this case) to help me through getting the applications done, and following up with people I'm being avoidant about, and generally reminding me that I was being ridiculous. Also, it helped to find out that these were all really common manifestations of certain kinds of Brain Problems(tm) (anxiety in particular), which made me feel like less of a lazy worthless piece of shit and more like just a dude with a problem, and also directed me to various kinds of therapy & medication which have been helpful at fixing the issue.
>Fifth, and this one may seem like a silly reason to most, the drug testing (for marijuana specifically) is a huge barrier of entry.

If I remember correctly, the NSA had to drop the marijuana prohibition on hires recently, simply because they were not getting enough applicants.
>Fifth, and this one may seem like a silly reason to most, the drug testing (for marijuana specifically) is a huge barrier of entry. From a safety perspective, it makes sense. But for better or worse, marijuana use is becoming more socially accepted while work places (and in particular trade jobs) are lagging behind the times. Removing a marijuana screen from standard workplace testing would help revitalize the employee pool.

Perhaps (and I'm granting some leeway here) we don't yet have the tools or the data to understand well enough how something like THC affects motor skills like we do with alcohol, but someday I expect we will. Work places (particularly those with high safety concerns) shouldn't make any sacrifices just because something is socially acceptable. You can't show up drunk, and alcohol is more socially accepted than marijuana.
Look very nice!
> they can buy their own sunscreen, right?

Yes, obviously. Personal responsibility instead of blaming others. In your scenario, some might like to be outside so how are you including them? That's the fallacy with trying to make everyone happy; it's impossible.

Anyways, that also was weird stretch of the analogy as it's the same as saying SO shouldn't allow any communication because some people may feel sad.

This thread is about people feeling that a comment was based on something when the reality is that they don't know. And because they don't know, saying it as fact doesn't make it so, hence we should not suddenly say that they are targeted just because they feel that they are targeted, even if they have a propensity to feel targeted more than others. Your feelings are your concern.
Ask HN: Anyone making more than $300 monthly from side project?
'As he was being arrested, he told officers he had a roast in the oven. They said they would take care of it.'

Humans are an odd bunch.
I had a similar experience recently with a question I had answered years ago. A highly ranked user came in, complained in a comment about the fact I linked to documentation instead of copy pasting the docs into the answer then downvoted me causing a loss of 2 karma. I reported the comment because it was ridiculous this person is scanning questions which are years old to try and find things to nitpick.

I'm not sure if they removed the comment or if some other moderator did, but it was gone within a couple of days. My karma loss remained. It's absolutely ridiculous over there sometimes and these sorts of interactions are one of the big reasons I stopped participating.
It says “for adjective adjective cyber theft”, which implies the undisclosed is just modifiyig the object they were fined for. GP is not alone in their confusion, top comment right now is talking about how it’s a slap on the wrist _for the breach_ (and not for the lack of disclosure).

A better title would be “SEC Penalizes Yahoo for Failure to disclose Massive security breach”

Then failure to disclose is the object
Does Hacker News use dark patterns in advertising?
You are not alone, but I personally think (and I think many others) that AI will come to the point that you dont really need to understand how the math behind it works but only how it works. So for example you only need to know how back propagation works and what it does, but not the exact math formula for it. I think you can see it already happening with Keras. You would need to know the math and the nitty gritty if you want to build or research state of the art ML/DL
I was very confused about this. The genealogy website did not probide any information to law enforcement. Instead, law enforcement uploaded DNA from the crime scene to the genealogy website.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/golden-state-killer.ht...
Arrest isn't conviction, so it's a good thing that officers don't always act like they're putting away a killer (and that the accused don't always act like they're about to be put away for life.)
Interestingly it wasn’t even his DNA in the database, but a relative’s. It just goes to show that there is nowhere to hide. Even if you stay completely offline, it only takes one relative to log the bulk of your DNA onto the Internet. Metadata strikes again.
Does the education system only exist to train future workers? Should it?
That's not that relevant. What's relevant is who was the client who approved it. You can be the most brilliant architect in the world, but if the client want's a McMansion that's what you'll give him (or quit).
Glad to live in the age of the internet wherein people like yourself casually post small history lessons about the early days of the internet. Thanks, btw.
Even real Amazon Reviews can be manipulated
Don't forget "innocent until proven guilty".

I want to know what DNA they got from the Golden State Killer, and how they know that it was his. The guy that they arrested was a police officer during the period where the killing was going on, in an era before DNA tests existed. Did they take DNA from a sample that was accidentally contaminated by a police officer at the scene, and conclude that the DNA belonged to said police officer?
My friends in undergrad Civil Engineering had 300-page textbooks on concrete.
I’d also rather my house not burn down because I couldn’t turn off the oven.
That sounds like Borges' Library of Babel.
I had a bad reaction to it too but I think golang has probably crossed a certain threshold of adoption where if they want to grow even further they will have to cut into the market of the general population and those people definitely like that design more than the weird gopher.
Downside: despite their college degrees, they still sometimes have to clean up poop.
Does anyone know why shipping speeds of 3-4 days are typically not offered? You see overnight, 1-day, 2-day shipping and then beyond that is 5 days or longer.

My most common time frame for delivery is that I order something over the weekend, and would like to have it by the next weekend. This is counted as being ordered by COB Monday, so with Amazon 2-day shipping it will get here by Wednesday, but with the old 5-day shipping, more often than not I wouldn't get it until the next Monday, which is too late. Then Amazon pushed this out to 5-8 days. In Amazon's case you could argue it is an intentional decision to boost prime subscriptions, but most other online retailers have similar delivery options.

I feel bad making people bust their asses to get a package to me ASAP, only to have it sit around for days without me using it, and wish a middle ground was available.
They used "crime scene" samples and what they are calling “abandoned” DNA from the suspect ("You leave your DNA in a place that is a public domain” they don't need a warrant?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/golden-state-killer.ht...
> The problem with AMD is that it stopped making server CPUs for 5 years, Epyc was their first release since December of 2012 and that is what essentially prevents any serious ramp up of Epyc currently.

I don't see why that should be a concern. It's not as though the effect is any different than switching to a new socket. Existing systems can't be upgraded to the newer processors, which is mostly irrelevant anyway because by the time the processor is stale so is the rest of the system.

It's not as if they're different instruction sets. It's perfectly reasonable to buy Opterons in 2009, replace them with Xeon systems in 2014 and then replace those with Epyc systems in 2019.

> That 5 year gap also essentially killed the AMD optimized software ecosystem and toolset which now needs to be built from the grounds up again.

The Zen microarchitecture isn't based on bulldozer. Even if they had kept iterating on bulldozer in the interim, none of that ecosystem work would have been applicable to Zen regardless.
I don't think languages should need branding, but the marketing department of a large corporate disagrees in this case
I was going to say peace but qualified it with relative. The Syria thing is pretty minor war-wise, imo.

I only threw in the "Hillary email" thing because the subject is communications security.
Come on now. This isn't some grand scheme to appeal to all of those social justice coders out there.

If you're in charge of a huge for-profit online community and your only source for demographic/marketing/public image information is your existing user profiles, you should probably start looking for a new line of work. There are many ways that they could find out what people in different demographic groups think of their service without even looking at their membership database.
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Can you not use autistic as an insult, please?
damn ... so the guy is going to jail based just on the data obtained from the website?

What if the "match" is not correct?

This should scare a lot of people away from these family tree websites. One day you might have FBI knocking on your door for being a close match to some killer somewhere.
I disagree. With any sufficiently complex project, Django's batteries included got in the way whereas scaling Flask felt smooth.
http://abc7news.com/dna-that-cracked-golden-state-killer-cas... This article states that the main DNA sites and Ancestry.com didn't release the information, so I'm curious about where it came from as well. Though it does say they'll comply with 'valid legal requests' it also says they weren't contacted.
> It doesn't imply that there's a correlation between age and stagnation, though.

Not the way you're describing it. However, there's a pretty common correlation between age and relevance of skillset, which is a direct consequence of stagnation over many years.

The point is that someone saying "old == stagnant" may actually be thinking of it the way I'm describing, which has more validity.
The problem is that there is already such a wealth of information that exists on SO, that some of the beginner questions I had starting out never needed posting. So I can imagine a similar scenario for someone else, and hope that they do a little searching around before posting.

Sometimes you need to use 2 or 3 tangentially related posts together to see the bigger picture of how the question you were going to ask relates to the problem you wanted to solve. I mean, learning has always been that kind of tortuous process.

Maybe there needs to be a separate place on the site that's primarily help for newbies.
Remember when $55k was a good middleclass wage and would buy you a house in seattle where these guys are working?
> Also why is it that minorities always comes down to not being male or white when half the planet is female and most of the planet is not white?

Because that use of language about marginalized/disadvantaged/underrepresented groups arose specifically in the context of racial minorities in the US, at a time when Whites were both an overwhelming majority and socially dominant it of proportion to their numerical dominance; the language is sometimes extended to contexts where “minority” is not strictly to accurate (though note that the article here does not make that error, it refers to “women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups”, not “minorities”.)

EDIT:

Also,

> If you have less tolerance, how is that anyone else's problem?

That someone doing unconsented harm is not absolved of responsibility for that harm because the victim is unusually susceptible is the moral principle underlying the eggshell rule [0], which applies widely in civil and criminal law, so it's not exactly a novel principle.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
For what? Do you think any of my opinions/assertions lack supporting evidence?
Hang on, am I'm missing something - guy is a suspect, they have yet to find proof he is the Killer and he has been arrested based on a second attempt of trying to match the DNA after the first was inconclusive. Why does the article read like they found the killer?
I have had similar issues on this site. I have had 3 high rep users of the site close a question I asked having never answered a single question in the technology I was referencing. That said I have never felt that because I was not white I was treated differently, how would anyone even know that? I guess they could go look for a profile picture before they answer?

If you have people doing that then there is a much bigger issue then what has been described by the EVP. My experience in general has been that there are a segment of users on StackOverflow that think they are better than everyone else and take every little opportunity they can to impress upon the rest of us how great they are in their own little world.
In the first press conference the Sacramento police chief said they had DNA evidence lying in stuff that was already in an evidence room that they did not realize until recently, the chief was an advocate for more genetic testing at the state level. The killer did not work for the Sacramento police, ever.
If SO is listening, do one thing: Stop closing questions! It is incredibly frustrating.
Is it weird to eat the same sandwich for lunch every day?
-- "Why do you keep looking for your car keys under the lamp post?"

-- "Because that's where the light is."

Less snarkily: that's because they traits that really matter in a modern development environment -- the ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity; to navigate the tipping points between technical perfection and optimal business value; and and top of all this, a genuine sense of humility and a willingness to work with others whose strengths and weaknesses are different from your own -- are very hard to test for, if they can be "tested" for at all.

But since the current interview "process" is so obsessed with "testing" and stack-ranking... not surprisingly, it's largely rigged around traits that are... easy to "test" for.

Like you know, the ability to crank out rehearsed solutions to algorithm puzzles and the like.
Hey, great explanation of decision trees. I might recommend, instead of going for a bigger dataset, maybe following it up by adding bagging or boosting.

Fairly often people writing tutorials jump straight to Random Forest or Gradient Boosting, and those are great to use but maybe too big a conceptual leap to understand straight away if your theoretical background is weak.
How many hours in 4.5 years does an average Netflix users spend? Seems absurd to spend that time consuming than creating your own content.
What the fuck does Renee French's work have to do with Pokemon or Star Wars?
I don't know what it is about this website but it constantly makes its Chrome tab freeze up and so scrolling is as painful as walking on LEGOs.
I'm pretty logged into leftist currents and I'm pretty sure this strain of thought isn't as popular as this article makes it seem.

> “fully automated luxury communism"

This is literally a meme (a pretty dank one in my opinion). Its provokes thought and laughs more than enunciates a political program.
Release note is not yet ready but they are announcing it in the website: https://www.ubuntu.com/.

This release got a little bit delayed because of an unexpected bug that have been solved and tested in the same day.

Good job and congratulations to Canonical and associated devs!
Not it isn’t. “Undisclosed” is an adjective. The title says that the SEC penalized Yahoo for a “cyber theft” that was “massive” and “undisclosed.”

“SEC Penalizes Yahoo $35M for Non-Disclosure of Massive Cyber Theft” would be better.
Arrest isn't conviction, but since the topic here is DNA it's worth noting that in California you can have your DNA taken against your will and put into a database when you get arrested even if you're never convicted or even charged with a crime.
why fix whats not broken? I like the plan 9/unix/KISS style? Like who seriously sat there and was like, this is something we need help with and was like we need outside help with this.

The brand book is astonishingly horrible and is not an improvement on the way we are digesting the information.
Uninsured drivers by state
Yep, for sure. And it's easy to be too open in tech - constantly chasing the new shiny framework or language or library (which I'm frequently guilty of). But a lot of times the right answer is to stick with what has been battle tested and what you're productive in.
People can make assumptions based on names and profile photos.
Not quite 300K but I've personally driven several 90s/early 00s cars well past 250K. Usually obtained extremely cheaply with at least 200K already on them.
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> I think the core problem is that they've focused too much on being like wikipedia (a single authoritative, comprehensive answer to each important question), and not enough on helping people to learn. Over time a site will grow a culture, and experts on the site will outweigh and overrule experts on the subject matter. In this case, we're also seeing answerers' needs outweigh askers'.

there's also the third, silent, probably much larger group, who neither asks questions nor answers them.

it seems as though the single authoritative, comprehensive answers is what helps those people the most.

> Specifically, if I was trying to fix this I'd set up a two-tier system for questions and answers. ... For questions that are sufficiently well-asked, and not duplicates, elevate them to a wikipedia-like status ...

i think i'd very much like that to happen.
Yahoo starts enforcing mandatory arbitration
Oh good call. Those are well above safe limits. I see this all the time myself.
Another interesting API framework from the DRF author:

https://github.com/encode/apistar

Uses Python3 type annotations to do serialization. Not sure it's ready for production, but it has some very interesting new concepts.

Also worth mentioning Sanic which is fast and I believe dispenses with Flask warts like the thread-local Request object (though it does bill itself as "Flask-like").
Most of Nvidia's architectural changes have moved it closer to GCN (eg, adding async compute in Pascal). In other areas like multiple compute engines (A reason GCN generally has better VR latency numbers), Nvidia still lags behind (not sure if Volta changes that). AMD generally does quite well on compute tasks compared to Nvidia and is still generally much faster for anything using Vulkan.

http://ext3h.makegames.de/DX12_Compute.html

The big issue with AMD is software and money. Even with the most talented engineers it takes loads of man hours to build up an ecosystem. AMD's is currently valued at 8.3B. Nvidia currently has 7.1B cash on hand. With that kind of money, Nvidia will do things like loan AAA gamemakers some devs to re-write large parts of the game to optimize them for Nvidia graphics cards or build up the CUDA ecosystem.
For artists, yes: The Chelsea Hotel.

https://medium.com/@bagelboy/make-america-bohemian-again-de8...
I agree that they should not focus too much on minorities when SO is hostile to everyone.

> rampant question closures for dubious reasons

That is the biggest problem
I second that.
They are avoiding the real problem by pretending to fight for social justices.
We don't have accurate ways to test if you're high though. We can only test if you've done it in the past few days/weeks.

Fire someone for showing up to work drunk, sure. But would you fire them for a bottle of wine on a Saturday night?
I'd survive but I wouldn't go back to it except in the most dire of circumstances.
You don't use a language because you don't like their mascot? Renee's french art is great like Glenda the plan 9 bunny, way better than most mascots.
US numbers only :(
Now they've updated https://www.ubuntu.com to announce it.
Lands right in the "sees last char input hit the screen as next one is being, or about to be typed" range, depending on typing speed.