skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m kind of doing a bad job here because the GP of the comment I was replying to bailed out and replaced his whole comment with something dismissive, so we can’t actually see the counterpoint I was trying to defend. Honestly, this thread (and HN in total) is increasingly a lost cause, so let’s just move on with our respective lives.
It's not an unreasonable position to take.

One of my favorite things about my iPads 4:3 screen is watching 4:3 content on it without black bars, so I get it.
if there are rocks and gravity, there is water. the gravity crushes the rocks and forces the hydrogen and oxygen out, and it forms water. So basically there is water everywhere in the universe. The "we found water" meme is just tabloid headlines recycled over and over again, much like "voyager leaves the solar system" every year -- wine is good for you, wine is bad for you, antibiotics are causing resistence, etc, etc. Go look at any Popular Science magazine from the 90s and now, the same damn narratives repeated, rephrased, and re-rinsed.
Yep. We used to make a barrel with my dad every year. Handpicked and and threw stuff out that was spoiled. Took an evening for 100 litres. We could usually tell the difference between that and the mass produced mash-everything-for-volume easy.
I'm still not sure what your point is. Are you saying that people in US government/military/etc who decide who to kill make bad decisions? If so, give some examples, and suggest how we can improve the situation.
How would that explain why probably upwards of 95% of people moving to the west coast (and trendy cities in general) have no family there, and likely no meaningful friend group or social networks there either?

The vast majority of people I talk to piling out west have no connections here whatsoever.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'actual effect Z', but citizens and their local governments had many valid reasons as to why they enacted each of those policies and constraints. For many people, the value of those policies will be more important than having more-affordable housing.
For professional references, it's not unusual. The company needs to protect itself against what an employee might say when representing the company.

They cannot forbid a personal reference.
Quick note for everyone who might want to build a mostly-quiet home theatre PC. There are several versions of the geforce1030 that use passive cooling/no fans. With H265 acceleration in the GPU drivers, more than fast enough for 2160p, 60fps movies in VLC. They're right around $85.

Same basic chip architecture as the much more expensive 1070/1080. Not something you'd want to run newer 3D games on, but perfect for media center use.
Moving to a cheap tropical paradise sounds pretty nice, really.

But for anyone who has looked into it, you learn the visa situation is a nuisance. They don't want foreigners longer than a vacation.
> This means using only organic grapes, picked by hand, and fermenting slowly with wild yeasts from the vineyard (most vintners use lab-grown yeasts, which Riffault says are engineered “like F1 cars, to speed through fermentation”).

This sounds kind of wrong, almost every single plant we are eating has been optimized for our needs over the past ~200 years (citation needed). Cucumber, tomato, strawberry, zucchini, eggplant, avocado, watermelon, carrot and corn, just to name a few, have been engineered "like F1 cars" for each specific demand. So why should it be an issue to use optimized yeasts for wine too?

PS: Probably unambiguous, but I was instantly scared this article is going to be about Wine Is Not an Emulator.

https://www.winehq.org/
The axiom of choice is wrong
I don't think they've address some other factors. It's really scary to move especially when you are struggling. Taking a risk like that when you're only just making ends meet isn't the kind of things we humans do well.
>As I have been growing up and reading about space exploration the narrative had been same: the Earth is special because it has water which allows it to have life.

My pet theory is that microscopic life is relatively common but complex life, let alone intelligent life, is exceedingly rare.
Let's not let the ineffectiveness of this technology distract us from the fact that it is unethical. If it worked properly it would still be horrible.
This definitely comes into play, I know several people who want to move or relocate but their ex can't/won't and therefore they're stuck in place.
Oh, I see what you are saying. Yeah, that is a good point.
I thought cat fishing was when you asked someone ugly out as a cruel joke.
“ZZ”?
They list "date" as being required by protocol. This is not true. The term used in the RFC is "should". It is a nice to have, for additional validation by proxies.

In haproxy, you can discard it with:

http-response del-header Date
VR Pioneer Helps Advise $10M Avatar XPRIZE to Merge Robotics and Human Expertise
They also gave a fake reference number implying they were prepared to pose as someone else to social engineer. That is beyond lying on a resume.
Both current newspapers and online blogging profitability stem from advertising. I think the current situation is a conflated hybrid of both. Here's a previous rant:

"We live in an age where blogging careers required tricking Google algorithms to thinking your site was valuable in order to increase traffic and thus serve ads to consumers (or grab their email for later product blasts, for example signing up for a free ebook on passive income). This trend spiraled into "spinning articles" which essentially was a method of using software to change articles via word/sentence substitution. The spun articles would then be posted to similar websites that then linked back to one of your main sites. All of them nicely littered with ads of course and leading you in a research circle. This of course evolved into clickbait headlines. Buzzfeed and its ilk are born to maximize this growing pile of garbage echoing, and labels itself as a brilliant strategy which is then echoed out again. Release a few high quality long form articles every once in a while, call yourself journalism instead of blogging (difference being the above strategies and highly opinionated pieces), badda-bing-badda-boom, media is changed. Now instead of reporting on a subject, we regurgitate something else for a few sentences and post the source and call it a day. No understanding, investigation, expansion, or reworking required because the author is no longer writing for an audience but instead for an advertiser click minimum." [0]

I think the fact that newspapers, blogs, whatever else aren't writing for an audience any more is huge. The idea being that the writer is most likely trying to fill some quota in order to make a buck. I'm not saying that writers are only loyal to their bottom line but they're incentivized to produce much more garbage.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17049804
>I think it is a good thing that every domain has valid contact info.

Does your "valid" include domain registrars that provide WHOIS protection that includes forwarding messages to the protected owner?

And, honest question, why do you think that domains should have contact info?
SwipeFeed – Swipe Through Your Feed
What about backhaul? Is it wireless or is it designed as using a wireline fiber backbone to wireless clients?

What kind of bandwdith levels are you targetting with your product and hardware?

I think in the Bay Area you would want to be looking at near gigabit to be competitive.
I’m curious if the password was in a password manager in the phone (or some other leak), or if he was just dumb enough to use the same password on his VM as he used everywhere else.
Prisma raises $4.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins
Sorry for the pedantry, but ... this isn't a lie per se, rather usage of deceptively-meaningless terminology. Specifically, "centrism" of the American Left-Right dichotomy, is poorly defined.

There are multiple ways to arrive at a balanced compromise between:

* the Left's platform (use government to ensure everyone is fed, entertained, coddled and unoffended); and

* the Right's platform (use government to exert Christian theocracy, and to earn bribes by exerting the largest pocketbooks' wills, even if that means building an empire).

Two notable extremes of such compromise are:

* use government to do everything under the sun, from wealth redistribution to world conquest (cf Horseshoe Theory); and

* don't use government for anything for which it isn't absolutely necessary (cf libertarianism aka classical liberalism).

IMHO classical liberalism is better than nationalist-socialism, and it seems you agree; but both positions could be described as "centrism" since they lie between the Left and the Right.
> I'm sure there are people that prefer 16:9 though.

It also depends on the size of the display. For a small 11" display I'd love to see a 4:3 (or even 1:1) screen to give me a lot of physical height for reading while keeping the device small.

On a large 17" laptop I might actually be work with a 16:9 screen because the display is already tall enough to offer a lot of room for reading.
Why do those jobs need to pay just as well?

There are jobs available which provide folks with a sustainable life and the ability to thrive. To me, having the job you want, in the location you want, near friends you want to be near, with the pay you want, with housing you can afford, is a luxury.

If you want a life that ticks all the boxes, you have to make yourself more competitive. But I don't believe anyone is entitled to getting the exact job or conditions they want, and they shouldn't expect cities to change to accommodate their list of demands.
MBAs have fans, the 12" MacBook doesn't.
Sounds overly-complicated (but fun). Why not just build in an aquarium and submerge it in mineral oil?
Zuckerberg again snubs UK parliament over call to testify
Why Great Employees Quit – Instead of Admitting They're Unhappy
All the high impact sports (ie football, rugby, boxing, wrestling) feel like a relic of times past. I hope eventually VR reaches a point where the players get to perform on a virtual arena while their physical bodies are inside a simulation room.

Sensor suits like those used to enable motion capture [0] and some multidirectional treadmill [1] would enable the same activities in a much safer environment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOWS8K-jMGg
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEhwLRX4m2s
Ironically, the source they cite on California domestic migration indicates that, in lots of cases, they do, and that's pretty much exactly what is driving migration out of CA (and, conversely, that people who can afford it are moving in, but there are fewer of those.)
RIP. Feels like the end of an era for New Yorkers. A certain longform vigor. Jimmy Breslin on JFK's assassination. Peter Maas and Serpico. Norman Mailer running for mayor of the "51st State"

In addition to all the excellent suggestions on this page. Also check out The Painted Word (1975).

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5NBoe5qHRE

Art of Fiction Interview with George Plimpton

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/15/tom-wolfe-193...
I'm sometimes nostalgic for clacking disks. It's sometimes useful to know when the machine is swapping because some process has gone awry and used up all the memory...
I don't think it will hurt for dev roles. I wouldn't be surprised if over half of the people on LinkedIn are recruiters, so it must be critical for their own careers.
But has it been optimized for taste? Or for the marketplace and maximum profit? You mention the tomato. If you've ever had a fresh heirloom tomato I think you'd agree that they're much more delicious than the "optimized" tomatoes from the local chain supermarket. However, the supermarket tomato is a lot easier to grow and lasts longer in storage and transport. We're just seeing people with the knowledge and money demanding taste and a general cultural shift in that direction (all the artisanal products that have been cropping up). Because in the last 100 years, we've optimized for profit and the global supply chain rather than taste. Nothing wrong with either IMO, it depends on what you want. Delicious tomatoes, or having tomatoes in January.

Specifically regarding yeast though, spontaneously fermented beers have very interesting and IMO delicious flavors going on, but it'd be impossible to make such beers on a Budweiser scale, by definition it's more of an art and not an industrial process.
In just one more week, he could have had the much more impressive headline 'Tesla Building 500 Cars a Day'.

...or not.
What do you mean by: "The fork is then squashed as a git subtree into our main repo"? I don't grasp what actually happens there, between the two repos (the nixpkgs fork repo vs. your main repo)?
> One thing that irked me a little is seeing the candidate worked at her previous company made her instantly like him.

I think that's a really hard bias to get over, even if people don't readily admit it like the author did. Presumably you have feelings about previous places you worked at, and thoughts about the general culture at them ("everyone was great!" or "that place was a dump!").

If you have strong feelings about a place, it's pretty hard not to let those feelings influence decisions like this. It's a bit like trying to be unbiased about hiring a friend: Even if you never admit it, how could you possibly be totally unbiased?

Of course, in an ideal world the ethical thing to do is to remove yourself from the hiring process because of a conflict of interest. That, also of course, can be impossible in some places (no one to take your place, rigid processes that insist you interview or decline the candidate, etc.).
Manhunt ensues as North Korean counter-espionage official defects
I understand that you do mention the pre-training / transfer learning approach clearly, but isn't it disingenuous to claim that you provide better performance based on (only) 100 labeled examples, when the pre-training dataset (Wikitext-103) actually contains 103M words?
Exactly. Cloudflare throws these unsubstantiated numbers around all the time. It's just marketing puffery.
Pardon me if this is a naïve question. Isn't the point of references that they can be checked and verified? Why would you need to obtain explicit consent to contact the contacts when they've been provided? Isn't the consent implicit by virtue of them being supplied?
It eliminates alot of places you would not be happy working at.
I was recruiting developers for 5 years or so. We've had a few ones who managed to almost slip by like this. Almost...

The most obvious was when I started doing it, there was the one who copied a project from Github and presented as his own work. "Hey look what I built!" kind of a thing.

The problem is I like work samples (more than whiteboard algorithm puzzles), they perhaps didn't plan on that, so I got excited and start asking questions. Usually that leads to a great time and I learn a lot about their work, attitude, how well they can explain a problem etc.

Well it turns out he couldn't explain how it works. I was baffled. Here is this awesome candidate -- personable, friendly and built this great application but was having difficulty explaining the basics. So I asked my coworker during lunch. He went did some research and found the original project on GH. I felt like an idiot after that. But better me feeling like an idiot that spending months on salary and admin work only to find we got a dud.
Master of illusion: Kokichi Sugihara's 'impossible' objects
I take the opposite approach. I accept that everything I post online is public, and a chance to control my own narrative.

I would much rather fill the Internet with my own content about myself, than leave it empty for someone else to impersonate or disparage me. Additionally, I am proud of what I post publicly — otherwise I wouldn’t post it.

Public personas are a professional necessity, especially in our industry. For example, what if you want to show your contributions to open source? Or your stackoverflow answers?

If you do everything online under a separate identity, then all your positive contributions are unlinkable to yourself. Yes, you can hide any “bad things” you may post from your employers. But are you really posting anything bad? Is it worth sacrificing credit for your positive contributions?

Granted there is always the “nothing to hide” counterargument. That is, it’s not up for me to decide what’s “bad.” A potential employer could misinterpret my words, or otherwise negatively judge me based on my online profiles. But in that case it’s probably better to avoid the relationship anyway.
It depends on how accurate answers must be to be considered passing. (What's the curve?)
That's how language works ... enough people agree on the definition (and spelling and pronunciation) of a word, and then it's a word.

It's so fetch, your own adulteration of language! Don't speak to me about being cool, who started that? Such a silly thing, cool means one thing and one thing only: the other side of lukewarm. Please don't adulterate the language.
Not only that but easy to disassemble. I created a monitor with a built-in disassembler, in 68K assembler. The single-step bit was a boon for debugging.
In California at least, looking at an applicant's social profile can reveal information the company is not allowed to ask for or use in the hiring decision.

LinkedIn wouldn't qualify since it's a public resume, but checking out an applicant's Facebook page or Instragram would likely give rise to actionable legal claims if the applicant is rejected. This doesn't mean you'd lose, but you'd pay out a chunk of money to defend the lawsuit and other candidates would avoid your company.
It depends on what you like, but having read all his full length books, I’m firmly of the opinion that A Man in Full is the best novel qua novel. In terms of craftsmenship it’s his masterpiece. On the other hand, Bonfire of the Vanities is the most Wolfian of the books—it’s the book that most of any of them could not have been written by anyone else (with honorable mention to Back to Blood).
Pepsi and Coke consistently taste different from each other and same as themselves.
Here's one based on alpine which should be a bit smaller:

https://gist.github.com/tlrobinson/f64d80b872338a878d14601ed...
My quick and dirty three step scam website detecting process https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/84026/4188 obviously includes whois but -- I think I will make do without. It's only a little harder, to be frank.
Yeah, it was news to me too.

Then I remembered than non-hacker stories get posted to hacker news.
well, the story could be completely made up...
Oh...it’s not just me then..
Every couple of months I check my 2015 MacBook Pro system info because I’m utterly convinced that it has an hard drive because of the SSD noise.
It’s quite frustrating actually..
Somebody seriously needs to write a strategy article on drunken chess boxing.
First horse entombed in volcanic ash found in Pompeii
I find it handy because most of the time I know some shared connections and I can chat to them about the person (like you said, New Zealand is a small place). I know what you mean, I avoided creating a profile for the longest time, especially because they were doing a lot of shady stuff around sending emails to all your contacts. However I find it to be a genuinely useful tool now.

In saying all of that, I'm not going to write you off for not having one and if your CV can give me the same info then that's fine. I just think it's best to use what's available to you - if you're in Wellington like I was, you're pretty much 2 degrees of separation from anyone else so finding someone to vouch for you that's trusted by the person hiring you is easy using LinkedIn.
Using cheese as an example, it's the difference between camembert and gorgonzola: same basic ingredient, different yeast. Different colour and massively different flavour.

Same with yeast for wine: fruity citrus with overtones of vomit.
Possibly inductors vibrating.
I mean, you could say the same about Lufthansa and (formerly) American's use of Helvetica. But no one would accuse them of having the same corporate identity.
A beer is a hoax if it tastes terrible but beer critics fawn all over it and it costs $9 for a pint. Hazy/cloudy beers are the recent pinnacle of this style. They are the all-white paintings of the beer world. Brewers spent centuries learning to clarify beer, for a reason. Coffee stouts are another example of a dumb joke that many brewers have copied.

I'm not against innovation in brewing. I like Alvarado Street Peninsula Pilsner a lot, despite the fact that brewery makes dozens of beers, most of which are terrible. I only think if a brewery can't make a pilsner or lager or other standard beer, then I'm not interested in trying their joke beers either.
Interesting timing; this was published day before Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) laid off one-third the staff.
Perhaps humans will reapply for this job: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/gazette/never-forget-a-face
Yet I'm not sure that this Schadenfreude is at all useful for you, since these will instead also outGPU your research. I hope you can come up with a great AI business and compete with these companies, rather than be sad at the structural realities of global capitalism!