skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This right here is a perfect example of why this position is gatekeeped so much. Having a PhD doesn’t automatically mean you think like a scientist of a mathematician, and having a bachelor’s degree and 15 years of experience writing code and then putting in the effort to read Elements of Statistical Learning, compeleting several online courses in machine learning and data science, studying probability, combinatorics, graph theory, does not mean you don’t have a scientific mindset. A scientific mindset can be learned. You are not special because you have a PhD and I don’t. The only difference between you and me is that I had the ability to learn for free what you paid for. But when you go “oh hah, he’s just a coder and only has a bachelors degree” and you won’t even call me to talk to me that means you are missing out, and you are gatekeeping. You are not special and you are not smarter than me. You’ve just read a book I haven’t and wrote a white paper. I can read that book too. I can write a paper too.

I can do everything you can do.
Around 3am occasionally I wake up and yes I can hear the high pitched buzz of what I assume to be my nervous system or possibly just blood circulating around my inner ear. My neighbourhood is very quiet indeed at that time.

UK: Malvern, Sugarloaf Hill. On a crisp day in autumn. Walking down the escarpment in complete silence. No birds. One of my most vivid memories. Strange isn't it?

OA: I found Kagge's book a little thin and shallow - lots of information about his lifestyle and satisfactions, less analysis. Perhaps that is just me.
I don't see how this has to do with my question about benchmarks of sequential disk I/O on GCP instances with local NVMe SSDs. Did you respond to the wrong message?

Either way, I use both GCP and AWS but I am finding that I'm spending less on GCP. I don't believe every workload will be cheaper in GCP, but it is clearly competitive at least.
Dams are dangerous beasts. The KMT breached some dikes in the 1930s for the purpose of environmental warfare, and in the process killed half a million peasants and displaced millions more.
I'm completely unsurprised that it's Hatch. At least he's gone at the end of the year.

But if I understand the article, the current state of play is that Hatch introduced this into a bill that had already passed the House. If the Senate passes this, then it's different from the bill that passed the House, so it goes to a reconciliation committee. If the copyright extension survives that, then the modified bill has to pass both the House and the Senate.

So, yes, this is bad, and we need to work against it. But we still have several chances to block it.
There is a Go implementation which runs in userspace, which is what the OSX version is. No .kext here.
I couldn't tell if you were serious or not so I went to your profile page and I saw "Smart Contracts for On-Demand Datasets in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence". I still can't tell if it's an elaborate joke or not.
Well that's just it. Embedded forces people to make different design decisions. We only have this mountain of shitty code because we've given ourselves enough rope to hang from.

We got to the moon with a computer less powerful than my microwave. My old smart phone worked just fine without 4 gigs of RAM and 32 gigs storage, and now this monstrosity in my hand is running out of resources? It doesn't have to be this way.
Man I wish I could switch back to Vim. GUI frontends for Neovim has made me want Vim so bad, but I just can't get away from Kakoune. The model of select first, action after (reverse of vim) is so so much better for me. Kakoune just gives me so much clarity over I'm doing at any one time. I guessed too frequently in vim :/.
Since the probability is below 100% IRL, this is trivially seen to be false. Evidence: Here is a hand. It is not irradiated...
I meant big hardware, like the Cisco ASR 9000 line. That's the market I want to switch to open source.
I'm pretty sure neither I, nor the comment to which I was replying was referring to the knowledge (or ignorance) of the link between sex and pregnancy. At least in general.

The problem for something like contraception, which is the context here, is in understanding the details. Those details are sorely lacking in plays, songs, fairy tales, and old wives' tales.

> It also happens to be knowledge that's necessary to continue the species

No knowledge is actually necessary, as mere ignorant performance of the act is sufficient.
Just a guess, but: Gas stations use pumps that run on electricity.
Congratulations on v1 and appreciate the efforts!

Just in time for my needs as I have been looking for other option besides Bootstrap, Fabric and Blueprint.
-80°C is a typical storage temperature for proteins and other biological samples in the lab. This might indicate the experimental nature of the vaccine, and that they didn't have the chance to optimize or test that aspect yet.
I agree but the people talking about them would just nickname them anyway. Then I guess it would just be a matter of which nickname gets the most coverage, the feel-good name, the accurate name, or the scary name. Maybe that at least gives us a fighting chance.
Damn that guy can write! I've read this story 4 times now since it was posted and it still gives me goose bumps to read it.
Nevertheless, it does make one reconsider million dollar compensation packages if all those guys can come up with is to deploy randomness. Either they have foresight and a plan or they don't. Either way is fine, but only the first option supports the million dollar salaries for executives. If they are just like any other mortal... they didn't even do anything to identify new trends, they just followed what was in the major business magazines.
> A boot camp probably won't tell the process to make sure a linear model is the right choice.

Very true. On the other hand, it's a pleasant rarity when I see positions that appear to index more heavily on, "how well is this person able to conceptualize the problem and choose an appropriate method?" than "can this person do X?"

Lots of folks can do X; fewer can conceptualize a research question and choose the appropriate X; even fewer can carry out the X and communicate robustly what it means.

The latter two start to get into squishy territory, but also are where the value is. They also seem to get the least focus in advertising / recruiting / interviewing data scientists.

It reminds me of studying evaluation methods in planning. One that people are really familiar with (at least anecdotally) is cost-benefit analysis. Conceptually, it's very simple. The problem is that the costs and benefits that are hardest to measure are very often NOT measured. And they're very often the sorts of things that people find the most important. So, you end up with an answer that encodes a ratio of easily measured things rather than important things.

So too with data science. Easier to check whether someone can remember basic probability rules and carry out a linear regression than it is to diagnose whether someone can reason carefully about an amorphous business problem.
From http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-overview.html:

> Pronounce: You_again Shmidhoobuh

That's pretty good for a self-deprecating joke
There was a "Beagle Bros" software program that would alternatively turn left/right floppy drives on and it would sound like a train.. It would go faster and faster.

I remember running it and worrying I borked my mom's floppy drives. But thankfully it didn't.

I thought it was on "silicon salad" but I don't see it. Unless its "text train". Maybe it was online from Nibble magazine.
https://archive.org/stream/Beagle_Bros-Silicon_Salad#page/n0...
I came late, but my advice was going to be to talk to those who were involved in the performance plan and let them know what was going on. A good employer doesn't want to lose a good employee if they can help it. Looks like you have a good employer based on this update.
We prefer to be taken advantage by Canadian Corporatists. Kinder-Morgan, our telecom cartel, etc.
> the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or a processor not established in the Union should be subject to this Regulation where the processing activities are related to offering goods or services to such data subjects

> In order to determine whether such a controller or processor is offering goods or services to data subjects who are in the Union, it should be ascertained whether it is apparent that the controller or processor envisages offering services to data subjects in one or more Member States in the Union

> factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/

So you need to "offer" services, not "supply" them, and "to data subjects in the EU", not "within the EU".

So you can't just run your business from Canada with no special emphasis on EU and call it a day.

Or if you're advocating blocking European IPs, well that's exactly the "hysteria" the article argues against.
I was just nitpicking, it's not really an important point.

People usually prefer "Go" or "Golang", I only mentioned it because I noticed it in the project description.
Can people not get used to the silence they are unnerved by?

I keep the fan on at night because I'm used to the white noise throughout the day, so to have no white noise at night is kind of jarring. But there are times in the year when I have to keep it off because it'd be too chilly. It's a bit "unnerving" since I'm now subjected to the jarring silence and all the little noises made by animals at night, but after about 3 days, I'm already used to the silence and so it's no problem at all.
The real trick is to weaponize them in a way that they spread optimally and then disperse them in a way that avoids detection as long as possible.

North Korea has had bio-weapon development program for a long time and has conducted human experiments with prisoners. They also might do larger scale testing in remote islands. No need to Biosafety level 4 laboratory if the researches are not allowed leave the lab and go home every night. If things go south, you torch the island including the people and start over after few years.

It's almost impossible to know how good they are in bio-weapons until they use them.
Interesting. I’ve seen other Jobsesque CEOs in action. One was the only person in the company who could overrule an internally focused CTO. I couldn’t figure out if it was “Thank God we have him to defend the views of our partners or customers” or “A great CEO shouldn’t set up an org that needs this kind of intervention.”

The “Only I know best” types tend to flame out before they get the Jobsian Success. (Even Jobs needed to crash and burn one and a half times)
As an aside, there are GUIs coming out for Neovim that give you features of IDEs with 100% real backing of Vim/Neovim. Ie, it's actually Neovim, but the GUI is just a frontend with IDE bells and whistles.

Most are pretty young I believe, so maybe not ready for you. I'm sure it's coming though :)
You're absolutely right that you have to sacrifice some productivity to get it done. I was lucky enough to have been working a graveyard NOC job for a few months and had nothing but time (when fires weren't burning). This gave me the opportunity to just immerse myself in VIM. It's easily been one of the best things I've ever done for my productivity.
My hypothesis (of what people want in an interview):

Interviewer to engage in conversation with applicant about applicant's prior work in detail. If the applicant can give sufficient explanations of systems/projects and the interviewer can ask appropriate probing questions and get sufficient responses to those questions from the applicant.. then the interview can be concluded positively.

The crux of it, from the applicant point of view, is that they want to be believed and treated "professionally". Further it's "insulting" to be questioned about anything other than specific experiences. That's why you see objections to every sort of "objective" line of interview:

sample projects - too much time, why am I coding for you for free?

github/open source - I have hobbies outside of programming

white boarding/google doc coding - not my environment for writing code. I need emacs with xyz keybindings or we're not going to make progress.

algorithm problems solving - the job doesn't entail re-implementing hash tables, or sorting algorithms... The question(s) are not germane to the position

etc etc etc
> If a company wants to try me out, I'm more than willing to do a contract to perm, but my hourly rate is going to be enough to cover self employment taxes, make up for not getting paid for time off and at least two or three weeks between employment.

What does that number look like? 10k a week?
Please try harder. Ctrl+Shift+Up (or Ctrl+Shift+Down), about 0.3 seconds.
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> If you consider yourself having more sophisticated, artistic taste in movies, you may reserve the term 'film' for those. For the movie snob, Casablanca is a film, Spiderman 4 is a movie.

I had no idea this was a distinction. I just thought 'film' was what the British called them and 'movie' was the Americanism. We say 'I'm going to the see a film' rather than 'going to see a movie'.
I don't understand, what does confronting the problem head on look like to you? Or how is creating a job board like this not such a solution?
Call them Quant roles like in finance, everyone understands and it makes life easier.
Last year, the senate called their bill that would strip millions of healthcare the "Better Care Reconciliation Act"
Stuxnet might be the most sophisticated worm ever written with the number and types of layers it drills through.

There is likely far more complex and sophisticated software elsewhere.
Why do you care? Looks like this “credit agency” is only used by telecoms scum and not by any reputable companies.

I’d personally love to have a marker that tells the nasty telcos that I am “no good” and they shouldn’t bother doing business with me.
> That being said, the way Google and other companies use whiteboards is an epic fail. Asking someone to code on a whiteboard is stupid. Asking them to solve algorithm puzzlers on a whiteboard is lame. This isn't how we use whiteboards every day so why should a candidate be expected to use them this way during an interview.

Every candidate I interview has the choice between coding on a whiteboarding, and coding in a text editor with rudimentary code formatting.

I really like it when people code in the text editor, because that's one less thing I have to transcribe in my interview evaluation.

Regardless of whether they will choose the whiteboard or the laptop, I have never, and will never mark people down for typos, confusing .length with .size, a missed semicolon, or any other petty bullshit that isn't pertinent to the problem. I'm not hiring a compiler.
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the ability to program is actually the least important

The days of a researcher producing a model to be re-implemented for production by a programmer are over, or very nearly so. A working data scientist now is expected to produce something that can run in production. That’s something a PhD doesn’t teach and that many PhDs find an uphill struggle.
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I, personally, would differentiate between complex and sophisticated.

That is just one line of code, sure. But I can't imagine what it took to get that line of code there, and everything that comes with that. How many people were involved, PhD's, years of experience in a range of fields, and not just years of experience in any field but experience in fields like espionage.

My uneducated brain would still put "most sophisticated software ever written" in the hyperbole box, but even then I'm hesitating.
Company or agency?
Once upon a time one could have been forgiven for thinking the dentists had this type of political control, just by comparing the cars they drove to the cars driven by e.g. physicians. However, the recent boom in dental-school-openings is a much bigger threat to their individual earnings than a potential bacterial wonder treatment.

I don't know much about bacterial treatments, but one can buy them for the garden for like $10. They do a number on the hornworms. This is a "natural" bacteria rather than an engineered one, but bacteria reproduce rather than requiring manufacture. If someone has this miracle bug in a lab, she could start selling small quantities pretty easily.
Isn't this the plot of Mad Men?
You must unlearn what you have learned.

This is a very interesting, counter-intuitive finding. My first reaction was "Oh! Maybe you can kill some dendrites to make someone smarter". My wishful thinking side wants to say "This is why there's a correlation between drinking a lot and being intelligent". I don't really think that's a valid conclusion to draw from this study, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind. The main reason, beside common sense, that it's probably not a valid conclusion is that there's a correlation between intelligence and fewer dendrites, but that doesn't mean that fewer dendrites causes intelligence. It could be that intelligent people have fewer dendrites because they don't need as many as other people.

Can anyone familiar with the science weigh in on what implications this might have for enhancing people's intelligence?
1. Legally murder is an oxymoron. Murder is the unlawful killing of another. Unless you believe cases of self-defense also count as murder, but the right language, pedantically speaking would be, legally kill.

2. Do you really believe there is never a justifiable reason for the state to kill a human being?
I'm just curious, honestly.
> 2) We have a longer interview. We whiteboard. We take home test. We whiteboard some more. 90% chance that you don't get fired after 30 days.

But a 400% increase in that you find some sort of excuse not to hire me and I won't even get hired in the first place. Your percentages only make #2 more attractive if there's a more-or-less equal chance of being hired both ways.
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Hey, you seem to know a lot about this. Can you explain why the docs seem to claim they max out at 680k/volume read IOPS and 360k/volume write IOPS? They seem to be talking about 4k blocks.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance#type...

Is Google being disingenuous? I haven't benchmarked it, but I will say that anecdotally the GCP local NVMe SSDs feel very fast for things like building software compared to other setups I've done on other clouds (AWS, UpCloud.)
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This comparison is ridiculous. Searching the internet can be imperfect, it can be lossy, and there aren't any real consequences. We are talking about an ad platform after all. If you search for kittens and you get back 345 results or 101 results or 2345 results, does it really matter? No, it has no consequence to anyone.
An important thing to remember is that broken/not-broken is completely different for each side of that desk: candidate person & hiring person. This is always the case for selection steps.

The employer (or school, etc) wants to make successful hires and to avoid bad ones. False positives are always a big problem. False negatives are usually much smaller one. A process is good if it produces good hires, and no bad ones.

In principle, a process that hires 3 good candidates from a pool containing 5 good candidates and lots of bad ones is good. Avoiding bad hires is paramount. Missing 2 good hires is not as bad as making one bad hire, not near as bad usually.

Most employers don't care about false negatives at all. If they do, they probably care most about missing really good outlier hires, not mistakenly selecting the 5th best candidate instead of the 4th. The only reason to care is fairness. People instintively care about fairness so this affects practices but it's not nearly like false positives.

Employers that need huge volume (eg, the army) are the only ones that care about false positives as much as candidates do.

The candidate (student etc.) generally feels the process is "broken" when it is unfair to them. Unfair means that a person could have done the job well, but cannot get hired. Ie, if the candidate is a "false negative" then the process is broken.

Anyway... When things become systemic, the "brokenness" becomes acute to a candidate. If whiteboards (your architecture version, Google's CS version or any other version) are prevelant and you suck at them... you can't get hired. There are people who suck at your test (whatever it is) but would be good at the job. Your proxy is a biased against some people, every proxy is.

Like I said, a lot of things are like this. One side is working the numbers game, the other side isn't. Insurance markets, college entrance, executive appointments, PayPal's fraudster detection (bastards!), credit scores, investment (even startup investment)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WkGTeDqkdg

There are probably better ones but that should get you started and give you search terms.
> Asking someone to code on a whiteboard is stupid

I think this is largely the point.
Have you tried to switch for a while to a laptop with no mouse, a terrible trackpad that hardly ever works, and painful to use and/or broken Home/End/Page Up/Page Down and Arrow keys?

It's partly a joke, but it is the "rip off the bandaid" style way to learn Vim. On a system like that you pretty much either learn Vim or perish. I had a Dell laptop like that in grad school which is where I probably used Vim the most consistently I'll ever use it in my life (and used all sorts of other fun key-focused things like xmonad and Vimperator then as well).
Telco executives that ink multi-million dollar deals will never see this article. For the most part, Cisco is pretty reliable and a known-commodity for Telcos.

I suspect (in the US) that many VPs of Telcos are best buds with major hardware vendors. Telcos run legal monopolies, there's no incentive to be disruptive.
No, it takes a lot more than a master's degree. Even a PhD is only really entry-level. There's no substitute for practical experience and talking to someone very experienced. Shame there aren't a lot more very experienced statisticians and data scientists out there.
You have to be able to separate the things that were good about Jobs (e.g. design sense, marketing instincts, etc.) from what was bad (i.e. being an asshole).

It's the difference between being effective and being Cargo Cult Steve Jobs. Far too many baby entrepreneurs try to mimic Jobs' behaviors, but fail to couple it with any sort of skill or good taste.
No, it's because end-users don't adopt 2FA via TOTP and, to a first approximation, nobody uses U2F. It's not a corner security teams are cutting. Microsoft's security team makes the same decisions.
It is probably the latter, I am even considering a tape drive
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Cisco never sold low end hardware.

Tell us what are the great alternatives in middle end.
Same here, I've been using Vim for a long time. The main reason is that I touch type and I really don't like to use the arrow keys. However, I really wonder if I'm really more productive using Vim rather standard shortcuts plus the trackpad.