skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: Brian Williams - many leading memory scientists say that Brain Williams didn't sensationalize his story, but rather created a false memory over time. There's a lot of evidence of this, and 10+ years is a long time in terms of memory and you will start combining multiple people's stories in your own recollection.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/was-brian-williams...
“Best predictor” eliminates the edge cases. That’s not optimal when we are talking about humans in a social environment.

We need less worship of numbers and statistics.
Knowledge sharing is often good but stealing trade secrets isn't really the same thing (just imagine a large corp stealing trade secrets from a startup and you'll see how it could stifle innovation)
Go to Reddit, then go to Voat. It makes a difference. You can’t completely win, but you can definitely lose.
Then I would encourage you to study the law behind the statutes..

https://yalelawtech.org/2009/11/02/why-mens-rea-should-be-ap...

"In Osborne v. Ohio, the United States Supreme Court explained that laws making possession of pornography a crime, regardless of the circumstances, were constitutional. "

However there are beginning to be some cracks in the strict liability from this case where a 16 year old lied about her age and obtained fake drivers license credentials stating the fraudulent age.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Obviously, each state can have its own laws. But the key here is "strict liability" versus "mens rea". And no, prosecutorial discretion is no substitute for mens rea.
On average, child-care is so heavily tilted toward women that for many, doing a bit less would be good for their health. Also, it's not zero-sum -- parents can both be involved at the same time -- but I also enjoy the times when my wife is not around and my kids give me all the attention.
What does the company have to lose by your going, and what do they have to gain? If you are asking to take personal time off in the middle of some critical goal/deadline, I could see how your going would negatively impact the business.

In fact, it has happened to me while working on projects. Some key person is off at a conference, while we're all charging to get the thing done, and it's not a good feeling.

In my experience, tech conferences tend to be more for developers and less for the companies and businesses that hire them. Let's be honest with ourselves here. It's kind of self-indulgent, like a mini-vacation.

It's not like you can't watch the videos online or go read whatever tutorial or documentation. I'm only speaking to my experience here, so maybe your conference has something the typical tech conference doesn't have.

I would only go to a conference if I knew that going would more than pay for the cost. If I were certain it would lead to many more opportunities than what I've got going on at present, I would say it's worth paying for the airfare, hotel, and restaurant food.

It seems like you could stand to gain quite a lot from going to this conference, and your company might just lose you. They are justifiably afraid of that, but so what? This is capitalism, man. It's ruthless. Everyone's in it for themselves.

Your company is subject to market forces. You are subject to market forces. They would need to find another developer to train up if you left, and if they let you go because you went to a conference, they would be taking on the risk of having to replace you.

So there's an inherent risk in going (on both sides). Can you currently afford to take that risk? How much do you have saved? How much debt do you have? Would you be okay with being unemployed for a few months while looking for the next thing?

When someone else's interests are naturally at odds with yours, there is little negotiation to be done. They simply don't want what you want, and that's okay. Can you afford to go get yours?
> Meanwhile we're still using ASP.Net MVC w/ a vintage 2008 web design.

I'm still maintaining a web forms program first started in 2002. I dream of MVC.
I'm a computational biologist with a focus on evolution by education.

PS: I'll edit this post with some further explanation on why I strongly dislike the article after I've properly gathered my thoughts.
Or use a language with reified generics :)
I don't think that's even possible. Docker doesn't let you expose the daemon over HTTP without configuring certs. I had to write an ansible script to do that, and even then I locked down my Docker port to my VPN subnet:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/blob/master/ansible/roles/doc...
If you read the text, you'll find that he calls for biologists to examine whole cells and systems of cells as well as the pieces thereof. That's actually a legitimate request for balance in the field.
Crystal 0.25
If it works yes, but the startup chime was akin to a PC passing post so it sounds before the screen turns on. Without the sound , if the mac does not display anything you can not really know if there is no power, or something fried or your drive is dead...
Side note related to negativity: stay at least a little engaged with developments in areas you care about, so if things happen against your values, you can give your resources to help groups that share your vision and values.
Data you haven’t backed up is data you don’t want. Regardless of whether the SSD is replaceable or soldered on, if data loss is your problem you should have been backing up.
App Maker requires G Suite, which is a paid subscription service ($10/user/month for the "best deal" business tier).

Probably they're hoping to grow their G Suite subscription base by offering some more value added services like App Maker.

It's not a bad idea. Build your apps quickly and simply using App Maker, and you are then dependent on G Suite.

However I do agree that Google has a disappointing track record when it comes to end-of-life-ing interesting products like Web Designer.

It's hard to make a business case these days that we should adopt a particular tool that magically builds web sites or marries Java to web, or other such experiments, when it might be orphaned 2-3 years from now. Even if the Goog keeps it on life support, you don't want to be using a platform that has been abandoned by a critical mass of devs -- fewer resources out there to support it, answer questions etc.

We'll take a wait-and-see stance on this one.
Toxic Employees and How to Manage Them
This is not the intent of the law, and a blatant misinterpretation.

Even the "cookie law" does not require to get consent (aka a popup you ignore), unless you use cookies for purposes besides e.g. session management.

"Consent is not required if the cookie is: (1) used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication, and (2) strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly required by the user to provide that service." http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/

Even "worse" for GDPR: You need clear consent to use personal data. That consent is implied if all you are using the data for is in direct relationship to (required for) the expected service. So, you only really need additional explicit consent if you're using data for other things (like profiling, targeted ads etc), AND, more importantly, you cannot require this consent for the actual service but it has to be purely optional.
I think the story probably went something like this:

1. Fitbit steal hires Jawbone employees.
2. Jawbone retaliates by charging everyone who left Jawbone to join Fitbit for stealing trade secrets.
Correction to my own post: The article does name FIGG's chief engineer, but it is not claiming that he personally acted in a willfully reckless manner or encouraged/coerced others to do so.
New Power appears to explore similar terrain as well.

https://www.amazon.com/New-Power-Works-Hyperconnected-World/...

Looking forward to reading both in the near future.
It takes an unbelievable asshole to reply like this. I am disgusted by this and you should he ashamed of yourself.

Sometimes shit happens. When shit happens, the last thing anyone needs is some individual bragging about how they've saved a lifetime of living expenses in seven years of working...
Does it really require creativity to replace the CPU in the Mac Mini?

Presumably Apple has looked at a lot of these issues and decided the return on investment isn't worth it.
Thank you for taking the time to answer the question.

In principle, I know how it ought to work. But when would I need to use it?

For instance, if someone is making a web api, and you're pulling data from a database, should one think about it?

If one is doing some data analysis, should one think about it?

I always thought that it is a "low level" program that takes care of it. So tensorflow might worry about it, but I wouldn't if I use tensorflow. Or perhaps mapreduce worries about it, or the ORM worries about it.

But when should I worry about it?
Nor foolish (in a good way)
I strongly agree with the stray luck / good fortune factor. I'll add that I think there is the considerable potential to enhance the access to lucky outcomes and or the rate at which you can run into good luck events.

Simple, rather obvious things like doing (do a thing, take action) and asking (if you never ask...), dramatically improve your odds of causing and or colliding with good luck outcomes. They often take very little time as well. The biggest cost in asking, is typically being shot down; if you can handle that, then the sky opens up.

I used to be really mediocre at the asking aspect. I remember my mother telling me, when I was a teenager, that I was just like her, I never asked for what I wanted, and she lamented that the squeaky wheel always get the grease. That pissed me off, the projection of her flaw/weakness/non-action choice onto me. I've tried to remind myself since then, to routinely stab at the universe for stray opportunities by inquiring, asking, etc.

The first time I raised venture capital, it was because I sent a cold email to a billionaire. I didn't think they'd reply, and the email only took ten minutes to craft late one night. They replied and were interested in what I was building, and I raised capital from that person shortly thereafter. All I had to do, is do something (build), and ask (network the action I took out into the wider world), and I made a good luck outcome possible. Absolutely nothing would have happened without the ask; such a simple thing.
I bought the late 2016 mbp on a whim (the price in Japan was just too good to ignore) but I'm so disappointed. The keyboard is trash, I dread every time I have to work without an external one. I barely ever use that keyboard, and yet after 14 months the "b" key is somehow faulty. I had to start putting all dongles in checked-out baggage because airport security now thinks I'm carrying bombs -- nobody would have that many short cables in a carry-on! The enlarged trackpad is almost comical, without actually helping anything; and the touchbar is just another set of lights I never look at.

I'm now worried I'll never be able to flog this for even 20% of what I paid, and I'm so tempted to switch to a prebuilt Linux laptop -- there are a few options with chassis that look a lot like the 2015 MBPr...

The feeling of complete technological triumph that I got from the previous MBPr model (5 years of service, barely a scratch) has fully evaporated, and no amount of propaganda will change that.
Mechanical keyboards :)
yeah i screwed up big time. no more posting in the middle of the night for me. i appologize. i have removed the post and corrected everything.
WinRAR Physical CD Unboxing/Opening/Installation/Whatever
Yes, "The Gernsback Continuum" is basically Gibson's declaration of abolishing the traditional utopian, optimistic view of the future and the beginning of cyberpunk. Strongly recommended.
> This sounds totally backwards.

It is. It's the result of low level managers using issue counts as KPI: now it's a metric that must be gamed.
Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control?
Most apps, especially data entry apps, are like ikea furniture. You don't need a master furniture maker.
If the radius of the ramp is the same as the loop wouldn’t it experience the same acceleration once diverted to the ramp? (but in a different direction)
That's the key point. It's going to be a revenue producer from Day One.

The question is, how long will G Suite itself last (as a paid service)? If AMZN or MSFT come out with equivalent services for free or very cheap, GOOG may reciprocate, and bang, no more revenue.
I don't think the threshold is cutting it anymore - I've noticed a lot of reddit-like behavior with people downvoting things they don't like or agree with rather than things that don't contribute to the conversation; this is balanced out by other people but it's not something that I saw happen 1-5 years ago.
>the University will also offer free tuition for families making under $125,000

My parents made $90,000 combined in 2009 (in NYC of all places) and I paid half price at a comparable school ($25,000 per year, cost of loans PLUS interest).

I literally studied abroad twice because it was $12,000 cheaper PER SEMESTER to study abroad through an approved school program. Lunacy.
I don't understand why people use other people's Docker images. Unless it comes from an official repository for the tool you're using, it's better to look at the source code/Dockerfile in the github link and just roll your own.

A lot of times you're just installing the package you want with apt-get within your Dockerfile anyway; a package you can't check for normal updates for anymore since it's in a container. So now you need a tooling system around making sure your packages in your containers don't have security issues.

Docker is kinda a mess.
Ask HN: How to self-learn ML/AI?
since this could have various responses depending on different backgrounds I'll give my particular case but feel free to share advanced resources, it may help others.

I studied economics for a while, have very little experience with a few programming languages and prefer learning by doing, so in a perfect world I'd rather start with the resources/tools that will let me start building small things asap and go from there.

thanks and have a good weekend!
I don't think it's counter-intuitive, but rather a simple trade-off. The benefit you get from closing off the majority of your anxiety is worth more than the slight amount of extra preparation you might get from considering certain outcomes. It's not too different from the calculus involved in deciding to quit social media, with the hit on mental health not being worth being in the loop 100% of the time.
I am not a native English speaker, but quite familiar with the use of "at (large) scale" in similar context.

It means that one has deployed it/is using the tool with a non-trivial (could be anywhere from few 100s to few 1000s of machines) amount of CPU and/or data. In the context of serving, "large scale" could also mean the number of queries/second hitting the serving layer.
If you want a really fascinating story, check out faxes from the far side. [1] tl;dr The US sent spy balloons over the USSR, many of which were captured. For their probe to the "dark side" of the moon, the Soviets used this film which was processed in the satellite and then essentially faxed back to earth.

But, hey, Silicon Valley is really good at ad tech. :-)

[1] https://www.damninteresting.com/faxes-from-the-far-side/
To be pedantic, Socrates wasn't really "forced" to drink hemlock. He could easily have avoided that fate. He could have argued forcefully for his innocence, and easily won - he could argue rings around the Sophists, and everyone knew it. Instead, he argued that society itself was wrong. He could then have begged for mercy. Instead, he told them to do their worst, and live down to what he thought they were. The jury voted for death by a wider margin than they voted for guilt! ("I didn't feel personally attacked... yet still downvoted")

And of course, Socrates' real crime was saying true but uncomfortable things.

All told, it's a pretty good analogy. It's not about the suicide, it's about society's reaction to uncomfortable truth, and what happens when you say the truth even knowing you'll be punished for it.
You're pointing out that programming languages are relative to the level of abstraction needed but not the quality of the programmer. So true! Programming is programming.

bigato, on the other hand, is pointing out that the brains are relative, i.e. regardless of the programming language, you still need a programmer's brain using it to be successful.
I learned this lesson 9 years ago, then implemented it last year. Steady paychecks are nice, but plan so you don't need them to live month to month if you can swing it. Once the company turns sour and you're always angry, it's past time to move on to something fresher. I took a nice 3 month sabbatical and it was the best summer since college. Life is too short.
For professional jobs which I suspect 99% of us on here have responsibility for your CPD (Professional Development) is down to you as much as it is to your employer.

The IEEE and similar bodies would not look very kindly on an employer that barred its members from CPD.

The only time an employer reasonably might not want to have the attendee use his employers name are TLA's or some companies at Blackhat conferences (if you work for a phone company for example)
You could exec from SRAM if you have enough to spare (larger Cortex M4/M7 uCs have 256k+, RetroBSD claims to only need 128k of that).
Of course they notice. It is very easy to spot when a company is cheap and uses cross platform tech. Some (Xamarin) are easier to hide than others (RN, Cordova), but it’s always there.
Not sure I buy this. R is a language with parser and interpreter. Parser spits out an AST and interpreter evaluates nodes according to rules. This is the same in every other sane language. AST is pretty much the same in every language. There is no reason R’s parser and language can’t be replaced with something sane.

And it really is insane and horrible.
Hmm, I'm almost sold. I think what ties together the 'punk' part is the gritty, visceral aspects of the futuristic dystopian city; the protagonist doesn't necessarily need to be a representative of these lower rings of society, but it definitely helps drive that point home.

Not sure if I'm wording this right... Basically, cyberpunk needs to show those gritty aspects to be cyberpunk, but the main characters don't necessarily need to be those punks. For instance, a game where you play as an AI that defects from an evil corporation, or perhaps play as a bartender[0] who simply listens to her clients' crazy stories.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/447530/VA11_HallA_Cyberpu...

(I'm also a huge fan of cyberpunk, so no worries :P )
>Don't know if anyone coined the term toxic femininity, but it should obviously be a field of study

Current Western society has placed women so high up on a pedestal that publicly leveling criticism at the gender in any aspect is detrimental to one's career and social standing.

You're being flagged and downvoted for merely suggesting that not everything about femininity is positive. Let that sink in.
s/workforce/workplace/

Otherwise perfect. :-D
But they have many developers. And one developer could insert code which works and passes tests, but in Background start someday a download and start monero mining.

The point is: you have to trust the developers at this companies, that they not do anything bad and that the companies check every code of every dev. Trust.
Grenfell Tower fire
Why would it explode? Don't you need high purity and high compression with perfect timing for that? Wouldn't it just get really hot in a reactor design?
It started as a trade secrets case that was dismissed and Jawbone tacked on patents and that was settled. Full disclosure, I work at Fitbit. Since we are not a party to this new case I can at least talk about the public info with the old one!
> I don't think it's fair to expect them to reinvent and innovate the heck out of everything all the time

I think the problem is that Apple themselves want to reinvent and innovate the heck out of everything all the time, so they're making it harder than it needs to be. New Mac Mini? Easy: spec bump the current form factor. New Mac Pro? Easy: put the latest and greatest CPU/GPU in the old cheese-grater enclosure. But no, Apple needs to contantly make everything smaller/thinner/lighter/quieter, so they redesign the enclosure and reengineer the internals from scratch. While they're busy doing this, they continue to sell the old unimproved products for years.

Yes, Apple, we know you can innovate. But you say that for every "yes" there are a thousand "nos". Have you considered saying "no" to a complete reinvention of your hardware when your current offerings are so out-of-date? Your customers would be happy with a spec bump of the current form factors.
I wouldn't mind a Nosedive redux episode where you discover she is part of an experiment by an AI to see how quickly people can drop off and keep them bumping along the bottom of society. Sort of social Flappy Bird.
I'm assuming this is India you're talking about?
Started setting something like this up several years ago[1], but never had the time to get it properly off the ground. There are a few existing alternatives including dropsite.com and paperplane.io, but I always end up missing some feature.

[1]: https://github.com/Japanuspus/Site-in-a-Dropbox
There already exist a number of more suitable operating systems for these purposes that require much less resources e.g. NuttX, RIOT, Contiki, Zephyr. Running this requires at least 128k of SRAM and 512k of flash just for the OS, so you're looking at the expensive end of the uC range to begin with.
Not only that but it’s about a year out of date at this point.

I’m hoping someone eventually makes a new one, possibly based on MIRI.
Why do you have to put people down who aren't professionals and who consume media as 'ignorant'?

Not requiring a high-spec machine makes you 'ignorant'?
Maybe all their best employees got pulled/asked to work on the self driving car project. That's also my (unsubstantiated) theory of why their software quality has dropped in the last few years.
And get it in writing
I'd argue that, by default, companies slow in innovation and creativity with size. It takes a special culture and constant effort to stave off the ossification that comes with growth
That confronting one's fears head on can be an amazing way to build confidence.
Meanwhile when having to decide between buying a new laptop and my choices were Macbook Pro vs Surface Book 2.

I started it up and Cortana started talking to me. I responded and she understood what I said during the setup process. It setup my unlock to my face and a pin. Later after it was setup they logged me into Skype (which I use for professional calls) without me making the effort.

I gotta say Apple needs to get off their ass (pardon my French) it saddens me they're not competing more. I still feel they need a new CEO that is a bit bolder and takes the company back into amazing innovation. Till then Microsoft and co will pass them by.