skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I have this book, it is wonderful. It talks about the nuclear explosion that would result of you tried to hiy a baseball traveling at the speed of light.
How to Lead a Disaster Recovery Exercise for Your On-Call Team
Next month will be a good time for a data-rich medical system to offer terms to IBM.
I"m shocked that fooled anyone. It looks like a video game character.
> faster than it is figuring out that we need to self-impose limits on our growth in order to avoid a catastrophic failure of our ecosystem

We "figured out" unconstrained growth could be catastrophic a couple of hundred years ago at the very least. And in fact we guessed prematurely as technology extended the date of the catastrophe multiple times.

So we then bounced into a phase of overconfidence whereby some of us decided that technology could overcome all problems.

(Arguably we are still in this phase - or at least some of us hope this turns out to be true as we've lost hope in the possibility of political solutions to problems caused by growth)
Agreed. Although I think most drivers already know that. The typical Uber (at least in London) is a Prius. Still good that the financial incentive is nudging drivers that way though.
Tablets remain truly mediocre devices, in the case of Android running a mediocre os.

- garbage multi tasking

- slightly laggy typing

- no real ability for multiple apps to work on the same data

-10" is still a tiny screen and almost as unwieldy as a small laptop 7" is too tiny yet still not pocket size.

Since a tablet usually does not have by definition a cellular modem it can't replace your phone plus the cameras and microphone normally blow.

I find the idea that most people are using a tablet in place of a real computer laughable.
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Yeah, I lost and kept off half my body weight so clearly I have no idea what I'm talking about random internet know-it-all.
The word quietly needs to be banned from headlines.
Delivery Driven Government
It (sort of) is. The issue is that SiFive bought some proprietary DDR IP, because DDR RAM is really complex to control. The DDR IP comes with proprietary software to configure it and that can't be redistributed. (Apparently there is a table of constants that are programmed into the hardware which is Super Secret! - as if no one can use a disassembler)

Make all the hardware and software bits needed to control DDR RAM under a free license and loads of people will be very happy to use it.

(BTW I'm now interested in how the Talos board initializes its DDR RAM)
Snap Kit
John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China
Sorry for the late reply - the article is old, but the HN link (and comments) is recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17294907
And the hemorrhoid cream industry.
Solved problem long ago. One would think pulling the ejection handle would also wipe anything sensitive in the cockpit. Programmed autopilot steer towards water should be okay after that.

https://aeroantique.com/products/bc-706a-detonator-impact-sw...
Many things are not simple by that definition or any other, and it is not about specificity. Some problems are inherently complex, some are not. It is often true that hard problems are hard because they are complicated but some things are just hard even if they are simple.

You are basically promoting the idea that I am rejecting, that because people find things difficult and have a lot of complicated reactions to it, that means the underlying problem is itself must be complex. I don't believe that is either true or useful, and argue that it can often make the problems themselves worse by muddying the water.

Some problems are complicated but relatively easy. In this case, if you just find "the right trick" you can solve it without much difficultly. We do people a disservice when we pretend that simple-but-hard problems are actually complicated-but-easy. This is something that is often done, for commercial gain, in industries like weight loss and smoking cessation. At core, I am arguing that this is a bad thing.

At any rate, we've probably reached diminishing returns here.
This article is pretty great and I agree with the framework it sets up around automation and future jobs.

One thing I felt was dismissed too easily was the "Google has all the data" line. Sure, nobody said "Oracle has all the database", but people ARE saying the former. Why should we ignore the piles of collected data when thinking about how the landscape will look in the future?
With good planning is easy to cook good and fast.

Is possible to cook for 4 in 15 minutes or less.

We start cooking at 12am for example, without know what exactly to do. Decide what to do is what consuming our time! After we start, only the most complex meal (traditional cooking) take more than 1 hour. When we wanna run, we run.

We try keto this few months and several of that things can be done faster than I expected:

https://www.dietdoctor.com/

Things that help:

- Knife(s) in good condition

- Anything that help you to slice veggies faster, like
A ninja mixer (https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-System-Blender-Processor-BL77...) I never imagine a gadget to be THIS good.

This help in make super fast condiments (like tomatoes + onions) that help in make things tasting.

Build a cache of condiments and things that give flavour is key to be faster the rest of the week. Put it in the freezer.

- Meat can be done in 6 minutes * 4 portions easily (BBQ style).

- Work in parallel. Plan the order of things:

- Juice first, so you can put it in the freezer.

- Then, veggies. Choping and mixing.

- Last proteins. Depending in what you is doing you need 15-6 minutes. If using oil, let it be hot! then put the protein.

With practique, is not uncommon to meet or exced the goal.
Image Recognition with Realtime Alerts Using Google Cloud Vision and PubNub
There are billions of pcs.
By aggregate do you mean plaggiate?
Here's an answer from someone who "worked with IBM until earlier last year as Watson architect" ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456211

It's reasonably in depth and appears sincere.

tl;dr: it's a good search engine and a disparate set of machine learning tools. Sales is promising Hollywood AI, but the reality is that it takes a sizable project team to build anything worthwhile.

Scanning past commentary, it seems that startups are eating their lunch (more nimble, dedicated to customer space). I'll add that half the machine learning battle is getting access to data, so hyping the brand makes sense strategically.
The Seattle location - 1122 3rd Ave - is an interesting spot. According to Google Maps[0], next door is the FBI Seattle Division office. On street view, the building itself has a street-level office with signs for both AT&T and CenturyLink.

3rd Ave itself is slightly notorious - hosting the surface entrances for the Seattle bus tunnel, and a large number of inter-city routes, the area has a reputation for crime and the occasional death by shooting. It was a bit worrying to commute through, as a bus rider, and seems like an odd location for an ISP street-level office.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/8oxjkCL8JFm
Seattle renters score big as landlords dangle freebies to fill empty apartments
Even if you don't care about fusion itself, it is highly interesting in that it covers some of the engineering that went into building that thing.
I think it is programmed to control the plane. Not to autoland it, but to keep it flying. When JAS Gripen crashed in Stockholm after instability, the pilot ejected and the plane managed to improve its stability somewhat before crashing.
Why not hire an independent mediator? The key word here is “hire.” Either the employee has to pay part or all of the cost, or the mediator is paid by the company. In the first case, it places a significant economic burden on the employee; in the latter, the mediator has an incentive to find for the company to obtain more repeat business.
It seems like the biggest issue here is that as an Uber driver, your downtime for refueling is lost money. With gas, that's a 5 minute downtime. With electric, it's 30+ minutes.

If they really want this program to take off, they need to partner with some green partners who will pay the Uber drivers for their charging time.
> As it is, Intel has mandated a Meh experience for a long time and the tech press has let them get away with it

What do you want to say with that? Did Intel force OEMs to bundle i3s or netbooks with HDDs?
This is not new in the sense that a whistle-blower revealed back in the mid-2000's (as I recall) that AT&T was working with the NSA to illegally bulk collect all internet traffic.

The problem is that even though this is all public record lying government officials continue to dismiss the obvious truth as "conspiracy theories" and so it becomes necessary to prove the same points over and over again in excruciating detail as long as government officials keep lying.
IBM's organizational structure is book-ended with great talent. The engineers, developers, and even front-line managers are really fantastic, and the people at the very top are pretty good.

In the middle, there are 100 layers of middle managers that completely cock everything up, and the really sad part is that they have enough say to really cause damage. One of my first proper white collar technical jobs with them was an L2 support job for this network performance monitoring suite for huge networks... mostly large, national ISPs and the like. The job required maybe a just-post-jr-level sys-admin knowlege of networks and UNIX systems while also having smooth customer service skills. Definitely a great step up from my previous lower-mid-level IT jobs and call center work.

I had three(3) managers. Three! I had a technical manager, a non-technical manager, and my actual manager, who was the head of the department.

At the highest levels, the management was talking about switching everybody's workstation over to Linux. Everybody from admin assistants to developers to managers was supposed to be moved off of Windows at some point in the relatively near future. I was psyched— I hated windows, and the product I supported ran on Solaris, so not having to deal with the extremely primitive (at the time) tools like Cygwin to get some UNIX functionality on my machine was great. They seemed to be positioning themselves to sell the consulting for other large companies to do the same thing.

Though we got no word of this internally— I only knew from what I had read in articles— I found the internal workstation disk image on the intranet and eagerly installed it. It was pretty smooth! I was excited! As I was getting my tools set up, I noticed that it didn't have the internal bug/ticket tracking clients installed, so I cruised on over to their intranet page... hmmm, nothing listed for Linux. After hours of searching, I found some internal discussion showing that, months earlier, the department that writes that software unilaterally decided that they were discontinuing their initiative to port those applications to Linux. While there was an extremely limited CLI to these tools, critical functionality was literally impossible without the GUI app. Without the ability for anybody on their Linux workstations to interact with tickets or bug reports, the Linux initiative was pretty much dead-in-the-water for most technical people and their managers.

Perfect example of just how badly their forest of middle managers completely messes up great executive initiatives that the bottom of the food chain really wants to embrace.

(I might have gotten some of the details wrong. It was 13 or 14 years ago and I drank a lot back then.)
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Pessimism is never fun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornfield_Bomber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgian_MiG-23_crash
Did you even read the link? The year you enter the market is the random variate.

It is a simple, uncontroversial fact that the stock market is not guaranteed to return your money over a randomly chosen N-year period. LTBH merely minimizes the chance that you'll lose money; it doesn't eliminate the chance.
Honestly I found it difficult to discern any coherent point from the article at all. At the end they just say "diversify".

But they also say that a lot of stocks are poor investments, so taking "diversify" to the extreme will dilute/eliminate any profits you make. So, in order to provide useful information, they really need to be a lot more specific than just "diversify".
fantastic, i love anecdotes like these.
Excellent answer and it's a lot better than the one on stack exchange.

(by the way Chuck, your important section on your profile is really impressive, I've never seen anything like it but it makes total sense).
Well, what people think of when they hear "AI" is generally pretty different from what academics mean when they say "AI" anyways.
Europe's first solar panel recycling plant opens in France
The Current State of Cybersecurity – Risks, Responses, and Responsibilities
I'd love to see this in an interactive format where you can drag the time scale, and hover over each population to get more info.
What's the official state management?
I agree with ndarilek's comment. When the Firebug team started making firebug.next, there were huge problems with the inbuilt dev-tools. They then decided to merge the two projects and stopped developing Firebug. I had expressed my concerns to them after trying the beta for a long time. The team was very receptive of the comments, but sadly not much was implemented until I stopped using FF as my main browser. Even to this date, the Firefox Devtools are nowhere near Chrome's. Yes, there are some very useful features added in Firefox's Devtools but the performance is very poor. Especially the Scripting tab. Try setting a breakpoint in a half-decent webapp - the whole browser(!) hangs for atleast 10 minutes, sometimes forever. There were problems with displaying raw JSON response in the network tab too for a long time - Firebug had the funtionality, so was shocking to see FF drop it in favour of a very clumsy and inaccessible tree view.
Then, when FF Quantumcame, I flocked back to FF thinking the devtools would be fixed too. Nope. I have been a long time FF user (I think since v1.5, Netscape before that), and would very much like to use FF as my main browser. But as a web developer, it's impossible to use it. The sheer number of hours wasted just trying to keep my browser to not hang trumps my fanboyism. There is nothing better than what Chrome offers in this area.
Yep. But if your marketing and product management are all focused on selling AI instead of IR, then they're not really working toward finding a way to deliver the IR value they have to the people who need it.

I'd actually like to give Watson a spin for an IR problem I'm looking at, but, thanks to their hype machine being set to overdrive, they've got the thing priced in the "The Bold Leaders of the Future Creating a Bright New Tomorrow Full of People in Glasses Staring Wistfully Toward the Right Edge of the Photograph, While Blue Curvy Streaks Wave Through the Background and Random Zeroes and Ones Float Around Their Heads" tier. Sadly, I've only got a "businesses solving business problems" sized budget.
The network tab also doesn't show anything until you select it and make some new requests. The accessibility tab is handled the same way, with a short notice about the performance implications of enabling it. So that really isn't a reason to completely hide it.
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> I wish judges and defense attorneys would catch on to these tactics more quickly.

Is there a tech-law publication which targets judges and defense attorneys?
I don't think it's something they would publicize otherwise it would be an invite to work around it. The best route might be to try and scrape a public business page (better yet, several hundred) - that'll show you everything you need to know
for me exercise has to be fun. I can easily do a 2 hour mountain bike ride and just have fun. I can kitesurf for 3 hours and still want more. Same with ultimate frisbee and hockey. Cycling, running, weightlifting are mind numbing.

The problem I have with exercising is that it makes me really hungry causing me to overeat. If Im exercising 4 days a week, it isnt a problem. But if Im only doing 2 times a week, it is better to not exercise at all.

Skipping dinner works for me (I eat breakfast around 8, lunch at 2, and late snack around 6) except my family wont let me skip dinner. When I used to travel for business it worked and I was able to get down to 165.

Ive been stuck at 175 (5' 9") for a long time, I just downloaded myfitnesspal and will try that. I do like low carb because it reduces the hunger I feel making it much easier to follow reduced calories.
But that's actually the work: getting stuck, sticking with it, and reasoning your way out of being stuck. That's programming.

Fair enough if you avoid certain situations because this is where you end up -- I do the same thing -- but the work is the work whether it's a new language or some oddball patch/upgrade that made things act funky in ways they didn't before.
> I like the idea of breaking off a boss/employee relationship that's not working and allowing the employee to find a different position in the company rather than just terminating the employee.

Yeah, there's two sides to it though. On one hand, its very, VERY common when an employee isn't performing that the problem is incompatible team/manager (it might be incompatible with the company, but often its a localized problem).

On the other hand, I've also worked at companies that -always- assumed the problem was the employee/team relationship, and critically incompetent employees would linger around and waste the time of several teams before they were canned, which was an obvious outcome to anyone who had worked with said employee. In one case of a company being way too nice, some dude I worked with took almost 2 years before being fired, when NO ONE wanted to work with him. Imagine how many things we could have done with the 150k+ a year he was paid during that whole ordeal...
This is rather off-topic, but I want to learn Idris or any other purely functional programming language one day to the point where I would be able to read any program, but most programs written in those languages are so terse and abstract, that I constantly find myself lost in them. The fact that most of those languages permit programmers to define custom operators doesn't help.

I really wish someone would create something like https://cdecl.org/ but for programs in Haskell/Idris/etc.

EDIT: On the article itself, I wonder how much time does it take to compile the resulting program?
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Last year, AT&T hired Brian Lesser, the former CEO of GroupM/WPP. They have been planning to enter the digital marketing as a player for a while now.
Link?

Do the skills get more advanced with each generation?
>Each of OpenAI Five’s networks contain a single-layer, 1024-unit LSTM that sees the current game state (extracted from Valve’s Bot API)

This will likely dramatically simplify the problem vs. what the DeepMind/Blizzard framework does for StarCraft II, which provides a game state representation closer to what a human player would actually see. I would guess that the action API is also much more "bot-friendly" in this case, i.e., it does not need to do low-level actions such as boxing to select.
And the guests are perfect. Competent and entertaining at the same time.
To the contrary: it happened to _my_ company, with a minor detail that I omitted: what they objected to was having the software preinstalled _and visible on the desktop._ The end result was the same.

Our company sued Microsoft over it. There was a settlement.
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I feel trapped.

I'm in a situation where I absolutely cannot tolerate much more of work. Im a SE by trade

Ive been applying for and interviewing for a few jobs so far, just no dice yet.

I purposely didnt go to work today because I was "sick"... sick of .... work.

I cannot tolerate much more, and its really making me sick.

What can I do? I already do the typical things... i've seen a doctor before, didnt help. I workout 4-5x per week...for stress relief.

I just am really at my wits end. Can someone please help?

Thanks.
There's a pretty good podcast interview with Eugene Dubossarsky that has relevant discussion about issues with management and data science in general. https://www.datafuturology.com/podcast/1

Here are a few of my notes (my words not the interviewee's):

- in order to use data science, you have to have creative people thinking about data on the front end

- they don't have to be data scientists, but they need to be creative and want data to support decisions and iteration via feedback loops

- that creativity and desire will lead to "doing good data science"

- management on the receiving end of data science output must be intelligent in terms of synthesizing many inputs and have a strong desire to puzzle through the implications. If management is asking the data science to actually make the decisions - the situation is broken

- data science must be done with provisions for decision support and feedback loops; this is the output that is helping drive the business.

- Lack of desire for decision support and feedback loops leads to "fancy pets" and management using data science as a means to brag about what they are doing; but the data science might not being doing anything to drive the business meaningfully.

- data science that attempts to actually make decisions vs providing decision support is likely in the category of "commodity data science". Corollary : non-commodity data science is the kind that supports decisions in executing higher-level business strategy. Strategy at that level has rather unique attributes and is embedded in unique circumstances for a particular business. This requires a good data scientist to help tackle.

(hope this is useful)

(edit typos,grammar)
You're lucky. A PIP is basically HR creating a paper trail to justify your eventual termination (in case of lawsuits, etc).
Just standard advice that is widely available is to have at least 3-6 months of emergency funds (liquid cash to cover all monthly expenses) and err on being conservative.
I haven't audited the code, but did take a peek at the protocol. Nothing obviously busted from the description, but there are definitely some weird design choices. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393780
Before flipping off the site rules and implying that I didn’t read the article, you could think about what I actually said and the comment I responded to. Nothing about a civilization dying off in millions rather than billions of years implies the Great Filter, Dark Forest, or any other exotic explanation. All it requires is for the speed of light to be what it is, and hyper-optimistic “Von Neumann probe the galaxy” hypotheses to be wrong. If we’re technological for longer than many species exist, it would still be an eyeblink out of reach for the vast majority of any other hypothetical life in the universe.

If life is constrained to a reasonable fraction of the speed of light when moving mass, and light when communicating then the universe could be teeming with life out of temporal spatial sync with each other. We might not be alone, but we’d be effectively isolated, and still see ourselves as being alone. It’s only under the assumptions of unlimited growth and expansion that the Fermi Paradox is a paradox.

Mind you, the idea that life which is likely evolve, adapt, and develop significant technology being ultimately self-destructive a la The Filter also seems very likely. The article offers squat in rebuttal to that.