skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that ai will be a revolutionary leap is probably nonsense. What we have seen so far is slow incremental evolutionary development of the tech over decades. Everyone raising money is claiming that the quantum leap is just around the corner but there is very little evidence to support that.

What you actually see is that improvements in perceived machine intelligence show diminishing returns to increasing compute capacity which is a good sign that people are on the wrong track to achieve general ai and that future improvements in perceived intelligence will grow at a slower rate, not exponentially increase.
How is it that the vast majority of NBA players are black?

A prevalence if race X in some area is not the evidence of discrimination.
I'm using Firefox Nightly and has tracking protection on for over a month. So far, no problems with any sites. I'm not using any social media sites except YouTube and LinkedIn though.
Sure, the NOAA has extensive and freely available satellite imagery data: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/satellite-data/satelli...

NASA also releases satellite imagery for the public.
No more tweets and re-tweets as bookmarks: New bookmarking app
You are the one using a very strange and tortured definition. Neither racism nor sexism involve power structures they both involve discrimination on racial/ethnic/imagined or gender grounds. This is well established English language stop trying to redefine it.
This won't be usable from other sites though because they won't trust yoursite.com

Why do they have to trust it at all?
You can say that about literally any major electronics brand. About 5 years ago I googled for the new "oneplus" which turned out to be a great phone at half the price of Samsung or LG. Unknown brand. Great deal. I was happy. Bought again.

I also once bought soy sauce that wasn't kikkoman, half price and it tasted good. Go figure. This doesn't make Samsung or Kikkoman "junk." It makes them a brand name.

Maybe I should put this differently....

If Beats announced today they are putting major effort into smart watches, I would expect to soon see lots of people wearing them. I'd beats to make smart watches that people want because they're relevant piece of culture and utility.

If boss or plantronics announced the same... I wouldn't.
It is always racist and sexist to discriminate on racial/ethnic or gender grounds.
This is a bit of an interesting side discussion (I use sox indeed to down sample) but I've recently changed my stance on this after reading the results of some blind testing of MQA (24-bit at 192KHz or something like that) recordings.

My knowledge of analog and digital signal processing is superficial but I think I can at least understand the arguments.

I used to buy your argument on why sampling at more than 48KHz is a waste of time. The argument goes something like: humans cannot hear frequencies above 20KHz (less for older people) so as long as we sample above the Niquist frequency (40Khz) then the audible frequencies can be perfectly represented. 48KHz > 2*hearing range so QED, higher frequency sampling is at best a waste of time and may even make the sound worse.

The credible counter to this argument that I've read is that
this argument requires being able to perfectly filter out the >20KHz frequencies before you sample. A perfect filter with an exact 20KHz cut-off does not exist in the real world - some of the audible range gets affected at the high end and also some >20KHz signal gets through. One of the resulting artifacts is pre-imagining (like a subtle-reverse echo).
What would be more interesting to the layperson is the actual profit the airline makes per flight for each of the top routes.

Is there any data on this anywhere?
You get it out there any way you can, for example when you post somewhere, at the very minimum, include a link!!!
Mainframes – Proposed Q&A site dedicated to mainframe computers
The challenge is if employees aren't productive in the first 0.5 years, an employee who stays for 3 years produces 2.5 years of productivity, whereas an employee who stays for 1 year only produces 0.5 years of productivity - a much lower return on the same investment in hiring and training.
https://twitter.com/JaGoAdvisory/status/1015791194226548736
Japanese tempura is also Portuguese, and back in Portugal it's called peixinhos da horta (little fishes from the garden).
> The "handoff" for when I email him back out of the blue from my foodotcom@gmail.com

As far as I remember GMail can send emails on behalf of another address you own:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

This way VC Mike will have a seamless experience writing you to your @foo.com address.
Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

* data science
* data in general
* distributed computing
* SQL Server
* transactions (both db as well as non-db)
* and other "stuff"

This link points to the blog-post which is the "roundup" of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.
1) Maintaining trim requires a significant degree of skill. A badly trimmed diver can't purposefully swim and is very difficult to tow. It's potentially safer and easier to bundle someone up as a package and manage their trim externally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diver_trim

2) Scuba gear presents a considerable entanglement hazard in a confined space. There are a lot of hoses and protrusions that could get snagged on a rock feature, a guide line or another diver's gear. There's nothing stopping you from using a face mask and some kind of protective vessel to make the kids easier to drag through a cave. That vessel doesn't need to be pressurised to be useful.

3) A panicked diver can be absolutely terrifying. They do wild, irrational and often violent things. Many divers have died or killed a dive partner because of panic, even in quite benign open water conditions. A totally inexperienced diver in a difficult cave system poses a tremendous risk. Brutal as it might seem, a panicked diver doesn't pose a hazard if they're immobilised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnWKS5DzKRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF3dQDgynT4
Didn't realize that; apparently all Symantec certs require it, and I misunderstood that as industry-wide.
Yes, it's pretty sad.

For example, mortality under five worldwide: https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/U5MR_deat...

From about 12.5 million, about 25 years ago, to 5.5 million. Or about 200 thousand children in the past two weeks, most of them due to preventable causes that require better infrastructure, logistics, institutional capacity and resources to solve. The solutions are not trivial, but are not complex either.

Of course there is massive institutional attention for these issues (which is in part why the number of deaths per year has dropped by about 7 million children, akin to preventing a deadly outcome equivalent to the holocaust every year), but the share of popular media attention is a tiny fraction, probably a rounding error.

This just feels like another Kony2012. That's not to say the efforts should not take place. But it is to say that it's once again confirmed that parts of journalism are a complete joke and part of its raison d'etre is providing for those with a fetish for digital disaster tourism, whether it's this or helicopter views of a police car chase. It like putting the real in reality tv. But it's not what journalists say they are, or how media companies describe themselves as.
I detest racism and sexism even when done by well meaning people. If this is a character flaw then I want more flaws.

I am glad I got a chance to let you know that not everyone agrees with bigotry.
Do you have any citations for this claim? I can only find scholarly sources from the 1980s.

If it is the hardest to read, why is it used in print? What distinguishes print from electronic media that means that justification works in one place but not the other?

I would be particularly interested to read anything recent that considers legibility in print, the advent of high pixel density displays, and the impact of good justification such as that offered by microtype.

I'm slightly biased here: I believe that justification has got a bad reputation due to how badly web browsers (especially Chrome which doesn't even support hyphenation) handle it.
Indeed. That’s because Qantas and their competitors use a large number of small aircraft on the route, maintaining a high frequency.

If you look at the real busiest routes (by passenger count), like Singapore to KL, they tend to use larger wide body aircraft which carry a lot more passengers per flight.
The Transistor: The most important invention of the 20th century?
Zero to Product/Market Fit
If you use an account, you can set the old style as default.
Small JavaScript modules: it's not quite that simple
I actually wrote quantitative easing - damn auto correct :)

Even though QE ended awhile ago (in the USA at least), we don't really know the long term effect of it. I would be cautious using past correlations.
A few questions ... are you applying to places ? or just feeling locked out ?
Are you in the USA ? In a techie area ? sometimes moving might help
I'm assuming the front-end engineering is paid ? Think portfolio, not resume; why don't you have a nice portfolio ?
Actually, we had sort of a trilemma, during the cold-war- when there was a external force on the market to behave "well" or face socialization of capital by internal forces.

Thats why the front-states of the cold war where either war-zones or rich show-rooms.
As a white male -- presumably the victim of the fund mentioned in the OP -- could you explain to me what is bad about the way this fund is set up? I don't mean ideologically, but empirically what you think are negative consequences of it.
White sans-serif with occasional monospace, against black background is the best option, with `<meta viewport="width=device-width">`
It might not have been his idea at first to help, I found this tweet: https://twitter.com/mabzmagz/status/1014251869760249856?s=21
With the mentioned tools, you can build a fantastic and bloat-less website. Like HackerNews. The person who sent that CV could build the HackerNews frontend.

It all depends on what your goals are: Do you want a modern, bloated, ugly, generic, JavaScript framework heavy site or do you want to put actual content out there in a beautiful, professional and minimalist manner? Your choice.
Evading regulators (Greyball) is a very different problem domain to self-driving cars
Generation Z Is Here the Marketer’s Guide to Reach Them
Telescript programming language
Amazon is much lower though @ ₹999/year. You also get fast shipping and music streaming.
Should we really be encouraging people who have proven prone to get cancer early, to procreate?
Five minutes per stone actually seems rather slow IMO.

2.5 tons sounds really heavy, but just 25 people could lift and move that much weight. 50 people could move reasonably quickly and 100 people could carry that at a normal walking pace all day long.

PS: They also used larger stones on the bottom and smaller stones at the top.
Melodrama Sex
Screen readers are an exception, 99.9% of use (probably more) will be through looking at the page.

> that style is a layer that can be disabled

It cannot be disabled, only changed. By "removing" the author's style you are replacing it with the default style sheet included in your browser, if you remove the default style sheet you are using the default values for all the css properties built into the rendering engine of your browser when it was compiled. Even if you put the source code in your text editor instead, you are now using your editor and terminal styles instead.

My point is: in order to view text - it must be rendered, if it is rendered - it has a style, this is why the visually element is also a functional one, you cannot escape that unless you read text without your eyes.
You're thinking like a computer programmer who doesn't want to quote or escape their command line arguments. Non-technical users just want to write meaningful strings and wouldn't understand why a period should be allowed but not a colon. MacOS got this one right. For user-visible names, try to be as permissive as possible and allow as much unicode as possible.
To me, an American and a male, work is the number one way I choose to be valuable. If I chose not to work, or to work less, I would unquestionably provide less value to my society and my loved ones.

Don't sell yourself short. Your loved ones love you too - for who you are, not for the money you bring in.

Quality time spent with your loved ones should be waaaay higher up the valuable list. Maybe ask them: If I earned 30% less, but had an extra day of time off per week with you guys, would you day that was worth it?

Of course, there's basic provision - providing enough that off time can be quality time. Providing enough that schooling can be decent... But your value is way greater than your income.
They already evacuated 6 boys without submarine.
I’ve had, at best, lukewarm experiences with AWS customer support. Anecdata it may be, but this seems to be largely in-line with the experiences of my peer group, professionally.
> but I’m certain that they will be able to find another position in a company where their jQuery skills will be very valuable. However, I don’t expect that they’ll learn anything new in that place, and in 3 years or so, if they will be looking for a new job, they will be in the same exact same place.

As opposed to React or any other modern web stuff. Those skills will last a lifetime.
If we're talking "top 5" in the context of graduate programs for a given discipline it's likely not as rare as you'd think.

I can see the PhD glut and general awfulness of academia (do postdocs and adjunct until a tenure-track opens up) pushing people from even high ranking programs into teaching at a CC.

This is especially true if they're married or have an SO: It's hard to convince your partner to uproot their lives so you can work at some tenure track position at some no-name college in the middle of nowhere... or forgo tenure and get paid slightly less and have the option to actually live near family/friends/partner's career.
Don't die chasing the TAM chasm
Interesting, care to elaborate?

For a lot of NN/ML applications, they magic ingredient is "humans" and a record of humans doing something enough times to describe statistically. AI sign recognition, sentence completion or checker playing is very often based on estimates of "what would a human do."

"Would a human say this photo contains cats", is really how a lot of ML interprets the question "where is my cat"?
"I'm not sure why anything needed to be taken apart for him to reach his conclusions?"

I would guess because he wanted to talk about the manufacturing and this gave him an excuse. It is an interesting approach but I do agree that it isn't a necessary one.
Is there a non sped up version somewhere?

(Yes, I know how low the frequency is, but a good sub-woofer speaker should be able to play it audibly)
>Did you passive-aggressively rewrite a coworker’s poorly implemented function out of cathartic necessity, never intending for him to know? Too bad, he now thinks you’re a dick.

Woof, I bet this guy's fun to have at standup.
They have AirPlay 2 support now.
> I’m not sure I trust Apple to support this appearance API over time.

Next time you can stop here:

I’m not sure I trust Apple.
> Focus on your content and your visitors will enjoy you and your website. Focus on decoration

Yeah its time for that person to take a marketing class.

Despite my website having best-in-class content, it took a custom wordpress theme for people to begin taking it seriously/sharing. My conversion doubled overnight.
Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into Rust?
this article contains all that's wrong with the current hiring managers condensed, except unironically.

from the elitist attitude who jumped the fence off development and pretends to measure a cv with, by his own admission, outdated knowledge

then there's the shaming of a guy that's just entered the workforce (because three years are very little all considered, whatever the ba tries to make you believe) for not being skilled enough in more than the basics, pretending someone to have experience in dozen advanced frameworks even if it's likely to be out of place for a junior to start working react/angular off the bat.

there's that shitty management attitude too of "we don't train people here only leverage existing knowledge" which smells of a very very bad workplace environment to be, sold as if it were a plus

and the icing on the cake: "I would expect the candidate at this point to actively work at improving their skills." - jesus, you can feel the privilege oozing out of the paragraphs.
Your approach definitely isn't a bad one; a few weeks ago I had trouble connecting to Sonos's network, so I couldn't stream anything from Spotify/Amazon/etc, even though they worked on my network for me. It's worrying how easily these (expensive) speakers could become bricked.

I still love them, mind you, I would just be hesitant to invest in them further.
Except that it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17443056
It normalises racism and sexism. If it is OK to discriminate in one way on racial or gender grounds why not another?

Let's get one thing clear. Just because you look like other people you don't get to speak for them. You don't represent all white males any more than the Grand Wizard of the KKK does. Your skin colour or gender have no bearing on this - and should have no bearing on your opinion on this.
Can't scroll either of the panes. FF on Win10.
When I lived in San Francisco (in a tiny room in a shared house in the Mission) a couple of years ago, I'd spend a little time after Sunday brunch every now and then walking around Mount Sutro. If you live in the city, I can't recommend it enough for your dose of forest bathing:

https://www.inside-guide-to-san-francisco-tourism.com/mount-...
Gmail used to do that for free, and if you signed your domain up, you're grandfathered in (I have a few domains still like that).

They don't do it for free anymore, and their mail hosting for new accounts is surprisingly expensive (though I suppose most things are, when you're used to getting them for free).
How long before Microsoft buys Sonos?
Not anymore. Only if it’s a Google Apps domain.
> They are not accused of a crime but considered to be witnesses in a case...

Wow, so the witnesses are treated like criminals now.
Really ? So if you don't know React your entire client side knowledge is automatically useless ? What kind thinking is this ?

Those guys must hire by keywords.
Wow, what kind of public shaming is going on here. I doubt the candidate would even wanna work for this company - if that post reflects how they treat and talk about folks internally, the candidate dodged a bullet.
Yeah, I can see what you mean now that I think of it I actually feel the same way.

At the same time I will occasionally run across a post thats pretty much self explanatory but nevertheless the top post will still be someone trying to massage some angle to get a one up, which I find irritating. For some things I think its just best to appreciate it for what it is and not try to find the inner flaw. I find myself falling into this line of thinking (finding the flaws in everything) and I find i'm happier when I'm not constantly like that.
Have you thought that through? Sounds like an argument for eugenics
Heatwave unveils ancient settlements in Wales
“We need someone for an entry level job. 2 years experience required.”
Longform Visual Storytelling (Scrollytelling) with Mural
Like I say, the central assumption in PAC learning is that a data set is drawn from the same distribution as unseen data. Otherwise, there can be no guarantees that the model is capable of representing anything beyond its data set.

That is not controversial. I'm surprised at your statement that distributional consistency is "not required at all" and I wonder where it's coming from.

I don't understand what you mean by "data around the edge of the classification set".
This is stupid. If you are a react shop and you would have been ok to see some Angular on the CV, then you are clearly expecting the new hire to do some learning on the job. Why not try to figure out if this candidate is up to the task of learning your framework?

Also I tend not to put technologies on my CV unless I have done something more substantial than online classes and tutorials. I don’t want to have to answer an interview question about “what’s your experience with Foo?” with “oh just some tutorials...” . That would cast doubt on the rest of my experience. Ask the candidate if they have experience in any frameworks and they might surprise you and say that they have been learning one in their spare time.
What would be your email id?
> And yet simultaneously, Elsevier has made one of the most aggressive pushes into OA publishing. They are likely the largest OA publisher by article volume today. Yes, they have the most to lose with a big shift to OA, but they also have the most to gain. And OA publishing has proven that it can be very very profitable, particularly for Elsevier.

They made the push into their version of OA, the hybrid OA, where they can charge exorbitant rate on top of the subscription, that no author would pay, whereas many journals such as the members of the Free Journals Network https://freejournals.org/ do not charge at all. And yes, it is obviously very profitable, so why would they not push it?

> But even if you hate Elsevier, they are indeed in a position to have a lot of the data needed.

Their date will reflect their own interest, where conflict of interest is obvious.

> They compile a database of all journals and citations (as do a few others, like for-profit Clarivate and non-profit Crossref).

Except that their database excludes many independent journals.
> there's that shitty management attitude too of "we don't train people here only leverage existing knowledge"

It seems to me that people switch jobs frequently. There's no sense in training people if they leave before your investment in training pays off. Why wouldn't you want to profit from the fact that people can educate themselves on programming skills?

You brought up privilege, but a good and friendly workplace environment is only for the privileged. Potential workers are everywhere, but employment is scarce. There's no business incentive to bend over for your workers when you don't have to.
I don’t understand this article, the author is public shaming people, but doesn’t him/herself seem to understand what a full stack developer is.

Also, if he does html, css, jquery and ajax and you’d be ok with hiring an angular dev... then why not hire the guy who actually knows JavaScript?
Muslim Congress this week in Florida includes antisemitic, anti-gay
Albeit a bit strange, it's still ignoring the fact that jQuery is good enough for most of things people do anyways.