skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you really understand ML/DS, then you would know that ML is founded on all the same concepts.

> "... they tackle data is radically different from statistician ..."

the short answer is, before we had limited data, compute, and the problems businesses needs increased substantially.

now we can do better things, and if you cant do more than what companies were doing in the 1950s, then your value proposition is significantly less than someone that's using industry practices established in 2017 / early 2018.

> "I wish statistic is better at marketing. Oh well."

as a data scientist, I have to know stats, ML, big data tools (spark/splunk/hdfs), programming, and domain specific knowledge. some data scientists are just rebranded statisticians, which is fine. the role of a data scientist varies to the needs of the org they are in. I mostly do anomaly detection and classification, while others may focus solely on AB testing.

> > "> why can't data science simply be about applying the scientific method in the realm of data analysis?"

the statement doesnt make sense to me. if you are doing data analysis then by default you are doing observations and measurement on empirical data.
As far as experimentation goes, almost no one has the resources or the standing to do that. Some do, like those AB testers I mentioned before.

> "Actually my last day of internship I've met a few statistician interns some of them are from Cal (UCBerkely) and they came to the same conclusion (we have a lot of complaints). The ML/DS group is really just doing black magic (nicest way of putting it)"

Then they don't appreciate ML and the problems they are trying to tackle. It reminds me of a stats PHD co-worker that was upset about the number of parameters in an image classification problem we had. they didn't think a model could be ran that had more parameters than observations.
I was like we are not running linear models ... As an experiment, go to kaggle and try the spooky author classification competition. See how far you can get with basic stats and then see how much further you can get with ML. hopefully it will give you an appreciation for some of the ML tools available.

It's not black magic, like many other domains; its just a dense subject that takes a lot of time to understand
Seriously. At least wait until it's complete before reposting it.
The original experimental reactor didn't go all the way and test the reactor design in a "closed loop". As in you shovel in thorium and get out power indefinitely. Instead it relied on temporary uranium fuel as a test of the concept, with plans to step up to a full cycle test afterward (which never happened as the navy lost interest in the project).

So not just regulations are at issue. We'd need a 2nd test reactor to really iron out the kinks and fully vet the whole process in real life, and then we can start getting approval for commercial plants. As I've said elsewhere, thorium reactors are very exciting and we should be funding experiments on them. But we are still at the 'funding experiments' phase of this endeavor, and so even at peak funding we're still a ways out from viable thorium grid power.
That was my first thought. But maybe he prefers the ideation phase and getting it started (I know I do).

Regardless, this gives me hope because he has made money from several of them!
What are the consequences of non payment? Debtor's prison?
It's trivial to look up what version of WordPress/Drupal/etc a site is running, and looking up that version's vulns. The issue is that sites don't keep their CMS up-to-date. Not because it's PHP. Every CMS, regardless of language, faces this issue.
41% of Americans say they won't ever invest in cryptocurrencies
I don't think anybody is rejecting the idea, it's just that it isn't considered as a default way to build a new organization. And it makes sense since, for a founder, you take on extra risk, put in extra work, and demand a lion's share of the rewards. It takes a special person to do the first two but not the latter.

If people were actively rejecting worker co-ops, you'd expect to see them failing in practice. But what actually seems to happen is, they're very difficult to start up, but once running, run effectively with little centralized leadership.
I agree with few of McCain’s political positions.

However, he served with dignity. He was willing to compromise and admit mistakes. I believe he cared more about America than about being a politician, and that he voted what he felt was best for the country, not just his party line.

If I have to disagree with a fellow American, McCain is the type of person I want to disagree with. You could box with McCain without worrying whether he’d try to hit below the belt.

In an era no-holds-barred politics, McCain represents a past way of doing things that will be sorely missed.
This works only if ICs get to evaluate performance of managers and have inputs into their remuneration. I haven't come across such an org yet.
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My understanding is that employers in the US pay for unemployment insurance and their rates go up if the number of claims go up. So they don't pay directly but they do indirectly.
> but they don't seem to know how to join forces.

I don't understand what you mean by this? The Mill team seem intent of producing a chip of their own.
Go WebAssembly – Building a Calculator Tutorial
No big worries. Insults fly a lot on HN, this won't be the last time.
Agreed. It's not about pleasing people.

Being opiniated is what brought Elm where it is. And it is not about winning. Definitely agree there too.

I just wish design considerations were communicated in a more positive, rather than autoritative manner. Because it makes people lose motivation and brings negativity.
What's to stop people defaulting on other unsecured loans, like credit cards? Some people do, but most people don't. Why? Because defaulting on a loan means a bad credit score and suddenly modern society becomes hard - no mortgage, no car loan, no more credit cards etc.
It is a funny situation, Apple wants most of the people to move to iPad, and leave the Mac for pro uses. That is a perfectly fine strategy excepts its execution has been rather poor by Apple's standard.

The iPad aren't anywhere near ready for business uses. And the Mac aren't being loved by the Pros.

In the old days Apple would have continue to do small improvement to the Mac and milk the hell out of it, until iPad overtakes it.
Sure, we all want to be well-educated and conversant in all the sciences, arts, and humanities. Even more than that, we want to be able to feed ourselves and start a family. From an individual perspective, it makes sense to take care of the latter first. IOW, get a degree that'll put some coin in your pocket, and if you really want to get yourself into the patches-on-your-suitcoat-elbows set, you can do so after you've set yourself up to take care of your responsibilities.

Only the megarich can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (representing decades in median salary) and four years to do these things before they've even worked out how they can support themselves. If you want that experience for your children, you first need to work out how to be megarich by the time they reach 18.
BTW, I appreciate you apologizing. It takes balls and lots of people just don't like it. Much appreciated, sending you virtual karma kudos :)
Thanks for mentioning the Lombok earthquake gofund support page also, donated.
It won't be good beer, let's put it that way.
Similar to the dinosaur situation [1].

I wonder what kind of error rate we have?

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_shape_shifting_dinosau...
I think a relevant analogy from back in the day is being able to use frontpage and then calling yourself a web developer.

Certainly it has good features to create what you want, and you could edit source (if you can read it!)...but it's used by people who have a elementary knowledge of web development.
According to many politicians, the Simpsons, the general public, and the anti-nuclear community, yes. But not according to geologists and engineers! The Finns have a deep geologic repository for long term waste storage under constructions [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
Transport Level Passive Ping Network Observer
The problem is that you can't say that 'the regulations are not the issue' because its regulation that prevent all research in that direction.

The way the regulation works at the moment makes building a test reactor basically impossible for a company to do that's why pretty much every single nuclear company produces directly to a production model.

Thorium breeding was proven, but not in the MSR. So that does not necessarily need validation.

The 2-fluid reactor design would need a test reactor, but there are other reactor designs, like the IMSR that really would not need much further research.

However, if you don't go to a fuel breeder with online refueling thorium does not buy you much. Uranium is fine and does everything you want and that's why most MSR companies use Uranium.
yes Bernstein-schroeder wasn't interesting except in its "universality". Cantor diagonalization yes was very formative for me in my mathematical maturation and Godel too but no the complexity towers - recursively enumerable and nondenumerable don't interest me (or whatever the class that NP belongs to is called - I've forgotten most of the recursion theory I learned now). so yes computability theory was very boring to me. in the parlance I'm a geometer rather than an algebraist (so analysis, manifolds, relativity, etc.)
Would you find it satisfactory to work for a for-profit company that instead of automating away jobs or costs was using technology to open new markets?

What about one in an existing market that’s getting consumers better prices by bypassing middlemen?
Compile Time Loops in C++11 with Trampolines and Exponential Recursion
> In my experience, it's more common that they'll enact your resignation immediately yet continue paying you

In my experience, it's not uncommon that they'll enact your resignation immediately, and that's it. No wages, no pay, you resigned, so goodbye.

> This makes no sense. (snip) If they fire you without cause, you can make an unemployment claim against them

Companies are not necessarily rational actors, they are wholly controlled by people who can sometimes be just as rash or impulsive as any other person. Especially at smaller companies, pure spite can have a non-trivial amount of play in the hiring/firing/resigning process.

And what is the employee really going to do, file for unemployment? The employee already has a new job (that's why they resigned in the first place), so it's a pretty safe gamble they aren't going though that hassle, just for the two week gap.

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If the company falls on hard times and lays people off, that's "just business" and "no hard feelings". But if an employee leaves for a different job, that's a minor betrayal, and gets treated as such. This response is not appropriate, but I've seen it often enough to know it happens.
PotPOTUS (P*nis of the President of the United States) [satirical music video]
I noticed that it used <a> for fragment anchors instead of the id attribute. I changed over most of those on my WWW site some years ago.
It might be even the idea that (without an effort that matches or exceeds the implementation itself), you can "get the requirements right", i.e. that there is a point in time where the requirements are complete, fully understood and thoroughly specified.
The article was almost my experience, having (within the last two weeks!) relocated to SF for a promotion. The near-work coliving space I was originally considering wasn't quite this extreme, but with 14 people sharing 2.5 bathrooms - and 0 people having a private bathroom (contrary to what was advertised on their website) - it certainly felt a bit too dorm-room-ish for my tastes. I was going for a private room, but I do know there were bunk-bed rooms, too.

After the showing for that one, I was able to get a showing and eventual application acceptance for some tiny studios at a nearby converted hotel - no kitchen, but totally private bed and bath for only $100 or so more per month than what the coliving space offered. So far so good - not my ideal living space by any means (I miss having an actual kitchen), but it's a short-term lease, so it gives me time to find something better.
This is a good overview, concise without filler.
Instagram develops group function for university students
The animation says "I hate Animations!".
It DID happen. Check the numbers in both 2000 and 2016.

The first time, it lead to a million dead Iraqis, the second time we are living through right now.
Nice to see simple fast sites!
Thanks. Wow the prices really increase at a steep rate!
That's kind of my point; the code might not be as beautiful as we could ever imagine, but as a product it works extremely well, and would be worse if it carried around a lot of runtime baggage and poor performance which many of the alternatives would have given.
Thanks for this sincere feedback. This is work in progress and just wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. Will be adding currency symbol with salary, plus making sure the employers mention that whether its a complete remote job. Note that the idea is that the companies that are genuinely willing to hire people with disabilities can post on jobenabler and genuine candidates apply.
Burning Man: Paradise for Hipster Guests – And a Nightmare for Some Workers
Another way to put it:

A "so-so" job (or relationship) is worse than a terrible job, because a terrible job at least motivates you to look for something better.

Whenever I ended a so-so job, project, or relationship, the result was always "I should have done that sooner," not "I shouldn't have done that."
There's at least two distinct aspects to management.

One is getting the best out of the team. The manager is subservient to the needs of the team, from this perspective.

The other is ensuring the team is doing the right thing. The manager is in control of the team in this perspective.

The former has more of the human relations aspect. The latter is definitely business focused.
How do you pay rent and food?
I think the article mentions the core problem. It’s not necessarily the people can’t move down (although that would be good) it’s that we don’t take into account the skills of the job the person is GOING to when deciding if they should be promoted to it.

If that was the criteria used maybe this problem wouldn’t exist in the first place.
Learning Impact, Two Ways
Not in their current form : we got relational systems in 1970, but data warehousing came in in the mid 90's. The use of data for multiple purposes (not just to underpin one grand application) is relatively new - as is the practice of using data for a purpose for which it was not gathered... remember all the "all the statistician can do is pronounce what has gone wrong" stuff?
I used to feel this way: that large nukes are the answer because they provide megacity-scale energy for an increasingly urban world. But as I've studied the nuclear industry a few things have eroded away at this belief.

First, iteration. You can iterate on the design and supply chain of a small niche nuclear reactor much faster than a large baseload one. And you can do so without bankrupting the likes of Westinghouse or Areva. Once you figure out a new design at small scale, you can scale up. We did with with the current reactor designs and we should do it again for the newer fancy ones. I think this is what Oklo and similar reactor companies are planning on.

Second, and more novel, is that you can imagine large-scale nuclear farms of small reactors. Build small reactors that are sized to handle their own decay heat without fancy safety systems and manufacture them in a factory. Put them out there on shared security infrastructure and siting. There's more energy produced from internal combustion engines than all baseload plants in China, for instance. "You want scale? I'll give you scale!"

And finally if you still need to go big, there's also the potential of large modular reactors. If you build huge power plants in shipyards on floating platforms you can get economies of scale AND economies of mass production, while improving safety by being intimately coupled to the ultimate heat sink: the ocean. Wild idea politically but technically very intriguing. Would require much more remote operation than current plants because a crew of nuclear rough necks would have high salaries. But totally doable, and could probably decarbonize the world very rapidly.
The jobs/companies are genuinely interested in hiring people with disabilities. I am working on adding more copy to the website to make it more clearer.
I've spent years living out of a backpack. Why is it cheap? It sucks. Southeast Asia is hot, humid and full of Western douchebags. Most whom are looking to explore their sexuality and ditch thier mommy issues. You can start a business but can't grow one from SE Asia.

The author is right, anyone with two clients can do it. Good to see some enjoy living and working from nowhere.
Why don't we pay humans to act like certain animals in zoos?
I agree with you, but breaking code is not really a problem since elm compiler is fast and has nice error messages. Porting big code bases takes time, but it's very worthy imo.
I know there is only one job there right now, now there is one. The reason I posted on HN is because maybe there are people who are interested to hire through me and add job posts.
"Tesla has been hitting their goals"

My impression from reading HN articles over the last couple years has been the exact opposite, the Model 3 being the prime example of that.
You could apply the same joke principle to athletes and say they are all in the wrong league for their skill level.
He never supported torture.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/John_McCain_Homeland_Securi...
I'm jealous that he's made so many things, surprised by the small amount of money they've been sold for, and unsure whether this is someone I should emulate or someone I should view as a cautionary tale.
I cannot recommend Techmoan's videos enough. He usually reviews past video and audio formats, some of them are really niche products. Really interesting!
It's news to me that methylation is "usually unwelcome". I had gotten the idea that it was just another built in general regulation mechanism. Would it be beneficial to somehow strip off all methylation?
Origami Plane Make Very Easy
Blocking Top-Level Navigations to Data URLs(2017)
Step towards creating a rechargeable lithium-oxygen battery
Interesting, surprising and unsurprising all at once. We can all probably think of a bunch of animals that morphologically or phenotypically appear different but are the same species. An alien observer may at first glance may even think this of humans, when looking at a growth stunted person very short/skinny person (perhaps due to malnutrition or other reasons) and a morbidly obese person.
Thank you so much for this awesome feedback. Currently I am targeting people who have physical disability who cant commute to work. I have plans to add more jobs and sort of network that help people with more sever disabilities get jobs. I really appreciate the above comment and for sure is very helpful in getting the website to more users and companies.
I still miss my Atari 2600, back when it made sense to put a wood-style finish on a games console and when you could play Breakout using a paddle dial thingy instead of a joystick.
I read so many stories about companies with new ideas for satellite internet. But i am visiting my parents next weekend. Their house is off grid in rural BC. They only have one internet option: a dish pointed to a geostationary sat which I will no doubt have to repoint on saturday. They pay insane rates for practically no bandwidth. There is only the one company: explorenet. When exactly are any of these innovations going to hit the canadian market?
Yeah that's exactly it: I grew up in a polarised society. Voting - particularly for the young - made very little difference because most people already live in extremely "safe" seats.

It was a culture shock coming here: suddenly politics matter, your vote matters. There is actual reasonable debate about the issues. Not the strawman stuff you see in the UK/US. There is a natural limit to the toxicity in politics; if you want to take part in ruling the country you have to be reasonable..
Totally, this is the whole idea. Companies who prefer people with disabilities and not just post some random stuff in their job description to justify "equal oppurtunity employers".

You guys are really awesome as I have got awesome support and people have literally answered the questions that I didnt have answers for. Thank you so much :)
You can find some explanations by the language author here:

https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826
I think only american could ask this question since even in Europe it's obviously on wealthier part of middle class and it's common knowledge Europe has one of the highest living standards in world. so even if you live in some rich country like Singapore you will be probably aware of living conditions in neighbouring Malaysia or Indonesia to not ask such stupid question as it's headline, though one would think Americans have some knowledge about mexico to not ask it either
>"Past projects were X so it will always be X" doesn't make sense in a barely-explored and novel technological domain.

Nuclear engineering is by far not a barely-explored and novel technological domain, but an industry with near 70 year history with extremely high barriers to entry.

For you, it should be reasonable to believe that engineers and physicists with multiple postdocs, people of far greater intellectual achievements that you, me, and probably most of this website's demographic, were banging their heads non-stop for the last 70 years on the problem of making nuclear power stations economical. Nothing what came from years of their work indicate that anything but big and simple PWRs and BWRs makes sense economically.

It took decades to shave everything that can be shaved off the construction of gen 3 plus reactors to arrive at their current designs. Anything that will be employed in a design claiming bigger efficiencies has to be using less than a bare minimum used by them and that's not a lot:

- Nuclear safe superalloys - check

- Large scale forging - check

- Refueling infrastructure - check

- No mechanisation beyond control rods and pumps - check

- Advanced sensing - check

- Fuel assemblies - ridiculously cheap in relation to everything else

- On-line chemical filtration and corrosion control - check

- Steam power plant - check

Really, the only opening for lower costs are reduction in operation expenses - less scientists on site, less consumables, less or not manual labour intensive servicing, less frequent and cheaper refuelling. Besides refuelling costs, that's not a lot.
Their individual credit ratings.
"aims to produce" is not the same thing as "produces"
Just be aware that some of the manuals there are outdated on some of their content. For example Optimizing software in C++: An optimization guide for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. A lot of optimizations from this manual are performed by compilers automatically now, in smart pointers section you got information about auto_ptr as most used smart pointer, while it was deprecated years ago, he writes that composite types will almost always be copied out of the function if returned by value, while now we have move semantics and guaranteed copy elision etc.
If you're in an unhappy position at your job or life, you can ruin your relationships naturally, or you can use those relationships to save you. So, leave the job or not, it's based on your relationship also.
I do it. I don’t believe it’s archaic. “Whose” refers to people, so things need a different word.