skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m in agreement with you here. This trope that neural networks or other forms of ML are inscrutable is ridiculous. We know exactly what mathematical function is happening at every stage and the goal of the process; we can explain what architectures have the best results, and in some cases a deep understanding of why; with close enough scrutiny, you can probably tell what an individual neuron is doing to a layman (though the scale quickly gets out of hand). Why is it not sufficient to say “we’re using some basic math at a large scale using neural network architectures found to be best suited for the purpose of fitting our task, data, and loss functions?” These architectures are shown to find this sort of information, this is the general overview of how that works. What deeper explanation is desired?

I think the real issue is that tech journalists and laymen don’t know enough to understand. You can’t explain multivariable calculus to someone that doesn’t know algebra. Or option 2/3 are the problem.
Diagnosis has improved a lot lately. Tell your doctor to order a kit at mitoswab dot com. I have not tried them, but they claim that "MITOSWAB has an 84% correlation to the muscle biopsy" and it is simple, non-invasive test.

Take care.
why use it at all? you may not be the one who chooses what tool your team uses for communication.
when police comes by and does a raid, weed is being sold again 10 minutes later.. that's how its been for 40 years. police use it as a practice ground and often escalates conflicts to get the new trainees some more realistic stressful situations as not much else is going on in Denmark. its the most calm place when police are not around. i come there almost every day, even after i quit smoking.. it just has so much to offer. last year my Norwegian friend came by for a sandwich as police raided the place and some kids threw rocks back at them so the police grabbed my friend eating his sandwich as a shield.
Allman style. More popular in the error before pretty printing editors, to help visualize the blocks.
i totally understand your argument and agree that it is valid.

the difference here is that cryptocurrencies undermine isolated regimes even more than they do developed economies. being able to own something a government can't debase or manipulate is extremely useful for everybody.
Uber Tandem?
I don't like pigeons because they overbreed and have become a nuisance. They also poop, a lot. That's reason enough.
I side on Google on this one.

Want the profits? Then use them to actually make a safe product.
An opt-in is required under GDPR for personally identifiable information, not "any data ever".

Anonymous/aggregated data collection is allowed under the GDPR, though this data collection should still be made clear to the user (and it is on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_gdpr-and-...).
Every year the ratio between talent and seats at elite schools grows. Elite schools don't grow with the size of the general population.
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Note that is not the same thing as "get safe apps" - just that the app hasn't been tampered with between the publisher and you. There seems to be a lot of spyware on the Play store still (or whatever it's called this week).
It would be more efficient to have a city full of professional bike riders on 2-person bikes or pedal-rickshaws - or normal bikes with bike pegs[0]. One issue with the proliferation of Lime bikes is the increasing number of people with little experience riding bikes in cities, and poor understanding of the rules of bikes on roads and sidewalks.

[0]https://www.livestrong.com/article/398587-bike-pegs/
Totally, I first that was is that even English.
7 days seems awfully short and not in the interest of users.
Yes, but it’s much easier to find a “compatible” job than a compatible partner. I’m not emotional or financially invested in my job or the relationships I have with people at my job.

A divorce has both higher emotional cost - especially if you have kids and are close to your in laws - and financial costs. If my job causes undo stress and hardship, I will leave at a moments notice. If my marriage is causing me stress and my spouse is willing to put in the effort to help us come to a better place, I’ll do what it takes to make things better. I’ll go to marriage counseling, but there is only so much you can do in an organization.
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Indeed. Intel sees the Mill as insignificant, and itself as the Gorilla in the room. But in terms of the architecture, the Mill is on the order of 10x better. That's incredible. While Intel tends to rely on strong-arming it is the #1 Mill enemy while it has to go alone. But it should definitely not be so.
Seems to just be a beat matcher / BPM adjuster, which is interesting in itself, but quite basic features in any DAW/DJing software.
Love it!

What I find very interesting is, the stability of the system. There must be quite the heavy load on the machine: retrieval, analysis, tempo matching, mashup creation, encoding and all on a ~11 hours HN-related stress test.
Nice! I don't use VSCode, but I know a few people who do and I’ll gladly point them to this build.
> easy to lose patience with the “free speech” line of argument when so many people invoking it are doing so in bad faith.

Many, many people believe in unfettered free speech. You should assume anyone who supports free speech is doing so in good faith as it's historically been the norm.

"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it".
Uber Backpeg.

Uber Frontpeg for a 20% discount.

Uber Rickshaw for a classy ride.
Your response confuses me so I must be misunderstanding it. Code is code, all I need is an indirect jump to a pointer somewhere in memory to run the arbitrary code I've installed to compromise the system, so why are unikernels not susceptible to this attack?
I have tried slack for some months and found it super laggy, both on the desktop and on android.

Then someone invited me to try Discord for company comms and I said "that's a gaming-oriented app, cmon it won't work well".... my mind was blown by how smooth Discord is.

We are a small shop but since we migrated from Slack to Discord we haven't been focusing much on 'how to communicate' but more on actually just chatting.

I advise everyone that talks about Slack to try Discord as a good alternative, even if your use case is synchronizing a loosely-knit team over the internet.
I'd argue that Epic is irresponsible for putting users into this position to start with. All Google did was tell users that they need to update ASAP as they're ALREADY in a compromised position.

If there was no update/patch, I might side with Epic, but as soon as the fix was out and everyone needed to update, users needed to know the risks of inaction would inhibit. Not least of all because people may start reverse engineering the patch.

Epic has decided this is revenge for them not using Google Play, but if you look at Google's bug efforts historically, this has always been how they handled these issues. They've been highly consistent about it.

If Epic wants to keep serious security bugs under wraps in the future, maybe they shouldn't rely on unpaid third parties to audit their code.

PS - Google gave them 7 days from patch release, so most auto-updaters likely updated the installer.
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Someone should make a well-being app that forces you to get up from your computer by displaying enraging text snippets in a modal, with no close button, for 15 minutes.
> Clearly, the one with currency, because you can collaborate far better than the other, and war is won primarily by scale, which money can maintain.

this is a weird hypothetical. i can't imagine a nation-state without currency and i don't think you can either. so how is it clear who wins?

i highly doubt isolated regime can somehow improve it's sustainability simply by manipulating money. Venezuela just had a massive devaluation - did it make Venezuela richer? did it improve it's economy or GDP? no, it's still the same corrupt country on a brink of collapse.
I can highly recommend Zplug instead of oh-my-zsh, I find it much faster. https://github.com/zplug/zplug

I also like FZF a lot for fast history search: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
You mean google? You're right though, Google does a crap job auditing the playstore. It's ludicrous how they'll allow apps get access to everything on the phone without any kind of serious warning to the user.

My kids install all sorts of crap. I've warned them that all their texts and photos will end up on the internet because of it. Not highly probable, but certainly possible. Makes for a useful double check they're not texting anything silly.
As the article says, it's not for authorship (rel="author" and a bunch of other options), but for connecting profiles. What's borderline narcissistic about that? Is keybase.io also "borderline narcissistic" since you can verify accounts on it, or Github because you can link to your homepage from your profile? (which they actually mark up with rel="me", but that's all rel=me does: make the existing links machine readable, and the bidirectional linking allows some level of verification)
Will check these out, but I was basing my comment on this.

https://gavinkellyblog.com/where-has-income-mobility-been-ri...
I have to agree with you that the state should never have privatized the prison service. It sets itself up for all sorts of unintended consequences, the chief of which is lobbying by the prison-industrial complex for ever more severe sentencing.

The same applies to a lot of other sectors. All the basic utilities and universal healthcare should be public-sector, because any benefits relating to market efficiency are more than offset by distortions to the political process resulting from lobbying.

Still, the basic point stands that incarceration is a form of punishment, and it is legitimate for it to include a component of hard labour.
Harvard you'll see more in the Cambridge or NY office. And at Facebook (and Microsoft, but maybe not anymore) due to the founder's alumni network.

And as another mentioned, Google is so big that most hires can't be from a few small schools.
The only other thing I’d do here as Fortnite’s Chief is to broadly make secure install infrastructure available to other indie developers. This would gain some goodwill and could turn into another revenue stream.

+1 points for turning this issue into more publicity.
What is a bug row? Is that a British thing for bug report?
from a comment from tfa:
'Now if you’re really tired of seventies tech you should try fish.'
Really, that's pretty much it.
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Hey this is neat! Re: injecting into Slack.app, you're right, it's a pain. I had a simple approach here: https://zachsnow.github.io/slinger/ but it needs to be updated for every version (which of course I didn't do).

It would be cool if you made it so that users could inject it manually (via enabling --dev and $.getScript() or so) into the app; I for one don't restart Slack very often, so it wouldn't be too much of a pain.
They're both in the wrong. Epic for screwing it up and rushing rather than investing in security, and Google for trying to score PR points at the expense of their users. Google is being anti-secure here by not allowing the update to filter through the ecosystem.
There was a famous pool game with different formats (8-ball, 9-ball, snooker etc) in early 2000. The game-play was pretty realistic but it was demo version and it asked for 6 digit password to unlock all features. I just loaded the executable in editor and voila the only readable digits among the binary data was the password. It was pretty stupid of developers not to encrypt the password!
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Your question could also lead to a nice submission about how you did. That would be interesting to share: wins, fails... Thanks.
I also never use "row" to mean a fight, so I read that as "bug row" (like "skid row", or "cannery row") and couldn't figure out what was even going on.
I see where you're coming from!

To me, those two mod notes are consistent and sincere. Both are saying "this particular topic has been debated to the point where discussions no longer make progress, they just take up people's time and energy. That said, by all means please feel free to start a new thread about something more specific if you'd like to discuss that."

I see this as analogous to React and JSX. When React came out, many people said "putting HTML in JavaScript is Wrong, and React shouldn't do this."

At first, whether React should use JSX was a reasonable thing to debate. In 2018, this has long since been settled. A 2018 thread arguing that React should abandon JSX is going to take up people's time but it's not going to change the outcome of a decision that was settled years ago.

This is how it is with things like Native and typeclasses in Elm. Maybe you disagree, but I think there comes a point where it's reasonable to say "it is not a good use of everyone's time to re-litigate an issue that has been settled for years. You may still disagree with the final decision, but that ship has long since sailed."

I can understand the argument that "people must be free to waste everyone's time, because anything else is tyranny" and I can also understand the argument that "the Internet is full of places to post whatever you please, but this forum is focused on collaboration, sharing, and learning, not wasting time." It seems reasonable to me for a given forum to embrace either one of those moderation philosophies.

This is why I see the two mod notes as consistent and sincere. They are both saying "these broader design decisions have long since been settled, and we're locking the topic because they are a magnet for contentious discussions that don't go anywhere. That said, you are genuinely welcome to start a fresh thread about a more specific topic to your particular situation."

Again, maybe you disagree with this moderation philosophy, but it's simply not true that mods are inviting people to post only to lock whatever the follow up would be. That would be ridiculous.
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> Google for trying to score PR points at the expense of their users.

Except this is how Google has always handled these bugs. The article even links to other examples involving other companies.

> Google is being anti-secure here by not allowing the update to filter through the ecosystem.

Or pro-secure here by telling users to urgently update rather than doing nothing and hoping nobody spots the bug and starts exploiting it before users get lucky.
a "row" is a loud dispute/fight.
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Personally, the one that resonates with me is how they treat their family or friends they don't like that much. I find it very easy to treat people I don't know well, but it's hard for me to not be snarky-etc to family members that I don't respect.
I am moving in this direction after having taken a few coding challenges and not heard anything back from the company. If I am going to spend time on a coding challenge, I am expecting at least an acknowledgment that I am no longer being considered for the position. Coding challenges are a time commitment and if a company can't even be bothered to commit to at least being polite about it, then it's a clear indication of how they view employees.
I'd love to give zulip a try
"Row" is british english for "argument", so it would be a bug argument (or disagreement).
> make secure install infrastructure available to other indie developers

Epic doesn't have "secure" install infrastructure, that's the whole crux of this issue.
The five keys to a successful team based on Google research.

https://www.inc.com/michael-schneider/google-thought-they-kn...

"Google’s “Project Artistotle” investigates why some teams work better than others. Its analysis shows that the combination of individuals making up the group is unimportant. Instead, a team’s “group norms” – its “traditions, behavioral standards and unwritten rules” – are essential to how well the group performs. Teams are successful if their group norms lead to equal speaking time for all individuals within the group and an awareness of others’ emotional states. These factors produce a situation in which members of the group feel comfortable, or “safe,” and therefore more willing to contribute. Google’s data show that what Harvard business professor Amy Edmondson called “psychological safety” within the group leads to an increase in the group’s collective IQ and therefore its effectiveness and productivity."

"1. Dependability.
Team members get things done on time and meet expectations.

2. Structure and clarity.
High-performing teams have clear goals, and have well-defined roles within the group.

3. Meaning.
The work has personal significance to each member.

4. Impact.
The group believes their work is purposeful and positively impacts the greater good.

Yes, that's four, not five. The last one stood out from the rest:

5. Psychological Safety.

We've all been in meetings and, due to the fear of seeming incompetent, have held back questions or ideas. I get it. It's unnerving to feel like you're in an environment where everything you do or say is under a microscope.

But imagine a different setting. A situation in which everyone is safe to take risks, voice their opinions, and ask judgment-free questions. A culture where managers provide air cover and create safe zones so employees can let down their guard. That's psychological safety.

I know, not the quantitative data that you were hoping for. However, Google found that teams with psychologically safe environments had employees who were less likely to leave, more likely to harness the power of diversity, and ultimately, who were more successful.

Engineering the perfect team is more subjective than we would like, but focusing on these five components increases the likelihood that you will build a dream team. Through its research, Google made the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle proud by proving, "The whole can be greater than the sum of its parts."

Teams are successful if their group norms lead to equal speaking time for all individuals within the group and an awareness of others’ emotional states.

I think this is tricky if a problem and observably true. The teams I've been involved with mesh easier when each are able to commune easily and this normally means equal chances speaking time. Whenever I've seen an imbalance I can safely say it is because the person had obvious narcissistic personality traits which were always destructive long term.
> The survey does not define burnout to employees, leaving them to guess at the definition.

This sort of self-reporting is accepted in psychology. The way you determine a subject's happiness is to ask them how happy they feel.

Think about how a more rigorous alternative might work.

1. We come up with some more precise definition of "burnout." Perhaps we define it as "an average of X 'frustration' events in the workplace over Y days, combined with a steadily declining sense of 'enthusiasm'"

2. OK, great, but now we need precise definitions of 'frustration' and 'enthusiasm.' Is 'frustration' the momentary frustration we feel when the compiler complains about something? Is it a barely-restrained feeling of wanting to smash one's keyboard over somebody's face? For how many seconds should that feeling be experienced to qualify? Likewise with 'enthusiasm.' Same problem we had in step 1.

3. Alternatively, we could monitor people's cortisol levels, blood pressure levels, and have them spend their workdays in an fMRI machine or something. Although even that would have limitations; that seems more likely to measure acute symptoms than something chronic like "burnout."

> Can employees reliably self-diagnose burnout and differentiate it from similar conditions - i.e. actual depression?

With a sufficiently large sample size this wouldn't matter.

As you say, surely x% of respondents will confuse depression with burnout.

However, the value of x% will surely be nearly the same at all companies.
Google has very public disclosure deadlines that they followed in this case. The patch was out, Google told people to update.

Alternatively, Google could of let users continue running unpatched software until the 90 days expired...
The comment you were responding to was about electricity, which is clearly a highly linearly correlated marginal cost. I am not sure why you're bringing up average costs at all.

And the comment you replied to did not even mention the other marginal costs that Bitcoin faces (employee costs, land rental, networking costs, etc).
Yeah, peaceful economics far outweigh military. Military cant hire talent because talent can make more money building products for the world. It's a nice trend. Trump's anti-trade is screwing that up though.
Seven days after the patch, not after disclosure with Epic.

Epic patched it on August 17th, Google waited 7 more days (as it is their usual practice) and then they went public.

Issue tracker makes more sense than the article IMO: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112630336

I guess that usually seven days is more than enough for everyone to update to the latest version available on the Play store, however downloading a giant .apk file within seven days is an inconvenience for most users, which is why Epic requested 90.
Read between the lines. This isn't about growing free range soy and cruelty free tomatoes. The goal here is to have a proven method for growing stuff indoors so that by the time they can use it for pot the kinks have already been worked out and they can just scale right away and dominate a regional market before the competition gets off the ground.

If they can sell to grocers in order to make the business equivalent of sleep(untilpotbecomeslecal()) sustainable then good for them but that's not really the primary goal here. Indoor vertical farming just doesn't work out except in niche cases of very high margins or legal requirements that require things be farmed indoors. City land is just too expensive to grow stuff on unless you're growing a really lucrative crop. Other than pot that's not much that meets one/both of those requirements.

edit: This isn't a condemnation, I'm just calling it like I see it.
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nice! yeah, the problem with dynamically loading the script is that an attacker could inject anything... and they could easily steal your slack token.

But that sounds like an amazing thing for me to use locally :)