skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be confused - it's not racist. It's "accentist" perhaps. I'm "white" and there've been plenty of "white" folks who I can't understand due to their accent. In some cases, I would not be able to work with them. It was nothing to do with 'race', everything to do with their ability to communicate in a way I could understand. If there are two people of equal technical ability, and one I (and the team) can understand without hesitation, and one who has trouble communicating, because of an accent, and they're both white, and we choose the one without the accent... are we racist? No.
I think you are severely underestimating the current state of VR. It's still an enthusiasts market, to be sure, but it's well past the gimmick point, there are real applications, real content, and real consumer grade hardware out there. VR after the hype is real, just not selling like gangbusters.
I think the biggest issue was the response from corporate. They specifically said "this is edgy" and "this is just our sense of humour".

As a sales slogan "no doesn't necessarily mean no" isn't a joke and certainly wouldn't be played for laughs. Clearly the context was different here.
Elaborate?

What are some examples of this?

More importantly I want to know if you read the content of my post, and what are your thoughts on that content and your personal reflection of it.
I've seen this pattern a couple of times (e.g. for broadcasting changes using Postgres's LISTEN/NOTIFY.)

Each time, I wonder why people are recreating the database's journal, within the database, where this meta-journal will itself be getting journaled.

Why not just consume the actual DB journal?

I'm not sure how that'd work for SQLite—it'd probably require a hack of some sort, since SQLite's journal is an ephemeral part of the DB file. But for more full-fledged RDBMSes, this would just be a matter of hijacking a streaming-replication-based backup system to act as a store of record for events. E.g., in the case of Postgres, you'd just have an ETL pipeline pointed at your WAL-E bucket, parsing through your WAL files either to load into a separate OLAP store, or for stateless map-reduction whenever you need to answer a question.
> give people an opportunity for personal growth

Yes, I've seen that work!

But it's also true that the people who make mistakes need to take those opportunities to change. And this article is a prime example of someone being given such an opportunity and declining it.
the whole idea of a flat linear trace may be a dead end...
high frequencies dont propagate very well through the cross sectional area of a conductor...skin effect and antenna effect dictate many of the design constraints regarding width thickness proximity and linear segment length...we may begin to see hollow duct waveguides required to manage propagation of gigahertz even terahertz frequency electron waves if we dont go full out photonic...im hoping to see carbon/ graphene nanotube die production facilities, even if only experimental for the remainder of my lifetime...lets catch the wave and promote to the next level...
I was once told by a recruiter that she absolutely guaran-damn-teed that she would call me after the interview process and let me know the employer's decision. Guaran-damn-teed.

After my in-person interview, about a month passed with no contact from her. I figured I didn't get the job. But I wanted to call her anyway, just because. She said, "Oh, I thought I sent you an email about it. Yeah, they don't want you."
Sure. I'm not aware of any ARM based SOC boards with that 32GB of storage though (not saying there aren't any, just saying I've got 1st hand experience with that Udoo board and RPis...)

I was hopeful that NextThing would get there, their C.H.I.P board was nice (when you could actually get them to sell you any) and had 8GB on-board, but they went tits-up earlier this year. Hardware is hard...
> In fact, a decent argument can be made that certain majors have a role in indoctrination that make society worse off because of increased fractionation, division, and tribalism.

Or maybe because minorities actually (thanks to social media and progressive whites) have a meaningful voice now? Of course white men are frightened by the prospects of them no longer being the sole rulers.

> Your assertion that society will lose if gender studies majors for instance decrease in output is debatable.

It's not just about "gender studies". How can you, for example, quantify the "productivity" of an archaeologist, a historian, or an artist? You can't.
You could also just download one of the packages from the "Installing" page on the Pandoc web site, which has prebuilt binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Installing a whole Docker image to do this seems like it might be overkill for a lot of uses.
So what you are saying is: you would gladly pay a mandatory fee, thereby gating folks who cannot afford this fee from the content, rather than pay a donation of any amount you wish and still allowing those who can't afford to pay to read the content? In the end, there is zero difference to you in either case, assuming you pay them the same in both, so you're literally gate-keeping news based on ability to pay because you think it's weird that they are for-profit and asking for donations.
> However representative bodies tend to need to make compromises over time, to make sure all of their constituents receive some of what they want.

No, they make compromises in order to ensure that they have sufficient support to get re-elected, which typically translates into screwing over the same minority of constituents repeatedly.
Rights in the US are granted not by saying "you have rights" but by saying "the government can't do xyz". The Constitution only applies to US citizens.
It's not named for the security variety of hacker.
Indeed! That's what I was implying with "based on your comment history".

It required me being curious about why a random commenter would make such an authoritative (but not backed up) statement, remembering PHP's creator's name and making the connection that their username may be related to it, then reading his Wikipedia page and digging through his comment history to find a couple from 2015 (about UWaterloo) and then 2013 (about his age!) as supporting evidence!

Now I feel creepy.

Edit: (but really, it's nothing compared to the awesome "Did you win the Putnam" response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079)
Right, that would be the "congratulations, you have pissed off the entire planet by engaging in genocide, and now own a barren rock" strategy.
Diff works great in Word.
I think that is a bit of a trope if somewhat true one. Thing is that Toyota and all of the other Japanese car companies are invested in self driving and have been pumping money and buying/investing/contracting every ML related shop they can get their hands on in Tokyo to work on it. I recently talked to a guy who just finished his PhD focusing in NLP, started a company trying to do some clever autonomous agent app, got given bunch of cash to work on self driving instead(not by Toyota)

Japan has some unique advantage for go to market self driving cars. Japanese highway system is MUCH MUCH simpler to deal with then US one. If Toyota or Nissan or whoever can come up with a system that can drive you from Tokyo IC to wherever on Honshu following highways(mostly 2 lane, clearly marked, meticulously maintained..) this is going to be a huge deal. And few of them do have the whole thing mapped out.. we do know that.

Is Waymo might win.. RIM also seemed unassailable as was Nokia.
Hey, you're probably right. I'm not so sure the user should be making that decision though. Users would probably do away with strong passwords and automatic updates too, if they had the option. It's not their call, and shouldn't be.
A Genetic Condition That 21 People Are Known to Have
I think there are two things going on here. First, the general assumption is that rape is a gendered thing and that treating jokes about it as socially acceptable behavior helps to oppress women in specific.

I'm a woman and I've done a fair bit of research on the topic. I don't think it helps to use this framing. When I talk about my opinions, I am often accused of being a rape apologist. Women often perceive me as the enemy. Many of them seem to want to preserve some special victim card just for women rather than acknowledge that lots of men are also sexually assaulted, though it typically is not legally defined as rape because in many jurisdictions the legal definition of rape does specify that it is something only done to a woman. Nonetheless, men who are sodomized against their will in prison will say they were raped. The word encapsulates something that no other word quite captures.

Second, joking about being slaughtered in the meeting probably in no way increases the risk of actual physical violence per se, much less murder, in an otherwise civilized environment. But letting ugly and actively hostile sexual remarks become the social norm can start a slippery slope that can help make things less safe when it comes to sexual boundaries per se.

Most sexual abuse doesn't begin with rape. In a worst case scenario, it culminates in rape.

It begins with myriad forms of disrespecting your boundaries and that disrespect absolutely can begin as verbal disrespect and then move on to unwanted touching, etc. Rapists whittle away at your expectations of respect and act like you are being ridiculous to react negatively to their behavior. This is done very intentionally and persistently.

People who stand idly by and do nothing as they watch things go down this slippery slope are complicit, whether they realize it or not. It can't happen if other people stand up and say "No, this is not okay as a social norm."

I used to be a lot more affectionate and expressive than I am. But I did a lot of research and, these days, I try hard to err on the side of treating other people with respect first and foremost. I don't always get it right, not by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm too aware of how this stuff works to not feel that it needs to be taken seriously.
Come to Denver/Boulder :)
In the messaging design, I love that you put it on a t-shirt and on the side of a van.

Thanks to you, whether we understand it or not, we are all in the t-shirt business now.
Yup. My very average laptop with integrated graphics was able to handle 40 man raids. Those were the days!
I've been really enjoying the Caret beta -- https://caret.io/

Not free, but a real pleasure to use.
Actually that decision would not have been up to HR and the executive team, would it? In the United States, that decision was made for you at least 28 years ago, right?
Oh snowflake is insulted Nonone voucher for your nonsense?
> Employees receive stock options, which are not yet equity

These vest and are exercised. Biasing representation, at least initially, to those who have been at the company longer and bought their stock seems prudent.

> Employees generally also have to sign away their rights to vote

Above is a proposal to amend that.
Pandoc (or latex) + make + iNotifyWait work really well together for WYSIWYG like editing too:

watch: $(ALL)
while true; do \
clear; \
make $(WATCH); \
inotifywait -qr -e close_write .; \
done

"make watch WATCH=build" will now compile documents on every save. Works well for single documents, collections of documents or entire websites.
"The head of Communications said that we were edgy, and that if we as Riot started chipping away those edges, we would become shapeless and bland, like EA or Blizzard. I responded that if we told everyone starting today there could be no more rape jokes in presentations and talks, it would still be a multi-year effort for us to no longer be edgy.”

By the sounds of it Riot is in a very deep culture hole. I hope they can turn it around in the years to come.
Do it!!!

And film every single test run and failure. I would subscribe to this Patreon!!!
The sorting mechanism reminded me of the matrix sorter in the Linotype machine [1], in my mind still one of the most impressive mechanical achievements of all time.

Background: the Linotype allows you to type text on a keyboard, which is then automatically cast into lead slugs which can be directly used for printing. Oh, and it has optional automatic justification. It does all of this with 19th century mechanics. Here is one in action [2]. The casting mold is made up of small movable letters, called matrices [3], which have a 7 bit code at the top (made up of teeth). The matrices are then transported along a special distributor bar above the sorting bins until there are no corresponding teeth to hold them, at which place they fall down into the correct bin [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine

[2] https://youtu.be/HEsAXZg-S04?t=24s

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine#/media/File:L...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine#/media/File:L...
No, it wasn’t. “Transpile” is not a real word. There is no need to desecrate the first ever C++ compiler.
> Just so everyone is clear, this is a heterodox (fringe) theory that is not accepted by economists, mostly because it flies in the face of both macroeconomic theory and empirical research.

It has its bases in reality, though. Remember Yo? 1.5M at 10M$ valuation for an app that broadcasts "yo". This is only made possible because borrowing money is extremely cheap in the US compared to Europe.
> The "unproductive" courses (aka everything but STEM) will all be eliminated as there isn't money for them.

1) So most people doing accounting, economics, history, design, law, journalism, marketing, philosophy etc dont get jobs?

2) This is assuming universities will specialise to the most profitable vs being self funded.

3) This assumes that universities wont value lower returning education disciplines enough to cross subsidise areas they feel are important vs 'most profitable'

.... so I dont doubt there would be issues in this funding model but cant see too much STEM focus being one of them.
What happens when the created work is edited? Is there some threshold of trivial edits below which you can't change the year in the notice?

I mean presumably if you do edit it, people still have the right to use older versions when the copyright expires. But how does that play with the requirement to give notice?
Wrong thread, perhaps.
What an incredible story..
Repl (https://babeljs.io/repl) seems to still be on 6.26. I wish I could select the babel version on the official online repl, just like https://flow.org/try/
You're whitewashing it. Your example of a "rape analogy," which itself might be in poor taste (let's agree to be agnostic on that for the moment), isn't analogous to the rape joke that was said: "No doesn't necessarily mean no." The OP blog post implies that people were either dead silent out of shock at the rape joke, or they laughed at the rape joke -- meaning everyone understood it to be a rape joke.

You mentioned a "slavery analogy," which makes things interesting: I'm sure if you think hard enough you could come up with a slavery joke that, if uttered, would be obviously inappropriate.

Nothing you've said even gets off the ground until your counterexamples are analogous to the joke uttered.
It establishes a major way in which human minds are different from animal minds, such that generalizing from humans to animals may be incorrect.
I have several questions regarding this:

1) Do FAANG companies hire non-PhDs for machine learning positions? Most seem to require a MS or PhD

2) What are the interview questions like at FAANG companies for machine learning positions? Is the interview different if you don't have a PhD?

3) For non-PhDs applying, what are the math requirements for the job?

4) For people that have a PhD working in ML at a FAANG, do you feel like you use your PhD level skills day-to-day?
> you would gladly pay a mandatory fee, thereby gating folks who cannot afford this fee from the content, rather than pay a donation of any amount you wish and still allowing those who can't afford to pay to read the content?

It’s a tragedy of the commons. Paywalls force everyone who values the content (and can afford it) to contribute. (This also guarantee resources for the organisation, which reinforces the content quality.) Donations, however, risk subsidising free riders who could have paid but didn’t. There are also fewer checks donors have on a private company than a non-profit.

There are plenty of quality journalism non-profits. There is no sane reason to donate to a private company over one of those groups.
edit - I'm removing this comment because I offended someone.
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Indeed. There was the recent scandal about this Swiss astronomer who told a graduate student of hers that "she is like the hired help, she needs to perform". The level of abuse reached such heights that they actually closed her institute. I guess I'm saying that there are limits, and these limits hold even if the emotions do not run high.
apples and oranges, there is no 'N-word' in Mexico or Colombia.. I remember when H+M had that fiasco when they had a black kids wearing a shirt that said something about being a monkey.. here in Colombia 'mono' or monkey is what you call white people.. And if I see a black man dropping his wallet in the street, nobody would think it is strange if I yelled at him and said "Hey BLACK MAN, you dropped your wallet!"
So many people I played with were able to enjoy the game because it would run on the $350 eMachines PC they got at Walmart. Accessibly really increased the draw of the game for regular consumers because you could get your friends into it easily.
One of the main problems with reduced feature size is that layers appear thicker relative to that, which causes crosstalk and increased capacitance in the interconnect, which increases impedance and limits the maximum frequency.

In the olden days, poly silicon and metal wires could be thought of as having a square cross section. So if a wire needed to carry a certain current, it had to have a certain area. But in order to manage that current when one dimension shrank (the base) then the other dimension had to grow (the height).

Around the time that chips were getting into the GHz range, the wires had a small footprint but they began to have a taller height relative to that. So instead of square wires, they ended up looking like skyscrapers. All that parallel cross section facing each other makes the wires act like capacitors. So that sets a lower limit on feature size.

Edit: so if the ratio of height to base doubles, the capacitance almost doubles, which decreases the bandwidth by almost half:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_impedance#Capacitiv...

https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/accircuits/ac-capacitan...
Congrats Logan!
That poster literally contradicted himself in two sentences.
A quick Google suggests that the most straightforward way is to run an Automator script to convert everything to PDF using Pages itself.
If you've ever suffered trauma or lived with a loved one who has, you know why rape analogies (or anything else which maps to a significant trauma, ie someone who has had a loved one murdered, someone in a war, etc) are put on a pedestal. It's not something you ever forget, and being reminded of it can be particularly visceral.

Further, I'd wager rape and sexual assault occur much more commonly than murder for those working in white collar, professional contexts, and that it disproportionately affects women, who already have a bad hand dealt in tech.
"the practice of associating the word "gay" with negative things is homophobia."

In the USA...
> They just don't have power that rightfully belongs to the owners.

Tell me more about how rightfully these venture firms acquire their capital?
I've tried just that but could not get it to work. If you manage to get it to work reliably this is likely the fastest mechanism you could make.

Some problems that you will run in to:

- the timing will need to be very precise

- you will likely need sensors before the stations

- Lego bricks come in all shapes and sizes and will respond unpredictably to air currents

- you will need a way to arrest momentum or they'll shoot right back out

Still, this is orders of magnitude faster than my contraption if you can get it work.
I read it and it's still clearly unsubstantiated allegations and not factual news.
One benefit of running babel in parallel with tsc is that your execution doesn't depend on your code compiling. Sometimes, for example, if I'm hacking something together, it's faster to just disable type checking all together so I can do what needs to be done and save the type checking until later. Having babel + tsc allows you to do just that instead of having to do all the typing as you go.
I'm glad to see the paper specifically contrast iterator approaches (pull model) versus a "data-centric" approach (push model). This was indeed the issue I've seen with Apache Spark's RDD.

Imagine a common pipeline:

- input data
- process data
- output data

Using iterators, the output logic loops over an abstract next() interface provided by the process logic, which in turn loops over another abstract next() interface provided by the input logic. Given a long enough chain of dependent processes, the CPU's cache will be obliterated.

If we were to write code in a regular programming language by hand, we would never use such an inverted model. Instead, we would directly input the data, process it, and then output it. That's exactly what the paper proposes; the authors supply a callback function at the major stages of query evaluation. They use this model in the context of writing a compiler to speed query execution.

It's worth noting that the Spark maintainers also realized that iterators have bad performance and that newer versions of Spark follow the compiler approach:

https://databricks.com/blog/2016/05/23/apache-spark-as-a-com...
> it's part laziness and part racism

This is not a fair summary. I have several friends (especially online, who I communicate with via asynchronous email/chat) who are technically competent and lovely people.... but who I would not ever want to have as an in-person lecturer/teacher, because their accents are extremely difficult for me to follow. In spoken communication one or both of us have to constantly repeat ourselves, idioms differ between us and sometimes intended meaning is severely misunderstood, and overall communication is slow and difficult on both sides. In some cases my friend speaks English as a second or third language and feels awkward/uncomfortable speaking English face to face at normal conversational speed.

In a classroom setting, there is usually some technically difficult material to be learning, and often a course is structured so that the first concepts taught are essential building blocks on which the rest of the course relies. Trying to simultaneously decipher a thick accent and learn demanding technical material will put a student behind their peers who are taught by someone easy to comprehend, and might make the course dramatically more difficult.

It is neither “racism” nor “laziness” to want a teacher who is a fluent speaker of a form of speech you can easily understand. Just simple pragmatism.

> I've seen this a million times teaching students.

If most of your students are complaining about your accent, is it really a fair to conclude that they are all just lazy racists? Maybe you could work harder on developing an accent comprehensible to natives in the place where you are teaching.