skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to break into CS research?
Hey HN, you’ve always been excellent advisors so I wanted to get at your thoughts.

I’m a student completing my master’s in CS from Georgia Tech and my master’s in computational biology from Harvard. I have two 4.0 GPAs, and have been trying to get research opportunities in ML/RL/Theoretical Neuroscience because I’m absolutely fascinated. Unfortunately, I have a non traditional background with no research experience, and most professor’s don’t really give me an opportunity or even respond. I have a lot of product and entrepreneurship experience, and I really got deeper into theory in recent years. Are there ways I can get into research with this background? I’d like to eventually be able to get a PhD or do a residency.

I really appreciate the advice.
AI has bias problems that need to be fixed, and diversity is the key
> they would be making a loss due to French price restrictions

Which they lobbied for.
They waived the Jones Act after Maria, albeit briefly.

I think PR's debt problems are an order of magnitude worse than the excessive cost of shipping. They need to be a full US state, and they need federal aid to fix their balance sheet (beyond PROMESA). I think a Jones Act subsidy would be a reasonable policy to preserve a US shipbuilding industrial base while not doing so on AK, HI, PR, et al's dime.
Everyone is equal, but hey heres a WOMAN that did a thing!

I'm happy she achieved this, but the cognitive dissonance from HN is depressing.

That being said, I never knew these records were done with a draft vehicle. It kind of takes the human out of the equations to the point that I don't care if a man or woman set this record.

It seems like the pure record would be whoever has the land speed record in a bike unassisted by a tow and slipstream. I have more respect for whoever did that over some person that needed a mechanical advantage via a draft and a tow.
As I said above, you are entitled to defend your interests.

Simply do not claim it is somehow about fairness.
It’s a great set of DSLs that show off some of the pretty decent meta programming facilities of R. I think those DSLs could be created elsewhere, but I also don’t think it's an accident that it happened in R.
>"Over a decade ago, I worked on a technology to which a competitor paid the highest possible compliment: they tried to implement their own knockoff."

Could someone share who the competitor and what the knock off was?
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The most important feature of Evernote for me by far is OCR which I did not see listed at Polarized. Is it there or planned?
I would describe Twitter and Evernote as the opposite of "niche".
> Where are you getting that from?

From his mouth?

Not that that would be a reliable source, I concede that ...
Of the US.
It's still not clear to me why no publisher wanted to publish the book.
VRML, anyone? :-)
Not from the US.
You probably just want a dependently typed language. Proving bounds at compile time is an introductory exercise for the likes of Idris.
Krebs is a super impressive guy in my opinion, and him being able to do something is not where my bar for easy starts. His investigative abilities and network of sources I think is unrivaled in his domain.
Gotta be one of these guys in every one of these threads.
> you can short any high risk high reward play and make money if they fail

You can make a lot more money, much more quickly and with far less risk, squeezing misplaced shorts. There is a lot of capital in the markets scanning for accumulations or nonsensical shorts.
Hi, creator of Turtl here. I'm hearing good things about Joplin/Omni, so I'm going to spend some quality time with those apps to try to learn from the things that they are doing well.

Also, we have a new version coming out very soon, v0.7.0, that will have significant UI/performance/stability improvements. I think it's worth checking out (although obviously I'm biased).
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https://dynalist.io/

I haven't used evernote so I don't know all of its features, and I'm sure dynalist is missing many of them, but it's wonderful for all those things you mentioned (notes, lists, ideas, reminders, todos). The android app is a little sluggish, but that's pretty much my only complaint, I love everything else about it.
EU’s Copyright Directive and the P2P Internet
France has Carrefour.

Europeans would typically object to tax avoidance and sidestepping labour regulations; Amazon should compete equally with the existing businesses. If like to see much more done by the EU and national governments to close loopholes.

Economic or business efficiency is also not the only goal of Europe.
Totally. I’ve taught intro R to mostly social scientists, and intro Python to mostly physical scientists. Every workshop, the R group is coding circles around the Python group with the same number of hours of instruction. And the intro R curriculum that we use was largely a ported version of the Python curriculum.

Having seen brand new scientific programmers tackle two “beginner friendly” languages, man the differences after a day or two are stark.
> Who wouldn’t want science and empirical evidence to guide policy decisions.

One look at crime stats and this will not be a favorable idea.
Which is part of what would make Tesla a valuable acquisition target.
My point is that it is a lot easier to argue against cars when you make a good living and can afford the nicer parts of the city. When your choice is a crappy car commute or a nightmare commute via trains and public transit, and the places in your budget for you to live in don't have "cute restaurants" or "well groomed parks", things are not so cut and dry. Cars improve quality of life for many people and it's downright myopic and classist to say they ruin lives and cities.
This looks great! Is it possible to integrate with hypothes.is (e.g. import all hypothes.is annotations)?
Oh, right, sorry. Yeah, coming back to this a day later I see that were you wrote "pretty much nobody knows or cares" it was meant in the general sense of stop someone in the street and ask them about coal and their eyes will glaze over vs ask them about nuclear power and radiation-three-eyed-fish-godzilla and they're way more likely to have a seizure right there on the street.
Trump is destroying international trade, with the goal of increasing an already tilted playing field even more in the US's interest. And it has found a good lever to push, so this will work in the medium term. Basically, he is discounting short term pain for long term gain, betting that other leaders are not crazy enough to step up the conflict beyond trade, and that everybody will prefer to accept Trump's demands rather than using the next levers at their disposal. Which are:

1) the dollar

2) military conflict

We'll see
Ok, like I replied to the sibling comment, the debt crisis (admittedly from a distance) feels like such an overwhelming #1 that the rest are dwarfed. I think PR's situation is entirely unjust, and they deserve full statehood (or independence, based on a referendum).
Reasons I can think of:

- More contributors.

- Help more people.
> His returns are dreadful

Ursus loses money in up markets. That is almost by design—it’s a catastrophic hedge inspired by 1987. His headline fund has been profitable for almost every vintage older than a few years.
In this case 8chan got their PayPal accounts frozen. People tend to take losing access to their funds pretty seriously.
Hedge funds, which can turn huge sums into market swings often use this technique to drop the price, creating additional drops from panic sell offs, allowing them to make a margin on it from the bottom.
> And thus it comes down to, "I have chosen for that word to have this particular meaning (and only that meaning), which I find offensive, therefore please don't use it anymore.", knowing full well that the speaker meant no offense when they were discussing the new drive layout. I'm not completely unsympathetic, but I sometimes feel the sympathy only goes one way.

No, it's the other way around. Engineers did not invent these terms. More like, ""I have chosen to use a word with a particular nonstandard meaning (and only that meaning), if you find it offensive, it's your fault for not ignoring the rest of the English language like I do."

This excuse didn't work when you used it to justify saying "ass" and "bitch" in elementary school, and it certainly doesn't in the workplace.
Just in time for the death of VR.

In any case, why does the browser need to be VR aware? This is a job that should be left to the host OS or WM, not every client application.
Ethical by Design: What are the principles for good technology?
I've been working as a data scientist for several years and have written some pretty gnarly looking SQL myself. I have a background in math and hard science so I have some understanding of the scientific method as well. While I respect our DBAs I wouldn't call any of them qualified to be data scientists.

While I have been able to hold my own in this job I went back to school to pursue a graduate degree (partly) because being in the field has shown me how much more there is to know. While it's easy enough to train a simple model in R there are so many ways to fool yourself and produce an invalid analysis and so many variations on otherwise-simple problems.

It seems this field has a lot of variation. A glorified report writer might get the DS title but they're not going to get the really cool jobs.

If you're interested in data science try out a kaggle competition and try to place high. The variety of methods and tricks people try to improve their entries can be illuminating, I think.
> which sounds similar to the neural engine, and predates it

Apple's neural engine shipped in the A11, a few weeks earlier than the Pixel 2.
Thing with making lists is they get outdated and somebody has to decide when to change them. Euphemisms are constantly turning into slurs and slurs into curse words.
This was meant to be a joke. At the same time, it was meant to foster people's curiosity/education on what our industry has tried before. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way, though.

Now an absolute honest question… how long do you think it'll be before we come across something like VRML again?
It's definitely niche in the world of VC. Take Twitter. The hope was that they would be the new Facebook, which basically everyone uses. While Twitter may have a lot of users, they aren't growing, and it's pretty clear there are basically two groups: Twitter users and non-Twitter users, and non-Twitter users don't see much reason to use it.

But in the hopes of getting everyone to love Twitter, a lot of people think they lost focus on their existing users, which didn't make their existing users happy but never ended up enticing significant numbers of non-Twitter users either (FWIW I am in the "non-Twitter user camp", so not complaining they broke my experience)
Eh, I give up.

I disagree with you wholly and completely.

Tired of seeing people on the internet defend obvious propaganda
Yeah it is curious. I wonder how she got away with it despite there being an article written about it?
I assume this is a reference to the crime per race per capita numbers.
This idea always struck me as fairly misguided. It of course makes sense to try to muster evidence and data when making decisions but it's not some sort of panacea. The book The Tyranny of Metrics (https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Metrics-Jerry-Z-Muller/dp/069...) goes into the successes and failures of various attempts to use data for decision making in some detail. Found it to be an interesting read.

In terms of public policy you have to decide what you're optimizing for and that decision can't be made with data alone because it does not help resolve questions of value and fairness.
A Machine Learning cheatsheet focusing on the most popular algorithms
Chip Aging in Advanced Nodes
I wish they would carry iPhone 4S. iPhone 6 is pretty modern phone. Did they manage to slow it too?
Qt and Juce can be customized to look however someone wants. I don't think it is really so difficult to make images for buttons, change palettes and make sure everything is anti-aliased.
No, those people want to feel important and express control over you. It's morally wrong to accommodate such behavior.
"30-40%" is literally all exports from China. You're saying that if the US doesn't trade with them, there won't be a single buyer of Chinese goods anywhere in the world? That's pretty far fetched.
So that explains why I’ve noticed twitter stopped working with view-source a bit ago. I was curious as to why it required to redirect on itself, or a valid referrer from itself, before letting me get anywhere.
When there were way fewer personal computers and software was much harder to develop and distribute, companies would write software for Mac, PC, Amiga, Atari ST, and even Apple IIgs.
The main problem I see isn't the speed of adopting changes as that can be a bit guesswork as to what will stick around as opposed to being a flash in the pan. It is that the cartels are wildly entitled and expect the hammer to be brought down on any who dare to enter their domain as a competitor. That doesn't have the best track record for success to put it mildly.

European Farmers have derailed a trade bill not because of the bad copyright clauses or the downright stupid corporate sovereignty portions that allowed for suing for lost profits /regardless of circumstances/ of legislation but because they wouldn't pass labeling laws that expected others who had produced Parmesan cheese and champagne wine for centuries to allow them to be the only ones to provide it to the world. There were many good reasons to oppose the bill yet the stupid one won out.
The only reason the gougers exist is because the government didn't bring in the supplies.
What if the state took away kids from parents who can't be bothered to raise them and they get put into state run boarding homes that are jrotc style? Would people be for or against this?
Steam's VR home or whatever they call it made great use of the touchpad by treating them as two fingers on a virtual keyboard. It was effortless to learn and rather quick.
Which law specifically states what you say?

It's one thing to target a gender in your advertisement. It's another to deny someone a job based on their gender.
Male only employment ads are illegal, but does that mean Facebook should have to change their UI for each case where the rules around advertising are different, or should people posting advertising be required to follow the law?
Sea Otters' Powerful Paw Prey Perception
I think what OP alluded too is not understanding preexisting bias.
"Where should police patrol" ->where crime is highest.
Where is crime highest ->existing reports point to X neighborhood having the most arrests.

Without asking "why" it may ignore That neighborhood is black, so historically racist decisions lead to extra patrolling (but no evidence of increased crime rates) which led to more arrests.
"Long term the market appreciates"

Yes, but the point is that almost breaking even on short bets can complement your long bets in a synergistic way. Because the returns are helpfully uncorrelated. It probably takes some math to really appreciate, but I can kind of see it.
ARM pointer authentication (2017)
You seem to be validating men-only advertising by implying that hiring women is done for no other reason than charity. If a company wants to cut itself at the knees by courting half the market ... let them.
We need more people like yourself sowing discourse on HN.

Good read, and great take on the current stream of consciousness.
Ask HN: Have you had 5 minutes with Apple?
Does Facebook know that these are employment ads? Should they add a checkbox to their ad posting system so that the user can tell them that they are advertising for a product or a job posting?

As another example - should Facebook be legally responsible if I use their service to send death threats to someone? If not, why is that case different?
How much money do you want to bet against me, that he will not actually end up in jail for 3 years because of this off the cuff statement?

I'll give you 10 to 1 odds, up to 10K.
You can shape software out of chaos. You can shape software out of order. Both are just sides of a multifaceted field called Software Engineering.
Downvoted for name calling. Not cool.
I’m impressed by how quickly browsers implemented the sameSite cookie attribute.
At least half of that shit has to be illegal.

Have you considered leaking to like techcrunch or something? Hell even a major paper would probably take it up.
My GF did the same here in Australia and, even though her health was above the threshold, they did the same.
The idea that companies will be forced by the market to correct discrimination is a nice idea in theory, but false.

I think it's obviously false, but the article will help someone who likes to question the obvious.
My father always said that God looked out for boys, because it was a miracle they survived being a boy.
A better example might be advertising for a modelling or acting job where the role is Female.
I think you're correct.
As other comments in the thread make clear, they didn't understand the law.
New photonic chip promises more robust quantum computers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18013364
There's a middle ground.

Practically no systemic analysis is done within government. At least in Chicago. Government systems are compartmentalized in ways that makes interfacing with them impossible for any worthwhile analysis. Example: the only analysis that Chicago's finance department had done on its parking tickets is a single very high level spreadsheet.

Some analysis is better than no analysis.
Since when does hacking necessarily involve benefit? It's a clever exploit, getting by without license plates, and I can imagine how that might be satisfying on its own, for purely aesthetic reasons; it doesn't need to be practical.
> We support a legacy version of Twitter (known internally as M2) that operates without the need for JavaScript. We needed to make sure our reloading solution didn't require JavaScript.

Ooh, I did not know this existed. It's nice that they've kept it alive!
SpaceX: We’ll Consider Launching Space Weapons If Asked
I don't know, I can see why words which have absolutely no intent of being racist are associated with racism. Is it any more offensive than calling a node with no parent (which is going to be garbage collected) an orphan node? Or using 'kill' to end a process or (to be ridiculous) separating things by "Class", and calling things equal (instead of different or not different)

Intent is everything and giving into pressure like this just reinforces consideration of every word you speak or write and in what possible dimension it can be deemed offensive. In your life you can contort your language and behavior to please everybody but at some point you are no longer behaving for yourself but for everyone else. You have to pretend like you want to speak different pronouns, you have to pretend that calling someone black is much more offensive than calling them African American. You have to make sure that you specifically don't interrupt women, you have to double check (and counter) your implicit bias towards women and minorities when you think they didn't do a good job in the interview.

Some of these things are hyperbole and some of them are not. I know the standard response is that I'm over exaggerating but its par for the course to get diversity training, to have quarterly updates on how more women are being hired! (as if the company were actually eliminating discrimination instead of just bumping numbers up). This is all new and its moving faster and faster.
Publishing is an incredibly open field really. Anyone can publish anything with vanity presses, printing, and others. You can find any sort of fringe for bizarre and/or abhorrent publisher out there and make your own if needed. If you want to accuse say the Canadian Green Party of secretly being space lobsters from Mercury out to eat our pancreases nobody can stop you and you might find a following from people wondering what on earth you are talking about. Being big just helps with margin per book and marketing. Not trivial but they aren't the final obstacle.
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Can-Struct looks to be a general contractor. No Engineers or techs listed with them on linked-in. Their website is down right now. best description of the company here:

https://swwa.ca/suppliers/can-struct-systems-inc/
Already done. Check out a-frame: https://aframe.io/

Bonus points for doing it in Firefox Reality or another VR browser.
Taiwan, Japan, Korea all have the infrastructure and expertise. China is a huge market, but iPhones still are considered imports because they are built in SEZs anyways.
Location of the First Gas Street Lamp
I don't think there's any pre existing bias influencing Chicago crime stats.

There aren't any racist decisions that created that situation.

Edit: As of posting this was at -2. HN, sometimes you amaze me. For the absolute leftist bias this site attempts to maintain, you REALLY don't want to approach the question of why black on black crime is so high, while in other comparable economic situations with different ethnicities the intra-racial crime stats are much lower.

It's an issue that should be discussed and not dismissed with downvotes.
Thanks, I will give that a try. I've always been pretty happy with SwiftKey but I'm game to try something else that is reputed to be better.
Another Study Shows Trump Won Because of Racial Anxieties, Not Economic Distress
I’m one of the maintainers of A-Frame (aframe.io). VRML in spirit but with some learned lessons applied. Happy to answer any questions.
Yeah turns out we do have a cap:

The weighted-average credit benchmark of 0.50 per cent will be maintained.

The weighted-average interchange fee benchmark for debit cards will be reduced to 8 cents per transaction, which will apply jointly to debit and prepaid cards in each scheme.

Interchange fee caps will be supplemented by ceilings on individual interchange rates: 0.80 per cent for credit; and 15 cents, or 0.20 per cent if the interchange fee is specified in percentage terms, for debit and prepaid.

To prevent interchange fees drifting upwards in the manner that they have previously, compliance with the benchmark will be observed quarterly rather than every three years. A scheme will be required to reset its interchange schedule in the event that its average interchange fee over the previous four-quarter period exceeds the benchmark.

Also chip and pin is ubiquitous.
And programmers exist at the mercy of farmers. What's your point?
> Some analysis is better than no analysis.

I don't agree with that. Doing some analysis on a limited and possibly skewed data set can lull you into a false sense of understanding. It makes your ideas seems objective when they can in fact be completely baseless.
tldr; do i still need to pay a notary or can i self attest using a gpg key tied to my email address?
> That is kind of the point of adding intptr_t (if it were covered by another typedef, why add it?)

I thought it was a stylistic choice: size_t for lengths and sizes, and intptr_t for, well, an integer holding a pointer value.
Just making profitability is irrelevant if they can't pay back the enormous loans coming due over the next year.

(Also I don't think they'll be profitable)
It's idiomatically done with newline separators, e.g:

let sum = vec_of_ints
.iter()
.filter(|x| x > 5)
.map(|x| x.pow(2))
.take(3)
.sum()

That is, iterate my vec, only consider values > 5, square them, take the first 3, them sum them.

Consider the imperative code:

let mut sum = 0;
let mut n = 0;
for x in vec_of_ints {
if x > 5 {
sum += x.pow(2);
n += 1;
if n == 3 {
break;
}
}
}

I think the chained combinator approach is much easier to see exactly what's happening (and is often higher performance!)
Which law is that specifically?

And, as a business owner, please tell me why it would not be in my best interest to hire the best person for the job?