skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And as other posts have pointed out, these numbers are still dramatically lower than the recidivism rate of non-sexual offenders.
You should extend more generosity to the point GP makes. You can believe in adjusting the system so that representation is more equal without doing away with the protections for small states. For example, you can greatly increase the size of the House. It's the original first amendment! http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/its-ti...
> But you’re right, so far no « killer app » has been found. That’s what makes it interesting today, imho.

How long do we have to wait until the lack of a killer app stops being interesting, and simply means the technology is not useful?
Point of armchair skepticism --

My own experience has been that the performance differences among the different embedding models largely disappear if you take the time to individually fine-tune the hyperparameters for each one. Which is not something that is typically done when reporting performance results in the literature.

I haven't really read the paper, but it seems like there's room for that to have happened here - a search for "hyperparameter" yields one mention, where they describe the choice of algorithm as itself being a hyperparameter. I only skimmed the methods, but didn't notice any mention about individually optimizing each of the embedding models they tested with there, either.

So, unless I'm missing something, that means there's plenty of room to question whether this approach would significantly outperform a single well-tuned embedding model. It might be that it's mostly useful for ensembling together a bunch of off-the-shelf pre-trained models.
Specialization and the Flowering of Personality, and Choice
The 7 P's of Building and Growing a Tech Community
I feel for you. I just joined a company about three months ago as the only senior engineer on the team and I’ve been going through the same thing. The way I get through it is by reminding myself that I got hired for a reason and that I need to give myself six months before really evaluating how the situation is going.

As someone else mentioned, don’t be afraid to ask for help. I’m used to “firefighting” and being the fixer, so asking other people for input and help is totally new to me, and it’s reasonable for it to take some time to adjust.

Also: Do not feel bad for taking time getting to know the tools and codebase. I’d much rather someone on my team take a week longer and gain knowledge vs just jumping in and breaking things by making changes to things they don’t fully understand.
This is not the strangest self-censorship cleveland.com has engaged in. The strangest I'm aware of is publishing otherwise full physical descriptions of wanted criminal suspects while omitting their race.
Just my opinion, having Kyle write a formal report would give a huge bump to validating the stated properties :)
Show HN: What's That Slang – VS Code extension for expansion of slangs
I'm really interested in knowing if you get this to work with AT&T without their gateway being in front of your router. I've been working on a project and have so far found AT&T gateways to be necessary for a working connection, due to certificates on the device (as mentioned by another comment in this thread). Care to share if you got it working?
From the balance of comments on this article you'd think FT8 was saving ham radio from itself.
/death of ham radio predicted, film at 11
Not a returning feature but what about a Macbook that updates with the lid closed? Or is that asinine?
Great, so this means that consumers will pay for the OS and this means that they become paying users.
Right or wrong from a national trade perspective, this is going to be a sad day for makers in the USA.

That tiny shipping charge for "ePackets" really connected us to the frenetic wonder that is Shenzhen.
I think "will be making" unfortunately includes a bit of wishful thinking. It's far from clear we'll have a patch that's mature enough by the time the feature freeze is there and that also has the necessary support.
Link to all posts: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html
The idea of a brain API is both amazing and terrifying.
I’m working on a skin for developer laptops so that you can apply those sweet conference and startup stickers. No more risking your resale value, or even physically risking damage to your expensive MacBook.

I want the skins to be identical to the original laptop material so that they are practically invisible. So for the MacBooks, a silver aluminium sticker (or space grey etc.)

I’ve done a proof of concept and it worked brilliantly (in the process of writing this up) and its allowed me to display my old ‘laptop’ as a keepsake, whilst being able to sell the laptop on in almost perfect condition.

I’m thinking of going down the crowdfunding route, as a way of proving there is a market, as well as helping to fund someone of the equipment needed.

Edit: Added they’d be a near identical match to the original laptop, rather than just a plain ‘sticker’
No, it's called being pragmatic.
Iowans are calling on tax crook Tim Cook to respond to the Libertarian lawsuit he bribed the City of Waukee $100m influencing their vote to abate $170m. If you or I paid our city $1000 to abate $1700 unjustly enriching the city at the expense of the school/county/State we would be in jail.
What about those of us who aren't experts :'(
Although I never mentioned Hancock, I don't buy much of what Hancock is selling. They originally just had Randall on, then later they had Randall and Hancock. I think Randalls research has WAY more foundation to it, and Hancock is riding his coat tails. I do find his commentary intriguing sometimes.
Canon 5D cameras can use SD and CF cards simultaneously. I personally use the "less professional" 6D, which is SD-card only, but even for the "more professional" 5D users, it makes sense to me that they might want to load JPEGs off an SD card onto their laptop for quick editing, and RAW images off a CF card onto their Mac Pro.

[EDIT: though, of course, if you're already hauling around a laptop and an SLR camera system, it's no big deal to keep an external card reader in your bag too...]
Really interesting twist in a crazy story that's gotten this far. I'm interested in seeing how this all plays out, Bloomberg's reaction, etc.

At this point I don't know what to think, so I'm waiting for the consensus.
Professional what though? Just because a pro photog has CF cards in all his cameras don’t mean there aren’t other professions where the pros need an SD card.

Field recording and audio engineering people might have audio recording equipment that use SD cards.

Software developers working with Raspberry Pi might appreciate having the SD slot built in.

And also, just because the photogs don’t need SD don’t mean that people in other professions never need to transfer photos from SD.

Probably a lot of journalists have cameras with SD cards. You can’t always bring a photographer for every article that you write.
I'm curious whether this would actually be odd for Finns?

Jerjerrod's line is phatic, but I think it's less small talk than deference or avoidance. The message is something like "I'm surprised and concerned someone with your status is involved in my work, please don't hurt me", which seems fairly universal.
The FT8 developers have an amazingly strong knowledge of information
theory as well as the many practical considerations of communication
over an RF channel. Feature addition and bug fixing are slow because
the developers don't believe in abstraction, and instead code as if
the only option were a direct carryover of FORTRAN 77 conventions into
C++. There's no longer a public repo but
https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/ci/master/tree/mainwind...
is representative of current code.
Maybe. Or maybe they'd decide to sell all their food elsewhere and you'd have food riots in your urban paradises.

But the contention is evidently that we need to remove their representation in federal government because people don't understand how the federal government was set up.
The President of France does not have a right to be forgotten, as people of public interest are exempt.
Thanks for the bump I needed to go fix that. Sound is off now.
Another popular and promising approach is using contextual word representations, such as ELMo ( https://allennlp.org/elmo - RIP Paul Allen) and Flair (https://github.com/zalandoresearch/flair)

The downside is a very heavy slow-down in training/prediction.
Hospitals Roll Out AI Systems to Keep Patients from Dying of Sepsis
Good because Bloomberg seems to feel entitled to behave like a new incarnation of the New York Times, maligning with impunity.
I want an Ethernet port again... but that seems even less likely. So far Dante audio does not work over WiFi! :-(
The house already adequately represents the people, that's how it was designed.

Expanding the house doesn't change representation.
Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet
I get what you're trying to say, but given that the 5D Mk IV still has an SD slot as does the D850 ("second tier" cameras to be sure, but still the work horse of a very large majority of professional photographers), it's not really that accurate.

And I say that as someone who uses CF in his 5D4 (with SD for overflow, or simultaneous writing for more critical events).
Google sheets isn't the only option available though. You can even use Microsoft's own online implementation if you want compatibility to excel (without vba)

https://office.live.com/start/Excel.aspx
Google is guilty of what, exactly? Do you dislike how they treat you, the user, as the product? Change your Google privacy settings or better yet switch to Google alternatives (Protonmail, DuckDuckGo, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, the like, YouTube is too useful to abandon).

All I see is a big push to vilify tech companies so politicians can look like they're for the little guy.

Well, your rant sounds emotive, but part of the question is a legal (and to some extent ethical) one. It's been considered, after the experience of the late 1800s and early 20th century, that monopolies (or cartels in old parlance) cause wide enough damage to trade (i.e. free market capitalism) that they should be regulated by government. Classical free market economists warned of monopolies. Modern free market philosophers like Milton Friedman argued stopping them was one of the (limited) critical functions of government. The U.S. Federal Government has the ability to regulate them for the benefit of all.

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

Serious question, here. When I read comments like these on HN, I have to ask: do people learn philosophy and economics in typical computer science programs?
LinkedIn rebuilds Recruiter platform, tracking system and gender‘insights’
Have solace in the knowledge that you're not the first or last one to have these thoughts. Some advice from a fellow introvert:

- ask all the questions. If things seem 'too quiet', then you're not asking enough - dig deep enough to find out what the active big projects are, what their roadblocks are, and how they fit in with the CEO's vision. (Those high visibility projects have the bonus side effect of making you look very good if they go through successfully. positioning yourself as an active problem solver goes a long way in corp life.). If everything's stored on the server, spend a month memorizing where and what the "juicy" files are. If there's one person that is truly a knowledge dragon hoard, spend time with them.

- go out to coffee with at least two people every week. I hate talking to people over meals (and am actually a misanthrope under a very well constructed mask) - but this made the biggest difference in becoming "part" of the team. Find the interesting people (or at least the people you can tolerate the most), what makes them tick, what advice they have, what advantages they think you bring to the table, and ask what they would do in your shoes. The answers may surprise you.

- If someone tells you to do something and you're not 100% sure on executing it, repeat it back to them. Not word for word, but repeat it back how -you- interpret their decision. ("Understood. Just to clarify, I should write X lines of code that do X Y and Z and do [this purpose] for [this department] and have the first draft by [this date]?") Easiest way to be on board.

- your brain is a shifty little meatbag that _will_ inadvertently try to sabotage you re: anxiety. (I mean that in a plural sense - mine does the same if it tries to wiggle out under the leash of my will.)(Put more kindly, think of it as a runaway puppy that gets distracted by every little new smell and has to be gently trained.) If things seem suspiciously out of control and no one else is nervous/worried, take a step back, note what is under your area of control, what is not, schedule some 1-on-1 with your supervisor and explicitly ask for a list of 3 things you are currently doing well, and 3 things you could improve on. As long as you make an active effort on those last 3 things, and your manger is a functioning reasonable human, they'll have nothing to complain about.

Good luck. You can do it.
In the Netherlands it is customary (but not mandatory) for the media to include only the first letter of the last name for people who are not yet convicted. So when John Smith is in the news as the prime suspect of a murder, he will be referred to as John S. There are some exceptions, e.g. when someone is already a public figure, or when someone actually seeks the media attention. Sometimes the last-name omission looks a bit silly because many other countries (such as the USA) will publish the full name, so for high profile cases one can generally find the full names just by searching online.

That said the system works pretty well because people generally don't bother looking up the full names.
This makes sense - I'd assume "I know my place, don't hurt me" is a sentiment that arises in basically any culture as long as somebody involved has lots of power and no accountability.
I think this is not related at all to the linked article.

If you have a story about this, could you post it as a separate link and see how it does on its own? Trying to hijack other threads with politically loaded stuff usually goes sour here.
i'd rather these big companies like apple faceboook google, to own up to their security breaches and waste less time on bloomberg crap
I don't know what countries you were referring to, but that's definitely not the case in China (home to a few billions).
Don't get me wrong, I think MicroG is a great project and could work for many people. I already have to maintain a lot of Linux related stuff and I really don't want to worry about my phone too. The apps or workflow changes completely when you get rid of Google. I need to be able to trust that making the switch will be permanent, these things add up quickly (time). Death by a thousand cuts.

But if my phone fails it can put my job or even my life in risk. I can't affort to play cat and mouse with Google or the edge cases from and between MicroG and custom ROMs. I took a quick look at their issue tracker and it looks like these things still happen occasionally. As expected because no code will be good enough to fight malice in a platform you don't own.
Yeah, I feel the same way you do. Please, leave me with nothing to do; I'll manage. Left to my own devices, I have 20 ideas 5 trains of thought to explore per minute.

> I see in a side comment you were concerned about undiagnosed ADD, I'll admit I'm somewhat concerned with _overdiagnosing_ ADD.

I get it. Child AD(H)D seems definitely overdiagnosed in the west; from what I read, giving medication seems to be the easiest hack to get kids to survive modern school system. But personally, I just want to have an expert opinion on whether or not I might have adult ADD, simply because I'm running out of plausible hypotheses, and this one fits well. I was depressed in the past and worked through that. I had anxiety issues, but they're almost gone too - I don't generally feel debilitating background anxiety anymore, unless I'm seriously falling behind on my obligations. The only unresolved thing left is the anxiety and weakening I feel in context of working.

> The joke I used to make as a kid was that I only had an attention deficit for things that didn't matter

I still feel like this. In a better world, this would be fine. Alas, we're not there yet.

> and often haunts me with a "why do you feel such fundamental friction with doing your job like every other professional adult"

Yes, this is exactly how I feel all the time, and had since entering the workforce. I have decent skills, I don't struggle with technical challenges. I only struggle with this fundamental friction. I look at people around me - friends, coworkers - and they all seem so productive and relaxed. Hell, my wife is the exact opposite of me - she's so good at getting things done at work she puts David Allen to shame. So yeah, it's reassuring to know that I'm not alone in this state - so thanks for sharing!

> (I realize this is tangential, but if you're _at all_ a hip hop/poem fan, check out 9-5ers Anthem by Aesop Rock. this is one of my "at work coping mechanisms" when I feel this way.)

Not a fan, just a casual listener. But I'm always open to any coping mechanism for this particular problem.
Snaps could work great on servers, at work we have a CentOS server (via hosting is not our own), I am a developer not a sysadmin and I don't want to mess with the package manager and break something on this server(it is running a bunch of stuff)...anyway today I had to download and run a linux binary , it was a .tar.xz and it worked, would have been even better if I could be sure this binary was sandboxed.

On the desktop I use Kubuntu LTS, snaps will allow me to test or run software that is not in the repo or it is an older but sable version in the repo, IMO snaps provides extra options so if you do not need it you should not use it.
Why? If I am not doing business in the EU and not based there. I really don't care if someone from the EU visits my site and I am not complient. Basically most of the planet falls into that category.
Amazon/other store is not a compelling sales pitch to the end user. I myself wouldn't recommend the average user anything outside Google play, as it's light years ahead in selection, security, UX ...
I'm married to a Finn woman and I have lived in Helsinki for about 3 years.

The lack of small talk is the norm in Finland, and, as a south-european, it takes a while to get used to.

The article doesn't mention that there is a noticeable difference between boys and girls though. My experience is that girls are much more willing to engage in small talk in social situations.

Men, including colleagues, can be really difficult to crack. Some men really open up only when alcol is involved - another aspect of Finnish society that the article overlooked.
It's effectively biological version of fuckit.py [1]

[1] - https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy
> The grove of 47,000 quivering aspen trees in Utah is being diminished by mule deer, foraging cattle and human mismanagement.

any forest would eventually die off under these conditions. it has little to do with Pando being one organism or many.
Submit this as a separate story if you think this is important! As you see, you're downvoted since this lacks context and sounds harsh.

EDIT: double barrel! Well done, aparadja :)
Some things are universal but a shopkeeper making smalltalk is not creepy in the US, even if it is in other countries. It's a cultural thing.

One of the benefits of smalltalk in shops is that if you have a question you don't have to interrupt anybody. You're already having a conversation with a clerk so you might as well ask a question about the merchandise. I don't have to get anybody's attention. I'm not advocating for small talk here but merely trying to explain that it is not without benefits.

The idea that smalltalk is "feigned" doesn't make sense to me, I'm not sure how that word could be applied here. To give some context, in the US there are definitely two different types of smiles. One type of smile expresses happiness and another type of smile is used for polite social interactions. These expressions don't look similar and you wouldn't confuse the two, at least instinctually. Your instinctual response to a polite smile (amygdala) will recognize that it does not express happiness, but if your higher thought processes (visual cortex) think it expresses happiness then the mismatch will make you feel uneasy. If you think of the polite smile as feigned happiness, it seems insincere, but it is not feigned happiness... it is sincere politeness. If you are from a culture that does not smile to strangers it will naturally seem insincere to you unless you get used to it.
I don't really understand, how is this different than any of the other laptop skins on the market? Couldn't I just get a blank one from alibaba or whatever and use that?
How do they survive? SISU - that's all you need to know about Finland. Look it up.

#sisu
Some of these seem like, leaps, e.g. is knowledge passed down for 15 millennia really the most likely explanation compared to say, meanings of words changing (like the name of the island used to refer to a promontory on the island before changing in meaning to refer to the island itself)
It's not your right to dispense such justice--that in fact belongs to the state in a civilized society. I think this example proves the exact opposite of what you desire. Someone who has spent time in jail and had their record expunged 10 years later has been deemed by the state to have satisfied the burden of their offense, and, yes, their right to have their actions forgiven and forgotten should be at its zenith.

[Edit: Downvotes? How about a response then? What's the purpose of jail if (1) we know it's not rehabilitation and (2) the convicted's debt to society is not satisfied upon serving the sentence?]
It’s fascinating to see this story unfold. On one end you have Bloomberg doubling down on their claims, and here you have Apple making a move that shows their confidence in their claims.

For a while I was buying the subpoena theory, but this action clearly doesn’t fall under that, and they would be setting themselves up for serious liability / damage claims if it were true.

Either there is some gross miscommunication going on inside Apple and Tim Cook is not properly informed - which is very unlikely at this point - or there might be less truth to Bloomberg’s story.

The frustrating thing is, we’ll probably never know the answer.
Probably, which why I said "many" and not "most".

It's not a thing in big faceless corporations, chains, etc, for example (though it can be a thing in places like Google, MS, etc, with the right manager).

But on small businesses (e.g. 2-20 people) it's not uncommon in certain countries (thinking of Southern Europe that I know of) to have an understanding when one needs to leave. There are also practices like "siesta" where places close for a few hours altogether and people have lunch etc.

I was also surprised to see the hours kept in french towns (not Paris, smaller, but still big ones) that e.g. shops opened casually at around 10am, many were closed at lunchtime, and reopened again later, etc.

I'm pretty sure this is the case elsewhere without the "protestant work ethic" (or Japan's version of the same, instilled after lots of humiliating defeats on the hands of the west), e.g. Africa, Latin America, and so on.
I wish projects like this would publish their proofs with their protocols. It's interesting to be sure but I find all of the prose and diagrams to be too verbose. I'd much rather read the mathematical model of the transaction protocol.
It's good to hear mule deer are doing better though. Montana mulies were getting very rare as a kid because of escaped red deer and hunting pressure (live above treeline mostly vs black tails which live lower on average).
Solve homelessness in SF by solving the outrageous price of housing.