skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm glad employees can be fired at will, in this country, and I'm glad he takes that part of SpaceX so seriously.

On the other hand, hiring managers from Microsoft and Google does not seem to be a good match for the type and pace of innovation Musk wants. Based on my work experience with ex-managers from those companies (not meant to exclude management from other elephantine companies).
On a more serious note:

> And for those of you on Windows with a censored font

Anyone know how to resolve this? I think Mark Twain would deem me capable of chewing steak...
I think he is saying it’s not a no brainer or cost effective setting up remote teams in these areas as some stories make it out to be.
> SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms. Those latencies would make SpaceX's service comparable to cable and fiber.

> The FCC proposal would require SpaceX to launch 50 percent of these satellites within six years and the rest within an additional three years.

Well, the long term future looks promising.
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It depends on the task.

If you're doing clustering or instance retrieval, you probably want to PCA the number of dimensions down to 200 or so. (In fact, we do this in the tutorial at https://www.basilica.ai/tutorials/how-to-train-an-image-mode... .)

If you're training a big regression, you'll probably get better results with the larger embedding.

We decided to err on the side of making the embeddings too big, because it's very easy to reduce the number of dimensions on the user's end, and impossible to increase it.
There's a few that I've found!

1. Hyperfocus. It has been tremendous for programming or even reading. There's sort of an ADD threshold that I break through after ~30 minutes of self discipline and pain. Then I'm suddenly in the zone, some kind unshakeable state, for hours on end. Most people I know seem to need a break after 30-60 minutes, right when I'm just getting into it.

2. Fun and physical activity. I use extreme difficulty of maintaining attention as an indicator that what I'm doing is just not stimulating or interesting enough. Of course this might not be good when you're with other humans, but I find I'm often able to focus on things better when my body is moving. That means when I take someone out on a date somewhere, it's usually very interesting and unusual.

3. Fast context switching. This may be more of a coping mechanism than a benefit, but often times rather than focusing on a single task, I'll "procrastinate" by switching between multiple important tasks repeatedly or working on things that are peripherally related. As a result, I have a breadth of knowledge that helps me think creatively and still get work done as needed.

4. Creative thinking. I believe (anecdotally, no evidence) that people with ADD are less likely to get stuck in a rut, or get bogged down with repetitive, boring, familiar things, because we simply don't have the attention span for it.
And my point is that nothing was taken, therefore it cannot be ransomed.

This isn't a Threshold Pledge System either because there's no contracted good being withheld.
1 of those 100 peanut eaters would have had to have paramedics immediately, another would have required a benedryl.
Still a good enough workaround to leverage the benefits of the trusted repository. Thanks for the tip! Definitely interested in seeing #14 get addressed :)
This symbol has a couple of uses in writing ancient Egyptian. The most common use is probably as a determinative. Ancient Egyptian, much like many Semitic languages, omits the vowels in a word in writing. Determinatives are ideograms that disambiguate between several words with the same consonants but different meanings. This symbol is used to denote maleness or strength. For example, 𓂓𓏺 is ka for "spirit." 𓂓𓂸 is ka for "bull." (We could also add 𓃒 to 𓂓 for "bull" in addition to or instead of 𓂸)

Phonetically, Egyptian hieroglyphs use what's called the Rebus principle. For example, in English we could write https://i.imgur.com/Rp51iOt.png
(hn ate my emoji) for belief. When this symbol is used phonetically, it represents the consonants "mt" because the ancient Egyptian word for phallus used those consonants. If we wanted to write "phallus," we could write 𓂸𓏺 with the stroke afterwards to denote that we mean the symbol, not its phonetic value.

Edit: hn cut out my emoji unicode. Replaced the emoji unicode with an image link.
> Regular people happily use their iPhones, Facebook, Uber, AirBnB...

So when Uber circumvented the law to allow anybody to become a taxi driver, thereby hurting drivers who played by the rules, and the media reports on that, they can be safely ignored because they didn't interview a happy user of the app?

Regular people happily use non-biodegradable plastic bags. Maybe the old media should hold off on reporting on its consequences until the oceans have been completely liberated of marine life.
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Waymo gets the green light to test fully driverless cars in California
We're feeding them through a deep neural network and using the activations of an intermediate layer as an embedding.

You can read more about this technique in https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6382 if you're interested.
I always end up coming home from work, eating dinner, showering, queuing up a movie, smoking weed, having some random insight on a work related problem, and never getting around to the relaxing activity I had planned!
I don't see the problem with retweets. Sure it can be used for bad, but also for good.

I think micro.blog is worse for failing to have easily ways of sharing content.
> A 21-page indictment filed in US District Court in the Southern District of California said the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, an arm of the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security, directed the five-year campaign.

How would you call the spies if not "Chinese"? They are the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of State Security's spies.
Both you and tata2020 have asked for advice from sures and, having often been in the position of hiring programmers from India, something really stands out:

I honestly couldn't tell if sures was an American, British or Indian through his writing. The use of punctuation, general cadence and adherence to the standards of written communication popular in America mean I have more immediate faith in him as a candidate (however unjustified that may be).

On the other hand (8sigma and tata2020) I can tell in a flash that you are from southern Asia, and your writing immediately evokes long online pages of poorly qualified Indian programmers seeking work or personal experiences of dealing with poorly-qualified programmers from India.

I'm not, in any way, a stickler for grammar or spelling. However, for reasons I am not sure of, a number of common conventions have emerged from Indians that differ dramatically from American/British usage in casual writing: Not placing a space after punctuation, using "From" rather than "for", "needful", etc.

I suspect you could do very well for yourself if you made a few small adjustments in your writing.
Availability is an important part of security, as much as Confidentiality and Integrity. Being able to reboot the device unauthenticated from the local network is a security issue, yes.
Your entire argument is based on denying the antecedent[0]. Because hosts can't be legally required to have strict moderation has nothing to do with the idea that they are legally compelled to host anything.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
Here's the rest of what that article says about the topic. I'm not sure why it brings up the topic 2x in the same article. It looks like this paragraph is a revision of the first.

"Former intelligence officials told me that Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics. (A spokesperson for Feinstein said the office doesn’t comment on personnel matters or investigations, but noted that no Feinstein staffer in California has ever had a security clearance.)"

None of that contradicts what your first article said, that the staffer didn't know he was being recruited. He was talking about local politics to someone who worked for the Chinese government who was pumping him for information.

The rest is just speculation on the part of someone the reporter talked to about how he could have theoretically committed a crime despite not being prosecuted.
4. If you're working in an office and someone has headphones on the lack of travel causes them to type angrily and loudly as if they were pretending to work in a sarcastic manner.

Can always tell when users of this laptop have headphones on just from the typing noise.
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Remember that the CIA did worse (like droning children in Yemen), be careful what you wish for.
...and data recovery.
Only if you send 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' or similar header with curl. Which curl doesn't do by default.
This same argument could be applied to many long-term medical studies: Maybe people with a pre-disposition to heart disease also hate exercising, so the link between heart disease is and lack of exercise is backwards. Yeah, that doesn't work.

Ignoring the link between mental illness and marijuana use is ridiculous. A medical study doesn't need 100% confidence to be true. If we held all of medical science to that bar, we'd never make progress.

Plus, we have a colloquialism for a person whose mind appears to have suffered damage from excessive marijuana usage: a burnout. It's something that even recreational users observe. And where there's smoke...
The google-noto-sans-egyptian-hieroglyphs-fonts package provides the required fonts to enjoy this page on Fedora/CentOS 7.
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I think your past mentality is what a lot of people have still in the bay area. It seems that every person I meet at startups thinks that their stock is going to be worth significantly more than the strike price.

If a startup has a decent exit, it's usually that founders get a life changing amount of money and then employees get car changing amount of money. Even if my 50,000 shares sell at $10/piece... It's definitely not any better than what I would've received at Google/FB. And I'd be nearly guaranteed to get those shares at Big N and liquidate them vs low single digit chance at a startup. The expected value when it comes to stock compensation at startups, in my rough estimate, is maybe 10% of that of what you'd see at a Big N.
Depends on the culture of the country many counties have custom and practice that you have to do X years as a grade before you can move up.
> Main contenders so far are Haskell, Scala and Clojure (Reason might go on the list soon too)

How about plain old OCaml? Jane Street seems to find some success with it.
I just browsed Apple's site to compare the models and it confused the heck out of me. https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/

The MacBook, new Air, and 13 inch Pro are roughly priced the same with very few discernible differences. An average buyer would be very confused.
That's an interesting observation, because that's how a lot of the music industry works. Lots of songwriters who aren't good at performing, great performers who can't write well, instrumentalists who can't sing etc.

Right. But in the music industry, most people know if their only strength is singing, they know should team up with people who can handle the instruments and the songwriting.
Definitely!

In particular, semantically similar words are close to each other after embedding, so the space ends up with semantically meaningful clusters.

Our embeddings have the same property. If you embed two similar images, they'll end up closer to each other than two dissimilar images. (Where "similar" depends on the training details, but that's true for word2vec as well.)
"People want heroin. So heroin is provided."
Per-CPU packet captures with rxtxcpu
Images are generally excluded from gzip transfer server-side, since it's a needless waste of CPU cycles.
I decided to try to solve it myself. I don't get any warning with Windows Defender (Win10). With VirusTotal I got only one report https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e02d6aff4b59b2f66ed21fb74e... by Tencent . I went to the webpage of Tencent but I can't find the correct way to report a false positive. Most of the contact page is in Chinese, but I don't speak Chinese (Hi from Argentina!) I'm in doubt if I will send the report to whoever looks more relevant, or just forget about this.
For those who wonder, like me, if Apple is doing Active Server Pages: "ASP" means "Average Selling Price".
Why is it possible for so many small banks to start and flourish in the UK but not in the US?
> R meanwhile uses a global namespace

This is just plain wrong.
Yeah it's a wonder why its taking so long.
It's a great card to travel with but don't put too much money on it for this reason.
Thankyou for that. I followed those links and ended up at the beginners [1] section. It is missing a lot of warnings. The first ones that pop out at me are omega-3 and magnesium. There are a myriad of dangerous and lethal conditional side effects they are not listing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nootropics/wiki/beginners
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> Peanuts are also not (mentally) addictive, and neither do they alter your mental state

Yes, they are? Anecdotally, if i put a bowl of peanuts on my desk, I'll eat them without knowing it, and speed up eating them when nervous, thinking, or bored. Any habit a human does enough can be mentally addictive.

Importantly, neither are physiologically addictive.
"lead" doesn't mean that at all in this context it's technical leadership
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Anyone want to comment on the disadvantages?

Off the top of my head I know they don't have branches so you can't speak to someone face-to-face like you might with a traditional bank. Is online/telephone support generally good with these challenger banks? Are there any other negatives I should be aware of if I sign up?

If I deposited a large sum of money into my account would I have all the regular protections of a traditional bank or are there additional risks associated with these small challenger banks?
I am a long time (15y+) player of Nethack, incurably addicted to it.

Do you think I could maybe enjoy Dwarf Fortress?!
All high school weed smokers are not equal. There are many occasional smokers.

For the sake of simplicity, let me put a number here.

High schooler between 9th to 12 grade who smoke weed at least 10 times a week all four years will settle in LIFE below 50% of his potential (compared to how he would have done without weed)
> Digging in, it turned out “Apple” belonged to the category Steve Jobs which eventually belonged to… “People,” of course. It turned out Wikipedia categories aren’t strictly hierarchical at all, but are used for so many “related” things as to make them useless for determining what kind of a thing an article represented.

This feels like a problem worth solving on Wikipedia itself. It would be nice if categories could be marked as non-hierarchical, so that for a given category, you could know whether its articles could be classified under all of the ancestor categories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eponymous_categories would be a good place to start. Probably most of those are not hierarchical.
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Bangalore, India based developer

2004: 2,75,000 INR , Software engineer

2005: 4,00,000 INR, Senior software engineer

2009: 12,00,000 INR, Senior software engineer

2010: 14,00,000 INR, Senior software engineer

2011: 17,00,000 INR, Tech lead

2013: 22,00,000 INR, Senior software engineer (another company)

2015: 30,00,000 INR, Senior software engineer (another company)

2018: 40,00,000 INR, Senior software engineer
I'm actually saying that the safe harbor rationale exists because it was believed that completely regulating content was impossible.

If this is not impossible, then there should be no need for safe harbor.

Also, safe harbor has been used to defend not applying content policy; I'm not sure it's ever been used to defend the application of a content policy.
I don't think HN would be particularly interested in this news but, as a fellow countryman, congratulations. :)
There's a difference between being productive and being entertained. Stan's father describes productive activities, but sometimes you just want to relax and be entertained. Everything in moderation.
> If you're color blind, you're going to have problems building electronic boards.

Not acceptable in a job, as per the ADA.
It's almost like it's Facebook's business model to accept ads from anyone for anyone.. damn the consequences.

The advertising business model is so broken.
Ahh true i didnt consider that. But the gas mixing would happen only at contact level, something like the meniscus between two fluids. i doubt they would homogenously mix unless the molecules have an affinity for each other, in heliums case it is an ideal gas.
In Jupyter, I do a "restart kernel and run all cells." While it's not to the level of test driven development, it catches the worst of the issues.
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How did you get to that conclusion? The human kind has been around for a long time.
Some strains of Unity game development seems to be especially susceptible to this kind of slamming together stuff from the asset store without understanding how it works. I've tried a couple times to get into Unity, because it looks like a fabulously productive tool, but I struggle a lot because it feels like there is a lot of slop in how everything works - at least compared to the sense of control you expect when you are used to having to write your own game loop and your own input handling and rendering etc etc.
Deferred pay is the normal way to look at it.
Perhaps I was unduly harsh, but I disagree that I was shallow. I pointed out exactly where the problems lay; poor use of language and people operating outside of their domain of expertise.
*employees gossip about internet memes about boss instead of paying attention to their duty
Just as with the word "developer" [1], I'm beginning to think that the word "refactor" is a dirty word. Are we even talking about the same activity? How is it people are alternately claiming that Haskell and Clojure (virtual opposites on the language spectrum) are infinitely superior to each other at the same thing?

Wikipedia defines it as "the process of restructuring existing computer code without changing its external behavior", which sounds about right, but it's also so completely generic that it could mean almost anything.

Claiming that Clojure can't do 'meaningful refactoring' sounds to me about like claiming that Kanji is bad for transcribing Welsh, or that sign language doesn't work well for audiobooks. They're technically languages but the fundamentals are so different that all the comparisons are talking right past each other.

The style of refactoring that one does in Haskell (disclaimer: it's been many years since I've written any) is not really possible in Clojure, but it's not really necessary, either.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310958
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Blinking text tells me this site isn't serious.
That has nothing to do with learning English.

It’s based on the premise ‘as an English speaker’ these languages are easy to learn. But, if your native language where say Dutch you get a different list than if your native language is Japanese.
The worst part is that for many of us, we'd be happier to pay the higher price but Apples giving us LESS. A worse keyboard, no magsafe, no USB-A, worse thermal management, less reliable, more expensive and difficult to maintain.. the list goes on. If the new machines weren't a big step backwards in some areas it would be a much easier pill to swallow.
That table is ranking languages by how easy they are for an English speaker to learn -- that is, how much commonality they have with English. It doesn't make any claim about English having some fundamental property that makes it easier to learn.
Hi, Jorge from Basilica here.

Our bet is that the simplicity of using Basilica will provide a much easier experience that doesn't require complex infrastructure and training and will provide very good results thanks to transfer learning. The amount of data needed for this is also much smaller than if you were training a model from scratch.
Surely it just passes the buck to the MakerDAO token holders? Feels like a case of tragedy of the commons.
I've been paying my wages in for about a year now.

Its been a flawless experience and I'll never look back.

From a technical perspective I think it could be easy to believe that because they're a startup your money is in someway less safe, or the service less reliable.

But I actually think that because of the sheer technical debt old banks struggle with (they're ticking time bombs on the inside) the opposite might be true.
In Common Lisp, it works because symbols are scoped by package, not by object. So if you're in the package foo and start typing 'bar,' then your editor would autocomplete symbols in the foo package starting with 'bar'; likewise if you typed 'baz:quux' your editor autocomplete would autocomplete symbols in the baz package starting with 'quux.'

Common Lisp most definitely doesn't have one namespace; this is really nice in practice.
I find it oddly satisfying and appropriate that in this forum where people are regularly recommended to just write a small program for themselves that solves their specific computer or technology problem, you reply to someone's problem with book construction with a suggestion and help for actually rebinding the book to solve the problem.

Well done. :)
Hate to be the one that says this...Why is this being posted on Hacker News? A privately operated forum is using moderation tools in ways that not everyone finds agreeable, how is this news in 2018?

We have a lot of discussions on free speech but do we really need to post every single site that uses these tools to reiterate the same points?

>Pro:Free exchange of ideas is being threatened and is creating an echo chamber; i don't agree with the ideas but will die for you to say it
>Con: They are privately operated and the first amendment isn't a catch all for all speech; XKCD comic showing you the door...

Maybe i'm cynical but most discussions just devolves to the same conversations being repeated with nothing interesting to add to the already long list of FB, Google, Go Daddy, Twitter posts/groups that have been censored/deplatformed. At this point it seems everyone already has their opinions firmly placed and nothing will really convince them otherwise.
>He was talking about local politics to someone who worked for the Chinese government.

Everyone in the government contractor industry (or government itself) gets annual training on spotting these sorts of leaks. Just discussing any stuff (even if you don't work with classified things) you're doing at work with a foreign national is touchy enough that many people avoid doing it all together. Everyone who works for the federal government or a company that works for the federal government is well aware of this. This isn't an innocent mistake. It's highly unlikely that this guy didn't know what he was doing was questionable.