skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of anecdotes here...I'll add more.

I worked primarily in 2 type of companies as far as this topic goes.

The first (and in my sample, more common) kind was engineering managers as pure managers. You had tech leads which were really DRIs on technical projects, but very much software engineers in their day to day roles, and Engineering Managers which handled money, people issues, and made sure the tech leads did their jobs. At some companies, teams have both. Often each team has one TL and an engineering manager may look over multiple teams. Not always though.

That works, but there's a bit of a disconnect. The person who decides if you should get promoted or get a raise (or fired!) very much relies almost exclusively on second hand information. They may have been an engineer in the past, but they're not anymore, and may only have a loose understanding of what is truly happening. They're usually a bit better at handling people issues though.

The other kind is the "your boss should generally be able to do your job. Maybe not as well, definitely not as fast, but in a pinch, given enough time, they could". So engineering managers are just a higher form of tech leads that ALSO have the whole people/money/management responsibilities. They code (a little...maybe 5-20% of the time max) and can fully understand the problem the people they manage are dealing with (not just because they did it 5 years ago, but because they deal with them too in the present). That's a lot of work.

Much, much fewer people are qualified to do this so to scale, you either have to be a very competitive organization, or actively train/manage/promote engineers into those roles (or steal people from the rest of the organization and train them as engineers. That works too!).

I personally much prefer the later (even though another post mentions it as being a potential trap, I saw it work very well when handled properly). It's infuriating to have to explain to a manager that the company's darling engineer actually suck, but the managers only see the end result (without what happened to get there or without being able to analyze the cost) and have significant decisions be made around it. But again, it's very hard to build an organization that way.
You'd still potentially have the out-of-date problem with Node though, which is arguably an easier attack vector since Chromium is sandboxed and Node has user-level privileges by default.
I briefly dated a woman like that. I met her in an Aikido class. (She was quite advanced in Judo.) Sometimes I really liked the way she smelled. Sometimes I really didn't.
> Also when did atlasobscura become the new hotness?

Links to it pop up regularly on HN, and have been for some time. Usually there's something interesting on both ends.
You can't give it a throwaway email address - they want your phone number now and will accept nothing less in my experience.

If that doesn't appear true for you, try over Tor and you'll see what happens to many people...
No, it doesn’t happen all the time. In fact the article is quite clear that this never happened with HBO before the merger.

And also no, Sling being included is not the only reason this is interesting. It’s interesting because it’s a major telco using their newly acquired content as an anticompetitive bludgeon, in direct violation of their quite recent promises to the contrary.
Was it important to have a monoculture is what I'm wondering.
It looks like that email address is bouncing.
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Place it gently on the forehead then smash it in with a clawhammer
No, I infer you are saying ATT is right here. lol

There is no free pass expected. This is a simple result of ATT flexing its muscles after consolidation. I don't think you can genuinely say this is business as usual if it is the first time in HBO's history it has happened.

As for it happening to Sling/Dish, yes, absolutely I think ATT picked a fight with them first due to it being their main competition with DirecTV.

No worries. Eventually, the online streaming services will become so fragmented it'll be just like cable tv all over again.
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This reminds me of a fight I had with a city council member. A new restaurant going in a very old space (the Town Talk Diner in Minneapolis, with its classic lighted Art Deco door that forces all businesses there to have the same name) wanted a full liquor license. A council member was blocking it because there were too many liquor licenses within a couple of blocks, and there were too many problems with drunken fighting. But those could be traced to a nightclub and a seedy bar. People don't go to a hipster-nice restaurant to get drunk and start fights!

Eventually they won, and had a fantastic bar.
This is exactly what I do, currently my main coding project at work is a library to improve our tracking of system level metrics across applications. If I get some time I can add a few more things that suddenly get tracked across multiple projects, making debugging easier in the future, and if I don't nobody really notices.
If it's stolen why not refuse to activate the device and/or feed it only a "Stolen equipment detected, contact customer service rep" 'channel'?
Thank you for that link. Betteridge's law should probably be formulated to have criteria beyond "Does it end in a question mark?" A quick scan of the current CNN headlines turns up the following:

* Why is this star MLB pitcher being ignored? (N/A)

* Who do you think should be CNN Hero of the Year? (N/A)

* What's behind Whitey Bulger's death? (N/A)

* Facebook is pivoting. Will users follow? (No!)
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There are no state-wide restrictions on blade length or serrations for folding knives in California. There may be some local laws on length in various cities, but I've never been able to find an example where they've been enforced.
Congratulations. We've reached a level of understanding that Americans took for granted in 1890.
> No, he's saying that we've seen all kinds of absolute garbage marketed using the words 'AI' (Watson is at the relatively complex and useful end of the spectrum) so your suggestion that this project's use of 'AI' as a marketing term implies anything about whether they have an adequate dataset to validate it on is frankly hilarious.

Usually when people say 'AI', IBM included, what they mean is fairly trivial machine learning. Machine learning requires a dataset to learn on.

> In this case, there's excellent reason to be sceptical about whether the service has a remotely adequate dataset, because even if lie detection were a simple problem, how on earth are you going to get calibration data involving hundreds of data points of real airline passengers lying about having weapons in their luggage or intending to overstay their visa?

You could do it by watching film of interactions with border agents when it is still unknown whether or not the person was lying, and then use whether or not they were caught smuggling (or whatever) ex-post as your ground truth.
Do you have any references for this? I've honestly never heard of cows or cow-like grazing animals living in forests. I've only ever heard of them in grasslands.

To your second point, native biodiversity is definitely destroyed to graze cattle, that happens in the US and everywhere in the world.
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Because you don't need a car to get to most places. Houston is the antithesis of NYC in terms of urban planning.
What do you mean by there's a lot of water between DNA and microwave source? Outer skin cell have a diameter of 30 microns - their DNA can be damaged.
Why would anyone be terrified? You can just go to hbo.com and pay $15 for it.
Magic source is the worst. At the very least if you have something that is autogenerated from another file the name of the thing in that other file should be the same name that is used to do something with it.

Nothing worse than breaking into the debugger and seeing a "ThingAdjectiveVerb" and you need to actually look for "ThingAdjective" and look at the "VerbFoo" entry under it.
Cassandra supports cypher?
I don't know if AI luminaries advocating certain utopia exist. Pretty much all reasonable voices I've seen about AI in the past decade either dismissed it entirely, or advocated caution, arguing that it's a small chance of utopia if we do it right, and high chance of destroying humanity.

As for UBI, it's one way of addressing the fact that our civilization is mature enough to abandon the concept of having to work to be able to live (not to mention, non-bullshit jobs are steadily disappearing).
Compare the barrier to entry for publishing a website to that of establishing a television or ISP company and then you might get why one should be more strongly regulated than the other.
That's not really fair. It could be entirely true (and not hypocritical) that they would drink water if their lives depended on it. (Well, maybe except the one who keeps ending up in the ER.)

There's countless modern niceties that are incompatible with 19th century life. I know lots of people working in technology today who would die in 1818, too, unless they drastically changed their lifestyle, and learned dozens of new skills.
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Exactly, it can apparently be perfectly polite to threaten to murder someone (shame if anything was to happen to you...), but not polite to use the wrong fork in your salad. I suppose it depends on what you think is polite.

On the other hand, I think it's generally true that social solutions come up to problems that regularly present themselves, but we tend to forget about those formalisms that aren't often used. That doesn't imply the social solutions are particularly fair or globally effective.

Imagine a situation where you almost never have to worry about another driver cutting you off in traffic, but you know your chance of being shot in a road rage incidence goes up 5x. Is it worth it and does the implied threat really more polite (eg in an emergency) ?
I think they're usually enforced then the police have had another reason to deal with you. There are some SF specific laws.
Exactly. It makes me cringe. A majority of the firms looking to hire in the "Who's Hiring" thread have inflated self-worth.
What they showed Miyazaki was so grotesque and horrifying, that it seemed like they must either not be familiar with his work and character (almost inconceivable in Japan) or that they desperately needed a dose of reality. Given the material and their position relative to Miyazaki, I was surprised at how politely he spoke in Japanese (which has different verb endings, words, etc to express politeness/deference).
Windows 3.x required DOS 3+, it didn't replace DOS. NT and, on the consumer side 95, replaced DOS as the base OS.
A true Scotsman would carry a claymore.
AT&T heavily subsidizes HBO for TV and telecom subscribers. $5 with DTV Now or free with AT&T Unlimited plan.

They are definitely playing long game if they’re willing to lose 2.5 million Dish subscribers. HBO makes about $8 per sub from cable companies, so $20m per month. They are probably trying to push it up to their OTT price ($15).

People can still subscribe to HBO Now. Mildly annoying to get it from a separate interface or you have bad internet, but at least there are options.
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I would love to use this if it was in React. It looks really nice. It would also be cool if there was a light model that one could toggle between. Calling it dark mode implies their is a light mode no?
I'd be curious to see what effect this has on business models.

A lot of useful features are free because they can make money on the backend or through paid promotions (search, email). Take away that ability and a lot of the services people enjoy will be forced to be paid or have annoying amounts of advertising.

I agree there is serious concern and we need to have discussions. I would consider breaking up companies a last resort though.
Knives are generally useful, but not specifically useful. They are often a good substitute for a more appropriate tool. One can use a knife as a can opener, or to cut down a sapling, or to dig a foreign object out of a wound. It may be that a knife is the most generally useful tool of all time: if one can only have one tool, it should almost certainly be a knife. Part of that generality includes misuse, and people tend to have more specifically-useful tools (such as can openers, saws, and surgical implements), which tend to be both less useful and less misuseful (because that's a perfectly cromulent word, no matter what spellcheck says).
Not yet, but I hope it becomes an issue. IMO its not bad issue to have.
Ask HN: Do you think this can be a good analogy for gun control?
It is formally defined. You can declare your a C.O. when you register for Selective Service.

https://www.sss.gov/consobj
That's how they taught us to choke people during basic training in the USMC, and collectively referred to the chokes as "blood chokes" because you cut off blood supply to the brain. It's suprisingly easy to choke someone unconcious just by twisting the sides of their shirt collar, or grabbing someone from behind and squeezing the arteries on their neck with your forearm and bicep. The scariest part about doing it during training is that you don't know that you're about to blackout because you can still breath fine, it's just that none of the oxygen is getting to your brain.
1. There's Magic.

2. It is derived from the desire to create not applications, but application frameworks that can handle any conceivable change request that the PO might come with. This is architecture astronaut territory. It's frustrating to work with. It's hateful to debug.
> Instead, pick things that are either tiny or decoupled from the release process

Totally agree. What I've seen work is when engineering managers work on non-critical (but high impact) improvements, on initial prototypes (so that they can have a good idea of challenges when they allocate resources), bug fixes, getting involved in outage remediation, etc.
Is the package compressed? The space saving seems minor if so. A "Hello World" with Electron is ~40MB on Windows and ~50MB on Mac when it's compressed into an installer (DMG/EXE installer).
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In the US you call the Spanish line. Same thing.
I have trouble imagining such sentence where a speaker wouldn't think it's about banking. "Futures" plural referring to time is something I've only seen in incredibly nerdy phrases, like "set of all possible futures".
I've seen a number of stories that seem to get this wrong. It's not a new feature, really. You've been able to toggle off "Show the best Tweets first" in the "Content" section of the settings of both the web app and mobile clients for a while now. Turning it off restores the chronological timeline.

This UI experiment seems like it's just giving a one-tap toggle on the header of your Home timeline, rather than making you go into your profile's settings.
Yeah, the headphones go on when I get in and only come off if someone is standing there looking at me like they just asked a question.
If you go too far down that road, you wind up with Dilbert-style PHBs who know nothing about the work their team actually does. I'd rather someone who can get their hands dirty, help out the team if necessary.
If they are innocent then nothing will happen to them as the investigation won't find anything.

That's how it should work. If someone gets accused of something, there should be an investigation. And if they did something wrong it will be outstanding obvious. If they didn't, then they won't find anything.

It is ridiculous to complain about an investigation, which should be the entire goal. To investigate and figure out what happened.
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That's the question - whether or not it has a good amino profile (and reasonable low insulinemic index).

Also gluten is a composite of proteins too but it's actually harmful not only to people with celiac disease as it triggers production of zonulin.
In 2014 there was a mini scandal in Sweden about Facebook allowing a page titled "Vitmakt neger slakt" (roughly translating to "White power nigger slaughter") dedicated to what you expect a page with that name, with absolutely no irony attached, be dedicated to stay up despite multiple reports of hate speech [1]. A spokesperson from Facebook Sweden had to explain himself and he said that the reports were sent to a team in Dublin to be reviewed. When asked if the page was viewed by any Facebook staff who can read Swedish at any time during the review process, since it is clearly hate speech to anyone with half a brain, he couldn't say. The page was taken down a few hours after media ran the story.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for Facebook about all this work they have to do now to make sure the political discourse on their platform isn't bonkers. They're killing off a lot of media companies and now they're shocked, shocked, that all those ethical demands people made to the media industry is being directed at Facebook instead. What the hell did they expect?

[1]https://www.metro.se/artikel/facebook-plockar-inte-ner-neger...
[Insert joke about you obviously being my ex.]

My dad grew up on a farm. He was also career military, as was my ex who was not a redneck and did not grow up on a farm.

For some folks, guns and knives are meaningful tools and not everyone is a hot head who would readily knife someone.

I always find discussions of such subjects on HN uncomfortable. It's not a criticism of you. It's a criticism of "Why does anyone have to self deprecatingly identify as a redneck (or something) to admit on HN that this is a part of their life?"
Go on Nextdoor and look at the upper middle class and upper class neighborhoods. It’s full of those types.
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From the article:

> In the decoder, the self-attention layer is only allowed to attend to earlier positions in the output sequence. This is done by masking future positions (setting them to -inf) before the softmax step in the self-attention calculation.

In other words, the output logits (i.e. word translations) of the decoder are fed back into that first position, with future words at each time-step masked.

I'm not quite sure how it all flows, b/c with several rows representing words all going through at once (a matrix), it seems like you would need to run the whole thing forward several times per sentence, each time moving the decoded focal point to the next output word...
"Marital status is often factored in, with some companies assuming that singles are better customers, and others, the opposite. Age also is a common input, potentially penalizing older people because of their shorter projected lifespans."

Odd paragraph... It seems like those things could go either way depending on the company. I'm sure we could all list companies that would bend over for old married people as much as young single people.
That doesn't make sense to me, if the company declares the value of its assets as being lower than what it is, it means the creditors get a proportionally bigger share of the assets to cover their nominal debt that has a fixed value.