skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Props for authors risking high-paying jobs to stand up for their principles. I’m a pro-gun, pro-Constitution, pro-privacy American whose fine with justifiable, measured actions by U.S. military where actually needed with minimal blowback expected. I've opposed most of what U.S. military has done over past two decades. So, I’ll add my reaction to two quotes:

““If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the US Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble,” he said. “

““a defeat for US national security [and] patriotism”.

That’s un-American bullshit supported by a large segment of right-leaning voters. The very design of U.S. government is to limit trust to any one branch. Relevant example is Executive branch directing military-industrial complex daily theoretically kept in check by suspicious Congress and courts. If there’s argument, ask right-leaning voters if they want liberals or Hillary Clinton to decide who to kill or not kill for 4 years straight. I bet they won't be unconditionally supportive.

Further, historical, heavy hitters that led the military like George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower cautioned us to keep it in check citing prior and likely outcomes of bad behavior that would hurt America. Most of those happened, too. The biggest critique [1] coming from General Smedley Butler: a two-time awardee of Medal of Honor who confessed most wars he led were specifically for capitalist exploitation, not freedom or democracy. Or as George Carlin says: “War is rich old men protecting their wealth by sending lower and middle-class young men off to die.”

I’ll listen to Washington, Eisenhower, and Butler about managing a military over a Bezos or Bloomberg any day. Hell, have they even shown they understand the concept of putting their lives on the line and giving up business opportunities to protect the average American? I don’t know if they have service records or what they did if they did. Hell, I’ll even count peaceful organizations or nonprofits that require full-time work at lower-than-tech pay. Although I lack that data, I do know Bezos was willing to risk killing Americans [2] just to make himself a bit more money and personal satisfaction. Dude isn’t much better than terrorists in my book. If it was legal, such an amoral leader would probably be killing his opponents like his ilk used to [3].

[1] https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/amazon-paramedics/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
I don't know about illegal, but our local governments should be smarter than falling for that trick to get a massively regressive tax set up. What a scam.
Sure, it's my experience.

I am a psychologist. Take a look at my comment history.

About the study, it just asks people. Do you expect people to be truthful?

You should consider asking people if they'll do something amoral if you offer them money, also tell them you are doing this for a study.

And you'll see majority of people will answer, NO.

But in realife, you can pay people to do ammoral things and lot many people will be willing to accept it.

In some cases, they'll need a long term connection with you before they take your offer.

Study isn't necessarily always more accurate. Specially, if it's about self reported data regarding humans on subjective matters.

You can ask someone, how many times they had sex.

You might get an accurate answer. But you can't expect accurate answer when you ask them, why aren't they having more sex. Most people don't have introspection ability to accurately identify their real reasons. This is why you need a pyscologist which is what I am.
Not in the case of components which could easily be replaced with a well-tested and proven solution.

Notable among the ones in this project was the date picker - there's a decent number of those available and yet somebody made the decision to hand-roll it.

The result was a mess that for some reason had a 300 LOC service as a part of it. Needless to say minimal tests.

It was a waste of man-days in a project that was already over budget.
I grew up in QUEENS. Well LIC is a melting pot. The amazon workers can live in sunnyside queens or greenpoint brooklyn. I think with AMAZON coming to LIC that whole area is gonna light up. Also lets not forget Roosevelt Island is right there. You'll see new development in Roosvelt island. Buildings have been going up in LIC for the last 10 years. You have Jackson Hights. Sunnyside, greenpoint, also the boogie down bronx has places to live,. so the transit system is gonna be PACKED. the train is always late in NYC / Queens. LIRR will also see increased traffic from Jamaica to hunters point or woodside. You can get LIRR from Forrest hills or key Gardens. This will allow for new eating places to open and other small business will pop up to meet the needs of the 25k people they plan to hire. I will be looking for business opportunities my self! :-)
I'm genuinely surprised she's hung on as long as she has. We're going through a very strange period in politics.
I should also say, zfs is fairly flexible as well, and you can partition different parts of the filesystem to have different snapshots too. That way you can also revert certain parts of the filesystem without reverting everything.
Archive link if paywall blocks people:

https://archive.is/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2Ff4bd...
Moving money streams overseas: tax optimization, especially if much of the money is spent on local operations, realty, etc on an overseas market.

Moving factories, etc overseas: labor cost optimization.
Probably not terribly related, but I wonder if it might someday be possible to hook up an EEG to your brain while supervised (user preferences feedback) machine learning plays through a variety of music and records your brain activity, and from that discover music or simple obscure rhythmic sounds that happen to be particularly pleasing in various ways to an individual.

https://www.derivative.ca/events/2016/ThoughtForms/

What do the thoughtforms represent? The abstract shapes on the screen change and respond to your thoughts to detect calm, attention, excitement, anxiety and focus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography
Some documents on AM and EURISKO
The Perfect Programming Interview Problem
Just ask for your pay rate when negotiating. If you don't like the offer, then don't accept it. But yes, they might take advantage of the fact that not many companies, relatively speaking, go on full-remote. So you don't have many options if you live far off in forestland.
"Today, GitLab's 350 employees across 45 countries use video calls and Slack chats to stay constantly connected."

Interesting that they don't use Gitter for chat. Perhaps they will be transitioning towards using it? GitLab acquired Gitter in March 2017; perhaps the article didn't get this detail correct...
> 1. A concentration of team members in low-wage regions, since it is a better deal for them, while we want a geographically diverse team.

"low-wage regions" includes roughly 98% of the land mass of the world. That sounds like a silly reason.

> 2. Team members in high-wage regions having less discretionary income than ones in low-wage countries with the same role.

Which is how capitalism works.

> 3. Team members in low-wage regions being in golden handcuffs and unlikely to leave even when they are unhappy.

...at this point I surrender to their illogic.
Your perspective seems narrow. What you view as “babysitting” is an effort to sustain communities.

What are the effects on a kid’s development if they have to change schools and friend groups because their family is displaced due to rising rent? What if people have to move away from family because they can’t afford to stay? How does it impact businesses if their long term employees are suddenly moving away?

Rapidly removing people from communities causes damage to the social fabric of a community, it’s not just about economic effects.
All previous states do need to be kept if you aim to audit the chain, which a lot of use cases will hope to do.

Just the chain itself already being at 51gb is also a problem since it’s so new and has relatively non-existent volume.

Ethereum is pulling 24,000 transactions per hour on average.

Compare that to say Visa which is doing 6,000,000 per hour.
> I feel speaking out loud with a real person would force answers to a lot of these questions

Oh, hey, we've arrived at the reason that phone number doesn't exist. The ambiguity gives Apple flexibility, and I doubt they have any plans to remove it in the near future (How I'd love to be wrong!)
>Showing articles from random third party sources is pretty much THE feature of a Hacker News client app.

No, that should be showing the HN discussion.

For the articles itself, you could always forward an open the original page in an embedded webkit view.
This is not true. In the EU there is a freedom of movement of workers. EU citizens from another member state need to either have an employment contract or they can be told to leave the country after six months of stay.
I feel like this is a waste of bokeh's potential and matplotlib would have sufficed. I love bokeh for the interactive capability and controlling what you plot, zooming, and just overall more immersive feeling than a static 2d plot.

Still very interesting and insightful and lovely plots generated.
Trying to say "we can do IP geolocation through rDNS" is a really bad idea. I control several /16 chunks of IP space that through their ARIN WHOIS entry and rDNS could be located anywhere from northwest montana, to the NW corner of WA state, to Eugene OR, to Boise ID, or anywhere in between.

Maxmind and other geolocation services are also famously bad.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=max...
You can have multiple tenants per low cost edge device. ARM servers are finding so many such applications. Not sure what is the hang up?
The usual way of dealing with a result you dislike is to allow the win and then change the rules so it doesn't happen again.
Here is a paper on the topic of NN = Bayesian Posterior Probabilities: http://www.ee.iisc.ac.in/new/people/faculty/prasantg/downloa...

Re: comment on showing "top" variables from a model, I agree this could have utility. But I would add that the devil's in the details, and there are multiple ways to calculate importance values, each of which has its own nuances and pros/cons.

For instance, how do you compare the importance of a categorical feature to a float feature? Do you one hot encode and then add their individual importances, take the average, or something else? Although sampling from the columns is meant to help deal with feature correlation, under what conditions is this effective and how do you know if your feature importances are safe? Moreover, how does this column sampling work in the context of one-hot-encoded categorical features?

This is all a way of saying that while you can devise methods for coming up with metrics, and then assign them handy titles like "Feature Importance", the reality is that these things are pretty nuanced and limited, and upper level management might be fooling themselves by thinking they're "interpreting a model" if they don't recognize the limitations and nuances involved. Or to put it another way, to say "I better understand this model because you gave me a feature importance list and a partial dependence plot," is a dangerous over-simplification.
Yeah, if you want to buy a new car or iPhone in Minsk, it's going to cost you the same as in SF (and maybe more).
Of course, one must consider that the climate models that have gotten ignored over the years have generally been ignored because they were too pessimistic, despite those ones turning out to be the more accurate ones.
Some back of the envelope math. Amazon is receiving $1.525 billion in incentives from NY state and city, conditional on creating 25,000 jobs (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/nyregion/amazon-long-isla...). That's $61,000 per job, paid out over 10 years.

From a purely fiscal point of view, do we expect these jobs to generate $6100 a year in additional tax revenue for the state and city? That would be the "breakeven point". This could come in the form of additional state and city income taxes, consumption that is taxed, etc. Payscale says the average Amazon software engineer makes around $109k (https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Amazon.com_Inc...).

If we believed that Amazon is actually creating 25,000 NEW jobs, as well as jobs that otherwise would not exist, it seems pretty reasonable to say that the state and city come out ahead net-net. However, I have trouble believing that the "knowledge workers" who will join Amazon would otherwise have been unemployed and underpaid. Factor in the various negative externalities of increased commercial and residential rents for others, potential traffic/congestion issues etc., and it seems like Amazon got a sweetheart deal.
Hardware is pretty much just try it and see if it works. Drivers supported are pretty much just what virtualbox/qemu use. https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/drivers Things like e1000. Many Thinkpads work.

Software list is here https://static.redox-os.org/pkg/x86_64-unknown-redox/
i guess, that's why it's called unix-LIKE. it's something, people are familiar with and a design that works. good enough, i would say
We're incredibly fortunate to have family nearby that is able and willing to help.
this is, in fact, what the article advocates, making it illegal to offer such subsidies and prevent the race to the bottom between jurisdictions.
Everyone in this fiasco was playing the field so why should any of them be blamed? I don't think an ethic where we forgive anyone of anything that is in their interest is appropriate here. Instead it should actually be illegal for both sides. Are you a company attempting to negotiate favorable tax treatment from the government? You're subverting the fairness of our marketplace and should go to jail. Are you a politician attempting to woo a company to your locale with favorable tax treatment? Same deal, go to jail.
Don't listen to successful people.

They don't have the problems that you have.
> The fact is successive governments have rightly identified that both skilled and cheap labour from immigration is keeping our economy afloat. Otherwise we’d see them at least tap the brakes. But they haven’t.

OK, so a politician living a comfortable life thinks one thing. Individual voters thought something else.

I believe the document above refers to emergency powers to stop immigration control under limited conditions. It doesn't solve any long-term impacts that an experiment like "free movement" between 28 countries can have.

[edit]

I can see why certain things are more nuanced. Somebody mentioned that immigration from outside the EU into the EU, and then into the UK, has certain restrictions. These exemptions seem to be in place for the UK and Ireland and some other countries.

By TPM:

> It can get into 27 countries depending on their terms for immigration, but then cannot simply use free movement to move to the UK. This is incorrect. As a non-EU national, your rights in this regard are severely restricted. After five years in the EU, with a means of support, you are entitled to move freely within EU with the exception of some countries, notably the UK. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_resident_(European_U....

[edit 20:40]

My comment wasn't just its first paragraph though. There's the problem that monocultures (like in crop species) might be better in the short-term, but can create long-term risk (combine your strengths together on the one hand, but make the same mistakes and have all the same weaknesses). I gave the copyright example. It's a lot easier for the copyright lobby to take over one entity, the EU, than over 28 countries each with disconnected regulatory systems. Even regulatory treaties don't result in monoculture, because somebody can leave a treaty much more easily than they can leave a superstate like the EU.
They've come up with plenty (e.g. https://blog.openai.com/adversarial-example-research/ ) - noone broadcasts them widely because noone likes the answers
Good point. I agree with that.
AMAZON’S HQ2 HUNGER GAMES ARE OVER, AND JEFF BEZOS WON
> webhint’s development started inside the Microsoft Edge team

...was that before lighthouse started? And was open source and seem viable at the time?
>* Questions like, “How is my app different than all the other Hacker News apps out there?” were ignored. (...) It makes you wonder: if this rule is supposed to be enforced by app review, how does ANY Hacker News client make it through app review?*

That's not a very good question to argue with Apple about. It's like saying the traffic cop "but there are all those other cares going beyond 70 mph, why stop me?".
Employee pricing is mostly cost-based pricing, not value-based pricing. You need monopoly-like situations to charge by value-based pricing and a monopoly-like situation is difficult to create by a single person.
So you are saying it is ok for a city to offer incentives for a business to move there, but it not ok for a business to take advantage of this?
A Look at the GCC 9 Performance on Intel Skylake Against GCC 8, LLVM Clang 7/8
Indeed. But to become an EU citizen you have to meet the citizenship requirements, the common standard for which the UK has previously negotiated and agreed along with the other members, PLUS additional requirements and limitations can be imposed by the UK for other kinds of long term residential statuses. It's not like one member state is allowed really lax citizenship laws, so people can choose to sneak in through there, and restrictions can be imposed even by the UK for a limited period.

The UK manages to both have influence over EU immigration policies AND also have exemption to it for non-EU immigration, AND can apply its own limitations even for when immigrants get citizenship for a limited period. Yet many brexiters spout on about how the EU just dictates everything to us and it's all out of our control. Absolute rubbish.
Just look at levels.fyi which is relatively up to date data on how much people make at each level. The level to level mapping may be higher at google, but google is also notorious for down leveling, and in turn making less money and having less ability for quick advancement anyways. Add on the fact that amazon has had better stock growth and the total amount is negligible.

I've worked at multiple fangs/unicorns, and any differences between these companies is largely marginal. Maybe amazon is worse now than I realized, and maybe other companies are better now than I realized, but overall, what ultimately matters more is that you're at a place that will allow you to keep getting promoted rather than any one company that pays more at any given level.
My guess is someone will try to have an OS based on containers of Web Assembly apps. There are quite a few APIs that have been built over the years that are familiar to programmers. I do believe this will cut down on the pain of having to new develop system level tools to manage such a beast.
Our house is about the same age, and has a similar system (ours wasn't neglected, thankfully). I'd never consider trading it for forced air—it's completely quiet, very efficient (we got a new 95% efficiency boiler), and extremely comfortable.
So, do we (the public) get to see this agreement?
I thought the vote was about taking power back from unaccountable Brussels etc, etc, etc.

So what happens now? If half the torys are already against this, there doesn't seem much of a chance of this passing. May has ruled out a second referendum (I know I shouldn't take her word for it, but I cant see her now announcing a 2nd referendum). So what now? She steps down/ is pushed. Then A) A Brexiteer takes us out without a deal. B) No one wants to take responsibility for removing us and calls a 2nd ref. C) election called. Then back to square one? This is the option I'm most worried about. Labour doesn't seem ready to stand on a manifesto of remain. The lib Dems wont be able to get a majority, so brexiting parties will win by default, except we have no idea who. And they wont have anytime to do anything.

Did I miss one?

Edit: Spellong
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Nah, they're just blustering. Nobody would be crazy enough to let the UK crash out with no deal.

Err... I hope...
My own CMS. Here's the function signature of the heart of it, which depending on circumstance may call itself recursively.

function a_nodes_list_trees(
$site_url,
$base_url,
$mode,
$site_id,
$max_subtree_depth,
$nlevels,
$node_id = 0,
$tree_id = 0,
$nleft = 0,
$nright = 0,
$nlevel = 0,
$current_subtree_depth = 0,
$flags = 0,
$order = 'tree',
$inline = false, /* needed when loading stuff via ajax*/
$skipped_types = [],
$items_per_page = 10,
$min_tag_count = 2,
$min_author_count = 2,
$is_site_root = false,
$skip_pagination = false,
$ignore_404 = false,
$skip_display_options_and_batch_ops = false,
$display_bottom_pagination = true)

As you can tell from the default values, it started out having 6 arguments. And it has things like this in it:

$mysql_the_rest = 'FROM
'.DBTP.'node n
LEFT JOIN
'.DBTP.'node n2
ON
n.tree_id = n2.id
AND
n2.perm_view & ' . A_PERMS . '
'.$mysql_join.'
WHERE
'.$mysql_where2.'
'.$mysql_where.'
n.perm_view & ' . A_PERMS . '
AND
n.site_id = ' . $site_id . '
';
$total_count = $A->db->fetch_one_column('c', ' SELECT COUNT(*) c '.$mysql_the_rest);

.. you know? The whole CMS is 20k lines of PHP, with HTML, PHP, and MySQL all happily living together in the same files (it's not that I don't have templates, I just have plenty HTML in the PHP, too)

Yet, it works like a charm, PHP updates made it faster even, and I can use it for everything I needed so far, and use its output in a variety of ways. I still want to rewrite it, but it seems a lot of work to just shave off a few ms and have nicer code, with the same result for the visitor, and also having to write something that migrates the content. I suspect with enough content, it will slow down, and then I'll think about the next iteration. But it's still a mixture of pride, plain being happy to have it, and groaning whenever I fix a bug or add a feature.
Whether or not he is being rude depends on your interpretation of his intentions based on assumptions about how the performer will react.

Are you implying those people are auditioning ironically and know they are bad singers?

It does not seem rude to me to try and change the course of someone's life who is _drastically_ underperforming.

Is the definition of rude hurting someone's feelings? That doesn't follow the implication that rudeness shouldn't happen; sometimes people need their feelings hurt to inspire positive change.
So Greece should be allowed to run up huge debts and then not pay them back?
I stumbled upon this and figured I'll share...if you counted on that option to not draw your potential visitors to a "competitor's" related YouTube video, better look into this.
Well, one is against the law and the other is not and, in fact, couldn’t be without serious implications to personal freedom. One messes with the truthfulness of the information an informed consumer has available, the other simply relies on an uninformed consumer. These are not similar at all.

As an analogy, take sugary snacks. Say a snack has lots of sugar but the company claims it is sugar free anyways. In another case, a snack is truthful about its sugar content but the consumer lacks the education (or willpower) to care. Aren’t these completely different problems?
> First, Congress could pass a national law banning this sort of corporate bribery.

That doesn't sound like what they were getting at.

Sounded to me like they were attacking Amazon because they were playing the field.
I left Oil field some years ago but I haven't made it in coding field . I just can't figure out why . Looks like I need help