skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article, thank you for sharing! Favorite quote:

"Too many startups are beginning with “I need a growth team!” and accepting a random org configuration, without thinking it through from the fundamentals. Ultimately, You have to start with the problems you are trying to solve. Begin with the KPIs, the insights you’ve generated, and then move onto execution. You staff the problem area and the type of execution you want. The organizational structure follows from there."
> except they give you much more information at a time without having to endlessly scroll.

I think getting people to scroll isn't an accident, they want you to have to scroll.

Scrolling a website makes you physically interact with it, and I bet that has some psychological effects that work out in favour of the content creators.

Whenever I am in a place where you have to wait a lot, like at a bus station, nearly everyone is swiping at their phone.

They all look like crack addicts scratching for rocks in an alleyway.
it's already a website? you're using it right now..
Just so you know its very easy to find out where you work. I can get your name from your keybase links, easily find your linkedin page, and verify your location to be sure from other links on keybase.
I usually like to use the argument that if climate change scientists were held by so much money you’d see a lot more rich scientists / early retirement scientists outside pharmaceuticals, medicine, and oil & gas. In contrast, I have never, ever heard of a petroleum engineer or oil & gas company manager living in poverty or struggling to find work. Where is all that George Soros money going? You can only fund so many scientists that risk their careers, Hollywood celebrity sex cults, and paid protestors of hundreds of thousands. I did some back of the napkin math with a guy at a bar using his own conspiracy theory addled numbers and it came out to at least $10 BILLION PER YEAR. That’s complete absurdity. I know the Koch brothers are worth a lot but I couldn’t ever think they’re paying that much to fund conservative crap unless they get something in return, which you absolutely can from corporations compared to uh... a lot of papers and bad wardrobes from research scientists?
> Another way to make censorship impossible: Ask all governmental, educational and technological websites to provide VPN services or links to other VPN services. If China wants to implement censorship, it has to ban all these websites that are essential for its economic development.

Censorship is always possible. You can make it more expensive, but the censoring regime could just decide to bear the cost.

The PRC government may decide that China has developed enough that they no longer need to provide any access to the worldwide internet to their general population. They could switch the Great Firewall to default-deny mode, and only whitelist the minimum number of services they need to keep their economy running. I think that list is much smaller than a lot of people would assume, given the domestic coercive power of the Chinese state and willingness of foreign businesses to bend to its rules.
Always wanted to visualize CNNs like this. I wonder whether it is possible to visualize RNNs at all.
To whom is this article addressed? Medium users.

Where do you find the most Medium users? Medium.
Thanks for the info. :)

So a forced air furnace is basically the same as a boiler where you just call a technician to do your "yearly servicing?"

The company that services my boiler spend well over an hour on it, so I'll assume I'm not getting ripped off there?
Both cities should pull their subsidy packages. Amazon negotiated in bad faith, under false pretenses. The conditions under which any subsidies were offered no longer apply.
My two are both up; I was also able to log into netlify's control panel and view them.
The New Ticwatch C2 vs. Mi Band 3 vs. Fitbit Charge Compared
You are not alone. I read Medium articles only when they are posted on HN or someone I follow closely shares a link.

Otherwise I just ignore Medium articles. Maybe it is me but most of the Medium articles I stumble upon are pure garbage.
As you probably know, short sellers and researchers have been teaming up (one example) [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/business/dealbook/hedge-f...
If your company culture isnt devops no consultant will fix that.

Thinking that is the reason for consultants is a problem

Note : I worked directly for companies as an employee when building these stacks
>I've found working from home without a dedicated, private space to be more harmful than helpful.

Absolutely! Requires a who different level of discipline. Not just for working, but also not working. At home I have trouble turning it off, at dinner I’d be inclined to go check on this or that.
I've yet to watch the video, but it seems weird to see praise for steam heating systems to me when I've had literally nauseatingly overheated apartments due to it.

Was I just unlucky enough to have to cope with lowest-bidder systems?
When the user doesn't understand the system, than it is the systems fault.
> This (and the whole section about SPIR-V) reads like FUD to me.

It's really not. These are legit arguments:

- SPIR-V does not yet have a documented security story that is suitable for the web. Maybe it could have one eventually, but this does not exist right now.

- There is not yet a story for what web-SPIR-V would do about all those optional capabilities and other issues of SPIR-V that are a bad fit for the web. That includes, for example, SPIR-V's underspecification of most operations to allow for UB-style optimizations.

- It's easier to write a code generator that targets a text-based language than a binary one. If I want to write a JS program, or even an offline program, that emits shader code that a browser can run, then: (A) to emit WHLSL all I would need is strings and appending; (B) to emit SPIR-V, realistically I would need some SPIR-V library. Sure there are many SPIR-V libraries, but string appending is easier every time.

It's not FUD. It's just arguments that you don't agree with.

> Inaccurate. The end point is always GPU machine code, and on the way there all the APIs introduced their own intermediate binary formats (SPIR-V, DXBC, DXIL, AIR). It's just that not all of them are clearly specified. We should be able to convert SPIR-V to DXBC/DXIL without going through HLSL, and the AIR limitations are up to Apple to unblock.

Binary formats that are underspecified. What a shocker. Maybe it's because text-based languages are easier to clearly specify.

Creating a clear specification of a text-based language is easier for lots of reasons. Probably the biggest is that the specification has an easy way of citing code examples. Binary specs always have a hard time with that. No question in my mind that trying to glean the C/JS/Java syntaxes from those specs is easier than trying to do the same for x86/arm/wasm/spir-v "syntax".
The idea is there is an opportunity cost to preserving the forms. The time devoted to learning this could be devoted to other things. Now, it is difficult to tell what is more valuable. But keep in mind most people don't care at all about orthographic rules but could gain a lot if that time was spent on something like educating young people on personal finances.
Good. Studen loasns are BS and it will help stop more traffic
There is no doubt inside Russia, that e.g. DNC leak was a state-sponsored campaign, conducted by the guys in the same department that employed the Salisbury's killers (military intelligence). The fake news trolls all work for a private company, owned by a Putin's crony oligarch called Prigozhin, and we are way past adding "allegedly" at this point. Why are they too called "hackers" is a mistery.

How would you go about making a quick buck with fake news? Betting on Trump on the eve of the elections 4 to 1 (iirc) would be more of a gambling addiction than business plan.
Juno’s Latest Pic of Clouds on Jupiter Is an Absolute Stunner
“But not culture that is the problem”
At least part of the impossibility to launch before 2023 is the choice of the yet undeveloped Soyuz-5.

To be fair, they could launch flight hardware on suborbital flights with existing Soyuz hardware to find any glitches in launch and reentry, but I guess it's pointless if they don't know the flight profile of the new so far imaginary rocket.
That explains why Google Maps had no idea WTF it was.
Here is a study in trade on this phenomenon
https://krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/hummelsd/research/apples...
Another option if you can afford it is to just use immutablejs.

Or make your functions return new objects.
var copy = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(myObj));

Anything beyond this and you are begging for trouble because there's always context-specific gotchas.
Bashing medium is cool and all but why not present some alternatives.

I clicked on it actually expecting some random article about "hey check out this cool open-source _built_in_some_hipster_language_ blogging _buzzword_ _buzzword_ platform I've built"..

Joke aside..gimme alternatives fam.
USA is doing this too, but it gets reported on entirely differently. Facebook & Twitter are banning domestic American citizen accounts for simply acting like "Russians", whatever that means. They aren't claimed to be hate accounts either, it's just raw censorship. They won't provide example accounts so we can research what they're banning specifically.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks this is OK, but coddles their cozy propaganda blankets when China is doing it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/technology/fake-news-onli...
> They drove (or bought) their competitors out of business to become the dominant player and then dramatically raised the cost of their API.

You mean maps? The Maps API is still far cheaper than what you'd have to pay to license and deploy maps from a 3rd party before them.

Hard to argue that things are worse now...

PS: Even then, there are a lot of other map APIs available in the market, and users have been switching. That is literally the antithesis of a monopoly...
That's not the reverse effect, that's supply and demand, and people forgetting opportunity cost of time. Newsstands sell plenty of junk like US Weekly.
As a Dallasite, I've been hoping we won't get it because it would send our housing prices through the stratosphere and ruin traffic for a generation.

From what I've seen, the reaction to this news on /r/Dallas is very positive. We don't want Amazon here.

(Though I figured it was going to be NoVa from the start. I was just terrified I'd be wrong.)
There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the C: Effectiveness of Allocation Protection [pdf]
uuu, what's this. it looks shiny :D
It opens the page in a WebView. What's the problem?
Last year i switched from totally remote to totally in-office. (From law to defense.) Now I cannot even access my work email from home. It is great. Bosses never expect an email to be answered immediatly. Sometimes i have shifts where i must man a paticular desk for certain hours, but mostly i set my own schedule. We have a gym, including a pool, in the office that we are expected to use on company time. Even going to the dentist is on company time. It is a unique office culture that i never expected. Until i got here i had no idea how unhappy i was while working remote.
There is absolute scientific consensus with regards to the things the left routinely rejects, e.g. different interests in different job roles are biological and not cultural, men earn more (collectively) because they make different choices and not due to discrimination, that there is no sexism against women during job hiring, etc.

You can find studies that back these things up everywhere, yet the Damore incident showed a huge propensity to not only ignore or deny this science but actively persecute anyone who pointed it out.

Another hot button trigger for the left is false rape allegations. Multiple studies (with replications) have shown the figure is extremely high, like 50% or more. Studies that claim otherwise invariably have severe flaws that render them unscientific (e.g. dropping huge numbers of data points). Good luck debating those studies with anyone who wanted Bernie Sanders.

One more example: for the longest time psychologists ignored the question of stereotype accuracy, because psychology is dominated by left-wing academics (this is itself studied). Eventually a small number of conservative academics started examining this and discovering that stereotypes are extremely and surprisingly (?) accurate. Of course many stereotypes associate negative traits with various subgroups which is anathema to certain political orientations, so this sort of science is often also instinctively rejected.

edit: ahaha, voted down within 60 seconds, on a topic about how whether people reject scientific consensus about political hot button topics or not. What a shock.
Other than the "milan" pronunciation issue that others have outlined: the same word is pronounced in exactly the same way every time, which sounds wrong especially in long words such as "availability".
The speed is too uniform; Polly handles commas (and full stops) brilliantly but there are other occasions in which a huan speaker pauses ever so slightly, for example to take a breath. Humans don't pronounce every single word fully, which contribute to make speech sounds fluid, this seems to be lacking completely from Polly.
And use an Occulus rift for full immersive visualization!
> Tuning into a shortwave broadcast is more anonymous than the Internet will ever be and easily accomplished with a cheap common, legal device... a radio.

My sense is that analog methods are the best response to authoritarian regimes; and the best way to prepare for the advent of one is to familiarize yourself with analog spy trade-craft (and analog response to digital spying, like disguise).

Speaking of which, does anyone have any non-fiction book recommendations about analog spycraft and responses to authoritarianism? Things like how to do dead drops, samizdat, clandestine distribution of literature and the like?
From the Department of Justice:

For this reason, antitrust law does not regard as illegal the mere possession of monopoly power where it is the product of superior skill, foresight, or industry. Where monopoly power is acquired or maintained through anticompetitive conduct, however, antitrust law properly objects.

A monopoly that doesn't abuse its market power to prevent competition is either a natural monopoly or a temporary situation.

Neither of those are anti-trust issues.
Evidence fungi is a cause for many autoimmune diseases
"Can't" isn't quite accurate - what it really means is that the rate of metabolism is significantly slower. Dogs can (and will) eventually metabolize and eliminate theobromine, but the rate is slow enough that the compound can build to toxic levels quickly following ingestion.

In general, mammals are capable of metabolizing and/or eliminating nearly any foreign organic compound over a long enough timespan, thanks to the mechanisms of xenobiotic metabolism. The liver contains a large number of enzymes of the Cytochrome P450 (CYP) family, which are able to catalyze reactions with a wide variety of compounds as the first (and most critical) step of metabolism. These reactions typically make the compounds hydrophilic, making it possible for the kidneys to pick them up and eliminate them. However, different animals express the various CYP enzymes at different levels; some are much more effective at metabolizing certain compounds (e.g. theobromine) than others. So, if an animal lacks a certain CYP enzyme (or it is expressed at a very low level), they will also metabolize certain compounds much slower (other enzymes, which are less efficient, will have to do the job).

So, basically: dogs lack certain enzymes in their liver which means that they metabolize theobromine much slower than humans - but that doesn't mean they don't metabolize it at all.
the never-ending cycle
Could you state what the false pretenses were, and how those conditions no longer apply? All you have here is a dogmatic assertion with no supporting information. Often that is done by people who have strong beliefs but no basis for them, so if you have a basis, stating it can prevent you from getting lumped in with the "dogmatic unreality" people.
Unless I'm misreading this, it looks like Nashville got the best deal

> Amazon will receive performance-based direct incentives of up to $102 million based on the company creating 5,000 jobs with an average wage of over $150,000 in Nashville.

This is a pretty big deal for Nashville, and costing them only $12,000 per job is a pretty big win.
Google’s “Smart City of Surveillance” Faces New Resistance in Toronto
There is a lot of empty office space in Crystal City. They can move in almost immediately. They can then start figuring out if they want to build something new.
This is neat! I hope you don't mind a bit of constructive criticism here, but early on in my research career I also thought it would be a good idea to "visualize the neural network connectome" in 3D (I implemented a very rudimentary version of your Browser-based visualizer in QT + OpenGL, no training frontend).

And then I followed up with an early TensorFlow visualizer
https://github.com/ericjang/tdb

It turns out that while such tools seem useful at first glance, they turn out to not be that helpful to power users. For models bigger than LeNet, things get really ugly to visualize. And once you understand a high-level module and can take its training for granted, there isn't a need anymore to really look at it anymore. It can also be kind of annoying to tumble around in 3D when you just want to look at some activation maps. What does the 3D aspect of the visualization buy you here?

Tools like TensorBoard + Jupyter notebooks for inspecting weights and ad-hoc visualizations (e.g. VizDom) seem to strike the right balance.

If you want to continue pushing in this direction, I highly encourage embarking on an actual Deep Learning research project using your tool. In ML it's so important to dogfood your own software!
Kindle can be a bit arbitrary on what they accept and what they reject for print.

For e-books, too. One of my books was mysteriously blocked without justification, and after several months and attempts at escalation was just as mysteriously re-instated.
> But why do we need another high-level language, and why should it be W3C's domain to come up with it? One of the biggest mistakes with the web platform was using Javascript as the singular first-class way to implement executable logic on the web, and now when WASM is on the verge of becoming a reality, it looks like we are heading down the same path for web-based graphics.

WebAssembly has been widely supported for a while now. So the fact that it isn't catching on should tell you something about how great binary formats are.

Text formats are more natural in every way:

- They are more natural to specify.

- They are more natural to codegen. It's easier to write a tool that emits a text format (just use printf) than to emit a binary format (usually need some library).

- They are more natural to parse. Parsing text is super clearly understood, and there are off-the-shelf tools to do it. In particular, WHLSL is designed to have a simple-enough grammar that you can use an off-the-shelf parser generator like antlr.

- They are easier to introspect. View Source is important on the web.
I was hoping for Newark too. They already have employees there. Perhaps they’ll eventually expand their offices.

Let’s get the NJ Path to the airport (3 miles) and the 7 Subway to NJ then Newark, Jersey City become boroughs of NYC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Subway_Extension

Currently, it looks like an hour from Newark Penn to Long Island City. Path to 1,2,3 Lines...
The Mundanity of Excellence (1989)
Who cares about the sales? The profit is anemic! This is nothing more but madness of the corporate crowd. Lot's of dumb money are swishing around looking for a safe space and the next big thing. :-/
This is presented in the linked document with the following context-specific gotchas:

> Unfortunately, this method only works when the source object contains serializable value types and does not have any circular references. An example of a non-serializable value type is the Date object - it is printed in a non ISO-standard format and cannot be parsed back to its original value :(.
Nordstrom Reveals Data Breach, Sensitive Employee Data Exposed
You know what..when you put it like that you make a lot of sense. I too get most of my reading done this way. Through cross-posting on HN or /r/ or mastodon.
You make a valuable point about personal responsibility that I agree with, so I may have to reconsider my original position. (I upvoted you.) But, I would also point out that while there is much more available information to make such decisions, that info is much less comprehensible to the average consumer, who is almost certainly much less savvy about technology than you are.
Since each city is only receiving half the benefit they thought they were bidding on, presumably they’ll each get to cut their bids in half — the subsidies, tax abatements, infrastructure spending promises, etc.? But I haven’t seen any notice of this in the news coverage. [rerun]
not good.
govt paying off student loans just makes them a sure bet and validates the behavior.
Govt has the power to allow you to default, but why don't they?
"I could be wrong. I'm often wrong."

The guilt-by-association rule is not a hard and fast airtight conclusion. This is the stock criticism everyone is making, and it simply doesn't follow. It's evidence of a flaw, but not every bit of evidence is incontrovertible proof of whatever.

Really, doesn't anyone study logic anymore?
Did you read any article about this at all over the past year? The original proposal was for a single HQ2 in one city, not half of one in two cities.

Are you just an Amazon shill who jumps in to try and suppress any criticism of them?
What strikes me is how parlous vocational training (for want of a much better phrase) is - it took him (a clearly talented and successful individual) two decades to understand his situation.

I am a better person in many ways than my 20-year old self, but I do wish I had learnt my lessons a bit faster as well
It doesn't sound that plausible that we can account for all the various things that can happen to a plane in something as complex as the earths atmosphere with a "simple state machine" . Weather can do really wacky things.
Part of the rumors for the Arlington location included Amazon leasing older offices for the initial group of employees as they built out space: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/amazon-in-advanced-talk...
I use https://leanpub.com/ and it works for me.
This cycle has been repeated and will continue to be repeated until the underlying economic models change.
There are still medical devices found on the internet. I don't think the FDA can regulate that away, we need active efforts to locate and secure holes in critical systems.
That sounds like it’s probably right to me. But so do lots of things that turn out to be wrong. I wish we had a better grasp of what is happening, not just plausible stories. I’m already sick of doing alchemical tinkering to find a model that works.
Three or four articles a day, I can't remember.

Not very high if you browse, but adequate if you get a link or two from other sources.

I wish they adopted the bandcamp model: quite a number of tracks for free per day, but you can instantly pay for the one you liked, the amount you like (above a certain minimum). This way, the articles I personally find valuable would be both easier for me to find, and paid by me higher than the slice of the common subscription funds they receive now.
And the alternative is getting the G up from Brooklyn...