skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, whether does the idea that it's "a skill that can easily be improved" come from? Wishful thinking? I don't think the universe works that way.

I've come up with two names for this kind of thinking, one a bit grumpier than the other.

The less-grumpy one is the "Is From Ought Fallacy": It's well-known in philsophical circles that going from "Is" to "Ought" is wrong; that is, saying "something is this way, therefore, that's the way it ought to be" is a terrible argument. Well, when you flip it, it gets even worse: "Things ought to be this way, therefore, that's the way they are" isn't just a bad argument, it isn't quite sane. Yet look around you, and see how often it's used. (Hint: Abstinence-only sex ed. Hint: Drug prohibition.)

My grumpier version is "Arguing With Reality": You can argue with people, whether you define "arguing" to be a screaming match or a logical defense of a thesis. That works. It's sane behavior. Going out and arguing with the rain that it needs to be sunny now... isn't. Rain's gonna rain, people are gonna be bad at time estimates, and making logical arguments about why the real world shouldn't be like that doesn't change the real world one iota.

Maybe they're just variants of the "Utopia Fallacy", or the perfect being the enemy of the good: "If the world were perfect, it would be like this, therefore, doing anything else, even if it gets good results, is imperfect and compromising perfection is wrong." Yeah, pull the other one.
I am very unusual in that I'm comfortable on both sides of the camera. What I learned is building a studio is an IT project!

Maybe the most unusual part is, none of this would work unless I could run the show by myself. My TriCaster is programmable with macros which is what I've done. I am my own director while on the air.

Oh -- with a friend I created a map making system which runs on an i5 and produces ~ 40,000 maps a day. Here are some samples I threw together a few months ago. These are 100% produced using FOSS including the map databases and fonts! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/172O4Xl35np8RnbRi07PD...

My last computer class was as a senior in high school, 1967-68 semester. This was BEFORE computers had screens.
If you're launching into sun-synchronous and highly inclined or polar orbits, you want to be as far north or south as possible. They're not going for low inclination orbits, but rather the opposite, if you look at the ground track of an Iridium satellite, that's a perfect example of a polar orbit.

Spire is one of their customers, that's earth observation, perfect use case example for polar orbit.

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

To avoid dropping the first stage on a populated area if you're launching into a polar orbit, you also need a very empty area of land or an ocean under your flightpath. For example Israel has a domestic satellite launch capability (they're one of the few countries that launches LEO stuff westbound, to retrograde orbits) because they both can't drop first stages on the eastern neigbours, and can't launch heading north or south.
Yes, it uses either DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS
If your writes are larger than ~1/2 a page, LSMs are slower, regardless of random or sequential access pattern.

http://lmdb.tech/bench/ondisk/

Also, if your writes are mostly smaller than ~1/2 a page, you can reduce your B+tree pagesize and regain performance.
When Sun Microsystems fell apart into SunSoft, SunLabs, etc, Scott McNealy called an all-hands meeting and gave everyone a pep-talk, and said there would be some big changes, so nobody should be hugging their tree. He repeated that several times, making tree hugging gestures to emphasize what we were not supposed to do: No Tree Hugging!!!

So I went to my manager and complained that I never got a tree. I promised not to hug it, but I insisted that I wanted my own tree, too.
So instead we're ram-roding everyone into the wage-slavery model. With health insurance linked to your employer, it's no wonder people are afraid to leave their cubicles.

I think "big evil corporations" like this setup just fine.
"Now your service availability is tied to your DNS service's availability" is always true.
Faire (YC W17) Is Looking to Hire a Senior Data Scientist
They did – just not as fast or as clearly as they ideally would have.

See my other post on the vagueness of Wallace's time-frame: he might have even gotten the answer less than 24 hours after his account entered this "no more work with this client" status.

I'd share his frustration that it wasn't instant and automatic at the moment he was "shadow-blocked" from his primary buyer's interface, but I also understand that legal-compliance exceptions sometimes take a day (or a few!) to be fully investigated/explained/etc. Maybe there's a human-in-the-loop at Upwork who does a case-by-case review, when an bilateral-relationship hits these might-be-an-employee danger-triggers – and his rapid discovery, same-day inquiry, and rant outraced another process.
Yea, this is what I do. I wrote a script to automate the process too:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/blob/master/dockerfiles/CertB...
Ask HN: How can I become a machine learning engineer?
I will be graduating with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering this spring. Throughout my college years, I was unsure whether to pursue ME or CS, but ultimately stuck with ME. It was impractical to do both. I applied to computer science internships throughout college and was accepted to a few programs, but ultimately turned them down to give mechanical engineering a shot. Now that my school years are coming to a close, I want to give software engineering another shot.

Along the way, I learned to write Python and C code, and I am very strong in Python today. I have taken college courses in statistics, differential equations, linear algebra, and optimization (constrained and unconstrained, gradient and discrete methods). I like optimization and am comfortable in Python and I think machine learning makes sense for me as a gateway into a software engineering career.

I am aware of tools such as [1] but I don't like that after investing 2000 hours in the curriculum, I still would not have learned any new technologies.

What essential technologies and computer science concepts do I need to learn to get hired as a machine learning engineer as soon as possible? What self-study courses and resources can you recommend?

[1] https://teachyourselfcs.com/
The difference between input power and thermal output of a CPU is negligible. A tiny amount of electricity is used for external signalling, the rest gets converted to heat. So in practice TDP can be treated as a limit on input power. In fact that's exactly what Intel CPUs do by setting PL1 equal to TDP by default.
Apologies, updated my comment to reflect my earlier ignorance!
ITAR restricts US parts. It does not apply to non US technology sources although Wassenar and MTCR are multilateral. It would be possible to make rockets with no ITAR covered parts. After all that's what Russia France and China have.
I hate the term "sprint". The word gives an impression of desperation and short term thinking. You don't sprint when you're running a marathon; it's not sustainable. It's a superficial complaint, but names do matter.
I liked that aspect of the video. It gave me some time to think about how I'd solve the puzzles myself while I was watching. Admittedly I figured out the vine before they did, but I was slightly behind them in solving the rest.

I would have preferred if the audio was in both speakers, though. It was a bit irritating listening via headphones and only having audio in the left channel.
Do you really want a race track full of Africans and Afro-Americans and throw field full of Scandinavians?
An Orange Pi Plus 2E meets all your needs, but like the other comment noted, it's going to cost more than $6.

http://www.orangepi.org/orangepiplus2e/
The Egyptian antiquities authority would obviously need to do the excavations themselves or oversee them, I’m just saying the process could be democratized a little.

There are hundreds of square miles of sites, letting armchair archeologists vote on what should be looked at isn’t going to break anything.
Quantum-inspired classical algorithms for PCA and supervised clustering
Trying to understand the commenter's motivations. This product has reduced cardiovascular death - if his fraud conspiracy theory convinces appropriate patients not to take it, it could literally kill people.
Amazon Is More Than a Shopping Site. It's a Search Engine Too
Going from single node to multi core doesn't introduce nearly the amount of complexity that making a distributed system does. Recommending that for someone who wants to use more than 1 core on their machine is not a reasonable recommendation. You're not wrong that you might wind up there, at the end, but doing that for the first step is too heavy unless you have a runtime to support those complexities more easily, as in e.g. BEAM.
Max Martin must love it.
I started with a Holiday Work visa and later applied for and got a regular work visa (was working full time in tech, so they're easy to get).

eh, I left for some complicated personal reasons. I wrote a post about it if you're interested: https://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

edit: my visa was still good though; could have easily paid to get my work to residence or full residence visas. Kinda wish I had. :-P
Building iPad Pro features in Swift
URL should be https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/11/11/http-3/ , which is the permanent link to this post (not to the "http3" tag on the blog).
I've already received mine. They've been shipping the Plume Flow for a few months now, as you can see from these tweets of other customers:

https://twitter.com/mwt2008/status/1050499520176553985
https://twitter.com/BrianScifiFan/status/1040153420001370113

As I understand it, the Plume is meant for a more general audience so I don't mind that they don't define what VOCs are in their video. This device is mobile, which makes it more useful to me than the traditional indoor products.
this philosophy really shines when my golang compile time is super fast - especially compared to say c++ which is just an abomination
> Conclusion: Go with www

But the site hosting the article does not use www...
One problem with simulation is that it's super resource intensive, particularly more than a video. It turns my laptop's fans on quickly which then fights for my attention with the relaxing audio and makes me acutely aware that I'm killing my battery and putting unnecessary load on my computer.

Maybe a better middleground is to use an animation with transparency that you can instead overlay any background, like a looping gif.
This reminds me more than a little of Hernando de Soto's work with _The Mystery of Capital_, subtitled "Why Capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else." It's an interesting read for its specifics (and I think he's got it right that successful private markets depend heavily on a network of accepted public services). But one generalizable takeaway might be that would-be sociocultural exporters often don't understand why their social systems work -- it's easy to take for granted background cultural features and social institutions you simply assume are there.

Also: it's probably worth noting that while the US isn't particularly dystopian, it can't be taken for granted that it will remain a liberal democracy (there are highly visible impulses to turn it down a different path right now) or that technology won't be a significant tool of social control.

(Nor is it entirely clear that the West has capitalism totes dialed-in.)
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What is this nonsense about working for free? We have minimum wage laws for a reason. You should not need to resort to invention to justify your position.
iSH is a binary emulator that ships with an almost-Linux-compatible-ish subset "library operating system" that is good enough to make a bunch of common command line apps work. So like, this little operating system has a minimal ELF loader in it, and then runs the executable in its little emulated jail.
They ultimately did, and it seems like it may not have taken more than a day or half-day for him to get his (ultimately unsatisfying) answer.

Sometimes handling exceptional situations takes a day!

If many Upworkers are hitting this, then more automation and coverage in public FAQs would be appropriate. But if very few are, or it's a new policy that's fluid and involves case-by-case review, then maybe a day or two clarity is fine for now, even though it caused anger in this one case.

Wallace wasn't blocked from all work: just that one buyer, where Upwork's expertise – expertise that Upwork's customers are paying for, to cover their legal risks – flagged a potential "contractor rules" compliance problem.
I think it is also slow because the US does not require prices to be displayed including sales tax. If you pick something that has a marked price of $1, the total price will be somewhere between $1 and $1.10, depending on which state/city you are in, and what category of goods you are buying. Unless you are familiar with the exact tax code of your area, you won't be ready with exact change when paying. Even if you are, it means that you need to manage all the worthless pennies and nickels that result from paying with cash.
Emacs: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (1981) – Conclusions
There are O visas for them.
From our discussion with folks at Netflix. We had a long talk about their verification checks. In regards to monitoring:

> Monitoring and alerting is a different beast of a topic. Certainly you can monitor all of these things, but our guidance on alerting strategies is along the lines of finding the top-level metrics for a service (google SREs would call these Service Level Objectives) and only alerting people to dig in when those are impacted. Usually error rates, latency (how many micro/milli/seconds to respond), and throughput (requests per second). A lot of this relies on the people writing the application to instrument their code to store metrics and events. There’s only so much much that you can monitor from outside the application. Some sort of outlier detection is popular too to terminate bad, one-off instances (particularly common in the public cloud)—funny thing is you have to alert on whether you’re killing too many instances too quickly (irony of automation).

I would venture we want to separate testing images and infrastructure on startup before receiving traffic or just making it out of CI vs. monitoring the health of instances. But they also can have things in common!
Once I watched a documentary about US nuclear and space programmes, the way engineers lived and worked there in forties cannot be directly compared to sharashkas but the military and the government still limited the engineers (especially germans and jews) in many ways.
You know part of that was a bug, right?

And Safari defaults to not even showing 90% of the URL, from what I can find.
Is putting underscores around titles a convention for some format? I see it around once in a while.
The word hypergolic doesn't mean that, but in spaceflight the term refers to a fairly specific group of compounds; Dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine or monomethylhydrazine (UDMH / MMH).
Last year I played "Little Nightmares". It reminded me very much of Limbo (also loved that!). Maybe you'd be interested in checking it out if you haven't already.

It's weird, because I've played through Limbo several times now and I never even heard of Inside, if it wasn't for a friend of mine who mentioned it when we played Little Nightmares together. Thanks for the reminder!
You're deliberately ignoring the argument you're responding to.

> As long as the immigrant workers have the same rights and working standards as any other worker, what is the problem exactly?

No one is transforming England into Pakistan. That is a false characterization.
Back in the day I developed a Palm app for taking virtual smoking breaks:

https://i.imgur.com/7FlQ6Bj.jpg
> Mystery might be also in the nuance of turbo vs base frequency draw. So even if you design for TDP as the "max thermal dissipation" you might get only base frequency performance.

That is really what is happening. If you have '4 core 3Ghz Base 4.5Ghz turbo 95W TDP' what that means is that the CPU will pull, by spec, a maximum of 95W with all cores running at the base frequency under full load. Turbo can exceed this power spec and maximum power draw under turbo is ill-defined.

> On a side note people often confuse TDP with the max power draw of the processor.

It's the same thing, any 'power' a CPU 'draws' is converted to heat, by definition.
Desktop. I know why now. I had "Browser Privacy" > "Content Blocking" > "All Detected Trackers" set to "Always", the default is "Only in private windows". And because FF uses Disconnect.me list it means all embedded social networking load gets cut off.
You can look at how people treat numbers in general. The story of 13 (Triskaidekaphobia) and 4 (Tetraphobia) are pretty interesting. We like to watch the odometer roll over and make words on calculators.

I still wish we had all followed the Yuki (base 8), it would have made computing so much easier.
> At least he managed to publish a few books.

Beyond that he released a number of them in rapid succession. For a while there the ideas must have just been coming as quickly as he could jot them down. Then, for those who are in the know, he quickly ran into an issue where continuing the plot threads he had setup all came to a confluence point where decisions needed to be made before he was prepared to do so.

From what I understand extensive revisionary work was done. Entire sections and chapters of the story were rewritten to accommodate for the new trajectory for the adjusted plot lines of various involved characters. And, this is my least positive memory of all of this, he actually brought in some outside help to ensure he was capable of undoing what has been dubbed as the "Meereenese_Knot":

https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Meereenese_Knot

For a less "as far as my terrible memory can remember" version of what I explained above here is a quote:

> "The first three novels each came out within two years of each other, in 1996, 1998, and 2000 respectively. However, it took another eleven years for Martin to write the fourth and fifth books, A Feast for Crows (2005) and A Dance with Dragons (2011). Partially, this was because A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons were originally one novel, which grew so long that author George R.R. Martin later decided to split it up into two books (the events in both happen concurrently but follow separate characters)."

Three novels from 1996 to 2000. Another 11 years for the next two. Here we are, patiently waiting, for the 6th book of the series, "A Dream of Spring".

Of course the majority of people loudly banging their shields complaining about Martin's lack of shipping have probably never undertaken the task of writing a feature-length novel before. I'm sure an even more comical percentage of those have actually released a multi-art series with anywhere near the outrageous amount of characters, named placed, and other in-world lore or detail that make G.R.R.M.'s work feel so "real" and "lived-in".

I know I've never sat there while reading only to think, "Oh, there's this many more pages before it's done? This is such a boring slog." Entertainment is a word that I feel falls short of describing the type of enjoyment I get out of the Game of Thrones series.
Hogwild: A Lock-Free Approach to Parallelizing Stochastic Gradient Descent
Actually, Firefox does prepend the www subdomain but only if it fails to resolve a domain. When I mistype a website (exmaple.com) I often end up at www.exmaple.com if I don't interrupt Firefox.

Chrome is moving towards the opposite though, hiding the www subdomain in the browser bar.
>have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights

It's not impossible to figure out, though, is it?

The article talks about a total of $50,000 of cameras. It mentions that these are pan-tilt-zoom cameras. Pricing this on Amazon, they seem to cost about $250 each. Assume the government pays twice as much. This tells you that they bought about 100 cameras.
Here's a dirty secret that doesn't get talked about much: the officers looking at the streaming images we spy from your home end up seeing you and treating you in the same way people see and treat Internet streamers or reality show celebs.
> So instead we're ram-roding everyone into the wage-slavery model.

Companies like upwork do absolutely nothing to solve that problem. In fact, they make it even worse by not even considering the idea of offering any healthcare service to any if their "contractors".
Don't make me relive those stories!
As an American, Cuba is probably the safest place you can visit in LA.
Agreed, though it saddens me how many of those hurdles will be poor rediscovery of previously well documented problems in older systems. :(
Ignorance of the law is not a defense, and this person had the resources to engage an attorney (at $300k/year of income).
Introducing BLASH – Bash static blog generator
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JJXD1tXhHkRH81ja6

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wPD2M1yrGZ6ZsEFt7

We park on the street. :)
pretty great.

Something about the distribution of the droplets and the movement doesn't seem "random" enough. it seems pretty "regular" for lack of a better word.

The drops themselves look amazing.
Came here to say this. A less confusing overview of the robots can be found at the company’s site.

https://www.smallrobotcompany.com/meet-the-robots/
Starting Emacs as a background process by default
Eh? Spoilers, but, at least in the TV series, Jon Snow gets revived by Melisandre. Bran can essentially see in the past and the future. Isn't that magic?
Let's rename it to 'checkpoint' then. Even in a marathon a runner is checking their time to where they are every X miles. The runner then adjusts their pace if they have a goal time. In software a checkpoint should result in the same behavior.
Not "waiving all blame", just attempting an accurate diagnosis of what's obviously Upwork's fault (bad communication), and what's the root cause of the disruption in Wallace's earning capability (laws which essentially force Upwork to suppress an otherwise-desirable contractee-contractor relationship).
That's probably part ofthe plot and big reveal at the end.
GoT is a good example of people being irrationally self-entitled.

Every time the subject comes up on Reddit, there are people who are genuinely mad at the guy like he wronged them for taking so long to end-cap the series.

It reminds me of the subset of my forum users who get out their pitchforks just because I, the creator, haven't been around for a while, like I owe them yet more of my free time. Or as if they've paid me money and I'm squandering it.
The language of journalism handles this topic poorly.
https://twitter.com/TeaDrivenDev/status/1054177017351024641
qemu relies on being able to JIT compile, which isn't allowed in the sandbox.