skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good point. A lot of things are going to collide if people are working too much and stressed.

The usual "best practice" advice on avoiding harassment is to not pursue romance at work... but how are folks supposed to do that if they don't have time to pursue it anywhere else? Alcohol might only be a minor contributing factor at that point.
End-to-end principle disagrees with you. As does my network. All routable IP space baby. Makes things a breeze.
I just wanted to point out that Hyundai Motor demoed a electric scooter as an accessory for the Ioniq line in Jan 2017 at CES.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/hyundais-ioniq-scoote...

And BIRD was founded in Apr 2017.

Some staff PM/engr/marketer folks at Hyundai Motor had the right idea. Too bad they were not in a position to start a startup.

edit: I'm not saying BIRD or any other copied Hyundai. Coming up with the idea and executing it is a big accomplishment. Electric motor scooters have been around a long time too.
If you think sending people on a training course eliminates the company's liability, I've got bad news for you.
Charge card startup Brex aims for decacorn success
A few things.

- you nailed it. Pick jobs where you are learning new technology. Usually you can get a job where you can get your foot in the door based on the “must haves” that also have “nice to have” requirements. I’ll learn just enough about the nice to have technology once I get my foot in the door, and then volunteer for small items using the new to me technology and usually end up putting twice the amount of work in that someone who knew what they were doing.

- once you’ve been in technology long enough, there is nothing new under the sun. You don’t have to be an expert at everything just good enough to get through the door and you can usually figure things out.

- when I start talking about my professional experience and going for “architect” level positions, I can usually avoid the techno trivia type of interviews. I’m asked to speak about higher level architecture.

Once I start telling people that “first and foremost I am a life long geek. No matter what my titles were in companies. I started programming in 6th grade in assembly language and I’ve been interested in technology ever since”.

Even though I say ageism is not a big deal. Why would I take the chance? I remove the year graduated reference from my resume, I wear a bald head anyway so no one sees gray hair and before an interview I’m clean shaven.

My former manager said he thought I was no older than early thirties. (His words not mine). “That’s one thing Black guys have going for you. If you cut all your hair off it’s hard for us to tell how old you are”. Yeah it wasn’t PC but we had that kind of blunt conversation. I thought it was funny.
96-core ARM supercomputer using the NanoPi-Fire3
Setting-up a generic development environment on LattePanda Alpha with Windows 10
To all extent there is no choice. Randomness is a fallacy in this world, it doesn’t exist and or should be interpreted as what occurs associated as deterministic. People associate the word “random” to events they cannot process but still they’re set variables that factored into the final outcome with no other possible result when the exact variables are simulated again if possible. I think accountability isn’t a real thing in the sense of morally right and it’s just human conditioning to blame for us thinking it should ever exist when it’s morally not correct. Rehabilitation should always be the action humans take if we love ourselves and others. Else we’re playing with fire because the only thing separating us from a person who becomes a murder is our birth into this world and when society is imperfect to prevent inequality, genetics, environment, and travesty altering a state to poor health where one will commit murder or even suicide occurs. Similar to a chemical equation but longer to write out the formula and process to demonstrate again and again.
Aren't they equivalent in their potential to allow post-hoc data mining?

Whether it's a clinical trial, or a psychological study with n participants, or a look at how changes in x soil conditions affects the y tree. Anything where data samples are taken and statistically analyzed is prone to p-hacking and after-the-fact hypothesis changes.

This example happens to be for a narrow set of studies: clinical trials for cardiovascular drugs/supplements. The take away from that graph applies broadly.
You are allowed to call people out for riding dangerously. They might not appreciate it at the time, but as long as you aren't aggressively rude they will probably ride more slowly the next time they get on a scooter.

Eventually personal transport will be normal and everybody will know how and where to use it appropriately, but it will take a bit of time and practice to get to that point.
Rpn – arbitrary precision unit-aware command-line RPN calculator
I was hoping this would be much a critique of the tendency of people to place too much faith in technology, to ignore the human element of solutions, and (among SV types especially) to prize their own goals above all else. To try and come up with purely technical solutions to the problems of society, but to do so by trying to create an environment which lets their own capitalist goals succeed while tossing scraps to the rest.

Cause even when it's well meaning, I still can't stand it. Their (our I suppose) own conviction they they are right fuels a randian like commitment to individualism. But then they want to appear woke and smart and so they start talking about basic income and how it's fine to have half the population just sort of subsisting. Or we'll fix democracy with smartphones and blockchain.

Also the tendency towards not just being temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires.
Thanks. I guess I was trying to imagine an amount income over time per device multiplied by a number of devices that would lead to a valuation of over a billion dollars.
"The world is not an engineering problem" says the overprivileged pompous first-worlder who needs a dose of harsh reality every now and then. Send his ass to a destitute third-world country where food and sanitation is scarce, and then let's see how his "feelings" matter
Countering trim forces was the first scary thing I learned about go-arounds, the first time I did one, my instructor let me figure it out all on my own, and battling heavy nose down trim when you're trying to make best climb is stressful in a training aircraft in a non emergency, I can't imagine what the forces are like in a large aircraft in an emergency.
I see this as a warning against rote memorization.
You're not even giving my post a good-faith reading. I suggested adding two words to the title to make the post far better and more specific, not adding a 32-word mini post in the title. Do you really believe that's what I was suggesting, or are you just trolling and looking for an excuse to downvote?
I like looking at things through a different lens. One thing to consider, maybe what we care most about is that no one is successful at 'cheating' within the system. That's true whether it's a concern of someone cheating citizenship by illegal immigration and then receiving healthcare / welfare services (not saying this is a real problem, but is a perceived problem) or it's a Wall Street banker illegally colluding with others to drive up a price for profit.

If that hypothesis were true, what could change about our current system to more effectively limit 'cheating'?
> Driving has about the same risk of killing you

Doubt that.

Given the same roads (city streets, since I assume you aren't biking on the freeway) ... there's just no way you're more likely to die in a car going 15 mph, than a bicycle.
Theorists Debate How ‘Neutral’ Evolution Really Is
Right. We're going to fall back on "we should maximize utility because that's better than less utility". But we're not going to have to fall back on how it makes me feel to see dead fish or somesuch.
Even worse in places like SF or also frequently becomes the turn lane for cars at the end of the block resulting in everyone being upset.
The Brexit rhetoric even though it probably was meant in abstract terms seemed rather romanticist which I see as a danger in itself - dogmatically clinging to abstract ideas because of feelings regardless of outcomes.

One thing that I feel is always missed in discussions of consequentialism are second order effects which are what make decisions untenable. While the classic "murder a stranger for organs" might technically save more lives it causes all sorts of nasty ripple effects - people would rightfully become more paranoid or take measures to ensure uselessness of their organs after death for sheer strategic spite. Taking a stand for principles is still possible in that framework - the goal being to make bad actions more expensive or good actions cheaper.

Still there are certainly good points about needing to choose how one wants to shape society while setting goals - as well as recognizing that society doesn't go as planned or projected and it changes in response to your actions.
At the White House, digital fakery is eroding the truth
So this has now become a "We've always been at war with Islam!"? Is that kind of 1984esque discourse really helpful?

For some proper context, I really suggest reading this CS Monitor piece from back in 2001 [0].

Keen observers will quickly realize that pretty much everything written there has become reality over these past 17 years. It should also be noted that there's a certain irony to it when the "Christian Science Monitor" is peeved about your religious rhetoric being a bit too much on the extreme end.

This is something that seemingly passed by many US Americans like it never happened. But you can't declare yourself a "Christian nation" going on "crusades", hinging large parts of your popularity drive on this imagined "clash of the cultures", and then act all surprised and outraged when the opposite side also reacts with more radicalization.

Just looking at the trends for global terrorism for these past 2 decades [1], there's a very clear picture to be found there. Before 2002 countries like India, Colombia and Algeria topped the "terrorism charts".

But by 2003, as a response to the "War on Terror" started by the US, you already see Iraq and Afghanistan making their way up the list, steadily increasing in the number of attacks and fatalities until in 2005 they take the top.

Since then there's been little change, only Pakistan making their way up there some years, one might wonder why? [2]

But all three of these countries represent massive outliers and make up the vast majority of "Islamic terrorism", what do they all have in common?

9/11 was bad, no debate there. But the US's reaction to 9/11 was worse, it perfectly played into Osamas original intentions of starting a "culture clash", stigmatizing even moderate Islam in the Western world, making frustrated and discriminated moderates more likely to join his cause.

In that context, the US pretty much kicked a hornet's nest down the street and still keeps kicking it to this day. Yet many US Americans keep wondering where the angry hornets are coming from and "why they hate us so much".

[0] https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html

[1] https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/globe/index.html

[2] http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/
Repeatedly asking a woman out. I recall a friend upsetting a love interest because he didn't repeatedly ask her out, as was customary where she was from. She didn't think he was serious because he wasn't trying hard enough.

Not ok here, but different in other places.
Now 2.0 cold boot is under 200ms.
This whole PR looks like a CYA for the company because all if not most of these changes occur are mandatory [0] or gestures due to the power that the harassers have over their subordinates (report me and you're fired!). Am I wrong to assume that all the serial sex harassers have been managers to their targets?

How about a subordinate relationship ban? This policy prohibiting relationships already occur for between doctor and patient, teacher and student. Even the recent police and detained people sex ban? [1]

[0] https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2018/10/04/new-california-law...

[1] http://m.amsterdamnews.com/news/2018/apr/05/bill-bans-cops-s...

If I was a protester, I would ask Google execs how these policies will tackle the abuse of power for sexual activity.
This talk really opened my eyes to the quality of pilot training and effects of automation dependency. The fact that this was a problem in 1997 and that systems have gotten significantly more powerful and complex since then.

Anyone interested in self driving cars should watch this too.
Linux on DeX currently supports one customized Ubuntu image (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version provided by Canonical) which only operates on selected Samsung devices. (Note9 and Tab S4). :(
My favorites

The President of the United States is going to debate the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Nobody's sure who's going to win. - "Trump may trump May, May may trump Trump."

I've never done cocaine. - "My nose knows no snows."

The guy who sketches crossbreed dogs is suitable for the role - "The labradoodle doodle dude'll do."
Dopamine primes the brain for enhanced vigilance
You must be talking about the Scoot motorcycles. I don't see the little scooters lasting from Pier 1 to GGP and back.
I 100% agree with the headline; especially for research papers even more than clinical trials.

However, I'm a bit puzzled by the weird direction the journalist ran with this, which is straight to his preconceived notions that are not that supported by the data he's looking at.

But there's a bit more to this than just that one chart. In addition to self-correction (e.g. beginning to require pre-registration of trials), science is somewhat additive. Is it not possible that the low-hanging fruit had been found earlier, in the 1970s-1990s, and the problem got harder? With the advances in treatments for cardiovascular disease couldn't the problem just be harder?

And look at that "harm" study. Turns out it's one of many from the Women's Health Initiative [1], and it's the test of whether hormone therapy for post-menopausal women causes heart problems: that is, it's not a test of a drug to prevent heart conditions, but a test of side effects.

How many other of these studies are like that: studies about effects on the heart, not trials for new drugs to treat the heart? How did the ratio change before and after 2000?

In any case, don't trust every popular news article you read about science, particularly if it's written by Kevin Drum and posted on Mother Jones.

[1] https://www.whi.org/SitePages/WHI%20Home.aspx
Vespa – Open Source Big Data Serving Engine [video]
We’re transitioning a 20 year old website with over a billion annual page views over to a fully bootstrap 4 front-end. The site is a grab bag of technologies and frameworks from across the ages, so it’s not a simple task.

We’ve approached it using component based ‘atomic’ design principles, using Bootstrap’s defaults wherever possible. The company is rebranding next year so the styles need to be really easy to change.

As for v4 vs v3, there’s a few changes in syntax and the under-the-hood move to Flexbox, but as far as I’m aware the front-end team haven’t run into any showstoppers.

Once the transition is complete the plan is to compile our own version of Bootstrap with only the js and css we need.

(Yes, Racket’s a language. I was thinking of a nifty static site generator I saw written in it the other day. I’d love to build a site with it but under no circumstances would hand it over to a client.)
Is that a real policy for anywhere? How / where do you find 10% non binary from? I don’t think there’s enough people to go around even if you hired every single non binary person in a given city.
Hi! Primary developer for Spinning Up here. The code for this was developed mostly in June and July this year, and Eager still felt relatively new to me. I wanted to wait for Eager to stabilize and hit maturity before investing in it. I also wanted to see how TF would change on the road to TF 2.0, since that could change the picture even more.

At the six month review in 2019, we'll evaluate whether it makes sense to rewrite the implementation examples for TF 2.0. I'll speculate that the answer will be "yes, it does." Since Eager execution will be a central feature of TF 2.0, the (probable) revamp for Spinning Up will include it.

Good luck with your experiments! And please let us know about your experience with Spinning Up---we want to make sure it fulfills the mission of helping anyone learn about deep RL, and user feedback is vital for that.
In 2016, browsers were still working on implementing es2015 (I'm still waiting for proper tail calls on non-Safari engines).

Atomics is a huge feature (especially in the amount of work required). getOwnPropertyDescriptors is also a big addition.

Async iteration is a very big deal that can potentially affect things like reading files in node. Object spread seems big, but is actually far more simple as it is a syntactic special case of Object.assign(). In contrast, the far reaching repercussions of adding async iteration and the implementation are both large things. Given the level of optimization for JS regex, adding a bunch of new features there is also a big job. Promise finally is also a big update (though combining map and flatmap in promises automatically is the biggest issue with them).

This year, there's integers, working imports, and big class upgrades in the works. The list of major proposals is rapidly shrinking.

Is there another major language adding that many big features in the past three years? Keep in mind that most stage 3 proposals already have at least one implementation already done.
He doesn’t need a visa, he’s a Swede and covered by Visa Waiver Program.

He applied for an ESTA and was denied, but you only need an ESTA to come to USA by air/sea.

From what it seems, DS had an approved ESTA, didn’t check its status before leaving for another US trip and found out at check-in that it was cancelled.

DS could still try coming by land via Canada (or Mexico). Not sure if there are any cases out there of ESTA denials that were non-issues at a land crossing though...

At least any denial is face to face and may offer some relevant information. Future Mozilla All Hands, if in Canada, should be within a 1-2 hour drive of USA.
This is an interesting take, and one I'm surprised about given the recent increase in required flight time for an ATP (Air Transport Pilot) certificate from 250 hours to 1500 hours. I'm sure I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't current up and coming pilots be more experienced to handle these types of situations given the additional hours needed?
"Beer o'clock", typically on a Friday afternoon, is a very common phenomenon in North American software & game companies. :)
They publish it because it's against Trump not because it's against anti-Semites.
Tracking street art with machine learning
My point is that the law is the law. You can and should work to change laws if you don't like them. But, if you break a law that you don't agree with, there is no broadband in jail (as Eric Schmidt used to say).
What Purity Is and Isn’t
"Cars seem unnecessary in densely populated cities. Most high-density areas have good public transport within a few minutes walk of your destination, and the roads are too busy to drive a car on anyway."

FTFY
I agree that the President as the right to move on to the next question, I was more wondering why people seemed to be focusing on this "confrontation" when, to me, it seemed like nothing of consequence actually happened. It just doesn't make sense to me why this incident is even being talked about when it is so minor.
Eh, my workplace isn't like that, my management is happy to entertain my pushbacks to a point. If it was like that I'd quit in a heartbeat.
a leading example : State of Tennessee vs Purdue Pharma; case 1-173-18; filed 15May2018 in Knox County, TN
i would assume that the positive results still get reported somewhere in the paper? so other people could still pick up on it in the future.

if they’re positive enough then the drug company will fund another study with that as the primary outcome. that seems prudent too: it should be the primary thing you’re examining so that you can design the study correctly, rather than a simple “oh and by the way” side note
If the airbags have a problem which causes them to hurt shrapnel into peoples faces you can't fix that with a software update.

and why is being able to push updates to heavy machinery that we routinely have moving at speeds of 60+ MPH a good thing?

If you can fix the brakes via software update you can break them too.

I'm fine with it if someone going to prison when a software update kills people.
Yet that i5 will be way faster than whatever ARM is in Galaxy. It will also have much faster SSD than the eMMC in phones, and will be paired with faster RAM to boot.

All these things take way more energy, so your laptop will also have much bigger battery.
You're right, the new rule doesn't filter out dishonest discoveries, only incidental ones (which may be dishonest). If you wanted to show benefit from an incidental discovery, you would have to run another study with that as its declared objective.

The author is kind of doing the same thing here that they accuse others of doing...
Remotely triggerable ICMP buffer underwrite in the FreeBSD kernel
The policy includes attending google-related events. Not being able to have a beer at a mixer at a conference Google sent you to or sponsored is a pretty shit limitation. Not being able to have a beer at lunch or dinner is also pretty crummy, because the vast majority of people are adults and comport themselves accordingly.
Show HN: We changed the way children listen to stories and music
> With the new rules, would there have to be another study stating the new objective?

I think it's only fair to force you to replicate at least once the positive result you think you see in the data you collected for another purpose before you can claim you got something.
>If you can agree that intelligence is just an information processing challenge instead of a magical god-given treasure, then general AI is inevitable.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything is "inevitable" (that's for religious people to believe).

I can very much imagine scenarios where we're already on the steep end of a technological curve, having exhausted most low hanging fruit, and failing to make many more revolutionary breakthroughs (no matter the timeframe).

>Though note that you couldn't come up with an argument against the future of AI development in six points. They were all independently irrelevant, like denying future medical breakthroughs because doctors didn't wash their hands 100 years ago.

I didn't want to make an argument against the possibility or impossibility of AI in abstracto (whether it's physically possible or not. Since our brain does it, it is physically possible. That's boring, again left to religious people to discuss, of which there's no shortage, even among the atheists). I wanted to make one about its _actual_ possibility, given what we know of our technological development, past claims, trends, etc.
Running in Electron accounts for a few tens of megabytes, tops. I'm not convinced it's really all that much worse than the runtime environments for popular interpreted and managed languages.

The other 2-3GB (I'm not even kidding) seemed to be a result of keeping a copy every single attachment and Giphy image that anyone posts in memory, indefinitely. Like with any good memory leak, the solution was to bounce the application.

I use vscode quite a bit, and it doesn't eat RAM in a way that seems reminiscent of what people like to blame on Electron apps. Perhaps what we like to lay at the feet of Electron is more appropriately blamed on there being a lot of JavaScript developers who haven't been sufficiently educated in how to manage memory.