skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hired over 250 engineers at Elastic in 4 1/2 years and helped grow the team and most worked remote and now I'm a Big believer in distributed teams. It worked great at Elastic and now hiring some remote engineers at www.timescale.com

My personal experience in recruiting since 2004 for Engineers, is that some markets like San Francisco, NYC are so so competitive and super expensive to hire, it makes a LOT of sense to think about have completely remote teams or partially remote. There is a lot of technical talent beyond the major markets.
IMO if your company wanted surveillance on the equipment they provide you, they'd already do it and (probably) wouldn't tell you. When it comes to work computers, I've found the best course of action is to assume everything you're doing is already being logged anyway.

Remember: It's their hardware, not yours.
> but there is a perennial pattern of analysts interpreting order cuts at a single supplier as evidence of a slowdown, and being mistaken.

Exactly this. I didn't say it before because I didn't feel like trying to dig up sources on this, but I feel like we've had several instances already where "analysts" predict a slow quarter for Apple based on news coming out of a supplier of Apple cutting inventory orders, and then it turns out that Apple had a great quarter and presumably just used a different supplier instead.
> Hayek proposed a new amendment that would state, “Congress shall make no law authorizing government to take any discriminatory measures of coercion.”

All substantive law authorizes government to take measures of coercion (otherwise, it has no compulsory enforcement, and is effectively recommendation rather than law.)

All law distinguishes on some axes, and thus is discriminatory on some basis.

So, Hayek’s proposal amounts to “Congress shall make no law.” Which clearly solves any problem with laws Congress makes, but creates a whole host of new problems. (The system under the Articles of Confederation failed over a less-intense version of the same problem such an amendment would create.)
A quarter of it is underground, and it's by no means the only elevated train in New York, nor even the first.
Similarly.
For the British it’s allowed so long as it’s not forbidden.
For Germans it’s forbidden unless it’s allowed.
For Italians it’s allowed especially if it’s forbidden.
Yes the human mind can deal with an effectively infinite number of states (and let's not get into a pointless pedantic discussion about the true meaning of "infinite"). Until we figure out how to build a true AGI then no autopilot will be able to do that.
It's not really fair to call fractal dimension a real spatial dimension- the sierpinski triangle is still a 2d object but the fractal dimension (a heuristic metric) is 1.58
What are the current challenges in training deep neural networks?
I am interested in learning about current numerical and computational challenges in training deep neural nets so that I can choose a topic for research work over next year. I would highly appreciate any guidelines and list of good reference articles and textbooks to read.
I'm still waiting for some decent restaurants. There are precious, precious few.
Sure. The argument being debunked as "conspiratorial" isn't even really a conspiracy. Companies that pay for safety studies cause them to be biased. That objectively happens.
How do drivers currently handle things if someone blinds them with a laser?
How about making it more stable? Kind of tired to close 10 issues a day on github because tensorflow developers decided to rename a variable. Seriously looking on pytorch.
The Next Era of Bug Bounty at Pinterest
Copyright is meant to incentivize creators by giving them a limited-time exclusive monopoly on their content. That's fine. It was originally 14 years I believe, and I could see reasonable arguments for 25 or 30 perhaps.

But, it has been so far extended that multinationals and grandchildren are those that reap the benefits now, while stealing from the public domain.

The best quote I've read on the subject said something like, "But, how will we incentivize dead people to create new works!?" I think that about sums up the current situation.
It still uses dataflow graphs :(

As a programmer, I don't want to think in terms of dataflow graphs. That is what compilers are for!
The value "0" now restricts the suggested videos to your own channel, so the problem you describe is not (yet?) what Google is doing.
>>now I wonder if this decision wasn't made long ago, and word was carefully leaked to various developers to get the housing ready

I don't know about this but for years now (around ten years now) I've heard about developers trying to transform locations that used to be all factories into residential neighborhoods. Slowly but surely this has been happening all along Brooklyn's riverside, which used to be dominated by factories.

[1] https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/brooklyn-skyline...

[2] https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/9/17667488/new-york-domino-park...

[3]https://www.wnyc.org/story/after-years-delays-sunset-park-re...
Yeah, I'm going to buy up all the cheap land in NYC and sell it for a massive profit!!!
Low salary in a cheap city is almost never better. Your expenses will look very different but at the end of the day, engineers in Palo Alto are left with likely 5x the cash in their pocket than those in a cheaper city. I think the value of the leverage you earn with that larger savings is underestimated by many people.
some would call sugar a scandal, probably with valid reasoning too:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sugar-harvard-scandal-nutriti...

And they both clearly involve outright deception. The difference is probably just not as many babies dying. At least not yet, cokes aren't advertised as being healthier than breastfeeding for babies.
Ask HN: How to get started with 3D printing and what to buy?
As the holidays are approaching and things are going on sale I've been interesting in tinkering around with 3d printers. Even small stuff, like golf tees, dorky figures, and being able to import a CAD file for a house would be neat but probably not feasible on a hobby printer. I'm less interested in the upkeep of the printer and rather spend time modeling and printing.

I realize most people use these once or twice and then it just collects dust. That said, I do want it small enough where it can sit on my desk and use in an apartment. (Are fumes an issue? Does it make a big mess?) What are some decent printers that fit this spec? Hopefully less than $500.

Then on to the 3d modeling. Does everyone just use 3dsmax, maya, blender, zbrush? What's a good way to go about learning how to actually make stuff. Model a widget and print it.
That wasn't the point I was trying to make. It's where the mandate comes from is fluid. I'm saying these same people have rebelled many times against what members want because "their constituents". It changes to suit their justification. Who's needs to do we favour? The constituents of the members?

I'm a remainer. I think the party should back remain and Corbyn is mistaken for not backing a second vote. But after the past behaviour of these rebellious MPs, I don't believe they're any better.

The other issue is that the majority of Labour votes come from leave areas. That's the other part of the 52% problem. We can placate the members at the potential loss of our core voters.
C. S. Lewis does a fine job in his book Mere Christianity. He talks about the conscience, where does it come from? It seems to hold us all to higher standard, including ourselves, but we fail to fulfill it. It's not just a matter of disliking another's actions because they are inconvenient. For example, say someone takes my shirt, and now I'm mad because I'm missing a shirt. Someone might argue that that is all conscience is. But it's not like that. It's a sense that it was objectively wrong, and so it would be wrong for me to take your shirt even though it improves my situation.

I also recommend his book The Problem of Pain, which talks about man's long history of belief in the supernatural, despite the outlandishness of the idea.

C. S. Lewis was an atheist until his early 30s. He taught at Oxford and then Cambridge, during the first half of the 20th century.
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Russia claims US running secret bio weapons lab in Georgia
ShaderConductor, Microsoft cross compiler from HLSL to other shading languages
Ouch. This is not true at all.
It’s truly astounding to see the views aired here... on HackerNews... on threads like this.
What do you dislike about bazel? Not championing it, just curious.
> Another example is that Australians drink higher-quality Californian wine than Californians, and vice versa, because it is only worth the transportation costs for the most expensive wine.

As a person who loves Belgian beer, I came to this realization when I was on a bit of a beercation there. For the most part, the good Belgian beer makes it here. When I'd try beer from breweries I hadn't heard of while I was there, it was mostly worse than the Belgian beer I had tried at home.
For once I agree with the glibc developers: strlcat and strlcpy are bad interfaces.

Truncation can cause security bugs, and it is generally awful behavior. There is no silver bullet here: the programmer must not be a dummy about buffer sizes. Pretending otherwise is unhelpful.
And how many competitors shrink as they compete on an uneven playing field (the basis of these "incentives" -- taxes and such) with these behemoths?

If you're big enough to "break the rules", arguably you're a monopoly or close enough to this to merit great suspicion and corresponding oversight.
Someone sent me a screenshot of the same thing coming from @gsuite. It's far less likely that "Target and Google were hacked" than "Twitter has a bug that can be exploited for this".
SSD are getting surprisingly cheap, you can now get 250 GB for 50 euros, 500 for less than 100 euros (and we're talking samsung 860 evo, not cheap knock off)
I concede. Personally, most of the PCs I see are custom desktop computers, hence my comment.
Careful design of the "tiles" and some restriction to the play area could go a long way to make a "fun" map that is still hugely random.
Programming is unique in that you don't have to be physically located in same place as others to do work. It's no brainer why GitLab is targeting this "hidden" talent pool.
Adding to the list of ideas:

* A flat probability distribution for "will take between X and Y" is probably wrong, a bell curve would be more accurate (where X and Y are the 95% percentile).

Another question: is it open-source? I'm sure a few people around here would be glad to hack into the code ;-)
The G is nowhere close to its maximum capacity: It currently only runs 1/2 length trains, and the frequency is much less than what could be supported if there were more demand. Even during the L train shutdown the G should be fine as long as the MTA increases service appropriately, which they have stated they will do.

The real chokepoints for the G will be the transfers to Manhattan-bound trains: to the E at Court Square and to the A/C at Hoyt-Schermerhorn. Those stations will be way overloaded, and the MTA hasn't announced anything that would mitigate this significantly.

However, Amazon-bound commuters shouldn't contribute significantly to this, since they will be exiting the station at Court Square, not transferring. Workers commuting in on the E/M from deeper in Queens might have some issues getting off the train in a very crowded station, but at least they won't be contributing to the capacity problem on the way to Manhattan.
Not very dangerous.

The Ouster OS-1 in the article, as well as all other automotive lidars that I know of, are class 1 laser eye-safe, meaning that it is safe even if you put your eye right up to it for hours.

The power also decreases dramatically once you get far away from it, since the laser beams spend most of their time pointed in different directions, and the collimation is not perfect.

Besides, infrared security cameras put out just as much, if not more 850 nm - 940 nm light.
> I've sometimes wondered if it would be practical to operate a steam heating system at a partial vacuum so that the condensation/vaporization could occur at a lower temperature

He actually talks about exactly this in the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQB0KK2rxcw&t=573

"You'll be sending steam up into the building at temperatures, in some cases, as low as 150 degrees" (83 degrees C)
Given all the tools that are at a politicians disposal, it actually is rather hard to stop all the paths a city can use to participate in this kind of thing since a lot of it is based on what they do everyday.
At your contrary, I love the graph.

However, migrating to a keras-like approach, you can work thinking about "objects with variables inside" and then the graph will be built for you by the abstraction introduced by `tf.keras.Model`.

However, for automatic differentiation, graph is always required (as you can see from the example that uses eager)
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I think dynamic patterns can be added to laser beams (similar to what cryptography), which randomly change that will make flooding difficult if not impossible.
This is sufficiently advanced to be magic to me.
> How can one design systems to make it more likely that they will continue to work as designed?

Perhaps it would need to be antifragile in some way, and have direct immediate feedback on "bad repair" vs "good repair".
That project is no longer maintained because I don't use it any more, but others have picked up the baton: https://github.com/derek-adair/nflgame

Back in the day, I used nflgame along with

https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb
https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflvid
https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflfan

to setup a simple local web UI that allowed me to quickly search through every play and watch any single play I wanted. Video footage was available as soon as the game was over, and play info was available live as the game was playing. It was amazing.

This worked because nflvid downloaded full HD NFL games from their CDN, which was unprotected at the time. (I paid for an NFL Game Pass subscription and never distributed the video footage.) They also had XML files that delineated the time at which each play started and its duration. Some ffmpeg slicing and dicing was all it took to cut up a full game and associate each clip with each play. That's all part of what nflvid does.

I hacked all of this together in my free time years ago, and I bet a lot of people would find it amazing. One wonders why the NFL doesn't build this and sell it themselves. When I used Game Pass a few years ago, you could search for plays with rudimentary criteria, but only over a single game at a time. It was artificially very limited.
My son is a hateful incel, and I just cannot save him or defend him anymore
Why Walking on Legos Hurts More Than Walking on Fire or Ice
"lasers we use are well under the eye safety limit and have been certified as Class 1 eye-safe lasers by third party labs."

I'm a bit surprised by that since IIRC 850 nm can go through the water in your eye to reach your retina but won't trigger a blink reflex. So it has to be pretty low power to get that rating.
Only if it's a public bus in the center of the capital :)
As someone who already has an abysmal sense of direction (I basically never play 3D games because I'm just always lost), this is my nightmare.
Sure, but what I can't fathom is why they would pay more to hire a dev in SF or NY when they could easily hire a better dev for the same price from somewhere else. Allowing remote work is a big benefit from the employee perspective, so I can see why they could get away with paying less than certain other employers, especially if they're hiring people from areas with less competition from other high-paying employers...but why would they then throw those savings away by hiring someone from an expensive city and paying them a premium when the whole company is remote anyway?

They claim they want a "geographically diverse team", but without saying what benefit that brings them, that doesn't really explain anything.
How to avoid losing your memory in the digital age
S L O W D O W N.

As much as you possibly can. If a song is in 4/4 and you're having trouble with it, pretend it's 8/8 and count by eighth notes. Still tough, go 16/16. Once you have it down, then increase speed S L O W L Y.

(much easier said than done, let me tell you, but it is effective)
Are these categories broken out by revenue/profit anywhere? Do quarterly earnings breakouts map to these buckets?
Yeah, 1.5 years. Idk, the more the better.

I had the biggest impostor syndrome. I’ve realized it’s bullshit. Impostor syndrome comes from you not having done stuff for long enough. You’ll be surprised how much progress you can make after like a month of dedicated work. Email me (my email is in my profile) if you want to talk more about this.

I also had my doubts about programming as a field btw. The nature of corporate programming is that it’s very slow and unexciting.
Anytime you hear the word "scientific consensus" used to brow beat people, you should run. Science is not about consensus. Plenty of scientists challenge the consensus view and end up being correct. It's still happening to today.

We should not be urging the point that "good scientists" are the one who don't question the consensus view.

I can give a good current example: Alzheimer's. Were now seeing the failure of the Amaloid Beta model in all clinical trails and preliminary evidence is starting to point to a herpes virus link.
> hire talent from anywhere

> try to squeeze 10-40% off employee salaries

I guess you're talking about anywhere… in the US.
"Everything is a URL" is a win for browsers because everything with a URL can be linked to and bookmarked.

But it seems like for type safety, you wouldn't want different OS services with different API's to have the same type? If they aren't actually interchangeable, pretending they are with a common naming scheme is just a source of bugs.
In what sense is alchemy (in the way Newton understood it) not science?

It was a reasonable hypothesis at the time that you can make gold from other material. Indeed with particle accelerators you can do this [1, 2, 3]. Newton's methods were not powerful enough to achieve this, but this research hypothesis got refined, leading to chemistry as we know it today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-l...

[3] https://glintpay.com/gold/modern-day-alchemy-making-gold-ato...
Because "you" in this case is "a city government made of individuals who may personally benefit from this while not actually benefiting the area you represent". Also, you're allowed to bid to the point where it's a net negative for those individuals in the long run because you're just bad at math or because Amazon misrepresents the cost.

While we're at it you, the single individual in charge of making this decision, may be in favor of something but your community may be entirely opposed to it, but they can't vote you out until the bid was already placed and you bankrupted the city.

Also, you may be burning the current citizens for the prospect of these future citizens that the company might bring with it. You're hoping to drive out all those gross poor people and replace them with smiling rich tech managers. Never mind that you have no actual plan for where these gross poor people will go, that's their problem. You're building the beautiful city of the future, and you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs amirite?
No. I started my own site around this time last year with a CSS / HTML template I modified and I did everything myself. I even wrote the static site compiler. This is really not hard.

I have somewhere between seven and nine[0] articles out and my work has been translated into French, Portuguese (twice), Russian, and Uzbek.

Medium isn't a source of traffic unless you're one of the very few writers they intentionally push. People share high quality work or new ideas, and audience engagement helps too, so link to your Twitter and share your email.

[0] Since starting the site I've started writing for other publications and the audience flows back and forth between the sites, so it depends on what you think counts as an article.
Don't forget that a good portion of those Amazon workers will also bring their spouses. They may even become permanent residents.

The math is more complicated than any of us understand.
> and NOT TAKE THEIR MONEY

So by logical extension, a highly virtuous person would ... donate money to racist causes? Because that is the exact opposite of taking their donations.

There is always going to be one politician who has policies that are more racist-friendly than the other. Targeting specific groups for exclusion from the political process, even at the social level, is a recipe for disaster. We want less of that, not more.

At most, ask for transparency about where the donations are sourced from so the polity can talk about it.
> Most of these aren't separate businesses, they are just products offered in a space.

I'm not sure I follow.

> Like, surprise, you can buy produce

Through a completely different brick-and-morter grocery business, While Foods, which was bought when already a supermarket chain.[1]

> clothing, shoes

Through Zappos, which is its own online identity with its own shopping portal, which caters specifically to clothes. Also bought when it was already an online specialty retailer.[2]

> books

Of course you can buy books. That's what Amazon started doing. Goodreads, is a social network for books and book recommendations, Amazon publishing does publishing, Audible makes audio versions not just sells them, and AbeBooks is listed as selling Art and collectibles.

> on Amazon and pay with one of two rewards cards.

And they provide financial services and transaction processing. Amazon Pay works anywhere that supports it, just like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

I really, really don't understand where you're coming from. Yes, you should be surprised that one company can do all that, since I don't think any other company ever has before.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-buy-whole-foods-for-1...

2: https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/amazon-buys-zappos/
> maybe it's that Medium's discovery algorithms take into account correlations between existing readers,

Yes, Medium takes into account who you follow and what subjects you've liked, which is one reason Medium article collections like HackerNoon exist.

I feel Medium is for writers who don't take the time and effort necessary to self market their own content, which is not easy for many people. The platform is just like everything else in life. Are you willing to make concessions for its benefits? I don't see anything wrong with it as long as people are aware of the price of the Faustian deals they make in exchange for a little magic. The same applies to Alexa, Facebook, Waze, etc...
They must be monitoring Hackernews...
they took the domain down.
Wow Matz, the creator of Ruby actually shouted out my post at Rubyconf LA today. https://imgur.com/a/BLtslTV