skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue is mainly that Word doesn't really maintain the same structured hierarchy in the XML that HTML would – it's more like a sequential format. The users wanted a way to indicate certain types of content or annotations and they do so via coloring text in certain ways – but I found in practice this is very hard to reconcile since there is a lot of invisible formatting in word, the element may terminate and start again, with a new invisible element in between. Invisible to the user - but very visible to the parser.

Essentially it's a balance of attempting to remove all the spurious elements (`<o:p>`, or invisible empty formatting, etc.) and then reason about what remains. Much of that involves a lot of walking the tree to inspect neighbouring nodes because them being co-located can indicate something.

Look you may be recoiling in horror by now – it sounds horrific. Actually what we have is a remarkably stable system all things considered but it was built up over time. I think the only approach you can take is write a large amount of unit tests for the schema normaliser, with real MS-word samples and expected outputs, and then really put the system through its paces. Every time you find an example that breaks your model, add a unit test for that snippet, and evolve.

God forbid a Word update ever introduces a new format.
Computing Higher Order Derivatives of Matrix and Tensor Expressions [pdf]
One of my high-school science-fair projects was a fractal high voltage insulator. The idea was that since high voltage follows the surface of an object, why not give it a lot of surface to run out of energy on? I failed of course - the ceramic was too hard to work (I dulled so many saw blades). And I didn't have an oven to bake it at the required temperature profile, nor a high-voltage lab to test my designs. But a cool idea anyway.
I'm glad you kept it. The explanation was enlightening to me.
I am Italian and can confirm that the translation is perfectly fine. At the very beginning of the translation, in italics, the translator states that he follows Endeavour because on that blog he finds interesting articles about statistics and programming. After that he gives full credit to the author and back links the original post. To me there's nothing of suspicious or malicious.
It depends on many things.

The lady who manages my gym spent 8 years doing cybersecurity in the U.S. Army. If you were trying to fill this kind of role in today you could definitely find somebody who has technical experience in the military.

The military was an early adopter of computers (in the 1970s my high school science teacher was an air force officer who managed computers. He would, with trepidation, board an Army Helicopter to go to an Army base and help them
out with their computers.) Same for police, intelligence, and other careers.

There is a social conflict between I.T. professionals and other professionals.

A bank like "Ally Bank" is entirely an electronic operation with no branches, no cash, etc. Even the areas that require a bank officer to get involved could be best done by a bank officer who knows how to make Jupyter notebooks. You could take an extreme fintech point of view here and have all the C-level people be techies and put VCs who invest in blockchain and pot on the board, etc.

But you won't. You'll put down the bong and find some bankers to fill the C-level slots because the C-levels have job #1 of being down with the regulators. That way you can get your service in front of customers.

Thus bankers stay in the driver's seat and the bank that was so innovative in 1928 went bust the year after and inexplicably has been bailed out ten thereafter still has the gall to do business under the same name and (like most established businesses) is able to use influence to establish a 'moat' that keeps competitors out.

I was once a full-stack dev-ops programmer/analyst level G embedded in an academic library and saw similar conflicts.

Library science is about ontology and modelling things; Dewey doing by hand what Knuth would do with a computer decades later. I took to library science readily and found it went together with my blue collar appreciation of data structures and algorithms like peanut butter and jelly.

From the viewpoint of the union, however, the library is a machine for employing people with MLS degrees and when budget cuts came my division got the squeeze and I was out.

There was no way, however, I got have gotten to pay band H or I at that organization even if we were crammed with cash because librarians came first. (We could avoided a diplomatic incident by sending me to Germany instead of the meanest physicist in the world but they told me they only had a travel budget for Librarians!)
Facebook basically fueled a genocide in Myanmar and extreme violence in other places. The whole fake news thing we went through in 2016 was pioneered by Russia to annex Ukraine. Facebook was warned about these behaviors repeatedly by government and watchdog organizations and apparently did nothing to curtail them. So Facebook is this great tool to stay connected to people but at the same time it has been hijacked to cause real harm.
Got a 502 just now on my first attempt to log in to git.sr.ht after signup. Second attempt was fine.
TL;DR: This is an announcement that they didn't actually do anything yet. (algorithm not yet fully decided on, just buzzword soup).
I think that systemic interest in investment in fundamental economic improvements has declined while systemic investment in financial vehicles (pardon the pun) is rampant. This would be ok if the financial vehicles were connected to economic well being, but that link is increasingly tenuous.

It basically takes a crazy, put it all on the line billionaire to assemble technologies, but why doesn't the economic system regularly do this? Musk is great, but I think his skill, much like Jobs, is excellent integration of a number of existing technological possibilities. Why is Musk, as an individual, the one of the few that can do that at scale, vs industries that have in actuality more resources than Musk.
Your linked list has socialist Venezuela at #148 with 3.7 suicides /100k and now capitalist Lithuania at #1 with 31.9 /100k so the link seems unproven.
It sounds like dogfooding
And that's the point, nobody is challenging that, for good reason. Changing the deductibility of charitable contributions would be just like that, a redefinition of the tax base. The tax base is orthogonal to the tax rate, which is why decreasing the corporate tax rate does not make employees more expensive.

(well, occasionally the idea of gross revenue taxation sparks up, but I have not seem that anywhere in this discussion, and it never survives the first mentioning of vertical integration anyways)
As an American I wouldn't call that a noble suicide. Waste of life all around for a misplaced sense of honor. Which apparently is still misplaced today. I'm not sure you can have much of a noble suicide in fact. I know it is sort of fetishized in some aspects of Japanese culture, like seppuku (harakiri), but I think it is a mistake calling it noble even then.
If NY is losing money on this, then what you're saying is correct. If they're making money, then the taxpayers of NY are coming out positively. The tax break doesn't exist on its own: 10% of $1 versus 1% of $1000, and the latter is obviously the better deal.

As GP stated, the alternative is that NY doesn't get Amazon's HQ, and gets 0% of $0.

>You are literally talking about a corporation taking ('negotiating') bread from hungry people like it's a good thing.

If you're going to make such an argument, you might as well claim that they should pay 99% in tax, because any lower a tax rate would be "taking bread from hungry people". Of course, this would be stupid: you'd make more money in year 1, the business would go under, and you're now making squat, and all the poor folks go hungry once more (plus the additional of everyone who just got fired). The percentage is not what matters here.

You could argue instead that the overall country is worse off, but the US is a one that encourages state-level competition, and thats how it goes (ideally, states should be efficient with their limited funds, and taxes should be as low as possible to support their various infrastructures; state-competition encourages this, in the same fashion as any other part of the US economy).
This isn't why. This is what feminism tells men, that their problems stem from them not being able to handle and process their emotions correctly. That's propaganda. The real reason is more along of the lines of their being less of a safety net for men, less people willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and no attraction from women for men in the bottom 10%.
If you measure height from the bottom, the tallest building on earth is probably a shack on top of a mine, and the tallest structure of any sort is an oil well.
Yes, they can do that [0].

However, the easier option is to just scan for the right EM waves on the ground and go after the people using the illegal network.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
Agree, I wasn't suggesting users would download a special app to use it - I'd like to see the tech make its way into the OS for all voice input.

I can see why the cloud processing makes sense for certain applications / licensers / acquirers (e.g. a VoIP provider like Xoom), but voice comms is really the domain of smartphones, and my hunch is most are plenty powerful enough to do this processing locally.
> I wonder, couldn't the training be offered as a perk, quantified in some way such that if the worker leaves before X months (or years) some % of that quantity must be given back?

That's how a previous employer of mine did it.

They wanted to expand the scope of my work to include some stuff I didn't know, so they spent about $10,000 to send me to a couple training courses and made me sign a contract that said I had to pay some or all of the training/travel costs back if I left the company for any reason within 12 months. They also gave me about a 10% raise at the time as well.

I ended up leaving about 18 months later when someone else offered me nearly 50% more. I'm still friends with a few people that work at the previous company. It's been two years and they still haven't found an adequate replacement for me. Apparently, their offers have been at a salary even lower than what I started at over there, yet still include the larger scope.
Just a thought...

Normally the concrete reinforcement panels that line tunnels are precast based on calculations for how many they'll need to complete the project, which makes sense because tunnels are usually large one-off infrastructure projects.

Boring Co, which wants to be in the business of making tunnels constantly and for anything from transport to utilities, could look into making a Just In Time process for precast panels using tunnel dirt/rocks to mix with concrete and for aggregate.

It'll use only a fraction of what they dig up, but reducing waste and improving process is always a good thing.
I find the "anything I don't like goes into spam" is among the biggest problems for classifying spam using rules shared across users, and has been forever. We support training the classifier in our products, via a couple of different mechanisms, but don't really make it too evident how to enable it and use it, because the result is often a lot of confusion as users break their classifier over time by putting legitimate (but no longer wanted) mail into the spam folder.

Unsurprisingly, GMail also exhibits this problem. I have to check my spam folder regularly because it gets a ton of false positives these days. Nearly always newsletters and such I've signed up for. Another category of common false positive, which is admittedly harder to cope with, is moderation notifications from my WordPress sites...it's often actually a spam post, but it seems to learn the shape of those messages and start to treat them all as spam, even the legitimate ones.

Spam filtering has always been, and continues to be, hard. It seemed, for a brief shining moment a few years ago, that spam was on the run...but, it's come roaring back in recent years, I guess as cloud-based mail services made it feasible for spammers to bounce from one provider to another, to keep sending through "known trustworthy" senders. There probably ought to be some way to punish those providers that look the other way when used for spam, but blocking them completely is likely to impact non-spammers (but might be a necessary pain to reduce spam).
A Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life
If only the ones at the bottom didn't have holes...
What were your symptoms and what kind of difference do you feel now?
That sounds like a definition of lock-in. Path dependence. Viewers prefer YouTube because that's where the content is. The content is there because that's what creators prefer. Creators prefer YouTube because that's where the viewers are.

It's a ratchet.
CALMZone is pretty good, and has good reports from people who've used it.
Yet Google is very successful
It's selfishness ultimately

Selfishness cuts both ways - what if they had kids? Or other responsibilities? Just like they didn't ask for the experience, their kids didn't ask for it too.

But yeah, I agree with your larger point
Don’t. As someone who recently tried Google One out and had to deal with their support repeatedly during my first month as a Google One subscriber, it’s abysmal. I eventually cancelled and left. The process somehow also screwed up my account and made everything a mess. The whole ordeal basically made me want to never pay Google for anything ever again.
We had "real" bread for millennia. We didn't forget about it, we actively chose something new. Humans absolutely love refined, glutiney, sweet, white flour. It's like the wheat equivalent of candy. We also love soda. It's not like we forgot about tea, people just like soda more.

By the way, have you made bread with just wheat flour? It won't rise. I have to add a bunch more water too to give the dough the right consistency. Anything more than 50% wheat flour and in the oven it's just not going to get big. You could probably add vital wheat gluten, but if you have to use more than flour, salt, yeast and water, it isn't "bread" to me anymore, it's a "baked good".
To be charitable, they're asking for things that look blatantly racist to be at the very least explained coherently in a way that's not tied to race.
Did you actually do a poll of your coworkers on this topic? :)

I think it's pretty reasonable to assume an investment banker isn't going to be much help to FB employees in finding a new job. Claiming that "Facebook will be known for having hired mediocre sell-outs a few years from now." is at best a baseless slander. How in the world is that not in bad faith?

Spreading misinformation to aid one's short position is a much worse case of bias, in my mind, than what I've said in defense of the company.
More so the price the market would bear, but yes.

There is also no denying that people are less willing to do hard labor than they used to be.
Poor analogy. Food is not generally patented, and people can eat many different kinds of food to live.

Would you tell the people that needed epipens "well just have some paracetamol instead".
Mars Opportunity Rover Appears to Contact Earth After 5 Months of Silence
Hi, and congratulations, it looks awesome and has that old school unix feel I like, so you have a subscriber here.

Regarding the social/professional divide, a way to follow releases/security patches/API breakages on the projects I follow might make me more productive. I don't care about who stars who, but a way to link projects brings something.

Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve CI/CD and try to explain breakage or trigger new builds
could be very useful.
Central apnea is the scary story people tell on the forums about why not to just get an APAP and skip the sleep study.

(I'm sort of suspicious that I have some kind of apnea since my wife says she thinks I do, but there is just no way I'm doing a sleep study, so this is a topic of some minor fascination for me).
Did you try cutting the patches in half?
"Looking like a typical web forum" is a huge improvement compared to what e.g. GNU Mailman offers.
Silicon eyed as way to boost electric car battery potential
> “If things go wrong, they may end up dead in their bed."

They make it sound kind of risky, but ... does anyone have a way to quantify the risks here?

I mean, is adjusting your own CPAP machine as dangerous as say, driving a car across country, or drowning on a trip to the beach, etc?
Single-Family Home Zoning vs. 'Generation Priced Out’
The free market is not fair. It's just fairer than anything else we know of. It's not a meritocracy, just more meritorious than anything else we know of. If you think things are bad when greedy people are pitted against each other, wait until greedy people are pitted against the average man, as they are in nearly every other economic system.
Total compensation obviously because FB stock is liquid. New grad salary is in the $110-115k range at FB. I know a few companies that do pay it or more base (2Sigma, Snowflake Computing and Jane Street come to mind).

I had offers for $130k base, $130k base + equity and $130k base + bonus and those were considered to be below average by most of my peers.
They are not even remotely playing in the same league. Zoho's product is a testament to the capabilities of unlimited human resources tasked with building features and stopping exactly at the point where each feature "works."
When the Tech Mythology Collapses
Don't Panic! transfer.sh will live on!
The (in?)famous article Don't Call Yourself a Programmer [0] argues otherwise. The author warns against working for a startup, unless you're the founder or committed to what he calls a lifestyle. Instead, he argues you can work for a hi-tech big corp, enjoying autonomy and fun projects as well as a good work-life balance.

Not that I agree with everything in that essay -- some pretty cynical and controversial statements there -- but what he says about startups seems worth considering.

[0] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
> It's simple,

No it isn't.
I recommend setting up a mailing list, project-announce or project-security, on lists.sr.ht for that purpose.

>Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve CI/CD and try to explain breakage or trigger new builds could be very useful.

This should be quite possible, perhaps even automatable through dispatch.sr.ht.
I need to start a wicker-furniture store with good insurance next to a power substation in CA.
Why would this be true?

It's not impossible, just location dependent. In some places, there actually is a clear cycle, where the weather alternates between good and bad on a weekly cycle. The Bay Area of California, where HN is headquartered, seems to be one of those places:

The Fog Cycle

Week by week from spring into August, the forces that produce the fog increase in intensity. The Paciﬁc High moves farther north, closer to the latitude of San Francisco, sending out stronger winds; offshore the up-welling of cold bottom waters increases, condensing the winds’ moisture into thicker masses of fog; in the Central Valley, the northward-moving sun sends temperatures to the 100 degree mark and beyond. The hot air rises, sucking cool masses in great drafts through the only break in the Valley’s surrounding mountains, San Francisco Bay. With the ocean air comes the fog, evaporating gradually in the hot, dry air of the Valley, but sometimes penetrating at night as far as Sacramento and Stockton.

The fog seems to come and go in cycles. Until recent years, the conventional explanation for the fog’s behavior was a simple one: as the cool, fog-bearing ocean air is pulled over the coastal hills and across the Bay toward the hot Central Valley (that is, from a high-pressure to a low-pressure area), the nearest parts of the Valley begin to cool off after a few days, much as a draft from an open door lowers the temperature in a warm room.

The incoming cool, heavy sea air replaces the warm, rising land air, and temperatures in Sacramento and Stockton may drop from well above 100 degrees to the “cool” 90s. When the Valley cools sufficiently, the fog-producing machinery breaks down. Without the intense Valley heat to draw the sea air in through the Bay Region, the wind diminishes and no longer carries the fog inland. San Francisco, the Golden Gate, and the coastline are fog free.

Then the process starts all over again. Without the incoming wind and fog, the sun gradually reheats the Valley. The rising warm air again begins to attract the foggy marine air inland. The result is a fog cycle of about a week in length, producing roughly three or four days of fog over the Bay and three or four days of sun.

https://baynature.org/article/cutting-through-the-fog/
> I was going to read the rest of your comment, but I decided it was "Jacobin whinging" so I realized I didn't have to.

But the rest of the comment supports the first part, which you seem to agree with.

Plus, "Jacobin whinging", seriously? Advocating for a living wage is "Jacobin" now?
> it's better to say you don't know than guess wildly.

> although I don't have any statistics to back me up, I'd guess that most events happen in clusters

More seriously, yes, before you apply this rule you should think about whether "each event has the same probability of error" is appropriate for your situation.
Anyone can grow food thus price floor in normal times (and yes everything you own in times of great famine. Diamonds for tripe in WW2 Polish ghettos). Can’t grow a new lung.
Making a Simple MERN Stack App More Functional with Material UI
The 'kids' of the late 1960s included many college students and enlisted men who were against US involvement in Vietnam.

They were ridiculed for not knowing any better, for being 'young and naturally earnest', etc., though the exact phrasing used was different.

And yet, they were right. It was their elders who didn't know better.

Since it seems you are using an argument which is structurally similar to the ones used against the kids of the 1960s, it doesn't seem like it should put much trust in it.

Here's a famous snarky comment from a then 24-year old: "Don't trust anyone over 30" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#%22Don't_trust_a...

“I was being interviewed by a newspaper reporter, and he was making me very angry. It seemed to me his questions were implying that we were being directed behind the scenes by Communists or some other sinister group. I told him we had a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over 30. It was a way of telling the guy to back off, that nobody was pulling our strings.”
Uber joins Linux Foundation, cementing commitment to open-source tools
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> Don’t Panic! transfer.sh will live on!

> After running and supporting transfer.sh for 4 years on my own, I’m happy to announce we are partnering with Storj Labs to keep the project going. From day one, the transfer.sh code has been open source. Storj has a commitment to open source sustainability and reached out to help us find a way to keep our project alive. Stay tuned for updates on the partnership with Storj, but for now, please continue to enjoy the service!

> Blue skies, Remco Verhoef

Full story[1,2]

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20181112142220/https://transfer.s...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/9shdl5/transfe...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331139
I would assume all of these (add center of volume) to be quite close to each other for all practical intents and purposes, given how smooth Earth's surface is in the big picture:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/46/
A pioneering scientist explains 'deep learning'
Doesn't the book example need to factor in the book length? If you read 20 pages, and it's 20 pages long, you should be 100% confident, but if you read 20 pages and it's 5000 pages long, your confidence should be near 0.