skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don’t understand why we don’t just do this.
Counting instead of tracking
I dunno about wrong, but it's too vague to be useful.
You can't even do a tiny lateral transfer in the US medical industry without reschooling, so how would it work with foreign degrees?
I was a member for a couple of years back around 1985. It was a complete waste. Even though that was before the Internet took off, I found that they didn't provide any real sharing of information or sense of community. So I'm not quite sure why they exist. And with the modern Internet, I wouldn't even join if they offered to pay me a small salary every month.
I think that's unlikely. As a moderator of r/cscareerquestions, I've heard way more people talk about moral qualms when it comes to working at defense contractors than Facebook/Google, but the working conditions and pay at the former are substantially worse than at the latter.
I don't disagree with anything you've said, maybe my point wasn't clear though.

The post I replied to said:

> shows that xmpp really isn't behind centralized silo messengers in functionality and usability.

The siloed systems using non-federated XMPP (possibly with some private extensions) shows that it's technically very capable.
This is very neat. That said the reason these methods haven't received much attention so far is that relatively few people actually need to compute Jacobeans or Hessians directly.

Often only Hessian-vector products or Jacobean-vector products are required, and these can be computed via more standard autodiff techniques, usually a lot more efficiently than if you were to compute the Hessian or Jacobean directly.

Also for models with lots of parameters, the Jacobean and Hessian are usually impractically large to realise in memory (N^2 in the number of parameters).

Nevertheless the symbolic tensor calculus approach is very appealing to me. For one thing it could make it a lot easier to see in a more readable symbolic notation what the gradient computations look like in standard backprop, and could perhaps make it easier to implement powerful symbolic optimizations.
I still find it a shame that Microsoft didn't get to succeed with Windows Mobile. Now instead of "everyone having one phone" we have "everyone having two types of phones" essentially. I love what Apple does because it makes them profitable, even down to their app store. Any competitor that arises needs to mimic that to remain profitable, I would prefer something where the main things are proprietary but as long as the company's only focus is making a phone OS and not an advertisement platform.

I also find it a shame that Canonical instead of redoing the Desktop Environment for Ubuntu didn't invest that effort into just Ubuntu Mobile (or whatever it was called) and lastly, Mozilla almost had a reasonable thing, they really should of produced a Chromebook competitor first though. I yearn for a sane ChromeOS alternative that's fully open source and runs Firefox by default.

In a parallel universe Microsoft and Canonical team up to make a sane Android competitor that overtakes the market, and build the first Linux distro to be able to run Windows applications in a sane sandboxed environment.
I think the general danger with computers is falling into a trap of repetitive behavior. In the age of letters you'd check your letter box maybe once a day. Now everywhere we have systems of immediate responses. It creates these loops of repetition where the constant stream of new data drives the user to be constantly aware of the possibility to respond and consume. What if letters could arrive at your home invisibly, at any time, without you knowing it? The problem with technology seems to be that when things become too easy, they often seem to acquire a potential of being destructive in a way that they hadn't before.
Sheryl Sandberg and the emptiness of leaning in
The market isn't really fair or unfair. It's more like "a-fair", where fairness doesn't really factor into it.
`podman` keeps the compatibility with Docker CLI params, so `podman build` is a wrapper around `buildah bud`
Can you share more? I feel like in my quest to learn more about authentic Chinese cuisine onions, scallions and garlic all are incredibly common ingredients.
They make clothes out of plastic in order to recycle. It is a conscious choice they make. (I read the book by the founder.) Patagonia may be the only company I trust.
20 tools for open-source maintainers
Inteview with Thomas Wiecki about PyMC and probabilistic programming
Well its a lot more fun than having to call an ambulance for a sudden mental break
Things Fall Apart (Part 3 of 3) – Markets
I’m not one to respond with memes and image macros but I thing this is relevant: https://m.imgur.com/jPm4DBC
> When he leaves he will be transferred to the US and tortured

If that was the real concern and not merely the excuse, why bother with Sweden? The UK has an extradition treaty with the USA. Sweden’s extradition treaty with the USA “”“prohibits extradition on the basis of "a political offense" or "an offense connected with a political offense."”””
Christmas Snowflake Decoration Ideas
They're good companies, but not as nice to work for as Google and Facebook.
> knowing at the end of it that we paid 3x the market price to get it from our 'Preferred Supplier'

It's not even just the cost of the item itself - I often have to spend hours of time over a period of months to get something purchased, with multiple levels of management also having to spend time on approvals and chasing people up. The cost of all that time can easily exceed the cost of the item.

Sometimes I hate working for a megacorp :(
It isn't delusion, because it could be true, it's just irrelevant. For all you know you're just a brain in a jar hooked up to simulated input, there's no way to prove otherwise. We have no choice but to accept that our senses provide us some approximation of reality.
A craft kept alive by 10 Swiss masters
Open Session to consider the revision of the SI
Our free soda, crisps, and chocolate biscuits went away a long time ago. Not because the company wanted to save money, but because the company was more concerned about health. When we moved to a new building, we got an onsite Gym instead.
It's a color scheme, user interface theme and icon set in one. Why do you think it's nuts to charge €10 for that? Do you think it should be free?
I don't want to be overly negative, but I have launched quite a few indie 6 figure apps over the last five years, and something generating $500 a month isn't really working (in my book).

Have you even tried to just sell licenses for it? If your software delivers value then that should convert better than a nag screen. Worth giving users a 30 day trial and seeing how that converts.
You won’t convince me, so agree it’s a waste of your time. No matter how you try to spin it (“newer emerging strategic HR practices”), it’s fundamentally a fact that HR departments aren’t your friend. They can be very “friendly”, some can even try their best to look out for your interests, but ultimately the company’s interests will prevail otherwise the company won’t stay in business. As someone in HR, you should fully understand the legal minefield out there and why it’s so important for employees to keep a healthy separation.
Agree about having good ideas in downtime!

But ‘just processing’ jobs also need breaks, especially if accuracy is required, even more especially if the job is safety critical. If you are doing something boring AND dangerous then you have an accident waiting to happen
Man-made mountains
2 rare organism in a small sample of dirt picked up at whim. Maybe they're not so rare anymore?
I've used faker [0] for stuff like this. I think originally a perl package, has similar packages in other languages as well. I've used the python implementation and enjoy it, along with it's localization feature.

It looks like 1.0 was just released as well :D

[0] https://github.com/joke2k/faker/releases
Link to download the original paper in Nature "Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes":

http://libgen.io/scimag/ads.php?doi=10.1038%2Fs41586-018-070...

A bit of a let-down after "Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism" to read "Hemimastigotes were first seen and described in the 19th century. ...About 10 species of hemimastigotes have been described over more than 100 years."
Relevant news story from today:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/splinternews.com/thoughts-and-p...
This is a really compelling game! Great work!

So I had a crack at porting your game to macos. [1]

Everything seems to work, except the text/background colour things which depend on some WIN32 stuff.

To make those text/background colours work on platforms other than Windows, ANSI escape codes would have to be used.

1: https://github.com/Akshat412/Caverns-Kobolds/pull/2
Also it creates an overbearing psychological impact on people like big brother's telescreens in 1984. Slavery is freedom.
Try/catch in Linux Kernel
>A dog has a sense of smell a million times more sensitive than a human and can track people over miles, even when a trail is days old.

Dogs don't work very well in urban areas and there's plenty of tricks to throw dogs off your trail.
'No evidence' that vitamin D prevents cancer or heart attacks
With a service like this, I don't understand why a lack of tracking is touted as a feature - I don't want Google et al tracking my search history and across 3rd party websites, but I want to provide usage data to services I value.

Usage data is valuable for understanding how users use your service, features that aren't used, or simply not discovered. I'd personally prefer that tracking was added, but as an opt-in model.
That's all fine and dandy, but I think that, as a human cohabitating with other humans, we should do our best to look out for each other and try not to trigger people into psychotic states. When someone near you is experiencing an anxiety attack, it's not very helpful to tell them what they're experiencing shouldn't cause them anxiety.
The FSA Is Going to Regulate Wallet Providers
It's not just Japan but also China, India, Russia, and the EU that each have ambitious space programs and have had them for quite some time. The US has historically been leading the pack as space programs have been very expensive. However, what we are seeing now is commoditization of technology and vast decreases in cost. SpaceX has quite effectively shown that you can out compete bigger players with a combination of modest availability of capital, talent and out of the box thinking. The level of their capital expenses is quite a lot more reasonable than what it took Nasa to get to the Moon or running the space shuttle program. It gets it down to the level where aspiring billionaires can get things done in reasonable time frames on reasonable budgets (Bezos, Musk, Branson, etc.). Likewise, any multinational or country with access to similar resources can hope to achieve similar results.

So, there is going to be a wave of countries, companies, and people trying to get to emulate SpaceX. Of course the military angle here is scary. Several of these countries are also nuclear powers and the nature of space rockets is that once you can get them to space, delivering payloads back anywhere on earth is relatively straightforward. That used to be the exclusive domain of the US and Russia. That's no longer true.
> No one is logically omniscient. And it shouldn't be a reason to not regulate just because we could have regulated sooner.

True, though it seems me and a few others in this thread thought they were already doing this. They at least should have a rough idea by what users already tell Facebook, but I guess they want to make it even more aware of people who don't tell Facebook everything about their personal lives. I also found it creepy that Instagram had Bluetooth data enabled, like if it wants to know where I am and compare it with where other people are by keeping track of bluetooth devices around me, of course it could just be some weird Android permissions thing I usually don't give apps permissions and reset them occasionally though.
To clear things up for confused people like me, when she says the IRA she means the Internet Research Agency, not the Irish Republican Army.
Meow requires several instructions that make it difficult to use in practice for a while.
> I would quite literally live in any Asian country before choosing any Western country.

You'd choose North Korea over Sweden?
True, for large-scale problems Hessian-vector products are often the way to go (or completely ignoring second order information). However, computing first an expression for the Hessian symbolically and then taking the product with a vector is still more efficient than using autodiff for Hessian-vector products. It is not in the paper though. But the gain is rather small (just a factor of two or so). But true, only for problems involving up to a few thousand parameters computing Hessians or Jacobians is useful.
Probably not. We're doing a lot better than we were 100 years ago, and nuclear weapons have been a great deterrent to stop many countries from engaging in wars that they might have been more tempted to if at least one of the parties didn't have nuclear weapons.
Chasing down the most annoying build system issue
I don't disagree with you, but it is hard to tell if social media platform are developed primarily for their end users or for advertisers.
#beautifulcaptchas
It’s not for saving money. Rolling shutter sensors have better dynamic range and better light sensitivity (e.g. BSI is only possible on rolling shutter sensors).
Rolling shutter sensors can also have stacked RAM which results in very, very fast readout and cancels rolling shutter artifacts.
There is no Human Rights, capital or otherwise, in the USA either. Do you think Manning got a fair trial? Do you think the people in Gitmo had rights?
I agree with the general call for skepticism against the idea that displaced reference is so unique in the animal kingdom. Where I do not agree, is the implicit argument of "if a bee can do it then it's trivial".

Within the animal kingdom, the sophistication of the honey bee's waggle dance, with predicates and combinable to a large number of phrases, is rare. The only other major example I can think of are primate calls.

Bees are also highly intelligent; on a watt for watt, pound for bound basis, their only other rival might be the portia spider. Bees can communicate angles, distance and adjust for the movement of the sun when relaying these. They can learn abstract patterns and generalize. If you asked me which was more intelligent, the honey bee or the chicken, I'd be hard pressed to give an answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_communication
It gave me a kind of uncomfortable laugh, I had to check my faculties in the same way I might ask myself if I'm dreaming right now. I see what you're saying.
Even in rural areas, getting in a car usually means the end of where a dog can track someone.
The fact that 200k people have downloaded it means it has value.

I'm actually more surprised 200k people have downloaded a custom colour scheme. But since they have, I don't think 10 EUR is excessive to charge for something like that.
How do you know when someone works at Google? They’ll tell you...
Odd this only happened now...
Don't balloons expand in the day and contact at night a bit due the sun heating the gas inside? Couldn't this stretch/release weaken the material a little and result in potential gas leaks?

To counteract this, I recall reading about people trying to send balloons across the Atlantic and needing to use ballast to stabilize the altitude and handle the gas losses. I wonder how DARPA can go without this requirement, as Helium really likes to escape whatever it's trapped inside of.
Have you seen Outdoors Stackexchange [1]? It has questions and answers on a variety of topics and although it might not have a definitive guide to camping for first timers, it definitely has plenty of questions and answers that would help.

And the great thing is, you can ask questions too!

[1]: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions
Username checks out, I wouldn't go into mental health work if I were you ;)

Is it coincidence that some of the world's most famous philosophers went mad?
Finding mentally vulnerable people and putting them in harm's way to stiffle a perceived opponent is standard operating procedure for the CIA.

If Sweden is serious about investigating sex crimes against the vulnerable they need to dig in all directions to try to find the networks of foreign spies tasked with projects like putting vulnerble women into groups the Americans don't like and making sure something happens.

But they will overlook crimes to protect those allies and follow their playbook to help those allies. So anyone against the Americans would be a fool to deal with the Swedish system if they were entraped only to end up extradited to hell.

The latest news doesn't make Assange any worse. It makes it more transparent how sick and worthless the supposed free world is. Just another bunch of kangaroo courts and a thin veneer over secret police working illegally but with impunity to harm the rights of whoever necessary for their "more important" state secrets, aka system of corruption.
Yes, someone with unknown identity, using a burner phone (or no phone) and only spending cash is going to stand out.

State actors or suitably competent criminals may be able to use fake personas though.
Doug Lenat never gave up. (https://www.cyc.com/)
I remember back in the day the stories of them using doors as conference tables to save money. Not really a surprise that they were the ones to make it through the bubble and take over the world.
It is virtually impossible to agree on a set of fields - there is always an exception: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
There is Corpora: https://github.com/dariusk/corpora/tree/master/data
I'd love it if some more common things that are done in postint scripts could be done in a declarative way, like adding system users.

And then there are things that are declarative in the debian/ dir (like auto-(re)starting the installed services) that end up as generated, procedural code in the postinst script.

When such things can be done in a declarative manner, it's much easier to reason about them programmatically, and maybe you could completely disable postinst scripts for a whole category of packages.
"Someone that does not want to be tracked by facial or gait recognition, either because he's a criminal or a political activist"

Or just someone that doesnt want to be tracked by everyone..
So did I. But I'd appreciate if someone could explain how it works.
Doesn't need to be a conspiracy, where somebody is getting rich at the company's expense.

At work we have something similar, where every few years the IT department tenders the 'preferred supplier' for general IT stuff. The logic is basically that by promising the vendors exclusivity, they will bid lower. So yes, sometimes that means we'll pay 3x for a keyboard compared to the price we'd pay at the local discount computer store; I think in general the prices for the stuff that is in the 'tendering portfolio' is very competitive, otherwise it's list price.

OTOH, we save money since the billing from the preferred supplier is worn-in standard procedure, and also employees don't waste company time searching the web for the cheapest/best/whatever keyboard.
> Seriously, it's the only decision that makes sense if one has the chops to get into one of those places.

For you, sure.

There are better ways I can think of spending my 20s and 30s than just setting up for retirement in my 40s, because when you're in your 40s, you're not in your 20s or 30s anymore.
In theory the treaty might prohibt that or torture, but in practice Sweden has extradited persons to USA who have been then tortured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
YURI MILNER
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An interesting middle ground here is when the editor can annotate the function signature's types for you, with code lens type features. Of course this only works for people who happen to be in such an editor.

Another issue I ran into recently was you can add a new type to your program, and break existing code. Where the type inference was able to deduce the type, and your new type appears to also be compatible, and now things don't compile and it is very mysterious why not!

There can be some interesting big wins by leaving types off when possible though, like super easy refactoring. Just start passing ints to a big chain of functions and you are done. No need to change the signature of a big chain of functions.
>Clarify the domain

Could typing out code be a good way to clarify the domain for some people, and/or some of the time?
I did not mean literally using dogs, but passive sensors installed, e.g. in lampposts.

I'd like to see your tricks for dealing with 100,000 such sensors, one on every street corner.

(also: https://www.canidae.com/blog/2015/10/can-you-throw-off-a-tra...

"In fact, Adam found that it was basically impossible to throw off the scent of a Bloodhound. He crossed a 100 foot wide, waist high river. He changed clothes, poured cologne and coffee on himself, threw smelly fish along the trail and used scent enzyme erasers to try to eliminate his scent.")

May the odds be ever in your favor!
Alphabet closes Schaft robotics unit
You have launched and got your first customers. That is so cool. congratulations.

The FAQ needs some work. For example,

--> We get inspired from the comedy world, where you put in the middle and receive criticism. In the last times we saw a few of them across the Internet (for instance here). Now, we want to create a specific portal for this.

--> We got inspiration from the comedy world, where you put some one in the middle and they receive criticism from everyone in the room. This model works great for websites as more eyeballs equals multiple perspectives and varied feedback. Here is an example of a web roast. We wanted to create a specific portal for this.

This can obviously be refined further.

Also your activation email ended up in spam. What service do you use to send transactional emails? (This is pure conjecture) Can the domain tld be an issue?
It'd be nice if compilers were smarter about using the stack (looking at you, cc65) -- you could have "big" stack frames and little stack frames, pass variables in registers, push values as 8-bit instead of upcast to 16-bit, convert locals to static, etc.

I'm going to take a look at yet another alternative 6502 language called C02 now: https://github.com/RevCurtisP/C02
Noise Pollution Is Making the Oceans Unbearable for Underwater Life
signatures are evaluated over the hash of the contents protecting integrity, the associated public key proves the provenance...

I do remember some of the diplomatic mails being scrubbed of identifying information of individuals (say names). This would have a low entropy, so it would seem easy to download the archives from WL, take an email with a singlle censored name, then bruteforce over alphabetic characters, and verify the hash signature. Unless WL has taken the precaution to censor at least x unpredictable bits (i.e. a single character in a name or word does NOT equate to 8 bits) where x is an infeasible bruteforce depth, in theory it should be possible to recover redactions by WL.

Edit: I may be conflating the scrubbing of names with the Snowden leaks, but I believe WL has also scrubbed some individual's nammes...
How the FSB Infiltrated the International Visa System
The PDP-6 and PDP-10 were word addressed, you could then extract any bitfield from a word with a single instruction, there wasn't a true "pointer" to that bitfield.