skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How are the situations remotely analogous?"

Are you kidding? They are almost exactly analogue.

How do you prescribe this non-profit as 'shady'?

How do you arrive at the conclusion that he was not paid some kind of market rate?

How do you arrive at the conclusion that expensive DC law firms are 'reputable'?

How do you conclude that Loretta Lynch's dealings were not at least with nefarious corporations or individuals?

Have you ever worked with a high profile law firm? You do realize that they are expensive because they help powerful people and groups bend the law, right?

He was the head of a non-profit advocacy group - and there are tons of them - and he runs around advocating for whatever cause. I'm of the inclination to believe that it was just a shade less than lobbying, ergo non-profit instead of having to register as a lobbyist.

$500K is not that much in many circles - probably a lot less than Loretta Lynch will have earned for working for who? Exactly? (I mean her client list, which is likely private)

Was she involved in defending nefarious activity by private individuals or corporations? (You do realize what lawyers do, right?) I don't know, I don't think any of us do.

The situations are actually very similar.

Hopefully, we'll get more of a chance to vet him ... but I'm doubtful there'll be much transparency on the source of his funds.
Have you looked at pictures of galaxies? They look different from a single point source. So yes, what we have is a point source that outshines galaxies. You need another theory that explains all the data as well as the current model before there is really anything to talk about here. And models do not emerge fully-formed in a single brilliant insight, they get refined and completed over time as new observations and new theories are tested to account for them. Most likely we won't have to reset all of astrophysics to explain this.
Would it be all that silent at traditional airplane speeds? Also I wonder if you ran it like the old pulse jets if it would easier to keep one aloft.
Technical Writing
How do I prove that you are a completely useless idiot who tries to legitimize blowing children to pieces?
I guess it doesn't need a proof, reading your comments I can tell that you are a ruthless low life.
Runs and experiments are not 1:1 mapped. A single container run could generate multiple experiments such as with the case of parameter search. Additionaly traditional tools for version control are not well suited for ML results and exploration. That said code is still a big piece of the puzzle. Our approach at Comet.ml is to snapshot everything whether it runs on a container or not and tie that back to git.
hmmmm rather amazing it can fully charge a phone up to 100% when it looks to be smaller tha the phone battery
Anyone know the legality of using loan acquisition as a strategy for donation and tax exemption?

- `A` loans $100,000 from `B`.

- `A` cannot pay the loan, and therefore `B` sells to loan to `C` for $10,000.

- `C` then donates money to a charity set up by `C`.

- The charity then offers to pay off `A`s loan, and the money comes back to `C`.

At this point, `C` "donates" (i.e. cycles the money) enough to make their taxes $0 per year. `A` has their mortgage slowly but surely forgiven. Win-Win, but the IRS losses.

While morally grey, what might the legality be?
I just got mine after being on the list for about a year. It's a wonderful little machine. It's how laptops should be - they should be concerned with less heat and longer battery life, not on how many cores we can run at super speed for six seconds at a time.

I'm slowly compiling all the software for it that I think I might ever need in preparation for making it my primary machine. With NetBSD, the laptop feels nimble and quick.

The keyboard layout takes a while to get used to, like the article says. For those of us who are on the command like 95% of the time, the pipe really takes some time. But aside from the layout, the keyboard feels darned good for an inexpensive laptop.

Within a month I think this will become my main portable.
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Now that Democrats are leading the House, will companies like Facebook and Equifax be more liable from actions resulting from privacy and security issues?
There absolutely are C conferences. They just aren't conferences of this type:

"We have speakers who made some cool stuff in a hyped up new language called C and are exited about it, and sharing the techniques!"

They are of this type:

"We have speakers who will share some approaches for preventing and discovering stability and security flaws in widely deployed low-level, middleware and embedded components and stacks."

You have to read between the lines that a lot of this is actually about C.

C doesn't need to be mentioned in the title because it's the 900 pound, white elephant in the room.

C conferences are also of this type:

"We have a gathering of experts in the domain area surrounding a very specialized software stack (that happens to be written in C, and carries a C API).
Seems obvious it’s a metal festival in the U.K. As for who HRH no clue.
Since gravity is about 38 orders of magnitude smaller than electromagnetic effects then there could be an electromagnetic basis here. Something to do appropriate research into.

When I did my undergraduate engineering in the late 70's, a class discussion took place on how many coulombs of charge would be required to launch a rocket into orbit. The engineering problem is to be able to input amps into a charge receptacle without it leaking away. But it was only coulombs of charge. 1 amp being equal to 1 coulomb passing by in 1 second.

The other fun discussion we had was about the effects of 1 watt of sound energy and what it would do to the matter around it - a good way to bring down a building.

One of the assumptions with regards galactic level gravity is that we are dealing with effectively electrically neutral material. If for any reason, it is not electrically neutral then gravity can easily be swamped by other forces. You can do a simple trick with your children and grandchildren by rubbing a balloon on your head hair (if you are blessed to have enough hair to start with) and having the balloon hang on the side of your head. This is simple electrostatic effect which overcomes the effect of gravity of the entire planet. My grandchildren love it when I do this and then do the same for them. They think it is a fun game.

Another example of swamping gravity is maglev effects.
I think you're misunderstanding my perspective. Think of it this way. If I said "Tracy did an amazing job for a woman" would you not read it as disparaging? I am fully aware that was not the intention, but that is how I and I am guessing many other people initially read it (judging by how many people upvoted my comment). If our goal is to challenge people's perspectives (ie women are just as capable as succeeding in the tech industry as men), it's important to understand how they read things so we can communicate effectively.

I guess I think of it as fighting sexism with more sexism. We are making a special case to point out her gender, which is pointing out that we don't treat men and women equally in tech. That's sexism, even if it's meant to be good instead of bad. We are trying to solve sexism with more sexism. I guess it may be a necessary step to get to where we want to go, but honestly I'm not convinced it's the right way to get there. To me, simply treating women as equals rather than drawing attention to their gender is the way to go. And we are not treating them equally now, otherwise we wouldn't be mentioning gender.

But I could be wrong. Maybe it is a necessary step to get to where we want to go. I am not a woman and do not pretend to understand their perspective. I am currently trying to understand it more by reading the arguments for and against affirmative action, which I believe has many parallels to this discussion.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/08/...

Anyway, I appreciate your replies.
It is technically emotional labour though. It isn't physical labour, but it is still draining.
Hard to say if it’s due to the CV or general awesomeness though.
As an analyst, using the "right term" is down at about the very bottom of my list of things to do, especially in the form of a book.

More important is communication to your audience, and in that respect "meta-cognition" is pretty awful vocabulary that strongly limits your audience in this case.
Lybia and Syria had their own rebellions to deal with. Without a popular uprising, it’s very doubtful that the USA would intervene at all like they did before in Iraq and Afghanistan. Say what you will, but the people of a country should have a right to change its government.

Also, when chaos is set into motion, the west has to decide if the costs of not getting involved are greater than getting involved. Often doing nothing isn’t viable either.
non-ANN ML is essentially a subset of linear algebra applied to statistics.

also, if you do anything involving physics simulations,
(actual physics, mechanical engineering, other engineering, etc)
you will likely use it.

also finance.
also also also.
Same. JIRA is just slow, even in basic configuration. Which is always annoying me because JIRA is 99% read-only. They could generate most of the pages and cache them until anything changes. Even pre-generate then on change. But every time you view an issue, it takes multiple seconds again.
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University leaders cannot be public intellectuals
Can you explain a bit more?
I mean we have CPPconn which talks abt frameworks and design patterns mostly
My original comment was about the right for people to have private groups and do as they please.

Everyone else's comments were about 'this specific guy' - which I was responding to.
A pdf version
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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I agree with not rolling your own crypto for your primary mechanism, layering it (in the correct order!) is guaranteed to be at least as secure as your strongest crypto.

That's what google did with CECPQ1, they use "new hope" which is a quantum resistant algorithm with traditional methods (X25519). That way if new hope is cracked, they are still using an industry standard you'd have to crack as well.
" It's when you are a public official and people can pay you for favors that this matters."

Except he wasn't in public office while working for some non-profit.

So what is your point?
Various economics courses, such as macro/microeconomics and corporate finance. These gave me a foundation for understanding investing, once I had some money to invest. (I was a CS major.)
GE and Rolls Royce make jet engines. It's a very specialized sort of thing to make, single-crystal impeller blades, exotic high temperature alloys, computational fluid dynamics combined with combustion analysis. Lockheed Martin does not make jet engines. Also, a fusion reactor has very little in common with a jet engine. Yes, I said "high temperature alloys", and a fusion reactor is very hot, but they also typically have a lot of magnetism involved. Now,we're talking non-magnetic, high temperature alloys. Jet engine designers do not need to worry about magnetic properties.

Plasma flows are not going to work like just-sub-sonic airflows either, so any CFD expertise is effectively negated. Fusion is not chemical combustion, so any expertise there is also superfluous.
It's mental labor. If you're a good moderator, there's very little to no emotions in your actions.
What do you find interesting about it? What am I missing?
You can use MoltenVK to run Vulkan via Metal (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK). Apparently performance is quite good for regular 3D rendering, compute support is officially listed, but I'm not at all sure what performance is like.
Can you win the Hutter Prize? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

It's a well known challenge and it's a simple way to have an independent validation of your method. The problem is that most people think it's too good to be true, so they'd like to see an independent validation.
Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?
Hi, all. Long time, first time. Hoping to tap into the collective HN consciousness to help make sense of this question, as I feel it's something I'm seeing/experiencing at present.

It seems like twice a week or more I read there is an industry shortage of devs, but I never hear about any companies, of any size, looking for junior devs -- or generally competent devs that might have a specific knowledge gap -- to hire and give on-the-job training to. Not even a contract-to-hire situation that leaves the company with very little risk if the developer isn't what they needed.

Is on-the-job training just flat-out dead?

I ask this because I'm 4-years-experienced as a front-end UI/interaction dev, nothing but glowing references, looking for another, similar, position (regular, not senior or lead) and have had...way too many interviews and rejections, and can't understand why companies are such sticklers for interested devs to have Every Single Box in their list of requirements checked when it would take days or a couple weeks to learn XYZ framework/library/whatever to the level of competence that is required for the position.

To further stack up the frustration, it's not uncommon to see the same position listed and re-listed on LinkedIn and Indeed for months: certainly somebody could have been hired and trained to the level needed in that time. (Maybe even me!)
What’s worse is when the application drops events during that time.
Quasars outshine the galaxies they are in so 'tis difficult to get a handle on the size of such entities - this is all I am saying. The general portrayal is that they are smaller than solar system sizes. But that is an assumption that may be completely wrong. Even if hundreds of light years across, at the distances they are seen and in comparison to the sizes of galaxies, this is still small - almost point source in effect.

Our own galaxy is, what, 150,000 to 200,000 light years across.

The problem is the basis assumption. It is correct? Is it even valid? A lot more effort is required to determine this. It is a worthy area to investigate, don't you think?
Yes - any money he takes while in public office should be disclosed, full stop. Of course. But this 'charity' operation has been in operation for a long time.

The commenters here are creating the controversy, it's not a straw-man I'm making.

This guy's background is shady enough, but not enough to imply that money received before working in government is somehow an implication of corruption.
Negotiating with every country in the EU serially is not that much better than in parallel.
Doesn't having debt get sold off to collections have many of those same problems?
Yeah, that too :(

One can route Tor traffic for .onion servers through VPNs, or even through nested VPN chains. That makes it a little harder, because the hosting provider can't easily tell that it's Tor traffic. Also, one can run a private obfsproxy, which isn't listed or indexed by Tor.
Absolutely fine to be!

I actually gave it a quick thought that I was curious how the hostnames were assigned but posted right before bed.
If tech workers keep traveling down this road, and manage to elicit class consciousness in America’s white-collar professionals — a cause long thought to be hopeless — now that would be a true innovation.
Japanese. Led me to study in Japan, get married and start a small business here.
Community maintenance is emotional labor as far as I can tell, or at least there's an overlap between the two.

Then again, I can't claim to have a problem-free view of how the terminology is applied because, as far as I can tell, it often escapes any formal definition it might have. And the waters get muddier; the more frequently the term is used to not just to apply a kind of accounting to various social/relationship dynamics but to assert an associated injustice, the more the idea that having to do any kind of emotional labor is associated with injustice.
I was hoping for this, it's the first thing I thought to try after Shortcuts was released. Now we just need to get Alexa and Cortana onboard too. Hello, Amazon and Microsoft?

"Hey Siri, ask (Google|Alexa|Cortana)..."

Put them all behind the same interface, on the same device. Let us figure out which one actually works best -- though I'd rather have a "team" of digital assistants.
Why Finland is good at handling forest fires. It’s not because of raking
Any Pressure test?
My website is expected to resist all DDOS,I believe.

Any Pressure test?

https://diygod.me
I see it differently. Meta-congition is fairly straightforward. You have meta, we know what that is. And we have cognition. Again, obvious.

Put another way, if you're in the IC or getting info from the IC and the use of the word / concept meta-cognition scares you then something is very very wrong.

The audience here isn't TMZ viewers. Is it?
Really O(N!) should nip that in the bud in itself alone. There aren't enough particles in the universe for even 1000 factorial. The scaling isn't trivial at all as the problem space grows and the interactions with itself would start eating up speed further.

While we may one day build computers able of out-competing us mentally in many fields but they would be many different machines and not just one uber-machine for the same reason that we don't try to combine the functionality of a wrench, scalpel, desktop computer, coffee mug, and an assault rifle into one tool. Even if there weren't dangers there would be major costs to it and seriously would you ever do that except as a joke?
> I seriously doubt the vast majority of the population cares.

They do. Just because they can’t put it into words doesn’t mean that they don’t care. In the early days of iOS (and to a lesser extent today, with Android finally realizing that latency is important), many people preferred iOS to Android precisely because the former “felt smoother”.
> That may or may not carry-over to more complex processes.

I don’t think they do. We really have very limited control over it. But I think that, just like you can become a professional athlete in just one sport (as opposed to many sports), you could also become very good at avoiding a specific type of bias.
This is factually incorrect, interface{} allows polymorphism. Maybe you are unaware of how interface{} works but if you want to call a method on it you just do this:

func myFunc(a interface{}) {
a.(interface{ f() }).f()
}

This works for any type "a" which has a method "f" with the correct signature, and this is what I meant when I said “except it requires casting”. The fact that you can’t do this with + is merely a consequence of the fact that + is just the __add__ method in Python, and in Golang + is not a method. The fact that Golang matches method signatures whereas Python only matches method names is not really a substantial difference in my eyes.

I don’t think there’s a strong case to be made here that interface{} is substantially different from Any in Python, again, except for the required cast. And I think we all agree that neither Python nor Golang support generics. (Python supports metaprogramming, and you can implement something similar to generics with metaprogramming, but I don’t consider that to mean that Python supports generics. Type checkers retrofitted onto Python also support generics, but I don’t really consider those to be core Python yet.)
A WebAssembly back end for OCaml
Unix System Programming. A course largely based around https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment...

An interesting side-effect of this course - I got _really_ good at using a console/command prompt and handling text with vim and pipes and filters and other text manipulation. I think this has helped me me productive at my jobs way more than I thought it would :)
Apple has slowly started merging the two, because it makes it easier for them to support devices with and without the feature.
We are working on this problem and hiring. Send an email to postmaster@protonmail.ch :)
The story of Signal
The biggest difference is that meltdown is cross privilege level. ie. it lets user space read arbitrary memory mapped to kernel space.
Actually test your bias objectively and receive feedback.

EX1: If you only add people to your team that pass your interview process you never test if it’s actually effective.

If you replace that with say a score card to rate people on various metrics then compare actual preformace with your metrics then you have some feedback to improve the system.

EX2: For a one time event like a music / art / writing contest. Remove the bias inducing elements by just judging the output.
I'm curious what your new bike is. I currently have a 12 year old (but well maintained) Trek 1000. I'd like to get some better derailleurs (I'm constantly having to adjust and clean mine). But maybe I'll just get a better bike, I don't know.

EDIT: oh, you already said it: Merida Scultura
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They're a jit, they can rewrite the attacker code.
Woo, better facial recognition for all kinds of nefarious purposes!

Edit: Dead serious, how will Rekognition positively affect the common person? All I see is a myriad of possible ways government, corporations and individuals have abused camera footage today, and emboldened with better technology these problems are likely to get much worse.
Hey :)

Many would love having DNS for .onion addresses. And there's been much talk of a .onion domain.
$4B and Growing: U.S. Payouts for Vaccine Injuries and Deaths Keep Climbing
As someone else suggested before this comment was posted, use a balloon for lift?

Maybe combine the whole thing with project loon like internet relays. With a source of thrust like this it would be much easier to keep them where you want them.
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Exactly. Which is WHY it is emotional labour....

From Wikipedia....

"Emotional labour is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job.

More specifically, workers are expected to regulate their emotions during interactions with customers, co-workers and superiors."

The mods are expected to regulate their emotions.

Which makes it emotional labour by default.
Don’t they also have to be an insider? If an officer of company A buys securities from company B based on inside knowledge of company A, does that even count as insider trading?
I turned off app notification for maps (and every other app that has ever sent me an unwarranted notification) and my phone is refreshingly silent most of the time.
Our fresh install was noticeably slow. Even if it were fast (it's not), they sell the thing as a customizable solution. Few people get everything they need from a vanilla install. That's kinda the whole selling point.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the primary role of IC analysis is to connect dots that other "lay people" / "civilians" might not normally see. To cross bounds and span silos, etc. in other to add value.

That being said, if this book is afraid to venture outside its safe zone (and mention meta-congition, even in a passing reference) then this book, by defintion, has failed to do what IC analysis is supposed to do. Ironic, huh.

I think it's ssafe to say history is on the side of my analysis of this analysis ;)
Maybe it’s because of the 100 page limit, but it’s pretty unusual to put supervised linear methods with unsupervised clustering. Usually, those are two different chapters.