skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a waste of your time or your money when someone else picks up a can off the beach?

Help. Don't help.

But sneering at their effort is just mean.

Bravo and +1 to all the engineers on this very excellent project.
Why the fuck do they need to be networked?

Don't give me some bullshit answer about, "Oh, search, oh the web..."

And don't give me that bullshit about, "Oh, but natural language processing needs computational power that won't fit in your pocket."

I only need the internet for a few specific things.

The things I could use a voice interface aren't hard, and don't always involve the internet.
> The larger carriers seem to have bad support

That's hardly surprising.

Though, in my case, I would prefer insolent customer support that solved my problem to polite customer support (I did put that under "the good") that couldn't help.
It is well documented in social psychology that individuals have a hard time with difficult tasks in front of others because their working memory is monitoring the social situation. It is called "social facilitation theory." Technical interviewing is not based on any kind of evidence based HR practices but is entirely instinctual. My pet theory is that the whiteboarding / coderpad epidemic is really a status hierarchy game where individuals make it clear 'if you want to work here, you are going to do what I say.'
On what do you base that assertion? I've never heard anything about that. Their headquarters have been in Washington state for a long time as far as I know.
You seem to be under the impression that the NHS requirements remained static?
That doesn't appear to pass the smell test. According to this* there are only 52,000 merchant ships operating globally so the thought of each ship dumping 20,000lbs of plastic overboard each year in acerage (a rough estimate based on 5.6m tons currently existing and that number "regenerating" each decade as old plastic falls to the sea floor or gets ingested) seems to be unreasonable. I've seen some of the rivers referenced in that "forwards fron grandma" level infographic and I'm inclined to believe it.
Per the article, the hospital did refuse, at least at first, probably on those grounds.
And they're correct to object, the notion that we need apply authoritarian control over labels is absurd and wrong. You don't need to force GMO products to be labelled when non-GMO products are perfectly free to advertise that on their label.

It's one thing to say you can't lie on a label, that's fraud, but it's wrong to mandate what should be on a label and what words they must use. The GMO moniker is a smear intended to take advantage of consumer ignorance to scare them away from perfectly good food. There's no real evidence against GMO, it's just fear mongering. Most of our food is not natural and hasn't been for a very very long time.

> if consumers would want to know so they could avoid a product, as admitted by the lobbiest, shouldn’t be entitled to know?

They can already know now, by looking for companies voluntarily labeling their products non-GMO. There's more than one way to reach that goal, one requires forced compliance and the other allows freedom; the freedom approach is better. Forcing your competitors to label their products as GMO to take advantage of the irrational fear and superstition of the public is just plain evil.

It's funny watching people like you pretend you're being the good guy when you're really the bad guy trying to make everyone else behave the way you want them to rather than simply choosing to do business with the people who are the way you want them to be.

Here's an idea for you and everyone who thinks like you; worry about your own behavior and stop trying to tell everyone else how they should behave. You're not forced to buy their products, if you don't like their labels, take your business elsewhere. That's how things work in a free country.
I have used blind. Some posts were pretty blatant. Just like Madison-Ashley, someone is going to dump all those posts in future. And somebody will create an indexable search, maybe paid access for employers - instead of open access for public. Not a good thing.
I’m going to love watching liberal people try to figure out how this is bad
It's all about TC this TC that tho occasionally one might be able to glean some Leetcoding tips. But generally degenerate.
In my case they were massive flagship stores that Chat support suggested I go to with an appointment. Pretty sure it had to do with the complexity of the repair both times.
As I said, I "figured that maybe I would get lucky and never have to deal with them". It seems either you lucked out or my luck was shit. The latter is probably more likely.

However, inevitably a subset of customers will run into problems, and when that happens, having zero troubleshooting material after they officially announced iOS support is rather stupid.
Are you up for working 8 hours a day? My experience is that many jobs (even in the top companies) allow you to stay relatively unmotivated after a certain point which is fairly easy to reach (1 to 2 years). You still have to do something, though, but not nearly as much as one might think.
Here is the moonshot AI funtion I would like:

Knowledge Capture and Cataloger:

Basically an AI that acts as an intelligent Evernote/Notebook where it will ask you to explain things - you will explain it, and it will capture what you described - and you can tell it to keep links and information regarding any subject.

Basically the "Captain's Log" from star trek - but it will then add depth and information and links it finds based on what you put in there. (I just hope to god FB never attempts to provide this)
That's a weird, vindictive way to expend your energy.
Yeah, my bar is already pretty low. Random insults directed at me are fine, but I’m not going to ask my team to even evaluate this as viable software, because both the women and men will probably be uncomfortable with this. That’s a sad state for a technical project to be in.
That's a slightly different situation, though. The "original" article is about an Iranian national who now lives in Canada, while this "dupe" article covers both that case and multiple others with the claim that Slack is banning anyone who has ever visited one of the sanctioned countries.
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library.

We have a full-time and fully-staffed team comprising developers, designers, user researchers, product/project managers etc. focussed purely on this piece of work.

In our role working to deliver health content to the general public we take very seriously the need for our content to be accessible to users and we invest accordingly. This frontend library is something we hope to push to other healthcare providers as part of a wider drive towards standards adoption.

None of this work has come cheap, but in the public sector we work to very strict budgets (and some would say lower pay) and I would say the public are getting very good value for money here. (We are judged by and required to provide proof of "benefits realisation".)
It's bad that it took this long.

There, did you love that?

Also, what happens to people who are currently incarcerated because it wasn't? It'd be nice to address that, too.
Indeed; I know of (and have joined) multiple Slack "organizations" that are just individuals chatting about things. Didn't cost me anything.
Having a sense of humor is such a nice thing. Can’t I poke a little fun? Cheers man
Empire is an amazing game! I grew up playing it with my dad. So many good memories, and I think it stands the test of time; I still play sometimes. Never thought I'd run into its author on HN!
Both of which exist in droves for IRC (hell, even Slack at one point had an IRC integration).
> Doesn’t describe my government.

This mindset seems to be why the US political parties keep handing each other more and more federal power. Nobody can imagine their nation would be so stupid as to ever put the Other Guys back in power again.
I agree that exhaustiveness check enforced by compiler is something I will miss in Java.

Persistent data structures have been implemented in Java if that's what you mean by efficient mutations to immutable structures. I can't imagine such structures being hard in any language hosted on the JVM or CLR.

F#, and ML-family languages, surely have their killer features. I am only contesting the claim that the GP made that modeling a domain is a struggle in C# when compared to F#.

Imagine if someone came on this thread and claimed that they struggle to write effectful code in F# which they have been writing in Haskell. Of course, you have counter-evidence of that in all the F# programs you have written so far! I feel the same about the inability-to-domain-modeling claim.
SO basically, they are investing $1B in the Dabba Walla industry:

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/273954/how-4-000-men...

Where the avg income of a Dabba Walla seems to be ~$975/year
The intent of the red sole infringer was to make people think they were Louboutin. It wasn’t red soles for red soles’ sake: it was to intentionally dilute (or piggy-back upon) the Louboutin Design. Just like someone calling a restaurant MacDonalds instead of McDonald’s.
He’s a slow typer
God, this is great. My personal favourite bit is "I am tempted to go full Slav on Conor....".

If there are any would-be impresarios or producers out there, I propose the following format for an adaptation of this that would permit a wider audience: Audio is a word-for-word recital of the existing text (narrated by Maciej if he wants the job). Video should be simply micro-vignettes of the scenes described: the perplexed Russians (regarding gluten), the threatening Chief Mate, the unstoppable eating of Rodney, the scalded hands of Bill. I think it's got the possibility to be a cult classic.
I did not watch the video, but those last two links reference the same Kaiser Permanente study which is thoroughly rebutted here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/40218/do-wifi-a...

The main thrust of it is that the particular study the media twisted into “cell phones cause miscarriages” looked at radiation only in the 40–1000Hz range which has nothing to do with WiFi or cell phones. Furthermore, the study itself made no claims at all of a physical mechanism causing the effect that was observed.
Isn’t SHA2 the standard hashing algorithm? If not, what do people use now?
"cost you an arm and a leg" and "for a song" don't seem like the others. Those two makes metaphorical sense without being idioms (even though they are idioms). You could translate them to any language, dialect, etc. and the meaning is still clear. Not so with your other examples.
This is just my two cents but I think lots of practice with various companies will help you get more confident. Apply to a bunch of jobs you probably wouldn't even want to do. You'll be less stressed about them because you don't care as much about getting them, then slowly ramp up to other companies.
WOW! I actually basically meant something similar with the point about extending learning bullet in the post, but some of the features you've outlined are killer. That would be soooo cool
It is worth noting, that coeliac disease is a real thing, where gluten-free diet must be strictly adhered to. These kinds of dismissive articles, which treat gluten-free diets fads are extremely dangerous for those suffering the illness, since it makes the general public not to take it seriously.
How we can secure our data better for the future
The fraudster was named CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/top-der-spiege...
Well, this outfit sounds much more impressive than the vague prospects of Corel's Linux offering:

> Geeknet, Inc. owns the online retailer ThinkGeek and is a subsidiary of GameStop. The company was formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, and SourceForge, Inc.

> VA Research was one of the first vendors to build and sell personal computer systems installed with the Linux operating system, as an alternative to more expensive Unix workstations that were available at the time. It was the largest vendor of pre-installed Linux computers, with approximately 20% of the Linux hardware market.

> Intel and Sequoia, along with Silicon Graphics and other investors, added an additional $25 million investment in June 1999.

> In fiscal 1999, the company's sales grew to $17.7 million, up from $5.5 million in fiscal 1998. In fiscal 2000, the company's sales were $120.3 million.

> owned Slashdot from 2000 till 2012
Also, to be fair, Disney does a lot of real creativity with the public domain stories they adapt. They aren't just copies.
AI Market Ramps Everywhere
Society cares about working products, not the tech behind it - I don't see calls specifically for making critical software open source any time sooner than the year of the Linux desktop.

Regulations and fines are proven tools, and even if it doesn't make autonomous cars significantly safer, it will make them expensive enough to reduce fatalities.
It’s crazy to me to think about the minimal cost to disrupt so much of the economy and so many peoples lives. If you think about it a drone is practically a homing rocket if it gets in or near an airplane. Surprised it’s not more common.
reminder: current FBI directory Christopher Wray invented Parallel Construction back in 2005. In 2005, Wray was then the head of DOJ's Criminal Division, and Wray was the 17th person in the entire Govt outside of NSA to be "read into the program" and briefed on Bush's President's Surveillance Program, now known as NSA's STELLARWIND program.

Wray's job was to lead a DOJ team of attorneys and to scrub criminal and terrorism indictments of any hint of evidence which originated in the NSA's then illegal domestic surveillance dragnet, and replace that evidence with Parallel Constructions to deceive the Court about how the Govt knew what it knew.

The declassified IG report about STELLARWIND is here:

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2015/PSP-09-18-15-vol-III.pd...

The 8 pages which mention Wray and describe his role in creating the practice of Parallel Construction are here:

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Given Wray's intimate involvement in Parallel Construction, I have zero hope that any help is coming from the very top of FBI/DOJ to shed light on what is going on, how much the Feds are really using Parallel Construction, how far they are going with it, and most importantly, giving us some kind of proof that they have stopped abusing it and bowing to some kind of real oversight process to ensure us that our entire legal system is not a Star Chamber in a Soviet Kangaroo Court on Clownworld.

Why would Wray budge one inch when he's the top honcho responsible for the whole debacle? The buck stops at him. And given the Fed's dismal track record, it's safest to assume Parallel Construction has not stopped, but has expanded and been rolled out even further.

HEMISPHERE is the AT&T dimension of Parallel Construction, so what about the Verizon dimension? And the Sprint dimension? And all the rest of the Telcos and cellular providers? Is AT&T special and only their databases are used for PC? Of course all the telcos are in on it. Wanna bet this is all a sub-compartment of PRISM? We still haven't seen the rest of the PRISM slides leaked by Snowden. On the slide deck it shows the slide numbers up into the hundreds, but only about a dozen of the slides have been published. Where's the rest of it?

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1522617577597.jpg
> Everyone who did nothing came up with something better

With that attitude, no research projects will ever go to production.

As an aside, spending money doesn't destroy it. You talk as if some grave crime was committed... nah. People passionate about the environment (or at the very least, blue collar folks in need of work) likely earned a living supporting this project, something that wouldn't have happened if zero dollars were spent trying to solve the problem. The funding will continue only if we're willing to spend towards validating or invalidating new ideas; researchers just need to either rework or exclude this approach and explore others as different concepts succeed or fail.
I was having a conversation with a coworker and was looking for exactly what Tile38 is, telling them the amazing kinds of realtime-GIS things available out there, and I remember seeing this a while back but didn't remember the name. Thanks for jogging my memory.

I'd love to see a writeup on how you efficiently did this (I'm assuming protobufs?). I'm constantly telling one of my clients (gov) that it's no longer a big deal to show even 10,000 points on a map thanks to Mapbox GL etc in a performant way, without relying on GeoJSON. Now I can show this proof of concept.
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library.

NHS Digital are working on a "Standards Library" encompassing how to go about building healthcare websites and services (as opposed to generic government services) which encompasses not only the design of a website but also the whole lifecycle of the service.

We still have work to do, but I think 2019 will see the release and adoption of our ideas across the UK!
I don’t think so. It’s only there by default on client, not server, though.
bcrypt is one example: https://auth0.com/blog/hashing-in-action-understanding-bcryp...
As others have said here, practice. In my career coaching service, I guide clients to practice 10-20x the length of the interview. Have a close friend test you on concepts or talk about the biggest potential areas for red flags on your resume or LinkedIn Profile as employers are looking to minimize risk. Interviewing is acting but playing yourself under stress conditions. So replicate the environment you will be in. Only 5-10 hours will make a world of difference.

To reduce stress, think about it as a conversation between colleagues (of different seniority). You are transferring information not in a court of law defending yourself.

Good luck.
I would take 2kg of bacon over an Echo Dot
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library.

I'll be making sure we remove our jQuery dependency when I can. For now the team is simply aiming to get to an MVP that we can iterate on :-)
Yeah, I have to agree. I read it the same way you have. Especially ...both CBD and THC are active ingredients in FDA-approved drugs and were the subject of substantial clinical investigations before they were marketed as foods or dietary supplements. Under the FD&C Act, it’s illegal to introduce drug ingredients like these into the food supply ...

I may be totally wrong here, but I feel like the FDA, rather than easing up on the regulation of marijuana, has just stated that it's about to clamp down on all these products currently being marketed at your local medicinal pot store.
Really typical. It’s worse than reddit and hardly has anything useful. I was an early user when it first started but got turned off by the number of spammed posts that were so toxic.
Author here. I do not work for google. I mistakenly thought that obvious, but clearly it's been misunderstood.

And here's where I take umbrage with your response: I'm an engineer. I'm not here to sugar coat shit for people. There are a dozen different legitimate reasons someone may position some element over a video rendering window, and it is 100% MSFT's bad for not even considering this test case when they wrote their rendering engine.

And what really irks me is: thousands and thousands of people on the Internet seem to take this story by some MSFT intern as not only plausible but probable. And that's bullshit. Our standards for truth as engineers should be higher than that.
Google is trying to take overomgeeees!!

This some if the best I've seen yet. AMP is great at its purpose.
Having to pay for the extra traffic is similar to having to pay for rent and staffing for that day of the sit in. Its built in costs of operating that have to be paid because their time of running the business was temporarily suspended.
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library.

I will pass on your comments about RSS to our architect (who gets to decide these things).

We do syndicate all of our content via a service which requires registration. Maybe you could try this as a workaround?

https://developer.api.nhs.uk/
Should the Nike Swoosh be protected?
Thanks for your reply!

8 hours seems like quite a bit to me. I feel like I would most likely burnout much too quickly at that rate to last even a couple of months. I was unable to complete my college degree for this reason and dropped out.

That sounds interesting though. When you say you're allowed to be relatively unmotivated, does that correspond to being able to spend a lot of those "work hours" however you like without penalty?
Like any anonymous forums, Blind is toxic. Hope it dies a quick death
The best way is just keep asking for answers. There are so many Iranians working in software companies. They can't just simply wipe out accounts just because
My thoughts exactly. For a very small amount of money, they have inflicted huge costs in terms of money and time. I'd expect these situations to continue to crop up ... easy to carry out; cheap; very hard to defend against and effective at gaining media attention.
How to Delete Facebook
Not to socialists
We have not yet released examples of interfaces with Pytorch.
Maybe with moderate number of hyperparameters the benefit compared to random search will be moderate, whereas it will be very significant with high number of hyperparameters.
It also depends on how parallel you are. In all cases we have a wide range of algorithms with a common interface, so that you can compare.

We also use it for direct training of the weights of a network in reinforcement learning, not only hyperparameters.
GA stands for genetic algorithms.
The argument isn't that they want to hide this information from customers. It's that a government-mandated label gives the false impression that GMOs are harmful. Why would a label be required if they weren't? This would mislead people who don't currently care whether their food contains GMOs.

It would also add cost to track the supply chain sufficiently to make the labels accurate and it would reduce the space available for other more useful labels.
Big fabs don't pay $80 for one 300mm wafer
THC is soon to follow, I hope. - From Wisconsin
Just use Katamari technology. Boom, problem solved.
Sure GA can be great for weights as well - but mainly when gradient is unreliable. I would not use Nevergrad for training the weights of a convolutional network for image classification for example; whereas I use Nevergrad for WorldModels.
Where "interstate commerce" := all commerce.
For password hashing, you want the operation to be slow. That way it becomes infeasable for someone to brute force many passwords.

SHA2 is very fast.
Some perspective: Charter Communications made $~15 Billion gross profit on ~$40 Billion in sales in 2017. It takes them about 38 hours to generate $174 Million.
Just to be clear, dietary fat is not good as implied by your statement:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/CIR.000000000000...
Is quantum computing a cybersecurity threat?
Even after all of these years I still see a continued underestimation of how good China is at these types of hacks. There's very plausibly no nation/group better at it, or that could do it better, including the NSA. They have accumulated immense experience and it's an always on process with China, so they evolve and learn with security adjustments.