skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democratization and decentralization go hand in hand. I dont know how people forget that.

If you read about Hitler's rise, at the time one of his problems was the democratization in Germany of policing. They were basically independent throughout the country, and many signalled independence, and even disobedience. He needed control of them through an authoritarian hierarchy so that's what he did, he centralized policing.
I checked out the "cloud infrastructure" section and there's no challenge questions or code snippets. It's less of a "Tech Dev Guide" and more of a "Here Are Some Bookmarks I Found, Check Off The Ones You Read". It's not a terrible idea, but more of a suggested reading list than a "guide".

There's at least 10 years of such articles and videos piled up on the internet. Going through them all will take a long time, and even if it covers working with Google products the way Google wants you to, it's not necessarily the way you're going to use Google products at your company.

What I really want is a single place where all of this can be documented, first as overviews, and then deeper knowledge that isn't exposed by blog posts or books, or even official documentation. I want an authoritative tech encyclopedia built on knowledge shared by a community of experts.

I'm trying to cobble something like that together right now, but it's surprisingly hard to organize in a way that isn't just a list of quick start guides for tools. And then there's what you present first, and how. Do you need to know Git merging strategies before you learn build pipelines, or can you just make some assumptions and wait til later?
Why choose Java when you can pick from the more modern languages that also run on the JVM: Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, etc. You get all the advantages of speed and libraries without the imo bad language design.
Google had several possible solutions:

- warn before navigating

- give options for the keyboard shortcut

- change shortcut unilaterally

They chose the third, which some (likely the overwhelming majority) preferred. I didn't, so I switched to Firefox. We're both happy this way I guess.
Old man yells at cloud...
> Feels like consumers could win on many fronts here.

Consumers will win on tons of fronts and a lot of dead jobs will be cut, and it'll be spun by a large contingency of people of increasing unemployment and hating the middle class more. That's generally what happens when actual pro-consumer stuff happens, and I expect this to especially be true regarding cars.
Blythe Masters Steps Down in Surprise Departure from Digital Asset Holdings
Deleted my Facebook nearly 6 months back. Never missed it

Deleted my Instagram three weeks back because my feed was 1 ad for every 3 posts. Haven't missed it.

If I could only get rid of Whatsapp, I would never need to use anything from this awful company
> also 'shitttalks randos' isn't something to aspire to want to do, especially in your context where it's being listed as a tool used by Musk to get people to think he's a 'regular guy'.

Everyone does this. At family gatherings, the grocery store, etc. You all do it. I'm sure one or two people will chime in and say they've never badmouthed a random person at the post office who was taking too long, but everyone knows the truth.
I wish more people understood this instead of believing that people who prefer the other side are wrong and bad.
Citation needed, please. Give me data. I may sound like a prick, but honestly, making such a claim without data just becomes a 'his word versus mine' situation which is anecdotal
It’s public knowledge as far as any background checks or loan applications are concerned.

You give permission for those and the data accessed is often not public. There are degrees of privacy - what you're trying to do make up your own definition of 'public' and then have message board fights about it. It's not really a sensible position, let alone interesting conversation.
> I wish people would ask this question of IPFS more often.

Well, that's what Filecoin is for. Although I'm generally skeptical of cryptocurrency, as well as the scalability of technologies like IPFS. But we'll see.
> In theory, a butterfly flapping its wings might be amplified in a sophisticated weather system and cause a storm in a distant location several weeks later.

No, that's not what the butterfly effect means at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
Opt in vs opt out, pretty clear distinction.
> presenting just a sequence of calls ... that must implement provably worse algorithms.

You've never really established why this matters given that the goal of the challenge was to present the value of literate programming.

The goal wasn't an optimal algorithm or minimal resource consumption - the goal was to demonstrate the value of literate programming on a small data processing problem.

This is a very different problem than writing an optimal or highly scalable algorithm.
I submitted a bunch of stream of consciousness JIT and related posts today, if this interests you, check out these too:

Basic JIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18708410 (even simpler version of the above post)

Cult of the Bound Variable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18708366 (just pure insanity [pdf])
Wow. Is it safe? Hope it will no produce any by-product like not existing climate change(/rant).
Amazon and Google Have the Last Cloud Readers
In a lot of jurisdictions (like SF, where I live) the case will likely not be prosecuted by the DA even if there is irrefutable evidence, and the accused will be out on the streets the next day. This is why the police don't bother.
That's not true at all. You can, for example, sequester it by injecting it into the earth.
Populism is overtaking this country's feelings about society, government, and wealth. It doesn't matter what rich people do, it is inevitable they will all be made out to be villains who exploit human capital and do nothing good for us.

Gates has avoided some of it but not all. Everyone remembers where he came from and never lets him forget it. There is no atoning for him.

Larry Ellison on the other hand is just the devil incarnate and people treat him as such. At least he expends no energy pretending otherwise.
I posted a bunch of JIT stuff today, and if this is at all interesting, check out these other posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18708416 (Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012))

and

Cult of the Bound Variable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18708366 (just pure insanity [pdf])
You can't make that judgment without actually knowing Elon without being completely superficial and willing to be swayed by media reports of him.
The point is, Tor relies on establishing a connection with a server which will provide content, Freenet simply distributes data and that data can come from any client/server on the network, Tor's hidden services are modeled off the traditional client server model, while Freenet operates more like a P2P network.

That difference in model is what provides a potential anonymity benefit as there's no longer a path to the origin of the content
Elon Musk's Boring Company set to unveil its first Los Angeles-area tunnel
>Clean coal is, necessarily, 100% bullshit

Necessarily = chemically and thermodynamically
I use Python for functional programming and I don't miss multiline lambdas. I have a large monitor, so vertical space isn't at a premium for me.
Check with local universities to see if any offer a sliding-scale clinic at which you could just pay directly.

In SV, for example, Palo Alto University student therapists do rotations at the Gronowski Clinic in Los Altos.
All of these were data sharing agreements, they were two way. Samsung, for example, had access to Facebook and also gave Facebook contact info
at https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/explore-cs/

Both links to careerswithcode.com are broken.
I also have several Pythons installed. For me that's because of incompatibility between community packages I've installed, rather than differences in Python versions. Unfortunately, the various smaller communities can't always stay in sync. Right now there's a conflict between XGBoost and NumPy using MKL on MacOS. That's not a Python problem, exactly, as the issue is conflicting use of OpenMP, written in C, C++, and Fortran.
Show me evil that cannot be justified with enough words, and I'll show you an uncreative salesperson.
This sucks and shouldn’t be true, but it is: make this the police’s problem. Make it easier for them to do what you ask than to ignore you or give you platitudes. Call every damn day day. Explain the situation from scratch, in detail. When they say they can’t do anything, ask for a supervisor. Repeat. Do not get upset. Be friendly, but annoy them into submission. They are human. Lazy humans with a very easy out ‘this isn’t the biggest problem I have to deal with today’. Make fixing this a sexy damn option as compared to hearing from you day in and day out. Email them a form letter that they can just sign, that you can give to foot locker and the bank. When they ignore it or say they can’t do it digitally, show up with copies. Every Day Until They Sign. Again - you shouldn’t have to do this.
“What about people who don’t have the time for this?!?”

Yup, they’re fucked. But you have the time, so you aren’t.

It’s a dumb, bullshit game, but it is what it is.
The only honest incentive is if you charge a high price for a successful relationship. The downside is you have to send people a bill when they get married.
How do people consume news today? What would it take to change their habits? What are their complaints about news feeds today? How would it work ideally?

Start from UX, and then build an experience. Almost no one cares how the digital goods work, it's all magic and that's ok
How a entrepreneur who raised $60MM uses trello to run his fundraising process
RE: Royal Bank of Canada, their access to the Messages API was specifically to let people send money to their friends via Messenger through the RBC app.

In Canada, the only way method for P2P money transfer is through a system called Interac, which relies on email addresses. Using Facebook Login + Messenger was a big improvement since it's harder to accidentally send money to the wrong person.
>warn before navigating

This requires too much page context. A search field being partially filled is very different than a long registration form being worked on.

>give options for the keyboard shortcut

You said yourself, they released an extension for this.
Humans, all humans, are prideful. What you are talking about is admitting that the job they have been doing for years and is their best hope of a decent standard of living is literally killing them. That the red meat beliefs they are fed about the evils of government regulation built on the threats of a loss of that income.

On top of that you pile evidence about one thing. Sure it's true but this isn't about a single fact or outcome or causality, it's about conceptual change[0] which is about changing one or more of the schema that frame how we see the world. That is significantly harder and a lot of studies show that evidence contrary to a belief not only is ineffective at creating it, it can reinforce it.

long story short...the attitudes and reactions have very little to do with the chain of evidence related to disease.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_change
A college student in the 1960s with no computer experience or access started such a service: https://slate.com/technology/2014/03/before-okcupid-and-matc...
Vathys (YC W18) is hiring compiler engineers to build the future of ML hardware
Title: Chief Compiler Architect

Where: Remote work is fine

Job Description:
Vathys is building a fundamentally novel, programmable, parallel processors.
At core, the architecture can be thought of as a static dataflow processor.
As such, compilation consists of extracting a dataflow graph from the program and
mapping it to the dataflow engine in the Vathys processor.

We are taking a refreshingly simple yet effective approach to compiler design.

The goal is to create a basic compiler which is the pretty much the simplest possible
compiler, and then, to use machine learning techniques as the optimizer. This way, there is little
effort needed on the optimizer components of the compiler. This means in part that considerable effort
will be needed on the frontend.
This also helps hide the considerable complexity of traditional place and route optimizers which are often
necessary for other dataflow processor compiler toolchains.

Skills and Qualifications:

1. Experience in developing compilers (must have).
2. Experience in machine learning, especially deep learning and reinforcement learning (good to have).
3. Experience in working with computational graph intermediate representations, such as Glow, ONNX (very good to have).
4. Experience with auto-tuners, especially domain specific auto-tuners like TVM is good to have

Compensation: Generous compensation will be given to the right talent.

If you're interested, please email tapabrata_ghosh (a t) vathys.ai
"Why not follow one of these paths curated by university computer science faculty and Google engineers?"

The fact that Google equates their engineers with university faculty is either incredibly delusional or arrogant.
You'd have to human-label that speech. That already won't scale very well, and requires per-language annotation.

Understanding and tweaking it should be done with hyper parameters, not semantic libraries.
Any case studies?

I once found a vulnerable API endpoint for a staffing company and ended up exporting their whole client database.
I see the same property at the heart of the theory of disruption.

Part of me thinks a safety first, collectively owned and organized coal mine would be a hell of a fun thing to try and create.
WebSQL's SQL spec was literally:

> User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19.

That's only a "standard" in the way that "Chromium-compatible" is becoming a standard.
How did money upset it without tech disruption?
> Vaping looks to be a lot more effective way of delivering high doses of nicotine than cigarettes

That's not true, from my personal experience cigarettes are MUCH more powerful.

Also I don't understand why everyone so obsessed about nicotine as a main active agent. It looks relatively harmless when comparing with smoke, carbon monoxide, tar in cigarettes and strange substances in e-cigarette vapor (not including nicotine).
Vultr is good and cheap. You have to use a disposable visa gift card for your first $20 payment, but affer that bitcoin payment is enabled. the best visa cards are the $500 ones from simon malls-- 2.99$ activation fee and no ongoing or expiration fees. pay cash.
But the NFPA and the NEC are frequently updated. Modern buildings built to code are much safer. The problem now is mostly inspection and compliance. There should not have been field modifications of the structural steel at the San Francisco transit center and the fuckwad “artists” in Oakland built their ghostship deathtrap without a care for any lessons the previous 150 years of tragedies had taught us.
I may be completely talking out of my bottom.

The reason for relicensing were to do with Patents.

Do ALL Patents have be under Contract law and not under Copyright law?

Or it is actually possible to have a license that fits the spirit of BSD, with GPL compatibility while having patents protection without the objection of OpenBSD ideals?
Oh yeah, totally. The more domain-specific you get, the more coherent (and narrowly powerful) your experience can be.

However, there are obvious costs in terms of context-switching, learning curve, career flexibility, and so on, which is why general-purpose languages are so popular.
The dealership model is so crappy. You can go to a website and order a car, but you’re still directed to a dealer.

Like Japan, you go to a dealer, and they don’t even have cars (or a very limited amount as just ‘show cars’). You order them custom made.

I think these places make money, enough to pay workers and bills, because they are essentially owned by the local factories. Not by people. But I am probably wrong about that.

Dealerships should only exist for used cars, IMO.
I listened to this on NPR earlier, didn't reread it, so I don't know if this isn't present in the piece, or other posters just didn't read. Miners said that the respirators got clogged quickly, and it would feel like someone had their hands over your mouth. And the respirators that are recommended and provided protect you from coal dust, but not what causes this disease, silica dust.
> I've come across a few cases, when pushing python's type annotations to their limits, that force you to put the type names in string quotes

With pep-0563, python3.7, and `from __future__ import annotations` this should no longer be necessary. Those are some pretty detailed caveats, but I have been using it in places where I can and it is so nice.
Actually looking at their "brute force" solution, what I was referring to as brute force was their "greedy" algorithm, and the first optimization I came up with was the most optimal solution. I'd call that a very natural strategy to take -- try doing the words simultaneously instead of separately, and you see it.

I don't even see that as DP.

Not everybody will be as quick as me, but there are plenty of people that don't spend a month practicing for a Google interview. If somebody is practicing solving data structures problems for the first time in their life, that's fine -- maybe they went to a substandard school. But if they have to spend a month refreshing any time they want a job, it means their brain drops skills they learn that are closely related to the job they do. That means their experience is worthless -- they aren't retaining it, long-term.
Isn't it the addictive part? It would be a lot easier to avoid all the other harmful stuff in the vapor if it wasn't addictive.
It works reasonably well for the majority of the developed world. What's different about the US?
Nobody has forgotten anything, it was a carefully orchestrated effort by people that understand the consecuences perfectly well and doesn't care. Everything else is propaganda carefully created to make dumbasses scream "job killing regulations" without understanding that regulation is good for them.
I see a lot of technical jargon but wondering how all of this relates and fits in with (if at all) the redesign?
A sales job will always be one of the easiest ways to get hired in the US, and also one of the easiest ways to go unpaid and mistreated for a long time.

It's rare than anyone buys from an outbound sales person anymore, especially when it's not very complex or important.

I'm thoroughly surprised that food service companies would go door to door to beg for revenue. That is far more desperate than spam emailing,
Not just US-specific, but anywhere where the police force believes themselves to be separate from the folks they are policing. The police force in the US arose from "slave patrols."

So in Germany, you might have "Germans policing Germans", but in the US it's basically "Whites policing Blacks".
I'm not sure where you get the idea that the Java ecosystem is shrinking when every quantifiable measure (stack overflow polls and data releases, GitHub data) point in the other direction.

Further, if you factor in the growth of languages like Kotlin and Scala the JVM is blowing Python out of the water.
PAPRs also suck to wear. I agree it makes sense to force the issue given the obvious benefit of not being unable to breath at 40, but a short sighted view along with tough guy attitude can go against common sense without robust regulation. I had to wear those in nuclear environments and they limit vision significantly and beep constantly if you bend over and choke the hose at all.
As I mentioned in another post, the triangle inequality roughly holds, with some counter examples in proportion to what one would expect from a stochastic process.

If you’re asking specifically about instances of non-treelike gene transfer, the answer is twofold:

First, and I may be mistaken here (I’ve been out of the field for a few years) I think that any metric fulfilling the triangle inequality has a corresponding, consistent tree. So you’ll get a tree, totally. It may just not be the correct one.

Second, if you are asking for our ability to quantify divergence from that model, I’ll give a short explanation of the codon usage method mentioned before as an example:

The genetic code has 4 letters (ACGT) that translates to a different sequence consisting of 21 Amino Acids (a chain of amino acids is a protein, such as the enzymes doing catalysing all the fancy chemical reactions in your body)

Each three letters of DNA code one “letter” of the protein sequence, meaning one amino acid. Since 4^3 > 21, the code isn’t quite optimal.

There are some three-letter sequences that contain meta instructions like start/stop, and some that don’t have any meaning. But there are also instances of two or more three-letter sequences translating to the same amino acid. They are functionally identical. You can replace them in the lab, without any change in phenotype.

For some reason, some species (or even branches in the teee of life) still show preferences for using one or the other three-letter code for a given amino acid.

If you plot which of the (functionally identical) codes are used within a bacterial genome, you can find sudden changes, where the preference switches dramatically for some lenght, then returns to the previous preference.

That’s indicative of a piece of DMA that jumped across the tree. It’s really not very subtle when you know to look for it.

Another, even more obvious, example is viral DNA: this tends to end up as mangled, non-coding (“junk”) DNA, containing (fragments of) genes that often have nothing in common with the rest of the DNA, but have long stretches nearly identical to, say, a known gene for some viral coat.

In terms of quantification I’m really at the limits of my memory (and, unfortunately, in-flight internet), but I’ll take a stab and the former mechanism can be found in 5-10% of bacterial genomes, and amount to usually less than 8% of he genome, with maybe one or two exceptional cases with 20% or so (some bacterial species may have developed a tendency to exploit this sort of buffer overflow to cheat at evolution)

Phylogenists (the biologists working in trees, but not those “trees”) do consider all this (and much more). Where they encounter “known unknowns”, you will often see trees with nodes branching into more than two branches. That’s essentially what cartographers would lable “here be dragons”. Or, prosaically: it isn’t quite clear which split happened first in evolutionary history.
Some people have - searchable databases for collections agencies/the police/private eyes/anyone looking for someone else.
TBH, typical graph layout algos suck. Especially on mobile.

I like the idea of showing the connections of stories over time and across outlets. Just needs more structure. There are some tiered layouts with connections.
"Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

Apply this through the OSHA lense, and voila.
They were simply commenting that there were a couple people they especially admired, who they think are really decent (i.e., better than average at being decent). It is neither a necessary nor a natural reading to think that means they believe everyone else is below average.
That would certainly turn me off. I really don't like dealer service, especially the high pressure sales pitch for work that the car doesn't need. I'm pretty loyal to my independent garage.

Then again, I don't know what goes wrong with an EV, or what kind of maintenance it really needs.
wtf is this?

https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/resources/former-coding-...!

What a shit interview question.