skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works like most humor works: it sets up an expectation and then defies it. The expectation is that they see him charging combatively from a mile away. They should be readied for an attack or at least an urgent situation. This is defied by him popping up almost immediately.

It's also defied in very "British humor" style, with the characters seriously under-reacting to the situation. Under-reacting to the approaching threat (which conveniently also serves to highlight the distance) and to the attack itself.
A nice piece with excellent points, especially as low-to-middle income wage earners see their piece of the pie cut more and more.
tl;dr "I run a network with some wonky Enterprise stuff that does weird things I don't understand and it's Google's fault."
It's good to hear that people are interested in actually getting something set up to track performance metrics, but I won't believe it until I actually see it.

One thing I would add to performance metrics is that tests for very large folders (of about 1M) should be added. I was talking with someone last night who was complaining about how long it took to delete 200K messages from his inbox, so it's not a wholly implausible metric. I just worry that people are going to focus on metrics that go "oh, there's no issue with a 1K message folder since it's all within the 16ms budget" without looking to see their impact on 10K or 100K folders, which is where people really complain about performance.
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It's gonna be hard to get an "off the shelf" model for text prediction, because the upcoming text depends on the author, topic, and other context. You can probably find some decent pre-trained models to get started, but you'll need to customize them for your application to get good results.
> Do you really think that speed of doing long division predicts ability to solve differential equations?

I never said that.

I also fail to see how "solving differential equations" has anything to do with intelligence (with the caveat that pathologically low mathematical aptitude might limit the ability to learn it at all - one aspect here is that "unable to do division" might be a predictor for that).

But I believe that a properly designed "long division test" could be (part of) a predictor for some dimension of intelligence, and that a time component is usually helpful in test situations since it prevents tools and techniques from equalizing the outcome too much (as, given enough time and sufficient command of appropriate techniques, any problem can be solved).
I live in Montreal and I see a few Model 3 all the time regardless of where I drive.
Nope! It's part of the code review process, for sure, but it's not the purpose of code review. The purpose of code reviews is to have better code at the end of it. That includes pointing out bugs, improving fine-but-inefficient code, praising good code, encouraging documentation, and providing learning experiences for the developer and anyone else reading the review.

Furthermore, interviews != code reviews. For an interview, not only is the candidate putting their best foot forward, but the interviewer should be putting their best foot forward, as well. It doesn't matter if Joe is the best programmer in the company -- if he's abrasive, you don't want to put him in front of prospective candidates.
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West coast public transportation will absolutely never beat East Coast transportation and I say this as a person who has lived on the West coast my entire life. In fact West coast public transportation will always be significantly worse than the east coast.

It doesn't matter what initiatives or policies are being implemented on the West coast. It is literally financially and physically unrealistic to have any transportation system even remotely close to what they have in NYC on the West Coast.

The reason is the layout of cities. West Coast cities are mostly suburban sprawl. Suburban sprawl does not lend well to public transportation. For public transportation to work, you need a high density city. Los Angeles will never be walkable and will never have a subway system that all people use regularly simply because the city is too spread out.

Lets put it to numbers:

L.A. County has 4,084 square miles.
New York City has 304.8 square miles.

For LA county to build a network of rails with the same effectiveness of NYC, the size of the NYC subway needs to be replicated approximately 13.4 times.

The NYC subway system has about 236.2 mi of rail. AN equivalent system for the same coverage in LA will be 3165 mi. The current longest subway system in the world is the Shanghai Metro at 420 mi.

Effective Public transportation will not work on the west coast due to physical limits and impossibilities. If you want to live in a city with great public transportation you need to live in a city of apartments. Any city where you can have your own backyard is a city that is not dense enough.
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What was the "Newton team" doing in 2007? Did he mean the early iPhone group?

('when I transferred to the Newton team (called “Special Projects” on my transfer form) in early September 2007')
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But those IT guys just plug things in, I can do it just as well! /s
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I've often thought there should be a union in tech, similar to the way the directors guild and screen actors guild operate. Not to set maximums on compensation, but to set humane minimums and provide continuity and health insurance in a pooled way, perhaps.
They are maximizing for profit on each unit sold. Presumably, they’ll have had a reduction in debt to service with payments made from upfront higher margin vehicles.

It’s not a problem as long as they stay ahead of the curve margin wise. Lots of market demand outside of the US, which is why vehicle manufacturing firehose is pointed at Europe and China now with the US tax credit reduction.
It would help save a lot of time if OP added this important piece of information on their job posting.
Invalidation of any sort, including token revocation, is fundamentally a stateful operation. Either you are deleting session state or statefully blacklisting something that's a packet of self-contained state (e.g. JWT by id). Heck, even expiration just reduces the revocation into the universally shared state that is time.

My point is, you always have state. If you care about that state being anything but _the current time_ (e.g. just letting tokens expire and not worrying about revocation), you need shared storage.
Maybe it works if you live one of the centres but I have tried several times to use it and each time a 45 minute drive would have been replaced with a 3 hour trip.
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I agree with your sentiment about certain games being more expressive than others. I was really big on Quake and Unreal Tournament 2003/4 and my first painting program used the same control scheme as those games, because I thought it had more expressive potential than other painting software I tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndz-co7Xpn8&feature=youtu.be...
I've used ?sanitize=true to allow me to programmatically embed renderable SVG content from a repo into Github Markdown comments, etc ...

Example:
https://github.com/org/repo/raw/40082bd3f02dbeb17bd9f72660df...

Additional Discussion: https://github.community/t5/How-to-use-Git-and-GitHub/Embedd...
First thought was that this is unnecessary because enough people will always keep a local cache of Wikipedia or whatever handy.

Second thought was a conversation between an electrical engineering professor I had in college and one of my classmates. We were learning about flip-flop circuits, which led to a discussion of computer memory in general. The conversation went:

Prof: Flip-flops and latches will lose their memory when powered off, so not necessarily the best solution for storing something important.

Classmate: Then how does my USB memory stick store data when it's unpowered?

P: [explanation of floating-gate MOSFETs, which can hold data intact practically forever, although actually forever is a different story]

C: What's the best way we know of of storing data for the longest possible time?

P: Carve it into the side of a mountain.
I think the important part many people fail to realize with analog projects like this is that they are constructed, diagnosed and repaired with common off the shelf tools and components.

Sure it can be done with a cheap SDR but can you fix the SDR in 15 years when a chip dies? The modern all-in-one digital stuff for the most part is throw away.

These old analog projects can be pulled apart, tested and repaired with ease. Try that with a 5x5 mm bga package running code you probably won't be able to find easily or at all. Then hope the chips are still available and not long obsolete. Then figure out how to program the chip.

Bob Pease said it best: "My favorite programming language is ... solder"
Weird Al could claim parody fair use for a few tracks like Smells Like Nirvana which are actually parodying the thing used, but (a) that only covers a handful of his works and more importantly (b) he never does this for recordings, fair use is an affirmative defence. You have to wait until you get sued, then raise it and maybe if you have good lawyers that works. Even for Weird Al that's not a fun risk.

For something like, say, Amish Paradise or Tacky the new work is not a parody of the work it derives from, it had nothing to say about that work except "Ha, this is funny if you change the words". So it would probably never be fair use.

Instead Weird Al gets legal OK to use the work. Yes, all those artists, or their labels actually think Weird Al is funny, or at least they'll take the money.
I think he meant to each other?
Offer a hosted version.
I appreciate that perspective. Agreed, everything has become a commodity and it's the small variances that make life!
I'm fairly familiar with Vue and Angular, but I decided to write my current side-project in ReactJS, with the intention of switching over to React Native once I've wrapped my head around the React portion of things. So far, I'm enjoying myself. I'm mostly a backend dev, so this is mostly new territory for me. Very fun.

The bright side of the React (and Angular / Vue) is exactly what you said: same logic for web and mobile!
I think Atari's 8-bit line proves this to be wrong. The Apple II was priced much higher than it needed to be. Even with the Apple II, Apple was more interested in profit margin than market share. Commodore lost its market share to the IBM PC, not Apple who had already lost the lead.
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On the other hand, the number of cars per Norwegian has increased by 18% since 2005, and the trend is continued growth in cars per capita.

So the EVs are not displacing fossil fuel cars, they come in addition. (Probably there would have been even more fossil fuel cars without these EVs, but it is not clear cut)
This may not be the venue to get good answers but what are the likely costs of unionization in software? How would management respond to organized tech labor? What would be the economic impacts?

Not looking for pro- or anti-union sloganeering, but real impacts. The economics of the tech sector would change dramatically with organized labor in computing, and I'm interested in how those changes would manifest.
It's not security or policing. It's the attitude of people and homeless people in the city.
In grade school, they did some testing on me for a study or something, and it had to do with visual stuff - my parents remember that I just came up with correct answers but I had a novel way of coming to them, and I think this gets to what you're saying.
I'm talking out of my behind here, but I was always under the impression some stuff we use casually is built with the assumption it's not under heavy attack, too.

Eg: I thought consumer grade videocards were pretty darn insecure. I don't know where I picked that idea, but if that's true, then the idea of having the option to run "insecurely" for certain things make sense.

Not sure if we can trust an average user with this, but if the videocard thing is true, we do.
I'm assuming most electric car owners would charge their cars at home and make use of Superchargers/dealership chargers on road trips.

Being able to charge at your local shopping center is nice but it's not a necessity for electric car ownership.
What are you comparing it to when you say "relatively expensive"? I've read reviews comparing it favorably to a BMW 3 Series, which is in the same price range.
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Bigcorp gets all the positive PR for bringing new technology to schools and "disrupting" the classroom paradigm, while the IT department gets all the blame because Bigcorp doesn't field test.

Sounds like Google to me.
Isn't this basically the same as many/most glasses shops, at least the ones that are in independent eye doctor offices? Every time I've gotten glasses I've always just tried on the frames, gotten my pupillary distance measured, and then they put in the order. A week or so later they'd call me to tell me my glasses are in and I'd go pick them up. I guess it was always implied they come from a factory somewhere.

Lately I've just been ordering the frames online and I'd bring them the frames and they'd measure my pupillary distance, and put the order in.
Match them at what?
As the cafe job for disabled people, this also opens up the possibility of remote work for people with social anxiety, people in very rural areas with a lack of opportunity and so forth.

According to the article the waiters are paid about 9$ an hour. For a person in a destitute, remote small town jobs like this could be a really sweet side gig. It's not like they somehow would meet insular rich people anyway.

There's no reason to be cynical about this. Closing physical distance, which is one of the big contributors to lost opportunity is a good thing.
Yeah, this was a lame rant. Just create a single purpose SSID on your enterprise wireless controller that supports peer-to-peer (client to client connectivity). Bind the educational hardware to that, everything is fine. Really I dont see Google doing anything wrong here...
There's a reason those guys were selling classes for 4 grand instead of quietly becoming rich following the advice they're selling people.
No, they didn’t. iPhone was released in June 2007, iPod touch in September 2007. Perhaps you are thinking of outside of the US? (First iPhone was sold in the US only)
Or: they’re dropping the sticker price to keep the overall cost of the vehicle stable or lower to meet demand.

Economies of scale allow them to do this.
I know quite a few Tesla owners, and they all love the idea of the car far more than the actual cars themselves. After about a week, reality sets in and the misaligned panels, haphazardly responsive touchscreen, and relatively pedestrian interior furnishings start becoming noticeable. After about 2 weeks, the Tesla owners who don't live in homes (i.e., condo/apartment dwellers) even start to get annoyed at the charging cycle, since the Superchargers in the LA area are not very convenient to get to and it's roughly $10k-$20k (per charger) to get a charger installed in their parking structure. One Tesla owner, who evangelized the car before buying it, eventually sold his Model 3 (one of the first sold to the general public) and, in his words, "upgraded" to the iPace.

Also, I've ridden in all of the Teslas (including the Roadsters, thanks to a former boss who collected cars) and the Model 3, while comfortable enough, is only roughly as comfortable as my Camry and certainly isn't as comfortable as the $65k+ cars other friends drive. IMO, this is Tesla's big problem. Their cars are expensive, but you're paying a lot of money for the brand and while that can get you started, in the auto market you eventually have to start competing based on features like comfort, etc.
Label more training data.

Do more clustering.

Label more training data.

Strip out more garbage.

Label more training data.

PS you can get an idea of how much value additional training data will give you by training models on various subsets of your dataset (e.g. 10%, 20%...), evaluating them against the same test dataset, and plotting the results.
As someone who worked hard to stop GMO mosquitoes in the US's first test (proposed for Key West, Florida) and watched Intrexon/Oxitec nearly bankrupt itself trying, I can tell you it's not going to happen. Some folks like to say, "Nature finds a way."

The most effective way to prevent mosquitoes is still what we call "boots on the ground," eliminating their fresh water supplies. The Cayman Islands' highly publicized test of GMO mosquitoes was a complete failure.
Interesting from a historical perspective, but an anecdote doesn’t make for good input when setting public policy, especially with it being almost over 140 years ago.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/11/223654-solo-drivers-t...
This is a very popular conclusion when considering AuthN and invalidation. Keep the state at the provider and just prevent issuance of new tokens (whether signed certs, JWTs, etc) if/when the user requests access be revoked.

What you're really doing is externalizing your state to one already universally shared, and which we already have a lot of tools to manage: the current time.
I wonder how unionized labor would interact with US visas. If you're on an H-1b and your union goes on strike.....do you have to leave the country?
Not the OP but help pages seem to suggest Maildir support in TB is not necessarily production quality:

> Maildir is disabled by default because there are still many bugs. It is not 100% ready for users.

Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/maildir-thunderbird
Bookmarked.

Very cool, these are great modules and I will be happy to have them in my SCAD toolkit. Thank you!
A total rewrite almost sank Netscape[1] long ago. It's still generally a bad idea.

There's an electron based mail client called Mailspring[2], and having used it for a few months, I definitely understand the antipathy towards electron. You might like it.

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
[2]: https://getmailspring.com/