skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The German academic system is extremely hierarchical. So the head of the lab will be on all of the papers, in spite of having no academic input etc.
Possibly the German PhDs you've met have inherited this toxic system as being the management style to aspire to.
Sparking wine pairs really well with a wide range of foods. Most other wine has a narrower pairing ability. Check out https://www.google.com/amp/s/winefolly.com/tutorial/getting-... for a great illustrated guide on this.

This is all of course subject to taste but I find Wine Folly’s suggestions mostly on point. I am in no way affiliated with it, except as a reader.
That's unfortunate, hopefully when the are caught, the punitive damages are sufficient to force a change in their cost benefit calculations towards doing what's right. I wouldn't hold my breath though.
Tanning beds.
The more they pull stunts like these, the more i realize it's time to fork FF and get rid of all their garbage. Make Pocket optional, remove the (paid?) list of URLs that's apparently preloaded, remove all of the phone home shit.
This is similar to Heap's Identify [1]. Main difference is Heap focuses on metrics while this looks to be for debugging and UX. Any plans for a heatmap feature built-in or third party?

[1]: https://docs.heapanalytics.com/docs/using-identify
Apple engaged with Panic and Bare Bones to get them back into the MAS after they left.
the language they used surrounding this is pretty gross:

it "was an experiment to provide more value to Firefox users through offers provided by a partner" and "not a paid placement or advertisement".

I think its concerning that Mozilla is that deep into the marketing double-think.
Certainly; I forgot and did not intend to derail the thread. I appreciate the links.

Happy new year.
On a personal note - I know the developers I poach for a 'next' gig. You lose those types people, there is a very good chance they will rebuild a team elsewhere taking the folks who can actually execute with them.

People love to say pay does not matter -- but of course it does. Go to glassdoor and see how competitive you actually are to the other companies. I can certainly put a dollar amount to BS/chaos I'm willing to deal with. Without fail, the companies that imply money does not matter 'look at all these other bits of compensation' tend to be cheap.

It can take years to build out engineering teams and get folks on the same page. Leadership is very important. Three years ago we did not have a single test or specification. Now we have a pretty solid automated CI/CD process. Technical debt is one of the core items we will be focusing on in 2019. Very easy to build out the MVP, and leave out all the things that make solid code. The other is more accurate forecasting. I don't want them to over or underestimate tasks... both are equally bad. The other bit is getting development to say "NO" (and making sure that no gets propagated).

HR is almost always there to protect the company, not the employees. If they are not processing the harassment issues out of the company... that would strike me as odd. Real harassment should be /dev/nulled quickly/harshly - and hope someone has a good eye for what was actual harassment vs something that may not be. Bickering, however, is a leadership issue and not HR. Not everyone is going to be 'happy' with a direction, nor should they. The engineering leads should be pushing their crew to be just outside of their comfort zone. My goal is to make sure I can retain the teams I'm investing in.
A little bit strange to see somebody with your network and experience but STILL not employed and publicly seeking for employment
I am seriously curious, what is the difference between e.g. an mechanical engineer designing a new machine and a person designing a new software system that is intended to be maintained for at least 10 years by various teams? Is there some sort of bonus just because it's physical vs virtual?
I guess I share your problem, I’m not sure “balanced” is the right word. You could have two species, a single celled animal and a single celled plant and ostensibly that would be “balance”.

Maybe a better word for what is at risk is “diversity”. At this time there are still wild ecologies with incredible diversity in all three phases of water on Earth, the frozen, the liquid, and the steamy.

And there are also partly dead places. The American Midwest is largely ecologically dead, although we know before the European settlers came there was stable soil and incredible biodiversity there.

But balance and biodiversity are connected. In a diverse ecology, you can remove any species, or turn any dial slightly, metabolism will dip, and then roar back into full power because there is so much latent genetic material in the ecology ready to go.

That’s been destroyed in a place like the Midwest. If you stop putting oil into that ecology, the metabolism would plummet, and it would take a million years to return to anything close to what it was before European settlers.

In a so-called “balanced” ecology, metabolism would rebound on a scale of decades or even seasons.

The moral assumption underlying this is that the most metabolism per square foot of solar energy is the most good.
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I tried to make a purchase from Ambrosia last night and it appears that their payment and fulfillment systems are inoperative. I had heard that was the case but I was being optimistic. They may have gone defunct without warning at some point in 2018.
You'd find that there are enough users who'd say they'd donate but would do no such thing once you pass the wicker basket around.
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> That is just the Green Acres phenomenon

I am not entirely familiar with the reference. I have heard of the show, but never seen it. But indeed they are able to start farming because they are more likely to have the capital than someone who is barely making ends meet. Nobody is questioning that it takes capital to start farming.

> You have a very strange interpretation of farming in the USA, if you could provide some links/articles that back up your understand

Well, my understanding is based on being a farmer. I have no idea what I would link to? Anything I have ever read about farming online is so dumbed down that it is basically worthless. It is a lot like when the mainstream media tries to write about tech.

> and not any on why it is booming one as you seem to suggest.

I don't know if it is booming. It can be lucrative. It is certainly not for everyone, but what is?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! [0]

Since the erased part of the geological record starts 100’s of millions of years before the climate event that froze everything, do we even know that some earlier civilization didn’t force the climate off balance with e.g. greenhouse gasses, which ended up obliterating all multicellular organisms, and wiping the geological evidence?

Other recent news about ocean current disruptions, and methane melting feedback loops in the artic suggest we might be headed that way too...

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh
Brave is built on Chromium[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
Not to mention that government finances are nothing like private finances. Governments are assumed to be infinitely lived and their debt can always be paid by new debt. Debt isn’t the same thing for a government that it is for a private entity. For instance, only the government creates money. A Tbill is literally the government taking currency today and agreeing to give it out with interest over time. It was going to need to do that all along.

I say NASA’s budget could be much greater. And employment for all could be guaranteed. Political movements to the otherwise are bad for society. They actively hurt society and guard against betterment. We’re talking dark ages vs progress.
Brave is based on Chromium too
Upvoting before I even read the article, and if you browse the other articles on the site you'll see why. Red Blob Games is a fantastic resource, check it out.
Airlines should think twice before devaluing their frequent-flyer points
> I would like that people were more explicit in why they despise ads.

Sorry, but no. Ads are not a good way to monetize software. Period. This has been discussed enough in countless articles during the last two years. The reasons are well-known by now. If you still managed to miss all that has been written about ads, I recommend Pinboard's talk about website obesity as a starting point.
I voted for HSR. I am utterly disillusioned now. I don’t trust anything coming out of Sacramento now.
About 30+ years ago, I made a resolution to never again make a new years resolution. I have successfully stuck with it.

Poor philosophical humor aside, I instead chose to alter things on any given day that I believe needs to be changed instead of waiting for the end of the year, giving me too much time to forget what needs to be changed.
Then what is the behaviour you are talking about here? I must be missing something.

Picking someone almost at random to fire.

Humiliating and ridiculing him publicly.

Yelling and screaming and throwing a tantrum.

Throwing his private property over the floor.

Swearing at him throughout.

That behaviour. That is shockingly incompetent behaviour that causes huge amounts of damage. Everything that
"insiderknowled" said. His post is dead; maybe you can't see it? Here's what I see: https://ibb.co/TByZw8J
> What do you mean "doesn't adhere to it"? Culture isn't a policy document that you can shove down people's throats and expect compliance. Culture is much more organic than that.

Maybe "fit" is a better word? Point is, engineers are different and aren't too comfortable around the other employees.

> And there are good reasons for that. Engineering requires focus and discipline and therefore usually has a very different subculture from the rest of the company.

I agree, you have a valid point here.

> And what did management do about these issues? Did management shut down the infighting? Is management accessible and responsive to users? Did management fire people who were found guilty of fireable offenses?

Issues stemming from individuals were treated accordingly. Problem is, the in-fighting and bickering is happening with pretty much the whole team.

> Why did management hire every engineer who walked in for an interview?

Other people have made similar points about our hiring process and lack of consistent between engineers.
They did this for an episode of the Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots series, as well.
I'm betting for our carelessness towards endocrine disruptors. The toxic plastics in baby bottles and the non stick frying pans for example
I haven't found a definitive 'no' but with a bit of quick googling - the current mission extension runs until (at least) 2021 and there is very little onboard fuel for significant course updates. Some of the other potential targets were in fact ruled out by the selection of Ultima Thule. The extended mission for New Horizons calls for the spacecraft to conduct observations of, and look for ring systems around, between 25 and 35 different KBOs.
Not never. In the long run, the majority of movies ever produced will be in the public domain.
Sadly unsurprising. I remember reading a conversation on Twitter where a psychologist wrote openly "I don't use statistics because I have an analytical orientation".
Do you have any example of higher density real estate development leading to affordable housing? High density only seems to stress existing resources and infrastructure while making cost of living more unaffordable.

It’s baffling. And yet, we keep buying the myth of high density sustainability. This year is going to be the year I give up all delusions and stop being naive.
Interesting usage as in English that sounds like a privateer aka a state sponsored Pirate.
I agree that the population density is a big factor, i wanted to express that with "not-too-small-towns". I don't see how tech-jobs can move into the completely rural areas. But there are still areas left above the critical population mass.
So its almost like there is still a legal standard for what a lawyer is
This would’ve been a handy article to have read before/during Advent of Code 2018. There were multiple path finding problems I struggled through.
Uh, how so? A lot of people prefer working for themselves on contracts, and no matter how good your network is, is often useful to throw out a line just to see what kind of gigs are out there when you have a gap.
Sounds like a great plan to solve the "too fast/slow" problem.

It is true that some teams in engineering work with an MVP mindset, while others work in a waterfall/enterprise pace.

Maybe it's up to upper-management and C-levels to iron this out.
If i remember my Goodfellow correctly (and quickly checking, wikipedia, I did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore... ), there is a nuance here which is almost always missed: you can represent any function with a sufficiently wide 2 layer neural network, it doesn't say anything about being able tune the network until you find a correct setting (i.e. learnability).

This is important. Flippantly said,discarding learnability and speed of convergence, you can get the power of any neural network by the following algorithm:

1. Randomly generates a sufficiently wide bit pattern
2. Interprets it as a program and run it on the test set
3. discard results until the desired accuracy is reached
Maybe this is the first visit to the future home of humanity, the Kuiper Belt. Vast lebensraum and resources for colonization. Not so much solar power, but we could fuse our own. When energy is cheap the next bottlenecks are surface area and mass. It seems like success would drive our descendants to mostly live in the belt. How disappointing if those images come back tomorrow and show that it's already occupied.
My computer engineering degree included Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering (statics/dynamics) Multivariate Calculus, Differential Equations / Linear Algebra, as well as Humanities (writing, history, art) in addition to software, hardware, electronics... Am I not coming close to the "bar of engineering"?

You can boil engineering down (maybe a bit much, but bear with me) to: plan, execute, measure, adjust. The difference between software /programming/ and software /engineering/ is that programming often stops after execute, and hands measure to someone else maybe, whereas a software engineer is constantly measuring what they are doing and trying to understand why it may be deviating from plan, and how to make it better in the future.

To wit, you don't need software engineers to build you a web application, but you had better have them working on your file system.
Sadly, it looks like https://www.ambrosiasw.com/ is now defunct. "They tried to kill it with a forklift..."
I think it's safe to assume most people don't prefer to live in places with freezing temperatures, risk of pipes bursting, salt corroding your vehicles, roads with potholes, etc.

Only reason I can think of would be if the place had good skiing/snowboarding/snow activities, but you need decent mountains and snowfall for that.

Edit: NYC/Boston are outliers that have other exceptional offerings, especially related to economic opportunities. There is also inertia of being a place where people settled in first and set down roots, but I imagine most people would consider the weather of the upper midwest and upper PA/NY regions to be a negative.
Nothing concrete, but there probably will be another https://www.space.com/42808-nasa-new-horizons-possible-third...
I love tower defense games but I could never find one that is either complete or not filled with ads/paytowin
In the Age of AI Is Seeing Still Believing
I imagine that's impossible to do in the software world. Overwhelming majority of software developers are not registered engineers.
For at least 20 years, they have sold it to insurance companies. That is why I fought the military collecting DNA. I escalated all the way to Al Gore. That bought me enough time to get my honorable discharge and walk away from those lunatics. Before someone mentions it, 23andMe has not been around that long, but companies are just flavors. They come and go but the same people and labs have been around for a long time.

My unit commander said, "Are you afraid we are going to clone you?". I replied, "No sir, you should be afraid you are going to clone me." We both had a chuckle because we both knew I was right. I then explained how insurance companies were retroactively canceling insurance policies based on "genetic predisposition to {xyz}" for people laid up in hospitals with large medical bills and that it was my patriotic duty to fight this, even if it meant a court martial.

I should add, all of my FOIA replies were about as generic as a car commercial. It amounted to: The Chief Medical Officer of the DoD can do anything with this data and retain it as long as they wish.
See my other point, there might be, in fact there definitely is for any working NN, but as of now (2019, happy new year) we probably can't find it
Congratulations for the advertisers that show it's salary offer, it doesn't matter if it's low/high the transparency signal they are sending is more important.

Cheers !
I guessed the usual reason for absurdly punitive judicial decisions in the the American system, and after finding a photo of the mother I was sadly proved right.
So, uh, why does this site have the rather peculiar hostname https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com?
I hope so.

The south facade of Phoenix's downtown library has adjustable horizontal louvres. Make them out of solar panels for a power and shade two-fer.

https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/Burton-Barr-Central...

https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/building/Burton-Barr-Central...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Barr_Central_Library
A little bit strange to see that you signed up 6 minutes ago just to say this. I would flag this comment but I don't have enough karma to do so.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18791181
This is interesting, but where the article falls down for me is tying it back to actual real-world use cases. I find it very difficult to think about technical trade-offs without being able to tie it back to the actual interests of the people the system serves. It becomes too easy to solve technical problems in ways that do not solve the human problems that the system is meant to serve.
I use the VS Code "CodeLLDB" extension
An important addition to this is priors: deep networks allow to express the prior that hierarchical representation, i.e. composing into multiple layers of abstractions make sense (see e.g. conv nets).
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