skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both sides have convincing arguments and research to back it up. They have good answers to the seemingly contradictory research that the other side uses. They both provide a consistent picture.

One or both of the theories has to be wrong but I cannot decide. I can learn and read all about it and take both viewpoints into account but I still cannot decide. I could do my own research but I would come up with one or the other answer depending on what data I look at but it's not better than what I have already.

What should I do?

This is a real problem because science cannot provide the correct answer. It is more about choosing a side and sticking with it than about finding the truth.
Why exactly is two's complement better?
> @horse_js lives in either the Central or Eastern time zone. Their activity dwindles sharply in the evening and disapears between ~11 PM - 12 AM CST and reappears at ~8 AM - 9 AM CST because they are likely asleep.

As someone commenting at 4 AM, this might not be a great assumption to make ;)
Sounds better in a job interview.
Seems like it would make a lot of sense to outsource hiring interviewing and vetting. In this guy’s case if he could have just been interviewed once and it probably wouls have suited all 6 companies.
Pi 2B user here, have been utilizing it to download stuff periodically and push it to my telegram chennels.
I also use it as a pi-hole so as to block ads at the router level.
Also as a ftp server which hosts my files that I share within my home.

I believe there are even better ways to utilize this mini powerhouse, as the tasks I use it for are pretty light.
Agreed. The academic part of my industry is starting to use Julia at the National Labs level, but virtually all University and National Lab code is prototyped in Matlab and textbook examples are Matlab. So it has a lot of momentum with researchers who never learned Python, Julia...etc. I don't think Octave or Scilab are seriously used anywhere unfortunately. When I ask, I'm the only one who has heard of them.
Indeed. And now it's the turn of the Dairy industry. Many papers funded by Big Dairy in Canada and other places in the last few years.
there are more posts about mistakes and bad employees

yes there is a difference between skills and talents of people
The article was quite enjoyable to read though full of MS marketing.

When saw the part with Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics - I burst out laughing. Earlier, they quoted: Half of the time when companies say they need "AI" what they really need is a SELECT clause with GROUP BY.

Their motivation of using AI is even below that threshold.

Now awaiting some horse_js comment about this absurdity.
The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2009) [pdf]
diverse on skin color? thats racist
Its solid as in "it works and has aged well", but the spec has accumulated lots of cruft and is not straightforward at all. I once upgraded a Rust midi parser to learn Nom, thinking that midi should be an easy format. I was very wrong.
This is very bad. They spoiled it for everyone. That privacy disclaimer at the end is of no use really. Also Bing maps? Thats the first time I saw that.
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The original runs great on a Raspberry Pi using VICE. I recommend this version: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=101455 which lets you play with 4 joysticks instead of having to share a keyboard.
Maybe old-timers could sell their brains with decades of knowledge and experience to the company who then implant that brain into a 20yr-old? It doesn't guarantee loyalty so the kid might be gone to the competition in two years (it thinks the avg is even less for some programmer roles) but who cares long-term?
never because diversity just means skin color which is racist

but nobody will admit it
That was a nice, fun read, and a simple way to show how sometimes, simple data analysis and common sense trumps everything else :)

Also, great website design. Simple and clean!
Discrimination? For a reason or another they thought she was an escort and they don't like that kind of activity in their establishment. Maybe she was, maybe she wasn't.

She says no, but very few would admit. Either way, maybe they don't even like single, pretty women looking for their "knight in shining armor" at an expensive restaurant. It ruins their image and they don't that kind of a crowd. Just like they would not guys coming at the bar laughing and screaming with a couple of escorts.

Not exactly sexual discrimination, as they'd almost certainly ban guys that are touchy feely with female guests. More like trying to preserve their reputation and business, false positives and all. You can't really ask to see their Whatsapp or FB messages to investigate...
I wonder if they will also support USB-C just like Thunderbolt 3 got tacked onto the USB-C connector?
Have a read of books by Nina Teicholz or Gary Taubes. In there is a mountain of data showing the correlation of diets to adopting the national dietary recommendation (which vilified fats).

They all make a great case that fat is good for you (proper fat like animal, not vegetables oils which really aren't from vegetables at all).

You're right it's more than just sugar, it's carbs in general. Which includes French fries, pizza etc. The sauces they have tend to be loaded with sugar also.

One can still be healthy eating no vegetables and just meat. Just cut out carbs. And eat lots of organ meats which have high vitamin content (more than vegetables).

Another problem with cutting the fat is that vitamins are fat soluble. So no fat makes it harder to absorb.
nothing structural stopped you and the evidence is that you got the job you want

why does it matter so much that other people look just like you? why cant you look past other peoples skin color?
DFA isn’t usually used in type inferencing algorithms, at least ones that generate types for programmers rather than compiler optimizations. It isn’t that it is expensive, but in general syntax tree walking works well enough.

Whole program analysis is too expensive for type inference (or much of anything for that matter) even with its precision ramped all the way down via something like CFA0. Type inference with sub typing is a very similar problem to alias analysis, which hints at why doing it in any but very restrictive contexts is too expensive.
Now try being an “unaccompanied male” on a playground filled with children and see what happens.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/police-called-after-man-...

People make judgments about other people. They base them on a mixture of accurate, incomplete and inaccurate data. They base them on their own biases and perceptions. They base them on their own agendas and lack of time to explain them.

These events aren’t article worthy.
What's AGW?
B612 is a highly legible open source font to be used on aircraft cockpit screens
And where have you seen that she was not born female? Where did that come from? Please, please, please give PROOF for your statement, because if you fail to do so, your entire comment falls apart.
As I understand it people flag politics more often, but it's not explicitly off-topic, but it also takes very little for discussion on posts like this to result in the type of comments that will result in moderation and/or further flagging.

I think the best response is basically that HN is not Reddit, and that's how most people here want it, though many of us (including me) are frequent Reddit users too. Different sites for different purposes.
Our solution for a bitcoin casino was to generate passwords for users. But you can imagine how few sites can get away with such a thing. Our create-password input was a disabled textfield with a reroll button.

Before that, attackers would just wait for new usernames to appear on the scoreboard/chat and check them against password dumps. The easy come, easy go nature of bitcoin made it particularly lucrative.

Password reuse is a massive issue. At a glance, one might wonder why most sites need to care so much since they don't deal with money. Who cares about a forum like HN? But consider that it's easier to audit/impede new accounts with anti-spam measures, so there's value in taking over old accounts. And you don't want people with moderation tools getting attacked either. Ideally, it's nice to be able to trust an account with 1,000 posts more than one with 0 posts, but that evaporates when accounts are easily stolen.

Aside, how do you implement account-locking without making it trivial for users to DoS each other that way?
by looking up to people based on character instead of skin color

that would solve the problem
Both harmonic and inharmonic overtones and a changing mix over time. Would be a big database.

https://www.pianobuyer.com/Articles/Detail/ArticleId/40/Digi...

Above reference discusses some of the issues for digital pianos - which are well-established and it is easy to find demonstration models in music shops.
NEMA, right? I think sometime in the 1910s.
In financial modeling, which is one of the primary applications of MATLAB, you generally throw away your code in 1-2 years anyway (unless it is a generic library that can exist for decades).

MATLAB is a tool for research, not engineering. In research, you check hypotheses; you write a lot of throwaway code. The 0.1% of validated models that end up in production can be rewritten in other languages, but nothing replaces the fast turnaround time of MATLAB. Or similarly organized R Studio.
Because it's interesting to the HN users; I know I found it interesting a few days ago when I read it.

HN isn't just about tech, startups, and the ilk. :)
The title of the piece is "The night I was mistaken for a call girl." It's basically a click bait title. She may not have been mistaken for a call girl. She may have simply been caught by a policy designed to address the issue, however ham-handedly.

The conclusion that she was actually mistaken for a call girl seems shaky.

I did give a proviso that I wasn't saying it was fair. So I don't know where you are getting this idea that I'm justifying sexism.
I'd like to hear the other side of the story.
Flag football sounds pretty unwatchable to me.

For the simple reason that, no matter how few, enough athletes are paid way too much money, and gain substantial celebrity for having, what amounts to, professionalized fun.

Why should I slog my life away in a salt mine, when they get a free ride, VIP status, attractive spouses of their choice, and worldwide recognition and adulation?

Stay in school, kids. It’s just like work, so get used to it now. Not so fast! Maybe you can hitchike your way to fame and fortune, by playing kickball or dodgeball or freeze tag or hide and go seek! Millions of dollars and desireable sexual partners (inclusive of any gender!) can be yours, if you choose goofing off for a living!

But hey, maybe millennials want a kinder, gentler, baby soft world.

I doubt it. The truth is, there’s a motive from upper eschelon and high command to eliminate football. It has nothing to do with what people want.
I'm not sure if "ironic" is the right word here, but that as a direct effect of climate change, coal power plants had to shut down and cars couldn't be manufactured is certainly an interesting twist.
Well written Julia should definitely be faster in most cases unless Matlab is using a specific well performing algorithm that Julia doesn't have built-in.

With that being said, there are a lot of Julia posts on the subreddit or stack overflow that go like "Why is this Julia code 10x slower than my Python code"? One issue is that getting good performance out of Julia isn't always obvious without a pretty good understanding of how it works. Thankfully, people are willing to help you tweak your code to make it much faster.
If more ice melts in the Alps, how does that lead to lower water levels in the Rhine? One would expect the reverse effect.
Not surprised you are down-voted, there is very little if any sensitivity to sexual harassment or crimes against men.
It feels like the effect could be improved by disabling most of the texture maps. The low resolution and baked-in lighting distracts from the physically correct surface shading.
I grew up in the town below the mentioned Lorelei Rock, St. Goarshausen.

When I was born in 1988 it was the year of was the biggest flood in multiple decades. When I went to elementary school I remembered having to leave our house on planks a few years because of the flooding. It happened just once again in middle school. We moved to Frankfurt in 2003, since then my friends that kept living in the area report that the floods left with me moving away and are sometimes joking if we'd left some faucet running back then.

I guess it's just an example of climate change that I could find in my picture albums without realizing. I wonder what else is lurking in those pictures.
Hmm yes American football is worse than the others but this overall problem makes me really concerned for rugby. Head injury issues and the subsequent legal exposure is only starting to become an issue taken seriously in the sport. Frankly, the sport doesn't have the money that the American football system has to be able to survive an onslaught of legal cases.
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Can we build a park with it?
It is a better language indeed. Too bad that their IDE options are not par with it. Julia REPL is just that — a REPL. Julia IDEs are just editors for writing code. MATLAB integrated environment, where you can see all variables immediately, is what makes it popular; why not imitate it?
> Just use elasticsearch/kibana

Are you volunteering all the time to set that up for me? ;-)
So there's a strong correlation with being female and being a sex worker, as opposed to male.

Now replace the correlation with other undesirable traits, like being a thief and having a certain skin colour.

Do you still call that a 'blunt tool to crack down on issues that don't necessarily apply to each individual' or can we just call that racial discrimination and agree no such tools should be applied?

The idea it's okay for your daughter, wife, mother etc to be denied a seat, where you can sit alone, because she's a priori categorised as a sex worker merely because of gender, is pretty insane to me. Of course your personal relationship shouldn't matter, but maybe it hits home a little bit more like this.

The whole idea about discrimination is that people are judged not on the basis of their own behaviour, but the behaviour (or stereotypical views of such) of a group they (often involuntarily) belong to. And that's inherently unfair.

Instead we should always try to make a fair assessment of the individual. Of course we use mental shortcuts that can be discriminatory, but we always have to try and allow recourse. That's why a 60 year old tends not to be hired as a security guard, because they lack the fitness. That tends to be viewed as reasonable age discrimination, but only in the context of explaining the underlying assumption, that age determines fitness, and that this assumption is not challenged by the applicant. But if the 60 year old can demonstrate sufficient fitness and challenges the assumption, denying the job based on age is no longer lawful. In short, the assumption must be reasonable, must be made clear, and must not be challenged.

I can imagine the owner's worry, and that he profiled her based on mental shortcuts. But if she then demonstrates she is not a sex worker, denying her a seat anyway is silly. Let's not forget, she came there for years. If she came with colleagues, she'd leave with them. If she came alone, she'd leave alone. She never engaged anyone else. The first thing you'd do is have an honest conversation and see if your assumptions are even correct in the first place. In this case they went straight to applying a policy based on a wrongful assumption, and then denied any recourse or apologies once they were given ample indications to be incorrect in their assumptions.

In this case, the assumption was made, was somewhat unreasonable given her familiarity with the staff (knowing faces, names), was not made clear initially, and was not allowed to be challenged. That's sex discrimination, a case handled incorrectly and it's not ok.
"Critical to moving coal"? Perhaps moving less coal would be a good thing.
Please don't use passwords at all. They are wrong for so many reasons. Use emailed sign-in links.
Maybe it is because man usually arent call girls?
> Patches are in the works.

Does than mean the procedure of responsible disclosure was followed but vendor failed to patch on time?
I also failed to state up front "I happen to be a woman." A lot of people here know that, but it's a big forum and mostly male. People routinely assume I must be male, and thus a misogynistic sexist pig, if I say anything pro male on such subjects.

Sometimes, I prefave it to try to avoid that. Sometimes, I don't. This time, I didn't. (shrug)
It's a shame that your harmless hobby of hanging around childrens' play areas has caused you harm.
I'm originally from the Rhine river area and I still spend time there. It's certainly true that the water level was low this summer, but it was an exceptionally long and hot summer. I found interesting that my grandma labeled the it "a summer like the summers we were used to long time ago".

There's even a famous german song "Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?" (When will we have a real summer again?).

Btw since it was basically constantly raining from Oct-Dec, the river replenished really quickly.
> Not exactly sexual discrimination, as they'd almost certainly ban guys that are touchy feely with female guests.

Of course it is sexual discrimination. What more is, you're skating close to it yourself by equating a woman eating quietly by herself with a guy being "touchy feely with female guests". If she was being touchy feely with male guests, and that was the justification, then that would have been an entirely different scenario.

You go on to compare it to guys "coming at the bar laughing and screaming with a couple of escorts".

Again you miss the point: If they set policies for conduct, such as "don't get touchy feely with the guests or you'll get sent to a table" or "no laughing and screaming at the bar", it'd be fine and not discriminatory.

But when they send women to tables but allow men to continue eating at the bar, it is very clear cut. I don't know if it is illegal in New York, but that clear discrimination certainly would be many other places.
Adding salt to something sweet can make it taste sweeter and better.

Try sprinkle a dash of flu de sel over your m deserts next time and watch them pop.

Or a bit of salt on some strawberries before eating.

Fact your saliva is about 0.04% saline so any food not at that level will taste a little bland.
>It has nothing to do with what people want.

Gladiators
Believe me, everyone knows.

Everyone knows what a tough life you've had, how people on HN aren't fair because they don't give you work, etc etc etc etc

yawns
They wrote 32 bits on the website (against 7 in the current spec)
You're right. I don't know why it's still not a common knowledge that nobody bruteforces the login pages in this day and age. But I guess too many people, who have products to sell, benefit from the status quo, so things are not going to change.
I think the person you're answering to is talking about big cup of soft-drink, rather than big bottle. As in, big portions, not big stock.

Edit: I agree with your complaint about packaging, but it's another problem that's not uncompatible
That would probably be a better link to post to Hacker News then?
> Buying big soft drink bottles instead of small is both cost-effective

Carbonated drinks fizzle out quickly and they don't taste that good afterwards. So, if you buy bigger bottles, you are inclined to drink more so it doesn't go to waste.
I was not responding to the title. I was responding to your question as to whether the person replying to you by pointing out it is blatant sex discrimination had some greater point.

That she was "simply been caught by a policy designed to address the issue" is pretty clear. The issue is that this policy is discriminatory. And in a way that would fall foul of sex discrimination laws a whole lot of places.

> So I don't know where you are getting this idea that I'm justifying sexism.

You suggested they may have valid reasons for a discriminatory policy. To me that reads like a pretty clear cut justification. If you don't think that's a valid reason for discriminating after all, then my apologies.
But then the support workers might cut-and-paste it wrongly!
This is what held me back for a long while too, but Juno (the Atom plug-in) seems to finally have all the features I was missing in Julia compared to the Matlab IDE, including a decent variable inspector.
No, login pages are definitely "still" brute forced. Why wouldn't they be? It's easier than ever.
Google says "Anthropogenic Global Warming", the concept that human activity has an impact on global warming
You're totally right, it's an approach that requires more motivation, but I don't think it's really that hard. University curriculums are made for young people who're not necessarily super motivated to study (many study just to finish the course, not to learn it) and who also have to study a lot of other things in the same time (and to party, and to fall in love and feel miserable and all other things that you do when you're young that are way more important to you than math). Compared to that your starting point is not that bad at all. Being older and more mature, plus genuinely interested in learning that subject you're probably way more motivated, plus you don't need to pass 6 or 10 courses that year, you can concentrate on just that one, at your own pace. Again, it's really up to ones own personality, there's no one-size-fits-all here, but IMO chances are that you'll learn it way better than someone who had that course on Uni.

And regarding wikipedia and google, they're much more effective when you know what you're looking for. If not exact name of theorem or algorithm then at least "there was that thing that we learned related to that other thing". Having at least a faint idea like that can save you tones of time when researching.
There's much less of an active opposition to the other professional sports and entertainment industries, including many with all the same attributes you just listed. The opposition is primarily to how much more dangerous tackle football is to the athletes than other sports, especially to the brain.

Try watching football's close relative rugby (popular in much of the world), or hockey (popular in the northeastern US and Canada among other places), baseball (still popular nationwide even if not as much as football), basketball (ditto), or professional wrestling (more entertainment than actual sport but still athletic).

Depending on your particular preferences, those are all pretty fun... And don't tell hockey fans that you think their athletes' body checks and damaged teeth are a baby sport...

Some of those sports have significant physical danger too, but based on the evidence available to date, American tackle football is currently the most dangerous major sport played.
Just out of curiosity, what is your opinion on other alternatives that are good with matrices such as Scilab, Python + Numpy, or Julia? Is your focus on Octave due to how close it resembles Matlab?
I think you've wrapped your head the wrong way around this. The stupidest thing ever is the idea that a country's government can be shut down as an extortion method. It's a concept so alien to me that I cannot fathom the logic of the person who came up with the idea.
If you need your users to have a secure password then that's a good thing. We need to make password managers simple enough, and default, for all users.