skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is only true if you plan on holding on to those people over the long term, which you don't. You work them until they leave voluntarily or burn out, at which point you replace them with a new crop of fresh-faced university grads.

This has the added benefit of ensuring that the $70K/year or whatever you're paying these people stays static. Experienced people have a bad habit of expecting to earn more money as their skills deepen. By keeping your workforce in a constant state of churn, you drive those people away before they can start making demands.
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In this case there are no variables updated so the editor is not very useful indeed. The parsing erros for this interpreter are very limited, however there is internal access to the location of the failure (line, column) so there could be added a red underline to suggest the errors. Thanks for the feedback!
> we shouldn't establish a precedent that makes it even easier for companies to hide behind some named scapegoat.

As opposed to just hiding behind the corporate charter?
This is a pity. I love the Lumina 950 I use as a travel second phone.
Sounds like you're dismissing a person's accomplishments in favor of pseudo-science. What's next? Unconscious bias training and quotas? Oh wait...
I tend to agree with you, but it wouldn't be the first time that a company came out with a policy to block some action with a super-obvious (and likely intended) workaround or loophole that they have no inclination to close.
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I can’t tell if you’re serious or sarcastic given the insanity spewed by talk radio.
It's also in Marmite.
very interesting idea

I also wonder to what extent thiamine is recycled in nature, apart from thiaminases, if an predator high up the food chain dies and floats/sinks in the sea, will all the accumulated thiamin be recycled? in what pathways is thiamine consumed in say a human? what would increase or decrease the metabolic consumption (not eating) of thiamine?
It's usually wrong to compare fixed amounts of money (units of $) with GDP (units of $/year), "stocks vs flows". As far as I know, Amazon's HQ2 was much more to do with public relations and lobbying than anything to do with money, and I believe "took the US by storm" is a great exaggeration of the actual events, so I don't find what you're saying convincing. As others have pointed out, pension funds noticeably don't have a problem investing large amounts of money despite being in a similar situation. All the aspects you seem to be worried about are routinely handled in the financial markets.
All three are possible results of a random sampling, but presumably you mean the vaguely-specified question “which one looks similar to most random samplings?”
It's quite possible. There is mounting evidence showing that higher atomspheric CO2 leads to loss of protein and certain micronutrients in both crops[0] and wild plants[1], and it wouldn't be a stretch to think the same thing is happening to other secondary metabolites required by species up the food web.

[0]:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-global-warmi...
[1]:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
There's stuff like NI's NKS [0], but it's highly vendor specific and very inflexible. I assume this will remain the case, given the relative variability of MIDI controllers - the position and amount of control elements, not to mention their implicit relationships (knobs that are directly above or below a fader for instance); and their near-universal non-responsiveness - there is no way to say, label a control for you to see physically.

Interesting issue to solve though, I'd bet my money on modular MIDI controllers becoming more prominent in the future.

0 - https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/komplete/this...
I'd be totally fine with this for m2m. Also, iridium covers polar areas, not an option from GEO, and there aren't (any?) other commercial constellation services with south-polar coverage. Admittedly a small market.
Do bindings like this help much with the day to day work of machine learning research? Are the kinds of errors you encounter the kind that could be avoided with a smarter type checker?
That isn't my premise and my comment is not about rights.

I'm a pragmatist looking for a path forward that actually works. I don't find it helpful to get hung up on theoretical ideals. I'm much more interested in figuring out best practices.

Constantly calling tremendous attention to a thing while complaining that it gets too much attention is not a best practice.

I'm aware that the world at large will focus overly much on the detail of her gender no matter how she chooses to handle it and this gets crazy-making and makes it difficult to find a path forward. The fact that it's difficult to figure out all on one's own is why I left the comment. It only compounds the problems women have to avoid talking about a pragmatic approach and what piece women can take a little control over due to the general attitude that talking about what part women can control is routinely decried as victim blaming.

I'm not blaming the victim. I'm only saying that if you don't want to be a victim, there are things within a woman's power that can help improve outcomes.

It is unfortunate that it is so hard to make such a point. The degree to which I get attacked for trying to talk about what actually works in the world rather often strikes me as an insideous means to deny women better answers and keep them trapped in the role of victim while pretending to ascribe to higher ideals than me.
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Surveillance capitalism is an interesting term to give the centralization of intelligence for the financial benefit of a few a name.

Historically it was the government that was pushing for surveillance for security reasons, now companies push surveillance (although not obvious to them and their employees?) for financial gain.
Here’s the reference for those unfamiliar with quake 2. https://youtu.be/-rWifmDuJEA
Brexit will not damage anyone higher up. If it becomes damaging, they leave for another country.

Brexit will take that option away from anyone with lower wages, however.
My personal opinion based on what I know.

Grouping these companies together as big tech and these brushing broad strokes isn’t helpful. It just seems like we’re picking the next bogeyman, sort of like how all the oil companies were grouped together, even though there were specific bad actors.

It distorts the real issues and almost emboldens the other side who now work collectively to dismiss you as a tin foil conspiracy peddler.

In my opinion, Facebook has some real issues with privacy and how they are able to legally provide a service that has taken the worst aspects of society and amplified them 1000x. Politics are more cancerous than ever. People have been murdered because of the misinformation and hate speech propaganda. Meanwhile, one of my best friends who works at FB as a senior engineer is convinced they’re changing the world for the better.

Amazon, for instance, has fueled massive inequality in the Seattle area. As far as I know, they’re not selling customer data, although from what I’ve learned, they combined technology with great ideas on how to skirt regulation.

My point being, a company like Amazon vs. Facebook - there are different issues. Grouping Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft together - its like the right wing conspiracy theories on how the Mueller investigation is a conspiracy funded by Soros, Obama, the Clintons, the Muslim brotherhood, and gays.

This isn’t helpful and it distracts from the real issues.
This thread may also end up exploring how people decide when they're dealing with an irrefutable truth (2+2=4), versus not (The world is flat, obviously.)
Right, this result doesn't mean the system works, it means that the big red EMERGENCY STOP button works, as long as everyone screams loud enough.

We'll see if the system itself works if the next time the industry makes a push for stupid legislation like this and the politicians push back because they know their constituents don't want it from the last time. How confident are you that this will happen?
Highlighting some examples of Apple's unethical behavior is not saying another company is better or that Apple are worse.
1) Businesses in my markets like to deal with humans. They’re not hiring a company (well, they are - I have a numbered company that is generally only of concern to the financial and legal departments) - they want to work with me. There’s no need for me to be memorable in any other way. Plus I really suck at naming things. :)

2) See 1). By the time a prospect reaches me, there’s already been a warm introduction of some kind. The big photo is the human you’re going to end up working with. I’m not super handsome but nevertheless i think it communicates that human component rather well. I do get teased occasionally about my “Steve Jobs” headshot but it doesn’t seem to have impacted sales.

If I was trying to grow and build out a team I would have taken a very different approach.

My growth strategy is oriented around productivity and workflow improvements, not adding heads. I’ve managed to become very fast and quite efficient, such that I usually blow my competitors completely out of the water. I’m only one semi-ugly dude, and thus every component of what I do has to be ruthlessly focused on what matters most.
This is slightly different though, the Democrats did just take over the House. So a somewhat inaccurate story has a much greater impact on congressional investigations. I'm thinking that Buzzfeed wrote a well-sourced story that wasn't entirely correct. I don't know how inaccurate it was, I'll have to wait until investigations are made public, so I don't think we should believe the Buzzfeed story. But I also don't think that everything in the story was false, and I'm not sure that they badly messed up.
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If I had to pick TL;DW relevant to this topic, it's that the choice of platform is aggregate, not individual. If the vast majority of people stop communicating or interacting in one way and start doing it in another, it's not really a feasible choice to opt out anymore.

This is my own very clumsy summary. I strongly recommend watching the video, because Moxie is much better at explaining this than I am.
> Anytime an article about "climate change" uses words like "could" "might" "potentially" and this one "risks" we are in speculation, not demonstration land.

Do you not read a lot of scientific journals? Also, the article uses none of the qualifier words you listed except "risk" in an appropriate manner, in the subtitle. The title is "Europe’s Most Important River Is Running Dry." Is that demonstrative enough for you?
Python Tututor is the first project in this category that I totally loved it. The dream would be to have all the options Python Tutor has and also speed and user experience, but technically there is not very easy to achieve. Thanks for the feedback!
Types are Anti-Modular (2011)
What about broth? I think the lab meat market is missing a very valuable ingredient. A lot of times, the collagen and the umami in meat is extracted in the broth. It has amazing depth of flavour and texture. And the nutritional benefits of bone broth is highly desirable. It’s not same as stock cubes or vegetable broth. Having fish fumet or a rich pork trotter broth substitute with just flakes of meat is a chef’s dream.
I would say they are a net good unquestionably, in fact, I have a hard time seeing what exactly the net "bad" should be based on.

Like everything in this world, everything has to be done in balance. Some people can't deal with alcohol and become alcoholics, some people can't deal with gambling and become ludomanics etc. but most people have perfectly fine and balanced relationships.

People can choose not to use these mediums and they do so. Every kind of progress goes through a phase of maturation where we learn about the positive and negative sides and adjust over time to it.

Social media is a reflection of humans and it will always amplify the negative sides as well as (luckily) the positive sides.
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What are the salary ranges for software development engineers in Amazon Vancouver, I heard that salaries in Amazon Vancouver are pretty low as compared to Amazon Seattle, despite being just 200 KM separated
There places where types will help when reading unfamiliar code. They'll also help when you're putting together more complex algorithms for novel architectures. They're less helpful if you're only stacking layers like lego-blocks and tuning hyper parameters of existing models.

If you look at the issues, you'll see the developer contemplating GADTs to deal with tensor shape matching (but even phantom types will do). This is an issue that causes headaches for just about anyone whose dealt with neural nets.
Agreed. This reminds me of a few discussions i saw about unicode being silly and over the top and that ascii is perfectly functional. Non english languages can work around the spec!
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Did you even read the article? Third world problems aren’t in competition with its content, so it’s weird that you’d bring them up here.
1] free parts !

2] anti surveillence/profiling sentiment

3] proxy murder with no/low consequence

4] counter culture sentiment

5] we smash bots for the same reason we pierce our junk
It's definitely very frustrating. In the good news column, this discussion is the most meaty engagement I've ever gotten and I'm generally pleased with this unexpected turn of events.

I think the most charitable reading I can give is that when I was much sicker, I tended to do a poor job of trying to present my case and "you never get a second chance to make a first impression." Hopefully the silver lining is that some people will recognize how much my writing has improved over time and will see my past typo-filled and often not very coherent posts as compared to later ones as evidence that my claim that I was very sick at one time and I've gotten healthier holds water and makes sense, even without ever meeting me in person.
I agree. The problem is when you have an eight person team and a five person team, etc. You start to lose a lot of space when there is a mismatch.

20 years ago I used to be in a 20 person group, multiple teams but not everyone. I think I would have preferred 12 (there were a couple of those). But managers had glass wall private offices.
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https://www.cloud66.com/

https://www.engineyard.com/
I used to work with a guy who made videos on programming a Xilinx Zynq. They liked them so much they sent him a free board.
In 2019 it is a technically interesting gimmick that tanks your FPS. This shouldn't be that controversial, because it is the nearly universal opinion of reviewers and of people who have the card. What is interesting from a technical perspective can easily be a gimmick from the perspective of a consumer. I bought an RTX for the regular performance and maybe DLSS (which although not widespread is not currently a gimmick). By the time actual ray tracing and not hybrid ray tracing gains wider adoption, the next generation of RTX cards will already be out.

I can even link you to a video from a Youtuber sponsored by nVidia that essentially says that it is a nice-looking gimmick that will be nice for cinematic single player games that isn't that useful for fast paced multiplayer games in which most gamers will pick performance over image quality most of the time. DLSS because it is a performance feature is in a different category. Like Hairworks RTX is a tech demo type feature that most users will turn off to get dozens of FPS more.
Note: I also helped develop poseidon

The poseidon system was explicitly designed with ease of assembly in mind. If you look at the build videos [1] you'll see that assembly of the entire system (3 pumps + microscope station) takes less than an hour and requires just pliers and screwdrivers.

The importance of ease of assembly was a lesson that we took from assembling the miniDrops microfluidics station [2] developed specifically for one kind of experiment (dropSeq) [3]. The miniDrops is very good at what it does but assembly was somewhat cumbersome: it required ordering a custom PCB, specialized parts only available from one vendor (whom I had to nag over the phone to send me a quote!) and assembly of the device itself took 10-20h.

Not every kind of equipment can be made as easy to source and assemble as we did with poseidon, but we really think that keeping this at the front of your mind can make or break the adoption of a piece of open source hardware. This is especially true in the context of biology laboratories, where many people are not what you could call "hackers" or "makers" and will be immediately put off by a daunting assembly process.

[1] https://pachterlab.github.io/poseidon/hardware

[2] https://metafluidics.org/devices/minidrops/

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-0265
I agree. I didn’t get the second comment. But really appreciated the twitter link. A lot of what she says resonates with me.
Happening. Depleted phosphorus in the soil is a greater risk and will be a problem.

Phosphorus is a non renewable resource.
Technically, this is off-topic, but Daniel Yergin's book 'The Prize' is an excellent, page-turning, read on the commercialization of oil. If your hunch is right, maybe you could get a preview of the next 100 years by reading it. I might go re-read it.
It’s been abused a lot to call elections when advantageous for the incumbent. A decade old law made for more regular term durations but there are still loopholes for the ruling party to unilaterally declare elections.

Failure to pass a budget is an automatic no confidence vote still which I think works very well.
Hit them with a fine at the same time and they can fund their own stay on prison.
Perhaps you can do something with the dat:// protocol?
Reasoning about the role of downvote, I would expect that it reduces the impact of this view on un-decided readers.
Your argument produces holes at a greater rate than they can be patched.

You’re assuming that rate of production and reaction time are the relevant factors under consideration.
Huh, I’m assuming that’s one of the Wordpress plugins. Not intentional and will track it down. I do use google analytics, so I wouldn’t be supprised if that did it.
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I'm kind of disappointed you need to charge these. I was hoping the battery could charge itself via energy generated while walking, like those light up shoes children wear. Would that not have been practical?
> People do stuff, they write it down for free and sell it to people.

FTFY: People [in the public sphere] do stuff, they write it down for free and sell it to people.
I wonder if it's possible to get a job at "FAANG" with just studying interview questions !? It would however be a proof that you are dedicated and willing to learn, kinda like a engineer degree, but one year instead of five.
Figuring out how to use R is straight forward. It is much like any interpreted scripting language and there is a huge amount of blog posts, stack overflow questions, books, YouTube videos, and courses on how to do things. It is free. SAS is expensive, the training is a joke, figuring out how to use it is bizzare. I could go on and on. I did a training at work on how to use R to a group using SAS to get them off of it and save us a significant amount of money. SAS seemed to be installed on the server and getting the client side to work on my computer took lots of effort between me and IT. SAS does have easy access to the databases we use, but it was really easy to get R database access with ODBC. In my opinion the gulf between Matlab and Python is much smaller than SAS and R. Granted, I'm not a statistician or expert in either R or SAS. I'm sure SAS does have some use cases where it shines (maybe where you need a really clear audit trail), but overall it seemed to be more confusing than it is worth.
If you're a large company and want to execute mass layoffs it's almost impossible to due so without affecting a disproportionate amount of older workers. This is not to say that ageism does not exist, but the main goal of a layoff is to cost costs and restructure the company to execute on a new strategy. Older workers cost more than younger workers, that's a fact: so most layoffs are going to be designed in such a way to reduce the amount of highly paid workers.

The company I work for executed a 10% reduction a few years ago and the most widely used criteria was to cut people was performance relative to pay grade. If you were grade 20 for example and had a standard performance review you were more likely to be cut than a grade 10 who had a similar review.
Whats more insidious is the articles that dont get written or editorials that dont appear due to the influence of advertisers. (ie Manufacturing Consent)
In my opinion, things like this ought to be major scandals that undermine the newspaper as legitimate news source, especially if 90% of people can't tell the difference.
I mean, to each their own. It’s probably better we (as a community) present it both ways. I just typically find people interested in neural networks (data scientists or the like) use the mathematical representations, but engineers typically just have their eyes glaze over. I suppose it depends on the target audience
Being annoyed at it for being slow and always needing more packages, installs and cryptic options that need to be changed in config files.

btw: is there a alternative that “just works”?
My frank thought on this is the AI researchers that placed their bets on symbolic logic were placing their bets on the idea that symbolic logic is at a higher level than connectionist logic.

If you're not emotionally invested that argument is laughable. It's total basis is that human suck at math.
Linux developers using macOS don't seem to care much about that distinction.
You can deploy games created to a handheld console, awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lp7W9_jtJ8
Clergy are such an obvious and well-understood exception that it's intellectually dishonest to use them as a counter-example.

Also veterinarians make extremely good money. Nearly all of those low-rate professions are well paid and virtually none of the high-rate professions are.
Your issue is long after they were having this as an annoying argument version of the report (and it is really difficult to isolate "well this one guy might have sounded sane"; at some point you burn out even thinking about the issue).

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/11987
You can deploy games created to actual handheld game console.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lp7W9_jtJ8
Hard to understand why someone would pay for that over the other services out there where the upstream bandwidth scales with the downstream.

Shipping, airplanes, and people/companies otherwise in the middle of nowhere (eg remote mines).
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18940568
Well if the entire constellation is replaced, that's too late for that isn't it ?
When Indians who follow a strict vegan diet started migrating to the western world, a lot of them would begin to suffer from pernicious amaemia, a disease caused by deficiency of dietary vitamin B12. Similar diseases are present in India but appeared to be less common.

Most published research are rather diplomatic about this phenomenon[0]. However, reading between the lines, the reason appears to be the lack of fecal and insect contamination in food supply, which accidentally eliminated a lot of exogenous micronutrients not present in plants.

[0]:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11470726