skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of this (or anything related to inequality getting worse) is also a proxy of the "new permutations" of families that were "created" over the last couple of decades (sorry for the poor terminology. I'm not sure how best to describe the concept).

If for a while the norm was a single low skill working parent with someone staying at home to take care of a large families, then that's what you'll need to live in a high demand area. If you have zero working parent, or a larger family, then you're a few steps away from that.

However if we introduce a few more possible optimizations:
- 2 working parents.
- No family (as in, no kids)
- College education.

And so on, and you make those things very common (common enough to affect local economies), then the people who don't have those things are even further from the norm. DINKs with significant educations are miles ahead from more "traditional" families as far as economic situation go, and they're becoming more and more common, but back then they were nearly unheard of. Fill a city with DINKs, and everyone else is screwed.
At my first job in Italy we used to stretch the lunch break a bit.
The boss put a paper on the wall with a reminder of the official working hours:
8:30 - 12:30 / 13:30 -
It's worth noting that a large number of people don't agree with you that HTTP is the null hypothesis. Instead, they think that HTTPS is a security/privacy best practice and a great part of defense in depth.

You can see this pro-HTTPS opinion all over this discussion.

As for your "consider", I personally do double-wrap many streams: I have a VPN for my browser. The VPN is great for hiding my home traffic from being spied on by my ISP. Without the VPN, HTTPS streams would reveal hostnames (SNI) and IP addresses to my ISP.
> When a new image is sufficiently different from the set of training images, deep learning visual recognition stumbles, even if the difference comes down to a simple rotation or obstruction.

I'm about as far from an ai expert as you can get.

When I see and recognize a school bus, it seems that object remains a school bus to me until there is very significant evidence otherwise, whether it is ahead, beside, tipped over, or behind as referenced in the example.

It would seem ai on a single image is problematic, and needs classification over time to gain "confidence" instead of a single attribution.

Edit/additional thought: It also seems to me that I know and accept that it's a "bus" before I know it's a "school bus" while another person might immediately recognize a "school bus" and then think "that's a type of bus." How wonderful to think of how those arrangements of hierarchies leads to differing opinions and creative abilities in humans.
I did not mean to reveal that, it was an oversight by me.

> Your review is very emotionally charged and with very few facts or examples, which makes it difficult to take seriously.

I wrote the review more than a year after leaving the company. I wasn't feeling very emotional, I was just trying to be descriptively honest. I'm not sure what you're looking for. Transcripts of specific dialogues between employees? I explained the way things are there pretty truthfully, and five years later I still feel it's objectively accurate. The problem is the personalities and there isn't much more to it than that.

> just seems like an attempt to bash the company (1 star, all reds, only pros are low pressure environment and parking?)

If you had worked there this might stop seeming like an exaggeration.

> I don't think Snowbound's positive reviews show manipulation

If you can't see the manipulation going on there, it's hard for me to imagine a set of reviews that you would consider manipulation.
> There appears to be a trend towards larger aircraft, with expensive heavy jets the aircraft of choice

> This is partly due to the long distances travelled, he said, “but also possibly due to business rivals not wanting to be seen to be outdone by one another”

I don't think we can expect anything substantive coming of a meeting like this.

Has anything ever?
Bought a Thinkpad (T480s) as a replacement for the (great) 2013 MBA and it's running nicely so far, good quality, small. Dualboot BitLocker WinPro and LUKS Ubuntu could be easier, but gracefully the recipe in the Ubuntu wiki took care of it. Full boot up is slow, but I'm almost always running Linux and the sleep functionality works reliably and is quick. --

The (2017/8?) MBP of my work collegue starts having problems with the keyboard, he can still type atm but it is annoying to think that soon a service visit with all the hassle might be necessary.
Joyce is intentionally written to be difficult. Never understood what all the fuss was about.

I enjoy Paradise Lost because it is cinematic. It may be just me, but it seems like an epic sci-fi space opera. For any lurkers who haven't read it (or recall being miserable being forced to read sections of it in school) I'd highly recommend it. Once you get past the arachaic language and odd sentence structure (it is a poem, after all) you're left with one of the wildest, suspenseful, horrific, adventure stories ever written.
And then Glassdoor refuses to remove reviews that are obviously irrelevant. I noticed a review for SurveyMonkey from someone who takes panel sruveys (i.e. absolutely not someone who works there) and after it was flagged I got this response from Glassdoor:

"Thank you for flagging the post titled “survey taker” for additional review. We take our Community Guidelines very seriously. Before any reviews are posted on Glassdoor, our moderators review them to ensure they meet our Guidelines.
A manager has reviewed the post you flagged and decided it does meet our guidelines. Therefore, the post will remain on the site."
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This is a good nutshell reminder of an apparent key fact of existence.

This has been known and lamented for more than 2,000 years. Read Ecclesiastes.

Everything is an iteration of
what went before. Things only
seem new because our memories
are short. No one remembers
what happened last week, let
alone last year. We forget
everything and our children
remember even less.

("Nothing New Under the Sun: A Blunt Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes", Adam S. Miller)
Hi Brian,

Thank you for reaching out. I love it when company folks will get into the conversation on HN.

As far as connection, I've got 300/300 from Frontier. It's good, and I can help out my friends. But more questions below...

I had been using CrashPlan for years. Converted to their business plan when they decided to ditch the Consumer stuff.

My confidence in their viability/user experience has eroded. I have personally ditched their service. My concern is for some family members who I've also had on my plan. I think they have roughly ~3TB of photos backed up. I want to find them a new home.

Color me skeptical that folks outside of the public cloud providers are going to be around in 10 years.

Convince me why Backblaze is a good option to send folks to, and please understand, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just wary after having "the CrashPlan experience." Know what I mean?

Thanks.
I agree that passenger convenience is extremely important. Part of passenger convenience is the ability to be able to use the train for its base purpose, to get on the vehicle that gets you from A to B.

My concern is that free transit would lead to an insatiable amount of travel demand, which we already see with free roads that magically fill up the moment expansions open. A free train is useless if you can't board it. And even with Paris's ambitious plans to expand transit there probably wouldn't be enough capacity, and even that new capacity is only scheduled to come online in a few years' time, since you can't increase buses and trains available instantly.
My favorite tool is boring Ruby/Rails because I know it best and I'm hyper-productive.

Your favorite tool should be whatever allows you to be hyper-productive. The goal isn't to be flashy or cool or hip, the goal is to create something: features, changes, bugs, etc.

If you value your time and sanity, go with what you know.
True. But also new vulnerabilities land into unstable when upstream software releases are made. :)

That's why the distribution is baked for months before being called stable.
Or even better- not flying at all and attending the conference virtually. Climate conferences and talks so frequently are held in resort towns- it should not be a getaway. Reserve some conference rooms and have everyone dial in! We have the technology.
Sounds like you dont live in Florida. :)
The problem is human nature, not Facebook.
VC4CL: OpenCL Implementation Running on the VideoCore IV GPU of the Raspberry Pi
What’s amazing is that it’s 2019 and there are still people who trust online reviews written by people they don’t know! Show me one online review system out there that is not gamed in some way by the entities that stand to gain or lose money due to the content in the reviews.
At the same time, maybe college shouldn't charge that much for a major/profession that might not pay off the student out of his/her student loan back, in like decades?
> and being accused of job hopping

As someone who has done, and still does, a lot of recruitment over the years I think people maybe worry about this too much.

What I mean is perhaps best illustrated with some examples:

- When you're fresh out of college/uni, it can be hard to find a job you really like, so in your first few years you might change job several times. No big deal.

- You leave a job you've been in for several years where you may have been happy and productive for quite a long time, but perhaps you're getting bored, need a new challenge, have been enticed away, or whatever. But then your next job turns out to be not so awesome, and neither is the one after that, so again you change jobs two or three times in a short period. Again, no big deal.

- The company your with restructures/gets taken over/relocates/makes redundancies and, without necessarily wanting to, you find yourself in a position where you need to find work fast. Again, you might not find a job you really like out of the gate and, again, no big deal.

These things don't bother me as a recruiter. What does bother me is a 20 year career where I can see you've changed jobs every year or two. It bothers me even more for management and leadership hires: I start to wonder if you're actually any good at anything, or whether your main talent is schmoozing and jumping ship just before the shit hits the fan (or just in time to take all the credit).

I want some evidence of periods of stability in your employment history, because this shows me that you're capable of committing to something for the longer term, which is when you can really make a positive impact. You're expensive to hire, and when I have hired you, I'm going to invest in your development and success (whatever that means for you), so I'd like to see some return on that investment.

DISCLAIMER: I'm fortunate to work in a tech hub that, whilst not large as a place, certainly has a lot of options in terms of companies to work for (Cambridge, UK).
That "Cons" is possibly the worst thing someone could post.

That they hold a grudge when someone left is a _huge_ red flag.
But the planet was turned on its side by a collision, right? How would the collision have also altered the rotation of whatever moon wandered past to Roche limit to later became the ring?
D'oh. Got it. Thanks!
If there's one thing I've learned from seeing these reports over the years, it's that the specific drive model matters more than the brand.
Core hours worked well for me, until one office decided that their core hours would change due to high traffic. Suddenly an office that was only an hour earlier than mine was now leaving just after lunch. I had an office that was 11.5hrs off and we had a great setup where I would do night meetings one week and they would the other. The office an hour off of mine could never get their shit together to schedule meetings.
For someone who's familiar with the "IDE" shown in the artwork, I was able to quickly parse the different components and it conveyed a vague sense of excitement :).
Where do you live in the US? It sounds like California, specifically the concrete desert of LA.
It's essentially a troll book. There is no "code", it's randomness.
If you want to see "hilarity" in regards to California's Prop 65, take a look at this surplus electronics vendor:

https://www.allelectronics.com/

...while not apparent on the main page (I'm sure they'll fix this in time), if you click on any item, no matter which item, there will be a little "Prop 65" warning notice, with a link to this page (rendered as a dialog):

https://www.allelectronics.com/cms/ca_warning/ca-warning/1.h...

The print catalog is even funnier, if you receive it - every single spot of a component or part has the Prop 65 warning.

Someone should print up a bunch of "Prop 65" stickers, and plaster them on everything in California (for all I know, they are already doing this).

It's all kinda absurd.
Someone has to set the example. Preferably someone influential.
As a hiring manager for an infrastructure engineering team in a startup in the Silicon Valley, I have some opinion about the value of these certs.

I'd likely never hire an engineer with one of these certs and no relevant experience into a full-time position. I might offer an internship, but that's not a six-figure position.
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It was Windows 8 at the time, but yes.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18996377
> A stark example is newspapers: there's a company that's aggressively buying them up, and once they acquire one they slash the newsroom staff to drastically cut costs.

That's been the norm for the newspaper business since at least the 1970s. The current company you are probably thinking of doing that is Digital First Media, which has mostly been getting attention for it's unsolicited bid for Gannett, a company that was well know for doing the same thing during the 1970s-1990s (and was recently considered a threat for doing that again with it's—ultimately abandoned—bid to take over Tribune Publishing.)
I can’t think of a single case in human history where indiduals acting alone made a real difference in widespread issues like climate change. So suggesting it starts with individual steps seems wildly inaccurate.
Is moderation on Facebook that large of a problem? I wonder if it’s possible to use the walled garden approach that Apple News does and apply that to Facebook: only distribute globally posts which have been moderated with a person. Moderation for local distribution shouldn’t be needed as people can self moderate at that level. It’ll be a two tier system.

Edit: Is it also possible to have better moderation by having an upvote downvote system? That seems to be how communities like Reddit and Hackernews scale.
I have the same issue. Every once in a while the docker instance will get into a endless loop trying to start up and failing. So far the only fix I have found is to remove and recreate the instance. Still, I love having my own local GitLab.
Hunt for Planet Nine
Unlimited fibre is the norm here in New Zealand.
Sounds very much like the snake oil that accompanied Lumosity...
Some of the firmware has been reverse engineered, with community supplied patches, but that's not supported at all by AMD.

https://github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools/tree/master/f32

What's interesting is there's not a clear reason for the firmware to not be opened other than it's probably a huge amount of work to document. It looks like an unexpected house design so there shouldn't be IP issues, and it's pretty mundane stuff so there shouldn't be trade secret issues either. : /
I lived in Berlin for a while and when I came back to the U.S. the two things that stood out were the massive parking lots and billboards. American cities are hostile to humans. Way too much space taken up by ugly parking lots. Go out West and so much land is fenced off. Access to lakes and rivers is hard since so much of the surrounding land is private and fenced off.
Al Gore and Leonardo Di Caprio fly private jets all the time. Not sometimes, but always and very often. This is equivalent of Mahatma Gandhi driving among the people in the Rolls Royce to deliver his message!
If you want the base data https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/
Static types, protocols, dot syntax, properties… I'll give you blocks, although that was strictly a C feature.
In the Bay Area, it’s the opposite. Interviewers almost look negatively on being at one employer for too long.
The solution should include a carbon tax or fee to make such behavior uneconomical. Could Switzerland impose a carbon fee upon landing a private aircraft at a Swiss airport?
I can't speak for anyone else, but because AMD has been opening up their drivers, the laptop I purchased six months ago was AMD based.

I haven't done any kind of elaborate benchmarks, but as someone who runs Linux full-time, I want to support companies that make my life a bit easier.

That said, I have had some issue with my computer having some weird graphical glitches, and then crashing...I don't know if that's the drivers fault but I never had this with my NVidia or Intel cards...
In case of Europe, thankfully it's so dense and EU actually does invest in people transport (even outside the union). USA seems to be out of luck, and probably will need more regulation than the EU.
What about Linus giving the finger to Nvidia? I'm pretty sure that's a suggestion of some sort.
> factual elements of the reviews

What facts can you really share though? This isn't a court situation, where evidence is scrutinized and held up to rigorous standards. So what are you really expecting? Transcripts of conversations? Financial documents? I don't really understand what kind of "facts" you would be looking for.

Reviews are all about "how was your subjective experience there." If the answer is "awful, the company treated me poorly," then that's a legitimate review. Why would you discount it?
I like my B2. I also like that Backblaze is one of those companies that does one thing and does it very well.
I thought to myself: "Someone who cared could probably have got a train from most of Europe to Davos!"

Then I thought about the sort of people that go to these things, and how long the train takes. They're oh so terribly important (sarcasm), that they simply cannot afford the time lost by traveling in anything other than a jet.

And that I think is the problem - from the Davos-attendee right down to you and I with our cars + central heating/air-con: we all want things to improve, but we also all value (consciously or otherwise) our own comfort/time/convenience more

"Well OF COURSE most people should take the train to Davos. Absolutely! Its the climate friendly choice! I had to take a jet though because I am very busy."
Phone calls. Phone calls? Fix the world with phone calls?

It’s not enough to call people on the phone.
What normally comes from such meetings are policies aimed at curbing the consumption of the 80% of the population who control 20% of the resources. The upper 20% of the population (who control 80% of the resources) are very good at sparing themselves from hardship.
Remote Debugging with VS Code to a Raspberry Pi Using .NET Core on ARM
Software translation does often use an intermediate language, and one of them (mentioned in the link) is Esperanto, which is an artificial/constructed language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_language

Sounds like your idea for a constructed language specifically designed for translation might be a good one. Maybe it could even help improve the accuracy of machine translation?
It's very easy to advocate for something when you are not sticking around to suffer the consequences.
Well, since presumably the aircraft need to fly out, the simple thing would just be to tax fuel based on carbon emissions from burning it.
> The majority of websites run on https now

We are talking about a specific use case of https: software repositories, which are far higher-value targets than your random website, with another set of challenges. Your package manager can actually do some things as root; once it's owned, your system is Game Over.

Adding yet another lib on top of the (?) most important piece of software on your computer is not a risk to take lightly. There are more elegant solutions (signatures, priv-sep, not trusting anything until authenticated, etc.) that require less risky code to run, and fewer people to come into play.

> Sure, there are bugs in libraries, but seeing as https is already widespread you’re not exposing yourself to MORE risk by using https over plain http

Irrelevant. We're talking about instant game over if it goes to sh.. even if just once. More attack surface = more vulnerabilities.
An interesting read as always from Ken.

I've got a first-generation Apple Dot Matrix Printer that's up next for a restoration. I understand that I can still get drivers for this, but does anyone know what it might be worth? eBay comes up with nothing.
Meaning that even when the Sun is no longer shining, the dewpoint is so high that what might have been a comfortable temperature with a breeze is actually felt as oppressively hot and will cause all sorts of fun mold growing in the home.

In the Southeast, AC is also about dehumidifying the air.
And were the developed with the GUI and then deployed as a headless app.
Paid through interchange fees. Cards with the most rewards are most likely heavily supported by interchange.
aahhh, the ol' lump of labour fallacy fallacy
Funny I'm old enough to remember when Mac stood for "Most Applications Crash" and the even older Macintosh: "Most Applications Crash, if not the operating system hangs". Of course it was competing against my DOS environment that didn't have a mouse, which was clearly the root cause of all the issues.
Word is that all the 'employees'(1099ers) found out this morning. In somewhat understandable angst, they've cleaned the place over, bringing in trucks to take all the now un-used heaters, ovens, and all the soon to be spoiled food. Rent is due in 10 days afterall.

So, if you are in the market for some industrial grade kitchen supplies, now is the time to act on that impulse!
A very similar effect is harnessed in current machine learning models and is called "dropout". The basic idea in context is:

- you take your reference data and reserve a random chunk of it to figure out how good you're doing, this data is only used to grade performance -- the rest is for training.

- you notice that as you train on the training data, you start improving your performance on the evaluation data, but only up to a point: then as you train more, the neural net starts getting worse on the evaluation data.

- this problem is called "overfitting", your neural net is now trying so hard to get the "details" right that it is losing accuracy on the "big picture".

- so we create a circumstance where the neural net cannot properly do overfitting because those "details" cannot really be resolved, by just dropping nodes at random out of our neural network as we're training it. It will have to pick up a level of redundancy in the nodes and the associated noise of losing nodes should stop the later stages from really having a "focused view" of the training data, such that it can overfit that data.

If you're interested see e.g. Adrian's Medium post about it, here: https://medium.com/@bingobee01/a-review-of-dropout-as-applie...
I can see how people will talk about Tesla in same words some 5 years later.
I don't know - I do quite like being able to swap between the office, working from home, working from a coffeeshop, and having the ability to deal with emergent emergencies anywhere with my 2015 MBP. A charging port, two USB-A, and two Thunderbolt is more than sufficient for my needs; the headphone jack is a nice touch.

It's a shame that the MBP line went backwards in terms of functionality. If I wanted a gimped MBP I'd get an Air.