skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies use information services in order to pay appropriately. They neither want to overcompensate and drive higher wages nor do they want to under compensate and lose staff to competitors.
>If his studies basically equated liberal ideology with communism (equal outcomes)

It's an easy mistake to make, but Communism (at least as Marx and his contemporaries and Lenin envisaged it) does not have anything to do with the principle of equal outcomes except in a very narrow sense - this sense being equality of privileges to some portion of society.
> what is and is not explicitly fact that's actually based in reality

It's incredibly difficult to split apart explicit fact from our own biases though. There wasn't a time too long ago that facts, as certain national and cultural groups understood them to be, were used to commit terrible atrocities.
> Also, according to the chyron, I should be really scared of Islam.

Citation needed. It almost seems that you invented something just as an attempt to demotivate people from taking a look. Normally I don't watch videos, but this time I got curious, and I've seen only "Belgian Imam embroiled in the scandal" in the chyron.

But while checking that, I've found out that the video has some real points:

- Co-founder of the NewsGuard: former columnist of the Wall Street Journal, for which EFF wrote that he "repeatedly gets his facts wrong about the NSA surveillance."

- In Advisory Board: Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director, Tom Ridge, former First secretary of Homeland Security, Richard Stengel, former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy
You are correct in saying that we shouldn't forgive what they've done wrong but also shouldn't discard the organization as a whole as evil. I'd say that this evil falls squarely on the legislators who have ignored it for as long as they have. It's a problem that needs to be addressed not used for political advantage.

We need ICE (maybe not in it's current form) but we need someone to protect our borders. How we protect our borders is up to legislators to determine. This doesn't mean that individuals doing this aren't responsible as well but it's also a systemic problem at this point.
It's just statistic.

How you collect your data can introduce bias and statistic have a whole range of topics on how to collect data without introducing bias and systematic techniques to sample data. Stratifying data if a certain group is under represented, random sample, etc... Survey analysis goes into hardcore details on how to sample a population to accurately do inference and it's an interesting statistic sub field if anybody is interested.

ML tends to be more here's the data already do something with it.

Statistic encompass everything about the data including how to sample, collect the data, and designing the experiment to collect the correct data to answer your hypothesis. Where as ML is usually here's the data, go figure out what you can get out of it.
That is really cool that that is possible! Could the same approach be used for WPF? How do WinForms and WPF differ at that layer? Would WPF be a lot bigger of a project than WinForms?
Stratolaunch abandons launch vehicle program
> isolationism

Don't mention the R word.
From the ReadMe: "There are many many bugs and this project/product is not at all recommended for production. It is pre-alpha phase!"
venezuela placed gold in the bank of england as a guarantee for a loan from germany to buy food from turkey. london is currently refusing to return it despite venezuela paying back germany. the gold has doubled in value and could be used to buy food. just another piece of evidence of economic pressure actively hurting people in venezuela.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-gold/venezuela-g...
Makes sense. I didn't really think about it before, so I imagine that a few of them were surprised at my language.

I have tendency to type if I pissed off then either delete it or amend it before sending/posting.
ChatOps with Pulumi Webhooks
Imagine how much smaller/faster Chromium would be (or any of Google's big web apps) if the primary developers didn't get to use supercomputers to build and test on every day.
Salary transparency doesn’t require salary equality. Sure, if all Senior SWEs are making $95K, you just don’t apply there. In the more likely case, seniors are making a spread of $80-160K or $90-225K or whatever and you can decide where your likely value may land in or just outside that range.
Sorry. I just briefly read the repo. So you're saying when I put the cover on the device it will suspend to ram (consuming very little energy) and when I open it again it will come back immediately?
A related related maxim: "Someone who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person."
Also when you talk to tech support and copy some data from your system. I would normally paste the original line and replace the sensitive information before sending. I know it's possible to send all updates, but actually doing it is breaking lots of expectations.
Running FusionAuth in Docker or Kubernetes is a huge benefit to those running on premise.
The author of this article cannot be trusted. He regularly writes articles that compare non-best practices of JWT to best practices of other technologies to make JWT look bad. Because of him, I would not trust Okta at all. Take any article by Okta with a grain of salt.
Yeah. Even with the privacy aspect aside, I'm quite tired of tagging self-driving car data for Waymo to use.
I think you're mis-remembering your time period. 20" monitors weren't widely available until the mid-late 1990s; nor were P133 machines (P133 release was in June 1995; so for it to be considered mid-low end, late 90s would be more likely).

Where I worked in the early 1990s (1992-ish), us developers fought over who would have the color terminals (Wyse 370/380) and who would have the monochrome ones (Wyse 50/60). I was low-man on the pole so I always got stuck with the low-spec terminal (though I still have an affinity today to amber VT220 text characters).

Until I "wowed" the owner of the company (small shop) showing how to do windows, dialogs, etc in a terminal using a virtual buffer and some other "tricks". Then I was given one of the color terminals, to jazz our interface (which was mostly numbered menus and basic flat screens).

At one point, I played around with the 16 color Textronix graphics mode you could pop into with the right escape sequence; I think I made a very slow Mandelbrot set generator (never showed that to him; our app was already pushing our dev hardware, which was an IBM RS/6000 desktop workstation running AIX we all shared via 9600 bps serial connections)...
No, that's incorrect. The preamble is used to denote the start of a frame. It's used by the receive circuit to sync to - i.e it derives its clock from those preamble bits. It's also how the receiver distinguishes between a frame an noise.
Do 'Close Door' Buttons in Elevators Do Anything?
The thing about tech projects is that you can always hire more engineers. There is no limit as to how many engineers a company can employ for any given project.

As soon as the CTO loses touch with some part of the code base, that's when the middle managers start introducing unnecessary complexity into projects. Technical middle managers will always create more complexity to give themselves more work and more responsibilities. They will do it subconsciously and compulsively.

There aren't many engineers today who care about code quality or even know what that means. I'm disappointed by what this industry is turning into. There is no pride in efficiency anymore.

Most managers within tech companies today don't have a clue what good software development looks like; they think that if they use TypeScript as a programming language, Agile as a methodology and Jira as a project management tool, that the product will turn out great for sure; but it's not the case.

Tech monopolies can allow even the worst tech managers and engineers to thrive professionally. No one ever gets reprimanded for unnecessarily increasing the project complexity even though it will cost the company millions a few years from now (in a large part due to the need to hire more engineers to manage the complexity).

WhatsApp could handle 200 million users with only 50 employees; it's proof that you don't need many employees to deliver quality. Keeping complexity under control is a better strategy than just hiring more people.
The “Fortnite” economy now has its own black market
The older IM clients (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, et al.) could tell you if someone was typing or entered unsent text, but it never previewed what had been typed. At least that wasn't a default option back then.
Yes! Like many other baby-boomer dreams, the dream of "flying cars" in reality is an ugly noisy nightmare for the city.

It's the same story of building bridges and super-highways, through the downtown because they "look good" and "let you put your name on it", without caring for the residents.

For transportation we need tunnels, not bridges.

And if you want something flying other the city - build a silent glider that uses only the energy of raising currents of air and gravity to accelerate for take off and decelerate to land. Or another silent vehicle. Not a stupid noisy flying car.
I built up a homebrew NAS with three of those Supermicro drive bays, and, other than the need to remove/replace screws (and not lose them for empty bays), I've really liked them.

However, I can't for the life of me find out whether or not those bays will work with 6 Gb/s SATA. I've been considering putting my Ryzen 7 board into the NAS case to consolidate two systems into one, but I'm not going to go to that effort if I have to get new hotswap bays.
> - sometimes 'w' button seems to be 'stuck' in pressed state even when it's physically un-pressed

Ah, so it's a common issue. I also have the 'w' problem on Dell Lattitude E7450.
It's my opinion that since I pay for internet, and the Spotify service, I have control over what I see, what comes into and out of my network. There is no modification to the app itself, and Spotify's contractual reach should not extend beyond their app.
You're probably right. But if I were to try and defend his statement, perhaps he means it's not based on factors such as convenience as a medium of exchange, or public confidence that it will have relatively stable value (so that it can serve as a medium of storing value).
It is not 0-indexed, it is just that "floor" means something different than in American English. It means a level above the ground. So the first level above ground is the first floor.

The German word Stockwerk is even clearer. It describes the wooden planks which separates two levels. So if you live on the first Stockwerk you live one level above ground.
Definitely at the very least ICQ had it - remember freaking out friends by replying to their questions before they even clicked send. This was late 90s...
Positively shocking.
> ...I have no doubt that those same billions could be much better used by many other fields such as biology, chemistry,...

Has there been any speculative fiction exploring what a fiat economic system would look like if instead of bankers placing bets on various business ventures, we had scientists and engineers describing, we need to rule out (or in) this, this, and that possibility to move the boundaries of human knowledge forward, and let the entities who have first crack at fiat economic issuance that eventually flows outward into the "real" economy be these science and engineering efforts?
Australian farmers are battling to make IoT work
NASA changes crew for Boeing commercial crew test flight – SpaceNews.com
If you use an external library, it's much more likely that you can google any issues you have with it, rather than having to reverse engineer it. The reason the GP quoted this:

> I personally find it far easier to fix my own code than others' code.

is that if you work on a team, you're fixing others' code either way. The difference is that with an external library there's usually documentation, a community, etc; but with a home-rolled solution, you're usually on your own.
I highly recommend everyone to read the book The Coddling of the American Mind. A large chunk of it is dedicated to this very question: why children have much less play time today than in the past, how it's harming them and what to do about it.

Its conclusions are fairly counter-intuitive, but the reasoning is very convincing and backed up by lots of cited research.
both of those would easily fit into one excel spreadsheet, it's silly to think that a company like Google would not be able to produce that easily. The OFCCP may have had a better shot if they said 99.99% of Google employees, instead of every one of them.
The book Queuing Theory in Action: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/PerformanceModeling/book.html
State coercion is an abuse on individual liberty, plain and simple.

It's not, but if you prefer to believe that it is, hey, that's your right.
(Puts on old man hat)

XPS is a gaming machine. Save the No BS hardware for the Latitude line - which has subsequently gone to shit, last I checked.
This is essentially the system sold by Blamey Saunders in Australia. My pair work reasonably well.
Amazon's Biggest Mistake, and the Value of Listening
Nice! I remember trying to implement Hinton's capsules layer in tensorflow [1], and stumbling upon Einstein notation syntax. Took me a while to figure it out.

[1] https://github.com/michaelklachko/CapsNet/blob/master/capsne...
You joke, but there are certain aspects that could be made far more efficient and accurate with AI.
> if Harvard judged candidates based on SAT scores, scholastic achievement, and other seemingly-objective-and-reasonably-sensible metrics

I think this type of statement represents the main problem that folks who run down the “Asians at Harvard” rabbit hole.

People assume that Harvard admissions is all just based on who is the biggest brainiac based on grades and SATs, and that’s simply not the case at Harvard or any other elite school.

Decent article on the topic:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2018/10/21/dockets-...

High SAT and high grades gets you merely a 2 (1 being best) in one of four categories (academic, athletic, extracurricular, and personal/leadership). If you get a 2 in three of four categories, it still only gets you a 40% chance of admission.

That said, getting a 1 in any category gives the applicant a bump to anywhere between 48% and 88% chance of admission. Note that only about 100 people per year get a 1 on academic, and that still only gives them a 68% chance of admission if that’s their only 1. Standards are sky high.

To anyone who has high scores and great grades in a rigorous curriculum and wants to apply to an elite school, I advise them to differentiate themselves in ways other than academics — it’s a much easier path to acceptance. In my opinion, these non-academic selection criteria is one of the things that makes top schools amazing places.

Specifically:

- Great grades and great SAT scores (750+ in Math and Verbal) are a baseline for being considered.

- The more of the following list below an applicant can check off, the more likely they are to get admitted. If they have several high quality checks, the requirements for grades and scores can actually decrease to a surprisingly low level:

(rough order of importance... non-exhaustive list)

1. Recruited athlete.

2. Diversity candidate (race).

3. Notable academic achievement (e.g., publish a paper).

4. Demonstrate leadership via some verifiable and substantial project.

5. Be a skilled-but-not-recruited athlete (esp. in non-varsity sports), entertainer, or person of interest (e.g., children of famous or powerful people). Accolades or championships help.

6. Create a substantial and successful business or non-profit.

7. Diversity candidate (geographical).

8. Have an incredible personal narrative (e.g., Malala) — this might be more important... it’s hard to tell.

9. Be the child of an alum.

10. Be the child of a substantial donor (also hard to rate in importance... it really only comes into play if they aren’t admitted normally).

11. School/department applied to (depends on university).

It boggles my mind when someone (Asian or otherwise) points to great grades and great SAT scores and gripes about not getting into an elite school. Elite schools explicitly state that they are looking for well-rounded applicants or “multidimensional excellence”. Why is that person/applicant surprised when they only focused on one dimension and did that in a non-exceptional way (compared to other applicants)?

Anyway, this is a topic I know quite a bit about. Please feel free to ask follow-up questions.
Yeah I use 8 gigs in chrome tabs alone.
I don't understand what you mean by cross-validation. I'm guessing you don't mean actual cross-validation, where you test a model learned on a training partition against a testing partition, etc?
I greatly appreciate that. I'm disappointed that I probably can't incentivize other companies to follow your lead. There's little visibility or choice to the end-user as to which chat system they want to use, and I suspect most of your customers don't care that much either way, so it isn't a differentiating factor.

But I appreciate it. Thank you.
I'm a bit older and also remember this as well. I would watch in real time when my friends would type something out, or call out their mistakes in typing. I believe you're right about it being ICQ.
Happened to me about a month ago when I tried to watch Miracle Mile ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097889/reviews ). I live in Mexico and pay for: Amazon Prime, Google Play, Netflix, CinepolisKlick and Claro Video (really, I am subscribed in one way or another to all of them). None of them had this movie in their Mexico version... I ended up having to watch it in PopCorn Time.
While I agree that kids could stand to get out more, I think everyone here is painting an absurdly rosy picture of the past. I'd like to know what percentage of kids used to spend their time doing hard labor or if their latchkey existence left them feeling so uncared about that they turned into nihilist assholes. Don't get me wrong – in a perfect world, kids would play outside 8 hours a day, but I have a hard time getting past the selection bias presented in the video.
Actually, I work at a public school district that has about 800 employees for 8,000 students and I help maintain the FIS/HRMS.

Going back 10 years for this information would be pretty trivial for us. Our systems already have reports that do the above. The name, address, telephone, and personal email is basic demographic information in an HR system.

Yes, I can imagine the kind of complexity that would arise in a 25 fold increase in personnel, but, if anything, the data systems would have more historical data in them. Financial records retention typically involves manually purging records rather than the opposite. After all, you've got to store at least two years of information just to be able to handle taxes and auditing.

It's all saved in the system and date tracked appropriately. Going back longer than that would be difficult, but that's only due to records retention laws. We're not required to maintain most personnel records longer than about 7-8 years (though some go as long as 50 or more, such as the types of records that pensions require).

Then again, I'm also familiar with FOIA requests, and I'm aware than at least 50% of the cost is probably going to be the cost for lawyers to vet the information before release.
It properly answers the question that they replied to, "What are you doing where people are making close to 2x what you need to be in top 1% of income?"

S/He replied that it's not what you're doing, it's where you're doing it.

It's why judging on these income bands makes no sense. $300k household income with kids is comfortable but not rich in SV, but you'd be living like royalty in most of the rest of the US.
If the site is using SSL, there is a reasonable expectation that only the server will see that data, not the entire world.
How can anyone give this venture firm any money when its founder is so clueless on how currency works.
VCs also have a resource that is much more scale-able, especially in a horizontal direction, money.

Most founders don't have the ability to diversify anywhere near the same degree because the resources they have personal control over (time, energy) are generally much more limited.
I kind of agree with the people above if you take an experienced team then replace it with another team(with cost cutting added in), it could be a block down the road and your going to run into problems.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a lot of data, not that granular but by region and larger city it is very good: https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm
Looks like I'll be typing in a text app from now on and copy-paste my replies as I go.
They did.

Because you're buying ice cream.
Hey, that's only 7% per year!
But our 'fitness functions' for social problems are normally pretty good or above reproach of the model. These tend to be easy to measure like 'did the person skip bail?'

If a model of 'likelihood to show up to court after making bail' can make better predictions with information about protected characteristics (e.g if the model used sex to predict likelihood to show up in court), that feature would reduce the bias of the model.

I think the issue progressives have with 'bias' is that some of society's prejudices ('bias') have an evidentiary basis. We already make decisions that progressives would tell us are prejudiced but we probably want to use those prejudices if they're useful.

Consider a group of young men standing outside of a Church. If they're all clean shaven, smiling, and 'appropriate' for the Church it's nothing concerning. If they're white guys with shaved heads / neo nazi haircuts, and they don't look nice, and they're standing outside of a black Church, the prejudiced among us might correctly decide to alert the authorities to it.

My personal opinion is that we should allow models to consider protected traits but we should ensure that models that make important decisions aren't prejudiced along those protected traits. The way to measure this is simply to ensure that the accuracy and precision of the classification decisions are comparable among protected traits.
People usually don’t hear the retraction, only the initial story.

Because this happens every once in a while it’s very easy to get the idea it’s an official policy and you can get in trouble for it. And the consequences are so high people don’t want to risk it.

Add that to internal fear about stranger danger and the kid getting lost or hurt and is it any wonder people tend towards not allowing this stuff?
You don't even have to go smaller! If you're willing to buy used, a 30' yacht in good shape can be had for $10-$20k. Less, if you're willing to put a little work in.

If you can afford $500/mo in slip fees, you can probably afford the boat. I know people with boats in Santa Cruz that live on extremely modest incomes.
I remember this being a feature of ICQ in 1998.
Excellent breakdown for comparison. Thank you.
Which is better: benefiting the world with a selfish agenda, or hurting the world with an altruistic one?

Who cares about their interests? If it helps people get educated and improve their lot?
It wasn't the default option for sure and I remember having some extra add-on/plugin for it...

...but I recall that it was great fun (for about 5 minutes) answering questions before they had been fully typed and sent since I was the faster typist.
Not really, because the site probably stores the data and the site could be breached, or they could sell (access to) the data.

Edit: In the worst-case, as per the GP's point.
How We Childproofed Our Cities
> experimentalists have already been doing this.

Indeed. The question is why should they stop doing this? Because it is not satisfying enough? Because it won't get you a Nobel Price?

It is the only method to bring light to dark. It needs to be done even though the work might appear tedious.