skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
George Shultz really comes off as a moron in all of this.

> 'They can try to convince me that you're wrong and in this case I do believe you’re wrong,'

Then he tricks his grandson into coming over to chat, and oh by the way there's two lawyers from the company sitting in the next room with NDA paperwork for you to sign.

Later, he manages to weasel out of ever saying "I was wrong".

> "Tyler’s handling of the troubling practices he identified at Theranos is an example. He did not shrink from what he saw as his responsibility to the truth and patient safety, even when he felt personally threatened and believed that I had placed allegiance to the company over allegiance to higher values and our family."

He didn't believe it, you jackass, he witnessed it. Your retroactive history lessons wherein you are actually the hero in all of this is astounding. I can only hope Tyler Shultz has learned to stay the hell away from his grandfather.
In America for the most part if the police and / or prosecution want you to be convicted you are probably going to be. For police there are almost no consequences for lying or falsifying data except a law suit that they are not responsible for paying. Police have almost carte-blanche to do as they will including resorting to intimidation. The only good defense against being convicted in a court of law is large amounts of disposable wealth.
What is different then the acting though? Actors have unions that protect their rights but don't affect their salaries AFAIK (maybe they were abused so much that the history if fresh for them still?)
Do all Amex cards have this? I've never seen this feature offered by them.

Edit: apparently they stopped doing this for average cardholders 15 years ago and it's a corporate-card-only thing now called 'Amex Go'
It kinda depends on the service, though.

If I have a shitty customer service interaction with an Amazon rep, I might have to weigh the chargeback versus the value of my Kindle library, my AWS instances suddenly going dark, etc.

In the case of Uber, I might find myself severely restricted in transit options in an unfamiliar city.
Sounds like you missed the first part of the article?
Plus his oldest daughter has a Google Home "because she really really wanted one". For someone who cares so much about privacy, his plethora of spy-friendly electronics at home is not helping his situation, or his reporting.
You make look silly with two giant garbage bags hanging off your bike, but at the end of the day who's holding on to 20 bucks? It felt like a fortune back then, and was an honest hard days work.
>No wonder they obliterated "Don't be evil" from the workers' code of conduct.

Of course they didn't do this. As your own comment goes on to prove. You should not encourage the spread of misinformation just because it suits your world view.
Exactly, SIDS isn't purely random. There are variables nobody knew about (and many we still don't know about). Babies were suffocating on blankets, mattress padding, dolls, etc. There was probably something dangerous about the baby's crib that was undetectable.
Static types are a form of test!
this comes from the cult of metrics. If you need to know all the numbers about every single thing, about every single action taken every day in order to make decisions, then it naturally results in all the data being collected. And thus having to find ways to use the data because you already spent all your money on collecting and storing this information. And if you sell it, you can make more money!
Inharmonicity is a trade off between the ratio of string length to fundamental and stiffness (which is related to thickness.)

You could make a piano with really, really long bass strings, and the overtones would be more linear. There would also be a lot more fundamental, which is almost non-existent on the lowest octave or so of a grand piano.

Native Instruments actually sells a sample pack called The Giant which is taken from an experimental long-string piano.

I don't think it sounds all that good, because there's something just right about the colour of the "imperfect" bass strings on a fine grand. (That could just be acculturation, but I'm not completely convinced that's the case.)

Contrariwise, uprights tend to sound boxy and constrained in the bass because the strings are shorter than on a full-sized grand, and the overtones are even louder and even less linear.

You can't do much at the top end, because nicely linear strings - like the ones on a steel guitar - would have to be very thin and they'd be too fragile to survive piano hammers.

The closest approximation would be a hammer dulcimer, which has a much sweeter and more open top end than the percussive plink of a piano, but doesn't go quite as high.
I think both experiences could be true, in American suburbs and towns there is no such thing as a shop keeper or butcher in your neighborhood, it's _all_ residential. In that context it would only be the mothers and retired available.

During my days of play we never were around businesses though we did occasionally see retired people most of our limited oversight was mother based.
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>Malloc and free have pretty unpredictable runtime over time,

Yes, that's another true statement about malloc but it also doesn't matter to the particular point I'm making. To continue your correct & true statements of malloc, we can add:

- malloc has to search the freelist; GC can be just a bump allocation which is faster

- malloc leads to fragmented memory; GC can reorganize and reconsolidate

- malloc doesn't have extra intelligence to assign pointers to shared memory structures (e.g. Java string pool stores identical strings only once based on hashes)

- ... a dozen other true statements about malloc

All those true statements (which most can agree on) isn't the misunderstanding. The issue is misusing those true statements as some type of convincing evidence to explain the papers' flaws. For example:

>Whoah, faster than GC in what regard?

Well, we can just use the total runtime of the the 2 papers benchmarks where there were lots of memory operations. (In other words, we can acknowledge that performance has multiple dimensions/axis but we can also look at the simple measurement of total wall clock time of benchmark code that doesn't do database access or floating point calculations.)

The C/C++ programs ran faster and took up less memory.

Ok, were there flaws in the benchmarks? Then lets explain the specific flaws.

Yes, I can say "malloc runtime is unpredictable" but that true statement doesn't actually explain anything about GC running slower than malloc/free in the papers. We can also say that "malloc is not cost free" as another true statement -- but that also doesn't actually explain the GC's longer elapsed time.

See the problem with those attempted explanations? They're all non-sequiturs.
Yarn has over 1500 open bugs. Rather than working on changes, it'd be nice to stop and address these.
What does that make me with phone + laptop? A dinosaur?
When a Harvard Professor talks about aliens
That's it. I'm disabling JS by default.
> So I think that for computing the 0 with a slash extending outside the line predates the 0 with the slash entirely inside the line.

For computing, sure. But the Danish letter pre-dates computers, likely by centuries, so the point still stands that an effort should be made to separate the two if at all possible. In your case it wasn't so much a choice as a result of technical limitations.
"Embarrassed" -> "disenfranchised" has a nice ring to it.
I think the shared fears, or propensity for fear, is what rule us in the internet age. And some people seem to have an innate hatred/distrust of others, which probably served humans well thousands of years ago, but now it just gets in the way.
This is what I would like to know as well. These cycles tend to follow the job market pretty well. I remember when I was in school after the dot com bust our CS department really cut back on entry level classes because the interest was not there. In the end I don't think it made a large impact in the number of CS graduates.
Glad it was helpful! My stuff's in my profile. Also happy to chat over email if you have any other questions. Cheers!
I just visited Munich recently for the first time, and you're right, the public transit there is fantastic. What I couldn't figure out, however, was why anyone still bothers with a car there, since there were plenty of cars.

But one thing about Munich: it's just not that large a city, either geographically or population-wise, compared to LA. The LA metro area has 13 million people, and LA proper about 4, according to a quick google search. Munich has 1.5M, though the metro area has 6M. But the city itself is really not very large geographically; unfortunately Americans have really screwed themselves by making their cities too sprawling, and it's pretty hard to fix that once it's done.

One thing I noticed about Munich and other German cities: there's a lot of mixed-use development, where shops and businesses are on the ground floors of buildings, but there's residential space on top. This makes cities extremely livable and walkable: you can walk down some stairs and over a street and go to the local grocery store, for instance. This is mostly impossible in America because we hate this kind of development with a passion. You don't even see it much in Manhattan, NYC.
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Can somebody explain like I'm 5 what I might use this for?
It seemed to me that they weren't actively "fooled", rather they didn't perform the due diligence you would expect a board member to perform before signing up. But I got the impression this might not be uncommon among startup boards.

Also if I recall, there was a lack of medical knowledge on the board as well which surely contributed to the failures in oversight.
What a strange thing to say. Surely you've heard of war, murder, rape...?
I bet in a few years she will be on top of the world again.
Speaking of tech Slacks, here is a nice list I saw recently: https://github.com/ladyleet/tech-community-slacks
In jury trials, prosecutors have not only a huge advantage, but also a perverse incentive to lie and cheat. They know that the jurors are not going to be experienced enough in criminal law to sniff out procedural bullshit or "expert witness" gambits or bullshit science, much like a novice is unlikely to win at poker against a professional player.

And therein lies the problem. In every trial, you have professionals (lawyers) playing against novices (jurors), and since the prosecution automatically gains special believability status in the eyes of jurors, they hold the upper hand. To make matters worse, prosecutors have the automatic full cooperation of police, whereas the defense has no such guarantees. And since prosecutors are gauged by their wins, and high ranking prosecutors are the most likely to be voted/appointed into coveted judge seats, there is a perverse incentive to prosecute the innocent.

But since the system operates on the fiction that all members are equal (much like all sides are equal in a game of poker), it's easy to brush aside the reality that they are most certainly not equal, and that the more experienced has such a huge advantage that it's laughable to even call it fair.

In a system with professional judges, that wouldn't fly, as the trained judge would see through their shenanigans and rebuke them.
Good suggestion. There's definitely a series of steps to go through before any time consuming and expensive lawyering up is needed.
This is where I see a big difference between Flow / TS.

With Flow, the type annotations are just stripped away, none of your Flow code affects runtime code.

This is not so with TS since you have things like Enums, which will be compiled into objects and are part of your runtime code.
Without eyes, there's no red or blue. There are wavelengths of light, but no colors. Colors are the names we give to sensations.

Similarly, morality is a property of mind. It's like color, not like wavelength. And unlike light, we didn't find any objective source in the outside world, nor do we know of a process that would tune our perception of morality with fundamental laws of physics.

Personally, I currently believe the only somewhat-objective source of morality is path dependence: all humans share the same brain architecture. I think all the base shared moral instincts we have come from that.
Agreed, and it's unfortunately still soldered. Talk about planned obsolescence...
Oversubscribe in that they fill the auditorium and overflow with high numbers (psych 101 was 500+ and CompSci was 250+). Many will dropout or won't make the level 2 cut.

No I didn't go to Edinburgh.
This is why we need more variety in search engines. Google does not want you doing "advanced" and "unusual" things with their service anymore, because they're scared that SEOs will use this to manipulate their search outcomes. But of course every SEO targets Google anyway, so the "plain vanilla" results are just as terrible!
Yet, somehow, we all know a “Balwani” from work. We’ve all been employed somewhere where he was in charge: a total phony, who knows little to nothing about technology, used his smooth tongue or connections to fake his way into Senior Director of This or VP of That. How do organizations keep falling for these people's shtick and promoting/recruiting them into positions of power?

For every Theranos where the phony is outed, there are hundreds of other companies where their “Balwani” is raking in millions in deferred comp and faking his way through to more and more power, seats on other companies’ boards and a lavish retirement. And nobody calls them out!
>plus shitty commutes significantly reduce the quality of life (at least IMO, I guess some people might want to be stuck in a car and have an hour or two less with friends or family).

Actually, you'd be surprised. I've met tons of Americans who actually like long commutes, and refuse to live too close to work. They seem to live having some kind of separation, and having to spend a lot of time in the car driving there every day. It boggles my mind.
Part of the reason she was able to fool such highly prominent people is due to her coming from really old money in the US - with her Fleischmann's Yeast family lineage - her family was in the upper echelons of US monied families (think robber baron class-money).
Believe your GP is trying to say someone could be astroturfing anti-labor sentiment.
I don't understand how you can infer from the number of candidates they interviewed how fierce the competition is. Don't you also need to know the number of positions available at other institutions that those candidates are also considering in order to estimate competition fierceness?
The system in Scotland is somewhere in between - atleast in the ancient universities. I was accepted as a BSc Math student and took Math, Compsci and Psych first semester. Second semester I switched to BSc Compsci and took two Compsci and a generic 'great ideas' module. It was generally up to three subjects first year, up to two second year, then your degree subject in third and fourth year. But you could only do subjects in your faculty, most subjects falling into Arts or Sciences, with a few such as Math, Psych and Philosophy being part of both.

That said they did limit some popular classes to only people accepted to those subjects but Compsci wasn't one last I checked - though first year Compsci in my fourth year had tripled in size from my first year.
I came in through UCCA via clearing.
There's no doubt some significant overhead to the program, that is likely modeled as being covered in part by the "slippage" of bottles that don't get returned. Fraudulent returns cut into that allowance, even before the redemption rate hits 100%.
So, a part of Microsoft will advocate for SQL server, and another part will develop for PostgreSQL? Isn't it weird? Why would Microsoft want this?
Not OP, but if you're going to downvote, have the decency to leave a comment explaining why. Downvoting just because you disagree or don't like what someone said doesn't promote understanding

Update: Hah. Downvoting me now? Why not contribute to the discussion instead?

Edit: A little less triggering language
I mentioned this in other comments, actors have unions but they still have different salary(superstarts will earn much more then a new unknown actor) and they seem very eager to join the union(or guild or how it is named I am not from US).

So it seems that programmers were scared by some bad stories that everyone will have same salary.
I went to a highly ranked liberal arts college and in 4 years, I didn't have a single instructor that wasn't a PhD. I don't know what the salaries were like then, but even freshly minted PhDs can be over 30, meaning that from ages 22-30, they were making graduate/doctoral student stipend money at best.

$95k at age 32-35 honestly doesn't seem like a lot if your savings at that age doesn't even hit 5 figures.
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In other words, the way to deal with an company which is behaving unfairly towards you is to tell them a piece of information they already know, and then depend on them becoming more fair.

You’ll understand why I’m suspicious. If this worked reliably, why would anyone need to file a lawsuit over $400M in lost wages? Wouldn’t the company have just fixed the problem when they first saw it?

Unions exist in fields and countries where wages are more transparent, too. Transparency is necessary, but not sufficient. That’s why we have a free press, but also elections and courts.
Wouldn't say "somewhat"...promoting personal sovereignty (all of the stuff you mentioned and more) is one of the main tenants.
Scientific computing is still frequently populated with half baked apps or outdated apps. There is a big amount of progress to be made here and the problems are not boring at all.

I've developed programs for:

Gathering and analyzing climate data at scale

Sample collection robotics

Low power data logging

SDR

and many more.

The really cool thing is that you dont need a phd in CS to be effective and enable other scientists success.

One question for you, eslaught:

Do you have any specific requirements that would immediately disqualify a candidate?
Not affiliated either, just an amazed customer.

Never needed glasses until I was in my late forties and had to start using reading ones.

I bought the Personal Vision Tracker (the black one) on the Indiegogo campaign. It's not very easy to use but gives fairly consistent data if handled with care. I did not yet compare the device data with the ones from a doctor's visit.

(The data for my right eye are slightly worse than for the left, and I have indeed not ideal results with standard reading glasses.)

I bought prescription glasses on a UK site (I live in Europe) based on the device data. Both the reading glasses (short distance) and the computer glasses (medium distance) are perfect: I have not seen this good in years.

Because of that excellent result I have also ordered the VisionCheck (the new, white one) on the Indiegogo campaign. It is purportedly easier to use, not gotten it yet.

Meanwhile I had also got the Insight model (larger white one). That is for visual acuity and it confirmed that I have 20/20. Interestingly, it also showed I have a light form of tritanopia, which might explain past naming disagreements around colors between green and blue.

Their product page: https://www.eyeque.com/pvt/
I know next to nothing about deep learning. But this geometric interpretation really reminds of of the way self-organising maps work. Is there a real connection there, or is that superficial?
for azure?
Anyone else having trouble loading Zenni's web site at the moment? I've been trying it since yesterday. It's not showing images, search filters aren't clickable, etc. Looks like a JavaScript issue, but it's happening in multiple browsers, so it's probably not something on my end.
Thank you for asking! Queueing theory is a topic I was completely unaware of despite a few years of CS in university. It seems like such a fundamental and useful model for just about anything in software and computing.
I find this an interesting question as well. I am a senior Googler and my old friend is similarly senior at Amazon. He told me that Amazon culture is much more transactional: you're hired to do a job, you do the job for pay and the company discards you when they're done. The company is not your friend. (As I've worded it I make it sound cruel, but in his framing of it, it's an honest but direct relationship.)

In contrast, historically Google culture has tried to be more of a "family", with a lot of talk about perks and culture and a focus on the mission or whatever. To be clear, I don't believe Google has necessarily succeeded in these goals. But rather, that is the employee relationship Google has attempted to represent, so when Google fails at it the employees are more disappointed than when Amazon (you can substitute other employers here, e.g. Oracle) fails in the same way.
Interesting, thank you for the insight.
> 2) Give them unstructured play time with friends consistently. After age 9 or so, they really can go off on their own without parents around.

http://cwrp.ca/sites/default/files/publications/en/144e.pdf

In Manitoba I can be fined up to $50,000 and given 24 months in prison if I allow my kids to play alone under the age of 12.

The PDF refers to child 'home' or 'in a vehicle' alone, but the details of the law are that the guardian of any child under the age without adequate supervision is liable.

I'm not even that old and I used to play in a park with my friends, in one of the rougher neighborhoods in my city, 2 kilometers from my parents house when I was 8.

Those were great experiences my kids can't legally have.
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Positional audio and acoustic modeling are already components of today's VR offerings, and I remember them being part of Half-Life, a game from 1998. It's only recorded content (as opposed to computer generated content) where this isn't widely done yet.
Ironically, as in Inception, a wife would probably be a lot happier overall if she was having more sex.

That said, over and above the ethical issues, what man really wants a wife they have to nag for sex? I'll take solitude.
Reminds me of Eve, where the DOM is a reactive database.
I don't think it has much to do with Facebook. The way it works (from their website) is that the target has to be sent a link to click on, which opens a page that places a cookie on their browser and immediately forwards them to a generic article. Presumably they'll then be targeted by major ad networks based on this cookie.