skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Pearl was my favorite phone I've ever had. I will always miss those simpler times.
YouTube says it'll finally stop recommending conspiracy videos
I took the in-person version of this course in Fall 2018, and it's definitely approachable for someone who doesn't yet know any linear algebra or remembers calculus all that well. You just start doing things with deep learning right away. After these quick wins, you'll hopefully get some more intuitive breakthroughs of what's actually happening. Then and only then do they suggest digging into the math more deeply (I'm still doing this last part).
That is the net effect, yes. Although honestly, $1/mile isn't that unfeasible for many people. Many people pay close to that already, so it wouldn't be like making 10x as expensive or something.
English is not my mother tongue, but I think you are focusing too much on words:

My hatred for the automobile grows every day -> My hatred for how pervasive automobile are in cities and for how they damage city planning grows every day.

There, now GP hates a trend in society.

For the second part: this is essentially choosing how free you want markets to be (and how much of society you want to be a market).

In my opinion better alternatives would be more walkable cities and better public transports, which are helped by zone-based auto ban.

Regarding raising the price of gasoline I agree that it would be a terrible choice, it would impact the least the cities and the most industrial transports and rural areas (the only sectors were car/trucks are truly needed)
Like they did yesterday?
Seems I'd accidentally made the goth nightclub playlist public anyway - here's the link, though it isn't as well maintained as the other playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/user/syneryder/playlist/3AOszFh3njR...
Hatred... is a strong word. I agree the balance is completely out of whack, but hatred? Are there really no redeeming qualities?

Ps you've advocated taxing petrol, but EVs are now a thing. Pay per mile road pricing?
We can't do this on a modern NUMA computer. Good luck trying across different system.
Moving Fast and Starting Startups
If I understand this correctly, you need to be managing your own DNS (not letting Fastmail do it), and you probably need to set p=reject in your DMARC so that non-fastmail servers can't spoof your addresses.

And if Fastmail allows Fastmail user A to spoof Fastmail user B, then the above still only protects you against non-Fastmail customers.
Julius Rosenwald: The overlooked hero behind Sears’s success
I have only crocodile tears for bad employers in this scenario, but in my mind, the main reason behind the 2 week customary notice is it's for your coworkers, not really for who is writing your checks.

It can be a real dick move to the worker bees when someone up and walks with a bunch of domain knowledge without warning, especially if they now have no way to recoup it from you.
Thanks, that looks fun. I haven't read one of Moore's books since Practical Demonkeeping, which I enjoyed immensely.
Not to reduce congestion. To reduce car usage so that they are only used in emergencies or situations where walking is not possible.
When GC is run, it does lookups in the LSM tree. We first do a small number of lookups to sample the file -- if the sample indicates that the data can be GCed (based on the discard ratio), only then does the GC go over the entire file.

In addition, Badger limits the number of key-values per log file, by default to 1M (ValueLogMaxEntries), which was a sweet spot we found.

You can run GC during periods of low activity. We run it periodically in Dgraph and don't see any negative impact on performance. Again, because LSM tree is typically small and memory mapping does a good job of serving most lookups from RAM.

Badger is an embedded KV DB. All the distribution of data happens a layer above Badger. It does not support that natively. You could use either Etcd for that, or TiKV for that.
Don't equate "your boss" with "the company". You're absolutely right, your boss could be the reason you're quitting, but by and large, your boss is probably just another cog in the same machine that is causing you grief as well.
Agreed. Many of the ideas in ProseMirror beautifully reflect many of the best modern trends in frontend web development (e.g., react).
It seems very dumb to stop paying federal workers when government shutdowns.

This is a perfect way to squeeze senates whose most fanbase consists of federal workers.

I don't really understand what stops government from conitinueing paying salary.

Are they running out money? I'm gonna go ahead and guess that federal workers' salary is probably a fraction of US annual budget.
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Shoot Someone in a Major US City, and Odds Are You’ll Get Away with It
Leadership ability, communication ability, team-work ability are probably more important factors than algorithmic ability in getting a project done, depending on the team. It seems the big-cos have figured that stuff out enough in order to make the development process as much of a meat-market as possible. However, these interviews would probably not select a maximal team for a startup.

The big-cos are also leaving a lot of talent on the table -- which makes it silly when they talk about a "talent-shortage." But, they're also paying enough where people WILL game these interviews in order to get the job... So the best argument I've seen for why these interviews work is that it selects people who work hard at learning this type of problem solving, to get the job... which correlates well with how hard they will work at the job.

Having an "objective" process is near impossible... and in fact probably not something one should strive for. Everything we do has humans has intuition behind it, whether good or bad. I think intuition is very important for finding a maximal team, especially a small one.

"Inclusivity" is kind of weird here.. most often you'll want someone with domain knowledge to get a project going quickly.. It's definitely less important for big-cos, but you still end up interviewing for a web job, an iOS job, etc.. so domain knoweledge does come into play.. at least at the big companies I've interviewed for (google, fb, lyft, uber, etc..)

I doubt this process is risk averse... you'll find people smart enough, but you learn little about their character.

Relevancy seems like a joke in your list... unless all you need is people to iterate on a small set of already solved algorithms in slightly different ways. I'd say that applies to zero companies. Except maybe leetcode, which helps people study for these tests.

The process scales well, and is easy to do, i think thats its strong suit... it's mostly effective across a ton of people.

So in summary, I agree that it seems like the best known process for these big companies. but I doubt it's as risk-averse as you think, and if you truly have a talent shortage, it's an artificial shortage created by your interview process. You might need to take some risks on people if you need to grow faster...

That being said, having that big-co process is great for startups! There's a lot of exceptional talent out there that will fail at the big-cos interviews, but will be better than their engineers for your team :) (There's also exceptional talent that will succeed at those interviews too, but would rather work at a startup) It might be a matter of using your intuition to find them... it's definitely a hard game.

I think this recent data-driven trend that is spreading across all realms of companies is poisonous in some areas where it does not belong... Human intuition still wins in a lot of areas, if it's good.
IIRC, he reconnected with her and asked her for forgiveness later in life. Abandoning your child and disowning them is a shitty thing to do, mind you, but he (apparently) tried to atone for that.
Market st is already a no-go for private cars for many blocks. As much as I hate the scooters that go around in the sidewalks and then park haphazardly blocking the path for disabled people, they did reduce the traffic around Bart stations quite a bit. If it's easy to use the alternative, people do take it. There are a few who'd never leave their precious cars but most others care about the commute and not necessarily the mode.

Every metro region in the country must be a unified under a single transportation agency. They should have enough power to force major changes. If transportation is designed at one level above a single city (esp in a metro area), there could be a lot of efficiencies that can be derived. E.g, coordination between bus and the subway system to pick up passengers within a few minutes of disembarking from the train. Expanded subway coverage for arterial routes at least. Mini buses instead of big ones for feeder routes - with increased frequency. This is not uncommon outside the US btw.

Next up is zoning changes. Local groceries must be encouraged. There should be space kept aside every few blocks and it shouldn't be just a liquor shop - there should be explicit guarantees on providing basic amenities and produce. Small scale restaurants must be allowed in all areas. This reduces the need to go too far for regular shopping.

Then, increase gas tax - don't tie it to gas price. Calculate based on the needs of costs of highway maintenance and public transportation needs. Use that to provide subsidies for public transport.
Interestingly, YouTube actually recommends liberal content at a rate substantially higher than conservative content. Centrists content links to liberal content about three times more frequently than it links to conservative content. Is there evidence to corroborate the claim that YouTube is pushing people to extreme content? The data seems to indicate otherwise.

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/does-youtube-facilitate-ri...
Why are you conflating legitimate conservative political speech, bullshit conspiracy theory and white supremacy?
As pointed out by the article, this is forcing employers to treat their workers better.

Despite it’s brutal distortions, the labour market does sometimes work in the advantage of workers.
I’m not saying the bill shouldn’t be paid by the tax payer, but you were arguing about the total bill, not who pays it
It's easy when your boss is reasonable. I've gotten a verbal lashing from my boss before when I was promoted out of his department.
Crowbars don't need marketing if it's the go-to tool for break ins. The analogy works because it would be like charging $8k for crowbars or having a crowbar property tax that is insanely expensive per year as a way to combat break ins. That doesn't work because people will find a way to break in without crowbars. People will find ways to buy gas at far less than a $1 a mile if you simply raised gas prices (i.e buy teslas). While a tesla would solve the (well let's say offset) the pollution problem, it would do nothing for the space, traffic, noise, safety, etc..
> I wish the cost of gasoline was high enough to internalize all the costs and change behavior. Like really high. A dollar a mile. We are slaves to the automobile in so many ways.

I get that you're speaking in anger and ignorance instead of reason, but this happening any time soon would spell so more problems than it would cause. Have you ever traveled outside of a population dense location?

The automobile will go by the wayside in its own time, just like the horse and buggy, but we're slaves to the automobile because (outside of population-dense areas) the automobile is an incredibly valuable tool. I expect big cities to follow Oslo's direction, and while the time passes, cars will become more efficient and quieter.
I don't have the time to immediately work on this course, but I might later this year.

What I'd like to know, as someone who has completed (in the past) the following MOOCs:

1. ML Class (plus about half of AI Class) - 2011
2. Udacity's CS373 Course - 2012
3. Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree - 2016/17

...and gained a lot of knowledge about ML and DL thru them - would this fast.ai course be worthwhile to pursue as an addition to my prior education on the subjects? Would I find it just as challenging (from a cursory glance it looks to be a "yes", but I wanted another opinion)?

I'm open to suggestions from everyone here, not just jph00/fast.ai ...

Also - and this I would also like opinions on - would my time be better spent pursuing other areas I know I am not proficient in - mainly learning about probability/stats, as well as basics in calculus...

For instance, in the prior courses, there was always mention of - for say backprop - stuff about the "chain rule" and other "rules" for calculus, and I feel I need to understand that more. That is, I am wanting to understand things in ML and DL at a lower level; how the "black boxes" really work. So would I be better off pursuing that, or just continuing with courses like this one?

Or maybe both at the same time (if that is even possible)?

I've also considered that I might need to take those subjects (probability/stats/calc) as actual courses via community college or similar (or online MOOCs).

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome!
Is it not fair to say that git is a distributed system using a hash as a key?
Fill out your profile as best as possible.

Be clear and consise in what you did in each role you had had.

Follow the relevant groups etc on linked in.

Add your skills etc.

Context with other people to help build your social graph.

I found it helpful to look at other people in senior positions as they often have a standout profile.
It really doesn't take much to say "hey I quit". In fact the only really bad situation I was in, I really looked forward to telling them.

I get the arguments about a bad boss and such, but be the adult and tell them. Hell telling them might be the best part.

I sorta suspect some of this is actually social awkwardness and folks avoiding an uncomfortable discussion more than it is some big social commentary about "bosses bad we have the power now".
From my personal experience they've always tended to be further right, since often the anti-vaccine fear comes as a result of government mistrust as well as not trusting scientists. Very similar to the people against climate change in my opinion.

Though it's true that the anti-GMO and even anti-Nuclear sentiments I see accross the spectrum but those differ a bit from conspiracy theories in that it stems from junk science, rather than a belief in a hidden government or group wanting to personally change you.
Most city centers that go "car-free", especially in Western Europe, only do so for a few blocks. Imagine the entire area around Times Square becoming pedestrianized.

And yes, as much as they seem to clutter city streets, electric scooters and the like are seemingly becoming a viable last-mile transportation option.
We're on Chrome and Brave, and iOS. Firefox will happen eventually, but since this is a free side project we can't develop for every platform.
Just for clarification here is a nice ted talk about cities and walkability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cL5Nud8d7w
https://thescotandscotland.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/american...
Intuition behind Shannon’s Entropy
Oof, the part about the message to aliens was pretty interesting.
> 1. In a layoff your boss doesn't fire you, most of the time they don't want to lose anyone. It happens above their level.

That's relevant how?

> 2. If you think a corporation gives no-warning layoffs is wrong, then don't reciprocate, take the high road. It's nursery school level life advice: "two wrongs don't make a right"

Here's more nursery school level life advice: respect is a two-way street.

> 3. If you are young, the world may seem big. It is not. It is small. You may run across your boss or a friend of their's in future. Don't burn bridges.

Or do, life's too short to keep building bridges into raging tire fires.

> 4. It is generally considered polite to offer 2 weeks, offer extra time to ensure an orderly transition, to do as much as possible to make sure there are no difficult loose ends for a successor, and to leave your contact info with an offer to help if any questions come up.

Meanwhile the company's happy upending your life overnight with no forewarning and not giving a damn about "orderly transition". If it wants orderly transition, how about it pays for it?
> Coming from, and only ever having lived in countries that have socialized medical care, I will never understand the general lack of goodwill towards one's fellow countrymen that your country continually rails against it.

You can probably understand in the UK how certain groups are systematically trying to gut their NHS. That seems to be the same mentality that is going in the US. Make medical care all about maximizing profit.
IP lawyer here.
No, that is a correct interpretation.

The reason it doesn't matter is because of this:

"then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work"

As the owner of the patents, Apple doesn't need this license to have rights to those patents. They have rights otherwise.

Now, it would terminate the rights they have to other people's patents under the license.
(IE if a contributor submitted something the contributor owned a patent to, apple would lose rights to that patent)
"Decency and respect in general is a two-way street"

No it isn't. Decency and respect is a way you choose to conduct yourself.

I treat everyone with decency and respect. I choose not to associate with people that are immoral or toxic, but I will treat them with decency and respect because I will not let someone else's conduct dictate how I act. If your boss is bad, resign as soon as possible with 2 weeks notice and wipe your hands of it.
Or instead of optimizing it by hand, you have a machine do it automatically.
Your question presupposes the poor transit service you experienced in NYC (greatly reduced late night schedule) which which is no doubt a function of budget constraints.

There is a mode of point-to-point private-vehicle transport that is quite fast at dense urban scales: bike share. Oslo has it as do many/most European city centres.
This is actually not such a bad idea. If only the rich can drive then only the rich can commute. The city itself then becomes a haven for the middle class.
I want it too. Unfortunately we are many decades away in the USA, at minimum. I used to be more optimistic, but I took a trip to southern Europe, with the narrows streets, busses, subways, trains, tiny cars, and everything. It was great, traveled thousands of miles and never got in a car- but it was a dash of cold water on how big the gap is. Fundamental things like the width of our roads & land used for parking practically double the size of towns, making walking and biking far less competitive right out the gate.
The deep learning courses are specifically focused on deep learning whereas machine learning seems to have a broader scope. I think it just depends on what you are more interested in.
Guava is great, thats why its used often. And if you combine projects with each other (hadoop, spark, etc..), they bring in their own guava API level dependency. Normally that is not a problem, if you stick to non @Beta methods, the highest version is used.

I did not find it on the spot, but i remember, there was once a written promise made by the Guava people to remain compatible to a certain API version. And then they broke that promise by changing public signatures or removing methods. Vividly i have the Stopwatch example in my head.

Many projects went on to shade guava.

And thats what it is infamous for.
Basic you cannot write a file in use.
We're working on that at FusionAuth.io too. ;)
This feels like the product of a basic coding test. Which is fine, and if so well done. But I was hoping for something more.

I clicked four times, hoping that it would get better. Three of those four were distinctly un-awesome, and felt a bit dated - “ihasabucket.com”, really? Hello 2008 - and one of them wouldn’t load.

It would probably have been more interesting if you said what criteria are used to determine the “awesomeness” of the sites, and what more - if anything - there is to this than randomly selecting from a pre-populated list.
Ask HN: Anyone working in UK banking? Any interview tips?
"Asking for a friend"
Any interview tips for software engineering in the banking industry?
End of Tribalism in Software
People suggesting Signal over Telegram must not have used either extensively.

Telegrams UX is leagues beyond Signal and good enough that I've gotten my entire social circle to switch.
Remote work puts a spin on this. If someone is remote and not logging in, there's just not much to do about it for the employer. Is the person ill? Are they just using the flexibility to work at different times? Should you keep paying them?
I've never had to wait for an MRI or ultrasound in the US.
I'm amazed that so many people who consider themselves inclusive in their thoughts don't realize how exclusionary anti-automobile policies are. As someone who suffers from mild arthritis, the trip to the back of a Wal-Mart can be painful for me, and a walk or bike ride across a city block absolutely foreboding. On the bad days, even standing in line at a checkout for an extended period of time can send my knees and hips into a painful state (and the thought of riding across town standing on a scooter, frankly, horrifies me).

Cars and the point-to-point transit that they offer are a GODSEND for me and many other people who are somewhat mobility restricted, but not so bad that we need wheelchairs or crutches. They enable me to live a very normal life that would be impossible in a heavily pedestrian optimized environment. The fact that you don't even consider some of the alternatives as viable - automated shared cars, electric cars, strong hybrids ... all of which solve the problems you identified (wasted space on parking, pollution, etc.) leads me to believe that you actually just hate cars, and not any of the (solvable) problems that are caused by their current embodiment.

Consider that everyone's circumstances are not the same as yours. Have some compassion for your fellow humans.

EDIT:

To those who are saying that we'll still allow those with disabilities to have cars: many states require that you be able to walk less then 200 feet to get a disabled plate. On most days, I can walk at least 500 ... so by almost all standards, I do not qualify. However, walking 5-600 feet doesn't get you far enough to survive without a car. If the world were to go this route, we would have to reconsider what constitutes 'disabled'.

Another thought that surfaces is that with my 36-37" inseam (I wear 36" pants because that's as big as they sell, but they're really still too short), I do not fit in most public transit, and most cars. Thankfully, because cars are privately owned, I can pick from the 2 or 3 models that I actually fit in. A public transit world is a world that marginalizes peoples who are in the last 5-10% in terms of height/weight.
Is lack of shared knowledge the responsibility of the employee though?
I'm not sure I agree with this post. The now-legendary "Build a blog in rails in 30 minutes" thing was one of those "holy crap" experiences for me. Seeing how, start-to-finish, you could have a fully functioning blog with authentication and everything was sort of magical, and I don't think having a slide showing Rails commands would have been as interesting.
Yes, similar regulatory capture happens in most accredited professions, like lawyers (bar exam), accountants (CPA) and finance professionals (CFA). It benefits the people who have already achieved the certification to make it harder for others to achieve (limit supply to increase their pricing power).

The AMA also actively lobbies against proposals to give nurse practitioners more patient access. [1]

[1] https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-statements/ama-sta...