skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how do we know that the scout's belief is right? Seems like the author has already come to the conclusion that its always going to be right. Doesn't that just bring us back to the mindset of the soldier?

Maybe we just have to accept that part of the experiment of living in a democratic and free society is allowing people to create their own values, and accepting that people are going to get it wrong. Their values are going to conflict with ours, and that's good because we need to be sure our values are actually worth holding.
Correct. It has absolutely nothing to do with individual productivity of a person or with ANY kind of job you do. It's a cargo cult crap.
It's only their job to attempt to prevent listing and supporting counterfeit products. Every individual is responsible for themselves to not break the law and sell a fake product.
Isn't embedded largely going away ?
That is a pretty big leap from just a single statement.

I've noticed the same problem and I'm not in the medical profession. Many people don't have good judgement when given direct 24/7 phone access.
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Please provide a citation to some scholarly or historical work to that effect. The last time I looked into this any way seriously there was nothing suggesting 40 hours was chosen for reasons of productivity. One of the extremely few studies that was decent was of productivity on building sites which found that total (not average) productivity increased up until 60 hour weeks.
To be fair, NY state is large and sparsely populated. The NY Metro area is much smaller and more dense but includes parts of several states.

The NY Metropolitan Statistical Area is 20.3 million residents in 17,405 km2, according to Wikipedia.
I would expect that paying people for unused vacation would incentivize employees overworking themselves leading to reduced quality of output. In a sense, I expect that it would magnify the existing issues with unlimited PTO. It seems like this would be neither good for employee or employer.
How can a screen capture capture thinking?
True. I understand that drinks manufactures adapt their products to suit different markets. The Fanta "Orange" I've seen in Europe seems paler and possibly less sweet compared to the ones in Africa. I wouldn't be surprised if Coke tasted slightly different depending on which part of the world you happen to be.
Why wouldn’t it work for call centers? Just pay them for 4 days of work and hire More people.
They mentioned no surveillance so after all the windows 10 telemetry stuff windows doesn't seem to be the answer here.
The parent comment was reading from a different line: `I made lists of questions for my doctors and insisted they give me their personal phone numbers.`
Sounds like a dream job. I mean, no matter the company, eventually it sucks to work for others. So you say you have a lot of free time there, along with some nice perks - use that time to do whatever you enjoy, fund your side projects, learn music theory, etc...
You and I almost certainly aren't the intended users of such a feature.

My mother in law knows that, conceptually and practically, when she taps the Kindle icon on her tablet she will open her collection of books. Within that full-screen app, she is intending to do one of several things: find a book to read, then read that book.

She doesn't really like the filesystem on her imac. She much prefers that all the files associated with a given activity are readily available when she is doing that particular activity. Gallery -> Photos. Library -> Kindle. TV Shows -> Netflix. She doesn't really think about how each of those search and organization functions act differently between apps.

We all do the same, to a great or lesser degree. Orgzly has my org-mode files right there. Microsoft RDP client beta has a group of all the RDP sessions I use right there. Outlook has all emails and calendar items.

I absolutely suffer when my filesystem is chaotic, which it often is: but then again so is my job, doing systems admin, devops, code builds, puppet/ansible/chef stuff, etc etc. Being able to quickly find things in a freeform manner is very, very useful. (I use 'fzf' and zsh for commands and directories, and 'mdfind' (on mac) for its faster-than-grep file search)
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Can't agree with this more. The Repubs compromised on nothing with Obama in office.
I would add "In a small space" Making an larger power supply that keeps the high and low sides adequately separated is pretty easy and cheap as long as you stick to genuine components.

But that then leads onto the whole fake component issue. For example the component will be a optocoupler but the dirt cheap knock off supply may not be using the same level of quality or a knock off component as those found in genuine power supplies which _could_ create a High to Low voltage path if that part failed.
This is very interesting.

>Julia Galef is a writer and co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping people improve their reasoning and decision-making, particularly with the aim of addressing global problems. She is also the host of the Rationally Speaking podcast.

http://www.rationality.org/
Interesting. But Google has something that allows all users to see what has been collected on them. All of my stuff is empty - no website history, no location history, no youtube history, etc. All of it is empty and always has been when I check periodically.

So then the question becomes...is Quartz wrong or is Google simply lying about what they have on me? And FWIW, I checked prior to the Quartz article being written so it would have been before any actions were taken by Google to modify its practices.
It's actually not a list, but a list of lists. A few lines from it, from the top:

List of almond dishes

List of ancient dishes

List of avocado dishes

List of bacon substitutes

List of baked goods

List of breakfast beverages

There are many more.

Can be a good source of food ideas for people getting stuck for what to make or buy, to eat. Happens to me sometimes.
Your information is bit outdated regarding Android.

Android did AOT on install between 5 and 7 versions.

With Android 7, they introduced a mixed model, of an hand written interpreter in Assembly, JIT compiler with PGO, followed by AOT compilation with PGO data when the device is idle.

As extra information, AOT on install for mobile phones, was introduced on Windows Phone 8, and has been available in mainframes and some Pascal USCD systems since the early 80's.
There are others, too numerous to mention, yet you used someone that was very likely guilty as your second example? Just wanted to bring this up in case anyone reads your comment and thoughtlessly nods in agreement.
>Again, thinking binary is incorrect here.

They can only spend each dollar exactly once. In that sense it is binary. But of course they can decide to do buybacks and invest in stuff. That's what they're doing.

My point is that I don't get why a company like Apple doesn't see great investment opportunities for every last dollar they earn. Especially as they have really huge gaps in their strategy.

They are not on a great trajectory right now. The services business they want to expand on does not look that strong to me in spite of growing reasonably fast right now.
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Uses Jekyll and Github Pages. I'm more interested in just writing words and sharing knowledge these days than playing with blog frameworks.

Just published a "redesign" this morning. It's... Minimalist...
A file system isn't a good fit for a library of books IMHO, at least not as a view.

What directory would I put my copy of Stephen King's It in? My Stephen King folder? My horror folder? 1986? Fiction?

The underlying file system view really doesn't matter. It's the abstraction on top of that where all the interesting things happen.
Not accurate at all. The senate has all the party line votes it needs. Theres no 'slow walking' around that.
The reason the appointees aren't there is becuase the Trump admin hasnt appointed them.

Do you guys just blame the Democrats for everything?
It seems dishonest.
I worked at a state govt job that allowed for 4 day weeks. Being govt, and with my manager in particular, time was closely managed.

It worked, but it was HARD! The difference between an 8 hour day and a 10 hour day is having to find a second wind, on demand, 4 days in a row.

Every time I would say I was going to drop, and then the three day weekend hit and I had time to get personal stuff done, time to relax without feeling like I had to prepare to start work again, and then I thought it was all worth it. Then the cycle would repeat.

Now I'm in a tech job with far more flexibility. I think a similar schedule would still be hard: some 10 hour days are easy, but to do it on demand, repeatedly?
When using a DSLR as a still camera for events, having essential controls on physical buttons with no lag is critical. Meter, stop, focus, fire. Eyes on the subject, sometimes through the finder.

If Canon sacrifices any of that for "extra" features, the pros leave for Nikon. And vice versa. These are still cameras first, everything else second.
Treehouse used to do 4/10s and from what I remember listening to Ryan Carson's podcast with Jason Calacanis, it didn't work out for them. So I don't think this should apply to every workplace. For more mature companies, it makes sense. For startups, I don't think so.
As neighboring comment states, a common feature in Android, and in all managed languages with JIT/AOT toolchains.
Umm that's not a programming language as such, it's a probabilistic programming DSL built on top of Python/Pytorch. It's one level of abstraction up.
IMO, any response to this question is tightly associated with specific contexts of your current workspace and only gets more complicated when considering what kind of company you work at / where your current goals for the next 2-5 years stand.

You want to maintain progress and improve your output, but not at the cost of compensation or burnout. This is very hard to answer without those contexts.

From your post I think you're going about this the wrong way. External acts like meditating or "optimizing time" are easy ways to burn yourself out doing stupid things and end up flat out not enjoying your life. I tried this during a gap year I took to work at a startup in college while I was considering dropping out and one other time after I'd graduated.

Genuinely wasn't worth it.

My best simple advice is to just focus on work while you're at work or set 4hrs aside each day to really focus. Otherwise, live your life. In time if you follow these simple rules I think you'll find surprising gains.
https://www.teloyears.com/home/teloyears-privacy-policy.html It may be in there, I haven't checked.
As a French Canadian, I pronounce "coq" and "cock" the same way, while "cook" and "coke" are extremely different.

It's clearly because I don't pronounce them well, but it's certainly how I do it.
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Is there any good third-party non-google/amazon reading apps for iPhone/iPad that will sync my places where I'm at in my books?
This is absolutely my immediate question as well - I don't see what your end goal is.
I think you're both right and wrong here.

You're right that this often causes problems. Anybody who has tried to salvage an iTunes library can attest to that.

However you're downplaying the positives to having a metadata database, and you're also ignoring the teeming masses who don't care about the layout of the file system as long as it's displayed in the app.
That's called living your life. I think you need to work on your mental blocks. i.e the fact that you feel the 'need' to work as opposed to 'wasting' time by living your life.
> It's not just C interop, but the presence of mature dataframe libraries, a linear algebra layer (that doesn't involve direct calls to BLAS or Lapack), etc.

Actually I think thst's something which is very strong about the TensorFlow for Swift effort: it allows you to call Python out of the box, so all the Python tooling which is currently available to data scientists is immediately available. It seems the goal of the project is to allow users to immediately take advantage of the convenience of swift (especially the type system) in an incremental way, leaving most of their workflow intact.

They're also already bringing a lot of numerical computing utilities into the language itself. It already has native linear algebraic operators like dot product built in, and automatic differentiation is coming.

> I use Windows at work (because bigcorp) and there's currently no officially sanctioned Swift I can install, but there's an official Julia binary.

So I currently experiment with it using Docker, which you could do on Windows. I know that's not as good as official support, but it is possible.

Anyway, I haven't worked with Julia beyond playing with the REPL a bit, and maybe it would have also been a great choice for TensorFlow. At the same time, I do wonder if there's an irrational component to the reticence around Swift for TensorFlow based on the fact that people still identify it as a somehow proprietary language.

I find it very nice to work with and I would be happy to use it in more places where Python is currently the main option. Also the TensorFlow team seems to be doing some very interesting things with it.
Strawberry preserves are so easy to make though. The benefit being you can add much less sugar than the store bought.
Fancy! The interactivity is indeed impressive :-)

It also feels a bit overloaded, though. Especially the lower bar on the homepage - the cursive script is really hard to read, and the scrolling credits are too distracting.
I think people are misremembering the past as the MacBook Pro line has always had issues. GPUs that die, screen staining, etc.

I feel with tech news being more mainstream and Twitter people are more aware of such issues. Plus Apple being who they are is a magnet for any kind of problem being big news. Dell and Microsoft have just has many - if not more - quality issues but I don't see articles on news sites about the XPS 15 having thermal throttling and audio issues 9 months after launch still.

Just to be clear I'm not defending Apple. They need to improve. I just wish Dell and others would get as much criticism. Perhaps then they would actually take fixing these problems more seriously. So far Dell has said nothing about official fixes for the garbage Realtek audio device in the XPS 15 (1970) which has all kinds of issues.
>patients and their potentially bottomless well of need

That's worded with a tinge of contempt. Not saying it's undeserved--I've never walked in your shoes, and I can imagine the medical profession being exhausting and one of high-burnout.

But, it does make me think of how things have changed in this regard, for both doctors and patients. Time was that doctors made house calls, knew every patient personally, and frequently cared for multiple-generations of a family. There seemed to be a certain intimacy baked into the profession. Of course, that's pretty much impossible today with insurance, medical costs, etc. making medical practices more of a numbers game.

On the other end, patients are consumers like any other. And, after running a consumer-facing business for many years, I can say that there seems to be an unreasonably high-expectation of service and outright deference to the customer--sometimes bordering on a sort of pathological entitlement.

The result is that there seems to be a lot of hostility baked into transactions and other professional interactions. Given the personal nature of one's health, I can only imagine this to be amplified.
Wait, so there's say 20 apps someone uses, maybe average $5/each, that's $100 for apps on a device you might pay $800+ for? Doesn't seem that ridiculous....
> Being able to sort, and find a book based on other information becomes much more useful: date of publication, genre, custom tags, etc...

Yes, and I want to be able to do that with all my books, not just the ones that the ebook reader can handle.
"But while Apple's location data processing is anonymous, two hard-to-find settings— "Location History" and "Web and App Activity" — allow Google to keep track of everything their users search, and everywhere they go. It affects all Android users, and iPhone or iPad users with apps like Google Maps installed on their device."

iOS keeps as much location data local to the device as possible, and anonymizes the rest. In many cases there's nothing for them to give up.

Also, you could even use Google apps and just disable background location for those. Because unlike Android, iOS actually respects that choice.
What an absolutely gorgeous building - thanks for sharing the links. And kudos to Helsinki for undertaking such an ambitious project. One of my fondest memories of raising our kids was taking them to our little branch library every Saturday. If we'd had an Oodi, I never would have gotten them to leave!
That looks like its a Visa card still.
The GUI story in Rust is currently terrible, I agree. But writing GUIs in Python with wrappers to C(++) libraries is not exactly nice either ;)
I meet people all the time whose sole source of information is their doctor. And, I said 'FWIW' as the very first word.

I realize this is the internet but that's a stretch to find an insult.
For free digital content I have some sympathy with that point of view, but the counterfeit book featured in the article was a paper copy on sale for $48, along with a kindle version for $36.
Not to take away from the content, but this article reads like something a freshman wrote for a class project.
I ordered a copy of Deep Learning [1] from Amazon last week. On Barnes & Noble [2] the book costs $76.80. On Amazon it is just $28.00. I received the book a couple of days ago. The pages look like it was printed using a low-resolution printer, and the ink color is uneven across pages. I am returning the book. Possible counterfeit, sold by a third party seller. On the other hand this book is also available free online [3]. Maybe it is legal to print it and sell it?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Adaptive-Computation-Ma...

[2] https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/deep-learning-ian-goodfello...

[3] https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
It really isn't a dream job, I still wish I had accepted the other offer I had back then. Most of my team left because they couldn't stand fighting against management to improve things.
Lifetime in software assumes the lifetime of the app, not the user.
It has been banning several sub-reddits for political or PR reasons and it got a hefty investment from a Chinese company.
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This will instigate road rage when the car tells you to go 15 in a 30 because that’s the only way to “ride the green wave.”
What’s going on with that first graph? The scale changes from 1500” to 3000”, but Spark’s bar sizes stay the same.

Did Spark have a 2x slow down between the tests? It seems pretty misleading.
reflex cameras are broken lol
I’m not the biggest Python fan, but I can definitely tolerate it, as long as I have a decent way to use the models from another language.
The practice of shipping empty boxes to shill reviewers is fairly widespread

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-files-first-ever-suit-o...

"According to the suit, the site operated by Gentile offers to provide fake “verified reviews” for a premium, telling the sellers that they can ship empty boxes to reviewers involved in the scheme, to trick Amazon into thinking that the product had actually been purchased."
It the difference between "the entire ecosystem is collapsing" and "the ecosytem is shifting to a new steady state"
The worst thing is that the guilty programmer probably felt very clever when he wrote the code.
Business programs LOVE behavioral econ. You get Nudge and cognitive bias stuff starting in undergrad business classes.

And other than the econ classes, business classes aren't modeling behavior or doing much theory work, so they aren't making assumptions like rationality.
I hear what you're saying, I do. But if the candidate knows what an optimal solution is, and that optimal solution takes several hours, maybe you're asking a question that is too big?

For example, asking someone to write a self balancing binary search tree in an interview might be too much. And asking a question that ultimately demands using a self balancing BST might be a bit much. It's like asking a question that really needs an associative array, but then imposing the rule that associative arrays aren't available. How about simply asking the candidate about binary trees, if they've used them, and what they've used them for?

Last week an interviewer asked me about if I was familiar with the Egg Dropping problem (https://brilliant.org/wiki/egg-dropping/). I wasn't, but I remember saying something like, "I haven't done this one before, but I'm pretty sure it's going to take O(log n) guesses to find the max floor from which you can safely drop the egg." The interviewer asked me how I'd implement it, and then we got into the weeds when I started asking for what the requirements were. He wouldn't share any information about inputs & outputs, so I just started writing the dumbest thing possible, predictably coded myself into a corner, and burned a potential interview win-win on learning how answer that kind of question for that kind of interviewer.
Yes. It's typically legal as decided by the US Supreme Court in 2013 Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons.

(6-3 decision with a rather atypical split.)

Added: Basically the decision affirmed that first sale doctrine applied.
The problem is, many of us with this problem cant afford to give up the device for the amount of time it takes Apple to fix it.

I've owned a 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2018 MBP (most of them through work).

I'm typing this message on a 2018 MBP, which wasp urchased 3 months ago, and I've decided that I'm not . going to go back and fix all of the sticky spaces that it errantly injects. I could take it in, but then I'd h ave to give up the device for a few days, and its my work machine.

The 2017 had a similar . issue where keys would more visibly just get stuck down. Sent it . in twice; four months later the issue cropped up again. My company decided to just upgrade to the 2018.

The 2016 had a host of issues. Ironically the keyboard was fine, but the battery pretty quickly started failing (there's a recall program for them now, which started a year after mine started showing symptoms and I was t old by a rep that "there's nothing we can do here, we can send it to Cupertino but you'll be without it for about 2 weeks"). The single fan in the machine eventually stopped working.

I know that expecting better service than that is asking a lot, because no one else does much better (except maybe Microsoft, if you have a MS Store nearby their on-site support is far better than Apple's as they're authorized to do device replacements surprisingly often). But that's not what I expect; what I expect is for these things to stop failing so often such that support is necessary. Its not that hard; they had a perfect formula with the 2013-era devices. But they won't admit . that they made a strategic mistake with these new body designs and revert back to something that actually works.
Further down in the article:

In our original demo, we ran a V100 GPU against 8 CPU nodes. The new T4 GPUs cut our cost in half, which meant we reduced the Apache Spark cluster to 4 CPU nodes in order to maintain price parity. Even with the reduced GPU memory, the whole workload ran significantly faster.
Some call it job security. Fortunately, most of those users call only during their office hours. Can't say patients would have office hours, so it's more complicated.
IR reflective rope / tag-line seems novel enough. Also seems like a ballistic foam "munition" could also likely work.

Some of these ideas are half-baked but interesting nonetheless.