skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy I know, we can call him Jim, left a large tech company and was honest in his exit interview about why he was leaving, and it was mostly his manager. He was later asked to apply for a job with a different team after his manager left the company years (and promotions) later. HR blocked the hire because he was "disgruntled" in his exit interview. As far as I know, they did nothing to recognize or fix the problem. But they held it against him because his feedback was negative. Unfortunately, a company that views employees as the enemy will find it a self-fulfilling prophecy. They kill the incentive to try help fix problems, and create a situation where you like it or you leave.
It's like when you get MBA - you get a free network with it. Now you are inclined to trust your MBA circle due to shared history. Imagine the same with companies; there is a limited number of spots at the top, most people know each other or heard of each other, share common interests, club memberships etc. They are inclined to trust their own, insiders, or see benefit in it, than some random outsiders, i.e. in-group preference and benevolence. Then when an outsider is "put on a blacklist", i.e. some insider holds a bad opinion of an outsider, the whole group might be affected.
>> GPS measurements are comprised of a 2D surface coordinate system

GPS is inherently 3 dimensional.
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I believe the use of tear gas in combat is prohibited under Geneva Conventions.
That depends on what the user did, in video games a 100ms delay would be terrible, however in that situation the user is inputing highly timed inputs and is focused on the output.

But in general for web browsing, 100ms would be unnoticeable yeah.
Number is an abstraction. What is an abstraction? It is a definition for a set of things by stating what is common to all things considered to be in that set.

"1" is the set of all things which have exactly one element. It is an abstraction for all such things.

What does it mean to "have one element"? I think that's a more difficult question. Maybe it should be an axiom?
Find a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.
They did release the model [0]. A smaller-scale version of it. If you want the big one, all you have to do is scrape 45M web pages, and increase the parameters to scale.

What they didn't release is the training corpus and the trained filters. By not releasing these, and focusing on ethics, they are trying to avert attention from the mistake of training a massive cyclops on unfiltered internet text. They probably read a lot of embarrassing text they didn't share, imagine that.

0. https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/
Ask HN: Is Akamai silently acquiring CloudFlare?
CloudFlare employees in SF and London have apparently changed their work addresses and are now using Akamai Offices
Right. So it's good to have someone on your side.
Slight, but important (if you don't want to run out of fuel) nit, indicated airspeed (KIAS) is not the same as true airspeed (KTAS).

To calculate ground speed (as required for navigation and fuel planning) you need true airspeed (not indicated) as well as wind direction and speed.

See some discussion here: https://www.quora.com/In-aviation-what-is-the-difference-bet...
Given the lack of blood donors, what is your personal stance on paying people to donate blood to blood banks? (to be used strictly for "trauma resuscitation, surgeries of all kinds, and a variety of medical patients", not for voodoo science anti-aging treatments)
I kind of pounced on your comment, as I'm opposed to a restricted view of libraries. But I think I was a bit too snippy trying to get my point across. I'm sorry, didn't intent to call you out.

I actually had a laugh at myself just after posted my second comment. As had to break up a group of patrons where having a teleconference with multiple laptops, on speaker, in study section. Guess there is a limit even in noisy libraries!
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We agree that people leaving due to serial harassment is bad for communities. Do you disagree that harassment is an issue even when it doesn’t cause people to leave? Because that’s what it sounds like, and it sounds ridiculous.
I need to find a way into that. Thanks for the suggestion.
While the title focuses on female scientists, males are also affected. From the article: "...23% of men and 43% of women who had become parents had left full-time STEM employment. ... This compared to 16% of child-free men and 24% of child-free women."
Amazon's leadership principles may have a lot to do with this.

These must be memorized for any manager at Amazon and are part of the interview process.

http://whartonmagazine.com/blogs/learn-from-amazons-leadersh...

Choice quotes.

"Leaders are right a lot."

"Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly."
That's less error than slopes and oblateness introduce, so I think it is acceptable.
No it isn't. Pump and dump is another well established scam for one. And an advisor who indirectly makes money from a recommendation is one in a really untrustworthy position which is way worse than one detached. The later may feel less of a need for confidence but the previous essentially gets rewarded for doing what they are regardless of if it is a good idea. Lack of skin in the game is a lesser evil than conflict of interest.
Given the motivation to read and learn, a developer can read and modify legal 'code' just as easily as a lawyer can read and modify software 'code'. The question is what exceptions are thrown at compile time? In most SW stacks, you find out where your errors are pretty quickly. Unfortunately with legal code, "compile time" may not occur until the code is executed in a court of law. Are you sure that's when you want to do your debugging?
This is the implementation that I saw most often right after GDPR went off... It's really the worst, and I do the 30 clicks only to spite people whenever I see this BS. Luckily, nowadays, I see a lot more of "reject all" and "accept all" buttons.
Telepathy of a sort, at least over microscopic distances!

Anyway, I wonder if the fields can be externally applied for therapeutic purposes (inducing sleep etc)
From the article:

System uses RFID tags to home in on targets.

Robots using the system can locate tagged objects within 7.5 milliseconds, on average, and with an error of less than a centimeter.

If you get to tag your targets with active tags, tracking them isn't usually that hard. Might be useful for motion capture.
The definition of “proper experimental design” varies widely by the field, and DL’s methodology looks quite solid, as far as social sciences and the task at hand are concerned.
I’m a mathematician and you seem a bit confused. Natural numbers ({1, 2, 3, ... }) are for counting. Giving a bunch of objects as being prime examples of that which can be counted with natural numbers is as close as one can get (short of just scribbling down the numerals and kind-of circumventing the point). Other classes of numbers (particularly the Reals) are for measuring. Again, short of writing down examples of decimal expansions, a child could point to a (non-integer) mark on a measuring tape.

I get the feeling you’re not quite so well versed on this stuff as you think you are. Want a true example of ‘one’: the number of solutions to the intersection of two linear equations that are not parallel. Want an example of ‘two’: the number of solutions between a quadratic equation and a linear equation (given that certain existence criteria are met).

I think you need to revise your measure theory.
It's social engineering
> The millionaire doubles their wealth by doing nothing and the small business owner fights tooth and nail to bring home a modest income.

Small business owners often are millionaires; the distinction you are making is more accurately between the haut bourgeoisie (the upper class in capitalism) and the petit bourgeoisie (the middle class in capitalism) than between “millionaires” (or any other description of aggregate worth) and some other group.
Our freedom of speech is limited in the sense that its expression carries a greater risk. If people are apprehensive about sharing a frank opinion, if the risk is losing a career or family, the corollary is fewer opinions being shared and a smaller social discourse.
To fill a door with foam you would need at least 20 liters of ABfoam liquid, not an impossible concept.
This is true, I left my previous company because they said I had to wait 1 year to apply for my green card. According to the HR lady this was the policy (there was no policy) and it was always better from an immigration point of view to wait more. Of course this is all bullshit. This was just a dirty strategy to keep people one extra year.
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This may seem mean, and feel free to argue with me and prove my statement below wrong.

Well, which was it? Was he taking his daughter to therapy or working from home? If his daughter requires additional care, he needs to care for his daughter, but that can't interfere with work. If your kids are not disabled, they may not be interfering with your work, and therefore, when you are working from home - you are, in fact, "working" from home.

Why is this person entitled to being paid to "work at home" when he's not actually "working" while at home, he's actually caring for his daughter?

People are confused. Working from home still means "working". It doesn't mean, be at home and do what I want but get paid, or not work as hard.

Maybe he thinks it should mean: I'll get the work done on my own time. But, if the work needs to be done that day, he still needs to be WORKING from home - and not doing something else.
The difference between a $1.5k Windows machine and a $4k Mac, with the intention to use either for the next 4-5 years, is nothing compared to studio budgets. Audio engineers spend tens of thousands just on room treatments, thousands more on analog mic preamps, and you need a hefty collection of different microphones. This is all so that you can bill studio time at $500+ per hour and produce great recordings. Any time you're spending diagnosing blue screens and Windows driver issues is time not booking artists and preparing mixes. OS X happens to be the first-class platform for most DAWs like Ableton, and the only choice for Logic, so you're limiting yourself not using a Mac.
I used to believe that. But I saw very close how an IT union was taken over by old school, corrupt fat union guys. And they just pander to the lowest common denominator. They go against meritocracy.

I'd rather pay attention and vote with my feet.
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> Imagine if solid organ transplants were handled in the same way: "Young man, as a new intern, I'll give you a percentage of my Facebook stock in exchange for a kidney..."

This is already true in Iran. Here's the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry.

The practice of selling one's kidney for profit in Iran is legal and regulated by the government. In any given year, it is estimated that 1400 Iranians sell one of their kidneys to a recipient who was previously unknown to them.[1] Iran currently is the only country in the world that allows the sale of one's kidney for compensation (typically a payment); consequently, the country does not have either a waiting list or a shortage of available organs
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Just saw this on Product Hunt. https://www.actiondesk.io
How do you even measure that?

This post is useful because it is a well-documented experiment that proves the difference between male-usernames and female-usernames online.
I am not familiar with scissors sisters but I know that line from Pink Floyd.
Private pilot here. As others have pointed out, the difference is mostly negligible, but ground speed is the speed of the vertical projection of the aircraft's location on the earth's surface.
Reducing latency between the tower and your phone by 9ms won't make a big difference to the overall experience of web apps. But I think real world 4G latency is more like 40-50ms?

In addition to mobile network latency you have to add a few more things - depending on how far you are from the data centre serving the web app you're looking at ~20ms-300ms additional network latency, plus however long the server takes to process your request, regardless of 4G or 5G. Check out https://www.cloudping.info/ for some ping times to AWS datacentres around the world
Similar video with a dg300 17m glider (modified by the akaflieg).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhJ1tVTtfPw
Was going to link the Monty Python skit about words being comparatively woody or tinny (in relation to "earthy" words), but the rights holder has erased it from the internet.

Added: Well at least the script is available

<http://www.montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Series_4/23.htm>
When cruising, in level flight by definition, 100% of the engine power is there to combat drag, right?

That is if the thrust vector of the engine is 100% level and the airspeed is constant, then 100% of the engine power applied is offset by drag.
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No, the bars are peripheral – it's that I want that phenomenal quality of service I experienced while traveling. Bars notwithstanding, I simply always had good service. I didn't have to care about the bars. I'd rather have that kind of ubiquitous and reliable 4G LTE than a few areas of hyper-fast yet finicky 5G.
Competition can often breed toxicity. I've actually found Starcraft to be less toxic simply because in the most competitive game mode ( 1 versus 1), there's nobody to blame but yourself if you lose. People tend to get toxic about using "cheesy" strategies or playing the "overpowered" race, but overall, the most toxic communities I've been apart of tend to be highly competitive games where team play is a key component.

Some examples in my experience are games like Counter-Strike, Dota 2, LoL, etc. A couple common features of these games are:

1. Matches tend to be drawn out over at least 30 minutes, if not longer, forcing you to be teamed with people you may not get along with for a longer period.

(Overwatch comes close to having this issue, but I still feel the shorter match times tend to limit extreme toxicity you can find in other games)

2. A single player actively working to harm the team, or simply not at the same skill level as the rest of the players, can easily sink the team's chances of success.

3. An individual matchmaking / visible ranking system which fosters toxic attitudes like "well, I'll sink your rating if I don't like you", since every member of the team is ostensibly trying to raise their rank.

#3 when combined with #1 and #2 can create situations where "trolls" can easily ruin a game that may take an hour to finish and may even prevent any chance of victory.

These factors tend to be key to the most toxic game communities I've been involved in.
> make it trivially easy to permanently killfile other users

My wish list would also include being able to filter based on URLs and words in the article's title (using regular expressions). If I had that, I don't think I'd even need a fancy personalized recommendation system.
I wonder what the lowest limit on work-time is for productivity. That would be interesting to know. Also, companies could only pay people for that many hours.
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I hoped you'd be beyond the need to be sponsored by now!
> Holy crap is all I can say, honestly.

It sounds bad, but I'd reserve judgement until I heard the other side. There's always the other side, and I for one am tired of the recent rushes to judgement we see in the media recently.
a specific therapy session unlikely lasts the entire day and a flextime (starting work at 11) probably covers a single day being split up a little bit.
> what's the largest tidal force it would have experienced?

I have no idea of its past obviously, but near us this would be it, at closest approach to the sun the tidal force is greatest.

> Differential solar pressure?

Solar pressure is very low, it just applies that force for a very long time. It would act to compress it (flatten it), slightly.

But I don't know what orientation it had when approaching the sun. It could have been tumbling and randomized any force.

> Would it have encountered anything on its journey that should have dispersed it?

Vaporization from heating is the only thing energetic enough that I can think of.

But maybe other people can think of other things.
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I'm not talking about icons. I don't even use icons.

Calibres menus, configuration and the general flow is very messy. Partly because calibre is doing so many different things, but partly also because it's just very unpolished.
Makes sense, according to wikipedia

"Latin was used as the language of international communication, scholarship, and science until well into the 18th century, "
Is this really new? I always thought that this was essentially the implication of the discovery of standing-waves in the brain
Unlikely. Car owners will still need liability insurance, lenders will require comprehensive, collision, and uninsured motorist coverage to protect their collateral. These coverages should in theory get less expensive if claims drop, but profit margin on the policies doesn't necessarily change.
Adding to the context, we wrote up a little post about the C4ML workshop: https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2019/02/19/growing-a-compile...

Reproducing it here:
The Compilers for Machine Learning workshop was recently held at CGO 2019. Since compiler techniques affect a large part of the machine learning stack, this workshop aimed to highlight research that incorporates compiler techniques and algorithms in optimizing machine learning workloads. The workshop included talks from various projects - Julia (Julia Computing), TVM (UW), Glow (Facebook), XLA (Google), nGraph (Intel), TensorRT (Nvidia), and the soon to release MLIR (Google).

Our talk introduced the abstractions in the Julia language and the kind of compiler transforms involved in implementing them. We then had a deep dive into dynamic semantics + static analysis - our JAOT (Just-Ahead-Of-Time) analysis. Building on these capabilities, the Zygote system implements automatic differentiation, effectively treating it as a compiler problem, giving us differentiable programming for free. Finally, compiler backends for GPUs and TPUs give us high performance execution. All this comes together beautifully in Neural ODEs, which we had to show off as our first slide!
Reflecting on this stuff is my golf...

Even if I agree that THE number "one" is "just another broad category that a single apple fits in to", I think the epistemological status of the Broad Category is then itself just as problematical, existence-wise, as the original concept of "number", eh? We can at least display a pair of apples and "count" to "two" with them, etc. What hope do we have of enumerating (no pun intended) the Broad Category of "one"? And what do we gain from introducing it?
My experience at ORD is that it's usually done in under 45 minutes, but takes longer often enough for me to budget ~90 minutes for security to be confident of making my flight.
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Me three - just using their portal (I assume an example of Azure best practices) doesn't lead to tons of confidence (at least 2 years ago)
Thanks for posting this - these are facets of the story I'd never have known otherwise
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Well in UTF-8 encoding that is C2AF5C5F28E38384295F2FC2AF, or 1.542e+31 rounds of funding. If they're not profitable by then, it might be time to do an acquihire or pivot to hosted memcachedb.
Right. Just like you don't trash-talk about about your ex. No good will come of it.
Oh thanks! I seriously always read it as your nose being pulled/tugged down...
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Thank you. I've seen a lot of abuse of the term. One time I worked with a recruiter [1] and said I was feeling really bad that day and took the day off from work and was resting at home. She replied, "ah, gotcha, so you're working from home today". And I was like, "no, I'm resting."

(With that said, it could still be a good-faith usage here -- like, he legitimately does work from home, and the therapy is relevant here because all the back-and-forth pickups would otherwise eat up much of the day.)

[1] Yes, I know -- never again.
Wow, you're right! Definitely sounds like something that Bezos hadn't given much thought to (or enough to have had a response), this is a cool observation.
I know this principle quite well from... riding a bike. Wind resistance dominates as soon as you get above a casual riding speed.
I'm surprised to see no mention of the two mechanisms that jump out at me as candidate explanations:
a) standard electrical induction
b) standard conductance via the extracellular matrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular_matrix)

W/r/t b), they do claim that they sliced the hippocampus and then observed activity induced across the preserved gap, but it's not clear (from my light read) that the tissues weren't still touching such that the axons/dendrites were gapped, but the ECM was not; if this were the case, then I'd expect signals to propagate across severed neuronal connections via standard conductance in the ECM.

More please!
agreed, unions have had issues akin to this across the board in the last decade or so, and it's extremely sad (to say the least). active worker participation and leadership of the union is the antidote to that.
The strange thing about mathematics, as opposed to other noncorporeal ideas, is that it is nearly uniquely suited to being transmitted between brains. My idea of the number "three" and your idea the number "three" are probably very similar. This sort sensation that they have an independent existence leads people to the Platonic notion of a mathematical "realm" or "universe".

(personally I think mathematics exists in our brains, but also and crucially in the interactions between our brains, since a proof is never accepted until it is reviewed and so on. A proof that's just in my brain is no proof at all, even if it happens to be correct)
The company employs something like 300,000 people. I’d imagine many stories of bad management just at that scale. Since it’s Amazon it always gets an unfair level attention.
"* When things are good, think about leaving" => Wait what? So what do you do when things are bad?
That’s even more stark when you put it that way. Men leave at a rate of 9% more than their background rate when they have children, women leave 19% more with kids, over a base rate that even without children exceeds the male rate by 8%.
Glad to know that the answer isn't a definitive 'yes' right now then! It's certainly an interesting space I bet you enjoy reading through the solutions :)
Yeah, if this tech was the WMD that OpenAI says it is, the NYT would know about it.
Nope.

When the hours of the tasks didn't add up with the daily attendance you had to tweak your data or you couldn't close the day. Either added or removed 1 minute to the work day.

So a work day with 8 hours maybe had 7.98 hours of tasks. You tweak around a bit so that they both matched.

This was a reported bug (incl. explanation from a programmer) that wasn't fixed for a very long time. Maybe it's still broken.
They did a cover of the same song. Worth a listen, it's completely different.