skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I have learned anything from history, is that is sucks to be on the losing side of a war.

But not being in a war at all sucks even less than being on the winning side!
Google Says Spectre and Meltdown Are Too Difficult to Fix
This is a confusing feature. Converting PDFs to text is already a trivial technical challenge, so it's not a product differentiator. What is a product differentiator is converging indexing(index and store all the things) used by Rockset. This PDF feature seems like a distraction.

Also, I uploaded my PG&E bill to Rockset and got an empty result set...maybe I'm using it incorrectly.
OpenAI Built a Text Generator So Good, It’s Considered Too Dangerous to Release
If you work in code, sure.

If you're on the Art side you have the movie/animation space(even more of a meatgrider).

If you're on the design side, the options are pretty slim.

If you're on QA, it isn't the straightest path to other QA domains(with much of gamedev being manual testing).

Having gamedev on the resume usually isn't seen as a large plus, aside from shops that are already filled with ex-gamedev people.
YouTube Just Demonetized Anti-Vax Channels
This looks very good to me. I do not speak legalese but it seems to me to cover the API clauses I was looking for.

I may be using this license for some projects going forward. :)
lol. do they think they are googlers?
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon X55, the World’s Fastest 5G Modem. 7Gbps?
I’ve always wondered: if CEO pay was truly tied to their “creating value” then shouldn’t they lose money if they destroy value? If the answer is yes, then why aren’t bad CEOs losing money? If the answer is no, then why do we pretend they are paid in proportion to the value they create?
Shouldn't peacocks get their metaphorical lunch eaten by those who don't engage in absurd conspicuous plumage?
In three days you can accomplish what someone else (assuming they had training on par with what you received) would take a year to do?

Assuming you step in and out of the office four times a day, do you think it's reasonable to hire someone solely to open and hand you an umbrella when you leave the office and take it from you when you return as a fair trade to the minute you might spend fiddling with the umbrella cover?

I would say that people that seem _much_ more efficient than other people are about 2.5x more efficient than them. Being able to do in a day or two what would take someone else a week, and most of this efficiency comes from experience not innate skills. The CEO market is limited in such a way that not everyone who acquires the skill and training to be a CEO can acquire a job that pays out 50 million.
Soligami Turns Your Windows into Solar Panels
I work for a company that is trying to change how hiring and recruiting is done in the legal industry (https://hireanesquire.com/), and we are always comparing ourselves to OkCupid in terms of how we should be matching our candidates to our jobs. This analogy holds true. In fact, we recently launched our fit score assessment system which essentially boils down to (you guessed it) both sides answering questions.

Dating websites are actually really good at matching people, and recruiters can learn a lot from them.
And the /r/HackerNews subreddit for those who are reddit-inclined.
>Then I became an adjunct professor. Teaching in my first course, I noticed that even the brightest students would ask me to go over content again with additional examples and it brought me back to these debates about Gladwell's books.

Perhaps because even 2018's brightest students are slow (at least in the reading comprehension, knowledge of literature, and attention department) compared to students of decades past?
Activists at Microsoft looked at the success of activists at Google at pushing company to drop military contracts, and now feel more encouraged to push the company than they were decades ago, when military contracts were seen as a completely normal thing.
> All the letter (and sounds) used NEED to be pronounced, the same way, for native speakers of English, French, Russian, Spanish, and also various major (eastern) Asian languages.

Do you mean all the phonemes need to be present in all of the referenced languages, or that they need to be indicated by the same letter or letter combination in each language? Because, the former doesn't leave a lot, and the latter is even worse, even if you choose the most popular current transliteration for those languages for which the Latin alphabet isn't the usual one.
I recall similar thoughts when I was younger (10yo?). It led to "what if everyone's favorite color is the same color, but we all experience colors differently, so it only appears we have different favorite colors!?". That was quickly debunked by those who change their favorite color.
Is there any reason why those judges don't also laugh them away? What do those jurisdictions have to gain? You'd think that tech companies would have stronger lobbying than patent trolls. What incentives do courts have to side with patent trolls?
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Considering the kid is on a forum asking questions, its likely not much the parent.
I am about to release a version 1.0.0. I'd strongly suggest you watch releases on GitHub.

I'd also appreciate a note on GitHub about any projects using the license. Eventually, I'd like to add a list to the repo.
'digest' as in 'Reader's Digest' and what has already been digested.
It's not that arbitrary and in any case that doesn't invalidate their position.
The Airbnb interview question “if u were diagnosed with 1 year left to live, would you work at airbnb?” sounds to me like "I want to date a stalker." No. No I don't. I don't want an insane employee who may go postal, either.
Lets assume that beauty of woman decreases over time.
Lets further assume, that contracts are needed to uphold a ressource supply. Lets call such a contract marriage.
Lets assume, to uphold such a contract a - "neutral" third party is needed. This party should be able to be pressurized into certain behaviour, while beeing independent enough to not be seen as affiliated to one side of the interest conflict.

Consider, for a moment, homophobia, not as a trained fear, but a usefull emotional reaction. One party hates a third party, the second party can controll that emotional reaction, by sanctioning this behaviour (lets call this sanctioning/ controlling religion).

Thus, without saying anything disrespectfull to anyone, just stating that we are a sad, retarded species in full blown denial of what we where and are - and the state of economic surplus keeps civil peace afloat, i took your concept of homophobia for a ride.

PS: I predict, that the love of your life will check on your emotional inner workings regularly, by telling you little stories about a gay co-worker. If you don not show a emotional reaction, i predict increasingly hostile reactions and worries.

Turing and Haber-Bosch did more for gay rights then all those processions (catholic back then - rainbow now) combined.
In what way does the US Army have anything to do with "survival"? Isolated in the western hemisphere by large oceans, bordered only by large, friendly neighbors, it's as naturally safe as a nation can feasibly be. Nobody on earth has the military capacity to come attack the USA.
What if, instead of aiming at “fair”, we instead aim at “Just”?

Edit: if there is a difference, that is. If there isn’t, then nvm.
This is the wrong question. Did you click, or did you not?

I did - and more fool me, perhaps. But I clicked. And that's all that counts.
What I am worried is the other way around.

Non critical software is push into production following reasonable practices for non-critical software. Then, with time, what was once non-critical became the stonewall of a much larger and complex systems and now it is a really "non-critical" system that powers other critical systems.
I worked with a young guy that built one of these in high school. About a year after we parted ways I was just randomly considering how long various things I built would last. Then it occurred to me that the hydrogen atoms that he snapped together and let loose are still likely floating around out there, and could conceivably be in the same configuration a hundred billion years from now.
No, you're right -- I had the same thought as 'Anon84 before I realized I was thinking of a different kind of language.

The language 'Anon84 is thinking of is useful for thinking about concurrent systems, where each kind of bracket is associated with a particular agent. What's important is not that the brackets are mutually well-nested, but only that each kind of bracket is independently well-nested. This independence property means that "({)}" is a well-formed string, since ignoring everything but round parentheses gives "()", and ignoring everything but curly braces gives "{}".

The Dyck language family is different. The entanglement between types of brackets means that you can't do a simple tensor like we'd like to.
Judge yourself by your actions, not your thoughts.

When you find a mismatch between the two, evaluate your action and your belief systems and try and figure out why you acted contradictory to how you think you should have acted.
Pleased to meet you. Welcome to the club.
I can't understand what she said.
I think your parent's solution simply considers the empty string not part of the language. The article thinks it is. It's a trivial adjustment to the solution to include it.
Awesome thanks! We believe this model can be helpful and at scale
Impressive pictures, it is strange to see colour pictures from the forties in focus, compared to all of my family's blurred snaps.

Good though the pictures are the UI for this website really doesn't do the images justice, with 1/2 million to be added I assume that a more enticingly navigable website is in the works.

Text search for towns would be helpful by year, or via points on a map. Paging through images in no apparent order 10 at a time through 170 pages gets me climbing up the wall.
How long has this product been on the shelf, and how many people has this effected? This is criminal behavior.
I rarely come across a piece I disagree with so vehemently, at such a core level.

My conclusion is rather: The politics of the Anthropocene will be democratic and horrible.

This article has pushed me more firmly into the re-naturalization camp of politics, economics, and nature.

I enjoyed reading it though, nice to see someone actually thinking about these things and not just being touchy-feely.
This scheme would only work assuming those people are all on facebook and actively use it, correct?
It is highly suggestive that CEOs are the ones who determine the pay of CEOs, in practice. If the shareholders actually had to negotiate the remuneration packages I bet the CEOs wouldn't be able to command the salaries that they do. There isn't enough evidence that paying more for a CEO increases profits.

The upper middle management strata is stuffed with exceptional people and the skillset to be a good CEO isn't actually that rare; it probably isn't a supply issue.
Exploring Distributed Systems Part 1: Sidecar Pattern
Honestly, historically tech companies have had a very hard time lobbying in my experience, both in the US and in EU. See FOSTA-SESTA, net neutrality, rule 11 and 13 in EU, GDPR, etc.

Maybe they just don't want to stoop as low as other lobbying groups, or maybe lobbying isn't as powerful as people make it.
Good for them. This is a necessary Public Health intervention. Bioethicists will look back on this and agree that it was necessary.
See also, Blackwater => Xe => Academi
The Eastern District of Texas tried to use the movement of goods as a a nice test to upend TC Heartland, but In re Cray had the federal circuit actually reject their tests that would keep the gravy train rolling and further closed off the venue shopping into Marshall TX.

Now Apple recognizes that a true physical presence is required for patent trolls to be able to use the district, and they're closing that off. The wealthy suburbanites of northern Dallas will suffer to not have luxury Apple Stores near them, but that's what happens after a decade of recognized abuse from the judicial district.
You’re exactly right. Senior leadership (including CEOs) have the best of both worlds: they get the upside when the company succeeds, but none of the downside when the company fails. The worst that happens is they get fired and go make more millions as CEO of some other company. In fact, they often get upside when the company fails (what was Marissa Mayer’s exit package?)

It’s a helluva deal they got going.
Activision Blizzard googles
4k employees and..
Last year managed to re-make Crash Bandicoot & Spyro - and a CoD. That's it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_video_games

That boggles my mind.. That CEO salary seems rather on the high side.
I could have told them to "do another CoD" and rummage in the vault.
Most everything on the internet is free...so are you saying we should just stop using it?
Same writer, longer articles:

Visions of Future Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/nima-arkani-hamed-and-the-fut...

A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-...

Nima Arkani-Hameds Lecture: The Doom of Space Time: Why It Must Dissolve Into More Fundamental Structures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTx98PUW6lE&t=860s
There's nothing wrong with index funds, and I think most people should dump the majority of their money into them as well.

However, for those people who feel the obsessive need to game the system, and make money faster, I would suggest not trading, but rather developing tools and gathering data to sell to Wall Street.
I really hated Roma. I don't say that lightly. I'm in violent agreement with Richard Brody's review:

> That effacement of Cleo’s character, her reduction to a bland and blank trope that burnishes the director’s conscience while smothering her consciousness and his own, is the essential and crucial failure of “Roma.” It sets the tone for the movie’s aesthetic and hollows it out, reducing Cuarón’s worthwhile intentions and evident passions to vain gestures.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/theres-a-voi...

It's this way with all the characters. They're all shallow, one-dimensional tropes you're never given any reason to care about. Except for the domestic servants, they're all unlikeable.

Worse, I found the film outright boring (I say this as someone who loves Barry Lyndon).

The scene shown on the movie poster that I gather is supposed to have a big emotional impact, just left me feeling manipulated. It's telegraphed to you from a mile away, and then the family claiming they love the maid, it just isn't believable given how they've ignored her and mostly treated her like crap.

Speaking of crap, the dog shit. Why the hell was that so important to Cuarón that he features it, what, a dozen times?

Finally, I really didn't care for the B&W combined with digital. The overall effect just looked contrived to me. (I watched it on 100" screen with a calibrated JVC D-ILA projector, so I think I viewed it pretty close to how the director intended.)

If you want to see a brilliant 2018 film about the human condition and a family dealing with trying circumstances, watch Shoplifters instead. I viewed Roma and Shoplifters the same evening. I'm so glad I watched the latter and wish I could have my two hours back from the former.

TL;DR: Roma sucks, watch Shoplifters instead. Or Tokyo Story if you want to see Roma done right.
At 35 the biggest obstacle to build such project would have been a nagging wife...
> That being the scenario where you don't have or don't want to rely on a trusted authority.

This doesn't even remotely solve the problem.

If someone can get a 51% attack, you now have a trusted authority. If you have a cabal of developers who are implementing your blockchain (and who the overwhelming majority of users will follow if they decide to fork), you have a trusted authority.
Dockerized Tor Onion Services with Vanity v3 Tor Addresses
The point of the grandparent was that you could live "less than 60 minutes" from work on over 100k a year.

I don't doubt that someone can live in Manhattan on less than 30k per year -- my wife worked in nonprofit when we met and I saw lots of people she worked with managing to live in salaries that were half of what people on HN regularly decry as being effective poverty for the area. However, when you do a simple search for apartments for rent in Manhattan, studios are routinely around $2k/month.
Recently some technologies were developed called airplanes and missiles. That changes things when before we just boats.
How does nobody know about these? Shadow profiles have been standard in every large advertising network for 15-20 years at least.

If your ad content is on lots of different web properties, you can "track" a user across each one, inferring data about the user one piece at a time, until you have a large profile. Then you use that profile to target ads/marketing. They never have to directly give you any data, but you can make money off of what you learn.

That's the entire reason "tracking" on the web exists. To build shadow profiles for direct marketing. Nobody thought Facebook was doing it too?
Ah the mises institute, I'll give this one a miss.
Do LED Lights Cause Blindness?
I almost wish more CEOs published something like this. It's quite fascinating to see what sort "manpower" it takes to help them run/lead their org at their greatest efficiency... the behind the scenes look. I imagine head fashion designers or Apple and Tesla execs have a troupe of people working tirelessly to make sure the boss doesn't scew up.
I haven't come across anything better than what GNOME 3 provides. It works well enough, but I had some issues with the on-screen keyboard on Ubuntu 18.04 (it didn't display properly on a screen with 3:2 aspect ration). In all honesty, I was impressed, but maybe because my expectations were low. I'm interested to know if there are other decent ones out there. I still think there is an opportunity waiting to be realised: a MATE or LXDE based tablet interface that doesn't require manual configuration.
Twitter Co-Founder Ev Williams Is Leaving the Company's Board
What's your line? Do you work on contracts for police? What about the United Nations? Any government contract at all, including local? I can find examples of all of them acting against populations and causing harm, as well for good.
Are you suggesting that by definition spam cannot be sent from an edu domain?
Overseas?
- How big is the actual organization? I mean, are people disengaged because the organization is so big that a project of subteam X is not visible to subteam Y, or because everyone's morale is so down that nobody cares? I would argue that it's in the best interests of the company and employees to know what's happening outside their little projects unless people don't have any Epic Meaning motivation and come only to 9-5 work to code specs?

- Do people from different subteams ever help each other? Do they share the codebase, delivery process, users? I mean, is the same manager — the only reason why they are all considered being one team?

- Based on what I read, it does look like there is no overlapping or impact of subteams on each other, and they seem to be self-sufficient and independent. If that's the case, then I would consider switching away from Scrum (I assumed Scrum from standups and retros) in favour of Kanban, and replacing daily stand-ups with weekly updates.
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understanding and accepting is empowering.
BS. Good imagery tech will keep the conflict closer and more personal because the shooter can clearly see or identify who he or she is killing.

Compared to carpet bombing from 50,000 ft smart weapons make war very personal.
Ah, here's a map navigation of the pictures just in case anyone else is gingerly dismounting the wall:

https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com/map/

Now slowly banging head against aforementioned wall
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It's interesting to behold that every response to this comment in the last hour, with the most recently made response being posted 56 minutes ago (as of, at least before the time I hit the 'reply' button) are ALL downvoted to light grey.

I await my turn for making this observation.
I agree.

I'd like to add, in my experience some developers firmly (and sometimes loudly, judgementally) join a working environment and espouse best practices they've acquired from a cultural background they've worked in so far. Or read about, or watched a training course about. And they don't know (or care if) they are pushing things which are advertised as "best practice" in some domain or other, but aren't half as universally agreed upon as they think, and aren't half as effective or appropriate as they think in the new job.

My point is: Some "best practices" aren't as universally agreed upon as people think, and people are often thinking in a bubble.

If you're at a new job, and you see a glaring lack of what you've learned is "essential" best practice, I'd urge caution in assuming your new team are ignorant or that your managers are as clueless as you think at first, even if it looks messy and disorganised.

Of course they might be clueless! But it takes time and deep questioning to be sure.

Of course your experience should be brought into each new place you work. You're hired to bring in what you know, not just to fill a seat. By all means talk about your experience, about things you have actually done which worked well, and about what industry leaders are currently talking about.

But if you feel the need to "teach" everyone straight away how to work better, give it time and consider the possibility that people might have given it considerable thought and experience of their own. They might even be familiar with much of what you're talking about, and rejected it or found a different approach. (Or they might not - that's to be discovered.)

I say this because I've seen people turn up and, in effect, try to start fights long before they have spent the time to figure out (a) others in the team are quite experienced and familiar with the same practices but have decided on something else, (b) different industry bubbles actually do have different best practices for similar problems, and (c) they can't see some kinds of development strategy that are in use, because subtlety.
Do you have to de-plane during the fuel stop to do the pre-clearance? Or do they do that right on the tarmac?
Keep in mind that gun ranges are not at all representative of the average Bay area resident. Sure I met some conservatives at Los Altos rod and gun club.

I also dispute that people are free to be conservative in an "old" sense - whatever that is meant to mean. The majority of conservatives have and continue to believe in:

* Opposition to same sex marriage.

* Opposition to abortion.

* Support for more rigorous immigration enforcement.

* Oppose affirmative action.

Among other things. All of these things are things that would be socially unacceptable in much of the Bay Area, and employees are probably committing career suicide if they do espouse these views. Sure, people can rationalize this by saying that these political views are misogynistic or racist. But if a group constructs a definition of racism, homophobia, or misogyny that categorizes mainstream conservative views as such, then saying "you aren't allowed to be misogynistic or homophobic" is functionally the same thing as saying "you aren't allowed to be conservative."

All of these are traditionally conservative views. In fact today's conservatives are actually more accepting of gay marriage and other things than they were in the past, so I'm especially confused at what you meant by conservative "in the 'old' sense of the word."
That is, in fact, why blizzard just laid off 800 people- they were from underperforming sections of the business or, iirc, business they wanted to get out of.