skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is HR realm stuff, if one person is offended then it’s wrong, ie indefensible from a harassment in the workplace standpoint. I don’t agree with this necessarily but that’s the reality in the USA.

Personally I have no problem with coarse vulgar language, even so far as insults and abuse. If done well it can be beautiful even. But then I went through army basic training so I’m inured to it (I enjoy Linus rants for example). I don’t use it though.
Oh yeah. Also misseated RAM or PCI/graphics card (in desktops) can do the same. A couple of times after car trips I 'fixed' my old desktop with a judicious slap on the side of the case.
As per other comments in this thread, it seems to classify emails from Google products as Spam as well.

Also for a minor correction (not that I think this matters):

It's not free, it's paid for, because it's a G Suite account.
Get a little covered bin for under the sink or something then get a mini bag. U will easily be able to dump it into the chute. No excuses!
US admits to existence of top secret Mach 6 RS-85 ‘Aurora’ spyplane
This reminds me of the discovery of oxygen, which was more about discovering the lack of oxygen in a vacuum and in combustion products.
Andrej Karpathy just finished his PhD and he was offered an executive position at a major public company. Also, he is not wasting his time. His department is building something that is actually used in cars today. It's just not the self-driving software that Elon is pitching.
Someone discovered unix philosophy. (1) do one thing and do it well; (2) promote composition (write primitives, let people script). To add a pessimistic tone tho, bloat is benefic because the more things you pack the quicker one will break, leading the consumer to buy your upgrade. Also: mega-apps favor vendor lock-in (the reciprocate also being true). Ok i just realized that second piece of unix philosophy is deeply anti-monopolistic; too bad the capitalistic game (especially the last XaaS plateform-capitalism trend) incentivizes complete market domination. I'm amused to see how well these guidelines can be framed in an anti-capitalistic ideology when the people at bell labs who wrote them (or the journalists from hbr) probably didn't think like that at all.
The sexes don’t feel pain the same way
These tribes of dozens of individuals are not what prevents logging for happening. The mission will use boats and an helicopter on a long trip just to reach the place. What would be the economic viability to estabilish a commercial operation there?

The indigenous people that prevents some of the logging in some places are much larger ones with total contact with the rest of society for centuries that live in much more accessible areas
I can see that. A business is in business to make money. If we’re making money and the executives are getting bonuses and raises and I don’t get raises, I’m out. And if you tell me I’m not getting a raise because we’re “family” Im gonna puke on ya on the way out.
You are not comparing same talent.

Hire people at the bottom and you'll notice huge reluctance to leave regardless of the salary offered, it doesn't prove the point you are trying to make.
Do you think they'll kill him?
You're over-educated, unable to plainly say you don't believe there is such a thing as morality.
> As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.
Hi HNers, I built this MVP over the weekend. Let me know if you find it interesting or useless ;)
If an extra $10k out of an overall family income of $65k is impossible then I'd say that this family isn't managing money well. Were they not putting anything into savings before? Did they have no savings? Again, it'd be a significant sacrifice to afford private school - I've said so since the beginning - but it is possible for a lot more than just "a tiny minority" (your original words).

> All of these schools require some type of education about the school’s founding religion. At a minimum, we are talking about a regular class. Many schools require their students to adhere to the standards of the religion during the course of the school day.

And from this, you jump to "indoctrination". I and other family members have been to religious schools as well. One of my sister's closest friends was Jewish, and went to Catholic without any type of issue. And both my sister and I are about as atheistic as you can get. If merely teaching a class about the founding religion counts as indoctrination then this is a very, very permissive definition of indoctrination you're using.
AI is definitely a loaded word. We have years upon years of built up fictional worlds created on the basis of a dystopian future put in place by AI gone wrong. It's understandable - AI is an enemy that no country will be offended by (as opposed to say, Goldeneye, which vilifies Russia), is unknown enough that suspension of disbelief is easy, and allows for an easy plot device.

Sadly, the decisions around AI will likely be based on those pieces of fiction. The average person has spent more time watching movies about AI rather than reading actual research material on it, and will vote accordingly. We should really refrain from using "AI" as a term until artificial general intelligence is actually upon us. Using it to refer to GANs or Deep Convolutional Networks is just feeding the news beast.

In addition to changing the terminology though, I think it's also important to change the fiction as well. Project Hieroglyph[1] is one of my favourite efforts in the realm of fiction - it aims to combine scientific papers with fictional stories that represent those advances in a clear and accurate way. If people are going to make decisions based on fiction, we should at least keep the fiction accountable to being realistic and accurate.

[1] https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/
This is rubbish, even one report can ruin a reputation.
I would hope not. This article suggests that this is not the case (sorry about the adblocker modal): https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2016/06/professor-aims-to-...
Thanks for sharing. I wonder if Google should introduce option for users to view adjusted score. Meaning it would put higher weighting on users that have more balanced distribution of historical star ratings who have verified credential. I'm sure that may have some unintended consequences...
Works for TripleByte, doesn’t work for the rest of the companies who do white boarding interviews.

You don’t learn how to implement various sort algorithms by hand in boot camps (oh weird, I never had to implement or work with anyone who had to implement one yet we all had to pass that during whiteboarding).

I’ve hired boot camp grads with success and failure. I’ve also hired CS grads with success and failure.

The number one quality that determined their success in my opinion was grit and passion for programming. Programming is always evolving and really hard to master without dedication, time and so much trial/error that you’re so pissed off by the 18th time of trying to solve something that they 19th time when you do solve it the high is so intoxicating you’re ready to do it again on the next task.

None of that is taught in a classroom regardless of its a boot camp or CS degree.
Indeed we can use "reverse engineer" or ML models to get more ideas. I wrote about using Deep Learning to predict sales here: https://towardsdatascience.com/predicting-amazon-sales-using...

We work with sellers in a slightly different way: We are more focused on best geography and time to sell a product. In essence we predict how much you will sell in future and in what locations. I will drop you an email and we can talk further.
I'd really like to see a breakdown by bootcamp program.
Ah, that makes sense... they mean 'single' as in living alone, not just their relationship status.
Is there any documentation on Realtalk?
And Taiwan isn't even one of China's top ten trading partners. So who has more power over the other?

The passport thing doesn't mean anything in and of itself. That's not the point.
No, "fair" is more like a lack of fraud or coercion. It means that you get what you can manage without those, which is generally the market rate. You may be able to trade off pay, safety, respect, and hours. (give up some of one to get more of another) The deal you get comes from the value you bring. Getting more than your share, for example by coercion against the employer or by defrauding the employer, is definitely not fair.
How and why are nations established?

Do they not get to have their own territory, or do they have less right to sovereignty than the US or Argentina?
That's a false dichotomy; outlays per employee depend on the benefits each employee draws.

That said, dudul's comment on this thread indicate why this often is not (financially speaking) an option.
The prime directive lover in me tends to agree with such logic (I am also a brazilian born/raised in the Amazon) but try to extrapolate that scenario to some extraterrestrial "overlords" telling us the same thing in a pre-nuclear winter situation. I would rather stick to their plan than risk my own ass. Of course, I know, that's a reductio ad absurdum type of argument but still...
Can you share a link to studies?

There was a discussion about sources of ocean plastic pollution and good amount of source-digging done by fellow HN user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18731171

There does not seem to be definitive data on the source of plastic pollution in the oceans, so I would really like to see the sources for "80% ocean plastic is from the landfills".
> A lot of it boils down to your own personal presuppositions and worldview.

Maybe. But my early worldview was shaped almost entirely by Bible believers. Now after thirty years my perspective has changed. And it's hard to see value in evaluating the world from ideas and testimonies that cannot be proven, especially those that condemn those born different.
> My guess is the ambient temperature is causing some metal component to contract and break a connection.

That failure mode is less likely to cause a "well-known problem" and would show up in other circumstances (not just temperature).

I thought maybe capacitance, but it looks as though they are designed to be fairly flat deltas around 20°C:

https://www.murata.com/products/emiconfun/capacitor/2012/10/...
The plastics clogging the waterways in NY did not come from Asia and Africa.
That's great, and I support it. It took a change in legislature for this to be possible.

You know what else is really missing - much harder than a plastic bag ban - enforcing a litter tossing ban. There's a --yes, I will say it-- culture in NYC of people tossing litter on the ground. A lot of this litter is plastic - bottles and then you have the disgusting candy and chip/junk food wrappers.

Unfortunately that is much harder, because there's no political appetitite in NYC now for punishing anyone for any crime that isn't a major violent crime. Almost all other crimes are to be ignored, because we're told, criminal justice reform of not enforcing "quality of life crimes" (and this is always said in quotation marks) is a path forward to redressing unequal and unfair enforcement. [edit: grammar]

So where do we stand, NYC, with our litter all over the street and sidewalk in both rich and poor neighborhoods, on subway platforms, inside subway cars and on the tracks (where they're responsible for a certain percentage of fires)?

I'll be glad to not see those damned plastic bags flying around in a spiral in the air and getting stuck in branches, but what about all the rest?
“Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads”
This seems like a great idea if what you are trying to build can be accomplished by a bunch of average to slightly below average developers.
1) So why doesn't Taiwan have a seat at the UN?

2) That just indicates that the PRC will continue to exert soft power over Taiwan instead of something more overt.
This seems to fit my experience interviewing/hiring candidates over the last few years.

There's a certain type of "Bootcamp grad" that seems to fit well with my teams. Those people who got a degree and then found that they hated the field they worked in (biology, law, English teachers) have just come in and killed it for us.

I can't say, exactly, how that compares to CS grads, but I do know that every fresh Grad we've hired had to be hired on as an intern first to get them up to speed, while bootcamp grads were able to be productive from day 1.

Just my 2 cents.
> If you want to do hard algorithmic or low-level programming, you’re still better served by a traditional CS eduction.

or a bootcamp that focuses on these particular skills.

Universities imagine they are for people pursuing higher knowledge and not a job, and now this can be true again. Time to divorce universities from the corporate sector, there are enough programs to build now that enough tech companies don't gatekeep this way. On the culture side, technical leaders who hire also don't care because there is stuff to build.
From pipdig https://www.pipdig.co/blog/sad-times/
> What would be wrong with a cultural tradition of encouraging people to go back to school every decade or two?

This assumes that the main function of college is to acquire skills. But in reality, it is to "stamp" you as a qualified member of the elite by giving you a College Degree.

There is no need to do that twice.
You literally proved his point by saying "I won't go into detail".
It's hard to argue when all of your arguments are based on Elon Musk's assertions. I remember watching Elon Musk in one of his product announcement events promising that development of full self-driving mode will be finished by the end of 2018 and rolled out through 2019. This is while they told CA DMV they haven't tested even a single mile in self-driving mode in 2018:
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/96c89ec9-aca6-4910...
You'd think they need at least one mile before rolling out the feature.

Regarding the TPU chip that is 100x faster than NVidia's chip, I also take that with a grain of salt. Note that 3rd generation Google TPUs are on par with latest NVidia GPUs in terms of performance according to Google. If Tesla has made a chip that is 100x faster, they should spin it off as a separate company that could be valuable as much as 2x Tesla's market cap.
It's not without historical precedent. Look at the Congo under King Leopold for one example. Everyone is in the accessible areas, not as many in the harder to reach places that makes it extremely economically viable for them to set up shop there.

Like I said it's a cynical interpretation and I hope I'm wrong, but this is literally history repeating itself.
That’s not an incorrect metric, but it’s not a very useful one. Or put differently, you’ll need to be a lot more “perfect” than you think in order to get to an ultimate injury/death rate lower than human drivers. You need to be able to handle all the corner cases humans handle routinely, otherwise you’re going to get catastrophic effects.

For example, right now Teslas cannot detect stationary obstacles. They slam right into them at highway speeds: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu.... This is not a matter of just tweaking the algorithms to get better and better error rates—it’s a fundamental problem with the system Tesla uses to detect obstacles.

In order to actually get close to the accident rate of human drivers on average, you have to be “perfect” in the sense you have to be able to handle every edge case a human driver is likely to ever run into in their entire lives.
Yeah-- they are qualitatively different.

I didn't want to cloud the question with this point, but data from a machine driver mistake can be used to train every other machine driver and make it better. While much can till be learned from the mistake made by a human driver, the error is not as likely to be minimized across the 'fleet' in the same way as it is for a machine driver, if that makes sense.

Also it's probably important to keep in mind-- if my undestanding is correct-- companies like Tesla are only using neural nets for situational awareness-- to understand the car's position in space and in relation to the identified objects, paths, and obstacles around it. The actual logic related to the car's operation/behavior within that space is via traditional programming. So it's not quite a black box in terms of understanding why the car decided to act in a particular way-- it may be that something in the world was miscategorized or otherwise sensed incorrectly, which could be addressed (via better training/validation, etc.). Or it could be that it understood the world around it but took the wrong action, which could also be addressed (via traditional programming).

If I'm wrong about that, I'm sure someone will chime in. (please do!)
I could see bootcamps working if they teach the process of learning and fixing one's own problems. Focusing too much on the actual content is a mistake imo. Programming is a constantly moving field and a good developer is always learning and self teaching. I suppose the total immersion and the sink or swim connotation of bootcamps could force students to learn on their own.

Meanwhile, at least in my case, schools don't appear to teach their students anything about figuring shit out. Students have to be hand held through a series of prepackaged projects that don't have any real context or motivation in the real world. Most importantly, they're never taught that programming is a skill. They don't understand that to get good at programming, they need to practice. Maybe most of them don't want to become world class programmers. But even a mediocre soccer player needs to practice dribbling. A CS student who just takes classes and doesn't write any more code than what is necessary is setting themselves up for failure, much like a fencer who only takes group classes and never practices.
A pretty sad attempt at turning themselves into the victims, by my reading.
Rent-stabilized implies individuals that are less successful. This might be because of drugs, or various other distractions. Maybe it's their personal choice. Either way, any time you have rent stabilized, you have increased crime, increased disruption and increased disfunctionality. I think with greater restriction you are actually doing them a favor.

I've lived in dozens of non-rent controlled apartments, and it's almost always hell. You always have some douchebag that is above, or below or next to you who can't manage to respect personal boundaries of noise or space or smell. I would have much more enjoyed the experience if there was some level of enforcement.
> It is entirely possible to say that having private corporations dictate what people see and read is bad for society, without claiming that the government should force companies to publish anything.

I mean, yes, it's possible. It's also delusional and paranoid to think that you can't post your hate speech, anti-vaccine delusions, and whatnot on your own damn platform.

We're entitled to free speech, but that's where it stops. We aren't entitled to free, global publishing platforms hosted at the expense of some other party.

You might complain that Youtube or whatever other "public" platform is where all the eyeballs are, so it's not fair that you can't publish anything you like there. Guess what, the reason the eyeballs are there is because these places curated their content so they didn't get their advertisers driven away by hosting vile garbage. This allowed them to scale more, host more content, and scale more, in a virtuous cycle.

There are sites that don't curate like this, and they're not successful publishing platforms. What do you need to publish that you can't get 8chan to host, anyway?
That's not an unreasonable conclusion, but it's a lot messier than that.

The real issue is comparing miles driven to similar miles driven, and autopilot miles are only supposed to be on the highway in good conditions (which is when the fewest accidents occur...well, probably). But the breakdown of accidents into categories such as speed, weather, traffic, etcetera does not exist (or at least I am unaware of it). It's further complicated by demographics, where older more affluent drivers - the kind likely to buy a Tesla - are safer as well. Then it's also confounded by the fact that Tesla is not a trustworthy company, at least in my opinion, and they will give OTA updates without warning owners which can revitalize old bugs (https://www.techspot.com/news/79331-tesla-autopilot-steering...). A lack of regression testing for a safety critical system is just terrifying.

Now admittedly, you came back to me with a reasonable response and I am throwing you a litany of "yeah, but" rebuttals. Do I believe Tesla Autopilot has the potential, when used properly, to make driving under certain situations safer? Probably. The main problem is the human element, making sure they're actually monitoring the car, informing them correctly of what Autopilot can and cannot do, etcetera. There are also issues with how Tesla not only improves the technology, but validates it.
It's the gross overpromising (honestly I believe it is probably fraud, but I cannot be sure) that makes me despise Tesla as a company. But I can admit they make a product a lot of people like. But I think a lot of people like them because they are misinformed.
Rise in Plagiarism Claims Unnerves Pop Songwriters
Edison licensed some of his early patents, but then he became a founder. He founded the Edison Electric Light Company, which became the Edison General Electric Company. That merged with Thomas-Houston out of Cleveland. The result was General Electric.
Chances are the substance in "canned air" is the same as in "freeze spray" --- a hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant. (They used to be a CFC, before those were banned for ozone layer depletion.)
Context:

Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun

https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/az285j/saving_of_...

Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407865
Having a plug-in system like atom is much better than trying to account for every possible use case.
Ask HN: Tomorrow is April's fool. How you feel about it?
Tech sites will be full of useless info. tomorrow. Personally, I think the joke is over. It's just a waste of time and resources for all involved -including the producers.
The company in question is a domain registrar competing mostly on good service. I'm sure it's a profitable niche, but it's not the kind of thing that's aiming for a giant IPO or is likely to attract acquisition interest from a FAANG.
Create Tensorflow.js Project with Parcel
It also had fewer features than other phones when it was released and people complained endlessly about it.
One of the most important findings is that pay generally will never motivate employees

Grow up poor, and see how much pay motivates you. I think never is too strong a word.
You still have to deploy to Lambdas.

I believe the post you're responding to was alluding to the degree to which a lot of single-file PHP/HTML is written in a very "serverless-esque" way: no dependencies on an outer framework, and likely scales quite far compared to other languages when run on any number of servers (with the required libraries).
I've hired both and the major limitations of bootcamp folks come out when you start doing things that are either:

1. Very hard, or...

2. So obscure that you can't find examples of doing it in the past

As an example I'm wrestling with now, I am trying to come up with a way to describe applications as finite state machines by evaluating their event streams and then evaluate with PCA across multiple of these state representations. That's something that doesn't really come out of anything but theoretical computer science.