skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unpopular opinion: most 'gray hairs' I've worked with absolutely deserved to be let go. Keep in mind this is a sample size of 1 company, however.

I'm 100 percent against age discrimination, and some of my mentors fall in this age range. That said, I've also worked for a big corp full of 'distinguished engineers', which essentially in our company meant they did something really interesting in the 80s or 90s. Many rested on some one accomplishment, and found ways to interject themselves onto new projects while giving extremely vague or extremely outdated advice.

Our industry is ageless, if you keep up to date and keep learning. If you're relying on tenure, you're going to have a bad time.
I've been working off a space in Chennai, India for the last 5 months and the experience has been mixed. Got the chance to meet some interesting people there and me being on the introverted side, this was a nice opportunity to try networking and stuff, at my own pace.

Its cost effective and the facility is top notch.

But the downsides are similar to what other people are describing here. People camping out in Conf rooms / phone booths, speaking loudly over phone, and the noise and distraction that's ever present.
This is always so weird to me because I feel like older software engineers would have so much wisdom and be able to see through the hype and fads
We should fund medieval literature well too. Some of the best CTOs are humanities people for whom engineering just isn't fully satisfying at intellectual life scale.

Applying symbolic logic, hermeneutics, retroduction, and criticism are higher abstract levels of creative problem solving, via inference to the likely explanation with respect to priors, a.k.a. the scientific method. These kinds of reasoning simply aren't practically doable by math alone yet, not to mention deep learning tools in the field.

The next wave of AI methods will need to go beyond statistics to come full circle, because classification is not reasoning. What else is there? All the GOFAI stuff, prolog, expert systems, knowledge graphs, fuzzy/modal logics. These things were always great at reasoning but the last winter happened because they were bad at dealing with uncertainty. Now the stats methods have solved that problem but they suck at reasoning. It is time for a synthesis.

As a startup I don't want a data science PhD to tinker with an optimal CNN design for a year to eke out that extra 1 or 2 percent of precision and recall. I want an ensemble of specialized models, ideally pre-trained, grafted together in a logically consistent way that is configurable and introspect-able via text/data at runtime.

The economy is misconfigured! That said, humanities people should probably learn how to code as a research skill.
Those prices are per person.

So to actually use both berths in your sleeper cabin for 2 is $3,522.22 including tax, etc.

If you only book as one passenger the rate goes down but not by half. It's still $2,641.94. Rates are based on full occupancy.
I use a randomized user agent and every once in a while get rejected by a site that has decided my browser can't be supported. Usually when I'm on some Safari version. I doubt much effort is being done to identify fake user agents since there are better fruit to pick in the fingerprinting game.
What other major powers? There are only two other major regional military powers: Russia and China.

Please provide robust examples to back up your premise. The last large conflict between US weapons and another competitor, resulted in absolute humiliation on the part of Russia/USSR in the Gulf War.

Russia can't globally project its military and neither can China. Russia can barely leave its borders and can barely afford to even in a limited fashion. Neither comes close to having the logistics, bases, comprehensive weapons systems and information systems necessary to fight a war outside their borders against the US. They simply can't do it under any circumstances. China will need 30 more years to get to that level at the rate they're going; they still haven't properly modernized their military, much less figured out how to use that modernization effectively.

Russia's entire military is rotting top to bottom. Putin has shifted Russia's focus to a narrow selection of propaganda heavy 'super' weapons, because they can no longer afford to maintain their military to keep up with the US broadly. They can't afford the SU-57, it'll never be constructed in meaningful numbers. They can't properly maintain or sustain their one aircraft carrier. Russia is no longer a broad military rival to the US, they're a narrow weapons systems rival (eg the excellent S missile systems).

Things are not going to get better for Russia on the military front, they're going to keep getting worse in line with their permanently stagnate economy. They'll have to make a choice on cutting the size of their military (further limiting their capabilities to mostly defense of Russian territory), or allowing the average quality of their forces to continue to erode. A $1.6 trillion economy - smaller than Canada's economy - simply isn't going to enable them to keep up over the coming decades with the US and Chinese economies.

China is the sole military rival to the US going forward. As of today, they're still solidly behind the US in nearly every weapon system. Maybe in a couple decades the story will be very different (one assumes), today it's not.
That will probably come done quiet a bit when illink gets out of alpha. It is basically a tree-shaker to eliminate dead/unused stuff from the resulting standalone binary.

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/30
Judging from the downvotes there are a lot of Googlers and Xooglers here. That’s all.

Here is one place to start: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm
> It seems pretty obvious to me, lots of people want to be professors and there are only a limited amount of spots. Being a full professor is highly, highly prestigious so many people are willing to sacrifice quite a lot to attain that position. That drives pay down and makes it very competitive to get some of the few spots available.

The real problem is that the people who should know better, the people who run Ph.D programs for disciplines whose only career prospects are in academia, decided to graduate more Ph.D's that they were willing to hire. Those guys control both supply and demand, and are perfectly capable of balancing them.
There are no legal protections for recipes.
"What is the one thing an engineer could do that would make a huge difference in where we are trying to take this thing?"

This question

-- a) gives him an opportunity to tell you exactly where we are trying to take this thing,

-- b) shows you what he thinks is the value of engineering talent, and

-- c) gives you a good picture of what exactly you should be focused on if you want to really succeed here.

Go get em!
To build a rail line (or extension) in the US, you must ask the Surface Transportation Board for authority [1]. They also conduct an analysis of environmental impacts.

[1] https://www.stb.gov/stb/public/resources_construct.html
I feel that the FTC's story leaves a few things to be desired. Here's a timeline:

1) Circa 2009, scammy "PC Diagnosis" scam starts.

2) Feb 2012, class action filed against Support.com for scareware up-selling a subscription service. [1]

3) Nov 2016, two TV affiliates run similar tests finding they're ripping off customers. [2]

4) Nov 2016, Office Depot discontinues the scam.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support.com

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/349821/office-depot-caught-sellin...

I feel like this could use a postmortem more than what feels like a congratulatory press release.

I'd be curious to know if there were complaints filed with the FTC prior to November 2016.
Everyone is different.

When I was young, I was a natural lucid dreamer and had substantial recall. I wrote tons of my dreams down. There wasn't a time I thought this was unusual until many years later in school after my recall declined.

When I reached high school, a teacher had explained the concept of lucid dreaming to a class that seemed skeptical. There was one other student aside from me that experienced them.

In response to discovering this 'oddity', I ended up joining a community to log my experiences and discuss them... there's a large variability in the kinds of dreams and the ability to induce them. I ended up meeting my last gf on that community and she never had a lucid (her dreams were mostly fragments of the prior day's events)

Mine weren't like that. Sometimes I would just fly around in environments that were similar to what I experienced in life. I would often just test to see what I could do (move objects with my mind, that sound of crap).

Oftentimes, I would just live out daily events as either a different person or myself in another time and place. A hallmark of my logs was the amount of time I experienced in each dream, when I was very young I would experience what would feel like a week in a night. There were times it felt even longer, one time in kindergarten I lived out a portion of gradeschool and woke up crying because I realized the friends I made there wouldn't be in the real world.

Today, I am an infrequent dreamer and not active in that community anymore. I can occasionally induce a short lucid dream if I have a quiet morning to myself and set an alarm to wake up a bit early. I find my recall goes up when I am teaching myself things. The recall is not related to the material I'm learning.

So yeah, there's some variability in dreaming.
Not knowing the culture will definitely hinder you compared to someone that does, but you might be able to carve out a niche as a “Western/English” facing executive. Basically you will be the executive that interfaces with foreigners.
> This suggest the problem is my lack of ability to understand, when the problem is there is no longer a common definition.

The only misunderstanding seems to be yours. We can clearly identify white nationalists as actual Nazis, no redefinition required.

> Censorship can be conducted by a government, private institutions, and corporations.

No one is saying that corporations can't censor things. I am saying that this is not censorship. Facebook deplatforming you is not the same as censoring you.

> maybe the principle is race after all?

The only thing we're discussing here is the deplatforming of white nationalist content from Facebook. Bringing other races or religions and their extremism in is totally tangential at best, and actively disingenuous at worst.

> Are you well read on the topic, or is this just a casual opinion that sounds about right?

There are many examples in the news recently. Here's one I read just the other day: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/trumps-rh... White nationalist speech creates hate crimes; the correlation appears clear to me. Of course, it also seems logical to me without any sources, so sources are just a nice bonus.

> Can you think of any possible undesirable reactions (regardless of the soundness of the logic underlying the motivation) to this type of policy?

Essentially your argument seems to boil down to: we shouldn't create good policies because crazy extremists might have bad reactions to them. But crazy extremists have bad reactions to everything. We should be trying to deplatform and deconvert extremists instead of catering to their sensitive tastes. If that offends them and causes them to lash out, that is unfortunate, but they'll do that anyway. At least if they do it to this there might be less of them in the future.

> If everything is random, why even bother with policies like this, or any at all?

While you can't control how people react to what you do, you can do what you believe is right and hope it has a good outcome in the future. Facebook apparently agrees with me.
Great post! I started writing a Lisp interpreter in Go with the mal guide but switched to Norvig's (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) [0] since it was more approachable (IMO) as a Lisp beginner. I'm looking forward to writing a compiler next like the author.

[0] http://norvig.com/lispy.html
well... yeah duh
What do you value? You can also make this argument to advocate ignoring web accessibility because its not a cost benefit tradeoff that is worth a single entity’s bottom line for the sake of the small percentage of people that are disabled. Private actors in the capitalist economy regularly make very shortsighted decisions. It’s up to us to establish the boundaries in which those decisions get made, and to some extent, our laws are a reflection of our values. What kind of world do you want your possibly disabled children to grow up in? (Edit: and what kind of sentiment do you want to be established in society and the industry when you are 50+ years old and looking for a job?)
Margaret Hamilton did not head the effort. She was a manager on the project, but she didn’t join until relatively late. At the time of Apollo 11 she was in charge of the Command Module’s software (https://www.doneyles.com/LM/ORG/index.html), but most of the work had been done by the time she assumed that position. She later became head of the whole software department, and had a lot of responsibility for modifications for later missions and Skylab, but she and others have greatly exaggerated her role on the project.
The problem is in America we don't have open access to the tracks.

They are all owned by different railroads vs the UK were they're all owned by one (formerly government) organization.

Here in the US, even if you could rent a locomotive and crew, you'd have to get permission from each individual railroad whose tracks you wanted to cross.
The point of the person you responded to was that STOVL aircraft can fulfill the requirement of a close air support (CAS) platform of being able to take off from hastily constructed airstrips, rather than being limited to carriers and large bases, often far removed from the area of operations.
If someone with a humanities PhD can market/apply themself the way you just did, they will have no problem finding a high paying position.
dont most people pass off the bloomberg hack story as stock manipulation
I don't really think it's on the onus of the individual lab to ensure there are enough jobs for all their PhD students within the same lab. It's kind of both a tragedy of the commons (individual labs/departments don't want to hire more PhDs and less full time researchers/professors because it reduces output/$) and externality (research groups have no responsibility to ensure it's actually a good career move for their students to get PhDs) issue. That's why I think part of the solution needs to come from the top down to balance things out. Can't happen at the scope of the individual university
I like the original more without your embellishment. The addition sounds like every attempt at follow up humor on reddit.
It gives you easy upgrades and nice dependency separation. It's not required in this case, but it sure makes operations easier. (Doing the same for multiple services on rpi)
Why does this article pretend that we collectively made a decision to punish professors and not that the effect of supply and demand in a free market is the cause?
> unless you are Zimbabwe

That's like saying "it's fine if you rob me 2%, but please don't surpass it". See: https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees/status/1110030668715614208
No that's simply supply / demand economics. Miners dump their mined Bitcoin on the market immediately after mining. When a halvening occurs, that means less BTC are dumped on the market daily. Assuming demand remains the same, prices will increase.
CS, engineering, and business professors make good salaries and have good job security.

I'm a CS professor.
Good to know! I'll have to pick up a copy of Skunk Works, I've heard many good things about it.
It's absurd how many examples of the collective action problem are treated this way every day, on HN or in media more broadly.
Why do instructors deserve tenure?
That is yet another feature which is mistaken by crypto advocates for a bug. The 2% per annum is deliberate and useful; it means you have economic incentive to put your wealth to work on creating things-- new businesses, technology, public infrastructure-- by investing it, rather than passively sitting on it.

Imagine the reverse: a deflationary currency, which becomes more valuable over time. You would have little choice but to hold on to your wealth to avoid missing out on the gains. Why would you spend your money building a business or hiring workers? That would be a losing proposition compared to keeping a bank account which grows if it just sits there. Deflationary circumstances were, in fact, what precipitated the great depression.

2% is a gentle nudge to participate in the economy.

This is addressed and elucidated in the linked article.
It was all for free.
Can you explain what is confusing about it?
> When are we going to stop being surprised that blind market forces don't always result in optimal outcomes for everyone? Nobody is designing these systems; they're emergent.

These systems aren't "blind market forces." A purely academic discipline controls both the supply of tenure-candidates (Ph.D's) and the demand for them. It's just like if you decided to bake some weird cookies that only you yourself like, and you baked more than you could possibly eat. You'll have to throw the extras in the trash, but then imagine those extras were people.
While a contextual bandit could be learning using more parameters about the environment than the multi-armed bandit posed in the example, it still has the goal of finding the best reward given the specific domain (while by and large using the same strategy as the multi armed bandit). But placed in a different context, the state space and underlying model parameters could be completely different, so the previous reward for any given state, or sequence of states, could be irrelevant.

The goal here is to reward the agent for the search strategy they employed to arrive at their answer, not the quality of the answer itself.

One possible use case (directly related to their example with multi-armed bandits, possibly learnt by a contextual bandit but requires a good deal more modeling) could be retail pricing, where different categories of products have drastically different demand curves. A meta-algorithm has the promise of generalizing better and rapidly arriving at the optimal pricing across a wide range of similar price curves.
That was my initial thought as well seeing as you can freely and anonymously discuss. But perhaps it's in the government's interest to have the people openly criticize these capitalist practices that have a negative impact on public health?
You can't protect rights and freedoms from intrusion by the government by statute, which is kinda the whole point of having a constitution. If it's just a law saying the government can't do something, then it'll do that by first repealing that law - if all you need is a simple majority, the votes are always there.

The reason why the US constitution is so hard to amend is because of how high the bars are for the process - 2/3 in the House and in the Senate to submit amendments, and 3/4 of all state legislatures to ratify them. Or if going via state convention, then 2/3 of all state legislatures to request it, but still 3/4 to ratify anything that comes out of it.

I don't think it was a bad system originally, back before the 14th Amendment - since originally all those restrictions were on what the federal government can do, not on what the states can do. Between the states and their citizens, it was supposed to be taken care of by their respective state constitutions, which are generally much easier to amend - and even if they didn't, they wouldn't block other states from experimenting. With 14A, and the gradual incorporation of various constitutional protections on state level via it, the process to amend it needs to be more democratic IMO, and acknowledge the people, not just the states.
The A10 has lots of redundancy, including a second engine, and even some armor. Super Tucanos lack all that. For a country like the USA, with expensive pilots and a huge aversion to getting pilots killed, something like the A10 makes far more sense. Other countries have a different situation obviously, making the Super Tucano a better choice for them.

The sane choice for the USA would be a new A10, redone mostly to avoid components that are getting difficult to source. Minor other changes are fine (geared turbofans, modernized armor, no bleed air...) but one shouldn't let Second System Syndrome make a monster.
Surprised to hear this about Barabasi, I'm no physicist but enjoyed reading his books on network science as a layperson.

Is there any published criticism against his work? His papers get cited everywhere, I know citations are more metric of popularity than scientific quality but I find it puzzling that his work continues to get attention if the results don't hold up.
I would have thought a deep learning approach trying to fool a classifier would have been a more politically neutral approach.
Follow up about “good” attachments is worth a read too: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/GoodAttachment...
Not the "first powered flight". That honour probably belongs to Henri Giffard.

Typically the Wright Flyer is credited with "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight" or something similar.

If you add enough qualifiers you can be first at anything.
This is really good. I've been raising the voice from up and down to go from make to neutral to female and then let it drift in and out. I feel like that was the best. It was great paying attention to familiarity while also getting neutral.
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It's generally considered a "conservative" or "republican" position to contend that males and females differ biologically and that sex is an immutable characteristic. On twitter, if you express this idea towards someone who is trans or advocating trans-issues you will very likely get banned.
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For what it’s worth I was told at one point that PVCs are the leading indicator for sudden cardiac death, so it may have been worthwhile to get checked out either way.
Zero and original raspberries can be low-powered. 3+ is a quad core with 1gb memory. Docker doesn't even show up on CPU monitor and takes 2% shared memory in my case. The overhead of a namespace is not really noticeable either, unless you're doing lots of processing. (My influx+grafana+monitors sit under 5% CPU almost all the time)
Someone should go to jail. I suppose they still may - the FTC only has civil authority, but they often refer cases to the FBI for criminal prosecution once they have their pound of flesh on the civil side. The government has criminally charged people involved in these kinds of cases - the most notable of cases can be viewed here [1]. But because Office Depot is a large company, it seems nobody will suffer real consequences.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/266065/fbi-busts-international-sc...
UK doesn't have proper separation of powers to this day, due to parliamentary sovereignty.
Hi Justin, thanks for the feedback. I'll take another look at kops as it's been a while. I do think it could benefit from having a knob to turn off some of the pre-validation, or for it to do functional checks instead of checking for the existence of specific AWS resources. Many companies treat their AWS VPCs as an extension of the private corporate network, and they come up with lots of creative ways to route traffic to the internet (or select portions of it) without the VPC necessarily having an IGW or VPN. AWS is also making a growing number of services available from private endpoints within the VPC, so there is often no need for internet access. I understand the value of validating the environment, but an "expert mode" toggle would also be nice.
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