skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I think you've misunderstood entirely.

I meant the teams in those companies as opposed to the companies more broadly (e.g., Core Data Science at Facebook, not Facebook in general). I mention those companies together because they're well-known for investing a lot in research (e.g., by hiring PhDs). And in these cases, they're hiring PhDs for reasons that are totally different from the reasons for which they hire engineers (who may also have doctorates). For example, there is indeed a difference between the institution-level goals of Facebook and Microsoft Research, but that difference is less substantial between researchers at Core Data Science at Facebook and researchers on the Computational Social Science team at Microsoft Research.

I'm making the point that there is a difference in the value of a PhD depending on where in the company you work. For the research-oriented teams, the value of a PhD lies in the fact that you've ostensibly been trained to contribute to what we know, rather than just applying it.

Going along with your ML example, the difference would be like comparing Athey, Tibshirani, and Wager's work on generalizing random forests against building a random forest using scikit-learn. I'm not saying that someone without a PhD can't write the paper that they did, but it's for sure not at all just a matter of who's better at writing code.
So, who gets to decide what a "white nationalist" is? These guys?

https://freebeacon.com/issues/soros-bankrolls-unverified-hat...
PhD in 2012, Theoretical high energy particle physics.

Now I work optimizing fantasy sports teams and building websites that display betting lines. Don't even like sports and I have no idea what anyone in the office is talking about, but they are paying a lot for me to put buttons on their website I guess. Leaves me a bunch of room for my hobbies. Offered to do some actual math, maybe personalization algos or some AI stuff. Really just need these buttons on the site is all.
Man! Hacker News is so interesting with folks like you hanging around.
In light of the evidence, it's a measure to target the groups that are disproportionately responsible for the majority of violent ideology-driven attacks in this country.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/12/study-shows-t...
OP said he already works with Python most of the time, so even if I live Ruby as the next guy, it's not a good recommendation.

I would say try Elixir since trying to go and think only functional for a while can be refreshing and useful also when you come back to the languages you already work with.
Meditation and playing Dual n Back regularly has helped with my memory.
No? Or not necessarily, at least. For example, pytz (a Python timezone library) offers "is_dst" flags for exactly that purpose.

>>> loc_dt = datetime(2002, 10, 27, 1, 30, 00)
>>> est_dt = eastern.localize(loc_dt, is_dst=True)
>>> edt_dt = eastern.localize(loc_dt, is_dst=False)
>>> print(est_dt.strftime(fmt) + ' / ' + edt_dt.strftime(fmt))
2002-10-27 01:30:00 EDT-0400 / 2002-10-27 01:30:00 EST-0500

https://pythonhosted.org/pytz/#problems-with-localtime
Michael Lewis in his book Boomerang details this hilariously: The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. I believe he said the effective tax rate is under 12%. RE tax he said basically nobody pays.
The GP's example of raising taxes might be surprisingly hard to refute.

For example, if the U.S. government's tax revenues were much lower in the 1960's, would they still have invaded Vietnam? Perhaps not entering Vietnam would have saved far more lives than are lost to domestic mass-shootings.

My main point is simply that causal relationships between policies and (various definitions of) harm can be highly speculative and messy.
The average CD-buyer spent less than that?

Given the amount of music I listen to, if I was to buy the singles or full albums I'd be paying significantly more. If I was to buy on iTunes for $1.99 each song that I wanted to listen to now, I would've paid a lot more money than I do now through the subscription model. As I am not limited on price whenever I decide to listen to different music.
Maybe it's just better diversified than its competitors, and it's only an underdog in each individual product category (except desktop OS, for now at least), and not as a whole.
Love the SR-71 and recently visited Kelly's gravesite when I found it was in the neighborhood.

However, the economics of never really made sense in regards to its utility. Only during the cold war could such a project be dragged into the realm of possibility.
Just going to add a caveat that most terrorists are not, in fact, mentally ill, and arguments of the form 'you'd have to be mentally ill to commit this sort of violence' stigmatize mentally ill people without having any foundation in fact. They're often advanced by people who are unfamiliar with political violence and don't like discussing it.

Here's a decent and current introductory article on the topic: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-link-terrorism-mental...
Texas: Don’t Let the Legislature Gut Your State’s Free Speech Laws
The GPL nevee had much lo e for those who where stuck in jobs to support their family's with reliable income. The day everyone could earn a living doing os work, most software companies would cease to be.

Yet they hide behind a preacher who never stepped into the misery mill himself. You are on the soap box against borders while we mortals must play papers please.
>Nebraska had (as of December 2016) 11 counties without a lawyer[0].

A court-appointed attorney is a constitutional right (6th amendment). The government guarantees you will have the option of legal representation if accused of a crime, and you can take it all the way to the Supreme Court if you don't get that.

>In California, when immigrant labor started getting deported, celery farmers kept increasing wages to attract new labor, and even after more than doubling their wages, couldn't get enough people to pick all the celery.

Then wages weren't high enough. It really is that simple. And if the farmer can't get anyone to buy the celery priced high enough to support the costs of labor, then he shifts away from labor intensive crops, or outsources the crops, which is exactly what the article says he did. This is a healthy functioning market, responding to supply and demand pressures. And $$$ awaits the man or woman who invents a cheaper way to harvest celery at lower labor costs.
PhD in 2012, Theoretical high energy particle physics.

Now I work optimizing fantasy sports teams and building websites that display betting lines. Don't even like sports and I have no idea what anyone in the office is talking about, but they are paying a lot for me to put buttons on their website I guess. Leaves me a bunch of room for my hobbies. Offered to do some actual math, maybe personalization algos or some AI stuff. Backtesting automation to determine if our data is at all valid that we're selling?

Really just need these buttons on the site is all.
"We don't know what we want to know, but we have a vague sense that if we knew we would benefit from knowing it."
Australian influencer marketing startup Tribe raises $7.5M; eyes US expansion
Right, but Amazon and Google are arguably better than them at SaaS. AWS is second to none for cloud hosting, and Google is second to none for AI.
...where "idiots" here means "people who aren't as enlightened as we are."

C'mon, if you go with an open mind into the serious problems with vaccination safety, you come away with serious questions. As least I do, and I'm part of the usual Ivy-educated CS crowd around here...
I believe that with network effects far more pervasive as things move online, monopoly/competition law needs to play a greater role. The basic idea is that any party that controls more than (TBD) percent of a significant market/distribution channel/medium/etc. (significance by total $, total # of users, etc., TBD) loses the right of a small, private party to unilaterally ban users.

If you create a FaceBook competitor, identical in every way except dozens of other users instead of hundreds of millions, it would not be a realistic alternative. Likewise for Twitter, or real estate listing services, and a growing number of other things where it's not the tech so much as the other users.

When network effects dominate, as is so common online, and users gradually lose the realistic ability to just switch to a different service with terms they like more, service providers must also lose the ability to impose any terms THEY like and to refuse service to users. What they can charge, who they can ban, etc., should become matters governed by regulators.
Filming the Speed of Light at 10T FPS
I'm not sure whether or not that is true, but "date" is very much a human/legal fiction.

Someone could be born before you, yet you have an earlier birthdate than them.
You're re-contextualizing parent's statement and thereby changing it's meaning. That's unfair and dishonest.
The USSR pilot claims:

“Had the spy plane violated Soviet airspace, a live missile launch would have been carried out. There was no practically chance the aircraft could avoid an R-33 missile.”
Reminds me of this classic Almost Live segment about the 425 area code switch over: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V9jlo4Ht2YA

At the end, an east side Bellevue woman snobbishly complains about 425 containing Renton.
There is no non-violent component of white nationalism. It advocates the extermination of non-white people. If you think otherwise you are either a white nationalist or seriously misinformed.
All the SQL databases with which I'm familiar support large string columns. What's the downside to just stuffing your schema-less or volatile-schema data in one of those?
I feel like a basic requirement for a plane would be that it can maintain its altitude, so no?
This was a joy to read, I am getting goosebumps and this feeling running down the spine when we as humans do something extraordinary. Truly extraordinary.
> I've heard and observed that the Ph.D teaches you one crucial skill - how to take a vaguely defined research problem that nobody has done before, where you're not even sure that a solution exists, and make tangible, rigorous progress on it.

I'm not convinced, or I should say my experience does not support this. I think it is more likely that those that already have that skill are the ones that pursue the Ph.D path.
I think the key point is the artist didn’t really have to do any promotion. Or spend on marketing.
India Tests Anti-Sattelite Missile
"Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts" by Annie Duke [1] is just that book. It emphasises that a bad result does not have to be the result of a bad decision.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35957157-thinking-in-bet...
What I learned from building an AI that generates porn
In earlier times, that meant that no newspaper
or printing press was required to print
everything sent their way. Today it's the
centralized websites that also don't have
this obligation.

...

You are not entitled to widespread
distribution. Never have been.

This sort of pointing-to-the-past-to-pave-the-future is disturbing to say the least. We don't apply the received wisdom of the past blindly to issues of the present much less the future.

All else being equal, the history of what was allowed to say (and what was not) in newspapers, radio or television is rife with examples of heavy handed editorializing, gate-keeper-ship, outright bias and favor and misguided attempts to selectively allow what truths are judged to be fit to be heard by the masses.

Those were the dark ages for the dissemination of information.

Do we really want to go back to those ages or even a shade resembling what was considered acceptable practices back then?

Heck, most of that stuff happens unimpeded in large parts of the world today, as I write this.

Do we want tell those countries and regions that its okay to sieve and favor what's allowed and what isn't in their public discourse, if a substantial majority of their populace finds it morally repugnant?

Won't those places and people, then apply their own standards of morality in that judgment, which could be diametrically opposite to ours?

Is this the example we want to set for the world to follow?
I think it's easy to ignore all the kids dead/suffering while talking about how nice it was for those that weren't. Kids today are SAFER than in the past - and we do things to bring that about. I loved riding in my grandparents car without seatbelts - I remember cheering them to slam on the brakes so we could fly forward. As fun as that was, giving that up is directly tied to saved lives.

Of course not everything is connected - such as the outside vs racism example you cite. But when people talk about "kids these days", they don't restrict their scope, so I didn't either.
I don't get what's unfortunate about it. Cloudflare is probably being upfront about their implementation suiting their needs; I think it's laudable and avoids bad blood in the future, should the goals diverge.

Given that WireGuard has been designed to be relatively simple, maybe multiple widely used implementations will make sure it stays that way.
Better headline:

However, 29 percent of older Americans had neither a pension nor any assets in a 401(k) or IRA account
> You are defending literal nazis. Their idea of speech is Christchurch.

This whole conversation centers on the relationship between speech and action. Equating the two will confuse the discussion.
Can you do declarative config in Kong without turning on DB-less?
“The ban worked” means something very specific in the context of one website, that does not generalize to reasonable public policy.

And yes, it borders on the tautology I pointed out before - banning content results in banned content. This fails to address the question: is banning content a good idea?
Not OP:

Good software engineers have options, if they're not working somewhere that offers FAANG money it's probably because they value things other than money such as a good mission, small team work environment, good management, etc.

As a rule, your company can't pay FAANG salaries, so if you want good engineers you need to sell them on the other aspects of working with/for you. There's simply no reason for them to take a bigger risk than they feel comfortable with on your company given the current market for strong engineers.

You may not like that, that's fair, but other CEOs will answer these questions and they're competing with you for that talent.
This is absolutely true.

As someone else pointed out, it didn't even make it out of the committee controlled by the ruling party, and certainly wouldn't have made it out of the Republican-controlled Senate.

This legislation would pass in a Democratic Congress and White House, but absolutely will not in a GOP-led government. Full stop.
I just realized I totally misread it. Now it makes sense.

I just can't do math apparently.
> rarely do more than one client application access a database

That has not been my experience!
If the definition of the web is "anything addressable via URI," then the definition of the web is no longer useful. I can imagine a URN scheme for every atom in the universe. Welcome to the web -- you're soaking in it!

More seriously, I think that -- if pressed -- I'd say that the identifiers are on the web, but the things are not. Other than that, I believe we would agree???

That said, the origin of this discussion is in relation to Google's launching of AMP for e-mail. The justification was that e-mails are on the web, so it's OK to use AMP to push them forward. A better viewpoint, though one I disagree with, relates AMP to being a better mode of HTML. (As opposed to one of the Web.)
> You're free to discriminate against someone due to the views they hold.

I'm pretty sure discriminating against people for their views on religion is illegal. Ditto for their political views.

It's the definition of bigotry.
Apple is underestimating the huge pain in the fucking ass it is to deal with Apple support. It's so painful that plenty of people would rather live with a shitty keyboard than dealing with the hassle of repairs, going without a computer, etc.

It is truly hard to keep a useful level of sensitivity to user feedback, especially when the above is the case.
But what exactly is "white nationalist content"? If I say something positive about Trump, will it already get me banned? What if I disagree with something a PoC says?

Of course FB as a private company is entitled to censor whatever they want.

In a general sense, I don't really understand the need, as usually in social networks like Facebook people only see the stuff they want to see. There are lots of tools to facilitate your own filter bubble, and people use them. So the worry that "ideology x is spreading via Facebook" is somewhat unfounded in my opinion.
This is really interesting project. I have closed the webpage at first, because I thought it is closed source, but then found your repository on a github.

I do not want to make some promo for other projects, but how you achieve trust with the signed list of fingerprints, is something similar I have read earlier there: https://tech.firstlook.media/keylist-rfc-explainer

Interesting prioject, will be watching it!
Needs to be proofread.
I find so much good music on Discover Weekly. It’s one of the big reasons I stick with Spotify. I’ve tried all of the other services but none of them come close. And I am fully in the Apple ecosystem but Apples recommendations are not even close to Spotify.
I was listening to Vocal Trace for a long time. Most commercial services might have the studio albums, but the DJ mixes are better IMHO, and I've been listening to Digitally Imported streams for nearly 20 years at this point, so I'm used to their curation [1]. Lately, I've been listening to their Synthwave channel; I don't know how widely that music is distributed, it's basically new music in the style of 80s synth and video game music (the reddit community is r/outrun); I'd guess this could be found pretty easily on Spotify/others, since it's all originals and most likely the artists are submitting it everywhere.

[1] https://www.di.fm/vocaltrance
would be cool to see this for BERT or any of these new language models...cool stuff anyway
I'm quite sure that the President and CLO of Microsoft who said that understands exactly what he said. "More" in context means more than they're doing now. Not "do more than a lemonade stand that made $200 last quarter," which no shit, they're doing already.
I dig the simplicity, i would give it a try with a small project.
Giving employees a $1200 higher salary would not lead to an article in techcrunch on hacker news.
You think “both sides” is somehow unclear as to what is meant by “both”?

Let me thank god I’m not your manager.
The proper question is: what's your threat model?

I use signal to chat with my wife. I'm glad it offers good enough protection that my country's secret service is whining endlessly that it can't get in. I'm glad our inappropriate jokes don't easily become public.

At the same time, I'm sure that a determined and competent adversary could compromise my phone without needing to break signal's encryption or engineer fairly sophisticated mitm attacks.

I'm fine with that level of security, and don't want a more annoying UI when a device is reset. Because even with the current setup, the chat protocol isn't the weakest link anymore.
They shouldn't conform to local regulations that are contrary to their publicly stated company ideals. One way to do so is to not do business in countries where it's impossible to conform.
I think the discussions here are missing a critical point. Just like those who mention that their colleague or friend who only has a BS degree or only graduated from high school are able to run circles around those with PhDs, there's a vary level of PhDs as well.

PhD means you've had and accomplished that formalized level of training. There are those who formalized training works very well for, there are also those who it's just not a good fit. That's fine. Just like there's a varying standard and quality of people around in this world, there's a varying standard and quality of people in PhD programs. Just by having a PhD degree simply states that you've gone through the program and learn how to do research. There's a major difference between how academia approaches a problem and how the industry approaches a problem, but what I've understood is that PhDs (in engineering) know how to expand and innovate in a much easier and more structured way than those in industry.

When generalized, most research I find in the industry is mostly "look I changed this thing and it's improved accuracy this bit more in my use scenario!" It's a bit less common to find papers or research done (Engineering-wise) in the industry that fully understands the benefits and limitations of the method improved upon, instead it's mostly "see, here I did it and now try it on your own and see if it works for you!".

All tools and methods can be improved upon or all models are inherently incorrect. I want to know the proper "surface area" that the method can be applied to and what the proper parameters are. Too many times (especially with some international papers) I've seen methods applied to problems that had to be "shimmied in" to make it work. It's like using pastebin.com as a CDN to store your ASCII data of a 3D model for your game (seriously, I've seen this happen...). I mean, it's not the right tool, that's not how it's supposed to be used, but I guess ok?

Source: I'm getting my PhD in engineering in Massachusetts. I've also co-founded a startup and am currently going through another similar experience right now with a "project" that we'll also be transitioning into a product. PhD is something I wanted after seeing what's in the industry.
The pilot also claims the lock was from 120km, which is the maximum range of the R-33 at the time, so I'm a bit dubious of the idea without a practical demonstration.

I do suspect the "surround from all directions" approach detailed later would've worked, but that's why we moved off to stealth and satellites.
You could move between company towns just like you can move between digital platforms. In fact moving from Facebook to another platform is probably more difficult than moving to a different company town, given the fact alone that there are maybe less than a handful of competitors, if at all.

Facebook really is nothing else than a company town of the digital space, or to put it even more strongly, facebook is almost the equivalent of a digital nation state, with its own market, its own rule of conduct, its own laws and contracts and so on.

To circumvent the speech issue by acting as if Facebook is your neighbours mom and pop business completely distorts the nature and influence it has over everyone's life, and the amount of hardship you encounter if you're forbidden from speaking on its platform.
I re-read the "air speed check" story every time it's posted. It never gets old.
What does that even mean? Like last I checked a whole big chunk of the world may have gone to war for a few years over the subject of, "Nazis are bad."

Kicking them off Facebook isn't anywhere close to that large of a response.
And it is not very good. His black and white is so much better.
I don’t think we will in the US. We are too self hating right now.

There was a story where Trump basically tried to get NASA to try and do a manned mars mission within 10 years. He said he’d offer them an unlimited budget. They said no.

Now, feasibility of any of this aside: that just depresses me more than anything I’d heard in a long while. You won’t even try? C’mon! What happened to “we are doing it not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard”? The mentality that we can do literally anything we put our minds to?

Look at the way that people want to vilify Elon Musk. Here’s a guy that embodies everything I grew believing was the American spirit, and apparently that makes him a bad guy. So sad.