skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience at DeskHub in Scottsdale, AZ wasn't great. There are a few larger teams that rent portions of the open co-working area. Those teams tend to be much louder than individuals working there, and they have a culture that permits F-bombs in casual conversation. I have a standup every morning and talk to clients briefly throughout the day, so I would have to find a quiet place for that stuff.

They have 6 or so conference rooms of various sizes you can use. The agreement you sign says you get so many units of conference room use per month, but it's not enforced. They tell you verbally it's unlimited as long as you don't abuse it. The practical result of this is that a few people camp out in the conference rooms all day. The staff, instead of confronting the abusers directly, just sends weekly emails to all users reminding them that conference rooms are not private offices. With no incentive to change their behavior, the conference room campers keep on camping.

I lasted almost a year, but now I'm back to the home office with occasional trips to a cafe down the street when I need to get out of the house.
Then the government threaten to sue, many will compel.
If the government say they will get 5 year jail for telling anybody, how can they get help?

Remember AU have no bill of rights.
Usually halvenings cause a subsequent boost to the price per Bitcoin.
As a blind person I'm going to have to pretty strongly disagree with this. A vast majority of the voices I hear do in fact read as male or female even without visual indicators.
Great photo at the top. Replace the computer monitors in the photo with sewing machines, and you have my perfect idea of a sweatshop.

No wonder I quit and started my own firm. I get hives just thinking about that.
Making new A-10s wouldn't be cheap. The newest ones are 35 years old.

The company that built them shuttered 16 years ago.
> It will end up being slightly less than 21M

Or a lot less. People lose their keys all the time, die mispay.
The sensor doesn't appear to measure particulate matter, so I'd take the air quality reading with a large grain of salt.
Do you have any evidence for these statements?

In my experience, it's generally the budget-strapped universities that choose to replace tenure-track professors with adjuncts.

On the other hand, private universities with very large endowments tend to be prestigious and part of maintaining this prestige means hiring tenure-track professors to teach undergraduates, mentor graduate students, and to do research.
The Army does have some fixed wing aircraft, so it's not without precedent. And in any event I figured if the Army loved the A-10 so much they could call the Air Force's bluff and ask Congress to give them a mandate.

What all the evidence suggests to me is that there's overwhelming consensus at the Pentagon to scrap the A-10. Congress, the defense media, and anecdotally every ground trooper from Iraq and Afghanistan disagree, but there you have it.
If someone is threatening to commit violence, there are already perfectly effective legal ways of dealing with it. If anything, if you do deplatform them , noticing that speech becomes significantly harder, while they become more radicalized (and if Zuckerberg did not exist, anti-semites would have had to invent him; but he does exist).

To go back to the original article, though, it is interesting that they are banning white nationalist content. Does it mean that any other nationalist content is just fine. And can I start an Even[0] separatist movement on FB, calling for eradication of the whitey? We'll start with Russians, of course, but after them we're coming for you! /s

If I didn't have better things to do, a conspiracy theory of FB (they did elect Trump, as everybody clearly knows) being in cahoots with Stormfront and specifically calling out whites to stir resentment almost writes itself here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evens
Why not give participants a fitbit or a smart watch to monitor their sleep quality? Are they just not accurate enough at the moment?
I’m sorry to question your motives. Somehow I horribly misread the tone of your comment the first time around.
They don't understand technology.
But they know law -- and how to abuse them.
I've had long discussions with techie friends about this, and none of us can see a way that the government could actually force a dev to do anything in a way that doesn't immediately tip off the rest of the team.

I mean, your code is stored in a shared repo, right? So pushing a commit with the government-mandated changes to the shared repo is "informing others". But not pushing it means it'll never get to Prod.

Most places review code commits routinely, so how is a dev supposed to get their government-mandated changes into Prod without anyone seeing them?

If your Australian co-worker stops pushing their commits to the repo and starts trying to make changes to Prod without going through review, it's also a strong signal that something might be going on here...

In fact, if this legislation posed any kind of threat to your business, then your software development processes are broken and you're vulnerable to a ton of other, more likely, threats.

The legislation was written by a shower of technically-incompetent career politicians, with absolutely zero understanding of (or interest in) how software development works. This is the same mob of idiots of pronounced "the laws of mathematics are all very well, but we're in Australia so we obey Australian laws" when discussing their plans to break cryptography.

It's unenforceable, ridiculous, and will get changed before it ever gets used.

But as a startup tech co-founder dealing with encrypted documents, and an Australian citizen, I'm not planning to launch in Australia until it's fixed, and leaving Australia until it's fixed.
STOVL aircraft including the F-35B never hover during normal operations except for the last few seconds before landing. It burns too much fuel, and depending on how much weight the aircraft is carrying (fuel plus ordnance) there may not even be enough thrust available.
>The way I see this expressing itself is that older engineers who are up front about being ok with more median salaries tend to get hired.

But how do you communicate that you're OK with a merely average salary? Just saying it outright sounds awkward and goes against every piece of advice I've seen.

You need to communicate it before the interview, too, because I see many, many people here on HN who say they avoid even interviewing older people because they assume they will require more money.
They would be a lot more useful if they were more straighforward and honest.

Just give me "Chrome 68" instead of "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36"
> The safe harbor protections from copyright violations for user uploads require neutrality in content hosting, because pre-approval implies you must also vet copyright.

Is this a 'A therefore B' thing due to the way the laws are written, or is this explicitly called out someplace?

> The government recognized this about internet services, and granted them immunity to copyright related suits in exchange for supporting the American value of free speech on their platforms. (This is a law.)

I did a bit of looking (though not a lot) to try and find some sources on this but I wasn't able to really uncover anything that supports this.

Do you have any source available? I'm interested in reading into this idea further, I find it rather fascinating.
"Let’s go all the way back to 1996 and talk about Section 230. I think historians are completely in agreement that this is the law that made the internet what it is today.

----

We thought it was going to be helpful. We never realized it was going to be the linchpin to generating investment in social media. We envisioned that the law would be both a sword and a shield. A shield so that you could have this opportunity, for particularly small and enterprising operations to secure capital, and then a sword [by allowing them to moderate without facing liability over the practice], which said you’ve got to police your platforms. And what was clear during the 2016 election and the succeeding events surrounding Facebook, is that technology companies used one part of what we envisioned, the shield, but really sat on their hands with respect to the sword, and wouldn’t police their platforms."

- Ron Wyden on Section 230

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17606974/oregon-senator-r...

I see a lot of people in this thread expressing the view that by moderating their content Facebook is becoming responsible for it. To the extent that's true under the law, it's not necessarily a great idea. Certainly the intent from a lawmaking perspective when some of the underlying framework was written is that this wouldn't be the case. You could moderate and remove bad actors from your platform without fearing legal persecution for it.
I hate to sound mean spirited, but I have a hard time being sympathetic to intelligent well educated people who chose to pursue careers that obviously don't pay well. If you like being on college campus, teaching, and don't care about money - hey, that's fantastic. More power to you. Be an adjunct professor. If you do care about money - think about a different career.

I just don't get why this is a problem. You chose to study mideval literature. Chose to get a PhD in it. Chose to be an adjunct professor. Kept choosing to keep doing it, etc. If it's a bad job, stop doing it.
When I was working in a coworking space it absolutely was.

The tech population is very transient, or at least it feels that way to me. It seems that everyone is from out of town or an immigrant.

When I moved after university to start work in another city, I didn't know anyone else in my new city. The coworking space I worked in, with a whole variety of different companies (most of them non-tech), was a great place for me to meet new people and make new friends.
> I know it's harsh, but if you have the brains to do a PhD in today's age, you have the brains to do a quick analysis on your prospects in academia.

Totally agree. For some folks, it's just an easy way to defer making other tough decisions, plus it's prestigious, plus there's optimism bias.

And I think students naively believe that since universities create PhDs and hire them, they would not purposely create an oversupply of PhD grads. This feeling that universities are acting responsibly is probably bolstered by the fact that universities are nonprofits.
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Simplifying deployment of multiple Kubernetes clusters
Nice! Lots of really practical advice.

I wish I'd been given that advice before I wrote a compiler. Back then, the best advice was in Richard Bornat's Understanding and Writing Compilers and the dragon book - useful, but not a walkthrough.
It's not like curl can't easily spoof a user agent either.
> Should we consider white supremacist recruiting materials

How do we define "white supremacist recruiting materials? A significant number of people have said to me, un-ironically, that opposition to immigration is an instance of white supremacist speech. Same with opposition to affirmative action (they even called a crowd full of mostly Asians opposing affirmative action white supremacy in action). And I live in Bay Area, same place where Facebook is headquartered. That's the problem with trying to define ideological blacklists. Once you put a category onto the blacklist, everyone will try to push their political opponents into that category. This is how you get things like "learn to code" becoming a ban-worth offense (but only when directed to journalists).

Nowhere on the page linked in the original post does Facebook define "white nationalism" or "white separatism".
Fathers of the Deep Learning Revolution Receive ACM Turing Award
For parent commenter, or anyone else interested, I really liked this in-depth interview with Major Dave Burke (Marine Corps pilot, Top Gun instructor, and Forward Air Controller). Maybe you will like it too...

http://jockopodcast.com/2017/04/05/69-the-real-top-gun-battl...
A woman who doesn't feel pain
I got As in my pre-college math courses but I don't think I breezed through them. My schooling had no separate trig course, it went algebra, geometry, intermediate algebra, and calculus. Various pre- or honors versions. Since the BC exam covers quite a bit more material than the AB, my school teacher required those interested in it to take pre-calculus Honors first which was mostly about shoring up any gaps in previous studies while getting a foothold on Calculus AB material near the end. I think that extra prep made a huge difference in my performance, along with the teacher himself and an insistence on memorizing a lot of things to not be dependent on a rule sheet and getting an intuition for solving problems that even the TI-89 wouldn't help much with.
I would venture to say that 90% of what doctors learn in med school does not get outdated. That 10% that changes, at least for non-research doctors, is just about new treatments, new drugs, new protocols and algorithms for certain diagnoses, especially the ones that weren't treatable to begin with. A doctor in her 20's will treat 80% of the diseases in the same way when she's 70. Cognitive decline will not make a doctor less effective. Crystallized intelligence is valued.

The theory that you learn as you work towards your CS degree does not get outdated either, but most of what you use in the average software engineering job is not about theory. It requires knowing the latest languages, frameworks, and practices. These things change every six months. Even if you are not moving to a new language, the language is evolving. Even if you keep using the same framework, the API will change. Crystallized intelligence here is mostly useless.
Having a based company in China is not really a good idea unless you have a great market in China. You have to treat data seriously (not the privacy part, but the censorship and available-for-government-to-read part, like Russia).

Things like Apple saving data of mainland China Apple IDs in GZData concerned a lot of people.

[EDIT: Typo fix]
wow that border lines on age discrimination
No! The answer is an unequivocal “No“, without any „but“s or anything like that. The fix does not fix the problem, it is not even a fix, just a wrong code change that sets out to do something but does not achieve it.

Answering „yes“ is a lie here. This is different from a fix that fixes the problem in an ugly way, where „yes, but...“ is applicable.
Australia's public image of being a "larrikin" place - all beer on the beach and shrimp on the barbie, is at odds with its incredibly authoritarian attitudes. I'm always amazed at Aussie enthusiasm for the "smack of firm government" and their hatred of anyone breaking the rules.
ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute; Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute, and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto; and LeCun is Professor at New York University and VP and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook.
Unauthorised disclosure of information about a notice (or gained from a notice) is punishable with 5 years imprisonment -- which means that if you're suspected of being a whistleblower they can use this new legislation against you too (anything punishable with over 3 years imprisonment can be investigated in this fashion).

I wouldn't risk it. There are ways to legally provide aggregated information about the number of notices received in a 6-month period.

Also, talk to your representative and explain your concerns and push for it to be scrapped (though when I talked to the Labor senators' staffers they brushed me off and said that I wasn't interested in being informed when I disagreed with their party line). Federal elections are coming up, they're more likely to at least pretend to listen to you.
I'd argue the opposite.

Vanilla CS theory assumes a very simple system model for the measurement process (ie, linear measurement) and shows that with a few assumptions you need far fewer measurements than you might expect. This by itself is a valuable observation.

However, I'm less impressed with CS as a practical tool because in many realistic systems the measurement process is nonlinear and difficult to model. That is, the desired system state you're trying to infer is some nonlinear function of the experimentally measured quantities.

I think the best instruments of the future will use CS ideas to motivate the use of an appropriate sensor domain to reduce the number of measurements required. But that actual computational reconstructions of system state (ie, inference) will be done with a nonlinear differentiable model which can be optimized using a data driven approach and with ML-like tools.

In addition to the benefit of allowing nonlinearities, this approach gives you a lot of freedom to optimize the computational complexity of the reconstruction (ie, complexity of the system model) vs accuracy of the results.
Could be. Although I bet it would be just as surprising (and in the same way) to find out how much activity in the "conventional" financial system is due to speculation.
I work on developing the ground system software that process scientific satellite data for a space physics mission at NASA. They give us a lot of freedom to balance emerging techniques from data-intensive computing backends (things like containers, queuing systems, worker pools) with some fairly sophistical numerical algorithms and statistical learning techniques. It is a challenging and rewarding blend of hardware engineering, software engineering, mathematics, and science. The experience of some of the people I work with is amazing.
This is awesome. My computer shouldn't need a gender. It's a computer.
From https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/zju/math/planar.html

connecting utilities (electricity, water, natural gas) to houses. If we can keep from crossing those lines, it will be safer and easier to install.

Connecting components on a circuit board: the connections on a circuit board cannot cross. If we can connect them without resorting to another layer of traces, it will be cheaper to produce.

Subway system: if subway lines need to cross, we've got some serious engineering to do.

Also:

The study of two-dimensional images often results in problems related to
planar graphs, as does the solution of many problems on the two-dimensional surface of our earth.
Many natural three-dimensional graphs arise in scientific and engineering problems. These often
come from well-shaped meshes, which share many properties with planar graphs.
My last year high school math class had this approach, and it was a regular math course taken by every student.

Same thing at university, in a CS degree. Freshman Calculus taught at a level somewhere between Spivak and Rudin. In fact, both books where on the official course bibliography.

All this took place in a fairly big EU country, ~10 years ago.
What is your criteria for size of fish? Enron's market cap was $60 Billion.
Black-Box Testing a Node.js Web API
My advice would be, interview PhDs extensively and resist the urge to hire them into senior positions “just because” (as it feels like some of my past jobs were doing).

I say “interview carefully” to avoid generalizing, as there certainly can be PhDs that are excellent. It would be wrong however to assume you can glaze over any lack of experience as if a PhD is some special sign of brilliance; frankly, they may suck.

I have seen “PhDs” flounder worse than any new grad, and have basic problems with critical skills like programming. It is frustrating, as you see the slow-motion failures generated when people are given lots of control without really having spent a significant amount of time working in teams or building skills, etc. or even communicating.
Your humor is too sophisticated for us...
This document was written towards one end of my life. I wonder if I look as dated as it does.
> And yet, all of the routers are not audited, and I presume you believe in the security of some applications that use them.

Why do you presume that? I certainly don't believe in the security of many applications that I use. I generally try to avoid putting any damaging information into them though.
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this is peak pettiness
Maybe tenured professors nearing retirement are lazy, but a basic requirement of getting tenure is working at least as hard and usually harder than all your peers. At a certain level, everyone's smart and the only differentiator is hard work and luck.
Bitcoin is an alternative currency. It will not need to onboard 7 billion people. 500 million is quite ok.

Even if crypto were were to gain mass adoption it weight not be btc in it's current form that wins that lottery.
When there's an opportunity for deception to increase margins, I find these types of stores decent so long as they detect that you are not ignorant.
Sadly, the SE is dead. The best you can hope for is that there are is a little refurbished stock available in a usable configuration, but that chance is already slim and dwindling.
In fairness every country uses local coordinate reference systems so transforming between those coordinates and lat/lon is a totally normal thing to do.
IDK, part of me feels like there's too high of a chance of Aurora being confused for a ICBM reentry. And similarly, the same interceptor missiles used for hypersonic payloads like that would be effective against it. And the countries that don't have nukes and anti-nuke infrastructure, we just fly drones over with relative impunity. So I legitimately don't see the niche where they make more sense than something else that's public.

That being said, the Space Shuttle didn't really make sense on it's face either and we built it, so I could def be wrong.
Most jobs don’t have tenure.
2010+ version is that real programmers don't use JavaScript. After all, it's a scripting language—don't try to deny it, there's "script" right there in the name—and scripting languages are not real programming languages; it is known.
That's a lot of words to type to say, "I support Nazis being able to openly operate and recruit on Facebook."
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