skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To elaborate… the pilots' union doesn't want the airlines shifting jobs to lower paying affiliate airlines, so their contracts restrict the sorts of planes which can be used with the affiliates.

Covered in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_clause
Just curious: Why do you write "GIT" in all-caps when it's not an acronym or initialism?
You have to add a flag to get off of the LTS brach, Maybe '-d"? Both 16.04 and 180.04 are LTS. the next LTS will be 20.04
The filed complaint is talking about the area outside the port that would be "affected" by the light rail.
Let robots learn like a child
God move for pocket cube is 14, how to generate all positions and solve the cube : https://en.jeffprod.com/blog/2017/solving-a-rubik-s-pocket-c...
I'm not sure what the law currently is, but it seems that intent shouldn't really matter that much here.
Can We Capture Energy from a Hurricane? (2016)
I use Datagrip every day and SQLGate looks very similar.
We are doing autonomous carts that learn to ride themselves. Why do we need more sensors and rules to achieve autonomy? Let robots learn like a child.

I tried to collect my vision in one article and I will be grateful to your feedback on medium. We are happy to talk with those of you who are working on self-driving as well.
At the risk of sounding like pissing in the fish pond, my final year felt a lot like buffing. At this point you're not bad enough to get the boot but you can still be mediocre and pass because it's mostly networking.
Wasn't it right click?
> what does one do with a Political Science degree anyway?

It's a pretty common undergraduate degree for people going into graduate/professional education in public policy, public administration, and law, and more generally for people seeking to work either in or for groups seeking to influence the political and policy organs of government.

Though some of us just build computing systems.

Graduate degrees in political science may be less immediately relevant outside of the academy, but that's not really a change: it's not a field where most new developments have ever been quickly reduced from theory to practical application (which is mostly done by people policy/admin folks—the engineers and mechanics of government to the polisci scientists—drawing on the work of academics, not by political scientists themselves.)
Facebook now says its password leak affected ‘millions’ of Instagram users
I'm sure it's quite nice if you can make a living giving yoga courses to office slaves who work their asses off in open office cubicals in fear of being fired tomorrow for shitty money and so on....Yoga won't help them.
Atm shared block lists are still manual, but I'm hoping they'll become automated in the future...
While I won't claim this is unique to Go, I've had some similar good experiences cloning out various bits of Go for my own crazy purposes. The standard library and compiler are relatively clean code for what they are, and it's relatively easy for a pro developer to fork them temporarily like this, or pick up a standard library that almost does what you need and add what you need. I've forked encoding/json to add an attribute that collects "the rest" of the JSON attributes not automatically marshaled, both in and out. I've forked encoding/xml to add a variety of things I needed to write an XML sanitizer (in which you are concerned with things like "how long the attribute tag" is during parsing; it's too late to be presented with a 4 gigabyte attribute in the user code, it's already brought your server to its knees). I saved weeks by being able to start with a solid encoder/decoder backend and be able to follow it and bring it up to snuff, rather than start from scratch. A coworker forked crypto/tls because it was the easiest TLS implementation to break in deliberate ways to test for the various SSL vulnerabilities that have emerged over the years.

Of course I recommend this more as a last resort than the first thing you reach for, but it's a fantastic option to have in the arsenal, even if you don't reach for it often. I encourage people to at least consider it.
Where do you buy them and are there any models in particular that you would recommend?
>stop growing crops in excess of what is needed to feed themselves and sit on productive land like stone toads.

I see some of the same problems in housing. It seems every homeowner wants the value of their house to increase, and many times will lobby in such a manner that causes their home prices to increase significantly by limiting development. I've had people argue with me on Reddit that home values must continually increase or people will stop making homes?! The insanity required to believe that has become endemic in our society.
> and we should seriously evaluate / question if they really provide much actual value. It can seem like there is value there, but the end result might be far different than we think.

Also, who is getting the value. With many public-private "partnerships" like this, it doesn't seem like the general public is getting value out of it; rather, it's the parties involved in making the business deal. The government can be wined-and-dined with sales pitches, and then pat themselves on the back for "making the public safer". The companies get a lucrative deal from the government.

Smart things, like these cameras, gives the companies that operate them a blackbox to work with that impacts the public but is not accessible to the public. So now, a company that has a vested interest in themselves, has the government go-ahead to cast a net to make money from the public. What a great deal, right?

Even if companies and government promise they won't do anything malicious or unjust, how can we actually trust their word when the ability for a company to skew things in their favor is such a low barrier?

If I ask a valet, "You won't joyride my car?", and they say, "No", how much of a guarantee is it that they won't joyride? Maybe they don't do anything obvious that would throw off a red flag, like significantly deplete the fuel or run up the odometer, but they decide to redline the car to hear it VROOM or drag race it in a short stretch of a street. These little 'nothings' add up over time, or at least give the incentives to get bigger and bolder over time if nobody notices.

Who is to say a company with smart things, like these cameras, wouldn't decrease the capture time by a few milliseconds on their highest revenue intersection, or release an "erroneous update" that lowers the red light capture tolerances?

It's better to be less trusting of these "smart" business dealings than to openly invite the possibility for abuse right through the door.
> tech is so politically homogeneous

Tech culture is somewhat homogeneous, especially in LA and SF - but I certainly wouldn't say tech itself is homogenous.

I'm fairly extreme politically, as an anarcho-capitalist - though it's important to note that despite the "anarchist" root, I'm as peaceful a person as can be and my views are literally founded upon the premise that forcing others to do something is immoral. I'm also happy to discuss my philosophy and do so under my real name. If you search me, you'll find years of posts across multiple communities where I actively discuss my views and the views of others. It's enough of a part of my life that I've decided that I can never completely separate it from my profession life because it influences the way I think about the world so thoroughly. As a result, I've even been asked about it multiple times in job interviews.

I give the above as background; my point in it is to say that I've been approached privately by many people who are outside the mainstream orthodoxy of tech. Some want to say they approve of some parts of what I profess, others want to pit their ideas against mine in a private and safe way. Others still seem to just want to be able to admit to someone that they feel that they have to hide who they are at work.

There is absolutely something of a chilling effect on political speech in tech. One of the reasons it's so difficult to discuss is because the people who are made examples of seem to go one of two ways - they flee the scene of the controversy and try to minimize the impact of the controversy (e.g. Brenden Eich), or they embrace it and push hard in the opposite direction, which makes them end up being seen as skewing very hard to the extreme right (e.g. Andrew Torba).

I don't have data to support my assertion, but my experience leads me to believe that there are more right-wing people in tech than it appears, and that there is a significantly higher number of libertarians of all flavors in tech than the general population.
How superstitions spread
Sure, why not? It's not like most of the features are strongly tied to VS Code being a browser app. Implemented against a different platform they'd probably look different. Maybe a bit less shiny, but likely a bit more performant.
To generalize the problem (because, hey, I got a math degree): someone inside one specialization often doesn't know how to account for what another specialization represents in terms of the skills and capacities involved.

Which means to handle that case, you more or less have to learn to do it for them. Half of which means learning enough about the target specialization, half of which is a skill that has a lot in common with pitching a startup.
atom, git, vim, redis, memcached, mongodb
What happened to the xx.10 releases? They still do that?
This belongs everywhere.

If we can't sit down and have a civil discussion on a legal proceeding with impact at the highest levels of our government, we have bigger issues.

This isn't some trivial wardrobe malfunction political soap opera. This is the culmination of an investigation into one of the most destructively divisive Administrations in modern history. This has the potential to absolutely undermine the faith of a large swath of the American people in their government's ability to conduct business on their behalf without being absurdly vulnerable to outside interference.

This goes so far beyond merely being a partisan shot at Trump. Everyone should read this. Everyone should take a day to really sit down and absorb all the details in this report and ask themselves if there is any room in how they believe their country should operate for these findings to be considered a sign of the "healthy" operation of the system.

I'm floored to be quite honest. There are fundamental issues and questions raised by the underlying facts outlined in this report I'm not sure anyone has ever dreamed of needing to be asked.

Please, read it, don't try to suppress it. For once in your life, accept and honor your civic responsibility to be informed.
This is why they happily get my subscription dollars every month.
Google does not rely solely (or even primarily) on GPS for its location tracking. It also uses methods like triangulating based on what WiFi APs your device can see.
Yeah, I don't know enough about planes to say whether or not the C Series / A220 is good or competitive. That part seems almost secondary to the softer issues.

Bombardier put a lot of time and money into the development, and then way more money and way more time. And Quebec is clearly, lets say, highly interested in making sure that planes are built, and that some of them are made in Quebec.
You mean it wasn't in Ubuntu until now? I remember running it on Gentoo years ago. It was slow, but I was running on spinning disk with an AMD CPU.

I'm actually excited to try the new version.
Pretty generic, though I've ended up configuring it to launch in ~0.5 seconds: https://github.com/lynlevenick/dotfiles/tree/master/emacs/.e...
My wife and I have been gardening for around 15 years.

We spent a couple of years, maybe 5 or 7 years ago, trying straw bale gardens.

It was quite interesting. I would recommend giving it a try some time. You can do it even with just one bale. We did it with about 10-12 bales of oat straw from a farm we knew.

E.g., https://www.amazon.com/Straw-Bale-Gardens-Complete-Karsten/d... was the author of the book we used, though this seems to be an updated version to the one we used.

I prefer raised soil beds, but this straw bale style was quite enjoyable.
It's kind of amazing how well Google did without a first mover advantage here. MapQuest launched in 1996. Google Maps launched in 2005.
This was a really well written piece. I was expecting a typical caricature of anarchism, but was pleasantly surprised. It is interesting how much history is forgotten in the US left
In my experience, IBM’s support is excellent, bordering on fanatical. It’s just that their hardware (in this case, Spectrum Scale and Power9) are preposterously overpriced. Same for their software, if not more so.
It's unfortunate, exactly what happened to OKCupid. It used to focus on profile text and descriptions. It's gradual, because they don't want to scare all their users, but with each update it's becoming just a swipe left/right Tinder clone with focus on profile picture only.
Just get a masters in mathematics. If you end up teaching, there are way more mathematics openings than physics openings. Usually there are 0 physics openings.
Right, how many hours a day are people exposed to james bond movies versus exposure to social media?
I'm a season ticket holder (for Berkeley). When all the CTE stuff started coming out, I felt a bit guilty but not enough to cancel the tickets. Now I'm not sure how I feel. On the one hand, these kids are aware of the risks and choosing to play anyway. On the other hand, many of them are choosing to play because they come from depressed backgrounds with no other way of paying for or in some cases even getting into college, and football offers a chance to completely change their entire family's situation.

But then again, I was listening to a Freakonomics podcast where they interviewed someone who played football and then went on to get an MBA from Harvard and worked in the executive ranks of both the NFL and NBA.

He's well aware of the CTE risks, but when they asked him if he'd do it all again knowing what he knows now, he said he would still do it, because he grew up poor and now has multiple lifetimes of money. But he would never let his son play, because his son doesn't need to play to get out of a bad life situation like he did. He said it was a sacrifice he'd make again for the sake of his kids and his family. Do we want to deny people that chance to get out of poverty even though they have to knowingly risk their life? I honestly don't know because I didn't grow up poor.
Yep! I try to practice permaculture as much as possible. There's always more to do, but much of our garden is designed to be both aesthetically pleasing and edible, and we try to recycle back into it and support native insects where we can.
'Rent seeking' is a straw man. Of course everybody searches for opportunities yielding rent. Nobody wants to set up a business to see its profits competed away in 2 years. They'd prefer long term stable profits.

The real problem instead is unearned rent extraction. Lot of rent which is unethically taken away from workers and business is given to the extractors at the expense of those workers and businesses who provide it. Largely through taxes on labor, but also through increased prices.

There is no such thing as passive income without work. It's just that the profit is collected by someone else than who provided the labor.

Example 1. open source community building free stuff resulting in near trillion dollar valuations of cloud providers.

Example 2. taxes collected from labor (income and sales taxes) used for public works and new infrastructure resulting in increase of land and real estate value in vicinity of the new construction. Common with a new subway or highway systems.

Example 3. Communication, Pharma industry and other network systems. Any innovation funded by public money or other individuals can only benefit those who already operate the network infrastructure, because of the impossibility to compete with these established monopolies. Especially when regulations are set up to protect the incumbents from new entrants to their markets.

These cases illustrate not only redistribution of value from those who provide it to those who sit on it. It also shows that the goods these people helped to create then become even more expensive for them. The more of it they produce, the more expensive it gets - higher living rents, more expensive drugs, more expensive railroad services, etc.

This phenomenon is called the paradox of progress and poverty. You get it every time you set up the society in a way where the profits are extracted from the laborers and redistributed to the rentiers.

Blame the system I guess. Don't tax the workers, tax the rentiers collecting their results.
Would the segmented stack of the early Go implementations be helpful in such a case?
It depends on how well the problem is understood. If the problem is your standard MNIST dataset then sure it could very well be a waste of time to sit around and serialize your manual hyper param search. For any new datasets which may or may not be cleaned theres much to be learned from iterating on a very small subset of the data, at that small scale it's much easier to get a handle on the major failings, such as encoding the wrong things or weight explosion.
I'm just curious how many commenters in this thread have children themselves? It would be interesting to see a poll showing the split between parents/non-parents.
You're spot on. This model is based off a dictionary with scored words!

For the curious you can see the dictionary here: https://github.com/sloria/TextBlob/blob/eb08c120d364e9086467...

The package used is a pretty popular one called TextBlob. It is nifty for working with unlabeled data like we have with the HackerNews dataset.

We really focused our definition of saltiness around being a combination of (subjective + negative) comments.

We reduced the impact of (objective + negative) as we feel that criticism, while at times painful, if presented objectively isn't necessarily salty.

We built this model fast (1 week) and have since iterated this week into developing a Fine Tuned BERT model that we are training over a much broader set of toxicity, demographic, and polarity features. The training set is much larger and higher quality so we are expecting a large jump in precision upon deployment.

I hope the app gave you some good chuckles as you went around though. It's hard to explain how excited I felt when I saw pg_is_a_butt at the top of my pandas data frame the first time I processed the data.

It's doing a little bit right. :)
No, they haven't. This is a system to queue commits, not a simple CI setup. This problem only comes up when you start having contention due to commit volume in a monorepo (think thousands commits/day). This is only the 3rd one I've heard about.

> This paper introduces a change management system called
SubmitQueue that is responsible for continuous integration
of changes into the mainline at scale while always keeping the mainline green. Based on all possible outcomes of
pending changes, SubmitQueue constructs, and continuously
updates a speculation graph that uses a probabilistic model,
powered by logistic regression. The speculation graph allows
SubmitQueue to select builds that are most likely to succeed,
and speculatively execute them in parallel. Our system also
uses a scalable conflict analyzer that constructs a conflict
graph among pending changes. The conflict graph is then
used to (1) trim the speculation space to further improve the
likelihood of using remaining speculations, and (2) determine independent changes that can commit in parallel
I am actively working on a startup to encourage gardening for all the mentioned benefits. If someone wants to chat about it please reach out. Email in profile.
Colors and the emotions they evoke (with a focus on print marketing)
I use Windows 10 Pro with WSL.

Setting up WSL (Ubuntu 18.04) from scratch to be a tweaked out Vim / tmux environment involves running 1 Ansible command.

I also use Docker for Windows but configure WSL to connect to it. I have a bunch of real world projects in Flask, Rails and Phoenix running in this environment. Switching between all of them only takes seconds thanks to tmux's persistent sessions. I'm switching a lot too since I juggle a bunch of freelance and personal projects.

Overall I'm happy with the set up. The single workstation is responsible for full time development, audio / video editing and gaming.

An up to date list of all of the tools I use can be found here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/the-tools-i-use
The instant utility was essential to its massive popularity, it basically ushered in the new era for real-time Consumer mapping. Everything preceding it was clunky, slow and "turn based". I can't recall what the state of MapQuest was at the time, but it's unlikely it had the real-time UX or utility of Google Maps.

Was a real eye-opener of "so that's how you make Maps fast" at the time, just pre-render the entire world at multiple static zoom levels. Which wasn't an option (disk cost) for anyone developing their own in-house mapping Services at the time. For my next GEO project I did the next best thing and used their Google Maps API to change it to make map tile requests to our ArcGIS App which dynamically cached map tiles on the fly, so whilst it didn't pre-render all tiles, it provided a nice "Google Maps"-like UX for popular areas of our region.
MacOS + Brewfile (with cask & mas). Up and running in a few hours, almost fully automated.
... except in physics.
Yes, and it is annoying.

For finding stuff I use recoll. Not sure if baloo has also other uses.
Weak honey bee colonies may fail from cold exposure during shipping
The MRJ90 is only slightly bigger than the E175-E2 (92 pax in a 1-class configuration vs. 88 pax in the E175), so it wouldn't be crazy for the regional airlines to get some equipped in a lower-density configuration with 76 seats.
As Marc Andreessen memorably put it, Apple is valued "like a steel mill going out of business", with a PE massively lower than Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.
Most if this reads more like a "What new in Gnome". Well I don't like Gnome. If I don't plan on using Gnome, it because very hard to tell if I can use most of the new Ubuntu feature, or if they are essentially Gnome features.
Flex cable used for the mainboard-to-screen connection in Nintendo's DS was a major failure point. It was very tricky to replace (for me); but that did make for many cheap devices that just needed a small repair.
Great read, so a key takeway would be to make sure to prime the connection pool and also re-use it. Isn't re-using goroutines a bit of an anti-pattern though?
I have a Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics. Currently making ~300k/yr in as a software engineer working at a standard software company.

My education has very little relevance to my field of work. But Engineering Physics was so comprehensive, it gives you the ability to problem-solve on a whole other level. And that is much more valuable to employeers than the actual content of your degree.
Thanks, but nope that's not the issue, I've already done both. It's just failing to do anything for some reason.

$ do-release-upgrade -p -c
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
New release '18.10' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is. I spend much of my life in emacs and it has a very similar thing called the kill-ring.
What user do, or should do, isn't really a part of this argument. This is about Facebook violating agreements they made with governments or them violating laws. This is a subject of public prosecution. How users should respond is a different matter.
It may not be the pain of violence that was more effective a deterrent than the pain of social ostracism, which bubbles and anonymity prevent.