skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I ask candidates to tell me about something they created they are proud of, and why.

Never be proud of anything that you created - since it probably is not of "top of the world quality". Even in the rare case that it is - it is very likely that even "top of the world" can still be improved.
Chromium is to blame not Electron. Electron is “just” Chromium + Node.
Agreed, I'm not particularly convinced that socially speaking its a good thing. But the fact that you have that stability for that long is impressive.
> Wait, really? They still make these? People still use them?

Mandated by the US government so yes, lots of people use them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
Somewhat incidentally, I was watching a Wisecrack episode on the philosophy of Tolkien which seemed to imply that his middle-earth universe was meant to be read as preceding our own history [0]. Following in that vein, I wonder what a high fantasy story that used prehistoric motifs would be like. Not a sci-fi story, actual fantasy. Instead of a high fantasy with elves and hobbits, maybe one with neanderthals and cro-magnons, but show them as having advanced, competing civilizations to homo sapiens. Maybe instead of increasing technical progress, we see primitive technologies evolve into living things like plants and animals. "Every sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature" as someone once wrote. Idk, I guess this doesn't add to the discussion, but it's stimulating to say the least.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-sTbaH-aA0
> there is essentially fully programmable type configurations like Jenkins Pipeline Groovy `Jenkinsfile`, which can be a nightmare, too. I think it is tough to find a sweet spot between making it configurable and expressive for users while retaining a low barrier of entry and not turning the configuration into a complete program itself.

Nowadays, Jenkins pipelines can be configured in either the Jenkins-provided "Declarative Syntax" [1] or the Apache Groovy-based "Scripted Syntax", with the Declarative Syntax used as the default for examples on the Jenkins website. I guess they've found the best way to not have users turn the configuration into a complete program is to provide declarative syntax only in the default option. It's good to see Kustomize is built with this in mind, too.

[1]: https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/syntax/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694077
I'm proposing we don't accept higher taxes and/or universal health care as foregone conclusions. I think we can do better than just sitting here on hacker news and smugly mocking those who "don't get it."
Don't forget that sea levels have risen some 120 meters since the end of the last ice age. Given that civilizations tend to form close to the ocean, most archeological evidence from tens of millennia ago, if such existed, would be under water.

http://theconversation.com/ancient-aboriginal-stories-preser...
On the other hand, imagine if you asked a programmer to write some novel code and they said "sorry, I can't. There was no Ruby gem or SO answer for this so I don't know how"
Fast newton's method for neural nets, with finite difference
I'll say that some dentists are good at nerve blocks and others are not. Bupivacaine takes time to work and some dentists don't allow it to take its proper time. But if you have a local anesthetic properly infiltrating the nerve, and given the time to work, you will have no sensation.
As does Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley.
https://surveillancevalley.com/

And I realize anti-establishment innuendo is taboo here, but if yc is focused on bringing forth more products and services to the world, then doing so without understanding what things the world may honestly want or need, without some pretext of empathy for the source of those wants and needs, is as reprehensible as it is ineffective. When nobody today is satisfied, to the extent the richest man Bezos feels the need to upgrade his life partner, then we are not doing ourselves any justice in thinking technology can either save or replace dying virtue.
It's "why should I hire you, over anyone else?"

Given two candidates for a Phd, which do you accept:

- the one who needs a Phd because that earns more money (duh!)
- the one who has been obsessed with X for years, did research into X, has burning questions and wants to dedicate some years to answering them, and found your place to have the researchers who publish the most relevant, interesting and insightful papers over the last few years.

I ought not need to find whatever product/service/market they're doing/in inspiring - I should just want to do it for the pay offered.

You don't need to find it interesting. But if another candidate will do it for the pay offered, /and also/ likes the product and has a clear plan for their life, expect them to get the job instead of you.

And, expect you'd do better if you /did/ find a job offering where you were also interested and motivated.
He was even made admin just over a week ago :-/.

https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-our-new-moderators-and...
If you're using a Vault system, it's also relatively easy and well documented to use Vault for this process. There's two components, which is the OTP configuration of Vault itself:

https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/ssh/one-time-ssh-pa...

You also have to configure the servers to support Vault, using their PAM integration:

https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-ssh-helper
There are plenty of examples of leftists not being protectionist. The Girondins of revolutionary France were very pro free market, something that lost them a lot of support among the starving sans culottes. The more radical Mountain factions appear to have mostly supported protectionist measures, namely maximum prices, largely out of the need to stop the mobs of Paris from literally storming the legislative halls. The moment the parisians believed that the maximum didn’t work, they were dropped.
Is this some new thing making rounds on the internet? Airplanes account for 5% of all CO2 emissions, and only a fraction of that is individuals flying. The average American would have to take a dozen New York-Tokyo flights per year to even double their carbon footprint.

I assume you’ve addressed more important sources of carbon emissions, such as moving to a state that doesn’t require heating in the winter or AC in the summer. (And it goes beyond saying that you don’t use Amazon prime or buy anything shipped air freight.)
That article is about a different process, inhalation anesthetic, rather than local (nerve-blocking,depolarizing) anesthetic.
What are you “getting away with” that makes a 20% discount off market rates acceptable?
Serious question to the author: Can we know how many hires you've made that you're happy about? what is your interviewing process like?
This is as useless as art, which is to say it appeals to a need not readily apparent to people not familiar with the culture.
I always chuckle (and wonder at the veracity) when I find stuff like this: http://www.s8int.com/page8.html

It makes me wonder if the Ancient Aliens guy might be partially right.
IIRC it's becoming illegal to ask about current salary.

IMHO it should be irrelevant. The question is, what is the market rate for someone w/ your skills and experience?
Here's my tetris copy: http://wolandbros.com/tetris/

Both the game and the source are much more minimal, it's very easy to customise the rules. You can see the source here: https://github.com/gunn/tetris/blob/master/src/store.js
Yes, I meant basis. My point still stands: so what?
Not saying these aren't important, but you can implement these features once you've got a nice API working. You can't easily retrofit a nice API into an existing project with lots of features. So maybe they chose the right way.
It’s an observable reality that all gains in income by the unlanded class are captured by the landed class in the form of rents. There is hysteresis, so in the short term it can appear the landlord class is losing ground, but it’s just an illusion and they always catch up eventually.

Moral: if you have significant financial assets and no real property and you want to provide lasting wealth for your descendants, then a portfolio rebalance is in order.
Check out this great overview on salary negotiation:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
I wrote a blog post on this recently, using only open-source tools that don't come from big corps. To have TOTP second factor on Debian (like) systems you need only libpam-oath module on the server, and perhaps an open-source app like FreeOTP (RedHat) on a smartphone.

I'm afraid to link it here because the traffic might kill my puny box.
Small correction: Castilla y Leon is not a single province, it is an autonomous community that consists of nine provinces, one of which is Leon.
This is not necessarily good or bad, one has to look at everything.

An alternate interpretation is half of the property taxes are paid for by less than 1% of the population, who also are acting as environmental conservators by not subdividing and developing large tracts of unspoiled wilderness.
Although this seems like a ridiculous comment, people should realize soft switches are super common.

For one (silly but common) example, you can turn off your iphone, but it will turn back on if it's plugged into a charger.
Yep. My cat had a mouth full of rotten teeth. After removing nearly all his teeth his entire disposition changed—went from just sitting around all day to a ball of energy. It also changed his digestion: went from runny poop everywhere to Tootsie rolls.
This quotation demonstrates that man has been pondering this same quandary for a great many years. How does one conceive of that which is out of our comprehension? This is where the fields of logic, philosophy, religion, science, etc. try to help build a model for understanding. However, I find that no model we have is sufficient to truly understand, not yet at least.
PCI-DSS comes to mind and it’s segmentation guideline, often met by deploying bastions.
In towns and cities you often cannot buy a freehold. Is all 100 year leases. The land is rarely up for grabs compared to the countryside.
Actually, most recruiters I've run into tend to try to force a candidate to accept a "reasonable" offer rather than holding out for the best offer. They only get paid if a deal closes; while it may be in your best interest to hold out for another $10K, that will likely cost them a commission (and be opposed)
No, it does not protect from that. Stub resolvers (i.e. DNS clients) fully trust recursive resolvers by design and don't validate DNSSEC signatures.

In theory the client can validate them but, for various reasons, pretty much none of the implementations do that.
Also, don't forget that development is pretty difficult job on its own,so as soon as it becomes a commodity,people will stop training and applying for these jobs,as there are plenty other jobs that are easier to do and pay the same.
Now if they would only LABEL THE FREAKING SWITCH. (I have one, and I'm never quite sure which direction is off)
It sounds like you're trying to do something like Yubikey OTP or U2F with SSH. Both are doable, but I don't think that's the normal way people use hardware tokens with SSH; what I've seen much more is that people use Y4 keys (which are basically pocket HSMs), generate RSA keypairs with them, and configure SSH to accept the public key on the token.

This doesn't require any support on the serverside; as far as the server's concerned, the Y4 is just another RSA key.

It does require the more expensive Yubikey, but there are some security advantages to using it.
Wow, it's real! I didn't know running a Turing machine on a neural network is practically possible.
Does it? I see a large concentration of red dots over Poland, and some over Belgium-France border, all due to coal plants. Then there's UK.

Poland takes second place with an overall score of
5.5/10. The carbon dioxide emissions in poland are
7.63 tonnes per capita per year, which is higher than
the winner Turkey. The concentrations of PM2.5 are 22
µg/m3 which is almost half of Turkey’s concentrations.
There are 69 deaths attributable to air pollution per
100,000 capita per year. Poland consists of 30.8%
forest area and 38.10% protected terrestrial and
marine area. Each year, the citizens of Poland discard
304.9 kg of waste per capita.
> While we're at it, doesn't the "universality theorem" (as the article calls it) basically follow immediately from the fact that the set of all continuous functions comprises a vector space?

Pretty much, but you have to show that neural networks can create a basis in that vector space which is essentially the proof presented in the article.

> If the continuous function is additive, it's linear. If it's nonlinear, you can differentiate it to obtain a linear approximation.

Differentiating to obtain a linear approximation does not give you an arbitrarily good approximation like the theorem does.

> A neural network computes linear transformations, so unless I'm missing something I'm a little surprised there's a substantive theorem for this. Is it not a corollary on the fact that we can construct a vector space of all continuous functions?

Neural networks using sigmoid transfer functions do not compute linear transformations anymore.

Importantly this theorem also states that you can approximate any function with only two hidden layers. A similar proof could not be made for a single hidden layer so it seems that the non-linearity of a single layer is not enough to form a basis for all continuous functions.
90 percent of the uk crown estate revenue also goes to the public purse.
Were you evaluating only color and straightness or were you looking for caries and periodontitis?
Ask HN: Where are the GUI libraries that aren't bloated?
It takes fifty lines to create a dialogue with a button.

Why?

Is there some kind of theorem in computational complexity that this is a strict lower bound?
I am glad this made it to HN frontpage, otherwise, I might have missed it; and I bet others are on the same page. Anyway, just wanted to say thank you :). This is very good stuff!
Medical records, but on the blockchain: the history of a bad idea
Wow, what a sincere message. That right there is a true encounter. His philosophy – much like Erlang's – is unique and refreshing.
In any security conversation, the vector one should care about is the path of least resistance.
Then they would just use anti-gravity engine near any sufficiently massive body and generate as much energy out of nothing as they wanted...
Hunter gatherers typically had much better teeth than modern humans, although outliers do exist. The general explanation for this is that diet and nutrition have a much larger impact than mechanical cleaning do.
> You can’t blame individuals

You can and you have to. Corporations are structuredi nsuch a way that there is always somebody who is in charge of a certain project or descision. Of course this might be hidden. in order to fight "Profit before people / product / planet", these individuals need to be punished. It cannot be allowed that blame diffuses in a corporation. Otherwise there will be no change.
A recurrent network can with ease.

For a vanilla MLP, you'd need to add in a few previous values (ie you'd predict x_{t+1} = f(x_t, ..., x_{t-N}), where f is your neural network and N is some fixed integer).
Sounds like another WMD show, I'll get the popcorn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law
They prevent you from having yellow teeth.
Unix Considered Harmful
> 8 figures a year in revenue. This wasn't a broke startup

These statements don't exactly follow. Revenue is not a profit. It's possible they are broke with a great revenue.
Thanks, I'll visit it, I'm mostly missing a normal city life, for example dating for me is much easier in big cities. I like going to IMAX (I like to watch almost every IMAX movie for the looks), and like to go to great restaurants with special food that cities offer more.

My main idea now is actually to create an apartment with very effective air cleaning, like what the laboratories use. I don't know yet if it's possible / practical, I will figure it out.
It was not and is not different in any socialist or communist country. After all the UK is more socialist than the US but as you can see it doesn't matter the fundamental power hierarchies. There are always some people who are in the right group to attain more money and power.
"More likely though it was passed down for generations and they did nothing to deserve it, I find that situation absolutely insane"

It's not insane for people to pass their property from one person to another.

Arbitrary definitions of 'earned it' are far, far scarier.

Surely, it's important to consider issues such as private wealth, inheritance etc. but the OP is effectively correct, this issue turns into 'mob rule' very, very quickly.

In 2019 we forget this, because we don't have any such topsy-turvy situations in living memory, but the 19th and 20th centuries were full of blood and fury over this kind of stuff.

Everywhere East of Berlin does however have this in 'living memory'. Ask a Polish, Ukrainian, Czech, Russian etc. immigrant over the age of 60 about it for an earful. Or someone Chinese over 60 as well. Or Cuban.

'Private Property' is a very, very careful issue.
In Eastern Europe, you can also negotiate and make gains that way. The point is that you come to the interview with a known baseline of what they intend to offer to the candidate that meets their expectations. Thus, you can skip offers where it's so low that it's clearly not worth the trouble even trying to negotiate over. And if you do go to interview, you know the number below which you shouldn't go (and they know that you know).
For a far more interesting matchup, with advanced long term oriented strategic play, consider watching a match between AlphaZero and Stockfish: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JacRX6cKIaY

The video linked here focuses on the ability of AlphaZero in making long-term optimal piece sacrifices against Stockfish, which is largely incapable of understanding these types of moves due to its hard coded bias towards losing pieces defined in its value function, causing AlphaZero to be able to consistently outmaneuver and ultimately handily defeat StockFish in almost every single game it plays against it.
But the inability to infringe on the rights of others is not itself an infringement of any actual right. That is an impossible lesson to be learned by us here in the west.
We’ve changed pet food just like we’ve changed our own food. Notice how pets and animals that eat human food (like raccoons) are all getting fat together.

Looking at modern dog dental hygiene to learn about how wild animals’ teeth work is as silly as looking at our dental hygiene to see how a hunter gatherer’s teeth work.
It’s certainly impressive to the families that have benefited and more importantly continue to benefit from this stability. If I was a scion of one of these families it would make absolute sense that I would do anything within my power to maintain this status quo.

Looking at that history it’s easy to think that might be how the “born to rule” mentality among the aristocracy in the UK became so entrenched.
You can read the emails I am composing, but not read the emails I receive? That is better, and I could always compose sensitive emails in gmail. So possibly I'd give this a shot with my personal email.

I'd also like to use this at work, but Boomerang[0] was deemed not allowed, so I would imagine Darwin would also not be allowed.

I'm guessing Darwin stores the reminder data on its own servers? That doesn't bother me, most reminders are quite benign.

For reminders that maintain privacy, I would imagine one would need to write a browser extension that threads reminders into gmail. Which doesn't sound like much fun, but also a pretty primitive integration would probably be good enough.

[0]https://www.boomeranggmail.com/
Sorry, I'm only working 6 days 18 hours a day this week in the cotton mill. The master has given us Easter Sunday off, because he's a good Christian man. I will endeavor to make up for it next week.
How will that balance the market - cutting supply while demand is growing?
I think this (Occam's Razor) clearly illustrates the limit of our perception/comprehension though. It is entirely possible that due to our comprehension of the complexity involved with dimensionality, we can be only vaguely aware (if at all) of a more complex system than the one we can perceive/comprehend. I'm reminded of the book Flatland[1].

It is fine to attempt to apply our rubrics, but I am not sure how to quantify the limits of our perception. Perhaps Occam's Razor and current simpler theories give a useful working tool for us to reason within our local known (or perceived/comprehended) universe.

The best way I can think of to ask this is, how do we factor in the "unknown unknown"? It is maddening not to be able to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Bird vision is so much better than mammalian vision. Primate vision is a poorly hacked together attempt to get back to something similar to what birds have, but compared to the cephalopod eye they are both hacks [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye
They did not create the land. Read the Georgist critique of land ownership for the details.
An Artificially Created Universe: The Electronic Computer Project at IAS (2012)
>So what you get is 7 days (depending on who you ask) where the second law of thermodynamics is "wound up", if you will, which resulted in an ordered universe that isn't just a homogeneous soup.

Please... please don't imply that the book of Genesis, or any similar religious work, holds some hidden insight into modern science. The authors of Genesis, whoever they were, did not know what thermodynamics was, and were not writing about it when they came up with the Genesis account.
What would you do if a candidate turned down your home coding assignment, but gave you one of the coding assignments he completed for a different job interview?
Geometric Deep Learning
The semi-aquatic ape theory makes a lot of sense at first but is (apparently) bunk
No, neural networks cannot "represent any arbitrary function". Find a theorem that you think states otherwise, and then read what the theorem actually states.
Banana equivalent doses assume that the radiation is distributed over the body. This is true for backscatter and other nonspecific radiation. It is not true for collimated radiation such as an x-ray. One explanation for "cell phone cancer" is that people who have annual dental radiographs have develop neuromas which are then (probably incorrectly) blamed on cell phones.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23211211
In Barcelona, capital of Catalunya, most of what you'll hear is Spanish, not Catalan. That does happen in some smaller cities or towns, though.
>There are several security features, including fluorescent orange ink, a metal strip and, like government-printed currencies, a measure that is kept secret from the public to further thwart forgery.

I suspect they won't be as successful at stopping forgery if for no other reason than the fact that if someone is unfamiliar with this "currency" they won't know it's security properties. (Especially one that's kept secret)
A classic demonstration of similar effect - any set of N data points in a time series, e.g. (t,f(t)), can be fit by a N-1 order polynomial to pass through each point. So fit a high order poly to a set of points sampled (esp. with a little noise) from a low order poly. You'll get crazy oscillations, and outside the sampling area it will likely diverge fast. Now add a smoothness term and crank it up until you get more reasonable results - regularization.

It's a simplification, but informative about some ML techniques.