skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had some frozen foods delivered to me in a paper/cardboard box. There was ice around the frozen food, and it had melted partially, and the water had made the bottom of the cardboard box soft and mushy. When I lifted the cardboard box, its bottom tore, and my frozen foods started poking out. A plastic-like bag would not have tore due to wetness/water, would have been be a lot thinner, lighter, and not required any dead trees to make. If it were biodegradable, there no major environmental concerns either.
Exactly! We are using this in our compiler test farm for the quick test runs. Sadly, the release prior to 4.0.0 broke floating point handling of NaN on (at least) PowerPC e5500 :( I'm looking forward to test qemu 4.0.0 once I'm back in the office again.

Edit: Tested it, aaaaaand NaN compares are still broken :(
How does that look like deliberate misinterpretations of our constitution?

(I'll agree that there have been things that look like deliberate misinterpretations - particularly of the Commerce Clause and the Tenth Amendment. Freedom of speech doesn't look like one of those to me.)
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The fundamental issue with zealotry. When ever this comes up, I think of this small (200 person) study on brand identity and self identity.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/08/users-treat-criticis...
We thought this and killed our PayPal integration (went Stripe only) and lost double digits in sales (and received constant emails asking for PayPal).

Unfortunately people want PayPal for whatever reason. Everything about PayPal from the merchant side sucks (bad API, bad recurring billing features, slow, no refund of fees for refunds from May, 6 months for someone to do a chargeback!, etc etc)
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Yes, I think these communities should take a good look at themselves and confront the problems only they can help solve. Nothing gets done by putting the blame solely on white rich slave master descendants. My ancestors slaved on the peat mines, but I won't let that define me. It is not helpful at all.

I am ok if you say that policing should be about demographic parity, but not if you ignore the costs. By all means, send more police to rich white neighborhoods, to help affluent old ladies cross the road and rescue Persian cats from trees, while gang violence rages in black neighborhoods and continues to ensnare young men, due to lack of a father figure, but don't deny these costs. It is measured in lives.

We all share responsibility to combat racism and disproportionate crime rates.
Relevant: https://www.theonion.com/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-...
Don't like that it took "market disruption" to finally take it seriously.
No slope is that slippery.
Not yet, but the amount of JavaScript necessary is really small. Essentially:

Essentially:

window.Stripe('<your key>').redirectToCheckout({sessionId});
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Vala is nice, but is really niche at the time being. I think people would be better served using Python 3 and QT for maximum ease, documentation/help, and cross-platform abilities.
It sounds like the book had the exact opposite effect on you as was intended. Why do you think that was?
I was working at EA at the time. I got into the game industry because I loved making games. But I wasn't on a game team at work (which was good, because it meant I had a sane work schedule). And EA's employment contract basically forbids you from doing hobby game stuff in your free time since they would own the results.

So here I was "in the game industry" and spending zero time actually making games. I posted a rant complaining about that.

Some random redditor said, basically, "I work at Google. If you're a decent C++ programmer, I'll put in a referral for you."

Meanwhile, my wife and I had taken a trip to the Pacific Northwest and decided we wanted to move to that area. I started looking for jobs at other game companies in Seattle. I flew out there to interview at ArenaNet. Since I had a referral, a Google recruiter expedited an interview at the Seattle office while I was in town. I wasn't very seriously considering Google, but I wasn't about to say no.

I bombed the ArenaNet interview. (I think the main sticking point was a question around the time complexity of adding an element to a growable array. I said it was constant, but couldn't effectively explained amortized complexity to them and they didn't seem to understand that amortized complexity existed at all.)

Wonder of wonders, I just squeaked through the Google one.

I ended up on a random project doing front-end programming in JavaScript because I had UI experience. I didn't care for the product and programming UI in JS is, uh, not my idea of a good time, so it wasn't super fun.

However, I randomly took a one-day improve class that Google offerred. There, I met another Googler on another project and we started talking about language nerd stuff. He later ended up forming a team to work on Traceur, which was a project to prototype language changes to JS. They were ramping up, and he remembered I was into language things, so I asked me to join.

That project wound down later so I went looking for other projects to join. Dart was ramping up then and went there. It's been a blast.

But, literally, if I hadn't posted a comment on reddit and taken this improv class, my whole career might be different. I might have left Google to rejoin the game industry or something else entirely.
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Viral reassortment and horizontal gene transfer are particularly of concern in swine, because they can host many viruses that also infect humans. If a novel swine virus combines with one of the zoonotic diseases a human pandemic is possible.

Reassortment in swine is a primary mechanism for how the influenza virus mutates so often, making it a moving target for vaccines.
For me, it beats having to listen to top 40 music interlaced with commercials. Yes, podcasts have their own commercials, but you can always forward past them.

There is some really interesting stuff out there, and podcasts are just another great learning format for people.
Numerous manufacturing patches. All failures.
I thought these companies didn't actually sequence your DNA. Smarter Every Day did a video where they showed how your DNA samples are checked for several know markers to see if they attach. Unless you specifically allow it, the samples are then destroyed.

I still wouldn't get one of these tests, mostly due to accuracy issues and because I really just don't care, but I feel like some of this article is fear mongering.
If your employer uses medical records to disqualify you from a position or terminate your employment, get a lawyer because you have a case.

None of those things you mention should be something employers can act on. In many states it would be illegal to factor those things into decisions about hiring, retention, compensation or promotion.
I have a lot of admiration for what Apple has done but in the post Jobsian Era they're focus seems to have shifted from elevating the personal computing experience to reducing over costs and it's disappointing to say the least.
The problem with on-the-job training is that the quality of it is highly dependent on the workplace and the coworkers around you and the job in question.

Just look at programming and software engineering. It takes very little to call yourself a programmer, and on-the-job training may or may not help at all.
I call these approaches: "there must be OpenCV in there somewhere"
The whole problem with allegations of AI bias is that people often point to disparities of outcome as proof of bias. The reality is that there are plenty of disparities on outcome regardless of bias, and the allegations of bias and attempt to rectify the alleged bias is another vector for the introduction of bias.
I think it is a matter of intention as the ultimate ass-covering. They never /intended/ anything other than a legal aim.
That, or he is overridden by the design team and their failure to comprehend bending stress requirements or flexing fatigue in cables
the old version seems better for my use case of just accepting credit cards...
I was in exactly your situation -- longtime macOS user who wanted to migrate because of the decline in hardware quality. (And software quality, too.)

I looked around a lot and bought a System76 Darter running PopOS. The specs blow MBPs out of the water, and for much lower cost. After a couple of months, I'm very happy with it. The case and screen aren't quite as nice as a Mac, but they keyboard is fantastic, a little better than the best MBPs. The touchpad is pretty good, if too sensitive while I'm typing. PopOS is by far the best-looking Linux I've ever seen, and customization using Gnome extensions is very easy.

A friend got a Thinkpad for Linux, and while it looks very nice, I have no experience using it.
No, that's incorrect. Note the part of your quote which says, "and suppose this has no connection to the failure."

The point is the Siemens sensor is a superfluous correlation with turbine failure, because the underlying dataset is biased towards Siemens sensors. The scenario suggested by the author is one in which your turbine failure dataset does not match reality.

No amount of sample enlargement will correct sample bias. You have a variable which is disproportionately represented in your underlying dataset despite being independent from a collection of variables correlated to failure, and the algorithm is learning that one instead.

Real world ways this is plausible and cannot be corrected by increased sampling:

1. Your telemetry data is accurate, but your logging service providing that data is faulty and only consumes data from a subset of meaningful publishers.

2. Whoever provided this dataset fat fingered a SQL query which joined too few tables including the sensor vendors, but correctly returned only the failing turbines.

3. Your data has (unnormalized) duplicates, because more than one system is providing telemetry data for Siemens sensors without the older systems being retired.

4. You use mostly Siemens sensors, and simply didn't correct for this in your sample.
Sadly this is the current market. We're grasping at finding the best way to judge whether to bring someone onsite. Video coding challenge? Simple phone conversation? We've done all of these and they often go the same way, hours taken out of multiple people's schedule only to find that we should have weeded this candidate out at an earlier stage. (Not always, but often enough)
I have the new MBP 2018 with touchbar. I’ve gone to the store 4 times already, I am scheduled next week to return to the store for the same display issues as well as keyboard issues.

They’ve exchanged the MOBO, display, shell, and keyboard effectively giving me a new computer.

I purchased the extended Apple Care and will probably be left hanging when the 3 year mark comes around.

Definetly happier with my 2011 Macbook Air. Can’t recommend buying the new one.

But hey, sample size 1.
If you're small-scale then this works. I imagine big wallets are being tracked by governments, you probably don't want to create a log that can be traced to you.

Ultimately, big-scale heists will always need money laundering.
On a similar vein, "Kenneth Stanley: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI&app=desktop

Kenneth leads the AI research in Uber. He had worked on Evolutionary strategies for machine learning, artificial Life etc.
LinuxAcademy. If you sign up right now it’s $300 for a year. What makes LA different is that they have a “hands on training portion”. When you start the hands on lab for AWS, they create a live temporary AWS account for you where you can follow along. I’m working on the Big Data cert now. For that, they give you a preconfigured AWS account for the lesson they are teaching and a login to a website with a Jupyter notebook where you can follow along with the video and make changes to the Python scripts just to play around with it.

The next time they will probably offer this deal is Thanksgiving week. They have courses and hands on training for a AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
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I work in an office with a dozen 15" 2017 MBPs and no one's had keyboard issues. The only issue they have is their HDD keeps running out of space and they forget to offload to the network shares when they've completed their projects. My own 15" MBP of the same year hasn't had a keyboard issue (yet?) and I'm on it 6-7 days a week.
Juicy quotes:

"the development of an algorithm that delivers the world's fastest and largest-scale performance, and an approximately 10-fold improvement over current methods"

"Toshiba will use the Simulated Bifurcation Algorithm to build a service platform able to quickly solve diverse social and business problems, aiming for commercialization in 2019."
Car and gym. I need music, often sans lyrics, when working.
I might be misunderstanding things but it sounds like the "breathing" (compressing atmospheric air) gives it variable density? I guess it makes it a sometimes-an-airship.
It's always right when the West and big corporations do it, because they are the good guys, right?. Everyone has an agenda, whether its open or hidden.

Any form of violation of privacy or rights and anyone who does it should be held accountable. Just don't pick and choose to suit your bias.
Yup. I did a similar assignment although much shorter. The company then decided not to hire anyone. Never gave feedback or even looked at it. Since they I won't do this type of shit anymore unpaid. If they pay, we'll see.
Yeah, if crunch is the moral issue, then indie companies are more prone to work/life balance issues than even the AAA developers. Indie companies have the usual startup issues of either the developers are moonlighting after their day jobs (working two jobs, a personal crunch) or pushed hard for "passion" to work hard (crunch) to pay the bills when it's still life or death to the company.

A lot of indies directly come from "game jam culture" which celebrates over-taxing developers with crunch "for fun".

Sustainable business practices in the games industry are unlikely to be possible until the industry is much more strongly unionized. At which point it would be more likely for the AAA games to be union shops and/or able to afford unionized workers to work on games.
The author speaks highly of the book "C for Yourself". An electronic version of the book from the Microsoft Programmer’s Library 1.3 CD-ROM has been posted [0] on the truly excellent PCjs Machines [1] website, where a lot of other older programming information can also be read [2].

[0] https://www.pcjs.org/pubs/pc/reference/microsoft/mspl13/c/c4...

[1] https://www.pcjs.org/

[2] https://www.pcjs.org/pubs/
I have a friend who works for ZipWhip which seems like the same sort of space. And they just raised $51 mil, so I guess there's need for this sort of product!
I so unbelievably strongly agree. There should also be a pop-up version of checkout instead of a redirect.

The only two features I care about are (i) a simple popup to accept cc details (ii) an aesthetically pleasing interface
Calling podcasts Objectively Bad is very silly, but it's weird how people talk about them as though they're this original innovation of the 21st century (the most exciting and significant one, even!) when they are literally just pre-recorded radio shows.
Several Lisp implementations even do similar things which were shown in the video: compiling Lisp to C/C++, then calling the C or C++ compiler, then loading the compiled code into a running Lisp, replacing/extending code.

For example ECL. The maintainer of ECL also showed how to write inline C in a Lisp function and compile/load that in a REPL - using only a couple of lines of code - basically a C REPL inside Lisp.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/bgwtsh/fun_ecl_hack/
you should, because you might make worse decisions for the business, for the system or for the people that are impacted by the system. If you don't have the right data to decide, don't decide using the data.
Weird…sorry about that. I'd like to look into why it was declined. Could you email me the date you tried, card last 4, card brand, and expiration date? If you can dig up that interaction and forward it to me as well, that would be helpful. edwin@stripe.com
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The MBP has a far superior screen and touchpad though. The touchpad on the X1 Carbon didn't have good palm detection either, at least on Linux. Also the MBP just feels much more premium.

I had an X1 Carbon for work and when I used it on my lap the keyboard would randomly stop working. I realized this was because it didn't work if the laptop was only supported on the back part.
I'm not saying they didn't copy small portions of the original, such the highlighted UUIDs. But they most certainly did not copy the entire documentation (or even large portions) _verbatim_. They _paraphrased_ large portions of the documentation. "Verbatim" ("in exactly the same words as were used originally") has a purposefully different meaning than "paraphrase" ("express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words").
Probably for the same reason they replaced the tower Mac Pro (which for many is the best Mac ever made) for that trash can monstrosity.

To make an engineering statement?

I don't know, in both cases it was a total disaster.
Grandma's low property tax bill is not the problem per se, it is the punitively high property tax bill we charge more recently sold properties to make up for it. This is popular because it punishes techie migrants, but it also punishes downsizing late and life and new household formation early in life.

If we don't need the extra revenue from rising property values, we should cut property tax rates accordingly. City residents getting the same public services for a smaller percentage of their wealth would be an immensely positive impact of tech's prosperity.

If we do need it (and I suspect we do, because higher prices mean government facilities and staff are more expensive), we should collect it fairly across the board. Maybe "fair" means flat, maybe it means progressive, maybe it even means "tenure in city" or "tenure in neighborhood," but "tenure in current address" is crazy. At least use a mechanism with some thought put into its incentives and possible unintended consequences.
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For your average node.js developer, no, that's not at all optimistic. Installing Express, and some sort of data-fetching library and setting up the routes. I'll admit, when I did the challenge in Java/Kotlin, it did take considerably more time to get the JSON serialization into POJOs set up.
They fixed that in the new revision without ever acknowledging it was ever a problem.

https://ifixit.org/blog/13979/apples-2018-macbook-pros-attem...

Ya know because to responsibility == liability == lower revenues.
The consumers ultimately will decide the fate of the mean industry. However, I doubt that consumers will change their habits in a way that will be in their best interest.

Consumers can choose to buy meat from local sources that are ethically raised and at a scale that doesn't negatively impact the local environment. Yes, that will probably cost more then what's at the grocery store. But do we need to eat meat every day, week, or month?

To put all the responsibility on the meat industry, policy, and the government is in my opinion the wrong approach. I think we should be educating consumers and influencing change through the scale of economics.
I think media does shape your view of the world, especially seminal shows whose lines stay with you for decades. I can watch episodes of MASH or Star Trek and recite entire exchanges of dialogue. That shows how immersed I was and how much I've integrated those high points (or low points) into my perspectives on life, even 30-50 years later.

In the 1950s, literate people used to quote literature. Today we quote television. Does that make us illiterate?
They probably would not be getting so much flak today if they'd owned up to the problems and offered a quick, inexpensive repair solution when they first started appearing, way back in 2015. But instead they persisted with the flawed design for years, giving owner complaints the "you're holding it wrong" treatment and adding the flawed keyboard design to more models even after it should have been clear it had serious problems.

The longer you let a boil like this fester, the more painful it's going to be when you finally lance it.
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The hassle for most people is real.

A magic fairy doesn't instantly swap out the defective phone with a good one (and transfer all the files) the instant the problem occurs.

Some people are in countries with no Apple stores, some people are using it as a camera on a week-long backpacking trip in the middle of nowhere. Some people have families and jobs they have to tend to and don't want to waste what little precious freetime they have on this BS, etc.

Edit: and not everyone in the U.S. who has free time, lives near an Apple Store or can get an appointment next day.

I used to not have responsibilities, and I wondered why everyone has a hard time with things. Now I have responsibilities and can see why.
You can read about all the tools in this article https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
Yeah.... if the first ones were trivial and acted as a proof of concept, that would generate enough money for them to invest in better servers with more distance from the actual person running it.
I have been wanting something like this, though the issues with a scraping approach seem very annoying.

You're probably aware, but others may not be, GNU Cash uses OFX to download transactions from banks.

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/OFX_Direct_Connect_Bank_Settin...

Something to consider.
A lot of that cost, unfortunately, is a collective harm. Your decision means I have to live in a surveillance economy.
One situation I could see leading to this result (Amazon cancelling their resume filtering software with the excuse that it 'skewed male') is that

1. The AI system accurately predicted employee success across both genders

AND

2. The AI system predicted that women would do worse than men

That's politically embarrassing and something that you can't necessarily 'fix' by improving the system. (see: all the 'will this person commit a crime if let out on parole' systems that end up accurately discriminating based on race)

This isn't to say that women are worse engineers than men, or anything of that sort - only that the applicant pool to Amazon was skewed, or women were treated worse in the workplace and thus performed worse, or a dozen other possible causes. (And only in this hypothetical scenario! I have no inside info from Amazon!)
"Liberalism" is also an economics term.
Perhaps you could provide an example of a clear and drastic impact. I'm happy to be educated.

I will ignore your ridiculous assertion that I am bitter about a consumer genetic test.
> providing the biological material and nothing more is inherently unethical.

Why is it inherently unethical?

Donors are willing to provide a good/service, and part of the price is sometimes their anonymity. (I am sure many don't mind either way.) I'm not sure that anonymous donation is _possible_ anymore, given DNA testing, but even if it were, I don't see how being willing to donate is unethical if one wanted to stay anonymous.
> electric cars have turned from something that was science fiction, always N-years off, an environmentalist's fantasy, laughable, to something that is mainstream reality in my lifetime.

Electric cars are older than gas cars, and never really went away, though they spent a long time as niche vehicles.