skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably a "publishing in the press" translation issue, but the notion that neural networks have no memory is dead wrong. DNNs encode incredibly specific histories of training data in their weights, which is both a privacy/security risk [1] and a phenomena that is actively being utilized in many dnn architectures. Overall, this has a "brand the framework before proving exceptional capabilities" feel.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08232
We are going to have the government deal with shitty Mods?

Back when I was a kid, if the Mods sucked, you'd stop going to that website.

Serious question, why do unhappy customers keep buying what bad companies sell?

I stopped using Facebook and many subreddits. I have this self control.

Is there anyone here that cannot stop visiting bad websites?
Really gotta define what sort of work. As a knowledge worker, I'm really only in the zone for maybe half my day now - I doubt that increasing the work day would get more highly productive time out of me.

Maybe manual labour jobs may be better for that, but even there I doubt it, and they'll have physical exhaustion before I hit mental exhaustion, if only because it's much easier for me to be present at my work and NOT be largely productive (jokes about people leaning on shovels not withstanding).
Open sourced the print statement
I'm not sure what country you're from or what country you flew to for this ridiculous 'interview' process, but it's one of the many things I loathe about this field...right up there with "rock star" and "ninja" coder.

Honestly it's stuff like this, that has me contemplating giving up this career path because there's just no more room for people in their 50s with 25 years of experience in information technology, who aren't willing to sleep at the office, drink your "insert trendy microbrew here" on tap, and suffer through a ludicrous ask like "we want you to work for three days for absolutely nothing to see if you're a good fit".
On a somewhat related note, I'd love a set of those pictured sleep capsules at my office. I've taken to running to my car to catch a quick 20 minute snooze during my lunch break, but it's way too bright, I'm uncomfortably sleeping sitting slightly upright, and I've got to have the windows open in a noisy car park. Having a cool, dark, dedicated sleeping pod would be much more civilised.
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If there is one place where the authorities might take a bit of care around implementing new surveillance technologies you would hope it would be Belfast.
Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where Guy Montag's partner is glued to the Wall? A screen where she participates in her favorite shows and the audience and cast members talk directly to her?

Read in a modern context I don't think Guy was merely burning books in service to an authoritarian government. I think he kept the books because he was becoming an outsider. He didn't want to participate in the world of the Wall and consent to the expectations and norms of his society. And the firemen were there to ensure everyone participated.
thanks! I learned something today, I didn't know about "14/88". Thank you troll as well =)
I think you misplaced a decimal point there...
As I see my colleagues in China; they are mostly wasting time to stay the longest in the office. I know a few guys who have some shares, that either do not go home or go home for 3-4 hours only. They arrive at 6 am, leave at 8 pm and then go to KTV to do sales which basically means drink like a maniac. And then either back to the office or home for a quick nap. Their boss does not directly tell them to but he does go crazy when they underdeliver or deliver past deadlines, so they show they did anything. Not sure if it helps or not. Some of them seem happy and content doing that life and show no signs os stress even at 40y/o, some are walking dead.

The happy ones seem to be the ones that are well paid and get to sit and write code, while the unhappy ones deal with red tape and meetings. Which is what usually happens in my experience in the west as well.
Those are manned with a qualified driver who supposedly is paying attention and can take control at any time.

These trucks are unmanned, with a remote driver who may or may not be paying attention but can take control at any time.
Ok... so again, show that there were 6000 kids, paramedics and journalists who were shot...

Also your unbridled hate for all things jewish kinda outs you as a biased party.
That may be the pragmatic assumption, but I've worked my fair share of low paying jobs, and there's a ton of talk of being part of the team.
Or you could just schedule people to arrive at the same time but have them work shorter hours.
This is unfortunately not yet true everywhere, especially outside the big cities.
In my hypothetical, I was surprised by my sudden time displacement. If I'm prepared, well, like I said, I'd be taking my laptop and conventional computers, not my cell phone per se. Also my cell phone backed up by computers is more useful anyhow. With care and preparation I've got all sorts of options, even going back farther than the 1960s; push comes to shove I can bring solar cells and my own printing press or something, etc.
Or the next town over.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

See also: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...
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What identification exactly? You don't have to own a passport or a drivers license in the UK, nor do we have ID cards.
Unless the fed raises interest rates by 15% in one day raising interest rates dont cause crashes. Interest rates are raised partly in effort to stem the damage caused by economic downturns.
Good press release title. Now just add it to the pile ;) https://github.com/erikbern/ann-benchmarks
But to what end? The end result of all this for me has been that I simply quit Twitter. And here's the thing: I generally agree with them, but it's so annoying I can't even engage with them anymore. So sure, maybe they're amplifying somebody's message, but I'm no longer there to hear it, no matter how loud it is. They're mostly just shouting at each other at this point.
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Still not much. I didn't bother to look it up (it probably isn't public), but doubt more than 10 people at United make more than $500,000/year, so the amount isn't significant. Now if you said $200,000/year I would expect a significant amount of people make that. However now you are getting into the middle class where lifestyles have expanded to spend most of that money, and they would feel the pinch.
This is exactly what I am getting at. For the most extreme example, consider a swarm of nano bots hovering in the atmosphere that implement a computer that can understand and directly execute algorithms spoken in human speech transmitted through pressure fluctuations. There is no distinction that can universally separate speech and computer programs.
Not sure I buy the remote-controlled-by-humans idea personally.

I mean, to remotely drive a car at 30mph, you either need to emergency-stop any time the control signal drops out (in which case you'll constantly get rear-ended) or you need a control system so good it can keep going even through signal drop-outs (in which case why do you have the remote control anyway) or you need an immortal data connection that never suffers drop-outs or so much as 100ms of latency (i.e. orders of magnitude better than what we have today).

I mean, you could do "Human remotely controls the vehicle at walking pace" easily enough, as you could stop all you liked without people hitting you. But we'd need lots of changes to the roads to support a mass of vehicles going that slowly.
He thought that because he was good at triangles that he was right to violently impose his wrong beliefs on his countrymen. It didn't go well for him.

The parallels are pretty obvious, and they do not require a ruler and compass to construct.
not even the first in Sweden, I took a ride on a self driving bus (that had a safety person sitting bored inside) in a suburb of Stockholm

https://mitti.se/nyheter/forsvinner-sjalvkorande-bussar/
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Yes. Almost everything is subtly broken, and I realized my attempt would be broken too. Didn't feel like a fun hobby project once I realized that.
> You may be a big bunch of atoms governed by the mechanical laws, but you are not just any bunch of atoms. You are an intricately structured bunch of atoms, and your behavior depends not just on the laws that govern the individual atoms but on the way those atoms are assembled. At a higher level of description, your decisions can be truly open.

They essentially redefine "free will" as "difficult to predict", instead of "truly random" or "magical" or something like that.

With this definition of "free will":

Does a cow have free will?

Does a tree have free will?

Does a rolling dice have free will?
Agreed. I'm curious how it is all going to break. Is it just the pension funds that will be left holding the bag? How much of a bailout is going to be required? It seems like companies are in a cycle of extracting all equity and selling worse debt to make payments on the already created bad debt.
When I visit Show HN's like this the first thing I want to do is play around with it. The GIF is better than nothing, but my suggestion is to have a little demo where the GIF is.

Also the last question in your FAQ, "How can I make sure you'll stay around?", seems to have a mismatched answer. It seems like the question should be "How much does it cost?".

Overall it looks great. Good work and good luck!
Maybe just ask applicants to spend an hour or two onsite without internet making them to solve project euler-type problems and discuss their solutions afterwards.

I’m sure you can somehow include technologies relevant to the position and keep the problems to the same scope.

Or these companies could begin creating actual value instead of just draining it from the world. Why don’t they expand their pipeline that converts intern/junior positions into more senior positions? And make it a big enough so they don’t need to hire as many ready-made 10x engineers from outside.
How good is this software if you just close one eye and make a grimace while walking by?
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Is there a reason there's no naming and shaming going on here?

One company asked me to do an implementation of the Bay Area MUNI network which fetched live updates of the locations of all buses every 10 seconds; there was more to it but I can't remember it now. This was to be done in React with D3 and no additional libraries were to be used to help with integrating D3 maps in React.
The role was junior level, the job listing did not specify D3 as a requirement (which pretty much guarantees a lot of people would start into it without realising maps are one of the more complicated things to do in D3 as a newbie or how poorly D3 played with React), the role was in Europe.
If someone can confirm I'm not breaking any rules I'll happily share their name.

The best interview experiences I've had are with groups who just went through my (not very impressive) Github. A small coding challenge can be good as a thing to talk through during the final interview but anything longer than that and I'll tend to pitch sending them something I wanted to make in my own time regardless.
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There are huge amounts macroeconomists don’t know but if they’re not scientists neither are epidemiologists or nutritionists. Experiments are impossible or necessarily tiny and of low quality in all those fields.

Macroeconomics is not a healthy field making rapid progress. David D. Friedman’s verdict on it is that we know very little is true but we know plenty that isn’t. If you want to see someone really ripping into macro read Paul Romer’s The Trouble With Macroeconomics[1]. All that said I know what happens when you contract the money supply; you get a recession. Print lots of money; you’ll get inflation. Decrease inflation; your currency will appreciate. There’s plenty more like that. Purchasing power parity works as a theory of exchange rate formation over the long run and nothing does over the short run. Macroeconomists know plenty.

Regarding theory and replication, on rent control I see Montreal and raise you Mumbai[2]. If the rent controlled price is near the market price the damage will be pretty mild. If you haven’t allowed rents to rise since the 1960’s things will be worse. On replication, more than three quarters of cancer biology papers don’t replicate so the fact that some economics papers get retracted doesn’t disturb me too greatly[3]. If you’re doing science sometimes you find out you were wrong or that you made a mistake.

[1]https://paulromer.net/the-trouble-with-macro/

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fh4tPWYeks

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/2sEX5MD7aW1whVkxFllNCL/Rent...

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/04/tw...

[3]https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/what-pro...

> In 2011, Bayer Healthcare said that its in-house scientists could only validate 25 percent of basic studies in cancer and other conditions. (Drug companies routinely do such checks so they can use the information in those studies as a starting point for developing new drugs.) A year later, Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis from Amgen said that the firm could only confirm the findings in 6 out of 53 landmark cancer papers—just 11 percent. Perhaps, they wrote, that might explain why “our ability to translate cancer research to clinical success has been remarkably low.”
Not a direct answer, but most Chinese had undergone tougher hours and more dreadful win-or-your-life-is-screwed college examination pressure during high school. I was in a class where the morning session started from 5:30am and the day ends around 9pm(and we have full Sat and Sunday morning). Just imagine how mentally tough Chinese is when 1 point left you 10+k behind in regional ranking.

So honestly 996 means nothing for a lot of people (esp new grads). Even though there are protests now, I’m pessimistic it’ll shake anything eventually
Supposes employer A chooses to pay their employees more than other employers. Employer B chooses to pay their employees less. Both employers are selling products or services that the purchaser finds the same, i.e. they have no preference for who they buy it from.

Employer B takes the money they save by paying employees less, and invests in newer, better facilities or R&D or whatever. Now employer B is selling a better product than employer A. Who will customers choose to purchase from? Who will lose business, and end up having to fire employees?

To be a successful business, compensation decisions can't be based on people's feelings. You have to consider when a new store or hotel or restaurant will come around and put them out of business, and stay ahead of the curve. You pay what you need to to get the job done. There are some good examples like Costco, but there are only so many people with sufficient disposable income who can afford to shop at Costco and similar stores, and they're not competing with Walmart/CVS/Dollar Store or other bottom tier vendors.
The most common shortcuts do tend to be on the left side of a Qwerty, but in a Windows environment at least, almost every letter key is bound to a common shortcut. As an avid shortcut user, the only letters for which I can't remember a hotkey is Y, and M if you don't use Win+M.

Programs like AutoHotkey can solve that issue when available.
Would anyone care to articulate reasons for downvoting parent?
The issue is that, ultimately and generally, the government does what a majority of people wants (or at least tolerates). Why are we tolerating this loss of freedoms? The only answer I can arrive at is "because it doesn't inconvenience people enough to do something about it".

Protesting against something takes a lot of energy, and inconveniencing you only a little (or very much but extremely rarely) doesn't make most people's list of priorities.
Or, if you take a company like Google, give every engineer a 5% haircut, bring the chefs and cleaning staff and groundkeepers and building maintenance back into the company (rather than contracting out), and distribute the money and stock grants among the support staff.
Design had nothing to do with not including the FAQ.

The FAQ was often out of date, hard to maintain. It was super long. It's not clear how often it was actually used.
> How is that even remotely related to the job at hand?

It is not. But they cannot ask you "did you vote for party X? Because everyone here votes for party X and it would be awkward to have someone with Y sensibilities", that would be discriminating.
Closed access journal for machine learning in 2019? No thanks
I wonder if you can use this to report censorship that the Trump administration is actively doing to scientific reports and scientists themselves who's results disagree with their business and extremist religious agenda?
There is only one actual solution to this problem.

1. Get the list of phone numbers of everybody working at AT&T (Sony style)
2. Set up robocalls randomly from each of these numbers to each of the other numbers
3. Share this list and your specific howto instructions with three other people

Every other solution fails.
The lesson isn't terrible, employee's should be paid more, but yeah to act like this is a grand discovery seems a bit absurd.
> I hear no voice even when someone is directly in front of me and no background noise. With them I can hold a conversation in a fairly noisy pub, its hard work to listen in noise but they do an amazing job for me.

What you describe doesn't sound anything like what the person you were responding to was describing. It sounds like you're saying

> I can't hear anything, but the hearing aid makes it so I can hear things AND distinguish voices from background noise.

which is totally different from

> I can hear everything around me just fine. I have problems distinguishing a single sound stream (voice) from all the other noise going on.

Personally, I can be watching TV in one room just fine, my wife turns the dishwasher on in another room, and I can't understand anything on the TV anymore.
I'm curious why actions like this aren't governed.
Well would also love more explanation, but it kind of seems enough
Are we still talking about stimulating the economy? Then yes, making sure they have money to spend will ensure they spend it, increase demand, and grow the economy.

But yes, reject humiliating jobs. I'm not sure why you'd actively want people to be miserable.

But if you want a bigger picture: create better opportunities, and make sure they are accessible to everybody. The whole reason people withdraw from society into either drugs or gaming or whatever, is that, from their perspective, society has nothing to offer them but humiliation and misery. Heaping more humiliation and misery on them is not going to fix anything.

And if rich kids drop out of school and spend their time partying, they're also guaranteed food and shelter, and quite a bit of wealth on top of that.
Your odds go way up if you repeatedly fire at the guy to your left.

Being a senior engineer is knowing the difference between doing what your told and figuring out what needs to be done to achieve project success. In this case, getting to the next round.

Next question?
> Alan Greenspan's story of finding a competitive advantage because everyone else was happy to ignore half the population in hiring

Maybe I'm living under a rock, but I've never heard of that. Would you mind sharing a link?
Offtopic, but my favorite line of the article:

"We where very surprised to see how many people intentionally jumped in front of the moving buses to see if they would stop"
I had one a little while ago where I spent a fair amount of time on the request, and I thought was pretty well done. It completed all their tasks, showed how to use their api, and it showed I know how to integrate several different technologies, from front things like React to building an API to interact with theirs and setting up and configuring cloud technologies. They came back, and said, "We don't want to continue, we expected more from him." I sat there baffled and so did the recruiter, as it clearly did everything and more than they asked for in the assignment.

I am so glad they didn't want to go further as I am sure they are a nightmare to work for.
I interviewed at Google and was told something similar. However, in their case they did reach out to me about 12 months later asking if I wanted to reapply. This was for a dev role though.
I’m not sure I understand why Protonmail forked the Go crypto library here. Did they fork the entire thing and make substantial changes/updates throughout, or did they just make changes to the PGP implementation available in Go/crypto?

Go/crypto already implements elliptic curve cryptography[1], so I’m curious which specific elliptic curve primitives (or algorithms) they added to their fork.

________

1. https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/
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I started to ask if the GDPR applies here, I realized you're in the UK so it wouldn't apply, but have the question anyway: Does the GDPR prevent this?
most people here in the UK would have a credit or debit card on them. almost everyone have a driver's licence, but bank cards are a must even for those that dont
Not really. "hyperdimensional binary vector" may sound rather buzzwordish, but it has a fairly precise definition in this context, and it may indeed be highly significant for the future of neural computing. You can learn more about it with the code (and paper) here: https://github.com/alexanderganderson/bnn_vis
> because the ratio of rich to poor is better

I’m not clicking with this theory. I think it’s in cities that are more multicultural and thus have more hostility.

The government can get away with a lot when the people are frustrated about something else.
not sure, i'm not a policeman that is involved with these pilots. i am sure they are still developing policy around it
> In every culture, in every era, people have usually been pretty sure they had everything figured out, and that they understood life and the world completely.

I don't think anyone here believes they have everything figured out.

> I don't believe our present time is any more enlightened in this matter than any other.

I think we're slowly getting better over time, as our collective knowledge compounds as time goes.

> Also it seems to me that you keep using the word 'magic' as a weasel word

You made a claim that a 'choice/decision' is not necessarily a physical process, I don't know how else I should interpret that.
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I worked for a Silicon Valley company. And now I am an employee of the Chinese 'A' company. There are endless features we have to develop. As a developer, I also need to concern about the business value of our project. Basically, I should handle two times of work than before.
I recommend by first reading through a high-level style guide. Guides produced by larger orgs like FaceBook, Etsy etc are usually a good starting point - high level but without too much technical mud.

After that, depending on whether you like getting your feet wet or taking a more formal approach my two go to methods are either: 1) reading through a "code by example" for the lang or 2) finding a cool relatively simple project written in the lang and stepping back to the very first commit and reading diffs from there (I also recommend this technique for picking up design pattern / design strategies in general)
But employer B also can now remove employees due to the investments they made in automation - if they can remove the workers entirely they'll have even more money to invest in making a better product to edge out employer A. At the end of the day the worker always loses.