skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following this, as I have an idea I am working on that is suffering from 'perfectionism syndrome' and this might be the encouragement I need to actually ship.

Nonetheless, good luck on your journey!
I love the 7 habits. I aspire to implement them as a basic OS for everything I do.
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It sounds like I'm being very petty bringing these kinds of thing up, but I'll go into a bit more detail. This particular employee was extremely critical of fellow employees at his own level, and would make extremely overt attempts to ingratiate himself with senior employees and managers.
We used to interview potential candidates for junior positions together. One very odd behaviour that he'd exhibit that really rubbed me the wrong way was that when we gave the applicant whiteboard tests, he would make such a concerted effort to demonstrate his superiority to the applicant by painstakingly solving and explaining the problem in gory, patronising detail before their eyes. That was how I saw it anyway, I felt that he would relish in any minor victory over other employees. I guess they call this an 'inferiority complex'. In retrospect, I feel that I should have known that someone displaying traits like these wouldn't miss the opportunity to drag me down to build himself up.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure what the legality of this was so I'm not recommending it - but it proved effective in my case.

I was owed several thousand dollars by a client and they were several months late in making a payment. They strung me along for a while but at some point it was no longer worth my time.

Realizing I wasn't interested in any future work from the client I simply took their site down and emailed the owner asking for payment. I suspected they'd try to get the site back up (it was in their AWS account) but the owner replied right away asking for my Paypal address.
Their options are almost no internet or all the internet.
I'm interested in this kind of thing and followed the links, but I didn't learn enough to decide whether I like your tree notation or not. It might help to write a tutorial just explaining informally what the notation is and what the rules are for using it?
> The people you work with are called colleagues, not friends. Sometimes it can hop over, but don't divulge personal information to a colleague that should only be shared amongst friends.

This is disappointing. Offices are like high school without the fun parts. I think part of what bothers me about work in an office environment is the lack of being human or myself for so much of the day. That probably sounds more dramatic then reality. I do feel like you have to turn off emotion except overly happy.
You're referring to GCJ-02. From best as I can figure, it adds some form multi-frequency noise to a shifted WGS84 coordinate, but it also seems that different companies are told to use different coefficients for the different noise frequencies, that's how they can tell if you're doing what you're told.

Regardless, it's difficult to work with. If you have a mapping license, you must also take serious precautions never to let the accurate map data leave China, or your Chinese employees are in deep trouble.
Never never never ask someone at work when she's due unless she mentions it first, I don't care if she looks like she's about to deliver a basketball.
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New tricks? I feel like in the past, everyone had language tricks. Speaking in fun ways, clever one liners and turns of phrase of the type Mark Twain or Churchill would employ were commonplace. People didn’t have videogames, facebook and other stuff to amuse themselves, or express themselves through. They found ways to do it through language.

Just pick up any book that captures how people spoke in the 19th and first part of the 20th century. Language was sport.
Congrats for the paper acceptance!

Very happy to see the code coming along with the paper in the same time. Will have a quick look and post some comments later.
I almost froze my credit a week before closing on my first house because of this breach.
Allen donated about $2 billion to charitable causes [1] when he was alive. This included several whimsical stuff that wasn't research like Experience Music Project and Museum of Science Fiction. Relatively I believe he spent far more on luxuries he liked including world's most expensive yatch(es), fleet of private jets, mensions around the world, private music concerts, few sports teams here and there.

[1] https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Paul-Allen-s-2-Billion-...
Sigh. Correct :)
My experience (working in industry) is machine learning projects tend to go something like this:

Someone on the company board has just read a pop sci article about "machine learning" and now as a result the company has engaged some expensive consultants to advise us on "potential machine learning opportunities." The consultant spends maybe a day or two touring one of the company's plants and has only the most broad and high level view of how our industrial process actually works. The consultant then promises the world "machine learning is great, you can use it here, here and here for sure. It will save you millions..." It gets the board members excited.

So the company picks some toy problem and gives the consultant and his team a six month contract to deliver a proof of concept. The deadline passes a solution is delivered - it is underwhelming. The contract is not extended.

edit: All cynicism aside I appreciate the possibilities but for ML to succeed the developers really need to be embedded/integrated into the company have a good understanding of problem space and fundamentals. Not really something you can outsource easily and expect to succeed.
I found NVC super valuable for opening my eyes to new concepts but challenging to implement in real life. When I tried it for the first time the other person got super angry because they thought I was making fun of them by asking about their emotions.
Why is it disturbing? Sometimes we pick up colloquialisms unconsciously, and besides, one cannot and should not try to resist societal change indefinitely.
Who Feels Satisfied About Money?
From some of the comments it feels like this is also intended as a way to research different ways of doing Lisp surface syntax without sacrificing the features of the macro system. I'm not sure if it's possible to do both at the same time.
Dont forget Zune, Danger, Surface, RT, Vista.
I knew a fair amount at the time (enough to write some really bad programs for my own personal use). I definitely still loved that game (enough to write a fairly popular though mostly wrong guide for it).
Lucky that as an American you can carry your gun to a protest, you know, just in case.
Google's FooBar had a flaw that exposed hidden test cases
Nobody lives there though. It's far too crowded.
How is this different architecturally from typical structured wiring in networking, or say the arrangement of USB controllers within a typical laptop / docking station?

Although I'm not thrilled by the idea of my drivers side puddle lamp having it's own [IP] address!
Apple is reportedly in ‘advanced’ talks to buy Intel’s modem division
Good feedback, thanks!

Created an issue for it: https://github.com/breck7/jtree/issues/25

Hopefully someone else will take up the challenge, as I find that in person here at the center, often my colleagues explain it better than I.
Similar thing happened to Quake 3, where in initial versions the repawn order wasn't predefined, but close to it. Some guys who spent time studying it got quite a competitive advantage. id fixed that later, making respawns totally random.
I have maintained open source projects before. Docker is a venture-backed company trying to sell its product which is mostly just hosting and support for their free product... and in addition, the user did ask nicely, they did not make demands. There's a big difference between asking that an engineer be assigned to a task and demanding something be fixed immediately for no bounty.
Well, when I do it, it's mainly to annoy my kids...
>I count on upgrading my laptops over time, and have, for every Mac I've ever owned, to get a few extra good years out of them.

You are not Apples current target demographic. You want to upgrade? go ahead and order new device, sell your old one if you must feel like you got "most out of them".
Admitting I'm wrong or that I screwed up, and likewise praising others when they're correct or have ideas I agree with.

You would not believe how much smoother everything at work is when you learn to recognize early the signs that you're holding on to a bad opinion, or that you're headed towards a fuckup, and just saying it out loud.

The praising / agreeing thing is a bit more complex. I've noticed more recently that people tend to be quick to disagree but remain silent even when they agree with someones opinion.

Specifically calling out when you agree with an idea has some marvellous effects. The silent ones who also agree join in, people who disagree join the fray, and a rough consensus can be reached quickly.
sfw?
Oh, neat! I did not know longbets was an open platform.

I'll post something on there. It will actually be a good exercise, because I should clarify things like "no, I'm not predicting this will be more popular than Excel", which I would agree is a programming language.

Thanks!
It was and still is hard for me as well. I tend to get emotionally involved with whatever job I do and the people I work with and that sometimes creates friction with people who prefer a level of professional detachment (or just don't care).

Anyway: I recommend the book "Reinventing Organizations" for a look at how to create more human-friendly orgs and "Time to Think" for some powerful tactics to use at a team level.
First satellite and first man in space are not irrelevant. They're very challenging engineering problems.

First woman in space is technically easy, but it does say something about the two cultures that the Soviet Union put a woman in space almost immediately, whereas the United States didn't do so for decades.
Why is Haskell a lisp? It is the first time I hear someone classifying Haskell in the “List Processing” family of languages, and although it does process lists I thought its main paradigma symbol and code representation goes in a complete different direction, more into pure function oriented programming.
Not me! I’ll never go to one and have it in my will that there won’t be one when I pass.
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Pidgeon, spoken in alot of the islands nations, is used as a bridge like language for local dialects. IMO its the first example of what this book is referring too.
IME Slack at big companies has mostly been a ground-up initiative by engineers that were sick of important discussions happening in long email chains. It's strange to read that network effects or entrenchment made Slack so huge when 5 or 6 years ago they didn't exist :/
Of course I do, but my back of the envelope guess is there's a 30% shot we can cure cancer in 15 years without AGI, and a 1% shot we can reach AGI in 15 years. I think AGI is cool but I'm much more concerned about helping people with cancer.
Based on Bill's prices I feel compelled to mention signing up for their email list yields a 30% discount code. That's a $48 discount on one pair of pants.
If anyone's still reading this thread, the article cited a tweet from an account that just today wrote:

> When you bring in a population that is less skilled & from nations w/ lower average IQs, you are “baking in” socioeconomic inequality & fueling resentment among those less successful groups. This resentment can be successfully exploited by the identity politics of the left.

The person who wrote this, like Haidt, calls himself a "centrist," which makes me find it hard to take anything these people say about "dialogue" and "bringing people together" at face value.
Separating actual language from things like orthography is important here. I'm not sure language itself has changed at a significantly different rate than in the past. Internet communication environments do favour changing orthographic norms, which is still interesting, but not the same thing as language change.
I misread this quote at first:

"For many developers, figuring out how to do something cool on their Myspace page or building a GeoCities site full of animated “under construction” GIFs was the genesis of their tech careers."

I read it as "apex of (my) tech career." It felt like everything since then has been a slow decent into disappointment.

Everything feels so rigid now. Back then it was just fun. Feels like every thing I make now is loaded with anxiety about future changes and scalability and code rot. Tragic that this is gone for me.
totally :D
Having followed this fairly closely, I will drop a though here while it is in my head. Surely there would be no obstacle to supporting s-expression syntax and allowing additional syntax around it. Everyone seems to see this as either-or, but is it really truly impossible to have a set of rules that say "you can't start a valid sexp with `(4` so this must be the start of an infix expression" and "you can start an sexp with `(add1` so I'll keep going"? Yes there will be a cost in the reader, but moving away from sexps is already going to be costly in that sense. Further, if we are going to incur the cost of a major complication of the parsing implementation, then why not go all out and allow interleaved expressions? What are the ambiguous cases that make this impossible?
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure as hell helps.
AGI is not something unnatural that could never be attained. If biological systems can somehow attain it, there is no reason other kinds of man-made system cannot attain it.

The first main issue is that of compute capacity.
Human brain has equivalent of at least 30 TFLOPS of computing power and this estimate is very likely 2 orders of magnitudes off.

Assume that somehow simulating 1 synapse takes only 1 transistor (gross underestimate). To simulate number of synapses in a single human brain then would need same number of transistors as in 10,000 NVidia V100 GPUs, one of the largest mass produced silicon chip!

The second main issue is of training neurons that are far more complex than our simple arithmetic adders. Back prop doesn't work for such complex neurons.

The 3rd big problem is that of training data. Human child churns through roughly 10 years of training data before reaching puberty. The man-made machine perhaps can take advantage of vast data already available but still there needs to be some structured training regiment.

So current AI efforts in relative comparison of human brain are playing with toy hardware and toy algorithms. It should be surprising that we have gone so far regardless.
I did manage to move the not so nice thoughts to the end of the train. Now if I could just learn to stop writing/talking/thinking(?) before we get there the world would be a happier place.
IBM is generally a subcontractor to a prime. They are rarely a prime. IBM doesn't compete in fed at the level Lockheed or Raytheon, for example, do.
I struggle with this as well as I read many warnings against deriving self-worth from external sources. However I am not free from that and I don't think I'll ever be.

I draw the line at excessive rumination when someone does NOT provide that external validation or criticizes me outright.
Isn't homoiconicity one of the requirements for a lisp? If so, that makes Julia a lisp, but not Haskell.
I am following what a few books like 'Think Python' do, content is CC and code is MIT (or GPL, etc).
This would be incredibly useful if I didn't always lose pens before they run out of ink.
The word is "pidgin", and don't think this is really a good example of that. These language features are being used by native english speakers to communicate with other native english speakers. A pidgin is not normally used to communicate between speakers of the same language.

Note that some languages that are collquially refered to as pidgins, aren't (e.g. Tok Pisin).
I feel pretty bad for people working in ML/AI at Microsoft Research right now. Microsoft is sending a clear signal that they would pay $1B in outside AI research than spend the same amount internally.
Human Interest (YC S15) is not hiring 10x engineers
You may have recently seen a VC on Twitter talk about what makes a “10x engineer”: https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328

We at Human Interest couldn’t disagree more. In fact, if those tweets describe the way you like to work, we’d prefer you not apply to work with us.

The engineers at our Human Interest are eagerly collaborative, and look forward to sitting down to meet with their colleagues in product management, customer support, operations, and sales. We’re professionals who keep normal work hours, and are eager to mentor and be mentored. And we come from diverse backgrounds.

Most of all, we’re proud to be building software that expands access to retirement savings to the 80% of small businesses that don’t offer their employees a 401(k). It’s not about the technology, it’s about the people we help.

Does that sound like an environment you could thrive in? If so, we’d love to hear from you. Apply at: https://grnh.se/0c63e19c1
Given the actual condition being imposed on users of MIT/Expat-licensed assets:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

I'm failing to see what the hold-up is here.

- If it's an SVG file, what's wrong with including the license text as a comment?

- If it's a raster image, what's wrong with including the license text in the metadata?

The way I'm reading this, as long as the license text is somehow embedded in the asset - whether or not it's actually visible to someone viewing it as an image - then that fulfills the terms of the license, no?

If such an embedded license is sufficient, then I fail to see what the problem is. Is it just file size? Are these people really so averse to content creators being credited for their work that said consumers of said works consider embedded attribution/licensing unacceptable (and why)?

If such an embedded license is not sufficient, then why is it insufficient?

Obligatory: I ain't a lawyer. Given the sorts of quibbling that seems to be happening over a three-paragraph license that's ubiquitous in the world of software, I don't envy the actual lawyers one bit.
Warren has a proven track record of being a complete moron when it comes to the economy and is a guaranteed trip to economic disaster.
I used this exact same technique for the most recent PEG-based parser I wrote too. Works really well, and integrates well with Prolog (which I was using).
Resilience is fine but there needs to be a line somewhere. At a certain point you have to decide what's okay and what's not okay. A good example is prejudice against LGBT people or people of different races. A ton of people are prejudiced against those people and all of their beliefs are "true" to them (so trying to silence their message will be supressing truth to them) but I think it's okay as a society to decide that those views aren't okay.

You should always be willing to speak your truth but society is allowed to reject it. It'll be wrong a decent amount of the time but it corrects over time through things like the civil rights movement or the rise of feminism. Interestingly in my experience being unable to reject ideas as a society actually slows down that progress as you'll then just always be relitigating past issues.

Edit: I guess the question to me is "where do you draw the line" and the answer seems to be pretty obviously "you let people draw their own line" in like 98% of situations. Generally by paying attention or just asking people it's been a pretty easy rule to live by and people seem to appreciate it.
> It may be an illusion or a word game.

If consciousness is an illusion, what is experiencing the illusion? What makes an experience of consciousness an illusion rather than actual?

(Don't quote Dennett in response, I'm curious to see a straightforward reply to this that makes sense.)
Would this the same Peter Thiel who bought himself[1] a New Zealand citizenship, just in case things go south in his home country? Sounds like an expert on that playbook.

1. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-...
A Dallas-born citizen has been detained by CBP for over three weeks
Yeah, the spawn point led us to tell people no camping since that would ruin the fun.
IME as an engineer who’s been around the block, before Slack we were using Hipchat, and before that Jabber or IRC. I have not noticed a significant change in features (gifs, bots, integrations were all there through all of those), just changing fads, but by god if the performance and responsiveness of the chat client de jour hasn’t been steadily declining over time.

Mostly what drove orgs I’ve been with from one to another has been pricing (Slack having a free tier ate Hipchat’s lunch, like I said), and “buzz”. Slack was the hip thing to get on in 2013.
I agree! ;)

I try to make it more meaningful by saying why I agree with or like something in order to clarify the (prefferably shared) values behind my appreciation.

I've also recently used a torrent of appreciation (the Mesita strategy) to build up the self-esteem of a person struggling with self-confidence.

The trick is it has to be honest and at least somewhat meaningful to them (it's not good to compliment someone on things they don't value).

A really over the top example: complimenting a woman in the workplace on her looks. will definitely not be appreciated and these days might get you fired ;)
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I have the opposite issue is there a way to connect to a cloud database without an ODBC connection?
You are being disingenuous here if you are trying to gloss over the fact that these 'military targets' can be silos with other party's ICBMs.
I'm having trouble remembering the quote, but it was something like: "Don't ask a woman if she's pregnant unless you see a baby is coming out of her right then."
>but their aesthetic isn't always popular.

My Carhartt clothing is some of the best made and longest wearing I own. You're going to laugh but Carhartt is trying to go upmarket and establish themselves as a fashion brand in Europe! Imagine my surprise to trip across a Carhartt store with a wall of gimme caps / trucker hats on display in Frankfurt, Germany!

Hopefully they expand their profitability by getting their name out there rather than cutting costs on material and quality but I've already seen some Amazon reviews alleging the new stuff is sourced out of China with a drop in quality. If that's actually true and it's not just counterfeits flooding Amazon I'll be looking at Schaefer or Cinch next.
Sounds like a decision born of vanity and pedantry. "These VMs are too good, and the type systems too useful, to hell with them!"
Since you mentioned HK, any opinion on Simpson Sin?
Jekyll with Netlify.
1. Remember the person you are talking to does not have the same things in their head, and they are not looking at (or seeing) the same things you are....

So no matter how much you disagree with them, from their perspective it makes sense and is ethically correct.

2. Most people are in perfect agreement on most things eg. Motherhood and Apple Pie are Good Things.

Most conflict arises from differing priorities being assigned to various "Good" things.

3. There are precisely two things and ONLY two things you can change in this world.

What you do and how you react.

No matter how important it is, those are the only two things you can change.
More coverage of Gretchen's book is quoted on her daily linguistics blog:

https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/186456220892/reviews-of...
>the British crashed the entire nation via illicit drug sales

What incident are you referring about here?