skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet there are so many more people who came from as fortunate or more fortunate means, including those who went into mathematics, but are not as talented as them.

Michael Phelps is not just a product of luck, either. You could train your entire life and not be as good a swimmer as him. You'd have to redefine luck to include genetics.
I gave a talk on this topic! See https://www.infoq.com/presentations/opendoor-machine-learnin...

The tl;dr is to try to incorporate the ML models into a business simulation, so instead of maybe-abstruse metrics like AUC and log loss, you have "businessy" metrics like margin and volume and can better directly tie the ML models to business value creation.
Meanwhile, this has been one of the coldest and rainiest Augusts in Central Europe for a number of years.
I think Okteto is an example of what you're describing. (This is for K8s, I just learned about this service yesterday and it does what you're describing, kind of.)

okteto.com

I'm not sure this is relevant, but it's a great example of a service that has a tutorial, that covers multiple use cases, and lasts less than about 2 minutes, leaving you with a pretty clear understanding of what else you're meant to do.

This is how all elevator demos should be.
Should I be astonished by some field which recently got a lot of traction* made some breakthroughs ?

(*investors money)

I'm just stating that "again" in our industry, masses will now flock to "new shiny thing" simply because it is hyped and investors throw money at it. While managers will try to fit ML/DL/AI into pretty much anything either if it makes sense or not.
UEFI spec insists in root of trust being specified by vendor, Microsoft requires ability to set completely owner-controlled keys because they offer that as part of highest security mode on Windows for corporate clients.
That might be true, but also the premise of the PR piece isn't about workers, it's about the extended "job footprint" -- as in the industries of app developers, hardware and parts manufacturers, etc. that Apple "supports" rather than directly employs. It's not super obvious how a tax cut to Apple would lead to them, like, voluntarily overpaying part suppliers. The motivating examples in the article include a company that makes battery testing equipment and a company that makes lasers.

Direct employees account for only 3% of what they're talking about.

I don't think this takes away from the idea that Apple like most companies is it in to make boatloads of cash and to hell with everyone else, but your comment seems in response to the headline rather than the article.
Link to the full complaint: https://gofile.io/?c=dnaTwk
Correct, but you take a risk when doing business with any company. You find ones of good repute, you meet with representatives. Usually, it's noticeable if a company is really struggling. It is not the job of the state to make business transactions risk-free, only to provide courts for the adjudication of fraud and breach of contract.
I was totally thrown off, because your second and third paragraphs aren't quoted. You write in the same style as the newspaper, and just as well. Good job!

(For anyone else wondering, parent quoted just the paragraph >"Gawel... says Scriven", then added their thoughts.)
Someone can be world known and still criticized - though it does make you somewhat of a social pariah to do so openly. I'm afraid to tell HN what I think of Picasso, for example.
Data regulator probes King's Cross facial recognition tech
That's just one take, and I very much do not agree with it personally. My productivity has only gone up as the tooling and language have improved.

One thing that I am working on figuring right now is the proliferation of dependencies. But that's a"nice" problem to have.

> Just as an example, one of our simulations relies on being able to craft raw UDP packets in order to "impersonate" remote basestations in our lab environment.

I would assume you would do it in Rust just like you would in C. Where's the hang up?
It’ll be hard, but we can feed the world with plant protein
No one would really be confused by this. Most carbon isotopes are carbon-12, with some carbon-13. Something as large as carbon-18 would immediately suggest that something fishy is going on.
Candidates have different strengths and weaknesses. Sure, I'll ask the base questions but in terms of assessing their coding ability I'll go with whatever they feel the most comfortable with.

If they have github, I'll ask them to walk me through a few files, asking their reasons for doing X, why not Y - what does this do?

If they prefer take-home, I'll give them something to create/improve.

Want to do something now? knock yourself out - with or without me watching.

I don't need to sort the candidate into an ordered list, just filter out the "over confident".

The questions I want answering is: Can they actually code? Does their skill match their experience? Is their skill level similar to the codebase?
FORGET. THAT. NOISE.

If I'm not going to do a 6 hour take-home assignment for you, I'm definitely not going to do 300 Leetcodes to "prepare". I've been doing this for 34 years. That's my preparation. Either you want what I've got, or you don't.
I hope that is a the case of it being sorted quickly though I am unsure they can teach intent well enough to actually make this any better.
There is a glitch in both charts on mobile (FF and chrome). For example, the first chart shows >2100 cumulative forest fires (contrary to ~1650 in the text). The value in the chart that appears if you click the data point is correct.
> If this is the case, that's tragic in the dramatic sense -- LGBT groups fighting algorithms that are protecting them, because they can't appreciate the unseen danger prevented.

I don't think the article or GP are saying this. The algorithms, while ostensibly well-intentioned, are actually having the opposite effect — stifling the speech of the LGBTQ+ community while allowing their harassers to operate mostly unchecked.
If they were willing to give you a top compensation, then OK, writing hash table from the scratch is a pretty common question at Google/FB. If it was for some generic job with generic pay, they did you a great service by rejecting you.
Well, the algorithms simply don't work if they're flagging too many false positives.
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo is pretty good for self hosted
What about crowdsourcing efforts? Why are user flags insufficient?

Why can't there be a balance between full automation and human review, such as an appeal system or 'whitelist' program? Are the economics really the obstacle, or is it more of a corporate stance towards not adjudicating subjective controversies to avoid liability under the Communications Decency Act Section 230?
何と再び「令和閉じて欲しい」さらに「刑務所へ８０」と霊団が降らせてきました。説明してみましょう（祈）†
>Rather, you are judged almost entirely by your resume - the "brand name" of the law school you attended, your GPA, and the "brand name" of the law firms you've previously worked at. If your school or previous law firms aren't prestigious enough, you won't even be invited to an interview.

Somewhat ironically, I took a brief detour into patent law after my first few years as a SW developer. I had a MSEE plus four years of software experience. I mailed 5 resumes to the biggest law firms in town (Boston). I got five interviews and 2 job offers. Salary was about 5% less than my current salary at the time, but they'd pay for law school and guarantee a job when you finished.

There is an "in" but it's fairly unconventional.
Release Scheduling is Impossible with Google's New Approval Process

Or something like that. Your current title doesn't indicate the problem. The first two words in mine contain the main topic and set the tone. This isn't about an extended release process, it's about scheduling the release.
That sounds sensible, but what would a natural fire be caused by?

A droplet of water focusing the sunlight onto a point below it is the only thing I can think of, but then there is cooling water right on top of it, and as soon as that begins to evaporate the focus also disappears.

Edit: ah yes of course, lightning. Thanks everyone.
These are huge swings. Each of these projects has the potential to increase the company's value by $100B and only cost single digit $B. Same model as VC.
At a previous education startup I did a lot of interviewing of candidates. The question I feel gave me the most insight into candidates was very, very broad. After explaining (generally) how the company’s product worked, I’d ask them something like, “Let’s have a conversation about how you would design a system to distribute e-textbooks to students.”

I would reassure them there is not a right answer, that the exercise was just asking them to engage with the question. It was so effective as an indicator of future performance, and, according to those who eventually were hired, felt fair to them.

Of course this implies all my biases to people who can have a 1:1 convo about a very vaguely specified problem and so on. No idea if it’d be positive for everyone, but I wish someone would interview me like that.
There is no gender or financial requirement to be a CEO. Everyone can be a CEO.

Here’s some job ads for CEO: https://www.indeed.com/m/jobs?q=CEO

You’ll notice there’s nothing about gender in any of them, or being born to wealthy parents.

Consider that maybe the limiting factor to becoming a CEO is yourself, and not society, men, rich people, discrimination, etc.
CEO pay, as a metric, is somewhere between a misunderstanding of the problem, and a red-herring. Taking the top "350" companies makes this particular example lean towards the red-herring column. Companies are larger than ever, have access to financial instruments that are more capable than most small nation states, and "grow" by eating their competition left and right. There are numerous other factors in play, many of which I likely don't know.

All that combines to create an environment where CEO pay out paces "reasonable" metrics, and each of those items needs to have its own nuanced discussion to even begin to make changes. I believe we legislated our way into this situation, and the current political landscape leaves little hope for legislating (or de-legislating) our way out of it.
Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland
Lightning is a major natural cause.
Lightning, I guess
Arguing that there's a right to get ad revenue from your videos is a big stretch. Has that ever come up before in the history of free speech? Classic issues are more like "can we make the newspaper run our ad if we pay the regular rates?"

Google recently won a lawsuit which complained YouTube was putting conservative content in "restricted" mode.[1] Others complain Google is not doing enough to avoid shoving too many extreme videos at people.[2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-youtube-c...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/world/americas/youtube-br...
MEGA, Mediafire, Zippyshare, Degoo, OneDrive, Google Drive, pCloud, etc. Pick one.
Saying "fire is good" doesn't strike me as much better than "fire is bad". Surely there are sustainable rates and unsustainable rates.
The thing is that a lot of us saw this coming. Whenever people complain about how YouTube needs to remove X type of content, they also need to realize that if YouTube actually starts policing that type of content then there will be false positives. Since YouTube will do it algorithmically, the chance that there will be collateral damage is much higher and YouTube takes a long time to reverse decisions they've already made.

For example, YouTube doesn't want violent content. Just having the word "kill" in your title can get the content demonetized, even if the content is about a video game and properly categorized as such. It's been this way for years.
I think the point is "extreme weather" rather than just "it's hotter now". The 1° average warming that we're currently at (or whatever the latest estimate is) won't suddenly set forests ablaze.
When people say that, they mostly just mean that it has lexical closures, I think.
AI Algorithms Need FDA-Style Drug Trials
I used and loved Unison for years, but I found myself wanting something that just worked invisibly with no admin effort so I switched to Resilio (Bittorrent Sync). Both work for my purposes. Anyone else try both of these and have feedback?
The problem with crowd sourcing, especially in the LGBT space, is it's really vulnerable to brigading. Give particularly bored and hatful people a bat to shut down channels they don't like and things go south fast.
Lightning usually
Install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on Linux to Run Apps and Games(2016)
So, ignoring the digression into wealth transfer and central banking, we agree that...

> [inflation] is a consequence of printing money as soon as the newly printed money gets out into the economy

... is not a fully accurate statement?
> General reminder that fires are a part of the natural order of things, and if anything we've put too much effort into suppressing them.

This appears to be a case of the naturalistic fallacy. Additionally, the article cites that the predicted cause of the fires is decreased moisture content in the fuel, not abundance of the fuel due to firefighting efforts.
Unprecedented 2018 Bering Sea ice loss repeated in 2019
Did it include the detailed paperwork for the equity which would include all terms such as requiring conversion to a corporation? Or was it just a number that you assumed didn't have any gotcha clauses attached?
Vernor Vinge actually tells an interesting analogy in the last part of the video: the parable of blind tribe and the wise man. The blind sage of a blind tribe, gathers everyone and says, "my friends, i have found that we are living at the edge of the precipice, run for your lives!"
Prioritizing Your Product Features with the MoSCoW Method
Israel gets $3.8 billions worth of weapons and other military equipment every year from the US because of its vital strategic importance. If someone messes with them that would be just like messing with an US state abroad; probably nobody would want to test that possibility.
The call for participation in week in rust gives a lot of different projects.

I also like that the compiler issues are tagged by difficulty and whether a mentor is available, fantastic.

Thank you!
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The one thing I was surprised by in this article is they didn't mention the environmental benefit to growing beans.

Beans (particularly soybeans) help restore nitrogen into the soil and are a net-positive on feeding the soil without harmful chemicals.
I wouldn't call that the rainiest August in years. I live in Central Europe and here it is the worst drought in years. More than half of the country has the highest level of wild-fire possibility..

(Talking about Poland here)
I've heard about this before but never looked very closely.

Looks like a lot of fun :)
The power to be exercise is the casting of the vote.

The decision or the intention behind the vote is nothing to do with democracy itself.

Someone who cast a random vote in the ballot is as valid as someone who put a lot of thought in the ballot.

Doesn't matter if let say majority of the people vote by throwing the dice, it still democracy.
That seems... too lenient. What are the chances he just moves back to Costa Rica and starts up another scam shop, this time refusing to leave?
I am interested, thanks.
You make a good point. I was actually speaking about the general case, where you're simply pulling the bounds of x_min and x_max closer until f(x) reaches a target value or the bounds converge to the same value. f could be an array and x could be an index, but it doesn't have to be. The bug still exists in this general case. All you need is a numerical datatype that can overflow, and most of them can.
Did you provide the O(n) solution or O(n3) brute force solution? I think that's the important bit.
Indeed, anything can be scienced!
>What about crowdsourcing efforts? Why are user flags insufficient?

Because this will devolve into different groups flagging their opponents' videos. This will especially hurt the voices of minorities and other vulnerable populations.
I agree that this headline (data from a single year presented as a new trend) is useless at best or maybe even misleading (I haven't upvoted it), but from your comment, it sounds a bit like you are not convinced we are causing the climate to be changed. Not sure if that is the message you mean to convey.
If only everything could be homogenous everywhere, so the very few people who have the opportunity to work wherever they like could avoid momentary inconveniences!
Found: A Stash of Mystical Charms and Amulets in Pompeii
Ah, interesting. I haven't really noticed that sort of thing myself.
Re: your last statement, you can say it is not science that gave people[0] their morals, and I would agree. Science didn't create humans, so it can't be blamed for human's properties.

But it is a job of science to describe how those morals emerge and why they are the way they are: yadda yadda, evolution, group selection, basic biological realities, some other natural mechanisms I haven't heard about. Thousands of man-years of research to be done yet I'm sure.

It is also a job of science to extend and improve existing moral framework where it fails due to internal contradictions. Because that framework was created by many millennia of biological and cultural evolution, mostly in small tribe hunter gatherer context, once you move people out of that context things start to work less well.

Things like scale insensitivity and loss aversion affect our moral intuitions. Depending on how the question is posed you can judge exact same outcome to be a good or bad, moral or immoral (no wonder philosophers spend all their time running more and more elaborate trolley experiments). For me that indicates that morals are more like evolved heuristics for cooperating in tribal environment than a set of divine rules bestowed by a triple-omni deity.

[0] - Both atheists and religious people get their core morals from the same place. What that place is, is being contended.
> This is the best way for individual consumers to make a difference.

Disagree strongly. Individuals cannot solve this on their own, it can only be solved at the national and international level. This means voting and ensuring that politicians know that your vote rides on their action: letter writing, protests, et cetera. And of course politicians won't do anything until such intentions are widespread, so this means grass-roots movements.
Wow, that is amazing. I don't see how anyone could look at the poem referenced in the post [0] and conclude that the editor did not intentionally change a work of art into something only loosely connected to the original.

And this is poetry, where specific word choice is incredibly important to the work. I would feel uncomfortable even adding missing filler words like "the" and "and" to the output of a respected poet. "Vandalism" is a good name for what John Martin did.

On top of that, I'm not really a "literature person"... I'm wholly unqualified to defend my opinions of why one work is good and another is bad... And my opinion was primed by the author's negative opinion of Martin...

But the Martin version of this poem, in addition to not being faithful to the original material, is really awful.

[0] https://a902e479034e684a62a7-1e94d668f4cdc59b83cfdb5f186933f...
Also there's IFTT https://ifttt.com, I've never used it but it seems like it's in the same space.
Hedge funds often have data engineers who focus on building the infrastructure and cleaning the data.

They also have quant guys/data scientists who use the data to help drive investment decisions.
> I study algorithms that learn programs from examples

What does work?
I am not sure I would trust reviews either.

Everything is some sort of hustle. Companies pay for reviews. Reviewers often have no idea how to use the product. All you can really do is be ready to throw what you get in the trash if you don't like it.
> my grandmother had provided a verbal consent over the phone that had kept it just this side of being outright fraud.

If it was intentionally deceptive or coercive, it was probably outright fraud.
I used to do this as well and it was pretty great. If I worked remote again I'd probably start a co-op with a few friends or other businesses so that we could collectively rent an office (or just use one of the local coworking spaces if it was just me). When I travel though, I'd go right back to the coffee shops.
Usually when Joshua runs OpenBSD on a newer device you can expect that these issues will be worked out fairly quickly (or eventually), with him being an OpenBSD developer.
For example: https://jcs.org/2018/08/31/surface_go
In the Support log you can see commits he's made and errors he's fixed.

I reckon he'll be using this as a daily driver, so that's even more reason to believe he'll be working more on OpenBSD support.
Ricky Gervais said it quite eloquently: if you burn all religious fiction, in a thousand years none of it will return in the exact same form. If you burn all of science, all of it will be back in the exact same form. That is what reality is, it is not philosophical.
Ask HN: Should I host projects on their own domain?
Hi all

Last couple of weeks during the summer I’ve been really productive and launched some little tools/side-projects that were on my todo list since a very long time.

I decided to host them on my personal website, eg site.com/tool-a. Different people gave me the advice to host them on their own domains, as that’s more professional. They have a point, but I consider them my personal projects and they are 1-2 pages max and I’m not going to buy a separate domain name for every project I make, as most of the tools don’t bring in money and are just for fun.

One is a mobile app which has IAP, another one has a donation button on the final page and the other 4 projects are free.

Thoughts?
Gyms solved this problem with pricing tiers. Silver, gold, platinum, etc. You can only visit locations at or below your membership level.
I think Flow is a kind of 'personal-appliance' version of Azure Logic Apps which is a powerful integration platform. Like taking that tech to personal productivity use.
You'd be surprised how many "darlings" of our industry screwed their best people when the promises were due (even written ones) and plans changed.
Wow.

There is no hint of a contrived disaffected and put-on teenage style angst here (even if that is a thing!). He is celebrating his freedom from bondage at age 65, from the tyranny of a boss wielding his fate at a whim, from suffering the fate of “emptying out” as a consequence of slaving at jobs that are no better than slavery was for folks living in ancient times.

You read that as “teenage angst”? May I ask how old are you? And may I ask kindly also: was there ever a choice in your life when you thought being a barfly would be better for you than toiling at your “post office”?

If we can’t countenance his exposition of our pathetic working lives (and he does this in brutal and lucid prose), it’s only because we are likely deluding ourselves we aren’t living the way he sees it.

Cognitive dissonance may be at work here.
Working for yourself. Creating your own business, not being a slave to the system and being manipulated by media and the collective unconscious into thinking it's normal to work for someone, to sell your SELF, not your products (as it should be, in a rational society). Sadly, nothing about todays society is rational. But hey, if you wanna spend 1/3 of your life working a job you think is "OK", fucking have at it.

I would be ashamed to have written on my tombstone "worked 1/3 of his life as a sys admin".

There is no meaning in that. Just an empty job to have money, for what? For more stuff? To teach your children to do the same? Keeping materialistic corporations afloat with me taking care of the servers and stuff.
Does anyone actually use uefi on arm (maybe outside of surface tablets?)
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