skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the problem as I see it: you assume "understanding" and "why" are somehow fundamentally different from what BERT/GPT-2 does, but I see no arguments for that point of view.
Verizon sues city to avoid paying 5G fees, says the FCC has its back
Don''t know why you're being downvoted, but 100k is definitely not the cost of firing a just-hired employee in the US.

If you're paying a new-hire-fast-fire more than the salary due to them for the period worked (and any other amounts listed in their offer letter, if one existed), then you need to talk to a labor lawyer because you're definitely doing something wrong...unless you're paying them to shut up about the experience.
Maybe if you are single, young American without any health issues or dependents, sure, why not. Is it attainable by everyone? I don't think so. It's a great ideal to have, and maybe someday a reality, but as things currently are, unrealistic.
>The person described the question less as a serious inquiry and more as a joke meant to indicate “I’m so powerful I could buy a country,” noting that since Mr. Trump hadn’t floated the idea at a campaign rally yet, he probably isn’t seriously considering it.

With past Presidents, you would have to rely on the press and insider leaks to figure out what the President was really thinking. Between his campaign rallies, and Twitter, we get a pretty unfiltered day by day view of what is on the President's mind. That can be both good and bad.
“At this point, the TuSimple trucks carrying packages for UPS still have an engineer and a safety driver riding along”

Seems like they’re as far along in the process as all the other companies
My info is also pretty out of date, but for a long time at least they would give a PDF/flier thingy with a "how to prepare for your interview" that had all that stuff listed, and it went in a lot of details.
With the state of bluetooth I still love my headphone jack. It works with my Truck, my Car, my phone, my laptop, my computer, my tablet, my bicycle speakers, everything!

Bluetooth is great, but dang if it isn't a hassle. The bluetooth dongle in my car is always having issues, my bluetooth headset randomly sounds like garbage when it changes over to another codec for "Phone". Re-pairing to change between devices is a PITA too.
That is a far more reputable industry than timeshares ;)

I would propose Silver, Gold, Platinum plus optional drop-in rates of $x day, $x4 for a week, $x15 for a month such that $Gold - $Silver = $x*15
It would be nice to have measurements of the current, rather than just the temperature. The colored plot also looks suspicious, I wonder if it's based on a deviation from normal rather than absolute temperature.
You haven't answered the OP's question. Just because such interviews are avoidable, at some expense that I'll get to later, is orthogonal to whether they perpetuate age discrimination.

Yes, everyone "should" have a trusted network like you say, but that only works if you're a bit flexible about what you work on or where. If you have more specific goals regarding projects, locations, markets, scale, or salary, you might find only two or three places hiring and they might all have blanket whiteboard-interview policies even for senior or specialized hires. That's how I found myself in front of a whiteboard at 52. It worked out for me, but what if it hadn't? I could have compromised on some of my goals and used my network to get a job elsewhere. I've been there and done that too, but I wouldn't have welcomed the compromise. I also no longer wish to participate in a system of side-door hires that perpetuates discrimination.

It's easy to say what others "should" do, but they're not you. They might have different values and priorities that leave them with less flexibility regarding whether to do such interviews.
Investments goes through "due diligence" between signing a term sheet and closing. During this time, the VC gets to look at the company's financials, legal liabilities, and all the other stuff that they don't get to look at before then.

On the engineering side, it's common for investors to ask for a list of software vendors and open source licenses. It would seem pretty legit to me for an investor to ask an outside firm to audit whether a product's code matches what they claim during the pitch.
> This 1PW of heat would need to disperse somewhere else.

more hurricanes
I think both Apple and Google should make reviews optional.

Sure, give preference to the reviewed apps in the store, put a nice badge on it when it's reviewed, add a setting to allow unreviewed apps to install, prevent kids from installing unreviewed apps, etc, but at least let me upload my app when and how I want to.
I don’t know how common it is.

All I know is that I had a short gig last year to do a code review on a potential acquisition, so this can happen at least sometime.

This was for a much smaller product, though.
It's funny that you are not only proving his point, but yours as well, by inventing some elaborate story of your own.
for the same reason any company accepts due diligence: they won't get the investment if they don't accept.

Of course all of these are negotiable and not all investors do their due diligence, but it is in a well-performing VC's interest to do so.
> What stands out the most about Bukowski is his incredible lack of empathy. He looks at people working regular jobs and all he sees are empty bodies.

He's describing the people he saw every day for decades. If you think you understand those people you've never met more than he did, you're the one who lacks an understanding of empathy.
For anyone reading this wondering how that's safe, I believe they make noise regularly once they reach this state, to encourage you to replace them, rather than just silently failing to operate!
Isn't that typically what happens though when you can't nail someone on anything else?

It's how they nailed Al Capone after all.
No, I don't think it's important. Users have value to search engines. Every user who chooses a non-Google option from the dialog will immediately cause Google to make less money, and the selected competitor to make more. (Because all the competitors will be bidding less than Google makes per user, and bidding less than they themselves make per user).

So I think saying that the competitors will be bleeding billions of dollars is just not true. Unless they totally misjudge their bids, they should still be in a better position than they are now.

(But I'll happily volunteer to be the third party getting those billions of dollars a year. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig!)

> If we're trying to break up the search monopoly, Google should be paying other search engines to be in it's setup flow, so the money is going to the companies that need it.

Sounds great, I'll happily volunteer for that too!

But more seriously, that sounds like a rather bizarre plan to me. Is it part of any kind of established anti-trust doctrine?

The most competitive alternative (Bing) is owned by a trillion dollar company, controlling one of the biggest operating systems and the biggest browsers. You'd seriously have Google pay Microsoft to make Bing better?

The next one on the list is owned by a mere $250 billion company, so obviously there's no question at all about Verizon needing some handouts.

But what's the next step after that? Google should perhaps give Apple some free money so that they can make iOS more competitive? It's too bad for Google they shut down G+, if they'd waited just a bit longer they could have gotten Facebook to chip in some money to fund its development.
You’ve phrased your question in a disingenuous way. You know it’s illegal to target specific companies with legislation.

This piece is clearly in response to the existing and impending Chinese tariffs, and in response to the President’s constant attacks on large companies with his protectionist rhetoric.
Are the people shorting Tesla right about EVs being useless?
Xbox Live lets you change your gamertag, and I believe PSN does as well.

Pretty sure you have to pay to do it, but there are definitely services that let you change your user name.
If you create your own business are you going to hire people to work for you 9-5?
> Quickly Zachariassen learned that Vivino didn’t have to be the best wine app. It just had to be better than his competitors.

Okay cool, words mean things, and doesn't "best" mean "better than the rest"? I just feel like the article is full of phrases like this that rub off as motivational speaker styling, and that makes me inherently skeptical.
That's exactly it's purpose though. If you only want a loan you would be raising debt (i.e. corporate bonds) rather than selling equity.
If they block 40% of real hate speech but also 5% of false positives (lgbt commenting on hate speech) I would say the algorithms are working overall.

I have no way to know the real numbers but I am assuming Google monitors overall effectiveness of algorithms and only use what works.
Eh, we can disagree on a precise definition of abstract "conflict resolution", but I'm referring to unison's behavior with -batch. There's no logical conflict that needs to be resolved by user choice or algorithm. When looking at the larger system of all the replicas, unison's behavior is to simply undelete a file that was explicitly deleted.

> Why? IMAP already takes care of synchronization, without any potential problems.

Less configuration, less attack surface. Sharing mail over NFS is a common thing, and I view unison as a type of distributed filesystem.
I'm having trouble understanding what you want.

Undo is for undoing an action, like inserting a bunch of text.

If you want to delete one character at a time backwards... use the backspace key?
Replication police methodological terrorism stasi nudge shoot the messenger WTF
Yup. Everyone remembers what happened with the whole IRS/Teaparty thing.
I think most people misunderstand why they were rejected. Most people interviewed are more than qualified for the job. I've interviewed countless people on phone and in person, and I rarely come across a candidate that's not able to do the job.

The real reason candidates get rejected is simply this: 5 candidates get interviewed and ONLY 1 can get the job. This is simple math. No amount of studying on the part of the candidates, and no amount of interview hiring competence can avoid this outcome: there is only 1 Job. The reason for all this is simple: a vast oversupply of qualified candidates. As more and more engineers get pumped into the market, this problem will only get worse. You can see from the 2019 developer survey, the ratio of 1-5 year devs vs 5-10 years, indicating the number of senior devs is increasing very rapidly.
I cannot see Trias11's original comment as it has been flagged to death, but based on the reactions to it, I'd like to offer some insight.

Whenever there is a post about CEO pay (or the success of any other wealthy individuals) the reaction from the socialists/progressives always leaves us non-socialists wondering if whether our left-leaning compatriots are motivated more by an envy of the rich than by compassion for the poor.

The truth is, I very much doubt that we actually know what CEO pay "should" be. Nor do we know how much taxes should be. People (especially the rich) are taxed a probably a higher rate than at any other point in history, and yet there are stills calls to make them pay their "fair share". How much is fair? If you don't have a good answer in mind then the escalation continues until the answer becomes "all of it" and then you get the liquidation of the kulaks.
The cited 2.4 million only includes 90,000 actual Apple employees.
> and to a certain extent we already do, at least via a github repo.

There are significant pushbacks in some communities that this isn't inclusive, because people can't spend that much time outside of work hours to build one (and as you pointed out, internal code can't really be included).

Graphic designers and stuff are always sketching/drawing stuff on the side for their portfolios though, and that seems pretty expected, so... /shrugs.
I'm not advocating selective boycotts of things or companies that are bad actors - those are not effective. I'm also not saying it's the best way for individual citizens to make a difference. Obviously laws are better because of the tragedy of the commons/prisoner's dilemma nature of the problem. Whoever pollutes will outcompete whoever does not because (currently) it's cheaper to pollute than to not.

I was saying that the best way to make a difference as a consumer is to be less of a consumer. Most people in developed countries buy way too much shit. Changing that is a win for the individual (more money in your pocket) and the environment. And doing this does not preclude pressuring your elected representatives for broader change.
> So... paying people more makes them less likely to eat at a restaurant? That logic doesn't work, you're forgetting the other side of the consumer equation.

It is often argued that it does, particularly by opponents of minimum wage increase. If they need to pay their salaries, they'll increase menu item prices, and a la supply and demand, fewer sales. This argument is for a single business only, I imagine the aggregate supply and demand is affected differently if one were to apply a minimum wage law instead of a hypothetical at one restaurant. Basic form of the argument would be if everyone makes more in a region, perhaps increases in prices are cancelled out. I'm not an economist, ymmv.
Alas it seems that there is simply not enough people willing to pay for "it". (I haven't, and likely won't.) :(

Fortune 500 companies, various nation states are willing to use random Android phones. Why shouldn't "we"?
The point is that they shouldn't do it algorithmically. They need to have guidelines for what type of content is acceptable, and hire people to enforce them.
This is exactly why we need Eric Drexler's molecular assemblers: so we can build large quantities of molecules that are "built" atom-by-atom!
Previous US attempts to buy Greenland:

- President Harry Truman developed a geopolitical interest in Greenland and in 1946 offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100 million. But Denmark refused to sell.

- The State Department launched an inquiry into buying Greenland and Iceland in 1868. Here's a link to the published report - https://books.google.com/books?id=U9lIAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP13#v=one...
How Gamergate Created a Playbook for a Culture War
I would never do that. I am a jack of all trades and I intend to keep it that way. One man business.
It's not just about "not getting ad revenue". It's about accounts getting suspended, homophobic ads running on pro-lgbt videos, and a total lack of enforcement on their harassment policies.

https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1134264395717103617?lang=...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_a_Nation%3F#Forgetfuln...
If they're having trouble classifying, they might not have good data on effectiveness.
I just figured he was talking about an OS-level "crash", considering how he went on about how Linux never crashes.
> We haven’t gotten anywhere in terms of _understanding_ what’s in that speech that just got turned into text, for example

What test is there to quantify understanding that has been used to determine that it hasn't gotten better?

It seems to me that a lot of the things that are posed as hard things for AI to do are poorly defined phenomenon which we have no empirical test for that we simply infer to be explanations for observed behavior of humans that critics assert that AI can't do without evidence or even a definition upon which a search for evidence could be based.
The Danes aren't selling.
thank god im not the only one
Ooooh, come on, how fun would it be to have DT ask the CIA to stage a coup in Greenland "with penguins or something" ?

Also, just wait until someone tells him Greenland is not really bigger than Africa, and then starts explaining Mercator projection... I want to see that moment !
Vandalism (in its original use, the pillaging of art) implies a need to cause destruction, hostility; it's vengeance, comeuppance. In this case I think "rape" is the correct description. Rape is asserting your power over someone against their will, to humiliate, dehumanize; it's forced submission to make oneself superior. What Martin did is much worse than simply destroying Bukowski's art; he forced himself upon it, corrupting it, like a necrophiliac with a pen.
Ugh, comparing modern 9-5 office jobs to slavery is privileged hyperbole. Our ancestors were nearly all farmers and they all worked 12 hour days of back breaking labor. Modern office corporate jobs may be a bit soul sucking, but they're far from blue collar labor. In some respects they're almost too easy (in that they aren't physical enough to replicate the conditions our bodies adapted to).
Usernames changing is important in a world where peoples' identities change.

People transition and might not want a username based on their deadname. People get married or divorced and change their legal name, which can have ramifications on their usernames. People might just get older, and lose significance of old pseudonyms.
> I'm not sure I see how someone [...]

I understand, it isn't intuitive. I hope my analogy of someone well trained in art, yet still can't paint worth a damn, makes sense.

Or pilots who ace all the pre-flight training, yet simply are too uncoordinated to fly well. (That's me. I know all about flying, yet should never be in the pilot's seat.)

Some people are just unable to synthesis good code out of all their knowledge.
Not just people in general. The developers of those software, that we use/rely on.
That site is fantastic, thanks! And it also indexes debris; just enter "DEB" into the search box to get data on all known debris in orbit.
I had one website that I was working on, basically zero traffic, besides me testing it. After a couple of months Cloudflare kicked me off the free tier, asked for money. No idea why. I didn't use much of their resources, well within the limits.
I have the problem of primarily being interested in a few already crowded markets with gargantuan incumbents. I dream about starting in an adjacent, undiscovered niche, growing to scale, then nimbly pushing my way back in and catching them off guard.

The problem is that I love the space they operate in, but I feel they're delivering mostly generic tripe. I can't just go work for them. I don't have the clout to become a leader in their orgs, and I wouldn't be happy at the bottom.

I'm talking about Netflix and Disney.
I would to start seeing data analysis which charts how increases in temperature center (or don't) on certain extreme periods each year. 3-10 day stretches of extreme heat, cold, flooding, etc are devastating to many living organisms, and, as global warming kicks into gear, we should be tracking and publicly discussing biologically significant weather events and their trends and directly - rather than just hottest day, month, year. It's a good cross discipline area for biologists, geologists, and meteorologists to cooperate. When there is a major heat wave, the biological impact to the ecosystem, beyond the immediate impacts on humans in the moment, should be front page news.
> 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?

If you are saying I should have added a qualifier "assuming the rate of economic activity stays constant", yes, that qualifier should be there (if we define "inflation" as "increase in the average price level"). But I don't agree that any qualifiers like whether or not the money gets spent "foolishly" or "unwisely" need to be there.

Also, our current measure of "rate of economic activity", GDP, is not independent of the money supply, because it measures "activity" in dollars. So the fact that US GDP is growing does not necessarily mean the real rate of economic activity is growing.
So how do you pick a dentist?
It's like the '78 Superman plot but with less nukes.
You can upload your app to Fdroid. It (unfortunately for users, fortunately for you) doesn't include a review system.
I agree. Take everything with a grain of salt. In addition, I use Fakespot. It gives products a letter grade based on how "fake" their reviews are. Not perfect, but another data point.
The orbitals of the pi bonds are probably in awkward angles resulting in ring strain, and thus instability. It can be explained by the antibonding orbital overlap of the pi bonds.

Edit: Expanded a bit
To save you the search: "$100 in 1969 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $699.10 in 2019." 1960 median rent in NYC was about $545 in 2019 dollars.
Twilio’s incentives to enable fraud against their customers: not a good look
Okay, but why do you think the numbers look anything like that? Conversely, if they block 5% of hate speech but are 40% false positives, then the algorithms are clearly not working. We have no reason to assume they're effective, and in fact this lawsuit contends that they're actually harmful.
9-1.

9-5 three days a week.

Whatever.

40 hours labour just isn't necessary for all of us.

We need to work to actually produce things like food and transport and so on. Services.

The vast majority of people I know are not working for that. It's a side effect. We're in this absurd zero sum race to outbid each other for housing (and not just in SF/London, it's all over nowadays).

Like, come on. Once you have an income at a level sufficient to spend, say, 50% on a house, get a mortgage etc, you have truly terrifying amounts of funds left over in terms of normal material goods in the prosperous towns.
I dunno, wanderlust doesn't afflict everyone, and having a stable routine matters to some folks.
you'd just have people who learn how to pass the licensing exam by rote memory who still can't actually program
Smartphone App Can Quickly Detect Invisible Gas Pump Card Skimmers
IntelliJ shows the inferred types by default. However it Gasversorgung it’s limitations with complex Rust types.
Heh heh.

Reminds me of one CEO of mine proudly holding up a Nokia n95 Navigator and telling us how the iPhone was trash and the n95 was the future of mobile phones. This was his excuse for not signing our retail provider up to sell Apple phones.

Within a couple of years he had left to join the board of a small credit union with his crowning achievement being the introduction of low-balance fees and cash withdrawal fees.

So yes, I am perplexed at how people like this keep getting highly paid executive positions while I am stuck in a damp cell in a poorly lit dungeon.
You can see how people on HN feel about given topics: https://hnprofile.com/compare?search=AWS,GCP%20|%20Google%20...

We're building the same thing for companies: https://insideropinion.com
> If claim 2 is true we should be able to use the usual tools to know it.

Not necessarily. The "usual tools" presume objects that react minimally to observation, and they tend to loose potency when the objects being studied are aware of observation and especially of its intent. You see reactions to this fact in psychological research, which often has to mislead experimental participants to get them to react less unnaturally, for instance. If God exists, He knows of your tests and may choose to have you point your "usual tools" somewhere else when He's "having an observable effect."
The logic is that people have always found ideas about the end of world, heaven, salvation, immortality, enticing. Singularity predicts analogs of these things in a manner that is compatible with atheism, so some atheists believe there will be singularity soon, for the same reasons some religious people believe the end of the world is near.

I don't think that the above is good enough reason to dismiss the whole idea of singularity, but it is a good explanation why more people tend to predict singularity, instead of "viscosity" where improvements become harder and harder to do and AGI is needed to simply keep the same pace.
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