skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think that could go either way. Haskell keeps getting new bells and whistles with no sign of any slow down. Once you get into sophisticated type systems, it's never "done". There's always going to be (semantically) safe code that doesn't type check in safe Rust, and the temptation to extend the type system to rectify that.
Years ago I had a regrettable experience working for an alleged telco in London that perpetrated myriad sins against humans and technology alike. Their spin on this problem was that they'd decided very early on to use email address as the PK for their homespun all-things-to-all-people system.

Shortly after they had to add an email column to address the predictable customer requests, and within a few years roughly half the user base was logging on with an email address they no longer used.
If YouTube can't protect its users, and the content people are posting is too distressing even for moderators, maybe YouTube shouldn't exist?
Maybe add [2009] to the title.
This is 100% true. You need mechanisms that validate and verify that trust (real stock or standard options, documented legal contracts, etc..) AND you need to have the personal trust in the board/founders in the first place.

Even with both there's risk beyond just market risk, but at least you've done what you can to minimize it.
That is a circular definition of truth. Which very well exemplifies the limitation of our spoken/written languages and the ineffability of reality.

Any evidence needs to be interpreted. You need to assign some sort of meaning to evidence. That interpretation is subjective. And this has happened a million times in science. If science actually discovered "truth", then it would never need to be revised. Nevertheless science is constantly discovering that it was wrong and keeps updating itself (well, us humans keep doing that).

Science (like religion), is just a system for humans to assign meaning to their experiences. Meanings will differ, just like our individual experiences. Hence these systems are built on collective agreement and continuous re-building of their own meanings.

Also, if as you say, we're limited to never knowing the complete truth of most things, then how could we possibly ever know that science is actually getting us closer to that truth?
GE has been in decline for quite a few years now. Being kicked out of the Dow was quite an embarrassment.
How does it compare to GCC or Javac or V8? It seems weird that the most used programming languages aren't on that list.
There's a reason that "talkling the talk vs walking the walk" is a thing.

A lot of people can speak (very deeply) about many topics, but as soon as they're in front of a keyboard it falls apart.
I have two questions; maybe someone more in-the-know on procedure can answer them:

1. Sounds like this will be done by phone call. Will there be recordings or transcripts made public; is it closed even to reporters?

2. Is this expected to be mostly technical/fact-finding or emotional/political posturing? Frankly I'm not even sure how the usual Democrat/Republican split looks in this case.
What about attaching a 'reputation' score to the flagger? E.g. something like:

- if there are sufficient flags, trigger a moderator review

- flaggers who correctly flagged content get +1 score or -1 score if not

that would make it harder for people to consistently flag content maliciously. Like age-old moderation systems such as calling 911 or police. If you abuse calling 911, you can get fined.

I imagine this has been tried before, and am genuinely curious why this is worse than flawed ML.
Have you ever considered that his angst is what highschoolers are trying to emulate?

It's like shitting on Hamlet because it's just a "recycled Lion King".
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Malcom Gladwell addresses this strange credentialism in the legal industry in a recent podcast. In his reckoning, entry into top law schools is determined almost entirely on LSAT scores, and the LSAT favors people who can process questions extremely quickly. But good lawyering is done by deliberative people who often don't perform well on standardized tests. In the podcast, a guest who took a look a legal hiring determined that LSAT or resume from top firms were not good markers of a good lawyer, so yes, legal hiring seems to be very broken. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/31-puzzle-rush
Why would you assume that empericism is in conflict with teleology?
This way of thinking provides nothing but presumption without proof. Let's just stick to the scientific method.
What's interesting is that usually people get screwed because the founders/execs raise too much money. Here, they didn't raise enough.
Well, as someone who went from bankruptcy and low wage job to low wage job to college to my current tech job, I disagree to some extent. It may not be easy to get out of a low pay career trajectory but it's doable. It takes hard work and effort and a certain amount of social and mental intelligence.
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what was the company? - companies like this should be called out
Thank you, that was a wonderful and inspiring read :)
It seems like he's saying it was mostly the posthumous poetry, not necessarily the novels or earlier poetry.
I'm not sure how that is a productive comment.
lol, is it such a weird time in the world that I don't know if this is real or fake?

Just wow.
Or both. Have a scanner, but also have a meaningful appeals process, and you don't have a demonitized gap just because you were falsely flagged.
Yep, this would be a godsend. They're already doing something similar with Workers and I do hope the trounce other cloud providers in providing a "Serverless Cloud"
I have said that it's not a vertically integrated service. Others are. Like S3. Or GCP. Cloudflare makes it possible to avoid the big clouds and do your own hosting or to use a smaller hosting company.

As for the millions of websites going offline. Surely, Cloudflare has tons of customers. It's an internet scale company. If they act sloppy and have tons of downtime a competitor might take over. If it's hard to architect a DDoS protection service in a robust way then that's just the world we live in. But I think you should appreciate that Cloudflare sells DDoS protection (their core product atm) without selling you a big package like http serving or root servers.
Lots of costs:

1. relocation expenses

2. starting bonus

3. headhunter fees

4. severance pay

5. COBRA

6. it can take a while to determine they're incompetent if they're good at the facade

7. if they're in a protected class, you have to go through a period (often 6 months or more) of documenting their incompetence and leaving a trail of trying to help them improve

8. firing someone always comes with it the risk of a lawsuit, and meritless lawsuits are commonplace, but they still cost a LOT of money to defend.

9. disruption to your team, scheduling slippage, having to allocate someone else to fix the incompetent work, etc.
This sounds like a private buy, meaning that the land remains under Danish sovereignty.
Please don't just throw things in the trash if you do not like them. Return and buy back options are available. Additionally even if you do not like something it may still be worthwhile to donate. If all else fails at least try to recycle before throwing it in the trash.
TLDR; Toptal started small and took a little funding early on, but now has over $100mm in annual revenue and got there mostly through organic growth rather than follow on investment rounds.

The company seems to be wholly owned by one of the co-founders. The other co-founder, who was in college when the company started, doesn't have an equity stake at all. Presumably he had a salary from day 1. There seems to be some sort of agreement that if the company restructures, he might get equity at some point, but this isn't necessarily going to happen.

Founder 2 (no equity) is accused of defrauding the company by misusing funds and hiring his girlfriend at an above market rate. The language of the complaint indicates that he's upset about not having an equity stake.
> I wonder if it's based on a deviation from normal rather than absolute temperature.

It is.
Given that Trump is 73 years old, he won't live long enough for Greenland to become "habitable".
Right, you can write your own debugger for Python in Python (assuming CPython).
> "The bill could create a bipartisan commission of experts tasked with drawing up recommendations to deal with the "intersection of homeland security and social media," a committee spokesperson told The Hill."

This is just going to be political theater. Everyone already knows that unmoderated anonymous boards are cesspools of hate, the obvious recommendation is to do moderation. The government can't infringe on free speech, so this is a waste of time. What are you hoping to get out of him?

Only way this turns out to be substantive is if it leads to a push from the Democrats toward a constitutional amendment in regards to hate speech, which I could see happening.
You would have human review of a random sample to test effectiveness. In fact, this is usually how the ML algorithms are constructed in the first place, e.g. supervised learning. So yes I think they should have this.
I could even distribute the .apk myself but that's not the point.
You can get some domain names for as little as $1/year for niche TLDs, and if you're willing to splurge a bit, you can get more generic ones for $8. It not only looks more professional, it simplifies administration, and makes it far easier to isolate the domains later. You can also extend the branding to email addresses. If they're just pet projects, it's no big deal, but if you're intending to monetize them or want them to become durable brands, the sooner you get them a custom domain, the better.
I heard that MixPanel is super complicated to set up. Couple of days worth of coding. I am looking for something more straight forward. Are there any that comes to mind?
yep yep yep this is very much it as well although if you recall it was also around the time when Andrew Ng at google was doing things with DL on massive amounts of computation on CPU with DL too.
Tell us about your experiences with conservative politics participating in the emancipation of women and minorities, and protecting the environment from industrial plunder.

In my country we have health minister claiming abortion is “the easy way out” for example, and conservative politics telling us that homosexuality is one step removed from bestiality, and allowing same sex marriage will result in people marrying their pets.

At least we aren’t yet at the stage of charging a woman with murder because she failed to avoid being shot in the stomach thus losing her baby.

But we are in the process of building an irrigation pipeline so that cotton and rice farmers in the desert can take all the water from less arid farmlands, and kill a thousand kilometres of river.
Why would you use Monica at a start-up or Fortune 500 company? I had assumed that Monica was purely for personal use. It never occurred to me that a start-up, much less a Fortune 500 company, would use Monica for anything.
And the democratic presidential runners who denounce business at every turn.
This problem wouldn't exist if there was no "moderation" (which is censorship) at all.
I think increased variance in weather is something that's really easy to underappreciate and isn't really being explained well enough to the general population.

Certainly ten or so years ago I was far more skeptical of climate issues than I am now. I knew climate change was coming, sure.

But when you think about a 1c temperature rise - a 2c temperature rise - 2m of sea level rise - etc - put in those terms it doesn't seem like a huge issue, because I would have historically thought (I didn't think about this stuff too much), well, OK, averaged out, it's 36c instead of 34c, or whatever, who cares?

Until you realise things like - oh, there are tipping points right, so if the average temperature in a region is -1c, and it goes to 1c, suddenly a bunch of ice is gone never to come back.

Or there's a climate in which harvesting is sort of viable, and the season becomes slightly shorter, and now it's borked.

Or yeah, one or two bad floods and a city is wiped out. It doesn't matter if the average level only went up by 1 metre in that case, it's gone.
Like Slashdot does? It certainly has merit, but that requires that someone actually write the summary, which is more work and injects (more) subjectivity.
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Most of the additional 2018 loss is attributable to the major increases in General & administrative and stock-based compensation expenses.
The interesting thing is that net loss in the first half of 2019 is 13% higher than in the first half of 2018 but revenue increased by 48%, judging from the filing's data https://wallmine.com/doc/edgar/0001477333/000119312519222176...

Disclaimer: working on wallmine's filings product
> The House Homeland Security leaders previously asked Watkins to "provide testimony regarding 8chan's efforts to investigate and mitigate the proliferation of extremist content"

This seems... fairly self evident? What do they want his testimony for, except a dog and pony show?
Google bought or built android to be the main mobile search engine. I understand for competitive reasons them being forced to give others a place in the search selection but why the hell should they take themselves out or even be forced to sell Android. Google auctioning the search placement is fuck you to the search engines complaining about its monopoly if they think it's get an advantage by being the default search they should be willing to pay something for being 1 of the selection.
I need this right now. I've read it before, but thank you.
Obligatory xkcd? https://xkcd.com/1172/
I don't believe the CutiePi has a microphone, or speakers, AFAIK.
I like youtube content too, however I watch it at 2X speed.
Quotes falsely attributed to Winston Churchill
4chan tried that; everyone knows how spectacularly that failed.
Which part of what Harry Markopolos is saying do you think isn't true or lacks evidence?
Who Authorized These Ghosts?
Amazon reviews
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Wait a minute... isn't this basically Lex Luthor's plan in the first Superman movie?
You’re still beholden to the people who pay for your products/services.
I want a "Read Only" smart house. One that tells me when the refrigerator temperature is getting too high or if some appliance has a high resistance short that's making it use extra electricity. When it comes to everything else, I want switches and wires. I wish I could buy a TV without the stupid "Smart" features that turns on in seconds, but it seems like they all have something installed that makes me have to "Boot" my TV.
Do you realize how intensive the interview process for a doctor is? You work as an intern and essentially "perform surgeries" over the course of a year.

For the first job as a licensed physician.

After the internship period, it's generally one or two in-person interviews (possibly more if you're joining a private practice), followed by a period of weeks to months where they check on your licensure and credentials.
This is an extremely disingenuous reply as well. You started off your first reply by saying “the bug only manifests ...” already pre-supposing that the scope of my original comment was restricted to that one thing, and tacitly ignoring all the other aspects of the link.

The (obvious) point is that binary search is widely misimplemented even by professionals writing textbooks (and this had little to do with the specific Java bug responsible for that one example), and this is all stated directly in the link you didn’t read.

It’s comically ill-suited for time based tech screens as even experts teaming with editors often still get it wrong.
Habitability is definitely not the objective. Greenland is hydrocarbons covered in ice.
Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters
Ads don't convert if people are externally motivated to watch them.
For many smaller items, I prefer the ease and convenience over price differences or occasional bad products. I know I'm not alone in this and it shows how much experience matters in purchasing.
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If the information was synthesized from public knowledge, then it is fair game. Non-public is not determined by "how many people know this information".
There is probably another atom in the middle of each edge.
A lot of these suers are just making videos of sex toys[1] and other stuff that is very well known to be sensitive stuff despite the irony of all pop culture being about sex. This lawsuit has nothing to stand on, even people making videos of electronics get striked, harassed, deplatformed. They just assume it's because of lgbt, but it's standard YouTube.

https://youtu.be/0rjrA2GJ1lo
They make the same PR pieces for Europe: https://www.apple.com/uk/job-creation/

This is nothing new nor unique to Apple. All major businesses tout job creation when they can. They get more clout from it.
Teleology is either scientifically null because it fails to produce testable predictions, or separable into a purely teleological component that is null in that way and a purely naturalistic component that has predictive content but omits purpose.

As such, science should continue to deny that teleology has any place in science, except perhaps (when it produces claims of the second, complex type) as an inspiration for practitioners in generating hypotheses without actual teleological content.

Scientists can—and many do—still embrace teleological beliefs, though teleology is not necessary to avoid nihilism, as purpose can be found within as well as without.
I wrote a book on this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJ6N8P1 (the book will be free tomorrow - would love for you to give me some feedback...)

Lighter-weight then this paper - just my experience in using different kinds of tech interviews, and what I found that worked the best for my team and company.

Some key points:

- Interviews should be as close to what the candidate will do in the job - if they'll be writing a lot of code, that's just basic algorithms - on a whiteboard - then whiteboard interviews are perfect. If they will be doing a full project and interact with others as part of that project, then do something more like that (For me, that's a take-home - with an emphasis on the interaction part, and how they go about creating software... not coding). Treat it like a project, not an interview quiz question.

- If doing the takehome, respect peoples time - it needs to enough be close to something they'd do in the job, but something that can be done in a handful of hours (and NEVER treat it like getting free work. I personally would love to be able to do a paid take-home, but haven't had the budget for it) The total expected time of the take-home + onsite should be able what they do for just a full on-site

- Understand that not everyone will have time to do this. Have a backup (my backup is "Project Day", which is on-site, but still about creating software)

- Try to do the same one for all candidates. At my last company, 80+ people ran though the same take-home. The team really started to get a sense of a good result and bad result.. and not JUST on code. What questions did they ask? How did they go about driving the project? What tools did they use?

- I did catch a few people cheating (after 80+, the code was out there, so not hard to cheat). LOOKING at someone else's project for this was ok (if you read the book, you'll see why). Outright copying was not. Part of the process is a friendly code review after the project is done - if the candidate wrote the code, they'll be able to talk to it, and have ideas of how to improve it. If they can't do that and don't see to know the code, they probably didn't write it... which was painfully obvious for those that tried to cheat.

Do what works best for your team and company. This worked best for me; I have yet to see whiteboard interviews be a strong indicator of someone being a great fit for a team, but I was able to build a great, happy, very productive team using this method.
You might be confusing Trump for Obama. He liked to use the CIA to violently overthrow governments (Libya), and did not have a firm grasp of geography (once claimed there were 57 states).
No one will be buying it - there will be a war to take it over and mine its resources.

Our glorious future, in which climate change turns into an opportunity for resources companies to dig stuff out of the earth.

Watch carefully for the expansion of research bases in Antarctica to be expanded and militarised.

From here there will be a large set of public opinion that comes to see the ice covering Greenland and Antarctica as simply an obstacle to commercial opportunity, who see global heating as being a strong positive.

This is the beginning of that narrative.

Depressing.
One of the sibling comments said it well. It's not the money, it's the fact that giving me take home work shows a lack of seriousness on the part of the company because my time investment is much greater than theirs.
https://srv-file6.gofile.io/download/dnaTwk/Toptal%20v.%20Be...