skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - I have. I worked construction; worked on a loading dock; drove a delivery truck for bulk freight. Not having to do manual labor doesn't make a job 'easy' though. And certainly not the 'easiest'
Thanks for this, I'm working my first job feeling like a complete slacker everyday, it's just like my head is full of fog after a certain period of time and I can't seem to push through it.
Had to switch from coffee to black tea for this very reason. Cannot subsist without some caffeine for mental health reasons, and absolutely love coffee, but it just does not love me back.

When I drink too much coffee, it makes alcohol that much more necessary to offset the extra stress and anxiety, but black tea does not have this issue, it just kinda fades away for me. Then a little cannabis at night for a bit of pleasure and sleep promotion.
Satellite images analyzed by neural networks to determine solar power potential
No, he operates there because this is speculative research that is for now without a clinical basis.
> the pretty pleasant 16-21 years that most Americans spend in education

From everything I've seen in the US, high school (age 14+) and college are more work than a full-time job, and many students also work a part-time job on top. I'm not sure "pretty pleasant" is quite so accurate.
That was an interesting read. For the author: what are you doing now? Did you do a blockchain startup?

I share some of your inside Google views. I worked as a contractor there, on a passion interest of mine (knowledge graphs and general knowledge management). On one hand I was very, very grateful for the experience. On the other hand, I was also very happy to leave and go back to my own thing (a lot of personal research, some consulting and writing).
Neither your point nor the parent's here make the case that being a developer is the 'easiest' job.
Suede is the winning choice, clearly
If you're fuzzily looking up members in a fixed corpus, you can also employ the trick from https://github.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell, which is essentially just to, for each string in your corpus, enumerate all of the variants of that string with one letter removed, and put both the original string and each variant in a hashtable as a key, with the original string as the value. To do a lookup, you do the same enumeration (original query plus each variant with one letter dropped), and look all of them up in your hashtable. The values you get out of that are a list of all of the strings in your corpus at edit distances 0 or 1, and potentially some at edit distance 2; you can do a subsequent Levenshtein calculation on each to weed out the distance-2 strings, but you only have to do it on this massively reduced set rather than on your whole corpus.

So like, to index a string "hello", you'd add all of {"hello":"hello","ello":"hello","hllo":"hello","helo":"hello","hell":"hello"} into your table, and for the query "gello", you'd look up all of ["gello", "ello", "gllo", "gelo", "gell"], and get a match on "ello"->"hello", then do a Levenshtein calculation dist("gello","hello") to confirm it's within ED=1 (it is), and be done. (Bonus: the same method works with Damerau-Levenshtein distance as well.)
Sinebow is really nice and smooth, but I'd say there is a bit too much green, and the green that's there is way more saturated than the rest of the colors (perhaps save magenta). The yellow is very sad and desaturated looking. The 0.5 value is also a drab cyan, making it hard to identify.
I purposefully didn't include magenta into Turbo, so it could be used as a 'marking' color.
Sinebow is also cyclic, which we purposefully didn't want (so that you could tell max from min), but for a color wheel style application this is a plus.
The biggest advice to a speaker giving a fixed speech is: PRACTICE!

People never put in enough practice on a speech. When I build a new speech, I practice it with a clock and record myself. And then edit the speech. And then deliver the speech again. And do it again. And again. And again.

By the time I'm done, you can take my slides, destroy my computer, put the room in a war zone, and I can still deliver that speech cold and make it at least passably interesting to the audience.

Yes, making a good speech is a ton of work. I don't do it often, and when I do I try to make sure I can give that speech multiple times to amortize some of the work.
Do any of the downvoters have a counterargument? I'm genuinely curious.
Did chattel slaves have democratic consensus mechanism where they agreed to do the work?
This was 1976. Gerald Ford was president.
In so far as there are very few things where anyone is the only one on a planet 8 billion people? sure, but you're probably pretty close.
https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/home will plant them in Mexico https://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/about-us/planting-lo... for you.
And in fact many states electors are not legally allowed to do that any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector
I'm not sure about how much worse things were. But I saw a source from NBC that says it was not practiced under the Obama administration although they very briefly considered it.[1]

This was a quote I thought relevant, however because I don't think it was rainbows and unicorns under Obama either:

"The Obama administration did detain families together — some indefinitely — in hopes of deterring future migrants back in 2014, earning protests and public outrage at the time." [1]

[1]https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/...
where is the "PowerPoint" though?
Wish there's easy way to broadcast to multiple devices to share media. Had to use a bluetooth audio receiver with 3.5 jack + splitter + 2 cable headphones.

Also what is it about specific intersections that reliably causes connectivity / stutter issues? Is it something specific to the traffic signalling equipment or spectrum pollution? It happens more in dense urban environments but there are several extremely bland pedestrian crossings in my neighborhood where this happens as well. And then only on certain headphones.

Also the fact that battery reporting is still not standard is annoying.
Mathematics Applied to Kirigami Creates Impressive Shapeshifting Sheets
> Second, blocking cookies without another way to deliver relevant ads significantly reduces publishers’ primary means of funding,

Cookies and tracking have nothing whatsoever to do with relevant ads. Publishers can put ads relevant to their content on their pages with no client-side participation whatsoever.

Tracking is important for ads that target the user. The targeted advertising business may account for huge amounts of money spent, but I would argue that it is a race to the bottom and adds no value to the overall economy. The outright failure of the targeted advertising industry would arguably be a good thing.
Postgres has a function to calculate levenshtein distance.
The nicest thing to do is release binaries for all major platforms (dependency free if possible). Then code it in whatever you want.
When we moved to central VA a few years ago, there was a house we really, really liked but did not purchase because there was no option at all for broadband. The truly sad thing is that the house was about 1 mile from the i95 corridor, where a ton of fiber sits, going to the northern VA datacenters.

We wound up in a more established, less rural area, where we have exactly one choice in internet providers (Comcast).
Yes, that would be great. But you'll have to deal with much more than glucose to get that.
TIL. I use pgcli daily and it's truly awesome software. My favorite trick is the old Ctrl-X Ctrl-E to edit the query on VIM.
No, ECMO is a big machine. And is extremely invasive.
Hahaha. You thought you would ascend to an engineering-type profession in less than "years"?

Maybe it's easier to become a surgeon by reading blogposts? Better paid?
Or maybe you just think it isn't a problem because you've never worked on an app that had complex enough state.
SBC can be quite good, but only if your devices can agree on a high enough bit rate. BlueZ on Linux can be prodded into negotiating a bit rate that's higher than default, and then it sounds pretty good, certainly good enough for BT speakers.

SBC is not a bad codec. It is a low complexity codec (sort of similar to MP2) optimized for low power consumption and quick encoding/decoding, and I think it's been unfairly maligned, due to devices that are way too stingy with bit rates.
Some Obscure C Features
The observed result is people are not encouraged to do anything out of the ordinary because the current life is good enough and the reward for success is just big taxes, so the system is encouraging the status quo.
Depending on the winds and nature of the incident I could imagine one costing >1000X more than another (causing evacuation of a major city, etc.)

Three-mile island was a 5 on the INES scale, Fukushima a 7:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...

Tokyo (the most populous metropolitan area in the world) was considered for evacuation, and had things gone a little different it may have been evacuated.
With the billions of records breached this year alone, I'm feeling quite apathetic to these stories now.

Thousands or millions of records are breached due to X (usually egregious negligence, sometimes not), the company makes an apology full of mental gymnastics, blame game, and bold lies ("Your privacy is our number one concern, we're sorry we are only pretending to care now."), a few days later the heat is off because another company let loose a few million other records. Repeat.

I feel like I need to be re-sensitized. This is a major problem - and I just can't seem to muster up any care for it anymore.
But they can prefetch data. This makes writing code for them a bit more complex, but outside of that the ram limitations are mostly moot.

This fails when data needs to be read and written randomly. However, even if the entire dataset was on vram random reads and writes would still be slow, because of the way a stream processor works. All reads and writes need to be laid out in memory in an order for a gpu to do it's best work.
Yes. I’m looking forward to that n-gate’s webshit weekly take on this.
Deals in Off-Lease Electric Cars, and Why You Should Buy One
And that's the heart of AI's core problem: an oversimplified world is needed in order for your research to produce short-term results that can sustain your project's existence. But trimming back nature's complex signals and noise also limits your solution/model so much that your system becomes too simplistic and fragile (AKA brittle) to thrive in the much-more-complex real world.

After 50+ years of AI research that hasn't scaled or meaningfully progressed on the fundamental capabilities needed by a synthetic mind, you'd think we'd agree more that simplifying reality into something easier to model is the wrong basis for creating AI that's more than a toy.
Have you experimented with n-grams for approximate matching? I've found it works very well, especially if you add special characters to the alphabet to mark "start of string" and "end of string": like "heli" would have trigrams {"^he", "hel", "eli", "li$"}, which would certainly be a better trigram match to "helicopter" than to "elipsis" (sic).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram#n-grams_for_approximate...
Ask HN: What's the best way to put a short stint on a resume?
I recently left a DS job at a big tech company to join a very early startup that hasn't worked out. In general, I'm not having too much trouble getting into conversations with interesting companies through introductions (founders of the startup are being really helpful too), but there's a few places that I'm interested in and haven't been able to get an intro.

I spent less than 2 months at this startup (I knew it was risky), should I even list it on my resume?

I've left the big tech job as my most recent role on LinkedIn because it's been effective for generating inbound and the people I've talked to so far haven't had any issues with the above explanation.
> I guess the title is inappropriate, JS is deprecated, it's Typescript now! Not sure for how long, but the jobs where you can write JS are disappearing. So web developers are now forced to write in another language, with all it's brand new issues and pain points. Nice! Did I have problems with types in JS? Hardly, but that doesn't count, I now write about 20% more code to get the same result and regularly spend a few hours to get a basic line of code working because the TS compiler complains.

Typescript is a superset of JavaScript and your type issues could just be because you lack understanding of how type coercion works in JS. Additionally your tsconfig settings could be overly strict.
I still remember Skype before Microsoft.
And Nokia before Microsoft :-)
Indeed, we probably should have compared more directly to Rainbow, I got a bit of this flak on Twitter as well (with my rationale included):
https://twitter.com/JamesABednar/status/1163978274361544704?...

The practical issue is that not many people really use Rainbow instead of Jet, for the reasons I mentioned in the article (it sacrifices too many of the 'good bits' of Jet). So instead I chose to compare to the more 'widely recommended' maps.

But you're right, I should have thrown rainbow into the mix, even if I didn't have the space to write about it.
I really wonder about how educated people justifies bringing a child into this world. Brazil have more 3.5 years of the current administration and things won't get better because their plataform is all about pleasing the pecuary lobby.
If you are that concerned about privacy, why would you click on the ad?
What's your point? The Nordics have a relatively high contribution of "innovations", higher than other countries that don't work "half the hours".

Examples: Linux, Spotify, Unity, King, the radio base stations that your phone might be connected to, ...
The way I read OP was "given that X flip-flops, it's weird some people talk as if X is constant" (i.e. acknowledging the inconsistence in opinions and, further, calling out those that don't)
Ugh. At a past job I was tasked with matching records, based on street addresses and business names, from various systems. Levenshtein Distance was pretty instrumental in helping find potential matches once we had cleaned up the address format and business name as much as possible.
The similarity is in the fact that, like war criminals, they are committing acts that many would classify as crimes against humanity.
Detainees are given provided food, shelter and medical treatment.
Overcrowding can happen at time when you have a 1000 people at a time cross in a day at a single point. There are no cloud facilities.

What is your alternative?
now that E3D has seeded the idea of tool changer, I would probably just iron the part with a hot ball?
I'm sorry to hear you may have experienced this.

But is it really fair to call it "Mexican" heroin? Is that a bonafide statement or an assumption? Lethal drugs don't explicitly come from outside the US, and in the presence of stronger border security the supply-demand curve would just re-balance itself with an all domestic supply.

Heroin has always been illegal. Illegally crossing the border has always been illegal. I view the "Mexican" claim as a scapegoat. One could easily make the argument that spending $5b on privatized drug rehab programs (instead of privatized-incarceration) would have the same or greater positive effects on the drug epidemic than a $5b wall. Or $5b in aide to regular police departments along the border (not ICE). Or $5b in aide to Mexican towns right over the border.

There are a million ways to skin a cat. If reducing domestic drug deaths is the goal, demonizing immigration is not the answer. Education and treatment are the answer. Mexicans are just a convenient target.
My daughter is two and a half months old, and it's nowhere near as difficult as some people make out. My wife is currently studying, so is taking a year off to look after her. Plus I work from home, so can help out now and then.

In terms of sleep she usually sleeps from midnight until 4-5 when she will wake up to be fed, but often I don't even wake up now (yes, she is in the same room).
It’s just that they started their post by saying that classes in Typescript should be avoided. A message "x should be avoided" is very different from "you don’t need x". Compare the statement "you don’t need redux", which has been incorporated into titles of numerous blog posts, with the statement "redux should be avoided".
Hey, just as a friendly heads-up:

If you're ever talking with friends who have kids (particularly young kids)(particularly newborns like you're talking about here) you might do better by phrasing this as a question instead of a fact. ("Hey, assuming you have the space for it, why not trade off nightly?")

Nicest response you'll get from what you said is a polite nod and then they change the topic, the most useful would be a polite but pointed jest about how you obviously don't have kids, and at worst you'll do lasting damage to a friendship.

Trust me, nobody who's getting this little sleep wants to be told how to do it better (unless they've asked you, specifically, for your advice on this,specifically) :)
> He could be potentially be MORE successful if he invested a little more in visual aspects of his games.

Covered in the article (and previous blog posts, I think): I have had games where I worked very hard to improve the graphics, spending a lot of time and money, and they really did look better! But when I released those games, the vast majority of people who had said, "Your games look bad." STILL said, "Your games look bad."
Currently in Salo there is work underway on a battery factory for EVs, IIRC in the old Nokia facilities.

Finland has a closed nickel mine which could become economical to operate once again since it also produces cobalt, which gets used in these types of batteries.
If it is less than the probationary period, I would not put it on my resume unless you learned (and can demonstrate) some incredible value that you gained in that short period of time.

No one is going to blink at a 2-month gap in between jobs.
That figure leaves off the cost of healthcare (both premiums and services) for the US but includes it for Finland. So you aren't comparing like with like.

Finland pays $4,033, and the US $9,892 per capita (2016) for healthcare according to OECD figures. Since 2016 healthcare costs in the US have continued to increase faster than the rate of inflation.
No one buys a 10 million dollar, 30 year bond from a bank with 34 million in assets.

It’s disingenuous to claim that all banks are equal in terms of capabilities, assets, or risk.
ripgrep [Discussion] Fuzzy Search

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1053
Build Libraries, Not Apps
I guess it depends what you mean by personalization.

Putting an ad for sneaker-related products on a forum for sneaker-lovers, for example.
But much of the canonical mainland political belief system is incompatible with rational thought and generally shared moral principles. And mainlanders are obviously not any less rational or moral on most topics.

Mainlanders may not like it to hear it, and I'll even go as far as to say the best strategy for discussing politics with mainlanders is to not directly tell them this, but their political canon is anomalously full of holes that are exposed when explored in any significant depth (yes I've been through this process with mainlanders).
I purposefully wrote "not as much of", because NS-Zwangsarbeit was indeed massive.

It happened in the main part from 1939-1945, with a total of 8 million people enslaved at one point or another.

On the other hand, US slavery went on for three centuries, with a peak number of 4 million slaves and also about 8 million affected in total.

The time scale is why I think there is a major difference, both in terms of life years stolen as well as in terms of possible social and cultural adaptation or accustomizaton to slavery, the latter being the point of the OP.
It's also just that at the extremes we have house districts representing just over one million people and just over half a million people. 750k +/- 50% isn't great.

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/10/26/americas-lar...
>it's absolutely okay for employers to terminate any employee, any time, for any reason. Real reasons. Utter bullshit reasons. It doesn't matter.

Strictly speaking, the employee can quit for any reason too.
How much does it cost to flip a sprite so the light in a scene is all coming from the same direction?
How do you code for 2 hours without saving, considering you wouldn't be able to run/test/compile without saving?
How do you know it is fake news?
For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic
We just bought a Mi Robot to replace our Roomba 630. It’s half the price, actually maps my house, doesn’t bump into stuff, has better fault-recovery, scheduling built-in, and is just generally a real pleasure to run.
Learning to talk to your manager is part of being a professional software developer. Lawyers, doctors, and other professionals all are good at setting reasonable expectations. Software engineers who make as much or more than all of those professions needs to learn to do the same in order to get the same esteem.
How has immigration policy in the US become "explicitly racist"? Immigration law has essentially remained unchanged. DACA was repealed, but DACA was an executive action not partial to country of origin. H-1B denials have increased, but based on pre-existing requirements and quotas. Administrative changes in asylum rules and public charge requirements affect every immigrant regardless of country of origin or race.
The good ol' local monopoly
Indeed, Customs and Border Patrol are the ones on the border. ICE are the folks that find and deport people already inside the US.

Under the last administration ICE was only targeting folks who had committed serious crimes, but now they're targeting all undocumented folk. A lot of our economy actually depends on these people, as they tend to be the ones picking vegetables and working in factory farms, preparing livestock for sale - nasty jobs most people don't want. Trump's golf courses and hotels have also knowingly employed undocumented folk, but they don't do much to the people employing undocumented folks (which is actually illegal - being undocumented is not).

Oh, and we're a country of immigrants. (Except the native folk.)

See https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/politics/fact-check-ic... for a bit more detail.
At my first professional programming gig the company I worked for was selling items on Amazon. The listings were big ticket items that had several sellers competing on them. Any seller could change some of the details of the listing, so suddenly all their competition would be shipping the item with wrong specs. I wrote a program that periodically grabbed the titles of our live Amazon listings and compared them to our database of what we actually wanted the title to read. I used Levenshtein Distance as a sort of "severity of change" metric, the program would sort the changes accordingly and send an email to a person on the sales team. It was fun implementing Levenshtein Distance, but it wasn't a perfect metric for this use case. Some of the most severe changes would be a single digit changing; e.g. "2gb" vs "8gb"