skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consider that when athletes are scouted, they are usually not asked to play in a full game of their sport. But instead certain stats like 'how fast can he run 100m' and 'how high can he jump' are used.

Teams rarely sign players based solely on measures like this, and those that do frequently regret it.

Additionally, the nature of contracts in professional sports are very different from regular employment. Players are cut or traded frequently, often find themselves on very team-friendly deals when unproven, and are granted employment in time-limited blocks.
Russia 'Sovereign Internet' Law Gives Kremlin Sweeping Control over Web
Thanks. That seems like enough to add a question mark to the title above.
> If one isn't drawing on social benefits, one pays for absolutely everything out of one's own pocket.

Assuming the social benefits actually work, that sounds great and I'd be happy to pay.

> Ayn Rand would be beside herself from happiness there: it's like Galt's Gulch, only it's real.

Ayn Rand would be furious that social benefits still existed at all.
It's worth noting that currently the largest oil producer in the world is USA.
Fools, Electron is the One True Messiah.

It solves all problems by leaving no memory and battery for them to happen in.
Now is a good time to start looking for a better job. And be sure to tell them when you leave what the reason was.
In practice, courts have said that if you give your papers to a third-party (in this case, Uber), you have no expectation of privacy and a warrant isn't needed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
>Look at the companies that you admire and that show the ability to innovate... chances are they are run by people with technical backgrounds.

>Example: AMD is run by Lisa Su, whose background is in EE. HP was run by MBA holder, Carly Fiorina.

You're looking at the wrong thing. You're looking at the companies, their products, etc., and how much you admire those companies and what they produce.

What you're not looking at is executive compensation. You obviously don't think much of HP when Carly was running it, but how much money did she make in that position? That's what's really important, not how the company did, what products it made, or what you personally think of any of that. For Carly, the only thing that matters is how much money she got, so that's the only metric that matters when discussing whether her MBA has any value. Did Carly make more money than Lisa Su? If so, then Carly's background was more valuable to her.
Despite convention, it is reasonable to consider sqrt(3) to have ambiguous sign since inverse(square) is a multi-valued function (as is arctan). So you can have arctan(-sqrt(3)) = arctan(sqrt(3)) = pi/3 (allowing for arbitrary selection from multi-valued functions)

This is a problem in general with the design of calculators and single-result algorithms in general.

The -1 might be needed to trigger the bug.

The Citizen calculator has a reputation for bad math:

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/119681...
What do you use for managing tasks for your personal projects?
I have seen people using Trello. Would like to know what other tools people use here.
This is great news for privacy. We can now use Edge when accessing Google services such as Gmail, and Chrome when accessing Microsoft services. That way we can prevent the browser from helping the services track you (such as by logging you into the Browser itself when logging into services such as gmail.)
OpenSolaris has been dead since 2009. illumos is the hard fork of that (taking control out of Oracle's hands).
I don’t have a need right now to master a new programming paradigm in order to leverage my business.

However, if I happen to bump into this need,
I’d focus first on Logic and Array-Oriented programming languages first. They seem more valuable to my industry (finance).

For example: Prolog and J.
Doesn't make the company less shitty.
Where are these Linux XPS’s on Dell’s website? Windows is the only option for 13 and 15 inch XPS. If I search Linux I only see an XPS desktop and some junk.

How’s the track pad? Track pad and MacOS is still far ahead of the competition. Despite all the backlash Apple gets for TouchBar and Catalina it’s still miles ahead of the competition.
Imagine Airbnb changing their behavior because of bad press.
Probably because they're both based on OpenSolaris
This is why members of Congress have staffers and various groups like http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/ which have subject-matter experts on staff to offer advice and research arbitrary topics of legislative interest.
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The web applications group develops and maintains a variety of web applications for transportation research and operations needs. These applications may be as simple as WordPress websites with custom themes to as complex as multiple micro-services with several APIs and custom applications. There is also a growing need for help with data visualization (Tableau, D3.js, and more).

We primarily develop solutions in PHP (Laravel, WordPress, custom solutions) and JavaScript (Vue.js, Node.js, and custom solutions). Our apps are hosted in AWS and Azure. We have a team of 3 software developers and 2 content developers. Our group also has designers, photographers, videographers, editors, social media experts, and more on staff.

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Does the right to freely express include spam?
>Google de-facto controls the development of Blink

So you believe that Google will continue to de-facto control Blink's development even if Microsoft allocates as much money to the development of Edge Chromium as Google does to that of Chrome (which by the way I'm guessing is closer to 1000 full-time developers and security experts than it is to 100 developers and security experts) and if the management of the development of Edge Chromium is at least as competent as that of Chrome?
Oddly seems to have been influenced by the Russian alphabet.
They are tweeting about it, and I'd expect a post mortem as they have been transparent in the past.
Associations Between Screen Use and White Matter Integrity in Preschool Children
And several others of varying popularity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos#Current_distributions
> There should be punishment, but basing it on the losses from peak is very strange and not realistic.

Isn't this the usual protocol for damage suits in general?

As I understand it, plaintiffs should plan for a 10x or even 100x reduction in damages awarded even under ideal suit outcomes, so you put as big a number on the table as possible (as big as can plausibly be derived from discovered metrics), as it is likely to be decimated anyway.
Don't use the pid files to keep something running. Run it from /etc/inittab instead.
“Targeted advertising” is just a euphemism for the secretive creation and sale of dossiers on unwitting Internet users. It should already be illegal under existing laws.
From my own computer. Haswell CPU

https://i.imgur.com/5xPvoPA.jpg
Huh, loaded HN because it seems YouTube videos are down for me. I wonder if it's related.
> and the subtle softening of corners and diagonals adds a sense of optimism. [0]

Oh come on. Has anyone ever looked at rounded corners in a font and thought "wow, that sure is optimistic!"

I'm all about custom design and thoughtful branding but let's not get ridiculous about it.

[0] https://facebook.design/companybrand
Essentally, you are saying that a calculated result is a theorem, and the calculator shouold provide a proof. As always, course the standard of a commnicated proof depends on what axioms and theorems the verifier knows.
its very confusing when something super popular and profitable and very sell-outy and markety is also actually legitimately creative and cool. i think you might just be confused by that. try to be honest with yourself- if you played the game, and it was completely unheard of... you would probably be signing its praises.
The real inequality to be measured, relative to Switzerland, is that between the bankers and their international clients, on the one hand, and the citizens of the countries that those international clients take money out of. Switzerland's economy is incomprehensible if you do not consider the international context, the source of the funds that drive its banking industry, and the conditions in the countries from which those funds come. This is not a model replicable by all nations. There can be only a few Switzerlands serving clients from many countries, for the Switzerlands to work. In a case like this, capitalism done right in one country depends on capitalism being done wrong in others. It is a kind of informal colonialism (always the most lucrative).
> There are so many talented employees willing to work in other areas.

Not enough though. I've worked at so many companies that fled the midwest due to lack of a technical talent pool and an inability to attract remote talent, even with generous relocation benefits.

The appeal of Silicon Valley, NYC, or Seattle is the abundance of high paying, prestigious tech companies to work for. While it may be cheaper to live in Pittsburgh or Columbus, there's still the issue that you can't find nearly as many comparable jobs in the same market. Currently, if you work for Google in Pittsburgh, you're stuck there unless you're willing to take a paycut. This isn't a problem if you're in Seattle.
You and I may disagree on how effectively-run a government single-payer would be vs. private insurance (and there is no reason to believe they couldn't co-exist), but let's set that aside for the moment.

My intent in making this post was really to call out the fact that, even for those of us lucky enough to have coverage through our employers, we're still paying quite a bit in premiums. So the net effect of public healthcare may be positive, flat or something else, but it isn't just a new tax and reduction in your paycheck. You stop paying a premium and start paying a tax.
Can a Dying Patient be a Healthy Person?
Things change. What made sense 10 years ago in PCs and midrange x86 servers doesn't currently make much sense on the higher end of the POWER9 spectrum.
The equivalent of buying advertising time in specific TV shows with a known audience is... buying adverts on specific Youtube channels with a known audience. Funnily, a lot of Youtubers now perform advertising of this sort - I'm sure you've seen the VPN ads.

This, like TV, doesn't require tracking of individual people who haven't consented to such.
With this stuff there's no such thing as a global society. Any regulations will be imposed by individual countries, or maybe the EU.
Matter of perspective and presentation. I think, or at least I think the thinking is that at some point a project has to move on from being a fork of their predecessor and get comfortable with having its own identity.

“Illumos is a cool Unix operating system” sounds a little bit nicer than “Illumos is an operating system for OpenSolaris refugees”.
Don't taxi, bus, and trucking companies do this? I always thought any public transit actor had to do this to provide data to be used by DoT for traffic engineering. Like I know that traffic engineers tweak limits of public transport asset density as part of planning traffic flows.

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is just Uber getting rolled into the infrastructure they should have been participating in anyway.

I'm not terribly thrilled about the implications; but it's also not surprising at all that a transit service provider would have to guarantee to a locality that they can locate their assets.
That would mean a drop in revenue and leave questions about radio, in particular the world service. Programs are already available worldwide so revenue wouldn't increase.
Developing countries generally can't afford to subsidize fossil fuels. The only developing countries where fossil fuels are highly subsidized are the few countries with substantial domestic oil production e.g. Iran and Venezuela, not most of them.
I never said it wasn't a score, my issue was the implications that, both being scores, they were somehow equivalent. They are not. A continuous score may be used with a threshold to perform the binary categorization. In fact that is all but guaranteed. But the continuous score, as I stated, has more possibilities for nuanced use. The binary score is derived from something continuous.

And you aren't usually told you got the loan or not. That is one possibility, but the more likely one is the continuous score of the credit rating translates into a continuous score for the interest rate. This is why the distinction between a binary and continuous score is important: t
This continuous assignment of interest rate isn't possible with a single binary variable.
Even in that example, the US government would not make my family disappear. Please cite any reputable sources that you have to the contrary, because anything else is a spurious claim. I'm not going to argue over various conspiracy theories.

Corruption and unfair things exist in every single country, but we do have the right to freedom of press, speech, assembly, and due process.
I'm not denying anything you just said, I would even add to your list the private health insurance companies with their ever increasing costs, that, for most of the population only serve as a men in the middle for the base (mostly state provided) health care system.
I just think its not fair to describe Switzerland as a liberal-capitalist heaven when it clearly is a protected economy with a lot of control from what would normally be defined as the 'state'.
There's something oddly lovely about making art with such strict constraints. I've started making fun little pieces of my own with React and CSS. It's a great way to harness creativity through restrictions. Also requires some fun math on occasion. A good exercise is to make a Bauhaus or Swiss style poster, then animate it.
You might like a couple of books by Gregory Bateson, "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" and "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity"

He explores the idea that evolution and thought are the same phenomenon, and that what we call "mind" is ambient.
Their font choice reminds me of the Fyre Media logo.
True. That format can’t be extracted in its entirety. But what kind of format could? I don’t think it would need to apply to only 18-22 year olds.
AI Weekly Update: November 4th, 2019
I’ll second that, as there seems to be a strange connection between slippage and fundamentals in GP comment. 7777fps, can you please expand on that a bit more?
I've never had a job where I had to work more than 5 days and/or 40 hours a week. I did well in school, found a job that values work life balance, and have gone from security intern, to associate security engineer, and finally to security engineer over a 4 year period. It may not be a "high paying job" compared to someone who worked at FAANG, but I have been able to purchase a house and save for retirement in the years since I've graduated college all without ever having to kill myself by working a ridiculous amount of hours.

You can absolutely have it both ways
> Also the "next gen FS" is just ZFS, first released in 2005 (and they say software moves fast).

Well the thing is that *nix is so old that anything made after 2000 is certainly "next gen".
Your extension should “just work”. And yes, we have a self-hosted environment solution that you can use to test out your extension in the web, and it’s entirely free: https://aka.ms/vso-docs/vscode/self-hosted.
I was with this right up to The Right to Modify.

If I create something, I get to say how people use it. That's the core of the wonderful proliferation of software licences.

If I don't want people to see the source code of something I write, either because I don't want to deal with the criticism or because I've hidden some malicious nasty in there, then that's my call. Anyone can choose not to execute my code on their machine, that's their call.

Anything else ends up enforcing a defacto GPL on the world.
It's probably a combination of manipulation on an incredible scale and the media attention this surge caused. We all know multiple people who FOMO'ed into crypto and lost most of their money. So that surge definitely wasn't all manipulation, but I'm not at all surprised that manipulation was what triggered that madness.
Netlify is describing the outage as being the result of some kind of attack:

"We’re currently suffering an attack that’s affecting our Free and Self-Serve CDN. Enterprise is currently unaffected. We are working on mitigating the effects and will update with more information as it becomes available."
It's been a tough needle to thread. Most everybody who has positive feelings about Solaris history already knows where we come from, and it's mentioned in the history section of our documentation site.

For others, prominently featuring our Solaris heritage doesn't always result in a good first impression. It's pretty easy to hear Solaris and think "old" and "unmaintained" and so on, for whatever reason. We're trying instead to have people judge the software we ship first, rather than prejudge based on our history.

The other perception we try to combat is that we're compatible with binaries for Solaris 11 -- after a decade of divergent development on both sides, we're just not.
Another comment claimed that Netlify rents servers from other providers, so this could be the case.

FWIW Youtube is fine for me right now.
If you're bringing business to the grocery store, it shouldn't try to gouge you extra. That's over the top even for a capitalist like me.
I am underwhelmed.
The pattern of issuances to market make it highly unlikely.
I might be getting old. I hate Fornite as well. I tried it out, played a couple of hours, and my impression was "meh". It feels like a bunch of ripped off ideas from other games that do them better. And there's a problem with media that has mass appeal - it's the same with art or music. The more accessible the product, the more bland it's going to be. There really is nothing surprising in Fortnite.
1998 is a bit late, but in the 1970s people commonly did this professionally as a fallback/verification for these newfabngled machines (and of course also there were similar jobs as the primary source of results in the age before machines). Those people's job roles were called "computer", before the machines took over the name.
But how long until it gains sentience? (Sorry...not sorry...read 17776 if you haven't already) [0]

[0] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
The difficulty with that reasoning is that you can say that you can abstract red, but you can't definitely state that I can abstract red any more than other animals may.

Interestingly, we're starting to find evidence for grammatical rules in other animal languages: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20615-first-evidence-...
>The fact that there is still the occasional CEO that brags about not even reading his email (granted its been 10 years since I heard something like that publicly) is ridiculous.

Actually, these days, that might not be such a ridiculous thing. One of my engineer coworkers brags about how he never reads his (work) email either. And he has good reason for it: it's just full of spam and junk, even from the company. If there's something truly important he needs to know about or do, his manager or a coworker will tell him. Of course, part of that is because the rest of us who do read our email are basically acting as his filter, and informing him of the important things he's missing. But serious, email is such a cesspool now that I can see why someone would avoid using it, especially at work where they typically use Microsoft Outlook instead of GMail. At least GMail does a pretty decent job of filtering things, showing you the important stuff, putting spam in the spam folder, etc. Outlook is pretty useless by comparison.
> Sure, there's admin overhead, room costs, etc, but that stuff is hopefully less than the prof costs.

Not by a long shot.
Except it's not really the trees, it's the trees and the mycelial network, well, mostly the mushrooms.
> There are no such things as “secret APIs”.

I don't know what Apple means by "secret APIs", but I'm assuming they mean "undocumented APIs". Those are certainly real things that commonly exist.

> By definition an Application Programmers Interface is the vendors promise to other developers that when you call it

Yes, but those "other developers" may be other engineers in the same company. The APIs they use are still APIs, but are not intended for use by anyone outside the company.
> at most price-points

Worth noting POWER9 reaches price points (and profit margins) EPYC server vendors can only dream of.

Sadly, you are right about onboarding. I'd love to have a POWER9 box as my desktop workstation, but I simply can't justify the price compared to a beefy Xeon (or EPYC) box. IBM would be wise to have a POWER9 that could compete with low-end Xeon servers.
First evidence that birds tweet using grammar (2011)
Intel vs. AMD Processor Security: Who Makes the Safest CPUs?
Yours is a very US-centric viewpoint.

The US sees anti-trust as necessary when consumers are negatively impacted. The EU sees anti-trust as necessary when producers are negatively impacted.

The latter is, of course, always colored by politics.

I will also note that the nature of the social network market, with its network effects, means that a large enough system with a closed API is, under those constraints, by definition anti-competitive - certainly to producers, and possibly to consumers.
I recall reading a story in a book of a technique in horse racing where a person slowly makes a lot of bets to change the odds & then watches people poor in cash on what looks like a rising star. Then the initial person places a bet with better odds somewhere else.

I've always been curious how well this works in other markets, especially the smaller cryptocurrency alt coin markets.
itailan accent

"Mama mia! It's a Fache Book!"
They have not at all rolled back.
Pokemon cards and Gameboy are more direct. Nintendo never gave away crippled gameboys for free, with an option to unlock features incrementally.
And also to be rented, if the user doesn't happen to have one in sight.
Nobody said that back then, no. They said there had been an over-exuberant market with people throwing stupid money at any old idea, but nobody was saying "the internet is a bust" or even "we don't know the use-cases" because there were a ton of other useful, successful things going on with it.

You said it yourself - you're too young to actually know a lot about that, but you use it to bolster your arguments anyway.
True. But there still remain subtle bugs in rendering engines that become 'features.' On the other hand if there are multiple popular engines (deep forks count too), those bugs will be exposed and there will be incentive to fix them and align towards a single standard behaviour.
Researchers Hack Siri, Alexa, and Google Home by Shining Lasers at Them
Computing Receptive Fields of Convolutional Neural Networks
I'd just put this on the front page. I'm not going to do anything serious with this OS before figuring this out at some point.
It's a problem with anything chronic or long term. The people still have the problem but their support suddenly disappears because they magically transition overnight from a child, who in America at least have some marginal bipartisan support for helping, to an adult, where assistance is much more fraught and spotty.
is there even a statistic on the number of people boycotting facebook? id imagine it to be infinitesimally small in the grand scheme of things. partially because there isnt a single alt-fb they are all gathered in.