skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, sometimes that's handled as "full name" and a call-me-this "preferred name" rather than first and last.

also, postgres, which most rails apps seem to prefer, has no performance gain for 'string' over 'text' so might as well use 'text' so you have no potential problems with long names (less of a problem with genders, presumably).
Yes. It is quite literally taking action, as opposed to just acting as a "signal". Hell, a valuable Github engineer standing up against an ICE contract would probably do more for 'the cause' than their vote would.
Depends, itll probably help to get hired. If you are in a highly applied position, probably better to know different network architectures, and why they work in specific ways. For instance, Restnet versus VGG16, what was the innovation? Which optimizer might be better for the two? When to slow learning rate, when to speed it up? Theres an art to tuning and getting neural networks to work that goes beyond mathematical understanding. But some positions may require their employees to understand the archaic math behind machine learning, down PCA and its relationship to eigenvectors, methods of non differentiable optimization, etc
Ya it's tough if you're stuck on 2013. Sometimes even random commands in excel are great and you find out they work at home but not at the version at work, or require office 365 (?!).

Access?

I recommend watching some youtube power bi videos for dax tricks. Lots of dax stuff on youtube. Or radacad.
Yeah, I would love that actually. ICE runs concentration camps. Not enough people treat them how they deserve.
That's a great point. It's an unfortunate artefact that will be fixed very soon.

Thank you for pointing it out!
you mean pensions?
> it seems reasonable to me to assume anyone arguing in their favor is arguing in bad faith and disengage.

I'm not arguing in their favor. I would like nothing more than for us to have strong border control and a functional immigration system that isn't overloaded with false asylum claims so that the real ones can get through. We definitely need to overhaul things like the H1B programs as well.

My argument here is that no country's immigration system could handle this type of steady influx of 100k+ people per month [1] exploiting the asylum claims. Many of which only claim such after they illegally cross (yes i know you can technically claim whenever, but that's mighty convenient after crossing illegally).

The systems were not built for this kind of thing. Basically under current law you have the choice to detain people until their asylum case is heard or release them on their own recognizance inside the country and hope they return for court. The family separation thing has happened because of a court ruling saying that kids and adults couldn't be detained together because of abuse concerns. If the same thing happened to Canada their systems would be in shambles just like ours. There needs to be a mixture of border security and fixes to immigration law to remedy this problem but none of that can happen while Congress sits on it's hands playing politics.

[1] https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
Just a silly joke. one of the more famous example programs that came with QBasic for MS-DOS was a snake game called Nibbles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)
I completely agree that we need better generic libraries. I was mostly commenting that I really believe that there are huge wins that can be achieved in the "generic distributed execution engine" space, and that people shouldn't be intimidated by the work that has already gone into spark.
Do you not see the negative repercussions for businesses serving the public to be allowed to make a moral judgement on who they do business with?
It's a over the counter drug also known as paracetamol or tylenol (a brand name.)

All three names are derived from the chemical name para-acetylaminophenol.
This just reeks of mostly inexperience with a touch of arrogance.

> We looked at other companies’ equivalent roles but they weren’t exactly contextualized to Lyft’s business setting.

Ok, so what does Lyft need then?

> What are Lyft’s challenges (and can a specific role help)?
> What should the role be with respect to the organization’s goals?
> What are the desired skills, knowledge, and talents given the expectations for the role?

Umm. Isn't that what every company hiring looks to address?

> What’s left is to define the necessary ingredients for what a successful hire looks like vis-a-vis (3) in Lyft’s context:
>
> Skills acquired through practice,
> Knowledge learned through study and personal experience, and
> Talents that make each candidate unique.

Ok, I'll stop reading now since "Lyft's context" is no different from any other company let alone one looking to hire a Machine Learning Engineer/Scientist.
Tylenol and generic equivalents
Anything is a weapon if you use it like one. However some things are actually designed to be weapons. It’s insane that people make the kind of argument you make because clearly there is a different between something that isn’t designed to be a weapon and misused; and something that is designed to kill people. The entire rest of the world has acknowledged that fact yet you’re still trying to conflate the two.
As the plane gets older and less sophisticated it gets harder to put all the pieces of the puzzle together without ripping the whole aircraft to pieces and starting over.

Even after touching down, the aircraft this is built for have computer control for the brakes and full rudder authority, so it can do a pretty good approximation of a proper short field landing based on GPS and wheel speed sensors. Do you want to add computer controlled brakes and wheel speed sensors to your tin can? No? Then we have to assume the plan is to just roll to a halt and that cuts our list of viable landing sites and hurts survivability considerably.
They can, by working elsewhere.
Reality doesn't have to be deterministic to be predictable. Software components can be (theoretically) deterministic and still have unpredictable behaviors in complex systems.

The fact that these welders didn't clean the acetylene edges doesn't mean that this outcome was unpredictable. Wouldn't it say as much about the welders as the difficult of the field?
> going strong since 2008!" (or whenever the project started)

It's not immediately clear from the site, but it might surprise people to learn BZFlag was first released in 1993. (And is based on an arcade game from 1980.)
Hard to believe. That would be like one tenth of the world, excluding children and not internet connected. Even steam is a bit below that in active users and it has many more games and gamers.
One of my favorite things about htop are some of the projects that have been created that are modeled after htop but focus on information other than system resources.

Cointop [0] is one of these projects that comes to mind.

[0] https://github.com/miguelmota/cointop
I’m thinking more like power lines, or the chute catching a tall building, some industrial facilities may not be great either. Or moving traffic.

You’ll go wherever the wind pulls you. And might hit the side of something faster than 20mph before hitting the ground.

And hitting a crowd at 20mph.
Most of it depends on the idea as to whether you think you experience death.

For example: general anesthesia is something I think most people having these conversations should experience (which is to say, generally a lot of people don't). Because it's very different to sleep. Waking up from GA, it's as though no time has passed at all - you were one place, suddenly you're another.

In the case where a person is duplicated exactly, sometime during that period of GA - what's the difference?

It takes a special pleading that somehow, someone would know the difference. While under general anesthesia it's worth considering that people can and do actually die. And unless something metaphysical happens at that point, then the reality is they never know. They went under, expected to wake up, and just don't.
> "An open source tank-based warfare game with online multiplayer, going strong since 2008!" (or whenever the project started)

1992, FYI. Same year as Wolfenstein 3D. Not sure what the original graphics looked like, but I know it was first person. It probably had line polygons like Battlezone, the arcade game that inspired it.

Not correcting you just to seem smart, I genuinely think it's interesting that the game is that old and still active.
> There are plenty of good rebuttals you’ve conveniently missed.

I got 5 replies in a span of 5 minutes. I can't respond that fast with the detail and nuance of my positions.

> Also, 300k/year was the maximum in 2000.

And now we are up to 500k last year, and another 950k this year. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
Ok so would you ok with a restaurant not serving republicans because the party currently supports ICE's actions?
I played this a lot with my sister on Pentium 3 Linux boxes. Good times.
It's a pretty common pattern for brilliant people to do a PhD in the Ivy league while having done undergrad in some other country entirely. Not sure if that is less or more common than having done undergrad at an Ivy and/or some other US university.
> They have the manpower, they're just doing everything as inefficiently and inhumanely as possible in order to arrive at this outcome.

Source? Last I checked the system was still drastically in need of border patrol, immigration judges, case workers, beds to house people, etc. Those things can't just spin up in a week and be effective.
From my perspective as interviewer:

- No university student actually knows how to code until they prove otherwise, this is why a portfolio is so important. University assignments count too if they’re complex enough.

- If I’m going to hire them they’d better be here for a few years because I’m going to spend months getting them up to speed, so someone that clearly doesn’t like working on my stuff is out (of course I’m aware we make boring software, but you need to at least show some enthusiasm for the process if not the result).

- I don’t give more than a passing glance to academic qualifications. Especially in the Netherlands, if you finish uni I have a pretty good idea what you are capable off in general terms. A fast track would be nice if you otherwise know what to do, but that last is way more important.

There are plenty of challenges in building CRUD apps, and none of them have to do with coding. In fact, I’d argue that most of the challenge of development of anything does not come from coding at all once you reach a certain degree of competence (expectation management, time management, etc.)

Anyhow, most of the valuable software in the world is a CRUD app (think Facebook?), so it’s one of the most likely things you’ll work on.
I switched to Arch expecting to tweak a bunch of stuff, and now I just use essentially stock GNOME with a couple of extensions downloaded through the GNOME extension manager and haven't touched it in years.
Facebook allows business to correlate offline activity with ads
Have you tried designing/project management? Imo more abstract portions of a project?
> I'm not sure how an example of being required to work on something they objected to due to economic factors outside of their control is an example that helps your case.

Quitting on moral grounds is a luxury in the scope of human history, and is a luxury for MOST Americans today. Im not sure it is a realistic stance for most people (but probably for most of HN).

I don't think GitHub is going to (or should) change its stance. I'm sure there are plenty of things on GitHub that are worse, or have been used to worse ends than providing source control for ICE.

> I tend to think labor should have more power over what it creates.

I do a lot of contract/freelance work.

The trade off is that control means I am also liable in the event that my work causes an issue (legally as well as from the stand point of being a good citizen and business person).

Indemnity is a wonderful thing. Indemnity is why we have open source. Lots of things work because labor, and its products are decoupled from the end use. Should we stop making guns because someone might kill another person? Should we stop making fertilizer because it can be turned into a bomb? The end result of both products is the same but the intent in the production of either is not HARM.
Rising Seas Are Going to Drown More Cities Than We’d Thought
Illegal in the context of a speeder is a criminal matter. Illegal in the context of an immigrant/alien is referring to a violation of civil laws and not criminal ones. Maybe an apt comparison would be illegal CEO for those caught salary fixing.
Interesting.
It seems automation would greatly speed up this field.

I wonder if progress is being made on this front.
Nope, we have a separate word for that: most.
Most asylum seekers don't have valid claims for asylum. They are economic migrants that are bogging down the system for valid asylum cases. Bogging down a system that was not built for it results in overcrowding, long delays and other pretty shitty things. Thats why congress needs to take further action to 1) limit the number of invalid claims making it into the system and 2) make sure DHS/ICE has the proper resources to deal with it all.
Yep! The current GOP is corrupt in every way you can imagine, and by all accounts doing their best to turn the United States into a dictatorship.
Model Parameters and Hyperparameters – What Is the Difference?
Do you have a source to cite here, or can you refine what kind of properties you're talking about? I urinate standing up and prefer to live with someone who urinates while seated. This is the prevailing preference amongst people who urinate while standing.
Turns out everybody needs a mask. Happy Halloween
State-of-the-Art NLP in Ten Lines of TensorFlow 2.0
Phony HTTPS Everywhere Extension Used in Fake Tor Browser
I'm super bummed about it. It is a complicated story involving impedance mismatches between the goals of two administrative silos. The high-level goals are the same (good science, students, technology), but there are structural differences on how to get there...
Oooh, this sounds fantastic!
"On 20 May 2009, the United States Senate passed an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 (H.R. 2346) by a 90–6 vote to block funds needed for the transfer or release of prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp" [0]

[0] - https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/senate-overwhelmingly...
We carve out those special exceptions for reasons of striving to create a fairer world for everyone: people in this country have historically been (and contemporarily are) discriminated against for race, gender, sexual orientation. The discrimination, both from people personally and encoded into laws and large-scale businesses processes, makes society unfair for those groups, e.g. redlining put people of color at a significant disadvantage for home-buying and building intergenerational wealth for their communities. Those are also things people are born with. Discriminating against people for how they're born, individually and systematically, runs counter to creating a fair, just, equal society.

Additionally, the freedom argument in the Jim Crow era, "let racist businesses remain racist and eventually they'll be replaced by non-racist businesses" was tried out for a hundred years, and the status quo did not change for people of color. It took the civil rights era and outright banning of discriminatory behavior by businesses for the status quo to change for the better/fairer/more equal. I don't think it would be a good idea to return to that older state of affairs, even if it means business owners must serve people of color, gay people, whatever, because, from my reading of history, that experiment failed.
This politicisation of tech that's happened at a surprisingly rapid rate since a few years ago is scary, because it threatens to split the industry and maybe even eventually society into a number of opposing factions.
People would have to stop expecting to be able to eat all vegetables and fruits at all times. Going to be a hard sell, especially in the northern half of the US that doesn’t grow anything in winter.
Researchers create quantum chip 1k times smaller than current setups
Hey, I wrote that article. There's now an actual, functional IMAP library that uses these techniques here:

https://github.com/jonhoo/rust-imap

I did not contribute to that library, but it's nice to see a practical implementation. They use the same approach, essentially, as I describe in my blog.
The magic exercise for me is jogging at least 3 miles at about a heart rate of 150-160. I consistently get 3 hours deep sleep according to the AutoSleep app and dream heavily. Otherwise I’m usually getting 1-1.5 hours deep sleep with other exercise and less than 1 if I don’t do anything all day. Just an anecdote for comparison.
what about physical exercise ?

what about social / emotional life ?

these are the two most impactful factors I've experienced so far. Good physical exhaustion made me sleep like a baby. And a stress free job (min wage) made me sleep better too.. the simplest call for an IT job made me wake up in the middle of the night and thinking.
A bit of Slippery Slope combined with Strawman fallacy here.
If we're nearby to each other, we could get it started. You in the DC area?
Airbnb has had issue for a while. This[1] is a post I wrote about them in 2014. Basically, it is not in Airbnb's interests to provide quality control, or stop these scams, as either action will negatively impact their revenue.

[1] https://scalability.org/2014/03/ot-airbnb-and-their-issues/
And you just lost the argument. There are multiple failures here:

- To many folks, this sounds conspiracy-theory-ish, and they will just yeah-uhuh until you go away.

- Your actual point (that we may have certain comforting legal protections now does not mean that future governments will respect the same restrictions) will leave a lot of folks cold; whatever hysterics they may get up to when debating politics, most folks do not fear imminent totalitarianism in the US.

- To many folks, there is a huge difference between handing their private correspondence/pictures/finances/whatever to you or their cousin and having it available to "the authorities", whom they presume have legal restrictions, training, protocols, oversight, and the overall motive of protecting the country.

That last one is important: to most people, that's a very good thing in and of itself, and also a reason why they believe the Deep State(tm) won't harm them: they don't want to blow things up, so logically there's no reason to scrutinize at them. This is the root of the "nothing to hide" argument. It also happens to be somewhat true: the TLAs do get up to a lot they shouldn't, and sometimes are outright evil. But they do, in fact, work to protect the republic and don't mess with the vast bulk of regular people.

Remember that winning a debate and changing minds are not the same thing.
Researchers create blueprint for 'quantum battery' that doesn't lose charge
QE/Repo Is Killing the Dollar and Will Devastate the Entire Planet
I tried running / jogging (lower HR because my heart is bad) but beside this I worked at a recycling factory. Handling truck parts, crouching to unscrew frames etc etc. This kind of evergoing physical activity drained me deeper and smoother than jogging.
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This makes alot of sense. Our bodies are amazing and unique, but require a little self-exploration to optimize (sometimes it takes extra work to get good sleep).

This made the rounds a few years back, but its nice to see they are still at it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/04/4606206...
You do. Take your labor elsewhere. Other than that? Pretty much, no.
Not sure that quite meets this definition, but there's a newly named object Synestia that sounds pretty similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synestia
Body is just one half of the equation for Deep Sleep
> This is a symptom of "bullshit" going on around in big tech companies. "bullshit" here is an economic term defined in the book "bullshit jobs".

Bullshit is neither an economic term nor an anthropological one. David Graeber is an anthropologist, not an economist, though he has written inexplicably popular books on economic topics that betray his lack of understanding of economics.

Bullshit is actually used as a technical term in philosophy occasionally.

http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...

> One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the development of a theoretical understanding of bullshit, mainly by providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical analysis. I shall not consider the rhetorical uses and misuses of bullshit. My aim is simply to give a rough account of what bullshit is and how it differs from what it is not, or (putting it somewhat differently) to articulate, more or less sketchily, the structure of its concept.
>Also you may want to ask your doctor about a sleep aid such as ambien.

Exactly the wrong advice. Ambien decreases NREM 3 duration and amplitude. Do not ask for Ambien.
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects (2015)
Hotels? If you call jail (on a good day) a hotel then I have a bridge to sell you. And yes we put them on busses to get them back because it is cheeper than flying them.

> These aren't people fleeing genocide.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

You as an American should not go there, but them fleeing here is problematic?
intel_gpu_top helped me solve a mysterious performance issue on a MacBook after countless hours of fruitless investigation. Overheating and throttling was an issue but even after I fixed it the system would lag hard - instantly when I used the external 4k display, and after a while on the internal 1440p screen. Turns out cool-retro-term was maxing out the integrated Intel GPU which caused the entire system to stutter and lag.

Unfortunately both the MBP and my current XPS 15 are unable to drive cool-retro-term on a 4k display with the CPU integrated graphics, and they both overheat and throttle if I use the nvidia graphics card :/

It's a really cool terminal though: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
It really isn't, by the simple question of: what does "50% heritable" even mean?

50% of what? (which is to say, you picked that number because 50% genetics 50% environment feels like a good split, and how do you even measure that?)
memory and cpu usage methinks
You could kill someone by drowning them in water but that doesn’t mean water should be illegal either. The distinction being that water and skirts are not weapons. They serve a very practical purpose. Guns serve no purpose other than to shoot things.

How many times do you hear about school “skirtings” where a disgruntled teenager kills a dozen peers with his skirt?

I’m honestly flabbergasted that intelligent people would make such obviously stupid comments as you’ve made to support something that clearly shouldn’t be as widely acceptable as it currently is.

Next you’ll be defending nukes saying everyone should have them because “anything is dangerous in the wrong hands”. The line has to be drawn somewhere and the obvious place to draw that is “stuff that’s purpose is to kill people” should be on the wrong side of that line. Whichever way you decide to perform your logic gymnastics, guns still fall into the category of “this really shouldn’t be as accessible as a skirt”.