skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree strongly. Functional understanding is how I learn best, and this is perfect for me.
"They were not delighted to hear that." - I used to do that, be a smartass. Then I realized at worst they get more info, at best, you are training them and wasting your time.

Then there is that whole thing where they are getting your voice.
Is this really the common behavior? I feel like I live in a different world... Maybe I do; I don't ask a ton of questions, and when I do they are usually on pretty small niche tags, but the last several times I've asked something, I've wound up with a friendly soul suggest something within an hour or two that's gotten me pointed in the right direction.
Oh wow! Cuisenaire rods are both esoteric, and something I have seen used as an amazing teaching tool.

How do you get 5 and 6 year olds to go from playing with Cuisenaire rods as blocks to modeling algebraic equations and learning fractions?

The teacher, Simon Gregg, instructs us. He began a running Twitter thread for his 2016-2017 school year where you can follow his students' journey.

You see him first giving students cuisenaire rods for free play, then over a period of time getting them to create "100" faces, e.g. a representation of a face that had the equivalent of 100 blocks.

By the end of the year the students had not only modeled algebraic equations, but it had given Mr. Gregg an entry point to teaching the students (5 and 6 year olds!) algebraic notation. LOTS was learned in the interim.

It should be a case study in pedagogy.

Mind you, Cuisenaire rods are just the tool. The teacher is who helped make them amazing.

Some links to Simon Gregg's work. (BTW, he teaches in France and when he refers to 'K3' that's the equivalent of kindergarten in the U.S.)

An end of year reflection:
http://followinglearning.blogspot.com/2017/07/looking-back-l...

Cardinality, ordinality and developments with the Cuisenaire rods in K3:
http://followinglearning.blogspot.com/2017/01/

Compendium of his tweets chronicling the use of Cuisenaire rods in his classroom:
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=cuise...
I love the USB C/Thunderbolt 3 connector on my Macbook. I just have a single cable going into my mac from the display which also has the keyboard and mouse connected to it. The single cable does charging, display and peripherals.

For work, I have this display: LG 5K2k (https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34WK95U-W-ultrawide-monito...)

For a cheaper setup at home: LG 27inch USB C Monitor(https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27UK850-W-4k-uhd-led-monit...)
> Wonder what other rock stars are also huge train nerds

Pete Waterman[0] (of Stock, Aitken and Waterman record producers - think Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley etc) is a huge enthusiast of the hobby. When he got into the hobby as an adult he was deeply disappointed with the quality of the rolling stock in his preferred scale (O gauge) that it's said he practically rebooted O gauge modelling in the UK by working with manufacturers to improve their products.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Waterman
I couldn’t disagree more. The mobile version is absolutely terrible, because so much of what you are used to being able to do in a repo just doesn’t exist. You can’t even search issues.

It’s as if they see it as a separate product that they always deprioritize.
That's not how people use their cars or charging stations! People don't drive to places to charge their cars, they drive their cars to get places and park where they can charge. A charging infrastructure needs to have charging stations a few minutes walk away from where people are going to.

Oslo is roughly 454 km² and it has over 400 charging stations. Oslo has a lot of electric cars because of incentives and the relative ease of finding somewhere to charge your car. Tel Aviv's centre is 52km² and its metropolitan area is 1,519 km², so it alone is going to need quite a few charging stations.
No, USB-C is a step in the right direction. It's superior in every way imaginable to USB. It can handle almost every type of transfer (data/power), its orientation-agnostic, it's slim, etc. I could list the pros for days.

Having to deal with dongles for a couple years while the rest of the market catches up isn't a reason to push against the best port standard in decades.
Yeah, realistically it's something like a call option, not exactly European or American. The details depend on how precisely is the fund structured. Most importantly - when exactly the fund managers are allowed to cash-out their 20% of wins (at the end of life of the fund? perhaps the fund is in principle perpetual? perhaps whenever there's a successful "exit" of one of the investments? perhaps every year if it's in the green?).
Isn't this what the internet was like before Amazon and largely the reason that everyone had a paypal account which would prevent having to maintain payment accounts at every retailer?
There are a lot of current doctor work which involves. "Any issues with the medication your on, ok, can I see your bloodwork, no red values, here is your prescription."
As a physicist: where can you spot the physicist accent?
"Truth" is irrelevant and academic.

What matters is: What are the outcomes and consequences of active systems, AI or not.

For instance: How do the algo cope with derivatives of its own output being fed into itself as input at a later stage?
New Graphcore IPU Benchmarks
Why Kubernetes is vital for your business
They can re-activate the keys they automatically purged from my account, I still have their associated private keys. My github profile also has detailed information in its bio section including my past employer and links to my various social media/website. They could simply validate my ownership of one of those accounts etc.
It's a statement of fact, if my reasoning holds. I agree I could have made my point without making it personal though. It's offensive in the same manner as saying your religion is a lie (also a statement of fact, but not one that will win any friends.)
I'm sure in 12019 there will still be some Python 2 users.
because VC money is hunting for ai startups, so everyone does what they did when it was data analysis, predictive intelligence, augmented reality and whatnot, they attach the buzzwords to the pitch in hope to get a foot in
I'm going to go ahead and assume your teammates are reasonable people. If they're not then it doesn't matter what you do.

It sounds like you're not convincing anyone of the value of your proposals. You want to do something they've tried before, and presumably it failed. Why is it different this time around? Why are your ideas better? How will this align with the long term goals of the company?

Likewise, you want to make large changes to existing systems. Why aren't you able to convince them that this is the right way to spend your resources?

If you can't get people behind you you're going to have a hard time in your career. People are going to disagree with you all of the time. Learn how to sway them to your side. It may make sense to you, but for whatever reason, it doesn't to them. So what are they looking for? What are their concerns? What might they know that you do not, or what do you know that they don't?

Ask them questions. Why didn't this work the last time around? What is our mandate as an engineering organization? What issues do you foresee in doing this? They may make your point for you in their answers, or you may realize that your idea isn't fully fledged.
Yeah, the main reason I would pay for this would be to put the project in my portfolio. I have my own portfolio page though; I wouldn’t be interested in hosting it on a third-party site. Even if it was just something I would link to from my site, I would be concerned that potential employers would see it was “just a tutorial” and write me off as not having the experience in question. That said I don’t often get asked for source code during interviews these days, so probably the ability to host the minified code for a demo would be enough.
It's not that hard for me to reconcile those things, for two reasons:

1) We have plenty of examples from the not-too-distant past of people who were very intelligent and yet definitely racists or bigots by anything resembling modern standards. I'm 99% sure Woodrow Wilson would do fine at a top tech company in terms of carrying out his work duties if he decided to work at one, for example. And he was racist by the standards of his own time, not just ours.

2) The boundaries of what constitutes "outright racism or bigotry" are not fixed, and have been changing quite rapidly in some demographics. My general impression is that 20-something graduates of the top 50 schools in the US have, on average, a very different definition of those boundaries from most 45-year-olds, or from 20-something non-college-graduates.
I’m kind of amazed that people want a better laptop speaker. I feel that’s like the one thing that could be just decent and nobody would complain. Everybody I see either uses headphones or a bluetooth speaker.
Doesn't Craigslist have an .org as well?
No, it's an official Google project. Here is the official Google announcement by a Google employee: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/OW8b...
Big Oil’s Favorite Toy: Supercomputers (2018)
> Just software is way overpaid.

That indicates to me how underpaid most other jobs are, not that programmers are way overpaid.
That was true last year.

This year, it's been smooth sailing at every conference so far.
Oh, man. I've ordered a couple of pairs of Adidas shoes from Amazon that wore out exceptionally quickly. I had been assuming that Adidas had been suffering from a drop in quality lately.

Now that you mention it, though, I'll bet I wasn't getting authentic stuff. I'm going to purchase a pair from Adidas directly and see if the quality is better.

If it is better quality, I'll be kicking myself. I know Amazon has these kinds of problems, but I just didn't connect it to those shoes before.
I'm looking forward to moving past just talking about the AI and concentrate on the new products the tech enables.

I guess it's similar to how most photos are a means to an end now, rather than the final product. ie satellite imaging or Instagram.
RPA with Microsoft
And yet, elsewhere someone posted a link to an article about how three large apartment buildings have already been torn down in Pacifica. The ocean doesn't care much about city policy. Eventually it's going to be untenable to resist no matter how wealthy you are.
> And it couldn't be secret, because the point of gathering all that data is to target ads, so advertisers would have to know about it.

Not necessarily. They don’t need to tell the advertisers “target people who are talking about X on their phone’s microphones”, they can just tell “target people who is interested in X”, and they will still be profiting because advertisers will figure whatever their black box algorithm for targeting is doing, it’s doing better than the competition.
Yeah, the whole thing looks pretty amazingly massize, but there isn't a single photograph that shows the whole thing.

I'm also really curious what the sky is painted onto.
Facebook Says Government Demands for User Data Are at a Record High
Facebook's latest transparency report is out. The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased by 16% to 128,617 demands during the first-half of this year compared to the second-half of last year. From a report:
That's the highest number of government demands its received in any reporting period since it published its first transparency report in 2013. The U.S. government led the way with the most number of requests -- 50,741 demands for user data resulting in some account or user data given to authorities in 88% of cases. Facebook said two-thirds of all of the U.S. government's requests came with a gag order, preventing the company from telling the user about the request for their data. But Facebook said it was able to release details of 11 so-called national security letters (NSLs) for the first time after their gag provisions were lifted during the period. National security letters can compel companies to turn over non-content data at the request of the FBI. These letters are not approved by a judge, and often come with a gag order preventing their disclosure. But since the Freedom Act passed in 2015, companies have been allowed to request the lifting of those gag orders.
Same question. If it is not wrong, could someone please explain?
I wanted to give a shout out for this USB C hub. Not associated with the manufacturer, I'm am just a happy customer.

https://satechi.net/collections/usb-type-c/products/type-c-m...
I wish the US would do better too. But the US is not that bad. It's ranked 17 on the human freedom index, along side Sweden.

Just saying, where do you live?

(I'm not American, and I wish they did better, but it's not that bad)
Sounds interesting. Do you have a link where this is explained?

A friend claims I can temporarily fix my video card by 'baking' it, whatever that is.
I don't think there is a difference in reactions. A vocal minority complain every time Apple changes anything. Lots of people complained about the chiclet keyboard when the 2008 Macbook Pro came out. And shipping a computer without a floppy drive or a PS/2 port seemed crazy to many people at the time.
ah yes the cultured machine learning proponents and their reputation for picking up social cues
> data ownership and pipelines

not ML.

By your argument, the money is in data hoarding and brokering, and renting that data (with DRM) to ML outfits, not doing ML.

Anyway, cleaning dirty data isn't execeptionally hard, it's just boring work; getting the raw data is the hard part.
Agreed. The main difference is that development of python 3 didn't stop development on the 2.x branch until 3.4(?) was out. There was also an upgrade path and the ability to support both Python 2 and Python 3 at the same time. Python 3 could _easily_ have been a similar roadblock but was handled well enough to avoid that fate (better upgrade tooling would have been a massive help)
You tell the programs to use FaceRig as the camera input device, and FaceRig gets your actual camera input.
> not one likely to survive legal challenge

Can you elaborate?
Interesting. It looks like the sea level has also risen by about 17.5cm in the last century - https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
volatility is just a risk, a possibilty to loose money/value. Or even to gain. Transaction costs, on the other hand, are a certainty.
Ask HN: What is the proper etiquette when interviewing with multiple companies?
Throwaway account for obvious reasons. I apologize if this question is a bit basic but I had a job right out of college so I never encountered such a situation with interviewing.

I am looking for a new position and have a few on-site interviews scheduled in a different city. The companies interested in interviewing me are obviously willing to book my flights but the problem is that I am planning on interviewing with multiple companies while I am in that city.

So my question is- what is the correct etiquette here in terms of dealing with flight bookings?

1. Do I have the company that is interviewing me first on Monday book my inbound flight ticket and the company interviewing me last on Thursday book my outbound flight? I am kinda worried about this as these companies might not be too happy if they find out I am interviewing with other companies while on a trip that they partially paid for to fly me there.

2. Do I just pay for the tickets out of pocket? That way I don't owe anyone anything and they can't be mad.

If I go with 1. do I need to tell them that I am interviewing with other companies in the same city during my trip?
That's some beautiful job. My mother in law's friend has something resembling built that takes the whole basement and I was deeply impressed when saw it. I can only imagine what Rod's creation look like when you actually see it.
You could say it started with ImageNet 2012 where AlexNet showed that deep networks were a newly promising area of study - however the actual performance of AlexNet was very very far from human performance. I tend to say the revolution started at ImageNet 2014 with VGG/GoogLeNet, the first human-caliber performances. Or you could say it was ImageNet 2015, when the first ResNet had better-than-human performance.
Sand-slithering snakes behave like light waves
I'm looking at the same data as you, and agree with your points. It's possible sea level could rise faster, but even at worst case protections climate change probably doesn't make the top ten factors when considering a specific property.

If the property is so vulnerable to rising sea levels or storm surge, it is going to be vulnerable with and without climate change. Climate change itself doesn't seem to change the calculus much.
Oh, and we didn't pay them off via some national insurance program? I'm surprised and somewhat impressed. I'd expect those parties to have required the government to pay out.
TL;DR; anyone? Originally I thought this lets one calculate eigenvectors directly from matrix and its submatrices's eigenvalues, but looking at the paper, it is not exactly that good.
> I'm perplexed as to why they are trying to do this.

... really? Google is the Consumer Intelligence Agency. All they want is all of your data on how you're spending your money, so they can sell more ads.

There's no other lofty goals here but more access to how you and your money moves.
Or, you know, the market is dictating the rate.
Either I would wind up being extra nice to a digital assistant or being curt with my partner :)
When I scroll, it won’t show me anything past the letter K. It’s also displays a grid of boxes with artwork instead of a simple easy-to-scan text list.

From third party sites that index Netflix content, looks like they have a little under 3000 movies, most of which I’ve never heard of.

Versus Disney+, which seems to have over 600 movies with quite a few big titles.
> The post you are replying to has three clear bullet points which indicate where the problem lies.

No, it does not. All it does is point possible explanations of why reality is the way it is. Yet, reality is still reality. If models are expected to predict reality then their output will match what we observe in reality. If someone expects predictive models to not predict reality and instead output results that do not match reality and instead comply with someone's personal ideals then that's an entirely different problem: predicting someone's personal goals instead of reality.
Ah, yeah, this is why I hate having these discussions.
The Mistakes We Make
I don't mind going above and beyond under extreme circumstances. But I'm not letting a company take over my phone. They can provide me one in that case. And I'm still going to pay little attention to it after normal work hours.

Extremely important issues don't come up that frequently. So I'll be the judge of whether I need to deal with it now or it can wait and be on the docket first thing in the morning
While it's a great idea, how do you test this? Is it worth the time?

All my loved ones are on my iCloud so I would just ping their phone/watch while confirming location and asking the assailant to let you hear the phone ping on the line.
Great use case!
How can one use a laptop for several hours every day without developing neck pain!?
What quitting your job to start a company looks like
Why British teachers are fleeing overseas
Yup. I DJ and use cameras all the time, so I'm not just a guy checking his Facebook. I swapped cables and have zero issues now. For every cable type there's now a USB-C equivalent for cheap on Amazon or Aliexpress. People just want to find something to complain about.

Edit: Before anyone mentions that ‘now you need to bring cables’...When I DJ I always bring a bunch of spare cables anyway, because I don't what to rely on the location for providing me what I need. So I did this with my old mac too. Nothing changed except the type of cable.
Realistically the "shovels" are the compute services. And the shovel makers are really doing well.

What you don't really see is the ML startups making billions yet. What you do however see is companies like Microsoft with their Azure product and Amazon with AWS Compute making bank off the tech startups doing ML. I really think the people who are cashing in the most with the ML craze are the cloud/compute providers.

I would be curious to see just how much VC money is being passed indirectly to MS Azure through ML startups.
The Slashdot Effect
No. Marking memory as executable is a native machine level capability (as in x86_64 assembly machine instructions). Wasm is a stack machine interpreter that can read only Wasm binaries. The binary format is essentially just a compressed/minimized form of the bytecode format, which used to essentially be an AST of the original source code, but now I believe they modified it a bit to be more analogous to hypothetical machine code, but still abstracted. The Wasm interpreter does not understand x86 or ARM or whatever machine code it's fed it and rightly so. If that was possible, anyone could just send over a buffer to the browser to execute whatever they want.
I feel like I've read somewhat similar pieces about every single field affected by automation and AI at this point.

In every other article, there's a dichotomy between "everyone will keep their jobs and be more efficient and have more time to focus on what matters" and "everyone will lose their jobs and be replace by machines". This then gets resolved to "we will never be replaced because 'human factors'", therefore option a).

I am sure the author knows their field well, but this just doesn't seem to provide any interesting / new viewpoint on the issue beyond the arguments that usually come up in superficial discussion of the topic.
This narrative is your own though..

(Not saying wether it's "true", "false" or 78% likely here)
How does a data provider prevent someone from copying the data from their S3 bucket into a new one, then cancelling the subscription and owning the data forever?
Pricing experiments that can increase your revenue
The biggest most important right is to buy the freehold (or extend the lease). I would rather just own a freehold...

As another poster pointed out many leaseholds today come with a share of freehold anyway.
Your looking at it wrong.

A doctor's appointment schedule is crazy busy, with "LONG" appointments being under 20min per patient. Imagine a scenario where a doctor is able to spend time with the patient/their medical history etc.

I spend a lot of time going to doctors appointments these days, and a large number of the doctors that I see, now have an assistant/transcriptionist in the room to manage the EMR/charting app, because that enables them to focus on the patient.
That's in terms of damage, not strength. Huge difference, depending on what we build and where. Although I'm not denying storms are getting stronger, it's slowly, just like sea level rise.

I wouldn't buy waterfront property in Florida, but mostly for the problems inherit with doing that today, not because of future climate change.
Keeping the participation friction as low as possible ensures the maximum number participate, which ensures questions have maximum visibility. Changing the simple vote up/down process with something requiring to specify a reason can reduce the number views a question gets.

Also nothing is stopping a downvoter from leaving a comment explaining why the question needs improvement, other than lack of reputation (you need a minimum reputation for your downvotes to be visible anyway). People who care to explain their downvotes can already use the existing process. Since comments can be upvoted (but not downvoted), there is already an incentive in place for that as well.