skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setup and tear down time are arguably a more important performance metric, especially on mobile devices where internet connections change frequently.
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This always comes up when the big tech cos do their annual conference day thing. We don't consolidate the posts, but we do downweight some of them, so you're actually getting less (Amazon|Google|Apple|Microsoft)iness then the system would otherwise be letting through.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You're misreporting the very link you quoted. Indeed, the Wikipedia description is pretty fair. I'll quote the relevant paragraph directly:

"James Damore was spurred to write the memo when a Google diversity program he attended solicited feedback.[2] The memo was written on a flight to China.[12][13] Calling the culture at Google an "ideological echo chamber", the memo states that while discrimination exists, it is extreme to ascribe all disparities to oppression, and it is authoritarian to try to correct disparities through reverse discrimination. Instead, it argues that male/female disparities can be partly explained by biological differences.[1][14] Damore said that those differences include women generally having a stronger interest in people rather than things, and tending to be more social, artistic, and prone to neuroticism (a higher-order personality trait).[15] Damore's memorandum also suggests ways to adapt the tech workplace to those differences to increase women's representation and comfort, without resorting to discrimination.[1][14]"

In terms of pipeline argument, the memo can be viewed as arguing that the pipeline is biased at every stage, which is "partly explained by biological differences"[0], and that it's wrong to try and solve this by reverse discrimination at the tail end of the pipe (i.e. throwing perfectly good candidates out to improve the ratio). Instead, the memo proposed means to reduce the bias near the end of the pipe without resorting to discrimination.

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[0] - Note that some of the differences - "stronger interest in people rather than things, and tending to be more social, artistic, and prone to neuroticism" - can be also plausibly explained by social factors (instead of biological), but that's orthogonal to those differences existing and biasing the entire pipeline.
How so? There is so many things that we sometimes forgot. Even experienced developers will make mistakes.
4G was more of a catch all for mobile connectivity. But actually some networks are turning off their 2G and 4G might have a better chance of working for years to come, since a TV is not really replaced that often.
So are those Johnson and Johnson Baby powder actually safe?

I remember reading J&J said only a batch in some years contains ultra small amount of some substance and less than certain % of it is safe.
Not even close. We'll have to nail down how to write unambiguous design specifications in a format that the AI can consume, first.
I'd imagine that there's some kind of grudge against Sanders in the media class, similar to the obsession with Russia.
The MSM was entirely confident in Clinton's win, and were reeling for answers after she lost. He was Clinton's main challenger in 2016, and I know a lot of liberals saw his campaign as somehow detracting from hers, so much so that it contributed to her losing the election.
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It's an interesting insight. When applying to colleges I never considered applying for CS as I (female) had no programming experience whatsoever, and seemed to be surrounded by people (male) who'd been working on computers for years,

( I'll leave speculation on that for another day )

It was only because they forced EE majors to take programming courses that I ended up in the field. I wrote my first "hello world" as an 18 year old freshman, but it never really seemed to matter.
People should look at the memo with all its links to papers to decide if these claims are "largely unsourced."

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

There was a version initially floating around that had all the links removed.
Isn't scanning a physical book and uploading a soft-copy, a landmine of hazards (both legal and moral)? Essentially you are encouraging (some) unlawful activity... I am not so sure I am onboard with this idea!
Your comment reminded me of one my favorite posters:

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I don't observe a difference between `ranger` and `. ranger` in zsh. What am I supposed to notice?
I mean, it sort of has to be. Ultimately Facebook is only allowed to operate because politicians allow it to. Pissing off too many politicians is an existential threat to Facebook.

That's not to totally absolve Facebook btw; a major part of what needs to happen is a huge amount of transparency so that constituents can pressure politicians correctly.
In the Smart City, less is more
Maybe so, but the Google statement does say that the employees in question did all of this in a systematic way that was outside the scope of their job responsibilities. I'd actually like to know a lot more about step 1, I suspect it holds the key to figuring out what's going on.
The unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) industry is already fairly mature. These guys in NY are competing against large, established companies that already acquired reasonably successful startups:

Teledyne (Gavia)

General Dynamics (Bluefin)

Kongsberg (Hydroid)

L3 (Ocean Server)

BAE (Riptide)
Do any of those services reliably give useful results?
My guess is it will, on average, increase demand.

ML is finicky; the model training pipeline itself isn’t the hard part, compared to setting up for the right question and examples used to train the model.

For small-to-mid firms, data scientists are super expensive. And they might only deliver a valuable project every six weeks (or, at bigger firms, every year...).

If automl increases their productivity, suddenly they don’t look so expensive.
See, that's the reason why calling it a SAT solver makes the problem sound scarier than it is. Using Z3--or even MiniSAT--is massive overkill. The naive exponential algorithm is fine, and it leads to more maintainable and understandable code. Rust's build performance has nothing to do with dependency solving. I've never heard of a package manager in which core dependency solving was a speed problem; dep was slow because of I/O, not SAT solving.
Excellent article, thanks for sharing.

I wonder, if one wants to disrupt management consulting, what would it be ? Massive open annonymized datasets ?
The Factorization of RSA-240
"Seems to me the big problem with any kind of retail queue is highly inconsistent service times."

The article mentions that as one of the two problems: "If customer arrivals were exactly evenly spaced and each took exactly 10 minutes to serve, there would be no problem."

"It's also why so many businesses use a single queue with multiple tellers/ cashiers."

The article implicitly assumes a single queue. But, as long as any empty queue is immediately filled by someone switching from another queue, this assumption doesn't affect the expected total # of people waiting.
Can you explain? Just because the HN crowd finds something interesting, that doesn't automatically qualify it for a wikipedia page.
> The news has become so bad today so every news source is basically fake news. In my country for example, the national television is so obviously biased it's ridicolous.

"It's all fake news" is cover for propaganda outlets, and while mainstream news gets things wrong occasionally, they get a lot right, and also they course correct and offer corrections when they get things wrong.

There's a huge difference.
RSA-240 Factored
Bug fixes and performance improvements!
Awesome stuff ... looks great!
Tiny bug when I go to:
https://thesundaypaper.buymeacoffee.com/
and I press the burger icon and explore creators
then I get a 404.

Hope that helps and keep kicking asses!
Storage isn't hard, but downloading 40 Tb can be a problem. Are there any arrangements for physical distribution (of the "truck loaded with USB drives" variety)?
Headless chrome/puppeteer...
Germany fell even further, after massive amounts of money spent.
Congratulations, Josh! This is a huge success for a six month project. Based on my experience with acquisitions, that was a very fair offer that you got.
It's all fun and games until it's not a bank with one teller, but a LabCorp with one phlebotomist, and you're not there to give a blood sample, but a urine sample.
Kind of a textbook description of queue theory if you were taking a stochastic processes class. If the author really is suggesting this for use in retail line situations, he is out of touch because... retail managers have no idea what queue theory is. If they did, they would be making much more money, and not working in retail. Staffing is more of a function of how many people you can get on the clock without getting yelled at by regional managers (who also do not know queue theory) for overstaffing.
Even Google's Search Appliance wasn't a game changer. Reality check - it's DEAD.

Google disrupted the market by factoring in links into its algorithm, something that is rather meaningless in proprietary context.
This claim is a real stretch.
This looks pretty cool, can it be embedded in a webapp to allow users to create graphs with the webapp's data?
It's not about thermal conductivity, it's about IR transmissivity. Above a certain temperature it would reduce the IR transmitted to the inside, thus keeping things cooler in the summer while still allowing the inside to be warmed by the sun during winter.

Even in a desert the temperature-dependent behavior may be beneficial to cool during the night. But if it is not then yes, a different, harder coating that always reflects IR would be preferable.
I went through a transfer of sponsors and I can tell you that the process and cost was the same as getting my H1B the first time. The only difference was that I wasn’t restricted by the yearly cap and the transfer could happen at any time - unlike the first H1B which needs to be filed starting in April and the visa stamped in October.
That reads to me like "I like the Facebook service and so I use it". Of course if you want to use Facebook then quitting Facebook isn't practical.
Sorry, how are these two arguments equivalent in your mind:

1. There are few women engineers at Google because there are few candidates in the pipeline.

2. women generally having a stronger interest in people rather than things, and tending to be more social, artistic, and prone to neuroticism

I don't see that at all. The only way you get there is to assume a common causality. But that assumption (that some people are inherently bad at coding) is offensive if made without good science. You can't start with bad pseudoscience and "prove" that Damore was fired because he pointed out the pipeline problem!
In the GLAM sector the LOCKSS[1] is project is quite well-known. It tries to deal with some of the resiliency problems that is inherent in digital preservation. However, I'd guess this system does not offer the needed anonymity.

[1] https://www.lockss.org/ ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCKSS
the main point here — I can not find any good lib with good community on GitHub
I know there is html2image-java, but it's not maintained for a while :(
Yes, as mentioned above, we do use proprietary solutions where appropriate. However, all else being equal, I would prefer a managed but replicable service (e.g., MCS or Aurora MySQL) over a purely proprietary one, because deploying a replacement Cassandra or Vitess cluster is usually less costly than rewriting an application to use a different data store.
Me too, but I also understand publishers who need subscribers so they could survive in this profit-based economy.
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I would like to buy it through Mozilla in order to support the Mozilla Foundation, because I want to support their work and help them break their dependency on Google for funding.
You can now opt-out from the Slack WYSIWYG editor
Does "buy me a coffee" support, or plan to support, the option to send money directly to charities rather than creators? I feel like this would make both the creator and the consumer feel their money is doing the most good, as it's both thanking the creator and helping someone in need at the same time.

Part of that could be to create a new class of payee, and then add an integration so that a creator can internally redirect payments to a particular payee. As part of the redirect you register something separate from a "payment" that you would display for the creator's page ("N people have donated Z dollars to Y on behalf of X"), and then the final payee would also have its own independent "payment" register ("N people have donated Z dollars to Y"). Don't know what the tax implications (if any) would be.
Baby powder is fine, given that I don't know that one can even buy talc powder anymore. It's all made with corn starch now. Go right ahead and bread those nuts (verifying that it's non-talc breading, just to be safe).
By periodically looking at release notes for my dependencies, and, (if I'm being diligent or don't trust my dependencies to be doing audits of their own dependencies), transitive dependencies.

In general I never want to change any dependencies w/o explicitly thinking about the change and setting aside time for testing and breakage.

And at the time I'm adding some new direct dependency L, I will pick the version I want (presumably the latest). As for its dependencies, why should I want them to be the latest? I just want the versions that are most likely to work correctly w/ the version of L I have selected. Right?
Well if you ever get the urge to try again, try disabling hardware acceleration. It fixed that problem for me.
Sure, but that's a critical difference between animals and people.

In addition to sampling a whole host of metrics related to a person's health, life expectancy, purchasing power, &c, you can also just ask them how they feel about where they are in life and where they're going. You can't do that with an animal.

Sweden, for example, is showing an OCED Better Life Index of 8.5 for safety and 8.9 for life satisfaction [http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/sweden/]. This is compared to the US's rankings of 7.5 and 7.4, respectively.

If the Swedes have sacrificed their freedom (assuming "freedom" is a quantifiable that the US hasn't sacrificed), I wouldn't draw the conclusion they haven't noticed; I'd conclude they actively don't miss it.
The degree to which you reduce everything to power is the degree to which you impair your ability to think and speak. This is because thought and speech are faculties based on the ability to draw distinctions between things. In exchange for voluntarily diminishing your capacity to think and speak, you receive a one note answer to everything: "blah blah blah power blah blah privilege".
All ad supported journalism is by definition propaganda, as is state run news like the BBC or RT.

Being 'mainstream' has little to do with it.

Edit: Taking ad dollars constrains your ability to say things that your advetisers don't like. You can claim 'separation of church and state' and say that the ad department isn't telling the journalists what they can and can't say, but journalists don't work in a vacuum and editors and executives won't run pieces that they know will cause them to lose sponsors.

State run media is obviously not going to report on embarassments to the country in an open an honest manner. Look how hard the BBC tried to kill off the Jimmy Savile and Prince Andrew/Epstein angles.
> If you aren't constantly trying to make 90% of the tasks simple enough for a boring team member to do then I don't know how you prevent the overall complexity of the system from eventually swamping you all.

One has to keep in mind that the things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. Otherwise, you risk ending up with the stereotypical low-skill Java Enterprise shop, where inexperienced and not particularly skilled developers end up writing (or autogenerating) code by kilolines, where if someone better trained were to stop and think for an hour, it could all be done in 100-1000x less code, and with similar improvement in maintainability.
This page has plots of performance of a certain agent on these different environments: https://openai.com/blog/procgen-benchmark/

Question to anyone familiar with this stuff: I can't figure out which agent they're running on these environments to create the plots in the above link. Is it some well-known agent which is supposed to be clear from context?
ABV = Alcohol by Volume
IBU = International Bitterness Units
It is not impossible for you to earn second income on H1-B, it's just that the secondary source would need its on visa petition.

DISCLAIMER: I am not an attorney. More importantly, I am not your attorney. The above is not legal advice. If you desire legal advice, consult a competent, licensed attorney in your area.
Maybe a little embarrassingly, but I've tried to read it a couple of times and usually bailed around chapter 3 or so due to boredom.

I think I know the type of wordiness you're referring to and my term for the type of person that uses that technique is a "snake". The kind of unconscionable person that, like a magician, draws the audience's focus to one point while enacting their trick with the other hand.

I had a particular person in mind when I wrote my other comment. It was a guy I used to work with who initially didn't like me despite my very team-oriented spirit. I think he thought I was a snake.

Eventually our boss noticed our inability to collaborate and forced us two, along with a more senior team member to brainstorm a solution to a particular problem afflicting the project that day.

I have a tendency to relentlessly refine on a solution or quickly reject solutions I don't see as tenable. Sometimes when someone first meets me, they get the impression that I "shoot down" their ideas because of some desire to appear superior.

I do sometimes shoot down ideas but only because I am an umcompromisably honest person, at least with respect to work, which I take seriously. Which isn't to say I'm Dwight Schrute and I go out of my way to shoot other people's ideas down. I just won't lie and say I like something if I don't. I also am aware of this aspect of my personality and go to lengths to suppress it for the sake of those around me. But it is who I am at the end of the day, and I don't intend to change that.

Anyway, at first the guy wanted to butt heads with me, but I did my best to project a patient and collaborative vibe and the senior member encouraged the dude to look at my ideas in a more removed fashion rather than in an emotional way and my teammate eventually came around and began working with me.

That coworker and I went on to become, if not friends, solid collaborators for over a year after that until the point at which I left the company.

I think some people have an initial dislike for overly straightforward people like me, but most usually come around to it and even appreciate it eventually. You don't have to worry about me double crossing you. I'm predictable.

The rest who don't can pound sand as far as I'm concerned.
Even if you shuck the drive, as long as you keep the enclosure Western Digital will still honor the warranty.
I/O + the absurd lengths you need to go to to (mostly) safely use Git as an external binary + no package repository to globally cache things like package names and versions. yea. "SAT solving" was an incredibly tiny amount of the runtime, like you'd expect for a CPU-bound algorithm.

It's a straw man that keeps getting dragged out, but anyone who has used and understood this kind of dependency manager knows it's meaningless. You can definitely argue about its impact on community behavior, but it functions just fine, handles a ton of real-world issues reasonably, and it's nowhere near slow enough to care about.
> So why not just say the actual acquisition number?

Usually buyers don't want this information going public. Likely it was part of the deal terms. My guess is that what Josh said is as much as he's allowed to disclose per terms of the deal.
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We recently purchased dataiku and I've found it to be really quite handy.
Your friends also definitely have an email and a phone number since those are required to use Facebook.
Well they don't though. They don't correct themselves. At least not in Sweden.

I have seen alternative news sources correct themselves way more often than mainstream media. That could be because I mainly read those news sources but still, it is a fairly new thing.
Or (3) it has fixed bugs (including ones we haven't hit yet) or (4) it has better compatibility with the surrounding ecosystem (which is not static).

More than once, the fix for a mysterious bug we encountered in production was just "upgrade a particular dependency to a newer minor release" (changing nothing on our code), since another user of that dependency had already encountered that same obscure bug, and together with the developers had already investigated it and found a fix. Had we been more diligent in keeping our dependencies up to date, even when they have no new features we want or security fixes, we would not have encountered that bug.
A Short Guide to the TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)
For a given product requirement, you have a set of potential reifications which include their data impact. There's not a zero or one dichotomy as you suggest. You can cut requirements, but all the ones that remain will have varying reliance upon data collection. The goal should be to minimize that impact to its least possible surface area while still delivering the same user value. It's especially toxic to pre-emptively collect data for unknown, or conjectured later requirements. YAGNI applies.
Did a fun project for my MBA. A bike parking facility downtown, where you can park your bike securely, showers, lockers, towel service, ironing boards, buy some coffee and a snack. Raised $80k for it...needed 100. Anyways

We modeled the showering process. Had some data on how long people took to shower. Needed something like 3 showers per gender to get good throughput

One of the MBA profs didn't like this for some reason. Didn't believe it would be enough (without any numbers to back it up). We were like, well if we add a fourth shower we can accommodate dozens of more people. He liked that even less
This sounds amazing and exactly what people have been clamoring for. Extremely excited.

I think it will also rocket up Julia's popularity and usage not just for ML but as a general purpose language
Agreed. Well established technologies seem to rarely (if ever) truly die. They will become diminished, to be sure, but even to this day, people are making money writing COBOL, RPG, PL/I, etc. Somewhere out there, there are still a few people getting paid to work on the newest iteration of "whatever OS/2 is called now". Etc.