skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t set it up without an iPhone. But, once you set it up - especially the cellular one, you can leave your phone at home. You can do anything on your watch that you can on your phone that would make sense on a screen that small. You can make phone calls, text, receive notifications, get directions, stream music and podcasts, etc.

As of the latest OS you can download apps directly to it.
The methods section of the study I linked begins as follows:

Testing reported herein was conducted in Mayand June of 1999. Testing
was done individually for children in kindergarten through Grade 2. The
investigator introduced herself and said

I’m going to ask you what some words mean. Later, I'll ask you to
read the same words and some others. Some of these words are
common and some aren’t. If you want to stop at any time, you can.
I’m going to read you a sentence and then ask you what a word means
in that sentence. You can use words, pointing, or acting to explain the
meaning of that word.

We then gave three examples, including, “ ‘I bought a new car.’ In this
sentence, what does car mean?” We continued with “ ‘Johnny fell and
broke his arm.’ What does arm mean?” If the child had difficulty with these
examples, we would go over them and explain how to answer. (In the arm
example, pointing to one’s arm would do.) A final example involved a hard
word: “ ‘The material was translucent.’ In this sentence, what does translucent mean?” This example was given so that we could explain that there
would be words children did not know, and that it was alright to say, “I
don’t know.” (No children actually knew translucent.)

This seems to me like a test of which words children know, not the range of words typically used.

I can't find the term "expressive vocabulary" anywhere in the paper. Did you assume that's what they were estimating because the number seems low? Actually, 3000 words is quite a lot. The Simple English Wikipedia tries to use only the most common 1500 or so words, for example. Most concepts can probably be expressed in words a five-year old is familiar with. It's just that not everyone takes care to express themselves that clearly, so having a larger vocabulary is still beneficial.
If you come across such a Zombie, please ask for it to be added to the Code Shelter (https://www.codeshelter.co/) so projects can be resurrected later. Also, I would encourage you to join yourself, since we always need more maintainers. There's no work requirement, you can simply maintain projects if and when one excites you.
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I may have messed it up, but last time I tried Lightsail (being a loooong time user of Digital Ocean), I set up a CPU-intensive workload and it stalled within a short period of time. Then I found out the Lightsail instances are t-based ones, so I ran out of credits?

So I guess it depends on the workload as well.
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So there was an "original product" that was "not scaleable", "obscenely expensive" and "can't be sold as a consumer device", right?

If we distinguish the magic leap one as a different product, then from what I can see the original qualifies as vaporware.
The iPad even required iTunes to set up for the first year and half.
cheap is certainly an argument for hacking on it. But not a good argument if you want to carry it along as your one and only phone (at least I strongly prefer to carry only a single one, after having carried 2 for 8 years or so). Just this weak I had the case that I wanted to take some important photos in challenging lightening conditions. But my Sony/SailfishOS managed to capture only quite weak photos. If I understand it correctly, there are closed source image enhancement algorithms, which I don't have after flashing an alternative (mostly) open source operating system. With even cheaper HW things won't get any better, I don't believe in miracles.
What is the cutoff between “a few” and several?
"It will take a few weeks" vs "It will take several weeks".

Just had an argument about setting up incorrect expectations by using "a few".

Thoughts?
This type of outage happens with all of the cloud providers from time to time.
Well then, I guess I'm going to have to learn to live with your disbelief as well.

Java is the name of both a software platform as well as a programming language for that platform. Languages that target that platform are often called "JVM languages," but really they make use of almost all of Java (the platform) rather than just the JVM (although that degree varies: Kotlin makes use of the platform almost as much as the Java language; Clojure makes use of somewhat less, yet more than Scala or Ceylon).

http://openjdk.java.net/

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/13/docs/specs/index.h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)
absolutely this. most solid security people were devs with an interest who were given the opportunity to flip. the problem is employers want to pay below market prices, for someone who already has all of the skills they want. that just doesn't happen: those people command a lot more money. your approach is MUCH more practical (hire or transfer good interested devs internally, and train them up).
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There are several demos on the internet of robotic arms flipping burgers, many even include machine vision, for roughly $70k per device. I'm ignorant of the limitations, but it may be relatively soon that they become economically viable.

Then again, there are few kitchen jobs that solely consist of flipping burger patties.
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I had the same assumption. One of my college roommates (academic year 2008–09) got a PS3 and set up Folding@home on it. I thought that was so cool at the time. It was my first exposure to distributed computing (in this sense of the term).
We are smarter, whatever that means. But not by that much. Our main differantor is technology. If you went back in time and looked at a feckless human tribe hunting it would not be that different than orcas, wolves or any other social mammal predator.
True, but I think the technique points to the way that other timing attacks used as fingerprinting vectors can and will work. Profiling performance of network requests, image rendering time, etc will always be risks unless all Javascript features employ that kind of mitigation.
>When I first started our small consulting firm we didn't know how to scope explicitly enough and didn't charge enough even if the projects did stay within the scope of work.

I used to have one client who was otherwise both a good customer and a nice person but he was terrible for constantly trying to incrementally increase scope. It was always an effort during the SOW process to really nail down exactly what the deliverables were.
Well here goes the 4 nines.
Work at a shared co-working space, go to meet ups and give talks, network with incubators in the area, find regional slack channels.

you can usually find slack channels associated with regional meetup groups. Seattle has a Python programming group with a very active and friendly chat, so does Portland have a startups and entrepreneurs group
It seems like a phenomena of this sort would have to depend on the data set you are dealing with. It might be true for "all typical data sets in important domains" but it would still seem like basic point would hold.
Won't the venture funds just own the machines and use them to concentrate wealth even better? Automation inherently strongly favors capital over labor, so whomever has the money when automation revolutionizes an industry is the one that makes the profits. With no value judgment intended, that's just kind of obvious right? Machines are capital and owned by someone who makes money from them instead of paying for labor.
Also the taxes are changing so everyone wants one before the end of the year. Q1 2020 wont be this good.
1. You are only talking about growth... We could also talked about how the GDP, the capital and the work is shared... You can have lower growth, but most people having more

2. Doing massive investment in favor of the climate (and against fossil fuel) would create a lot of wealth and job

3. Since the 70's they've been an augmentation in inequality, and most people live in an higher economic insecurity... The system seems unfair for most people. This is normal that people does not agree to do unfair sacrifice, while the top 20% of the people live a comfortable life... that does not means they are not ready to radical change
If your land is in danger of being turned into sea due to sea level rise caused by global warming, i would expect your no 1 priority would be to address this. I cannot imagine you'd vote for someone who thinks it's all an hoax.
In addition, salaries in software engineering have been rising faster than pretty much any other field. Further indicating that there is a shortage relative to other fields.
The hard part was working with HR to make the new salaries higher. Not a small task.
This crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed on HN. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and edit that kind of thing out of your comments in the future. Your comments in this thread have broken several of the guidelines, most importantly Be kind.

It's already a bit dodgy when people respond to other's experience by telling them what's wrong with them, especially when their experience is painful. But blunt one-liners and internet tropes ("lose the incel angle") should be right out. Upping the ante like you did in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21721545 is seriously not ok.

What to do instead? First edit out personal criticisms—they're unlikely to land well. Second, it's always ok to share your own experience. For example, if your comment here was based on experiences or observations of your own, it might have been both interesting and respectful to share some of that.
This is the idea behind non-negative matrix formulation (NMF). As the name implies, it forces the entries of the embedding matrices (for both the reduced document and term matrix) to be nonnegative, which results in a more interpretable “sum of parts” representation. You can really see the difference (compared to LSA/SVD/PCA, which does not have this constraint) when it’s applied to images of faces. Also, NMF has been shown to be equivalent to word2vec. The classic paper is here: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~blei/fogm/2019F/readings/LeeSeun...

PS—There should be a negative sign on the (2,2) entry of the first matrix.
> and adopted the global definition of "billion"

What's your definition of global?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...

Edit: I guess you meant global as far as the English language is concerned only, ignoring the equivalent words in other languages. But even that would be wrong, as apparently Australia adopted the American usage after the UK.

In any case, it's interesting that the US diverged from the European use following the French (who since then went back to the original meaning of billion).
and discord's 3rd party client policy is not doing them any favours
No, you are right. It is not so black and white, and it is a double-edged sword.

> Antioxidants are good.

Not necessarily. They could promote cancer growth[1][2] and are not inherently good for you[3][4].

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2015...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/475043a

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094884/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292009/ (see: "Harmful Effects of Antioxidants")

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But yeah... antioxidants are not necessarily good. Or consider this: if you have an autoimmune disorder, you gotta be careful with immunomodulatory agents that are supposed to "boost" your immune system. What might be healthy for people without autoimmune disorders might be lethal for you. Here is an eye-opening article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130893/
Space is expanding everywhere and not just around the edges.

Space inside the edges has photons flying in it, while this photon travels, space is expanding in all of the photons directions.

This would mean that a photon from 5 billion years ago would take longer to get here, and its source is even further away than the speed between us and the source would make it be.

What I think about during all this:
If space is expanding everywhere, then it is sort of pushing things away from each other, meaning that objects are moved, like domino's everything is moved a bit so that everything has more space in between.

Do I have to separate expansion of the universe vs expansion of space?
No worries, that's what the other datacenters are for. :- )
Annoyed at being on call: How dare they do their expected responsibilities in exchange for pay. The nerve of them.
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Yes, this is a good clarification!
This sounds like a product-manager-interview question.
Listen to this essay here: https://listle.app.link/v0haf9qve2
When is a nation not a nation? Somaliland’s dream of independence (2018)
And then a few days later see a HN top story that NewPrivateSearchEngine is a secret Microsoft conspiracy to destroy the world? I doubt it would go over well.
It is also peculiar that the energy conservation law is not applicable on cosmological scales, the light is redshifted due to expansion of the Universe and the energy difference between emitted and received light is "wasted", i.e. it doesn't feed the expansion in any way.
At Amazon, perhaps one of the largest and most successful employers, the solution to this is that when interviewing, everyone's main goal is to hire people better than the current average of the team.

To ensure this, someone experienced with interviewing from outside the team/organization, so called bar raiser, is always added to the interviewing team. This person is there to ensure high quality hires and has hiring veto power.

The rest of the interviewers are from within the team, likely under pressure to compromise on quality when they're desperate enough to hire someone, but they can't do it unless the bar raiser agreed.
Fire is important but, borrowing from Jared Diamond, I think agriculture/domestication is the defining technology that enables population density and growth. A steady food supply enables density, which leads to exchange of and competition in ideas. e.g. compare a city with 100,000 citizens vs. a hunter-gatherer society.

Fire is related to agriculture but maybe not essential. It could be some other kind of chemical reaction that occurs outside the body.

It's hard to imagine how descendants of orcas could create agriculture in the ocean, but not impossible. I mean humans have domesticated fish, shrimp, mollusks, etc. for farming. And probably some marine plants.

It does seem like shallow water is probably the best bet, but maybe that's my lack of imagination.
I can't read the OP because I'm using Tor, if anyone else is having similar issues wayback has it cached:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191206074255/https://cybersecu...

Too often I cannot browse anonymously because people abuse Tor to aggressively scrape things. Don't do that!
The beauty of distributed systems is that you spread your services across lots of different computers, so that when one of them goes down, they all go down.
This doesn't take anything away from Sony's decision making, but removing OtherOS never really helped them "get good security".

The PlayStation 3 was cracked wide open [1] without OtherOS and because people were pissed at its removal. On Playstation 3s released in the first 3.5 years of its lifespan you can get full hypervisor compromise without any hardware mods, and you can yet again run OtherOS on the latest firmware. Now with less restrictions than before. Newer PS3s (starting with CECH-25xx) have 'only' been partially compromised. They can't run OtherOS, but they can still run homebrew and piracy despite Sony taking OtherOS away.

Maybe it's a bit of solace that this stuff only punished Sony. But inevitably, the lesson they learnt is "we'll never experiment with this stuff again".

[1]: This video is really worth watching if you're interested in this stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGGJpn2_zY
But we don't even need to eat sweet fruits. If you look at your plate size as a constraint, then fruit carries an opportunity cost. You're adding sweet fruit in place of something else which could add more nutritional value in that same space. If you do eat fruit, then eat something which isn't sweet (tomato for example.)
> he has failed to diversify Apple away from having one produc

isn't Apple+ the largest diversification Apple has had in a long time?
A more charitable way to put it is that people have "day jobs" that are being paid for out of someone's budget. I'll help people in other teams out--I have a pretty flexible job description anyway. But if someone wants a week of my time you can be sure they'll need to get my manager's approval. Which seems pretty reasonable. Most organizations wouldn't work very well if everyone just worked on whatever caught their fancy on a given week.
They didn’t remove it. They just ended updates for it so you couldn’t also use an updated console AND have linux support. Software isn’t free, so I people are over entitled if they expect lifetime updates.
It is possible to not have product and be vague and get investment and keep going before crashing.

Plus, Theranos fraud was waaay more bigger then that.
The problem is not that fundraising feels like a test, it's that fundraising is a test posed by authority figures, and by pg's own definition, is probably hackable. How hackable is proportional to the quality of the VC.

Luckily startups themselves are indeed not a test. So you can avoid any test by making enough revenue to not need external funding, but the second best strategy is take the VC's test without trying to hack it as your own test of the investor. Assuming you're a good investment, you'll beat those trying to hack the test unless the investor's test is susceptible to hacking. If you're not a good investment (which is by definition not obvious in the early days), maybe you should just try to learn to hack the test? Ironically, one of YC's biggest value adds is that it helps you hack those tests by lending you their name.
The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value (2014) [pdf]
But there are strong patches of LDS in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Idaho. Harry Reid was LDS. Crapo and Udall are. I'd say LDS is an element of Far West culture in the way Protestantism is part of New England.
Yeah, no. A pressure washer can easily shoot a stream of water fifty feet, but the upright monkey that can stand back the furthest and still hit the urinal gets the corner office.
"6. (Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker."

From "Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design",
https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
My failures: Civic technology ideas that didn’t quite work. (2015)
I loathe all types of coding or design challenges when interviewing! I once designed and coded a five page website.. it took awhile, yet never heard back from the company. Thus, Im going to seek out all opportunities that do not force me to waste my time, especially design as it's subject. Overall you liked my portfolio well enough to consider me then lets chat and see if we jive/im a good fit for you/your team/company!

So far I've been very fortunate that recruiters reach out on LinkedIn and I rarely have to do such time wasting activities as they vouch for me.

Recently dealt with a company who pays parity (everyone makes the same .. no woman, man, etc can negotiate their worth), had five to 6 interviews and 2 to 3 coding/design challenges. WoW I guess they are looking only for a subset of talent who would do all that. People might do that for a FAANg company or when jobs in the field are scarce, but this was no FAANg company and thankfully there is still a good amount of demand!
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Discord has millions of users. Less than 1000 people are probably bothered at Google to fix the problem.

My sympathies lie with Discord users. I’m sure it’s ruining a lot more weekend plans with them.

I’ve both a discord user and someone that has spent years in an on-call rotation that included nights and weekends.
Yes. Technically it happens to all companies but politically it’s a lot different.

If you tell your customers that you have an outage because AWS is down, they will shrug and say, things happen. You are in the same boat with a lot of other people, you will no more get blamed for AWS being down than if the whole city lost power. No one ever got fired for choosing AWS.

If you’re on Azure, you might get a funny look from people who only know about AWS, but since it is Microsoft Azure you will get a pass.

But people will judge you for choosing GCP. Any little thing that goes wrong, they will be questioning why you didn’t choose AWS.
Oh yes, absolutely. We only make claims for "natural distributions and models" (^).

It's almost certainly possible to break this by pathological choice of a data distribution or model/initialization/optimization scheme.
But, I don't think this is interesting -- what I think is interesting is that this seems to hold true in real life, in "natural settings".

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(^) Whatever "natural distributions" means... (which I think is a good research direction in itself).
A Visual Telling of Joyal's Proof of Cayley's Formula
Ever look at Keller Plan stuff?

I did Physics 2 that way and really liked it.

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

(also, wow, I just got that Principle Skinner in the Simpsons doesn't accidentally have that name. Face to palm.)
True. But it’s like every single random submission about “Why I chose to leave $X”. In the grand scheme of things. No one cares.
Interesting, do they use a SAN or is it local storage?
If you're going to indulge in that level of paranoia, how do you know that DDG is not itself a secret Microsoft conspiracy to destroy the world? If you don't know the terms under which DDG licenses Bing's search results, how do you know that those terms don't give MS complete control over DDG?
There is a larger gravitational force on heavier things because they're heavier. Trouble is, they also have more inertia, which exactly counteracts the larger force (because of the principle of equivalence) and so they fall at the same acceleration as lighter objects.
I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. Some random person is squatting on http://xn--wxtr44c.xn--fiqs8s/ (百度.中国), but Baidu doesn't seem to care. They use http://www.baidu.com/ as their primary address.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic flamewar. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here?
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> developer didn’t realize Array.sort() was unstable

You seem to think stable sort is much more important than most of the rest of the field.

By default, C sort isn't stable, C++ sort isn't stable, Ruby sort isn't stable, C# sort isn't stable, Perl sort isn't stable. Hell, not even GNU's sort utility is stable.

JavaScript has some unexpected idiosyncracies, but sort() stability isn't one of them.
I have written a small analysis of that same problem using simple Python code, a couple of years ago:

https://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2012/12/find-true-love-on-datin...
Something that is not mentioned, though, is that all the years patching existing FS were an education in how a FS works. They likely wouldn’t have had enough knowledge to go balls-out on a new FS at the start. So that 2-year effort was really much longer.