skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that made her life so difficult is the difficulty of getting to and from work.

It's pretty crazy that we spend nearly 15% of GDP on transportation costs. I mean sure, we can all reduce the expenses by buying a 10 year old Prius and get our travel costs down. but, a big part of the problem is that housing is always so far away from work. 500 years ago, people lived within a mile or less of their work places. now it's normal for people to live 20 miles or more away. we need to start building our cities with residential and work places closer by and hold employers accountable for where they create jobs. If you want to regulate it, then by all means regulate as follows: no job can be created unless there's an available residential place to live within 1000 feet of it. this would not only save people's lives, but also significantly reduce C02 pollution as transportation is a major source of c02.
I think this is a real phenomena. Many traffic engineers don't seem to appreciate it.

Earlier this year I did a small study of how often drivers yield to me, a cylist, at certain crossings. These crossings are rather confusing, but the city seems to believe that merely putting signs (sometimes multiple in basically the same spot) telling drivers to yield to cyclists is enough. It's not. Drivers nearly run over cyclists on a regular basis at these crossings. According to my statistics drivers yield to cyclists only about 61% of the time. See the slides here:

http://trettel.org/pubs/2019/austin-bac-2019-10-15.pdf

There are multiple ways to fix this problem but Austin seems uninterested.
That is because those machines are made in a way to mix the 'perfect' ratio of water + syrup. They take in account the ice as well. If the cup is 0.5l, it plans to be 0.4l of liquid + 0.1l of ice (random values), so if you chose no ice, you get 0.4l since that is the 'perfect' ratio. (And probably what they advertise ie '0.4l coke = 1 euro' or whatever, they just give a 0.5l cup to account for ice)
Another thing I will add to this is to use creation tools that show your presence to others. Figma has been huge for our design team because you can see the other person’s mouse cursor moving around and making changes - it makes it feel like the person has a presence in the same room with you. Likewise with google docs or confluence, just the presence of a line cursor with a name next to it goes a huge ways. Mural is another one that does this well. It really helps make the remoteness feel less isolating.
Was your character an orc?
There are some countries where public transport is free for citizens, I'm pretty sure. And even if you have to pay for public transport... gas isn't free either. And car maintenance gets pricey. And insurance. Meanwhile, public transport is a known quantity. Pay this much for a ticket/monthly pass and ride wherever you need in city limits.
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Their main defense is that Obama gave them their mission, and they're just doing the same job under Trump.

> As we have stated previously, the scope and goals of our work did not change in any material way from when the project was defined during the prior administration.

Perhaps that is a good response directly to the original article (which I have not read). But this defense is silly.

They should not continue to support a cause just because it used to be good. If it is now bad, and they still support it, then they support a bad thing. No matter what they claim their values are.

The correct thing to do would have been to stop working for ICE. ...or do it now
Nobody is trying to diminish it. Good statistics for crime help provide context, comparisons, measure progress, etc. All of which helps you do better in addressing it.
I have visited Spain a few times over the last 20 years. I do not speak Spanish and I try to get by speaking English (these are few days at a time visit, and not long term stay).

From this one man's experience, it is not that Spain has regressed in its proficiency with English, but I find that other southern European countries (particularly Portugal) has upped the ante - a LOT.

To compare Paris (I understand it does not represent all of France, but it is one view point), 20 years ago I would have difficult time in ordering in a restaurant. A hardship many English-speaking visitors today will find hard to empathize with. In most places in Paris today I can get by with English and get complex transactions done.

Portugal has truly baked-in English proficiency into their national psyche now. Zealotry aside, this enables Portugal to further their economic and cultural interests more, I think.
the point is not that you would remain there forever. You want housing to be something that you can relatively easily switch from. but there should always be a close option, we dont want people getting stuck, commuting vast distances everyday
You rush over to the door and open it up. You see a man with a huge axe standing
there. He has long hair and wears a dirty t-shirt and jeans. His eyes are bloodshot
and he has a big scar on his face
> Say "Have you come to read the electricity meter?"

You start walking towards him and raise your hand as if to call him over. He
walks over to you and you both stare each other down before he speaks
> Fight

You grab his arm and pull it away from his face. He swings wildly at you, hitting
you several times, but you dodge them all. Eventually he stops moving and falls
backwards into the room. You look around and notice that the rest of the men
are still standing around watching you
> Go through his pockets

You search his pockets and find nothing. You walk over to him and put your finger
to his lips and whisper in his ear. He looks surprised and starts laughing.
You turn back to the others and ask
> "Did you see that?"
Say "Did you see that?"

... At which point it froze.

Edit. It's the usual local-syntax vs global-content problem. The syntax looks like English, which is an achievement, but the content lacks any larger sense of narrative form, contextual awareness, or subtext - all things you need to make an interesting readable experience.
Any AMP page can be HTML5 compliant. AMP doesn't require that the page pass an HTML5 validator, but is entirely compatible with HTML5.

JavaScript and Web Components are part of the HTML5 standard. This is simply the Extensible Web (https://www.w3.org/community/nextweb/2013/06/11/the-extensib...)

My profile discloses that I work on AMP.
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They still don't have a linux client years after the windows one came out. Also compared to valve they do basically nothing other than simply allow publishers to add a linux version.

Valve essentially created linux gaming as a real and viable thing.
I also welcome it, as an American. Hopefully it means more competition and therefore more motivation for US-based products to improve rather than stagnate.
Thanks. I thought abt was some technology I hadn't heard of.
Same goes for investment banking, and similar.

You don't hire overachieving 4.0 HYPS grads that have "played the game" since they were 14 because they're the smartest guys / gals around, you do it because they'll work 18 hours a day if needed. It's a great indicator of at least two things

1) The person is able to learn quick, and pick up new things very fast

2) The person has exceptional work ethics, and will do what's expected. You're driven enough to not lose motivation.

And then you set them to do menial grunt-work like fixing spreadsheets and formatting PP slides.
Or something a bit more high-level like Migra? https://github.com/djrobstep/migra
'typing' is one of my all-time favorites. It's pure magic watching him pop what I suspect are dependent types out of Haskell's type system, and that prose is just laugh-out-loud magic.
A fun one relating to 64-bit and NULL in varargs:

If your system defines NULL as 0, which is legal in C++, then NULL in the vararg list only pushes an int-sized (4 bytes) zero, and the vararg reader pulls a pointer-sized (8 bytes) value, which may or may NOT equal zero because of the 4 extra bytes...
Okay, let's try again. We're talking about information theory, a hard science. Specifically, information theory is a subfield of computer science, itself a subfield of mathematics.

To say that information theory is a hard science, then, is actually to tell a slight lie, because mathematics is harder than the sciences: Without maths, it is not possible to express scientific models nor hypotheses.

I can't quite read Floridi's work (I'm not paying for books when there is a digital commons in need of enrichment), but after reading a few abstracts and a few passages, I've got a gist. You're right that Floridi isn't it-from-bit, and that's something of a problem, since it-from-bit reasoning is so solid and useful in quantum mechanics and computer science.

Floridi's definitions are contrasted with others at Wikipedia. [0] Shannon's definitions are empty, but he at least gave us some maths and a strong connection to thermodynamics and computer science. My main problem with Floridi's definition is that it doesn't give a strong clear way to tell what lack of information is like. For example, it is well-known physics folklore that electrons are hard to tell apart. To be pedantic, there does not exist any information which would allow an observer to distinguish electrons, beyond their basic identifying information (momenta and spin). How would Floridi explain the physical idea that such information cannot exist?

Mathematics is logic: The entirety of mathematics can be extracted from topos theory, and topos theory can subsume the entirety of formal logic. Logic is metaphysics: [1] has a sketch. Metaphysics is mathematics: The rules that govern which theories are possible are determined by study of the possible signatures of theories, leading to model theory and doctrine theory.

You may need the assistance of an old lemma which reminds us that mathematical abstracta cannot possibly be physical.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_information#Defi...

[1] https://philpapers.org/archive/ALVLIM-3.pdf
mmmh, I don't think this really holds up.

They do it with Netflix/Steam because they have to, because if they did not those services would choke bandwidth for everyone. With your Netflix example, there are maybe a dozen players with this type of arrangement -- it is the exception to the rule and has more to do with physical limitations of the network than political control. With AMP/non-amp websites, there are hundreds of millions of separate players, and no physical need to discriminate (my neighbor's network performance is identical whether I look at 2mb websites vs. 300kb websites)

I believe there is a fundamental difference between the two -- google's play is about control, not physical limitations.
Is a company that doesn't pay taxes actually useful?

I would have thought it would out-compete companies that actually do pay taxes, so it would reduce revenue (presumably) without increasing job numbers.
For more detailed information, the article links to the full report which includes methodology: https://www.uber-assets.com/image/upload/v1575580686/Documen...
The SPD’s new left-wing leadership could prove just the jolt Germany needs
its my favourite way to scroll, because you can predict where the next line will be (if not for those damn stickies)
I don’t recommend drugs because it really sucks after you build a career around it and then feel like you need to be on drugs just to keep your job but you can’t switch careers because you would take too much of a pay hit, you really feel trapped, especially if you have dependents, and you know that it is having a negative impact on your health, which is also not good if you have dependents because you want to live a long time.

I know this is more of a warning of what NOT to do that’s not really answering your question but take it from me, once you are no longer a 20-something things catch up with you big time.
> that you can't trust anything in there to be the truth and not complete fiction

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I'd say the same about literally any news outlet on the planet, though.
The way this is done currently is in hardware. Manufacture of these devices is extremely restricted. It is unlikely that Apple will ever give these devices to non-Apple employees.
3400 assaults is a ridiculously high number regardless of the denominator, IMHO.

If anything, the headline isn't clickbaity enough.
Do you (founders/employees) have any example queries that don’t work well with Google, and correspondingly what pages you think should be top ranked for those queries?
Ok, where's your book so I can read and compare?
I work in cybersecurity now, but worked retail for 7 years, fast food (Subway) for 6 years, and a ride op at a major theme park (Cedar Point) for 2 summers.

If I could work the ride op or fast food jobs at my current salary, I'd take them in a heart beat. Hell, I might even take the ride op job for half the salary because the job could sometimes be a lot of fun.

But retail? Hell no. You could offer me double my salary and I'd still hesitate before accepting it. People treat retail employees like utter garbage. We once had a customer berate a cashier to tears, yelling at her and literally calling her an "incompetent stupid bitch", because his credit card was being declined and he was insisting she was just entering his card wrong.
Those aren't the same thing though.

Imagine:

1 million crimes, 1% use lock picks. 10,000 lock pick usages in crime.

18,180 total lock pick usages, of which 55%, or 10,000 are used in crimes.

In this scenario crime mostly doesn't use lock picks (99% of crimes didn't) but lock picks are still mainly used for crime (55% of lock pick usage is).

Of course I just made up these numbers as an example. It's just a logical point about what the article shows. I'm sure most lock pick usage is to get people into things they've been locked out of or hobbyists playing around.
Reproducibility and a lack of corruption are what elevates western science. Ethics are a handicap with good intentions, that's fine but it needs to be acknowledged because a proton doesn't care that it's in a bomb and a cell doesn't care about medical board reviews. China is working to reduce corruption enough to compete in terms of learning outcomes and eventually they'll likely succeed because they've demonstrated a willingness to escalate tactics until the desired outcome is achieved. Whether it's two decades from now or four, eventually the difference will be that they have a backlog of 'evil' experimental data plus the West's (because western academics favor easy sharing over most things). The social implications we normally talk about creating backlash aren't a reliable safeguard here because the mainland Chinese are, at large, content with their country and the progress it's making. The Chinese mainstream isn't Hong Kong or Taiwan, it's the mainlanders who have very different values than many westerners and who aren't likely to care if the result is better medicines or being the first to have access to novel gene edited medicines.
Consultants fill positions with responsibilities that are short term. You have to ask yourself whether you are in a position that bears saying in what will happen from your long term viewpoint. If not then lobby the consultant to make it so e.g. by changes in operating model, creation of a Centre of Excellence etc. If there is a failure in hearing people ideas the presence of a consultant is as much a symptom as it is an opportunity.
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A great short term solution would be to increase the investment in the local bus system. Full buses have a much better carbon footprint than single passenger cars.

The article highlights a real need for more bus stops and 24/hr bus service.
Operator overloading proposal for JavaScript (stage 1)
Two Ideas:

1. Does encouraging ORCHID addresses reduce the impact of enumeration attacks?
2. Linux at least has controllable behavior for cross-interface IP reachability, in arp_filter/arp_announce/arp_ignore per interface sysctls, and ip address scope, as exposed by iproute / netlink. Perhaps its more proper for VPN addresses to be a scope 'link' address, instead of a scope 'host' address. Maybe a 'vpn' scope of some sort could be defined in future kernels, but I'm uncertain what that would do that a scope link address does not?
Here in Australia "Process Engineer" is used a lot for this type of role.
Except libraries like the "third_party" example probably can't use parameter packs just yet. They tend to have to keep compatibility with older compilers.

I used to work on a library. You wouldn't believe how long some people held onto RHEL 5... And I had to maintain ABI compatibility with the standard system compiler on each supported OS.
You've got it more or less. The way I say it is that bad ideas can't hide in writing. You can fool yourself and others with a powerpoint or a spoken argument. But clear writing demands clear thinking. Poorly constructed arguments are (usually) obvious as such when put into writing.
Real time as you define it isn't even a single concept since we have hard vs soft real time. Maybe this can be called super-soft real time? I jest but the definition is already muddied.
You can use Webflow or if you want something quickly then try Product Hunt’s Ship.
This is a really refreshing and inspiring approach, and it speaks to the importance of "tactically deployed empathy." You're one of the good ones :)

Do you have any recommendations on resources/articles/books, either for "rank and file" trying to ensure their messages are framed well, or for consultants or others who find themselves in situations helping ideas to cut through the noise?

I'll share one that I've found incredibly helpful in the past: "Never Split The Difference" by Chris Voss https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014DUR7L2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
What assertation would have caught this?
Conditional text generation is the real future of AI text generation. This approach is interesting but somewhat hard to parse; the corresponding blog post and papers are very long!

I had experimented with CTRL (https://github.com/salesforce/ctrl), a previous Transformer-based model focused on conditional generation also referenced by this project, and got very good (albeit inconsistent) results: https://minimaxir.com/2019/09/ctrl-fake-news/
Recently I had to try to do a task using our software because the person that normally uses it was not available. The process sucked and I quickly made changes to make it much more useable. The person was nearly in tears after trying my fixes. I asked the person why they never said anything and they said they thought it would be too hard to fix (it wasn't) and that I always seemed busy so they didn't want to bother me.
I use this behavior in production systems where I have 'well-known' RFC1918 addresses I use for service bootstrapping/configuration. In the network engineering world, extra loopback interfaces are also used for similar reasons.
"Fortunately, Uber AI’s Plug and Play Language Model allows researchers to make use of the few pretrained models out there: rather than requiring everyone to train their own wooly mammoth, PPLM lets users combine small attribute models with an LM to steer its generation. Attribute models can be 100,000 times smaller than the LM and still be effective in steering it, like a mouse sitting atop our wooly mammoth friend and telling it where to go (Figure 1)."

Essentially, Uber put some attribute models on top of GPT-2 to steer how text is generated. This is better than finetuning the entire model which at the moment requires access to expensive TPUs or 32GB vRAM GPUs which are available to select research institutions/I think AWS may have them at a high cost.

Finetuning is great when you want to specifically create poems or songs instead of some jumbled up string of words which may not be what you're aiming to create.
Also links that can only be activated and not "Open Link in New Tab". Those onclick script links. Every link should have an actually URL in its href.
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UPS and battery backup for things like Alarms and Phone Systems use Gel Cells or AGM batteries which are in the sealed lead-acid family. You probably have more "lead acid" batteries than you think.
Or using Midnight Commander !

(Ok, it’s a bit cheating, sort of text/GUI, but makes file manipulation so easy on console)
Fun fact, on GCP Kubernetes you can have green lightbulbs on every single dashboard, and your entire site can be down anyway.

Our CI/CD was leaking "review" deployments, I forgot about them until one day I upgraded a node and the entire site went down, even though everything was green. Turned out there is some sort of naximum amount of nginx entries in ingress and we were hitting it. That was some frantic debugging, solution was just to delete the spurious review deployments.
My first job was working in a supermarket, on the register and collecting the trolleys. You got a break roughly 90-120 minutes. You REALLY miss one / notice when you're running late.

Now I work in an office. It's nothing to go 4-6 hours without stopping. But of course I can stop and pop out for a coffee or a snack, or lunch whenever I want.

$4 extra an hour would change this woman's life (and a lot of other people like her). $4 extra an hour.. I don't think I'd notice it.

Many of us are SO SO fortunate, we can't even begin to imagine how good we have it.
It’s funny how people will try to make you feel guilty for walking away from a bad deal.
That NUC is still going to have more computing power than your 10-node RPI cluster though. By a lot.
Is it an easily communicated difference?
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This by far not a popular opinion, but some jobs aren’t worth $15 an hour. We shouldn’t force social policy on private corporations. Sure she needs more than $9.15/hour to live as an adult and pay for insurance but a teenager staying at home doesn’t.

I am strong believer in a social safety net but I think that should be the role of government. She shouldn’t have to depend on private corporations for insurance, that should be the taken care of by government like it is in every other first world country.

We already have a program where the government (instead of corporate America) recognizes that the monetary needs of an adult is different from that of a teenager staying at home - the Earned Income Tax Credit. We as a country should both make that more generous and easier to be distributed through out the year. Historically, the EITC was supported by both Democratic and Republican administrations.

It shouldn’t take her two hours to get to work, we need better public transportation. Heck barring that I wouldn’t be opposed to subsidizing private transportation solutions like working with Uber and Lyft if it’s cheaper long term.
Most eBike batteries are half to 3/4ths a kilowatt hour, though if prices were lower you'd almost certainly see 1kwh & 2kwh batteries becoming standard.

The market is already headed this way, EM3ev keeps putting out larger and larger packs at the same price points year after year.
As another data point, an rpi 3B+ 1.3 is only 38.40 BogoMIPS as reported by lscpu:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lscpu
Architecture: armv7l
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: ARM
Model: 4
Model name: Cortex-A53
Stepping: r0p4
CPU max MHz: 1400.0000
CPU min MHz: 600.0000
BogoMIPS: 38.40
Flags: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
Mozilla ought to chip in for the the research into what borrow checking is so it isn't maimed by function / abstraction boundaries. At that point do notation works fine.
Microsoft, which is collaborating with Qualcomm on netbooks.

Google, which has previously collaborated (OP1) with Rockchip on Chrome OS.