skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think even humans can still have the same problem. It's the difference between actually knowing subject matter and bullshitting. There are some incredible bullshitters out there and they can be very successful. That BS gap for chatbots is getting smaller, but the ability to actually learn something and apply that knowledge abstractly seems to be as wide as its ever been. Sure you have these bots winning Go and SC2 tournies, but good luck asking it something like "How would you improve those games that you're programmed to play?"
If she did have diplomatic immunity then what is the basis to prosecute (or even just sue) her in the UK?

If you do something that is a crime usually sentenced to >1 year in both countries, then diplomatic immunity does not apply. Source: BBC

Also to have diplomatic immunity you must be an accredited diplomat agreed by the host country before entering. She was not.
I would definitely change the title. It's very misleading. Charities raised 130M through this platform. The product and\or company is not earning that kind of revenue which is the way all of us read it.
Is the CPI Upside Down?
> The restrictions on their rights are of an employer-employee variety

An arrangement defined and described by laws Congress wrote. Laws which restrict the free speech of Americans.

I agree that the negative rights of the American Constitution are far superior to the positive-rights philosophy of e.g. the UN Declaration on Human Rights, which is unenforceable ambiguous. But these rights are balanced against each other in a complex way.
One of the close colleagues I was alluding to also works in HFT and they do in fact use Cython libraries built in house for extremely low latency applications, order book processing, etc.

Their main alternatives are coding in C++ directly or wholesale switch to Rust, but they prefer Cython. I know they evaluated Julia and found it entirely intractable to use for their production systems.
Yeah, the HL2 Update was what I meant. I think I've heard it referenced as 'Community Edition' due to it's inclusion of the community commentary.
I once attended a talk by a man who was head of a creative marketing agency. He also had a side gig of being a presentation consultant. I forget his name and agency, but I don't think I could forget what he said.

He would lead his company's pitches to new clients, and would turn up to the presentation wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops; tattoos all over his arms and neck, and thereby set the expectations of the room quite low.

He would then continue brazenly with his presentation – charming, intelligent, and confident – and by the end of the pitch would hopefully have won the prospective clients with this wit.

His logic was that everyone plays the status game, but to be remembered you need to change people's perception of your status drastically. Setting expectations low, and then making them feel foolish for misjudging you.

In his words: it had varied success.
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Yup. I've used Lumen a couple times over the past few years. Not sure why you would start a new project with that name, it's already well known and easily searchable.
Dictatorial leadership style at play? Brute-force laissez-faire? Or just stolidity?
I write resumes for a living and coach many of my clients on job search strategy, which often relates to strategies to get people to actually read the resume that I've written for them.

I've never heard of someone doing this, and it's not a bad hack since it's apparently free. My main question would be the effectiveness of an ad like this vs a simple message to the people directly.

As a recruiter (which I was in a different life), would I even notice an ad like this? I'm not sure, but I'd definitely notice a message in my inbox saying "Hey Dave, I found your profile doing some research on $COMPANY ..."

Since he's only targeting 15 companies doing a quick search on LinkedIn for HR/recruiting types at those firms and sending a message like that could probably be done in under an hour, and I'd think it might be a bit more effective than the ad.

It's a clever idea, but I'd question how effective it might be vs a direct message.
It seems there could be some correlation rather than cause as parent attentiveness or nurturing behavior is more beneficial in general in terms of lowering child stress and providing a feeling of being loved or taken care of. A positive environment from that would result in a better situation for the child's growth so it would be difficult to strip out the nurturing side of things toward "screen time" vs. not, IMO.
The point of "just writing enough to make the test pass" is to get you to the point where you have working software (proven by the test, even if the code is "bad")

This is the _only_ point where you can safely refactor, if your tests are failing how do you know you haven't broken something? So long as you keep things "green" you know you're ok

> The danger seems to be when you have to walk away from some code and you or whoever picks up your code doesn't know what you were up to.

Just don't do this. You're not "done" with the TDD cycle until you make it pass and have refactored.

I reflect this in my git usage too, roughly it goes

- Write a test
-> Make it pass
-> git commit -am "made it do something"
-> refactor
-> run tests (if i get in a mess, revert back to safety and try again)
-> git add .
-> git commit --amend --no-edit

> It seems "safer" to write tests that are going to stay broken until every little corner of everything works properly, even though this is less iterative.

The problem with this is how do you safely refactor when you have potentially dozens of tests failing?

A big point of this approach is it makes refactoring a continuous process and makes it easier because you have tests proving you haven't accidentally changed behaviour.
Possibly related: Key & Peele "Code Switching"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXH5CD3O7Oc

Wikipedia: "In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation."
Of all Git users, only an extremely small percentage use Git as a DVCS (Linux kernel, etc). GitHub is a centralized VCS. In fact, I think you could argue that the emergence of GitHub is a demonstration that DVCS is nearly useless for the vast majority of software development.
Surely vacuuming the streets would remove more particles that would get airbourne.

This method uses a lot of fuel to filter outside air. Compared to a office that pumps the air through it anyway. Seems like expensive spin atm.
Indeed, confirming the Portugal and Greece inclusion on the "all".
I wonder if she uses that deep voice in the phone call.
That's true. It's less wrong; and my intent was to add a bit of fun. Sorry, guy.
Getting from Geostationary orbit to re-entry is not easy. It isn't like the ISS where essentially if you blink, the thing burns up in the atmosphere. You need a huge amount of delta-v. My guess is the satellite is in poor enough condition they aren't 100% certain they can get it to start hitting the atmosphere before the imminent explosion occurs.
Seeing how it’s been the standard in scientific computing and ML for decades (plural) at this point, I don’t see how it can be a fad.

It obviously might get replaced by new languages and ecosystems, but that’s a huge difference than it being a fad.
My guess is that Geosynchronous Orbit at too high an altitude for them to re-enter the atmosphere under their time or fuel constraints.

http://acqnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Orbit-Map.png

But it's just a guess.
Yes it isn't.
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Haskell's compiler is already big and fat, having a very wide range of features. I don't think Haskell's extensibility is a problem in terms of adoption at this point, the problems lie elsewhere.

Therefore, simplifying GHC development likely wouldn't attract any larger user base for the language.

> Dynamic typing gives you simplicity in the type system

Can you elaborate on this? Dynamically typed languages essentially have no type system (but yes even they do have types).
Two weeks ago it wasn't human transmissible
Where I work (a large, global corporation) a project is usually something that is so large that it requires it's own budget and involves so many different system dependencies that it is unfeasible for different teams to manage between themselves within the normal line of work.
A project manager is assigned to it and he or she gets directions from a steering group, and there are multiple milestones to check if the it is ok to proceed to the next stage.
Usually, in these situations it also motivated to have an assigned architect, an assign requirement specialist and an assigned test lead to take overall responsibility in coordinating respective areas.

If it happens that the scope is actually not large enough to motivate a project setup, this will be wasteful and inefficient. But if the opposite happens, that the scope is very large but it is not implemented as a project, it can lead to disaster. Typically, the solution will not work end-to-end because no one have had the complete picture.

EDIT: Forgot a word
I'm not sure what I said conflicts with that.

If we made access to prepaid debit cards dead simple (i.e. going to a bank and getting a debit card for the equivalent amount of cash) easy for small amounts, then they would not only get access to the cashless shops in town but they'd also be better served online and could access cheaper goods through online retailers.

This gives the individual an easy way to get around it without penalizing small businesses. Larger businesses likely all take in cash without issue.
Note that it looks like this technology is being deployed at the border not at border crossings.

What threats are you worried about here?

Privacy of people in the process of illegally immigrating? I don't think the people deploying these experiments share your concern.

Privacy of people who happen to live near the border? It seems unlikely that they are collecting much data on them, just because it's not useful to collect... I can see it being a real concern if they are collecting data on them.

Privacy of troop movements? Are there serious adversaries who are more likely to be aided by this data leaking than they are to be hindered by the increased surveillance? If a real war broke out on the US border I'm sure we would quickly become more selective about the providers, and where the data from the instruments is going.
> They add significant complexity to the language and are intended to help with correctness. But are they an effective way to achieve it compared to alternatives?

Python programmers say the same about all static type systems.
What alternatives do you have in mind? Are they as generally applicable as dependant types?
Dependant types are a simple and unifying way to solve a variety of shortcomings with conventional statically typed systems. For example, dependant types can express first-class modules as simple records, or allow sophisticated record operations like merge to be well-typed.

> [tracking algebraic effects] But is that even a worthwhile goal? Why is it nirvana to more easily do something that might not be worth doing at all?

Given the various hugely expensive bugs I have been involved in (e.g. Java toString on a date reading the system locale). I would say yes. In my industry, reproducable numbers are of vital importance, so much so that the quants use Haskell in preference to something more mainstream and supported.
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An artificially induced limp is classic fieldwork from the "good ol days" of the Cold War.

What I've read of gait recognition though is that it's not so much about identifying you, as identifying someone walking "suspiciously" in a given area.

Or tracking a person where you can't see their face, based on their gait once recorded.

However, I haven't yet been able to find any papers that describe gait recognition with a subject consciously modifying their gait.

For example, when I'm stressed I tend to walk fast, but when I catch myself doing so, I will actively slow my pace down, and change the distance of my steps - like the old adage of "smiling makes you feel happy when you're not", I find deliberately slowing down my pace, and not taking such long strides, helps me calm myself - especially when combined with a focus on breathing.

What I can't find is any discussion of how existing gait analysis algorithms handle an observed subject deliberately varying their gait.

And what papers I can find on this are largely written by Chinese academics who don't find a 94% identification rate (leaving 6% false positive or negative) to be an issue, which I guess works in a totalitarian collectivist regime where an arrest on a false positive isn't considered a violation of human rights because, lol, human rights.

Which brings me, verbosely, to the academics researching this. How do they incorporate improving the surveillance capabilities of an oppressive government into their personal mores?

Do they take the stance that those doing nothing wrong have to nothing to be afraid of?
They've had these telepresence robots for a while. Good for this scenario - reducing contact with an infectious patient - and super useful for rural clinics that might not be able to staff an in-person full-time doc.
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Postgres essentially gives you one top-level data structure, the table. For each column however it has a wild variety of data types and structures. It similarly has a large variety of indexes, making it possible to do performant lookups on all those datatypes as your use-case requires.
This is true for some terrorists, not for any of them. The War Nerd explained it.

https://exiledonline.com/the-war-se-the-better/
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I am from Naples, and we do have a bit of a thing for death, but I doubt the average Neapolitan knows any more than any other average citizen anywhere else.

I think people in Naples might, if anything, care and think less about death than your average person.

Neapolitan people, for better or for worse, tend to have a "day to day" attitude to life (which contributes to what makes the city a mess)
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Which game is it where you drop the word "otiose" in the second paragraph?
GitHub repo: https://github.com/buttercup/buttercup-desktop
> In the ensuing buyout, Sterling put $150 million into the company in return for an 80% ownership stake. The majority of that was debt. Needless to say, the debt landed on Fairway's books, not Sterling's.

WTF?
I clicked because I thought it's about Laravel's Lumen - turned out it wasn't, that immediately made me CTRL + W. IMO, bad name choice at this stage :/
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Reminds me of how in high school, there are kids that are smart and want to show it off (raise their hands, answer teacher's questions), and there are those that are on the "next level" -- they don't even need to prove to everyone else that they know the answers, so they never raise their hands.

In personal conversations some are eager to share that they are doing something amazing, but those on the "next level" don't try to impress the others :P
>a world of equality and universal justice

>resentment and mutual distrust

which of these goals do you think an entity like Goldman Sachs is more likely to pursue?
This reminds me a lot of the idea of Transactional Analysis. It's a study of the Ego state of people interacting with the world around them and whether they act as a figurative Parent, Adult or Child in a certain situation and can explain why people might play a particular status game in some situations and not in others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis
Yes, it's my worry too. The Wikimedia Foundation kept expanding, and it may be unsustainable.
I think the more accurate phrase was that it wasn't human transmissible .. as far as anyone knew / there wasn't evidence to show it was.

I think with any new virus or etc folks focus on what they know at that time ... and effectively waiting for testing / what they observe to enhance their understanding.
> A graveyard orbit sounds like it will be flying around up their indefinitely as high speed shrapnel. Does anyone know why they would choose this instead of destroying it on re-entry?

It sounds like there's confusion about that point. The article says that the plan says that they're going to de-orbit the satellite so it can burn up on reentry, and that it will be in a graveyard orbit, which are contradictory objectives to each other. It sounds like AT&T hasn't responded yet to clarify which of the two they actually meant.
It is entirely within the scope of a government to enact restrictions on the people acting on behalf of the government with government power. This is less of a contradiction than you seem to think it is. In fact, it is the point of the Constitution to restrict the government!

Even so, Congress still doesn’t have the power to prevent government employees from speaking out politically, or choosing their own church or choosing not to participate in church, or from operating a printing press that criticizes Congress, or from publishing a blog criticizing the Senators from their home State. The restrictions upon government employees are entirely within the scope of their service to the government, and no further.

Or to put it another way, since Congress shall pass no law restricting the establishment of a religion, they can’t mandate civil servants in the Department of Agriculture attend a Catholic Church while those in the Department of Justice must be of a Protestant persuasion.
You missed it!

If you're going to comment on someone's article, and their blog has an "about" page, read it before leaving the comment. It's baseline etiquette.
I agree.

One thing I think everyone may want to consider is that the current experiments with GPT-2 aren't necessarily the only way to use it. It's just that it happens by its structure that feeding it "all the text up to this point" and asking it to generate the next words is really easy to make into a snazzy web demo. But you could also do things like try to set up a vector representation of some space and turn it loose on that. If it's prone to its mind wandering, you might be able to confine it to a particular place in the hyperspace or something. This may require more novel research (especially around how a human being finds the place they want to use in the rather complicated space) and a deep understanding of the algorithm, and perhaps it is impractical in the end. But it's at least something that could be tried. We are not confined to merely using it as a glorified chatbot as it has been.
Which is why although I see these kind of languages quite relevant to advance the state of the art, the industry belongs to impure multi-paradigm languages.

Like Brian Goetz puts it, it is not FP vs OOP, rather combining FP and OOP, using the best of each to solve different kinds of problems with the same tool.
Interestingly enough, the phrasing in the article implies that the Justice Department is arguing that speech made outside the US is not protected, not simply speech made by non-citizens.

I would be incredibly surprised if that argument held up.
Have you tried various blades? People swore by feather but I found those too be too stiff and sharp. I absolutely hated them. I tried Astra Platinum and they seem more flexible and provide a much better shave for me. There's a "chart" out there that lists various brands from sharpest -> smoothest
What I find the most interesting about it is that it doesn't try to rework the BEAM to fit in the browser but rather does the much more ambitious work of trying to compile something fairly optimized that won't bloat the frontend.
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Who is going to clean the robot??
That's not what the author of the article seems to think, though. He admits that "Haskell is never really going to be a mainstream programming language," but even non-mainstream languages, like, say, Erlang or Clojure are very much concerned with the why, and aren't aimed at research. A research language and a non-mainstream language are two very different things.
The same people who are buying property at 40 times the yearly rent, though. I am sure this will work out well.
i mean, it does mention Elixir and Erlang though...
> Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but that opinion carries less weight if they haven't lived the experience.

You don’t want a doctor to treat you for cancer unless he himself has had cancer? - Milton Friedman
And a cryptocurrency, which makes for some fun questions sometimes on the elixir (lang) subreddit.
Why? Just because Laravel came first and made an abandomware project?
I think you don't understand what makes centralized VCS different from distributed. GitHub is just another clone of the repo.

For example, I can commit in my Git clone, can create a new branch, merge a branch, push it to the server, all without GitHub server being available. If GitHub would be down or closed tomorrow, this would not significantly affect my work on the repository.

This wasn't possible using centralized VCSs.
Some say you reboot and a new instance of yourself is generated inside another type of container.
Separate worlds.. I'd never heard about Laravel's Lumen until the two comments here. I had seen that they had Mix and Elixir which seemed unfortunate. Lots of weird naming overlap going on specifically between these apparently.
That's a common reply. However, you can simply adopt these examples to fit whatever intuitions someone has, e.g. give Z a duration of thirty years and adjust the other intervals accordingly. Or give it a duration of 10 years and start with 30 minutes. Likewise, you can change the levels, replace well being with money or health or pleasure, and so on. Bear in mind that Temkin only needs one counter-example. I personally think we're psychologically fit to make these comparisons and that his arguments go through. It's not very surprising, if you take into account that in multicriteria decision making cases similar to these have been analysed and discussed since the 60s, e.g. by Peter C. Fishburn and by the French/Belgium tradition.

You can solve these without giving up transitivity. Technically, even just incompleteness solves the issue. My own favorite solution is lexicographic, but apparently not many reviewers like it. :(
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The weird thing is that nursing staff move the robot around in the room. I guess they get dressed up in suitable isolation suits?
Whenever I see these outbreak stories (sars, mers, etc..) and it affects a US citizen, I always wonder who actually pays for this level of intensive care.

Ambulance trips in the states are routinely $3,000. my trip to the ER after a wreck was $3800. If you dont have insurance, how do you pay for an "isopod" and a quarantine with a medical robot? What reasonable insurance company would ever cover these expenses? (mine hardly covers birth control.)

Healthcare is private here. When i go to the hospital they ask if "i am a member." Do these treatments take place at in-network facilities? is there such a thing as an in-network facility for being quarantined with an incurable new disease? Can I be compelled to pay for health services in this case if i DO NOT want them?

Its at least reassuring to see CNN is dancing around the HIPAA implicationf of misidentifying or identifying the patient...although I wonder if its only because they recently emerged from a slander/libel lawsuit for painting a highschool kid from kentucky as a racist during a rally.
Jesus.

The death penalty is on the table right?

Anything less than complete dissolution of the company and capital punishments will not curb these behaviors.