skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am an engineer"

Did you pass the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, are you a member in order of your local association of engineers?, do you have an engineer seal?

If you answer no to the questions above please don't call yourself engineer
i guess the guy that wrote the original challenge clearly didn't know what he was talking about. i wonder which "experts" he was agreeing with when making those statements.
I find it interesting that the story of "Genesis" in the Bible basically goes through the order of operations for how the universe formed (aside from a couple of the days out of order...but it is very close).
It does lean towards at least a reasonable assumption of what came first. Makes me think there was some sort of "knowledge" being encoded in the story that was attempting to teach the uneducated of the time.
I think this is natural, as you're always sub-dividing the remaining 66-75% of the pie. Even if you assume exponential decay of labor as a percentage of the remaining cost, it can still add 5-10%, which is a meaningful fraction. I don't strictly disagree with the original post regarding labor not being the lion-share of many businesses.

As a nit to my original post, butchers was more meant to be representative of a class of service that is relied on by consumer-level providers. I think we can agree that it is fair to assume there are more than just first-order workers who make less than $24 a hour in most supply chains these days.
The trailing "." becomes practically important if you have a client that believes in DNS search suffixes (yuck!). I imagine it might have some effect in this particular case if the user-agent includes the dot in the "Host" HTTP request header and it thus evades some non-canonicalizing layer of Bloomberg's paywall thing, while still being a perfectly okay request to the rest of the chain.
Social media skipped telepathy kindergarden and went straight to telepathy high school.
In tech, I think it would be hard to take large multi-month breaks on a regular basis. There's such rapid change that you either keep your hand in a bit when you're off or you're going to spend a month of time getting back up to speed after every break.

I would spend more time off if I had it but I really can't complain too much as I have pretty good vacation by US standards and I normally also travel a lot on business to interesting places which is almost like having extra vacation.

The one person I know who did work part time in this manner was a contract lawyer with a company and I think they could pretty much just take multi-month breaks with a bit of planning.

>I wouldn't be surprised if in the future companies go "all part time" and have their whole organization be tuned for part time productivity.

The challenge there is that the pay almost has to be less than it would be for full-time work. And a lot of (most) people aren't really in a position to take a low salary in exchange for part-time work. Overall, I assume you'd cut your hiring pool appreciably.
The real money is in astroturfing stories to the front page and creating the illusion of consensus in the comments section.
R Wilson was 2 yrds from the goal line. The offensive coach called the pass. That was the right decision. A moment later became the wrong decision. Maybe the quality of the decision has nothing to do with the outcome. It has to do with a congruent strategy, regardless of the outcome.
It was B, which matched their sizing chart for my size and weight.

My assumption is that mesh was warn out and sagging a bit too much causing the pinch. If for some reason I need a new chair I'm going to see if I can try a new model to see if that was the problem.

I wouldn't be sad though if I had to keep it, it's a nit from me. It's a great chair and deserves all the hype.
How is breaking the mechanism that makes the internet free be producing tons of fraudulent clicks "awesome" in any way?
Calling your language the "M programming Language", unfortunately, is ambiguous. One of the oldest langauges to claim the name, is the MUMPS programming language used in healthcare computing and in financial computing is also called M ( https://opensource.com/health/12/2/join-m-revolution ). The the Power Query Formula Programming Language is informally called the M programming language.
Kiran S J of Bangalore has a language named the M Programming language (https://github.com/kiransj/m-programming-language) The Cache programming language is a super set of the M programming language ( https://cedocs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/docbook/Doc.View.... ). Microsoft has a modeling language called the M Programming language ( http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2009/02/1... ) There is the M# programming language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_Sharp ) and the M programming language for language for HardWare description from MentorGraphics and The language for Mathematica, was called M, and now I think, is called the Wolfram Programming Language. ( http://wiki.c2.com/?ProgrammingLanguageNamingPatterns )
There are a few things that people getting started on ML do not know - deep networks are heavily dependent on random initialization - for production scale, it is generally a good idea to have multiple instances of the network initialized and use early-stopping as a way of weeding out poorly initialized network (which can be done in a nice parallel way).

You can do either data or model parallelism - TensorFlow 2.x has nice utilities for data parallel. DeepSpeed from Microsoft helps with model parallel training. Slow parameter sync between nodes is a bottleneck.
If you’re going to quote that, at least link the article. Now you’re taking the paragraph out of context to prove your own point.

Depending on the other paragraphs in the article it could go both ways.
Just as a point of reference that may be surprising to some used to USA religious positions: the Catholic Church fully embraces evolution.
As others have said, any service doing fraud prevention might ban you. It doesn't seem to be happening yet, but that could change any time it got popular and they would be pretty justified doing it.
> What tools do you think law enforcement has to further narrow this down?

Further cross-correlation of more data. Have the farmers ever even been to the same town as where the bomb was detonated? Were they there that day? Do they have any apparent motive? What's their alibi? You still have to prove a criminal case beyond a reasonable doubt, so all the points you're raising about alternative explanations for such searches are exactly the things the defense would raise, and why police don't use this data collection as evidence, but to focus the search from 100,000 people to 1,000 people.

It's probably worth thinking about it that way: absent this data, police have to assume everyone at the mall might be a suspect, so the pool is 100,000 potential bombers, not 1,000. What's the success rate on guessing 1/100000?
They've been making at least 10K units a quarter since Q1 2015. I'd hope that in half a decade they would have figured out how to make the body panels align and stay attached to the frame.

Complaints about Tesla's fit and finish extend back to before they were mass producing vehicles, when they theoretically should have been able to hand fit them. So I really don't buy any argument about it being a problem with scaling up; they just seem incapable or disinterested in fixing this.
"Thus, it may not be IMMEDIATELY deleted upon request and is an approved exception to GDPR and CCPA deletion rights."

I'm not sure if they have updated it after your request for deletion? If so, congrats on getting them to update it.

Or was the lede buried right at the end of the article as 'Read the privacy policy'?
This is a great book! Just finished reading it.
What UV Light Can Do Against the Coronavirus
It sounds like you're ignoring the other studies that did show benefit. The people who came up with those studies wanted to save lives, too, just like the people who still think that HCQ is being overlooked.

> You came up with those parameters conveniently after the study was published.

> The fact that people aren’t running more studies is not because there is a global conspiracy.

> satisfying critics who don’t care about the science

> magic combination...magical properties

It seems like you've suddenly made a sharp u-turn from a good-faith discussion into crazy town. I thought we were hashing out differences, and now you're suddenly accusing me of making up excuses, believing in a global conspiracy, being anti-science, and thinking zinc is somehow a miracle drug. I think I should end the conversation here.
> This is nothing like the economic system in which we live

That some theoretical other economy might exist does not belie the one this article discusses correlates wages and scarcity of labor, nor does it preclude anyone from making different decisions about pricing their own labor.
Not sure what to conclude from that.

The standard positions seem to be:

* the right is more in favor of originalism
* the left is more in favor of the living constitution view

You seem to be claiming that the right is actually acting in alignment with the living constitution view, which is an unusual take on this IMHO.
NordVPN's ads have made it onto TV, and a lot of TV ads nowadays are for gambling. Nevertheless it certainly is easier to regulate advertising if it isn't dynamic.
I think there is a direct correlation between patio11 reading this guy, and the liberal use of 'material' in his writing :-)
Hi Peter -
I am working for as a Data Engineer through a contracting agency and got my H1B approved for 3 years this year. The company I am working with is willing to convert my employment to full time but that requires a H1B transfer. I looked at my approved LCA yesterday and it says Market Reaserch Analysts and Marketing Specialists. I understand the transfer will be to a Software Developer Application SOC.
How can I avoid/anticipate and respond to H1B transfer complications i.e RFE and Rejections and Does it help for me to wait until the elections are over.
Thank you so much for doing this.
Like system administration: if a task occurs frequently, write a script to automate it.
You investigate drugs for mild cases for the same reason you give Tamiflu within 48 hours of symptoms, that you excise malignant lesions before they metastasize, and that you put out a fire with an extinguisher instead of waiting it for it to burn down half the house so you can call the fire department.
I once worked at a relatively large game company and I witnessed a game designer do pretty much exactly what you described in the last sentence. It caused a minor havoc with the CEO breathing down our GM's neck. That game designer was fired within the next year (or 6-mo). And I think he learned his lesson too -- he's a smart guy and went on to have a thriving career at his next company.
> The issue here, as I said, was that ProtonMail was trying to avoid implementing IAP at all.

Show me Apple forced everyone to use IAP before ProtonMail included the link to their website on their app and I'll agree.
I am in no position to judge, I have not participated to protests either in France or in the US. So everything I will say is only about perception from media reports or what I saw in my medium/smallish-sized city (Brest)

I feel the level of violence of gilets jaunes has been overreported by international medias, or maybe misattributed. I believe the large majority of protesters have been angry, determined people but overall pacific ones. And the reported violence came from a small minority, who abused the opportunity. And the same thing happened in the US months ago when there were reports of looting and degradation. Maybe I am naive and manipulated by medias, who knows.

But you are probably right, in the sense that gilets jaunes organized blockade of infrastructure, and were generally very active, trying to be heard. Much more than in recent US protests. But I would not call that "violence".
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- Arrays start at one

Why is this such a big deal? You just change the range of your for-loops from 0<=i<n to 1<=i<=n. Are you using cyclic buffers?
Sounds like a great way to entrench larger companies that can pay for this advertising model.

We underestimate the value small businesses get from the current ad market. It’s partly because of this value that ad fraud is rampant.

Enabling small businesses to advertise to cheap also makes it cheap for fraudulent advertisers to commit ad fraud.
I would have to check the dates, and I don't have time for that right now, but the parameters that Didier Raoult suggested have been around since April or May I believe. In any case, the author of this piece is acting as a journalist, not a scientist, and he chose to select a poorly designed study that does not measure what he purports it measures. This negatively affects the public perception of scientific communication more broadly.
Some people aren't selfish assholes and want the sites they use to continue to exist.
Be aware the Corel Draw 2020 included in the bundle is offered in a subscription model.-
Whatever your views on the subscription model, -nothing- prior to purchase advertises this fact.-

The rest of the apps offered (and other items) are regular lifetime licenses.-
Maybe nothing. If it's a valuable service, a small subscription or micro transaction. If Noone is willing to pay for it, even the site owner themselves, maybe it doesn't actually need to be around. I think alot of labor of love sites would remain.
While the explanation was a little wordy, it really helped me visualize what was happening — particular the image with cross-links, and the two different kinds of table of contents.

Now I see that the essence of the concept relates to the semantics of “categories” (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) -vs- “tags”, especially when there might be multiple ways to split the domain into categories (especially when they fill out an incomplete/sparse subset of the full Cartesian product). Conventional dispatch (presumably implementation in the language?) is based on one of either functions/types as categories, while multiple dispatch uses all of these inputs as tags to specialize on the appropriate implementation.

If this perspective is correct, I would like to understand why/how the implementation conventional languages forced them into category-based single dispatch.

Thanks for a nice article :-)
So in this situation where you have an absolutely ridiculous number of people flooding the internet with scans, all on multi-gigabit connections, it eats up a whole 20 kilobytes per second.

10 000 persons doing this simultaneously is also an insane number, and that's 2 kilobytes per second.

It sounds fine.
There is some discussion of the Bessemer process here: https://rootsofprogress.org/iron-from-mythical-to-mundane

The old posts on the blog can be pretty interesting, though the author seems to have viewed it more as a stepping stone to becoming a political activist than as a project in its own right.
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How is this a new study? I knew about it 6 years ago and specifically didn't take a laptop to class because of it.
The Ottoman situation was arguably even messier, because the Ottomans had one set of provinces, and then the Mandatory authorities had a somewhat different one.
Yelp adds alerts for businesses accused of racism
It's not better if you have an environment that allows easy iterative function development.

This is just a way to achieve that. However, combined with some of the other clojure niceties (namely cider and structural editing) it does make it a better experience for me.

It allows me to maintain a better flow as I can maintain REPL state if needed(especially if it's a quick hack where dependency injection like component isn't worth the overhead). When I'm done exercising the code I can just make minimal changes to make the comment a test, leave it in place, or move it over to a bag-of-tricks user.clj.
On my site we follow a couple of the practices you mention:

- No dynamic ad content (we do allow geo-ip targeting for continents and countries, but this is using a self-hosted maxmind list)

- Half-month or Monthly advertising time slots

In addition to those practices, we also do the following:

- Self-host our ads

- Sell our own ads and have direct relationship with the ad buyers

- No animated advertising (only static graphics)

- Advertising is tailored to the content on our website which is an indirect way of targeting users (if users enjoy our content, they will likely find value in the ads).

edit: One of the benefits of the time-slot method of selling advertising is that it doesn't encourage methods of maximizing impressions (clickbait, galleries, etc) and also there is no reason to try to game clicks as with CPC.
I think the "technically superior" bit wasn't really the right choice of words.

Esperanto isn't intended to be superior. It's value is on it being equally foreign yet approachable for all the salient parties and therefore a conceivable acceptable neutral turf for everyone to share.

Ironically, the case for Dvorak keyboards is kind of the opposite: QWERTY was intentionally designed to avoid jams, which if anything biased towards making it more difficult.

It's not so much technical superiority as having a design objective that is more appropriate for the problem space.

One can similarly argue about whether "QUEL" is really technically superior to "SQL", but the design objective is (at least as perceived by the author) better aligned with the solution space.
> Perhaps the real message here is that SV companies are realizing this is a perfect way to get out of paying $300-500K salaries for jobs that are more like $150K anywhere else in the US. It's kind of like the outsourcing craze from 15 years ago, except instead of getting 3-5 developers for the price of 1 by going to Europe or Asia, SV companies can get 3-5 developers for the price of 1 that are still US-based and only a couple of timezones away.

Is it really possible to get the same talent and skills?
This is so horribly flawed. Productivity improvements have been concentrated at the high end, and those that have occurred in low skilled jobs have been almost entirely due to technology, not to labor efficiency. Technology gains have always disproportionately been captured by the providers of capital over the providers of labor (given they are the ones who invest in said technology).
Jamstack vs. WordPress, Round 2: The Two Matts Debate
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

1971, 1968, doesn't really matter. But - many such "negative" effects only really show up after 1981, that is after the peak of the interest rates. RIP Volcker, the last Fed president with vision.

If you're into slightly crazy sounding theories about the cyclical nature of human progress I recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio.... Ray Dalio is also writing a lot on his own version of the "around 80 years cycle" theory.
True, but that tax sheltering is of future income, it's not pre-tax in the normal-employee case.
if you have 3 campaigns with 3 ad networks or ad platforms, how do you measure the ROI of the campaigns without tracking?

How do you know if Facebook or pinterest is better ROI for your marketing budget?
In a world of ever-increasing "data noise," that's true regardless of whether the cops are using the data.

A person who has a credit card for five years, even with a few missed payments, has better credit than a person who's never had a credit card. The latter is an unknown, and unknowns are risky.

A person who was let go from their last job last month has a stronger résumé than someone who's last job was five years ago.

A person who reads Hacker News for five years but never comments on anything lacks the downvote privileges that a person who comments heavily for a few months has.

And so on.
Apple is nothing else but the digital equivalent of a landlord extracting economic rents from everyone in the ecosystem. It's time to put an end to it, and while we're at it the same goes for all the other platform owners.

We (in this case the EU) should give it the same treatment we gave credit card companies. Cap their rates at 1% or whatever so they can cover the operational costs of their stores, stop them from banning apps from their stores that aren't breaking any laws, and that's that. If they want to make more money for their shareholders they should actually build things rather than abuse their gatekeeper position.

Just imagine if Microsoft had taken a 30% cut from every developer who ever compiled software for windows, or told them what software stack to use to develop their software. We'd have gone on the barricades immediately. Microsoft had to face scrutiny for bundling a browser, compared to what smartphone companies have done to their devices that was a joke
Apparently, it's just an experiment. https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/helping-people-spot-spoofs...

I'm not a fan, though.
Not a protonmail user, but fastmail, which is in a similar boat i guess.

I really hope this means fastmail won't be forced to start billing through IAP. Apple gets enough of my money already, and I don't want it eating up fastmails profit margins, as I think they offer a stellar product.
The Mindscape podcast has a recent episode on this topic - Sean B. Carroll On randomness.
You know what? In the past, I was toying with the idea of building Julia IDE. In the end, I decided to build something else.

So the pain point is still there. Looking at this thread, it could be a good idea to build Julia IDE. Then you can apply for funding in the next YC batch. 6 months should be enough to build an MVP.

Bonus point if you could build Julia IDE with Rust. In Show HN, surely you would get a lot of karma points. But we need to be realistic. Rust does not have a solid GUI library. If I chose to build Julia IDE, I would use either C++ with Qt or C++ with wxWidgets.
Lots of QAnon advocates see themselves as altruistic truth seekers.

Doctors and scientists need to be objective. Advocating a treatment before the data is there, or cherry picking results is not science.
The first study by Didier Raoult did treat already hospitalized patients and it didn't use zinc. That is quite different than the parameters here, so Didier Rauolt didn't suggest anything like that initially.
That has not been true since 2011, nine years ago!

https://venturebeat.com/2011/06/09/apple-backtracks-on-in-ap...
Great input; not flame war enticing, just facts, and I respect your 20 year head start - implicit memory is only attainable by experiencing things first hand, and I appreciate that.

Perhaps not the greatest example was provided, but the general sentiment I was aiming for was when disdain is expressed for tools without taking the time to understand what their intended (and practical) purposes are, and how they are effectively used.

When you have used a tool and understand it well, and witness another person go off on a tangent about how "Android is complete garbage, why would they ever do this this way", you naturally question that person's capability or whether they know what they are doing. In my experience, the person venting about how a tool sucks will 15-20 minutes later realize "oh. that's why.", or otherwise head off to roll their own implementation and 15 working days later realize "oh. that's why." or get into production and cause an outage from missing several edge cases.

On the macOS topic, it is odd that the root user no longer functions as one would expect in the Unix model (for example, cli tools which can no longer list OS processes, which haven't had any issues during the amount of time I've used them). It is frustrating that a wide variety of tools no longer work correctly as a result of some of these changes as well; for example, emacs can no longer navigate my filesystem. All said and done, my day to day work has been via Linux workstations for nearly all of the past 15 years, which is partly why some of those effects are more jarring than others to me.

Again, thanks for your input!