skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not OP, but currently a manager at Google (full disclosure, opinions are my own, company is not involved, etc)

I fully expect that everybody at Google will create the designs for the problems they own, get the designs through peer review, work on implementing these designs, and verify that the solution is solved in process.

What changes with the seniority level is the scope of the designs - a junior may be expected to design their piece of code, only their module, a mid level is expected to design an entire subsystem while delegating individual modules, a senior is expected to design an entire system delegating the subsystems, etc. Of course, it's not so clear cut all the time, but the critical piece we have here is that - Everybody, at all levels, are expected to share expertise, knowledge and acumen in order to help others grow. When you put everything together it creates a nice cycle of constant growth pressure.

Absolutly I will not qualify anybody's work here as "droning", and if someone in my team would feel like that I would invite them to speak up and work together into making it better.

About the quality of people here, what has impressed me most is the uniform high level of competence and niceness. In other companies where I've worked the skills would more-or-less all over the place, but here it's uniform good. I'd rate Googlers consistently in top 20% of the teams where I've worked with before. Also everybody is so very nice, a real pleasure to be around and work together. I still haven't discovered how recruiting selects for this, but everybody constantly passes the airport test my in book.
The issue is if it is loaded it would still show in network logs on enterprise networks. Regardless if the content was viewed or not.
Why would Walmart make a deal when they could just wait for or lobby the county to valuate your land at some excessive value and force a sale in distress?

LVT is just bad policy that sounds ok in concept. In my city, inner city residential property is near worthless once it falls below section 8 standards. The taxes are low too as result. With a LVT scheme, someone would cook up some “true” value subjectively, which has obvious potential for abuse.
> yet no one dies of a bacterial infection

I have read most of the books (a long time ago now) and I believe this happens at least twice. As well as that, there's a lot of talk about cleaning wounds too, even in field situations (typically with boiled wine - apparently similar to Hippocrates).
I hope you realize you’re not talking to the author of this article; I just posted it. But I do know about Frank Zappa enough to be interested in the new docu. I’ll check it out
Not to mention quietly sitting on the electronic submission because it was missing the CD, without notifying the sender of the missing requirement.

My company is full of these kinds of slackers. They always seem to be ready with some feeble excuse like this for why something isn't being worked on. They're not fooling anyone.
Thank you for your response.

I feel like homeowners may become more resistant to city services and improvements in their area if it will impact their bottom line disproportionately. I guess it would come down to the value formulation.
That's absolutely possible. Everyone is empowered and encouraged to run their own seed nodes. Which would allow you to have an isolated network. Check the docs to find out how to run your own: https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/using-radicle/running-a-seed-n...
> we need a statically typed contender to R, Python and Julia.

I'm not sure we really need a "contender". We need a complement. I personally use D. I love the language, I can compile my functions into a static library, and I can have R load them the same as it loads a library of C functions. It's worked well for me for years. Should work for plenty of languages, whether that's Rust, Nim, or whatever.

There are at least two reasons I've moved away from the idea of a replacement language:

- It's pretty easy to do if you already have experience with a compiled language. The benefit of a replacement language is small.

- You can move to the new language slowly, to the degree that you want, without giving up or rewriting any already working code. Others can easily use your code without having to move to that language.
You can safely put newer libraries in /usr/local/lib.
We just wrapped up our very first community building event. https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks_together_2020. You can track us down from there if you're interested. All our software is open source, and we have a ton of open issues ;).
> people aren't bayesian belief nets who update their beliefs in propositions based on new information.

I disagree, I think this is mostly true. However, I think people have a strong tendency to overestimate how much their favorite pieces of information should force others to update their beliefs. The same piece of information can be valid in many worldviews with wildly varying interpretations. It is sometimes difficult to separate the core information from the interpretation, and so one can become confused when sharing facts with others doesn't change minds. This can be mitigated by spending more effort to understand others' priors.
I also recommend this podcast. I've listened to the whole thing a couple of times and it gives a descent overview (I think) which makes it easier to dive deeper into the concepts and philosophers that interests you. For me it was Descartes, Kant, Spinoza and Deluze.
They aren’t informed if they can’t code or debug. A leader shouldn’t ask people to do something they wouldn’t do. I’m this case the leader can’t even do what they are asking others to do. In my opinion, they shouldn’t be the leader then.
I love rust. Yet, I do not understand the hate for C++. I've done a lot of work using C++ and a lot of being able to use the language effectively comes from knowing why things are a certain way. Given its constraints, I think it is a brilliant language and I agree with your view of it.

However, if someone were to ask my advice on which programming language s/he ought to learn, I usually point to python as its easy to begin and unless the goal is to get into game development, financial institutions or something like that, where C++ is the dominant language, I do not recommend it. It takes a lot of time before the complexity begins to disappear from one's mental model of the language. After that point though, one can see why it's a solid language.
It's easy enough to set them to the native resolution first thing. They probably noticed a lot of people don't like small text and so they set the default to scaled
There are good introductory books.
Like many others, Sophie's World is a good introduction.

In addition, (I'm biased since Spanish is my native language) it's really hard to go wrong with these (in no order of preference):
- Manuel García Morente, Preliminary Lessons of Philosophy
- Julián Marías, History of Philosophy
- Manuel Gonzalo Casas, Introduction to Philosophy.
> what is it like to work on a container ship

You might like The Shipping Man by Matthew McCleery. It's fiction, but the author is in the shipping financing industry and the book is a fun way to learn about (a caricaturized version of) that world.
> what's wrong with systemd?

It was written by a cowboy coder and issues have cropped up that indicate no serious code review has been performed.
In 2020, I think A.C. Grayling's The History of Philosophy is a better bet if you're looking for a single-volume introduction to Western Philosophy. Although, as with Russell, you have to take Grayling with a pinch of salt when he writes about philosophers outside of the analytic tradition.
I think you are right, I am complaining mostly about the "front page of the internet" part. I like visiting other subs, and I usually find answers to Google searches there, because some communities are really good.
Sméagol Sets Pronouns
Rust makes cross compilation child's play
You may need so but at least you can: (1) avoid the carcinogenic cocktail from combusted tabacco and (2) you can taper off easier as you can mix your vape juice with inert VG oil
Looking at your post history tells me that you took another person’s open source software and trying selling it as pro version without credit. Why did you do that?
Do you have any ethical sense when building or selling software?
I do really like the idea of an MNIST alternative to very quickly verify ideas. However I have a few nitpicks:

1. 10 classes is way too small to make meaningful estimates as to how well a model will do on a "proper" image datatset such as COCO or ImageNet. Even a vastly more complicated dataset like CIFAR-10 does not hold up.

2. I feel like CIFAR-100 is widely used as the dataset that you envision MNIST-1D to be. Personally I found that some training methods will work very well on CIFAR-100 but not that well on ImageNet so TinyImageNet is now my go-to "verify new ideas dataset"
I user sequoiaview.

https://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
The problem is she made some higher up angry and they said to fire her post haste. I think this is all being blown out of proportion. If she had been professional she wouldn't have put in an ultimatum, if google would have been professional google would have said "hol' up, no firing, let's communicate on this". So as usual both sides were wrong and unwilling to be adults.
Casablanca is also my favorite. Half the lines in the film are quotable. Love the ending. It's just excellent.
Congrats! Just be careful and don't quit your day job. Buying leaps on almost anything that dipped in march (and has since recovered) payed out 60-100% returns, and that's not likely to happen again anytime soon.
> The former is helpful for nice UI and UX. The later good for efficient algorithms and code design.

Again, you keep moving the goalposts. You started with the claim that most JS programmers were incapable of writing Hello World in C.
As an ex smoker I confirm that cigarettes taste and smell 10x worse after one quits. Congrats for beating the worst habit of the xx century. How are you feeling after all these years off cigarettes? Did you pick up any other bad habit? Im still on e-cigs but dilluted the nicotine concentration and am ready to stop altigether. Ive been e-ciggng for 3 years and didnt gave a regular cigarette since and am already feeling much better
Guess it is similar to Apache Daffodil.
> Oh but there is :) As a library author I really don't want to dictate users what compiler to use,

sure, there's nothing wrong with self-inflicted pain. Rust shows that a compiler monoculture works much better in practice.
On Reddit, some tightly-moderated forums with high standards are /r/AskHistorians and /r/econmonitor. I like hanging on on tildes.net which also has good moderation, but it doesn't have any particular specialty.
As someone who adopted smartphones years before the iPhone: anyone who thinks the iPhone was just “incremental” is deluding themselves. The capacitive display alone was a game changer, let alone everything else.
Well, there is (quotes taken from Wikipedia):

LessWrong [1] - a "community blog and forum focused on discussion of cognitive biases, philosophy, psychology, economics, rationality, and artificial intelligence, among other topics."

SlateStarCodex [2] - "a long-form blog written by a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist known by the partial pseudonym Scott Alexander. The blog is focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism." ATTENTION: Currently on hiatus and only some of the content available.

Datatau [3] - made the round on HN some time ago as a "fork" of HN for data science topics. Discussion, however, seems to be non-existent.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/

[3] https://datatau.net/
Why do you think they treat religions as being as important as race but not other beliefs like political, conspiracy theories, or certain other religions? BBC certainly isn't doing much to damp down political hatred so what's their true aim? I'd guess it's just to reinforce whatever arbitrary ideals of "good" and "bad" their culture has converged on and actually stoke hatred towards their perceived enemies because their culture encourages that.

Modern Islam is pretty strongly anti-science and has been for half its existence - since the end of the golden age. So it's probably not enlightening to think of those ancient people as being part of the same group as modern Muslims. It's almost a different religion. Then, it was open to free thinking and tolerant of outsiders and non-Muslims. Now, it's socially conservative, rigid in what thoughts are allowed, isolationist and intolerant of anyone critical of the religion.
It's the best way to get them out of homelessness. It's not begging at all.

They have to buy all the papers they are distributing in advance. It's a financial risk. But a good income, if you've got a good location.
Do you really believe 'be yourself' is a suggestion to be a jerk if you are a jerk?

Jerks don't have a problem being jerks in my experience...
Agree with the comments in this thread. I never browse /r/all anymore but have connected with some small niche communities on reddit that are great.

It is interesting how much the character of the site changed as it has become more popular.
An excellent book! It was one of the first software development books I read and still shapes my programming style. I probably ought to read it again though, I suspect I would understand a lot of it a lot better now...
There's no end or limit to the amount of money any person or institution can squander.

It's a flow of income (land rent) that can accrue either to everybody and be shared or to individuals. One way or another some party has to be the beneficiary. The question is who deserves this unearned income?
iOS Apps on Mac Require System Integrity ProtectioN
Worth noting: the implied interest rates on other forms of leverage (futures especially) are probably lower still. And though using long-term in-the-money call options might be a bit more expensive, they have the nice quality of having limited downside. If the underlying tanks hard you won't be forced to sell, and you might even still have some extrinsic value.
Not exactly "tablet" its a hybrid, but on my Yoga 11e the only one that works like a champ is Solus, alas some features like "tent" eg screen auto-rotate are not working automatically.
Sometimes firmware updates fix bugs in the TV's OS, which can improve the user experience.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2018/02/14/lg-oled-t...

You're correct in general though, I'm not worried about security flaws on the TV.
Yes, don't let people step on you from day 1. Boundaries.

It's hard, you just want it to be a small infraction and then everything will be fine in the future.

That's rare. At least it is in my experience.
+1 for both subreddits mentioned
See comments/links above in this thread re our first community building event. All feedback is good feedback.
This is probably like hiring the EFF (by Apple) to help with privacy ethics, it is 100% guaranteed that they'd be fired in time :) . EFF are idealists, Apple is a pragmatist, so eventually they would part ways, it's inevitable. Hopefully google and she both learned something from it.
> I also want to say that I strongly encourage people interested in reading and learning philosophy to do it in a class or group setting, at least initially.

My bachelor's is in philosophy and I second this.

Read the original sources, ideally in a group setting, since discourse is key to philosophy.

Start with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, work your way up through the ages. But read through the original sources.

Also don't be afraid to try a different translation if you're struggling, as sometimes the translation can make it break understanding and enjoyment.

This may also help determine what area you might want to dig into. Ethics? Politics? Mind/how we think? Logic? Existence? Perception?
Yes, this is what I came to see. It gradually increases the brightness over 5 seconds on my Catalina Macbook. It's very impressive that there are no visible brightness changes on the rest of the screen when the brightness of the backlight increases.
> (although I don’t think they are actually adding to COBOL anymore).

They are working on a new COBOL standard, COBOL 202X. The last COBOL standard was 2014 which was only 6 years ago. So COBOL is still evolving

https://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=194689...
I like open source audio formats (opus!) but it is my understanding that patents on MP3 and the most popular configs for AAC are expired.
I think that is called a mosaic.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat By neurologist Oliver Sacks is a great book describing some of his very interesting cases. More importantly, his writing style is brilliant.
Nitpick: the latest standard is R7RS-small (https://small.r7rs.org), which is (expectedly) smaller than R6RS. I believe it was supposed to be accompanied by something like R7RS-large, covering the rest of what is expected in a Scheme standard to succeed R6RS.
Check out “Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs”

It’s fascinating and covers a very wide range of professions. Sorta of like a more modern remake of Stud Terkel’s 1974 book “Working”
Millions of census records may be flawed
For those who don't mind a bit of DIY, there is always the option of dumbing one yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877363
Death Came for the Dakotas
That was the wrong assumption, as we released a library that imitates to be a pro version from the contributors of open sourcem We sorted it out by unpublishing the library. That's nothing to do with their tech in backend. Feel free to make comparisons on the output quality.
> I used to like Reddit a lot, but I feel their push to reach a broader audience has pushed down the quality of the front-page subs. It is dominated by a sense of moral superiority: "Am I the Asshole", "Justice Served", Leopards ate my Face" are very common now.

...don't subscribe to these subreddits then? Reddit allows to curate what you see, so do the curation. Viewing my frontpage when I'm logged in vs when I'm not is a completely different experience. It's a bit like viewing the Youtube trending videos.
I’ve been listening to the podcast ‘philosophy, the classics’ which gives a quick explanation of the beliefs and work of history’s most famous philosophers.

Good way to get a general understanding of how thought and argument progressed and followed on from one another

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/philosophy-the-classic...
Interestingly, using Cloudflare's dns this morning around 0900 US Eastern time, I got through just fine. And a few hours ago, using DNSWatch, I was able to get through. Trying to muddle through what was happening, I found this:
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...

Clearly, Cloudflare was resolving it this morning, and it isn't now. Just why, hard to say. I have other things to do, so that's where I bow out...
I think that one of the fundamental principles of software engineering is to code in such a way that future change is contained. In fact, I would say this is one of the key things that differentiates software engineering from programming.

Sometimes that means centralising code so that change can be limited to one location. Sometimes that means creating strong seams between areas so that changes stop rippling out at the boundaries. Sometimes that means allowing duplication strategically so that your inadequately informed preconceived notions about what future change will look like don't precommit you to unnecessary change.

YAGNI and DRY are great, but the fundamental principle underlying them both is the containment of future change.
LVT essentially is a property tax, except it's designed to be fairer, harder to evade and more economically efficient (doesnt tax productive activity) than other forms of property tax.

It would make little sense to have two kinds of property tax.
Squandering taxes seems like a separate problem. In the case taxes are squandered, and in the case they are not, it makes sense to use the most efficient taxes first.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem shows "that under certain conditions [presumably including limited squandering, though I didn't check], beneficial investments in public goods will increase aggregate land rents by at least as much as the investments cost"
I'm glad you're interested! It links through to 2 videos for setting up the environment if you need it too.

Sorry about the newsletter - I did not expect anything near this kind of traffic, and it's hit everything :)

I've made a temporary 15% discount coupon "hnhug10" for anyone who wants/needs one!

In the meantime I need to start thinking about more resilient hosting...
I don't know who you were hoping to kid here, other than yourself, but grandly stating someone should "just spare us" their opinion you don't happen to agree with is obviously not even remotely a "critique" of anything, it's simply a call for someone to shut the fuck up, because what matters (to "us") is what you personally are willing to tolerate.

In a way, I can't even understand how you could actually need this spelled out to you, unless you simply have no grasp of what you're posting, which admittedly is what it looks like.
I disagree with this om the basis that it unnecessarily constrains your thinking. If you read the primary sources first then you can go in with an open mind and come to your own interpretation. If you read the secondary sources first then you'll be fitting it into the boxes provided when you read the primary.
In a language that has one-based indexing, can you treat a multidimensional array as one-dimensional? Or will it give you an array index out of bounds error?

That is, are there any languages that are both one-based, and will let you do that trick?
Just a few months ago there was a leaked email from Google execs talking about how Google Cloud needed to start making more money or it would be shuttered within a few years.

It’s pretty simple really. Google acts like a VC — place lots of bets on new projects in the hope that they’ll blow up and either a) start making adwords-scale profits or b) markedly increase adwords profits. Projects that don’t do either of those things are killed. The question is: Does 8.8.8.8 markedly increase adwords profit?
It's true that zero -- and the place-value system -- came from India, but it's not true that all of the mathematics of the Abbasid Caliphate was simply borrowed Hindu math. Al-Khwarizmi, whose book introduced Hindu qua "Arabic" numerals to the West, generally built on Greek and Indian contributions and therefrom invented al-jabr, a distinctly Arabic word now pronounced "algebra".

>It is true that in two respects the work of al-Khowarizmi represented a retrogression from that of Diophantus. First, it is on a far more elementary level than that found in the Diophantine problems and, second, the algebra of al-Khowarizmi is thoroughly rhetorical, with none of the syncopation found in the Greek Arithmetica or in Brahmagupta's work. Even numbers were written out in words rather than symbols! It is quite unlikely that al-Khwarizmi knew of the work of Diophantus, but he must have been familiar with at least the astronomical and computational portions of Brahmagupta; yet neither al-Khwarizmi nor other Arabic scholars made use of syncopation or of negative numbers. Nevertheless, the Al-jabr comes closer to the elementary algebra of today than the works of either Diophantus or Brahmagupta, because the book is not concerned with difficult problems in indeterminant analysis but with a straight forward and elementary exposition of the solution of equations, especially that of second degree. The Arabs in general loved a good clear argument from premise to conclusion, as well as systematic organization – respects in which neither Diophantus nor the Hindus excelled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi...