skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While interviewing candidates I have observed an influx of candidates having a strong bias towards neural networks in the recent years - i.e. not understanding concepts such as overfitting in general and telling me how dropout would fix that.

We are a mid-size AI/ML consultancy company. We have not yet have a project where we'd actually been given enough data and resources from a customer to be even able to learn a NN from scratch. Vast majority of the problems we tackle are easily solvable with traditional ML methods which these fresh candidates consider obsolete and boring.

This tutorial pretends to be mildly aware of that, yet the first course it offers is Andrew Ng's ML, which is structured in a way that it culminates in building a NN, a brief mention of RF and then it jumps straight into DNN.

A disclaimer that this is hardly a thing a person would actually do for living should be included at the beginning of every tutorial such as this one.
And not to be confused with Neversoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neversoft
I'm going to be 43 in a day, and I have definitely noticed less reliance on others for validation or meaning as I grow older. I think it's normal.

When you're younger, you're trying to figure out who you are and a big part of it is seeking out new people to learn about the world and yourself. I think you also tend to need others to validate you more. I can definitely tell that when I was younger I would share more about my hobbies or interests with others in the hopes that they would like them too and want to share in them with me, with a little bit of wanting to be complimented on my uniqueness. Now that I'm older, I do that far less.
Thank you for giving back and setting a great example.
Perhaps they don't intend to use the data as telemetry, but regardless, intentionally or not, they are receiving information about what you are running, even if it were just a hash of the binary. So you're right, it would be a trivially small information leak, but I'd like to think a company focused on privacy wouldn't resort to such an aggressive protocol.

I haven't followed this very closely, has anyone determined exactly what is being sent?
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Thank you everyone for your encouraging comments. As with any product, there's always the fear of "if I build, will they come?" But without building, I'll never know. So time to get building :-)
I get a 404.
True, a history of employment tends to make someone more employable, especially for a big name like Google.
You are right, the bias is with these frontier-minded Americans that cannot see land as a collective good, and selling with a huge profit no hardship.
Assimilated, Resistance is futile.
>I don't see what the problem is if some foreign country captures a diplomat. We can just elect another diplomat in their place.

If a diplomat is afraid of their host government, whose interests do you think they are going to represent. Yours or theirs?

What's even the point of sending over a representative if they're not going to represent?

Also, while you could probably find people who would be willing to be cannon fodder in an unsafe diplomatic job, they're unlikely to also have the finesse, savvy and communications skills your country would actually require of its representatives to be adequately represented.
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100% evil and pretentious. Not every dev team has the free time to go rewriting everything to the whimsy of library devs that can't help themselves from incessantly shuffling everything around every week. This is how you encourage people to never update and keep security vulnerabilities in the wild.
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So you do think Leetcode is useful ? What's up with the flex ? Congratulations on the PhD and job, I guess ?. Looks like you could definitely invert a binary tree.
They call it forced labor, why not use the word: slavery
What expenses are there to keep google the default engine?
I agree with the DevOps theory, but precisely for the opposite reason. People wrote all kinds of automated tools etc. to replace weird BOFH shell scripts. Almost no syntactical improvements upon Bourne sh (which was a weird Algol-like in C-land), but introducing plenty of incompatibilities because other systems might have just regular sh or an older version of bash.

Compared to Korn Shell or yes, Perl, it's a major step back. (I'd also say it's a lot harder to write than read, given that once you're reading a working script, you've already got most of the whitespace issues and badly formed command argument worked out).

The Unix commandline as a way to pipe together commands was a pretty great idea. But every inch you step away from that abstract ideal is just mired in a geological accumulation of oddities and bad design (Plan 9 probably being the closest ever attempt of making that work less painfully)
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First, the press credentials should probably grant some benefit of the doubt if the justification for arrests is something along the lines of, "I can't think of any reason you might be here except to cause mischief."

I think what's shocking to people is that, traditionally, police have understood that they're somewhat more likely to be held accountable for abuses of power toward journalists. It seems likely that is primarily for the same reason that e.g. a tech company with a bad policy is more incentivized to fix it if it happens to stub the toe of anyone with an audience.

That police in many cases apparently knew that there would be no consequences if the press was _strongly_ encouraged to document frequent abuses is not a great sign.

The other parallel I think folks are drawing is that abuses of journalists in particular is a common feature of dictatorships. My sense is that this is not a particularly good parallel to draw in this case, but it's easy to see how one might connect the dots based on a passing review of the facts.
It's easy to see a way it could not work: just take the example of the Star Wars movies
Agreed, but I think it's important to point out this is hearsay from a writer of a no-name fan site. Nothing anywhere has ACTUALLY suggested it; they're just trying to fill paragraphs.
I bet there is more than just that going on but I would imagine there are people working on how to develop literally everything they just bought from Fox. If there is an intellectual property that Disney owns, then someone is trying to figure out how to make money off it.
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Don't forget recycling plots, characters, scenes but in a sort of soulless way.
Member.execute(String.format("DELETE FROM %s WHERE name = 'Mary'", Member.TABLE_NAME));

That String.format looks dangerous, especially in a DELETE. Sure, it's a constant in this instance, but other examples use a parameterized ?, so this String.format jumps out.
> Social inequality is not a problem which currently is seen as a problem, and so there is where such change must start.

Indeed. It's a hard problem though when the very act of bringing up sympathy for the romanceless can sometimes get you branded as an incel yourself.

> there do exist a small paradox where increased economic equality increases social inequality

Huh, that's a good point.
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> 1) About $8-12 billion paid by Google to have their search engine default.

And Mozilla, who wrote this article, also gets the majority of their funding through paid search, mostly from Google.

> Precisely 94% of Mozilla revenues came through royalties received by search engines to be featured on its Mozilla Firefox browser.[0]

[0] https://fourweekmba.com/how-does-mozilla-make-money/
This feels like a false dichotomy to me (if it’s true which I’m not certain of).

It’s not very good for employees if your small business customers don’t like you and as a result you have to close.

A local car dealership may be great for its employees by ripping off customers and generally being a terrible experience, but I won’t have much sympathy when direct to consumer sales come and wipe them out.

Small businesses need to offer something of value to customers that’s real and differentiated as opposed to a narrative of their own self interest. In short - they have to be competitive. There’s no reason they can’t do this while also being good to employees.

A lot of the complaints I see come across as sour grapes and trying to legislate their existence rather than just being better and caring about what customers want.

At its best capitalism is a force for aligning value and interests between provider and customer. On net this leads to more efficient distribution and better outcomes for the most people.

At its worst it’s rent seeking and leveraging local power over people without choice. Small businesses often fall on that side of the spectrum to me.
Do you always have a monologe going on? Say you now put down your phone or close your laptop and just stare out of your head and look at what's in front of you.

Will you have linguistically formulated sentences "coming to you" without pause?
Obviously there are approaches that could improve this situation. But most people like to project the stupidest idea they possibly can on anything they have a negative emotional response for.

This problem space has barely been cracked open, and we're going to have to get big smart about it before it destroys us.
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Of course they look different over time, isn't the problem here that same data can be used to do statistical analysis for other purposes than fraud prevention?
That's his point, Seattle is a tech center without many major universities.
Not as an adult, no.
Yes; the limits should be expressed as liabilities, both civil and criminal
This is a good example of "Organization as Code", where you are trying to influence a non-trivial change (often "cultural") by code.

Frequently it's better to change behaviour this way than say, holding meetings and presentations.

A typical example is "we want our developer to write more tests" but there are few existing examples of test code to look at and when you write a test it takes forever to run, so you fix this by fixing the underlaying issues (which is bad or non-existing code), rather than making developers attend TDD presentations and just talking about a "test culture" for example.
> must prioritise complaints raised by "trusted flaggers"

That's the real concern here. Speech must be handled very carefully, but now we're elevating some specific people to be 'more equal' than others? Who are these people, and why do they get more say? I can see that opening a can of worms.

I don't live in the EU, but just like that well intentioned but shortsighted cookie law, the rest of us will have to deal with the fallout of that for a long time to come.
> It's almost as hard to come up with a fair number on how much help a given person should get due to being adversely affected by the pandemic. Yet that's not seen as a barrier to provide money.

Absolutely not. That is ludicrous.

There are measurable effects to the pandemic: changes in income, medical expenses, etc. There is certainly an emotional toll for even the best-off people, but no one is proposing paying people for emotional pain. It's all about getting them through this exceptional (and temporary) time.

Reparations for slavery are about things that can't be measured (generations of lost opportunities, not months), immense/immeasurable pain, and a long tail of policies (like racist zoning laws) that outlived slavery by 100+ years.

Your analogy to the pandemic actually makes it even more stark how difficult it is to calculate something so large, complex, and obscured by the fog of history.

> As a collective? Yes.

OK, let's say you do this. Let's say you decide the amount that a particular official/organized tribe should get is $1T. You don't have to decide who gets the money because the tribe has already done all that legwork for you and has an official roll.

Now how do you decide who pays? Do you try to trace the heritage of every American and determine when/how they took tribal land?

Maybe not. So do you just take it out of social programs? The same social programs that are intended to fix some of the cycles of poverty that people descended from slaves are relying on to get them some equity?

Well, you can't do that either. So how do you decide who pays, and who decides who pays?

Eventually you get into the business of punishing or rewarding people for their ancestors' crimes, which is not at all different from forcing a murderer's child to give money to his victim's family. If you look at it in a microcosm, it seems completely insane because it is.

Your ancestry definitely has a big effect on your life, but that's not the same as being culpable for their crimes, and it's not deterministic. My family was fantastically wealthy until my dad's generation, and then they were poor. Should my dad, as a completely broke 25-year-old, have had to pay reparations to someone for his ancestors' wealth (which I'm sure was gained unfairly)?
Good points, #1 can become especially loopy for me (my fight or flight response is jacked up to 11) to the point of being bothersome. When I notice it veering into unhealthy territory, I try to use mindfulness techniques to reel it in. Still, it's "normal" in that it's not indicative of mental illness other than maybe social anxiety.

But I disagree slightly on #3. My frame of reference is thru-hiking and/or intense solo missions where I'm alone in the backcountry hiking for 10-14 hours a day for days on end. In that setting, I find it impossible to stay mindful continuously. Also, without news/email/social media/etc. as input, I just find that my mind gravitates towards internal dialogues about the same big picture life issues. In that state, I'm actually listening to my body and mind more, not less. Personally, it can be frustrating to worry about whether I'm "in the moment" enough (the quintessential frustration with mindfulness, I know).

That said, I do try to mix it up between fully immersing myself in the wonderment of the wilderness, letting my mind chew on ideas, listening to podcasts/music, and sometimes attempting actual meditation sessions.
Funny fact: this organization is from New Zealand and amongst other issues, discusses the "right to work" in the US. Turns out that "right to work" means something different in NZ than it does in the US. In NZ it means "can actually make an honest living".
According to Charles Carmakal, senior vice president and chief technical officer at Mandiant, FireEye’s incident response arm

“There will unfortunately be more victims that have to come forward in the coming weeks and months,” he said. While some have attributed the attack to a state-sponsored Russian group known as APT 29, or Cozy Bear, FireEye had not yet seen sufficient evidence to name the actor, he said. A Kremlin official denied that Russia had any involvement.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-15/fireeye-s...
It's probably more like all the infamous reboots that have come out recently:

"OK, so we want to do this new show where blablabla"

"Sounds boring as F, nobody is gonna watch that"

"Well, we could call it the VerySuccessfulBelovedFranchise reboot. We can just rename the characters to match the original set"

"Gold"
Curious to me is that it seems you argue that XML is a valid hypertext; but, isn't it possible to implement most any valid xml document as a json document, even considering attributes?

And, have you seen Github's API implementation? They have the links and self-referential details in their particular json schemas that you seem to imply are necessary and unique for that.

If the argument is that json can't be rendered, isn't it arguable that xml equally has that problem, we just have a program with a common syntax reader format that renders pages equivalently, and something equivalent could be written for a particular json schema?
What is the definition of journalism?

"Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on current events based on facts and supported with proof or evidence."

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I am convinced that journalists don't exist any longer. Journalists used to be people who were academically educated and trained in the field with knowledge and skill in working as reporters or columnist. Reports and even columns were written with the goal of presenting a problem in an unbiased tone to educate the reader.

Nowadays instead of illuminating problems and educating, media companies are exclusively interested in generating revenue in the highly competitive market, hiring freelancers and accepting royalty-free submissions from anonymous people. Instead of reports and columns, we have "blitz-posts" and other types of submissions which seem to be written for half-literate population, judging by their length and choice of words.

I would say journalism as we used to know it went downhill with the rise of WWW, where anybody can be anybody. As much as that can be a positive thing, in this case I believe had negative consequences and it was a matter of time before it backfired. Yes, I am blaming these "journalists" hence the warning that it might be an unpopular opinion. Competing in who will provoke, scandalise and scaremonger better and faster multiple times per day in order to generate more clicks, views and ad revenue, despite being completely disgusting and revolting, seems to have pushed some people over the edge and resulted in distrust of the media.

Covid is the latest and perfect example of how the media can shape the opinion of the masses, especially when the masses have questionable intellectual capacity, as a result of trying to outperform the competition. I dare say majority of people only read the headlines and move on to consume more information. I don't know what the solution is.
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I use Neverware's Chrome OS on an old Google Pixel Chromebook. Google stopped supporting that Chromebook so I needed to switch to Neverware's version of the Chrome OS if I wanted to keep getting updates.

Neverware's Chrome OS is a downstream version of the Chrome OS that you get on new Chromebooks.

I do hope that with this acquisition, Neverware's product improves. One chronic problem I have with my pixel chromebook is that I had to disable some security settings to install Neverware's Chrome OS, which causes some problems every time they do an update.
I've observed this too. There's certainly a threshold to break out of my own thought / reality bubble. However, I've caught myself exploiting the "positives" of this, in that I still only have so much social energy. Even when events go well, I tend to get worse at managing my social time. However, finding outlets for being social that I actually enjoy and don't find tiresome is a risk worth taking. Generally, I'm glad that at this point I've sort of stopped caring about being "like-able", "cool" or socially "known" in my circles.
The hatred so many people have towards sex work is very interesting to me. Yet they consume work of sex work, without shame, and without expecting to pay for it - effectively increasing exploitation.

It's very interesting how the more "left" you go, the higher the acceptance towards sex work becomes.

I'm quite annoyed how we've decided to increase the barrier of entry for sex work (to be fair, it is slowly coming down), that makes it so only rich people (generally old and white) can create companies that make sex-based products.
While not mentioned in the blog post: A huge thanks to the Mobian folks for making a really good mobile OS on top of Debian with only a few packages in a custom repo while still using the standard Debian repo for the rest.

As for the PinePhone keyboard: It would be nice to have a ThinkPad-like TrackPoint to not rely on the touch screen and also for external monitors that don't have touch support.
AWS has such obvious contempt for the design profession that no sane designer would choose to work there.
That's more the fault of hacker news and the submitters of the url (it's a page inside of a knowledgebase ...) and also the upvoters of the article.

Imagine, all those upvotes needed to make this a front page article, NONE of those upvoters know what the company is or the context behind it, just that Google did something, so they upvote.

Then you see all these discussion posts about not knowing what it was, and why it's on the front page, etc.

It's basically HN's version of the blind leading the deaf.
Or who are unable to, due to existing constraints.

The charitable name for this lucrative segment of the market is "Enterprise".
What's preventing the Mozilla Corporation from selling "e-merchandise", like a sequence of themes for $1, $5, $10, $100, etc, to raise money?
Your requirements are different from mine.

I AM fine with a native app that only works on a single OS. Cross-platform is not necessary, or even desired.

"Doesn't require any installation" doesn't even enter into my evaluation. The last time I cared about that was when my computer didn't have a hard drive.

The UI/UX of Boards is to my liking. Several design choices resonate with how my brain works.

That it stores its data in iCloud is to my liking.

That it doesn't require a browser is to my liking.
Neverware will be nowhere. Thanks Google.
> This is always easier if the starting point of that two-pizza team is fairly close to "clone the version that already works, change the name, and run the deploy script".

This model only works with the OSS/community versions of software. If the the only value of your hosted offering is the hosting I would expect you to get eaten by a company with cheaper hosting costs than you. I'm talking specifically about a clean-room reimplementation of proprietary add-ons that typically make up the "enterprise" version of lots of software.
Bumble, Coffee Meets Bagel, Grindr, Once, Happn, and a few other apps that are probably unique to Europe come to mind as alternatives just from the top of my head.

Doesn't seem terribly monopolized to me, especially if you factor in that one person often uses multiple of those apps.
I just looked at Categories list there at https://42papers.com/categories and WOW is it broken.

Examples:

Social and Information Networks category description is: Covers all aspects of computing with sound, and sound as an information channel. Includes models of sound

But over in Audio and Speech Processing the description says: General methodological and applied contributions to economics.
> If you only have an email address and you make zero effort to cross-reference that with other data (using, for example, any datasets you purchased, or a marketing data enhancement system) then you are not connected their email address to their identity.

The email address is an identity. To properly handle privacy you must encrypt the email address so in case of a leak only the current decrypted emails are relevant.
> 1. There are a lot of users that are just not comfortable with working at a shell prompt. Graphical editors mirror the basic Mac or Windows workflow (open folder, double click on file, edit) and key bindings.

Emacs has nothing to do with shell prompts. It's a GUI editor as well. Emacs philosophy goes against Unix. I e.g. never use the terminal mode. Otherwise, your points seem on-point.
$65k +

However, I'd still be weary of my new 4x4 Mercedes Sprinter Van being scratched and I only paid $45k for that new. However, there are benefits to parking in a secured garage in manhattan haha.