jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It also happens to be as hard or harder than most other types of software engineering.

This remarkable statement is probably true if we correct difficulty levels to the average ability of the population of "web developers".

Doing stuff that's "math-heavy or algorithmic" often involves years of training before you are even remotely effective. People are not snapping up the equivalent of "code school grads with little experience" to design and build optimizing compilers, computer vision systems, high performance distributed systems, operating systems, etc.
I've been dreaming of something like that ever since the Oculus got big.
I've been writing a piece on dating apps, friendship app and such, looking deeper into what apps do for their users. The tldr is that we used all the tricks in the box, but we taught users nothing about relationships.

Apps let you swipe, or send messages, or add cool pics. But they don't tell you how to handle another person.
The people I know who work in prisons in the US aren't allowed to take their phones in. At least here the guards wouldn't have phones to use in an emergency.
Guantanamo hinges on the fact that even though it is under US jurisdiction it is not the US. You're preaching to the choir here.

I suppose no other examples are forthcoming then.
Certified organic foods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food

"Synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers are not allowed, although certain organically approved pesticides may be used under limited conditions. In general, organic foods are also not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or synthetic food additives."
The basis of capitalism is that under most circumstances, focusing on “me” also produces the best outcomes for “us”.

And a pure focus on “us” can lead to poorer outcomes as there is no immediate reward for the person doing the work.
Their marketing outright lying about the progress and leadership not caring made it "necessary" to catch up.
"but the way you Americans trivialise a toy good for nothing but war in many cases"

Ever heard of hunters? A LOT of people hunt. Also, until relatively recently it was common for american kids to bring guns to schools, and leave them in their car until after school so they could go hunting, etc. Instead of addressing things like mental health issues, it's easier to demonize guns because the politicians don't actually have to do anything other than introduce token legislation.

It's a right written in the constitution, and only referring to guns as "weapons of war" is political rhetoric. And hunting is not the only reason to own a gun- that's also political rhetoric.
Wrong. Utility token gives you no equity. It's a gift card voucher to use a network
A "glock" is also not a gun.
Great question. +1 for my interest too.
The news generally played his exact statement with him saying it.

If you believe that he's telling you to drink bleach is up to you, but some people certainly did, and tried it.
Is this the earliest know document written by GPT-3?

Because Taleb writes to not be understood (which would bring scrutiny) It's hard to know exactly what it's saying but take 2. for instance. It doesn't explain how to make this actionable.

If I understand it correctly, Paul Graham famously wrote about this a few months earlier in English - http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html (Ironically using Taleb's 'Swan'). It's not great at answers either, but at least it's understandable.

How do you action 3. ? It's just a clever way to say you might have to pivot, I think?

Things have costs. Being open to pivoting has a cost. Of course no cost pivoting is a no-brainer, like the numberless graphs. But in the real world with costs what do you do?
I think this is a false dichotomy. In reality if your employer can afford to pay you this salary while you live in Germany, they should be able to pay you the same salary in Sweden (before taxes). So in reality without location based pay you can have all that without taking a paycut.

Another way to look at it, if these social changes were to happen in Germany, would you expect salaries to go down as a result?
It’s worth pointing out that it’s not clear whether stimulus checks or minimum wage increases reduce poverty. So I am not sure it makes sense to use the conclusions of this study to justify that action, as this article tries to.
If you read the article you'll find they were fired for stalking and harrassment (if Google is to be believed)
Please don't be vulgar, you can make your point with simpler language too.

As for the protest, the employee's right to protest is an important thing, and taking that away reduces you to an automaton. You'd be giving up the chance to hire great employees that have opinions of their own if you just want people that do what you ask. That puts you behind on innovation, and in the long term creates a very homogenous atmosphere that breeds complacency.
Isn't that technically doing their job at Google ?
On the contrary, these activists are a big downside of working at Google, especially when they are dragging everybody else in. People just want to work on good products in a respectful environment. I wouldn't be surprised if a vast majority of top performers would support firing these people.
If it's just about having a usable safe, it's an easy decision. They just need to decide whether the cost for the locksmith is worth it for them to have a usable safe...

If it's about what might be in there... shouldn't it be fairly easy to drill a small hole (given the right type of drill) and use a miniature/endoscopic camera to take a look?
More like just following the New Yorker style guide, which are decidedly not top hat monopoly capitalists: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
In a city house with many apartments there's a lot that can be received, produced either by you or by neighbors.

But you have to be interested in the topics, find the right tools to decode what you're interested etc.

As an example: with not too much effort I've been able to listen and read a number of the temperature sensors around sending their readings. Then if you collect them for some period of time, you can try to analyze and process them to figure out how much of "noise" they collected (as if when they are mounted outside of a window and the window is open during the winter) versus the real signal (the outside temperature), and how many are completely broken etc, all based only on the data (e.g. when not seeing all the devices you record and when not knowing their placement).

It is fun for somebody who is interested in such kind of experiments (but not everybody considers such experimentation fun -- and then no tutorial is enough).

We live in the times where there are still unencrypted signals around. in some future, maybe there won't be anything to listen that would mean anything without the keys -- everything will be just encrypted noise.
It's not easy being dang. Have an up vote :)
You would seem a little more convincing with better grammar.
Your blog (and username!) really reminds me of what the Internet felt like in the early 2000s. Retro!
Thanks for the links — I'd just expected the sites to fallback. For anyone else who's tempted to try this out, unless I missed it there is also no 'Switch to HTML5 player' link for channels on Vimeo.
If you don't like remembering shortcuts, use the built-in Grab utility instead.
Has anyone seen an example of an effective arc diagram in the wild? I always find them completely opaque. I'm not surprised to learn that ordering the nodes so as to make the diagram readable is a non-trivial problem.
These numbers may be self-selecting by the schools both you go to...
>Trauma is the natural state of the universe.

I agree with everything you said.

Also: fuck the natural state of the universe. The natural state of the universe is shit and we should seriously fight against it.

There is no fairness or justice or good in the laws of the universe. Nature is a bitch.

But that's not so bad, because we can be fair and good and make the environment better.
If 10 people follow you, then you are talking with family, not broadcasting to a nation, in practice. The audience can change when years pass.
Oversampling, then applying a train-test split? Jesus, that's like machine learning 101. But then again, I see a lot of questionable practices in the application of ML in biology.
> I'm trying to control my mind

I'm not Buddhist but I've studied a bit and I do meditate. Isn't it not best to "try to control the mind"? From what I've learned, it seems like the opposite of what to aim for.

By becoming more present we are able to better see the mind and its endless judgments for what they are. We can become more in tune with reality as it is (including our own minds) and this helps us act and think more wisely, instead of based on programming, perspectives, and expectations that we aren't even aware of. I'd also add that compassion is a really important ingredient.

All this to say I don't think anti-depressants are "cheating" in any sense :). Especially if they are the best tool you've found to help you live a good life. I'm really glad you have something that works for you. This stuff is no joke...

I do think we can find better tools and that the field is on the cusp of some really great steps forwards that we desperately need. For me personally, I've recently discovered that trauma has played a big role in my well-being over the past 10 years and I've trying to learn more about that. There are a lot of promising developments seeking to help people actually heal from trauma. I've been particularly excited by the work that MAPS, Saj Razvi, and many others have been involved with.
I wish I held that view.

My view is that the majority of people will self-censoring and be too afraid of saying anything remotely controversial.
> if I make billions via my genius SaaS company in the US, with 95% gross profit margin, get a nice apartment in Monaco and pay exactly 0% tax anywhere, ever on said billions, that's good?

I assume you have employees in the U.S.? Suppliers? Payroll and sales tax didn't go to zero.

If you don't, if you're supplying a product that has zero footprint in the U.S., and making a killing off it, I mean, sure. Fine. Keep your money. You aren't costing our system anything. And you're providing us with something of value.

More pointedly, if you have such a business, one which has zero assets or employees in the U.S., only income, it's trivial to zero out your taxable corporate income today. The only difference between that and this is the amount of accounting and legal paperwork required.
Sure, but you can't just check the affidavit box when you have to have all parties in the video identified, registered with the site with government ID, and everyone in the video has to approve it before it goes live.

It's wild that we just offload all responsibility to the victims who have to scour the internet and issue takedown requests for videos because hosting sites literally can't be bothered to actually get consent beforehand.
In this context, an item appears to be a multi-gigabyte "megawarc" archive, rather than an individual tweet.
Invest in the infrastructure.
1 - Create a service others are willing to pay for.

2 - "Productize" your service, making it so any idiot can run it.

3- Instead of selling the new product, keep charging for the service fees but hire people in house to run the product.

Edit: Now you can charge $200/month instead of $19.99, and one person can probably run 30 accounts.

Examples: ReachLocal and Yodle.
The lunch cards are limited to companies that the school allows.
Most of the way throught the first episode... I swear we're watching a different series.

Hasn't been a single repeated interview yet.

A lot of the archive footage is different, although yes some of it is repeated.

The music is decidedly Curtis. Yes, Pye corner audio; worriedaboutsatan; nine inch nails and burial etc feature heavily.

But this is the first time he's used an Apex twin track. Plenty of other new bits as well.
Do you think R or Matlab is a general purpopse language? Sure you could do all these things but should you?

Julia is clearly positioned as a scientific computing language. Let's be clear.
Not seeing that in the article. That looks like a combined avalanche and mudslide.

It's normal for sliding ice to melt under pressure at the surface, lubricating movement. That's how ice skating works.
example with Qt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogEkQ-vKt4
Have you ever used Wolfram's Mathematica? He may be a huge crank, but the software is really awesome for doing mathematics research and learning. It can do all sorts of calculations automatically, but you can also easily program it to do them manually; it shows you a step-by-step derivation of pretty much anything it can compute.

Many mathematicians use it for their day-to-day research, and for learning something like calculus it can be enlightening to have millions of examples of anything you can think of at the tip of a finger.
The best examples I've seen are Tom's Shoes and Better World Books where the 'do good' element is part of their business. Tom's Shoes gives a free pair of shoes and Better World Books does similar things with books. In these cases, their charitable work fits with their business and so it's additive - not an add on.

IMO, adding on a "% of revenues goes to X charity" has become so commonly used that I think many are skeptical. I know I am.
I was unclear: I meant that it's strange that people complaining about the educational system both criticise it for being 'aimed at the best' and simultaneously for being 'aimed at the worst'. I wasn't saying it couldn't both be true, but if it was, they wouldn't be complaining about a single extreme being the case.
This comes across as alien language to the average person, I doubt the media finds it a juicy enough story to report on.
It doesn't matter if it shows the route. Uber in my experience will side with the driver if they take a bad route. I was swindled for triple the price because of a fictitious gas leak. Driver took a very circuitous route that just so happened to take in some very fast roads to increase distance and price. When I complained to Uber they just said it was a normal route. On the map the route looks like a sickle. How can anyone look at that as normal?
Dropping of certain pixels is a very peculiar way of reducing input quality. Why was that method chosen?

For 3D rendering I guess that's a kind of DLSS, but the paper focuses on video compression.

For video streams that doesn't seem to make sense. Video codecs are not pixel-based, but block/frequency based, so you can't save any bandwidth by dropping pixels. Raw pixels don't compress well, especially less correlated samples like that, so I wouldn't be surprised if sending just the reduced input for this algorithm was more costly than sending a full video stream. And existing video codecs can already very effectively vary quality within the frame by varying block sizes and quantization.
but isn't funny nonetheless ...
Why would it? Ariane 5 is still doing reasonably good and Ariane 6 seems promising too. SpaceX needs a ton of launches to make reusable rockets financially feasible so.
This is great article, thanks for sharing! It seems we figured out for most of the things how to manage radiation living on Mars.
The master MX or any heavy mouse with some input lag/smoothing can be better than a lighter, faster claw grip over 8hrs in my experience.
> Where are you buying your protein for $3 per pound?

That's easily doable, at least here in the southern US. I regularly buy $10/3lb of chicken tenderloins. You can do much better if you're prepared to buy in bulk. Of course, venison is cheapest, if you're willing to kill it yourself/eat fresh roadkill/get the excess from hunting friends. ;)

Catfish runs about the same here as chicken, but tilapia can be had for super cheap. Of course, that's another one you can get for almost free after the investment of a fishing rod and a weekend.

Your egg prices are insane. I can buy 60-packs of eggs for $8.72.
They have a lot of data, which means they have a lot of data to back up. Tape drives are still the go-to method for backing up huge amounts of data.
He did mention Ukraine. Did he need to be redundant?
For anyone else like me who didn't know about this \\?\ syntax:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21194530/what-does-mean-w...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
"When shoppers see persistent price declines, they hold out on buying things." and yet I keep buying computers... I don't think I agree with this statement (unless there is massive deflation).
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Considering the H1B positions are for highly specialized roles that couldn't be filled by Americans, despite the best efforts of the companies, the salaries aren't very impressive. Maybe these H1B employees are doing the jobs Americans refuse to do?
XMR transaction can show up instantly once they are in the mempool, a user does not have to wait for a confirmation to see a transaction. Obviously there are uses where you want to wait for confirmations, but for the use case of sending money to friends it isn't necessary.

Fees are also in a similar range (0.01).
Just go to tensor flow site and use their in browser text generate example and substitute shakesphere for the style that is closer to what you want there are lots of public domain sources to train from on archive.org
Everything is easy though, humans can learn, I don't really believe anyone is so removed from potential that they couldn't learn to do any job at the average level of the average job's practitioner.

Accessibility thus actually becomes the crucial differentiator. The opportunity to learn and be taught by the right people, to learn at the right pace and the right time, to be in a motivating environment, etc.

So I think what people mean is... Yes programming is accessible, and there is good job prospect, and if you are worried you're not smart enough, that's crap, everyone is smart enough, just give it a shot. All you need is to be interested enough to put in the time and effort. Now you might not be interested enough, but compared to a lot of other things, programming costs you nothing to try.

Same with mathematics, it's easy, but most people don't find it interesting enough to put in the time and effort. But mathematics is also less accessible, not as many blogs, free material isn't as available, there's no machine to freely assess you and grade your work, etc.
Its pretty obvious what I'd be doing.

GPL violations happen all the time but they rarely get caught.
It's both provably scarce and artificially scarce.
Good. It's not medically justifiable to subject children to a relatively untested procedure when there is little possible benefit to them. Doing it en masse, as some governments seem to want to do, would be deliberate mass medical malpractice against children, a colossal crime.
Someone who uses your code is a potential contributor, either as a customer, licensee, or collaborator. It's a tragedy of the commons scenario, and one could argue that a different license or terms might've prevented FreeBSD from losing those contributors.
KSA is smart enough to make everyone hate Iran. The stuff you mention is just Iran hating back.
It's possible that Thompson means "information" in the more technical, information-theoretic sense, which we might qualify as "useful information" - signal as opposed to noise or "misinformation." In this sense I tend to agree with what he's saying: more information is probably better. Indeed, I find it hard to believe that he really feels he's making an original point here - it seems almost axiomatic.

Nevertheless I think you're making a solid point: information overload can be pretty harmful. I think that's what Thompson is getting at with his comment "the solution to misinformation is improving our ability to tell the difference" but honestly that's not a solution so much as it is a goal - granting that it's desirable for people to have this filtering capacity, how can it be learned?
There still needs to be some sort of human curation, lest bad/rogue output risks sinking the entire AI-generated industry. (in the case of DALL-E, OpenAI's new CLIP system is intended to mitigate the need for cherry-picking, although from the final demo it's still qualitative)

The demo inputs here for DALL-E are curated and utilize a few GPT-3 prompt engineering tricks. I suspect that for typical unoptimized human requests, DALL-E will go off the rails.
Location: Atlanta GA, USA (Planning on moving out soon though)

Remote: Preferred.

Willing to relocate: Maybe.

Technologies: Modern C++, Linux, familiar with Python3

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z7g9poazcwwr4mm/Iris%20Chase%20Res...

Email: "iris" aat "enesda.com"

I've spent the last few years developing a declarative GUI programming language and implementation called "IVD" (https://github.com/IrisChase/IVD), it's not done yet because life happens. It is inspired by my experience making interfaces on the web and on the desktop.

My experience is primarily in C++ (Keywords: C++17, C++14, C++11). Also comfortable working with straight C (Keywords: C89, C90, C99, C11), although less experience with The C Way™. I have working knowledge of Python, and have piddled around in Common Lisp and Haskell but nothing non-trivial unfortunately. TypeScript currently has my interest.
The Book of the New Sun is amazing simply for the language. I actually thought he was simply making up words until I got out a dictionary and discovered that his vocabulary simply far surpassed mine, and mine isn't terrible.
I have a strict "if you want me to use a phone for work, then issue me a work phone" policy. No, I will not install your MDM app on my personal phone, because that is tantamount to surrendering my phone to the company.
> Indefinitely? How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight?

Apple could take most of the speculation/hostility away by simply giving their word for it. But they don't ...
Perhaps, but just because he gave the money back to the "evil bank" instead of a charity doesn't mean it wasn't noble. He stayed within the limits of the law, and now instead of looking like a sneaky anti-system Robin Hood, he's fought a larger cause of awareness. Rather than justice mimmic the cruel, but legal, injustices performed by the banks by spending their wad of cash, he turned it around and gave it back while keeping some form of integrity.

While people seem to think that placing PayPal links in the article was begging, I don't see people complaining about 37 Signals placing order forms on the web on the Basecamp demo page. So, let me understand... Because he gave the story away for free, asking for a tip makes him lame, but companies who flat out charge for a product are not?
Essentially you are saying that many people will win because too many people are perverts for this perverse demand to be ignored, right?
The problem is that as we allow more non-topical articles to be voted to the top of HN, we lose cohesion.

You can go anywhere for Wikileaks news, and as iuguy has pointed out, reddit is probably one of the best/easiest places to find such news.

You could move along to the next post, but what happens when all the posts are off topic? Where will you go for the news you once found on HN?

HN is like a subreddit, if someone were posting /r/funny to /r/science, and 50% of /r/science was jokes, /r/science would lose a lot of its value.

Whether or not this belongs on HN I will leave to others to decide, but iuguy was saying that off-topic material devalues HN.
But you're looking at generated code, not written code. What you're suggesting is like criticizing the output of your C compiler for not following good assembly programming practices.

On the other hand there's good reasons for fixing the markup as pointed out elsewhere in this thread (accessibility, JS DOM manipulation, etc).
> Do more then promised

Tip number 1: Proofread your *&^% copy!