skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've learned to appreciate my job for what it is, and for the benefits that it provides in comparison to other jobs that I could easily obtain.

This is what it boils down to, imo. Currently I'm working on a horrendous legacy code base with a very low performing team, in a very low performing organization. Over the years I've learned what matters to me, and this job has what I need: good pay, time off, and I can come and go as I please so long as I'm here for "core" hours (ie on location, not remote). The last part is another way to say my boss is cool. He's new too, although he's been here longer than I have. We're both dismayed at the do nothing culture, and terrible code here.

That's about all anyone can ask for IME, find out what matters to you and optimize for that. When I go home I don't give a thought for work, I get to concentrate on my family 100%.
Why must everything dangerous be illegal?

Some people are comfortable taking greater risks than others. We should be free to make that choice without threat of legal harassment.
Sorry, I also took for granted the assumption that the universe is an executing program. I believe that's uncontroversial but would be happy to discuss it.

What it seems to me (could be totally wrong, would love to know if so) that Gödel's conclusions can then tell us about our universe/computer/executing-program/mathematical-proof (please excuse the fumbly wording) is that it has to have an external universe in which to exist/run/be-consistent-in, which presumably depends upon its own, ad infinitum. In other words, it would have to be universe-program-computer-proofs all the way "out".
> No one, no matter what size corporation or platform, is expected to give you a podium from which to do so.

The intersection of people arguing that ISPs are common carriers and also that corporations can deny you a platform.
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Am I reading this right? It seems to be advocating “Buy high, sell low”.
https://setapp.com

At least one of the apps on OPs list (2do) is included.
It does matter if half the cars read a speed limit differently than the other half.
There's always the network effect: if 90% of the people you want to talk to are on Telegram vs about 20% of them being on Whatsapp, then Telegram is vastly preferable.

Also stickers. Custom stickers that are easy enough to set up that lots of people do.
Want to try using a completely automated black-box ML pipeline like TPOT? Go right ahead. Good luck selling it to your product manager.
I've had similar thoughts on where they draw the line between "Mostly False" and "Mostly True", but in this case it seems reasonable to give more credit to the one who responded to request for clarification and pointed to a specific study the number was drawn from. Still, I think "Mostly True" is a bit too generous for Bernie's claim.
Yep, I like my job. I work at a healthcare startup and have been here since near the beginning.

Working conditions are nice, I'm on one of many small-ish teams (usually 5-10 people including management), 9-5 work doesn't raise eyebrows, I get to work with decent technology (clojure/scala/typescript), my colleagues are clever, and I've gotten much better at programming.

One of the best parts is that though it may be a bit circuitous, I can usually see exactly who I'm helping and how.
That makes no sense... It sounds like it directly contradicts the notion of "buy low, sell high"?
Intercontinental planes are mostly autonomous. Trains are autonomous. Massive mine dump trucks are fully autonomous. These things are in use today and has been for almost a decade. They need not be perfect to be useful, they only need to be better than the average human driver.

Toyota is way behind in the game. What do you expect them to say about the competition?
There are ~5ft diameter natural gas pipelines operating at high pressure (>1000psi) that are thousands of miles long:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamal-Europe_pipeline

You could fit a hyperloop pod in one of those, just seat single-file. Larger diameter is optimal since you can get by with a lower pressure, but we're in the ballpark here already.
Those are ML and AI frameworks that use a tremendous amount of mathematics under the hood, but you can also reliably treat them as blackbox learning systems too. Understanding the model generation procedure and setup is often unneeded. And many tools will help direct you toward what algorithms makes the most sense for your data, and even have competitions to figure out which actually works best. I agree, it's a little disappointing, but admittedly it doesn't take a PhD to do this stuff anymore.

It is important to note that just because you can do all the stuff a PhD Scientist might regularly do, doesn't mean that someone will hire you for it. In that case you might need to have a PhD in mathematics, computer science or a related field. But that is more a consequence of competition and long term talent investment, than the practice of ML/AI itself.
Of course writing code is always fun. Meetings can be fun when you ignore the meeting and keep working.
It got a lot of attention because of the size of the scam and she came from a place of money which she used to further her goals.

Imagine if this was a non-white male CEO, could you imagine how different public opinions would've been? She got some sort of soft landing because she was white, gender and her family wealth.
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Yeah sure i can agree with that. What I was saying is that there is not any reason for me to buy a product from a german brand unless they are really less expensive, giving me a better deal (more features / warranty).

The only problem with Chinese products is the availability and their IP stealing not really the quality.
The FaaS platforms of the three big providers are basically undifferentiated in their feature sets. If anything, the one from Microsoft is the best because it supports more languages.

The real differentiator is the ecosystem that it exists within. It is the glue that binds. And in that regard, AWS is the hands down winner. One, because you can do more stuff with your FaaS, and more importantly, it has more triggers than any other platform.

It is the list of things that can trigger your functions that truly make a FaaS useful.

The problem with self-hosted FaaS is the limited set of triggers, because all the other stuff you run doesn't support triggering the FaaS (yet?).

It's a great programming paradigm, but the true value will come when all the other self hosted projects can emit triggers.
entire headline reads like it came from the onion
I think that for a large enough benefit we will adapt how we interact with these systems.

Before automobiles it was normal for people to walk in the middle of the street, but we adapted (some would argue this was a bad thing ofc).

I don't think it's a prerequisite for autonomous systems to be the same as humans, the benefit is just too large for us to wait.
>It's cool, but it doesn't look a lot like the original Hyperloop white paper.

That's the first thing I noticed. This seems like a competition for fast electric train.
Here's how I've come to feel about this:

If this is the world we're headed into, by treating free speech as an absolute and inviolate, then I'm not sure it's a world I want to live in.

When nazis start inciting riots against my friends and loved ones, and quislings defend that speech as ok to disseminate because free speech, is this the world I want to live in?

I'm lucky, I don't look like anyone who's a target for white supremacists. Most of my friends and loved ones aren't that lucky.

I have a little bit of a different perspective because of that--the violence is already coming to our door and no amount of talking is going to cool white supremacist or nazi heads when they're out there.

So, universal, absolute free speech...is this building a world I want to inhabit? Increasingly, no. And proponents of an absolute and inviolate principle of free speech have no answer to the violence that's coming.

I'd love to be able to say I supported that principle that thoroughly, so if you've got one besides "just talk them out of attacking your friends and loved ones," I'm all ears.
That was a pleasant surprise for me as well!
Replace "patient" with "government" in that quote and I don't see how the rationale changes or the problem is specific to the US.
How about MFC or WTF or WinAPI?
Yeah not saying Swift is simple. But its goal was originally (and may still be) to be Objective-C without the C.
Working remote right now and I love it. I am working sat/sun/mon/thue and it still works out with the team collaboration. Not as good as if I would be in the office though. I am simply not part of every discussion and today I was introduced to an API I absolutely would like to have had a discussion about before it was put into production.
If I had to guess, they will probably deploy a human assisted AI that barely works, and rely on public outrage to handle any outliers that turn into a PR problem. It's worked so far for other internet companies.
I read the article without listening to the provided clips and WOW. I'm not sure how people manage that.

For anyone interested in UI/UX design for blind people Kevin Jones did a talk on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBuQLNIs1c

https://twitter.com/kevinrj?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%...

He also has done some really cool stuff with the BrainPort: http://www.channel3000.com/news/local-news/madison-made-devi...
Thanks! Interesting.
Can you please expand on this comment for us ML/AI naive?
Humans are pretty tough, it turns out. And people often are overly conservative in these kinds of discussions.

http://rollercoaster.wikia.com/wiki/Highest_G-Force_on_a_Rol...
Yes they can: "regarded as appropriate for all stages of the life by the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics"(in the context of veganism).

source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism
This is a very narrow use case. Theranos was trying to be an all purpose replacement for blood sample. The problem with Theranos is that a pin prick sample is too small to account for the heterogeneity in blood for many use cases. Only a larger draw gives you a large enough sample. It should be fairly simple to determine how much heterogeneity is present for this use case. With Sequoia behind this I'd be pretty confident that they consulted the necessary experts.
Your current house is a sunk cost. I have sold a house at a loss and moved to a different city. I didn't like it, but moving was the right thing so I did.
Paradoxically, bubblesort can actually be pretty fast on small inputs (i.e. short arrays).

I once experienced this first hand in C codebase. I had to sort an array of structs where the array never contained more than ~50 members, and the comparison was very simple; in that case, bubblesort actually ran faster than the qsort(3) supplied by the compiler.

Then again, at such small scale, the performance win is so tiny it usually is not worth the effort.
Unification and assignment are very different concepts, though, with only fleeting similarity in some cases.
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Hey so I actually went through that exact same decision. So "Rancher" means one of at least two things (I'm not an expert but just tried really hard to RTFM) -- RancherOS or Rancher the container platform management system -- for those who may not be familiar.

As another person noted Rancher sits at a level of abstraction ABOVE kubernetes -- you can set up Rancher to work with Docker Swarm, Mesos, Kubernetes, and Rancher's own libraries. Since this was how I understood it, I went with just vanilla Kubernetes first, and figured that once I got really comfortable with that, I could throw the Rancher UI on top of it (the install documentation is actually super duper short, it's just another container) when I got tired of typing things in at the console.

I didn't opt to go with RancherOS because CoreOS was already a step away from what I knew -- most of my machines are either arch, alpine (inside a container) or debian/ubuntu. RancherOS takes the stripped-down OS paradigm even further by dockerizing a bunch of system services -- I wasn't quite ready for that. CoreOS not coming with a package manager is already jarring enough for me (I'm used to it a little bit more now) -- I wanted to take a small step rather than a huge one.
Imputing & dismissing a large fraction of your audience, or friends of your audience, as "deplorable" is not a wise marketing move. They may be 50+, they may watch Fox News, but they consider Breitbart a canary in the coalmine, and may prove quick to throw their not-inconsiderable weight behind cheesy non-sequitur upstart quietly years in the making.
So there has to be a saturation point, right? If every company you interact with is data mining and every data miner sells information to other data miners about you and there's now a couple terabytes of behavioral info on you, when exactly is there so much data as to render it worthless? Supply/Demand would seem to indicate that as more and more companies turn to data mining, the mined data becomes less and less valuable. Or is this just a symptom of everyone in the advertising business getting by, just by pretending that it's still 1950 and they can target advertising perfectly?
In effect, aviation and automobile infrastructures likewise have 100 year old code bases. And for cars, it varies by state (and county and city but mostly by state).
what I love about this site is even when I disagree with a position, I would be hard-pressed to find it worded better and more clearly stated
Please just recommend the best online stats course you know of as a general toolbelt-notch.
Can tech VC put their hubris aside for a minute and stop thinking that other well-established industries are filled with idiots who are easily disrupted by 20 year olds?
So to be clear here, it was the British government declaring his speech treasonous and attempting to censor him?

If so then yes I agree. Government censorship is unacceptable. But that's not really comparable to private entities censoring on their own private whims.
Except this is the whole reason Musk developed the Hyperloop concept. He was annoyed at sitting through California traffic.

Ironically, it is California's crappy traditional infrastructure that birthed Hyperloop.
To clarify, it was one landing where I broke two bones. Made a bad decision at the bridge on my 9th jump and broke both sides of my ankle smoking into the side of the canal. I tell everyone I know exactly how I ended up in that situation, what my decision making process was, and how I assess jumps now in order to not put myself in the same situation again.

Also, I work at a large dropzone and with a well-organized group to help coach new jumpers along the way. Me breaking myself on my first weekend is a pretty strong coaching moment that I've watched shift people's view on the sport.

Happy to let you know who I am in real life if you feel this strongly that I'm part of the problem.
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A student in the class fo 2021 in software engineering at Waterloo would currently be about to go into their 2A term:

https://uwaterloo.ca/software-engineering/current-undergradu...

(click on course sequence)

The first year of SE is almost purely mathematics and electromagnetism. The first year programming courses are simple and are designed to simply get people up to speed who may have never programmed before (most already have).

The course which focuses on even-driven programming for user interfaces is 'CS 349 User Interfaces' which isn't until the 3A term. This is the course where students are exposed to MVC, observer pattern, avoiding polling etc. Second year term is also where you would get a lot of exposure to state machines.

As a note to the author of this post: Don't take any criticism that appears elsewhere in these comments too harshly. People who comment here often don't take much time to pay attention to the person who actually made their contributions, and as a result their level of expectations are usually the same regardless of whether a piece of work is created by someone who is a tenured professor, or a first year university student. If you continue to write and work on projects like this, you'll turn out great in the long run. You'll also grow thick skin.
I love my job even though it's the hardest job I've ever had in terms of hours worked and learning curve. I worked 8 years at a big corporation where I was fairly high up and was paid a really nice salary along with RSUs but the last 3 to 4 years there was just miserable for me. Based on my current happiness and contrasted with my previous unhappiness, I think the reasons are:

1. My work see the light of day. My efforts matter. I don't mind working hard as long as it is not wasted. At large corporations, projects, even big ones, are often scrapped for reasons that aren't anything related to the the technical work. I get it but it still sucks and it really makes me not want to try hard. Having effort and outcome being correlated with each other is a huge motivator.

2. I know what's going on but am never the smartest person in the room. Working with people at least as smart and skilled as I am is amazing. I don't have to worry about other people and their work. We can just divide up the work and be reasonably sure things will get done in a reasonable way. If not, talk it over and fix it.

3. I have a lot of responsibility and independence and we attack the problem. I've had the opportunity to learn and experiment with so much in just two years and those experiments are actually getting deployed. Having a hand in pushing things like Docker, Clojure, etc. at my company is amazing. I remember all the silly meetings at my old job over the choice of language for QA that ended up exactly where we started versus now when we decided to try out a new tool written in Clojure even though none of us ever used Clojure. We are all smart enough engineers, why should a new language stop us from solving the problem.
Here's the post on the ansible setup -- it's mostly ramblings but hope it's worth a read, I think the most interesting part is the part where I break down what I think the "levels" of devops are (what I call "operational intelligence", in an attempt to make a new garbage-tier buzzword): https://vadosware.io/post/ansible-is-awesome/
> they allow BS they agree

What BS specifically do you disagree with? Do you realize your own bias with that statement?
ME itself was added for people with big money.

I'm not an engineer experienced in this kind of work, but I fail to see how a company whose core business is manufacturing chips would develop an entire computer (comprising an x86 CPU, its own RAM, MINIX OS, and access to all kinds of I/O) hidden inside each one of their chips and made largely inaccessible to regular users and developers. Unless they are paid very well to do so.

In retrospect they were kind of naive not to make it much harder to enable this HAP mode, considering the lengths they went to make ME tamper proof. They left the flag wide open and even commented it in an XML file.
Google's search result blurb says:

> Tower of Terror holds the record for most G-force on any roller coaster in the world, an intense 6.3G. This is nearly twice the amount that the average astronaut experiences when making their way through the atmosphere.

So world record for a roller coaster was ~60 m/s2, and that was presumably for a very short duration.

On a transit system you don't want roller coaster style restraint systems so g-forces have to be much much lower.

Some people might be into "ride a roller coaster from NYC to Boston" but that sounds like a niche market to me.
But the fear of censorship is that truth will be obscured. If free speech is being abused to do what we're afraid censorship will do, doesn't that create a contradiction in your logic?

And to be clear, what we mean by "fake news" are stories that are demonstrably false with incorrect information that's never corrected even when it's revealed to be false. We're _not_ talking about what Trump calls "fake news," by which he means any narrative that doesn't paint him in a positive light.
>(inb4 1st amendment is only for the gov - that is a selective truth. the principles of free speech exist outside of government.)

Except they don't. You should have said "inb4 John Stuart Mill", one of the founders of free speech philosophy who said that that the harm principle trumps freedom of speech (i.e. if an expression causes harm, then that expression can be silenced).

This idea of freedom of speech "as a principle" being a blank check to express whatever you want without consequences, is a new development.
It highly depends on a direction, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#/media/File:Human_line...
If you need your mind to be quiet, and to feel present to your life, there are non-life threatening ways, like mindful meditation and psychoanalysis, or maybe even working in a charity.
Might be a bit of selection bias too. The people who had a neutral-positive reaction may not feel like they have much to add beyond "thanks" or "nice job", which sometimes feel like platitudes.
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> It speaks to the trends of the day that an article which says something patently obvious to people in the tech field is considered news.

Yes and no. In any given Tesla article here you can also read many people claiming that "it's basically a solved problem and Tesla and Uber will be fully automated in just a couple of years", too.
Appreciate the sentiment, but gotta admit that I feel like I am still pretty far from this achievement. I suspect that balance is a goal that will remain perpetually just out of reach, and I am fine with continuing to work on it! To that point, I started skateboarding last week in an effort to improve balance. Rodney Mullen is my new hero.
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Please see my other comments.

I'm talking about the set of courses that are 1) offered by the CS department and that 2) every student must take.

Not even the entire set of cs courses. Just the ones every student must take.

> A typical undergrad degree requires about 120 credit hours of courses before you can graduate*

Obviously you cannot get an entire degree in 6 months. You can't even finish all of the required coursework.

That's why I said "core CS sequence", not "a degree".