skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's hiring a statistician or an IT professional, it reads to me that a lot of people are hired to do work that their superiors simply don't understand (what else would they be hiring you for? :)

There's a lot of people who would think the whole point of data scientists is to look at the numbers and say, with certainty, what they see. But sometimes the numbers don't say anything, and that's what OP was talking about I think - sometimes a clear correlation just doesn't exist, at which point the person who has hired you probably thinks you're not looking hard enough, and might encourage you to 'clean the data' until you get a result with high confidence.
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I stand corrected. For how many years are security backports done?
I'm a researcher myself and I guess this is one of those "does the end justify the means?" scenarios... Out bad research and its perpetrators and science loses out on a scientist that actually wants to do good work. Or don't and then watch yourself rationalize worse decisions later on for the sake of your research, slowly becoming as corrupt as they were and realizing that a lot of your cited work could potentially be as bad (or worse) as the ones you helped get published.

I really believe we need a better way. Privately funded / bootstrapped OPEN research comes to mind as a potential solution to bring some healthy competition to this potentially corrupt system. Mathematicians are starting to do this, I think computational researchers have the potential to be next.
Sounds like an interesting game backed by a super expensive and unnnecessarily safe backend.
Russell's proof that 1+1=2 is more complicated than the existing intuition of adding up numbers.

GA is less complicated and more intuitive than the maths of quaternions.

So your comparison does not really hold up.
Enployers are shifting burden by reclassifying w2s as 1099s. Many do so illegally. Others just hire everyone on 1099. Small businesses are most guilty.

This is not a matter of more people CHOOSING to freelance / contract, rather being FORCED to.

This is not a good sign people.
You've added an update to your article pointing out it was 'flagged' after 'rapidly ascending'. Flagging is done done by users, so both the (brief) rapid ascent and the flagging are results of user action.
The diagram (and your comment) appear to be about ASP.NET and don't tell anything about .NET Core compared to, say, .NET Framework 4.5.
Place your container in freefall and then watch the antimatter collide with the walls of your (shaped) container due to the attraction between the container and the antimatter?
Apple always seemed to have had four things going for them; Product Innovation, Developing extremely high-quality HW and SW with attention to both details and user experience, a world-class supply chain and finally a technological edge.

I would argue that under Steve Jobs both the supply chain and the technological edge had some focus but there wasn't a huge gap with the competition, This could be either because it required time to achieve this gap and Steve simply wasn't at the helm for that long or it wasn't his main focus and is currently the focus of Tim Cook considering his background, either way, I think Apple is currently and going to continue to blow everyone out of the water with technologies like their SOC's and will continue having the most efficient supply chain and manufacturing capacity in the world churning out products that beat the industry margins by a mile.

Regarding the quality, design and user experience it mostly stagnated, don't get me wrong they're still way higher than the industry average and I can see Johnny Ives touch in most of their products, but I don’t see the kind of passion that went into designing the interface of a device like the iPhone with ideas like pinch to zoom and the spring effect. Apple seems to have a design team that is world class but uninspired and just doing their job.

Now the most important point and this is what I honestly believe is the problem with Apple is the Product Innovation, this appears to have completely stopped after Steve, I try not to believe that Steve Jobs was THE product manager at Apple and avoid the cult of personality, but it's very hard to shake this idea when during his tenure they've released multiple industry-changing products, and they've failed to release a single one after he left.

I think Apple is going to continue to release high-quality, well designed, cutting edge and high margin products, but I highly doubt with the current leadership they'll be able to release a single new product that changes the status quo like Steve used to.
.NET framework isn't going anywhere. It'll be supported for years, if not decades, and will likely outlast many of the companies using it. What exactly is your concern?

Just because you use the word "easy" doesn't mean it is. I'm sure the .NET dev team understands their platform and created a new runtime as the most viable option to get all the new features and flexibility of .NET Core.
Good point; I forgot about the process of actually creating the antimatter.
> Are you sure that link is up to date?

Since I work directly on IT systems used in payment processing for a state Medicaid agency, I can assure you that to the extent such agencies can and do impose cost sharing it is correct, though there may have been some tweaks to the parameters (though I don't recall hearing of any changes to the basic rules.)

> Also the groups mentioned that medicaid can charge are mothers and the disabled.

No, it mentions that there are limits on the cost premiums and enrollment fees that can be assigned to pregnant mothers, the disabled, and the medically needy, and that “States have the option to impose higher, alternative premiums on other groups of enrollees, if their family incomes exceed 150% of the federal poverty level.” With regard to cost sharing more generally, it notes that “Certain vulnerable groups, such as children and pregnant women, are exempt from most out of pocket costs”.
Yes but the clock is ticking on its demise.
s/lost hikers/guerilla troops/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock#On_Apollo_11
My thoughts exactly. And freelancing can get you there - provided it pays more, and it can teach you how to be less reliant on a monthly paycheck.
Your reaction is understandable. It's obvious Kara prides herself on being a grouch and a hard-ass. I remember thinking the same during the D5 interview with Steve Jobs, where she mouthed off to the point that Mossberg shushed her.

In retrospect, I've changed my mind. It isn't healthy for an industry to only have reporters who softball every interview, who just parrot crap from press releases. In tech, that's close to what we have. It's allowed companies to get away with a lot of shady nonsense.

So these days I'm really thankful that tech has a Kara Swisher.
Does this mean that anyone wanting to run anything non-Ubuntu-based on a System 76 product, gets to take upon themselves the joyous tasks of extricating these drivers from Pop!_OS, monitoring Pop!_OS for driver changes, and re-extricating new versions of drivers when they arrive?
I think OP was using it as a benchmark for what used to take 24hours per processor now being something that can be done in real time.

Also, I believe they used Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) to Ray trace Buzz’s visor. BMRT was developed by Larry Gritz, who later joined Pixar. At some point they came up with a way to “farm out” specific areas of rat tracing from renderman.
There's a lot of effort going into making documentation better. Recently we also got function documentation: https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-functions
Is this result statistically significant?
The story I heard related to an actuarial consultant who, after analyzing data and suggesting a defensible year-over-year rate hike to their insurance company client, was asked to change their analysis to support the rate hike the insurance company wanted.

And, of course, if the consultant didn't play ball, the insurance company could always consult with a different actuarial firm.
Shouldn't any halfway decent investor discover this when performing due diligence? Or is there more stupid money out there than I realize?
Matrices for rotation have the problem that you are using a 9-dimensional representation for a 3-dimensional quantity, so it is easy to make matrices that are not rotations (indeed the vast majority of the possible space of matrices consists of transformations that are not anywhere close to a pure rotation). Composing matrices leads to rounding errors. It is more complicated to invert matrices. As you say the matrix logarithm is more complicated. Etc.

If you use a scalar + bivector “rotor” representation, that is only a 4-dimensional representation, which is easy to normalize to unit magnitude.
Looks like a Scala type alias to me.
Most places I know of are like that. I don't see what the ability to move your car ~40 feet into another parking spot is good for in this case. Actually, I'm having trouble seeing what it's good for at all.
I use NixOS on my desktop, laptop, and on all new server deployments. It's definitely a learning curve, especially considering the documentation is nowhere near as good as it should be yet, but absolutely worth it in the long run; and I rarely run into unavailability of software.

Security updates are indeed sometimes slow to arrive, for the reasons that aidenn0 already described. However! One thing that's particularly interesting about the security update process for NixOS, is that it's an open collaborative effort: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23334

More eyeballs are definitely needed for handling security issues, especially since LWN stopped doing their reports, but the process itself is definitely one that has significant potential.
Maybe if you couldn’t contain them you could focus them?
Mindstorms is not about technology, it is about a particular approach to learning (constructionism) that happens to mesh very well with interactive computation. See http://namodemello.com.br/pdf/tendencias/situatingconstrutiv...
> The binaries will run, but the world changes and if you want to keep up with those changes then the software needs maintenance, which is obviously the topic of discussion here.

Physical products both rot (degrade with time) and become obsolete. Maintenance addresses the former problem, redesign and upgrades address the latter problem.

Software becomes obsolete like physical products (and so needs redesign and upgrades), it does not rot like physical products (and so does not need maintenance.)

Software “maintenance” is a misnomer, and the idea that software “rots like physical products” is wrong or, at best, a poorly chosen metaphor, since what it does do is at best loosely analogous to rotting, but exactly the same as becoming obsolete, which is something physical products also do, so rotting is not the closest physical-product analog to what drives the need for continuous attention to software.
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A tuple is a type constructor. A multi value return is not a type. It’s a semantic hard coded into the language spec. If you have tuples, you don’t have to add that special case to the language. You can also type alias a tuple, store it as a value, and just generally treat it like any other type.
Indeed, his criticism might be the reason for the major revamp in the first place, according to other news stories. Quote from paywall:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/09/07/eddy-cue-the-in...

Complaining gets results. I'm a total believer in negativity. You could say I'm positive about it.

What I mean by "relentless" is that this article in the OP covers the changes in detail for the first half, but the second is the same content as his last piece:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

and quite like the one before that:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-appl...

But while this one has a lot of specific speculation, the Google article is about how cool they are, links to PR and basically says "look at all those buildings, they must have done it with computers". I suspect someone who worked at Google wouldn't have said that.
Windows Server Core 2016 has barely any usage. Nano Server came and died, basically being an empty shell that can only be a base image for Windows containers.

Linux won a long time ago and is so far ahead in tooling and ecosystem support that it just isn't worth it to compete in the server OS space. And that's better for everyone since we can consolidate effort and products.
From the sounds of it, I think you'd be much more happy working with differential forms! Differential forms use only the wedge product and a duality mapping known as the hodge dual (It's the GA equivalent of multiplying by the psuedoscalar). Differnetial forms easily supply 90% of the nice things in GA, so if you're unhappy with the geomtric product, I'd say that differnetial forms are perfect.

Geometric algebra will be here waiting for when you get tired of resorting to the hodge dual to take an inner product ;)
>I'm sure the .NET dev team understands their platform

They don't. People who initiated .NET Core are web devs. Good web devs. But they are million miles away from understanding the purpose, role and aim of the platform.

The guys who really got it are Sir William Gates, Mr. Steve Ballmer and Mr. Anders Hejsberg, to name a few. They shifted to other interest areas unfortunately.

Regarding the word "easy". Let's take a wider perspective. It should be easy for customers, right? There are a lot of them, say 10 million people. Making things easy is hard. So it gets hard for .NET dev team, say 50 people. The outcome: 10 million happy people, 50 people in pain.

Let's take a look at the current .NET Core approach: kind of easy for 50 people in .NET dev team. But hard for 10 million of customers. The outcome: 50 happy people, 10 million people in pain.

What outcome would you choose?
The “one of the virtual particles of the pair created in the vicinity of the black hole’s horizon falling in leaving the other one to escape to infinity as radiation whose mass-energy must be subtracted from that of the black hole” view of Hawking radiation is a pedagogical construct thought up by Hawking himself after calculating the effect by other means for the sake of public promulgation. In reality it has to do with the restriction of the resonant modes of quantum fields imposed by having a border (horizon). Case in point: if the full truth were that of infalling versus escaping virtual particles there’d be a definite trajectory associated with the escaping particle that would convey information about where, approximately, the virtual particle/antiparticle pair popped into existence, violating Heisenberg uncertainty. In reality, Hawking radiation has wavelengths comparable to the diameter of the black hole that make it impossible even in theory to resolve where the supposed particle/antiparticle pair “popped” into existence, preserving the uncertainty principle. This is also why radiation becomes more energetic as the hole shrinks in size: that’s because the associated diameter shrinks and allows wavelengths of emitted radiation to contract, packing more energy into those waves. If it really were particle/antiparticle being shorn apart by the hole’s gravitational attraction you’d expect more radiation to be emitted by a big hole (vacuum activity per volume area being constant, and thus a bigger hole would border more unit volumes and allow for greater interaction with the quantum vacuum that would slow down as it shrank).
Currently, there's no real support period for non-latest releases, as there's insufficient manpower to support them.

That's not for philosophical or ideological reasons, though; if somebody steps up and takes on the role of coordinating long-term support, it'd be welcomed.
Did you even read the article? What I wrote is not my story or opinion, rather based on what is in the article.
It seems like a cool idea but how would it stop the smuggling? The freight companies could just load the container with the contraband before they lock it up.
> I’m not even sure it’s illegal, really.

I don't think that will take long to patch.
And if you don’t want to take the logarithm per se, you can bisect the rotation A by taking the sum of your rotor + 1, and then normalizing the result by dividing by the magnitude, (A + 1) / |A + 1|. Or if you have two rotors A and B, you can interpolate halfway between by taking (A + B) / |A + B|. This requires seven additions, four multiplications, one division, and one square root.
Yes. They even have an "Extraction Team"[1] that rescues their Rainmakers from conflict zones...

> #GoldmanSachs had extraction team?"Call in @GS special forces from hotel in Libya"

[1] Source:
https://twitter.com/KevinRKelly_/status/781898792148742144

Related: Goldman's Libya Salesman Was a Little Too Good. Complex derivatives sometimes go wrong for the simplest reasons. => https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-29/goldma...
What you're thinking of is negative mass, not Antimatter. Antimatter has positive mass-energy, as far as we know, including empirical measurements. We've already operated Penning traps and stored minuscule amounts of antimatter.
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That USD 4500 for two is nonsense. In the UK, they are GBP 15.30 each, according to this report: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109830151...
This model is pretty far from reality. It treats every religion identically. In the real world there are some religions in which it isn't acceptable to harm any living thing... and others that take a very very different approach to violence. The model ignores this.
I'm actually not sure much ML was involved here - depends where you draw the line I guess, but denoising and interpolation for restoration typically use more traditional wavelet and optical flow algorithms. The work for this was done by Park Road Post and StereoD, which are established post-production facilities using fairly off-the-shelf image processing software. The colorisation likely leant heavily on manual rotoscoping, in the same way that post-conversion to stereo 3D does.

I'd love to hear otherwise but I'm not aware of any commercial "machine learning" for post-production aside from the Nvidia Optix denoiser and one early beta of an image segmentation plugin.
Lots of stuff you'd think is "pretty simple" is still an area of active experimental research. For example, ongoing experiments to test whether inertial mass is the same as gravitational mass.
Physics uses math heavily for calculations. Above math is used to substitute physics.

For example, OpenGL is used heavily to calculate pictures, which are looking close to reality, but we cannot use OpenGL to talk about reality.

Please, draw the line.
That's one of the reasons that I use Linux Mint. It's Gnome-based, but with a curated UX, and being stable for 2 years means that I can just do my work without this kind of nasty surprises.
While true, the effort vs. payoff tradeoff doesn't always work out in favour of Nix there. That's largely due to lacking documentation, but I imagine there will always remain 'quick hacks' in use for things that don't need to work for an extended period of time, for example.

That having been said, for anything that needs to work for a longer period of time, it's 100% worth taking apart the install process.
Funny how we say Goldman "is ensnarled in scandal" rather than "perpetuated a vast fraud".

Almost makes it sound as if the real news isn't their reprehensible actions, but the fact that they got caught! (Or even that the government is slowing them down with annoying charges).
Fine then, the software is becoming obsolete as the environment changes. The original comment used "rot" so I continued, because I'd much rather have a productive discussion than a pedantic one.
How does Geometric Algebra link into the 4-vector representation of E&M?

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collective-electrodynamics
> Then you’d probably then need a negative-Earth-mass amount

Assuming antiparticles are "repulsed" by earth's gravity, 1.01kg of antimatter would be enough to take 1kg of matter to space.
I'd always had the same kind of buggy KDE experience whenever I experimented with it, so I used Gnome for years. And then I tried KDE Plasma... it works fantastically, at least for me, on the latest stable Ubuntu. So it's sad to see RH moving away. Gnome is such a dumpster fire right now (and has been since the inception of Gnome 3)
Hey, Igor from Rockset here.

Rockset’s primary use-cases are:
1/ developers building low-latency operational applications, esp. combining real-time data sets with other structured data sets (eg: you are building a microservice to relieve pressure from your OLTP system)
2/ data scientists wanting to quickly test hypotheses on different structured and semi-structured datasets without having to stand-up any servers or do any ETL or data prep. (you can suspend collections/documents in Rockset when you don’t use them -- our pricing page currently only lists Active Documents’ pricing)

Rockset is mutable which allows it to keep itself in sync with any data source, unlike columnar data warehouses, which are not optimized for data manipulation.

Rockset’s strong dynamic typing allows it to treat JSON as a data representation format rather than a special data type or a storage format. So, once you load JSON data into Rockset, you can access all fields at all levels without any special JSON operators or functions.

Comparing Snowflake with Rockset is perhaps akin to comparing Teradata with Elasticsearch. Both useful systems but built for very different use cases.

The biggest thing Rockset has in common with Snowflake is in sharing the philosophy that data management systems have to be built ground up for the cloud to take full advantage of cloud economics. Our blog (https://rockset.com/blog/) has a few posts on these already and we will write more.
Make sure you understand the Rodriguez rotation formula first, then move onto quaternions and rotors. Whenever you become confused, just write out all the terms and you’ll get back to Rodriguez’s formula.
Do you think Apple already had larger phones in the pipeline at the time of Steve Jobs’s death? I think the slightly larger iPhone 5 probably was, but not the iPhone 6 or 6+.
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