skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question. It can show a lot of things, overlay bureaucratic process, control freak, lack of trust/understanding of devs, general disorganization, penny wise pound foolish mentality, not invented here syndrome. Or it can show that the company values devs, trusts them, and wants to retain them.
In typical ML you just learn the weights.
But the architecture stays fixed, and since we don't have an architecture that can realistically solve well enough all tasks, it shouldn't count as Godel machine.

Meta-learning, where you also learn hyper-parameters (including potentially the architecture) are closer to that, see for example:

- Google Vizier: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46180

- Microsoft neural architecture search: https://github.com/Microsoft/nni

But this is still far from a true Godel machine.
In realm of electronics regulations the devices in those areas have to be proven safe first, not assumed safe until an incident occurs.
The AndroidHardening project has been renamed to GrapheneOS
Ahh, a nice anti-education rant for HN to do the usual anti-college back and forth. Bonus points for focusing on technical schools as good, because you can actually get a job.

Ban the humanities, right?

I liked school. It was valuable. I have a better job because of it. I didn't spend absurd amounts of money to go.
"When something is both expensive and of no practical value, it’s clearly intended as a means of wealth transfer."

Interesing, I had the same thought about expensive artwork.
> All this article says is that heavy particulate takes a long time to travel from Japan to Alaska by means of ocean current.

Also that we are really good at detecting trace levels of radioactive materials.
For those who want to use the builder pattern in Rust but don't want to write the boilerplate, I've found the typed-builder crate (https://github.com/idanarye/rust-typed-builder) to be an excellent solution. It ensures (at compile time!) that you have initialized all the fields of your struct that are not explicitly marked as having default values.

Disclaimer: I don't have any affiliation with this crate; I'm just a big fan
Factoid has two different definitions, one of which is consistent with the grandparent’s use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid
I AGREE, CASE DOESN'T COMMUNICATE ANYTHING.

....

PARDON?
If something is public (and often even if it isn't), it's public. I never viewed Circles so much about hiding information from other Circles. Rather, it was about acknowledging that my friends from school and other non-professional, well, circles mostly aren't interested in reading about my latest tech article. And at least some people who follow me professionally probably aren't interested in whether I think some movie is good or not.

I really tried to be on team Google+ for a while but it was too little too late.
Some people go to university when they're older. Some take time off. Some can't decide on a major and are in school for a decade. Plenty of explanations.
I think it was the urine part which caused consternation.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2010/12/09/why_caltech_is_i...
GrapheneOS-Security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility
So it sounds like you're saying the real scam is pretending that degrees have value?
"Google+ felt slow and bloated performance-wise, despite the design being simple" is what he means.

And yes I agree. Due to the sliding/fading animations and other nonsense, it felt slow and sluggish. By today's standards it would probably feel fast. But for the time, it was the slowest thing Google had created.
For me, this was the biggest fail of Facebook and the main reason why I stopped using it about a year ago. Conversations are meant to be had with a certain group of people, not a random number of unknown people in your list. We need more control and that's why I think G+ circles was a really good idea.
Much-needed Outline link: https://outline.com/WV9say
He's gay though so he checks the box.
> The only time that English

In the comment you replied to you've just been given a critical example, and it seems like you ignored it to talk just about English.

Get a Turk and an Englishman (maybe have them walk into a bar). Show them the letter I and say, "what is the lowercase of this?" They give you different answers.

So what should your kernel do about open("I.txt", O_RDONLY), when the directory entry has it as "i.txt"? Tell the Turk ENOENT, and give the Englishman a file descriptor? What happens when the user changes languages and has a filename stored somewhere? I would argue it's not the right layer to solve the problem.
how is the language count situation at the DoD today ? back to 700 ? :)
Why? You would lose the ability to disambiguate in the way I described. The words aren't coordinates, they're the result of a hash function.
I've come to believe that many degrees are overrated, including my own CS degree. I could have learned what I did in a much shorter time. While I don't like bootcamps, there is no reason why there are no IT trade schools. Maybe two years long. No BS courses like philosophy, social sciences, etc. Not a degree, but a trade school. Hell, my plumber makes more than my wife and I together. He specializes in installing tankless water heaters. He makes a mint.

I've never been impressed with Ivy league or other "rarified air" educational establishments. I've worked around people from some of these places and almost to a man, they reeked of one-upmanship, my father knows..., I know..., oh, you went to <insert no-name university> while glancing down their nose at you.

I worked with a guy like this at UUNet who went to Brown. He thought he was the cat's pajamas and everyone should defer to him because he went Ivy League. Oddly enough (sarcasm), his mistakes were often corrected by those who attended the no-name schools. He never saw the error of his ways. Daddy, after all, was a prominent attorney in the DC area. Why this guy went IT is a mystery. He would have been a better fit with the other sharks and scammers in DC or on Wall Street.
Ask HN: How to best open source failed company source code
Hey folks,

I was part of a company that did some great work but ultimately failed. As things wind down it doesn't look like there's going to be a taker for the assets and I would hate to see all our hard work go completely confined to the dustbin of history. Furthermore, IMHO our work in an important and growing field could be genuinely useful to some people out there.

Does anyone have suggestions or best practices on how to open source work like this and attract people to consider contributing to its future development, other than creating public repos on GitHub and a license?

Thanks!
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The author highlights that none of the students attempted admission to Caltech or MIT. Going further, I would venture that none enrolled in a science program but opted for a standard liberal arts/communications program. If you tailor your course choices such programs are pretty hard to flunk out of as opposed to science programs where the moment of truth hits during the first calculus/physics/chemistry exam.
> Despite being an intellectually rigorous institution, Caltech does not graduate many future elites

> As long as Ivy League alumni occupy positions of power, academic credentials will remain costly and scarce. Ongoing credential inflation is not evidence of a bubble about to burst, but a reflection of how successful the elites are at convincing the greater populace that degrees are valuable.

The underlying implication of the article doesn't seem to be hit home. If "good" schools don't produce rich powerful/people, but "name" schools do, that's because there is heavy corruption by the established elite to favor their alma mater's to make sure their degrees remain valuable - is I think a core tenet of the article.
Educational institution scam need degrees. Educated degree holder want recognition and be respected. No matter how he get the degree.
This exact use-case is debunked in article linked.
Tell that to the many tech and other companies who only want to recruit from what they see as the "top" schools. If you don't come from that tier, you are locked out of many, many opportunities -- you can be better at your job than most but without the ivy league degree you are nothing.
Train on the job. Easier said than done. How would you know if the person is even trainable? A degree should (not that ti does in many cases), but it should. Like a driver's license.
> ... We should consistently urge better use of frequentist approaches.

Many "frequentist" methods can be rephrased as heavily-simplified special cases of the Bayesian approach. Most easily, by assuming a flat prior distribution for the relevant parameters (which is basically an artifact of the parameterization you choose anyway) you can assert that any MLE-based approach will yield a correct Bayesian posterior mode, which in turn is an optimal Bayes-estimator, assuming a constant loss function.

The limits of this whole approach are fairly clear, of course - for one thing, Bayesian stats is generally based on working with the entire posterior distribution, not merely a point estimate of it - and there are good reasons for this. But the basic point stands, and many "tweaks" on the basic frequentist approach can in turn be justified in Bayesian terms. This is not to say that frequentist statistics is all that we'll ever need, but merely pointing out that this whole argument of "we should work with what we have, and focus on making sure that frequentist approaches are put to good use" actually sounds rather vacuous. It's correct in a very limited sense, and hardly something that Bayes proponents are unaware of!
> Almost everything dangerous had since decayed.

Is not so simple. In the decay process new radiactive compounds are being created. And this is happening since 8 years.

To have a half-life of 24.000 years is not equal to "this atoms will sleep for 24.000 years" or we could just save all that plutonium in a mayonaise jar in our bedroom. It does not work like that.

You can have a fair change to observe a case with very low probability if you have a population big enough. Each single plutonium atom can decay anytime in the next 24.000 years splitting in other dangerous compounds and treatening life and humans around.
There's also the fact that a graduate from MIT is likely to have more opportunities and resources: a middle-of-nowhere state school is unlikely to have multiple professors who lead the field while an average MIT graduate might interact with several, and a student from MIT is more likely to have access to research and advanced classes by virtue of their university.
Bo Ewald joins quantum computing firm ColdQuanta as CEO
That’s one approach. Another approach is that you have a candidate that graduated from Stanford, one from MIT, and you have a candidate that doesn’t even have a degree from Middle-of-nowhere State but has 4 years full-time professional experience.

I’m going to be more excited about the last candidate than the other two.
"Recently" as in 2015, in fact, the last government not this one.

It was due to take effect as a law next week, but it's been delayed for unknown length.

It's a stupid idea that has very little public support, but that's Theresa May all over (she was Home secretary - whose purview such a law falls under - at the time it was made a law, before becoming PM)
Property taxes too.
Soon, they will find a new revenue source
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Can some one like this pickup a sport like running and run to death?
I'm curious, what makes Alcyone your favorite?
No, its "serverless"!
I have a real problem with people giving dishonest opinions, so good on you.

But seriously, you haven't seen it yet. Ever read Green Eggs and Ham?
What about opportunity cost (re: absurd amounts of money)? Do you have a better job because of all the things you learnt or because you went to school and got a degree?
Do you mean valuable as in it got you a better job or in what sense?
I disagree. That's still talking about the "how". It's talking about how the scanner works, and how that gives
you the result you see. I contend that the statement in that article is still not the "why".

I've tried many times to make it clear why I think the Quora article is giving the "how" and not the "why", but I've never been able to convince people of the difference.

So why is the scanner designed like this? Even if you didn't know how the scanner works, why is this result an unavoidable consequence of how you want a photocopier to behave?

I'd be happy to try to explain this distinction further in an email, but to do so would require giving away the answer, and some people may still want to think about it. My email is (sort of) in my profile.

Added in edit:

Quoting the article:

> To understand why we got the result we did, we first need to look at how a scanner works.

My contention is that this statement is wrong, and the result can be deduced from first principles of how a photocopier must behave.
I did look into using one or more JavaScript frameworks before I created CloudBuddy (https://cloudbuddy.cloud/), but decided against it. Since I was new to JavaScript at the time, I figured that learning a framework would be more work than just coding the JavaScript directly. In hindsight, I think it was the right decision since maintenance has been straightforward. If you have questions and would like to chat with someone that's been through it, my contact info is in my profile.
USA. Not everyone has the economic mobility to just quit at any time. I know one such individual who I have been encouraging to get a new job because his current employment leaves him working a second job on weekends.

One could suggest to such people to display enough financial discipline to save up a rainy day fund, but this is ignoring all the procedures in place designed specifically for depressing wages.
First, thanks for engaging! I appreciate getting corrected on this.

> Not really. I did expound on this in the very comment you replied to.

I agree with your expounding. Perhaps I'm not seeing where you addressed my concern, but these statements:

1. "Man in the middle only involves encryption."

2. "The OWASP definition is correct."

seem to be at odds, given that (3.) the OWASP does not exclude attacks on unencrypted channels (per their MiTM page). One of your statements (1 or 2) must be wrong, or my understanding of the OWASP definition (3) is wrong.

I'm not sure what to make of your response to my "trust" comment (though I agree with everything you said, it seems to be in a different context from the question). We're probably speaking past each other. Let me try to tease out the disagreement.

> The gist of a MITM is that each end of the transmission trusts that the malicious actor in the middle is the target destination. When this occurs at the application layer it is almost universally centered on encryption. Keep in mind that in TCP/OSI terms the web is an application riding the internet. Without encryption how do you trust that the destination is who they claim to be?

So does your definition of "trust" here _require_ encryption? Is encryption _explicitly_ required in a MiTM attack, or is it only required for "trust" (which I agree is necessary).
I'd phrase GP response as saying we attribute too much value on some degrees and not enough on others. They all have some (nominal?) value but we don't spend the time to figure it out and just shorthand it based on the "quality" of the school. The presumption is that these schools only let in the best so you can trust their stamp of approval but this scandal shows that is folly.
"The Myth of American Meritocracy" by Ron Unz (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of...) and the plot for Caltech as an outlier
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Of which Radon-222 and Radon-226 still are way more threat than some reactor blowing up somewhere.

edit: if you've got granite in the basement, be vefy afraid :)
I live on a tidal marsh in the south east. In the spring time there are so many frogs outside that it is too loud to open the windows. I don't see many toads, but a lot of turtles live in the nearby pond along with a few gators.
The Caltech argument in this argument doesn't take into account that Caltech is a very small school. They enroll around 200 new undergrad students a year which is about 1/10 the number most Ivy league schools admit. I think this is the primary factor why you don't see many big name Caltech grads, there aren't as many of them. Especially when you are comparing Caltech to ALL Ivy league schools grouped together.
Maybe something like sulapac (www.sulapac.com) which is biodegradable and without plastic of any kind.

For mugs and cups there is Isla packaging from Kotkamills.

Solutions exist, plastic for consumer single use stuff is just plain stupid.
Jepsen is about consistency and doesn't address most of the things the paper is focused on, real world production things.
Very nice project. I like the visual nature of it
They're not quite the same thing. Here's a post that goes over some of the differences:

https://medium.com/@rakia/promise-vs-observable-vs-stream-16...

The big difference is the pull-vs-push scheme, making Observables lazy-by-default, and just subscribed vs unsubscribed to.

Observable is a theoretical concept in reactive programming, popularized by ReactiveX author Eric Meijer.

It's gained quite a bit of popularity because ReactiveX is heavily used in Java frontends and JavaScript (Angular especially).
Does he? Dunno, there seems to be enough gay white males in positions of authority in the US that I didn't think that would count towards his diversity status.
But when the site / idea / services were new there will always be the passionate bunch helping, but once those passion are all burned out they either leave or replaced with Snark.

The problems are,
1. New comer don't search.
2. The don't spend 2 min of their time to read the menu.
3. Entitlement, I asked, and I shall be answered.
4. Do the (home) work for me. They really expect you might as well do it all for them.

All of us were beginner at one point or another. And we know the path possibly better than many. If you have done any research on the topic before you asked, most of the time it would have shown / hinted in the question. So we know aha... you did spend time but you overlooked or never thought of xyz.

Most of the time people overlook the quality of questions were declining.
I think Circles was a great example of what Google+ got wrong. If you are an alien species observing human interaction, you'll notice that it really is how people interact, they have different circles of friends or contacts that they might want to share things with, and a "circles" feature is a great way to organize your social network.

What google missed was that nobody wants to sit down and explicitly categorize all their friends into circles. Our social circles are not hard-edged and fixed, they're fuzzy and context-dependent.
Agree. They later (?) introduced collections which solved this (and I've written about it in my post) but at that time I guess tve famage was done.
A most (un)realistic story about privacy
Btw, Jürgen Schmidhuber, who proposed Gödel machines, is also the inventor of LSTMs, an important building block for many neural network designs. Amazing guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber
You can probably get paralyzed just by sitting since you are no longer shifting your legs around in response to mild discomfort
There's some more here:

https://siliconpr0n.org/wiki/doku.php?id=decap:start

If we can digitize the entire netlist (schematic of transistors) from the 6502 processor by analyzing this type of photograph, why hasn't someone started analyzing the crappy wifi chips that people who don't run Trisquel use--the kind that require proprietary drivers to work correctly, in order to write free drivers for them?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...
First of all, vanilla JavaScript is far easier with IE 11 or Edge (and was always easy with Firefox and Chrome). But it was jQuery that I used before. That's what I would contrast with vanilla JavaScript.

But you mention React, Vue, and Angular. Those are frameworks for single-page applications (SPA). So my advice there is not to make a SPA. Make a multi-page application instead. Someone wrote an article and called it the ROCA style, https://roca-style.org/

Basically you can still use JavaScript to show and hide things, but if the entire page is changing, I put that in a different file on the server.
Heh, in my English class in 9th grade (2005-2006) for one essay our teacher had us try one of those new automatic essay scoring programs. The scores were all over the place, for mine it claimed I didn't even address the essay subject at all. Anyway the teacher was reassured of his skepticism and continued with the practice of manual grading and feedback.

I'd rather be the victim of a computer's bogus score than the victim of a computer's bogus accusation of wrong-doing. On the other hand it's important for everyone to experience the latter (by computer or not) at least once, and at least with plagiarism even if it's true you're not going to go to jail...
> No BS courses like philosophy, social sciences, etc.

....you totally missed the point of those classes.
Asking what languages people use at work or when not at work is an obvious place to start this sort of survey, it should be no surprise that Go is ranked highly among people who found it on the Go website, and it didn't surprise the authors of the survey either who pointed it out and quickly moved on to more meaningful statistics.
This is a dangerous mindset. If anything we should be encouraging technologists to take humanity courses (whether on their own time or through school doesn’t matter).

You don’t have to look far to see examples of leaders of companies who could’ve benefited from an education in humanities (e.g Facebook). Yes it’s still possible to act unethically and immorally after an education in humanities, but the hope is that it will lessen that outcome.

Ultimately ignoring ethics in technology will lead to bad outcomes.
Does this employee monitoring extend to -all- employees, or only to -some-?

Unless the employees being monitored include everybody, from Board members and C-level, all the way down to the janitor, and in some manner that information is open to all as well, then this is just more window dressing that'll be use to further stratify the workplace, allowing some to reap benefits of power at the expense of the majority.

But who am I kidding? I've yet to see an instance of a CEO being fired for failing a drug test...
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The non-proximity of W3W locations with similar identifiers is intentional; it's meant as an easy way to perform error checking. The concept is that you state your location, and if you state it wrong, or the other person gets it wrong, the mistake will be obvious because the small change to the identifier results in a location extremely distant from you.

The system pretty explicitly considers all squares equal, without a hierarchy such as you envision. There are no identifiers for larger agglomerations of individual squares.

(And more specifically, where identifiers are hierarchical, you generally have the larger scope first, not last. URLs are a bizarre exception.)