skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that a JIT engine cant do this, due to speed.

But would be surprised that a LLVM compiler with a custom-designed heuristic for specific optimizations cant manage this.

These problems may be polynomial etc etc, but MOST of the code generated should follow common patterns

I will have to give this some thought.

Thanks for the reply (also GP)
Bury it in Tycho crater, with a very large magnet.
I’ll check it out. Ty.
Bootcamps will not get you to the same point of comfort with low level stuff because it requires a pretty substantial breadth of accumulated academic study plus hands on practice, and there aren't enough low level programming jobs that I'd ever recommend someone spend time on that in a bootcamp.

If low level is really where you want to go, you can get comfortable with typical frontend and back end programming, and then as you become more comfortable, it's a short hop to GPU stuff, C/C++, and taking the academic stuff in MOOC's.

As an example, I just spent several days last week chasing a bug in C# code all the way down into the native Windows stack inside optimized compiled C and C++ code. While I do not expect a boot camp grad to be able to do it, I think they're perfectly capable of picking it up with time. But to do what I was doing, you had to have spent substantial time working with C/C++ debugging and be comfortable staring at memory dumps.

That's just not a good ROI on bootcamp time because most jobs are app development, not troubleshooting low level stacks. But since 4 year programs teach low level stuff, it gives those grades more career flexibility.
There's also no stopping the resulting inflation. If you want to solve the cost of living problem, you're better off focusing on reducing the costs instead of raising the amount of money available. Housing costs in many housing supply constrained markets will easily absorb any increase in median income income in those markets.
fuck agile
>The chip's supposed to be shipping soon.

Oh? Where did you hear that? Can you post a source, or are you speculating?
Seconded. Boston and Cambridge have a five cent tax on plastic bags, and that's been enough to cause me to simply put my groceries in my backpack (which I was already carrying anyway) or, when we know we're going to be getting a lot of food, to bring our reusable cloth bags, which we've easily made use of the 100 times to recoup their $5 cost.
> Without plastic bags, I'll have to buy garbage bags (which are too large)

Use produce bags for trash instead. I don't even bag all of my produce - just delicate leafy greens and things like green beans that's hard to keep together - and even then I have enough bags for my trash.

> since I can't reuse paper bags!

Why not? Is it because they fall apart or something?
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shitty scroll hijacking
Ironically, I wouldn't mind if aliens came down and told us we were being stupid some time soon...

We would still have to listen, however.
The only "rational evidence" you could ever get is Yelp stats and they're obviously biased.

Or you could compile anecdotes into actual data, read between the lines of their reports on retain rates.
I guess it depends on how much of the culture is generated by that point. It could be that the culture could be good _despite_ this, or some other angle.

I imagine that this policy is a consequence of some good internal culture
> I understand that a JIT engine cant do this, due to speed.

Most serious JIT engines do! For example V8, LuaJIT, Graal, C2.

> But would be surprised that a LLVM compiler with a custom-designed heuristic for specific optimizations cant manage this.

Rubinius for example tried writing custom optimisations like you're describing and didn't get very far. LLVM is not designed for these kind of optimisations - it understands memory reads and writes, not high-level semantic information about arrays and objects.

In practice, it just doesn't seem to work.

As I say I think it's a bare minimum for making a dynamic language genuinely fast. I gave a lecture about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1NTaVQPt1E.
> I’d wager greater than 90% of working developers without a CS degree could not pass a test in any of these courses, or even discuss the topics at an intelligible level.

I'd wager that 90% of working developers _with_ a CS degree would not pass any of these tests. The reality is that the vast majority of software developers use little to none of this math in their professional employment. We really need to stop forcing people to get science degrees to order to be employed in engineering, it makes little to no sense.
>> If you want to do hard algorithmic or low-level programming, you’re still better served by a traditional CS eduction.

> or a bootcamp that focuses on these particular skills.

Do these exist yet? Low level C, Assembly, Rust, we’re going to finish Knuth’s Concrete Mathematics kind of boot camps?
What the author means by "attention management" is, perhaps, the ability to concentrate for a long period of time.

Personally, for work that i love to do, concentration is rewarding.

For mundane, routine work, I usually go on auto pilot, getting work done, but, doing it while my attention is somewhere else.

For mundane work that requires concentration, my output falls off the cliff. Its here that many tips and tricks ought to focus, but dont. And, frankly, its difficult too, to hack this type of work. Its human nature to be bored out and perhaps nothing can change it.
AI is just a marketing buzzword. Don't worry about it.
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99 was purchased by Didi and are heavily engaged in a price war to gain market share. Since they are much smaller, they can afford to sell at a loss, but as they scale, it becomes increasingly expensive to pay more while charging less.
Assuming University is too expensive and bootcamps are too short or vocational, where is the best education found these days?

MOOCs are great but lack the physical contact which is so important.
Check the date of the article.
>for no-fail image based object detection

This is not the standard we need to meet. It's obviously the goal, but autonomous driving doesn't have to be perfect, it has to be better than the median human driver. Well, we need that plus a regulatory environment that handles the liability in such a way that results in countless lives saved, even though some might die due to imperfect autonomous driving.

I've long been of the belief that in order to get real autonomous driving we'll have to re-engineer major roadways. Today they're designed to maximize effectiveness of human sensors. I'm convinced that there must be a way to maximize effectiveness of non-human sensors without harming the effectiveness of human sensors. I don't know what that looks like. It might look like putting passive RFID in the reflectors on the road, or some other thing not yet imagined. But I do think that will ultimately be the future.
At least there are a lot of fools who never won a Nobel prize.
It's referred to as plasma in the primary literature: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608407

Many people use hot/ionised gas and plasma interchangeably though. For example: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/389/2/967/974617
Show me a business that always 100% tells the truth about their products? Anybody?
Tesla's vaunted "fleet data" is a red herring.
I’d wager 99% of programming jobs do not (directly) deal in those maths.
> maybe especially at FAANGs

It's hard to say how it is in the large, but at Microsoft I do apply CS principles fairly regularly, use statistical tools, and think fairly regularly about different data structures and algorithms. A lot of this is due to working in performance-constrained environments. If that were not the case, then I would say the academic side of things would be less prominent.
Today’s ML does not produce predictable outputs. Introducing it into the justice system would be worse than humans for the values you’ve outlined.
Just want to add a +1 this is incredible how much you've managed to do in such a short amount of time - a seriously impressive feat of engineering to even attempt, yet you've managed to come out with a working demo already.
> So now I'll have to buy trash bags, which are always much thicker than grocery bags,

I re-use produce bags for trash. And I don't even bag all of my produce.
Yes, except for the part about how they're dressed, what they're carrying, how they got there, who they said goodbye to on the sidewalk, etc., etc.
I think I understand what you're trying to say, but I don't think what you've actually said is correct. I'm a >senior engineer at a FAANG and have been in the software game for more than ten years now. I definitely do not feel overqualified for my job, and I don't know anyone else who does. Or, at least, I don't know anyone who actually is by their demonstrated skill at their work. I guess I can't know their internal feelings unless they tell me.

What I can agree to is that the job has significant challenges that a CS education does little to prepare you for. The interpersonal challenges. The challenges of designing large systems, forward and backward compatibility, the interaction of business and technical priorities, deployment, production safety, etc. And it makes little use of a number of skills that were very important to CS performance. I can tell you I've used zero graphics programming knowledge, little of my compilers course, very little of what I learned in my networks course (despite that I'm regularly called upon to write programs that communicate over the network). I've written exactly one proof since I started my professional career. In that sense, my CS program over-qualified me for the work. But I think it's more accurate to say that I'm differently-qualified, education-wise, from the field I'm actually working in.
Right now I'm struggling with whether or not to leave. I'm currently at a well-known company, and I'm uncharacteristically happy because my WLB is the best it's been in my career.

However, I'm getting a bit bored and I also know I could make at least $50,000 a year more if I leave. Hell, even the new engineers joining my company at the same level are making more than I am.

But the culture and pay at my company is just good enough such that staying isn't a horrible decision. And I don't want to start studying dynamic programming again for my interviews (I've never used it except in interview environments, so I keep forgetting and losing the ability to quickly answer questions).

So yes, I could make a nice amount more (plus large sign on bonus) but WLB is good enough to keep me, at least for another year. I pick up my kids every day at school and I love it, it's worth the money for now.
At FAANG most of the work is boring copying from one datastructure from another. The remaining 5% needs understanding on working on big data, which means statistics (as long as you're working on backend...I'm sure frontend needs less math).

I haven't seen differential equations, but sometimes calculus, probability theory and a basic understanding of machine learning and deep learning is needed to understand what other teams that you're working with are doing, or to analyze the statistical significance of an experiment that you ran.

At FAANG I often wished I knew probability theory and statistics better (instead of other things that we learned at my University).
Rackable servers typically have a locking front cover to prevent that. You can buy CoverLocks for desktops.[0] This Kensington USB lock also looks interesting.[1] The keys are unique, by the way.

0) http://www.computersecurity.com/coverlock/

1) https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Cable-Guard-Rectangular-K6...
> What specific difference training did U.S. pilots receive that foreign pilots did not?

Well, they all have far more than 200 hours of flight time, for one. Even the copilots.

> What is the evidence either 737 MAX crash had anything to do with training?

The fact that the problem was displayed to the pilots (trim severely out of norm) and they didn't follow the correction procedures properly. Though that might not be "training" as much as "competence".

> If better training can mitigate flawed design, should that absolve any portion of manufacturer liability for any discovered flawed design?

Really depends on the flaw.
Start by looking up the words in one of the many free online dictionaries.

Both mean state control of the economy. One of them means paying people what the state thinks they need and requiring them to work how the state thinks they can, as opposed to other strategies like competitive market forces.
How would the officer know that unless you told him? My address goes to a mailbox in a different state. If asked, I'm just living in the area temporarily for business.
I kinda have a similar situation. I upload my hobby projects on GitHub. It has about 90 repos by now. Most of them are just garbage that no one looked at. One of them amassed about 3000+ stars over time. People keep sending me numerous pull requests, but I'm very picky about the coding style and I pretty much ignore all of them. I also ignore most issue reports and feature requests because I'm not interested. Some people asked to hand over the project to someone else, but even picking a good person is a huge hassle to me. So I just left the project pretty much dead as it is. Still, it somehow keeps getting more stars.

Am I a bad/irresponsible person? Since anyone can fork the project I don't think I'm doing disservice to the community (whatever it is). Also I'm frankly a little annoyed that I am getting this by just using my personal repo and mostly being passive (I've never promoted my project anywhere, except uploading it on PyPI).

Edit I can see that there would be a moral issue if I used my GitHub creds for my personal gain (such as applying for a job). But I've never done that. Again, I've never asked for this and I just want to play in my sandbox.
Ah, so they are going to equip all future cars with a chip that doesn't exist yet, for free, so it will shrink margins even more. Sounds smart.

>By the way, it seems you also don't know that they hold most FSD revenue in reserve on their financials, it's not being spent. So if they need to return it, they can.

Please point to the line and note in the financials where this is done, because I'm quite sure you're mistaken. Tesla hardly has any warranty reserves, let alone FSD refunds.
Yet another collection of silent reroutes to Amazon affiliate links.
> Where in the article did it state that people's activities were being tracked?

How about this part, that verbatim says that's what the landlord used the currently-installed cameras for?

> In order to let neighbors who might not have seen the letter know what was potentially coming, five tenants convened in the lobby of one of the two buildings on a late October morning to spread the word. A few days later, those five tenants — like most of the residents at Atlantic, black women — received a notice from property management with pictures of the gathering taken from a security camera; they were told that the lobby was not “a place to solicit, electioneer, hang out or loiter.”
Frankly, the more I reflect on my University and High School education, the more I think it was poorly thought out. I've spent an enormous amount of time learning advanced Math, Sciences, or other such topics that are utterly irrelevant to my practical career. And I'm saying this as someone who's successful enough to be making mid-6-figures.

The only useful skill I've picked up from all those classes, is grit and hard work. I've learnt how to put my head down, and grind my way to success. Useful skills to be sure, but I could have learnt that by doing literally anything. "Build a Facebook clone" would have taught me grit just as well, while also teaching me practical skills relevant to my career.

I see a lot of posturing about how college education isn't meant to be "vocational" and should teach you how to think, but I don't buy it. The free time I've spent volunteering at my college newspaper, and reading/writing philosophy, taught me far more critical thinking skills than the majority of college classes that I've taken.

Looking back, 80% of the value that I got from my college classes, came from the 20% of courses that are "vocational" and relevant to my career. If not for the resume-padding benefits of going to college, I would have been better off going to a elite bootcamp and then spending another 6 months self-teaching myself anything that the bootcamp didn't.
I think it would be great if there were several parallel and in some sense competing science systems.

Like if Chinese science grew to be an independent force with its own standards and systems. Or if the Gates Foundation and other high spending billionaires managed to build up a parallel eco system that could give brilliant misfits a seconds chance.
I should say many, but not all.

I hear too many stories from angsty mid-career FAANG developers who do little more than write a bunch of Protocol Buffers all day, every day.
Recommender systems don't optimize for the median consumer though. They optimize for clusters, much as pasta sauces now do. That's why my recommendations probably include a lot more super smash Bros content than yours do.
The language options are based on responses from the ACS (American Community Survey), a yearly survey done by the Census Bureau. They go around to different households interviewing people about what languages they speak at home and respondents give a variety of answers, which I believe they try to categorize after the fact. Some answers are certainly families of languages. I believe in this case that option refers to this indigenous language of the Sioux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_language.

Here's more links to the dataset I used if you're interested: https://github.com/pcaisse/language-map-us#data
That's a great common sense theory that's sadly been thoroughly disproven.
Replied to the other comment, but I hear too many stories from angsty mid-career FAANG developers who do little more than write a bunch of Protocol Buffers all day, every day.
Or as attorney Leonard French said regarding one Sovereign Citizen case on his Lawful Masses podcast[0]:

"We live in reality, where the four laws are not common law, statutory, code and... whatever. The real laws are the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, the electromagnetic force, and gravity. Everything else is fair game."

[0]https://youtu.be/nqPiQiinDTs?t=3143
No, I try to never cuss because I don't feel like it's useful. A large part of it is because of the culture of the area where I currently live, but I never really understood the point of cussing even though I grew up in an area where cussing was common.

- when I'm mad, cussing won't improve things
- when I want to lighten the mood, I could make any variety of joke
- when I want to emphasize something, I use the tone of my voice or appropriate vocab

I guess I've just never understood the point of it. I occasionally cuss to myself, but I try to be a bit more expressive when I'm talking with others.

So yeah, I never cuss in meetings, and I very rarely cuss in general.
Yikes.

"But all my customers love and trust me!" == "I'm just an above-average con man."

"But I was just doing this to support them without bothering them!" == "I'm clearly not ready to take responsibility and fess up to anything because I thought my deceptively named functions would fool everybody (and still do)."

"But my girlfriend and I love cat memes!" == "Please, for the love of god, can we forget about all this and talk about cat memes instead?" [I honestly have no clue what he was trying to get at in the first six paragraphs...]
Local China authorities cracks down on mobile apps snooping
Protest at Gaza Fence Is for the Most Part Quiet as the Two Sides Urge Limitatio
Often times $10k is the difference between me accepting job A vs job B. So it would be better for the potential employer to offer that flexibility.

I also have an "icky" moral feeling about being tied to my employer via something like healthcare. So all other things being equal I would choose the company that offers this option over one that doesn't.
It's definitely not unusual.

Source: I do the same thing and I live in New York
"The Matis, known as the ‘cat people’ because of the ‘whiskers’ they attach to their faces, are notoriously violent but instead of clubs use bows and arrows or long blowguns with poisoned-tipped darts to kill their enemies."

"The Korubo are also known as the ‘clubber Indians’ because of the shoulder-height wooden clubs they use for killing their enemies by breaking open their skulls."

These are horrific human beings on par with ISIS, but we find them quaint as our little pets in a zoo to be watched and studied.

Hunter Gatherers are humanity at its absolute worse, they deserve the chance to move on with civilization. These zoos are what future people will judge us for.
Also, keep in mind that in the article, the landlord is already using the cameras to spy on the comings and goings of tenants, and harassing them for meeting to talk about this:

> In order to let neighbors who might not have seen the letter know what was potentially coming, five tenants convened in the lobby of one of the two buildings on a late October morning to spread the word. A few days later, those five tenants — like most of the residents at Atlantic, black women — received a notice from property management with pictures of the gathering taken from a security camera; they were told that the lobby was not “a place to solicit, electioneer, hang out or loiter.”

> New York State law, in fact, grants tenants the right to meet peacefully in nearly any location in a building as long as they are not obstructing passageways. Management maintains that tenants were getting in the way even if the pictures did not clearly indicate that.
Shop around, amazon's being weird. They've been retailing for ~$30 for several years, usually on other sites you can combine it with some 20% discount too.

It may be too much for some people's needs, but it's been worth it for someone that regularly travels & walks to the grocery store in a rainy region.
This is the problem. Both of these companies are filthy spammers and are using the same domains and networks for transactional mail as for spam. They've created their own reputation issues. The fact that someone from Gmail spam ops kindly offered to reach in and manually tweak the reputation for PayPal doesn't mean this is a problem with Gmail.
If the cost of all food doubled, would everyone eat half as much?
Well, you've seen what Washington had for teeth, right? Carved wood. They're on display at Mt. Vernon, as I recall.

But yeah. The state has become a monster.
I remember reading on Stack Overflow that the writers originally wanted for the human minds to be critical to a neural network, not actually used as a power source, but Hollywood executive producers didn’t think cinema audience could understand this concept:

“The original story had the brains of the humans being used as part of a neural network for additional computing power. But the suits thought that was too hard for people to understand.” [0]

[0] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
Perhaps if I was following a tall vehicle too close then they swerved to avoid the firetruck rather than stopping....?

"The Model S was traveling behind a pickup truck with Autopilot engaged. Due to the truck’s size, the Tesla’s driver was unable to see beyond the vehicle in front.

“... The pickup truck suddenly swerved into the right lane because of the firetruck parked ahead. Because the pickup truck was too high to see over, he didn’t have enough time to react.”"

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-firetruck-crash-deta...