skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of a guiding theory has been something I've talked about with regard to big data and ML in general. This said, if you look closely at the math behind ML, it looks, not to surprisingly, like statistical mechanics.

So if we take some of the thought processes behind Stat Mech (or S&M as we used to call it in grad school), and you kinda squint your eyes hard to blur the less robust discussions you read about, you get the sense that ML is more about the "thermodynamics of information" than anything else.

I find this intriguing and definitely want to spend more time on this stuff.
Even if you move across the world for a position, it could happen on your first day.

Sure, but in many parts of the world they'll probably also owe you at least 2 month wages if they do that.
Kids Can Ruin Your Retirement – and How to Make Sure They Don’t
In his current situation, if he zones out, he produces nothing. In the situation where he's aided by the potentially faulty described system, if he zones out, he produces erroneously transcribed data.
I am most certain SF had no idea what was going on, and while any form of abuse is horrible it makes no sense accusing SF of helping in a crime where it's impossible for SF to know. It's like blaming a lawn gnome maker for somebody being beaten with a lawn gnome.
Demanding SF monitors everything, or Google monintors all mails, to prevent criminal activity is causing more overall harm for society than those edge cases do. If not SF they could have used every other CRM with ease, I suppose, but SF, Google et al turning into the panopticon would harm everybody.
House-hunting in Silicon Valley: tech's newly rich fuel a spectacle of excess
> Tech jobs have little to do with SFs housing problem, tech is just a convenient scapegoat.

You say that without giving an alternative explanation. If it's not the tech jobs (and the jobs built around them) that raised demand so much, what else is it?

> In the 80s the blame was finance.

Again, why do you assume that finance was just the scapegoat, not the actual reason?
One benefit to ES is scale. Elasticsearch can scale to at least a couple trillion records (on the order of 1.5 PB) if you spread your data out across enough hardware. You can then search those records in seconds (for simple queries). I'm not sure Mongo can scale quite that far, it was given up on before I started this work. Not saying it can't, just saying others had more success scaling ES and haven't really hit its limits. Bear in mind datasets span multiple clusters and are searches are merged using cross cluster search in these larger cases. Not likely to be an apples to apples comparison.
This HN thread appears to have been buried/removed from the main page
Manual verification is likely just as tedious as doing it by hand in the first place.
February Teardown: Circular Buffer
Introspection in the Playground is solvable with two things, a) everything defining debug, and b) `let _ : () = a; ` forcing Rust to tell you what type it's inferred.
>Should we also allow Microsoft to be sued for all the criminals that use windows?

If a company provides products/services to someone with the knowledge those products/services will be used for a crime...then yes.

For example it’s legal for an arms dealer to sell a gun, but illegal to sell a gun if the seller knows the gun is being purchased with the intent of being used in a crime.

Here what you have is Salesforce who allegedly sold its products/services to backpage knowing their software would specifically be used to facilitate prostitution and human trafficking. Whereas you - for whatever reasons - seem to be concluding salesforce had no way of knowing their products/services would be used by backpage in the commission of a crime (ie your Windows analogy). However, the facts suggest SalesForce was well aware of backpages business practices and activities (and was publicly fighting against the same criminal activity, while simultaneously supplying software that facilitated the same). It’s a tough case but human slaves and a corporation privately profiting from these activities while publicly “fighting” against the same won’t play well to a jury.
My bad, I was not clear enough, I'm talking about the npm layoffs.
Watterson highlighted that arc in his 10th anniversary collection (which is a really wonderful collection of essays and explanations side by side with strips). It happened relatively early into the comic strip's life and IIRC he regarded it as a turning point in Calvin & Hobbes's ability to move beyond gags and handle weightier topics.
I generally don't like the idea of blaming tool makers. However, this is a great example of a tech company catering to an immoral regime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
It reminds me of the start of "Brazil", bugs and all.
Funds the council in general
Yeah, I've never really understood this position. It's a ridiculously childish and entitled line of logic to have IMO.

I find it analogous to people who work for Amazon who whined about "not knowing I had to give my signing bonus back if I left before a year" after leaving because they didn't like the job after a few months... (come on, parts of being an adult is reading the employment contract that clearly states you can't keep your signing bonus if you leave before the first year...)
“I just bought the prostitution module for my ERP, I hope it integrate well with accounting and procurement”

I am really curious as to how the developers justify taking this kind of gig.
I know. But I want no time zone. When I plan my Germany trip next week I want to see the 10 am meeting there at 10 regardless of where I am.

It should operate like a good old paper calendar.
Human Interest (YC S15), 401(k) Provider, Is Hiring a Technical Product Manager
Complex Time: Research on adaptation, aging, and the arrow of time [video]
Yes, there are also neuroprotective effects of cardio. And I'm not talking about meal timing, I'm talking about skipping meals entirely.
Whenever I get a chance to talk to an obscenely wealthy person I always ask:

"You have enough money you live the rest of your life in idle luxury. You could just go to the beach and never come back. If I had your money, that's what I would do. Why the heck are you still working?"

Of course, if it's a job interview, and you want the job, maybe not the best question.
What are the hiring practices? Is everyone salary disclosed? What is percentage of women occupying technical positions?

This might sound controversial for some, but the answers to these three questions would tell you pretty quickly what kind of company this is.
You don't have to mandate construction of housing. You just have to get rid of the INSANE barriers to housing construction that exist today in places like SF and the wider Bay Area.
There is a risk of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS). [1] There are pre-existing conditions that increase the risk of EMS that may not be evident, as liver / kidney damage is not apparent until it reaches near totality.

[1] - https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-326/l-trypt...
That doesn't hold water because he wasn't the one who made the Balakot airstrike announcement. While he did announce Mars Orbiter Mission(because the reason I stated in the parent) when there were no elections around. You're free to draw whatever conclusions you want.
In the future, everyone might use quantum computers
See....Skype has had PTT...They've always had it...Discord is the biggest garbage app ever created It will NEVER be ANYWHERE close as good as mumble or hell even teamspeak
Not all CEOs are obscenely wealthy...
“In the Beginning Was the Command Line”
According to [0], there are 61 employees for a $10M company that runs the npm registry. That's news to me. Also, it means that your average 10% layoffs would mean 6 people.

[0]: https://craft.co/npm
I know, but just in case this one is.
I’d imagine there could be some really interestingly massive simulation possibilities integrating nbody with unity’s new ECS system
For me it was the money and opportunities. I turned a blind eye to the power abuse, human rights violations and corruption, and moved to the US anyways.
Additionally, you have to be careful with the Postgres JDBC driver. When you store or load to a timestamp column, it compares the JVM local time zone with Postgres' session time zone and translates appropriately. Even when you have a test that makes sure that you get back the same timestamp that you put into it, it might be the wrong timestamp if you use psql to look at it.
I agree, it kills me to see a bus stop filled with idling cars of parents too scared to let their kids walk. Suburbs are incredibly stifling. Most of the recently built ones I've seen don't have sidewalks at all, it's very car-centric and closed off.
I think that's a fair question to ask, but I would also ask something along the line of, "specifically what kind of help do you need from this engineer in helping your company get there".
Birthdays are a bit tricky too, say you want to show if it’s someone’s birthday today. In UTC you can be off by a day, so you just have to store the date without the TZ and treat it local in every TZ.
Thank you! As an aside, is there a reason you're not using a write concern of "majority"? If you have w:3 in a three node cluster then if one node goes down, writes are going to start throwing wtimeout errors (assuming you have wtimeout set) even though the data may safely be written to a majority of nodes. We generally recommend setting w:"majority" for this reason.
Maybe For Better or For Worse? Most prominent example of a daily comic strip I can remember where characters age in real time.
There is nowhere on earth that can't be made pleasant to live if you have enough money to do it. More to the point, I'm always confused how VCs actively encourage pissing away their own money on somebody else's rent. Sure, spend your own scratch on an $8 million 1000sqft half-lot house, but why not actively encourage others to make your money go farther.
If you're going to the trouble of building a proprietary derivative, you are going to want to make sure no one but your paying customers can benefit.
>Hmm, open source and free software both say nothing about money. Could you elaborate a bit?

To me, the fact that they say nothing is the important part, and it's why the whole thing works. At first I thought it was weird that GPL didn't limit commercial use, and now I think it was absolutely essential that it didn't.

>... If you take the large public figures in both movements, like RMS and esr, both have attitudes and beliefs that are... not great, on topics like sex, gender, and other social issues. ...

Interesting. Well, I don't personally see the connection just yet but I'll keep an open mind. It seems like there probably is something to be said.
New Method Applies Monte Carlo Neural Fictitious Self-Play to Texas Hold’em
As a data scientist: What do you want to know about the thing you're building and how it works?
> VCs are largely already wealthy, and SF is a pleasant city to live in if you're already wealthy.

Is it though? I feel SF is a rathole that is occupied by a lot of people who overpay for rent because their salary allows them to.

If you're really wealthy, you're not going to be living in the city at all.
Security Vulnerabilities Affecting Medtronic Implantable Cardiac Devices, Others
On the one hand, they're probably not going to be seriously held accountable for supporting sex trafficking. Best case, the CEO gets uprooted, or they get a menial fine. Legislation to support bigger consequences would be great.

On the other hand, SESTA/FOSTA has had a chilling effect on any sexuality on any platform in the US. There's Facebook events for burlesque shows that are being removed by Facebook because the word "sexy" is included in the description. And non-profits that try to promote safer sex, support people in abusive relationships, etc are removed from social media or have their websites revoked because they have "sex" in the title.

Where's the middle ground? How can we create consequences for companies that act unethically without them then banishing all sex-related content?
Yes, CSV in the wild is an absolute mess. It was made an RFC standard at some point but even that was quite unclear if I recall correctly. That's why I wrote "a fixed CSV".
Storing UTC (or rather TAI) is a silver bullet for "system" times - things that need to happen on a regular schedule, where we care how much time has passed between one instant and another, or things where we want to record at what instant something happened, and correlate system events with each other.

Indeed it doesn't solve the problem of handling user-inputted "human" times correctly. But that is a much rarer case than needing to handle "system" times. Many - probably most - applications never need to handle a "human" time at all.
This is a ridiculously backwards and privileged / entitled position... Your employment / what you need money for is your problem, not your superior's...
B.S in physics, total spent 5 years in biology (first MS then Ph.D program) as I felt like there are lots of areas to be explored / studied there. I later switched to statistics (and got a PhD in statistics) as the future of senior lab-mate did not look bright to me (many years in Ph.D or post-doc stage, work is more or less driven by publication pressure instead of science curiosity). Choose statistics as I got good background in math thanks to the education in physics.

Now my job title is "data scientist".
Sometimes it's not about getting an honest answer but showcasing that you are aware of the fundamentals of business and introducing this fact to the CEO directly.

Depending on your level of interest and intuition, you can gauge the answer provided and measure its truthfulness going forward.

It's also a good way to get an idea of how 'fluffy' the CEO is too in their response. This can be a red flag for not wanting to take the job too.
[ghost of tenure track searches past]

The physics job market has been, and will remain in a "rough place". As with all things, it is who you know.

If you want to stay in the field, network like mad. Get people to know your name. Make sure you have work known to them. Get a great Postdoc with someone who will make calls for you when you are done with your project, to help your search.

Otherwise, computing is nice :D
A good bit of the original article is about the difference.
as a non-specialist, it seems like several important and distinct areas of inquiry are just lumped together in the celebration of a "winner" for ML

Text, language, human chat

Image recognition from blurry, multiple views, multiple lighting conditions photos

formal patterns with large numbers of variations

These are not at all the same, yet the praise seems to want to declare "the best" and "beating competitors" .. why is something so multi-faceted, reduced to the logic of a sports event ?
I live in a city with rent control and it's great. New York's rent control model is broken no doubt but look no further than Montreal for a better example.

The difference is that all rent prices are subject to a maximum increase of roughly 1% per year, even if tenants change, the lease is locked to within 1% of the previous tenant's lease.

It works great :) Older rental stock remains cheap, and new properties are reasonably priced too.
Postgres has JSON support. In fact Amazon's documentdb which is alternative to Mongo, is built on top of Postgres AFAIK.
Wind is generally not fast enough to travel thousands of miles over 10ish hours.
What We Can Learn from the World’s Centenarians
PHD student... working on measuring the magnetic field in clouds that are really really far away! Astronomically far away! This is to understand and observe star formation.

I don't see myself staying in academia though I love research.
Elizabeth Warren plan to target corporate agriculture, support family farms
stablecoins
I worked at Amazon in the late 90s. So my experience is most likely not relevant anymore, but I will make a few observations. First, I see that many commenters disagree with the OP, they had a different experience of Amazon, one where they were working with infrastructure that was responsive. modern, easy to use etc. It very possible that both observations are correct. In a large company, not all parts of the company will be using the same infrastructure at the same time. Indeed, I would be dangerous for the entire company to upgrade lockstep to a new technology infrastructure. Second, in most companies, innovation is not measured by the novelty or newness of the language or framework you use, but by the business impact your product or service makes. Much of Amazon's innovation was, and is, around business models. Indeed, when I worked at AMZN, I was writing C code (to power a website) using beautifully efficient database access code written by Sheldon Kaphan. There was nothing remotely advanced about the language. It took 9 months for me to get a 3 line code change into production. And I was using technology that predated Apollo (it was called Huston) There is nothing particularly wrong about that either (it was a potty mouth filter and was blocking some obscure swear words, and no one was too worried that the component it was part of didn't ship for the best part of a year.) I now run my own company, and I both manage technology, people as well as write code. I find myself exercising the same conservatism with respect to code and infrastructure that I found at Amazon, and for the same reasons. It is expensive and potentially company destroying to switch languages and core technologies. It is best not done, or if done at all, done with a lot of care and slowly.
Try rephrasing the first as "I can't move into the area because I even though I would gladly pay what a landlord would freely charge, his current lessee has a legal claim to renew at a rate below that."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnnaFCWwk3I
Isn't that societal obligation codified as taxes?

> I don't think you deserve more credit than anybody having a net worth of $10k donating $100

Would you also consider this something not to admire but require?
Better Exploration with Parameter Noise (2017)
Manhattan is expensive because of wealth inequality. Every year you see a huge number of neighboring apartments get merged together to have a single bigger unit, where huge numbers of people still can never afford to live there.

I'd also point out that Manhattan would still be a very expensive place to live even with lower real estate prices, as a huge number of the buildings have very high maintenance costs.
Google has offices in Shenzhen, too. And one could debate whether Taiwan is a country or part of China.

But that aside, the pull seems to be China's incentives and access to local hardware manufacturing. Not just the idea of living in Asia instead of the West.
In the UK, laws can be repealed by a newly elected government. The elected MPs can put forward proposals and create new legislation on which the parliament can vote.

In the EU, new legislation are only put forward by the commission - who are not elected by the citizens. The MEPs who are elected merely vote on the proposals put forward by the commission. They have no power to contest or put forward legislation which could repeal existing laws.

The only remedy for bad laws is that 1 million citizens can petition the commission to consider a change in legislation, which they have no obligation to carry forward for the elected representatives to vote on.
SalesForce not like Office 2016 where you install and use it. It's like Oracle EBS in that the forms, workflow, processes and etc needs to be customized for your business and use case. SalesForce has consultants and service people that help you with this. They are probably suing because SalesForce consultants or professional services help with the SalesForce setup/integration at BackPage.
"the facts suggest SalesForce was well aware of backpages business practices and activities"

source?
Some rent control schemes keep all rents low. In Montreal, the government limits all rent increases to 1% per year. Even between tenants.
Ask HN: Why do people still use Salesforce?
Salesforce is a big company but their CRM sucks. There are many SAAS startups that provide cheaper and better CRM
Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
Yes “being vigilant” is not even actually sufficient.
I'd love to see what kind of range we can expect from that haha. Still a great achievement for BLE! I have an iPhone and often find it via saying "Hey Siri", and have sorely wished for a way to locate more "mundane" objects, and if this were to ever cost around the price of an ESP8266 it'd make that possible. (Yes there is tile and similar tags, but those are expensive, and I mean to have a tracker on a bunch of items)
What makes long term personal goals so damn hard?
And how would you know that? What is the legal definition of wealthy? Sure, he or she might wear expensive clothes and drive a Tesla, but that doesn't mean he or she is swimming in personal debt.
In the Boy Scouts troop I was in, no one was allowed to spend time at the parents/adult leaders tent. There's several obvious reasons for this, but one is to force kids, especially those who have a parent volunteering, to spend time away from them and learn some independence. I think it was a great policy.
«The exchange rates offered via PayPal are TERRIBLE»

This is why Bitcoin is not such a bad choice after all. People on HN tend to criticize the Bitcoin option for international payments, saying the combined overhead of the buyer converting his local currency to bitcoins + the overhead of the seller converting the bitcoins to his local currency is too high. But the reality is that this is still less overhead than the next best option (Paypal).
Here is a link to articles that discusses 'property release' in relation to commercial photography[0][1] and[0] includes a list of several other famous properties which enjoy similar protections as Eiffel tower does.

[0] https://help.author.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000047240...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law#Privat...
don't forget i.a. maron for calculus :)
how much is changed since those geniuses started to work in this particular field? Me coming from web full-stack dev and see how things change fast and I find myself jumping from A way to B way very quick these days. I just need to know your perception of how fast thing goes and changes on ML.