skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this is a case of pareidolia.

While I believe it is credible, Michaelangelo would have seen dissected corpse, I don't think a brain cross section would have been that detailed at that time.

Looking at Da Vinci sketch below, it does not look that similar anymore :

https://neurosciencenews.com/da-vinci-brain-knowledge-11070/
Link to the DevWheels Licence https://devwheels.com/

https://devwheels.com/motivation
Earthquakes and other geological events can speed up rotation though, but so far never enough to remove a leap second.
Status page _finally_ updated: https://status.digitalocean.com/
Digital transformation churn:Why the digital transformation fail rate is so high
they would ask them for identification just like they did with this guy
So it boils down always to moral choices - hence the whole problem is basically a problem of moral systems.

Why do you build wind barriers? Same reason for prisons - to prevent future things. As best as you can. Now is that a deterministic, chaotic, stochastic or purely random but stable process - do we care that much?

Should the fact that you want to punish/reward influence how you interpret the universe and logic?

Human centric always free will is...
The Country That Exiled McKinsey and Co
Most? 50%? I don't think this is correct.
I think you're totally right to walk out on puzzle questions. But if you avoid companies that make sure you can program, aren't you worried about the skills of your colleagues?
Because of this, at this time we will not be releasing our research, model or datasets publicly.

Has OpenAI's handling of GPT-2 inadvertently provided political cover for commercial organizations who would love to claim they engage with the ML research community but would actually prefer to contribute nothing other than medium articles?
Not really in this case. If you go to the job you like saying that the shitjob offered you 2x the salary... and they call your bluff? Now what? Take the shit job you are not going to take? For that you could have bluffed with an empty hand anyway.
It might be because we were sent out of class so often?
Also, while it is no excuse, English is my second language, and I did poor in school as explained before.
I also admit that my focus was on sharing something I've not shared before, which I've found difficult to share before.
I think it’s badly worded and you can read how I parsed it in my comment, it’s a guess, but otherwise the rest of the comment makes zero sense.
Original submission found on reddit [0]

Here is a summary if you don't want to read the full text (which contains a nice historical overview with screenshots).

Hiker's initial involvement with STK:

> I discovered TuxKart in 2006 after installing the latest SUSE distribution [...]

> I tried to look for the community developing SuperTuxKart, only to learn that the project had been basically dead and the game in an unplayable state for over one year.

His explanation for stepping down:

> the newer team members preferred to pursue a faster-paced development style with fewer reviews, less documentation, less oversight and a reduced need for consensus

Team members Auria (co-leader) and Arthur (social media manager) also decided to step down.

Team members Benau and Alayan have been elected as new team leaders.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/bpb44y/supert...
4. My use case was: If you have a some what fuzzy parsing problem that is harder than a single regexpr and needs backtracing, and then generate a report from it.

For these things TXR is great.

If you want to do multi threading or best performance it's probably not the thing to use.
Being eaten by a dingo is a strawman.

Given two people in the same place with the same opportunity you will see the difference. Yes chaos can happen and create challenges. Genius rises above it.
It's a newspaper article, the aim is to raise awareness. People should read this and wonder if/how it applies to their company.

It's easy to forget how the lowest-paid in a company are often key people in having operations run smoothly. If they have trouble paying their bills, often on sick-leave, etc, it can have an impact on everyone else (causing delays, quality issues or security issues). Ideally, you invest in fixing both the technical and the underlying social issues.
Yeah, free will is perhaps our sensed experience of the process you describe (the interaction between trillions of neurons, 10 to the power of 29 atoms in that exact non-linear fashion!)
Seeing people hunt for keys with one or two index fingers - not when writing something profound, requiring of thought, but simply filling out forms - is incredibly frustrating. I'm going to argue they can't type when they're still using the keyboard as if it's the first day they saw one.

A day or two spent learning to type would pay itself back with dividends.

I put in the ground work for touch typing at school on the good old typewriters; it was certainly the best extra curriculum subject I've ever done.
Way off topic, but as someone who has recently switched to using a non-standard background color in my browser... that page is horrendous to read:

https://i.imgur.com/pvCnmSa.png

I can accept that doing something non-standard leads to some rough edges like this, but i'm not sure how many web developers know this is an issue. At least it has surprised me how many websites have this issue of assuming the default color is bright white.
Dr Hannah Critchlow: ‘Changing the way that you think is cognitively costly’
You could argue the same with anything: food, energy, cars, electronics etc... In time of war everything counts but I thought we are not at war...are we? Is it free trade, fair justice, human rights etc or "national security" and "our interests"?
What's the copyright situation in America anyway? I can't see company lawyers over here be comfortable with using code written outside formal employment.
Letting a media company design and build a nuclear power plant when they have precisely no experience in that sphere seems dumb to me.
Maybe not the dhabas since there wasn’t any long distance road transportation in 1890’s in India. However, train stations - at least some of the really old ones may have something. Apparently there’s one with its original 1856 structure still in operation - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royapuram_railway_station
If you hadn't yet, I recommend picking up his book of poetry that was posthumously released along side his longtime friend Ken MacLeod's poems. A lot of it is Banks to the core, including the humor. My favorite is cynically titled "Love Poem":

Serene,

In a world full of troubles.

i.e. doing nothing about it.
Personally I can't do more than 2-3 hours of genuine "deep work" per day. That is high quality, focused, immersed thinking on a difficult problem and writing code.

IMO people who work a large number of hours each week get cognitively slowed. They can't tell they've slowed down (partly because they don't have a control to compare against) and so think that if you do 80 hours per week you'll do twice as much as if you do 40 hours per week. You won't, you'll do less.

Executives who think the best way to measure business performance is by how much your employees are sat at their desks are idiots.
Perhaps people should also consider ergonomics. QWERTY tends to require a lot more finger movement.

http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main

Over a lifetime this might lead to RSI.
Texas Instruments to build $3.1B manufacturing plant in Richardson
Yeah, it may translate into, "well, if I work with this person, are they going to spend way too much on details that I don't need and burn themselves out just trying to please me?" Part of working is being able to be assertive and say "ok, for only 4-5 hours, here's what I was able to do for you, so now let's figure out next steps".
Voice recognition will continue to improve but even for those situations where using it is appropriate, typing has a random access aspect with writing that you don't really have with voice. (Though, to be sure, I assume giving dictation will probably become a skill that many people acquire again.)

But, yes, typing properly is probably a worthwhile skill to have. It's something I'm a bit sorry I never learned properly. (Also shorthand.)
So you are saying people are trained to be personally responsible?

I agree with that. The US has been training people to blame others for several decades now. The difference is obvious
Think of it this way: would you teach your kids Esperanto instead of the native tongue in your country?

Perhaps without realising it, the question you're asking is, "Should I teach my kids the thing that will help them in society as it exists or should I teach them a potentially superior but less applicable alternative?"
Well, she told us to write it down, not how, she could have asked me to run and print it instead. At that age, I still had a sense of wonder about the world, and I thought exploring it was why we were here. I didn't understand that conforming was more important that exploring, but I understand that now.
Are there any newsletter or campaign mail service that automatically schedule amount of mails so that they will not blocked? Say I'll going to send the first volume of newsletter to 10K email address (not a cold mail, they are our users).
Matrices as Tensor Network Diagrams
It's great if you do it as long as you pay for it. I was doing a 1 week payed interview at Coinbase. I was not hired, but my memories of the interview process are great.
Well, we already have Expires for marking responses as stale in cache, and it's also takes just a date string, so things could get confusing there.
Instagram is killing Direct, its standalone Snapchat clone app
I presume there exists a documented way to print them so that everything lines up properly.
I think it is a bigger issue of signaling. Just like going to Harvard or Stanford. Proving you are "good" enough to get a job at FAANG get you pay and RSU but then also sets you up for all future opportunities.
Impressive (really), but it raises a more philosophical question (as in practical ethics): do we really want voice-bots to blend in perfectly, or should they better feature distinctive marks (like a rather monotonous personality)?

[Edit: This is not so much about DeepFakes, as discussed in the article, but more about a general level of implementation.]
I agree that believing free-will exists can be advantageous when being confronted with choices and alternative timelines. Believing that you have no autonomy can lead to situations where you don't weigh different possibilties at a given moment in time. In general, it's... deflating?

The problem for me is that there are an innumerable amount of solutions to any given choice. You have to narrow these down subconsciously. Tracing back all of the reasons why you didn't consider all these choices that were implicitly ruled out, for me, ends up at birth, and I'm pretty sure I didn't have a choice in being born.
> At grade 3, a lot of the value in homework is simply in learning how to do homework correctly.

In other words: turning the respective pupil into a virtuously working machine.
I am somewhat of a mixed bag myself - certainly not to those extremes but above average. On the autistic spectrum and - withim normal developmental time tables but I had a habit of unthreading myself from infant car seats repeatedly and an unusually far back memory. I always remember being able to read but lacking much of an attention span for it.

I will refrain from the "G"-word and say I went to college at 16 and skipped trigonometry because I knew enough about SOH CAH TOA to work around the other details - it was just a subset of geometry so I didn't get why it was considered the more advanced class. B-average Computer Engineering student. Not the best luck with careers or self starting with side projects - late ADHD diagnosis which in retrospect made sense didn't come up too much because I found most of the stuff interesting.

Anyway my personal suspicion is that much of the curse comes from mismatch with society and its paradigms and the difficulty of finding kindred spirits.

It often feels like the masses are barking mad and yet you are the crazy one for pointing out it makes no goddamned sense.

Like charging a teen as an adult - especially for status offenses like sexting. Practically nobody questions the hypocrisy of "treated as a minor until we find it convenient otherwise" or takes the "insufficiently functioning brain argument" to give a cut off age to elder votes because we can't trust them to be fulky functioning mentally.

Or the interviewing process judging people on suits and posture is batshit insane, that they find people incapable of or not mimicking their tone less trustworthy for being insufficiently deceptive and more.
Speaker-independent auditory attention decoding without access to clear sources
For some reason its the ones with all the expensive equipment that get me. The MRI machine, rows of motorcycles - all presumably instant scrap. Obviously the human loss is greater, but that's not really the focus of these photos.
Interesting lisp’y language. Off topic, but I find the domain name nongnu.org to be amusing for a GNU/FSF web site. “nongnu” to me reads as “not gnu”
Well, now we know what's going to happen to all that Alexa voice data.
The Folio Society’s Stunning Edition of a Game of Thrones Is Coming in July
You can be bilingual in layouts.

I first learned QWERTY without any training, I needed to type for school and I wasn’t gonna hunt and peck. Then I decided to try out Dvorak for comfort and never looked back. (Though the experience was painful to switch over after years of QWERTY)

I can still type QWERTY, in fact that’s what I use on my tablet with my thumbs, it’s a great layout for thumb typing, rarely do I find my fingers reaching over one another and I can type without looking at my screen.

That said, for physical tacticile button pressing, I much prefer Dvorak, even without labels (typing on a MacBook keyboard for example, I ignore the QWERTY printed layout) I don’t have difficulty. It’s all about the physical sensation and which mode or language or whatever gets invoked in my head.

I cannot type QWERTY effectively on MacBook keyboards or on most mechanical ones now, because of how they feel and what I use that feel for. But if it’s a cheapo Logitech or dell keyboard that you find at public locations and at work, there is barely a moment of conflict.
> you'd want multiple review chances.

Since political whims can very on a frequent basis, such reviews should require consensus over time to have an effect. Ie. 3 successive presidents must decide the constitution is a bad idea before it can be abolished, etc.
There's a reason they're doing it in London first. In a wealthy city like London you can get away with going full "law and order" because the ratio of rich to poor is better (i.e more rich people) and the rich generally view this as no threat to them. Then once it's normalized they roll it out to Liverpool, Belfast and everywhere else that the poors are less under the thumb of the government.

You see this in the US. Boston, DC, New York, etc are littered with surveillance cameras and ALPRs. Once it's normalized they'll roll it out to places like New Bedford, Norlfolk and Buffalo and all the other places where the government (as an organization, not as individuals) feels its respected less.
> If I had to choose between being doomed to RSI or encountering keyboard incompatibilities every now and then, I would not pick RSI lightly.

Is the situation with QWERTY really that dire?
Super Mario Maker 2 news dump: Finally, Mario gets an online-versus mode
Guinness World Records was purchased by an entertainment company in 2001 and it's been a shitshow ever since. They ditched the old doorstopper reference book in favor of a big line of glossy picturebooks that contain only a few hundred records on a single subject each. They make up contrived records specifically for whatever's cool at the moment just to get mentioned in articles like this one, for free advertising.

I see them a lot in gaming articles, with shit like "Most voiced lines of dialogue in a single-player RPG" (Fallout: New Vegas) and "Longest unbroken cutscene sequence" (Metal Gear Solid 4). Nobody applied for these records; someone at Guinness researches popular games to find any random statistic that might be unique. My guess is that's what happened here--someone decided that vegetarianism is hot right now and went looking for records, without too much concern for their relevance or accuracy.
Or you could memorise the ascii codes and type e.g. alt+[keypad] 0248 => ø.

Edit: Is that what GP Bjelkeman meant by "option key combos"?
> Why do you think we don't know how to deal with it properly?

Is this a serious question?

We bury it underground in vast bunkers with hundreds of warnings and ominous-looking signs inteded to warn people thousands of years into the future not to fucking open the thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...

Of course we don't know how to handle it. We basically dump nuclear waste in glorified landfills. Look how great that turned out for our regular waste that doesn't pose the grave threat of biological/ecological hazard.
Dvorak. I know 5 people, including myself, that switched to Dvorak and none of us regretted it or switched back.

It's not about speed, at least for me, but reducing stress on fingers and prevent inflammation and RSI.

Touch-typing comes easier with Dvorak. Even better if you use a Dvorak layout on a querty keyboard: there's no point in looking at the keys and this is also good for back/neck posture.

Please ignore all the people who insist on using qwerty without having had at least a year of Dvorak use experience.
I hope they find the 1% top developers that can fix gmail interface.
Or it'll just scare away perfectly qualified people with reasonable expectations about the job because the interview process was absurd.
I wonder how you'd avoid this, even if parliament had the inclination.

Would private face recognition be banned too? Very soon a CCTV setup without face recognition will be out of date.

Computer vision-ey stuff is maturing and the list of "trivial" is getting long. It'll probably be implemented in most camera applications. Face recognition, object recognition, all manner of classification.

Once your phone organizes and hyperlinks photos this way, it'll seem weird to deny police.

I'm not denying there're major rights issues associated with this, just that the technology is set to become so ambient.
Psychopathy in the Workplace
Nothing has really changed since then. That scenario still exists. We acquire tons of companies that have the equivalent of what you're describing.
Bill Buzbee is a goddamn legend
“The guy told them to p off and then they gave him the £90 public order fine for swearing,”*

This is a common use of laws in the United Kingdom. They put lots of laws on the books around trivial things that they almost never enforce on their own, but then which officers arbitrarily use in "convenient" situations like this. The average person swearing in the street will not be accosted, someone arguing with a cop who wants to make a point will.
Maybe, or maybe not. I think the first concern is that everybody should be able to eat, have a roof over their heads, and have the freedom to focus on other things. I think it's definitely healthy for a society if the poor are able to save some money so their life doesn't immediately collapse on a rainy day. Once that's sorted, I'm all for investigating all the maybes.
Yeah, adding a button to a codebase is an awful test.

If someone made it to an onsite and you don’t know whether they can add a button in swift, something failed in your screening process. If you’re testing how someone navigates a codebase, you can just look at it with them, and let them drive the chat.

If you’re testing an engineer for a serious job, do an algorithms test. If you’re testing an engineer for a specific thing, test that specific thing. Both of those should be handled in the screen, not the onsite.

IMHO, the onsite is about seeing how people think. Whether you can jam a button into a repo doesn’t tell me whether you can think or not. I guess it tells me whether you get flustered, but it’s pretty unfair to design things that are impossible just to see if people break.

That candidate turned out to be awesome but I remember the interviewer telling me after they interviewed them “well, they couldn’t add the button, but as they were doing it, I realized I wouldn’t be able to add the button either so my interview was inconclusive”, and I replied “well it sounds like you need to design a better interview question”. The worst part was, the interviewer spent the first 20 minutes of the interview talking with the candidate before giving them 25 minutes to add the button!!

There’s a question we gave candidates really early on which we no longer do because it biases towards math nerds that I absolutely loved. It’s based on a movie called 13 Tzameti. I’m probably screwing it up because it isn’t my question but it’s basically like this:

You’re in a dark room after being abducted by a gang. The lights come on and there’s 12 other people in the room in a circle and everyone has a revolver with 1 bullet in it (6 slots in the chamber). Your instructions are to spin the chamber on the revolver and, when the lights go out, shoot the person to your right in order.

What are the odds you make it to the next round?

It’s a crazy question and, what’s even crazier is that for some reason, as you increase the number of people in the circle, the odds of making it to the next round converge on 1/e. No one has figured that out in the interview. Also no one has figured out why it converges on 1/e so if you have any ideas, let me know.

I like this question because it shows you how free thinking people are. I dislike this question because it biases towards smartasses and probability nerds.
These HDVs (hyperdimensional binary vectors) sound a lot like the SDRs (sparse distributed representations) that Numenta talks about with their HTMs (hierarchical temporal memory).

Wow, what a lot of TLAs.
Thanks for putting it so eloquently

The tech crowd sometimes misses the network effects of common solutions that might not be "the best" (and I'm really really skeptical that Dvorak is better)
How is that even remotely related to the job at hand?

Why would you sabotage possible good candidates just so you can get your needless debate rocks off?
It was a point about survivorship bias in the most blunt and literal way. Not all challenges may be risen above. I agree that they can rise above but not always.
> All the standard business knowledge and tech knowledge that is common knowledge today had not yet been figured out.

You're right about that. The lean startup, "there's no truth in the office", Minimum Viable Product concepts just weren't a thing back then, they would have saved one of the companies I worked for if the founders had known and accepted them. Instead they spent way too much time in stealth mode, hired a corporate lawyer to get them a bogus patent, were way too worried about competitors instead of ever getting traction for their idea, spent too much time debating details of the website, and who would pay what for precisely what sort of service, and too much upfront engineering to handle a huge demand which didn't materialize due to sabotage by the last round of investors who were found in desperation half a year before launch.
AvE on youtube came to the same conclusion 2 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cexN2-T6dxY

And a follow-up after new pictures became available further confirms this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wo7J_buZUE

The article makes it seem like it's a common practice in the industry. Pretty scary! I don't really understand how it saves time, though... I'd think the bottleneck is the heavy-lift crane, isn't it?
Uh, there are no biohazard implications to this incident. It's not a hot zone of contagion.
Methinks you didn't read GP correctly. They took a 2-4 hr task and let the interviewee take 4 days, not including weekends.