skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turing Tumble [0], where you trick pieces of plastic into doing arithmetic.

Kinda weird how a computer chip is 'just' a rock (molten sand) scared into calculating stuff for us by flashing it with bright lights and nasty chemicals. (OK, glossing over some minor details)

[0] https://www.turingtumble.com/
I feel like this isn't so much a thing and just a reflection of what the writer happened to be paying attention to.

I don't see anyone bragging about IQ tests and I don't think Zuckerberg was ever some iconic type developer whose choices reflect on all developers. These are weird things to me.

I attend free conferences where people take their time to share their knowledge and work, the web is full of those people trying to help each other.

Personally I think things are good and better than when I took my first shot at being a developer in the mid 90s when the social outcast type coding guy felt very real and very unfriendly.
There is no such thing. Just like “it’s different this time” economic booms.

The best result of a bubble is either a gradual deflation (prick it and let the air out slowly), or keep it from popping until demand can catch up.
And how do you solve this chicken and egg problem? Declare autonomy peacefully -> get drowned with nukes. Declare autonomy with war -> be labeled a terrorist and get drowned with nukes. So, geopolitics have reached their final, permanent stage forever?
Microsoft teases its secret dual-screen Surface device
...why? How could there possibly be utility in a corpsicle when you could much more easily achieve the same thing with AI?
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Isn't it weird that people have intimate discussions on billboards next to massive highways and then get surprised when strangers pay attention?
It depends on what algorithms you use in AutoML. If you decide to use simple algorithms: logistic regression, decision tree, random forest then you will have a simple model very quickly. Using Neural Networks in AutoML requires much more computational resources.
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Maybe it’s about engineering in general. The marketing or project manager types I know personally definitely have a much simpler hiring process. They don’t have to study algorithms ahead or do homework projects.
You’re assuming magic.
Remember when Venmo
That came later.

The USSR drained everything else to keep the space program and the military at a high level until it fell.

Once it fell, I'm pretty sure most of those researchers ran wherever they could, as fast as they could.
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EU has also project that tries to combat disinformation

EU vs Disinformation campaign

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/
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25 cups of coffee in a day sure seems like an unhealthy amount of caffeine.

it seems the only factor they were checking for (?) was arterial stiffness? if you're arteries aren't stiff but you're hyped and anxious out of this world and have a very elevated heart rate... not sure the stiffness is what matters anymore

1 cup typical drip coffee = ~70-120mg caffeine

25 cups = ~1750-3000mg caffeine

Examine (https://examine.com/nutrition/caffeine-consumption/) recommends up to 400mg/day as safe for healthy adults as in "most healthy people won't experience side effects at this level". It seems like 1000mg is the "beginning" of toxicity for a healthy person. Of course, half-life and time between consumption of different sources makes a difference too.

But 1500, 2000+ in a day? Phew, maybe I'm overly cautious but that just seems unwise for anyone
> How is that reconciled? How does one know when the government is being truthful versus being propagandists?

If there are multiple conflicting narratives, at least some people will be motivated to do more research to resolve the contradiction. If the government is being more truthful, its statements can point to resources that provide independent verification, accelerating the process. At a minimum that will blunt the effect of the lies.
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If you had understood the business model and how it really makes money, would that have changed your mind on joining? Or more give you more info to succeed once you were an employee?

Got any examples?
One word, my man: ROBOTS.

Cloud platforms, microservices, and B2B messaging applications are boring to kids, but kids love robots. So showcase something that can move, interact, and be programmed. It can be built out of Lego, or something premade like a drone or Robosapien that's been hacked to be controlled by a Raspberry Pi using Python or whatever. Set it up so that you can "live-code" and take input from kids as to what to make the robot do.

But if you can, do something with a robot. Robots are more inherently, immediately exciting than just about any other computer application, even video games -- even to adults. I spent four years working at well below market rates at a robotics company just to have the opportunity to mess with and program cool hardware.
"Health" here is a soft term to mean "won't kill you quickly or effect your tissue for a long time".

Talking about the effect of healthy hearts obscures the effects. I am in stage 2 heart failure (as I have been for a long time). I cannot drink coffee, as it aggravates the tissue.

The study can say whatever it wants about coffee (without caffeine), but the effect of 100mg of caffeine on the heart is detrimental. That dread is the same as many heart-attack-precursor feelings (also documented in EMT training), that racing heart rate is aggravation of the left atrium, that shaking is the fight-or-flight adrenaline (which is what makes us feel good). This looks like a proletariat study. "Sure you can drink as much coffee as you want, as long as you feel good about producing. It's fine until it isn't."
I'm not sure why, but doing a Google search for that character gives interesting results
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I read it and would give it a mild recommendation for the layperson that holds onto old misconceptions about mental illness and psychiatry (eg that depression is a deficit of serotonin).

That guardian article doesn’t really refute anything Hari says, it mostly complains that what Hari says is well understood by modern mental health practitioners, which is true but he’s not writing for mental health practitioners.
Without difficulties induced by scale. Some sorts of businesses will hit scale issues with excel, but many will not.

The baseline difficulty of using excel is not what I'm talking about and I don't consider it relevant since experience has proven that baseline difficulty is not much of an obstacle to real adoption.
Espresso shots. Yes, there are some of us that enjoy coffee. In certain countries within Europe, I saw people drink coffee after dinner...didn't make any sense to me, but it seemed to be a common cultural thing.
Oh gosh I just realized I don't have the self control to teach children. Context: I'm a software engineer.

All my explanations would be the "realistic" but kinda sarcastic answers.

Computer Engineer - Copy's pastes code until it works.

Rocket Scientists - Spend 50% of the time designing rockets, and 50% of their time hoping the rocket doesn't explode.

Locomotive Engineer - Whoops this isn't a real engineer! /s /s
That's not how ML works. You need to acquire labeled data to train on.
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This is disingenuous. The store next door isn't providing you with any services beyond the grocery transactions you engage in. A country, on the other hand, largely does. If you actually move from one country to another legitimately, cut ties with the former, and engage solely with the services of the latter, then no one's going to accuse you of tax evasion either. Governments are much less transactional than it's often popular to make them out to be, because there are whole lot of background, foundational services that they provide the people seem to like to pretend simply appear out of thin air.
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I don't think myopia is a good analogy. When it comes to vision, the target is well-defined. Better vision is, well, better. Myopia is unambiguously a defect and (AFAIK) has no advantages. Curing someone of myopia wouldn't change the person. Neither do glasses, they're an external tool -- not part of the organism.

Mental illness is different. A person isn't their eyes but arguably, they are their mind. Treating a personality disorder, in particular, obviously has to change the patient's personality.

It is also not necessarily just a defect. Sometimes it's a pattern of behaviors that is perfectly appropriate for certain situations -- but very bad in the current ones. Whereas bad vision is never good.
This is not a new problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_the_...

Look into it’s history and Walt Disney has been training animators for decades. It’s a deep skill that is takes significant time to master, so you need an actual pipeline.

Continuing the idea, NASA trains astronauts. They don’t need very many world wide, but they need a few and the only way to get them is to train these people.

I could go on, but outside of a months to few years for absolutely new fields shortages are by design.
There's no reason you can't do both: prototype a simple model to get a baseline performance, then use AutoML to fine-tune it, plus you now have a value to sanity check against.

Those hours of hyperparameter search aren't blocking. You can do other things while it's searching, or do the search when not actively using the resources (e.g. overnight).
"Oppression Cars" sounds pretty fitting as far as any above average height occupants are concerned.
I don't know why nobody mentions this, but if you DO unbundle a feature from excel, it is exceptionally hard to compete on ubiquity. Excel is cheap, and even if you replace part of the functionality, nobody will ever actually beat the price.

Personally, I wish I had an excel-like interface for Python/Pandas. Instead of sheets, give me modular data frames, and give me a nice GUI for data import/export/connection.

But, the best feature of excel is that the interpreter is built in. No version control, no wondering which version of whatever library is installed. If it is excel, it (mostly) works when I send a file to someone.

Most of the time, I use excel because the SaaS tools that I have that do a better job have a per/seat cost that is MUCH too high for me to bring casual, one time people into the projects. If companies were more sensible about licenses for casual users, maybe excel would be less relevant.
"Frankly none of the Google Docs offerings holds a candle to Microsoft Office"

Word and Excel are great for individual productivity. If you use documents and spreadsheets as tools for collaboration, though, Google Docs is much much better overall, even though it's missing many features to which power users have become accustomed.

Sure, you can save a file to OneDrive and have multiple people working on it at the same time. But:

- In my experience, simultaneous editing via OneDrive (whether using the browser or the desktop apps) is more laggy and buggy than with Google Docs

- The commenting functionality is missing lots of features that are essential to my desired collaboration workflow:

i) Ability to give someone access to add comments and suggest changes, but not to accept changes or edit directly

ii) Comment authors are identified, and only they can edit comments they have written

iii) Comments can be received and replied to by email.

The way commenting works in Google Docs encourages collaboration in a way that the simple comments in Word doesn't. If you've not worked somewhere that uses Google Docs for collaboration, it can be hard to know what you're missing.
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I know more than one company with revenues >$1B where P&L roll-ups are still done manually in Excel.

A lot of companies don’t want to invest in tech they don’t control or understand.
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"70s and early 80s when the number of jobs was shrinking"

That's very interesting. Got any cites for that? Would like to explore. Thx.
That's why the free press is imperative. It sort of "lends confidence" to anything the government puts out. It keeps them honest, because they know they'll be torn a new one if they put out falsehoods.

The USA technically has this as well but the existence of entertainment shows billing themselves as news, such as "Fox News," has found a way around this system - foment distrust of everyone BUT "your side" for a full generation, and no amount of fact checking will unseat your viewers' biases.

Taiwan doesn't have this problem yet, but it is a very small place compared to the USA, and as the article indicates its free press is very young. I'm very curious how they'd handle the uprising of an organization like Fox or Breitbart.
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I was thinking the exact same thing. It seems that it changed as soon as people writing online started trying to make a living out of blogging.