skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohhhhhhh. That makes a lot of sense- and now I'm frustrated because it probably won't ever change that much because there will always be an older generation.

I understand why people use Blender as a CAD package a lot more now, thanks!
I'm kind of tired of the trades "break your body" argument.

I think just as many bodies routinely get destroyed in office environments—especially in tech. You know the trope. Sitting all the time under artificial light breathing nasty "inside" air staring at screens in open office environments with a lot of mental stress. Etc.

In each case, blue collar or white, proper care can be taken to avoid these injuries. Especially in blue collar trades.
Windows has CryptGenRandom(), which calls into somewhat convoluted userspace CSPRNG.
I think that comparing the trades to software is a bit too coarse; there's a huge range of skill/experience/compensation variation in each.

Last week, I hired a gasfitter to do something that was straightforward, but needs to leave a paper trail. The job he did roughly equates to setting up a static website or similar - basically "turning the crank" for half a day; no fancy skills or tools. His billable rate is about twice what I made at my last local tech job; I was doing fairly fancy DSP firmware, he's got more work available than time to do it. And his rate is substantially lower than another quote I got to do the same job.

I think you're right that this is largely a "grass is greener" situation, but it's also important to look at the externalities of the options. It seems possible to have a successful trades career that rarely involves going over 40 hours/week, but it's hard to do the same in skilled software development. There's also the physical cost; working at a computer all day is super unhealthy.
I never have been big on planting, and didn't really know theee was an issue with companies holding large amounts of seeds...
How can you be so sure that new GE food is perfectly fine? Our digestive system is incredibly complex and we may not be able to know the specific interactions that is going on inside our bodies.
Not sure I agree with this. Freeways carry about 2K cars per hour per lane [0], which in the USA translates to about 2-3K people per hour per lane. Rail transit systems can serve much, much more than thas -- typically 20K to 30K per hour per track in Europe and upto 54K in NYC and 81K in Hong Kong [1].

These are actual competent train systems that run trains every couple of minutes, not the idiotic once-per-hour Caltrain.

[0] http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/EC018/08_52.p...

[1]
https://books.google.com/books?id=NbYqQSQcE2MC&pg=PA136&lpg=...
I’d mostly want to tell my younger self to invest everything I had in bitcoin.
Axios seems to me relatively new. How clickbaity do they seem?
Noob question: why would you ever want to use this instead of Wifi?
This is one of my favorite games from my childhood. If you haven't ever played it, you owe it to yourself to purchase the remastered version [1] and play it through (it's only $3.79). It's incredibly entertaining and witty. I doubt this game will ever get stale.

[1]: https://www.gog.com/game/day_of_the_tentacle_remastered
You have a point there. Although it is good to at least reach out and speak to others once in a while.
Julia is missing from the Ubuntu 18.04 repos for some reason. 16.04 is stuck at v0.45.
Things not mentioned:

Contamination from reusable bags.

Factoring in cleaning said bags.

So called single-use-bags are often reused.

https://reason.com/2019/04/11/california-plastic-bag-bans-sp...

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-...
Numerically, probably most of them.
Blue collar work isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Blue collar workers often have to pull forced overtime on weekends or weeks on end if the job needs it. I worked in a factory for the longest year of my life, and we had a rule in place that you could not be forced or voluntarily work more than 15 days in a row without a day off. And people regularly hit that limit of 15 days working 12 hours a day during busy season, sure they were getting paid overtime but it wears on you. And then if you ever need to switch jobs, you might end up on the bottom of the seniority totem pole and stuck on 2nd or 3rd shift on a non-traditional work week. We only shut down on 2 days of the year and that was Christmas day and Thanksgiving day for 24 hours.
Note sure if it's taken out of context, but I always use this quote to tell myself that I cannot make a decision that's 100% right or wrong:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7511-i-saw-my-life-branchin...
Thay seems to be a problem nowadays, title text conflicting with article content... I wonder why? More views?
No idea where, but some more snarky person described it as "Politico for kids." And I feel like that is pretty spot-on.
Sure put the tax on those who'd be commuting on this new infrastructure. However for those that live within a few miles of their job, what exactly are they gaining?

It's the same reason Bridges have a toll vs getting funds directly from property / income tax.
> Myth: ZFS requires tons of memory [...] The only situation in which ZFS requires lots of memory is if you specifically use de-duplication

It's also totally worth tons of memory when you use that feature with intent. If you use dedup in combination with automated snapshots you get the most space efficient, fast and reliable incremental backup solution in existence - yes it will consume your whole server, that's the cost (works best separately as a backup server).
Pro: You only live once. I've never regretted the chances I've taken and failed. I would have regretted it much more if I didn't take the chance.

Con: Statistically, you will fail. There are people out there with the same idea that are better funded, better connected and can move faster.

Pro: Internet projects are cheap. Infrastructure is cheap. Give me a $200/month budget , I could easily host your typical small software as a service app starting off with plenty of headroom.

Split the difference: Work and work on your side project. Even if you fail, you still have something to add to your portfolio.
Teens and early adulthood are the formative years and where most people are susceptible to peer pressure and gain an ability to make their own decision.

Therefore it's very likely that the combination of these factors are particularly powerful at enabling bad decisions in that age range.
That's entirely false.
Eventually. I had to write a test program, as small and neat as possible, that demonstrated the problem on both test and prod systems. Then I got permission to send it to IBM (with my binary, my source code, and my logs). They eventually determined it was caused by the order patches had been applied on the servers - they had the same patches, just applied in a different order.
In my opinion people tend to mute their cameras more when the chat involve big groups and/or third party to their team.

If is a team call or a small group trying to solve a problem, the chances to have the camera on are higher.

In essence, the camera gives you a more intimate feeling, and depending on the situation people are more or less inclined to it.
All of said money should be spent on public transport. Spending on single-occupant personal transport, mostly SUVs, commuters act like a gas: it will expand to fill the container: more traffic, more commuters, and more climate change. It won't do any net good to waste money on more highways.
Mental tedium is a relative luxury: it's still clean indoor work with a predictable income, and thus far preferable compared to many other options like planting rice (literally backbreaking), working in a factory repeating exactly the same physical motion over and over, scavenging through garbage, etc.

The broader point, though, is while people in the West bemoan outsourcing to poor countries as exploitative etc (and it can be!), even these "shit" jobs can be transformational. BPO has propelled literally millions of people into the middle class in both India and the Philippines.
Your first example is commonly referred to as network pruning, and is typically used to compress a model (the nodes are still there, but a sparse weights network can be stored in compressed form). It's also possible to remove nodes themselves, rather than individual weights. This is typically done on a filter level (for convnets), so that entire filters are removed.

The second example (cloning the nodes) is typically performed to improve network robustness (by avoiding important nodes a single point of failure).

To do either one during training you need dynamic graphs, so either PyTorch, or TF eager mode. Here's one filter pruning implementation: https://github.com/jacobgil/pytorch-pruning
> muting their camera

Shouldn't the verb be "blinding" in this case?
How is Amazon Lightsail not the "cloud"? In fact it gives you even less flexibility and control than managing your own EC2 instances.
> IMs occupy this weird spot between face to face conversation and a nice well-written email.

IM is great; It occupies the perfect spot where the conversation is real time but the parties don't have to immediately answer. Having 30 seconds to think in between each interaction sounds trivial but it has a _massive_ impact on the quality of the interaction.
I have a philosophy degree (strictly speaking History and Philosophy of Science) and I'm a staff software engineer at Google.

I've been doing this professionally for 25 years, and definitely my career had a slow start, it took a good nine months out of college to find my first job, which essentially served as an apprenticeship. I've certainly never had a problem with being insufficiently technical, if you can work your way through Gödels incompleteness theorem then you can work your way through PAXOS or an algorithms text book
You still want ECC to make sure the data doesn't get corrupted on the way in or on the way out. ZFS will store what you send it, and it isn't responsible for your data once in hands it to you.

The best part about ECC RAM, IMO, isn't the correction, but the checking. I want to know when my RAM goes bad, and I'd prefer to know before ZFS detects a problem.
If this was completely without any obstacles, it would have been brought to market about 50 years ago. There are obstacles for sure, but they don't sound insurmountable to me.

Salt. Salt is a problem for anything that floats on the ocean. Plenty of things do that, it's not such a deal breaker.

Bird poop. You need to either be close to some islands, or in the middle of some migration line. In the Pacific ocean there are millions of square miles that don't qualify for either of that.

Barnacles, mollusks, etc. Maybe you can get away with some special paints, or with periodic cleanup. Mauybe you need to coat the bottom of the floating structure with some film of pesticide-infused plastic. I don't know. But I'm willing to give this idea a chance to succeed. What are the alternatives? Floating nuclear power plants?
Historically, MS Flight Simulator has always had the option of a "slew" mode that basically turns off physics and lets you directly manipulate your plane's position with the controller.
MIPS Prospects (1992)
While I agree with the message, in the sense that I think IM combines the worst of both worlds, I try not to get too attached to my opinions on how we should communicate. I rarely have any say in that, and I try not to get worked up about things I have no control over.

However, it does seem (and the article doesn't stress this but I think it's important) that there are simply TOO MANY different channels of communication. Figuring out which channel that communication came through on, in order to find it, is a problem. Since getting rid of email seems impractical, as does getting rid of face-to-face, IM seems like the best one to drop.

But again, who care what I think? No one. In this case, I try not even to let me care, and save my energy for battles I might possibly win.
Wow I hope we never work together. A mature team trusts one another and assumes the best. If I got that feedback from a manager in a one-on-one I would put in notice that day. What a horrible attitude to bring to your work interactions.
It will be a long time before I trust AI to do anything of the sort. For me, I just want a simulation ATC that I can talk to with my mic that will more or less understand what I'm saying. Something to practice on.
Bay Area just needs an underground centralized subway and interconnected light rail. It's so simple and so ridiculous how power NIMBYs just always shut any progress down. Would be such a boon to the quality of living here, it's absurd we can't make this happen.
Yeah, this sounds like an article written by someone who lives in a big city and has never been to rural America. This isn't even uncommon; its pretty darn standard. Another common, similar thing you see all over (climatically appropriate) America are fruit orchards where you pay for a bag upfront and you can fill it as full as you want (or take more than the bag, or not even pay for the bag if you're dishonest).
The purpose was to temporarily, while you were in the bathroom, say what kind of bathroom it was.

If you don't care who else uses it while you're in there, dial "don't care". If a man dialed "women" and went in, he'd likely face some angry students. To my knowledge that never happened.
Keep in mind that every one of those trips has some economic purpose, so more commuters means more workers and more money in the area, even if individual travel times remain unchanged.
> That seems to be the crux - scientific papers will have to fall into two camps "blogs or basically deciphering the lab notes of everyone in your field" and "look this is a real effect and worthy of your attention"

This ignores reputation and expertise. If you’re studying the sociology of Hollywood there’s Gabriel Rossman and maybe six other people who do quantitative work. They all know each other and read each other’s work. If one of this small group has a grad student who does quantitative sociology work on rich datasets from IMDB or somewhere else they’ll be introduced at some point while doing their doctorate. He also partakes of other networks within sociology, Economic sociologists and Princeton graduates. All of these networks are relatively small and reputation and gossip travel quickly. People hear that others are good or not getting tenure, etc.

Sociology is a normal social science. Papers go from an idea to a sketch of an idea or maybe a poster to a conference paper or graduate seminar discussion to working paper before finally being published. The peer review step is the last one for the diffusion of knowledge about what’s good. If people stopped publishing in legacy journals tomorrow peer review would still happen, it’d just be post publication peer review of working papers, the system Einstein published all but three of his papers under.

You can get the second without personally wading through the lab notes of everyone in your field because if you’re trying to get attention you need to present your results and advertise them so people will care, unless they already care because you have a reputation.
When pairing I’m annoyed when a non-urgent IM or email notification pops up and I lose my pair’s focus. Some folks have their text messages and social media notifications popping up too, preventing concentration for more than a few minutes.
There are a number of approaches; since it's still relatively new, there's a lot of "playing around" with techniques.

1) The first idea is to just see which topological features persist as the filtration/threshold parameter varies. I personally find the barcode illustration, rather than the birth-death diagram, to be more intuitive in this respect. For instance, say you had LIDAR data about a vehicle. Looking at the persistent homology of this point cloud could allow you to ascertain the size and number of windows (smaller windows would have shorter persistence than larger windows, and the number of persistent bars would correspond to the number of windows or "openings" on the vehicle). This might allow you to figure out if the vehicle is a van or an SUV.

2) For applications like those in neuroscience (I like, for instance, the talk you can find on Youtube titled "Kathryn Hess (6/27/17) Bedlewo: Topology meets neuroscience") there is instead a look at how these ranks behave over time. A rough sketch is this: look at the topology of the pattern of activation in neurons as a mouse (or an AI) learns something. As the learning process happens, what happens to the Betti numbers?

3) Sometimes one might want explicit generators. A thought-provoking small case of this can be found in "Mind the Gap:A Study in Global Development through Persistent Homology" https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08593 This paper looks at statistics like GDP and infant mortality of countries around the world and find explicit oddities in the data. It's a proof of concept, to me; I'm interested to see where it'll go.

There is a lot more of course but that brings you to three interesting yet different directions.
I think there aren't enough doctors to make institutions compete (much) for business.

It's not so much that they take home an inordinate share of healthcare spending, it's that the market is severely supply constrained.
Me | part time backend node dev | Sydney | Onsite

I've got an open room in a penthouse on the beach in Sydney. Essentially I'd like you to come live in it for free and work part time on one of my open source side projects. This is the view you'd wake up to: https://i.imgur.com/3TiTwBp.jpg and the view from the other side of the apartment: https://i.imgur.com/7c3D4En.jpg . It's not bad. I've got surfboards if as well if you're into that, and the snorkeling just out front is some of the best in Sydney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKrdldogMLw

Position is from now until March. Three days a week on my project gets you a free room and free food.

About the project itself: Creating a Patreon meets Reddit kinda site. User pays $5/mo, we take $1 to run the servers without ads or tracking, then the remaining $4 gets split evenly between everything they upvoted that month. Philosphies I'm going into this with: Entirely open source, no ads ever, all analytics are purely opt-in. I'm a front end guy and right now I'm grinding my gears with the backend, so anyone that can create node apis secured with JWTs is really who I need.

If you're interested hit me up at j at jjcm.org
I personally will start using "libre" instead of "free" in relation to "free as in freedom" software. However, my comment was meant to exemplify the mentality I see at my university.

It's a mentality of "eh, it works". Of the, at this point, 50+ people I've talked to about software licensing about 3 put any merit in the libre approach. That's not scientific nor representative, but to me it's highly discouraging. Whenever my friend, who recently saw RMS talk live, talks about libre software I notice other students roll their eyes.

To be honest, I don't think most people, students or otherwise, are really even aware of what libre software and the GPL is - let alone think it's something worth investing time and energy into.
Building more roads just increases traffic: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/21/the-science-is-clear-...
> However if this bill is passed he can be extradited and tried for murder in Taiwan.

Taiwan clearly stated that they wouldn't extradite the man under this bill. This is the exact lie the government has been telling to mislead people who don't follow the news.
Where dogs wear pollution masks [video]
The desperate fight to keep old TVs alive (2018)
I resonate a lot with what you went through because I find myself thinking a lot of the same thoughts. I think it's fair to assume most people grow up wanting a family of their own but there's this constant pull between waiting to find the right person while simultaneously feeling like life is passing you by and wanting to move on to the next phase.

You're spot on when you say that a drinking problem with someone you love is very difficult to spot. It's so easily masked with cheerfulness and parties. Thank's for sharing some info, it'll help me in the future!
You'd be surprised - audio is very slow. Telephone works because we are trained to compensate and also because there are no visual cues. (Weird thing - the old analog lines were much faster than our cell phones of today.)
This is OT, but it was absolutely impossible to tap the tiny X on the "use our app" banner. It just opened the clipboard overlay no matter what I tried (Firefox Android) -- tap X, "Select All" button appears.
I'm so sick of this argument every time a ZFS article comes up.

This is by the inventor, Matthew Ahrens: “There’s nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem.”

https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...

Now give me my karma back.
I believe for most people the following applies:

Camera movement independent of what your body is feeling = vomit

Camera movement consistent with player movement = no vom

For the most part inside the cockpit of a plane or car it's not so bad (for me at least) as you're largely experiencing the same forces as your eyes make you think you should be experiencing. But as soon as I play something with a third person camera that follows something I get immediately sick (Lucky's Tale was the specific game I remember doing this to me).

YMMV of course, but you should try playing something where the only continuous movement is controlled directly by your head movement. The way VR action games usually get around this limitation is by letting you point to a spot and instantaneously teleport there.
But in mathematical derivations, when does a transpose which is not an adjoint ever show up? In many derivations we write transpose knowing that it would be the adjoint if complex numbers are used. That's at least true for most of applied mathematics, statistics, physics, etc.
Yeah, the Julia community for better or worse seems to have an attitude of “don’t get julia from a package manager, download a binary from our website or built it from source.” No doubt this has to do with the fact that releases happen quickly and it’s a giant pain in the ass to go and push binaries to all these package managers.
Density can be deceptive. Medium-density housing works just fine at one end of a public transit system, the critical issue is how often transit stops and how often people need to swap from one mode of transit or train to the next.
In addition to that, I can hold multiple "real time" conversations at once with IM, whereas with video chat I'm glued to a single topic.

These days I check my email about once a week. I do almost everything business oriented over IM.
A great reminder of what life was like in ww2 and what we should strive to prevent in our own times.
“People don’t want [this thing millions of people use, around which entire industries exist. And which is the only effective way of assessing a restaurant you’ve never been to personally.]”

If I could reach through the internet right now I would.
Yeah, there are so many entirely separate "software industries" where life is so completely different, it's crazy.

If you hate your job, don't just accept "this is how the industry is". Look around a bit and you might find a corner of it that's more to your liking.

Of course, some of the nicer parts are "by invitation only". Once you've proven yourself to the right people, you might get invited to work on the saner and more fun projects.
Do you have any links where we explore such prototypes?