skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You call it teleology. Other people call it story-telling.

Unless there's hard evidence to lift it above story-telling, it's just as unlikely to be true as any other comforting story.

The scientific basis for that is something called "narrative pseudo-logic". Brains seem to be something of a story machine. Unfortunately the bar for story plausibility is shockingly low, which is why humans believe all kinds of strange and wildly contradictory things about where the universe came from and what it's for.

The point of empiricism is to break out of narrative pseudo-logic and find stories that are reliably and consistently true when tested - not just stories that sound like they should be true because we want them to be, or we like them, or we're not imaginative enough to consider that they might simply be wrong.
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Now someone may report to be an atheist and report that they have a moral outlook that involves respect for fellow man. I guess I won't insist that its Religion; I simply insist its not Science that is giving them their moral outlook.

When people claimed that god exists, then it is a claim that can be challenged. If someone claimed that Jesus Christ came to back to life, then it is a claim that can be challenged.

Ditto for system of morality where certain aspects can be subjected to empirical testing.

It's intellectually dishonest to say that Christians or some other religion X have no claims that could be subjected to scientific scrutiny.
The rise of Medium thought pieces/MOOCs has created the conception that data science jobs are a 40-hours-a-week Kaggle competition, whereas the reality is much, much different/less exciting to write thought pieces about. (I wrote a blog post last year about that phenomena: https://minimaxir.com/2018/10/data-science-protips/ )
Isn't bleeding Google of a few billion an important component, if this plan also bleeds all their competitors of a few billion? I mean, all of their competitors have a lot less money than them, so the fact that Google also gets placement for free is what makes this uniquely comical.

If we're trying to break up the search monopoly, Google should be paying other search engines to be in it's setup flow, so the money is going to the companies that need it.
How about using a title that points to the real problem?

"Google needs scheduled new app releases". Seems like a pretty good way to "fix" this, but I guess it wouldn't drive much traffic.
That movie was mentioned in the article.
I didn't understand what you were talking about offhand and thought range might be the value of the stored/searched data, not a pointer arithmetic issue.

When the array/list consumes a memory footprint larger than ptrdiff_t it was possible that the specific implementations might fail. It is crucial to remember that the difference between memory address is signed and that the size of objects (even if bare machine integers of some size) in the set might be displayed as a number smaller than one of the powers of two many recall.

On a 32 bit machine this wouldn't be approx 2 billion but rather often 500M 32 bit words or 250M-ish 'double' precision numbers. Let alone if the search is over more complex structures representing objects. For a smaller 16-bit embedded system I could even more readily see this occurring.
Thank you! So well put!

I would tie it in with what Martin Buber called "I and Thou"

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

> Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways:

> 1, The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.

> 2. The attitude of the "I" towards "Thou", in a relationship in which the other is not separated by discrete bounds.

> One of the major themes of the book is that human life finds its meaningfulness in relationships. In Buber's view, all of our relationships bring us ultimately into relationship with God, who is the Eternal Thou.

Also, "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

In a nutshell, the things that neurons do to think happen between non-neural cells all the time.

Consider also the "wood wide web" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycorrhizal_network

Not to put too fine a point on it, but these things think in just the same way that neurons think. Life is purposeful.

To me it seems clear the scientific attitude pushes us toward a kind of animism.

I'm too excited to put this well, sorry!
Revenue is not profit. Only a percentage will go to Google. It is still a big number and certainly profitable, but developing/maintaining the store and Android are both very expensive.
Sometimes it seems all nature documentaries are implicitly becoming (unintentional) sequels to Last Chance to See. Maybe they should just start opening with the line: we're recording this so we'll know what it was like after it's gone.
Except when grant funding and peer approval is on the line, of course. Which is always.
Use a vaccum/suction cup mount. It should hold well enough.
> data science usually means a pay bump

That’s interesting. I’m at one of F/G and a lot of the data scientists want to go the other direction to software engineering because we receive about 60% of the RSUs that they do. A few people on my team actually did switch; they said they found the data science work more interesting but an additional $40-100k per year can make a really big difference over the long run.
I feel like you can either

a. Have your name tied to your Hackernews profile

b. Have your bank account security question tied to your Hackernews profile

You appear to have done both, which does not seem like an excellent idea.
What do you find is the solution to this problem? How do you remain productive? Genuinely curious since I am merely a Rust dilettante
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School choice: spend money upgrading a system that seems to be "fine", spend time and money training personnel on how to use the new system, and cut classes of your choice angering parents.

Or, just keep doing what they've been doing.

Seems like a pretty obvious choice, even if it doesn't feel "right"
Even in research, when everyone else is zigging, it may be time to start zagging and pursue alternatives. Neural nets have a lot of attention, but maybe competitors will show sufficient promise once enough research is done. For example, Factor Tables:

https://github.com/RowColz/AI

Most of the research on early semiconductors focused on germanium. Manufacturers got pretty good at preparing it, but some started looking to silicon as a promising alternative. Germanian had a head start due to experience, but silicon research started paying off after a while. Lesson: the early leader may not be the best finisher.
Carbon pollution is not the only type of pollution that environmentalists care about. I'm not a fan of the paper straws either, but it is entirely possible that a switch from plastic to paper straws increases carbon usage but decreases plastic pollution to the extent that it is an overall net positive for the environment.
> There are no rules against exaggerating information about a company you don't operate.

I doubt that this reflects the regulatory complexity. "Everything is securities fraud" as Matt Levine often says.
I'm glad to see that article is slowly making the rounds through circles such as this. The implications of the facts presented by that author should terrify anyone concerned about the future of the US and yet the clearly detrimental practices of a company like TransDigm are virtually unreported despite investigations conducted against them at the highest level. The picture painted by Stroller and Kunce is very bleak, so bleak in fact, that I'd say part of the reason issues like this go unreported is because there would be mass panic should the public at-large ever become aware of just how broken everything is.
Recursive Self-Simulation (2017)
Pastbin is pretty easy
It's weird - the last company I worked at (and ran IT for about 4 years had everything behind a firewall (like you are describing) - the current gig that I started at about 18 months ago (with about 80 employee) - no concept of a firewall. The entire office just sits behind a Comcast Modem. There is nothing to firewall. Atlassian/Salesforce/GitHub/CircleCI/Gmail/GoogleDocs/Drive/Slack/Lots of K8S and about 15-20 other cloud services make up our "IT" environment. There is zero difference to working from home to working from the office from a tech perspective.
OP here. Google offers no way to submit an app for approval in advance. You can upload a build as early as you like, but they won't start reviewing it until you try to go live. Then the app will go live immediately after approval.

In the past, we've handled this by submitting the app for review 24 hours in advance; luckily, that turned out to be just enough time to make our app go live this afternoon.

Google offers a “timed publishing” feature, but it only works for app updates, not for new apps. If Google is going to put apps through a multi-day review process, we need timed publishing for new apps as well.
Genuine question, if usernames are unique what is the problem with using them as the primary key of the table instead of an arbitrary value from a sequence, you also get the bonus of not needing a unique constraint on the username column.
He’s not wrong though.
When does that become victim blaming? If you left your garage open and a thief stole something from it, it's your fault for being irresponsible but that does not absolve the thief of his wrong-doing.

In this case, this child knew what he was doing was wrong and continued to do so. His motivations were clearly to use the vulnerabilities in the software as a hedge to his burgeoning career in the security industry. He put people's jobs on the line and caused grave embarrassment to the school district for his own selfish motives.
Which study would that be? This one [1] concludes “both the “ideological sorting” and “vote-buying” hypotheses are able to explain the positive correlations observed between PAC contributions and voting behavior.”

In other words, vote buying is not necessarily why votes correlate with contributions along policy lines.

Fact: You can be a CEO.

Fact: You can be elected to vote on laws.

Fact: There is no financial or divine right requirement to run for office or be a CEO.

[1] https://www.ifs.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Bronars-1997-...
That doesn't fix anything, it just changes the problem. I guarantee a popular post with a title like that would get comments saying "it already has them" from people that didn't read the article and don't know about the new review process and mandatory wait.

Situations simply can't be covered well in a single sentence. That's a big part of why Twitter is such a terrible platform for discussing anything of substance, there's no room for context.
There are many. Unfortunately both the domain-knowledge requirement and switching costs are very high. It's hard for a newcomer to break in, and once they have there's little incentive to keep updating the product. The result is a succession of companies and products that were probably fine for the time when they were introduced, but quickly seem dated as the rest of the industry evolves.

The other alternative is open source. Lower the initial cost of entry, amortize the cost of maintaining and enhancing core components, and let vendors compete on the basis of what they can offer on top of that. Unfortunately, this approach yields much lower margins than what "vertical" software vendors are used to, so they'll fight any such thing tooth and nail. That gets us into the domain of trusts, cartels, and regulatory capture. The business factors preclude technical solutions, and users pay the price. :(
I’m surprised no mention of graphql.
I do have. I expect my employer not to snoop on the files on my work laptop, nor unnecessarily read any emails I send with my work account.

I'm not from the US so maybe that's grounds for the different expectations. And I'm not sure if my employer would actually be breaking any laws snooping on the laptop; I certainly hope so.
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JK Rowling sold hundreds of millions of books. Like every other author, she made a few dollars a book. It's completely fair that she is a billionaire. You can say the same thing about CEOs. Jeff Bezos had a part of play in every Amazon package shipped. Virtually every phone in the world was inspired by the designs of Steve Jobs.
"Sometimes you have to pee in the sink."
I meant that cancer cannot learn from other cancers of somebody else, unless they are infectious cancers.
Thanks for the feedback. Do you think it reasonable to believe 2/3 of website operators would have the objections you list or is it possible that the ad network industry is under serving a large portion of the website operators? Also, two of three use cases you mentioned were websites that were trying to get money from visitors so is it possible they might change their opinions with more lucrative payment for displaying ads?
Huh? Bukowski is a world-known writer and poet.
Wow 2007 called and wants its Ornstein-Uhlenbeck back.
Happens to all creators equaly because that's how the algorithm works.
You may be interested in our new Behaviour Suite for Reinforcement Learning project at https://github.com/deepmind/bsuite.

This is an attempt at defining a set of minimal but meaningful benchmark RL experiments. In each experiment, we typically evaluate over a range of environment parameters and compute an aggregate score. See https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03568 for more details.

We also include a simple starter RL codebase, and examples of evaluating agents defined in other RL frameworks.
Nah, it’s just this whole manichean polemic between two grotesque caricatures of processes; agile improvisation vs upfront waterfall planning à la nazi wehrmacht going to Russia.

One just has to have an idea where to go before starting, and a good description where one went when you’re done.
I agree. The last time I felt like my tech was working "better than ever" was around 2007.
I must have struck a nerve again - look at the downvotes...
"We don't have that in our industry. I interviewed countless "senior engineers" with degrees from well regarded universities who couldn't write a simple loop. Therefore I must now conclude that a degree from that university means nothing."

Seems like baloney
> why would any of those three things matter?

Because the public is not scientific, and scientists generally rely on explicit or at least tacit approval of the public to do their work.
As a fan of algorithmic problems and websites like leetcode, I'm totally fine with this kind of interview challenges, it's a good way to select candidates, and anyone can prepare for it
So, to be clear, firing is not the goal, it's just the worst case. 100k sounds high but honestly, not something I'm familiar with. I wonder how much money is lost on recruiting being so ineffective? Given that the current process is about ~6-7 hours of eng time per on-site candidate, I'm not convinced that the cost of firing is going to outway the costs of recruiting being considerably optimized.

I'm not sure I see how someone is going to:
a) Write a take home project
b) Explain their design decisions, respond to code review, etc, in person

and somehow not be able to "write code worth spit" or otherwise game the system consistently.

edit: Would love to hear (in the US) where that 100k comes from. At-will state means I can fire you for whatever reason, can't imagine it really comes close to 100k tbh.
What stands out the most about Bukowski is his incredible lack of empathy. He looks at people working regular jobs and all he sees are empty bodies. He can't imagine that maybe these people go home to loving families, interesting hobbies, or rich creative lives.

If you've found yourself at the end of a bad economic bargain (which is most people), you tend to rationalize your ambitions and switch attention away from work to more fulfilling things outside of work
Being careful isn’t a bad thing. Whenever sensitive information is involved I google the company to make sure the phone number is actually correct and if it’s a proper employee of the company I will find their listing. If their voice sounds like it doesn’t match their photo to a large degree or I can’t find the employee I will be very apprehensive about giving information and will ask them some questions. If it’s a con they usually give up quick and move onto the next one.
And politicians are Bovine (Something Else) Engineers.
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St Louis and Indianapolis are listed on their website as "coming soon". That still leaves Madison and Milwaukee WI, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Lansing MI, Cincinnati, Akron, Cleveland, and Toledo OH, Louisville KY, Springfield IL, South Bend IN, I could keep going.

All of those cities each have multiple co-working spaces so the market is there.
There’s still a review process for the “internal” track even for an established app, and sometimes it gets held up. I think “internal” is a misnomer, it doesn’t seem to be handled any differently from a closed alpha channel.
AWS doesn't give you console access, does it? Or at least I haven't been able to find it. I know on Linode they have LISH (console over SSH) and Xen will give you a VNC console (I think Vultr and Digital Ocean can too).

It seems like a much more useful feature is simply being able to see the console on the VM itself. Often kernel panics will print information on the default virtual terminal.
That's such a weird metric. Like "build a home", where? Raise a family, how large, how educated, how well provided for? Ditto for leisure goods like vacations.

I think a better base line is targeting an individual. Healthcare, 400sq feet, electricity, water, gas, and UBI to cover food and leisure. From there job compensation can be tied to market rate and people looking for more can choose how they'll get it.
Science doesn't create "goals", only describes impacts at best. It has no will or motivation by itself.

But I am bothered by the idea the primary reason religious people behave is due to fear of becoming BBQ. What about personal pride in not being a jerk?
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I red and tried virtualization techniques on Fedora and it worked really easy, fast and stable. This is next level virtualization. A small step for humans, big step for RedHat
Reading vs viewing/listening speed must be at least 10:1 for most people and maybe 20:1 for speed readers.

Video/audio are such timewasters if you can read at a decent rate.
cargo doc does do that already, not sure what you mean.

IDEs should also be autocompleting trait impls.
Which is exactly what it did around the 50s and 60s. But back then the world was a different place - that’s essentially when equality maxed out.
I mean, they can be time consuming - yes - but so can "grinding leetcode" for 3 months be too.

Have you seen some of the study guides / roadmaps people make for FAANG interviews? I've seen people claim they've coded hackerrank / leetcode / CTCI questions for multiple hours a day, for months.
Bukowski, coming from the working class (like Jack London and others), has a real view about what work is indeed. He is not an outsider like many writers or artists. If you have a chance, read a short story written by him, Kid Stardust on the Porterhouse. I bet must of us already felt that way.
Creating a thread for every connection consumes massive amount of memory and is a known anti-pattern.
I think the best strategy in such cases is to flag the submission.
Every single employment offer I've sent or received that included equity stated so in the offer letter, expressed either as a % or an absolute number of shares.
"The aircraft features pontoons and is designed for use over water, and it can fly between three and 10 feet above the surface with vertical take-off and landing capabilities."

This is not the flying car we were promised. /s
You typed this out and decided it was a constructive take. How is that?
It seems like we're seeing the limitations of headline-only link submissions. Another symptom is focusing too much on getting headlines exactly right.

I'm wondering if adding a Tweet-length summary or pull quote to some posts would help?
Python: uses underscores. Java, Javascript: camelcase. .NET: Capitalize. And so forth, those are the conventions that professionals use, so stick to them for an interview.

`biggestSize = 99999999 #MaxInt` This is returned if the caller passes you 0 for slicesToFind, so you're returning a nonsense value in that case. Either raise an exception (preferred as it catches errors fast) or return None.

`def area(size)` You're using pi r^2, so size is a radius, but it seems you call it with a diameter. This is why choosing distinct names is very important.

`newSize = (originalSize / newSlicesInCake)` Again, using "size" all over the place is confusing. I'd write something like `new_slice_area = (original_cake_area / new_slice_count)`.
I prefer to think that he writes down what work turns people into: empty bodies.
I've thought a bit about the criminally responsible bit.

I agree that it is important to punish bad actors, but we're missing (legislation/laws needed) to link the punishment to the actual perpetrator and a punishment that is a significant deterrent without putting a bigger cost on society than the crime itself (its expensive to lock people up for example).

One thought was that we could create a punishment which is to 'zero out' someone.

The way this would work is that the government would issue a new form of Treasury bill that had a 20 year maturity date. The duly tried and convicted felon would have all of their assets, foreign and domestic, seized. and converted into cash. That cash would then go into the treasury in exchange these T-bills, coupon value of $100K each, the discount rate being set at the time of sale to match 20 year "regular" T-bills.

The felon would be left with $100K + what ever fraction of $100K was left over after converting their assets into $100K 20-year bonds.

Now, if at any time in the next 20 years the conviction is overturned, the felon can redeem the bonds at their current redemption rate which would match the same rate as the 20 year T-bill. Getting all their money back.

However, if the conviction stands for 20 years, the bonds would "expire" (this is the difference between regular T-bills) and they would lose all value, present or future.

This scheme is an attempt to change the current model of 'spend a few years in a low security federal prison and be released to your millions when you are done'. It seems to me that if someone made $100M in their illegal scheme, and then gets convicted and fined $10M and have to spend 5 years in jail, they might consider that an Okay tradeoff for a $90M payday that is now untouchable.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...
Yeah. I'm significantly less sympathetic to these arguments on Android than on iOS.