skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should consider Singapore as well. It is superior to Western countries in almost every dimension of social success: better education, lower crime, better GDP per capita, stabler government, better infrastructure, and better health care - all of this achieved with a much lower tax burden. It is closer to India and there are many ethnically Indian people there. It has a thriving tech sector.
I mean, if that combination of words causes people to stop making or believing inflated claims about this kind of tech, go right ahead.
If you read what he actually wrote, he obviously means "Avoid Learning Anything Newly Invented/Created" not "Avoid Learning Things That Are New To You". In that context, SICP, Java, and Linux hardly count as new...
My understanding is that a plane can have non-monotonically increasing backpressure without being aerodynamically unstable, and the difference between the two is all about what the plane does when the stick is released. I don't believe the MAX will ever "stall itself" even with MCAS disabled, as previous planes with aerodynamic instability would if you disable that correction. It requires the pilot to fly into the stall, which is easier than it ought to be due to the placement of the engines relative to the center of gravity.
Maybe, but words and actual action as far as Russia and Putin goes are not always one and the same.

I'm not convinced the kleptocracy in Russia cares about longer term results.
GP suggested that UBI would make exploitation of workers a non-issue, so I assume we are talking at least a subsistence level of UBI.
I think visionary is the best descriptor and there aren't too many of those folks alive at a given time that are properly placed to execute, and even fewer who actually DO execute.

I was as entranced with the possibility of a permanent extraterrestrial base while watching the presentation last night as I was when I saw the boosters land tandem style in 2018.

What an amazing thing to see happen, the people Elon has brought together have done amazing things on the shoulders of already incredible work.
Truly this is faith in humanity boosting stuff. Great news
> Promote the incompetent to the level where they can do the least amount of damage.

I think my original comment is quite clear.
Not really, because it's a question of principle: is it okay to target to a specific demographic, or not; and does that vary based on whether we are discussing a legally-protected class? The significance of what is being advertised doesn't exactly change the definition of right and wrong. If we're being honest, cosmo is probably as accurate a filtering mechanism for white, middle-aged, middle-class women as facebook could be.

The issue seems to be when people _exclude_ certain groups, rather than when people _target_ specific ones; i.e. I can filter for middle-aged white guys for testosterone-boosting pills, but most would balk at filtering _out_ blacks, young people, etc. for rental ads. The question is, is there an ethical difference, and why? I think all of us can agree that a cosmo ad for women is fine, and tossing out a black guy's resume is not; the question is where is that line, and why? These sorts of technologies are bringing us closer to either side, so it's relevant to figure out where it is.
Ahh yes, I'll be sure to let consults notes Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA and adjunct professor at the University of Utah Peter Shirley that he's a second-stringer and not nearly "badass" enough for Hacker News commentator anon91831837 and he's wasting his life in the wrong field.
So then are algorithmic approaches to advertising for employment off limits? Facebook and google then really shouldn’t go near this kind of work since their tech is legally inappropriate.
For example, you could implant a hardware backdoor that monitors the touchscreen inputs
Tungsten.

https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/05/14/air-force-debate...
Is it biased in a bad way? It’s really hard to measure someone’s ability to do a job, especially for a more senior role. Therefore, I feel comfortable hiring people recommended to me by others that I trust.
The Model X doors are terrible. It's an SUV that you can't put a roof rack on. Does seem like a case of geek myopia over usability.
I think I interpret "Only learn something new when forced" is more like you should prioritize what to learn to do a task. Learning new things to learn new things is different than having a concrete project that emphasizes that you should learn one new thing. Learning the newest system of the week isn't really going to help you as much as a tried and true system that is well maintained and proven to work.

The second part about linking to other software is valid. What if the thing you are linking to is not going to be maintained? What if the thing you are linking to has a security issue? Now you are probably going to have to either link to something else or replicate the functionality. By only linking to things that are essentially hard to replicate instead of blindly linking to anything else.

In the above examples it is more of striking a balance instead of mere absolutes.
well, you're probably brainwashed
When you bring up contemporary critique of Hitler's paintings it's worth noting that Hitler's ill-fated aspirations as a painter came in a time and place where art was moving in leaps and bounds towards much more abstract styles. I'm not an expert in this area, so I can't really qualify exactly what you'd call the fashion of the time, but it certainly wasn't the classicism that Hitler's paintings represented.
For an amateur painter, I think most people agree he had some talent, but he'd have a hard time getting accepted by a much more avant-garde art establishment.
The wonders of target advertising. It's probably not possible to target the readers of CS and EE content, but targeting young men is easy.
Meltano Demo Day [video]
On an economic level, it makes sense to own other assets and rent your primary residence if the discounted cash flow from the investments available for the price of your home exceeds your rent. Typical returns on real-estate are about 3-4% (you pay the bank about that much to borrow the cash to buy a place, and if you own the place outright, you can make about that much in rent), but there's also the mortgage-interest tax-deduction, so it's equivalent to maybe 5.5% returns. The stock market typically gives about 7% returns, but with higher risk: if your risk-tolerance is high it makes sense to not spend money on a house but instead to invest it in stocks and use the cash spun off by that to pay your rent. (If your risk tolerance is very high, you can take out that mortgage, borrow the money for the house, and invest your savings in the stock market anyway.)

On a pragmatic level, high-income people who rent often have jobs that require a large level of geographic flexibility to get their maximum salary. Think of your professional skillset & network as an asset that various companies can "rent" for different rates, depending on how much value it adds to them. Different companies will pay wildly different amounts for that; it doesn't make sense to buy if you get a 50% raise by moving to a different city (or just a different area of your metro region) but costs of selling your house eat up several months salaries.
TikTok: How TikTok Holds Our Attention
To me the SLS is like Brexit: obscenely wasteful and short-sighted, seemingly inevitable, but somehow I still don't believe it will ever leave the ground.

The Artemis thing is like a joke for real, though. After the last 30 years of bullshit we've seen from the US government's manned space exploration efforts I think I'll be living in a SpaceX-manufactured igloo on Titan before Richard Shelby and his obstructionist, pork-slinging ilk manage to put footprints on the moon.
Svelte and Sapper are working just fine for me.
In a similar vein, does anyone know of any conclusive studies on the safety of PEX plumbing wrt releasing microplastics into our drinking water. My home is primarily PEX. It would be nice to know if I'm slowly poisoning my family.
I know they did some cool stuff a long long time ago, but how do they manage to pull that off? From my experience government contractors make even the coolest job/project a miserable, bureaucratic nightmare destined for the bottom tier of mediocrity. If they don't their government handlers usually do.

Also, Lockheed Martin is responsible for one of the most infamously incompetent IT projects in the history of the world. The FBI's digital case management system. They weren't responsible for the project from the very beginning, but their involvement wasn't blameless.
Its on the reverse.... bartender (from seagul scientific, which their software is fantastic by the way) doesn’t support it...

I have a bug filed with them where if you build a thing in google sheets and export to xlsx and attempt to connect to that data source it crashes.... (but if it is native xlsx it works fine) hence my need to install excel on that particular machine, as the bartender software can take tabular input for varying data for each sticker printed ( cannabis compliance labels, which I have now mastered)

They are a great company though, and bartender is an amazing program. I suggest everyone download their free version and learn it.
A 1-input NOR gate is more commonly known as a NOT gate.
The Interpreter was written by Charley Muntz, not Margaret. Margaret wrote a large chunk of the DSKY display routines and a lot of the alarm/abort logic.
I’d be interested to learn if advances in digital computing/controlling potentially solve most of the problems that were seemingly unsolvable in the Soviet era N1 rocket failures.

I’m assuming the inability to control and harmonise 30 rocket engines on the N1 first stage for pitch/yaw contributed significantly to the N1 failures and cancellation.

Will digital computing/control advances control for that and the 42 rocket engines on the SpaceX starships 1st stage?

Or are there other major engineering problems(such as aeronautical/mechanical) to solve as well?
This article is from last year. I thought it was new.
> I honestly don't get the impression that anyone is even trying to genuinely execute well in this area. It basically feels like stuff made solely to tick boxes and not actually empower users.

I am.

I think I have a decent chance at success because I'm building it for myself first, to improve my own knowledge and skills. I'm a motivated learner and I care about having something that respects the hard work and time it takes to educate oneself; most ed-tech feels like fairy-floss instead of porridge.

Whether or not it ever succeeds commercially, it hope to get it to a point where it's a properly good tool to accompany a student going through higher-education and continued professional learning.
No, I consider a corporation simply to be a machine operated by people.

I do find it disturbing that if you run my over while driving a car you, not the car, is punished while if a corporation knowingly poisons people the people “driving” it are rarely punished at all.
Russians are definitely interested in self-preservation. That's the most basic of human instincts.
Writing, iirc.
Everything about working with files read/write in PowerShell
Should we ignore it's still going on?
i love this. this is a good programmer. sure to piss off a lot of people on here who think that because they have big salaries they are good at something.
Everything is fine in India
US steps up efforts to limit China’s control of critical minerals
If the sleep is some kind of busy wait then I think it is something like O(m*n) where m=max number.

If it is scheduled by the kernel then the complexity is hidden in the scheduling algorithm.
Are there potential disadvantages involved with “demotion” to enable JTAG? From what I understand the process is permanent (eFUSE?) but it seems like a fun thing to play around with
In other words, "Only I hold the real keys, everyone else is lying to you. Trust only me."

No, sorry. Invalidates the entire post, #3 notwithstanding. Such a cheap, low effort, lazy cop-out when writing about any topic.

What the hell was this guy thinking? I'm certain he's got better wisdom to share than this.
If that instinct was strong enough to push climate change policy I think we would be farther along policy and action wise. It doesn't seem to be.
I’ve wondered before why billionaires don’t just pay people to move to help their party win. I bet it wouldn’t even cost that much.
Happiness, in the fundamental sense, is a choice. That choice can be easier or harder at times, just like it's easier to speak your mind with a good friend then in a room full of strangers. It is however a choice, and it's a choice you can make even when it's really difficult.

Happiness shouldn't be conflated with what the article calls "joy". Joy is good and fine, but it's a primarily external phenomenon.

I find happiness to be like a muscle. When you actively choose to be happy most of the time, it's easier to be happy in difficult times. If you never practice happiness, the ability to make that choice decays and weakens.

The single greatest practice you can do for your own happiness (and general sanity) is to create a feedback loop. For most people, this takes the form of a journal. Electronic, physical, who cares. Jot down something every night, read the previous nights entry when you're done.
Well....they don't, per se, demand it. They are worth it because they have more experience. The issue is that even the ones who will accept less than their worth aren't considered because of various biases that have nothing to do with their ability to do the job.
Because white men that dominate those jobs already typically know white men to recommend for those jobs.
It's not terrible advice. You mentioned SICP, funny thing is, years ago when I put someone on to SICP, next thing you know in our production code we started getting these weird ass recursive functions..... Also had similar issues with Design Patterns, all kinds of overly engineered class structures started popping up. On the side of ALAN, I used to work with guy who did a lot of machine vision research, he coded everything the way he knew how for years, and he was super productive doing it. I didn't really like the code. But he got stuff done. Having said all that, learning stuff is still good, practicing stuff on non critical code is the next step.

Taking some lessons from BJJ ( Brazillian Jiujitsu ), when you compete, you go in with your A game, the things you have practiced, the things you have made work over and over again, your high percentage moves. Over time, you add things into your A game as you gain experience in making those techniques work. You may occassionally find yourself in an odd situation which some "new" technique is screaming to be used and you might try it out. But usually, when you encounter a situation you don't really know, you start working at getting the problem to change to something you do know, then throw your A game at it.

I think programmers should understand what their A game is.
You could make a career out of just SQL. I know my company could use a decent SQL programmer. We’ve got hundreds and hundreds of procs written by SQL amateurs
PuTTY 0.73 Released
"All new ideas are bad" seems equally bad as advice.
Tibetan and French usually come up on lists of worst correspondence between orthography and pronunciation. Irish is also pretty bad. (It makes sense once you learn how it works, then stops making sense once you hear people of different dialects actually pronounce words.)
How about Conway Game of Life. The rules are simple but emergent pattern are complex enough that Wolfram could write a whole book about it.
Reboot your phone if you know you have given it to someone you don't trust.
It's actually sad, his credentials suggest he's capable of a much better post than this...
You're going to age too. Don't wait until employers say "screw you" before you care.
Another great opportunity to quote the "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" (coined by Michael Crichton).

For those who don't know, Gell-Mann won the nobel prize in physics. He pointed out that whenever you see a news article about a topic you personally know about, the article is always shockingly inaccurate.

The 'amnesia' part is that you immediately forget that every article you have expertise on is hilariously inaccurate, and assume that articles you read are accurate the rest of the time.

Lesson: news articles are written by non-experts trying to sum up some things that they do not understand, and with exceptions I am unaware of, never accurate

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...
My friend said he picked 12V because that's what the easily-available LED bulbs are rated at, and he just wanted a simple lights-only system.

I guess you could pick whatever voltage you want for your loads and cable runs, but you need to have the appliances you want available (or easily DIY) in that voltage. It would probably be possible to convert down the voltage once, but any more than that and you're introducing loss again.
Very interesting. It looks just fun at first but become more and more addicting. Good job!
Its a two stage rocket. The top bit separates.

Cranes are far and away the lightest way to move something up and down. Wires are incredibly strong for their weight; five times stronger than normal mild steel. Thats due to the stress exerted when they are made affecting the crystal structure.

Not only that, but tensile stress is the strongest mode in general. Structures holding up mass have to resist buckling from all directions. Tensile structures can use every bit of mass budget to hold force going precisely down.

Not only that, but you dont need all of rhe structure to hold a crane up, since its just sticking out the side of the rocket.

Not only that, but you dont even need a motor since you just need to slow things down a bit as they descend.

Yes, they'll use a crane.
It's not merely that. It is the willful disregard for the fact that Rome itself was very much aware of Parthian and Sassanid Persia, India, and China. An entire city in Iran was built by Roman prisoners of war!

I sometimes wonder if the persistence of this willful disregard, as a pedagogical factor, plays a role in current geopolitical matters which finds the West in disarray as to how to respond to the reemergence of the "unknown world".
If that was the case, would they be headed by Putin?
The exploit only works in DFU mode. The user would have to press a button chord in order to reboot into DFU for that to work, and it’s not easy to do accidentally
I have no idea how that is possible. I made $100k in the bay area and it was just my wife and I.

Here's how it worked out:
$100k salary = $74k after tax, so that's about $6k per month take home. $3000 per month for rent leaves $3000 for everything else.

My wife and I have $1000 per month on our student loans. So we're down to $2000 per month. Health insurance and medication was $600 a month for the two of us, down to $1400. Groceries worked out to about $600 a month as well, down to $800. We got around via muni, so that takes off $200 per month for passes, down to $600. Electricity, water, internet, and cell came to about $200 per month. That left $400 for entertainment, incidentals, and savings.

And that was for 2 of us. I can't imagine 5, but kudos for doing it.
> Do you think it is possible to that without any background in anything?

To do machine learning research? Or work in some random domain?

> I mean could someone apply black box frameworks without understanding them. How would they be caught?

Machine learning is rapidly becoming commoditised, but lots of people still don't understand just how much effort it is to get a good dataset and to prep

Domain experts scoff at machine learning people who are trying to solve Big Problems using unrepresentative toy datasets, but also tend to have much higher expectations of what ML can do. Machine learning people scoff at domain experts for using outdated techniques and bad data science, but then propose ridiculous solutions that would never work in the real world (e.g. use our model, it takes a week on 8xV100s to train and you can only run it on a computer the size of a bus).

There are also a lot of people (and companies) touting machine learning as a solution to problems that don't exist.

Overfitting models is probably the most rampant crime that researchers commit.
The poster you responded to is exactly right. The algorithm is general with respect to variants of games and completely different games.
I've wondered about this too.

I'd love to host some of y'all in California here in Atlanta to help turn our state blue again. Your state doesn't need your votes, but ours desperately does.

We're going to draw the district lines this election that will impact the next ten years. Seriously, please help us undo the gerrymandering and win two Senate seats.

(Atlanta isn't half bad, either!)
It's not totally APL-specific terminology, although it's uncommon in other areas of computer science. You can find it (predating APL) in areas like mathematical logic, where a predicate over two terms is sometimes called a "dyadic predicate". I'm guessing Iverson was familiar with that usage and extended it to APL. I wouldn't read too much into it though. It's mostly just Latin vs. Greek roots (unary, binary, ternary are Latin; monadic, dyadic, triadic are Greek).
I don't know how it works with Google, but the article says Facebook is building a new ad console specifically for the kinds of advertising where discrimination is illegal. Presumably they'll make sure ads run through it aren't producing any disparate impact. (But note that this wasn't the problem with the cases in the article; in those cases, advertisers were explicitly pressing a "don't send this to women" button.)
You’ve simply changed the shape of the hiring funnel.

Sometimes, that's enough to make a real difference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
Do You Outsource Thinking?
I agree. As a female software developer, I would like to see those ads so I can get better jobs. If I don't even see the ads, then I would not even know about opportunity. Without opportunity, I cannot really progress.

If only men see the ads, apply jobs and get interviews, then the employers may think that they shouldn't advertise to women. This is just circular thinking.
Downvoted... I brought up the phone distraction because the Uber safety driver was distracted by watching video on her phone.
Where did your EULA come from? Seems a bit brutal :)
> E.g. introvert / extravert axis is something employers are free to discriminate / harass along

First of all–'introversion' is, scientifically speaking, not as clear-cut as what most people think it is ( https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/will-th... ). Medically speaking, it's not considered to be a disability. For conditions that are medically considered as disabilities, the relevant US law already covers accommodations: https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/disability.cfm

> it likely causes as much damage as any other axis that roughly splits the population.

I wonder how you are measuring 'damage'? Are you saying that introverts suffer as much damage from loud workplaces as racial minorities do from being denied employment? I'm really struggling to understand the logic here.

> I think it’s interesting to ask why some kinds of characteristcs (gender, sexual orientation) are allowed to have this elevated status,

You are free to read up on the history of why the protected classes exist in employment law if interested. The relevant laws and judgments behind them are all public knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group#United_States

> Because of the existence of unprotected characteristic axes ... the explanation of protected classes, by definition, cannot be mitigation of harm

Or ... here's another explanation–you may not have fully understood the history of the relevant laws, why the existing protected classes reached that status, and mistakenly believe that other classes were not considered. Fortunately, you have plenty of opportunity to educate yourself if interested.