skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument completely ignores anything statistical, which is another limiting factor. It reminds me of the difference in bandit research and full RL research. RL researchers are fine throwing a thousand years of experience at their algorithm, because it can be simulated. Meanwhile people using bandits in the real world care about statistical efficiency (learning lots with little data), and it's reflected in the research. Most decisions aren't made with a huge abundance of data (most of us aren't google or facebook).
Blog Post: Why React Native Is the Future?
Yep, that the issue of this naming.
If you wanted to springboard off one Citizenship to get into the US, you could go to Australia, and then you get access to the E3 visa.

Though as an Australian living in Canada and running a business here, I hope you would stay and reward the country that accepts you as a PR.

After having lived in the UK and also seen my countries hostility towards migration, it was a breath of fresh air to see how progressive the Canadian immigration process is.
came here to say this, cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145995
That's not the latest excel, which would be Excel 2019.
The crowd on HN is biased towards software development, something overwhelmingly well supported on Linux (it’s my daily driver as much as possible for that). But I assume there is a long tail of other professionals here... using their systems for actual industry work that isn’t programming. An area that is terrible on Linux sadly.

Photoshop and Illustrator and Premiere are not “defaults” on any system I know of.
If you need to draw an arrow on a screenshot, there are ironically more free beer and open source programs available on Windows to do this (even gimp). If someone wants to pirate adobe that isn’t an aspiring designer (which is sort of a rite of passage), and has it just to collect that’s cool, but irrelevant... but I assume if someone has the CS on their machine it’s to do actual work with industry standard tools - that certainly is the case for me.

There are plenty of things to do in Excel that are best served by excel and not crunching market data. I have tried libreoffice calc multiple times in the past. Google sheets is also cool for certain things, but no excel killer.

And here’s the kicker:
If you need to just put arrows on screenshots or an app with text in cells (and you’re not a dev), then you don’t need a desktop running Linux or windows... you can do with an iPad.
I also noticed that he writes dates in the `%d %M` format (e.g. 25 July), which suggests that he is probably an intelligence officer. (I think they said he was an CIA operative?)
FTA, second sentence after the title:

”Its astonishing forward-swept wings were just one of its many bold innovations.”

I count 8 occurrences of “forward-swept”, and 4 of “inverted wing”.

I think they used ‘inverted wing’ as a synonym to prevent repetition of a fairly long term. It also is quite possible that the editor, not the writer of the article, chose the article’s title, picking the shorter and, arguably, ‘easier’ term.
geminated not germinated haha it's not a seed :p
Yes you’re right. Event are solving this by using a bunch of disjoint solutions (Asana, hgal, spreadsheets, etc.). ExhibitDay brings together trade show management and event team collaboration in one place (with workflows designed specifically for the processes of trade show teams)
> The fact is that for many years, some "System Administrator" types did already think like "developers" and use similar tooling.

The funny thing is that it was the opposite for me. I became a DevOps Engineer because a lot of my work was being self-supported with my own infrastructure. I found that I had a knack for finding and putting together good systems to support my work. In many ways, I guess I was considered the quintessential DevOps person. In my QA role, I wound up being a developer who needed to put together infrastructure to support the needs of the QA group and to a lesser extent software engineers.

When this was recognized, I was moved into the sysadmin group as a founding member of a new team. That team grew and split out into its own group that specifically interfaced with both software engineers and infrastructure engineers. My team is not perfect, but it's been the best I could ask for. We've done amazing work transforming our engineering processes over the years, and software engineers are now more often part of the infrastructure bringup process than not. We've still got a ways to go, but we're getting there.
The price is a good conversation about globalizing supply chains.

But what's really cool is they have a way to program radios which are sealed inside a cardboard shipping box, without batteries installed.

https://wp.josh.com/2017/03/18/capacitive-coupling-casestudy...
I'm in.
Please distribute all the life supporting resources and ready to hustle on beach between birth and dead.
:-)

Do we need a complete new approach to the way of living?
Yes!!!
> we know society will still function for those of us at the very top

Even this seems optimistic to me. It might coast along on inertia for a few decades but once food production and distribution ceases, "rich" gets redefined pretty quickly.
Can someone fill me in here please, how did medium become the place for these sorts of posts when self hosted wordpress, ghost, Squarespace, wix and just basic HTML were created so that you can host a text blog running on a server you control from wherever you want? How did medium take hold and why?
The aviation market consistently has margins that are just slightly above zero. Change the costs and ticket prices change in response; the profits stay constant.
Thank you! The Lite/Free tier can be used not just for planning trade shows but any similar events that follow the trade show workflow.
Remember that Hinton and other deep learning pioneers labored in obscurity for over a decade, probably closer to two.

Techniques like deep learning were out of fashion for a long time. Google was making tons of money on non-AI techniques; I remember Sergey Brin saying he was surprised by the deep learning breakthroughs in 2012 because the conventional wisdom was that "AI doesn't work".

And people who did Ph.D's under Hinton and others 10+ years ago also were not following trends.

You have to take risk to get reward. The way to do that now would also be to labor on an obscure subfield of AI that isn't certain to even work, let alone become commercially viable. (And there are plenty of people who did that on fields that looked more promising than deep learning 10+ years ago.)

There's definitely a need for new AI techniques, see this other current story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21104037
I sort of agree, except with this exception. I use to go to Career fairs, but not for full time hires, but for paid internships. I worked at a big company, and I had complete control over who I hired as an intern. I was able to find many good intern candiates this way and some of those we hired and even converted to full time. So if you see an HR person, just drop off your resume. If you see a hiring manager it might be worth a chat.
I didn’t drop out because the going got tough, I dropped out because I needed to make money and was finding I didn’t learn well in a typical classroom. I ended up working tech support and climbed my way up into a Dev role in under 2 years.
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant by David Graeber
I might have expected colchicine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchicine) to be on the list.

It's a fairly harsh drug with a narrow therapeutic window. Getting the right dosage is already hard enough, as there are some unpleasant (and common) side effects, and it can also be pretty dangerous to your health. Add something like grapefruit that throws off the concentration, and things get that much worse.

EDIT: This HN story link was updated. The list I was referring to above is the old link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit–drug_interactions
There are, and they're usually the closest spots, but picking someone up and dropping them off right in front of the store is usually closer. (Oftentimes, doing pickups/dropoffs there is explicitly disallowed, because stopped cars obstruct the view of pedestrians for drivers of moving cars.)
Yes, that’s what I mean. And before you say ”debug performance doesn’t matter”: yes it does. I work in gamedev and it’s a huge problem that C++ has such awful debug performance, because it’s hard to debug a game if it’s running in single-digit framerates. It’s a large part of the reason why EASTL is so popular in gamedev.
Reinventing Dropbox
> , though he did not join until June 2016
"some basic contributions" is a little unfair, don't you think?

* 2 of the top 7 programming languages in use on GitHub are Microsoft created and maintained.

* Jockeying for top place among companies contributing code to projects on GitHub, for 4 years running.

* Top 5 contributor to the Linux Kernel

* Massively popular IDE in VSCode

* Enormous contributions to Kubernetes and the entire community around it,including creating/maintaining Helm.

* Big parts of Azure are open source, including their kubernetes implementation, ML toolkits, IOT components, and even the infrastructure underneath the whole thing, Service Fabric. (Demonstrably capable of orchestrating the varied workloads and scale of the second largest cloud provider in the world).

* Owner/maintainer of GitHub, which for better or worse is the platform for the vast majority of open source.

I don't like windows, I don't like office, and I don't like this move... But let's try to maintain some intellectual honesty here. Microsoft is not anywhere near a "basic" contributor to open source.
> Can share the math, if anybody’s interested.

Please do!
> Would you say that you'd have got an AI researcher position without a Ph.D.?

It's difficult to get any true researcher position without a PhD. It doesn't mean that PhD has to be in AI. Research involves a lot of reading and writing papers, which a PhD is supposedly training you how to do.

That said most places will say "equivalent practical experience" and it's entirely possible to be competent in AI/ML without a PhD.

I did a PhD in space science, I now do machine learning in ecology and spent the summer working on machine learning for disaster management. The interesting jobs (to me) are where domains cross, and it's also (hint hint) much easier to get a job doing AI for X than it is doing "fundamental AI". In any case, you're often doing stuff that nobody has done before anyway, but you don't need to spend your life hunting for the new ResNet.

> Also, why is NEURIPS or ICML papers is not a hiring guarantee?

What the OP probably might be implying is that everyone has a publication in NeurIPS nowadays.

I think it goes deeper than that though, publishing in machine learning is broken. Having 10k people at one conference is not an efficient way to distribute research. You have to submit a full paper in November for a conference next Summer - pretty much only computer science does this madness.

What's interesting is how unique this attitude is. In astronomy, for example, conferences are a fun place to catch up with folks in your niche. There might be a few hundred people and probably it'll be single-track. We publish whatever journal is the most relevant and they're generally all considered equivalent. Nobody cares if you publish in ApJ vs A&A vs MNRAS, if your research is good.

There are also concerns that the quality of these venues is decreasing because the pressure to publish in them is so high.

See https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03341
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I was thinking the same thing. I was definitely someone who had a lot of free time to do extra stuff, so maybe this is just my guilt speaking, but I had a lot of friends that had 0 free time between class, work, and/or family obligations. If anything, they were way more dedicated than I was, because going to college was already a major obstacle.
This is an interesting post from the perspective of logistics operations for a small scale consumer electronics product.

I'm fascinated by the idea that one of the features they chose to cut from their initial release - arbitrary tuning - has ended up significantly constraining how they can manufacture their product at their scale.

I'm guessing that there's a deeper philosophical reason for not building an end-user tunable radio that isn't simply "it's a feature we decided to cut so we could ship on time"
Oh, not saying that’s how it should be. My current situation is such that infrastructure is the majority of the production issues and we’ll call developers on the rare occasion something serious happens relating to their code. Our platform goes through much more testing rigor than most SaaS companies our size tend to perform and I’m proud to be supporting these guys.
Try r/hackintosh vanilla guide. You may find, that other guides are refering to old/obsolete tools, and thus will not work with current macOS.

Also expect learning new things and spending several evenings trying. Compared to hackintosh, installing Linux on random hardware is a walk in the park.
It's very annoying when the cost of something advanced comes from very trivial legacy issues like that.

I wish someone develops cheap adapters while construction code gets update to help panel frames.
JSON is effectively a data interchange format. And for data interchange formats, there are reasons to emit property names (for example, because you want humans to be able to read, and maybe even write it). The fact that you want to use JSON as your serialization format shouldn't require you to make your internal data formats use hash tables instead of structs.
Borges’s Mirror
I truly prefer videos over text, I mean, in a perfect world, I want both, but for me, Videos are faster If I want to learn something from Zero. And for deeper understanding I go to the official documentation. But of course, that's my opinion, some time a fast tutorial will do it.
The "model city of 1960"* is not humans friendly. Looks like a parking lot for sky scrapers.

* https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tMmp66CqNKY/WYKgglZbyZI/AAAAAAAAN...
> Basically, I think we have to find climate solutions that allow us to maintain our standard of living. And I think by accepting that's what we need to do, we can and will find those choices, and not divert attention to unpalatable options.

This is a statement made by a rich and enormously privileged person. You can't deny that most of the world's population lives in poverty without these choices. Your goal is not to push a post-enlightenment techno-optimism despite the couching of things in that framework. Your goal is to avoid losing what you have today.

And that's just not realistic. We will all need to redefine what is "normal." Our lifestyles not only can't pass environmental debts forward, they can no longer be defined by the extreme luxury of the top 7 richest nations at the expense of the majority of the world. Both our lives are sustained by what amounts to indentured servitude. As traditional power systems are disrupted by the inability to maintain deep supply chains, people aren't going to bow to your desire for comfort at their expense. Why should they?

We absolutely have to keep moving forward with technology that is more efficient and makes energy essentially free in the long term (and minimally rationed in the short term). But we can't do it at the expense of the future while chanting "standard of living" at obvious outcomes we don't like.
This works for me (it's not original, but I don't remember the source): I suck at what I do, but I suck less than pretty much everyone else.

In our modern lives, what we do require one thousand skills. We are good at some, sometimes extraordinary at others, but invariably we suck at some. I personally suck at lots of things, but I'm decent at many things as well, and there are a few things (not many) where I'm world class. It took me many years to get to being this content (and resigned) with myself, but I got here, and now I'm ok.
Since the transcript of the call was released, the attempt to make it something is entirely partisan. Both "sides" are being partisan and trying to make it look like they are just doing whatever is good for the country while the other is in it for themselves.
Experts sound alarm over rising microplastics in Mediterranean Sea
Yep. If you're empty enough to follow a PhD solely for the money, there are far safer financial bets. Go into medicine or something. Not that I'd want to experience that bedside manner...
It is possible your wife has sexual interests that you are not aware of. Most gals ain't as Vanilla as they "pretend" they are . Just putting this out there.
Realigning Online Incentives
> ...if I get a vibe that someone is this judgmental and expects me to sell myself to them more than they sell the opportunity to me, I'm going to pass.

This guy is an EE talking to EE/Comp. E. students; the market isn't as insanely hot for them as it is for software developers. In particular, it's not easy to find an entry level job as an EE or Comp. E. from what I hear.
The Advantages of Progressive Web Apps (PWA) versus Native Apps
Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL – TypeScript types generator for raw SQL queries
The author seems very pleased to experience the power gradient of being surrounded by hungry students looking to join the club.

"You’ve got a lot of learning to do - minimum nine months - before you even get to working with me."

Such an unpleasant disposition. People who demand humility of others could use a bit of more of it.
Since C++11 there are types like 'uint_fast32_t', which does allow for platform independent code.
I'm currently working on the formalization of Catalan's conjecture (or Mihăilescu's theorem) in Isabelle/HOL/Isar.

My personal impression is that more formal verification is necessary in math, and it should be tought to every student of Mathematics in introductionary courses because it gives an unforgiving but also rewarding learning experience with formal proofs.

Feel free to ask questions.
One pattern to rule them all
Oracle Lawyer: “The Java API Is Executable”
I'm totally a layperson on the subject but the other day I thought about how far more devices in my house use DC than AC than 30 years ago. It seems odd that I convert solar to AC then back to DC.

I wonder if there's any future to running both an AC and a DC bus through the house, or if that makes no sense for reasons beyond my basic understanding.
Business jets generally operate under completely different regulations (part 135 or part 91) from commercial air travel (part 121).
tldr; Micro-services architecture can start out simple at first, but when there are many of them, it will become complex even more so than the monolithic approach.
Japanese is one of the few languages with a worse writing system than English. Hats off to them for it. I do miss the pre-war spellings though, where they wrote things based on 10c pronunciation, eg AU is pronounced OH (like in French).

Tibetan is also in pretty desperate need of spelling reform. I’d love to hear replies about other terrible writing systems.
Suggestion to rely on AI for proof verification is just laughable. Neuron weights instead of formal definitions. So reliable.
This product just seems... like a throwback to the first decade of this century.

A time when we rebelled against over-advertised, and over-priced Gillette Fusion cartridges. Not by growing beards (that would come in the 2010's). But rather by shaving with $100 German double-edge razors, badger hair brushes, and artisial shaving soaps instead.

This here is a cheap pocket radio, like you could find at Walmart for $5. Except that it is built to tune into only one frequency, it has no headphone jack, and its form-factor is a old-timey mason jar. It's "artisanal", and "locally-sourced" and all that, and it does look like a pretty conversation piece. But do people still gravitate to stuff like this?

I'm asking from genuine curiosity, because I'm not sure whether the "hipster" era faded away, or if it's still there and I just grew a little too old?
I have little time to play games these days, but I do that.
Have two machines, both always on, one of them a windows one for games, the other runs linux for everything else. I use a usb switch to, on-the-fly, change all the relevant devices (mouse, keyboard, headphone dac/amp, etc) and adjust the monitor input to use one or the other. It works extremely well, and takes ~1-2 seconds to switch.
Sure, its possible but do most human want that? I doubt it.

Imo, Technological progress is mostly driven by natural human desire.

Personally, I want technological progess and willing to work hard to make sure it happen. That includes technology that makes survaliance better and easier.

The issue with privacy is imo, instead we try to hide the information, we should fix whatever it is that make us suffer when the information become public.
The above statement is true with the assumption that the topic being discussed is truly above the level of understanding for undergraduates. For the majority of the papers, that assumption is not true though. Papers are hard to read has more to do with the idea that if it's not filled with jargons, its chance of getting published is greatly reduced.

Papers are not rewarded for being easy to understand. People/organizations get rewarded for publishing "complicate" papers. That misalignment is the issue.
As cool as this is, APL has improved a lot in the 34 years since that video was made. Most notably, these days, APL has `direct functions`, which enable a degree of concision and tacit-programming support unmatched in any other programming language (yes, including Haskell).

As a minor taste of the power of direct fns, here's a naive implementation of the Fibonacci sequence with one: `fib←{1≥⍵:⍵⋄(∇⍵-1)+∇⍵-2}`
Mutazione review: a game about the importance of tending to gardens and people
I also like the bit where she dismisses Joshua Bloch like he didn't write the book about Java: https://twitter.com/divaesq/status/1178004117190402048?s=19
Medium offered expanded reach. A lot of people used to cross-post their personal blog on Medium; some comparisons I've seen showed nearly 10x more views from the Medium post.
Stallman's politics cannot be easily captured with a label. Here he is endorsing the most leftist well-known candidates for US president and British prime minister: To put an end to this oppression of workers, vote for Sanders and Corbyn.
We are concerned about the pens. People are cutting it with toxic crap.

A smoke vaporizer works great. Fill the bag and take sips.

Hard to not cough. If coughs are not OK, try edibles or tinctures.

I left you my home edible tips.

Tinctures are hard to make well. Buy those if you can where you live.
I just can't help feeling that either the true should be correct, or the wrong should be false. But I guess English is not a strongly typed language.
Show HN: Geodata API for country and city select drop-downs
Like, can I use https://temp-mail.org/en/ or will I need the email to access the material at a future date?
> Please buy yourself a dictionary.

Why are you talking like this? I understand if you feel strongly about this, but personal snipes aren't cool, and don't feel nice to receive.

Do you believe that the women who have come out and said RMS' behavior made them uncomfortable feelings are invalid?
I have a feeling that apl (or j) based calculator app (with buttons for all fancy symbols) could be something. All those nice powerful one liners seem to be suited for such app. I wonder if something like that is available. I know there is j for Android, but having a nice closed interface focused on short clever code would be fun.