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> The holy grail of neural nets has always been to build a simulation of the brain, figure out how it works, and apply that knowledge to how the human brain might work.

I'd say that's a goal for some people -- for those whose goal is to figure out how the brain works, rather than constructing a more ideal and powerful GI. Remember the brain is great at some things, but laughable at others -- such as a "7 +/- 2" items in short term memory, inability to immediately retain rote knowledge after one instance and in great numbers, etc. It's the merging of the fuzzy, goal-directed behavior of the mind, in conjunction with its ability to effect the "real world", and the super-human memory and computational capabilities of computers that makes possible future GAIs that are so powerful and possibly scary.
I've been thinking all morning what I want to say to this and ya beat me to it.

This reporter was the one to dig up the "dirt" on Carson. It's 100% false that the DSM register pushed him to do this through "editorial practice", although the paper did allow it through so they're as much to blame on this as he is. I've been following this closely and I really think Aaron has a huge chunk of responsibility in this matter.

If you put someone under a microscope don't be surprised when the same happens to you - play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Canada's winters must be very harsh (although I already heard a bit about them from Jordan Peterson on his podcasts).

I'm from the UK and Berlin's winters were harsh for me :).
and still you have a team of really gifted engineers that worked on this, an executive or a bunch of executives that pushed for this and a bunch of tesla owners that will give it a try.
London Oligarchs – Who Is Real, Who Is Not – Valdimir Zemtsov
We are producing a documentary series on Russian Wealth in the U.K. and will pay for information on Valdimir Zemtsov, a Russian-born businessman with Belgian citizenship.
Hey the coconut oil suggestion is awesome, thank you so much! I'll definitely look at getting some quality oil and adding it to our regimen. I tinkered with MCT oils and whatnot in the past for my own health and have definitely 'greased the chute' by accident lol.

Totally agree on the side effects of dehydration. I could see the cycle happening over the course of a week or two and we'd end up in the ER (8 times in the last four months now). We've finally got her set up with a port and have home health services coming by mondays and fridays with hydration (and labs). Then she gets a bit more during weekly chemo on Weds. We're only a week into it and it is already showing benefit.

Thanks again for the suggestions!
160 vs 220 is pretty obvious to me since I’ve experienced that directly. I’m not sure about 300, I’ve never seen one of those even on a laptop before.
I had a GI Joe toy based on this in the 1980s. What's the point of bringing this up now other than if it's not in the Internet it didn't exist at all? Again, this is 1980s aerospace tech that didn't really go anywhere.
I just finished writing a custom FIFO allocator for an extremely high bandwidth and low latency data processing (and UI) system written in C/C++ (even std::deque was doing WAY too many heap allocations, not to mention the allocations within each object passing through the system, despite use of move semantics to minimize redundancy).

Performance improved by 100x - 1000x. And it was already blazingly fast before, if measured against performance standards we’ve become accustomed to from JavaScript and other GC languages.

In high performance systems (where the benefits of C/C++/etc. outweigh the downsides), dynamic allocations always come back to bite you.

If you rely on them too heavily from the start (and don’t plan for custom allocation schemes in the future), you can even get into bad situations where it’s infeasible to refactor to custom memory management (without a total rewrite), when you later need the performance gain.

Incorporating even the possibility of heap allocations into a language’s most fundamental data types will doom that language to being relegated to performance-insensitive and latency-insensitive tasks, if only because it requires that a heap exist (whereas C, Rust, etc can run on embedded real-time systems with no heap).

And that’s okay! It’s good that we have languages for that. But C/C++/Rust/etc. are definitely not where you can tolerate such a thing in the core language.
I don't know the income tax in Germany/Berlin, but in Sweden/Stockholm it's roughly 30% for (upper) middle-class folks. VAT is quite high and food in general is a lot more expensive than in Berlin.
It is somewhat a show, right? All barking, no substance.
We know until recently renewable tech wasn't even at parity to sustain continuity in supporting the energy of our technologies; Hence, this is probably the final stretch of fossil fuel dominance anyway.
Nuclear a still touchy substance, is free of emissions or after effects (As ocean wind power may be) aside from the politics of waste storage and transport <NIMBYism>.
Electric batteries are about to replace combustion engines entirely over the next 20 years.
We will have to deal with the fall-out of climate change no doubt, the hardest hit will be the developing world and then places in already drought-prone areas; Not necessarily at the degree of world-ending if technological innovation keeps up.

Eco-doomers bark, with a background tint of primitivism and a solar-punk aesthetic with a dogmatic obsession with nature
It’s pretty common for people who have fear of legal repercussion to seek advice before going to authorities.
I don't know for sure, but they look similar to diagrams I've seen that were built in Lucidchart.
That wouldn't do them well for engagement. They want this sort of stuff to happen, and we all have to admit to ourselves that when we join these platforms that WE are the product.
That was created after how many years of CSV in the wild? Nobody disagrees here that parsing CSV in practice is a horrible minefield with lots of manual adjustments.
This just seems like a native advertisement for Lean...
This is such bullshit. TL;DR: "Hey - the thousands of hours and thousands of dollars you spent doing good real work and good real learning in university level classes and labs are useless and don't demonstrate your commitment to to engineering. Show me some shitty youtube video you did on a lark and you're in!"

You're also filtering out people who aren't privileged enough to burn Mom and Dad's money outside of class on their radio shack electrics hobbies. I can only assume that is intentional.

I'll take the student who did well in class and has a life outside engineering. I'll take that student every time.
Unlikely that this kind of growth suddenly happens. Growth of +\- 20% can usually be handled (eg booking a larger room for the lectures). So studies can usually grow their teaching base as needed.

Exceptions happen: eg the popularity of CSI lead to a huge boom in people wanting to study forensic sciences. IIRC they were allowed to limit the seats for those studies back in the day.

Similarly, dentistry and doctors have a fixed amount of seats. They have a lottery that is biased based on your high school grades.

Overall I think this system has the better outcomes ‘on average’, but that the true top students are not challenged as much as they would be in a more selective system such as the US/UK
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21058555
There's Hoogle, for Haskell: https://hoogle.haskell.org/

I don't know if it implements any techniques from that paper, but it does let you search for definitions by type signature. Of note, it also does a pretty good job of finding results with different-but-compatible types, which is very valuable in a Haskell context given all the polymorphism.
Barcelona's Car-Free 'Superblocks'
In most jurisdictions, the vehicle traveling in reverse is always the give-way vehicle. Practically, I expect that the insurance companies would agree to each pay their own driver’s costs and count it as an at-fault accident on both sides.
Using GoodRx, $120 for 90 day supply of 3 generics. Using insurance, $180 for 3 generics 30 day supply.

That's pretty normal, even with traditional insurance, and has been for at least 20 years.

For a medicine I take, it's $28 for a 30-day supply, and $25 for a 90-day supply. The catch is that the non-SV insurance companies usually require that you get the 90-day supply by mail. Perhaps this is where GoodRx has an advantage.
>It sounds like you've been burned out by the career fair circuit

I've been burnt out by attending too many career fairs, and they are as he describes. Most of the people you speak to will simply take your resume and pass it on - they don't recommend any particular candidate, etc. Many companies are quite open about it. In fact, some companies will tell you not to give them your resume during the career fair. They just send you to their web site.
maybe, if road means freeway. There is no way the "self-driving" AI is safer than humans in the context of busy city streets, construction areas, parking lots, you name it.
I did some undergraduate research and ended up getting published. My initial drafts were written with prose so that I (and hopefully any novice) could understand. However, my professor wasn’t happy with it so I got some help from one of his grad students to re-write it. By the end of it I could barely understand my own paper. IMO the final paper had too much technical jargon which was convoluting some simple concepts. Kinda made me disenchanted with the academic world. Still have to give credit to my prof and the grad student, without their edits it probably wouldn’t have been published.
A Nevada Law That Fines Companies for Selling Private Data to Go into Effect
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909404
> I'm almost done with an undergraduate degree in math and basically have no idea what ~90% of the research is about

Find a grad student who are just about done with their studies in, say, analysis and the odds are they understand jacksquat about anything in current research in Number Theory either.

This post is in support of your point :)
The original study is here: https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine...
The article explained what that meant about as clearly as can be. If a pinch of poetic licence troubles you, skip those parts.
Even in Berlin my employer offered 50k plus 8% bonus for new grads. Some hip startups paid even more than us.

Plus about every fresh grad hired at the IG Metall Tarif, they're definitely not starting at a mere 40k.
Would you care to share which companies you know that pay equal salaries? I'm close to 200k CAD in total comp working in Vancouver but that's still around 40% less of what colleagues in the States are making.
Passive solar for air and water temperatures is the way to design it into new homes. Cool in summer, warm in winter. Few to no moving parts or electricity needed. Little to ever replace. Anathema though to fancy solutions favored by VCs like photoelectric utilizing the strip-mining of millions of hectares of arable land, followed by toxic run-off, to produce panels and batteries.

For retrofits of existing homes, geothermal whenever possible for upgrading central climate control when present. Current professional installers though are generally incompetent and price-gouge. Sufficiently motivated hackers can easily DIY.
Disregard cranks, acquire Metamath: http://us.metamath.org/downloads/metamath.pdf
Protip: Show off software engineering, collaboration, initiative, and problem solving. Don't worry so much about computer science as such other than the baseline expected of all graduates.

Exception, of course, if you're specifically applying to a role (re)implementing bloom filters or something.
>It sounds like you've been burned out by the career fair circuit -- maybe your company needs to swap in someone who is still interested in actually talking and listening to prospective hires. If you find talking to candidates "really tedious", I don't know that you're the best face for your company anymore.

My company does the same as OP mentioned. We do not have any power to call out good candidates, we collect all their resumes all the same, then a recruiter reaches out.

Like OP above, I have no problem speaking about my own experiences, or answering any questions you may have. But trying to impress me by listing the projects you've done isn't helping either of us accomplish our goals.

I think anyone finds talking about irrelevant topics tedious.
> Career fairs have two purposes: For the company it's a way to establish / further their brand, and for students it's a way to get their resumes to companies and talk to employees.

Totally agree.

In my experience, skipping the career fair in favor of attending the smaller, company-specific information sessions yielded MUCH better results for my exposure.
High level languages are sold on the concept that customers' machines are powerful enough that the reduction in performance is worth it for the reduction in development time. For the same reason, it should be worthwhile to give developers powerful machines so they spend less time fixing runtime bugs.
Wow this is incredibly helpful, thank you for all the detail...your description alone makes me excited to give this a try.

I've got some pretty good bud from the local dispensary all sealed up and found a source for capsules in town. Will probably give this a go today. Thanks so much!!!!
Anyone who knows the current capabilities of AI knows that this is pure nonsense. Maybe it'll get vaguely decent results using the easiest features - probably are they young and white. But you don't need AI for that.
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I don't think the posted is making any discussion of efficacy here, but is simply stating that there are people (non-US) who have to make the economic choice not to attend school, so filtering by degree even outside of the US is problematic.
I think the write-up has some useful information, but it comes off as pretty patronizing.
Don't take this the wrong way, but from one regular dude to another, both ~20 year old me and the current version of me emphatically do _not_ want to impress someone who seemingly has such a high opinion of themselves.

Like, dude. It's a job. You have what seems like a bog standard middle class existence - just like countless others.

You have a blog post about how you've gone on a single proper holiday in your entire working career, for example.

It feels like you're holding other people to a standard higher than yourself, albeit not in precisely the same categories. I've done it in the past too, and I'm not proud of it.

The Stallman bashing is also completely unnecessary and I wonder if it's in there as a sort of unclear "</sarcasm>" tag.
Student Loan Forgiveness: Can the US Cancel Student Debt? – Road to Success
There are quite a few prescriptions that I know I need but currently require a doctors visit. That takes time and is expensive. Being able to connect with a doctor or nurse through telemedicine or an app for a set of basic scenarios, I would use it. It would likely be much cheaper as well (insurance prefers this because it’s $40 instead of $100 for a visit or whatever).

Getting an antiviral for early flu symptoms is much better when it takes 5 minutes for a prescription rather than a day or two for an appointment plus a few hours.

Similarly for UTI prescriptions or doing a strep throat test and course of antibiotics.

If we can avoid all the “no brainer” visits then that frees up healthcare for more important stuff.
That doesn’t mean that it’s wrong, it means that you need to read more. In a lot of fields, undergraduate material doesn’t qualify you to read papers, a PhD does.

If all papers actually were written to undergraduate level, many would be 500 pages long. Who has time to write a book-length exposition of the basics of their field every time they publish? I mean, have you ever published a technical work? If so, did you go out of your way to make it completely accessible to high schoolers? If you didn’t, you get why professors don’t do the same for undergrads.
The Modern BA Mindset
> E-mailadres is also decentralized, but so what? Most people use the same email providers so it's somewhat meaningless for SMTP itself to be decentralized. Google can still read your emails.

I actually think email is almost the ideal implementation of a decentralized network. You're always going to have giants in any communication network- that's simple the reality. Email allows people to use these giants or, and critically, it allows people to join in the conversation while not using those giants. It is open. Suppose this were to happen with twitter or facebook, where the protocol was open and people using networks like mastodon could simply join in. That is a way to achieve decentralization, with the benefits that go with it. If you don't want google to read your mail, you and your correspondences can choose not to. Twitter and Facebook offer no such choice.
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The words "tourism" and "tourist" do not even occur in the article.
> is an organization that you democratically control.

There is no such thing. You do have the right to cast a vote from time to time, but that's the full extent of your influence over the organization. Between elections you are there to take orders and experience the outcome of events decided by a random union type without your say or input. That's not control. That's just another master telling you what to do.
Oliver de Weck from MIT has done a lot of work around complexity, including deriving definitions and measures. Turns out there is an objective measure as to how many microservices is optimal. The number comes to around 2.8 connections per component if I remember correctly. Can share the math, if anybody’s interested.
i kinda want one. feels like a fun restoration project.
> I had no idea that 'Domain join' could mean 'create an offline account'.

It doesn't. It means, or at least it should, join the PC to a Active Directory/NT4 domain.
Someone who says that is, ironically, not concerned with the details. All of published math is wrong? No, a lot of is is understandable and verifiable by advanced undergraduates.

Most of the fundamental theorems in each field are understandable by humans. As you get more and more abstract, and get into more and more obscure areas, you start to see non-understandable proofs built on top of non-understandable proofs. There's a danger that those are wrong, but when they collapse it just means that one professor has wasted their life, not that all of mathematics will suddenly collapse.
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/does-anyone-kno...
A common technique for motorcycle riders, which also works for pedestrians, bicyclists and even car drivers, is to make eye contact with other drivers before pulling in front of them. The vast number of MC collisions happen because the other driver doesn’t see them. When the other operator isn’t even in the car, you lose a key safety tool.
I agree that having humans drive cars is inherently unsafe and that self-driving cars will eventually be safer when the technology matures. However, that doesn't justify Tesla releasing features before they're ready. That doesn't move us towards a self-driving future; in fact, it sets us back.
That doesn't quite seem like an answer. Can I put in a fake address? If I put in a real address, will the platform decide to spam me?
“Bitchin” “make that sucker twerk” Really? I think you are mostly letting me know that I don’t want to work with your company.
It is not strange, we slightly heavier persons have much more energy for the body to fight of external problems like virii and bacteria, besides I have seen a lot of "fit" people who are heavier and a lot of ill ones who are thin. thin == fit has more to do with fashion and culture than with health. Many people don't realize that all of us are the decendents of the wealthy and fat in the middle ages.
Rust and Java Interoperability
This isn't universally true.

At my university's career fair I did multiple interview screenings on campus as the result of the career fair. One interview (with an engineer, not a recruiter) led to an internship at a major tech company which led to a full time job there.

Many of my peers had similar experiences.
Ask HN: If life is just a short period of time between birth and dead?
If life is just a short period of time between birth and dead, why do we bother so much instead of living the life to its fullest? Modern education system might be all wrong. Do we need a complete new approach to the way of living?
"I believe that no human, alive or dead, knows all the details of the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. But the community accept the proof nonetheless," Buzzard wrote in a slide presentation[...]

That s 100% clickbait. People knows the demonstration and the demonstration helped to create entire new fields. By the way there are new and shorter proof of the theorem.
I’m so sorry, that was terrible.
> For a more detailed and better explanation

You can also read the actual paper: https://drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop...
Interesting paper. Adapt the Transformer to spatiotemporal forecasting for the first time. SOTA results in taxi demand forecasting.
Maybe for big companies but for smaller companies, it's often a member of the engineering team that mans the booth and, speaking from experience, yes, people who leave a positive impression do get additional impetus to get them in for an interview loop.
work isnt a place for learning so to say - your reputation and advancement suffer greatly if you make mistakes so its best to stick to small repeatable tasks. for larger projects you should have junior analysts perform the work while you provide guidance and monitor progress
We've replaced that with a more measured sentence from the article, in accordance with the HN guidelines ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait")

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
OK, if I'm understanding you correctly, you define clickbait as articles that don't deliver the legitimate content promised in the headline, regardless of whether the headline is sensationalized or not.

Does that mean that the fisherman who puts bait on a hook, catches a fish, but then provides the fish with a full meal and lets it free is not baiting the fish?

Anyway, I appreciate your explanation, and it definitely made me think. I would have to agree that feature articles like this one making their titles more enticing is not clickbait, it's just good creative writing.

But if this was a news article I would remain as stubborn in my original opinion!
As someone who once got stuck in an intersection after flooding a '79 Monte Carlo's carburetor while deciding to go on red, I'm with you on fuel injection. But I could see the counter-argument that something that makes an experience nicer is not radical innovation. That old junker got me where I need to go for a while.
> The high speed trains in China are impressive projects but could also be used as form of control over people who live outside the cities.

Explain?
I think that's one of the stupidest additives of constant noise pollution - noise pollution being one reason people zone out and stop paying attention to their environment, rather than people being aware that they're about to step onto a road.
Thanks! Changed from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%E2%80%93drug_intera...