skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked as a low level manager at places that are "metrics driven", what I have seen is that teams are given average metrics for the team to hit that are legitimately roughly between the output of a senior and junior engineer. What happens next is that when anyone below this average, i.e. all the juniors, it would show up on a graph and I would be tasked with "fixing" their stats to be above average. Rinse and repeat this cycle a few times and suddenly were not hiring any juniors or the job postings say "Junior" but describe a senior.

This is for software engineering which is a in demand field, I can't imagine how bad it would be for a field where there was a glut of people trying to apply
I had plenty of experience with Windows CE based devices - I programmed them for four years writing field service implementations. Did you try using Office or IE on Windows mobile devices compared to either iWork,Google Docs, or later Office for iOS?
All of these long, ancient religious texts are palimpsests (by which I mean simply the work of multiple authors, over a period of time; I know that isn't the strict meaning, and indeed some of them are strictly palimpsests, i.e. documents that have been erased and written over).

I don't know for sure that the BV is such a palimpsest; but it is not plausible that the Mahabharata as a whole is a record composed by a single author, at a point in history.
Something like Venture for America?
Not only that, but it's kind of a nominal value. There's some shares you'd be lucky to find a buyer for.
jiu jitsu is a traditional martial art.. so is muay thai.

If you go back through history, fighting hasnt changed much. There are ancient roman statues showing techniques used today.

As fighters get too injured, arts start to specialize in one area, and often times become stylized to emphasize the art.

Kung fu was eviscerated in the 1920s when fighting in the lei tai was banned. Before that time fights were often times to the death.

Even MMA is watered down from its origin. Rule sets change to emphasize one kind of fight over another. For example bare knuckle favors grappling because you cant punch as hard without breaking your hand. Gloves favor strikers which are more fun to watch.

kung fu includes sanda and sashou which fight as a combat sport.
Congestion pricing is great and we should do that to. However, taxis generally can enter the city once and drive around all day.
> I don’t think people have a right to a job.

Pragmatic considerations may override your personal beliefs in this matter. American culture strongly ties self-worth to productivity. Take away folks' ability to meaningfully contribute to society, and they will cease to see themselves as a part of that society. On the other hand, we have a strong cultural identity surrounding gun ownership, and we're seeing rapid polarization in politics. So what's the natural consequence when your populace is bored, disenfranchised and heavily armed? Sounds like a powderkeg to me
Only because you have chosen for the learning rate to decrease over time so the model converges. You could reset it.

I would even argue the LR is not relevant to plasticity, it's a meta-variable for training the model and not to do with the model itself.

A plastic model would be one that could accomplish a given task after being trained on it, and then trained on a second task while maintaining the ability to accomplish the first task.
Exactly, it also doesn't cover stuff like, the stamping plants and other stuff - there is more that goes into cars than just vehicle assembly.
Your objection is that the computer does not magically precog the admin's delivery address? Or what? It works fine without DKIM or SPF or any of that stuff; at best you must whitelist the message sender.s

I'm having a hard time understanding you because you refuse to specify "what needs to be set up" and when you have you've been mistaken.

LAN sending is not being "phased out". Email is not being "phased out". Nothing has changed with email policies on any of these distros for the better part of a decade.

What are you trying to say?
It's supposed to be mobility, and I think tracking individuals through their tax returns. (This magic data which only Chetty & co have access to.) So I don't think the Mercedes example works.

But I agree that it's very unlikely to be that being able to walk places makes you succeed. Could even be something as simple as enough people owning a few flats in their neighbourhood, which suddenly became super-valuable when lots of google employees showed up. That would look a lot like income mobility.
I'll say I do detest those with MBAs, mostly due to my bias since I didn't go to college.

But even I'm going to say you're making a rather absurd statement that's filled with delusional correlation.

MBA programs aren't the "cause" of US Industry decline. I don't even know where to begin with unpacking that they are the cause, because of the absurdity. MBA like programs (specialized business teachings to an advance level) have existed since the days of enterprise. The only difference between now and antiquity is the fact we've standardized the model and the naming conventions.

Don't forget too it's the consumer's dollar that ultimately has the "real vote" in where production happens. That's why the past two decades, small farms are more and more... viable is a strong word. But they're more popular and there are plenty that do well. Because certain consumers do vote "Yes, I think that a heritage chicken that's cage free and free range is worth the extra money compared to the commercial broiler breeds."

But it's a real difficult sell on someone to tell them, "Hey, you can go into an industry where there's money being thrown around or you can try raising a dying industry from scratch and hope it works out for you before the end of your lifetime." It's the same reason we tell kids you should go into STEM classes and not basket weaving. If consumers already have a history in paying for something, why should someone go into something where there's a history of consumers NOT paying for something?
Ask HN: Is having a unique handle for profile pages a problem?
Every major platform I know has their core entities behind a user chosen handle. Right now I'm deciding how to handle this matter for a web app I'm developing and my main concern is name squatting. There have been many discussions about squatting, here's one about Rust's package repository, crates.io[1], for example.

An alternative approach that I've been thinking about would be having a slug (for SEO purposes) and an ID in the URL: myapp.com/page/FancyCorporation/mYlIcpWXpCG3GithkD2OdA. Although it makes the URL uglier, naming the thing is less stressful as every name is allowed. Another problem with this solution might be the fact that the slug part can be any string: myapp.com/page/asdasd/mYlIcpWXpCG3GithkD2OdA and myapp.com/page/FancyCorporation/mYlIcpWXpCG3GithkD2OdA point to the same profile. This allows bad actors to create URLs that look legit.

Am I overthinking or what do you think?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/9dole9/proposal_crate_squatting_on_cratesio/
I would add that while people may take pride in work, that doesn't mean they'll work for pride alone.
Would you be willing to say the same thing were it your head on the proverbial chopping block? Would you be willing to lose your career, your only source of income and potentially more as a consequence, such as your home?

Are you willing to right now, make the same sacrifice in the name of progress for humanity?
What is RWLS in this context please?
Even for that market, the way you make money isn't by making products that are better than the commodity alternative. It's by taking the commodity alternative and dressing it up in fancy packaging and marketing so it looks like a product that's better than the commodity alternative.

Making unique, superior products is expensive. Your profit margins are much better if you just take the same crap everyone else is selling and put a sharp suit of clothes on it.
>...but I keep wondering how much of it could be abstracted away by a cross-platform toolkit, and what kind of separation there is between the estimation/modeling code and the UI itself.

Apparently they tried QT in 2015: https://turtlesoft.com/wp/?p=198 .
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.ht... is an article about this.

Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809428 from 2010.

Related to the Radiolab episode about Kaczynski from that year: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91721...
In a Syrian Town Under Siege, a Secret Library Kept Dreams Alive
there is more that goes into cars than just vehicle assembly, for example, stamping and casting plants (and yes, GM still stamps and casts it's own body components) - its still highly repetitive motions - so while its better now, its still not an easy job, and will wear your body out.
You have been keeping up with the news in regards to American politics haven’t you?
> Well except quantum physics might get in the way,

This is a pretty huge well except. When people talk about information that can be stored in the universe this is exactly the limitation they have in mind.
Yet it seems common in American cities that the best schools for children are in the suburbs, where walkability is graded lower.

Public schools seem to be regaining credibility as the upper-middle class flood back into cities, but have they caught up? Unsure.
The former. LTCM blowup in the late ‘90’s is a perfect example of a generally correct trade, but the market moving against them long enough to force insolvency.

Apparently, none of the Nobel prize winners thought to model out that particular adverse condition.

Bunch of smart people + one missed market condition = failure (eventually).
Shooting from the hip here, but I think ICA was originally designed for the blind source separation problem. PCA is over 100 years old and the original dimensionality reduction algorithm.
"A learning should be fun" assumption gets baked into an awful lot of discussions around Ed Tech and related topics. It's not that learning should always be painful/boring/etc. but I'm not sure that coming at education from an angle where if it's not enjoyable there must be something wrong is the right one.
I remember a YouTube comment : "if you're good at something, there's an Asian that is better than you at it. And if you're Asian there's a Japanese that is better than you."

Anyway I don't think it's genetic, but cultural.
It does but not in they way I think you thought it did
Right now, gas cars are a stupid choice. You have to plan your trips around refuelling, instead of leaving the house every day with 100% charge. The running costs mean that over the lifetime of the car, it will cost you far more than an EV. Not to mention the cost and inconvenience of replacing the oil and brake pads - and this is all before we get to the gross emissions from your tailpipe.
A founder's situation is very different from an employee's situation. The founder will immediately purchase their stock for peanuts, where employees usually face all the hazards of the 90-day exercise window. The founder starts out with 40%ish of the startup, which is tremendously more upside than the <1%ish of even early employees. Founders typically have a board seat and negotiating leverage over all future equity rounds, where employees are powerless and need to hope that their founders are ethical enough to protect their interests in future raises.

I'm not against founders getting these benefits. I think VC's are the ones getting too good of a deal here. Roughly, if they pay $10 million for 10% of a company, and an employee gets 1% to offset $1 million of their reduced compensation (over 4 years, vs working at Google), looks fair, right? But oh wait, we forget the many many downsides of the employee's position (not preferred shares, had to ALSO pay to exercise them, risk of AMT, 90-day exercise window, etc). Seems to me that the VC got somewhere between a 5x and 20x better deal here.
It probably says a lot more about me than I want it to, but I was in a Big 10 marching band and didn't really care about the performances. I mean, it was enjoyable, but I might have done it even if we did all the same long rehearsals of the performances (we memorized the drill and music for ~7 shows a season) and then just went to the games as a pep band.
Yeah. Who knows how fast the growth is gonna be or how it’s gonna look but people are already working on eg communication-avoiding algorithms for matrix or tensor operations to work best in the new regime. I’m not an expert in this area but if you allow me to paraphrase of someone who is, one of the reason algorithms people have employment is that all of these things get redone over and over to exploit advances in hardware.
> People don't want "hand outs" or "charity", they want to do something to generate value

Agreed that it will be a cultural shift: there is a divide between meaning and economics.

People need meaning in life, but meaningful work and economic value aren't always the same.

Raising children or providing caregiving to the elderly can be very meaningful and happens to pay poorly. Building community is incredibly meaningful, and is usually volunteer work right now.

> People go all in on retraining (even though it obviously can't work for everyone)

I've heard that federal retraining programs have a success rate (defined as difference between placebo of nothing) of 0-15%. The current government solution to displaced workers is in practice is getting on disability.
Step one: make sure no Chinese people have been involved in the production process, or at least any stage of that process that goes beyond simply "putting things together"
it's a very interesting research topic but I'm disappointed by the paper (after a very quick look).

one immediate question I had, after read the abstract, is how are they going to measure learning result. without looking into the testing material, I'd argue if the tests were not carefully designed, it could produce whatever result anyone likes, by adjust depth/width ratio of the given subject. maybe the testing materials are so well regarded in the field so there would be no justification necessary, but by ignoring the possibility to readers, it feels not trustworthy to me.

back to the explanation of the result, it's entirely possible that learners (and the authors) not able to draw distinctions between information and performance. I'd assume the traditional teaching would expose much more information to students (anecdotes, connections to other fields), but 'active' learning could give better result in performance building in a narrowed domain.

I'll read carefully into the paper sometime later, but for now, it's not a paper I'd recommend.
(feel free to downvote if I get anything wrong)
g(tb)^2
None of those sources tell me what marcus_holmes has personally witnessed.
> should have been a library instead of a driver all along

This would have required there to be a lower-level interface that different vendors could all implement, which was not the case for early graphics hardware. In the decades since graphics hardware has all evolved to look more or less the same to SW (so vulkan became a nice fit), but that wasn't always the case.
This is best summary of the Gita.

https://nilayashokshah.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/zzzzz-git...
I perhaps wonder if he survived due to his unconcious state. Similar concept to how drunk drivers generally suffer less injuries due to their body being relaxed upon impact.
Remember the pull cord on the Toyota production line.

A car comes by, doesn't look right, anyone could pull the cord and stop the line while the problem was understood.
I agree some of the reasons for density are artificial. Not all of them, because the more desirable an area is, the more infill makes sense. (You see vacant lots in rundown areas, not thriving ones.)

But yes, that's a real issue, and it's a disastrously bad policy if you care about the environment (because density reduces transportation energy use).

However, I think the artificial restriction only magnifies the effect here. Lots of people would like to live in a dense, walkable area. If those policies weren't in effect, most people who wanted to could. But since they are, density is for those who can afford it.
Maybe. Technical integrations in the payments space go painfully slowly. It'll be interesting to see what the payments landscape looks like by the time RTP has sufficient saturation for two randomly selected parties to be able to use it.
As a seasoned traveler, any advice for how to navigate in the strange new world?
Really cheap? I have a friend who is a single mother with a 7-year-old Lego addict, who also loves all things Jurassic World. The only Lego sets available in the aisles of the big box stores around us (conveniently placed at 7-year-old height) are the egregiously over-priced officially licensed movie tie-in kits. I was shocked to see some of these relatively small kits selling for over $100, the cheap ones being in the $40s to $60s. My friend's income (with food stamps) is roughly $1,000 a month... So her son has to feel constantly deprived of the cool toys he really wants. I confess I ordered a knock-off set from AliExpress for his Christmas present last year, he got dozens of Jurassic World-ish Lego-like bricks and it cost me less than $20, shipped. I had very positive feelings about Lego as a kid. Now I see them as just like any other business, engineering desires into their target market and exploiting those desires for maximum profit.
I initially wrote a whole bunch of words... but people vary wildly. Circumstances are different.

In my own experience I made the "world" of finding a job very small and personable. I got interested in a niche language, found the local community for language and met the other developers and business owners.

In that time I've worked with others, often remotely, that are also a part of this same programming community. It would appear to me they took a similar approach to what I had done but they did it online.

I would find programming communities that value individuals and are in need of qualified candidates. PHP/Python/Java might not be that community.
During late 80s/early 90s when Japanese memory chips were eating the world, one reason was their yields were much higher, so they could sell cheaper.

Friends in semi industry said one major reason, cleanliness standards in Japanese fab lines were much higher than American.
As opposed to mining or ground work (navying)
First time hearing about it. But we also target more than just students/recent graduates. I also don’t think they have a presence in our region, but I could be wrong.
Paper checks are cheap for recipients, depending on volume, because the processing fees are really low. An individual simply needs to scan the check with their phone. Processing large volumes of checks (e.g. thousands per month) as a merchant can be outsourced to a lockbox facility if needed. Payers can write and mail a single check in a couple minutes or use a bill pay service that will do it all for you with a few clicks.

Banks are trying to replace checks. Zelle, which sits atop ACH, is an effort to simplify P2P transfers. Real time payments (RTP) are on the way, and will have some invoicing functionality (e.g. line items). The challenge is to get enough banks, covering enough of the population, to make the system feasible. Zelle or RTP don't succeed if I have to fall back to using a check or cash because my friend's small bank/credit union does not support the service. Also, this all requires an investment of time and money to upgrade backend systems. That investment is easier for some institutions than others.
It's a mistake everybody makes once, and then you learn to take tram rails at a sufficient angle. That's been my experience in Amsterdam. Also, when it's wet, there's the possibility of your rear wheel slipping on the tram rail if the angle is too small.
There are other factors, too (some mentioned further down in the article). Active learning classes are often messier, by which I mean that there is a lot of people speaking up, sometimes things are proposed that are not quite right and there is discussion of how it is wrong and how to make it right, etc.

I don't teach all my classes in 100% active ways, but it has seemed to me that in the classes that are more active I get significantly lower student evaluations. People often rate my knowledge of the subject as less, for instance. That is, when I ask in class, "What do you think?" at least some of them perceive, at least a bit, that I am not sure.
Stephen Kinzer has a new book about this:

https://www.amazon.com/Poisoner-Chief-Sidney-Gottlieb-Contro...

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/books/review/poisoner-in-...
I guess many institutions and research groups can write similar accounts. Even the late 80s were somewhat productive concerning NNs and what today we call ML, just by searching publications of that era.

We had also some relatively sophisticated tools, and looking back in time one could say they were deep-learning-ish. In my personal case I did some research for weather forecasting using BPN/TDNN, Kohonen and RNNs with the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator [0]. It allowed some flexibility creating and stacking models.

[0] http://www.ra.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/SNNS/welcome.html
I don’t think the majority actually want this to be part of go
1973 Job Application, Steve Jobs
YouTube played some "It 2" ads for my kid while he was watching paw patrol. I'm about 30% annoyed by technical embarrassments by big tech companies, 70% reminded why I'm always closely monitoring his screen usage.

I can't rely on the competence of any of these large companies. They're chock full of mediocrity and will get these things wrong often.
It's obvious why that was the case. Even if two chairs bought from IKEA are the same design, you would feel more comfortable sitting on the one put together by ethical people than unethical people
Robert Bjork [0] talks a lot about this, in particular in [1], and also in his 1h long lecture "How we learn vs how we think we learn" [2].

It's important to distinguish between "performance" (how well you're doing right now) vs "learning" (how well you do after some time delay).

Compare blocked practice with interleaved practice. Suppose you're practicing calculating the area of different geometric figures of types A, B, C, etc.

Blocked practice means you do problems in the order of: AAAABBBBCCCC, etc.

Interleaved practice means you mix them up: ACCBAABACA, etc.

Blocked practice increases your performance (how well you're doing right now) because problems of the same type cluster together, i.e. you're able to "cache" the right formula and just plug in the numbers. But this doesn't help learning, because you're not practicing recognizing what features of the figure should prompt you to retrieve which formula from memory.

Interleaved practice reduces your performance, because more cognitive effort is required to retrieve the right formula, you might get it wrong, etc. But it improves learning, because you're training yourself to recognize which figure requires which formula.

So "desirable difficulties" can be introduced (of which interleaving is one) to increase learning at the cost of reducing performance.

[0] https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research/
[1] https://youtu.be/gtmMMR7SJKw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZzoVp5jmI
Jams can be caused by more than just traffic lights, though. Control of traffic lights is not going to solve everything.
The appliances would be designed to account for the plug going in either way, which is a long ways from 'random'.

Polarization and grounding enable designs that are even safer.