skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man this is me. Knowing a bit of coding and machine learning in engineering has been such a boon over my career in civil/environmental engineering.

But it's like math, if you know it well enough, you'll find ways to use it everywhere. If you don't, you won't. You have to be the type of person that likes to innovate. Its hard to sell to prospective employers, but its great for demonstrating value once you are with an organization. All of my previous employers fight over trying to get me back when I've found myself looking for work. ...Now I work for myself and make my own work and I've priced myself out of their offers, but that's not so bad.
I wonder if using this for low-precision floating point math in graphic cards would make sense.

Maybe it's a way to do realtime raytracing? Who cares if the results have a little noise? It can be even argued it gives it a special "look".
Geriatric care and home health services.
why are you and others talking about stolen cars and hardware attacks in a thread about schoolchild pranks?

I don't think most organizations would hold you at fault if someone stole your computer and used a hardware exploit to gain access to your account. but if you have a blatantly terrible password or just leave the machine unsecured in a cafe, they will probably hold you accountable for whatever happens. I know my employer would.
I worked in these spaces for the past few years.

Money is the biggest challenge. Elderly who can afford to pay for their care have plenty of options available for all of this. Many elderly (on Medicare or fixed income) simply don't have any money.

> 1. Technology that helps doctors/practices service more elderly patients

Telemedicine and home care services, like Honor, are addressing this. Telemedicine will improve as more technically adept people age.

> 2. Wellbeing technology for seniors (Headspace/Calm should totally push towards this area)

This is purely a monetary issue. The moment Medicare covers these services, they will be used extensively.

> 3. Personnel management for homecare nursing

This one is part money and part skill. There simply isn't enough money to pay people with homecare skills. The price most people are willing to pay typically falls in the range of a Home Health Aid. There are some great ones, but there are also tons that lack skills, ethics, and compassion for the role.

I don't blame them either. Why would you do home health when you can get similar pay working at a factory, warehouse, or, even, fast food.
Advanced Technology Group.

We were the firefighters when a game studio's experts couldn't figure out what was going wrong. They may provide a code snippet, or in rare cases the full game, and we could debug with the console's OS/driver source code. We even had access to the processor layouts for figuring out hardware bugs. We'd get copies of the Red Disc and Green Disc masters used for duplication, before the game was published (helped figured out a few 0-day patch bugs that way).

The other half of the job was proactively figuring out what problems studios would run into with new APIs and new SDKs. How would they want to use them together, and the challenges that posed.

Finally, we were the developer representatives, advocating on their behalf as the platform progressed.

Was an amazing job. I only left because I just couldn't pass up my dream job (reworking the telemetry/stats pipeline for Halo 5, and getting to play with TB of data).
Deprecated, I thought. Just there for legacy support
> Analog computers making a comeback ? you never know.

For dataflow paradigms like deep neural nets it makes sense. If it's significantly faster and significantly more power efficient, and the intermediate states are largely arbitrary weights anyway, what's the point of digital precision.
I think the confusion here is mostly coming out of comparing US stances to globally expressed stances - both US parties are pretty right leaning on the global scale, but within the US left is democrat and right is republican - while people at the more extreme ends of the spectrum complain that, on the right, the republicans are too liberal and, on the left, democrats are too conservative.

The sort of interesting thing is it's really hard to be objective about this, if you were to measure where parties have stood on minority representation over history both parties today are astronomically to the left of any parties in the 1800s. I think the main thing we can sort of examine is where policies lie in relative comparison to the voting base and under that measure I'd expect that we have far more conservative and corporate representation today from both parties than the people voting - in a large part due to the political corruption existent in our system.
Facebook Sweetens Deal for Hackers to Catch Security Bugs
Shameless self plug but I did a simple site recently to this effect:

http://iwillansweryouremails.com

I like that I'm not tracking anyone, it doesn't require UI/UX, I have little to nothing to gain from it - it's just a human connection. Something fun we might have seen in the early years of the internet.
I guess all you would have to do is to make sure the precision was a few dB/bits more accurate than 16/32/64 bit floating point for a certain sigma probability and a lot of people would be perfectly happy with it.
One can do LUKS with access via dropbear in initramfs.

If you're lucky during network install, you'll never need out of bound access.

But rebooting is still a manual process.
Ranked choice voting systems are still ordinal voting systems, just like first past the post. Which means it's still susceptible to similar kinds of strategic voting as the current system. Although it obscures them from being usable via common sense, I don't think it prevents algorithms with lots of data from exploiting them.

All ordinal systems are susceptible to Arrow's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect
I think AR almost has to be Apple, not from a tech perspective, but from "this tech is very creepy, invasive, and visibly so" angle. Apple may be the only company that is simultaneously big enough to make the tech happen and charismatic enough to get us to let down our guard to it. Although that latter one is rapidly diminishing.
How do you propose to keep those autonomous systems secure against threat actors ?
I think more scary than any bias the algorithm might have, is giving such enormous power to a single company - to be able to influence hiring decisions for all the companies that use it. Even if they're not malicious (yet), what happens when its use becomes more widespread, and some people are (rightly or wrongly) classified as unemployable? Right now they can try their luck at a different company, but it won't make any difference if that company also uses HireVue.

Putting a black-box AI in charge of everyone's prosperity is crazy.
Note that union boosters tend to want to push the narrative that all business owners and managers are evil caricatures of greedy capitalists who wouldn't give workers anything but scraps if not for the valiant unions protecting them.

Not saying it's never true, but know when to be wary of union people claiming this and avoiding the point that unions sometimes obstruct efforts to keep the company alive and not lay anyone off during hard times by demanding strict adherence to negotiated agreements on hours and wages.
I’m not sure about European English, but at least in American, it’s not normal to say “I live in Germany since a bit”. If you don’t live there anymore, you could say “I lived in Germany for a bit”. If you still live there, you could say “I have lived in Germany for a bit”
The Guide to Finding a Developer Job in Europe
This is interesting! So its not just about grammatical patterns, but other stuff that might be parsed as named entities.
One way to think about the Borda is that it gives you the least hated candidate, instead of the most liked.

From Wikipedia: The Borda count is intended to elect broadly-acceptable options or candidates, rather than those preferred by a majority, and so is often described as a consensus-based voting system rather than a majoritarian one.
> It's finicky technology that is hard to make sustainable

This 100 times over. The only way I've been able to make it work is being one heck of a generalist. I've found that training on what I do is near-impossible and I don't even know if I could scale a real company in this beyond myself.
I really doubt it makes sense to use electric vehicles for mining, but I could be wrong. I guess we'll be able to see in the coming years what fraction of mining vehicles are electric.

But what is wrong about what I stated? It's obviously impossible for solar to approach $0 because of the large material costs inherent in manufacturing solar panels and transporting electricity. This is not contrarianism, it's realism. We probably use more energy per capita than is sustainable, and eventually we will have to change that.

Also solar panels wear out. I could see a case being made for the cost going to zero if you amortize it, but you can only amortize it over about 25 years, after which you have to replace the panels. This sets a floor on the price.
I'm not really a rust programmer, but I find it quite readable for the most part, one you get used to the unusual data structures.
Two Periodic Functions with Sum as Identity Function
The badge looks like 90pc of the product to me. A bike shed at a nuclear plant is not part of it at all. It’s fair to comment on the design
> Mining trucks are excellent candidates for battery electrification, Volvo is already building and selling them.

For near zero? Where?
Sometimes I have seen English words injected verbatim/untranslated in the middle of a phrase, when asked to translate between two non-English languages.
I'm pretty sure the Xperia that GP mentioned is supported by both MultiROM and Sailfish, so if you're buying devices specifically for this purpose you should be able to dualboot both Sailfish your Android fallback on that one device (among others you could choose from).
Capitalism, modernity’s most beguiling and dangerous form of enchantment
Visualizing any change to the exterior of a building or new construction project in the actual location that it will be.
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I guess someone here IS a fan of echo chambers.
That's the punctuation that every C-like language uses.
Having few instruction set architectures, or even one, enables quicker and more efficient software development by lowering barrier to entry (easier to learn and study just one ISA instead of many) and lowering the amount of maintenance and development work that has to be done on development infrastructure such as compilers.

This is assuming royalties don't have to be paid to an ISA creator, which is a separate issue.

A single ISA doesn't have to mean there is a single CPU vendor or CPU manufacturer.
Thank you, Josh!
Condorcet isn't particularly hard to explain. Easier to explain than IRV anyway. Call it "Instant Round Robin" - if one candidate would beat every other candidate head-to-head, then that candidate should win.

The annoying part about Condorcet enthusiasts is that they insist on lumping the uncommon "tie-breaking" methods (i.e. when there is the rare loop) in with the above general definition. That's when people start talking about Schulz, Ranked-Pairs, etc etc. I personally think a loop is valuable and shouldn't be tie-breaked - it's an indication that the voters are not ready to decide and that there should be another round of debate among the finalists before revoting.

In my opinion, the main flaw with Condorcet is that it is possible to have a Condorcet Winner that does not have the "approval" of a majority of voters.
The German court review of the investigation declared consumers are not harmed because

> “ There is no evidence that Facebook obtains the consent of users through coercion, pressure, exploitation of lack of willpower or otherwise unfair means.”

> The court further found that “whether the users act out of indifference or because they do not want to spend the necessary time and effort … does not matter. Their decision to sign on is ultimately free, uninfluenced and autonomous.”

- so it’s okay to obfuscate consumers with lengthy legal docs, that’s not considered misleading (gutless but unsurprising ruling)

- no mention of the competitive threat of 3 of 4 giant companies tracking all our online behavior, giant companies with massive VC war chests or close ties to the same, who can pick winners and losers to suit their interests and the interests of their few board-seated investors

As far as I see, this is the death of free-market capitalism. We are entering an era of gated-market capitalism. If will erode incentives and ultimately productivity.
Worries grow over the Fed’s efforts to fix funding issues
I saw an article about a sports related 'controversy'. They linked to 5 tweets. Each user had maybe two dozen tweets at most.
It's not the precision, it's avoiding O(n^2) physical connections per layer.
There is no gold-backed fiat currency.
I just want to say thank you. That classic CS-80 is probably my favorite instrument of all time. It makes me incredibly happy to see people still producing music with the same spirit.

You may know about this already, but there's a small batch / DIY synth called Deckard's Dream[0,1] aimed at recreating the Yamaha CS-80 sound.

[0]: Their website: https://www.deckardsdream.com/build
[1]: A nice demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP0E8Bx6yu8
Except that that hyphen does not make much sense here, if you wanted to write it you'd pick Standardisierungsorganisation instead which gives you a very long word and matching that to ISO is just odd.

In official government speech words don't tend to get that long, instead they get split into multiple ("Bundesministerium der Finanzen" instead of "Bundesfinanzministerium").
Completely disagree, instant run off voting almost universally protects the status quo, as it forces people to compromise their beliefs and vote for someone either to the right or the left of where they personally stand, leaving significant levels of disapproval in the legislature.

What we need is to eliminate the concept of districts within one of the houses for a bicameral state legislature, and instead you'd vote for a party slate. The current system where you vote for both legislatures by varying districts doesn't do anything to improve government and only makes things less democratic.
It would be supremely ironic if one of the fragments being sold contained the 10 commandments…
good question, thanks.
I think, next year.
Main blocker is a code quality. A code will be refactored.
Side ish bonus: you're basically prepared to run a one man show or move into niche consulting (much much higher rates). You also get to set the quality standards/procedures going forward, which can be satisfying.

As a tangential bonus, I've accidentally converted my PhD research coworkers to strict git/markdown thanks mostly to typora (windows application). I showed one person what my work flow and version history look like for some internal documentation and now they do the same and convert to word/pdf as a last step. As far as I can tell, no one outside of the math/cs intersection has the patience for latex.

Source: in that boat.

Edit: In regards to market rates, that can be alleviated somewhat in follow up negotiations (6-12 months in or so). It's hard to convince someone what you're worth / what your value proposition is when they're not used to hiring software people. You need to demonstrate your business effect first, since they typically don't have a clear picture of it.
Thank you for the recommendation :)
The WebSocket inspector is very welcome!

Now, will it work for Server-Sent Events too?
Great advice. I have a friend who went into finance in the run-up to the Great Recession. He spent his first big bonus on a Ferrari. Then the crash came, and the Ferrari sat in a parking garage (over $1,000 a month because it was a premium car) while it took him years to find another job. Also, nobody was buying a used Ferrari in '08 or '09 so he couldn't even get rid of the damn thing haha.
I came here to post this. I don't understand why Approval Voting and Score Voting don't get more love. The UX is easily understandable as we have been trained to thumbs-up and X/Y star ratings on everything from yelp and netflix. A simplified version in the form of the old pick one UX could be provided for voters who don't understand the new mechanism.

They both seem strictly better than what we have and yet I never hear anything about them. They even solve Arrow's Impossibility Paradox and have the confidence of Arrow himself.
All Starlink communication is already extremely directional. The spot size of the beam coming from the satellite is ~1.5km on the ground, and the receiver is also directional with similar accuracy. The entire principle of Starlink is based on extreme SDMA.

If you try to communicate with a satellite on the horizon, you will not hear it, and it will not listen to you.
But IRV still does allow you to throw your vote away. Once third parties become competitive, the best strategy in IRV regresses back to "your first choice vote should be whichever of the two most viable candidates you prefer".

IRV solves the problem of people irrationally throwing their votes away on candidates who have no chance of winning, but it absolutely still allows competitive third-party candidates to spoil an election. This is not just theoretical, it happened in Burlington in their 2009 mayoral election, which subsequently resulted in IRV being repealed there.
There exist more powerful forces in the world than "middle management".
IRV Failure in the Real World (2009)
> telecom

That's the industry I'm currently working on... they're generally regressive and have shot themselves in the foot in regards to tech and ease-of-use for a lot of their solutions.
Neanderthal glue was a bigger deal than we thought
Goldman’s Unwelcome Streak: A String of Insider Trading Charges
I like posts like this. They share where they were, why they changed, how they did it, and were honest about the time it's taken to get there.
> The only solution is to frequently right click and select "Not Interested" and then "Not interested in the channel: [channel name]".

This has never worked for me. I've tested this while signed in without blocking anything - "not interested in this channel" has never once caused a channel to not be recommended to me.
> If first past the post voting is the worst system possible, why is the US the most powerful country?

Having a well-functioning system of representative democracy isn't as strongly correlated with "powerful country" as a bunch of other factors.

> It seems like either voting systems don’t matter that much

For crowning "powerful countries", no, they may not.
This reminds me of my experience with TypeScript. I kept noticing it and feeling a little irritated by its popularity. God it added so much noise to the code. JavaScript was fine for years. I got stuff done. I caught the bugs and debugged them.

Once I finally took the plunge and committed a full project to learning TypeScript, I grokked it. I no-longer saw noise, I saw signal. I saw details about interfaces that I used to have to infer, document, or reverse engineer if I forgot.
Ah, you are right, since Mojave.

Yay for proprietary APIs.
You can take a small action in support of privacy by complaining to your utility or your ISP that the website is not working in your browser.
It's particularly infuriating because it was such a poorly-motivated change. Customers supposedly found the interaction with Google Drive confusing, so rather than improve ergonomics, they cretinously remove a lynchpin feature altogether. I still haven't found a really good alternative.
Neither is policy. One is a help doc, the other a blog post. They should probably codify it into their privacy policy.
On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked
> So we end up in a situation where using the most efficient way to display contents now relies on undocumented/private APIs. At any point Apple can break them, or punish us for using them.

Unless Apple wants to break all browsers, that is. At least Chrome and now Firefox use it.
> the proposed system is specifically Instant Run-Off Voting (IRV), which does not make a centrist third-party candidate likely to win.

I agree with you that it's not as nice as something like Borda count, but I think I only agree with you that it wouldn't help a centrist third-party candidates chances if we assume, for the sake of argument, that switching from first-past-the-post to IRV wouldn't change who voters pick as their top candidate.

And that seems like a very difficult assumption to support, because the typical public discussion around third party candidates makes it explicit that people habitually choose to vote for someone other than their top choice in first-past-the-post elections.

I can speak somewhat from experience here. Some of my local elections use (non-instant) runoff voting, and my decisionmaking process in the first round of those elections is markedly different from the one I use in elections without a runoff. For starters, it doesn't typically involve having to hold my nose while I fill out the ballot.
The issue with the Canadian elections is simply the existence of districts. All this would do is make it safer to risk a vote for NDP, Greens, or Bloc, which would likely still result in worse results because Canada doesn't really have a coalition system the way other countries do.
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Calls such as this one to "stop subsidizing" fossil fuels are not an honest exhortation to accomplish the limited objective stated. They are rhetorical, placed here to distract from the inconvenient geopolitical impacts of the proposed policy, and muddy the water with some sort of quasi-excuse that doesn't really do a great job of excusing. (But if you're talking about it, you've at least distracted people from the fact that the Warren plan sending more money to the Saudis).
The wikipedia page seems to imply we still dont know if any memristors physically exist. Your comment implies it's in experimentation, so I am assuming wiki is out of date

I would love to learn more about this topic, do you have any additional information / sources?
I agree with your overall point, but

> but the only remaining foreseeable large win is Cranelift.

I'm not so sure about that, given the huge work going on to make rustc truly incremental.
Whatever area you're interested in. Whatever it is, if you love it enough, it's got promise.
Tools that make development 10x easier for the next generation of programmers. There’s many different ways to approach this and there are going to be a number of very successful startups in this space IMHO. Examples: darklang.com, webflow.com, retool.com, modulz.com, divjoy.com (disclaimer: my project).
As Matt Levine puts it, Everything Is Securities Fraud
“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” - Paul Krugman