skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Discordapp status page is written to by developers, and as a developer I really like the insights as to what is going on. As a user, I expect you to just look at it and see it's "Having Issues, We are working on it".
Not if you press the share button which generates a short link that doesn’t have enough entropy to store the entire content.
Also look at Apple’s product and revenue mix since 2007. They have consistently been able to change it as technology changed.

If you look at Google’s revenue and profit mix, it looks the same as it did in 2007 - advertising.

Microsoft and Apple have been able to pivot. Even while the Mac is only 10% of Apple’s revenue, even it has grown slowly throughout the years.

Another note from your article - Apple sold $23 Billion dollars worth of Macs in 2016.

Between 2010 - 2016. Google has only made $31 billion in revenue on Android (https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...).
Cell processor shipped for commercial installation in the IBM Blades QS20/QS21/QS22, which was based on Roadrunner supercomputer.

Sony also demoed rack-mount with Cell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zego) but it is not clear that it was available in open market
Or when they accidentally increased the minimum supported compute capability.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/25329
Really? What in their status update read to you as "the problem is on our side, not yours"? Understand that I'm a programmer and couldn't figure that out.
It's very possible they're not "officially" on call and don't get any extra pay for having to work in the weekend. Just because that's the current expectation of a lot of salaried workers doesn't mean it's right.
"do something like pay candidates to come on site and work for a week" by doing this you've essentially cut your hiring pool down to 3 categories: new graduates; mediocre engineers who were fired from their last job; or terrible engineers who can't find a job.
Semiconductor pricing is largely determined by volume. The Cell processor had mediocre normal performance inline with other Power derivatives but really good vector performance for the target price (this was before GPU computing matured), so people with vector-amenable tasks could theoretically win by adopting a processor shipping by the million rather than using lower-volume chips targeted at traditional HPC uses. Since Cell was a Sony/IBM project, IBM was interested in reselling the same work to new customers and (IIRC) needed the volume to have their chip foundry business be healthy.

The problem was similar to Intel’s flop with IA-64: you could get a few amazing benchmarks but code which couldn’t be perfectly scheduled like that performed poorly, and that tuning was hard even if it could be done. The scientists I supported at the time were interested but the numbers made no sense: some code was inherently branch-heavy and couldn’t be tuned much and for the portions which could it was cheaper to buy more regular hardware using the money which would have gone to a high-end programmer, especially when you looked at the long-term maintenance cost of that heavily optimized code (everyone of that era remembered ripping out previous assembly optimizations which had become worse than C on newer CPU & compilers).
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If you can't stop bad people from accumulating, you will have a problem no matter how selective is your hiring process.
Current hospital lab tech I’ve seen can finish a CBC in seconds
Seriously surprised that the article didn't mention Iraq buying 4,000 PlayStation 2's in the year 2000. I think Saddam was doing some supercomputing.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/12/19/iraq_buys_4000_play...
Yeah. I love HN and many of the thoughts expressed on it, but if there's one thing that always jumps out at me as being an incredibly widely held cognitive bias in the tech community, it's a tendency to view certain things in a very black and white, binary fashion, and to treat certain very complicated, messy problems with lots of social nuances as if they were simple problems, if only everyone could be rational about it. Grades and hiring are obvious examples, but you can also see plenty of it in discussions about open source business models and codes of conduct and copyright and so on.

Throughout my life and career I've seen so many statements of this nature from my peers: "the status quo will only ever be a 90% solution at best, therefore we should throw all of that away and just do everything on a case-by-case basis in isolation from one another, then we'd all live in an ideal meritocracy (or something)".

See also any discussion about flat management. "Explicit management hierarchies obviously aren't perfect, therefore let's get rid of them altogether and assume that everyone is awesome and will magically self-organize and do the right thing."

I guess the common theme is, someone is greatly overestimating their own rationality, and projects it onto other people, and ends up with an almost religious faith in the self-organizing competencies of unmanaged people, or the natural inclination of unregulated schools or industries to always do the right thing even when it's not in their own self-interest.

IME there are lots of fundamentally messy or imperfect things in life, where any choice you make has negative consequences. There's also a personality type that is repelled by this sort of messiness and will always be drawn towards throwing everything away and starting from scratch, often with a childlike belief that things they don't understand aren't important, and why can't everyone see how obvious and elegant their solution is? IME they're usually wrong about those situations, but I guess I'm still glad people less pessimistic than I am are tilting at those windmills.
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I'm reminded of a story in Ulam's biography.

John von Neumann was at a talk where the presenter had put up a slide with a cloud of points, and had optimistically drawn a line through the cloud. Von Neumann muttered, "at least they lie on a plane."
Because proper evaluation takes time and a bad choice carries a huge cost. In the absence of any objective measures, an employer gets around this by just hiring the son of the guy they golf with. Connections.

Sports works, but only because sports are extremely popular, with tens of millions of people enthusiastically participating on a regular basis, and accessible to anybody no matter their age and income. This is not true for, say, working at a law firm. You can’t take the best clerk from a pool of a thousand kids who have been clerking since elementary school. It’s either who you know, or who got good grades and test scores.
This was described almost hundred years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law

"(...) the notion of the universe expanding at a calculable rate was first derived from the general relativity equations in 1922 by Alexander Friedmann"

The space expands. It's been known for a long time.

We might not know why exactly this happens and there is still some discussion about ultimate fate of the universe although prevalent theory is that it will expand at an ever faster rate until every molecule will be torn from each other and matter will no longer be able to form.
I don't know about panexperientialism. My understanding of panpsychism is that it means that everything in the universe is at least a little bit conscious. Which I doubt for the reasons I gave. I don't see how the universe as a whole could be conscious, either, any more than a child in the womb could be. There's not enough interaction between its body and the environment. Of course the universe as a whole lacks any environment.
This lead ammo ban, especially the European one, is a thinly veiled attempt at blocking guns ownership, which somewhat failed two years back. Lead ammo is already prohibited in wetlands in Yurop (at least in Finland it is) and the EU ammo ban would have banned lead ammo pretty much everywhere even though lead does not enter the wildlife from a shooting range.
This is pretty awesome, does anyone have something similar but talking about data pre-processing explicitly. I always had trouble with this, let it be RNNs or R-CNNs. It's really hard to figure out how to structure your data if you want to fine tune/transfer learning the weights for your own data set
Do you believe that an HN discussion has the potential to move the market share needle for any MS product? More to the point, do you believe that Microsoft thinks this?
I've wished for a stable sort. But there doesn't seem to be any reliable way to determine whether the current implementation is stable or not. For most language features, you can do detection to find out whether you can use it or not. This one seems to be different.
I had to look up who Dave Rubin is. I can’t be the only one unfamiliar with him, so if he is a big part of your marketing some additional info might be helpful.
Yes. It’s a PPC ad. If you click on it the vendor pays for your click. Depending on the product this can be a few cents or many dollars per click.
It is. I don’t see anything that suggests otherwise, though?
Thanks for the link looks great

“Startup = Growth” is pure actionable advice and probably the most useful document i’ve ever seen on starting companies (I say that as someone who has founded 3 venture funded startups and two bootstrapped before that)
Because if it was a problem on your end, it wouldn't be listed on their status page....?
Ok so I see no controls for income/family wealth, etc

If anything I see selection for wealth: the samples in one of the bigger studies selected from “the 15 best STEM graduate training programmed”, which is broadly a proxy for wealth.

More over they don’t have negative samples: afaict their “study” was to take the top X% of students from some already wealth biased institutes and compare their performance to the overall average for everyone. What they should have done is compare the performance of the X% of the class they sampled from with the performance of the remainder of that class.

Then we could compare more similar starting points.

Obviously we would generally expect some correlation between skill when younger to 35 years later, but I would expect the entire group to do significantly better than the general average. Eg a person who got into Harvard because of their family history, and gets a C, is likely to do better than a person with a 4.0 from a state university. (General averages, obviously there can be outliers in every direction)
Yes, lying about safety is illegal but the sellers can just close shop and phoenix into another seller.

Personally, I think anyone who purchases ANYTHING important off Amazon is crazy. Getting a fake shirt in one thing but getting fake safety equipment is another.

Amazon will die do to people suing it out of existence for selling fake stuff.
The CPUs of modern console are pretty standard general-purpose CPUs: the PS4 and XB1 use customised AMD APU, and the Switch uses a Tegra X1. That's not useful for supercomputers.

The PS3 was using a pretty weird CPU, which importantly had a single general-purpose core but 6 SIMD co-processors, making it very useful for compute tasks on supercomputers.

These days you'd use off-the-shelf compute-oriented FPGA or stream / GPGPU units paired with general-purpose CPUs e.g. OLCF-4 has 9216 general-purpose CPUs driving 27648 Tesla V100.
> "It counts and examines the number of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in a patient’s blood sample"

It sounds like they have a very restricted scope compared to Theranos. Testing for one or two things in a drop of finger blood isn't anything new, as many diabetics can attest to. As I understand it the "magic" theranos was originally trying to accomplish [before they decided to scam people instead] was a wide variety of blood tests from a single drop of blood.
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Thanks!
Could also be the rake you pay to the company who will sell you hardware on terms with a PO.

Company I worked for in the past had a significant line of business with a major post prod company in the valley that was just buying hundreds of DVD players off ebay at a 20% mark up and then drop shipping them.

There's tons of companies and government agencies that cant just send someone to bestbuy with a visa to make purchases. Has to be a preapproved vendor and has to be on at least net 30 terms and purchased via PO. There's a premium to be paid to companies/vendors that can work within your companies processes to quickly get you what you need to not block projects.

I do wonder if PS3 have GSA pricing though.
The LSC will never float anyways. We'll just continue to build Burkes. Columbia, Ford-Class CVNs and Virginia SSNs will eat all of the Navy's shipbuilding budget. 2020-2030 is going to be a hard time for the USN.
He was joking :) a buggy or poorly designed distributed system might behave more like a house of cards than independent silos
This observation seems to come up in discussions regarding the hot topic of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_tangent_kernel

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it means to say that you can in theory conjure specialized kernel methods out of 'infinitely' over-parametrized neural networks. At the moment this all gives unimpressive performance, but it is theoretically promising and could give statisticians interpretable NN-derived models.
The conditions of this "game" are that you must decide then and there which option to choose. In the game, you do not have the luxury of viewing all of the data before you make your choice. Real life can be different (as was mentioned in the video re: Kepler's wife).
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This is junk science that can best be used to reinforce existing stratification or create/justify a self-fulfilling prophecy of success. Best to ignore it and move on.
The ratio of stupid:reputation in this comment is pretty remarkable.
IANAO = I am not an ornithologist?
A successful chef creating delivery meals is easily replaced and I think that’s the model.

Ala Amazon, the “cloud kitchen” is the market maker and can simply ape what sells. Vegan Pho doing really well? Spin up “What the Pho?” uptown fellas!

The kinds of small time operators likely to lease space and time from a cloud kitchen will have no grounds to demand a non-compete. See controversies in au courant “food halls” happening now for examples.
My understanding is that space is expanding faster than the speed of light. I don't recall where I read it, though.
"Google's Engineering team continues to work on mitigating the issue"

I think that's pretty clear where the issue lies
It's correct. Terminal velocity is irrelevant here; it's true outside the atmosphere too. I really am talking about force and acceleration.

It's clear that there's more force on a heavier object. How much force do you have to apply to counteract a bucket full of rocks from falling to the ground, vs. an empty bucket? Your arm is certainly applying more force to the former.

So then the question becomes Why doesn't the full bucket fall faster? Because it has more inertia, and thus it's more difficult to accelerate. But there's also more force, which overcomes this difficulty. The amount of greater force is exactly identical to the greater inertia, so the acceleration remains the same. The "exactly identical" here is no coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
Great, now you’ve started to touch on the points mentioned in the article.
>$70k per device

That's pretty steep compared to the price of the labour.
My main question is whether when someone takes a CBC how often that's the only test. If you're looking for other markers (A1C, Potassium, any number of standard panel stuff) you probably need to take a full size blood draw so I'm not 100% clear on the benefit.
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> I think testing algorithmic questions is certainly evil, but it's a necessary evil because all other methods are either too time-consuming or unrealistic.

> write a depth first search and explain its time complexity.

Part of our test goes "here's a function, in plain English what does it do?", and then "there's a few bugs in this implementation, what are they and how can they be fixed?"

I think there's a lot of alternatives to traditional algorithmic questions that just don't usually get considered. This one I liked because it involves things you'd actually do day-to-day: Reading other people's code, figuring out intent, and finding/fixing bugs.
If that product is aimed at privacy-focused users, yes.

We've gotten so far into unlikely hypotheticals I don't find this conversation interesting any more. I won't reply further in this chain. Have a nice day!
More complicated than a custom hashing scheme and required ordering?

I don't buy that. Tables aren't complex.
Are you “successful”?
and typically that machine is the authentication server
What’s the difference, observationally?
They are related (in fact there is no "time") but I think what the OP wanted to say is that you can have a universe that it is "that" big from the get go and so objects will be very far from the beginning.
Respectfully Mr. Nagle, I expect more intelligent {commentary,questioning} from you, especially given your breadth of experience and background.

A mere infrastructure issue, that occurs with all providers from time to time, would hardly constitute a service "wind-down". Based on a very cursory review, GCP's official deprecation policy [1] doesn't seem all that dissimilar from everyone else.

In short, to answer your question: No.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation
Unfortunately portfolios would make finding jobs very difficult for myself and my colleagues. We aren’t really allowed to talk about what we work on outside of what could easily fit in a vague, 1-sentence summary on LinkedIn.

This is actually frustrating me quite a bit because as I look for new jobs people like to ask, in detail, what I worked on, and I can’t really tell them.
> So it takes only a glance at 5⍴⍳20 to visualize a 5x4 matrix of the numbers from 1 to 20.

That would be 5 4⍴⍳20
A couple of funny tidbits from the paper:

> Of the 677, we were unable to find 27 males and 15 females in our Internet searches (we could not confirm their identities in our contact-information database). Given our method and criteria (Table 1), however, we believe it is unlikely that we missed an individual with a truly illustrious career. ... Our reasoning was that, if someone were truly eminent, then that person should be publicly conspicuous and therefore discoverable through online searches.

And a finalist for the irony in naming things award:

> We used Publish or Perish software (Harzing, 2007) to collect information on each participant’s number of publications, number of patents, and h-index.
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I honestly thought the author was making a Hannibal Lector joke at first, which I thought was a bit morbid, until the next paragraph, where he expanded on the Orca's taste for shark livers. Turns out it's nature that's the morbid one. Wow. No wonder sharks scatter!
> Not all people can study medicine

I think you are falling for the fallacy that the essay is trying to expose?

Surely those that pass medicine are those that are good at medicine exams. Plenty of people would make great doctors that don’t due to the exam system, not due to a lack of capability.
Iirc the problem with Theranos' strategy was that the fingertip blood has highly variable composition compared to mainline blood. For example, getting lipid counts would be off. I would believe you can accurately count the blood cells in your fingertip, but I (a layman) would need a bit more to believe that this is necessarily representative of mainline. It might still be diagnostically useful.
So much sex and violence it sounds absurd. Any other sources on this?
Ah, fair enough. I glossed right over that qualification, which is not a smart thing to do on HN--a credit to the quality of discourse here :)
A few < 10

Several >= 10
During the day I end up at the same coffee shop with a mix of university students, retired professors, and other people in my situation who work from home or independently. I struggle a bit with having the domain-specific exchanges, but for the most part, the engaging discussion on other topics is a better way to break up the day. I’m more productive overall if I make these encounters part of my regular routine.
Successful enough.
I read that as Thanos and was VERY confused
SMPY identifies outlier ability via standardized testing taken before age 13 (for cohorts other than the very last one). All of Study 1 was selected this way. This may have some very loose correlation with wealth.

Is there a correlation between SMPY eligibility and getting into elite universities? Probably, but it doesn’t seem like an improper one. Is there a correlation between elite universities and life outcome? Sure.

Does that make the longitudinal study from age 11/12 into adulthood useless or content-free? Not in my opinion.

Only Study 2 was done on cohort 5, which was selected as grad students already at elite universities.
I'm not sure that they decided to scam people instead, my impression is that they took "fake it till you make it" to its logical conclusion but failed to make it before people realised they were faking it. They were scamming people and trying to build the product they claimed already existed, which doesn't make the scamming any better.
> People working longer means... a little bit more unemployment

this is not proved or true. society is not as simple as that.

they thought unemployment will drop if people worked only 35h a week, but it didn't.

why don't you accept that people have to work longer? the population is not booming anymore so you cannot accept future generations to pay.
If you're not running 7+ cards on a mining rig you're probably doing it wrong. The higher the number of cards you run in a rig the more you can distribute the cost of the non mining hardware (HD, mobo, cpu, memory) across cards.

A mobo that supports 8 cards might be double the cost of a board that supports 4 cards, but it prevents you from having to buy a second cpu, a second hard drive, second psu, and more memory to put in your second cheapo mobo.

Now if you can buy random cheap ATX boxes for less than $27 dollars per PCI-E slot you are better off initially, but then management across all your various junk boxes becomes a PITA quick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_volume
Globalization has plateaued and to keep the money coming in the megacorps require austerity, which is essentially what the Gillet Jeunes and these strikes are protesting. The NYT piece is typical of the under reporting and spin put on this reality by the corporate media
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One Big Topic -> IS A <- Second Bigger Topic .. typically is a logical fallacy.. no substantiation given, check.
Ah, I see what I screwed up. I was sloppy and saying force, but really only talking about acceleration.

So yeah, that makes sense.

Similarly, I only mentioned terminal velocity because I said faster. Which could apply there. But my point was focused on acceleration of falling objects. I get that there are a lot of ways to muddy that discussion. As exemplified by my postings. :).
We use Discord as an interface for moderating our app and monitoring spam/reported content so this kinda sucks. Not super important though.
> has the potential to mutate and cause vaccine-derived polio

Glad someone is at least admitting that now. Though sadly "vaccine derived" polio is usually of the paralytic type[0]

[0]https://youtu.be/S8ixbGlHTTI?t=40m59s
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