skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote:

I - then working as a freelancer programmer for a few years - once had a (German company) customer where the person that I was supposed to work with was so unpopular and known as "difficult to work with" inside the company that the manager that had hired me for the job apologized profusely, especially that he had to place me in the same room with that person. All the people I had contact with were similar.

Why was he never fired? Well, because he was so good, you could say he was perfect. So they gave him a room for himself - usually it was about four people per office and accepted the rest. And I say that with decades of job experience in many software companies in the US and in Germany. The documents describing what he wanted down to the last detail were just.. perfect! I ended up doing two programming jobs for them a year apart and both times I simply took the documents and worked on it from top to bottom until it was done. I never had to ask a single question, there never were any changes. Sometimes I had to explain a few things I did, but that was just usual communication, there never was anything unclear.

And also, I never had any issues with that guy myself, even during the time we shared a room. He "merely" expected everybody to be on his level, other than that he was fine. Once a female colleague came into the room to ask him something, and in an exasperated tone he told her that he had already described everything she asked for in paper X in section Y. And he was right, what she had asked was right there. As always, he had everything perfectly planned and documented well in advance. Of course, that's no way to gain any social points and that woman was almost ready to cry (I had quite a few chats with people working in the other rooms and the women disliked him the most, but the men did too), but for better or worse, he was just too perfect and expected the same perfection from everybody.

That was the first and only time I ever had such an experience, everybody else apart from that one guy is just working normally. Right now I have the exact opposite experience, I program for people who only have very fuzzy ideas what they want. Works too - you just have to treat it differently and have a different mind set. That one job is one of my most memorable experiences, including the social drama.
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These things are not mutually exclusive. You can not have one with out the other.

I had mentors, but I had no discipline. Did not work out.
His isn’t that interested in the content and doesn’t want his feed to end up with perpetual LTT recommendations.
Because some people will always want to be the best.

And one of the more difficult things when you're that sort of person is finding a rewarding challenge up to your skills.

Or as a president once quipped, "Why does Rice play Texas?"

Because it is hard.
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My claim comes from having built large scale systems with and without TS. I have the scars from working without it and I'll never do it again if I can help it. I'll also say that it's possible to write bad buggy code no matter what tooling you use. It's a "pit of success" thing for me. I want to at least make sure the super dumb stuff doesn't make it through.

IMO you should use all the TDD, documentation, and code/design review in ADDITION to a type system.
I read a lot and I use both ebooks and physical books. I'm pretty happy with my Kobo e-reader. The screen is perfect for text even in the sun, the back lighting means I can read in the dark, and I can move between reading on the Kobo, my iPad, and my Win10 box. Books with photos are better on the iPad, though. Also, the kobo has no advertising.
> we need to incorporate critical thinking/mental and emotional resilience/manipulation resistance into the educational system

It's not practical. Even if people were taught and learned that, you can't expect them to stand on their own against an entire industry, which pays top dollar for the best and brightest in psychology and cognitive science to work full-time on manipulating people. The arms race favors the attacking side very strongly here.

It'd be hard to eradicate advertising with legal means, but I'm confident the most egregious forms could be made not worth the money. Advertising will be a problem for as long as malice exists, but so will theft and murder, and somehow we manage to prevent the latter two from disrupting society too much.
I believe most of us are living a "Google Bubble". When we are online, our exposure to knowledge on a topic is limited by Search algorithms, personalizations, the availability of content that is digitized and searchable, etc. The people who comment on discussions, who creates content, etc. are also subject to this bias. This slice is not really the same as the larger body of collection of knowledge and insights about a particular topic. Even considering the limitation of knowledge that is digitized, there are plenty of sources that are not accessible and searchable (papers, talks, radio programs, conversations, personal anecdotes etc.). Books give a window to this larger world. This is the way we have done it for 5000 years. Books, in case of non-fiction, are written by people who have spent significant (sometimes their lifetime) time learning about a topic. And I believe the same logic applies for fiction. The ideas and imaginations of whole of human kind is not same as those of people who devotes time to create content online. In short, books are a different way (and arguably better) to expand your horizon.
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I agree that it's likely impossible in a system where free expression is the bedrock of our society - to the point where advertising is a massive portion of our economy.

I still feel strongly that advertising should not exist and think it's on par with CO2 as an externality.
I see code as a liability, and this is probably a very big part of it. So I regularly throw away large swats of code and whole projects when they are no longer useful and future prospects seem dire. I learned not to get attached to code.

But I've also seen other devs getting very attached to their code. So projects don't get closed, and instead they just fade in the background in a folder somewhere to avoid hurting anyone and keep the morale of the team up (which is very important of course). But this speaks a lot about technical debt and combinatory complexity of projects and companies, and I rarely see social discussed around technical debt.

I still don't know a good solution here. For my personal projects, I see things improving more and more and me being able to achieve results faster, so at least I'm very happy on that side.

Note: I'm not talking about my employer, just about companies in general.
Back in the 80s when everyone in the office was using one, no one apparently cared or noticed the noise. Though we didn't have everyone hiding behind cans and there was often a bit of a coffee shop lite buzz of background chatter.

I think everyone got over sensitive about it as we all hide behind a playlist.
I didn't know much about Seth's blog before, but that doesn't matter as long as I remember it for the future!
The idea is this: the "rational" thing would be to sell the tickets for $500 a pop. However, even if there's just a probability of cooperation and social rapport suffering†, it wouldn't be irrational to honor the sunk cost and still attend the concert.

In the paper, the "Camping Rainstorm" example is similar in spirit. Instead of the protagonist suffering what the author calls a "diachronic misfortune," maybe in having no plans for the rest of the night, maybe in suffering a cooperation loss vis-a-vis the spouse, etc., they honor the sunken cost.

† I'd probably argue it's guaranteed.
Imagine being killed in such an explosion, never really knowing what was happening as you died.
I tried to ask this the last time Heliogen was on HN, but still don't understand the solution, so I'll ask again:

You have four photodiodes surrounding the target, and 1000 mirrors aligned to reflect the sun toward that target. One of the 1000 mirrors goes out of alignment, and your photodiodes tell you so. How do you know which mirror needs to be adjusted?
That also assumes you’ve got a “liquid million” throwing off interest you can tap and spend. I bet a lot of those millionaire households don’t have liquid cash, but rather home equity, IRAs, and 401ks that total up to over $1mil but unless you’re of retirement age you can’t tap
It seems to me like one simply should incorporate social costs into the calculation.

If your wife was looking forward to the concert and doesn't give one whit about modern economic theories like sunk cost, her disappoinment at not following through with attending the concert tonight is not a sunk cost, that's a future cost which you should weigh.
Well... no, not really. It is kinda hard to discuss in general, because it depends so much on the details: the application and the algorithms in question. But there is nothing inherently conservative about ML algorithms.

I see why you assume that "stationary distribution is the source of the conservativeness", so maybe I should clarify this moment. It is kind of true in the most general sense: sure, when querying the stationary distribution we can only ever ask how things are in a timeless universe. How anything new can be obtained this way? The problem is, that if we are this general, then the word "conservativeness" loses any meaning, since everything in the [deterministic] Universe can be framed as a question of "how things are", everything is conservative, nothing new can be obtained anywhere, ever.

And we don't even need to get this general for the word "conservativeness" to lose practical sense. When you ask another human for an advice, all he ever does is, in essence, pattern recognition and querying his internal database of "how things generally are to the best of his knowledge". Yet you don't call every human advice ever "conservative": only the kind of advice that recommends the safest, most popular thing, thing that everybody likes, pretty much ignoring the nuance of your personal taste. In fact, even then, you call it "conservative" only if you can notice that, which means that the recommendation isn't new for you personally (and by that criteria alone most humans would lose to a very simple, absolutely currently implementable music recommendation algorithm, since they probably know much lesser number of "artists similar to what you like" than Spotify knows: the only thing Spotify has to do to win is not to recommend the most popular choice almost every time).

One more thing. I could probably convey to you that assuming "ML = conservativeness" is wrong much faster by invoking the example of reinforcement learning, since it is sort of intuitive: there is the obvious existence of "time" in that, you can imagine a "dialogue" where it adapts to what user wants using his feedback, etc. It is easy to see how it could behave "not conservatively". I intentionally avoided doing that, since it can lead to the false impression that RL is somehow different and less conservative than other algorithms. On the contrary, the point I'm trying to make is that every algorithm, even the purest form of memorizing the stationary distribution (like Naïve Bayes) is not inherently conservative. It all depends on what exactly you ask (i.e. how you represent inputs and outputs) and how you query the distribution you have (e.g. how much variability you allow, but not only that).

So, when you see the application that uses ML algorithm and behaves "conservatively", it isn't because of the ML algorithm, it is because of the application: it asks the ML algorithm wrong questions.
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Wasn't the noise damped somewhat by offices or cubicles and solid desks?
This is FUD spread by hosted mail services.
What about creating own agency?
Or, you know, fathers.

Half of success in fatherhood comes from simply showing up. Absentee fathers contribute to the generational erosion of the family fabric that is almost impossible to undo.
I'm a literary minded person and completely understand the draw of genre fiction; I'm currently burning my way through Jack Reacher 16-book set.

But I think it is a very different thing intellectually to literary works, and it shouldn't be dismissed as snobbish (I'm not referring to you or anyone else here) simply to point that out.
I remember serverless PHP. Shared, managed hosting, just add your code, Apache takes care of executing it once per request :-)
Does anyone know of a similar tutorial covering HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 as well but in a easy-to-process language?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CWLZWHP

It's a cheap generic magnetic sensor, not specifically for garage door. I used the small door hinge trick to adapt it to the garage door. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o49xC-AXY9w
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Books are the best way to expand your cognitive capabilities. A writer spends at least 500 hours on a book. Reading a book is like having conversation with the writer. I prefer to read non-fiction books, many of which I found through HN or podcasts.

I recently switched from ibooks to google books because googles app has a superior reading experience on iOS. Plus the highlights are integrated with google docs. So after color highlighting sections I have a summary of interesting quotes automatically in a G Doc for every book in my gdrive. I haven't got the time yet to write a script to auto sync these quotes with google keep to function as a flashcard system.

I recommend the books of Jim Collins, he was a coach for Steve Jobs and personal advisor to Jeffrey Bezos. Amazons business flywheel is based on the theories developed by Jim Collins.
I guess the sole redeeming thermodynamic property of the operation would be that most seals would expand as they heated?

Still, I imagine that was a "light fire, move away" procedure!
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> a successful educational product needs to deeply and intimately understand pedagogy and materials

Do you have any resource suggestions for moving the needle towards the goal of learning pedagogy and materials deeply and intimately?
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> cured in a single session of hypnotherapy by a guy

If you were cured by attending a hypnotherapy session by the guy who wrote the book rather than by reading the book I don't see how it supports your assertion (or what I think is your assertion: that self help books at least sometimes are better than the philosophy, etc., books). I'm not saying you are necessarily wrong, just that it doesn't follow.
I'm pretty sure they see what happens next as justice. Not that I agree with it but I imagine they feel pretty okay with the outcome given their moral beliefs.
Wringing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_block#Wringing
From what I'm reading, the Pentagon is saying that there was clear intelligence that he was planning an imminent threat to American lives (again), giving the president Article II authority to use force to act in self-defence. Unsurprisingly, the intelligence is classified.
I think you and the blog post author are making the same mistake. You're just not putting a dollar value on these social costs. If the blog author valued their partner's feeling they would enumerate upsetting them as a cost and it wouldn't be so clear that you're earning $500. But rather you're earning $500 less the cost to your personal relationship.

This is a similar mistake to failing to price other intangibles like risk.
Great article, but our societal approach to minority folks is not oriented towards individual mentorship unfortunately. Self-reliance is not considered a meaningful goal - it's so much more convenient to herd them towards ethnically-focused non-profits and "community organizers" funded by government or by politically-minded foundations; mold them into people who will always be dependent on the government for something, 'useful idiots' for the political cause du jour. It's pure mass clientelism, the dynamics that has led to such a screwy political culture in so many parts of Latin America. It's quite hurtful to see it take root here to such an extent.
Nowhere is it stated that it is.
I love JSDoc but it has the fatal flaw of being optional. It requires human discipline which, when your boss is breathing down your neck to get that feature out, you aren't gonna do. Same goes for robust tests etc. TS is self documenting even if it's less verbose you'll get more coverage overall in your system and maybe have some hope of being able to to back and write those JSDoc comments later. You also don't have to write as many tests as you can be somewhat assured of data integrity since you've defined a robust contract.
> Of course you should ignore "sunk costs" - the problem is deciding what's a "sunk cost" and what's "an investment" with an associated probability on its return.

Thanks for articulating that so well.

It's easy to analyze sunk costs when actions can be considered in isolation academically. It's not at all the same situation when things are not so clean.

What if the concert was at CBGB, and it was closing the next day? What if you liked Streisand and it was possibly her last show? What if it was the last tour of KK Downing? Would any amount of money make selling your tickets worthwhile?

KK Downing demon-possessed and fully lit @4:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4d5sMg8eCE
For what it's worth: lots of knot literature and lore cautions people about overhand knots as weaking the line more than other knots.

That's why I asked.
I actually found this article a bit confusing to read. I suppose they are "notes" but I found myself having to reread stuff a few times and it wasn't organized in a particularly clear way.

Here are some notes I had:

This is a very weird sentence:

> In the 1980s, they developed a minimalist approach and created a wonderful Operator Training Manual for the IBM Displaywriter, imagine having to introduce someone to using a word processor for the first time.

There is also a misspelling in "the four principals of minimalist instruction".

In that same section it is confusing to bullet point the four principles but include a summary of the principle at the end of the bullet point. This makes it hard to skim. (It's also self-referential, which the previous section recommends against.)
Probably applies to all children, not just those with specific genetic attributes.
“A nested state is more likely to store duplicate data”

I’m not sure I follow why nested state is more likely to duplicate data.
Uri Alon just released the second edition of his classic text on systems/synthetic bio. Recommend checking it out.
Use whatever you find most comfortable.

It is often best to learn skills one by one to contextualize them better. Linux is a useful skill to have, but trying to learn Linux, Git, and Python at the same time might be overload.

Personally I use Visual Studio Code (free) for Python which is available on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It also has fantastic Git integration. But I think "learn one thing at a time" also applies to IDEs/Editors, so if you already know a Python compatible one maybe use that first.
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Earlier this year bought a UI design book (Refactoring UI) from here https://refactoringui.com/ that helped improve tesults.com, the intended audience (of the book) includes developers and since Tesults is dev heavy we needed it. Still a lot to do.
> Although they may have a different set of circumstances, the overall experience for Black boys in public schools is similar across the country, so it’s not just the color of my skin that allows me to relate, it’s also a shared perspective and a mutual respect.

This is both unsurprising and depressing. I am not sure if I have anything to say except that I feel incredibly sad that other human beings living today have to face such incredibly challenging circumstances.
I once read, kids need fathers to learn interaction with people who are not their mother.

I think, this is where the "atomic family" breaks down. Only having one person for this job, is simply too high of a risk. We should go back to a bigger type of family, so kids can have more people in their early lifes that fill this role, so when one leaves, there are still many left.
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Consider yourself to be very lucky, I dropped Fi when the protection plan for my Nexus 5X which had a swelling battery after less than two years only offered a cheap "Motorola" phone that among other thing was reported to have bad WiFi performance, negating one of the big advantages of Fi.

Here, as long as this refurbished replacement is the same device, and the warranty either continues, or if needed gets extended by at least a couple of months, you should be OK. Many returns have absolutely nothing wrong with them, or something really minor.

If Apple's iOS software quality wasn't awful and getting worse, I'd recommend checking out iPhones, I just had a very good experience getting a problem fixed at my local Best Buy. But having to be concerned that software updates will take out your phone, or WiFi, or other basic functionality means this will be my last as well as first iPhone.
Technologists shouldn’t try to dumb things down for the general public; we should try to state as clearly as possible where the problem lies and how it might be mitigated. In this case, we need to make it clear that what’s called “AI” is just a new kind of statistical tool, and like all statistical tools it’s only as good as the data it’s provided and the human interpreters of its outputs.

Ironically, I think “conservative” is both an excellent descriptor of function approximators—they tend to conserve whatever bias they’re provided with—and a terrible word to use for popular writing, since it’s so easily confused with political conservatism (even though e.g. no politically conservative “AI” would autosuggest “on my face” as a completion of “can you sit”).
A write-up on a quick project I did for my supply chain company creating a lot number using cryptographic hashing, and the number of benefits that arise out of using this method.
Charging per the gigabyte is a greedy, bullshit idea that needs to die. It is the whole opposite of "better".

This idea of shared Wi-Fi is done by pretty much every ISP out there and nobody uses it for very good reason: it's just not reliable nor performant enough. No matter whether you use Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 50, you're only getting good speeds with line of sight, low interference environments and good hardware.
It is, quite seriously, heartening, as a father, to know that just 1) being there at all, and 2) trying with some amount of thoughtfulness not to screw up your kids, puts you well into the top half of fathers, by quality. You can still mess up constantly, and pretty badly, but remain better than average.
This gets into a much larger issue of policing intersectioning with darker skinned peoples in the US.

When many of the dads are arrested in jail or prison, obviously they aren't being mentors. And they aren't permitted to be in their childrens' lives. And much of this is overpolicing and overcriminialization. Add this to sentences being worse, and it's unsurprising it happens. We as a nation are setting the situation, then surprised it happened.

And the cycle repeats.
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