skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concerns like this are not appreciated enough in the data science/ML community. And it's not just the size and resource consumption of the final model. For any real enterprise/business solution, the best ML model is usually not the one that has the highest benchmark scores, but the one that delivers the greatest value and can put online quickly by integrating with the existing systems and software in place.

You really have to start with performance and use case considerations from the beginning. Before you even try to train a model you have to know how scalable it is to load/process the inputs and what you do with the output. For example, in a NLP use case for text categorization or conversational agents, do you have to load historical data like customer notes, emails, etc., that are sitting in a production SQL instance and have to be queried with complicated joins and where clauses? How performant is the current API for doing that? Will you have to run preprocessing on the raw inputs each time? Does it make sense to have a preprocessed copy of the data in a different data source? If so, how frequently should that data be synced? Depending on the answers to any of those questions what looks like a great model that works in a Jupyter Notebook suddenly becomes either not feasible or maybe too expensive to justify.

I understand that a data scientist or ML engineer can't also be a cloud infrastructure expert or software architect who understands how all of the pieces are connected and how performant/expensive certain options are. But it makes no sense to start training a model without at least having an answer for what data will be needed during inference, how fast it has to be to work in real time, how much traffic the model will get and how much that compute might cost in the cloud, etc.
+1 on this. The company has nothing to gain in delivering more feedback other than a thumbs up/down, and a lot more to lose.
This is part of the bot detection, though. It's probably not "not enough personal information", it's "this truly seems like it is unlikely to be a legitimate device/person", due to the huge datasets they're working with. Same with Cloudflare and Tor. Once you operate a security service anywhere near that scale, you start to understand there are inherent challenges and tradeoffs like these,
> That's just blatantly false ... But just gathering data that is valuable enough to exfiltrate is near impossible, considering apps can only access what's specified in their manifest and explicitly allowed by the user.

I think we are talking about different things.

First, I was specifically talking about ios / iPadOS. Neither platform has any outbound firewall that can stop apps from access the internet (unless you count the very basic one that allows you to restrict net access to apps when you use "mobile data").

So if you are on Wifi on your iPhone/iPad/iPod, any app you are using has free access to the internet. This has the potential to "leak" user data.

E.g.: I like to use the Adobe Acrobat app to read any PDFs. But when you use the app, you have no idea if Adobe is collecting meta data information on the PDF's you have, or even uploading them. Same with Microsoft products. Or even Google's.

If I could disable internet access to these apps, 90% of which don't need them in the first place, I could use them with a bit more peace of mind. That's what I meant by when I said allowing unrestricted internet access to any apps, can "leak" our personal data to the internet, on ios / iPadOS platform.
Not all cultures are obsessed with sheltering their children from the full gamut of life and emotion.

The story is about a young person faced with adversity, it's age appropriate and prepares a child reader for what lies ahead.
First 3 days normal stuff including intense HIIT training, then I try to relax in my spare time for the remaining 4 days (normal business). On the first day I might suffer from a slight headache if I was used to a lot of caffeine/sugar. On the second day I am the "smelliest", so it's best to have that one over the weekend when I don't have to be around other people.
Old Node Packages in production? You can start monitoring them in 15 minutes
There's a few psychotherapy podcasts with episodes on narcissism. It's rare for malignant narcissists themselves to seek out therapy to help themselves so most resources are organized with how to deal with the narcissists in your life. But you should read them because if you can empathize with the other side and reflect on yourself, that would bring down your narcissistic tendencies. In general you should practice empathy, perspective taking and develop genuine curiosity in other people.

A true narcissist is by definition someone who wouldn't care or think anything is wrong or want to change, so you may have strong narcissist traits that you can work at reducing them.

Narcissists are people who are addicted to or are dependent on feeling special. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqV_QIvDeqA

Also the book, "Rethinking Narcissism" is probably worth reading.
I always get interview feedback, its the norm as a contractor.

Even as a perm, I always got it if I wasn’t hired.
Yep, this is survivor bias.

i.e. No ships ever sink if all you can see are the floating ones.
Can you clarify what the MLPR and TESL books refer to?
That's not the problem. It's when the little guys try to compete with what the big giants are doing and get completely blocked out. Amazon/Google are all about being magnanimous and supporting startup growth, just as long as they are getting a piece of the action and that it doesn't threaten their market duopoly too much.
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Seems like we should be able to trade some of our money for this. I’d be surprised to learn it was less productive too.

Any company would surely go for this.
For a bonus challenge it should also require some sort of manual manipulation while it's in free-fall. Then your options are pretty much sky diving, in space, or a parabolic flight path.
It's been pretty standard for the last several years that the ~.3/4 Xcode point release increases the minimum macOS version.
True, it's easy to just change the website in your browser. What's concerning is that (a) many people saw these same numbers at the same time and all independently commented on this online, and (b) China has a known history of falsifying data that makes it look bad.

For example, based on multiple independent analyses, including of (pig) feed supply chains, more than half of pigs in China have died in the swine flu outbreak, or more than twice what China currently reports. (See for example, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/opinion/china-swine-fever... which goes with the August 2019 numbers, but compare to https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-swinefever-archer-d... which uses October numbers.)

With SARS, it took more than a decade for the true numbers to come out--and that only because a new leader wanted to embarrass his predecessors.
The snow tires vs AWD situation is more nuanced. I own three of the same old car. The FWD one is the one with snow tires and it still sucks compared to the AWD ones. The reason I put snow tires on it is so that it can hill climb better on my street. Snow tires are highly overrated for commuting conditions. Maybe they would be more worthwhile if they didn't salt the roads in my sate.

For the typical slush you get when a few inched of snow meets road salt then AWD wins every damn time. Traction is not dominated by the coefficient of friction but by your tires ability to shed the "thick water" they're driving through. A snow tire is not going to be better enough at this than an all season tire (alright, maybe a little since the tread is a tiny bit more aggressive leaving more room for slush) to make up for the fact that the front tires have to do all the going and all the steering. You will be breaking traction left and right every time you touch the gas. Two tires simply do not have the traction to keep you moving at traffic speed and keep you pointed where you want when they are saturated with slush.

I would almost go so far as to say that snow tires and FWD is more dangerous in "slushmageddon and rolling traffic jamb behind the plow" type commuting conditions (e.g. Boston this morning) than AWD and all seasons simple because you will likely need to drive closer to the limit of traction on your front tires in order to maintain the same forward speed.

I have no doubt that snow tires stop and turn great on a sheet of ice but that is not what real world snow driving conditions are like. Obviously AWD and snow tires would be the best combo but forced to choose one I'll choose AWD every time.
Keep in mind that this is posted on the site of an organization that provides SEO services.

In my experience, the SEO game is a waste of time if you are looking for long-term traffic. Not that it doesn't work in the short-term - it does. And there are good practices in how to structure your pages, and making sure they perform well on multiple devices.

But all of my personal and work-related sites have gotten their long-term traffic by delivering a good product, and having our customers speak well of us. Then people search for us, and when they find and go to our page, our rankings go up. You end up in a positive feedback loop due to the quality of your content and your product.
I really like personal vehicles and I think we need to move in that direction, pollution aside (incl break pad dust etc.) cars (or worse, the trucks that are so popular with Americans) don’t scale. It’s really not possible to move accross DC in a car in a reasonable amount of time (even when you’re moving between suburbs and not just DC proper.) Hopefully all that is enough to convince you how important I think personal vehicles (including bicycles) are.

All that being said: DO YOU GUYS ACTUALLY WANT TO DIE? I’ve never seen any group of people ignore traffic laws and common sense more than cyclists. They consistently ignore signals and four way stops and ride on two lane highways with high speed limits, no shoulders, and blind curves.

Yes the roads need to be shared (and personally I think cars should be banned before things like bicycles and scooters) but dang people need to behave.
I started out in defense and it was standard practice there, especially in regards to contract management. I had to take a formal training class in the process.

It was also the only process I learned in college ('94) and was strongly advocated in my classes.

Most attacks from the agile community probably are coming from a place of never having actually seen or practiced the real thing however. For example it does flow backwards at times, it's not the nonsense straight line process that gets straw-manned sometimes.
Anything about all the other millions of devices(different brands) that implement CDP?
Scanning through some literature, does this method require that the input space be equipped with a probability density function “quantifying the variability of the inputs”?

Seems like that would be the (or a function of the) thing we are after in sensitivity analysis.

On the other hand, it appears that I may be able to get away with some naive assumption about this quantity, compute eigenvectors and find the active subspace... and then vary the mode in these directions.

Is this for local or global optimization?

Part of my stuff was about finding a way to guarantee that a particular set of inputs results in a feasible design. (Edit: maybe active subspace could replace this... or exclude poor regions faster)

The other part (the gradient driven part) solves curves and surfaces for shape which conforms to constraints. We really need the fine details to match as the constraints are often of equality type.

From there, it seems this active subspace method could really help in searching the design space. (From what I read, this is the purpose) A more efficient method of response surface design. My stuff is agnostic about this.

Then again, surely it could be of used in more efficiently optimizing constrained curves and surfaces... I will keep thinking but it seems a secondary use at best, or would you agree?
Which distro do you use on the server? And is Swift easily installable/upgradeable there?
Got feedback, "you didn't really know anything about Ruby on Rails". I was a Rails developer at the time, but no questions were asked about Rails during the interview (asked me nothing but JavaScript). I mentioned that to the recruiter, but when a recruiter is calling you to tell you that you didn't get the job, that's not the time to lodge a protest. Since this was an internal recruiter for the company, I thanked him kindly for actually calling me instead of sending an email. That was a solid move in my opinion.
There are actually ten, but the latter six have yet to be documented.
When corporations implode these days, shareholders get the shaft while the executives responsible parachute out with 10s of millions of dollars.
Same exact story here - worked in an open office that was awful that we slowly transformed into one that functioned extremely well.

Where I've always thought open offices break down is when you have the space filled with people who wouldn't normally talk to each other if they were in their own offices. Organizations that have roughly the same number of projects as they have developers.

Where it started to work extremely well, is when the only people within a 10 foot radius of me exclusively worked on the same project, codebase and backlog as me. If you're building a component for a developer that's sitting to the right of you, tested by a QA sitting to the left of you with business rules written by the BA sitting behind you it's incredible how fast you can move.
> tenths of billions

Do you mean tens of billions? The difference is two orders of magnitude :)
The "on hull loss" bit addresses the fact that the discussion is around much more critical software. I didn't read it as snark.
I think the underlying issue is that when it comes to safety, privacy, and security, even if people aren't dying in a plane crash, you still need to do it with a basic level of competence. You cannot roll back a privacy leak.

Now if you're talking about features that don't touch these things, go nuts. And there lies a second issue: the identification and distinction between what stuff is "go nuts" and what stuff is "do it right the first time". You can't approach every project with the latter or you'll waste so much time in the design phase when really you should just throw your new CSS theme out there and see how it goes. But you just can't approach the "account creation" feature the same way.
> what would be the scenarios/use cases?

MLs are good at representing and manipulating complicated data with intricate invariants (e.g. using algebraic data types for representions, pattern-matching for traversing/manipulating data, abstract/existential types for encapsulation and enforcing interfaces, etc.). In practice this makes it good for handling other languages (after all, "ML" stands for "meta language").

Its original purpose was manipulating mathematical proofs/expressions, and it's still popular for that, e.g. Isabelle's core is written in PolyML, Coq is written in Ocaml, and I think some others like the various HOLs use it too; note that these see a little use in industry for verification (although some famous verification examples, like AMD's FPU verification, used ACL2 which is based on Lisp rather than ML).

It's also good for manipulating Web languages like HTML and Javascript, which has spawned a few compile-to-Web languages which are ML-like or implemented in ML, e.g. http://opalang.org and http://www.impredicative.com/ur . This might also be why Facebook made/use Reason ( https://reasonml.github.io ), which AFAIK is an alternative syntax for Ocaml.

Jane Street seem to be heavy users of Ocaml, since they sponsor a lot of work on the compiler and infrastructure.
Right, many of those changes make it much less suitable distro for your average Linux poweruser. To me it make sense to highlight those facts in such articles, instead of presenting it as the best distro that knocks out all the rest.

The reason that this irritates me is that after stumbling on one of those comparisons I was puzzled how could this be and was thinking maybe I should switch. I went to Clear's websites and read through the whole thing until I understood that thank you, this is nice but not for me. While this was educating, it was also waste of my time. My view is that good tech journalism should save me time, not the opposite.
I just created an account to post a comment. I was raised by a narcissist, and over the years I've, like you, come to realize how narcissistic I am too.

Narcissism has a terrible negative taboo associated with it, and rightfully so, because it can drain the living shit out of the people close to the narcissist. But you have to be careful not to be even harder on yourself about it. Because that's how a narcissist would understand a character defect (i.e. "oh I'm a terrible person worth scum"). For me I've found the very first thing I had to understand was yes, I'm a narcissist, and that's terrible, and I need to fix that ASAP, but, forgiveness is not only possible, it's necessary.

With that out of the way, I cannot recommend Alexander Lowen enough. After years of research and self-exploration I've now landed on this guy and his thoughts. Check out his book Narcissism: Denial of the True Self.

https://www.amazon.com/Narcissism-Denial-True-Alexander-Lowe...

One of the reviews on that page summarizes it very well: "Narcissism develops when children are made to feel rejected, humiliated, and powerless, at the same time seduced to feel special"

Edit: If that specific book doesn't appeal to you, see if any of Lowen's other books resonate with you more
A gorgeous codebase is not a product without relevant users to consume it.
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You don’t have to file any court documents to inform somebody that you believe they have wronged you, and that you believe you are entitled to compensation for the resulting damages. The civil court system is there to handle things if you can’t work it out among yourselves.
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Ain't nobody got time for that. When I was hiring developers, I was conducting dozens of interviews based off of hundreds of applications. My goal is to hire people who can help me solve problems. Running an interview improvement service isn't something I have time for.
The older I get, the more I realize that we really haven't figured out anything at all.

We just make up or prescribe to a set of rules that help us cope with that as best as possible.
> Apple doesn't monetize data, so why would they want this?

Look up "surveillance capitalism". And Apple absolutely monetises user data - just not in the way you think it does (i.e. through an ad network). It uses the data to profile you to learn more about you to better "exploit" you and make more profit from you.
I realize that, but look at the page. It's pretty clearly a typo.

EDIT: it's been fixed now.
Appholes and Contracts
>We assume brains work in the same way, but we lack any kind of tooling for examining this other than fMRI

Yes, but it's also kind of a no-brainer. We're the same species, with mostly the same wiring...
On #2, there are a ton of well-written and entertaining articles by the author—Michael "Rands" Lopp—on his website.

https://randsinrepose.com/

He also hosts a slack that's up to something like 100,000 people. Ask a lot of dumb questions.

https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
It's a very interesting article but

"as perfect as human beings have achieved" != perfect
Well I suppose we don’t have enough information to determine whether it was put there intentionally or not. I recall from the Snowden leaks that the US has a well established program to maintain access to as many foreign networks as possible. A cozy arrangement with Cisco and/or a National Security Letter might help ensure such access is possible.

https://www.aclu.org/other/national-security-letters
They really do slow down development though, and flrxe you to hire specialists who can make sense of the often terse datasheets.
Actually, for fasteners there is often a material difference - cheaper fasteners are cut to shape while better fasteners are forged into shape, resulting in a much stronger part due to the resulting grain flow.
> it's not like they can call the police or anything

Well, they can. Whether or not the police will bother doing anything can depend on a lot of factors.
When some software is being built the constraints are much more rigorous, but it all comes down to the organization. The guidelines established by NASA for their space program are a good example of rigorous requirements. Boeing should not be unfamiliar with this concept and can certainly afford to do this properly. This move was motivated purely by greed.
I'm pretty much an anti-natalist. I don't want kids personally. I'm still fine with other people having them, but I can't morally justify bringing people into this world just to suffer.
Because it would take time to write up the feedback and it would have to be reviewed by HR to ensure it is not phrased in a way that in violation of local laws. This is a large investment for a candidate that is not going to work for your company and from a business point of view, this time is better spend else where.
Black SWE here, grew up on the west side of Chicago, I don't think most white people understand how bad the literacy situation is. I could read competently before I even got to school and I went to grammar school in the 90s. First day of first grade, I found out no one could competently read a sentence. In fact, whole school (which has closed) was on this remedial education program called Advanced Directives or something. I'd never seen a book where the words were broken up syllable-by-syllable before I got to this school and I'm like 7 years old, and kids struggled with that. Making this a little more personal, I ultimately had to be separated from the other kids, and you can imagine why: you can't have one kid making all the others feel embarrassed and inadequate. But this also was a major source of resentment and ostracization that I'm still dealing with to this day.
This defect is obvious to anyone reviewing the code, and it will be even more obvious when the function is used by another function with its own contracts.

In practice the issue with formal modelling is that it's very hard to scale up. Modelling the correct behaviour of traffic-lights is practical, and allows us to build completely bug-free traffic-light software, but these methods don't work so well for developing a word processor. Competent practitioners don't tend to mess up their formal models though. I've not heard an example of that causing defective software, but it's a valid question to ask.

Even without going the whole way to whole-program correctness guarantees, this kind of approach can be used to provide solid guarantees against bugs like buffer-overflows, without using runtime checks. This is something the SPARK language has supported for a long time.
I don't see any problem with the faces or the scene in general. In fact, I wouldn't hesitate to believe it was a staged scene shot today that had been colored black and white if someone told me.
Steer clear of what? Almost all companies have this “no feedback” policy in some form. I’ve gotten rejection calls (a sadistic practice, if you’re not going to offer feedback IMO), where I’ve explicitly asked for feedback and literally been told “no.” If I limited myself to companies that provide feedback, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have a career right now.
Something something snark missing the point.

Nobody said Linux can't for some law of nature run music software.

But it's empirically true that it both lacks 99% of music software people want to run, and that it's not used by 99% of musicians...