skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sibling comment explained my point correctly, but in the interest of fleshing out my comment more nicely:

There is a meme in software development, of a developer who writes code, tests locally, and pushes, only to be told that the code fails for other devs, or on CI deployment to a testing environment, or whatever, and responding "well it works on my machine". Depending on the case and how charitable you're feeling, the dev in question can mean that as anything from "how strange that it worked here and not there; let me start debugging", to "well it worked for me so your system must be the problem".

My analogy was that you are a single person who appears to be claiming that the text style in question is totally fine because on your screen and with your eyes and brain, the text is readable. And this is not without value, but it comes across as a bit tone-deaf when others pipe up and say that it isn't readable to them, and even offer an objective standard by which the claim could be assesed, and you simply repeat that it works for you. Like... we believe that you don't see a problem, but clearly other people do, and they've even offered a way to remove the subjective human evaluation and you still don't seem to believe that they might have a point.
Every time card counting comes up in discussion there seem to be people talking about how it works (not taking a shot at you, just attaching my comment here). But not once have I seen a link to the actual numbers.

If I want to know something about chess, the source code is available, endgame tables are available, everything that we say we know about chess can be confirmed.

Everyone seems to know how card counting works, with vague things like a count goes up with 5's or down with 10's, but there is no first post link to the "solution". The only thing I see referenced is some 1 deck study from the early computer days.

I'm halfway convinced the money making avenue of card counting is telling stories about card counting.

The conspiracy theory part of my brain says these stories are written by casinos to give players hope.

So, where is that github link?
Building a bicycle infrastructure parallel and separate from the existing transportation infrastructure is absolutely infeasible. This boils down to "bicycles should not be allowed on the road." If that's your argument, make it.
I'm sick of tech being more scared of a man playing sound effects on CNBC than their thousands of paying customers.
Why would you think avoiding frameworks means rewriting things? Most of the arguments people advance supporting frameworks seem rather hollow, as in based upon imaginary assumptions.
The devil is sometimes in the large as well. Form changes — code that used to run while generating a web page now runs in a REST service. Code that used to run in a REST service now runs as a FAAS. Code that used to run in a FAAS now runs in a stream processor.

Your framework could tie you to a specific form, forcing you to implement your FAAS by posting each request to a REST service, or forcing you to implement your stream processor by posting each event to a FAAS. Or you can liberate your code from form by making sure that nothing important about it depends on a form-specific framework.
http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html

We’re currently rolling around back to a new era of lots of specialized chips.
Not really because part of the push to running servers for the game is to provide consistency in game experience, lowering the barrier of entry to less technical players (thus widening the playerbase) and to support features that would be much harder or impossible to implement if you let anyone run a server. There are trade offs in that decision for sure but there are also trade offs in going the other way.
Very cool, thanks for the great find OP!! Does anyone know if there's a github repo with a proof of concept I could play around with?
You’re right about cheap laptops, but there are still (AFAICT) plenty or WiFi-only chromebooks, which is the big thing in education. Also tablets, kindles, nintendos...

I agree with the suggestion that using the cellular network is the way to go, I just think that turning that cellular data into WiFi will allow more devices to connect, and more freedom in how people choose to use their connection. So I would suggest portable cellular-to-WiFi routers rather than building the cellular connection into a laptop.
Could you please show me where Damore says he made a mistake and apologized for it?

I don't think this was minor, and I don't see any indication it was a mistake. One doesn't accidentally write an 8-page memo, especially an explicitly political one.

But even assuming it were a minor mistake, then it was absolutely on Damore to own that. I'd never fire somebody for a mistake. But for doing something harmful and then refusing to admit error, let alone make amends? I don't see an option other than firing, because there's no reason to think the person won't keep right on making "mistakes" that are similar or worse.
https://archive.vn/fVUYv
Still don’t see your point. We need some lawyers. We don’t need millions. If the only law schools that existed were the T-14 where aggregate enrollment is like 4000 a year then that’s hardly “too many”
I am going to be honest, I consider myself on the left side of the spectrum, but I am disgusted by the outrage culture on Twitter etc. Besides censorship, I believe it's a tactic by neoliberal types to pretend to be on the left by virtue signaling, but not actually addressing any of the economics I care about, (medicare for all, free college etc.), so I actually agree with you there.

That being said, what I also dislike is someone who seems to have no core beliefs whatsoever and instantly runs to the "intellectual dark web" bashing "the left", without acknowledging that what he refers to is a rather vocal minority, nor acknowledging the authoritarian tendencies of "the intellectual dark web" and basically just going with whoever is willing to air his grievances in a completely sympathetic, uncritical manner. It smells of opportunism, rather than some sincerely held belief.

Then there's the question of whether it is wise to communicate such issues across your company in the manner that he did. I am not saying it's right, but the world is a certain way and if one wants to change it, he/she needs to also be prepared for the consequences.
Tangential, but I think the underlying issue is that too many people (smart or not) are herded into careers they don't want, simply so they can earn enough money to have the lifestyle they want. There are very few careers in America today that will enable a "middle class" (whatever that means nowadays) lifestyle. A nice car, a vacation every once in a while, a house to call your own, etc. "Smart" people often make the decision to obtain financial success via whatever means necessary, because being poor in America is decreasingly dignified and increasingly dangerous. And there is no "middle" option. I have no proposed solutions, just some bleak observations.
Instead of putting it as comment in the file, put it all (including graphs etc) as commit message when you commit the feature/fix
Corona Beer vs. Coronavirus: Effects on the Company’s Brand and Its Response
But it's obviously not a waste, because many people who end up doing actually-valuable things initially go that path.

If I could hit the reset button and do it all over again, knowing what I know now, I would 1. get into the most prestigious undergrad school (Ivy if possible) that I could, rather than just lazily apply for one state school and go to it, 2. Still majored in some kind of computer engineering track, 3. immediately go into finance after school and pump money doing the standard two-to-three-year grind as an analyst, 4. get into the most prestigious MBA school I possibly could, 5. pump money doing the standard grind as an associate, then 6. basically do anything I want as a 30 year old with the millions I've saved.

The nice properties of this career path are:

- It doesn't take any outlier talent, just learn excel and do grunt work.

- It minimizes the need for luck (as opposed to starting a business or interviewing at Google). I would argue the risk adjusted expected value of this path is higher than other careers like starting a business where you need to multiply by a low probability of success.

- The contacts/network you make doing 1, 3, 4, and 5 mean you will always have easy access to capital, a huge advantage for someone who wants to do that "actually-valuable" thing. As opposed to some rando dude who was "3rd engineer from the left" at Amazon wanting to quit and start his own business, who will have to pitch and pitch and pitch to get a single investor to listen to him.

It would be nice if society was set up such that there were more "work hard" paths to financial security as opposed to risky paths, but we collectively can't shake this risk-reward caveman mentality, so people go into law or finance.
No, it doesn't.

See, I have the better argument!
Not sure if it's intentional, but that's an interesting twist to "this statement is false".
As an observer, Sidewalk initially proposed grand plans which were supposed to cost $ millions, and overtime on one hand, they would get pushback on some parts of the proposal, on the other hand, they would get approval for some part and need to alter the proposal to assuage the opponents. These alterations usually featured some additional proposals ballooning to an estimated cost in the $ billions (scope creep), that seemed even more controversial... The whole process seemed like a tug-of-war, a game of cat and mouse, or whack-a-mole.

They would cede a part of proposal, propose another, only to have some sort of new outcry.

From Ars' article published today
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/alphabets-sidewalk-l...

> But Sidewalk Labs’ vision was in trouble long before the pandemic. Since its inception, the project had been criticized by progressive activists concerned about how the Alphabet company would collect and protect data, and who would own that data

> The partnership took a bigger hit last summer, when Sidewalk Labs released a splashy and even more ambitious 1,524-page master plan for the lot that went well beyond what the government had anticipated, and for which the company pledged to spend up to $1.3 billion to complete. The redevelopment group wondered whether some of Sidewalk Labs’ proposals related to data collection and governance were even “in compliance with applicable laws.” It balked at a suggestion that the government commit millions to extend public transit into the area, a commitment, the group reminded the company, that it could not make on its own.
Tbh this is mostly because of the plunder of the commons. There are monopolistic corporate enclosures all around, embedded in a globalized 'free market' neo-liberal system which has given rise to the most unequitable system to have ever existed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnYhZCUYOxs

What inspires me is 'Commons based peer production' (Benkler) and Protocol Cooperativism using the Holochain pattern (Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun) - which enables 'free' (as in freedom) mutual-credit community currencies.
>If you work at Facebook or Google or other companies, you've been convinced that you're the best of the best. The brightest of our generation. But ultimately all your work leads to selling ads.

This may be somewhat true, but on the bright side these companies have made immense contributions to open source software. And that ultimately has a positive impact to humanity on a broad scale.
What is imaginary about the Chinese authorities suppressing news about this virus? We already know that the (late) doctor who first exposed it was forced to sign a retraction.
I need to bookmark this for the June county broadband task force meeting. A point was raised at the last meeting that building a WISP may be the least impractical step forward to fill coverage gaps. With our local government budgets being slashed beyond survivable levels right now any effort would have to be by private finance alone incrementally. Difficulty funding due to COVID-19 even minimal policing and fire services puts broadband at a lower priority in officials minds right now.
Politics, buddy, did a lot for Lenin, Mao, Hitler, Castro or Chavez. We aren't manifestly destined differently here.
Wow, the output is amazingly stable. I often wonder how much better these amazing single-perspective single-frame methods could be if extended with multiple perspectives, and continuous information (especially alternating-perspective continuous), and it seems like the answer is "now you can find out!". :+ )

P.S. it is so lovely that there is an OpenCL backend as well. So many of these great methods only have CUDA available.
75% of the length of some of the videos is just waiting for the plugin to process the image... seems like before/after pics would be a better way to demo the plugin effects.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/story/the-pernici...
To be fair, SWE patterns are insightful.

But here's where the problem lies - the proposal in the article is representative of how the community has become so used to this nice side-effect of modularity of neural networks, giving the impression that a clean linear decomposition of contributions is even conceivable.

There are examples where this modularity isn't possible (or not optimal even if possible). The poster child, I would say, is probabilistic programming. It is easy to think about building general purpose inference algorithms in probabilistic programming. However, more often than not, inference heavily relies on context.

An example for this case is Gaussian Processes. In theory, it is easy to conceive a chain of ideas that connect threads of research within this tiny field. Unfortunately, in practice it turns out inference with GPs is more efficient when we exploit structural assumptions within the context of modeling choices and general purpose few-liner code changes would be terribly inefficient. You'd find the code will look vastly different to an untrained eye even though it would compose similar sounding (or looking) building blocks.
Carrying one's power supply onboard a rocket in space and even on an airplane is a huge weight penalty. What if high energy density beams could power a substantial VASIMR thruster? That would make for awesome LEO to GEO orbital tugs. It would also be a good basis for a drone "space fighter" that could reduce the rocket equation penalty through ultra high ISP.

Reliable high density power beaming could enable fully automated cargo drone aircraft. These would have fundamental advantages in operations costs due to weight savings, the simplicity of electric motors, and reduced personnel costs.

If we could generate large amounts of power in space and use sufficiently large transmitters (re: diffraction limits) to beam it to VASIMR thruster spacecraft, we could substantially reduce transit times to Mars, as one example. Alternatively, we could also greatly increase mass fractions of cargo delivery to Mars.
Out of all the buzzwords to come out of COVID, "new normal" is maybe my least favorite. What the hell does it even mean?
> The problem is that a lot of the money is in things like finance and advertising. We could absolutely restructure our economy so that wasn't the case.

How?
am a smart person that went into finance. i agree.

im just not sooo sure that what im doing in tech is a lot better. it's better, but how much better remains to be seen.
I often get sick during travel. It's really annoying. But the last two trips I got sick and I'm pretty sure it happened at the airport. So there is a positive from this in terms of travel.
Come now, don’t make up my argument. That’s bad style.

Professors aren’t rich, duh. But they’re also neither in the job market, not starting their career off. Their students need to build wealth, worry about long term earnings potential, and pay back the large student debt that they just incurred. Unless if the professor is actively planning on quoting soon, none of these are incentives that the professor are subject to personally, meaning their advice will probably underweight them.
You didn't read the comments correctly, hence your confused reply.
"That woman by the way was traveling by herself with a dog kennel, a baby, a car seat and two carry-on bags, and yet the airport was in the wrong for not having anything or anyone ready to assist her as she deplaned"

I actually think it's reasonable that the woman expects more from the airport. They levy very high margin charges for landing, departure, parking, rent for vendors, and so on. Reasonable service seems expected. Perhaps not a pre-staged cart, but at least nearby phone (or number to text) to ask for one.
I'd like to see more go into politics.
> He's a bizarre, often unhealthy mind.

I find him very human, as flawed as the rest of us.
The way I read this is we have too many people being clever in unproductive ways
Well, it is political. A number of people and groups have staked a position that is directly contrary to the views expressed in that document. They cannot afford to be proven wrong. When people feel threatened in that way, they attack.

It really doesn't matter how much evidence backs his view or not. It doesn't matter how much logic he mustered or didn't.
Young people with thrombosi are very rare, so not high risk from that standpoint. As an individual that might be assessed high risk, but in aggregate it is not.
Of course there is some social aspect to CS. That being said, comparatively, the interaction loop is waaay more abstract. Just walk into a medical practice vs a software engineering office.

As a medical professional, you get to interact face to face with several people every day, and have a direct observable positive impact in their lives.

As a CS professional, you spend half your waking time dealing with or dishing out style guide feedback nitpicks via email / irc / github [FAANG experience], interacting remotely with funny little avatars. You very rarely directly experience the impact of your work, and the impact itself is quite a bit less clear cut positive.
They aren't empty.

They are less crowded than usual because elective procedures have been cancelled in many cases, but people are still there for non-elective procedures, emergencies, births, etc. And yes, covid cases requiring a hospital are lower than predicted... but they do exist.
Google's mission is to organize all of the world's information (and then find a way to charge rent)
I always thought cruise ships would be great for this.
Could you point me to your source for that quote?

I'm not coloring his response when I call it a divisive political opinion piece. It's explicitly framed as "the politics of the majority of people at Google is a big problem". And whether or not their initial request technically was broad enough to include his response isn't the issue.

Either Damore was reasonably smart, and he knew that this would at best be enormously divisive. Or maybe he was just incredibly clueless. (Personally I think it was the former.) When bosses (or anybody) ask for something, technically complying with the literal meaning of their words is not enough. One has to consider goals and context, and respond accordingly.
App alerted Indian govt about 300 'emerging Covid-19 hotspots'
Thank you so much for the reply, I am really trying to look for the down sides but it seems like all feedback is positive! To my understanding, all graduates need to establish a U.S legal entity (C Corp / LLC)..they offer a free company incorporation package via Stripe Atlas. But If I have just founded my startup (in say Amsterdam) and long way from even thinking about the U.S market..what´s the logic here? Thanks again!
If you're looking for a little irony, here is Dr. Louanne Brizendine, Neuroscience PhD (Stanford, Yale, Berkeley) discussing how the female and male brains are different AT GOOGLE and with very warm, positive reception:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_uGr1ZOn4&t=2s
"No one could have ever predicted that this very common thing that's happened all throughout human history would happen again"
No, it really isn't debatable. That's the widespread consensus view. Personality traits are judged based on responses to surveys. When you ask large groups of people the same surveys and evaluate them the same way you consistently find women score higher on neuroticism than men. This is a widely repeated finding that is consistent across generations.

A paper on neuroticism in older women compared to older men - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031866/

"testing gender differences at the level of latent traits revealed higher levels of Neuroticism (d = .52) and Agreeableness (d = .35) in older women than older men. The consistency of these findings with prior work in younger samples attests to the stability of gender differentiation on Neuroticism and Agreeableness across the lifespan."

A paper trying to asses the genetic component to personality traits - http://midus.wisc.edu/findings/pdfs/1779.pdf

"Research has found observed phenotypic sex differences in the BFM. Women, for instance, tend to have higher mean levels of Agreeableness and Neuroticism than men (Chapman, Duberstein, Sörensen, & Lyness, 2007; Costa, Terracciano, & McCrae, 2001; Feingold, 1994)."

A paper looking at personality trait differences across the world and in other cultures - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijop.12265

"In terms of the personality traits known as the Big Five, men tend to score lower than women in neuroticism and agreeableness"

A paper looking at gender differences in neuroticism and extraversion across 30 different countries - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14018323_Gender_Dif...

"Women obtained higher means than men on neuroticism in all countries, and men obtained higher means than women on psychoticism in 34 countries and on extraversion in 30 countries."

A paper on neuroticism differences in men and women among college students - http://mpsi.umm.ac.id/files/file/723%20-%20728%20Djudiyah%20...

"Table 1 showed that there was significant difference of neuroticism level between males and females (t-test
= 2.138, df =49, P<0.05). Males tended to have lower neuroticism personality level (Mean=111,833) than
females (Mean=127.303). Thus the hypothesis that males have less neuroticism level than females was
accepted."

I could go on for a long time just finding different studies on this topic and quoting their results, but there is no need to. That women have higher rates of neuroticism is likely the least debatable and most scientific thing Damore asserted. Can you find a single study or paper where it was concluded that women had anything but higher levels of neuroticism?

I trust that you will either have one or more such references, or you will admit that this claim is scientific and not really debatable. If you admit that, I would expect some revision of your general opinion given that this is an example of one of what you believed to be one of the more significant things Damore got wrong.
Elon’s 2 most important people at Tesla is his CFO and General Counsel. If you think otherwise pay closer attention to his earnings calls.
Well, if I understand it correctly (my knowledge is too shallow) this happened with a couple of previous crashes. After the first huge volumes of sales, trading would die down because no one had faith in the economy and the stock market.

Died down trading = low volatility
"La Cinémathèque Française" uses peertube to make available rare and exclusive movies from its collection:

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/
Like all great buzzwords, its vague enough to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean.