skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone was/is really worried about either one of those. Additionally the majority of these cuts were administrative/non-engineering positions and of the cuts that were engineering most were not AI related.
>not understanding that there is a huge difference between expected value and ergodic properties

Can you expand on this? Are you claiming that the stock market is ergodic, or that it is not?
https://garyshood.com/root/
Other Fabs are already located in the area, and in general the state has been good towards businesses. Also ASU is nearby so they have a talent pool of new engineers to pull from.

Anecdote, since I've moved to AZ myself 5 years ago I've noticed massive growth in tech businesses in Phoenix and the surrounding areas. Cost of living for people here is also cheaper compared to to other cities I've lived in, and many people I've met who moved from California have told me how its cheaper here. Commuting is not too bad depending on where you live, and there are options which promote commuting or carpooling such as HOV lanes, Bike Lanes, and the light-rail system (the light rail is hit or miss depending on who you ask).
> Doesn’t IKEA also sell food items? Wonder if they’ll expand and go into groceries

They do have a cafeteria and then a frozen/dried goods area in all of their stores that I've been to. Selling perishables (e.g. fresh veggies) is a whole 'nother beast from selling frozen/dried goods and would be effectively trying to enter into an entirely new market.
The way I do it is I use a subdomain for any aliased email, e.g. vendor.com@account.mydomain.com and then I just have rules to move anything sent to account.mydomain.com to a separate folder, then it never shows up in the main mailbox unless I put it there myself. Works fine!
For Windows, there's great SumatraPDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org
Yeah, the whole notion of this being something generated with a markov chain feels too much like hype.

The guy admitted on reddit that he manually cherry-picked and assembled the lyrics, and then he sang and recorded the song himself.

For all intents and purposes, he might as well have just fed a bunch of AC/DC lyrics through a word randomizer and then assembled the new lyrics by hand. No AI or markov chains required.

On the other hand, here is ACTUAL real music generated and played entirely by AI:
https://openai.com/blog/musenet/
The compiler would have to dramatically increase in speed to make it effective. I tried using Crystal to build a small app using Amber or Lucky frameworks. They weren't fast enough for a flowing edit/compile/run workflow. Ended up using Kemal which is like Sinatra and nowhere like Rails.
That's a fair point, though then we might wonder if it would have happened on Turchin's schedule in response to a more normal trigger. Regardless of what happens this year, it takes more than one successful prediction to support a theory of predictable cycles.
On the contrary, I really found this article insightful.

Yes, there are few concrete pieces of advice to tackle the "internal triggers" of distraction. These are to be found in ourself and any tricks, like turning off all of the notifications, will only address the surface of the problem. Any concrete advice would risk here to conceal the truth that that hard word is not easy.

I like the path proposed by the article.

* searching in oneself for the deep obstacles toward our goals. boredom? loneliness? fatigue? uncertainty?

* clarifying our priorities into a concrete daily schedule;

* imposing ourselves a routine on what matters

* and even using pacts with ourselves.

Looking closely at my own current habits, this helped me to better understand what I already do well and what I need to improve.
Do you happen to have an Apple Watch?
Google ‘Data Echoing’ Accelerates Neural Network Training
I think certification gives the holder some potential credibility in a narrowly defined area IF an employer chooses to believe that a specific certification sufficiently covers the skills required for a business process.

That is clearer for roles that primarily need to operate software packages (word processing, CAD, etc) or systems where there is training content created by a solution vendor (cisco, juniper, etc), than it is for a multi-disciplinary "squishy" role like product management.

Consider that a product manager role might greatly by company size or by level of product / market fit. I'd say that an employer shopping for a PM might be looking for a combination of: subject matter expertise, deep knowledge of a specific market, and maybe a track record with KPIs. All of which are probably not easily evaluated by a common certification.
One of my favorite pieces when it comes to community commercialization: "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Yeah, the good ol' MIT-license fishhook.
@pfrazee threw together a demo app called PaulMail [1] that you can view in Beaker [0]. It's very simple and is just a proof-of-concept (messages are unencrypted, for example), but it does hint at possibilities there.

[0] https://beakerbrowser.com

[1] hyper://1bc1faf01a22270fb5698a60e63ef7a596ad976457e6d9914a8fd56d87281917/
I've been polishing my story/book about travelling by bus from Seattle to Atlanta:

https://goeiebook.ca/story/bussing2
So Reddit will literally pay me to use their official app over a third party client?

Yeah, still no deal.
I'm also going through these books, but I am suspicious of the author's claim. That's about 50 characters a day. I use Anki and it is clear that the shuffling of cards makes a big difference. RTH is really about creating mnemonics and presenting characters together building from roots (that's why I like it). But you NEED to shuffle them.

I'm also finding that my biggest barrier is pronunciation. I'll see the character and immediately know the meaning because I created a good mnemonic. But getting the pinyin right is harder (shuffling matters here too!).

Lastly, as dak pointed out, this book doesn't teach you how to read -- or speak -- but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. It is helping me to read, but that's because this isn't the only tool I use. In Chinese, words are really compound words. For example, 熊猫 means panda. But 熊 means bear and 猫 means cat. This makes these unbounded morphemes, which is different than what we do in the Indo-European languages. And Chinese is composed of radicals that make things harder. 果汁 is juice, but 汁 is juice. The three ticks on the left are the symbol for water but 十 means 10. The book focuses on the latter cases but you'd be very confused if you read about the bear cats of China. And these are just the simple examples. I'm sure others will write some more fun ones below (I'm a real novice at Chinese).
It's a little strange to use the phrases "tend to" and "iron law" in the same sentence.
It's a standard approach to making bigger systems, as most built-in cache coherency protocols are optimized for a too-small case. AMD Horus allowed easy build of 8x8 servers, SGI continued their work from Altix in UltraViolet (now owned by HPE?) where they used custom cache coherency chips in between, implementing custom cache directory protocol over NUMAlink connections.

Also, the approach of having "router" and "local area switch" is used in Infiniband, where local subnets use 16bit ID for endpoints, and 128bit addresses for inter-subnet routing (the addresses are IPv6 compatible).
Gatsby is pretty well established as a front end toolkit. You're likely to have a hard time getting a trademark here since both projects target developers.
Unfortunately their dark mode detection is incorrect on my computer :(
Why is PayPal so successful yet they treat merchants like crap? (2019)
Does the updater need to run as root, though? They could install a launchd process running as the installing user who owns the /Applications folder. This is what everything else does -- privileged helper daemons are not common.
1/2) What's to allow? Anyone who is reasonably mobile always this option and needs no assistance. If they want a doctor to read the google results for "What's the best way to kill yourself" or write them a script :shrug: but they should take the final action themselves if physically capable.

3) This is the most important case. If you can't rely on someone else to put you out of your misery when you're incapable, then you have to do it yourself before it's actually necessary, while you still have the ability. Otherwise you risk being trapped in agony for the remainder of your life. That's a cruel gamble, betting on the probability, duration, and pain of your own sow death, vs how much worthwhile life you're potentially giving up. It's also very unreliable as there are all sorts of things that can take you from fine to permanent agony in an instant. I don't see why appearance would matter.

4) If capable, you should do it yourself. If incapable, someone should be allowed to assist. Assistance should always be from a qualified professional who has no conflicts of interest to keep the line between assisted suicide an murder as clear as possible.
I just finished reading "How to take smart notes" by Sönke Ahrens. It's mostly about Zettelkasten. Been looking for a good tool to implement it. Didn't like any of them very much. Zettlr at least seems tolerable, and it uses plain old Markdown files so it's easy to store the notes in git.

Something with phone support would be nice, hell even just read-only mode would be great. Best of luck, and please report back if you can set up a landing page or a github repo or something else we can poll :-)
Fun-fact pot-shot time!

The first paragraph states the thesis that there's something about wind patterns in the northern hemisphere that make windmill directionality important.

The first paragraph also says:

> It is convenient to have all clock hands turn in the same direction, but it is an accident of history which direction that is.

Clockwise is not a random coin-flip of history. Ironically, clockwise is clockwise also because something about the northern hemisphere: the shadows on a sundial move clockwise in the northern hemisphere, so when europeans first started making clocks, they continued the sundial convention!
What problems does that solve that displaying an image (possibly animated gif) that links somewhere would have?
پیام تسلیت شهادت حضرت علی (ع) – اس ام اس تسلیت شهادت حضرت علی علیه السلام
I didn't :)
I don't buy that explanation, there's clearly a ton more human involvement here than just rearranging verses.

The output is far too grammatical and maintains too much thematic consistency across filler word distance to be output by a low-order Markov chain, but is too unique compared to the (very small) corpus to be output by a high-order one.
Yes, I saw the compressed bitfields. Most amount of bit twiddling I have ever seen in a pure javascript library...

Being able to identify a piece of content by an integer instead of a hash makes things more efficient compared to content-addressed storage a la IPFS.
Do you do any digital painting? That's a large component of photoshop for me, although lately its been sharing with Procreate.
It’s not crazy to have specific procedures, but think about unintended consequences. The procedures need to be achievable in the real world, not so burdensome they can’t or won’t be followed.

Maybe a better example, let’s say NZ institutes a $50,000 fine per each occurrence of misuse of personal information collected per their requirements. Now a small business owner could find out they are facing a $250,000 fine and bankruptcy because of one horny employee violating their specific trading instructions. What restaurant would ever take that risk?

If the government wants to force businesses to collect personal information, it better be prepared to provide secure means of collecting and communicating that information to them. And it should indemnify the businesses for any liability from release of that information that’s not willful or intentional.

If the business faithfully follows the rules, punish the perpetrator, not the business owner.
And pollution. Semiconductor manufacturing is dirty, dirty business.
> It doesn't scale as simply as that.

My question fails at the lower end. I was imagining 200-300k Bay area salaries. Is that reasonable?

It seems like if you want to move to a low cost area, there is a salary that is smaller but provides you the same discretionary income.
But companies report your salary and withhold income for local taxes. How would that work?

For example, my paycheck literally has withholdings for California every two weeks.
Thank you so much for your help! I'll try this tonight!
Silicon Valley lives on! iirc there were actual companies started with "middle out compression"
the crime here is county officials engaging in literal economic repression. It's not a matter of when the government orders whatever is says this week.

The fact of the matter is that if a business feels it's time to reopen, it should do so, cautiously of course.

Neither the employees or customers are forced to go. They have a right to refuse. They don't have a right to dictate what others decide to do with their business
That depends on how much policing over the other mods (specially those above you) the rest of the team enforces. If the mods generally don't mess with another mods decisions, or if people don't complain (I've posted complaints after a post of mine was unfairly deleted from a sub) they can "get away" with whatever action they take.
I have no experience with graphic design programs, but I would guess that it has something to do with the fact that VSTs are self contained and have extremely simple interfaces. A VST takes some input (MIDI or audio) and produces some output (MIDI or audio). That's it. They're extremely modular, and you can chain them together in arbitrary ways so long as the inputs/outputs line up.

I imagine it's not so simple in the graphic design world, and without such a simple interface that everyone can agree on, it's much harder to create standardized plugins that everyone can use.
> There are so many bugs open on those projects and no progress or answers. I can not recommend Bazel if C++ or C is what you care about.

I think this is something that's slowly, but surely, changing. There's a lot of adoption of Bazel from some big players out there (Uber, Bloomberg, etc). The Blaze team @ Google has also started incorporating outside OSS maintainers into their OSS software (specifically rules_python).

Things are improving. Many of the things you've addressed (third party libraries, cross compiling, dynamically linking things) have been talked about by many people in Bazel's slack. It might not be flawless currently but Bazel's abstractions of how builds work are cool, RBE/caching is amazing for large projects, and a single build system with the promise of gracefully handling "every" language is something our field has been needing for some time.

In 3 to 10 years I can imagine being able to start writing code and never think about which language some library I want to use is written in, which package manager and toolchain I need to use to build everything, how to package my code to be deployable in production, how to setup unit tests, how to get autocompltions and docs and everything in my IDE, etc. The answer could just be "bazel, a language server, an IDE that speaks lsp".
https://www.reddit.com/r/photomarket/
A couple years ago Cruise acquired Strobe, a Lidar start-up. It appears these are the people getting laid-off.
Hypercore is a single writer append-only log. The website has a bit more info about how it works, but's basically a merkle log signed by a private key / public key scheme. We build collaborative data structures by combining multiple Hypercores.

Hyperdrives builds a p2p filesystem on top of Hypercore for a single writer. Using mounts you can mount other peoples drives so merge conflicts don't happen since there is no overlapping writes.

We are working on a union mount approach as well for overlapping drives (we talk a bit about this in the post)
Thanks for giving this a try, this means a lot. Will try to play with CSS tonight!
Presumably they own some of the bandwidth.
Is this an honest question? I honestly can't tell and I am not saying it to show disrespect -- just wondering if you are sarcastic.

Erlang/Elixir have built-in caches that respond in the matter of 30-150 nanoseconds.

Why would you need an external service for that? It's adding complexity -- and likely hosting costs.

Isn't it self-evident to you that adding Redis as a caching layer to your stack is a bandaid to a deeper problem?
How is it that Python is able to do so many things quickly (even excluding NumPy/SciPy)? Is it more native code libraries? Could Ruby follow this path as effectively?
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literals, yes, but he's talking specifically about indexing into arrays by my understanding
What would be the incentive for this? There is still a heavy demand for cars 30k+, why would they stop doing that for a cheaper car when they are selling every car they are producing at a higher profit?
This is currently an issue of manufacturing capacity, accompanied by a demand curve the 3 set in place.
Yup I try to convert every product I develop lol
Can anyone comment on which (if any) of these are respected in industry?
What I really like about RTH over these types of apps that focus on HSK is the groupings/ordering it is presenting characters and the focus on mnemonics. I'd love an app like this that presented characters in a similar fashion.
Most of the marketing teams I work with were pretty distributed anyway. Direct sales does a lot of F2F normally but many/most don't have company offices. And there are Thing jobs that involve, e.g., working with hardware that can't really be done remotely.
I think there are some valid concerns here. Someone running a clicker is already common procedure at some busy places, and it's often a hostess or someone else who is already "doing stuff".

Likewise any sensor is going to open up some questions about the data it collects and it's method of action - what's the error margin?

I think there's arguments for systems like this as well, but it's on you to make them, not just complain about others being skeptical.
I believe the majority of the layoffs were from recruiting and design.
a lot is stacked against you as a private investor. being very smart is not enough to beat the market consistently when your competition is other very smart people who themselves have a support staff of very smart people and they all spend 8+ hours a day analyzing the market and making trades.

even if you quit your day job to trade full-time, they can collect information in ways that you can't (eg, satellite imagery), and they may also have direct lines to an exchange to execute trades faster than you. unlike you, they trade in large enough volume that they can get people to pick up the phone to trade after the exchange closes. they have access to entire classes of investments that are closed to you due to capital requirements.
A catalogue of onsite, offshore and remote team models
The only point of certification is signaling. Right now there is only 1 (Ga Tech's OMSCS) online program that would be a positive signal. On the other hand, including an online certification in most resumes would probably be a negative signal, especially an unknown one.
No, I mean the mathematical mean, not mode. If you take this action infinitely many times, what is your average (mean) return? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
While you are technically correct, I can't imagine you challenging anyone about their weight (in kgs/lbs) when they step on a scale because the scale might not be calibrated to the "force of gravity" (which is itself not a force) at the spot of measurement.

So since it, as you nicely put it, does not need to be explained to the average reader, the complaint sounds like needless nitpicking.

Even "more weight in the neck" is imperfect — weight usually means mass, so "load", implying force, is better.

Thus I think it's acceptable to use the original wording to avoid all the technicalities that require a few parapgraphs to explain :)
This is kind of how I felt when I started to learn Haskell
Good thing the Canadian government has decided to only use Adobe's proprietary pdf format (only openable by Acrobat btw) for all PDFs (lease agreements, academic forms) hahaha!
Thanks :) we have a couple of features lined up specifically targeted at (music) events, but are also putting some energy into making it suitable for artist talks and panels.
Taleb has some good comments about this, which is that just as you can make a prediction and have it come true by pure chance, we can view evidence from history and fit a pattern to it (even though that pattern occurred only by chance). Personally I think the best way to view history is as a series of poorly controlled experiments. As with scientific experiments, the evidence may be suggestive of some pattern, but we should embrace an attitude of skepticism and openness to counterexamples. The patterns we see may tend towards "laws," but we should assume some level of imperfect resolution and control and therefore associate a confidence percentage with our inferences.
I think everyone on HN hates it but so far it’s quite clearly an improvement.

They didn’t go too far with spacing, consistency is way up, generally everything feels like it’s using the same standard set of widgets.

It feels in a weird way just a little slow. I’m not sure why, I even thought maybe it’s my Chrome or something. I noticed hovering a list item had what felt like a small delay. Turns out it was just the animation they used to fade in/out. I think they messed that up (fade in should be near instant or else it feels laggy).

That said, as a UX specialized dev, I appreciate it overall. Don’t like Facebook or even use the app much, but the design and tech are better overall.
> I certainly don't have a great answer for that one either.

Would you be okay sending your children to an education establishment that was pro-Nazi? Probably not.

Start treating the system for what it is: evil. Quit letting meaningless current affairs dominate the political dialogue. Speak out against the war criminals.
Thanks :) I’d love to hear any feedback you might have.
I haven't kept up with the ALR 6x6 movement since 2002-03 but a the time only Windows (NT AFAICR) would properly utilize all six of the cores. That may still be the case.
If I roll a 100-sided dice that pays me $99 if I roll a 1 and -$1 if I roll 2-100, then my expected value is $0, but my chance of profitability is 1%.
Little Stories Told with Numbers
Covid-19 Looks Like a Hinge in History (no paywall)
I've always felt that the framing of "don't give them a platform" is off as it's more like "don't make me support and amplify these things I really disagree with".

Different communities are good for different things and there is such a thing as community standards. It doesn't have to get to the Alex Jones political level either, just think like how weird it is when people hit on each other on Nextdoor [1] or if some guy was trying to sell his lawnmower on Grindr/Tinder.

1 - https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/100265658134170009...
It's going to be a bit weird because a lot of those should come back because the underlying business didn't suddenly become nonviable.
Conspiracies are everywhere in the world. Corruption and deceit is everywhere in the world. Refusing to acknowledge this means you are pathetically ignorant or serving an agenda.