skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Monty Hall problem supposedly even confused Paul Erdos (famous mathematician) who even rejected it after given a statistical proof.

He didn't accept the answer until stepping through a computer simulation so if it seems unintuitive, you're in good company. This problem is, in lore, claimed to trip up more nobel laureates then most problems because it's so counter intuitive to not notice the conditional probability and injected information from Monty.
In Canada, the term “engineer” is protected, but in most places the term is used loosely. Eg, in the USA, if you email Unity about a licensing question, you get a response from a “customer service engineer”
The saddest quote in this article was this: “I majored in computer science but realized I wasn’t cut out for a coding job. Dropping out wasn’t an option, so I stuck to the course,”. At lease he appears to have landed on his feet.
> You try to imply that EU is kinda root of all evil.

I think that's an unfair leap. Criticizing the EU does not imply the EU the "root of all evil".

Whataboutism is not a defense. This appears to be a valid criticism of the EU.
Two philosophers are arguing. One says "If a tree falls in the woods, there is no sound, because there is no one to hear it." The other says "No, that's not correct. There is sound, because vibrations are created in the air." The first philosopher agrees that there are vibrations in the air, and the second agrees that without a human around, there will be no human perception of the vibrations. Yet they continue to argue without paying much attention to the fact that they are disputing the definition of the word 'sound'.

I think Eliezer Yudkowsky suggested 'tabooing' the word in question for situations like these, to force the discussion on the logical arguments instead of the symbolic dead ends. In that case the word 'sound' was charged and raised emotions. 'Consciousness' and 'free will' certainly fall into that category.
Were these PDFs? I wonder if they were human or automated clicks. Also do you recall which website?
yep, subject to the terms of their license and attribution requirements.
You can call me cynical, but Yahoo ( anyone still remembers that?) tried work from home, and failed. It simply didn't work out so well so the then-CEO Marissa Mayer had to ban it [outright](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/feb/25/yahoo-chi...)
This sounds like a great thing
Actually that's not strictly true. Green cards can be sponsored for non-H1B workers (eg E3, L1).
When there were still stats being published for WD, they were always significantly worse than HGST, even long after WD bought HGST.

I'm wondering why they keep maintaining two product lines that are sufficiently different to result in one basically being consistently the best, the other being consistently the worst, in terms of reliability.
The real question I have is: why do you want to have a complex relationship with a computer? Why are you not seeking complex relationships with humans? To me ‘consciousness’ is another word for awareness, which is again related to the universal human need for recognition and connection.

I’ve seen this quest, for connection with ‘rational’ computer models and programs, in people who’ve received little empathy for the hardships they faced early on in their lives. They now find it hard to have empathy for others, as well as difficulty in having deep meaningful connections with the people around them; exactly because they have missed this attunement and connection from their primary caregivers and supportive extended community in the past. They seem to lack a certain depth of emotional life too. That or they do have a rich inner life - but it’s unfortunately hindered and covered by layers and layers of shame.

I have a lot of empathy for these people. At the same time I’m also scared that Silicon Valley is full of these people. My fear is that these people have a perception of humans as being inherently flawed, and that we should try to fix them. As well as trying to ‘cure’ death. This scares me because what I see in these people instead are people with a (learned) inability to feel their own body, as well as an inability to learn and grow from their own real world experiences (versus learning theories and working with abstract problems).
>It's weird that they're going into that direction...

I think it's a reflection of the fact that there are (at least) two different kinds of ways to make music:

1. the "traditional" way of recording individual instruments in a more or less linear fashion

2. curating/compiling pieces of pre-recorded audio, aka samples, and triggering a sequence of them on-the-fly, while recording that sequence.

Each calls for a different set of tools and workflow. Logic's roots are in the former but Ableton tapped into the latter. Logic is trying to appeal to both.
that will quickly change once you have kids/family. also, you'll see things quite differently when faced with the COL of CA.
Yes but not the change you are describing. Young people reinvigorating small towns was not one of Bernie's platforms so I don't know how it's relevant.
A good rule of thumb is that everything an organism does costs energy. If a bacterium produces the proteins necessary to break down plastic, create gasoline precursors, etc, then it likely paid for that with a reduced ability to defend itself or otherwise compete outside of a sterile environment. The energy/labor cost to maintain that environment for your bioreactor can be cost prohibitive (either in the narrow sense in which you put yourself at a disadvantage because competitors use cheaper strategies or even in the broad sense where, e.g., energy costs are large enough to completely counteract any environmental benefits).

It's fairly common for the waste products to be toxic to your microorganisms (or to need a high concentration of the growth medium, etc). If that mixed output of partially digested waste, biomass, etc is not useful by itself (e.g. because it's a little less environmentally impactful than the raw precursors) then you're faced with the challenge of modifying or purifying it into something that is worthwhile.

There aren't a lot of economically sustainable business models you can build around "healing the environment," however beneficial it might be. If you aren't directly producing something profitable (e.g. construction materials made from fungi) then your main path to profitability is to rely on donations of some kind (sometimes charitable donations or crowdfunding, usually grants or other legal maneuverings). Mind you, I think that has potential to be a great outcome -- tax businesses proportionally to the damage they do (banning practices we don't know how to clean up) and simultaneously fund businesses who fix it. That funding route is still pretty unpolished though, and any business pursuing that avenue is fighting a regulatory battle on top of any biotech problems.

Etc.
Retired coders to the rescue: They’re helping state agencies
I only did some reading about Flutter for web and I kept thinking "Wait ... is this the web anymore then?"

Admittedly I need to go back and check but it was confusing and worrisome.
Well that article is from 2018 and kind of overemphasises the HTML and CSS where it can.

Checkout the official [1] Flutter web demos. Even the simplest [2] example renders basically every part of the UI (including text!!) within canvas elements, which is a bit crazy to me... but yes it's still Beta, so we'll see what they can improve

[1] https://flutter.github.io/samples/#?platform=web

[2] https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/animations/#/
The term "political correctness" has been primarily a right-wing attack for decades: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-political...

If one wants to criticize the pattern of behavior without inheriting the modern usage, one has to phrase it differently. Especially in a title. So again, we're back to you believing Damore is apparently incompetent.

> If the only behavioral evidence that you

I named other things. And could name more. That you're down to willfully missing points makes me think we're just about done here.

Similarly, you trying to paint Peterson as a neutral expert is again absurd. Peterson doesn't have a big Youtube following because of his psychological research. He has it because he's a right-wing bloviator. As is Molyneux. The two podcasts have nothing in common other than their alt-right bent, so yes, that's the correct salient characteristic.

> Honest question, can you point to a right-wing perspective that, in your view, rises above the level of "concern trolling"?

It's hard in the US, as the US right has been undergoing a full intellectual collapse, as demonstrated by their lining up behind a guy who publicly muses about injecting bleach. The kind of conservatism I'm most comfortable with is of the small-business-oriented, Rockefeller-Republican sort, now basically extinct. I frequently appreciate the principled stand of Amash, even though I disagree with the bulk of his actual positions. I regularly see pieces in American Conservative that are sensible and well-reasoned, although I often don't end up agreeing. And I'm a big fan of being conservative in the sense used in engineering or accountancy, but again, being prudent, modest, and careful are anathema to most of the US right these days. And there's more, but hopefully that will satisfy.
It's a common error, but I don't know if it's most in my experience. I've seen plenty of people fully understand the problem (for some value of fully understand) and insist it doesn't matter whether or not you switch.
Was the challenge of pulling the teams up to speed efficient? Was it worth all the communication overhead and training for the benefits Linux has over Windows? What are those benefits anyways?
Neat site, but is this really necessary? I switched to digital-only PDFs (edit online & slap in image of signature) a long time ago, without doing any obfuscation to make them look "real", and I've never gotten any pushback from the various government agencies, banks, insurance companies etc that insist on signed & scanned forms.
There are still a few Gopher and Finger services on the Internet.

* Gopher: https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A70+gopher

* Finger: https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Afingerd
Exactly.

A lot of programmers, or programming enthusiasts, thumb their nose at IT staff who naturally push back on stuff like this. In their mind, to play devil's advocate, they're seeing IT as unnecessarily burdensome, and getting in the way of automation.

The IT staff are probably naturally welcoming to the general idea of automation. However, to elevate something up from an off the cuff script that's described as "depraved" to the level of an actual business tool that can be relied upon, is a HUGE time and money sink. Validation is a very complex problem as you have described. This is the difference between consumer and enterprise hardware. If business management isn't setting this as a priority for IT, and if IT is already overwhelmed with the "known" quantities of work, then it just isn't practical to officially adopt.

I see it like this: It takes 1 "effort point" for a data entry staffer to manually enter the information tediously. It takes 10 effort points for the same staffer to write the AHK script to automate it. (Good for the staffer, assuming there's no flaws, and their reward is a longer lunch break.) To truly validate an automation as a business tool would take something on the scale of 150 to 200 effort points and involve lots of conversation - assuming there even is a framework for new tool validation established that can be used. IT knew this and made the right call. If company management wants to adopt a new tool without research and validation, that can be reckless.
That was exactly what I was considering at the start of the year. Every post is just a markdown file, easy to maintain, configure, and upload. If this is what you are intending to go for, do it! Supporting you from wherever I am. Here's my site for reference, hope it gives you an idea to go about this! (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/

Here's another for my posts:
https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-03-24-how-to-improve-...
Makes sense. I recollect some of the postmortem reports I read where live config changes triggered cascading outages.
Finally! Orgmode is a viable option for today’s connected world. I love orgmode but couldn’t ever fully get behind it due to it being largely tied to the desktop. We manage our lives much more on phone and your offering allows that. Thank you thank you thank you!
> The reason for this is quantum mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation

This is incorrect. You dont need QM to formulate, derive or use the LAP. This makes even less sense in the context of the book.
The mac related lib and docs are still ComingSoonTM
A bit tangent but I've come the same conclusion listening to Supreme Court oral arguments, most of them are based on contradicting definitions of certain words or expressions.
I think I saw this on a tv show recently (maybe catalyst on the ABC). They said it was a $1000 loaf, given how much effort went into getting the grain.
Great In Our Time episode about Fungi: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09r3nwl
> As for the product/engineering/design, it's well known that Apple is pretty lean on these sorts of things and often has far smaller teams than outsiders expect. I could see this easily being no more than a team of 5 at this point, maybe less.

You are wrong by several orders of magnitude.
I'd be fine with that. Even 30% reduction in pay would still be much better in an affordable city like Chicago or Houston.
Indeed! This is a great example of where government regulation can actually promote a healthy marketplace.
I’d love to spend some time living in a serviced apartment with meals included.

Or something similar to a retirement village or university student accommodation, or be able to afford a staff of servants. You get the idea anyway.
What is there to debate? As the person you responded to explained, people don't want to pay $10 for a roll of toilet paper because people can buy one for $0.50. People don't pay a janitor or cook $200 per hour because people can buy one at $15 per hour.

If UBI existed and no one "had" to work, then people would probably have to pay a janitor or a cook $200 per hour.
Most retail stores aren’t known for inflating prices while adding marginal convenience. They add a service to me and many. The relationship is more symbiotic than parasitic, as I see it.

Looking at this recursively I don’t need the restaurants’ price breakdown, but I think I want to know what the restaurant gets from me if I buy direct vs when we use these services.

Same with Uber vs a regular taxi. I want to know their vigorish.

Same with hospitals and doctors. I want to know if I’ll be paying $100 for a Tylenol when I can go down to their own pharmacy and get one for pennies.
I think the content Fox News produces is so much lower quality than other sources that there just isn’t any reason to post a story from them.
Meaning of what?
One reaction to that statement might be "so be it."

I did not, however, come here to defend the idea that consciousness is an algorithm. Personally, I consider it rather more plausible that a computer plus a random number generator might achieve consciousness through simulating the sorts of physical processes that occur in a brain, and if it is a 'true' random number generator, rather than a deterministic PRNG, then we are no longer talking about math, at least in the sense that you use to conclude Platonism.

One might respond by saying that if the universe is deterministic, then there is no such thing as a 'true' random number generator, as distinct from a PRNG. My understanding of the philosophical implications of QM, and its competing interpretations, is insufficient for me to be sure whether the universe as we experience it is deterministic, but regardless of whether it is or is not, I suspect that the true hard problem of consciousness is 'why do we (feel that we) have free will?'
Agreed. You can't just dump money into citizens' pockets with no expectation of return. Giving an engine gas doesn't make the engine more efficient at using the gas, it just let's us get to the next mechanic. And that's what we need, good mechanics. So how do we spend our money, buying enough gas to get part way to our goal, or spend the money on the mechanics to make our engine efficient enough so we can get to our goal with less gas than we need?
Is there any virtue in these third party services, or is concealing their fees allowing them to extract significantly more value than they would otherwise be able to in an honest marketplace?
Not the author/no affiliation— just thought it was pretty cool.
Slight tangent, but some of the cool tools noted in the comments remind me of some of the amazing things put out by Netflix engineering in recent years, like Vizceral^1 and Flux^2.

1. https://github.com/Netflix/vizceral/wiki

2. https://link.medium.com/LY2vw4Rsr6

(Sorry about the Medium.com link; all I could grab on the spot on phone)
I think it’s actually the fact that ‘roles‘ have generally been established once a couple has been together for a while, and when the couple is together in this case they are in execute-the-plan mode.

When it’s just one half of the couple, theres a realization that they have to fill both roles. The mental scavenging required to prioritize/sequence/execute a blend of familiar and unfamiliar actions is going to perturb brain activity.
It's a direct Lightroom competitor.
This seems like such a weird law. Cool for supply chain transparency and all but it feels super political to target delivery apps when literally everyone does commissions for sales.

Customers should also be confused that…

* Paying $1.99 for an app doesn’t mean the developer receives $1.99.

* Buying a product on Amazon when your browser has a referral cookie means the full cost doesn’t go to the seller.

* Buying a pack of Oreos at Walmart doesn’t mean that Nabisco gets $3.

* Paying $17 to see a movie doesn’t mean the theater gets all of it.

* Buying a game on Steam…

* Buying a flight on a Travelocity…

* Getting a hotel through hotels.com

* Renting an AirBnB…

Like this list could almost literally go on forever.
Accreditation is weird. I lived with some engineers at university and they had a huge range of interesting courses they could choose. In physics we had mostly core modules and a smattering of electives.

I asked whether they could take the courses they liked (eg mix a bit of civil, mechanical and electrical) and they said in theory they could, in practice nobody does because your degree wouldn't be accredited. And no accredited degree, no job in engineering. I think for civil it made a bigger difference than the others.

I always thought that was quite sad, since the mathematicians did whatever the hell they wanted between maths, engineering, CS and physics and still ended up with a maths degree.
1 hour doesn't get you that far in terms of home prices in SF/NYC
That was a number of years ago. There's been a lot more investment in tools and practices for a WFH situation since then
I was delighted when I saw that Gemini is maintained by someone on SDF (named Solderpunk, never heard of him before). This seems as good a time as any to plug https://sdf.org, a great little community which has the feel of a 90s BBS that never went offline.
The FAANGs are not likely to pay HCOL compensation to LCOL employees.

The employee's local cost-of-living will factor into the comp.
This is misinformed.

React scripts native widgets, not HTML.
There are a lot of Gopher ones! Reports of the death of Gopher have been (mostly) exaggerated; it's probably got more users now than it did at its peak.
Pro Tools has brand recognition amongst non audio engineers and inertia of older engineers who can't be bothered to switch, but no-one actually likes it. Nuendo, Sequoia and SADiE are the Serious Professional options, while Reaper enjoys a growing cult following.
Thanks for thinking it's more important for citizens to get free cash instead of job-creators, seems like a good time to buy a new gun.
My thought: Author pretends inequality wasn't a problem, paints UBI as connected to covid as a response. Has no comprehension of cascading feedback. Im not sure what the true solution is but UBI is the closest and best attempt, the virus has only accelerated the trajectory of the systematics at hand. UBI unlike other wellfare commodifies any instance and also puts pressure to generate more capital(it's a growth based economic mechanism rather than degrowth). Empowerment may be a side effect that people are banking on and not even comprehending how it may be beneficial to the ahuman sustainment of the market at this point.
If anyone is interested in learning more about the various trade-offs considered during its initial design, I gave a talk¹ about it in 2017, and wrote about some internal implementation details in a blog post².

[1] https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/talks/2017/githubql/githubql.sl...

[2] https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/blog/25
I mean you could also you know live in the Mediterranean...
In theory, that is. Since it doesn't include batteries, the controller, the wheels, or the antenna you're gonna end up bringing a ton of dependencies yourself to cover the missing parts (animation, state management, routing etc). Plus you're not seeing the dev dependencies, a more apt comparison would be to create-react-app.
Aside from update frequency you wouldn't, users can't tell the difference if it's done well. Are we not talking about "the state of software development"?
Unless you are referring to another issue, using `expo build:android` will create an apk file so you don't have to rely on staying up to date with the Expo app.
The site isn't at www.sdf.org for the record, it's just at sdf.org. There's a big difference in what you'll find!
yes, your skills did loose monetary value. That's because it costs X less to hire in that location. The reason people are will to accept X less is because there's a lower COL.

But, the crucial thing to remember is that people's calculation of ROI of compensation to COL is way off. And so they're being under compensated in places like the bay area relative to other areas. Bay area is 50% more than the rest of the country but the COL is x4 to x8 (heck even day care is x4 more in SF than houston).

i've posted this before:
https://skilldime.com/blog/see-which-cities-pay-the-highest-...

As you can see, you're way better off anywhere outside the bay area even if the salaries are less.
I guess that's why you have multiple slack channels instead of one. You're trying to justify paying someone over 100 grand a year to be a worse form of communication than the software you're already paying for to communicate.
> Is there any virtue in these third party services

If not, why do you think anyone uses them?
Restaurants pay expensive rent, then pay their employees extra to pay expensive rents too (sometimes in the form of a higher minimum wage).

To help with this+, big US cities have for the past several decades set about making building competitive housing stock more expensive. Because some hope to escape this through a commute, these cities have also been spending more and more money than ever to build increasingly less-effective transit systems!

(+ To help make it worse)

Some cities have mandatory health coverage too, and some restaurants cover that without a mandate, but the increasing cost of health care is a snafu that goes all the way up to the federal level, and discussing that will be far less productive.
I'm definitely supporting you on this idea! I've learnt so much through "Learn as you teach" methodology. Do share your site once you have started it (:

Oh and personally, as a way to learn my frontend development skill, I also created my blog from scratch through a frontend framework! You can consider that as well
Hehe, of course you're right! To be a responsible internet user...