skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with this. I think the best engineers are the ones with both a strong "feel", but also a keen ability to introspect, explain, and justify their instinct. The other key ingredient is knowing when to let your intuition run wild, and when to apply it like a seasoning.

On your side note: I also agree here, though the problem may be intractable, since really good managers are not always accustomed to explaining whence their intuition comes.
"Critique" can mean lots of things ;). In this case it was written for a newspaper / magazine so for a popular audience.
Do you use the phone? We have a dial phone from the 60s-80s that's still hooked up in the living room and rings (I don't know how old it is, but it works perfectly). Very handy when the cordless phone gets left in the basement. I can't say that it gets used much, except during power outages. My folks still use the landline phone quite a lot, and so do I sometimes (poor cell reception in the house).
You're saying that there aren't any honest competent capitalists and that in order to be a "competent capitalist", one must be a crook.

You can't conceive of a world where good people can run companies honestly. The only way they'd accept money to run a company is if they're allowed to get away with committing crimes.

I don't even know how to respond this one.
>>[...] as have New York State schools

The NYC Department of Education (DOE), one of the largest in the nation, banned Zoom in April but "following several weeks of collaboration with the company, [NYC DOE is] now able to offer Zoom as a safe, secure platform for use across the DOE" as per a letter Chancellor Carranza wrote on May 6th, 2020.[1]

Public school teachers tried other video conferencing solutions but, for better or for worse, Zoom's UX was always easier to use or less janky than other paid or opensource offerings at scale -- and that's saying something because Zoom's UX isn't what any of us might call super smooth.

[1] https://connectdocs.blackboard.com/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-13091...
Beautiful Cellular Automata Rulesets Generated with Golang
Payment processing and hosting aren't treated like phone companies; they're allowed to be discriminatory in who they do business with.

Is there a valid reason for that? No.
Is the end result of there being no law forcing financial and manufacturers of modern printing presses like those to do business with everyone a threat to the First Amendment? Absolutely, and I'd argue the state has a compelling interest here to force them.

Until that changes, "just build your own platform" isn't helpful.
It actually benefits you to have a doctor in the family who is there navigating and talking to the doctors. The doctors are more receptive to each other and listen carefully. Otherwise you are just a number. And the doctors won't try so hard on patients who really don't have any understanding of medicine in the first place.
I have a plugin for chrome called FB Purity that removes all the embedded ads, and also strictly list the feed in chronological order.
1. A director looks more like an employee post-AB5, so it could be employment discrimination in California.

2. Independent contractors are protected against some race-based mistreatment in California.

3. The Unruh Act prohibits California businesses from race discrimination in offering “advantages” and “privileges” to non employees.

4. The next employee fired will have a much better case that their employment was terminated based on race — as Reddit openly does make decisions based on race.

Granted, there are responses to all of these. Maybe even constitutional defenses. Maybe they’ll argue some other state’s laws apply, but all US states have pretty broad non discrimination laws — for a reason.
I have been feeling the same way as you. I excelled working at Amazon and a few other companies for a decade, but I decided that the nature of the work just wasn't for me anymore.

I felt like I was building systems that would fundamentally make everyone's lives worse, and at the request of reprehensible executives who can't justify their behavior. I couldn't help but see the bloated disaster of whatever organization I was in, how most of our problems came from lack of communication and a few people's personal agenda, and pitied us all that we had to spend our days in a chattering, dimly-lit concrete box hunched over our screens.

When you learn programming, it feels like it gives you incredible agency. That, I think, is the reason that many people take up jobs with computers. The parallels to wizards, dark magic, and alchemy present in classic programming texts like SICP is no accident, with programming you really do create something from nothing!

The issue is that it gives people /too much/ agency, more so than any medium-sized business has any intention of giving to a mere employee. Many popular websites could be programmed and maintained by a very small group of people, but it is in the business's best interest to split the work into many microservices such that the loss of any one employee doesn't even slow team velocity. Scrum isn't a way of estimating projects, it is a regime for developing a 100% replaceable workforce.

On the other hand, the agency you feel when programming is actually very ephemeral and abstract. Most code at a tech company of any size is lucky to exist for more than a few years. And while you are physically programming, you are really a human ape checked out at a computer screen frying your brain on meaningless puzzles.

Now this isn't so dire--in fact it is no worse than what the rest of the workforce has to put up with, other than the fact that for some reason at this job people are supposed to have some internal "passion for building". So I assessed how I wanted to actually spend my days, took my poorly-managed 401k and savings and picked up a retail job. I'm ramen-retired, meet new people all day and help them figure out what they want. I haven't had to debug Kubernetes for months! I might not get paid like I used to, but I feel better than I have in years.

I'm sure that other people have better ways of coping with tech than I did, and I don't really feel any ill-will to those in the industry, I mostly just don't understand how they do it.
considering that the latest OSX is x86-64 and AVX2 only, that stuff is patented for decades to come, and its pretty much absolutely 100% Guaranteed that Intel/AMD will not give Apple a license, for any amount of money Apple would be willing to pay.
There's an on-going debate on the correct terminology to use, see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology)#Term...
Doctors don't randomly perform surgery or prescribe medication to people on the street though (largely based on the colour of their skin), at least not very often.
> When Alex finally gets home, he takes his scrubs off outside our front door and stuffs them into a plastic bag that he ties off tightly. He takes his hospital clogs off and leaves them outside, along with his backpack and coat.

Why do doctors and nurses walk around outside in their hospital scrubs? It was unsanitary even before COVID and I just don't get it. How hard can it be to change into street clothes before leaving the hospital?

I see nurses and doctors in scrubs on public transit, in coffee shops, cafeterias... they are either taking whatever illnesses were in the hospital outside, or taking the dirt and grime of the outside world into the hospital. It's baffling that this behavior is so normalized that it's described as heroic in TFA.
Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing the code. What makes you open source it?
Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020, Bjarne Stroustrup [pdf]
The benefit is being able to keep your existing maven/npm/pip workflows as well as use the same workflow for both internal and public dependencies.
Oh please, that's the least charitable interpretation possible of what I wrote.

So, just in case you actually mean what you say, what I'm getting at:

if your colleagues have a certain conduct, you follow suite. It's human nature. That doesn't mean every police officer, black or other other ethnicity is inherently racist. But they as a group act according to a pattern. A Blue pattern. You watch out for your own, no matter race or creed. I hope that cleared things up.
Brings me back to coding for the ARM7TDMI on the Gameboy Advance - it supported both 16-bit THUMB[0] and the standard 32-bit instruction sets, and you would switch modes at runtime. Fun times. This does seem more annoying, though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb
Tldr artistic writing like that? And then miss out all the details? Cruel.
I work mostly with RGB/Thermal, if that counts. My PhD was in stereo/lidar fusion, so I've always been into mixing sensors :)

I've also done some work on satellite imaging which is 13-band (Sentinel 2). Lots of people in ecology use the Parrot Sequoia which is four-band multispectral. There really isn't much published work in ML beyond RGB, which I find interesting - yes there's RGB-D and LIDAR but it's mostly for driving applications. Part of the reason I'm so familiar with the yolo codebases is that I've had to modify them a lot to work with non-standard data. There's nothing that stops you from using n-channel images, but you will almost certainly have to hack every off the shelf solution to make it work. RGB and 8-bit is almost always hard coded, augmentation also often fails with non RGB data (albumentations is good though). A bigger issue is there's a massive lack of good labelled datasets for non rgb imagery.

On the plus side, in a landscape where everyone is fighting over COCO, there is still a lot of low hanging fruit to pick I think.

I've not done any hyperspectral, very hard to (a) get labelled data (there's AVIRIS and EO-1/Hyperion maybe) (b) it's very hard to label, the images are enormous and (c) the cameras are stupid expensive.

By the way, even satellite imaging ML applications tend to overwhelmingly use just the RGB channels and not the full extent of the data.
How can that be? At the time the money is paid, nobody knows what the recipient will use it for. So how can anyone be taking any specific material stuff "out" of the economy? Apple doesn't pay dividends in, say, eggplants. If you buy some with your dividend, they haven't been taken out of the economy any more than anything that's consumed.
China has "social markets", but this really just means capitalism with a communist party oversite. They allow billionaires and will soon have more of them than the US.
Matthias Wandel's channel is a true YouTube goldmine. My favorites of his are the DIY woodworking machinery videos, featuring things like making a table saw from scratch, without a table saw.

https://youtu.be/RBucMKhrL8M
It's obviously because:

a) it's intensely political and thus soon becomes tribal, whether or not a person is in a tribe or making a tribal point

b) they may have the view that "the conditions Black people face, especially in America", which we are all going to conclude that you mean institutional racism, is not correct and thus not something they will put their time into

Thus, it is too much trouble for them to get involved in and not something they believe is worth their time. I can even imagine attracting opprobrium for this comment, which is ironic.

So, as with all such things, try not to daemonise your opponents (send to the background to eventually die?:) and allow people to disagree. Take people's points as if they are sincerely made and without malice, accept that they may have a point. Even your question implies that people are making choices based on an irrational or ignorant bias. Cut it out and you may make inroads, which would be a good thing, right?

In short, apply the principle of charity[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Exactly what I thought. Custom made administrative apps are the ideal use case for a pwa. Maybe performance and battery usage could be slightly improved by going native, but for some text based apps the benefits of pwa in terms of portability should make it a no brainer.
Pocket Casts has been removed from the Chinese App store by Apple
The main powers that a board exercises are hiring and firing the CEO and approving/vetoing acquisitions.
I would say the rich getting richer allows the people who the politicians want to suck up to escape from most of the problems in the country, and therefore allows them to haggle with politics and policies instead of really focus on pressing issues. Easy fix would be to limit how much wealth you can amass. Who really needs more than $50million?
I only said that it is safer to assume surveillance. I didn't say it was more fair or more "defensible" or whatever. In reply you've offered "default assumptions" and "burdens of proof" and "theology". Whom do you attempt to convince with this [EDIT:] sophistry?

Oh and nice job implying that Chinese dissidents have the duty of "proving" to the world that the Chinese government surveils them. Snowden is not a dissident, he is a whistleblower. Also, in general, telling people who suffer that they ought to educate the rest of us about the particular details of their suffering is not cool.
Since you were looking for the UK version, did you try (no quotes) "Hisense uk" ?
Here's an example where the results seem to imply that I can "Chromecast to my Roku". https://i.imgur.com/hVHKAKW.png

In reality, Roku uses a similar and half-compatible implementation of the Chromecast standard, but it isn't supported in all the same places you can Chromecast, and you'll frequently experience hiccups like the Roku only streaming in SD or 720p instead of 1080p or 4k.

This is partially the fault of the site sharing this information, as they're not presenting this in the most clear way either. However, when Google chooses to try to automatically answer my question, they become responsible for that answer, and when that answer is misleading, it annoys me.
Yeah, the odds of death if you have to be put on a ventilator is 88%. It is similar to CPR, in that it works but statistically has a very low chance of success since it is only administered once the situation has deteriorated to near certain death.
Activists seize “autonomous zone” in Seattle
That there are many truths, but plenty of falsities too.
Even my 1982 Datsun truck with a 1.6 L engine could (barely) hold 60 uphill.

I suppose your Jeep is somewhat heavier, but that still doesn't sound right.
The majority of shaping/policing happens on layers below layer 7 - most of the shapers will be working as before. Also since most of the modern web traffic is TLS encrypted, your ISP already can’t spy on you - unless they are doing some kind of a TLS proxy, which is trivial to notice.
at some point I was able to do this via tex->dvi->postscript->pdf conversion - basically getting the font installed in ghostscript let me use it directly from graphviz when rendering to eps and installing the font into the tex/postscript machinery let me also reference the same font.

granted, this was not fun, and also now 'modern' tex (not sure about graphviz) will use fontconfig on linux which may require different machinations.

so obviously your point on 'better integration' still stands unless I'm just out of date on how to do it..
it's for homelab. most of stuff we do at homelab is the stuff we tend not to use on production :D
Hey if you are starting with Android development, take a look at http://flutter.dev
> I feel like the good faith presumption for this company

When you place faith in a dictator, like the CCP, this is always the result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
This reminded me a Fresh Air interview with singer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger where Terry Gross interprets the sentiment in one of his songs as an expression of his self-identity:

> GROSS: That's from the first Fountains of Wayne CD. Do you think Robert Christgau was onto something? Do you think of yourselves as former shy guys who didn't get the girl?

> ...

> SCHLESINGER: [...] But at the same time, you know, people, especially in America - I think more so even than in Europe - assume that any voice that you have in a song is you confessing, you know, your inner thoughts. And the idea of writing from, like, the perspective of a character or something is a little bit confusing to people.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826654716/fresh-air-remembers...
haha, sorry. I deleted that line. Now it sounds like there was some seafood angle in my first draft.
You don't have to use a hosting service; you can purchase servers by yourself and run your own datacenter without ever involving a third party.

Payment processors are not required; you can accept physical checks or digital currency such as Bitcoin without involving a third party processor. A bank isn't allowed to close your account unless you do something illegal, so aren't you safe there?

Modern day conveniences like AWS and Stripe are just that - conveniences. You can do what they do on your own. If you manage to find enough paying customers, then there is nothing stopping you from becoming your own manufacturer or payment processor. If you cannot find enough paying customers (in the form of subscriptions or donations), then arguably there is no reason for you to exist anyways.
Yes, my personal blog is written with zola: https://cetra3.github.io/.

Source code to the blog is on github: https://github.com/cetra3/cetra3.github.io

I haven't had a need to customise zola itself, as the template language it uses (tera) is quite usable with macros etc...
OK - I was wondering if there was anything substantial here, but so far it just seems to be further examples of the overblown rhetoric that seems to be everywhere these days.

Personally, I would doubt whether many of the people endorsing the position that black lives matter are even aware that an entity controlling this domain name is stating these positions, let alone that they concur with all of them.
Master/slave, OK, let's revisit those terms.

But this is a totally different context.

Should we rename a master's degree now? How about achieving mastery, is that now a loaded term?
Yeah more university/grant administration of the current sort is not the right way to go. They have too much power already.

Established elder scientists with little bias and little incentive to corrupt the country education/science system should be in charge, not administrative pencil pushers. Maybe hire some outsiders and set up some kind of independent commission of renowned scientists and budget planning/audit people to maintain oversight of the supported science groups.

But lack of money isn't really part of the problem, there is lot of money there and it often goes to waste. Putting in more isn't the solution - it would just amplify the current situation.

The fact there is competition for money isn't a bad thing. In theory it keeps people engaged and working efficiently. The problem with the current competition is that people are judged by their willingness to play ball, by flawed citation metrics, publicity, imaginary department points and relationships. Not by their originality and weight of their scientific contribution.
BHP to destroy at least 40 Aboriginal sites, up to 15K years old, to expand mine
My White Friend Asked Me to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest
Show HN: Tummy – Tmuxfile with your tmux configuration to easily manage sessions
Ok thanks for explaining
Crunching Content: The Development of Microdose
I've worked for 10 years for a prominent Open Source company. Prior to that, I worked 8 years for a big data company and prior to that 12 years for a company that wrote banking software.

I can say with no reservations that Open Source is chock full of very smart people, many who love programming for the love of programming. (There are some who are in it for the money, or who go about it from a commercial angle. They can be strong contributors, too.) I'd highly recommend looking at ways to earn a living in Open Source, if passion for programming is what motivates you.

Good Luck!
This happens with AWS, which I find just incredible. It'll silently accept a password when changing, but fail when you try to log in.

I think in that case it might a matter of length, rather than symbols, but I've never put in the effort to pin down the problem exactly, now that my password manager settings work.
It's actually not easy; not every place has facilities for that. Wife is a nurse, and we went through this discussion of the best process when she was an ICU nurse during the Ebola scare five years ago.

Remember too, sometimes folks are on the way to work in their scrubs, not necessarily leaving work.
Certainly we lack (to the best of my knowledge) a rigorous model or definition for terms such as "conscious" and "qualia". That doesn't tell us anything about whether introspection or consciousness is necessary or not, just that our understanding is lacking.

The fact that humans seem to have it doesn't say anything about it's necessity (or lack thereof). It only speaks to it's presence in our particular case.

I would challenge your assertion that "qualia is not simply a state". In the absence of a rigorous model how are you backing such a claim? Similarly, how are you justifying your assertion that human behavior could be simulated without introspection or consciousness? For that matter, how could anyone justify a claim to the contrary?

It seems to me that (at present) we simply lack the knowledge to meaningfully reason about generalizations such as introspection or consciousness being necessary or not.

As to why the author brings qualia in to it - my guess would simply be "because humans seem to have it". Sure, you could write about bi-level loss functions from a purely mathematical standpoint. The point (IMO) is to tie that mathematical model back to a concrete example in the real world in order to draw inspiration for the design of more capable RL algorithms.

It occurs to me that you might be interested in this recent essay on the topic. (https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...)
If they can turn the knob, why wouldn’t they? This stuff isn’t admissible in court, and you can sweep for potential matches to follow up on.

If the default is 80, most will be 80. The SE may say “I’m told to inform you that you should use 99.”, but I’m sure he is winking.
He should hang on to it until Top Gun 2 arrives. Could be money-making schemes will become available then.
It’s frustrating to not see more system package management (deb, rpm) from these new services (github and gitlab for instance).

Are others not packaging their code in intermediate packages before packing them into containers?
> you're doing the same task cheaper/faster

Move fast and break lives.
Looks like it needs a better configuration language.
Very nice.

Woodworking has been a hobby of mine off and on my entire adult life. Two things stand out as having a big impact on woodworking in the past 15 years or so, related to this post:

1) The large-scale adoption of Sketchup as a drafting/designing tool. If you go to any woodworking forum you'll find lots of people talking about it, and it has raised the skill level of a lot of people who are new to woodworking considerably, just by making it a "computer friendly" hobby and making more complex designs possible for people without a high amount of basic knowledge.

2) The social aspect of the internet generally, results in a lot of knowledge about paints, finishes, equipment, and methods being shared. Before the internet, fine woodworking was still something that could only feasibly be learned by apprenticeship. These days, you see people buying historic homes that need a lot of work, for example, and "just figuring it out."

PS: for anyone else who might try playing with wood, the answer to how close your measurements should be to make mortises fit JUST right is 5 thousandths ;).
> people learn stuff even faster

I agree with the faster part but these snippets Google shows often times lacks context and other miscellaneous information along with deep links to many other great articles.