skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea here is that employers are paying people for something because they believe it provides value, but it isn't actually providing value. In terms of "should this position exist at the company" the employer gets final say, but if my boss pays me to sit alone in a room and do nothing all day that's objectively purposeless regardless of what my boss says.

An employee's perception of a job not having purpose can have a large impact on their productivity (humans in general tend to do badly when they're expected to do tasks they see as pointless for too long). Because of this, it's in the employer's interest to either explain the value an employee provides to the company sufficiently well that the employee doesn't feel that their job is pointless. If there is no way to convince the employee of that, the employee is likely either unqualified to understand their duties or genuinely doing a job that doesn't need to be done.
> The fact that we're hearing about it at all is an indictment of the media.

We have vastly different views of the role of the media and I truly hope that your view never comes to pass.
> Because 1. of the accelerating rate of technological progress that we've seen over the last 2 million years, and 2. the deduction that preferential selection leads to economic systems that harness more energy and replicate themselves becoming more common

So, in other words, no clue, just wishing. You've seen a logarithmic rise and don't even consider that it could level off in the same fashion. The graph of technological advancement could be an arctan.

> They wouldn't need to all be under one banner.

So everyone handles their part of the sphere? And how do we decide where to go once we get it moving?

> Because we understand the physics of it. It's theoretically possible, and assuming sufficient advances in science and engineering, will become practically possible.

In theory, there is little difference between theory and practice, in practice there is a hell of a lot of difference.

Also, I'm not granting your assumptions. Why do you believe those assumptions? You've not given a reason besides that you believe that we will continue progressing at an exponential rate.

> I don't see such a requirement preventing interstellar colonization.

Then you don't understand the problems.
Neither is the malice of black hats associated in any tiniest way with anyone's skin color.

The black==bad is a fundamental feature of all humans. Black people also fear the dark and not the sun.
Why Clothes Don’t Fall Apart: Tension Transmission in Staple Yarns (2018) [pdf]
Not what the OP said. Even the US constitution recognizes that Ex post facto laws are bad and specifically prohibits their passage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_State...
There is a shortage of talent but it’s self-induced. There is no common baseline of competency. So when talent seems rare or absent what is cheaper: waiting for talent to materialize or lowering the level of acceptance.

The problem with that is that the new lower level of acceptance only provides temporary relief for the current shortage. Later developers see this new lower level of acceptance the same way prior developers saw the prior level of acceptance and thus the bar must be lowered further because the shortage rate remains unchanged.
What you say is true, but you can’t directly compare the numbers of confirmed cases today to the numbers from 3 months ago. We are currently testing 600-700k people each day. At the beginning of April we were only testing less than a quarter of that, around 125-150k people per day.

There has certainly been community spread. But the average age of a confirmed case has also dropped enormously.
Resizing Rotated Elements
Personally I avoid everything Microsoft because of the many unfixed bugs in Windows. Bing is a fine search engine specially compared to desktop search but it reminds me to much of all the weird experiences.
dicom-numpy's biggest advantage is that it combines individual slices into a single 3D numpy volume. This makes it really easy to immediately jump in to performing operations at the volume level rather than the slice level. It also performs some sanity checks for you, such as checking for missing slices or uneven slice spacing.

For me, I've also found dicom-numpy useful for returning the ijk-to-xyz affine transformation matrix, which describes how the voxels are oriented in patient coordinate space. dicom-numpy builds on top of PyDicom, so they are definitely not mutually exclusive! We use them both extensively.
> And two, you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a fuckin’ education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.

> Yah think yah so smaht? How do you like them apples?
> yesterday the US saw the most cases in a day since this started.

More positive tested cases.

They also tested more people yesterday alone than they did in any given week in April(the previous spike) while seeing a similar number of cases. The truth that no one wanted to talk about 2 months ago is that we can't reopen fully until we get a vaccine or natural herd immunity. a vaccine is likely still 6-10 months off from mass production, so if we wanna open up normally in anyway we need to go for natural herd immunity.

Or we can just stay 50% open, that works for countries where people respect the government (like most of the EU) but here in the US everyone thinks they know better, so there's no way to to enforce something like that.
200K (i.e. the half of the L5 range mentioned in GGP comment) stock over 4 years (with the total - stock, base and bonus - about 220)

>low enough to be unheard of

as i said, a couple of guys in the vicinity got similar offers too. Both are somewhat like me - mid-age and 25+ years experience. One did even take the offer, and he run away after the first year :)
> In an ideal world a trial period would ensure both the employees and employers are a fit. But that could be abused as well if it becomes the norm.

I was talking to our work HR director about this and given that US is mostly "at will" employment, either side could decide to end the employment at any time so a trial period doesn't really mean much. Secondly its hard on the employee if we let them go on short notice so we try to hire from a long term perspective.
And sometimes it's not at all the same older person who you think gets scammed.

I know some elderly folks who I thought were in pretty good shape mentally and such got pulled into one of those scams. It was the grandchild calling for money from jail type thing.

I never would have thought they would have fallen for a scam like that, they did.

You can never talk too early to older folks about this stuff. Lay down some hard and fast rules such as "Never give out info / anything to someone who calls you first, call them at a number you look up on your bank statement, or call someone directly. Call me / alternate person if someone asks your for information or money, etc."

Scammers have excuses of course but some of those rules will work.
> Aren't healthy young adults for the most part isolated to a single area sort of a decent path toward herd immunity while minimizing the death rate of Covid-19?

No, there’s no such thing. “Herd immunity by infection” is a failure endgame, not a success goal, and the people involved in in-person instructivo aren’t categorically young (especially not the instructors) or healthy, much less exclusively in the intersection of those two sets.
I don’t disagree, but I’m also glad I came across this and it was all out in the open.

I wouldn’t have believed it was this bad without seeing it myself.

This allows me to just dismiss most of it and distrust by default (I can also just ignore some writers entirely - Lorenz in this case, Kara Swisher earlier).

There are obviously still great reporters (Steven Levy, Li Yuan for some examples), but there are a lot of terrible ones that misuse their power.

In general I think people are better off not talking to the press and just writing for themselves on their own platform.
At this point I just assume that any deal that looks too good to be true probably is.

There's been a few times where I've found out after the fact that the deal really was real, but I'd rather miss out on a good deal than get scammed.
> Claims made on resume or in person?

Both. And it's not "putting every technology I've used even in passing on the resume" that bothers me. It's "I don't know how to write a loop or a function in any programming language."
The new cases aren't evenly distributed. California just saw over 11,800 new cases yesterday but New York saw a few over 500 new cases - despite having a record of 11,400 in one day at its peak two months ago. Some regions have it under control and can begin to reopen slowly.

However, I think it's pretty clear that those regions have it under control only because they've shut almost everything down. The second schools begin reopening and pupils start criss crossing the country, it'll bring the "second wave."
Harvard divides its credentials into "tiers", if you will. There are students who go through the competitive admissions process, and there's the Extension School which is basically open enrollment, even if you want to take courses for-credit. You only have to apply if you want to pursue a full Bachelors or Masters, and even then you're given the chance to prove yourself by doing good in a handful of courses.

I personally never thought I could experience Harvard before I found out that CS50 (and tons of other CS courses) could be taken for-credit and even lead to a degree.

Harvard also has online-only, non-credit programs like Harvard Business Online (formerly HBX) and HMX (Medical courses).

Harvard can, and does, strengthen its brand by opening itself to the public. There's a huge spectrum between being a totally-closed institution and being completely open enrollment.
Silicon Valley interviews are worthless. The algorithm pop-quiz is just a way for the interviewer to beat his chest about some obscure facts and demonstrate his superior knowledge to the interviewee.

Has anyone found a better process than casual conversation? I've found it effective as long as engineers and non-engineers get a chance to participate. Usually I talk about what they want, talk about what you need, talk about expectations from both parties, talk about needs, and talk about past experiences both good and bad. Once expectations are set, there's literally no opportunity for a "bad hire", because if they don't live up, it's a simple conversation to refer back to the expectations that are set and help them achieve , or worst-case, offer them severance.
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At what point does a business entity need to draw the line in ethical matters, though? We've seen recent movements at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. where employees put pressure on leadership to cease work with military, law enforcement, and surveillance bodies. Certainly there was lost revenue from there. So there is precedence in tech.

As trust in the government has withered away and civil society (along with God in the public sphere) has perished, business in America remains booming, perhaps it is time to rethink corporations as amoral capitalist rational actors, but as moral agents that must coexist within society as a whole, not just the market. So we will see more and more cases where businesses are forced to take corporate responsibility seriously, and not just perform acts of woke capitalism.
As an example, one of his time wasters is a browser extension that redirects Google search to the 8th page, making it harder for the scammers to bring up websites thru search such as the chase demo banking site. It's very amusing to watch them struggle.
WinUAE 4.4.0
Sure. Would be glad to help if I can. My email is in my GitHub profile.
In an ironic cycle, many employers also market their services and products in this fashion - over the top marketing, fake enthusiasm for the customer, over-selling features, constant talk about "community", virtue-signalling with social media posts on hot button political topics, etc, etc. To be sure, I'm not saying everyone and everything is fake, but it's interesting to just climb out to the bank, clear the clutter and just observe how the river flows.
> Either someone who's not comfortable with your comment

Someone who?
One of my favorite little things about the calculus of JIT tuning is that a faster interpreter can give you a better JIT. When the interpreter is 'good enough' more often, then you compile fewer functions. If you compile fewer functions, you can budget more resources for the ones you do, giving you better performance.

Some have taken a different tack, use no interpreter at all, and instead dump the simplest, fastest compile they possibly can on first execution.
The level of detail, thought, and painstaking effort behind creating this model is incredible. I imagine it was a fun or cathartic hobby for this person, but man when you think of what else they could have accomplished with a similar level of effort. They could be in a substantially better place financially, which probably would have been more valuable to them personally. If not, then by all means it is time well spent.

Some people would counter that money is not everything, which I mostly agree with. But it can be traded for time, in as much as you are currently trading time for money in a hateful device called a job. And everyone knows that time is both valuable and limited.

That's my opinion, I can't justify time consuming hobbies like this one.

Still, it's a beautiful work of art and the creator should be justifiably proud of it.
It may make deceleration higher but reduces the odds of hitting the inside of the car.

But that relies on passengers wearing seatbelts. This may be one of the reasons it requires changes for the US.
Never underestimate the power of poverty and desperation.
With any knowledge worker job posting, there are hundreds of perfectly qualified candidates, maybe thousands. The knowledge taught at Harvard is already disseminated. You don't learn anything different with an undergraduate degree at Harvard than you would with a degree at directional state. The difference is now you know professor X, who lets you work on his super cool project Y, then employer Z sees you did project Y with well known professor X, who wrote a letter with nothing but high praise of your intimate accomplishments on project Y and why you are therefore extremely qualified, and you get a great job.

To break the system would be to snap your fingers and will more knowledge worker jobs into existence to meet the oversupply of qualified candidates, but given our free market society and increasing disfavor of public engineering and public research, that just isn't ever going to happen. So you try and play the game as it is the best you can, and apply to schools like Harvard with faculty who can push your life forward.
Presumably they mean that contextual advertising is hard to automate, thus requires consistent marginal human effort for each marginal amount of revenue. (Not sure that's true, but it's what "scale" generally tends to mean.)

> presumably there are no advertisers (that we permit and condone) who would like to advertise terrorism related products?

How about a handgun ad (tagline: "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.")? Assuming the advertisee isn't in a oppressive regime, you can make money by selling them guns (or ammo if they already have guns), and do some minor bit of good by increasing the chances that the next terrorist is shot dead before they can kill anyone. (If they are in a oppressive regime, you've at least added one more bit of impetus toward violently overthrowing said regime, and hey, maybe they'll buy one of your guns on the black market.)

Edit: depending on the type of terrorist attack, you could probably advertise other emergency supplies like gas masks or fire extinguishers.
Dawn of the digital display age for automobiles
Are Protests Dangerous? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What
The central argument about bullshit jobs (the book) was that automation did, in fact, replace a huge number of jobs in the economy. Maybe even as many as were predicted to be lost in the worst doom and gloom scenarios. Graeber's contention is that we simply watered down the work and spread it around to more and more people.

I think that is not too unreasonable to suspect. OTOH, I find it particularly frustrating that we have so many large, structural and environmental problems that we need to solve and so much of the workforce feels that they are accomplishing absolutely nothing. Marx's alienation of labor is conceptually alive and well in today's economy. Sadly, it appears that capitalism has mis-priced the actual resource allocation - workers are complicit with low-value, low-effort jobs, and the market structure will not appropriately reward those willing to tackle "the big problems".
Long before Google Chrome development began (and to this day), Firefox code has used the term “chrome” internally to distinguish between privileged JavaScript code used in the Firefox UI and regular JavaScript from web content.
Yesterday (and the day prior) had the lowest corona deaths since late March.
This might be an over generalization, but the answer is in your question. Culturally, both places just don't respect digital as much as they love anything physical.
That's 1% of the cost of windows, for a video codec when there's already dozens of free alternatives
As long as the facts are true, it really doesn't make a difference (morally).
Ravel!

https://youtu.be/bTYUyDjVCRU
7 of the 9 providers listed are marked as 'Non-exit nodes only'. Generaly speaking, operating a non-exit Tor relay isn't going to cause any issues with the majority of providers. It's only when operating an exit relay* that things start getting more ... problematic.

*An Exit Node (User --> Tor --> Your Node --> WWW ) vs. a Non-Exit relay (User --> Tor --> Your Node --> Tor )
> There are plenty of societies that don't respect intellectual property and copyright. And those societies don't innovate at the rate as those who do.

I'm not 100% sure about this. Just look at how hard China laughs at intellectual property and copyright in general and tell me if you still think the same.

Not being burdened by expensive license fees is a competitive advantage.

But then again, also not having to care about workers right is...
He puts forward far more effort than many other "scambaiters."

He has coding streams where he makes countless tools to take up more time / capture information from scammers. He has a fake bank site he uses to capture banking details of scammers when they try to wire money to themselves from the victim's bank account (he has a relationship with bank fraud teams and law enforcement.)

He's also a talented voice actor and social engineer who can keep scammers on the phone with who they think is his bank for hours. Absolutely worth a watch on YouTube or his Twitch streams if you have a moment.
> And yet.

Well, what's happening there is not a study of phrenology at all (which posited specific regions of facial/skull structure being indicators). It's actually a very interesting thing to look at. There was a previous one that was reporting some degree of success in determining whether someone was homosexual via ML.

Here's the thing: if this turns out to have actual predictive power, then it's a subject worthy of scientific study, whether you like the outcomes and conclusions or not. Plenty of other worthy areas of endeavour (e.g. psychometric IQ research) have also revealed uncomfortable truths. If instead these things turn out to not have any legitimate research value (i.e. can't make predictions that can be experimentally verified), then we can stop looking at them, but as long as they continue to maintain a relatively consistent relationship to observable reality, they're as worthy a form of science as any other anthropological research is.

We have a choice either face this head on, include it in policies, and build our sociology around the truth, or we can put our heads in the sand to make people feel better. I for one believe that truth is far more important than feelings, and that if we had continually given higher credence to feelings the Enlightenment and most scientific progress we've had would have been far slower if it had happened at all.
It really has not at all. How can we show "permanent" issues for something less than half a year old? Anyone who's had pneumonia before knows it causes a lot of upfront damage. I had it back in University and it took a week before I could get out of bed and nearly a month before my lungs didn't feel like bricks. I was still coughing for 2~3 months after.

Today I am 100% recovered. Everything I've seen in the fear-mongering "permanent damage" news articles looks to be the same effects as any non-covid pneumonia. We won't KNOW if any of this is permanent until March 2021, but I think it's highly unlikely.

But it's important to note, permanent damage is literally impossible to determine right now. Simply not enough time has passed.
The journalists come off negatively, but honestly I'm surprised how... naive or perhaps myopic the VC people are.

Replace institutional journalism with a "github" model? Please.
Aside from this, Joanie Lemercier is an artist who creates remarkable works with generative/procedural techniques, projection mapping, plotters, virtual reality, etc. https://joanielemercier.com/gallery/
This is incredibly disingenuous comment mahaganapati. You have many responses to your initial statement, most of which explain why your simplistic comparison of Vietnam Vs USA is not valid, but you have replied to the one commenter who confirms your own opinion. I hope you read the other responses and understand why I am calling you out on this.
What about counter-terrorism products? I can totally whip up some copy for anti-virus or firewall software by referencing terrorism. It's not a direct connection, but probably strong enough.
Of all the debates and cries for LeCun's insensitivities and outrage over DeepMind's so-called "not quoting good research due to their deep racial bias", can someone comment on the scientific part? In particular, is PresGAN novel or worth quoting? Is fairness on algorithm instead of on dataset a good research direction?
Frugal Paradigm Completion [pdf]
I would argue that for the workers lowest on the totem pole, we're already in a situation not far from what you're calling slavery: people stuck in jobs they hate, with no flexibility, and the threats of crushing debt and eviction to keep them in place. Treatment of low-skill labor is already immoral under our pseudo-capitalist system; can we do better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6ikRgZBf8
What would “halt and catch fire” look like for a proof assistant? If I’m trying to prove a theorem that performs division over the reals, would it then have to mechanically prove that there cannot exist any inputs that would result in division by zero? Isn’t that then itself a theorem that I’d have to explicitly define using tactics?
It was too late even before facial recognition technology existed, because it's not like you can't apply modern tech to older video footage.
Their thoughts:

If I don't do it someone else will.

If they're dumb enough to fall for it, they deserved it.
Toward Better Storylines with Sentence-Level Language Models [pdf]