skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A job doing what?

Imagine automation doing all of the basic things. And most of the others.

Imagine you can only have 2% of the population employed doing the remaining jobs.

Are you saying only 2% of the population deserves Netflix? Or air travel?
On the topic of the "theory" (mental model) of a program, I recommend John Ousterhout's book "A Philosophy of Software Design". You get such gems as:

"... the greatest limitation in writing software is our ability to understand the systems we are creating."

"Complexity manifests itself in three general ways... change amplification, cognitive load, and unknown unknowns."

"Complexity is caused by two things: dependencies and obscurity."

"Obscurity occurs when important information is not obvious."

"The goal of modular design is to minimize the dependencies between modules."
Except that there is no standard of a "scientific notebook". It's not a form one fills out. It is notes taken during experimentation. Data analysis generally takes place outside of a scientific notebook, which simply contains raw data and observations, the completeness of which is up to the experimenter. Notebooks contain proprietary, private data, owned by the organization overseeing the research. They have no incentive to publish their "unpublished" results that have been expensive to produce.
There is no easy solution.

A lot of people like to treat "science" as this unassailable "truth", but science is political. It is subject to bias and it is corruptible. Results are skewed; inconsistent results are discarded. "Science" is incentivized to produce results consistent with the desire of those who finance it. This is not a "China" problem by any stretch.
Even something as small as switching to a new (crappier) 401(k) custodian can be seen as a demotivating compensation cut. Yay, we saved $5 per employee, but lost two key contributors who were finally fed up. Probably not a good trade-off.

EDIT: One of the classic texts on this is Steve Blank's "The Elves Leave Middle Earth" [1] which describes how small seemingly innocuous benefits reductions can serve as a "wake up call" for content employees who never really thought about looking around for a new job.

1: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
The way con men are successful is usually not by directly convincing people that their scam is legit -- but instead they convince the person that they are trustworthy. Once they're seen as trustworthy, human brains tend to overlook facts, even obvious ones. Confidence scams work on a similar abuse of trust that April Fools jokes do... except they're a lot less funny.
Read another way: neighborhoods are getting investment and safer.
Thanks, the link on that page wouldn't do anything for me.
If you click on past, just below the submissions title on this page, it will bring up all past submissions with the same title.
Thanks for following up. I have been watching it as well.
> And what are the long term consequences of even the perception of such behavior?

With the amount of gaslighting and misinformation being spread by people ranging from useful idiots to straight out antisemitittes and disintegrationists I think the behaviour of the federal reserve is not the biggest problem here and I would suggest you educate yourself to understand the problem before falling for some ragebate.

No debt is being forgiven, similar practices are being taken all over the world, in Germany their concern was that they could not do this fast enough to keep the economy from collapsing.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-banks-...

> “Flooding the market with money is not enough. You need the credit demand, and you can only have credit demand if you can hand out the money,” she said.
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The article talks about addiction, but doesn't talk about withdrawal. Is "dopamine withdrawal" a thing in medical science?
Sure thing!

For the GIN-ε (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.00826.pdf), for example, the authors report a classification accuracy of 75.9±3.8 on the PROTEINS data set (classical graph benchmark data set). If you run it with a cross-validation setup that is repeated to account for effects of chance, performance drops to 73.1±0.7.

Notice the drop—the second accuracy value is at least within the standard deviation of the first one, but you can see that a different experimental setup shrinks the gains quite a lot...

Same goes for different data sets. Since the gains are not super large for most papers, these changes matter a lot. But of course, the paper is now published, so no one is going to go back and change it.

FWIW: I like the GIN paper and think the authors did a good job. It's just that their experimental setup is insufficiently thorough for the data sets they are considering, thus leading to overoptimistic estimates. This is a problem because the next 'state of the art' paper has to find a way to get a slightly higher mean accuracy, at the expense of an even larger standard deviation, etc.
"but fuck you if your parents had good jobs but not enough for a trust fund at no fault of your own"
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The obvious alternative is to let bond yields go up, making them an attractive investment relative to stocks - as they should be in a recession.
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I would do this except I would lose my $12,000 a semester in scholarship from my university. Most scholarships do seem to require continuous enrollment.

Also, students with deferred loans would need to begin paying those back.
Jeez, the timeshare industry is infamous for overpromising and not having the best properties or security for your 'investment' but not even having glossy brochures and maps to show customers giving out buying signals is really low effort for $15k
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It's not unheard of for creditors to get a seat on the board when a company is in trouble.
Supposedly the fed gets rewarded for that debt issuance (it’s not interest free?). the choice to provide credit line is to avoid thousands of job losses and domino’s bankruptcies. And agree with you that there should be a policy whereby before taking taxpayer money they should first temporarily hijack dividend payouts and stock buybacks to fix their balance sheet problems especially in moments of financial distress
Wow! 12", 19.5h battery, under 1kg and still got VGA and an optical drive?
Were can i buy one??
Lots of analyzing what Buffett is signaling. My bet is he had little to do with the purchase and it was more likely made and informed by Greg Abel.

Rather than nabbing a bargain, they probably thought the deal just made sense to expand their existing energy assets. In other words, the deal wasn’t good, but it wasn’t bad either. There hasn’t been much bargain buying in wide moat companies at Berkshire for the last ten years.
Excellent! You should do a "Show HN," when you are done.

What language are you using? What is your destination platform?

UPDATE: I just looked at your HN handle. Questions answered. Good show!
> Universities are entirely about the advantage of learning in person, peer groups and signalling.

As long as "learning in person" includes one-on-one time with your professors and access to a university library I agree with you 100%.

> without paying a cent

It's pretty easy to get into hot water with the university if you have any legal ties to them (e.g. by having been a student). It's common to require some fraction of ordinary tuition to sit in on classes.

> Nobody takes attendance, and if you look like a student, nobody's going to notice that you're not actually enrolled in the class.

Enough people do take attendance, or at least take a look at the roster ahead of time (in smaller classes). I had a better success rate speaking with the professor ahead of time and asking if they minded. It's also worth mentioning that not all professors are willing to put in extra one-on-one time with an unofficial student.

> nobody actually does this

Admittedly the slip of paper at the end was important to me, but I saved a little money taking some of the classes I wanted unofficially, and I wasn't the only person in my university peer group to do so. It was also a nice way to sidestep some bureaucratic prerequisite issues for classes outside my major.
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"Fracked natural gas is certainly better " ... "way less deadly air pollution"... but way more water contamination by fracking chemicals...
I've been wanting to try it for a while, but I'm just happy enough with i3 that it's hard to put in the time switching to something else. One thing I tried at one point and really liked in, IIRC, xMonad, was the idea of a "focused" window and then an LRU stack of windows behind that. I really liked that idea for the little bit that I tried it, but I found the configuration otherwise to be impossible to use (for me).
A lot of video codecs are NP hard to encode optimally, so rely on heuristics. So you could certainly say that some approaches take a lot of compute power to encode, but are much more easily decodable.
Should we be looking out for lying code? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2023...
This was incredibly fun. I just spent 10 minutes making what sounded pretty good to my ears.
Latency will become more important with video conferencing (already now) and AR/VR.
It's a recurrent theme here on HN. I've also read more and more news and stories about Bullshit jobs.
It gives me no end to pain that "Comments are lies because they aren't code" is a fad that we're currently suffering through as an industry. For decades prevailing wisdom was that comments were a net benefit, and now in the last few years this trend has become prevalent. How much perfectly-good code is going to have to be rewritten from scratch in 10 years because no one remembers what it does?
> We're going to end up with a huge amount of debt, a financial crisis, and the most deaths of any industrialized country at the end of this.

What industrialized country has a higher population than US? Do you not get how proportions work or something?

EDIT: And if you think this phenomena of central banks buying debt is somehow unique to the USA ... I mean ... the media is actively trying to prevent people from having a balanced picture of the world ... so it is not a surprise ... but yes ... you should try inform yourself of the reality. Almost every industrialized nation and non industrialised nation is doing similar things.
I think we have enough to guess with reasonable accuracy.
I assume you mean BRK. If that's the case, BRK borrows at a very cheap rate (in the case the bonds purchased, their coupon is 4%, which is kinda high for BRK).

BRK borrows for a couple of reasons, but chief among them are that sometimes it's better to write bonds (for tax reasons), than it is to use cash. At 4%, I can see that being the case.
I thin it would be better to generate every day a new random password, and publish it automatically (no wait). So no one can "hack" your memory or the system you use to generate it.
You don't seem to understand the premise. Flipping burgers is manifestly not bullshit compared to filing TPS reports. People eat burgers.

That's not to say that there's no human value to a TPS report, somewhere down the line, but we're sufficiently divorced from it that it's impossible to tell.
I don't know about that, but dopamine deficiency is certainly a thing.
IIRC a few of the Japanese megacorps are known to just move underperformers to a do-nothing role where they at least can't cause harm. They hope they'll get tired of doing nothing and quit; but even if they don't, the company just moves on—treating their future salary as a write-off expense, and hiring someone else to fulfill their original role as if they had already left.
How are Buckeye's ideas different from Fuller's? Were they contemporaries?
In network inspector you can find midi files that can be downloaded and played for example in VLC.
We can probably do a lot better, but we are on the road to making it worse.

And I know people like to talk about "wage slavery" and to a large degree, they have a point. However, we didn't call what our ancestors did "subsistence slavery". They had to work to subsist. They had to grow or forage their own food, build their own shelter, etc.

So the concept of "working to survive" is pretty much the norm and not the exception already.

And as hard as that can be, we are approaching the time when we will be past that. Where the vast majority of people won't have to work to survive. And, hooray for them, but I'm still concerned for the minority.
The problem is rather what message it sends i.e. please have a lot of risk appetite, never try to be cautious because in the good times, risk takers will outperform you and get you out of the market and in the bad times, risk takers won't have any disadvantage because FED will help them out. Unfortunately this is how it works in Europe as well. However in US at least the debt is "exported" abroad to a certain point. In Europe it's normal people's savings that will melt down to save the big corps.
So, what company do you work for? (Just asking for a friend :)
I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but this is an incredibly glib oversimplification of design. It's pretty pervasive too, especially in FOSS, which is why FOSS interfaces often suck so bad.

Not all coding is software design, and not arrangement of elements in an interface is interface design. If someone is taking an interface and making it "look nice" by removing beneficial components, then what they are doing is not design. Design is a process and a mentality, not a singular activity.

What you describe as the hard choice is merely a point (not even an extreme one) on the spectrum of what constitutes interface design. Broadly speaking, the first step, always, is to figure out what the user's goals are, to whatever extent possible. You might be able to do in-depth user research with focus groups and eye-tracking and put together user stories with A/B testing etc. etc. etc. You might only be able to do some personal research and play around with the software a bit and draw some diagrams. The second step is to figure out how you can help your users accomplish those goals most effectively through the arrangement and functionality of the on-screen elements. Without your primary concern being what the user actually needs, you're just decorating, or maybe organizing.

Reducing the amount of data on a screen isn't a end in itself. If it contributes to the user performing their task better, then great. If it inhibits it, it's the wrong choice. Any person with formal design training should be perfectly comfortable arranging a large amount of complex elements and information on a screen in a comprehensible way. See magazines, train timetables, newspapers, etc.
Exactly, that's the only thing that matters in this calculus unless Berkshire Hathaway governance forces them to add additional factors into purchases in some industries.
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I know on iOS you can just block any calls from contacts that are not in your list. It's pretty easy. My phone just won't ring. They'll be sent to voice mail instead. In my voice mail greeting, it says that I won't listen to the voice mail, and if they're trying to get in touch with me, hang up and text me.
> And agree with you that there should be a policy whereby before taking taxpayer money they should first temporarily hijack dividend payouts and stock buybacks to fix their balance sheet problems especially in moments of financial distress

No taxpayer money is being loaned out here ... so ... I mean it is good you are trying to be a voice of reason here - but the amount of misinformation and straight out propaganda in the water is astounding.
yes, they should sell equity if necessary, not expect cheap debt from the government.

shareholders especially need to feel the downsides of risky decisions too, otherwise it distorts pricing mechanisms and imbalances the proper allocation of capital across the economy.
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Your point makes sense when talking about this action by the Fed when looking at it as a standalone action, but a lot of people, including myself, might think the raised state of alarm is justified given that this is a situation where the Fed is essentially investing in/bailing out individual companies. One of the huge issues with this is that it puts the Fed in a position to be choosing winners and losers, which is very much against the idea of operating in a free market economy.
sure the engine is not descended from google code but if mozilla didnt have google's funding they would essentially go bankrupt and consequently ff would go byebye. id call that dependence.
The combination of being played on a real world map and covertly growing/spreading reminds me of Plague Inc. I wonder if any inspiration came from this.
Check with your utility though - we opted into a 100% renewable mix at a slightly higher price/kwh. Even in geographic monopolies, you can vote with your dollars if given the option.
Exactly. The disinformation campaign is staggering.
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>>What language are you using?

Java

>>What is your destination platform?

Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android
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It is not the case that Harvard is free for students whose parents make less than $65K. Read the small print.
I think the phone companies are complicit in #1. They sell a lot of phone minutes to companiess using foreign call centres that want to seamlessly spoof local calls so they choose not to change. There's no reason, for example, for call coming from a foreign country to - when received in my countries routing centres - get a local phone number in caller ID.

That should be illegal. Foreign calls, if they're really running against PSTN tech limitations (which I doubt as I thought offshore calls were all routed via internet) then they could easily create hardware to blank out offshore calls caller ID info (and preferably replace with just the international dialling code).

But then your bank would have to admit where their call centres are, and they pay more to phone companies than individual customers do.

Which comes to why there's no legislation (in UK) demanding action from local phone companies; presumably because they pay the politicians more than we do too.
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Any thoughts on applying this article to...

programming languages defined by a single portable implementation?
Second time I link to this video this month, but Sir Roger Scruton has a truly impactful message on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc

Can't find one without Portuguese subtitles, so hope that's OK
Interesting. I do imagine there are a nonzero number of systems that do revocation checking without out-of-band mechanisms, and that those would become susceptible. But all such systems are likely vulnerable to unpatched zero-days anyways, so this may not make things any worse than they already are :/
> It sounded kind of like you thought it wouldn't be possible to get interesting results which tell you something you didn't already know from ML with much better than random chance.

In general I do think this is true, but it's not verifiable. Like I said, in general I think that the priors that underlying facial structure should be strongly correlated with sexual orientation are very low. It's not impossible, just unlikely, so when you get "results", the most likely explanation is not that you've found something profound, but that you're encoding social biases. And so from the perspective of a researcher, you haven't actually accomplished your goals (of discovering something profound), you've instead committed a relatively elementary error that legitimizes certain forms of stereotyping. And again I note that my priors suggest that this is the most likely outcome.
Interesting product, seems like a nice 2D CAD/CAM package.

Is there CAD software that helps you design a 3D product out of 2D parts? It didn't seem like this would really help with that.
I had hoped my university (Brown) would follow Harvard's suit and err on the side of remote instruction this coming year. With this policy announcement, the chances of that dwindle.

Brown had made special accommodations to allow their international students to remain in dorms over this summer. By eliminating extraneous travel, these accommodations were in the best interest of both these students and the general public. Who is served by expelling them!?
How about direct cash payments to consumers instead of involving any private enterprise.
The "Start Survey" button is only visible on mobile. On desktop, I was not able to start it. (something might be blocked by uBlock)
No clue - I was hoping for numbers myself.
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Herd immunity would require that over half of the population get the disease.[1] (Probably closer to 70% based on the virus's R0.) With an IFR of 0.5%, that would mean around 0.25-0.35% of the population has to die before we get herd immunity. No country has come close to that many deaths yet, so we shouldn't expect any of them to have herd immunity.

1. See figure 2 in this paper for a graph of the relationship between R0 and herd immunity thresholds: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-pdf/52/7/911/847338/cir...
Since we are on this forum, I'll take a bite:

Carousels need to die. Everyone hates them, no one interacts with them unless they have to. The carousel doesn't work for the user and it doesn't work for the product.

http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

https://www.dgtlnk.com/blog/website-carousel/

The plane model is nice.
Fascinating, then the component shooting game moved to 200 000 cph (which is well over 9000)
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The competition is Canadian and Russian diamonds but De Beers have waged a publicity campaign against synthetics for years, even recently launching their own line of synthetic diamonds but branding it as an inferior product.