skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No prob, but if mdszy reads this I want to explicitly note that this is not meant as a caricature of their statement, I'm just trying to distill my meaning down into the most simple terms I can muster.

Alice buys a status symbol instead of donating to a charity. Bob says "Alice, stop and think about whether you care more about status symbols than charities!" Even if I agree with Bob's implicit condemnation, I can still see how Alice would feel attacked by the wording. Perhaps Bob wants Alice to feel attacked (this could be an attempt to jar Alice into recognizing her own greed), but it does Bob no good to not understand how he might be perceived by Alice. If Bob understands how he will be perceived then he will be able to craft his message in more useful ways -- ways that I would expect to be significantly friendlier on average, but which may sometimes actually be more combative. Ignorance of the perspectives of others does the message writer no good.

I also feel like I agree with your point, which is significantly more empathetic and less realpolitik than mine.
> they are reused for completely unrelated things, for example lactation and the immune system

Can you expand on this a bit more?
For anyone who liked this, enjoy

https://www.incredibox.com/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20160430185156/http://www.madeon...
If someone is looking for the referenced paper (Accelerating Large-Scale Inference with Anisotropic Vector Quantization), it can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10396

(It's also linked in the repository's docs/algorithms.md, to which there's a link at the bottom of the main page.)
I hate to be the eleventh person to say this, but it bares repeating if it gets lost: DuckDuckGo primarily uses the Bing index and search engine for most results. There isn't any set of branding that says this plainly, but that's where most results are coming from. Startpage is pretty different because it uses Google under the hood, but I definitely get different results from Google, Startpage, and DuckDuckGo with regular frequency. Whatever the secret sauce is on top matters a lot in terms of presentation. Any engine that puts in effort for a target audience will be able to acquire users.

For me, DuckDuckHack has always returned really awesome results on top of what I consider to be a fairly lackluster set of results for some searches that bing provides. If another provider wanted to step it up with extra sauce on top, I'd be more than happy to try if it makes my day to day better.
Ehhh. I don't think I'd rate Starship troopers in my top20, or even top 50 films I've seen.

Its kind of straightforward to me. So I'm not really going to defend it. Its neither high-brow nor low-brow... requires a bit of thinking but not really enough to keep my brain active the whole time.

A movie that was more-low brow (ie: Mission Impossible) would be better, as would a high-brow movie. Starship troopers kinda sits in an awkward spot as a film for me.

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I think the point that David Roth is making here however, is that we're seeing more, and more politicians make "Starship Trooper" arguments today, in 2020, to defend themselves and their actions.

Starship troopers was never a "good" or "great" film. Its more horrifying to see that the modern political discourse has leaned into Starship Troopers.

Starship Troopers was a over-the-top, almost cartoon-interpretation, of political satire. The fact that modern arguments of 2020 are looking anything like Starship Troopers is the problem.
But, this is only one kind of reproduction ineptitude. The process description/definition was not explicit enough. Either a process can or it cannot be reproduced as specified. There is no middle ground there. This is literally what a proof is. A sequence of reproducible steps.

You made an important point in considering that other causal factors can be present besides fraud in science's reproduction problems. But, it appears like this was made to suggest that fraud is not as serious of a problem as it is in the reproduction crisis.

If more emphasis is placed in the scientific community on the necessity for proofs, then fraud would stand out like a sore thumb. Until then, it can easily be masked within the lax atmosphere of (a lack of) explicit reproduction specifications.
My parents are still using the first computer I ever built, which is easily 10 years old! Power consumption on that machine is excessive, and I've been meaning to replace it, but the cost per year in excess electricity hasn't made it worth it to upgrade the machine.
It is sadly too common for people to feel vindicated and/or thrilled anytime they manage to "win" like this, akin to the so-called beggar mentality, where any material gain to oneself regardless of actual need is considered a positive.

These kinds of people like to think of themselves as smart when in reality they are just selfish.

Any action that cannot sustainably be extended to everyone else in the world should be considered suspect as to whether it's actually good.
Yes, find and its parent, the shell, but that's not why it OOMs. It OOMs because Linux uses a lot of memory for inodes and dirents and whatever it puts in slabs and then when memory pressure occurs -- when Linux must allocate in the kernel but cannot, due to limits -- it just loses its mind and instead of reclaiming it kills.
See also: tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and trinux (http://trinux.sourceforge.net/legacy/) , among others.
H-1B1 is not the visa type for the best and brightest. That visa type is EB-1.

H-1B is about skills in high demand not extraordinary ability.

Many personal friends of mine are H-1B and they would not be even considered the best or brightest in their own household.

Of course, you have to be somewhat smart to meet the basic requirements: bachelor's degree or equivalent. But that does not mean you are among the best.
Patatap is probably my absolute favorite of all time when it comes to this kind of thing: https://patatap.com/
>That has a chilling effect across the platform as creators divine what kind of content gets the sweet ad $$$.

Does YouTube replace that ad with another one that doesn't have that preference? If so, it's less of a chilling effect because then it's just advertiser preference.

Twitch has a lot of participation widgets in its UX to get eyeball attention though and that strikes me as their secret sauce for a participation economy. I don't know if other sites can do something similar and have the same effect. I feel like Twitch got big enough (and good enough) that they could do that and people would just engage. Meanwhile people watch some of those streams and don't do anything: we're pretty much non-participatory.
A 1947 short film about a future with smartphones and AR [video]
How to Attain Positive Screenplay Coverage
And for 64-bit ARM, the base page sizes are 4KiB, 16KiB, and 64KiB, with IIRC 16KiB being optional. If you want 52-bit physical addresses, you need to use 64KiB base page size, otherwise the maximum is 48-bit physical addresses; this is probably why RHEL uses 64KiB page size on 64-bit ARM.
Firefox still doesn't have ergonomic pinch-to-zoom on macOS... There are experimental flags you can use to get it mostly working, but the gestures can end up triggering navigate-back or -forwards actions.
I don't expect them to open source anything. I expect them to produce competent drivers for macOS and provide the first truly decent and performant desktop experience for an ARM SoC.
The thing is that Harvard’s actual instructor to student education is far worse than many universities like liberal arts colleges that focus on instruction. Nobel Laureates are just very hit or miss on teaching while colleges like Amherst or Reed or Davidson hire only for teaching skill. The reason you go to Harvard is for the name, and for what you get from other students — that when the next Mark Zuckerberg hires his first ten employees he’s looking to you, or when your college roommate is looking to hire a portfolio manager for his $700 million inheritance he feels that he can trust you because you did kegstands together. You’re not getting anything but the Harvard name in this model, and it’s uncomfortable for everyone involved to admit that it’s all about in-group signaling.
I believe that some (almost all?) are Software Engineers on TN visa are Engineers.
On one hand, really impressive stuff that is simply a net positive over what we had before.

On the other, there is no way for joe schmoes like me to invest in a great company like this. :(
> Nearly all jobs are necessary or they wouldn't exist.

Necessary to what end? Necessary for the survival of the individual holding the job? Perhaps, assuming they can't find any other job. Necessary for the functioning of society? Certainly not. And that is what this book is talking about. The jobs that exist - that if they disappeared - nobody would notice (or care).
Thanks for the correction. I like the idea of what Brave does, but I'm too reliant on some Firefox features (tree style tabs + containers) so I don't actually use it myself and sometimes get it a bit wrong.
It also helps you hold yourself accountable to healthy eating (if that's a goal of yours). I'm surprised how much I like Instacart delivery, and am planning to keep using it after pandemic.
Details?!
Of course the kernel isn't the OS, but it's a big chunk of it, and defines building blocks (and constraints) that the upper layers use.
Not sure where are you getting 32% from. The table on p. 15 has "Systems Analysis And Programming" at 56% of all petitions. Other computer related occupations are 10.4%

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/reports-studies/Ch...
Microsoft more than made their money back on Minecraft
If the only way to sell those goods is with aggressive, high-pressure sales pitches & environments it's a good sign nobody actually wants that product and that entire industry should be regulated away.
> I hope the concept remains post-pandemic.

not sure if post-pandemic will be a thing
Google and federated analytics: an effective tool in privacy signalling
There's Alan Cox's Fuzix which runs on 68000, Z80, and 8080 CPUs, among others.

http://www.fuzix.org
City of Seattle passes tax for local businesses based on high-earner salaries
I can't agree with this more. My parents and my in-laws have, within the last year or two, appeared to age a decade. Not in how they look, but how they behave; the things they struggle with, the things they obsess over, the logic they miss.

The scary thing in noticing this, is knowing that it will happen to me (us all) one day. I'm hoping that by noticing it I can stave it off for as long as possible, but maybe that kind of thinking means I'm already on the track...
looks like Microsoft will be developing hitman game if this deal clears
Google joins major tech companies in pushing back against HK’s new security law
The Bay Network switches were pretty good, actually. Well, not so much the Centillion...but the Baystacks were ok. It was the routers that they got from Wellfleet through the Bay acquisition that were wildly out of date with the worst management software ever written (Site Manager). They were still trying to push BCN/ARNs after everyone else (least of all Cisco) had introduced 3-4 new generations. And Site Manager was awful...seriously.

Err...eccentric and odd mean the same thing.
Why? Xbox is profitable. It wasn't 3 years ago, but it is now. Xbox Live is important to Microsoft's cloud vision.
It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft was involved with Asheron's Call, they originally published it after all. Microsoft has a bad/unlucky track record with MMO development/sales, but one of the better with handling the consequences. Turbine was allowed to move on, to keep their IP, to continue to be Turbine, when they exited their Microsoft partnership. The MMO Allegiance was open sourced by Microsoft and given to its community. I can't tell you that Microsoft would 100% do the right thing if they bought WB Games Boston and managed to get the Asheron's Call license with it (and that's a weird if, because who knows what WB's deal with Standing Stone was; WB might not even remember the way some of their licenses get lost), but I can tell you there's a lot more hope than AT&T (WB) continuing to sit on it (if they are the ones sitting on it).
Tangential anecdata, but 65k was my starting salary at IBM in San Jose in 2007 as non-H-1B
Software Engineering Daily podcast

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com
Why they didn't in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099488

Why they didn't at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810764
H.265 went absolutely nowhere
While the education is likely equal or better, college is also about starting your network, especially for those of us not going to traditionally elite schools.

Thinking about my personal career trajectory, my first job came from an internship set up by my university. A coworker from that job left and pulled me to my second, and when I left there it was because an old classmate referred me to a third.

Had I studied abroad and returned home I would have lacked that network, and that feels like a risk.
Lack of rent control ... seems to have achieved the same result.

Land value tax (and relaxed/rationalised zoning & building codes) seem a more likely route.
64kb is also a better match for today's working sets to avoid TLB pressure. I imagine x86 would switch to it or something close if it weren't such a schlep.
Thanks! That’s very helpful.

For reference, my day is spent:

• editing code, markdown, and asciidoc for classes;

• managing pupil work in repl.it, GitHub, and Google Classroom;

• managing pupil reports and records of work in custom school IT web applications; and

• emailing with colleagues and pupils with outlook’s webmail.

If I can get a snappy and correctly scaled terminal and browser — which I think you’ve managed after some effort — I hope it will work out well.

I have a 4k LG display at home which might be the biggest pain point. Rest assured though it’s good ole 1080p all the way, at school: HDMI1 for my private desktop and HDMI2 for the 80” class display.

I am optimistic this is a workload that an ARM desktop can handle.
I imagine this is all due to the more-than-obvious pyramid-esque scheme of academia: offer 12 professorship positions to 200 PhD students. I mean, the "smartest people in the world" are apparently the ones falling for this scam. It is just a breeding ground for brown-nosing, politics, and even straight corruption. It is laughable but it is also doing a massive disservice to the potential of human civilization.
> Note that for predictor it does not really matter correlation vs. causation. That matters for intervention.

Yes, but you don't build a model without intending some intervention, so this distinction is irrelevant in the context of applied ML, although it is a true statistical fact.

> So it is kind of isolated demand for rigor [1].

I don't see how. The isolated demand for rigor "fallacy" that Scott Alexander talks about is when you ask for rigor to be applied in ways that are bad faith. Let me rephrase my concern:

We have lots of evidence that real-world causal networks are super complex and many real-world tests ignore many causal factors. Similarly, we have no a-priori reason to believe that facial structure is correlated with {sexual orientation, innate level of intelligence, innate criminality}. And in fact we have strong reasons to believe that most of the way that those things present is due to cultural influence.

So if someone shows up with a groundbreaking study that shows that they can predict some innate attribute based on facial structure, it's likely that they're actually seeing cultural biases (or cultural correlations) and not innate factors (or correlations with genotypic things). In other words, our priors should be that any model in this space is simply discriminating based on stereotypes, not revealing some innate way to "predict" these attributes.

The model isn't a predictor but a recognizer, and while semantic, that's a very important distinction.
Hmm. This https://s-matyukevich.github.io/raspberry-pi-os/ made it seem like it's about as open as an x86 PC. The only thing I see that's proprietary is the very initial bootloader that apparently runs on the GPU. But then x86 motherboards come with proprietary BIOSes as well.
Awesome effect! It would be great to have a more detailed explanation or tutorial or whatever about this.
I just gave it a go, and got "equality" so yes, I'd imagine it's the same for everyone.

As an Australian, it's interesting that this set of words are considered "progressive", or only associated with one half of the political spectrum. With the exception of "micro-aggression", all the other words are surely universally-held values of Western societies?
Not sure why so many think this way. In worst case scenario- we are never able to create a vaccine. So you expect the world to stay in lockdown mode for eternity?
Not if you use a nice IDE: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/investigate-changes.html...
The user base of Minecraft has skyrocketed to 126M monthly active players (https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/05/18/minecraft-connecting-...) so no, absolutely not.
I do wonder if standardized equipment with digital controls (or digitally monitored controls) to record all salient values throughout an experiment would 'solve' this.

Obviously some cutting edge stuff can't use standardized equipment, but can you standardize a lot of other stuff?
Seattle City Council passes JumpStart tax on high salaries paid by big business
One explanation: Nostalgic value in 5+ years.
I was trying to clean the dust out of my PS4 a little while ago, and had to browse through quite a few YouTube videos before I found a disassembly tutorial that matched my model.
Irreproducibile results should have zero place in science or academia. Hell, it has no place in politics, the media, etc. "Irreproducibile results" defeats the purpose of proving that it is not bullshit or a farce.
Electronic Whole Earth Catalog
Mathlib does indeed define the extended real numbers, but they also need to define division on the reals. This is similar to the definition of subtraction having to be done for integers and for naturals (mentioned in the article)
To expand, you'd have petridishes that monitored temperature and humidity levels, maybe a couple other values. Gas chambers would record various pressure values, etc.

I obviously don't have the experience to enumerate what is important. haha but maybe its still a worthwhile idea
At work, we briefly considered deploying a fleet of raspberry pis as cheep ARM servers. We ordered an initial batch for evaluation, but then quickly realized just how little technical information Broadcom and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are willing to make available to their users. They were tight-lipped even with the bare minimums. We ended up abandoning the idea soon after.

Unless these companies manage to break away from their bad habits, I can't see ARM servers gaining any sort of market share outside of big companies.
It's easy to be post-lockdown but not post-pandemic. Many places in the United States have been doing this for weeks now, and we're seeing how that's going.
They really do think that big businesses are not able to relocate 10 minutes away to a place without this tax.
Interesting about EB1A, didn't know.

I agree that we need reform in this area. For one, a bidding system for H1-B type visas could prevent much of the abuse. Like you, I'm not a Trump supporter, but I like the points-based system. Not sure why that got so much criticism (probably simply because it came from him). It's similar to Canada's system, which most people around the globe seem to admire.

I hope people can understand that it isn't some kind of xenophobic nativism that inspires the H1-B dislike among some Americans. It's fear for our financial future. It isn't always obvious to those working in SV, but in most of the country, the typical lower- or middle-class worker has not been enjoying a a booming economy in terms of wages. Real wages for the middle- and lower-classes in the US have been stagnant or falling for decades. So we're fighting to get or remain in the middle class.

In my own extended family, the generational difference in financial security is stark, despite getting similar degrees, military service, working hard, etc etc. Some cousins are basically falling out of the middle class. Crossing over into some kind of IT work is one of the few remaining paths someone at age 30 can take to remain in the middle class after their profession is lost to globalization or automation. I have a cousin who did it.

Anyway, I think real immigration reform won't happen under either of the current political parties. We need something new, which is unlikely to happen.

Edit: here the study referenced in that article, at least: https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wa...

Edit: Here's the paper I was thinking of. It's pretty convincing to me. I'd be interested in your input: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/h1b.pd...
It doesn't matter if it's OpenGL ES 3.0 certified if the drivers don't expose it, and OpenGL ES isn't really well supported on the desktop compared to standard OpenGL or Vulkan. Android is a better environment for OpenGL ES. In general it does not feel there is a concerted effort to make mobile SoCs first-class citizens for desktop distros. The open source graphics drivers for rpi seem to be nowhere near getting to a polished state anytime soon, and those provided by Broadcom seem hacky. I think there is better effort going on with getting Mali GPUs supported, but that's not what the Raspberry Pis use.
If HR is dictating how to conduct interviews for engineering staff, your company has some deep problems.
Let them code if they want to. Too often programmers get managerial and design work piled onto them, such as conducting early culture-fit hiring calls and coaxing the project requirements out of stakeholders.

Some people live for that, and there must be a path out of engineering into management or PM-type requirements gathering. But if your programmers just want to be programmers, let them. Hire the boss an assistant, hire more PMs, whatever.
Isn’t this just a very early engineering release? Apple may just not yet support all the PCI Express bus stuff required to make GPU hardware work.

I’m most curious about whether Thunderbolt will continue being supported given that’s basically an Intel Kool-Aid standard. We may have some very disappointed Pro Display XDR owners soon.
My secret to shopping at Costco is to go near closing time on Sunday. I've never had a lines or crowds to deal with here in the Seattle suburbs.
mostly because it's way too on the nose

You say that and yet so many of its critics at the time did not get it. It is among the most blatant of all satires (right up there with Idiocracy) ever made, yet it still flew over the heads of critics like Roger Ebert [1].

Ebert claimed to have memorized the novel as a child. Right out of the gate, he calls it "true to its source." No, it's completely antithetical to its source! Verhoeven hated the source novel so much he turned his adaptation into a farce intended to depict how banal and juvenile he thought Heinlein's idea of a militaristic society was. Now, plenty of people disagree with Verhoeven and love the novel, but it's completely incorrect to call the movie a faithful adaptation.

The film was simply operating on a level that people were not prepared for at the time. Today, it's a different story. Of course, it borrows heavily from Huxley's Brave New World which itself is terrifyingly prescient (and also faced criticism at the time). Some stories might just be ahead of their time. Over-the-top satires of contemporary society seem to be particularly vulnerable to this phenomenon.

[1] https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/starship-troopers-1997