skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s a mistake to treat this like a conversion experiment. Trialers at the very first possible release of a service, heavily incentivized by a very lengthy free trial, are not similar to a steady state flow of trialers experiencing more transient promos or test experiences, which is a situation where conversion modeling makes sense.

This is not a funnel experiment. This is a huge pile of people specifically seeking out a special event at a launch, so the composition and intent of that is expected to be way, way, way more favorable than general steady state.

It’s like if concert tickets went on sale and everyone is camping in tents to buy them on the first day, and then when the booth opens and people listen to the free sample, 90% of them just pack up and go home.

That’s a much, much worse situation than if only 1/10 people who see an ad for the album choose to buy it on iTunes, whole different ballgame, funnel composition, intent model, everything.

10% conversion on a massive launch promo is drastic failure. This is not at all like getting 10% conversion on a funnel with low intent.
Not necessarily. Apple owns the patent for a camera cover made of the privacy film that turns transparent with a switch; why they haven’t used it is beyond me.
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>"How does it work

Unlike in other Linux virtualization solutions such as User Mode Linux (or the forementioned VMware), special driver software on the host operating system is used to execute the coLinux kernel in a privileged mode (known as ring 0 or supervisor mode).

By constantly switching the machine's state between the host OS state and and the coLinux kernel state, coLinux is given full control of the physical machine's MMU (i.e, paging and protection) in its own specially allocated address space, and is able to act just like a native kernel, achieving almost the same performance and functionality that can be expected from a regular Linux which could have ran on the same machine standalone."

This sounds great and is a noteworthy achievement!

Favorited.

Although (and this is just me geeking out here, and doing some imaginary future engineering in my mind!), wouldn't it be great if someone modified both Linux and Windows -- to use a common, neutral, small-as-possible microkernel?

You know, take out the common stuff that both of them do, and put all of that into a microkernel, then change them so they can happily run alongside one another, supported by that microkernel at the center?

Note to future self (when I have the time): Look into doing this... what would be learned about microkernels and microkernel design -- if someone went down this path?

(Yes, I know about Mach and other microkernels... maybe the job would be fitting Linux and other OS's to an existing microkernel... that would certainly be easier than generating the microkernel from scratch -- but not as educational...<g>)
> However, in the case of German Knödel and Czech knedlík, I decided to include both simply based on the fact that whereas the former was listed as potentially being served with a sweet filling, I did not observe this with the latter.

There are absolutely sweet Czech dumplings. Many kinds, usually with some sort of stone fruit (cherries, whole apricots, peaches, etc) but any kind of berry will do. They are also boiled, but they tend to have a different thinner dough that is farmer's/curd cheese and flour based, rather than being bready. They take a lot of practice to make well. If you're using smaller fruits like cherries or blueberries, they're near impossible to form without the trained hands of a Czech grandma.

Apricot ones are my favorite. You slice them in half, take out the pit, and dress them with grated/crumbled farmer's cheese, melted butter, and sugar.
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What kind of dynamics between Data Science team and Product management team makes a good product that is based on some kind of AI/ML ?
So land ownership is bad, but granting exclusive use of land for a set period of time is okay? Who grants the exclusive use of land, and from what authority? If I'm not a part of that comuna, do I need to abide by the rules of who gets exclusive use of a given plot of land?
I loved coLinux! Was super simple to set up and way less overhead than a VM.

People talk a lot about WSL2 as if it's "already here", but WSL2 still requires the latest update of Windows 10 from two months ago, or a slightly older build along with an "insider preview" activated copy of Windows, and you have to enable Hyper-V. Not all devices/users will be able to support all of this and it will break compatibility with some apps.

Given that, your other option is WSL1, which is not really a replacement. If you want to run Docker on it, you either have to install Docker for Windows (which may also have conflicts with Hyper-V apps) or use the oldest stable version of Docker on Linux along with some annoying hacks to be able to run a container. All of this, and you finally run some apps, and it feels like half your system's performance is gone, and the apps run at about 1/5th their normal speed.

Maybe in a year most people will be on the right build of Windows for WSL2, and maybe we'll have patched all the Hyper-V conflicting apps, and maybe there'll be a way to use it without a long HOWTO and researching buggy commands. Until then, a VM is way easier, more functional, faster, and more reliable.
No more so than vote by mail which we already have though (and is all Oregon does), right?
Can validate, no reasonable way.

Removed the SDK myself from a top 100 App Store app.
I guess the idea is:

data Foo a b c = FooBar a b
| FooBaz c

or

data Foo a b = FooBar a b
| FooBaz [a]

But I agree that writing explicit type annotations is overall better practice.
I've always wondered how this worked at Google. What protocol are they using?
Sometimes that minority may be surprising. I have seen people who are otherwise very careless about their computer's security put tape over their computer's camera.

When you think about it, it makes sense. People frequently bring their computer into private spaces. Where any given person draws that line will vary, depending upon their expectations of privacy. (One of the criticism I've heard of the recent shift to online schooling is the use of video conferencing, because some kids don't want to effectively invite all of their classmates into their home. This is hardly what I would consider a paranoid demographic and is a situation where you have a considerable amount of control over what people see and when.) Is it really that strange to suppose that some people will want to cover up their camera?
I'm pretty confident after the 2008 camera exploit they engineered the camera to wire the active light directly to the camera power source, which I think is what you're talking about with #3. #1 and #2 seem kind of irrelevant to me. Unless it manually operated (in that case, why not use a physical switch?) it behaves the same as the green indicator light, relies on #3, and after its turned on it's already capturing.
To better understand the brain, you have to not only talk about its cognitive functions, but all of it. Then you will understand what it is really for.

Your body stays alive by keeping levels within certain range. There are many functions in your body that have as an objective controlling those levels and your brain controls them at different levels of automation. Like your heart rate, sweating, urine output, etc.

But not everything can be automated, because some situations are more complex: finding a place with the right temperature, access to nutrients, and breathable air, etc. That is where decision making comes in... survival-oriented decision making. And that was what resulted in us developing what we today call intelligence.

When you disembody learning, and put it in an abstract evolutionary environment where survival only depends on solving an abstract problem, the result will not necessarily be an "AGI", a self-preserving, self-aware intelligence that is adapted to survive a wide range of scenarios. But if you changed that environment, made it very hostile and constantly changing, it could eventually lead to the evolution of an AGI.
Do you believe that zero days don't exist? You think your laptop is absolutely hack proof?

A hacker isn't going to randomly burn their exploits, but that doesn't mean none exist.
Oh that was really cool.
They mostly do. The cases where you get complex types is where you are using dependent typing. For example, imagine you wanted to write an "update" method. So we have this datatype:

data Address(line1: String, line2: String, postcode: String)
data User(name: String, address: Address, phoneNumber: String)

And here's an example of what "update" should do, in JSON:

// Argument 1
{
"name": "Bob",
"address": {
"line1": "123 Fake Street",
"line2": "Beverly Hills",
"postcode": "90210"
},
"phoneNumber": "555-555-5555"
}
// Argument 2
{
"address": {
"line1": "377 Fake Street"
},
"phoneNumber": "555-555-4444"
}
// Result
{
"name": "Bob",
"address": {
"line1": "377 Fake Street",
"line2": "Beverly Hills",
"postcode": "90210"
},
"phoneNumber": "555-555-4444"
}

This kind of function is the kind of thing that keeps people using dynamic languages. It's easy, and obvious, what it should do, and what its type signature is, but in most typed languages you can't write it without constructing a whole parallel hierarchy of datatypes by hand.

Scala is one of about 3 languages where you can actually write this in a nice way and it will be correctly typed. But the type you get will be:

(User, Field[Label['name], Option[String]] :: Field[Label['address], Option[Field[Label['line1], Option[String]] :: Field[Label['line2], Option[String]] :: Field[Label['postcode], Option[String]] :: HNil]] :: Field[Label['phoneNumber], Option[String]] :: HNil) => User

And until recently it was even worse than that because the compiler didn't know to print the "::" types as infix.

Now with first-class record support in the compiler you could improve this a little bit, but fundamentally there's not really any better way to write that type. Maybe if the language had first-class support for dependent types like Idris you could write ti as `(User, UpdateTo(User)) => User` or something, but the reader would still need a way to find out what `UpdateTo(User)` was concretely. So what do you do?
Yeah well sounds about right, entirely possible.
That seems like a horrible precedent. I don't see how this would be any different than, say, a group of Christians or Muslims installing a parallel system of courts to police their own people.
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I wonder what portion of that 8% are basically accidental paying customers at the moment.
or is a tartine a pizza?
I assume aweinstock was referring to the first link you posted:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dynamic

Which is an entirely different package, and the relevant types are entirely different. Only the name is the same. The `dynamic` package does indeed appear to be an april fools joke.

The Dynamic type in base is about runtime reflection, which is occasionally useful but not something that comes up often and not really about rapid prototyping.
I think the biggest issue is that there is a deluge of news and short form comedy, and it's free and good quality with a very tolerable amount of advertising on YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, television, etc, etc.

To succeed in short video they needed something that was beyond a bombshell, something desperately sought after but not forthcoming. Highly polished DeepFake Beatles concerts, with new music written by Paul McCartney. I don't see how you succeed charging for something that qualitatively better than YouTibe. You'd have to at least have new interactive elements (choose your own adventure? I don't know, but something cool).
> Also why is it on Medium under a Paywall, they are worth, quite literally, nearly $200 billion dollars =/

Maybe their scripts determined them hosting on Medium was costing them too much money. /s
The time tested ancient and modern mechanism to settle such claims has been war. They lost the war. That is it; victors make the rules after that.
I mean... you still have to trust the implementation.
True story, land use when sustainable delivers long term benefits of all kinds, also to investors
Yes, the topic/knowledge taxonomy is an important part of it. There are ideas from ConceptNets to Faceted classification. For now, I have taken a pragmatic call to have maximum two parent topics for every topic node here. This allows me to show the hierarchy here: https://learnawesome.org/topics

This taxonomy design is being discussed here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn/issues/14

Feel free to suggest better approaches.
Technically OCaml typechecking is exponential in the length of your program, but really that's just because it's exponential in the depth of your most deeply nested `let` construct, and most people don't actually write programs that look like

let a = ...
in let b = ...
in let c = ...
in let d = ...
How on earth can you say for certain you _always_ notice it? If it came on and you failed to notice it, well.. you wouldn't know would you. You'd still think you had a perfect record of always noticing it.
The government writing software for their own use is quite a bit different than Sun buying or writing one without customers lined up.
This lacks a huge amount of variety from Asian dumplings. What about xiaolongbao? Or shengjianbao? Or shuijianbao?
Replace the word soul with some essential quality of reason than humans have that isn’t teachable, and the article is arguing that whatever that is can never be acquired by a computer.
It seems likely that absolutely nothing is analog. The best theories about physics are all quantized. The only things that we don't have strong quantum theories about are things we barely understand, like time and gravity. And that's just because we haven't found the quanta yet.
Ahoj

1. What you call "farmer's cheese" is "tvaroh" which is called "quark" in English. It's not cheese, that would be gross.

2. Leaving the pit inside of the fruit that you wrap in a dumpling is sacrilegious. The fruit should be pitted!
True. For instance there's knowledge that can't be directly perceived by any one individual, given variations in our sensory apparatus. Even among so called "normal" sighted people, the sensation of red varies from person to person. I have a normal sighted colleague, and there are "red" LED wavelengths that seem very bright to me, but he can barely see them. The color matching equipment is partly based on an accommodation of those variations.
Ah, Ignition! quotes are always great. Including test engineers in the list of things ClF3 is hypergolic with gets me every time
Some people forget to lock their door sometimes. Should we remove the ability to have a lock on your front door?
There is ongoing discussion [1][2][3] to enable more aggressive optimization for "Flambda" switches, in some cases this can bring more than 2x times speedup.

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/16753

[2] https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-4-11-first-beta-release/60...

[3] https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-bap-2-1-0-release/5906/9
I sincerely appreciate you writing up your thoughts about notes and paper hierarchy.

I tend to use a lot of paper for notes as well, and this hierarchy is interesting.

My biggest issue is I do not regularly review my notes. And I know that there are valuable pieces in my notes.

And I hate copying notes over, because of the time taken.

Your post is giving me pause and I am reconsidering the value of rewriting.
Serious question: Modern manufacturing, especially for things like electronics, is highly automated and increasingly so. That implies you don't need a lot of labor to do it and what you do need is skilled labor anyway. Lower unskilled labor costs don't seem like a huge advantage there. So what's still keeping it in countries like China and India and not e.g. Minnesota, which would yield a PR advantage and lower transportation costs?

I can think of a few reasons in the nature of China devaluing their currency or other countries ignoring pollution, but these seem like illegitimate reasons. They're not a true advantage of China or India, they're perfidious regulatory arbitrage and a failure of US policy to punish cheating or impose the same environmental standards on all manufactured goods sold in the US regardless of country of origin.

So are those the only reasons (to which plausible yet unimplemented solutions exist), or is there something else we have to fix?
My sentiments exactly. I, however, see more value along the lines of file related workflows and third party apps. Google Drive now has third party apps. Workflows on the other hand, I have only seen in NextCloud.

Third party apps would have helped them remain focused. That ship has, almost certainly, sailed though.
Or maybe "writ" got spellchecked, on "Write of Goblin Blade". Also allllmost makes sense, a goblin enforcer of some sort.
It appears that generator picks from only 3 images: a mainframe, an early analogue computer, and one with a 50s/60s computer and two people. More variety would add to the humour (for example, using Google Images on the name, and then picking a random result from it.)
A useful thing I heard once is that "the purpose of a system is what it does."

We also don't need conspiracies to explain systems that are badly dysfunctional or have outcomes that are detrimental to society.
The Grand Tour and other related shows are the only thing keeping my Prime subscription going.
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That's "type inference" according to some people's definitions but not others. In any case it's pretty trivial; it only gives you 90% of the benefit if you're starting from a really low baseline.
I don’t agree. It also punishes students with good coursework and who would have performed well on the test, but happen to be in schools which historically perform poorly on IB tests.
For me, the bigger problem is the stuck-up, arbitrary nature of App Review; I barely think about the 30%. Rather, it is the idea that any minor update can be sidelined for a day or more because some reviewer has a problem with Something That Just Does Not Matter. I literally pulled out of the Mac App Store for this reason because there was a choice (to distribute in some other way). I would pull out of the iOS store if I could.
It's an interesting situation.

Discrimination based on something not common in one country can still have negative impacts.... but perhaps it hasn't been sorted out legally in our country yet?

We live in a strange global world.
All of screeds against cancel culture seem extremely online. I don’t think the culture is actually that large, but the reaction to it is HUGE. The reaction paints with the same problematic broad strokes that they are railing against. I say leave this quibblers alone and let them flame out.
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I can physically see that there is opaque plastic covering the camera lens. I don't need to trust in the hidden implementation of a LED or switch or anything. I can physically verify that the camera is disabled - meaning no trust.
This will be an interesting case because it will need to test how a construct like caste maps on to the protected classes of US anti discrimination law. There's plenty of overlap between caste and many US protected classes, including race, class, and religion, but there is not a tight fit to any of them.

Perhaps countries like the UK have more experience with this, because they have proportionally much larger and older Indian populations, and also the UK has its own historical hereditary caste like system.
>"Finally, after bumbling around for 7 months I started to get somewhere with my conversations with hiring managers.

I honed in

the biggest problem they had time and time again when hiring technical talent: finding qualified people interested in applying for their roles."
I can’t really speak to Python/Ruby REPLs as I haven’t used them, and I only have experience with Clojure when it comes to Lisps (so I guess I probably shouldn’t even be answering your question due to lack of qualifications), but I believe the big difference is that with a Lisp, the REPL is directly connected to your running codebase.

You can edit a function in a source file and send it to the REPL to be evaluated (or you can type it directly into the REPL if you really wanted to). Once the code is evaluated, it becomes part of the running application.

If you want to test a function that connects to a database for instance, you can invoke that function from the REPL connected to you running application and it will talk to the database.

As an extreme example, you can connect a REPL to a running Clojure application on a remote server and edit the code as its running (!). I like to joke that this obviates the need for Green/Blue deployments in production. ;-)
This is blatant disinformation by omitting context. The CAA itself is discriminatory, since it does not apply to muslims, but in the context of the National Register of Citizens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens) it becomes even more sinister. The NRC requires people to prove their citizenship through documentation, which is very difficult for large parts of India's population, who might be straight up illiterate or lack any kind of documentation whatsoever. The CAA makes it easier for non-Muslims to claim citizenship while Muslims slip through the cracks; that is the point of contention.
Regulation. It's not that easy to buy land, build a building, hire and fire people. If this is confusing, try buying some land and building a building.

Also the supply chains are all over there so the lead times and communication are vastly better.
I don't know how deep you've dug but the very first thing you should be doing is using spot instances instead of on demand instances (unless you absolutely can never wait to train a model). Spot instances are cheaper than on demand instances, with the downside that the price can fluctuate, so you need to build in a precaution for shutting down if the price gets too high. So if the price goes up, you either have to stop training until the price goes back down or to suck it up and pay a higher price.

Luckily, it's pretty simple to handle interruptions for neural network like models that train over several iterations. Just save the model state periodically so you can shut the instance down whenever the price is too expensive and start training again when the price is lower.
This is rich coming from a state that introduced a bill like ACA-5.