skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most times they don't even read the books. They just stop at "what doesn't get measured doesn't happen." Great, that leads people to measure all sorts of stupid stuff like lines of code to production. Who cares if it isn't something that contributes to a thing that someone's going to use.
I think there's a divide between "impressive" and "good".

I think deep learning will keep creating more impressive, more "unintuitive and unexpected", more "wow" results. The "wow" will get bigger and bigger. Gpt-3 is more impressive, more "wow"-y than Gpt-2. Gpt-3 very impressively seems to demonstrate understanding of various ideas, Gpt-3 indeed very impressively develops ideas over several sentences. No argument with the "unintuitive and unexpected" part.

The problem is the whole thing doesn't seem definitively good (in Gtp-3's case, doesn't produce good or even OK writing). It's not robust, reliable, trustworthy. The standard example is the self-driving car. They still haven't got those reliable but with more processing power, a company could probably add more bells and whistles to the self-driving process but still without making it safe. And GPT-3 seems in that vein - more "makes sense if you're not paying attention", the same "doesn't really say coherent things".

I'm trying to trace a middle ground between the two reactions. I'm perhaps laughing a little at those just looking at impressive but I acknowledge there's something real there. Indeed, the more you notice something real there, the more you notice something real missing there too.
Fear of being taken to a dark hole somewhere for making fun of the ruling junta, especially the top boss AKA the President/Chairman.
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This demo is based on this open source code https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap

To save costs on the demo, image quality is tuned to make bandwidth as low as possible.
The rich certainly don’t, but if you’re poor you need them more.
There's millions of Americans using coin operated laundry machines, and that's just one example
Stores are unable to handle cash transactions because they can't make change, because they can't get enough from their banks, because the banks aren't getting enough supply, apparently.
> Everyone want to know why a 33-year old was chosen? Because he can be controlled. Full stop.

Huh? That's an ageist comment, and should not be acceptable.
Sure, but that leaves your argument about the innateness of the characteristic it's measuring as handwaving and special-pleading. You see the same effect with SES in twin studies, for what it's worth.
The PRC perspective on birth control, specifically, is unique, since the CCP forced birth control and abortion on its population for decades as part of the "one child" policy.[0]

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
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Macadamia nuts are native to Australia and were named in honor of Dr John Macadam, "a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet minister, and honorary secretary of the Burke and Wills expedition."

Scientific names are frequently eponymous, but very few common foods were discovered by Europeans after Linnaeus invented modern taxonomy. New World food names are usually derived from native words (avocado, potato, etc).
I believe that. I know that I learned it somewhere, but the origin is lost in the mists of antiquity.

I did see it somewhat formalized in the late 1990s, though, with Apple's QuickDraw GX.
In the past month I've received four half-dollar coins as change, which is four more than I've seen in the past decade. It seems like stores are reaching the bottom of their coin drawers; using coins they normally wouldn't.
> Any fully-qualified person, with experience, in their 40s-50s will not take enormous amounts of shit without throwing it right back

I'm a 20-something occasionally put in a position where I have to antagonize people in leadership positions to make them change how they work. I'm a corporate IT leadership bad cop. You're right, it's much easier to do this with less experienced people - but on average I'd say age hasn't really made any difference. Younger people (<40) just tend to be less likely to get visibly pissed off when I question decisions they've made.
A lot of apartment complexes also have on-site laundromats that are coin operated.

I've never understood why the cost of that isn't included in the rent, landlords can't be taking that much of a cut from it.
Glenford Myers in "The Art of Software Testing" said: "Testing is the process of executing a program with the intent of finding errors."

The preface to this is even more enlightening:

"When you test a program, you want to add some value to it. Adding value through testing means raising the quality or reliability of the program. Raising the reliability of the program means finding and removing errors.

Therefore, don’t test a program to show that it works; rather, you should start with the assumption that the program contains errors (a valid assumption for almost any program) and then test the program to find as many of the errors as possible."
Hopefully this would prompt the U.S. to finally deprecate the penny
It sounds like the copyright owners have allowed a fan of the game to work on it for free.
In China if you're discovered to have the wrong religion they'll put you in a concentration camp where they may or may not murder you and sell your parts. Don't worry about your family, they'll assign a rapist to your wife who will sleep in bed with her and reeducate your family.

There's literally a WWII scale Holocaust going on in China right now. You have a lot of nerve asking "what's the difference?"
I'm a very vocal critic of Electron, but giving credit where credit is due, VSCode doesn't really feel like an Electron app at all. It's very snappy and modest with its memory usage, so I'm quite certain the folks at Microsoft had to sign a deal with the Devil to optimize it like that.
Unfortunately there’s a long history of colonized people being mistreated, so it’s not an easy sell.
Every walmart in Albuquerque has limited cash transactions to about half their registers.
Could you link a book that has shaped your thinking on this? Or some keywords to search? I'm not too informed on economics but the distinction between productive and unproductive economic activity sounds plausible to me.* Do you disagree with this distinction itself?

* Naive examples of what I think of as "unproductive activity" are high frequency trading, gambling, and most advertising.
The summary is "your company may not yet be worthy of OKRs". This kind of has the whiff of other religious movements in tech like REST and Agile: if it's not working for you, you just aren't doing it right. Try harder and hope to one day be worthy.
I just looked on the translations to my native language and it is hilarious. Need more popcorn.
Tú no puedes comprar al viento
Tú no puedes comprar al sol
Tú no puedes comprar la lluvia
Tú no puedes comprar el calor

Tú no puedes comprar las nubes
Tú no puedes comprar los colores
Tú no puedes comprar mi alegría
Tú no puedes comprar mis dolores
> That's not what I see in practice though. Not remembering the whole algorithm at best ends up wasting half of the interview (code the remainder in 20 minutes??), and at worst gets explicit language from the interviewer like "TC couldn't figure out <insert tricky algorithm> and I had to explain the algorithm to them explicitly, WEAK/BORDERLINE on algorithms".

It is kind of hilarious to get an algorithm problem which took eminent computer scientists years to solve the first time. "Why yes, I am Donald Knuth/Edsger Dijkstra/et al. – only smarter, luckier, and much faster!"

As you note, the initial question is basically "how well do you recall the solution to this problem?"
I feel like a smart country would take this opportunity to develop electronic, no-fee payment wallets, not just bring up a coin task force...
Link gives a 404 error.
United Arab Emirates successfully launches its first spacecraft bound for Mars
My only experience with OKRs has been having to do more OKR-management homework separate from the actual work I do, which is the same 'coding stuff off the product roadmap supplied by a different department' as always.
Apropos of this in the context of hiring, one of the biggest green flags I'll attach to someone's CV is any combination of infrastructure/operations, and application development, at the same job.

Since the 1990s I've worked around ISP, hosting, and cloud firms. Many have a core of general purpose people that can't help themselves but have one foot in both graves (we call this DevOps or SRE now, but those are new labels for a long-standing viewpoint). This often correlates to someone who embodies the mindset in the article, viz. that they they will gladly and actively defend any ditch we dig together. They always get on my interview list (the green flag). Very often the interviews are a wide-ranging, free-flowing, and in-depth discussion of multilateral & cross-functional technology/process interactions.

Many of the people I've met with this combination will progress, either immediately or eventually, to become very effective CTOs, tech co-founders, or the highest levels of IC at larger tech firms.

Interestingly, and I say this purely anecdotally because I am not actually qualified to make the diagnosis, some of them also appear to me to have an attentional difference, or present from an unprivileged background, and may not have followed a standard educational path as a result of either. Which is to say that I usually delete "must have bachelors degree" from any JD that HR ask me to authorize.
It's keeping in line with the hurrr durrr nature of HN

Modelling lanuage yesh
In college, I was one of the people dependent on coin-operated laundry. If I couldn't have gotten coins, I would've been forced to drive several blocks at a minimum and spend more time and money on laundry. Inconvenient for me, but especially bad for the old lady downstairs without a car.
That would kill important business models that prey on poor people.
People seriously underestimate both the current economic efficacy of existing lithium ion batteries, as well as the continuous and seemingly inexorable improvement in costs. This sort of improvement often doesn't get much news, but they have been happening at a very consistent rate across manufacturers.

I just hope that other technologies that are better for longer duration storage don't get overlooked for investment and development on industrial scales.
Popol: Minimal non-blocking I/O with Rust
That's the only image stuck in my head since reading the headline. Glad to see they are in fact reality. Such a great movie, except the ten minutes of ruby rod screaming.
At my grocery store today there was a large sign at the checkout informing you they don’t have coins to make change, please use electronic payment.

If you pay cash and don’t have the exact amount the total will be rounded up and the excess donated to a charity.
It's to subsidize the cost of the machines and the electricity and water.

The machines are commercial grade, depending on the amount of tenants they will have high wear and will cost to purchase $3000 each. Minimum of a set is 2 so $6000.

If you use a management company that deals in laundromat and repair, the capex is not there but you'll ave a monthly opex of about $50-100 that should include a guarantee and onsite tech. Per set.

It scales up pretty quickly because you can, maybe, push a one set onto 4 units.

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But it's also a sign of cheaper locations and landlords to not have your own washer/dryer inside.
Not entirely true (that we understand magnetism). We get some things about it. But not everything.

The nature of physics is such that we never really have 100% confidence in our theories. We are always looking for things the theory under test doesn't predict correctly in the form of an observation. Which means we have to understand what we are measuring. And how we are measuring it.

All of this impacts magnetism. For example, many explanations here discuss electron "spin". Electron "spin" likely doesn't mean the electron is physically spinning.

So what is "spin" and how does it actually contribute to magnetism? And then you have a number of interesting QM properties, such as spin-orbit coupling. Remember, the original model of electrons orbiting nuclei was discarded as the electron accelerating around the nucleus would radiate all of its energy away. So classical orbital "motion" of electrons, literally a current, that should generate a magnetic field, which could couple with the spin of the electron, is not really a classical thing. It is quantum mechanical in nature.

And we really don't fully grasp QM. Some parts we think we understand and can provide some interpretation to. Other parts ... not so clear.

Again, this is why 99 years after Einstein won the Nobel prize, people are still testing relativity, and still testing fundamental/foundational QM. Look at all the work on delayed choice slit experiments[1][2], and many others.

Basically we think we have some level of understanding of QM. And we need a strong understanding of QM to understand QM phenomenon. Like magnetism.

Its not at 100% understanding yet. May never be. But there is so much more interesting science out there, that this is a good thing.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22280/double-slit-...

[2] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2019/09/21/the-noto...
Charging per-use prevents inefficient use (very small loads in large machines) and tenants letting their friends use the machines, eventually turning the laundry room into the free neighborhood laundromat.

Some buildings have switched (decades ago) to reloadable laundry cards to avoid having to deal with change.
The tail end of this video on the “coldest town in the world”, https://youtu.be/l1noUh2NrLI, mentions both factors and that they combine to be more unpleasant than the cold.
This works great if you're building something with a tightly controlled API.

If, however, your configuration space grows to an even middling size, it no longer becomes feasible to do much of this validation across the configuration space. A good example is any system where the user can customize system aspects. Do you run all of your integration tests across the full configuration space?

Additionally managing configuration skew between a dev and prod environment is not simple. Simply claiming that there should be no skew doesn't work. Often you want the prod and dev environments to run as different users, and you certainly want them to have different acls (your dev environment should not have access to your production database).

So you now have to, across your configuration space, validate that only the things that are "supposed" to be different differ, and that the things that aren't don't. Which maybe works for a while, but your prod configuration may also differ across parts of prod if, for example, a change is being canaried or incrementally deployed.

I've spent a non-trivial amount of effort on trying to solve the one problem of configuration skew between dev and prod for one real system. It's ultimately not worth it. The effort expended to "fix" that would be more work, than not. And I mean that in the long term, the effort to maintain and follow the rules that such a system would impose is more effort than dealing with the annoyances of unintended skews.

Systems are hard because systems are hard. There's no good company that doesn't, test/experiment in production. All of them do.
> Why not setup a situation where the people of the DRC are housed, fed and provided healthcare from the proceeds of their rare-earths while allowing the western beneficiaries to use their military to oust violent barbaric war-lords?

Nice try King Leopold II, fool me once...
You have to be a dictatorship, though, because it's pretty hard to imagine any representative government wanting this.

And it's pretty hard to be a dictatorship and remain in power, actually. More so if you give businesses a financial reason and not just a moral one to leave.
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Absolutely. At the moment AI seems to scale extremely well in one dimension (amount of data) but really poorly at the other (semantic of data). An huge increase in the former looks like an increase in the other (because more data = more simple data semantic)
Markdown and VScode is worth a look.
As someone who has an 80% chance of destroying whatever I'm trying to solder, any improvement in what I'm using would be super welcome.
This is an incredibly racist and supremely ignorant comment, displaying the same justifications that fuelled the colonialism in Africa hundreds of years ago that is still at the root of deeply systemic problems in that continent.
Not to mention some of the reportedly horrific conditions around cobalt mining (child labor etc)
I use a laundry service to pick up my laundry, do it for me, and drop it off. (I wouldn't pay for it if I had a machine in my apartment, but I don't, so this is the tradeoff.)

I'm glad the cost of laundry isn't included in my rent, because I'd just be paying extra.
> If I have a chat with the model and I ask it "what did we talk about thirty minutes ago" it's as clueless as anything.

I don't really know about the functional limitations of GPT-3's web API but, assuming there are none related to what I'm about to suggest, you could potentially overcome this problem by representing the "state" of an overall conversation literally in the prompt. For example, begin with,

"Me: Hello, sir! How are you?

Computer: "

as a prompt. Receive a response from GPT-3 like,

"Me: Hello, sir! How are you?

Computer: I'm fine, how are you?

... <other less relevant generated text>"

Clip of the less relevant part, add your next communication, then feed the entire dialogue back to GPT-3 as a second prompt and see if it decides to continue the dialogue.
Coin shortages make it harder to pay for things in cash. Transportation like ferries, light rail, commuter rail, etc often are accepting bills and returning coins as change. If they don't have coins to provide change, you may need to provide exact change, pay more and accept the loss (this is common on buses when paying with bills), not be able to purchase a ticket, or have to use a credit/debit card. In my area, the county bus system decided to make the buses free to avoid handling money and they didn't make change anyway, and the state ferries notified people to be prepared to make exact change and/or use cards.

Same thing happens if coin operated machines with bill accepters don't have coins to make change. It might not be obvious, but the coins inserted into most machines aren't directly dispensable as change, so if it runs out of change, it won't be able to make change until the operator comes to service it, which might be longer intervals these days.

It sounds like the coin requests from banks to the federal reserve can't all be filled, and the federal reserve is rationing coins until that changes. I suspect some of the usually net coin receiving businesses aren't open, or aren't receiving the same number of coins, making it harder for the net coin giving businesses to get the supplies they need.
Made a few of my own. Locally I use a shared API hosted by a Pi, and then my phone(Android widget) and cross platform app(Electron) uses it. It's basic note title/body. Also have one online but it's statically encrypted. For drawing I use Krita. I was working on an SVG drawing app integrated into the cross platform app but haven't finished it. I also have a Pi-hosted URL-based notepad too where you use it by urls/whole screen is a textarea element. Work wise use both OneNote and Apple notes.
This sounds like a problem with immediate impact which will eventually (1-2 years?) go away. Creating a new payment system, deploying it widely, getting people to use it, all takes way longer than that time period.
The part of your brain that internalizes consequences doesn't fully develop until you're around 25 years old. I've helped provide additional knowledge/context, it's up to you to work on the empathy (your comment comes across very much as "sucks to be you", which is both unrealistic and very uncool considering the reality of parenting and human development).

Children and teens very much are idiots, generally speaking (see: previously high teen birth rates, ongoing high teen auto insurance rates, and the principal of sealing juvenile court records to give teens a “do over” for most criminal offenses).

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con... ("Understanding the Teen Brain")
Pretty sure that fear is very much alive in Portland right now
I did a whole bunch of HN searches and couldn't find a previous submission. I did find a few people mentioning it in comments to other stories. Perhaps you're thinking of the similar incident in which the Soviets bugged the American embassy’s typewriters[1]?

By the way, the earliest original reporting of the story I found is from Popular Science[2], Jan. 1997, "Spies in the Xerox Machine", page 70. (The Popular Science article has the same bogus patent number I mentioned in another comment.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21998774

[2] https://books.google.ca/books?id=KIEIX2X-na8C&pg=PA70
Wow, that site (histre) made me sign up and verify email before telling me the pricing structure or that there's no perpetual free plan. That seems like a terribly unfriendly UX.

Edit: After signing up there's no 'delete account' button/option/function.

Edit 2: Apparently histre really is your product. How do you recommend me to delete my account? There's no 'contact' , 'help', etc pages that I can find. Truly no method is provided to delete accounts or contact anyone.
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Obviously the federal government should’ve paid the stimulus money in dimes
Surprised nobody has mentioned the Metro series. It’s made after a book, and I think it’s pretty good story-wise...
> The TS100 and the subsequent TS80 soldering irons were innovative for a few reasons. The heating element is in the tip rather than the body of the iron.

That's not their innovation, since they copied JBC's cartridge design to do that.

Their innovation is that they're selling an incompatible Chinese copy of JBC's system that's self-contained in the soldering iron and powered by a laptop power brick or USB-C.
I think whether it's "an easy sell" is more related to the question of whether it's profitable enough to anyone.
But in the video he does eventually get to one, that GGGP half-mentions: It's (just about) the same force that prevents you from putting your hand through a chair even though atoms are mostly empty space, but strengthened due to how magnets are made so it works at a much larger distance.

It's a simple, relatively satisfactory explanation a layperson should understand, that provides a hook for finding more in-depth knowledge if the asker wants to.

The whole rest of it was unnecessary.
What's impressive about it? It's bigger, that's cool. What's it actually mean in the real world.

I see nothing to get excited about at this point.
I agree with this. I'm currently taking the Statistics and Data Science MicroMasters from MIT on the EDX platform. When you see a course titled "Introduction to .... ", it's never really an introductory material. They go really deep. I've taken the "Probability and the uncertainty of data". Granted, it starts with introducing very basic concepts, however quickly delves deep into very advanced topics. I must admit, Prof. John Tsitsiklis has done an awesome job in the course and even a beginner can take it. It's not an easy course to complete under deadlines.