skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of doubt that people who have been struggling with depression for 10-20 years will share the sentiment.

No doubt they will experience some sort of hardwired survival instict which kicks in as they are about to go, but that's about it.
I've heard it phrased by a doctor as "Almost every man dies WITH prostate cancer. Almost no man dies FROM prostate cancer."
Take a look at TrueSkill, a much better mathematically grounded, created at Microsoft Research and being used at scale in Xbox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill
> I am just amazed that NASA turned around a shuttle in 54 days

It's disgraceful, actually.

The Shuttle was sold as being "reusable", but it turned out to require remanufacturing after each launch.

A lot of them took a year to prepare, with majors requiring 2 years.

From the very first launch, there were missing tiles.

The result was the cost per launch being 10x that of regular rockets.
Theres's nothing complex at visiting a repair shop to swap your battery. It's a full blown industry of OEMs and small shops.

It's something you would do probably every 2 to 6 years, depending on your budged.

I don't see the reason to pretend that there are hundreds of millions of a year old iPhones in the trash. The reality is that iPhones are very long lasting devices with very strong second hand market and strong repair market, even the broken ones are recycled for their parts.
Yep. The desire to 'cancel' sentiments and people they don't like, or at least not grant them particular platforms is the societal default, not some kind of modern exception.

Transpeople have been 'cancelled' from all sorts of opportunities since time immemorial without a single person outraged at Zuby's short term Twitter suspension being prepared to defend them to the death...
Time and space originate from singularity, but singularity doesn't really have time and space, maybe only trivial ones, but trivial space isn't much different from none.
For real.

But the title itself is something worth a moment of reflection.

Doctoral programs are supposed to be scarce, selective and of high profile. Now they are being treated as a service that can be requested and compared against.
I would stay away from Kano as far as I can. Bought a Kano Pixel kit earlier which does not go with the description on official web site. Did some research my self, and it turned out I was not alone, obviously Kano changed the design after crowd-funding finished but with out changing the description. Obvious misleading, but that was not the end of the story. A couple of days later, I could not tell exactly but definitely less than 1 week, the battery slot came off the board. Whaaaaat? I decided to take a closer look at the board and I was amazed to find out: 1. The battery contacts and the battery slot case were two different component, and the battery slot case was glue to the board using some crappy glue which came off automatically. 2. The potentiometer which was supposed to be soldered on the board was standing on its feet and those anchor points meant to be soldered on the board were dangling there as they need it to be vertically mounted to the board. That's more than enough to say that Pixel kit was my very first and last Kano product. It simply too much cutting corners stuff.
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Unfortunately that's not uncommon in mathematical texts either!
A total of three hundred instances split over twenty Kubernetes clusters. A set of specifically trained A.I. monitors their output to derive action plans from their completely random and constant disagreement. It is the age of the congress class supercomputers.
As an engineer, not a mathematician, I'm glad that good mathematicians care about good notation. The relatively-elementary maths that I learnt didn't always have good notation, the tradition seems suited to chalk and pen i.e. complex glyphs are easy, but perhaps because with hand writing the size and position of elements can be ambiguous, too much notation is overloaded and re-used. Even simple stuff like an exponent of -1 meaning inverse function, it's hardly unusual for it to be mixed up with numerical exponents.

One bugbear is that mathematical writing leaks into engineering science. I wouldn't ask professional mathematicians to start caring about units or change their style while communicating amongst themselves, but in my view textbooks ought to define notation before they use it, and clearly define the units used in all expressions.
I pretty much agree with your points. But this is not what we see in reality today.

I believe that part of today's problem is knowledge, interest and incentives.

- About 40% of patients (in general) do not care enough about their health and delegate all decision making to the doctor.

- I am simplifying here: If you ask a surgeon about the best therapy for your cancer, the answer will most likely be surgery. If the same patient would ask a radiologist, the answer will most likely be radiation. Which we might attribute to people more likely to believe in their own line of work. But in reality this might be more influenced by doctors being financially driven by their administrators to maximize patient throughput.
It's just hard to take in that info.. Your average patient is not really capable, especially when delivered life-changing information and requiring THEM to decide what life-changing action to take. Most in that situation defers to what the physician recommends, which brings us back to the current situation.

One root problem here is the lack of a firm connection between test result and long-term prognosis. You can have a supersensitive test, but if the prognosis varies wildly anyway and the possible procedure to do carries significant risk, the test has limited value.

One general rule is that you should not order a test unless you're prepared to act on it, and the guidelines for when to act on the PSA levels are still debated.

There are lots of other tests and pathologies and remedies that make sense to screen for (that can, like you say, make the patient go for a more healthy lifestyle etc).
>Say the right words about the US falling behind China or national security risk and no one wants to be the person on record who said no to this.

Or just say Obama wouldn't have the guts to do it[0].

[0]https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-launched-yem...
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Math symbols are a minor issue for me. What confuses me the most are descriptions of mathematical concepts.

For example, Wikipedia describes a 'field' like this:

"In mathematics, a field is a set on which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined and behave as the corresponding operations on rational and real numbers do."

It doesn't make sense to me. What does it mean if an operation 'is defined' on a set?
Does it mean that any 2 elements combined together using that operation always need to output an element which is also in the same set? But if that was the case then "behave as the corresponding operations on rational and real numbers do" would mean that the fields would always need to be of infinite size (have an infinite number of elements) wouldn't it? Because if the field had a limited number of elements and you added the last two (highest) elements together, the property which requires that the result also be present in the same set could not be met because the result would be greater than the highest element in that set...

The problem is that if you start with a highly abstracted math concept and you dig through all the links and definitions of sub-concepts, they all have huge gaps like this... So when you try to combine all the definitions together to make sense of that original highly abstracted concept, you end up with tens or hundreds of possible interpretations. But in fact, Math should only have 1 interpretation for each concept so this is a very bad situation to be in.

I think math definitions should be more elaborate and repetitive if necessary. They should not try to sound terse and clever. They should not assume that the reader can fill in the gaps. The most rational readers will not be able to fill in the gaps because rational people know the dangers of making assumptions.
It doesn't need to be genuinely new to be confusing. It just needs to be unfamiliar to the reader. At the very least, one should point the reader to a resource where they can read about the notation.
> the function "boilerplate" serves to hint to the user that the things in the function body happen at runtime to distinguish from the other things which tend to happen at compile time

'hinting' seems vague. Programmers who know what they're doing know that calling functions happens at run time. Obviously you can call a function without needing a wrapper function or a wrapper class + method.
They did acquire Radisys couple of years back, may be something to do with that.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/reliance-acquires-radisys-for-...
IMO It should be "Any two distinct points in..." in English as well. Precisions is hard!
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Next steps for single ownership and RAII. (C++/Vale/Rust)
Rust:

- more versatile (both PRO and CON)

- better error handling (IMHO)

- more powerfull type system (i.e. more to learn but also more you can use to your advantage) (both PRO and CON)

- has good support for more different forms of concurrency&parallelism then go (your can use it better as a tool to play around with that forms) (both PRO and CON)

- LLVM backed (allowing cross language optimizations, I don't remember if they are currently on the way of being implemented in llvm or already implemented) (both PRO and CON)

Go:

- simple syntax

- mainly one form of concurrency&parallelism but backed into the language and all libs use that one (also very neat if you want to look into certain paradigm which are heavily based on this paradigm)

- as far as I know pretty solid "first party" library for common server middle ware task

- maybe some other things

Also in rust you have more control over memory, but for many use cases this doesn't matter that much until you scale up to a high degree, then there are some differences about package management but I can't judge those as I'm not experienced enough with using third party go libraries.

Another thing I haven't list is the rust borrow checker, it can be a bit of a handful to learn but it tends to force you to write better structured code so I think it's worthwhile even if you never again use rust later one.

Generally learning more programming languages (or more precise the concepts behind them and the concepts frequently used in libraries of them) can make you a much better programmer. And with learning I don't mean "going to be a experienced ... programmer" but just understanding the concepts good enough so that you can use them and recognize them when they appear in a different language with different syntax and naming.
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Here's his github too, if anyone's interested. Fairly prolific to say the least:

https://github.com/tef
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I apologize on behalf of the company for this.

It sounds like you received a version that was manufactured by a bad supplier, one we've moved away from.

Let me know if we can offer you something new and fresh to make up for the fumble here. Happy to give you anything from our current line. You will be impressed and overjoyed.

Alex Klein, Cofounder & CEO, Kano
I think that’s exactly the kind of subtle thing he is trying to capture in this essay: we read ‘unorthodox’ and we get ready, almost as a subconscious reflex, to dismiss whatever comes next as, like you put it, ‘blatant Xism’, or as Paul puts it, false.

Check your privilege ;)
I mean, out of the two parties who can be in power in the near future, one has been involved in the 2G spectrum scam and the other is, well, bjp. The moral ceiling seems super high for both.
I'm pretty ambivalent about what many seem to call "doxxing". I get it when publishing phone numbers or addresses for no reason.

But I don't get the notion that you have a moral obligation to protect other's pseudonymity in general. Especially when it's not patently obvious that they've taken steps to conceal it. I mean sure, I get that it can be done in harassing ways too. Randomly brining up someone's full name in a comment reply is probably not nice. But when writing a big piece on some fascinating persona it seems fine to me.

Also purely strategically speaking when your identity is elaborated on to cry "doxxing" only makes you look like you've actually done something wrong, have something to hide. If you don't want to own things you have written, best not write them in the first place.

It's almost as if people desire the ability to be a public figure without any of the downsides.
The first one isn't really symbolic though. So really you should compare:

- speed is the derivative of position with respect to time.

and

- Let x(t) be the position of an object at time t then its speed v(t) is:

v(t) = (dx/dt)(t)

Also note that most of the time I'm just putting the symbols after the word explaining what it means, while this does allow me to use the symbolic notation for differentiation it doesn't really make the first part any shorter. Also it would be a mistake to introduce speed by just 1 specific formula (even if I didn't specify the types of the object involved) since speed is a far more general concept.
Handsontable has a lot more features, though. Maybe your unique selling points are enough, I don’t know, just on paper handsontable appears to provide a lot more for the price. I’m not suggesting you change it, just something to be aware of for your marketing.

For me, personally, handsontable was too expensive too though (I’m just one guy self funding my project) so ended up going with an open source table component instead.
Fortunately these decisions are usually not done by the individual surgeon or radiologist but by a cross-disciplinary team during rounds and by input from wide long-term studies categorising the tumor type, treatment options and outcome.
There is really only one "bible". I recommend solving through it, at least the first 4-5 chapters:

- Nielsen and Chuang, Quantum computation and information: mmrc.amss.cas.cn/tlb/201702/W020170224608149940643.pdf

While you are reading and solving the above book, I strongly recommend reading:

- "Quantum computing since Democritus" by Scott Aaronson, one of the researchers on quantum computation: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/

This book will give you a "flavour" of where the power of quantum computation might be coming from, and the whole host of theoretical issues that surround this domain.

What I _highly_ recommend is practicing problem-solving using these resources:

(1) Microsoft quantum katas: https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas

(2) Codeforces Q# coding contest: https://codeforces.com/msqs2018

Actually programming the circuits in Q# will give you a sense of stuff that's swept under the rug when reading textbooks: initialization of qubit states, a good sense of what "qubits cannot be copied" means, etc.

At this point, one ought to have an understand of quantum computation and our current understanding of its power (in particular, the relationship that we don't know how to separate BPP and BQP), how to implement the "common" quantum algorithms in a programming language, and a vivid sense of the "quantumness" of these algorithms.

For reference, I speak from experience:
(1) My solutions to the quantum katas: https://github.com/bollu/quantum-course-exercises.
(2) My scattered QC notes: https://github.com/bollu/notes/blob/master/quantum-computati...

(One can find a full pdf of quantum computing since Democritus relatively easily on the internet if one so chooses.)
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That sounds like myriads of programmers have done it wrong for decades. Can you elaborate on this and maybe add a few sources?
A personal question, if I may.

I think seeing a therapist would be good for me, I have issues I'm struggle to fix myself but how does the conversation even start ?

What I mean is, I can go to a regular doctor for a regular problem and he will say "what is the issue?" and I can explain it pretty clearly even if I don't know the underlying cause. e.g. "My leg hurts here when I move it in such a way"

But I can't imagine how this conversation starts with a therapist. If they asked me what is wrong, I genuinely don't know. I don't know where to point to the pain. Then I just see myself sitting there with someone awkwardly, them thinking I'm an idiot.
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We must put an end to gatekeeping behavior.

The free market has its flaws but having your market (or your entire economy!) regulated by a large corporation really is the worst of both worlds.
Ara was a really cool project, from what I've read about it by the end the only way to feasibly do it ended up being the CPU/Memory/Modem and even the storage ended up just being on a single unit.

Still love the Tardigrade module idea though, even if it's completely absurd.

http://midnightcommercial.com/project/tardigrade-biome/

Really wish more companies were working towards sustainable tech ideas, thinking about the pile of dead AirPods the average Apple customer will leave behind during their life fills me with anxiety.
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I totally understand where you're coming from, and to an extent I agree.

I didn't adequately clarify the sentiment I was getting at.

There are a million things I want to do with technology: machine learning, advanced robotics, data science, UI/UX research, networking/homelab experimentation, music/drawing/animation, photography, programming.

Sometimes significant events happen in life that throw you very far away from the path that you'd logically gravitate towards. Sometimes those events make sense; sometimes they don't. One of those happened for me in 1998, when my family realized the only viable resolution to the concerns they'd raised regarding the public school I was attending, would be to home-school. (The school was quick to clarify that it was not legal to transfer between schools.)

In any world, if I did things over I would absolutely have ticked the "[x] sound education" box. I don't understand math. I don't understand electronics. I don't understand a lot of things. I feel very much undone. It took 15 years to finally learn I had high-functioning autism and ADHD, figure out why the public school I'd attended had been so oppressive and condemning, and make sense of why my poor mother's best efforts never seemed to make a dent in my understanding. I'm now trying my best to make up for lost time, albeit without adequate resources.

I've learned that under-resourcedness is generally counterbalanced by having connections, and that a social network - a real, functional, practical one, not the all-thumbs kind you see on interactive TV - is one of the critical components of success in life, especially when (multiple) circumstances beyond your control make you stick out like a sore thumb and make sustenance of equilibrium orders of magnitude harder than the statistical average. But when those very circumstances make socialization and communication difficult, things can become very depressing. I guess the GP was a bit of a rant.

TL;DR, I have a VERY long list of "hey that could be a thing I could be really good at". It's huge. I've carried it for 20 years. I have no idea what I'm concretely good at. And I currently have no way to find out. It's a bit of a catch-22.

(Yes, I really was using a machine with 320MB of RAM in 2014.)
>but it's hard to argue that influence is greater than other Indian oligarchs (Mittals, Tatas, Birlas etc.)

That's naive at best.

It's no secret that Billionaires have their way anywhere in the world, especially in India where inequality is enforced, armored with the caste system. So, an Entrepreneur belonging to high caste, heading a company (Infosys, TCS etc.) has far less hurdles than a lower caste individual whose even the right to education via the reservation system would be questioned at every step of their life.

That said, Reliance - BJP nexus is nothing like India has seen before, so the political favors received by the Mittals, Tatas, Birlas pale in comparison. Details in other comment replies.

>The investments gave a much needed sigh of relief for the Reliance group of companies and their bondholders.

It was not like Jio was struggling for survival, which loads of other companies and millions of Indians do at this pandemic. Govt.'s answer to them? Get a loan from the Bank(Which none of the Banks are willing to give, even farmer gold loans have been halted in several states).

Where else have we seen global competitors who are fighting neck and neck in different markets invest in a single company which hasn't proven anything else other than undercutting competitors with inferior technology? Only thing which makes Reliance-Jio different from any other companies in India are its political influence and that is why these global players are rushing to invest. That and the wretched data.
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I'm Alex, the company's founder and CEO.

Here's us talking about the product and the Microsoft partnership on TV: https://www.instagram.com/stories/alexnklein/235848341696754...

You can reach out to me directly at alex at kano dot me

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The article falsifies your assumption about Facebook’s strategy and tactics in Bangladesh:

> The wording was intended to circumvent a Facebook algorithm that, to prevent wildlife trafficking, automatically takes down posts with “buy” or “sell” in the description.
It kinda does already. The displays in SpaceX capsule are chrome based...
This is how I summarize my time in photography classes.

- What’s in focus? (What’s out of focus?)

- What’s in light? (What’s in shadow?)

- Where is the light coming from? (Where is the light not coming from?)

- What’s in the foreground? (What’s in the background?)

- Positive space / negative space

Similar things end up happening in audio. You want to set up a microphone to record something, it’s usually better to point the microphone away from the noise that you don’t want, instead of towards the sound that you do want. When you’re EQing, you usually want to remove unwanted frequencies rather than boost wanted frequencies. Etc.
The articles structure makes it difficult to comprehend.
The point is, the labor theory of value has been rejected by economists for a really long time now, because it's a totally incoherent way of valuing things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theor...
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Facebook is the only opportunity at being market participants these people have, with its incredible low barrier to entry.
You can't avoid null and undefined in your code unless you avoid almost every language feature. Two particularly common ones:

* Accessing a missing property or method results with undefined. Hope you remember the exact method names and field names of all objects in your codebase!

* Using "str".match(regex) results with null if there are no matches.
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That's because Facebook obviously does not care. They remove the "buy" or "sell" posts due to laws, not because they themselves have issues with wildlife trafficking.

If FB did care, they'd not have a problem shutting it down until you have to go into really obscure code to pass by their systems, at which point it gets useless, because that code isn't known by the other side.
The problem, like with most moderation tools, is when shadowbans and similar measures are not just used against persistent spammers but as an easy way to shut out people without even trying to get them to improve their behavior. Something can be effective and dishonest at the same time.