skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has worked on ADAS software and saw a simple un-optimized ML object detector beat a custom hardware solution at both speed and accuracy, I can honestly say machine learning is amazing.

Just in this domain alone, excluding the 100 other applications of ML, and the fact that we haven't even begun optimization in earnest, I certainly believe ML will change the direction of computing. It already has: look at where investment and research dollars have gone. (not to say that trends don't happen, but when I saw the performance results I thought: sh*t, this is big.)

Add to this the rise of the qubit, and the next 50 years are going to be even crazier than the last 50.

Yes, I am a proselytizer of school of James Gleick. "Faster" was a prophecy[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Faster-Acceleration-Just-About-Everyt...
I've done my best to create a ranking of graduate creative writing programs by measuring the appearance of programs' graduates in the top prize anthologies. It's been generally well received although there has been some resistance to the idea of ranking programs like this. There's still a lot of work to be done on it, but the basic structure, at least is in place.

http://creativewritingmfa.info/rankings/
I am pretty sure the author is describing a well understood limitation of Elo, they just need a tiny bit of connecting to models.

Elo can be thought of as an approximation to item response theory models [1]. These describe skill as normally distributed, and whether one person will win using a logistic function (not exponetial).

I think what the author has keyed in on is that afaik in simple Elo there is no slope coefficient for the logistic, but in general IRT models there is (called item discrimination). So in Elo you can't learn that flatter curve they show.

[1]: http://hvandermaas.socsci.uva.nl/Homepage_Han_van_der_Maas/P...
oh man i had way too much fun playing with this!
The problem isn’t that we’ve locked opinion inside communities. It’s that doctoral programs are so poorly run. That universities are waiting for quantitative data to instill action is more sign of dysfunction.

Here’s yelp for grad programs. Write down the name of the program you’re looking at and make an asterisk. One star — it’s already more accurate than Yelp on restaurants.
MIT became a rich institution because of its ties to the military.

Lincoln Laboratory is often called a "PhD graveyard" for good reason: it's where reject academics who were denied tenure go to die.
I've never felt enticed to read a book by any philosopher, but that kind of made curious!

Especially given the comment about language could be seen as some kind of game, about which I'd say he's at least then partially been shown to be right? Being understood is very much a game, as you without anticipating your counterparts expectations and knowledge are often hopefully lost. Though I don't know if that's even close to what he was referring to, so yes, a but curious.
Internet users were a fraction of the total population, and even then it was still competing with TV, radio and print.
Almost ten years ago I was working on an interesting Linux multiboot system, googling to find far-from-default grub operation hints.

I think it can be agreed the present grub documentation is very broad, with only a few undocumented features, but still not very deep even on the default operation. Grub was also undergoing more rapid change at the time.

Came across a message where Tao had explained a concept like no other, and after what I had seen it was clear to me he understood it like no other, so it was purely logical. He knew more than the documentation. I didn't know he was a widely recognized mathematician or anything, I just thought he was a very bright computer scientist on a message board.

There were only a couple sentences that nearly applied to my system, within a couple paragraphs on his solution to a different problem.

There was no useful answer for me yet so I moved on.

Googled to exhaustion that session with no code changes to make, but I looked at it again and it was the only tab I kept open, even though Tao did not show the direct way forward for me at all, everything else was actually useless.

Next day I read it again, scrutinizing it over & over for an action I could follow through with, wishing someone had posted equally straightforward advice for my particular situation.

No such luck, but it inspired me to go forward in a similar fashion.

Mostly use both grub and syslinux as separate alternatives to boot my distributions ever since.

For years I've felt like I couldn't have done it otherwise.

And with Windows, grub or not, I ended up bringing more reliability to my employer.

Fairly recently I found out Tao had started out as a mathematical child.

That was incredibly helpful.

He actually communicated the unique abstract concept I needed without even knowing the problem and without intentionally trying.

I imagine he made up his own notations quite a bit before he carefully adopted the various professional terminologies.
Thank you - this was insightful.
> Why aren’t things this way?

They...are. With proper extensions, for example, VSCode does many of those things, and can switch which of the supported things it is doing, on top of also doing syntax highlighting, and some of the changes are automatic and context-driven.

And while VSCode is my current daily driver, that's been true of code editors for quite some time.
Depends a lot on the connection speed though - sometimes, I've found it's faster not to go down this route.
The examples near the start reminded me of another piece shared here before, "How to Build Good Software". Most notably the part near the end, titled "Software Is about Developing Knowledge More than Writing Code".

https://www.csc.gov.sg/articles/how-to-build-good-software

It has a few great quotes scattered throughout.

"Building good software involves alternating cycles of expanding and reducing complexity."

"Software should be treated not as a static product, but as a living manifestation of the development team's collective understanding."

"Software projects rarely fail because they are too small; they fail because they get too big."
The deeper, obvious (I thought) argument is that corona is a special, temporary circumstance, not a point for or against anything long-term.
You've noticed that other people's narratives/beliefs are internally inconsistent.

Perhaps you haven't noticed that this technique can be applied to your own narratives/beliefs? Because your beliefs are inconsistent too.

Everybody's beliefs are inconsistent - it's a systemic issue. We know about it. The root cause is the fact that language is recursive and it succumbs to Russel's paradox/liar's paradox.

Philosophers have been using inconsistency as a crutch for guilting people into changing their minds for... ever.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. --Walt Whitman
Being a low skill player playing exclusively with and against other low skill players sucks. Imagine playing doubles tennis where all four players hit the ball directly into the net 80% of the time. Win or lose it would be an unpleasant experience. I think that's the root of many people's frustration with ranked matchmaking in e-sports games.

I mentioned this in another comment, but I think if e-sports wants to become truly culturally significant the games will need to figure out how to more elegantly bridge the gap between ranked and unranked play, and how to make it fun to play at low skill levels. I don't think it's a coincidence that Fortnite has done both.
> I've also never really seen them seriously recon with the question of what you do with people who cannot compete, and at some point I feel like that crosses the line into intellectual negligence.

It absolutely is intellectual negligence, and there's nothing wrong with pointing it out. The standard answer trotted out is "charity" which is disingenuous at best, and completely impractical at worst.

There's nothing wrong with pointing out the logical flaws of people who secretly wish they were feudal lords or a pater familias in Ancient Rome, and wildly overestimate what their position or level of success in a theoretical 'Libertarian Society' would be.
I think they mean “good” in the sense of being helpful reviews: positive or negative.
Compared to a developer’s salary, seems like this is priced pretty well.
One issue with capitalism as it currently stands, it is largely based on self-interest.

On the one hand, GP laments lack of work on local social issues.

On the other hand, GP is competing with everyone in that local area for the best jobs and work. Volunteering doesn't put bread on the table.
Odysseus got raped by goddesses a lot, so you could call his posture disdainful I'd say. As the story is related he really did just want to get home to his superlatively excellent wife.

On a tangent, I do like how the phrase "holy moly" is a direct allusion to the Odyssey.
That’s not what I meant though.

If I understood your point correctly, a company could get in trouble for refusing to service someone based on some stated reason (e.g. your clothes) if it can be shown that they do serve other people that match that given reason.

It seems to me that the situation with Twitter is the same, if it can be shown that they justify banning some people based on hate speech, while refusing to ban other people performing the same kind of speech.
Completely agree, especially in tech. Except most companies will only give a 3-5% raise even if you're amazing.

It only makes sense to hire an employee if they create more value than they cost, or if they reduce more expenses than they cost. Most commonly, it's a combination of the two.
That's a grossly unfair characterization of SSC.
Whether you agree with this or not, you must admit that it’s not the typical VC fluff piece. It is specific and actionable.

Is there a similar guide for consumer companies?
This is very similar to what BSNL (the state telco) unions argue. The argument has been they got only 3G licenses when others got 4G , while there are some merits to it , let me tell you some examples on a common ground Broadband services.

I wanted a broadband at home (2011) and i preferred BSNL as i could use the monthly bills as address proof. The nearest office was just 2 KM away (First problem , you have to go there and submit an application). I did that , and it took 10 days and follow up to see if Broadband connection can be"given"
It was decided to be "given" after diligence. They gave me a connection , but i had to buy a router and take it to the office for PPPCoE and other configs (Second problem). After a year i moved houses , I was asked to go to an office that was 12 KM away to submit an application for cancellation (Problem 3)
I asked for a move of the connection itself , the answer was that the new home is in a new "jurisdiction" and this office was not authorized (Problem-4)

Well , i had enough and i got a new broadband (Jio did not exist then) . Called a number that was stuck on the wall of the Apartment , i got a connection activated the same day with a good router.

If you think i am ranting , don't get me started on what happens if it rains and the connection goes or a thunder fried my router once (Problems 6,7,8...)

How does it matter if there was no innovation or if the provider has deep pockets or political contacts ? What i think is it is not sufficient we have posters printed of this : https://stupidgyan.com/a-customer-is-the-most-important-visi... , what matters is living them
Medium is not the home for your ideas
I respectfully strongly disagree. At a certain scale when you can afford to have a full-time engineer working on it, open source tooling will give you a better, cheaper and more flexible solution since it's easy to customize. Datadog is good for the mainstream cases but it's not all that flexible for unusual or edge cases.
Elo might or mightn't suck (imo it's a great ranking system). But the article sucks. Vanilla elo is built around chess and some adjustments to the scale and/or K-factor might be necessary to fit the circumstance. A quick change of scale to E = (1 / 1 + 10 ^ ((Ra - Rb) / 800)) and all of a sudden ELO very accurately reflects the games actual results:
https://imgur.com/a/rFP5U0g

Meaning just that skill is a weaker factor in this game than in chess...

Edit: The 'actual' curve includes a correction for the obvious anomaly of ~55% win expectation at 0 point delta.
> I did it just now in a few minutes of Googling.

A few minutes? Google literally suggests it as an autocomplete for me.
I mean, you're not entirely wrong.

But also, since this is client side code, a smaller download means smaller utilities on client machines. Which is nice.
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Three of the big ones are car/home owners insurance and mortgages. I purchased my last two houses going through Costco's mortgage portal and saved huge on fees and had a much lower interest rate without having to purchase points. It's rather astonishing the number of perks to paying for the executive membership.
Post Undergrad With Shit GPA in CS Builds App During Quarantine
I graduated from university with a shitty GPA in computer science. Spent the past month or so in quarantine building a new social network for groups/communities. If you're wondering what's unique about this, it's that you these groups disband (we're not *another messaging app). You can create a group that disbands after a period of time and sync it with your calendar too. Let me know what you think!
I found this news site that has pretty much all the news in US
What's more interesting than the topic discussed is the fact that Jio has been generating a large volume of chatter among prominent netizens, particularly in the tech space. I can point out to a slew of talks by Lew Later [1] in the past 15-20 days. Engadget [2]. Now Ben/Stratechery.

It's nice to see India's part in the space that business ∩ tech ∩ people, apart from always being the focus of H1B related news.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lew+later+india
[2] https://www.engadget.com/tag/Jio/
Can I interest you in a React / Typescript role for Rent Seeking 2.0?
Ask HN: Do companies hire for entry level DevOps
You say "he" but for all you really know any number of people could have knowledge of that tripcode.
While I agree with the sentiment, many potential students are looking overseas.

Is there an Internet equivalent of "coffee and conversation"?
Steam game gift and discord maybe...
Maybe, just may be a realistic assessment of the chances of success is an under appreciated entrepreneurial trait.

Maybe this trait can co-exist independently with the ability to forge ahead DESPITE knowing how low the odds are, because you want to see something happen.

Maybe it is that silicon valley groks this as "an irrational belief" when in fact, it is the compulsion to forge ahead despite knowing the odds.
Who believes in Jio, if reliance owner was a good businessman, he's have dominated in many other countries.

The only reason he survives in India is because government is in his hands.

He has used this many times to harm competition.
Somebody should tell Philosophers about the Curry-Howard-Lambek isomorphism.

Because that's all there is to the Mathematical notion of "rigorous proof".

And the 'next step' in scaling up this process is the mission undertaken by the NuPRL project [1] well on our road towards internalising systems theory as the mode of scientific discourse [2]:

Starting with the slogan "proofs-as-programs," we now talk about "theories-as-systems."

1. http://nuprl.org/Intro/intro.html

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers
As a big fan of bullet-lists, for concisely summarizing key points, I'm wrestling with this: "If someone builds a list of bullet points in word, that would be just as bad as powerpoint."

Is Bezos referring to cases where the "why" is not clear, and not explained?

Lots of times I'll use a bullet list, with indented subitem bullets explaining why, or going into detail. I find this format much easier to read than a wall of text. And it makes the hierarchy clear.

Note that the article uses 3 bullet-lists, which were easy to read/scan quickly.
Just checked it out, looks pretty neat
dragonwriter says >"US Presidents are not elected by the citizens, though the way they are elected tends usually in practice to align with the expressed will of the citizens, at least since the electors themselves have been elected by citizens, albeit disproportionately. But not in the case of Trump, among several other exceptions."<

Pedantry and sophistry. "Elected" merely means "chosen by vote".

Q. Who voted for President of the USA in the 2016 USA elections?

A. The citizens of the USA.

Q. Who was elected president of the USA in 2016?

A. Donald Trump.

Therefore, Donald Trump was elected president of the USA by its citizens. Q.E.D.

Or perhaps you know of someone else who was elected president of the USA in 2016? If so, please name them, tell us why we neither hear their voice nor see them issuing decrees. Why do you not speak for them, man or woman, whichever ye be? Are you a traitor to their cause and, by your inactions, a traitor to your country (only if you're a US citizen, of course)?
That's what I get for using the address bar rather than the actual website!
> All programmers are forcing their brains to do things brains were never meant to do in a situation they can never make better, ten to fifteen hours a day, five to seven days a week, and every one of them is slowly going mad.

Yeah, this resonates. I've got in trouble with my wife more than once for being in "code mode" when I'm working and something happens, it seems to turn off my basic empathy for some reason. Programming changes people.
Yeah cause this is a developing country and what we got was a few kb/s prior to this. This is a massive leap for us
All things being equal the price per sqft actually tends to go down with the larger houses, because of simple geometry and the expensive parts (kitchens & bathrooms) remain fairly constant. AKA a three bedroom two bath 2000sqft house isn't much more expensive to build than a three bedroom two bath 1300 square foot house. Particularly if the designer manages to get most of the plumbing/etc on a common wall. This fact seems to continue through its lifetime if you compare houses in many neighborhoods, the house prices are fairly similar, while the $/sqft will vary wildly.
when people say 'mail' they mean what your postman puts in your mailbox. a letter. with a stamp on it. that is what the discussion is about. letting other companies compete on delivering letters. this is the post, this is what has been on the news, this is what 'the billionairs' are pushing for. they already provide parcel service. no one is arguing they should be allowed to start doing what they already do.

you should educate yourself on the point before arguing such a strong strawman. this battle has been going on for over 150 years, and it has nothing to do with parcel service. start here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company

that's what i and the whole country is 'on about.' welcome to the conversation.
You could do cross platform UI with Java. It was slow, ugly and poorly integrated with the rest of the OS unless you put in extra effort for each platform.. Just like applications running in the browser today.
Here's 1000 players with 100,000 matches: https://i.imgur.com/1Y08jUB.png

Feel free to try simulating it yourself, but even mathematically it makes no sense to end up with a uniform distribution as we tend to infinity.
I know this is off Topic but you have partly answered the question I have always in had my head about Modern Day Sports Economics.

They have sort of become Billionaires playground.
UC Berkeley to lead $25M quantum computing center
The Sufis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism) consider nothingness to be the fifth element of nature.
This looks great, another competitor is streamlit. You guys need a data grid.
Most the Internet tutorials, research successes in Deep Learning are in NLP and Computer Vision. But most of the times in an actual setting people will also use a data grid to show results and/or input data.
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I came across [this site](http://www.test.cocon.se/) by accident, when I accidentaly entered my AWS EFS id in Google.
I went to investigate and found out that there is a Subreddit.
Yes, that is the reality

Along with sovereign immunity to CFAA and other laws
Seeing that facsimile of "Mind" reminds me of Wittgenstein's quotes:

"If I read your mags I often wonder how anyone can read 'Mind' with all its impotence & bankruptcy when they could read Street & Smyth mags. Well everyone to his taste."

"How people can read Mind if they could read Street & Smith beats me. If philosophy has anything to do with wisdom there's certainly not a grain of that in Mind & quite often a grain in the detective stories."
The crux of Wittgenstein can be summed up thus (and I am totally stealing this from Jean-Yves Girard).

It's not about the rules of logic, it's about the logic of rules [1]

The axioms and deductive rules of ALL formal languages are invented/designed by humans, not discovered, so it begs the question: Who invents the rules and why?

Logic (when seen as a formal language itself) is a subset of Programming Language Theory [2]

1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S096012950100336X

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory
From a random article discussing Zenefits' rise and fall:

> This institutionalized cheating finally caught up with the San Francisco-based Zenefits last week, when Parker Conrad, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO, was forced to resign over what the company described as widespread failures of regulatory compliance. The shakeup, announced in a blistering memo from David Sacks, the executive who took over as CEO, stunned the tech establishment, which had supported Zenefits' rise.

It seems that Sacks inherited Zenefit's problems, not created them. I think citing Zenefits is not a valid argument, either a straw man or just low on the hierarchy of disagreement.

It is fair to point out that he states it is the main cause of why Yammer became a billion dollar company, and by implication, this will also help you become a unicorn, in very self-help novel writing fashion.
That's a really great point, we're working on getting a tabular interface up (something like a csv input)
We have marketing to thank for that. Consumers don't care about performance because they're trained to buy $800 devices every year or two. They also don't care about security because being hacked is seen both inevitable and no big deal. And why should they care about accessibility? Most people don't need that at all.
It seems there was a lot of rating inflation in chess, but at the top level, at least, it's stopped - the number of players over 2700 has been pretty constant for 5-10 years, a few dozen players. In 1990, only Kasparov and Karpov were rated over 2700.

https://2700chess.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_in_chess
Thanks for posting. I was curious on "Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding...". Interesting that a best paper award was given to a philosophical paper on distinction between meaning and form.
If you see a job titled "devops" run away, very fast, unless your'e also the kind of person who would apply for a job where the title was "agile" or "scrum".
Thank you for writing up this detailed breakdown.

I can see how option #4 is a problem from a theoretical standpoint, I still have trouble imagining an actual attack.
An aside that I was curious about: "20H1"?

I found https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/06/16/whats...:

> Windows 10, version 20H2 is, therefore, “20H2” because it will be released in the second half of the 2020 calendar year.

So 20H1 is 2020 1st half then. And Windows now has biannual rolling release? Nice.
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