skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Men want to be the breadwinner

And there's the problem. I'd be totally comfortable if my future wife ended up being the financial supporter of the family. There's technical things I'd like to invest time and mental resources in that wouldn't necessarily make money, but would be fulfilling, and housework is already something I do a lot of and wouldn't mind being more responsible for if I wasn't spending 40+ at the office.

I can't imagine dumping my career whilst I'm the higher earner, but if she ends up making more than me (kinda likely actually, given some time), it might be the most sensible solution. Marriage should be a team activity where either partner is willing to take on whatever role is best for the family.
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I seriously doubt the author was aware of that.
I do the same. I went to college for 2.5 years, never completed a degree. I'm not going to lie and claim a graduation. I used to list the date range I went to school, but now I leave that off entirely. No one has ever once asked about school. With 20+ years of experience on my resume, I doubt they even read the last section.
What...? I'm well aware of what The Atlantic is. People aren't (or shouldn't be) using it to guide how they spend their money.
that's good to know. i have been struggling with the first one.

one thing i am wondering is if having different translators for the books is noticeable in any way
That's odd. I'm testing it right now and it's working. Which voices are you trying, and which device and browser are you using?
I wonder what encryption and key based techniques can be used to verify the authenticity of audio and video records in the future.
I have considered open sourcing projects before but decided against it due to not wanting to support it. I have a hard problem saying no or ignoring people and so little side-projects or proof-of-concepts that I have open sourced turned into more of a pain that they were worth.

Example: I got a Eufy RoboVac 15C and I was in a homebridge-craze at the time I got it. So I found some code in python that was able to control the vacuum for the most part and so using that as my base I wrote a homebridge plugin in nodejs that would let you issue all the commands. Now homebridge on it's own is far from stable (IMHO, if it works for you then that's great but for me it would break every month or so randomly), then you throw Tuya into the mix, and a company that made some firmware changes to the vacuum and it's a house of cards.

I was proud of myself for getting it all to work but in practice I run the vacuum on a timer and never futz with controlling it directly. I really just wanted to prove I could do it. To get it to play nice with homebridge I had to publish it on npm (2 libraries, one general purpose nodejs lib to control the vacuum and one that was the homebridge plugin that used the lib).

Queue support requests... I easily spent 30+ hours trying to help people both on GH and over email (email was even harder for me to say no to). This was at a point where I wasn't even using homebridge at all, let alone the plugin.

Maybe I'm just an idiot for not deprecating the repo or putting up a message but I felt obligated to help and then when I procrastinated helping it would just be this background sense of shame for abandoning it. Thankfully someone else, who apparently does use it, stepped up to fix some of the things that broke and has taken over most of the support-related things (which reminds me, I need to see about transferring the repo over to them fully) but I think that's generally the exception and not the rule.

Bottom line publishing anything feels like I'm shackling myself to it which is not a feeling I like or enjoy which leads to me just putting less out there. Maybe I'm missing an obvious solution but I really don't like putting myself in that situation. I am 100% willing to hand over my work for free (as in, for projects that I have no intention of trying to monetize/purse) but I don't want to signup for future work. Is this just selfish or what?
I suspect that in 15 years people will be saying the same about K8s, possibly JS if Wasm takes off and I suspect ML will a fairly niche area.
Yeah, you definitely have to sacrifice parts of your overall health if you want to exercise more than 90 minutes per day.

/s

Diminishing returns doesn't mean that you have to sacrifice anything (besides some idealized notion of efficiency). The hurt-your-overall-health point is somewhere much closer to Olympic athlete than it is to 10hrs/week. If you just vary the activities a little, you will have no trouble with spending a lot more time on exercise. People who literally do only the one physical activity they compete in are straw men.

PS: The number of people completely clueless about fitness on HN would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.
No, the blog posts talks about using V8 isolates (V8 is a JavaScript engine). What CF does is support Rust via Web Assembly, and I think Go WASM might be supported. But they're pretty clear that they're not doing a process model, you'll have to submit code that runs inside V8.
Googlers for example already earn very livable wages.

(I agree that companies shouldn't do charity. But for very different reasons.

Just provide good and cheap goods and services to customers, and pay your shareholders and employees.

Those shareholders and employees as real person can make their own decisions on charity. No need for matching etc.

You can also consider not optimizing your taxes as aggressively, and treating the 'excess' paymnents to government mentally as if they were charitable giving.)
US deaths on July 1st were ~700, on July 23rd they were ~1100. The deaths histogram seems to be going upward to me.
It does seem like shoes are a better place for this technology -- the feet see a huge amount of bloodflow, and shoes tend to trap heat so there's a bigger thermal differential to exploit.
Yeah you're right it is. I was strongly considering just writing a bash script but I had a bunch of probabilistic stuff going on for using effects, so stuck with python.
An alternative to CSV or SQLite for interchange.
Its hard, we get a lot of emails and ignore most of them. You need to find some interesting insight or question, not "can you work with me." Making me think about research is a welcome thing. Making me think about managing people, not so much.

Couple of tricks: try not engaging via email. Twitter works (but again, make it a stimulating conversation, not a "work work" one). Or if they have code on github under active development, try contributing there.
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A past discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965589
You're right. Love your example.

HN does not have much actual collective expertise in this area (say: governance structures for technical research), but HN is solution-oriented, so ideas will be proposed. They just tend to be not very good. (See also: HN climate-studies threads.)

I've spent 10 or 15 minutes on this thread, and didn't read any comments actually building on what the OP said. OP's author does have expertise in this - he has been writing a series of good stories for Science magazine in this general area. Sigh.
I'm not talking about growth. I'm talking about building a sustainable business around a cool idea that outlives it's founders...

I'm putting their business in context against the luxury retail backdrop that isn't looking too good these days
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For many GPT1-3 is the first exposure to language modelling technology, which is great, but language modelling and pretraining is already widely used in nearly every NLP task even before GPT1.
Any NLP engineer has used this, so it is kind of weird to claim large-scale pretrained LMs are revolutionised with GPT3.

Don't get me wrong the hype is largely deserved because of the performance and engineering/research/funding effort required. Plus cool demos and media marketing from OpenAI helps a lot in spreading awareness.

OpenAI has definitely revolutionised the marketing for language models, no doubt.
Let's wait and see if they manage to do the same for the economic valorisation.
OK - then I challenge you - how would you describe the moral or ethical status of racism?

Can we draw any moral or ethical conclusions about it at all?

Seems like this "what's the proper way to use the word objective" discussion misses the forest for the trees ...
> 1. It just doesn't work.

* Unleaded gasoline

* Earthquake-proof building codes

* Air pollution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_of_1963#Effects)

These are just a few that I quickly came up with off the top of my head. Obviously, not all regulation works. But it is so incredibly false to say there doesn't exist effective regulation that has made our lives much better.
No reason, other than, you know, making manufacturing much more expensive.

If a car company knows it can sell 1 million cars a year, it needs to be able to manufacture 1 million cars a year. If they operate their plant 24/7, their plants need to have enough throughout to build 2 cars a minute. However, if they plan to only operate during sunny days, their plants will only operate probably a third of the time, so they need to build three times as many factories, buy three times as many machines, build three times the number of manufacturing lines, and hire more employees.
I'm curious why you chose to build your own instead of go with something like NestJS?
You definitely have to push for it, only in the best of companies will everyone from top to bottom management take case of this proactively. Speak to your manager regularly that you need to expand your skills, tell him why, and show him what you want to do and how he can help. Some managers are not very good at this and you need to do the majority of the work. Accept it and do your part, but don't think training isn't needed just because your manager doesn't bring it up.
Absolutely. These are called "style tokens" and they're an active area of TTS research.

The problem is that currently your training data has to be annotated with these tokens, and that adds a lot to the difficulty of creating data sets.

I imagine that over time this will get much easier to do.
I am worried what's going to happen with big vote-by-mail election. How much chaos will ensue with an overwhelmed USPS?

We've already seen elections with ballot invalidation rates of 25% in NYC with some of the primaries. A lot had to do with postmark dates and signatures.
The Counterintuitive Effects of Cancel Culture
One alternative that's available right now is Fly.io — Fly actually runs Docker containers at the edge, so you get a lot of the benefits including autoscaling up and down, your application following the sun across the world, etc.

I'm using them for a couple of small production projects and wrote up a gRPC example, quite happy with the service so far.
Oh, I thought we were talking about GPT-3
> I'd like to see a trace tool built for Workers where you can debug what happened in a Live environment.

Does `wrangler tail` help with this?

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/tips/debuggi...
In the current economic environment, yes. But suppose we transitioned into a new economic reality. Imagine that net-zero-carbon global economy is a hard requirement. Imposed by god or something. I guess adjustable demand would be a feasible option then.
You'd have to be pretty crazy to actually mail your mail-in ballot. What is the only way to expose every election in the country to the meddling of the federal executive branch? Interpose the USPS between the voter and local election officials! Whether by incompetence or malice they'll find a way to fuck it up. I intend to carry my own ballot to the county election office.
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I learned about Cloudflare Workers early this year and they definitely seem simpler than AWS Lambda + Gateway combo to deploy and rollout.

Unless one is invested in AWS for other needs or need one of the language which Workers doesn’t support (Java?, Go?), it might be a fair option to consider.
Obviously this isn't an ideal solution but I wonder if this might be an opportunity for the people with means to pay for a babysitter (but not necessarily a private teacher) to hire some of the 2020 college grads who aren't going to find a job any time soon as daily tutors/online school facilitators for their kids? There are going to be tons of educated young adults out of work in the coming year and given their lack of experience they'll be less expensive than hiring an actual teacher, but they may be able to provide enough feedback and structure to give the kids a better quality online education. I don't have kids though so I don't really have a dog in this fight, just an idea. I used to enjoy babysitting back in the day and I would have loved an "academic babysitting" job like this when I first graduated.
>Energy and persistence could basically be the same thing

This in particular I think are very different things. You can start a lot of things and be always doing something yet give up as soon as any difficulties appear. This is high energy, low persistence.
> They're working on some legacy BASIC or COBAL system from the seventies, and surprised they can't find a new job when that's upgraded and they're downsized.

Wow, exaggerate much?

This doesn't describe the vast majority of "older" workers, it's just another disappointing stereotype and expression of ageism.
For another discussion of why banks are terrible for poor people: "Why It's More Expensive to Be Poor", from PBS's personal-finance channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwRZibUqL0
>Ones who keep up their skills

To get a rough idea of the value of up-to-date skills vs apparent age, let's consider a hypothetical:

If both a 50 and 24 year-old graduate from the same coding boot-camp, do they have equal odds of being seen after the first interview? (let alone actual employment)

And how big is the difference in probabilities?

I also note that desktop games are primarily coded in C++/C. If hiring is skill based then we would expect that industry to be zealously recruiting older engineers.
I think a lot of this is because employee turnover in the software industry is much higher than for most professions.

An accountant, lawyer or architect can reasonably be expected to stay with the same firm for a decade or longer, often their entire career. It makes sense under that context for employers to invest more in long-term skills.

Whereas, once you get to the heart of Silicon Valley, it's not unusual for people to jump employers every 6 months. That's maybe not the rule. But even Google and Microsoft has turnover rates that imply a half-life of no more than a few years for the average employee. The economics of long-term re-training just doesn't make sense.

Is this the worse thing in the world though? It allows savvy workers to continuously jump around companies and continuously re-negotiating higher compensation packages. That helps to make sure that workers are paid at or near their market value. In a way that doesn't work in the accounting industry, because future employers would look down at your resume history.
I've tried Gilbert Gottfried and NDT. I do get a console error about CORS:
> Access to fetch at 'https://mumble.stream/speak_spectrogram' from origin 'https://vo.codes' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.

Using Chrome stable
I checked recently, and the Rust implementation of arrow — parquet as well — is sadly still not usable on projects using a stable version of the compiler because it relies on specialization.

There are some Jira issues on this, but there doesn't seem to be a consensus on the way forward. Does someone have more information, is the general idea to wait for specialization to stabilise, or is there a plan, or even an intention, to stop relying on it?
At the risk of arguing "no true Scotsman," someone who is concerned about security likely wouldn't make assumptions about defaults. Or rather, someone appropriately paranoid about security concerns would not trust defaults without at least reviewing them.
I see the school of the bleedin' obvious is alive and well.

Whatever revelation next Sherlock ?
I think DDG started doing it within last 6 months. When I just switched to it, this was not the problem. Now I am almost back to using Google, because when Google omits terms, results are a bit more on the topic (when forced not to, DDG and G work similarly).
> and crushing it into a high-dimensional vector in a continuous euclidean space. That's like fitting the 3-d spherical earth onto a 2-d map; any way you do it you do violence to the map.

Adding to this, most metrics can't be embedded well in euclidean space. Even something as simple as 4 nodes in a loop using the shortest path as your metric -- there's a minimum amount of error for any embedding into any euclidean space, and it's well above 0.

It's a bit surprising to me that we've hobbled along this far shoving square pegs into round holes wrt NLP since fundamentally that can't be fixed with more parameters and bigger coprocessors. It seems that some interesting features of natural language are actually euclidean.
You can control this in the preferences: pasteboard.co/JjBKDWf.png
That's an interesting idea but production lines cannot just be stopped and started like that - you could carry much more produced inventory to make up for lost days but that will be expensive.
Great read!

> Could the inclusion of a university neuroscience course in teacher training counter neuromyths? Plausible, but unfounded. Taking a course would improve neuroscience knowledge among future teachers but likely without reducing their false beliefs.

That is an interesting question that I am asking myself from time to time (I am a software engineer with a keen interest in psychology and neuroscience) and the findings in the linked research paper are very surprising. It seems explaining the principles of brain functioning doesn't do too much in addressing one's beliefs in different myths. I can only hypothesize that debunking these myths should be done by addressing them directly, going through each of them one by one, and asking what are the main pillars upon which their beliefs are based. I've written recently a post on the 10% brain usage myth[0] that addresses specifically that belief.

> from the 100 billion neurons that the brain has at birth

This is something I see frequently, but FYI, the latest plausible estimates are 86B neurons[1] (which might not seem like a big deal, but the difference of 14B is like the brain of a baboon)

Finally, to aid the debunking of the VAK model, it might help explaining the small conscious throughput capacity of human senses and how focusing on only one plane of the VAK model doesn't make sense, since it cuts out precious cognitive capacity[2]

EDIT: your subscription address on the site has an expired certificate.

[0]: https://iuliangulea.com/blog/debunking-the-myth-of-ten-perce...

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19226510/

[2]: https://iuliangulea.com/blog/how-people-learn-human-senses/
In my county (in California) there are dedicated ballot boxes that are not serviced by the post office. The ballots are collected from the boxes by county election officials. Is this not a thing in other states?
Both men and women usually prefer men to be the breadwinner though - this isn't just cultural - it has biological roots. Breaking away from that on a mass societal-wide scale will not be easy. Thankfully humans are one of the few animals who override their instincts so it's not impossible.
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I find it interesting how this situation is beginning to feel normal to me. I'm only 20, so I've never really consciously lived through a world event of anything even approaching this magnitude before. I'm finding that my whole outlook on life is being majorly altered by all this. As utterly horrible and tragic as everything is right now, I'm hopeful this will ultimately turn out to result in some positive lifestyle changes for me at a personal level, as long as I don't die.
> It would be a bit like how carbon dating or production of low background steel changed after 1945 due to nuclear testing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896293

I guess books published will be more useful than reddit rants (depending on the application)
There is a separate option to reverse scrolling of the trackpad, works flawless here.
HHMI is not the only one - certainly DARPA is willing to provide large funds for specific areas of interest (though a VERY different funding model). Wellcome trust, the Allen Institute, Broad institute, and others also work with slightly different models that can complement the NIH funding lines.
Original Title is: "Postdigital war beneath the sea? The Stack’s underwater cable insecurity".

I've made a decision to editorialize the title to highlight the NSA involvement. But unfortunately the "2016" is a copy paste error (the "2016" is part of the caption of the image: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s42984-020-00014-x... and shouldn't be part of the post headline)
Fair. It is quite off-topic. Though, I am not the one who introduced it into the discussion ...

I am a bit confused though. Big corporations support all sorts of things - arts foundations, politicians who pass policies that will help the corporations make money, environmental groups, union-busting groups, groups against climate change legislation, children's sport's teams, etc.
PHP's strict typing is only enforced at runtime, and because of that, its type system is very simple, unlike Typescript's. You can enforce that a variable is an array, but not that it's an array of ints, let alone that it's an array with certain types under certain keys.

Although there is external tooling that uses static analysis for such more complicated types.
>So your body can get to higher temperatures whilst you have a longer period of tolerance of it. There is some question as to the safety of this for people who might not be of athletic ability etc. It likely will allow increased, often significantly, blood pressure.

Is it possible to use this effect to get the opposite result? that is, fooling the brain to perceive itself to be hotter than it is to overcharge the cooling mecanisms at the cost of an unpleasant feeling of heat?
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That works for small cabins and lighting, as a 12v car outlet requires the same thickness of wire as a normal AC outlet. This is somewhat popular to do if you don’t need to use any high power appliances as then you can skip needing an inverter.
Our brains are mostly an already-trained network though. Running a model that has been trained is the easy part.
This website (protocol.com) hounded me with a newsletter subscribe popup as soon as I landed on the page.

I hadn't even had a chance to read the first line of the article and the site's already asking me to sign up for their marketing trash.

Why in the world would anyone think that's acceptable? I have never seen the site before and have no idea of the quality of its content so what on earth makes them think they're going to get a subscriber out of me?
Or produce one third of the cars. I don't think there is a shortage of cars in the world.