skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "job-ready" talk is a classic example of technology developing a life of its own (in the widest sense of the word "technology"), corrupting education specifically to suit its own needs of self-replication. [1]

The lede is a bit buried (and the financial restructuring "very complicated"), but here's the key insight to how Australia's implementing this:

The reforms redistribute these subsidies and changes the amount of funding that different subjects receive. For subjects like law and the humanities, the increase in student fees exceeds the decrease in government subsidies, meaning universities end up with higher fees overall. This is not the case in “job-ready subjects”, where universities are forced to absorb a shortfall since the government subsidies do not offset the drop in student fees. This, higher education professionals argue, means lower per-capita student funding that will not give universities the resources they need to produce more ‘job-ready’ graduates – and could even back-fire.

I personally concur with this:

“I think the idea that you can persuade the student who is interested in philosophy to go and become an engineer is just not how this is going to work,” says Joel Barnes, a public history researcher at University of Technology Sydney.

Of course, spending any time around a college undergraduate quickly shows you that most students take awhile to understand what their "philosophy" is. This, in my opinion, is the strength of America's (higher) education system - it is so flexible that one can decide to switch to philosophy/programming halfway through their training, once they discover that really is what they liked to do all along but had just never tried it. This Australian system would, instead, lock you into a cheaper major regardless of how miserable you are. Sounds to me like a recipe for a lot of incompetent engineers.

1 - https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-t...
Yes, there are even competing theories of DNA versus RNA as the sort of precursor self-replicating molecules. See "RNA World" and "Primordial Soup" theories.

RNA makes for an interesting candidate because of enzymatic activity. Similar molecules could enzymatically consume, build, and "compete" with one another.

To my knowledge, there are many computer simulations, but I don't know an exact figure for "how long would it take given X (some axiom of the state of the Earth). Here's a paper I found quickly. I promise I didn't choose that institute/university on purpose.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03032...

The panspermia hypothesis is also supported rather recently.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6900709
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That’s the book my mom used to teach me how to read. I don’t remember much about it, but it was apparently effective, so it’s nice that it’s stuck around for the past ~20 years.
When I do a take home I have access to google, StackOverflow, etc. I can spend 15minutes on it, then pause to do something else (while I still sort of think about the problem), get back to it for 30 to 60 minutes, rinse and repeat. Which is exactly how I work in real life.

Take homes can actually be compiled and executed against a test suite for correctness.

Take homes tend to be more realistic exercises than balancing a f-ing tree or walking some idiotic graphs.
I don't think quitting is necessary to work on an unrelated side project. Many of the companies on the list ask you to do a either a take home project, test, or tele-coding - real work that doesn't guarantee a job - how does getting paid for your work suddenly make it different?
Throwing shade at SCMP by alleging some kind of anti-Vietnamess bias is unwarranted: it's the best newspaper in Hong Kong and arguably one of the best in all Asia. Alas, one of the many tragedies of Hong Kong's current political situation is that the SCMP is also going to get neutered though :(
around where I live its usually meth addicts trying to steal something to pawn and buy more drugs. The meth addicts in that state are not the most rational forward thinking people.
Another good example of this is this photoshoped image. Yandex give you both results, the background and the girl in the foreground.

NSFW-ish (girl in bikini)
https://imgur.com/a/k8Ovoap
By no means an exhaustive list, so really just promoted listings.
>with all the registration, taxation, regulation etc headache this implies!

>It's not if you are in the US.

Its also not if you are in Australia. I'd suggest that the number of developers and designers who at least occasionally take on paid side gigs or who have revenue generating side projects (even if it barely covers hosting etc) is about 1/3.
This video explains why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-_QKyipj_Y
Finite Vector Spaces as Model of Simply-Typed Lambda-Calculi [pdf]
53 here, and I also don't remember "learning to read", but I do still remember wondering why so many of the other kids in my kindergarten class (4-5year olds here) couldn't read already.

My parents were always "readers" and growing up our house was always full of bookshelves stacked to overflowing with books and magazines.

I spent a lot of time as a pre teen and teenager going through my dad's unbroken collection of Scientific American magazine starting from the late 60s. I suspect Martin Gardner's column has had a direct influence on my career choices and why I hang out here... I remember many occasions when peers at university were first learning about things like Conway's Game Of Life, Penrose Tilings, and RSA public key crypto - and I'd be "Doesn't everybody know all this already? I think I read about this before I was in high school!"
I’d compare it to the human genome project. Look where we are now with full genome sequencing for the cost of a laptop.
Public funded data should be publicly available which includes use by private corporations.
AppleCD Audio Player is nothing…

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macos80

…compared to the brushed metal and bizarre volume control in QuickTime in Mac OS 9.

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macos90
So humanities and the power to dictate culture will be further reserved for the wealthy and privileged? Alternatively, humanity degrees fees should be quadrupled, but 3/4 of slots should be reserved for average income households who gets to attend for free.
Same, unless I’m sick my nostrils stay even.
If nothing else this is going to be a fun show. I have a feeling the House is overmatched.
Most noteworthy for me: All of the women failed the whiteboard tests, however they passed tests conducted in a private setting.

Assuming the study’s results are valid, that’s really all the justification we need to get rid of these tests.
Just like titanium (pigmented) golf balls.
Developer here! I'm so excited to see that people like this toy. I'm happy to answer any questions, if you have any.

But first, some important credits: Emulator: Basilisk II, a 68k Macintosh emulator, by Christian Bauer et al, modified and compiled with Emscripten by James Friend. Installed software from vintage computing archives: WinWorldPC, Macintosh Garden, and Macintosh Repository.
How does having a passport affect a US citizen's taxes?
Dan!!!!!
And Google give you "Internet meme" as a result.
Do you have a pulse oximeter? It might be a good idea to order one and monitor your blood oxygen saturation. You might be suffering from anxiety, which will show with the oximeter.
The economics of spam (2012) [pdf]
I love FST's and similar structures, they're just such a cool idea.

Anyone know if there are any other similar interesting blog posts/articles about FST's?
I switched to integer version numbers.
This is a nostalgia thing. What he wants is this.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/VUMTshUflTg
Noise and Well-Being
I went digging into that Wikipedia page and found a couple of interesting papers:

"The Ultradian Rhythm of Alternating Cerebral Hemispheric Activity" https://doi.org/10.3109/00207459309000583

"Effect of uninostril yoga breathing on brain hemodynamics: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study"
https://dx.doi.org/10.4103%2F0973-6131.171711

"Selective Unilateral Autonomic Activation: Implications for Psychiatry"
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852900021428

My takeaway: The nervous system is super complicated and has various rhythms. For example the circadian rhythm makes you sleepy at night and alert during the day. There are a bunch of other rhythms that are not yet well studied. The nervous system alternates activity in left and right sides of the body on a rhythm of about 1.5 hours. The nasal cycle is part of this rhythm. One can influence this rhythm by forcing the body to breathe through one nostril.

"Klein, Pilon, Prosser, and Shannahoff-Khalsa (1986) assessed cognitive perfor- mance during different phases of the nasal cycle. They observed significant rela- tionships between the pattern of nasal airflow and spatial and verbal performance. Right nostril dominance correlated with enhanced verbal performance, or left brain activity, and left nostril dominance correlated with enhanced spatial performance, again indicating that the hemispheres alternate with the phases of the nasal cycle."

"Leconte and Lambert (1988) demonstrated that subjects who undergo a test of immediate memory every 25 min with two modalities (semantic and graphic) present a fluctuation in performance with a periodicity of about 100min. The two modalities were in opposite phase."

If breathing can reduce emotional problems for some people, then we could possibly predict this effect by measuring peoples' nasal cycles and hemisphere EEG rhythms. I imagine a typical doctors visit would start out with: 1) filling out the questionnaire, 2) measuring weight, temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure, and then 3) wearing the EEG helmet with nostril sensors for a minute.
I was told to read them right after the sentence in which they appear. It sucks when there's one in the middle of a sentence or multiple in one sentence, really breaks the flow of the thought. On the other hand, I can't think of a better way to handle them without omitting them entirely.

There's a few things like that which have really made me realize how visual books are, and how challenging they are to translate to the spoken word (simple example, imagine how to express with your tone of voice that this is a parenthetical rather than a new sentence).
I'll abuse it all I like. At the end of the day it's a format standard for versions, whether you use it semantically or not. It has a well designed mechanism for comparing versions. It allows adding of meta data to the version, so you can build what commit, and what build run on your CI system built it, or any other things you want. Many tools understand it.

I really struggle to see any meaningful downside in using semver, even if you don't do it semantically, if all you really need is some ever increasing number that is trackable through your system, it does that job as well.
How far will this go? Is there any limit?
Well there is an argument that it is actually a Bible. and that much of American culture is a pseudo-religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion
Thanks for saying that, I will!
It's worth a try ;-)

https://www.macintoshrepository.org/195-microsoft-excel-1-03...
This also made me break out into a huge smile! Thank _you!_
The only things I would ever modernize about the D forums if I were to ever bother is just CSS style or something, but honestly, they work, they're faster than most forums out there and aren't crashing all the time (I'm looking at you vBulletin!) so it's fantastic.
> The attention mechanism is quadratic cost in the number of input symbols. Restricting it to a tiny alphabet would radically blow up the model cost, so it's difficult to make an apples to apples comparison.

That's ultimately my point. If an alphabet-based model can't achieve nearly the same results as a BPE-based model (even if appropriately scaled up to accommodate the expanded cost), doesn't that suggest that Transformers really are just a neat memorization hack?

> Sure you could, you could look up and copy it which is an ability GPT-3 also needs to model if its to successfully learn from the internet where people do that all the time. :)

That's right - but then we're just talking about memorization and regurgitation. Sure, it's impressive when done on a large scale, but is it really a research direction worth throwing millions of dollars at?

> I'm sure people working on transformers would _prefer_ to not have it remember everything for a window (and instead spend those resource costs elsewhere), but it's necessary that the attention mechanism be differentiable for training, and that excludes obvious constructions.

Of course, but all of my whinging about Transformers is a roundabout way of saying "I'm not convinced that the One True AI will unquestionably use some variant of differentiation/backpropagation".
Fat burners: Green coffee benefits, get the best result 2020
Interesting! Which means if you have the smelly gene you'll be smelly if you don't wash... (at least areas with pubic/negative hair) but if you have the other allele you'll be fine without washing/bathing/showering.
Does this really pass the smell test?
Sorry I wasn’t meaning you specifically or at all for my comment. I don’t remember now who I was thinking of. But me making someone else feel bad wouldn’t make sense with being unhappy with “harshness”.

Thanks for your clarification and overall I agree with your original issue.

I have a small but growing community of people from before corona with the center piece being a 24/7 Zoom meeting room and yeah it has never felt fully right. It still works out, but it does feel as if there’s something off.
We don’t even understand the placebo effect, there is little hope in learning the truth in regards to human biology as it would be too complicated, expensive, and unethical to try.
Learning something badly can be disastrous. I self-taught myself to type years before I took a typing class in school. Despite multiple attempts to learn both qwerty and dvorak I still use my invented four-finger method that doesn't allow me to fully touch-type without looking down.
Edgium. I like it. Switched from Brave some time ago because they couldn't stop pulling shit off.
Well, I was always fundamentally motivated by wanting to be able to run for the health benefits, but that motivation was tempered by lack of progress. If I hadn't changed shoes I might have given up eventually.
Eh, USENET wasn’t a for profit company. Twitter is a private platform. It’s not censorship. They have no obligation to publish anything.
> and it wasn't going to be coming back.

I think, sometimes, they do come back - i.e. via the Feds
>NIST Launches Investigation of Face Masks’ Effect on Face Recognition Software;
Algorithms created before the pandemic generally perform less accurately with digitally masked faces.

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/07/nist-launches-...
My former employer, a Fortune 500 company, wouldn't let me volunteer for a globally recognized charity because the boilerplate agreement the charity required volunteers sign, stated that IP created as a volunteer belonged to them, and my employer considered that everything within or outside work hours was theirs. Not that I was volunteering as a programmer anyway.

My current employer doesn't have explicit rules that I'm aware of, but early on, I asked our HR person if I could work on open source outside work and they said something along the lines of "what's open source?" Which, I mean, on the one hand what do you expect from HR, but on the other hand, the entire agency is concerned with operating, maintaining, and developing a software system.
Absolutely. I’m entirely with you on that sentiment .
That's because Google Reader existed, then they killed Google Reader.

ActivityPub solves most RSS limitations.
It's actually pretty easy to hardcode a regex. Most CS degrees expose students to how finite state machines work and that's all that's needed.
Did you try asking the USGS?

Google presumably also didn't have a website with a download button.
Chinese schools teach using phonics - specifically, using a phonetic transcription system based on the Latin script called pinyin. Thanks to the exact correspondence between spelling and Standard Chinese pronunciation, this system can be rapidly mastered. Once students have a working command of pinyin, they are taught to associate traditional Chinese characters (hanzi) with the pinyin words that they already recognise.

The introduction of pinyin revolutionised Chinese language teaching and had a near-miraculous effect on literacy rates; As a second-language user of Mandarin Chinese, I am indescribably grateful for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/09500780508668693
And you can't imagine that same person having this mental dialogue?

"Oh shit, I have to get up and talk about my project. What am I going to say? What if my director thinks I'm an idiot? What if they ask me a hard question? What if I can't answer the question? Will they cancel my project? Will they bring in someone to rescue me? Will I get fired?"
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You may be forgiven for your double-take: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/opinion/pandemic-pods-sch...
Survivorship Bias [video]
A good friend of mine had this bullshit done to him growing up, and can't spell for shit (which he had no trouble venting about through college) exactly because of the method in this article. His elementary school teachers literally told him to "think about how he would spell it" and then, and this is the mind-blowing part, were toooootally okay with whatever the fuck his child mind came up with. "Oh you spelled 'tree' just like the (literal) number: 100,000, that's great!!"

I'm just shocked this shit is still going on or that like anyone even thinks that could possibly fucking work. We don't have apriori knowledge to somehow write and read glphys, representing fucking sounds, which are time and location dependent... so how or why would this approach possibly work?

</rambling>
It has already been neutered since Jack Ma bought it a couple years ago. Have you read their editorials lately?
I think a lot of the bullet points in that summary can be sussed from reading Kay's own Early History of Smalltalk: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
For small to mid size farms and specifically for horticulture.
Unless I misunderstood the article, this book does use some of the 3-cue method with the stories in the last few chapters that have picture representations. But I get the feeling there's really a delicate balance between using techniques to understand what you're reading vs an ability to just read words.
This leaves a question: what of 0xFF? It can't be a "trailer", and has no trailing zero required of a "locomotive". No worries, it's simply forbidden.
In Spanish:
word -> sound (is straightforward).
sound -> word (not so straightforward).

So, spelling does make sense, but it's not much of a thing like in English. We have some rules to aid the process, but at the end of the day, you need to have read a lot to know how truly write a word.

That being said, I find kind of weird the cue process described in the article. I think that in Spanish we always learn by identifying letters with sounds as there's a 1 to 1 relationship in that direction. I.e. every written word has only one possible pronunciation.
Phonics is memorizing the alphabet and basic syllables as well as learning how to combine them into a spoken word. It's not narrow since phonics is by definition what you describe.
Overmatched in intellect but not in raw power. Bezos has managed to piss off Democrats and Trumpists so any anti-Amazon legislation is viable.
> I can't get married to Google.

But they can still fuck you over, like when they banned my GMail account for no reason, with no warning nor explanation.
Contractors are ran through background checks and bound by various NDAs and the literal contracts. Not to mention that the mentioned 3d parties are financially liable for the damages their contractors may cause.
AFAIK, the core use-case for Semver is OS package management — specifically, it’s the ability to auto-update installed system packages, knowing that a new patchlevel version of a system library won’t break the OS from applications’ perspective.

Distro maintainers have always been doing something like Semver, with their own “compatibility versions” distinct from the upstream’s versions. Semver is basically just a push to get the upstream developers to do the distro maintainers’ work for them, by versioning things the way the maintainers would.

Note that this has little to do with language package ecosystems in the constraint-resolution / bundling / locking of deps sense. Rubygems et al get frozen at build time (and as such, don’t need Semver — see how long Golang got along without module versions.)

Semver is instead for version negotiation at runtime (or “ops time”, if you prefer): it’s for resolving symbols using dynamic library loading; or for resolving which version of a daemon to install, to be compatible with a given client library’s wire protocol ABI level.

And for those use-cases, Semver is pretty much essential. If you’re not doing it for your package, someone else downstream of you still has to.
Exactly.

One way to think about this is as a "disincentive to study job-relevant fields".

But another way to look at this is further entrenching the reality that only the wealthy and privileged can afford to be less vocational in their thinking about college.

I'm not sure the outcome here is great.
1. There isn't an easy answer for this, and I think part of it will be slowly building up a reputation as a trustworthy brand. The other part is improving our UI to be much more transparent about why we made certain recommendations and adding ways for users to customize what type of recommendations they see. (These are all features we're working on.)

3. Yup, making Plaid more visible is a great idea!
If it is the Bay Area, you are mistaken in the ideal that there would be money saved up. An apartment is ~4K. A mortgage on the normal 1m plus home is at minimum 3k. At that salary you basically have zero tax deductions except for your house and any charity. Tax rate fed+state, insurance, 401k will reduce take home to ~150K (at 200K salary). If that pay number is not base and includes RSU which is taxed at a higher rate... even more in taxes. So take the middle ground 3500 per month on housing that is 42K. Property taxes in CA on $1m is around another 14K. Then home owners insurance, auto insurance, etc. is another 10K. The number goes down fast.
I have tried Red Boat, but still prefer Three Crabs. It’s supposed to be lower quality, but I think it tastes better.
Identifying top tier tech talent is not that hard. Identifying yourself as a non top tier employer and setting your hiring bar appropriately - that is hard.

If you’re only hiring candidates who can pass Google interviews, what are you offering that Google doesn’t? (Hint: “we give you a 10 hour take home, then ghost you” is not a competitive advantage.)
> (including changing comments).

Huh? I didn't watch, but practically speaking, how do you break something by editing comments? Let's assume it's an actual comment and not a shebang line or something.
> He'd mispronounce words he'd learned (as happens from those who learn by reading) but could define and give context for anything I tested him with.

As a kid, I remember pronouncing “faux pas” as “fox pass” in my head while reading for a number of years.
That seems like a bug right? The drawing code might be highly optimized for equal height rows but resizing cells is quite common, I’m surprised they just punt on it.
I use knowledge of this to help me sleep: when I experience nasal breathing issues, I set up, adjust side I am sleeping on, and change my posture to affect the blood-flow to my head. The less constriction, the easier it is to breathe. (don’t need nose strips!)