skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It will never be perfect, like anything else, but it can be good.

As a US -> UK immigrant:

1. This is true.

2. This is made harder or easier by the complexity of the underlying abstractions it is trying to model.

I suspect the software that the NHS has to calculate how much to charge medical patients is very simple.
And it's not exactly an "if" in the first place. Both the governor of California and the mayor of LA are pretty mainstream Democratic politicians.
Reminded me of this one, deadly seemly little river in the UK... https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/11/bolton-strid-stream-th....
I just watched an interview with Vijay Kumar who worked on that robot when he was a graduate student and talks about it for a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsLTNXMl1Q&t=0m58s

The whole 1 hour interview is also interesting.
I'm pretty sure I read essentially the same rebuttal here weeks ago. That said, I think it's a valid rebuttal. Would the 'correct' answers be GPT-3 making meta-remarks about how you're giving it stupid prompts? Marcus knew what his conclusion would be and set out to find 'evidence' to support it. I think it's telling that the best he could find is so flimsy.
I keep being surprised that anyone takes Gary Marcus seriously. As far as I know he hasn’t contributed anything meaningful to deep learning (or any other modern AI methods) but is always somehow there to criticize, waving his arms and shouting “but it’s not actually reasoning!” Baffling.

Edit: removed reference to Gary being a psychologist. It was distracting from the actual point.
This is a very engineering way to look at things. But it's definitely wrong. Even in a code review it's important to see their body language. How are they receiving your feedback? Are they uncomfortable? Do you need to change they way you address your concerns so they can be heard better?

Not everyone communicates like you do. If you want to be an effective communicator, you have have to tailor your output to the recipient. Body language is an important part of that.
Imagine a headline writer who wrote like this. I would click the dang story just out of respect and with the idea that an author like that is worth reading generally. If the headline is that informative how great would the content be?
Why the need to judge and condemn here? If it’s such a common word in Chinese speech, have you considered that it may be a common word for him?
Belatedly added. Thanks!
Probably he would be engaged in working on some aspect of improving the business...
Millions seems about right. If it took more than $999 million I’d be pretty surprised. Hydraulics are tricky but they’re not that tricky.
Ask HN: Would you Use a "Consumer Reports" for Vitamins and Supplements?
Would you use a website and app that provided unbiased, scientifically backed ratings for health care (starting with vitamins and supplements, then pharmaceuticals, procedures, etc.)? The site would update ratings regularly based on new findings in scientific journals. There would be full transparency on how the ratings are computed and what articles and journals were used as references.

I realize there are myriad of health sites from Mayo Clinic to Live Stronge providing health advice but the quality of the sites is very uneven, they rarely provide references, objectivity is unclear, and most importantly they mainly provide articles that require a consumer to wade through numerous content and then make a well informed decision. It's time consuming and requires significant judgement. When was the article published? Is there new science published on the topic since the publication date? Several articles provide conflicting or disparate advice. What then? Etc.
I know someone who worked on a big radial hexapod robot for dod recently, and he said everyone involved in the project felt it was pointless (hexapods are just not a good platform for doing much of anything), but it was well-funded so they did their best.
I wish I could find a good primer on elliptic integrals. They come up constantly in magnetic fields and are impractically hard to solve. I mean you can do it, and I've seen it done, but give myself 5% odds of pulling it off myself. My feeling is that this is why only a handful of magnetic field equations are provided in textbooks.
> No, what I'm saying is that you're now seeing what happens when it's not 1984.

So 1984 is better than what we have now?

> Then the audience isn't getting the actual message, and many parts of the audience aren't even getting the same message as their neighbors. Some hear "go left", others hear "go right", some get "we should all stay here" and the rest gets some kind of talk about why soup is better than sandwiches. Needless to say that they won't get anything done that way.

People choosing their own filter bubbles is orthogonal to the issue of the media. Just because someone chooses to ignore alternate perspectives, doesn't mean they don't exist.

> Media are reality-mirrors. It's fine if your mirror is a bit dirty, dull or not hung perfectly flat (it's distorting reality, but it's close enough to be useful as a mirror), but if your mirror consists of six different fun house mirrors that are also moving about, it's a shitty mirror and it doesn't work as a mirror.

I don't think _most_ of the current media would be a "fun house mirror". I would argue most of it are mirrors from different perspectives, so you can get a bigger picture by looking in multiple.
Yeah if I decide to try my hand at contracting then reaching out to past employers could be a good idea. After all they know my track record, and I know lots of people there, and I know who to speak with to get things done etc. And they won’t have to explain all the domain-specific knowledge to me.
what am I looking at??
Sure they can, but I wondered what cheap radio the OP was talking about that runs full-duplex?
That’s what I would’ve expected too. But having spoken to many local retailers and seen sales trends, it’s the opposite. COVID has been a challenge for all, but local retailers have been uniquely resilient, using online channels like IG and Shopify to meet customers where they are.

Wariness of crowds is also not going away. A local retailer is likely to draw a smaller crowd at a given point in time than big box counterpart.
1. When I understood everything that happened in a custom chart with d3 I created, including d3 patterns, animation, svg, everything else just paled in comparison.

2. When I gave into Power BI finally and fixed a report someone else created, it felt so good. I don't think there is anything that compares to it and I only scratched the surface.
I'm not necessarily against this but I don't think it goes deep enough. I think a better societal/psychological explanation can be found in the first third of Industrial Society and its Future. [0]

[0] Free read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
The original post wasn't just a general statement, it was inflammatory and accusatory. The poster stated that Elixir not only teaches programmers the wrong things, but that it leaves them damaged. Did not give a single example or explanation for their rationale.
As long as the work gets done, at my company, no one cares how many hours you work.
Without trying to be provocative I just looked at your website and this leapt our at me.

“Lean Development methologies and modern cloud deployment startagies enable fast paced development with shorter iteration cycles.”

Apart from the buzzword bingo, you’ve misspelt “strategies”.

Your copy is incredibly bland and nebulous and doesn’t really say anything about what you do.
Absolutely you will do well with a dipole.
If curious see also (but note: here be spoilers)

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19513089

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15474055

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15437697

2017 (a bit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15439569

A bit from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22394560
A little lock tight would probably solve the problem too.
The largest bank in Russia uses case-insensitive passwords and logins
practicality isn't the word i would associate with the american right wing
Covid-19: Companies that are still hiring data scientists
> I'm against incompetence

Are you also against government waste?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoz5EuIF_y8
This seems like a perfect example of why micro-aggressions are bullshit. Any right-thinking person can see that those taking offence to this are wrong, while the theory of micro-aggressions posits that because they are offended their feelings are valid and the professor must be in the wrong.
Nintendo's Big Super Mario 35 Plans May Have Been Delayed by Five Months
Uhm... You're vastly underestimating the amount of work that companies like red hat and size put into both GNU and Linux.

Yes many of the maintainers and key people are allowed to work remotely, but a lot more people work in the office.

I don't want to against the general WFH vibe, but that statement is hardly 100% true.
There's the so-called Berlin Interpretation[0] which attempts to codify exactly what a roguelike is, basically, according to that definition, if it isn't a turn based gridlike hack and slash in randomly generated dungeons with permadeath, it isn't a roguelike. Of course, /r/roguelikedev will point out that the most popular roguelikes all deviate from that in one way or another, and people do seem to disagree[1] with the definition.

I personally don't think the distinction matters that much, except to pedants and purists.

[0]http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Berlin_Interpretat...

[1]http://www.gamesofgrey.com/blog/?p=403
Creator of TinyJS here

After looking for newsletters that are simple, with high quality and diverse curation I couldn't find much. I did stumble upon TinyReact, it's a really great newsletter for the React ecosystem, which I am not really into as of now. However I loved it's simplicity. Inspired, I decided to curate one myself.

I keep an eye out for interesting articles, libraries and updates from the JavaScript world. If I find them worthy of sharing I bookmark them, and the end of the week I send the best 3 to my subscribers every week. The three article limit has been interesting, the constraint forces me to look for the best articles I can find. No spam, short and sweet.
> Similarly, if I ask you to serve me a hamburger, there's the implication that someone somewhere has slaughtered an innocent cow. I don't want the innocent cow slaughtered, I just want to eat the hamburger. Yet, it would be fair to say that I asked for the cow to be slaughtered.

I really wish there was a 1-3 word phrase for this concept, because I keep needing one. I am hopeful that the field of AI Safety will give us one.
I'm a vim user so I mostly agree with you, but I'd like to point out that it's the entire OS that makes dealing with codebases easier.

It's a point that a lot of IDE users miss. I have grep and awk at my fingertips, you don't.
I use a Synology NAS that backups everything on Google Drive and Dropbox. I don't have a TB of data though so I'm still in the free-tier.

Having 3 copies of the data (with one being local) is safe enough for me, you can multiply that by as much as you're willing to pay.
Exactly. Or, say you're building some business logic and you need to make some exceptions for VIP partners. In times past, you would add these exceptions to a "whitelist" and have logic to check this list and apply the exception. Now, you need to be very careful to call this an "allowlist" lest the woke patrol pull you aside and warn you that your variable name is insensitive and non-inclusive. I wish I was joking.
In my company, someone objected to the terms “male” and “female” adapter ports or connectors for physical hardware equipment in our data centers, stating it was both offensive to gender non-binary coworkers and also fostered an aggressive general sense of violation of female genitalia.

Several engineering leaders forced the Networks team to create an internal RFC on proposed naming convention changes for this, which was then circulated to a wider set of reviewers.

Once it reached the reviewers, someone with common sense stepped in and asked how many actual women engineers or gender non-binary engineers reviewed it, and did they actually think it represented some type of progress on problematic language.

So they formed a committee of female and gender non-binary coworkers to review it, and their conclusion was that this was harmless language clearly and obviously rooted in decades old technical standards that did not invite or inflame any type of comparison with genitalia or gender choices among people, and that instead of worrying about this kind of exceedingly trivial issue, attention would be better paid to more overt and damaging language problems, like harassment or microbehaviors that disadvantage women in group leadership situations.

On one hand I was very proud of the conclusion they reached, but on the other hand very terrified at the whole process, ranging from extreme reactionary forced changes with no basis in reality all the way to giving a committee of women and gender non-binary coworkers carte blanche to rule on whether or not the language had to be changed (as if the rest of us don’t have brains and can’t voice opinions that ought to carry equal weight about that).

All told it was a colossal waste of time and money that deeply compromised employee trust in company leadership.
FBI Sweep of China Researchers Leads to Cat-and-Mouse Tactics
I wish I believed that, but it seems more like a prisoner's dilemma. People get turned by making their self-interest the opposite of the group's interests after being individually targeted with high-pressure tactics.

Anyone who thinks this is all purely organic hasn't been paying much attention.
These type of things is why I always use a real programming language rather than shell scripting. Can't wrap my head around all the different pitfalls of treating random string outputs as input for other commands without first validating and parsing them into an actual data structure.
We only store bread in a freezer, and use toaster to warm it up and toast it for consumption. This only really works with pre-sliced bread and serves 2 important functions:

1. Reduce the amount of bread we eat. You take out a slice and that's all you're going to eat, since it takes 2 minutes or so to toast it in the toaster.

2. Prevent bread from going moldy/dry/stale. You can enjoy a single loaf for a week this way.
$5m by 1985, with another $3.5m earmarked [1]. Accounting generously for inflation, that's $25m today [2]. It would be interesting to know what the price would look like if they tried the same thing today.

[1] https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1985/11/4/the-pentagon-f...

[2] https://www.inflationtool.com/us-dollar/1981-to-present-valu...
I hear ya. Many recruiters/bosses simply don’t want to hear anything about part-time work at all. I think that’s a mistake on their end – it could be a major benefit that would make that employer stand out from the crowd. But many companies sadly doesn’t think about it that way.

PS. As someone else mentioned here, and in case you find yourself on the market again: You might want to try to discuss part-time only after receiving a written offer. Then you know for sure that they want to hire you. And then you have some leverage.
If Morgan Spurlock¹ is correct, then in the US, it is indeed closer to branding than a qualitatively different life for the chickens, from the perspective of an ordinary consumer.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me_2:_Holy_Chicken!
Ask HN: Can you do meaningful work as a “solo hacker” in biotech?
I'm a software engineer who has recently begun biology coursework at a local university (always had a powerful interest, finally decided to dive in). I'm curious if the common software trope of a single developer beginning a project in their spare time has an equivalent in biotechnology, where the barriers to entry seem to be deeper.

For anyone with experience in the field, is it common to see interesting biotech projects launched by solo developers, or does the work almost always require the support of some larger organization to get off the ground?
I'm also interested --

What's the hardware difference required to support real time? Is it some dedicated parts of compute to support the queueing / prioritization of jobs? And some additional ability to have the "master" must-always-work part be able to interrupt or reset "optional" processes?
While I don't necessarily agree with a lot of Gary Marcus' arguments re: AI, I don't think it's fair to gate-keep based on what you perceive his background is. AI is an incredibly multi-disciplinary field, and it's a little silly to imply that people coming from a psychology background cannot contribute meaningfully to the discussion.
Getting the hang of machine learning
Well, chickens will eat anything. So, the first few probably died of starvation.

The last ones though, could have become pretty fat. ;)
Reading the absolute claim in the title ("no benefits at all") makes me dismiss his opinion instantly.

You can claim it's net negative, but not seeing anything positive probably just means you are a workaholic with no life and can't fruit a good debate about it.
Warning: I'm not sure how to formulate that properly, I hope no-one gets offended to much.

I think one of the worst thinks you can do is to be afraid of a word itself. But that's exactly where it has come to. It often seems that just pronouncing the n* word or spelling it out is highly offensive.

But IMHO this is super bad for the people who are offended.

If there is a problem you should speak about it and this include pronouncing and spelling the offensive word.

If you don't you are only helping the people which use that word as a insult and a denouncement. You are now at risk of feeling offended or even threatend from just hearing the word even if it's not directed at you , not used as the insult and maybe you misheard (like above).

Demonizing a word when it's the contextual usage of the word which is the problem isn't really helping anyone I believe.

Don't get me wrong using the word to insult, denounce or describe an person is an absolute no-go and as far as I can tell should stay that way.

But when you speak about e.g. how someone breached that no-go and how that is not ok you shouldn't be afraid to use that word instead.

And yes I'm not using the word here because I know how people can be offended by it.

Still fear the abuse of words but don't fear words itself or the fear might just eat you up.

(Abuse as n* originally only described someone from Nigeria, like Berlin => BerlinER with some shortening. But yes this doesn't matter anymore at all and might sometimes even be used to downplay the insult which is not ok.)
To my ears, 2.5 hours sounds a bit low. But yes, actually productive hours can sometimes be way lower than the wall time.
This article could use some pictures!
What is your favorite CSS framework/s?
I don't think I've experienced boredom in any meaningful quantity since I got a smartphone. I've often had my doubts about this being a good thing.
Are you saying that those people don't get a court date? Or they don't have access to lawyers?
> A French baguette is not likely to ever mold

I have many points of data that this claim is false. :)

Our local store often has a sale on French baguettes, so when I'm there I pick up two. We almost never get through them both before one molds.
yeah, a single M1 Abrams tank costs over $4 million, and we have 9000 of them.

DARPA R&D money always feels like money better spent than a lot of other military spending. We get future dividends, often civilian.
Another usage for the MMU would be in a virtualization context.
The Hypervisor can configure static address translation tables for each RTOS VM.
Okay. I don't see how you make the logical leap from "this monetary policy has harmed me and benefited people I don't like" to "this is not righteous".
Can you explain more? This is such a foreign concept to me but I'd love to try and understand.
To be honest, when I hear someone use that word, I do assume it's primarily in service of saying something that sounds like the n-word with plausible deniability. It'd be something else if it was a commonly used word
Not really. The performance-oriented A series can include -- and will continue to include -- features which improve performance at the expensive of inconsistency, such as branch prediction and speculative execution. The R series values consistent behavior over performance, so it won't have those features.
Appears to show the manufacturing method - plastic strands spot welded together. The inconsistency of the openings is a great example of why the real stuff is so hard to make. It'd be nice to see what the actual scale of this is
Url changed from https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/could-a-tree-help-fi..., which points to this.
What about elder care? Don’t fall detection and monitoring changes in blood pressure or heart rate that may lead to a fall. Not sure why these aren’t standard kit for all seniors homes.
Intent matters, and we shouldn't be allowed to be lazy and assume others' intent and then get angry at them because of our own assumptions. I don't see how banning this guy for speaking his language isn't just the most blatant normalized racism. This incentivizes people to remain ignorant and not learn about others' cultures. This is an embarrassing direction for a University to go in.

In general I think this micro-aggression/Karen-culture is an awful direction we are going in. At some point, being offended at everything is itself offensive. It is offensive to me that you choose not to understand me, and instead get mad about some fictitious damages.
The bigger problem with efforts to assess GPT-3 output using AI Dungeon is that AI Dungeon doesn’t actually use GPT-3 the for the first response of a new adventure. If you attempt to start each prompt from a clean slate, you are actually seeing GPT-2 output. See here: https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1289946861478936577
Milton Erickson did some interesting studies on using hypnosis to get subjective time to go slower for his subject (Time Distortion in Hypnosis: An Experimental and Clinical Investigation).

The interesting part is that it works and has measurable results. From memory, subjects that have been made to feel that times goes slower would be able to count more objects in the same (objective) time.
What benefit do you believe this is going to bring SSDs? They are full of DRAM buffers and utilize multiple simultaneous NAND channels to mask latency inherent to the tech. It seems a realtime processor would bring little to the table.

Edit: Well looking into it a bit, a lot of SSDs already use realtime ARM processors in their controllers. The main benefit here seems to be being able to address larger buffer sizes going forward and access to more cores.
Ask HN: Where to Find Obscure Literature?
While reading about William S. Burroughs' "Cities of the Red Night" I found out about Konstantīns Raudive's book "Breaktrhough".

This book was about electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and the attempt at recording voices from the afterlife. Even if you don't buy into the concept of it, the content struck me as highly poetic.

I was fascinated by the book (which I never heard of) and was wondering if anyone could recommended me resources to find more "obscure", "interesting" and completely "left field" literature. (I put the previous words in quotations because these are things which are hard to quantify).