skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi @russfink. That can't be the case since, as mentioned in the debate, there are medical procedures [1] where a person's neural activity ceases and the patients recover their (long-term) memories

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/001346...
The Government is empowered. We know that because they have broken up companies in the past for that reason. The issue is Congress is not willing to do it (you can ponder the why for yourself). A solution may be to throw out the politicians before destroying our whole system.
You can use a mac from school or work and iPhones/iPads are as low as $300-$400. But paying $100 just for trying to publish an app is not worth it for many people. Android and Windows stores have lower and regionally adjusted prices.
That is one of the key ideas of social democracy, the belief that different economic powers in society must be balanced. Society is viewed as being made up of different interest groups who’s interests must be balanced in a fair and civilized manner.
My experience is that interviews like these are for supporting role data science jobs. E.g. company x has a product (tech or not), they have some data, and they want to hire someone to make that data useful in improving their product or selling more of it.

The general data science process is that when faced with a problem, you 1) select the appropriate algorithmic tool(s) for the problem and 2) apply the tool(s) to the data. One of the challenges in data science generally is that the tools can get pretty fucking complicated.

The point of theory interview questions in general is to assess the first point, whether or not a candidate has the capacity to pick the right tool for a given problem. They want to hear that you understand some of the standard tools and what sorts of problems they are good for. If you "get" the common tools, you'll likely be able to reason about the application of new/different tools for weird problems as you face them, or so the logic goes.

Everything I just said was more or less objective. This is my opinion: bad companies that do not know how to hire data scientists usually do what you're describing. They ask theory questions to assess whether or not the candidate already understands the specific tools they expect them to use. Good companies tend to pay more attention to whether the candidate is capable of understanding the universe of tools in general and are less worried about their specific application area.

I should note that this is less relevant when hiring consultants or "plug and play" senior people. Of course for those roles you want to know that the candidate has done something similar already and is primed for success.
The term "capitalism" is not (as you appear to be implying) synonymous with "market economies". In fact they are two separate economic concepts.

There have been economic systems that had free markets (feudal lords bought and sold goods in market economies) and there were also examples of capitalist enterprises that existed without free markets (some people would argue the Soviet Union fits this description, but if you prefer a less contentious example, most capitalist countries when they are functioning under a war economy have some form of central planning).

Capitalism refers to an economic system where the way in which production is organised is through an employer-employee relationship.
Fair enough.

I remember first discovering Firebug and being wowed by it, back when most browsers only offered you "View Source" as a way of looking under the bonnet.

I just wondered why someone had submitted a 4 year old blog post announcing the demise of Firebug, seeing as every browser now has it built-in.
Why would it be censored?
Why is this surprising at all?

Surely it’s the expected outcome.

The opposite would be something like ‘most social science results are counterintuitive’.
I seriously doubt that sharks could pick covid-19

Is not difficult to figure out a logical and much simpler explanation for the orcas attack.
How else do you deal with (aiui) “cloud” loophole in traditional GPL?
The civil law system is expensive and takes years to work IF it works. Off the top of my head you can ask your congressman to make you immune from liability, force all your employees into binding arbitration with someone whose services YOU pay for and forbid group actions, work to appoint increasingly conservative judges who believe in fewer and fewer rights.

Just ensuring that nobody without thousands to drop on the matter up front can probably get you out of a majority of jams.
That fleece is one of the major sources of microplastics. By abrasion during wearing and washing.
I claim that this would have negative EV. Most exceptions aren't due to version mismatch. You could add a line for a very specific set of syntax errors, but those aren't very useful.

Also having your new version suggest using the old version is counterproductive.
So $60/year. About the retail price of a 2TB external hard disk. Or a 256GB SD card. Or half a dozen 128GB thumb drives.

That's the base case you're up against. It's what all photo hosting sites are up against. But in particular, none of those has a privacy issue. And for anyone who has been around, each is likely to be more reliable than a web based photo solution if history is a guide because the first order economics don't work in the long term.

But history also indicates that anyplace that can store photos online is likely to be used for illegal images such as child pornography and copyright violations. To put it another way, technology is not the critical issue.

Don't misunderstand me, it's cool that you built a system. And there are problems with Google photos. The reason there appears to be an opportunity is because the hard problems are really hard and non-obvious.

Good luck.
> unless you are very sure that the government will follow your ideological beliefs

And even if you are very sure, you have to be sure the future government will follow your idealogical beliefs as well - people die; power changes hands; social movements and political fads come and go...
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A more interesting question is how far will we go.

Based on human history, I am fairly sure the end of humanity is approaching. 100 to 150 years I'd guess. I don't mean we'll be gone, just that what we'll become will not be recognized as human by our ancestors.
This is the correct answer. Look at what happened at the end of the Wilson administration when Andrew Mellon took over as Treasury Secretary as a prime example.
Ah, a fellow idealist :)
Capitalism is not the problem, the problem is that people continue to do business with companies that operate with disregard for the long term consequences of their business practices.
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Someone once described the sound small boats make underwater as "snakes" or "parsel tongue" to me after being underwater when a boat happened to pass by.

My first reaction was, "Wow, fish must hate us."
Any plans for the Spartan6 family? :-)
It sucks that mainstream os'es have spent the last decade on a race to the bottom, to control & reduce possibility.

There are bad actors abound but many users were navigating the environment semi-ok, checking for information on how bad their apps were acting.

The clampdown is both for the user but also enormously user hostile. We can try to pin down how justified or not it is, but it bloody sucks either way & I am worried, really worried, with current events like Mozilla & Apple teaming up to decry webmidi & ambient light sensing as enemies. Yes they have some risk? But mostly this comes off as farce to me, & spun with heavy marketing "be afraid" FUD.
>You pulled those numbers out of your ass...

They're using the percentage in the original comment/study and transferring it to the recent example.

That doesn't mean that 41% would not be convinced it could be replicated though since it's likely example related.
That "device that's worth as much as a used iPod" costs ~$40 including a power supply and has the potential to do far more than just allow you to play music without notifications (which was already possible on your phone). It can help you gain freedom on the 'net in general, not just play some music.

If you turn down notification sounds or just switch the things off altogether you will not get notifications from any apps, new or old.

In short, why complicate things by carrying around another device when you can put that effort into creating a single device which can help achieve digital freedom? In both cases you'll have to do some work, either by scouring the 'net (or thrift stores) for older equipment which can be refurbished or by building a 'personal server' (which could also be achieved using an old laptop which will give you higher performance but will use more power).
What does "privacy reasons" mean? It sounds like you're implying they did it for other reasons.
It's entrenched because relativity specifies a maximum speed. Remove locality and relativity falls apart. Removing it for some cases like correlation but leaving it for causation and communication seems arbitrary. Why? Saying "just because" feels like a hack. What untertheory underlies what is bounded by locality and what isn't? What new predictions does that make and how do you test it? Solve that, and you've got a Nobel Prize waiting for you. Saying "we don't need locality" gets you a noble eye roll.

It's not like math has no concepts without locality. Locality is absent from most of mathematics. The question is, what specifically is the math that models reality? The thing that has locality almost everywhere and for almost everything but a couple exceptions? And what other exceptions can we expect? So it's not that physicists don't accept non locality, it's that so far no mathematical theory that explains the relationship between locality and non locality of correlation precisely in a way that matches reality and makes other testable predictions.
I think it has to be acknowledged that this quote comes from an article titled "Why Socialism?" explaining why people should be socialist. It's not exactly intended as a neutral observation.
It is not like decentralized planning always work better. It depends on the task. What works in my opinion is iteration, feedback and experimentation. You don’t merely dogmatically state centralized or decentralized work better. Instead you experiment, iterate and refine. You learn from others.
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> It seems too often in debates on big problems the argument is simply we need a market solution not how is the system designed to best utilize a market.

"We need a market solution" is politician for private interests want to change laws so that they can expand their businesses.
Well, using capitalism to explain other issues is just a consequence of being a Materialist.

If you adhere to a materialist understanding of the world, you come to the the conclusion that most of the features of our environment (which is validated by analysis) find their roots in the material organization of our world. And the material organization we are operating in is "capitalism". Which is why it applies so much.

I think part of the confusion comes with the understanding of what capitalism is. Capitalism isn't markets, we had markets before capitalism. Capitalism is the economic organization where:

* Production is organized under private ownership
* Social relations are dominantly monetary relationships
* Labour is dominantly done for wages
* Production is done for profit
* A market system is used to structure productive relationships
* A de-facto class system which divides workers and owners

That's what capitalism is, and when people, especially academics say that something is caused by capitalism, they refer to capitalism as defined, loosely, by those elements. Capitalism is not a tool, it is a state of being. Markets are a tool, that have wonderful advantages. Markets aren't an ideology, capitalism is a group of ideologies that promote markets as much as possible. For an extreme example, in the USSR, food production was overwhelmingly mediated by markets. Was that capitalism? No, because it was not done for profits, and because production was not based on wages.

Everyone agrees that markets is an amazingly useful tool and is fit for many applications, except some which lack a good grasp of economics, or others which are deluded into abstracting economics from society and which therefore miss when they are not fit for the task. What people don't agree with is that capitalism is a system which should be perpetuated, and the two are perfectly consistent positions to hold.
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>Putting them under government ownership instead doesn't seem like the solution to anything, unless you are very sure that the government will follow your ideological beliefs, not be corrupted by its newfound direct power over peoples lives, and not get taken over by populists.

Don't forget that you have to be sure the government has the perfect knowledge to price things correctly even it's otherwise a good government. This is actually the main reason that centralized planning is frowned upon by capitalists. Without competition to drive price discovery, the market ends up being super inefficient and people end up under-served or output resources don't collect enough input resources to sustain themselves.
I could instantly recognize the map as work of Christopher R. Scotese. Has there been other work to create paleo maps or was this work from 2000 and prior so definitive nobody has felt the need?
I extensively use it to scout when driving into unknown places esp. small towns. It gives more driver point of view of things compared to map view.
Seems like a distinction without a difference.

ok, so you've created a model X for the emotional/mental state of the user.

This article is heavy on the psychology, and very light on any actual design advice.

Tell me how this actually influences the design in contrast to what one would design if what you are arguing against was true.
And Jython never made it to 3, but continues releases based on 2.7.
I think it is also important to add that it is a system where capital plays a significant role in the economy unlike say a feudal economy where land was the most important factor in the economy.
How can political economy explain away something that's already succeeded? It's how Singapore moved from the third world to first, in the words of LKY, how Taiwan and South Korea got rich, how China has dragged people out of poverty, arguably also how the US navigated a huge portion of the cold war, by strategic thinking and determining clear goals, and then leaving the how to less centralised systems to figure out.

The 40s to 70s broadly were an era in which there appeared to be a pragmatic balance between strategic planning and decentralized execution, in which markets where tools, serving national interest. It's also probably the era in which we saw more technological progress than at any other point.

Bringing up 'political economy' in this context is what produced the old saying 'Economists are the sort of people that see something work in practise and ask if it works in theory', it's exactly a symptom of the dogmatism that I think is plaguing us.
Right. Seems very doable to verbally sketch it if you have ever seen something like a fan out.

If you only worked in single Wordpress servers, I could see it a big leap.
Centralized planning didn't work. And my assumption has always been that it was the result of a slow-to-respond system. Today we have a way to react to economic signals almost instantaneously. I think it's worth trying again in a smaller way i.e. centralized planning of the meat industry (someone smarter than me can figure out what industry is actually best to do a trial run of modern centralized planning).
Unfortunately, the Spartan6 is way beyond my capabilities. Among other things, it uses 45 nm technology, while the wavelength of light goes down to 400 nm, so my microscope won't show the features.
Ah - so Distinguishing between possession of power and actual willingness to use that power.

Meaning that it’s not a design issue it’s a political issue.
>powerful that it corrupts and undermines the whole system. We don't have that today.

This is a little dramatic. There are no companies that qualify for the size of "undermining the whole system".
Why stop there? Put a blurred lexan glass around the house.
Big government is the problem.

With a growing size of government, every conversation becomes a conversation about your life.
If they are lying about the drivability of One (which they almost certainly are), what does that say about Two? They've fairly obviously faked other tech, including covering up an OEM logo on an ostensibly original piece of tech with duct tape.
I am not sure why the length of time matters.

They were spending the time doing other important things. They were making the rational decision to work on something that was important and WASN'T already working. The python 2 code was working fine, it didn't have bugs and it didn't need any new features. Other code either didn't exist and needed to be written or had bugs that needed to be fixed.

It makes sense that changing working code never made it high enough on the priority list to get worked on.
Not if you have an ISP, that won't ever support IPv6. There are a lot of us (in the US) in that boat. It's hard to play with unavailable tech.

edit: removed stuff about Push via SIP, that might be too incorrect to be helpful.
Also removed some pondering about trying msg.exe over IPv6. I was probably fishing for trouble there.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but you don’t need to rent GPUs from us).

Absolutely, but as last year’s discussion highlights, a bunch of GPUs connected via NVLINK kind of gives you the aggregate memory of the set for some of these database applications (large-scale ML training has also gone this way).

That’s why our A100 system design is 16 A100s in a single host. 16x40 GB gives you 640 GB of aggregate memory, which is pretty attractive for many applications.

The question as always is cost vs benefit. If there’s something that a GPU backed < noun > can do that you “couldn’t” with a large Intel/AMD cpu box, or is actually a large integer multiple cheaper, it’s probably worth the development effort.
Yeah, I can't really understand why they wouldn't verify this theory with antibody tests before publishing. It's not like they'd have to test every single one.

Even just checking how many of them later got infected would be helpful, since that would make it very unlikely they had it in December.
>I think this view point sprouts from envy.

I think this is a rather lazy dismissal.
A couple recommendations piggybacking off of yours:

A First Course in Probability has a lot of problems (with solutions) and worked examples, but it’s light on intuition and pedagogy. It’s not an easy book to learn from, on its own. I highly recommend listening to Joe Blitzstein’s STAT 110 lectures and reviewing the wealth of problems/notes. The greater mastery of probability theory that you have, the easier studying ML and stats is. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home

Elements of Statistical Learning is a true textbook—a comprehensive bible that could occupy you for many thousands of hours. ISLR is the better book for a crash course: http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/

There are also lectures and slides from the authors: https://www.dataschool.io/15-hours-of-expert-machine-learnin...
They specifically remove the liver of sharks and ignore the rest ... they could do that with humans, too.
> whether the user is an idiot giving you 100% of their mental capacity, or a genius giving you 1%, you have to make the same decisions when you're designing a product

No.

An idiot giving you 100% will never learn your product.

A genius giving you 1% will eventually develop a highly optimized way to use your product.

If we assume all users are the former, we never design for the latter. That pretty much sums up the last 20 years of de facto UX.

And if you disagree, I'd recommend you go find a call center still using mainframe apps, and watch a random sample of 100 users.
License movement noises from the Flinstones or Jetsons.
Having somewhat standard "objective" questions helps even with senior candidates. You'd be surprised how many senior's would struggle with the basics, or who aren't as senior as their resume would lead you to believe.
And who should pick the central government? Vote by population so that Germany is in charge?

Minorities don't care well under powerful central government. Unless that government is a minority dictator tha terrorizes the majority.

Would you enjoy being europe's version of an Uighur in China?

> And then you have mafias, bankers, tax havens, uneven social nets, and a raft of other social problems that can only effectively be dealt with by a central government

US has all these problems even worse than Europe except maybe the mafia next the mafia took over the government directly.
Not in game-theoretic sense, and not in evolutionary sense.
You need to give your intuitions a good hard shake. Most of the software written over the last decade and a half has been written in memory-safe languages. Almost every bug bounty program is run for software written primarily in memory-safe languages. Is it your impression that game-over bugs in those things are rare?
>subjectivism and the calculation problem

Every planned economy that has existed has used price signals by the end user in order to fix these issues. Planned economies are made to run an economy without markets, not without prices.

As long as you have an end-user price signal, subjectivism is not an issue and the calculation problem becomes a computational issue that can be solved.
Sounds exactly like trump “not releasing his taxes because they’re under audit”. I guess they both read the same book.
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