skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there’s a surprising number of fresh grad candidates who are not very skilled with theory nor practice.

Is there any "entrance point" where people don't complain about this? Companies complain universities don't prepare students. Universities complain that first-year students come out of high school without necessary background. High schools complain that elementary school does not prepare their entrants etc. Elementary schools complain kindergarten doesn't prepare kids to be mature enough. Kindergarten probably complains that parents don't prepare the kids enough.

Broadly speaking, I think there is more demand for highly skilled, highly intelligent people than can be produced by any given cross-section of the population born in a given year. Sure, universities could do better, but beyond a certain point teaching doesn't work. There are people who are intrinsically motivated and soak up knowledge and seek it out in books and online (so much high quality content can be found online, especially for CS!), and there are those who just coast and do the bare minimum. I don't think you can radically improve the outcomes by changing the curriculum.
I think the article is actually saying the exact opposite - that Tensorflow / PyTorch / sklearn code soup from “trade school” sources like bootcamps or quick online programs are not very valuable out in the world.

You might be misunderstanding the focus on data cleaning and feature engineering as being less specialized than say PyTorch coding but it’s exactly the opposite.

The most critical aspects of ML engineering for production are all about advanced statistics. Understanding multicollinearity, overfitting, dimensionality reduction, convergence, and time series issues like assumptions of stationarity or conditional independence effects.

Any engineer can crank out neural network software - that has pretty much zero value.

Value lies in realizing some stratification error in the data and following that lead to use a multi-level model to control for it. Value lies in realizing several key feature inputs are correlated on a seasonal basis - leading to multicollinearity - and then setting up some adaptive feature aggregation to mitigate it and dashboards with things like variance inflation factor to be able to raise alerts on it across time.

Value lies in working on small data problems and using literature review to determine the best prior to use for a Bayesian model, and doing robust posterior predictive checks to validate it.

These things require many years of education and experience dealing with statistical irregularities, understanding confounders and causal inference, understanding missing data treatments, understanding time series forecasting.

You cannot learn that in 101 courses that overly focus on the mechanics of how to type Tensorflow or sklearn code - that part can be picked up by anyone in a month or two. And mere intro to data cleaning and plotting distributions or proportions of missing data is not a substitute for actual statistical knowledge.
This seems rather dubious to me; what selection pressure exists that's increasing fitness for people with three arteries?
The fact that it's progressing so rapidly suggests that this is either bad data, or environmental changes
When I was at a major US University in thr early 2000's, anything higher than C wasn't taught because the field changes faster than a 4 year degree would make sense- modern languages were seen as the domain of 2 year tech schools.

I believe that has since changed, but I am not sure to what extent.
> When you are your own boss you can say "I have enough" and stop making new features, stop getting new customers

In that sense, I guess you have the feeling of being your own boss as an employee too, as long as you believe you can say "I have enough" and stop working there whenever you feel like it.
> Do you think its okay to hunt down a species like a blue whale from 400k to 10-30k and say 'yeah thats okay'?

This argues against something I didn't say, imply, or mean.

This could be a good time for you to think about how to listen to people you disagree with in a constructive way. It's an important life skill even outside HN!
Visualizing the textbook for fun and profit
The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice
Dunning-Kruger gets thrown around a lot, but in this case it's spot on.

David Dunning - "If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent ... The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is."

These are dogs chasing cars with the goal of driving the car, once they catch it.

Luckily most people aren't very motivated, self directed or willing to risk everything. Of course these guys don't really understand what they've put at risk.

What I want explained to me is why the right, and even the middle of the road right seems like they've lost their minds. They are willing to support and ignore the really crazy far right, like it's normal.

Is it just their racism finally bubbling to the surface after being artificially suppressed all these years? I don't just believe that they've been brainwashed by the right-wing media, I think there needs to be something else under the surface that makes the susceptible, and I think it's racism. Am I wrong?
That’s not an educated take.

Just to take my own example, I’m unable to use the Kinesis Advantage because the bones in my right wrist are curved following an old injury. I’m physically incompatible with that keyboard.

But split keyboards work great for me! I can rotate one side to accommodate my arm’s curve. Kinesis Freestyle is great for this. Ergodox also works.

By your logic, I guess this makes me a fanboy?

My point is that different people have different ergonomic needs, requiring different devices. It’s stupid as hell to turn this kind of thing into in-group status symbol pecking. The market for these devices exists because one size does not fit all.
Don't despair. Datalog is alive and well. Yes, it does compose beautifully. However, with composition solved, you'll discover that a naive implementation of relational algebra will suffer from spurious cross products.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/liquid-the-soul-o...

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/liquid--the-soul-...
But what did you reply after that?
I agree with that. However even using little HTML or lots of HTML should make any difference. The email clients are going to treat it the same.

Emails can be clean and simple but still in HTML. :)
This makes me wonder what Newtonian physics we actually use in computing?
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Quit but still happily deposited these last checks and got a job because of his experience at IBM. Sorry to not shed a tear.
It could also eliminate a race condition.
AT&T Can't Afford to Keep HBO Max Off Roku and Fire TV
I've used Arch for about a year and agree that the need to attend carefully to updates is annoying. There was a particularly egregious case of this recently with PAM, where if you did not update a certain file following the instructions given by the pacman messages (or just missed it), then you wouldn't be able to log in. I also had another instance of not being able to boot into Arch due to a bug in the package governing my encrypted drive. In both cases it was simple to solve by booting from a rescue USB and changing the appropriate files (downgrading in the second case), but it was still obnoxious.

However, as far as I can tell, it should not be a problem to wait 6 months (or even years?) to update. There are periodic reddit threads where someone updates a years-old Arch installation just fine.
Awesome project and pretty good results from a mathematical standpoint.

The biggest challenge is to try and convince the tube amp enthusiasts that it sounds indistinguishable to the real hardware ;)
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Bullshit JS, add OPENI to the dictionary
> How would it blow up in their face when Apple's customers don't care?

There are multiple of different negative actions that can be taken against a company, beyond just customers refusing to buy the product.

These potential actions have the ability to cause Apple, and their employees, lots of harm.

For example, in America, one negative action that many people are taking against Apple is lawsuits (Apple has lots some lawsuits, in the past, and lost a bunch of money over it).

But, there could be many other ways to harm Apple, beyond those examples. EX negative publicity, people or companies refusing to work with Apple, and many other things.
I think this is more of an expression that coding interviews are horribly poor for assessing effectiveness at delivering code to solve business problems.

Those people you say “can’t code” actually can code very well - it’s just that the question “can you pass this timed hazing trivia test in coderpad or on a whiteboard?” has no relationship to “can you code?”
Curious, is it possible to work at Google for a few years, save some money, build a bigger network, get inspired, and do your own thing? Perhaps one started off making $7/hr, but that's just where one was at that point in time. At a later time both skills and safety net will increase. At that point quitting Google is still a risk, but circumstances are much different now. Transitioning into software is already a leap, but if one has already done that and has the skills/safety-net/desire to be their own boss -- why not take the next leap?
I am on Manjaro. Now i am reading, one should update mirrors regularly with

`sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu`

i am quite confused, why updating mirrors needs to be followed with an dist upgrade.
Ooh so it's like a Software Defined Amplifier, sounds great!
Xbox Series X has tactile indicators over the ports
If you look at hunter gather societies, I don't see how PG's arguments are comical. They are by and large egalitarian and up until about 8k years ago almost all humans were part of small, egalitarian groups (i.e. hunter gatherer tribes), so our brains are evolved for that environment instead of being part of a multi-thousand people highly hierarchical organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer#Social_and_eco... .
The 601 was pre-standard, so I'd imagine that there would be a huge difference.

It had the first implementation of the multiprocessing unit, and lacked the load/store and registry units of all the later processors.
I don't disagree with any of that. Certainly there are vast differences between Apache, OpenStack, and SPI, for example. And there can be considerable differences even between projects within a single foundation to the degree that a foundation like CNCF allows considerable latitude in how individual projects choose to organize.

In any case, if most of a project's committers are with a single company, that company is going to have a lot of control even if the project is nominally under generally neutral governance.
Maybe posting links could just be paid for?
Really? Your answer to Apple restricting information posted by people protesting elections is to ask how people would feel about restricting information from white supremacist terrorists. At the very least, this is a whataboutism argument, trying to shift the discussion away.
John McCarthy did not consider full determinism incompatible with free will:

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/freewill.html
If I've been reading the news correctly, the investigation into the terrorist plot against the Michigan governor was launched because someone was trying to learn the home addresses of police officers. Seems like that is not very well accepted in America.
Even without the dubious etymology, the idea of a term referring to both atoms and letters apparently had widespread currency in the ancient Mediterranean given Plato's use of στοιχεῖον with a similar double meaning (although, not, strictly speaking to mean letter).
HTML emails have to be coded like this. For best possible results we have to use table layouts and inline css because
email clients are tricky and doesn't use latest css properties. So to keep them compatible with all kinds of email clients, the elements have to have inline css. Otherwise it is not even possible to have a decent HTML email which will render correctly on all email clients.

Its just how it is currently due to limitation from email renderers and clients.
I'm on a 24 month upgrade schedule mainly to benefit from improved camera tech, though I'm probably going to stop - in almost every way my current phone (Pixel 4) is a sidegrade, rather than an upgrade, to my old phone (LG V30) and I only upgraded because my old phone has gotten quite damaged - I'm very clumsy.
> Yet he [Roger Scruton] remained committed to the principle of dignity and respect to all, regardless of their ideological convictions. His efforts to engage everyone in discussion and to demonstrate a lasting commitment to appreciate differences represent the measure of his character.

Roger Scruton took money from tobacco companies to write pro-smoking, anti-WHO articles in prominent publications. So, okay.
I am glad you found these useful :)
Near the end of the CBC Marketplace video, they show a vendor contract and state that the vendor pays either the shipping costs to receive the returned item or the disposal cost otherwise.

The reporting seems oblivious to the cost of humans making resell/reuse/repair/recycle/disposal decisions at this scale.
Doesn't this go right back to thinking things through before attacking people people?

Right or wrong, when people are abused repeatedly, and or they cease to believe in governance, they will act out and it won't all be nice.

The root cause here is an authoritarian regime failing to justify their authority. People acting out is a symptom.
Adam Smith understood this. In Wealth of Nations.He said division of labour makes people as stupid as creatures can be. In the beginning of the industrial revolution, people called jobs Wage Slavery.Somehow we stopped talking about how bad jobs are for us.
That's what happens. That's the "liquidators" the article/video is referring to, and most of the stuff goes there.

Can't do that with e.g. counterfeits though, or with products that may be dangerous.

And not everything is resellable in practice. To resell something you need to 1. determine what you have (not just the product but also the state it is in), 2. have someone who wants it, 3. that person needs to be willing to accept the risk of getting a used/substandard product (higher risk of it arriving broken), 4. you have to find that person, 5. you have to get the product to that person, 6. you have to manage the whole overhead of the process (additional shipping, sorting, testing, ...).

Each of these steps is associated with costs, both financial and environmental (the latter will skyrocket as soon as you start e.g. attributing some of the environmental footprint of the people whose labor you spend on these tasks to those tasks).

It's very unlikely that Amazon wouldn't optimize something so obvious.

Once the returns are generated, there's probably not much of a better way to deal with it. However, if you ban returns, online shopping becomes less attractive - people will use retail stores again. Which also toss stuff that doesn't sell, use a lot more real estate, air conditioning, and again, human labor. There's a reason online is often cheaper, and it may well be "cheaper" (better) for the environment too, despite the waste.
I don't consider teaching source control to be the job of a university.
It's amazing that we constantly use tools with dozens of buttons permanently fixed to them, but rarely think about how we might yield those buttons to our own purposes. We just accept the defaults without considering other possibilities.

Also gets into the idea of personalized UI more generally. You can imagine something like Photoshop ought to adapt what tools it shows based on how someone uses it. Then again, that would make learning/teaching and sharing really difficult.
Yes would expect units of execution and different types of signal processing to come a pre-built blobs.
Whoa, this is really neat.
Physics is the final boss.
Right from the article:

> Senior author Professor Maciej Henneberg who is also a member of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, says the median artery offers benefits because it increases overall blood supply and can be used as a replacement in surgical procedures in other parts of the human body.
It does not sound as if you are sorry.
That is a totally different situation. Your customers can't just do whatever they want to you whenever they want. A board coalition with more than 50% of the shares can. They can say anytime they want, "we want out, your job is now to sell the company at the least possible loss". I have had this happen at a place where I worked.
Already fixed that typo. Seems like I need a better spelling plugin ;)
The Paradox of the Second Ace (2012, but timeless)
Are you aware of Prime Wardrobe? I haven't tried it, but it sounds good.

https://www.amazon.com/prime-wardrobe/b/?ie=UTF8&node=148071...
Yes, I realized some answer might be: we were too slow another company took the cake. But it is difficult to say what other people can learn from it (be swift is probably what everybody knows)
An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning
goes straight to /dev/null
most network engineering foundations (Network operator groups, IETF etc) are far more formal.

Which is both a good and a bad thing.
On one hand, without marketing, getting a system adopted on a large scale is hard. (as evident by many RFC's which are not used a lot in the wild).
On the other hand, the CNCF seems to have a zillion products which all solve roughly the same problem in the same problem space, which seems to make it unnecessary and complex.
yes. that’s why i said that it should be caught but probably is not.

it’s also probably borderline illegal to do this kind of things
Yes. HTML version are free/MIT but MJML source codes are not for free.
Why didn't Apple/FaceTime sue Facebook for using "Face" in their name? (The FaceTime franchise dates back to 1997, way before Facebook).

Why is "face" generic, but "book" is not?

I recall their being other social media sites with "face" in their name before facebook, but can't remember the names.

I think its clear the IP system favours the party who can throw the most money around.
A prison video visitation service exposed calls between inmates and attorneys
Capitalism does a poor job making capitalists. I think of socialism as capitalism for everyone, not just the top 1%. If everyone was secure enough, with food and shelter and healthcare, then everyone can pursue their passions, build companies, etc.
The Body Worlds exhibits 15 years ago highlighted the fact humans are mostly like the meat you see in the meat department. Only medical doctors saw much of this before.

(Both grocery stores and BW plastination colourize tissues to make them stand out. Otherwise it more gray and beige.)
Age of Em (Slate Star Codex, 2016)
SerenityOS: The Second Year
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Didn’t PowerPC have some unique extensions that distinguishes it from the the POWER CPUs?
I don't believe that stat at all. I've ordered way too many items, since 1999. I think I returned 1 or 2 in that 21 years.
Some returned objects are sold as new, some people even swap the items before returning them. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23939042
I'm not sure about amazing (there's certainly worse FPGA tools though), but I think you're right on TCL. It's still a perfectly servicable language to do the job and it's ubiquitous in the industry so you'd need a pretty strong reason to break from it. The terribleness of the tooling comes from other sources (mainly its sheer opaqueness, followed by bugginess, followed and excacerbated by its slowness, though the last point may be hard to get around: place-and-route is not like compiler optimisation, compiler optimisation is almost entirely local decisions, wheras place and route is essentially a global optimisation problem).
mirror : https://web.archive.org/web/20180928130701/https://supermemo...
That would increase the cost of business because it encourages people to move away from big cities and big companies no longer get to have a concentrated fishbowl of talents. They need to open more offices, or use more remote workers.

I personally like that world; but I doubt the companies would. They’d rather just pay more salary to balance out the high rents, so people keep swarming to its location.
Yes, it is for a new template tutorial. Also i am a big Starwars fan :)

https://dev.to/hunzaboy/how-to-create-a-clean-bulletproof-em...
That text desperately needs a diagram.
Well I'm an engineer so that shouldn't be too hard, usually people want me to dumb it down!

Considering this project sat for a month with no stars and after this post (and one hour) it jumped to 134 stars, not discouraged at all!
Either we remedy that, or we need to enforce a form of due process.

Tim Cook is not qualified. No single person is.

That suggests either:

Apple stay out and the discussion moves to Telegram

, or

Apple and others need a formalized process, just like we use for other conflicts.

A case needs to be made, rules of order, etc... and a decision comes from all of that, not what makes more money, or what might cost money.
> Just because something is subjective it doesn’t mean it should be disregarded.

Right, I completely agree. Which is why I'm confused when somebody brings up how a topic is subjective, complicated, and has been approached in the past in a way that seems ridiculous to us today; and then says simply "personally I'm in favor of [it]." That strikes me as disregarding the issue, and even disregarding what they just said themselves.

> ...probably it can also agree on what is considered sexual and modest.

I don't think the people of the USA will come to an agreement on this in my lifetime. Why would they? They haven't for the last hundred years.
> that’s not scalable by design. Only so few people can be on top [of the pyramid]

Unless we redesign the nature of work and organisation.

It's true only a few people can be top of the pyramid for most of their career.

But in principle, everyone could be on top of a large pyramid for some of their career.

It might be a good learning experience.
This is the thing why I'm always confused why people want to download their brains. It's a copy. So shouldn't we focus on things like senescence? Neural link seems like a middle ground, where you're a cyborg. But when the meat dies you do. A simulation of you can go on in another media but is that helpful to you or just others who would miss you?
PG's main point is a good one, though perhaps obscured by a few cherry picked observations. Autonomy allows for faster learning. Learning brings happiness. Autonomy is easier to find in small group settings.

The push-back that this is a privileged position is interesting. Initially I thought so but maybe that's too harsh. Controlling your expenses and keeping it to a bare minimum would allow a lot more people to pursue such autonomy than they might realize. I don't think it's the majority of people given wealth inequality but more than people might guess.

The comparison to wild animals is incomplete and cherry picked. There are animal populations that seem to happily exist in larger communities than what PG mentions. But, as I learned from one of his better essays [1], let's focus on the main point.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html