skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been my experience. I have 25 vacation days, medical coverage is NOT free, as I pay it from my gross monthly income (around 400 euros per month) and waiting lists for an MRI are weeks or months long and generally it's very superficial coverage for a healthy person in their 30s.
Income and other taxes are damn high for what you actually get out of it.
I used haversine to good effect in a commercial product a few years ago.

I am not fond of calling this stuff 'secret'.
It seems like most of the other AI researchers, at least those mentioned in that summary, agreed with Gebru? So while Gebru may have been “acting in bad faith,” it seems that the consensus, at least as the article presents it, was that Yann was wrong.
Your last sentence is what I often feel about (usually) Japanese arts and crafts, but I always get a pang of jealousy of sorts, because I don't feel like I or anyone in "the west" can live like that - sure, there's sayings like "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" and all, but in reality, we all need to earn a living, contribute to society, and somehow min/max everything we do - maximize profits, minimize efforts and cost.

Closest thing we have are the arts, and there's the meme about the starving artist here because most artists struggle to get by, or end up having to do commissions for others (I hear furry porn is lucrative) so they don't get to do what they want.

Meanwhile in Japan you get 1000 year old roadside snack shops, brushmakers, a watchmaker that spends a year holed up in his apartment to produce a single watch, etc. That's the 'PR' side of Japan anyway, on the other there's the 14-hour workday wage slaves.
Thanks for finding all those bugs! I see the BI / SI / LI invariances you define are looking for program states that aren't present in the unoptimised program, while PI is looking for the absence of information that is in the unoptimised code. Do you think it will be possible to define and search for invariants that involve program states that are in the unoptimised program, but are presented in in the wrong way in the optimised program? For example variable values being presented at the wrong time, or stepping behaviour that misleads developers.

It'd be great to hunt those kinds of bugs, however it's hard to define what the "right" behaviour would be in those circumstances.
Harder to pull of Hollywood accounting when the buyer can say such-and-such expenses don't count.

> To back its claim to forgo profits from the $1.2 billion collaboration in the United States, Astra has even granted the government access to financial accounts related to the venture, according to Dobber.

> “There are very clear milestones before they are going to pay. Because we made the promise to manufacture the vaccine at no profit, auditors of the U.S. administration will get free access to our accounting books,” he said.
> We’re engineers, not royalty. There’s nothing any one of us could do that would justify these wages, if it wasn’t for US immigration policies causing an artificial supply/demand issue.

Executives, CEOs and shareholders are all highly compensated for their risk in both time and money and are not "royalty." I would argue that being royal implies birth as an unjustifiably paid skill.
This is Reuters. It's for consumption by the general public. Even if the journalist did know, whould they really go into any detail in a short reuters piece?

I'm sure there are better sources for details, and in the end FAA.
I for one will continue to dream about winning the lottery and owning a bigger house. No clue what I'd do if I never had to work again though, I'd probably find some kind of employment anyway to keep busy.
I have spoken to a handful of recruiters that have suggested £100k but they definitely seem rare. I've _never_,not once, seen or come across an offer for more than 500k. Im sure there are people who are on it, but I have absolutely no idea who they are or where they work.
That's true, I've made amazing things with PHP, but as soon as you throw some more people on the project, especially people who pine for their JS or Ruby and don't want to accept the PHP way of doing things, you get a shitshow of epic proportions.
The scale of the required liquidity of the energy market is growing constantly. Every time a solar panel or wind turbine is installed, the need for variable power sources goes up. If we're going to go anywhere near the net zero target that many western nations have set, we're going to need _a lot_ of liquidity.
"The Services are offered from the United States of America and, regardless of your place of residence or access location, your use of them is governed by the laws of the United State of America. Right Dao makes no representations that the Sites are appropriate for use in other locations or are legal in all jurisdictions. Those who access the Sites from other locations do so at their own risk and consent to the transfer and processing of their data in the United States of America and any other jurisdiction throughout the world."

That's half the reason I don't use Google right there and they pretend to follow European laws. So, yeah, right, no thanks.
> Not sure why this is being downvoted

Because it mentioned unions is my guess.
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A/B Testing Statistics: Why Statistics Matter in Experimentation
That raises an important question, though: is it really true that the developers don't care? Or is it more a matter of these performance improvements falling to the wayside because management pushes features and/or bugfixes first?

I've definitely seen both in the wild, so it's an important question to ask every time, rather than sticking to a blanket assumption of "devs neither understand nor care about performance optimization".
Destruction of the earth has increased and even accelerated too. Forests, corals, and vertebrate populations have been decimated.
If those mushrooms truly degraded the petroleum or plastic into something harmless, they can be simply turned into compost.
"Black lives matter" I guess.
"Hello Computer" seems pretty neutral, it reminds me of this sketch from IT crowd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu88J5JL8Hw
Bear in mind the majority of that comp is equity.

My first software engineering job in London in 2011 was arguably $1m/year, if I'd hung on to the equity until now!
This paints a picture of someone with a history of causing conflict. It points to negative personality traits (narcissism), and these people can be expected to wreck organisations.
Depends on the definition. E.g. alcohol withdrawal can kill you, heroin withdrawal can't.
Are you certain the CO2 is not used to build up other molecules that will not always be broken down back to CO2 again ?
A number of JavaScript projects have put support messages for the Black Lives Matter movement into the top of their README or home pages. I think it’s an excellent thing, personally.
Hey, thanks for the reference link from medium. That's a pretty good write up. I learned a lot. The author seems a bit biased though, when he claim quite strongly that:
"Therefore, all the claims in the report about dominionvotingsystems.com — while potentially valid — have nothing to do with dominionvoting.com."
After stating some of his own findings. I somehow feel like it's a hard sell to me that dominionvotingsystems.com is absolutely not related to dominionvoting.com given the name. And the fact that they used to redirect back in 2011 add some probability of the relation, however small probability you would weigh in for that addition. The changed of hands from Canada to US and back to China, does not reduce the chance of relation. If may increase the chance of relation given the company's footprint.

In sum, I can now see that this affidavit drew weak connections and made strong conclusions. So the credibility of the allegation is not that high. But to be fair to the person, it is court filing and he will be accountable for lying.
I don't see the connection between lockdowns and vaccine liability.
> But, do we really have a plan for the consequences, not only in Saudi Arabia but also every other nation that's dependent on oil?

Those countries have had plenty of time to diversify their economies, but instead of funneling some of that oil money into uplifting their nation, it went into the pockets of the elite few and dick-waving contests of tall buildings and tacky tourist traps.

They chose to not even provide basic human freedoms to many of their citizens, or allowed women to pursue higher education and jobs in their lives beyond marriage. Fostering free thinking among their populace would have produced at least some individuals with enough ideas to prepare for a post-oil world.
If you read the linked article you would see that renewables went down because of economies of scale and repeatability

same could be done for nuclear fission plants, especially efforts around miniaturisation and modularity with fail safes build in.
grammar and spelling on the about page are not very confidence inspiring (given this is a search engine)
64-bit RISC-V core claims 10x better CoreMarks/Watt compared to other 3-5GHz CPU
> The only way EIA will be off the mark is if we get something like fusion. Currently the major geopolitical issue is natural gas pipelines. Major nations wouldn't be fighting over gas pipelines if people believed fossil fuels were over.

I'll point out that the EIA has been off the mark wrt renewables in the past. For example: in 2010 [1], the EIA predicted renewables to grow by 30 Quadrillion BTUs in the next 20 years (2010-2030), that took only 8 years instead of 20. In their latest report they had to update that to a growth of 120 Quadrillion BTOs over the same timespan (2010-2030) (i.e. they were off by a factor of 4x).

As a thought experiment: The world doubled renewables in the last 10 years. If we maintain that CAGR until 2050, that would mean growth from ±100 Quadrillion BTU in 2020 to 200 in 2030, 400 in 2040 and 800 in 2050. If the totals from the EIA in 2050 are correct (±900 Qd BTU), then that would cover almost 90% of primary energy consumption globally.

Note: I realise this is oversimplified. We'd run into dampening factors (e.g. intermittency of solar/wind) far before we reach 90%. Nonetheless, based on the current growth I'm happy to argue that the EIA is underestimating growth potential of renewables.

> Right... One of the biggest per capita producer of oil is norway.
> The 2nd largest oil company in the world is a anglo-dutch company.

The present doesn't have to describe the future:

- Shell is still huge company. Yet, had you invested in Shell 5 years ago, your stocks would be 33% lower today (-47% for Exxon). Had you invested in some of the established renewable energy players e.g. Orsted, Vesta, or Iberdrola, you'd be up between 75 and 350%.

- Same in the US: Nextera (US Wind and Solar player) is currently valued higher than BP, Total or Shell. ($147 bln), and doubled market cap in the last 5 years.

The Dutch version of the FT ran an article yesterday on how investors are increasingly wary of investing in fossil fuels, and moving more into renewables. They made the comparison to how it suddenly became undesirable to invest in e.g. Tobacco. [2]

[1]: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/riley2/docs/EIA...

[2]: https://fd.nl/ondernemen/1366175/beleggers-draaien-van-fossi...
The installation cost is probably cheaper in your country so I will ignore it.

Assuming a 16% capacity factor that system will generate $328 worth of electricity a year at $0.03 per kWh. It would break even after 22 years. That's incredibly far away from the 208 years you have quoted.

The flaw in your thinking is that this setup wasn't chosen for you. It wasn't build in your country nor was it built by you so why would you compare it to your own needs? If you had to build your own solar system you would get a smaller one (which would decrease the breakeven duration according to your weird criteria despite not meaningfully changing the system) and you would probably install it yourself.

The reality is that wherever that solar system was built electricity costs more than $0.03 and the person needs more energy or feeds the the energy into the grid.

It's like complaining about a family of five getting a Volkswagen Sharan when you are just fine in your Citroen Ami. It's not about you.
I don't know if we have optimised developer time either. I'm certainly slower when doing anything on the web than I was with VB6.
I think you must have missed this event from just a few weeks ago:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/blackout-alert-from-natio...

Last week, National Grid issued two electricity margin notices, the most serious security-of-supply alerts since 2016, both citing low wind farm output among the causes and urgently appealing for more power plants. To keep the lights on, Britain burnt coal in polluting old power stations that are due to close within a few years.

“Unusually low wind output coinciding with a number of generator outages means the cushion of spare capacity we operate the system with has been reduced,” it said last month, warning of “tight margins” on Britain’s power grid in the days to come.
Needless to say, the code itself should be beautiful.
Do you see lots of pilots or aviation experts saying the opposite? Are there Max pilots that have come out and said "I'm done flying that thing"?
In go, you can just inline a lambda to force defer to adhere to any scope that you the programmer decide upon.

func(){

Code for lock and deferred unlock here

}()
On top of that, an organism genetically modified to eat plastic could surely change the ecosystem drastically since it would thrive like crazy due to so much dormant plastic in our environment.
I'm much richer because I've never played the lottery.
I would assume that if they do decide to "change the rules" then the penalty clauses in the contract kick in, such as payment in lieu of notice. Jesusland does actually enforce contracts, right?
You get this guy, then you make the mistake of looking for projects on angel list and find half the people posting think they can hire engineers for 0 cash. I’ve been told my whole career that I don’t charge enough and yet I have to look hard to find people that pay my rate. Then I check HN to find what an underpaid loser I am. Coffee break over, back to the mines I guess.
I don't think previous iterations of the 737 were fundamentally safer. As there were probably other changes done to the 737 Max beyond the different engines, like improving the overall build, I do think that the fixed 737 Max should be safer than any other 737.

The issue with the Max was, that a software, which should improve the handling in extreme situations, kicked in in normal conditions and the pilots failed to handle this (runaway stabilizer procedure). And indeed, the software for the MCAS was really badly designed, which has been fixed now and by now every 737 pilot should be aware how the two crashes could have been prevented by the right crew reaction. Both of this should mean that these accidents won't happen again.
I am not attacking any individual developer or project here, but in recent times, there's been a trend I've been observing and what you're pointing out. I call it the Hipster Driven Development phenomena* and it's just getting worse with every year. People just start by discarding established best practices in the name of being unique and cool and then wind up to the inevitable conclusion - the established best practices were there for a reason.

There's been many such trends to name a few - discarding years worth of stable codebases to try out some shiny new framework, throw away proven technologies to trade for some perceived developer convenience (Eg. PostgreSQL to MongoDB), labeling known terminologies to sound cool (Hacker vs Growth 'Hacker'). All these hipster moves come with a huge cost - they cost morale, time, money, teams, relationships. It just feels so unnatural to accept this as the norm.

In comparison, I just feel like some old dude from the 1950s rambling though these things have started to happen only the last half of the decade or so. Where did we go wrong?

Edited for OT
Is the mentioned E5 salary (304k) above average or?
Reparse – A comprehensive parser combinator for OCaml
Walter Bright (D's author) said something like: who's going to check the error returned by the log functions?

I would add if you want to be correct then the addition signature should be (IntX, IntX) -> Either<IntX,Error>.
Are you going to check also the return value of every arithmetic operation?

For me potentials errors are everywhere, so exception aren't bad, even if they make writing 'exception safe' code hard. That's why I was quite interested in the Vale language which claims to improve RAII: https://vale.dev/blog/next-steps-raii
The median daily rate for sofware contractors in the UK is apparently around $500, which is probably over $100k/year.

I guess that stops counting as Europe fairly soon, though.
How does lateral movement work in these companies? If you were an individual researcher (with promotions corresponding to 10 years of experience, let us say) in a prior organization?
Wood decays fairly rapidly in nature, and yet we can build things out of wood that last centuries. Keeping things dry goes a long way towards preserving them. That of course doesn't work for all applications, but I don't think there is a concern that some fungus will eat your Nylon shirts while you're wearing it.
We keep it short. If something requires a lot of changes, we split up the merge requests.
I have the opposite take. The US has something approaching a free labor market. That sucks if you're at the bottom. It's awesome if you're in demand and can get a 20% pay rise at any time by jumping employers (and yes, that 20% stacks reliably).

I admire Europe for achieving a good lower bound on the standard of living of a person in society. If it were my way, all labor laws would only apply to those making less than 100K a year.

The same laws which protect lower income earners by making hiring/firing expensive, make the cost of hiring/firing well paid employees astronomical. That puts a serious damper on the fluidity of labor markets.
I would unironically love to do this.
This is especially attractive for aircraft, but it will take awhile to happen. We probably need new aircraft.

Hopefully civilization will not collapse first, from refugees driving fascist governments into power, and former democracies self-surveilling themselves into locked-in dictatorships.

On the upside, collapsed civilization will have lower energy demands, and will find carbon extraction and transport harder to organize.
Technically, we're out of a recession now. Technically.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-02/australia-september-q...
In theory you're right. In real life, it's unlikely that the developers who were (probably barely) able to implement the system in a high-level language are able to rewrite and it in assembly code. And even if they were, unless you don't intend to change the code ever again, it's more likely you're just piling up technical debt.
Advances in Deep Learning 2020
Aviation Week tends to have much more accurate aviation articles. I haven't seen much to gripe about with their coverage of the 737MAX issue, but the mainstream media articles have all been pretty much trash.
Which is why people take the job but which doesn't relate much to a large part of the negotiation being rigged in favour of one party.

You could say the same about when the Silicon Valley salary cartel was uncovered. "yeah it's anticompetitive and negatively impacts workers but,....but these companies offer you food at work and comfortable workplace and all that."
I think for plastics the right answer is standardization. I know that's not people want to hear, but I don't think there is any way around it.

1. Ban all single use plastics that can be replaced somewhat economically with biodegradable materials (with a small price increase, maybe 2-5-10%).

2. Standardize plastic container compositions, shapes and sizes in a huge ISO catalog. EVERY product a company makes/uses has to be from this catalog. Companies can add another category one by going through the standardization process. Marketing can be done by applying biodegradable materials to the exterior.

Basically have a few material compositions:

- high strength/heavy

- medium strength/medium weight

- reduced strength/light

Have a standardized set of sizes:

- 100ml (and US equivalent)

- 250ml

- 330ml

- 500ml

...

Plus a standardized set of shapes for each size.

At the end of the day you'd get:

3 x number of sizes (probably 40-50 sizes?) x number of shapes (probably 10-15 shapes per size?) = 1200 - 2250 categories. And I'm being generous here, I think we should probably keep this total number under 500, ideally under 100, but I don't think such a low number is feasible.

Then charge a deposit for each plastic container and upon container return give this deposit back.

Same thing for glass, actually.

This would make plastic containers reusable, even across brands, and would probably reduce our plastic waste by orders of magnitude.

Heck, the same thing could probably be done for plastic bags.

However, this plan would also reduce plastic consumption (and production, so $$$) by orders of magnitude, so I don't expect it to ever pass a solid lobbying plan.
In the uk a year or two ago there was an ad showing an eager young guy, in his very early 20s if that, and the text that thanks to this course, this guy was training to become a software project manager.

I almost started laughing. There's no way a green youth can manage a software project without being a decent software dev first. Not happening.

It is possible to have a non-dev be one if they are very experienced and have the right soft skills, I knew one and he was good, but straight out of uni to manage a project, no way at all.
You'd be surprised how much stuff is made on these old processes. A lot of very security-cricial stuff like Baseboard Management Controllers, lights-out management controllers, and laptop embedded controllers are almost entirely built on pre-OPC (i.e. pre-90nm) processes.

All of those chips are in the "security flaw equals remote root" category.

SkyWater's 130nm process is compatible with on-die flash (unlike most post-90nm and nearly all post-40nm processes). You could do a "secure enclave" or your own Hardware Security Module and not have to worry about backdoors.

But to answer your question directly: this isn't about making an iPhone comeptitor.
I do seem to recall that being able to set a customer wake-word was in the works at one point.

I don't see why the system could not be designed such that one could submit a wake-word, which is analyzed for suitability in terms of being sufficiently distinct in complex audio environments, and then checked against a blacklist.

Shouldn't be beyond Google's technical capabilities.

The thing is, a LOT of people avoid Google Home/Assistant because they simply can't bring themselves to blurt out cheesy branding like that.

They really ought to solve that problem. Probably they will right about the time they port Inbox bundling to Gmail and provide a Drive sync client for Linux (it's been, a decade?).
I also love to optimize code, but I know many developers who wouldn't even know where to start.
I think it's important to have both (and indeed, do use both): a blazing-fast development machine for actually writing the code and a slow-as-molasses test machine (be it separate hardware or a heavily-handicapped VM on the fast machine) for dogfooding/testing the code. With the former, the faster the better; with the latter, the slower the better.
Is there a more general definition of logarithms than being the inverse of the exponential function?

Mathworld says Prosthapharesis formulas "convert a product of functions into a sum or difference" [0], which resembles a property of logarithms (i.e. log(ab) == log(a) + log(b)). However I don't quite get how angle measurement itself is a type of logarithm.

Maybe something to do with Euler's formula?

[0] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ProsthaphaeresisFormulas.html