skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the ethics argument for ML explainability may not be particularly strong (although, once the regulators arrive that isn't going to matter), but the practical argument is extremely strong.

Any explanation method will give you more insight into how your model, features and data interact. This will allow you to improve the model, and also avoid insane features that are just capturing either information from the future or are not worth the processing effort.

Maybe it's that I came to data science from a theory-driven science point, but I don't really understand why you wouldn't want to be able to interpret your model.
An interesting point of view. Practically, I agree with you, that FU wealth is probably the most realistic way to achieve the freedom required for some personality types to achieve happiness.

I am unfortunately one of them, intellectually, I've conclude the same for myself many times over, and have been unable to change my view on this, as much as I'd love to find peace in my sitaution and enjoy life (tm).

What's hard about it is that it's probably impossible for most people to achieve this kind of wealth, after all, in the current socioeconomic situation, you can't be rich in any traditional sense of the word, without someone else being relatively less well off.

Until we have robots doing our work, and almost-infinite access to resources through no or little work of our own, the traditional definitions are valid.
I used to feel this way. Paradoxically, I've found that completely ignoring income/clicks resolves this problem. Here's what happened to me:

1. Try and make 'the optimal thing'. Something easy to create, and so lucrative that I won't have to make anything else again

2. flail like the author describes

3. decide that no amount of money is worth feeling this way (or otherwise burnout via your method of choice)

4. make nothing for a while (~6 months for me)

5. start missing some aspects of what you used to do

6. gradually start making those things again, with the goal being to make those things.

Hopefully step 7 is profit, time will tell. If it's not, I'm ok with that too :)
Link evidence of widespread conspiratorial fraud please. I won't hold my breath.
This was the conclusion I came to after using android 4-5 for a while.

Android is not designed for the community to be hacking on it. While these projects occasionally appear they don't last because of the incredible amount of work required to maintain them. You're much better off finding a normal Linux distro/phone pair that can make phone calls etc.
If you want the best fries in the world, I'd highly recommend going to Belgium and getting them from any random frituur. The market is competitive, and anybody making lousy frites is unlikely to survive long.

They really are amazing: about 1cm square in cross section crunchy and crispy on the outside, but not overly so, light, fluffy, and the perfect balance of dry/moist inside. Never oily, always cooked fresh, and without exception, delicious. Though I will confess that I never got behind putting Mayo on top.

Anybody fooling around trying to replicate the original McDonalds recipe is shooting for the wrong target. Shoestring fries don't have the inside/outside texture contrast that makes for fry perfection.
The other thing this makes me think -- custom built carpentry is currently very expensive, for real. If you also want all the components to be custom-designed and bespoke, it's only the wealthiest who will be able afford it.

There are for sure economic factors behind choices in how software is built, for sure.

Back to the analogy and actual tools -- what employer is going to pay you to write your own editor to use to write the software the employer wants? It's not just that they are mean and choose not to pay you for this, it is not a cost they could sustain (for all but the biggest employers I guess. Google, sure, can have an editor team. Still can't let every individual programmer build their own editor)
That's an awesome project! Do you have some guidance on getting Octave to compile on WASM?
Yes, this link extremely dishonestly links to the Google cache version of the article, specifically in order to not show that it was retracted due to being misleading and inaccurate.

This is 100% malicious misinformation and should not be posted anywhere.
> though I know opinions vary here

Why are you reacting so heavily on a quite balanced comment?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25247383
So if I understand correctly, pip will now install the list of packages in the same order instead of choosing randomly, so that when there are version conflicts, you always get the same result?

I'm surprised I never ran into the issue, but I suppose it mainly show up if you have a large number of dependencies?
You can also take non stop videos with the r5, just not in 8k ... Just like you can use your car non stop, just not red lining the first gear on the highway
When it comes to making money from advertising there are a few things that just don't work:

- japanese animation

- programming blogs

- blogs about blogging

- blog about making money online
I regularly see stupid formatting around 80 characters. It always gets a review request to change it.
The argument is that the top five are overvalued. If so they would have outperformed during the period they became overvalued.
Not only retracted, but this link specifically uses the Google cache to avoid showing you that it was actually retracted. This is malicious.
A lot of people here talk about Linux making laptops die really soon but I have no clue what the hell y'all are talking about. For me switching to Linux normally makes the battery go 2-5x slower. The laptop on which I'm typing (a T420) lasted half an hour on Windows 10 and two hours on Debian when it had the original battery, now that I've replaced it it gets 5hrs on Linux and maybe two max on Windows 10. About the same on Windows 7.

Of course it depends on how you configure it but if you've really de-bloated your system you can get much more out of the battery than Windows can. I've been able to get more battery out of a recent Inspiron, a less recent Toshiba Satellite, this Thinkpad, and an old Samsung netbook, so I could be biased by my hardware.

Nowadays it's much easier to get higher-level Linux support, too.
It'll be number 6 (assuming you treat the two classes of Google shares as one company like the source has).
Aside from the few examples where people actually do drink bleach, I am still convinced it is best to ignore these people and not write articles about them.

The average reader is most likely drawn to such stories to feel superior about other people, goes on to deride them for their education or intelligence and the targets will reinforce their views as they are, no matter how nonsensical. It is also one of the reasons why facts are not at all effective at combatting this.
What personal tax consequences arise from rebalancing within an index fund?
This comment is very, very true.

While you as a person may not be able to get details of the algorithms and methods used, the regulators get exhaustive documentation about every aspect of them.

With GDPR, explainability is going to become a requirement, but it will probably take some test cases before this happens.
Reality: "Most people" can not even parse your assertion, much less take a position on it.
I'm guessing you're right, in the context, though, it's not the best shorthand to choose. The unrecognized perception that one's own accent is not actually an accent is the keystone of accentism.
>Well, I speed-read code all the time...

I skim code a lot. like A LOT. But I don't _read_ it. I try and figure out where I am by looking at context and clues and only drill down into the important looking tricky buts. It kinda sounds like we're on the same page here

> That said, for me column width is irrelevant for speed-reading. The typical time-killer is lacking separation of concerns and poor naming conventions (God classes, or worse, God files with 20 classes)

Exactly. Couldn't have said it better
When I said _individual_ I meant "projects developed by one person only".

In general I agree with you, open source tends to have better quality than proprietary software.

I will point out however that Open Source sees a lot of contribution from non-hobbyists too. That's my case, in fact: my salary for the last 10 years came from working on open source projects.
I started working on Lunatic around a year ago in my free time. Until now I just wanted to see if it was even technically possible to build such a system. Now that I have the foundation in place and you can build some "demo" apps, like a a tcp server, I'm starting to explore options for funding. From this point on I think that the progress is going to be much faster, especially if others find it useful enough to contribute to it.
Yes, but if you flash back to Sony's ROM, you still won't get updates - it's a one way trip.
Something we work very hard on at chess.com is the rating of the individual tactics puzzles.

Some of you might enjoy looking at the distribution of our puzzle ratings. Truly hard problems are precious, and we would always like to have more at the high end. The distribution is multimodal because puzzles of different lengths have different modes.

+----------------+---------+
| ratings_band | count |
|----------------+---------|
| 100-199 | 5320 |
| 200-299 | 2542 |
| 300-399 | 31542 |
| 400-499 | 10282 |
| 500-599 | 4539 |
| 600-699 | 7644 |
| 700-799 | 6017 |
| 800-899 | 5288 |
| 900-999 | 5109 |
| 1000-1099 | 5187 |
| 1100-1199 | 4905 |
| 1200-1299 | 4369 |
| 1300-1399 | 8164 |
| 1400-1499 | 8969 |
| 1500-1599 | 8430 |
| 1600-1699 | 8007 |
| 1700-1799 | 7795 |
| 1800-1899 | 8143 |
| 1900-1999 | 9116 |
| 2000-2099 | 10551 |
| 2100-2199 | 10261 |
| 2200-2299 | 7057 |
| 2300-2399 | 2446 |
| 2400-2499 | 1225 |
| 2500-2599 | 1067 |
| 2600-2699 | 1055 |
| 2700-2799 | 964 |
| 2800-2899 | 888 |
| 2900-2999 | 881 |
| 3000-3099 | 917 |
| 3100-3199 | 434 |
| 3200-3299 | 282 |
| 3300-3399 | 144 |
| 3400-3499 | 206 |
| 3500-3599 | 131 |
| 3600-3699 | 104 |
| 3700-3799 | 86 |
| 3800-3899 | 114 |
| 3900-3999 | 42 |
| 4000+ | 5 |
+----------------+---------+
I'm not sure that's an accurate assessment.

1. Reduced dependency on oil = less money in oil = less money for a lot of countries that historically act quite poorly on the world stage.

2. 100% better for global warming than combustion cars.

3. Is mining lithium & disposing on lithium batteries incorrectly worse for the environment than oil manufacturing, production & transport? I don't know 100% but the massive oil spills we regularly have would make me think lithium is actually better here.

4. Lithium batteries at grid-scale reduce blackouts which means you don't spin up a bunch of local generators. They also make wind & solar power generation available off-peak reducing reliance on coal & natural gas.

5. Are car batteries likely to be improperly recycled? I would think legislation would minimize the problem. Even without legislation, my impression is that today's used car batteries are still extremely valuable & end up being reused rather than recycled.

6. More investment in lithium ion batteries = more money & investment in better batteries (lithium ion or otherwise). This improves efficiency across the board for mobile applications, cars, grid applications, etc (something we don't get with internal combustion engines).

The incomplete reasoning in your post is you're evaluating lithium standalone instead of examining the cost vs replacement (how does lithium ion fare against alternatives? are there better alternatives). Can you propose what you see as better alternatives rather than just making blanket complaints and blaming corporate democrats? (Also, lithium batteries are now a left/right idealogy thing? WTF).
> I mean, Apple work closely with Adobe and other software companies to ensure a good experience for the end users. At least I think they do.

If they are, they're not doing a very good job; Adobe stuff is reportedly kind of buggy even under Rosetta, and historically Adobe has been very, very slow with the x86_64 transition, the Intel transition, the MacOS 10 transition, and so on.
I’m curious, in which ways do you feel that money made you happier? As in, what were the important things it has enabled for you that weren't available under, say, an average engineer's salary?
This article was retracted (referenced in another thread), but it was essentially a summary of the source webinar that is still posted (but oddly unlisted) here: https://youtu.be/3TKJN61aflI

I encourage you to watch that video and judge the analysis yourself. In this video I feel like she is very balanced and is taking a scientific approach ("Here's how I did the analysis and here's what I'm saying - please let me know what you think") vs the media/twitter trying to summarize/polarize.
Do you really think "my only interest is money" is a balanced comment? I don't see how this even makes sense. If you didn't have other things that you wanted to spend the money on then it wouldn't be much use.
> most people tend to agree with me that at least to a degree more money = more happiness, it's the reason that capitalism works

What do you think capitalism is exactly? What's your definition that fits the context of that statement?
Off topic aside — I have never seen such complex GitHub issue templating[0]. It’s neat.

What made me look at was the fact that this FR ticket has the line:

> How the feature would be relevant to at least 90% of Homebrew users

That seems pretty aggressive but I imagine they do get loads of feature requests.

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/new/choose
Fuschia as well. Looks like a good foundation for the future of Android.
Depending on language that's easily reachable with sane code.

One level of indentation for the module/class level and another one for a method. Already at two levels.

Within a method, two levels of indentation are by far not extreme.
It's not super relevant, but I was poking around their CI infrastructure, and I noted the use of a temporary RAM disk to speed-up tests:

https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/master/.azure-pipelines/scr...

I'm very surprised. Is this common?
Lessons Learned from Building North Carolina's Long Leaf Pine Slate
No kidding. I pretty much don't even believe in the concept of a serious upgrade anymore, as far as pip goes anyway. As long as it still works when I run it, nobody is missing out on any serious upgrades as far as I'm concerned at this point.
salaries in the Bay Area are very high, and if you avoid the common pitfalls, you can save a lot. Personally I made about $200-220k average during my 10-year career and lived on 30-40k while saving the rest and investing mostly in equities (of course taxes take a big chunk). Now I spend $50k-ish but I pay for everything for me and my fiance. I plan on spending $75kish once we have a family of four eventually which is the maximum level I'd feel comfortable spending with my current wealth. It wouldn't cover all our wants but definitely most of them and all our needs, hence there is still some additional utility from growing wealth but not enough to justify the stress and anxiety of a career IMO
My preference would be holding normal SPY and hedge the overweighted NASDAQ stocks with short NQ futures. In this way you only need to rebalance the NQ futures which benefits from 60/40 rule with better tax rate.
As a corollary, don’t ask people how many hours they work. Ask: when do you go home? On Friday’s too? Do you work Saturdays? Oh yeah how much? And Sunday’s too? Same amount?

Then count.

Unless you have a few 2am nights and full weekend days it’s relatively difficult to reach 100 hours plus. When you actually count it gives more reasonable figures.
Greg Kroah-Hartman: Lessons for Developers from 20 Years of Linux Kernel Work
Everyone knows different beliefs happen because of mistakes, conflicted interests, and that differing models can still embody one truth (E.g., Newtonian physics vs relativistic), with different tradeoffs. Also, mistakes happen in even recognizing your own interests. A lot of mistakes are also practically unsolvable. Any moderation algorithm that assumes conflict away is hopelessly naive.
MicroG is amazing! Works really well while hiding your data from Google as much as possible (e.g. if you use google's push).

They even implemented the covid notifications api now!
More interesting, that around 2000 the top 5 was Microsoft, GE, Cisco, Intel, Walmart.
Nothing last forever.
You can dump a device running GNU/Linux in front of them and when push notifications don't work the way they expect they'll tell you "it's broken."
I'd assume any sufficiently large and old MacOS shop uses some combination; I don't see why Apple themselves would be any different.
Salesforce deal to buy Slack expected to be announced tomorrow
The parent comment is a pack of memes straight out of a propaganda machine.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/dave-reichmuth/new-data-show-electri...

Lithium is a mine once, use forever resource. It's an element. It will cost energy to recycle it, but that energy is increasingly sourced by clean energy sources. Let me cite the oil company, BP.

https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat...

Coal is in terminal decline. Solar and wind have been growing exponentially, and are on a path to pass coal within the decade. Projections to the contrary have to explain why decades of industrial economics theory are wrong, where manufactured goods (like solar and wind generators) get cheaper by a fairly consistent % every time you double production. This creates a virtuous cycle that will drive coal and other fossil fuels out of business through profit seeking alone. (We are past the tipping point on costs here.) The burden of proof is on the fossil fuel advocates like yourself at this point. (This article is from 2015, and the IEA and similar keep getting it wrong since then.)

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2015/11/17/why-the-iea-is-consis...
Where did she get the numbers of total deaths from? Does the US publish death rates during the year or only afterwards?
For Europe, there's a pretty obvious excess death rate this year with two spikes: https://www.euromomo.eu/bulletins/2020-47
I would be very surprised if the same wasn't true for the US.
It probably is, but new vs old is not a big decision driver for me. The things that matter to me for scientific computing languages are visualization tools (most critical to me, by far), libraries for standard functionality like optimization and signal processing (not critical as I can use another language for back-end processing) and price.

I will try Julia's visualization tools sometime, but if MATLAB is significantly faster will stick to it for now. Just a single user's data point, not claiming that this is a universal view.
I don't know why you would limit your dataset to the last decade. That doesn't seem a valid analysis, even though it might be easier to lookup with free tools online.
Just bought a KaiOS phone, waiting for it to arrive, I will see how it will behave.
If you enjoy geometric algebra, you might like my Julia language implementation

Grassmann.jl (features on bivector.net)

https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
> sleep and performance.

And well being / health in general
> germany

That's why, just check how tech is pay in USA http://levels.fyi
I believe that this is related to the operating system being overwhelmed with waking up every 100ms on 2k threads. This example is not that great though. Depending on the OS and CPU you should be able to run much higher amount of threads.
I didn't. Addon using WebExtension API shouldn't normally require browser restart, if it does and doesn't even notify user about that, I would consider that bug too.
Extensibility, a fundamental software design concept
> The older I get, the more our devotion to the CLI feels like gatekeeping.

Nah... you can't take one of the handful of major styles of interaction with computing devices and diminish adherence to that style as just 'gatekeeping'. There are moments where the strengths of GUI interaction is useful (discovery of options, selection of individual objects, etc.), but modern systems are complex and large enough that you can't really walk away from the idea of expressing operations and state linguistically without walking away from tools you need to do your job efficiently (or at all). So yeah, maybe CLI is less accessible and more difficult for newcomers, but the problems they solve aren't necessarily easy, either.

However... I do think there are many opportunities for both better accessibility in CLI's and better interoperability between CLI's and GUI's. Better discovery of options in CLI would help (autocomplete, etc.), as would a better connection between the GUI and CLI worlds. (Lisp has some good ideas where the "terminal" remembers the object it prints and allows interaction with those objects, as opposed to just remembering a string character representation of them. Microsoft's Office applications similarly will write macro code for you as you interact with the UI - which is a great way to understand the relationship between the two worlds.)
Is science always necessary during the search for meaning?
> This is a barrier to entry that few companies can really climb over anymore, with 500 million in R&D only possible by a few companies

I wonder what could be done to reduce that barrier. It sounds as though there is a lot of value that could be unlocked by making it easier (cheaper) to get over it.

I imagine a company that could drop the Verification or Software costs down by an order of magnitude would suddenly find itself with a long lineup of customers. After all, if only 270 companies can currently get over that barrier, reducing the barrier by even $50m or $100m would open up the market to a large number of companies, all with fairly large pockets and a strong incentive to be customers.

And of course, I say this having never worked in the hardware design industry, so all are welcome to explain in excruciating detail how naïve I am.
It blows my mind that it wasn't more.

For context, in Ireland we are about to come out of a six week lockdown, and reported cases have dropped by about4-4.5x.

Not sure what the hell happened to make the English lockdown so ineffective (and to be fair, it's not like the lockdown is actually ending, it's just becoming more regionalised).
The JSON standard as is can not replace HTML because it has no room for error correction. Regardless of capability, one of the primary strengths of HTML is that it is forgiving at a syntax level. JS and JSON are not.