skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this video is err... somewhat misleading from first seconds. According to World Bank data[0], Netherland's GINI index is 28. Their neighbours are in the same ballpark: the same figure for Belgium, Denmark and Norway, 32 for Germany and Poland, 33 for France and UK. South Africa is 63. US is 41.

[0] https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SI.POV.GINI
And that's where folks go wrong. NoSQL is not boring tech. As soon as you need to scale, it is MORE likely, not less, that you will end up in a weird state in your app, user enrollment flow etc. NoSQL makes scaling MUCH harder in my view. SQL tools give you a common interface many folks can engage with, and many tools.

I really want to talk to people building piles of spaghetti on noSQL because "it scales". At some point you've just go to start tearing your hair out.

Postgresql can do 1.5M queries (read/write) per second on OLTP loads on one box just to get started. If you really need more you can get extremely high with replicas. Then application design comes into play.

I'm tired of folks picking "noSQL" so things can scale. Dealing with all the edges cases as these things scale is a nightmare (plug mongodb and friends seem to fall over MUCH more often, recovery is miserable with them etc).
Because when the US does it is Freedom Interception, or Freeception if you will. And when its corporations do it, they are simply projecting Freedom into uncivilized* parts of the world.

* uncivilized meaning both 'shithole' countries and those otherwise not a part of the USA
Is there a legitimate use for this besides being a domain squatter?
YUP! Screenhero was amazing. Instead of keeping it running until they could properly integrate it, they just half assed it and shut it down.

Slack had a great opportunity and totally blew it.
Also, cubic splines don't extrapolate like the other mentioned models
CA is an at will state. He can fire her for no reason if he wishes, let alone a "flimsy" one.
https://archive.is/UjCLP
It's on purpose because the pricing model is still work in progress.
I've had this happen and did something very similar. I purchased a Kardia EKG device for my spouse's smart watch (before smart watches had them built in). The web page clearly stated that you could use the product without having an account. (My spouse and I are pretty vehement about not using any device that requires an account for no reason. Getting data from a device I own to my own watch should not require an account.)

They pointed out that their web page clearly states you will need an account. I was shocked because I always make sure to very carefully research this. So I went to the wayback machine on archive.org and looked at their page on the day I purchased, and sure enough, the language was not in there. They had added it a few weeks later.

I sent them screenshots and receipts, and they still pushed back. Finally I issued them an ultimatum. Refund us the money or I'll do a chargeback and present my evidence to the credit card company. They immediately backed down and refunded us.

It is utterly insane that consumers need to take screenshots of every product page for products they buy in this day and age to not be screwed over.
Zoom has it and its really amazing.

I gotta say, of the products I've used, Zoom blows all the others out of the water (Teams, Google Meet, Slack, WebEx)
Why not looking for a job and doing Lisp in the spare time?
I'd love it if they used Allulose in some workout powders. Obviously the ones meant for gaining mass benefit from the use of "typical" sugars, but for those who aim for athletics and cardio instead of bulk might benefit.

One of the reported "side-effects" of allulose is that it inhibits muscle mass loss, and has other indications that could be useful for certain types of workout regimens.
It very much does not sound like Germany+.

> Enshrine the right to organize

As in with a constitutional amendment? Because the NRLA already guarantees this.

> Require equal profit sharing across all employees

Germany does not do this and neither should the US.

> Require significant worker representation on corporate boards

Germany does not do this and neither should the US.

> Heavily tax relatively high salaries, e.g. if everyone makes $1m then 0 tax. If one person makes $100k and 99 others make $1, insane super tax them down to $100 (include tricky stuff like bonuses or whatever)

Germany doesn't do this and neither should the US.

> Heavily tax nationally high salaries with a progressive income tax.

The US already does this, as the US does not have a flat tax rate for income tax.

> Heavily punish tax dodging

Addressing symptoms not causes. Reduce tax avoidance by simplifying the tax code. It's that simple.

> Set the minimum wage to a living wage and pin it to the CPI

Probably a good idea.

> Abolish "right to work"

Terrible idea.
"Contact us" to me almost always means "you're going to have to talk to a salesperson who's trying to maximize their commission." That doesn't sound like someone who's "buying domains for fun" would really want to do. It also adds a significant amount of friction to your customer acquisition process.
Like others here, I read books on paper by incandescent light in the hours before bed.
But since you bring it up, I think I might try to start using paper-only for an hour or two after waking also, before facing a screen.
“But what people are saying is that the narrative that billionaires built their wealth themselves is false and that they should be taxed heavily in recognition of the fact that they built their wealth off of the work of others.”

So are you saying that there should be a higher tax for a person who profits off the labor of someone else?

Surely the person who constructed the system (that gave opportunity to the other individual they’re profiting off of) added some benefit to the other individual as well, otherwise wouldn’t the other individual work for himself or elsewhere?

Or is the argument that there is always a moral cap on how much profit a person can make off someone else?
This really threw me off when I first started learning about ANNs, coming from a traditional econometrics background. B-but ... the parameters aren’t identified!
>Don't know why everyone is expecting solid proof here

Occam's razor. Doctors see these symptoms many times every day. For some reason, embassy staff are different from the rest of us humans, and we have to concoct some incredibly implausible reason for their symptoms.
Full draft of Timnit Gebru's paper
In the summer of my junior year at undergrad engineering school I attended a "career accelerator" course, a week long series of lectures from entrepreneurs and practicing engineers. One gentleman working for a multinational industrial corporation said specifically he recommends people get a new job every two years. He said he was on track to become CEO of this multinational company. Sometimes a new job can be found in the organization you work already.
Why even use floating point there, I wonder. Should probably be static text.
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Both "Scattered Minds" and "When the Body Says No" are great. I've found the content on Youtube from his talks very insightful as well. Particularly this series of videos in Scotland starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tef5_HK5Zlc.
I dunno. IMO, there is just too much deep blub around and it loses value too fast for making a significant investment in deep blub to be a practical approach.
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Docker Inc's antagonistic attitude towards Red Hat and personal attacks on their engineers was the beginning of the end for them. The people who really headlined those attacks are now gone, but the damage was done. Docker made it clear from the beginning they had no desire to be part of a community and now the community is leaving them behind. Good riddance.
As someone that works in K-12 technology (and has for 15 years), the real monopolies aren't the tech giants, they're the Pearsons and Houghton Mifflins of the world that buy out competitors and lock school districts into platforms they can't escape without substantial migration costs.

And don't even get me started on the way they have kept education hostage to high stakes tests.
While I welcome this development I must note from long-standing experience that using any type of more advanced functionality in Excel has always come back to bite me. The reason is exchange of workbooks with less skilled individuals. Or cross platform incompatibilities like URLENCODE not working on MacOS since many years now. And many use cases that once required Excel can now be solved by other tools with better documentation. The nature of Excel is in-auditability, intransparency and error proneness. Trust me - I‘ve been using it for too many years now.
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Seeking work.

Corona, USA.

Remote mandatory.

...

Formerly with "big tech."

Commodity stack: React/Vue/Angular & ecosystem.

Base rate 10/wk. Value pricing when I can get away with it.

...

You—: You need a web app that looks beautiful. You want prospective customers to interact with your product and you want them to feel that visceral feeling that you feel when you interact with an Apple product or something of similar quality. That feeling will compel them to purchase your thing and it is easily worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to you over the next two or three years. (Perhaps you've noticed how terrible the recent YouTube redesign is. If I were in charge of that operation I would fire everyone involved. No mercy.)

No management, project or otherwise. Direct engagements with execs only. Thanks.

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Yes, but it should be addressed democratically - protests, lobbying your representatives, even voting. Inventing a new currency that is, for a little while, hard to track by the government isn't a real solution, it's just pretending the problem doesn't exist.

The government is persecuting WikiLeaks financially because that is easy to do. Even if a cryptocurrency were to take off as a currency and still be untraceable, the government would just move on to some other form of persecution. The real problem to be addressed is the persecution of a useful legitimate organization by an ostensibly democratic government. The form that persecution takes is secondary.
GSuite and Office 365 subscription base, while somewhat correlated to, is not equal to the usage of Excel vs Google Sheets.

Highly anecdotal, but there are far more complex business processes still running in Excel that are not going to be translated over to Google sheets, and they are all offline behind a network firewall.

Those types of sheets will really benefit from this improvement.

Now if they just supported python instead of VBA for scripting!
To be fair, this one could easily have been the PRC, they have some, uh, domain expertise.
It's hard to say, but months sounds like a reasonable time.
I would like to heartily second the recommendation of Mind Illuminated. John Yates aka "Culadasa" is a neuroscientist turned buddhist monk who was able to distill those cultural teachings into a context backed by modern science. I must confess I had read only the first chapter thus far but it is what enabled me to follow through with a daily meditation practice for 3 weeks, my longest streak as of yet. I saw great benefit from it (however as is discussed in the book - it may be better if the expectation of results is not the primary driver of one's will to meditate) and I intend to get back to the continued aid of this well written book.
> There is just one little problem. They are often not the people who get to decide on where the company spends its money.

Super common in businesses. They prioritize what managers want, not what the employees need.

Example:

We switched to NextCloud's Mail app for our webmail. It's terrible and barely has any of the features you'd consider it for any size company much less ours (~$1 billion & 3500 employees).

We brought it up to our VP of IT before we rolled it out and "we like that its integrated into NextCloud and we can pay them or develop features ourselves!".

Rollout went as predicted. Our users hate it because it has tons of problems and barely works. So we brought up that we can switch to something like RoundCube and same thing: "We like that its integrated". Even after we brought up that its a terrible experience for users. VP: "I don't care about that". There was a nice awkward silence after that.
At the same time I wouldn't say that the Dutch a very united. Their lower house[0] is 50/50 split between pro-govt and opposition fractions, and Senate[1] is 43/32 for opposition.

They are not famous for street riots though, I'd give them that credit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Neth...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_(Netherlands)
They want you to use Aurora instead.
You changed the subject completely. What does your comment have to do with it being regulated or not?
An issue with deep learning is that it is very hard to analyse from a theoretical mathematical perspective, to prove things about them.

Kernels have been studied thoroughly from a theoretical perspective and people have proven things about them.

The goal of papers such as these is to find ways in which deep neural networks and kernel methods are similar, so that theoretical results and tools found for kernel methods may be adapted to deep neural networks.
Any good source/summary of the above? I guess I'm out of the loop, but attacking a company as trusted as Red Hat seems a bad idea.
It is static text :)
Apple claims 11 trillion OPS, NVIDIA claims 285 TOPS, my educated guess is that real-life performance is off by same factor, leading to ~25x advantage of 3090 compared to M1
As far as I'm aware, attention does not even attempt biological plausibility, nor was it in any way inspired by biology. The issues attention addresses are very specific to sequential nature of so called Recurrent Neural Networks. The first issue is known as exploding / vanishing gradients - basically as you keep multiplying some vector with matrices you will either explode that vector to infinity or squeeze to zero, the same happens with derivatives. The second issue is that you can not parallelize sequential operation. Attention address this issues by removing recurrence by using a specific invented mathematical structure. There was no name for it, but attention gives good intuition for what that mathematical structure is trying to do. Kind of like quantum chromodynamics uses the term "colors" in a way that has nothing to do with light, photons or even electromagnetic force.
Ok, but that doesn't alter my point.
Turns out, it's a "feature", judging by some other comments...
I love essay compilations, the latest one I read was Umberto Eco's Chronicles of a Liquid Society. A compilation of his columns in l’Espresso magazine. Such a good format, doesn't waste any space in his writing whatsoever (that's Eco and the format).

I would really appreciate more of this kind, any commenters here have suggestions?
Thank you for your corrections. I've updated the article.
Another thought: are neural nets just a weird analog / floating point kind of probabilistic data structure or lossy compression algorithm?
Yeah, it's all tradeoffs, Portacle has the advantage of not requiring you to learn emacs as much to learn Common Lisp.
Really, there is none. After reading through so many of these types of threads, I'm convinced there is no sustainable business model for open source infrastructure.

The best bet would be to build proprietary paid services on top of the open source infrastructure. See Laravel's projects.
While that could be the case, the majority of surveillance infrastructure is sold by Western companies, Israel in particular being a terrible actor on this space.
governments or their people try to tie prosperity and access to morality, in arbitrary ways outside of their constitutional framework in arbitrary conditions that change over time, and are different across borders

having an optional liquid payment system outside of their control solves that

and the existence of that optional liquid payment system has the possibility of making their controlled one redundant
Can you do Leetcode medium level problems bug-free in 30 minutes? If yes you can try FAANG. I knew some people of your age (one is 59) were hired by Google -- they are all good in Leetcode.

Companies nowadays want you to be good in domain knowledge but also good to solve Leetcode problems during the interview. Time has changed.
Agreed. I would love to leverage REGEX!

Excel formulas have long been too hard to comprehend if you were not the original author... and even if you did author it, 4 weeks later you won’t remember how it worked without a half hour of review!
This high degree of vertical integration with Apple being the sole source of the highly integrated CPU can bypass the Intel premium and allow them to gain market share that their earlier higher prices lost them. Many pro people bought Apple for video etc, however, many others had smaller budgets and went Intel/AMD - people like me. I found myself thinking about buying an M1 mini after I watched that video.
Docker, Inc. has the opportunity to be the NPM, Inc. for container images. How much did NPM sell to GitHub for?

Less concretely, is there a business model for a low-level piece of infrastructure like Docker? Is there a business model for ncurses or readline or df or ls?

"Real world" infrastructure is typically high capex, low margin. How many VC-funded startups build bridges or tunnels? SpaceX is pivoting to Starlink to find good margins and escape the fate of being a trucking company to space.
That number is not for devices not actively adressed (whathever that means) but for devices that do not have power profile accepted by host. On the other hand it is slightly unclear how that is meant because that is awfully close to the power required for correct device-side Full speed USB termination network. Thus interpretation that I use is that before enumeration the device as a whole should not draw more than 1mA from VBUS.
Every Android phone is slow and unsupported after 2 years. Not really a comparison.
I might recommend saying "Contact us" or "Coming soon" – I also thought this was a glitch or that you were attempting to serve personalized pricing and it wasn't working.
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I wonder if local hotels might be willing to come to some sort of 'coupon/giftcard' arrangement...

I would love to see this become some kind of trend. If you are able to arrange anything, I would be very interested in hearing from you and/or seeing a published write-up (like a blog post).

Even if you can't arrange anything with hotels, I would still be keenly interested in reading some write-up a la 'The the past x months, I have gifted hotel stays to homeless people. Here's what I learned." and going into what did work, what didn't work, some best practices you developed, etc.

That would be a potential gold mine of information. It could help solve the shower problem: https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/01/solving-sho...
If there are 5000 peak oil articles spread out across 100 years one of the will get the chance to gloat that "I got it right!!!!"
Migadu only charges for emails sent, so is quite economical for many scenarios. Also mailinabox makes it very easy to set up a quick mail server for not super important domains.
Yes, it just works better. I have a tpad X1 with pop os and a lemur and the lemur is easy easier day to day, I'm always rebooting the x1.

I do recommend maxing it out, i got a cheaper spec and it can be sluggish for multiple heavy loads, like three browsers at once (cpu bound).
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They do. It's called Taler ( https://taler.net/ )
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Then we blame the Russians while tut tutting the Cubans for allowing this to happen.

That’s the rather tidy thing about claiming to be attacked by a weapon no one can see and that leaves no evidence of use: you’re free to build theories that suit your geopolitical ambitions.
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Whilst not native, you can emulate these with a user defined function (UDF).
Why is HN so censorship heavy now? This really was one of the last places to have discourse...
If they had sold some items for Eth just before the fork, they will never recover the Eth, and they may be unable to recover the items either. So yes, in a fork people lose money.
I believe WeChat allows anyone to send and receive money, make payments etc, and at huge stale. No idea how implemented, but no blockchain nonsense.
Afaik the new tf alpha for m1 .Mac does not make use of the neural cores.
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Shelter in place advice hasn’t changed.

In theory flats in the U.K. are built with fire barriers between each Flat, preventing the spread of fire. If you take my flat for example, we separated by concrete walls and fire doors from our neighbours on all sides.

Part of the reason why shelter in place still exists, is because the fire exits aren’t designed to handle every flat evacuating at the same time. It would result in people getting stuck on stairs and getting trampled. Almost certainly resulting in greater loss of life, than if everyone stayed put.

Places like Grenfell failed because the central premise of fire insulted flats was broken. Not just by flammable cladding, but also by faulty fire doors that failed to prevent the spread of smoke into common areas and the build up of flammable materials in what should have been fire sterile common areas.

Once again this is an engineering disaster caused by multiple failing over a long period of time. Rather than the failure of a singular policy. Although the cladding ensured that what should have been a small fire became and an inferno that quickly overwhelmed the other, already compromised, fire safety systems.
China turns on 'artificial sun' nuclear fusion reactor
What if the warehouse workers outnumber the tech and managers 100:1? With >1 million employees, that ratio is likely pretty steep, in which case, even if all managers and tech workers were paid zero, it still wouldn’t move the needle for everyone else.
I experienced the same thing. Waiting for recommendations from similarly minded people helped me get past it.

I didn't read any non-fiction for a long time before I was given a book as a gift [0] that was really good. Since then, I have received a few other recommendations that I enjoyed [1-2].

[0] Artificial Intelligence by Melanie Mitchell

[1] Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

[2] The Theoretical Minimum Series by Leonard Susskind
Just to chip in here. We deploy C# to Kubernetes on Linux, AWS with Postgres as datastore. Everything works great. AWS for .NET API support is good, typically better documented than the Azure libraries.

C# is a hugely underrated ecosystem. I have experience with Java, Python, Go, C/C++ node and Rust - and C# is my tool of choice.
whoa, thanks, didn't know about json support, super useful!
Good point, I agree.

My implication was that in the absence of all the facts, many are making a deliberate choice to believe one side or the other.

As far as this specific community, I'm not surprised that many (not all) take Google at their word.
These filters are great. Thanks for posting this.
I agree, I also don't like it. "Contact us" has been removed
Ok, I see. Kinda clever, but in my opinion it leaves a bad first impression. I thought it was a bug and so my first thought was, "if they can't even get that right...".

I would recommend maybe changing that, but I understand if you want to keep it.