skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following is specific to the USA:

1. School is not mandatory; education is mandatory. Ask any home schooler. A rare few private schools offer quite different experiences than the typical public school (e.g., the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools). This applies also to "closed confinement" and "control". Of course, opting out requires enlightened parenting and lots of resources.

2. You are constantly told what to do, but outside of some broad physical requirements there's really no forcing you to do what you're told. Choose some good coding/math/philosophy puzzles during the evening and work on them instead of paying attention in class. No one can control what you do in your head. You can similarly opt of almost all graded work; especially if you stick to AP courses then the grades you are assigned by the instructor you don't much matter anyways.

3. You are not given a choice in what your lectures cover, but you can choose what to learn and eschew any required "creativity"/"responsibility".

In other words, you can always choose not to play the game and still turn out just fine. Having a friend group that reinforces this option is helpful; I was part of one and today we're all very highly paid and well-educated professionals because -- not in spite of -- our complete disengagement from the high school game (including the academic component).

To any highschoolers reading this: if you find yourself intellectually dead and generally creeped out by high school culture, consider ignoring your coursework to study for a GED and then simply attending a nearby high school instead of college.

However, at least finish your freshman year somewhat engaged. Many aspects of American culture are easier to understand if you know how the vast majority of its citizens are socialized. E.g., many modern political rallies are intentionally choreographed to match the structure and emotional melody of a high school pep rally. Attending a few yourself as an open-minded and non-judgemental exercise in field anthropology will be helpful.
It really doesn't help your case when you have your own views of what a megacorp is that are way out of whack with the rest of the world. I would recommend you write your blog post math style, where you begin with definitions so that people know what you're talking about.
That's gotta depend on speed and surface type. I know when as a kid I used to purposely run tires half flat just to see (on a loose dirt road) if wider (low pressure) or narrower higher pressure was easier. Higher pressure won over underinflated in pedaling uphill, unless it was powdery dirt where a wider tire didn't bog down as much.
The light looks great in the video and the price seems reasonable.

You should really add more photos and videos though. Or include a YouTube video showing how to setup the light and use the app. I wouldn't mind spending $150 on a light, but I definitely wouldn't buy one based on the two sentence description and the short video you have on the product page. I'm left wondering...

1. Is the app required for setup or can I just plug it in?

2. Do I need the app to change modes, or are there any buttons on on the light? Does it even have an on/off button or does it need to be unplugged or turned off with the app?

3. Does it stand by itself? How thick is it? Can I hang or lean it on the wall? Or is it thick in the middle and I need to hide it in a corner like in your video?

4. The front looks clean and simple, but what does the side and back even look like?

5. Can I have it display a solid white light if I'm reading and don't want all the changing colors? (I'm assuming the answer is "Yes" now that I viewed the editor tutorial)

6. How bright is it? Like a typical monitor?

I can't find answers to these questions, any contact information to get those answers, or any photos of the light. I can't possibly buy it. On a side note...

1. The editor looks really cool. I'm surprised this isn't showcased on the site anywhere, or any examples from the gallery. Once I viewed the editor and some examples, I realized what is actually possible.

2. It looks like your site is unfinished. One of the slides on your homepage says, "Introduce customers to your shop with lifestyle imagery and product photography." I was thinking about that for a while, wondering how this light with only 196 LEDs could display product photography in shop windows. After scratching my head I realized this must be some default Shopify slide, and not something you wrote.

Random marketing strategy...

YouTube/Twitch streamers are obsessed with colorful background lighting. They also love customizing their stream. Get this in the hands of some famous streamers and show them how they can play animations or pixelated versions of their stream logos. They'll get lots of viewers asking where the light is from and how they can buy one. Or, setup a referral program so streamers mention it during their stream or in their descriptions.
Any idea how large dataset used to train GPT-3 was?
I would take out or obscure the ones that have names in a non-English language. I was able to guess two knowing a little German and Japanese.
I've been seeing a lot of very negative takes similar to this one on how poorly we have been doing with vaccine distribution (not to mention, well, everything we did before the vaccine). Upon thinking about a lot of the people that I read content from, I noticed something in common with those saying this: they are all extremely ambitious people. Most of them are (serial) startup founders, a few are hardworking prolific academics, but it's safe to say they know what having high expectations and moving quickly is like.

That is to say that there exists a large contrast with what they believe can and should be achieved with what the average politician or government worker has grown to expect: A paradigm of milquetoast results and mediocre enthusiasm paired with general social gestalt that now expects bureaucratic and institutional failures to occur throughout the systems that we need so badly to help us.

Many have strong personal opinions on how we would start to improve this situation, but I think proper incentives, higher expectations, and skin in the game would be a good start.
In China, a lot of schools in poorer areas have bars with them, which makes them look like prisons. These aren't highly competitive schools, so it doesn't make sense for the bars to be for the students. Rather they're to prevent people from breaking in and stealing the furniture.

https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1098,...
It’s a fork on GitHub but it’ll be a month or so till I have a commit ready
Mayor of Miami: How can I help?
I would suspect that finding out how many employees throughout the hierarchy have been there for a long time may be a good way to find a good company. The company I work for got acquired a couple years ago by a much older and larger company, and it usually feels like anyone you talk to has been there for 15, 20, even 30 years. I've yet to have a single issue with someone in that part of the parent organization, even though helping my group out isn't something they have been told to do.
As parent has noted, FSM models are flexible boundary abstractions and you can apply them repeatedly to reach the desired level of granularity.

For example, you might start with a large block of code with many inputs and many side effects.

You can map this block of code into a FSM directly - as a "giant switch statement" of all conditional combinations and copy-pasted side effects - or you can devise a way of specifying it that makes it an "input FSM" and an "output FSM" where the input FSM enumerates the types of side effects, and the output FSM acts upon them.

You can also hybridize FSM behaviors with simple constraint optimization to create "smart" solvers: Define a heuristic for solution goodness. Then run the FSM speculatively with various combinations of inputs and rank which combo best fits the heuristic.
The "10 games you can play in your head by yourself" book looked interesting enough to me that I've purchased it. I tend to daydream a lot anyway, so hopefully it'll provide some interesting focus for me.
Megacorps have made the bay area untenable for working at other companies. If I'm not 25% or more equity, then I'm only working for the paycheck, and I would take an after-expenses paycut if I moved to the bay area for a non-FAANG company, despite likely getting a $20k/year raise!

Retiring at 50 instead of 60 is pretty good dream job.
As someone already totally on board with ending aging, I found this article not terribly helpful.

My main questions are "what should I be doing right now to stop my own body from aging?" and "when will more stuff be available for me to do that is not currently?"

The article didn't help much in this regard. As far as I can tell, there are a number of clinical trials I should watch to see if those drugs work in humans? But nothing actually confirmed yet? I sure hope they do pan out, but given how many treatments in general medical science cross the mice/primate-to-human barrier, I'm not feeling optimistic.

Note that in the article itself, the first comment and its replies get into this a bit, and the author does advise taking certain drugs right now. Maybe I'll try to convince my doctor to prescribe metformin...
It seems like the error is related to nltk: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38916452/nltk-download-s...
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1170/
Depends on the company.
Google can afford to reject great candidates. A small company might have to settle for a mediocre candidate 6 months after rejecting a good candidate.
There's no way this would apply here considering you can distribute Mac apps outside the Mac App Store.
All the fanbois criticizing the author with thinly-veiled racist/xenophobic rhetoric should be ashamed of themselves.

It is the exact same treatment the author describes in the article. Ignoring the substance of what he says and criticizing typographic or subjective stylistic mistakes. I am astonished that you can't see that.
Out of curiosity, why would you want to do that? Rails just doesn't seem like it makes much sense in the context of WASM. I know you can run WASM outside of the browser but you can run any other ruby outside of the browser, so you wouldn't need artichoke.
You may not know this, but plenty of physical retail stores charge manufacturers of goods to display their wares / offer shelf space for sale.
I think it is more common than you think, especially among people who grew up in low socioeconomic situations.
This reminds me of all the hand wringing and pearl clutching about SATAN [1], by Farmer and Venema. Corporate types and bible-squeezers had a huge meltdown over the name.

Unfortunately American culture is simply unsuited for free expression unless buttressed by something list the 1st amendment, which of course only applies to Government.

Fundamentally Apple can and will do whatever it wants and there is no point complaining to them. OTOH allowing direct installs and multiple apps stores is a security disaster. But parliaments can pass laws to regulate monopoly conduct, in the same way that essential services are. Privacy, competition policy (including market access), arbitration procedures for small vs large companies, etc are all mature fields of law, and action in any large market would have significant effect on Apple/Google policy.

Lobby your politicians. Support organizations like EFF.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_dec...
> This is exceptionally naive.

Occam's razor. If you have actual studies/statistics to support your case, I'll be happy to reconsider. But I'd wager I know a lot about the company I spent a decade at than you do.
> Backdoored by whom is an important real-world distinction.

Not really. Once something is backdoored by X, it can be accessed not only by X, but also by anyone who managed to hack into X. This is one of the main objections against adding backdoors (no matter how they are named, a backdoor doesn't stop being a backdoor just because you named it a "front door") to cryptographic protocols; even if you try to somehow make it so only "good guys" can use the backdoor, the "good guys" can be compromised (through technical or social means) by the "bad guys".

As an example, many telephony systems around the world have backdoors meant to be used only by local police. In a well-known case in Europe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...), these backdoors were exploited by agents of a foreign country.
Why is that hard? Smaller unix-type systems such as QNX fit on a floppy disk.
Britain Has Lost Itself
That was indeed what I was referring to. Rather than interpreting your first paragraph as a pardon of Foucault, I consider it a condemnation of the group entire.

If your (or their, the french intellectual elite's/literati's) philosophy is so morally vacuous that it fails to recognize the sexual exploitation of children and young teenagers as reprehensible, then it is worth less than nothing. It is an evil.

Consent is not enough, is the common modern view. Power structures and actual power matters too.

In some sense, surely advocating (almost successfully, if I recall correctly) for a repeal of age of consent laws must be worse than the crime itself. That is, if we are of the opinion that pedophilia is wrong. Consider the difference between orchestrating many murders and a single murder as an analogy.

No, Foucault (and the others on that list) have been let off the hook for too long. The aesthetician in me is horrified, youth is beauty and they want it defiled?

And a disclaimer; I am of course a conservative in every sense of the word, and this is my perspective.
Cook doesn’t only cook by the way. The fact that you can remember a recipe doesn’t mean you will be able to easily adapt to the lack of certain ingredients on the market and/or optimise the cost of the finished product.
Legend goes that NoRedInk (https://www.noredink.com/) was originally built by freelance RoR developers from CraigsList. Now they employ Evan Czaplicki, the creator of Elm and have a staff of dozens of software engineers.
Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
Interesting read.

My personal ideal world Covid crack-pottery confession is that prevention is better than cure:

Food merchants should have been practicing utmost care with contamination to the order of handling plutonium for nuclear weapons.

People should have been practicing healthy eating habits and exercise routines such that their immunity to virus would be of multiple order of magnitude more than what it currently is. So much so that the virus would barely a blip in the global consciousness radar.
No, that is speculation and in a very laymen article. It clearly states that we do not know how it works. You can't postulate from the information in a pop sci article. Go do some further reading first.
Many products listed on Alibaba has MOQ of 10/100pcs. However if you contact them and ask for a sample, most will happily deliver a few pieces at 2-10x the volume cost + delivery fees.
Only one process doubling. This is 16nm and Bulldozer was 32nm.

Its obviously still quite a bit behind architecturally, though.
The main villain - the sr. director with bad breath - predicted this and got his subordinate - a manager - schedule the meeting. Later he stopped by and replaced that manager. In other words, he can claim he has never been to that meeting.
Researchers unveil new method for converting carbon dioxide into jet fuel
Love the name. It's what we called our shared FTP-served collection of mp3s during college 15-19 years ago. Yours is a MUCH more impressive amount of information!
That sounds like a very similar policy to the one the parent described. Essentially, it's up to the teacher to decide. Unless they codified what "abuse the privilege" meant, you're still at the mercy of a teacher's whims.
Might be a safari/chrome issue
I would rather have a device with zero back doors, obviously.

But given that my present choice can only be between devices that are backdoored by the intelligence services of democratic nations with strong rule of law, or authoritarian regimes, and there is no third option, the choice is clear.
I think you've misinterpreted the paper, while the bike conventional wisdom being wrong is interesting, the story about the membranes seems to be that there was an unknown additional difference in the membrane structure between the thinner and thicker membranes that caused the unexpected result. This doesn't mean that the thicker membranes were better due to being thicker, but because they happened to have a better structure. If the thinner membranes can be manufactured with that structure, they will most likely still be better.

Article abstract says exactly this:
"They found that variability in local density most affects the performance of the membranes. Better synthesis methods could thus improve performance without affecting selectivity."
They said they skip the technical screen.

Replacing a day of interviews with a 6 hour project sounds fair. That isn't how most companies use projects.
Remembering Andrew Fluegelman
I could‘t agree more.

I also take issue with the assumption that everybody ought to be a leader, or at least try to be one. Apart from this being quite obviously impossibly, it shows a distressing lack of appreciation for all those team members who do not „lead“.

Having lead multiple teams over the past years, I have become increasingly grateful for and respectful of team members who work quietly in the background, reliably doing jobs I often could not do myself. We do ourselves a major disservice when we only value those tasks which happen in the limelight. Having a good leader is important, but in a team that is only one task among many.
Unfortunately money is not the only thing in the world. Staring at a wall for a huge price will not make you any friends and puts you in a position where you are degrading at other skills while doing so (making your future employability less certain).
Most of the people I know who ended up working for big tech are the biggest psychopaths I've met.

These companies don't even select for talent anymore; they just select for psychopathy. If you're not a psychopath, you will not last in such company, no matter how good you are.

I'm surprised that they're not all strangling each other in there...
My estimated lifespan is probably close to 90 years, but very likely the last 15 to 20 will be marked by health issues of increasing difficulty. If the various modalities of life extension leave the shape of the healthy/sick profile but simply stretch it out another 30 years, I'm not sure I'd be happy about that. If it could simply remove sickness and I died healthy at 90, say of a massive stroke, that would be a great improvement over my current expected trajectory.

That leads to this thought: if anti-aging can't simply remove sickness but just stretches out the existing healthy/sick profile to say 120 years, one way to achieve what I want would be to accept the anti-aging drugs and enjoy good health, then kill myself at 90.

Lots of people will be horrified by the thought, but it is still an absolutely better outcome than not taking drugs and following the usual course of events. Also, my approach circumvents many (but not all) of the negative consequences that would occur if the anti-aging technology works and everyone uses it.
Recently I thought about the educational structure and I wondered if we couldn't do way better.

My idea was to make it much more like how paid for classes and work are.

Instead of grades, there should be classes happening of various levels at all times. And student should be able to apply for promotions at any point, where if they pass the test, they can get promoted to the next level. Grades should be secret from one another like salaries often are, so students shouldn't feel like they compete with others, but only with themselves. And they should focus on working towards their promotions, with a 1:1 with the teacher where the teacher can tell them what they should focus on next and all to work towards their promotion.

That way everyone can go at their own pace, which can even be a pace that varies from time to time. Students don't feel a competitive pressure. You don't really have "class mates" in the sense that there's much more churn at all time of who is currently in any given lesson. And you get more personalized feedback on how to reach the next level.

Also, schools shouldn't be rated with how well their student performs, but instead by the diff of how much better the students became year over year. Like imagine a fitness studio bragging how their program makes you super fit, but they only accept people who are already super fit to join, doesn't make any sense.
> even if you made an exorbitant $500K salary […]. They are not invested in you. Why should you invest in them? Why should you give a company that isn’t invested in you 40+ hours of your week

Because they pay you that huge salary. That sounds like a pretty good reason.

Hell I'm a mid-career engineer and I'd spend 40+ hours of my week moping a lake if they paid me that much.
What’s the problem here? The negative reviews are found on this delivery service app. They would therefore help other customers know that this restaurant is less desirable to order delivery from.

That’s what both parties want.

It seems to me that this is working “as intended” and no intervention from the state is needed.
This seems really simple to me.

I tweeted my suggestion of rebranding as “vigil” and selling “pro” features to allow branding as “provigil” (commercial modafinil name).
Quantity leads to quality (the origin of a parable)
That is garbage. Bet something as stupid as pushing out your exe across a few ad networks would solve the problem. Which would highlight how dumb popular == trusted is.

Also I can see how this is why some companies put out a binary that just downloads everything it needs for an up to date install, like chrome. Avoid the problem entirely after it gets whitelisted once.
Yeah, but it is the legislation that is preventing the competition and thus making them a monopoly, otherwise they would be disrupted by nimbler, faster startups of the day for which a monopolized market is an irresistible target (little competition and large profits).
Rick Beato rails against gridding and autotune in music over on YouTube.

My wife, a health outcomes researcher, points out that the expectation is that every little publishable bit be kicked out the door for a pharma project.

Historically, they would have dropped a single summary result at the end of the effort.

Now, she's trying to "autotune" the neutral or even negative results. Nominally in the name of "transparency".

If this is true, the need is a research Adele to come along and shame the riff-raff with sheer natural brilliance.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I did all of three months in that org, attempted to switch to iCloud, got blocked, then quit and went back to my old company. Fuck that shit straight to hell.
I see more of your latter paragraph. In several of my interest areas there is a good amount of useful content in videos. Best example is probably electronics, where a lot of tribal knowledge is now more accessible than ever before.
Practical mechanics, both old fashioned (metal and woodworking) and new (CAD design, 3d-printing), also has a lot of useful video content.
While there is a lot of pop-commercial "personas" making noise with their videos also, it does not seem to have hurt output by "in it for the passion" people.