skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as one of the rebar3 co-authors, you'd have gotten rebar3 regardless of hex: we couldn't use the packages in there, and there were no packages that existed. We even entirely broke rules about how package versioning works compared to what Hex expects.

However, we didn't spit on having a package manager (that wasn't a bad lazy index hosted on a github repo), and it became a very interesting bridge across communities that we don't regret working with. Our hope now is to try and make it possible to use more Elixir libraries from the Erlang side, but the two languages' build models make that difficult at times.
I think TED talks used to be better. Perhaps it's nostalgia, but I really enjoyed TED talks in the past. Martin Rees talking cosmology, Richard Dawkins talking about why the universe seems so strange, James Flynn talking about the Flynn effect[0], Barry Schwartz talking about the paradox of choice etc are enjoyable to me even today. There are many others, but I've not enjoyed as many in the recent years.

[0] https://youtu.be/9vpqilhW9uI
I had the same reaction, I heard similar accents in old pieces of media - even by some people that are still famous today (though mostly dead).
I am LGBT and not in favor of it being pressured or de-facto compulsory. I would hope it was popular enough that people understood what it meant so that trans people can have more acceptance and understanding. I don't have it in my email signature, but if my company released a policy saying it was acceptable, I might add it. I would probably not add it without management permission since it is their choice how they want to present their brand to their clients. I think strongly pushing it on straight people is more likely to create a backlash and create a counter-movement.
The Micromanagement Flywheel
I teach engineers for a living. I struggle to see how this is not just a straw man argument based on colloquial usage of terms. It is just inferences drawn based on job ads that are rarely written by people doing the job and instead are effectively human-as-seo-optimized so the best candidates can find the job they hopefully fit for and not be too confused to apply for it.
How the pandemic opened the door to my career in tech
Fitbit is now officially part of Google
Exactly, and that's assuming you are one of the very select few that gets to even select and lead the research areas. Most of the opportunities are working along side professors and department heads that already have an idea of what you should be working on. If you are at one of the elite universities with billion dollar endowments that don't have a lot of these funding problems, then you are working on what the corporate donors suggest the University work on. The university will sell it as "staying relevant for the future job market"
What if you are compensated in stock? You are unlikely to liquidate your stock on your payday so it is very likely for your stock compensation to have risen in value by the time you want to sell the stock.
It's a big issue and a primary reason why you don't see massive developer migration from Europe into US. Most devs in Europe are just comfortable enough to not want to deal with the whole H1-B hassle. People who are money-focused move to the few places in Europe that tend to pay more and/or switch to contracting, which is a hassle too, but still orders of magnitude smaller than trying to get into US.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Banking Sector Today
Do they still own Stargate ?
Two month ago?
In general no, but between the two: Raku is essentially used in nothing, so your time would be better spent learning Perl.
> There are many machine learning applications that have been shown to be good enough for commercial use and they aren't going anywhere.

If you could name three of them I'd be really grateful. Serious question; everything surrounding ML seems to be only good for (non-monetizable) art projects.

As art it is amazing, not going to lie, but "commercial use" seems like a huge stretch.
Can u elaborate on that?
Would a better aim be that any person can choose, or choose not, to proffer their pronouns, and feel equally comfortable either way?
There's some major issues with Signal right now.

1. Signal was used by Chinese dissidents and were whisked away by the CCP. The most likely proposed method was that the GBoard (google soft-keyboard) was "updated" with a poison update that uploaded everything typed. What defenses does Signal have against that? And will Signal warn against unverified GBoard updates that haven't been vetted?

2. Signal still demands your phone# to make an account. This by itself is unconscionable for an application that purports to be for security and privacy.

3. Signal still demands/pesters the user to share the whole phonebook with Signal. Anyone who does gets notifications when their phonebook shows up on Signal. And when you show up on Signal, everybody else is also told you're there as well. (Massive domestic abuse issues here)
Care to give a link or context for "no more ipcs"? SysV shared mem is IMO a straightforward, robust low-level (MMU-level) IPC mechanism for CPU-bound tasks compared to memory-mapped I/O and the PITA that are threads, but admittedly I'm not up to date on this topic.
What is a C school?
That has been an issue for a long time: ever since individual citizens became unable to use these platforms, or were expected to make compromises on privacy rights etc to do so.
Some have put theirs in. I would if they asked or made mandatory. It's not something I personally care for or otherwise want to spend time and energy being bothered by it. I will however, if it means showing a small sign of support for those that do. As is, my signature is just my name. I don't understand the rebellious approach for something so trivial imo.
"Tech isn't political" is itself a political stance. (And a hard to support one, IMO.)
Gary Marcus has been proven wrong on claims he's made and is mostly just nay-saying with adhoc reasoning made up to support it.

>appears less biased than others who benefit from the current high level of investment in DNN.

Yes, instead he blatantly tries to benefit from the counter-investment in AI skepticism.
I used to support a lab of triple-bootable Macs—macOS/Windows/Linux.

Current macOS is more locked down due to privacy and security threats primarily, not because Apple doesn’t want you to boot a non-Apple OS.
Having an AppImage for Signal would be nice, but just yesterday I used kdocker to make it create an icon onto my system tray, which I don't think the AppImage would work with.

Unfortunately Signal doesn't do this natively, so I have to keep the window open all the time (and my chats visible to passers-by). I'll pick kdocker for this one, I think.
My country declared them illegal a couple years ago, so I went on Ebay and ordered one from the Netherlands. Slovenia is an option too, I think.
I have selected my books and went to shopping cart for payment. Strangely when trying to pay using credit card the books' prices seems to be reverted back to the original prices.

Are the sales have just finished or there are bugs in their payment system? Anyone experience the same problems?
I probably would have upvoted you if you hadn't added the first and last sentences to your post, which detract from sensible discussion. Wouldn't you prefer people understand your point of view, and consider it?
>It's just lucky that the US is not imperialistic. Imagine if China was the most powerful militarily.

Another jaw dropping example of American exceptionalism. Look at your link, notice how we call the start of the PRC the "loss of China?" Any country not under our economic and political dominion is labeled the enemy
Rational numbers instead of floating point as the default real type.
>This is not what Greenwald claims. Do you have any opposing evidence

ArsTechnica[0] has some detail from Amazon's response to Parler's lawsuit and quotes from Amazon that contradict this. I suppose YMMV.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/filing-amazon-wa...
Many people have <1TiB on their machines and are content with it.

Others, like me, have home NAS's which have 10-20TiB, and they're usually close to full.

Fewer people, but a non-zero amount, hoard data, they have 20-100TiB or even more, full on homelabs.

If you're a person collecting datadumps or running rainbow tables, you probably have such a unit. It's not even that expensive really, you can get a 24TiB Pegasus Thunderbolt raid array for <1,000 USD
i would disagree with #1, we are products of our curation and observation of information that is coming in forms of feelings or outer causes. you can be in a bad environment but still curate where do you put your attention by explicitly acknowledging what subjective values do you carry during your lifetime.

as above, curation is the main skill of the future, you can use youtube to watch stupid cat videos or to watch self development content, it is up to the viewer. if you are willing to read lies, you deserve to be deceived.

with the current abundance of information and possibilities it is a blasphemy to argue that people are manipulated, they are rather choosing this by being lazy or not curious enough or because it already confirms their biases / beliefs.

it is sad to see that people replicated the TV (Tell-Me-Vision) model on the internet.
>Obviously not trustworthy if he's deleting tweets which show him in a negative light

Or, you know, maybe gobs of people crawled out of the woodwork harassing him and/or begging him to get into their wallets that they can't access. Both of which are extremely plausible and valid reasons for deleting the tweet.

Even the individual with the wallet going "sure, let's talk offline" is a valid reason to remove tweets.
QA Pricing for Web and Mobile Apps
This is the fundamental design flaw of the system.

Fixing it isn't going to be easy, though. Look at the amount of effort that the scientific community tries to put into improving the quality of communication:- peer review, standards for content ... and there's still nagging issues with reproducing results and even outright fraud in some cases.

Whatever solution we come up with will likely increase friction in the user experience, but there's lots of room for innovation here.
You can't call 1.) an "issue with Signal". It is not even correct description. It is an issue with any messenger app on any device or OS that installs automatic updates of anything from CCP.
I went a very uncommon route in my career: I started phd school after 14 years of industry. My motivation was I was tired of creating new and interesting things in industry only to have them be killed by politics. So, my idea never saw the light of day san a few dozen people. My thought was that if i have a phd, I am rewarded in my career for publishing these thoughts. If they are published, maybe some organization smarter than mine would use the ideas. I am a true scientist at heart in that i want to know where my ideas break and a good way to know that is to have a lot of public scrutiny over them.
I don’t understand why a fast debug build mode and a really slow, but super-optimizing (not necessarilly in the meaning you mentioned in your link) compiler is not more used (I think zig does that). It would be the best of both words, really fast write-compile-test phase, and a production ready, fast binary on release. (i know that -O0-3 is similar, but on the whole it is not as popular as it could)
Terrible. The storming of the capitol was probably the most frightening single event in American history in recent times.

I just got off the phone with my friend who lives in China. He was in tears. He didn't understand how someone could have such disregard for the value of human life and democracy to walk inside the capitol building in DC. It's completely against the law.

For those in the dark, the event caused serious international ripples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the...
> cryptocurrency research

We're thinking very hard about if the price of our deep-lolcoin is going to go up enough to buy a new a vacation house....
Fairly uncommon in conservative US business. I'm torn on the matter between viewing it as corporate virtue signaling--which it absolutely is--while also considering the benefit of leveling the field for people who wish to avoid being misaddressed or awkwardly correcting others.
Hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

This could be someone in HR trying to refurbish everyone's signature (so there is a common template etc.) and to make this pass in HR hierarchy may have suggested to "hey let's add the Mr/Ms".

One simple complaint in HR can remove this "bulletpoint" from the "signature agenda" without raising hell.
Why is that so important? Your disk encryption key is certainly stored in memory for the duration of your session (which on Macs might as well be forever since they don’t need to shutdown), so anyone with your user password can gain access either way.
Diversity questions aside, some given names are ambiguous. Some names are not, but may have different (assumed) genders depending on the language. In those cases it may be helpful to add a "Mrs"/"Mr" or similar, just to save people the embarrassment of addressing a woman as a man or vice versa. And isn't a "Mr"/"Mrs" a sort of pronoun spec as well? You're saying "use the usual pronouns for females/males".
I’ve seen this forced at larger companies and Universities. I’m neutral on the topic of stating pronouns — could somebody with more knowledge explain the difference between including pronouns and age/sex/race/religion/ethnicity?

From my understanding, usage of pronouns is about not making any assumptions and being inclusive. So I’m just not sure what or where the line is.
Forth has a REPL, and tiny Forths like this can work on microcontrollers that are unable to host a Python instance. (A microcontroller that can run Python is pretty rare).

Otherwise, your development cycle in C or assembly is "peer at datasheet, carefully enter bitwise arithmetic, compile, flash, wait several seconds for flashing to complete, debug."
Personally, I like having my dev environment and my note-taking environment be the same. I finely tune VS Code to do what I want and I miss those features when I'm editing elsewhere. If I setup configuration or plugin that's non-optimal for note-taking, I can adjust that in the workspace settings
I honestly think it is amazing. I would never have thought in my wildest dreams that this was actually something people thought was important in 2021.

I added the last sentence because I know I would have been down voted anyway, because I am feeling more and more a divide from the stereotypical HN-person just waking up in SF.

As soon as you go against the popular opinion on HN, you immediately get downvoted anyway. So there isn't even a point in trying anymore. Sadly, I feel like it didn't use to be like this a few years ago.
It’s not required but our internal profile system supports listing your pronouns and people are encouraged to list them. I think most people have set their pronouns too. This is at a well known financial services firm.
He believes he is paid what he "deserves".

He /should/ be paid commensurate with the value he produces.

In reality, he is paid the market rate.
Agreed. My approach is to use macros written by someone smarter than me (Ecto), but refrain from writing macros myself. Regular functions very often are enough.

Macros are definitely abused, but there are some cases, fewer than you think, where they make code easier to follow.
I still feel like much of AI is a plot to dumb down the modern economy. We want our business people to be just as effective as our quants; we want nothing to require real intellectual labor.

The idea that you traditionally have these programmers who spout mumbo-jumo all day, cost a lot of money, and seem to always be planning stuff behind your back is threatening, and all the more so because you are utterly dependent on them. ML breaks their control over the means of production.

Now, that's not to say I am against labor saving devices. I most certainly am for them, but an an economy in which everyone is in a deep learning arms race is an irrational shit show that could only result in less productivity.

(It's possible a single central planner AI could do better, because at least the training data would be "real world" and not output of other deep learning black box actors. But of course single-planner economies have a huge amount of other downsides.)
This was briefly not true during the 4th edition years. A LOT of people moved to Pathfinder as a kind of 3.75th edition, rather than picking up 4th edition.

It was only when 5th edition came out and it became popularized in the mainstream that WotC regained its seeming ascendency.

And I get it, 5th edition is much more streamlined and accessible than its predecessors (not that they were Fate-level challenging or anything).

Tangentially, I think 4th edition and now 5th edition lost a lot of the creative soul of earlier editions - the lore is much more heavily integrated with the rule set and feels a lot more prescriptive. but that could just be nostalgic bias as I grew up with 2ed.
Past Covid-19 infection may provide 'months of immunity'
I believe AppImage does not have an update mechanism which would make it more likely users will end up outdated versions which contain security issues. That is why I am more in favor of flatpak.
Introduction to Computing: Explorations in Language, Logic, and Machines
The amount of people reading about firewalls in the latest OS release surely does not qualify as “media pressure” on any kind of scale.
Two thoughts: First, these magazines are surprisingly content dense. From the few I flipped through there weren't many ads. Other beloved vintage magazines, like Skateboarder Magazine, are very ad heavy to support their industry.

Second, I feel like a magazine like this, that has good content, might actually be popular with a niche audience as a bonus with a "premium subscription" of another product. Personally I prefer physical medium still, and I'm sure diehard fans of any niche would be interested in something to hold and collect.
Some application forms give a “Decline to state” option, and as far as I know that does not imply any latent bigotry. Now that I think of it, that’s going to be my literal answer if it ever becomes compulsory, as a Decline-To-Stater. Much of the Clojure community on Twitter does pronouns and I proceed with caution.

People can use the limited space to make whatever impression they like, is my thought... I maintain a one page resume after 20 years and know the value of space, and that’s strictly how I’d approach it.
Carrefour is not in the Netherlands, neither is Auchan. The only ones we have are Lidl and Aldi. And spar, e which is of Dutch origin
It’s inaccurate to say “Apple selling user data to US government”. That’s not what the article claims (the word “sell” doesn’t even appear in the text), and there are in fact many consumer data brokers who really do sell data to law enforcement.
I see you don't drive an automatic.
I Can't Privacy Anymore
We are not required to do this by business, however there is now state legislature that requires that any job posting must include explicit naming of genders male/female/diverse. That is männlich/weiblich/divers in German (m/w/d abbreviated, you will find it on every job posting or you face serious fines).

Most people call it männlich/weiß/deutsch already, which translates to male/white/German.

I don't think it is a good initiative. Acceptance cannot be enforced and this is something that gets on peoples nerves. The gender activists constantly try to create new spellings and words and I have never seen it adopted naturally aside from places where it is enforced.

Maybe it will come with time, but people only started to not give gender a second thought.

I also think this kind of legislation is created by people that are behind the general population on topics like gender, where everyone has their own opinions, which is completely fine.
I am a white cis male. Normalising the statement of preferred pronouns is very important for people who's gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth. I state my pronouns on both my social media and work emails.

Your statement of being "LGBT / neutral" seems strange to me, being neutral on whether other human beings should have the same rights I enjoy does not seem to be something I can be neutral on. I accept that myself and others with privilege must help create a more equal society for everyone, even in the relatively small changes such as stating our pronouns.
Yikes! That's a lot more expensive for my data usage than Dropbox!
A “forever” drought takes shape in the West
Most commercial use of ML, including neural nets, is small data application-specific business logic. Think phishing / spam / fraud detection, anomaly detection, semantic search, image search, keyword labeling, classifying or segmenting customer data. These applications have well-understood business value propositions. Much, much less often the ML application focused on truly large data.

I think we might see a winter in super big applications like self-driving cars or voice assistants, but ML in general is just a boring, non-controversial business tool with hundreds of valuable applications.

You’ll still need statistical specialists to train and operate models and ensure systems avoid pitfalls like overfitting, poor convergence, multicollinearity, confounders, etc.

So I doubt this will have much impact on ML job market. Companies that invest in ML will continue to run circles around companies that don’t. You’ll just see the unjustified over-focus on SOTA neural networks die down and become just another boring tool in the toolbox like everything else in ML.
Unless they are specific to how we are likely to interact, sex, race, religion and ethnicity aren't relevant to how I address you, nor how you prefer to be addressed, I would assume.
What does this mean in practice? Add what?

Disclaimer: Not from US, not English speaking natively...
I am a DL researcher and practitioner.

Any response to criticism that brushes off the criticism based on the source of the criticism is bad and not in the scientific spirit. Progress comes by asking questions and pointing out flaws. You don't need to have an answer to the question before you ask the question.

Marcus's criticisms are valid. Most DL researchers have a huge blind spot. It is not good for the field.
Yeah, I don't really like the idea of smart watches at all, but the price is low, and the form factor seems reasonable, so I put myself on the notify list.

(I use the timer on an F91-W to time my coffee brewing, and that's about as smart as I need a watch to be. But hey, it's programmable, a timer preset for different brewing methods that buzzed but continued when I needed to do a step sounds nice.)
Two VA Police Officers Identified Participating In Capitol Insurrection
The MLOps tooling landscape in early 2021 (284 tools)
Yeah, I'm inspired to reduce the cost of my tests to get to a better place as a result of this.

Mind you, I build ML/statisical models, so my integration/e2e tests are definitely not going to get down to 8 seconds.
The markets might be more competitive, which means less profits.