skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what genre to call this, it's a relaxed song with a bit of a swing to it:
https://soundcloud.com/user-201997735/come-walk-with-me

Just because I can, I'll pitch my open source pet project, a reverb plugin intended for musicians:
https://michaelwillis.github.io/dragonfly-reverb/
I love this approach. As someone who generally asks a lot of questions, your first round would give one a good idea if it's worth proceeding to other rounds or not. BTW, are you guys hiring?
University libraries sometimes make standards available to everyone with a library card. But at least in the cases I've seen, they have ToS limiting usage to research/non-commercial. Which also makes the "hire a student" plan a bad one, hiring someone and then expecting them to break their uni's rules/the standard's license isn't great.
Yes, it was! Thanks so much, I just couldn't remember the name of that game. How did you recall it from over half a century ago?

Looking up used editions of WFF'N Proof on Amazon I recognize the instruction book published in 1965. That must have been around the time I received the game. It looks like more recent sets were more extensive.

Well, the game likely had a positive influence on me, I ended up with a Math degree in college. Even in high school, I understood logic and proofs better than the other kids in my school.
beautiful stuff, vocals are great and remind me a bit of young the giant's vocals, but over a totally different style of music. really enjoyed the listen!
Personally, I've given up on results quality. It ranges from bad (Google) to worse (Bing) to barely usable (DDG).

Even if it's barely usable, I'm tired of the constant tracking and ads. Anyways, Google is already so full of SEO spam that I usually have to type in "[search term] [relevant web site]", and even DDG can handle that.
That's my understanding as well - that if you have that kind of lift capacity you can make $x selling it to other or if $10x putting up your own satellites for something like Starlink.
It could still have a Type C connector and connect electrically to your computer. Thunderbolt started that way when it was called LightPeak.

The article even talks about the transducers.

You'd still need copper if you wanted to carry power.
It's been several years since I've released anything new, but here is some instrumental work:

https://soundcloud.com/bashcoder/popular-tracks
it would be nice to be able to vouch for flagged a post before it is dead, to prevent it from dying in the first place.
It will also cut cheap corporate debt off at the knees, and likely begin a domino effect where people are laid off, home prices are depressed, and inflation continues in spite of all that as a result of supply shock.
I don't think you're overqualified. I'm not a systems designer by any means but here's how I'd lead this conversation:

"Ok cool. Before we get started, let me understand some non functional requirements. How many concurrent users do we expect? Is brief downtime acceptable?"

Then you listen to the answer.

Then you say "ok cool. So given what we just estsblished, it's making me lean towards X type of architecture. Here are trade-offs A,B, and C that are involved. Does this make sense to you so far?"

You listen to their answer. They will 100% of the time indicate to you if you are on the right track or missing something.

Then you go "ok cool. So on the high level we are going to have (for example) a client, a server, a proxy, a database, etc . Given what we discussed, I think the most complex part of the system will be X so let me begin by thinking through that and then we can pop back up to other parts. Does that sound good to you?"

Etc.

I am not looking to make you feel bad but being able to have this conversation in this way is a baseline skill of a senior engineer. Compare that to what you actually did and ask yourself if it's you or the "bitch" that has room to improve here.
Valheim is very poorly optimised right now, graphics aside. I am not sure how well it works on older hardware but on my RTX2060 and corresponding CPU I get frame drops all the time and global locks when it decides to save the world state in combat or I walk towards somewhere new. I'd imagine it's worse on an older computer, it'll run but it might not be as enjoyable at sub-30-FPS.

Hardware creep inevitabily leads to optimisation decisions about how much effort to spend getting things to run well.

I do agree that PC hardware tends to last around 5 years now though unless you run the latest AAA games, and there is a wealth of older games. Just the stuff I missed since 2000 would be enough to keep me busy for at least a decade.
I’m putting this on the long list of reasons to eventually migrate to Julia.
Right, the difference between these older, larger facilities and Tesla's massive and giant facility is Telsa has a dedicated person with magazine editors on speed dial, while Dynegy doesn't.
The Google toolbar specifically had a privacy settings popup with a big fat red "PLEASE ACTUALLY READ THIS" notice, explaining what it does, and letting you choose between a mode that only worked locally (unless you were making a search or explicitly triggering some other online feature of course) vs. one that sent some data to Google with each visit (with PageRank display being tied to sending the data).

Users weren't pushed to choose one or the other. Both buttons had the same size and color. It was VERY clear that the developers wanted users to make a meaningful, free choice vs. "just click approve".

The benefit for Google was that installing the toolbar made it easier for you to do Google searches, driving usage up.

Edit:

https://searchengineland.com/turning-the-tables-on-the-googl... has a history of these screens, going from the above-mentioned exemplary "please read" screen to an increasing amount of dark patterns.
Thank you, I've been looking for a word to describe myself - turns out its "delusional".

I thought we were using the comparison of societal demographics to company demographics to measure how true the "equal opportunity" statement was. You know, like trying to find biases in die rolls - if 6 comes up more than 1, you might have a bias. Having looked at those numbers and found them to show bias, I delusionally thought that maybe we had looked at causes and effects, and found feedback loops like are present in so many complex systems.

Get this though - in the grandeur of my delusion, I thought that studies of these feedback loops we had found:

* people who see others in the same category as them doing a thing, will be more likely to do the thing themselves

* people who exist in a status quo will tend to make decisions preserving the status quo

* complex feedback systems sometimes need sub-optimal input to eventually converge optimally

And that these hiring practices were part of a bigger attempt to use the third bullet to address the other two.

But what do I know, I'm just a delusional fool who gets paid to work on complex systems. I should probably go resign. Anyone reading this - likely another person who works on complex systems - I encourage you to not apply your systems thinking to systems, you might end up delusional too!
I notice many here are talking about FMT. As I've suffered years with debilitating IBS (likely due to a terrible diet in my 20's) I have wanted to try FMT for years.

I am currently undergoing a 2 week FMT course at the Taymount Clinic in the UK. I must say I'm impressed with their professionalism and along with the transplants themselves they also offer advice on lifestyle changes to prevent a reoccurrence of dysbiosis.

It's too early to tell but feel like it is helping. If I have so called "leaky gut" then it will be a few more months before my gut fully heals. The hope is that I'll be able to eat gluten/dairy/sugars again without agonising symptoms of bloating, gas and diarrhoea.
Nope: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1369051431903268865
Sometimes the bug isn't your code, it's the CPU (2012)
Ars has updated its article to say Musk has poured cold water on the idea of Starlink for Tesla cars:

Update 6 pm EST: Although a SpaceX filing said that Starlink terminals could be deployed "on passenger cars," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicated on Twitter today that passenger cars are not in the plan. "Not connecting Tesla cars to Starlink, as our terminal is much too big. This is for aircraft, ships, large trucks & RVs," he wrote.
Delusions of grandeur
Yes? I've just read the article. It's a collection of crypto-fascist dog whistles about race; it barely merits being called an opinion. (It is an example of why the academic personnel pool needs the thorough cleaning it's currently getting.) Anyone who declined to associate with the author would be right to do so.

There aren't many people who don't understand what this kind of article is really about. The Chicago Review staff understand. The author understands. I would bet that you understand. Empty appeals to principle won't oblige society to give anyone a platform.
Try Apple Maps if you have an iPhone, you’ll be surprised.
10 seconds is not a lot. 10 seconds is:

- You're deep into you Netflix movie

- +2 seconds. Oh wait, there's an alarm going off. WTF?

- +4 seconds. You've acquired some level of visual awareness of the environment but still don't know what's really going on.

- etc.

You were in a deep sleep? Maybe need a good minute and some indication of why the system has disengaged.
I definitely agree about the benefits of a mainstream language/big ecosystem when it compares to something more niche (Although ClojureScript with shadow-cljs [0] has an excellent interop story with the JavaScript ecosystem).

I’m not sure I can agree with the premise that “developer diligence” is a reliable approach immutability (or any other development ideals). Maybe in a small team of like-minded devs diligence is enough, but in the large, with a multi-paradigm language that allows pretty much anything, you can be sure to see pretty much anything!

[0] https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs
Isn't it a bit weird to have someone who is not Native American (you) tell an actual Native American how they should feel and what kind of experiences they are supposed to have had? I would guess that the subset of Native Americans who have a chance of getting the IBM job are more like the OP and less like the ones you are picturing. But no, instead it's "how dare you think our cringeworthy efforts to make you feel included are cringeworthy" :)
It will be interesting to see how the developers of this extension respond to Google’s roll out of extensions Manifest V3 - the new specification could almost be directly targeting them: with service worker replacing background script there will no longer be a concealed window to mount those iframes. Thanks to the author for this write-up
merit weakens class privilege but it doesn't destroy it. even on tests of merit like the SAT, higher class students usually have advantages in tutoring, more free time to study, etc.

it is certainly still possible for lower class children to get a leg up, but it's still an uphill climb
ESG Public Voting App
Hi guys. I hope you are well. Recently ESG investing took off ( Environmental Social Governance), and there seems to appear lots of ESG index funds as well. This seems a bit sketchy as all the ESG data comes from companies' financial reports and what they say on annual 10Ks. Also, there's no industry standards and guidelines on how to be a sustainable business. While how companies rate themselves on ESG is one side of the coin, public opinion on how well companies performing is also extremely important for transparency. I am thinking of building an app where public (consumers, employees etc stakeholders) can vote and share their view on how well companies performing based on ESG metrics. Would you use this app? Appreciate your feedback in advance. Thanks.
It's also a race to the bottom of maximizing spending/"security".
> I'm a little weak on the math side.

In general, I think that tends to one of the advantages of genetic algorithm/programming over neural nets/deep learning - the math is comparatively quite easy.

This is the paper that introduced CGP by Julian Miller:
https://thelackthereof.org/docs/library/cs/gp/Miller,%20Juli...

I found this good survey of CGP here (from 2018): https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10710-019-093...
According to recent figures, South Australian energy prices are 51% higher than Victoria, or 134% higher than Texas.

Throwing poor people under the bus (they're most impacted by high energy prices) so you can claim you're green (while opening brand new gas power plants) is pretty awful.

South Australia is still building new gas plants. Natural gas, which is nearly as dirty as coal.
I've made a comment some minutes ago about the difference between estimates and plans. Making the client aware of the difference may be useful.

However, it's also a fact that most clients ask for being deceived. I've seen that scene over and over: Company A presents a fairly detailed 3-months plan while Company B salesperson says that the project is easy and they will deliver it in 1 month. Company B wins the project most of the time, only to (possibly) deliver it in 6 months or so.

Some clients even train their employees to avoid such traps, making them informed of estimation techniques and encouraging them to use plain good sense, but those are exceptions.

Software projects would be way less painful if clients, and not only software development companies, worried more about achieving higher levels of maturity.
Space is really big. As a simple thought experiment, let's say each satellite is the size of a car (they are actually smaller but let's pretend).

There are currently about 1.5 billion cars on the planet.

They are confined to land which only makes up 29% of the earths surface.

If evenly distributed on that 29% (~57m sq miles) of earths surface (196m sq miles) there are about 25 cars per square mile.

The orbital shell in which SpaceX is flying satellites starts 550 miles up. If you confine yourself to a 2D spherical plane, this shell already has 30% more surface area than the earth, and you can use all of it, not just the 29% that is over land. If we "packed" orbit at the same density as cars across that 2D spherical plane we could fit 6.3 Billion satellites with a separation of 1000 feet minimum between any two satellites.

Of course we aren't limited to a 2D plane in space. You can fit millions of satellites in orbit with miles of separation between any 2 without issue. The bigger problem would be signal interference.
The assumption that one's life will be composed of a series of risky choices doesn't seem to be a very strong one. The use of a single form of bet is just illustrative - the point applies equally well to any series of bets with similar overall properties (multiplicative rather than additive changes in wealth).

I think that the choice of a logarithmic utility function is more arbitrary - do you know what the explanation for it is, other than it fits with observed behaviour.

Another point is that the "(non-)ergodic theory" neatly explains why behaviour would change given different expectations about repetition. If you only had one bet left in your life then using logarithmic utility would produce what I would argue would be "incorrect" results for the equation 2 bet - I think that the rational choice would be to bet, because you don't really have anything to lose. It is only with iteration that losing starts to factor in. In EUT this would be explained with a change in preferences - but the point is that we don't need these additional mechanisms, it all falls out of the dynamics of the problem.

To your latter point, about the broader applicability of EUT - whilst I agree it is very convenient, fundamentally it doesn't seem that insightful that by choosing different scoring functions, and taking expectations over distributions of scores, we can recover all kinds of behaviours that might be of interest.

More explicitly, EUT doesn't really seem to tell us much - we can find a function that gives us any desired behaviour, sure, but it doesn't tell us why that behaviour is expected. As far as I know this is indeed where the theory stops, and the behaviours get effectively "written off" as preferences. A theory that explains the same behaviours without requiring these additional choices is surely preferable?
Great points dstaley!

Linkable book shelves: Noting this! We'll prioritize
Description for a book: Right now, there's a kind of hack you can do: if you write a "thought" about a book, it will show up on your book page too. We're thinking about some kind of "pin a thought as a description" feature -- that should be on it's way too!

Here's to iterating : )
Sure, but a country doesn't have to have corrupt media. Many don't. Like you say, it's a system. And as a society, you design that system to suit what you want. It's not like some impersonal outside force is forcing it upon you; it's made by you, by the people in that society. And it changes when the people want it to.

It's absolutely true that the US system is incredibly corrupt, and it may be hard to see a way out of that, but a lot of countries are different, and many countries have seen real change. The US could do that too, but the people have to want it.
Music to code by: Poppy instrumental EDM https://m.soundcloud.com/moxchehalis
> part of me thinks it's a shame that there's relatively little architectural diversity

Perhaps CPU diversity is in decline but it seems to me that the industry as a whole is moving towards more diversity. It's gotten significantly cheaper to roll your own chips to the point that we've seen entirely new processors emerging (e.g. GPUs, TPUs, etc) and becoming commonplace if not essential.

Isn't the point of RISC-V that the CPU is simple and augmented or complimented by any number of custom co-processors? If this is the general tend in the industry then the CPU itself might become a commodity part to be easily swapped out as something better emerges. Particularly if it can be abstracted away from the ISA.
This is the real solution for a transition to non-carbon based power (not nuclear).

It's comparatively cheap, immediately useful and solves the intermittentcy problem renewables face.

There are already multiple 1500km+ working transmission lines in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...
Analytics and ads do not fall under that though.
As somebody with 3+ decades of experience at multiple kinds of orgs as a contractor and an employee I can say with confidence YES!

Especially when they know you are in a jam, such as recessions or family issues.

Dilbert is a comic strip and a documentary. I suggest students read more Dilbert so they are less shocked when they get a real job. Humans are very human. Vulcans would go nuts on Earth.
I have reader on by default. Simply makes life easier in most cases.
Just finished our 13th full length album in quarantine, mostly over Dropbox.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/colorways/1553398745

https://open.spotify.com/album/45DwWvllYAJ9CAgADaPghM

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B08WJ4WKY5

https://tidal.com/browse/album/173292500

Doing a music video for each track - up to three now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jA5g-a7a8&list=PLXP1Iyu4Eo...
Because at this moment, the only thing we know can be as good as a human is a human.

That means the only thing we know can work is eyes + brain.

The answer to your question is: we don't know what's needed, so people saying "sorry you need LIDAR for FSD" is much more "drank the coolaid" than my stance of "we don't know, maybe no LIDAR + lots of training data can work just fine". Or, turn the question on its head – how much better at driving do you think humans would be if we had LIDAR on top of our heads? My guess is... not very. Hence my belief that the Tesla approach (less SOTA sensing, more training data) is a reasonable one.
Definitely. If s/he was some mainstrain-lang developer with no niche skills, what sppecific job requests would you filter by? You have nothing of specificity, and the job posters see hundreds of people identical to you.

With that said, i do think there's something to be learned from this post and in general the OP. I don't mean to be dismissive to them entirely. Just the idea that this filter approach is general advice seems to be incorrect to me; I imagine your success with that workflow will be proportional to how unique you are in your skillsets.
Yes, I switched to it from K-9 for the work O365 we now have to use, sigh. (There is a large XOAUTH patch for K-9, but it hasn't been incorporated as far as I know.)
Not having that n the F-Droid version is a pain, but it does phone home to alert you about updates, one hopes without trafficking in that traffic.
It's closer to "you know, I wish this hadn't been released and I've decided that no one should be able to sell their copies of it."

According to wsj:

> Online marketplace eBay Inc. said it is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books that were pulled earlier this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery.
I think it can depend on the population that you're comparing against. If the company is a law firm, the positions being compared are entry-level lawyers, and a requirement for the role is holding a law degree, then when evaluating the law firm's hiring practices you should probably compare against the population who hold the qualifications for the role (law degree holders).

If there are biases upstream of that point in the process (such as "those with a social security number ending in 9 are admitted to law school at one-sixth the expected rate"), then I'd expect an unbiased hiring process to result in that same discrepancy in those hired (presuming here that social security digits are entirely uncorrelated with performance in law school and the practice of law).

Should the law firm work to try to eliminate that upstream bias? Sure. Should the law firm work to hire in a biased way such that they end up with an evenly distributed outcome? I personally don't think so, but I understand others who think they should.
> Start with Wasserman

If you're referring to "All of Statistics" by Wasserman, then there are some significantly easier textbooks to learn statistics from. Depending on the program, "All of Statistics" is a book used by senior undergrads or grad students. Are there more mathematical heavy stats books, yes, but this isn't a casual read for someone who is trying to learn statistics either.

I like "Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences" by Devore as an intro book. It covers the basics of probability distributions, maximum likelihood and method of moments estimation, ANOVA, and linear regression. Pre-requisite knowledge is probably multivariable calculus, matrix multiplication, determinants, and eigenvalues.
Assuming it's not free (satellites / modem aint cheap) - what do you think the subscription rate would be? Especially given most people already pay for connectivity via their phone? Would that justify the BOM cost and complexity increase on the car build?
FYI: not for cars.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/13690514319032688...
Even with all of these, the cost of implementing the standard (time for engineering, design, etc.) will likely very quickly dwarf what you are paying for the standard itself. I agree that open would be better, but the fees themselves really do feel nominal compared to overall implementation cost.
Also terrifying and mentally paralyzing for a large percentage of devs. I'm ok with these interviews (and agree they can be fun when they go well) if you are ok with a very high rate of false negatives and being basically inhumane to that same group of people.