skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, somehow reminds me of my controls classes way back where I learned that injecting some random noise in the measurements of a closed loop can actually help the estimator to converge better.
Someone told me you gotta have a "T shaped" skillset. Well, how else could it be? I've never met any one who is just a straight line deep. Everyone is is an upside down triangle with multiple spikes at the bottom (their specializations) otherwise you couldn't have gained the specialized knowledge without learning the general stuff. But that's a stretch, let's not deduce someone's career into a couple of difference shapes. Careers are complex as they evolve sort of in a chaotic system of professional environments.

T-shaped is largely a made up concept without any real observations, and it sounds good initially but after contemplation it falls apart. One of those urban-legends that keeps circulating in big corps.
"Samoa" (nee "Western Samoa") since 1997.
Sounds like Waymo just can't adapt to the same situation.
Some people suffer from bad breath due to their oral microbiome. Could your test diagnose that too and suggest solutions?
Google offer Looker directly, they acquired them a couple years ago. Pricing is in the mid to high tens of thousands a year.
Oh thanks for the feedback! Have you tried it out yet?
Pure water has self-dissociation, so it always contains small amounts of ions (that's why pure water has a pH and pOH of 7). Butthe dipole moments of H2O molecules dominate theinteractqiqo
What good is a backdoor without a worldwide network connection?
Actual article discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284494
I love being a generalist. I don't care about success.
A relatively small percentage were political prisoners, but when you compare the number of people who have received very lengthy sentences for minor drug possession, in some cases life, how is that any better? Not to mention Jim Crow in the US at the time. We have the largest prison population in the world by a considerable margin. Most of the people in our jails and prisons are there for drug offenses and crimes of poverty.

The US has a far larger prison population as a percentage of total population right now than the Soviet Union did even at the height of Stalin's purges. We have access to the Soviet archives now. We have actual numbers on these things.
Thanks for sharing. Good times. Wiring money to MtGox via the red phone at CVS. Sleepless nights in IRC reviewing Satoshi’s posts. Family and friends just chuckling and humoring the chatter about it. Now they all have an opinion. Buy, sell, energy waster, future of money. This token or that scam. I wouldn’t pay it back to have those times again. But they were simpler. Either way, the time flies! I’ll hodl till I’m a billionaire or it goes to zero, no in between.
It's like training an ML model.
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy" is only getting started.
> Another important part of type design is flowing paragraphs so that the final line contains enough type. One does not want a paragraph to end with a single “me” by itself on the final line, and ideally you want a substantial amount of type there.

These are known as widows and orphans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans
They literally admitted to it themselves:

we believe the essay does not align with Chicago Review’s editorial and political agenda
> Technically, and in terms of manufacturing cost, it would be even easier to make a simpler computer...without the Intel Management Engine, TPM, and what have you

Maybe I'm missing something here but how is it possible that on-die features like IME affect the manufacturing cost and complexity of a laptop for e.g. Dell?
> It’s still not clear to me a person of this cadre need a PhD in a technical field in this day and age

Hey there, thanks for sharing your experience.

Would you mind telling us which technical field? And which country?

I know several PhD students / recent grads that pursued this qualification primarily because of "academic inflation" - that in order to compete for top-paying jobs in the EU, the more qualified you are the better, and having "just a Masters degree" is no longer good enough.

I should add, these are also ex-pats, who left their developing country in pursuit of greener pastures. But it seems to be the case that getting a PhD - as terrible as the experience might be - can also help with career prospects, purely because one has a PhD (irrespective of the details of their thesis topic).

Whereas back home (in said developing country), it's the complete opposite. Qualifications hardly matter - or they certainly don't matter as much - only experience does. And given the thin supply of skilled labour, business owners have the mindset of "we'll take what we can get".

So I do think the choice to pursue a PhD can be an indirectly strategic move depending on your job prospects - and less about the actual topic you plan to research.

Just my 2 cents from a developing country that is experiencing excessive brain-drain! :)
Well nobody respects diversity hires because they weren't put to the test at the same standards. It's like getting a job because your parents are wealthy, people don't respect those.
That is until they prove themselves somehow, if the stigma sticks after that then it might be sexist/racist...ist.

Personally I believe these "quotas" systems hurt more than they help, if you don't subject people to the same high standard test they don't improve, because they don't have technical challenges to overcome. That's why I never participate in them
Not sure if this is what the author had in mind, but Chrome OS has over 50% of edu market share. Effectively, a lot of kids in the US are forced to Google's products.

(Yes, Chromebooks have many benefits. I know.)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chromebooks-gain-sha...
With regards to changing parts on a phone, ifixit made a comparison of different phones and how easy they are to change parts for. Something to consider taking a look at when buying a new phone. https://www.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability
> HDCP compliant rig and good heavens, might be able to intercept and decode HD content!

As if that even matters - pointless standard. can't think of any content that there isn't a torrent up hours after it's available lol
Nobody is ever able to work exclusively on a thing for stretches of a week.

I'd suggest starting to keep track of how much of your time you can take to work on the thing you work on. If it's between 30 % and 90 %, include that factor in your estimation procedure.
AttributeError: module 'torch' has no attribute '_multinomial_alias_setup'
glue is cheap
Name-calling is name-calling. If the mere act of calling you a word makes you shake with anger, then the “sticks and stones” lessons needs to be re-learned.
>many groups obtained the 0day before Microsoft expected it to go wide,

There were multiple groups conducting attacks? Is there evidence of that?
Size was an important factor, together with my desire to be able to read documents, articles and papers in portrait mode. Preferably without feeling a keyboard when holding the device.

But you're right that using a Thinkpad Yoga is probably a better idea in terms of Linux compatibility. For this reason I am looking for models like your Yoga for my next attempt.
Just needed a little Italian flavor to it :)
Thank you Joe.

One thought I had (disclaimer: I am not looking for a date!!!!)(for now!). I also see this as an opportunity to "meet like-minded people in your area". I remember back in the day where ICQ had a 'search' mode. Imagine I can pick 10 books that someone (m/f/...) has read in my area. I am not suggesting your make this a dating site, but for introverts/avid readers it wouldn't surprise me if people would be paying attention to that.

Perhaps a setting that would add the location "Henry" versus "Henry (London, UK)". Feel free to add this on the "never do" list :)
It's not a worthwhile tradeoff because erroneously functioning humans are still there, and this tech enables them! Today it's crashing a car, tomorrow it's forgetting to walk your dog or pick up your kids. Mindless humans are the problem and auto braking is just a band aid.

By all means, if auto braking (and in the future - auto driving) is enabled, there must be an option in the OBDII interface to disable it.
There is plenty of sand in the world, it’s just not cheap or hyper locally available.

Pay money, problem goes away. Solutions will be found as the price goes up to make alternatives viable.
I always treat it as a thumbsuck because who really knows. I could tell you two to three hours to solve it and then it takes me five minutes. I could say a week and only end up using a day.
Very nice! Thank you.

For those who also want to try it in the web interface: Gear->See All Settings->General->Button Labels

Don't forget to scroll all the way to the bottom and save.
In an immature market, be a generalist. Be good at switching tools quickly because they'll come and go, and be good at the general problem-solving process because you'll face a lot of problems with new tools.

In a mature market, be a specialist. Be good at one very popular tool, and specifically solving one problem with it, and you'll find a ton of companies willing to pay you a lot in order to solve that one particular problem quickly.
What gives you the idea that that's remotely true?
And our environment has been very stable for a long time. But the past mega trends are no more: Covid, global warming, end of boomer dominance, China dominating and collapse/stagnation of the asset bubble may change this for a while.

From a career perspective specialization pays better but in tech few specialities last a career. So also build skill sets and assets that can be leveraged into other tech or even non-tech domains.
This was also my takeway.

The indirection of focusing on more attractive faces seems to purely exist to be able to say that attractiveness response was measured by brains can rather than statements from the subject, which it was not.

Actually measuring attractiveness by way of neural response would be quite interesting, as it præcludes an ability to lie.

There is some discussion about how much people find attractive what they say they find attractive, and whether or not they are lying and instead are saying what they are expected to find attractive to appear more socially gracious; — such research would be able to compare the difference between what a man says, and what he thinks, which never fails to produce interesting contrasts.
Your post is proof that HN is far more than 4000 ppl. You represent the average consumer.
Looks amazing. Are these AI generated or partially?
I do not disagree that a lot of US media are corrupt, I merely disagree that that is the only way it can be. There are many countries where the media aren't that corrupt. The problem is really the toxic situation in the US, not the concept of media itself. Independent media is absolutely essential for a functioning democracy. Of course there's some tension between capitalism and the idea of independent media, because in capitalism, you sell that for which there is a demand, so many US media just say/write whatever their readers want to hear, and if those readers care more about having their own prejudices confirmed and stoking the toxic tribalism that's dominating their country, then that's what purely capitalist media will write.

But in many other countries, journalists are more idealistic than that, and have editorial independence. And when the media owner threatens that independence, journalists cry foul and leave.

Arguing that media can only be corrupt, is basically arguing that there can not be any democratic accountability. Instead of arguing it cannot be improved, it would be more constructive to demand improvement, demand editorial independence, and follow and pay for those media that offer that.
Indeed, this is a "take my money", "I'll subscribe to your newsletter" kind of breakthrough that I would dearly like to see everywhere (and in myself!), not just in the context of driving cars.
About this quote:

> “Boys are just predisposed for technology by nature, and there is nothing we can do. I see it in my children: While my son prefers video games, my daughter only cares about Facebook.”

We can see that adult women and men make different choices. We can go back in time and see they made different choices as teenagers and young adult when on average they chose to study different things. In the example above, her children make different choices as children.

A counter argument might be that different toys are targeted at girls and boys. It sounds like a possible explanation, but could it be that the reason different toys are targeted at girls and boys is because of different preferences? If there is demand, someone will deliver the supply.

If we take another step back in time and look at infants, we get the answer. Show newly born infants things and faces and the boys are more interested in the things and the girls are more interested in the faces (people).

So yes, there is an average difference in interest - not a difference in intelligence or ability, but in interest.

There is also plenty of overlap. Many women and men are interested in the same things. Some women are very interested in technology. Some men are very interested in people. But on average, there is a significant difference.

Is this a problem?

Only if we consider the typical male preference for technology to be better or superior than the typical female preference for people. This is where the real problem lies.

Men and women are, on average, different. Let's appreciate our differences.
One thing that makes software special and might contain a kernel of an explanation is that software is scale-free: big software is build from many small software, which in turn are build from even smaller software. This makes it different from e.g. houses, which are not built from many miniature houses.

I speculate this self-similar nature drives a lot of the other odd properties we observe in software development, but I haven't come up with a specific model yet.
for equality predicate you can just use hash based index, for range search the situation is of course worse, yet you can have a somewhat like a partially/probabilistically preserving order hash so that you can produce a number of candidates orders of magnitude less than the whole table scan.
I've always found business expectations are to complete in less time than my estimates. My estimates are often a little under as well.
So who's going to pay for that? Tesla?

No, tech companies will just hide a "Not actually self-driving, driver takes full responsibility" sticker near the VIN. It'll be easy to blame the human for negligence then.
I'll play the (intentional) Devil's Advocate here to present an alternative viewpoint.

I like iOS, but not Android. Let me explain why.

I personally love Linux, Unix philosophy (I'm even sometimes an old beardy zealot about POSIX standards and the old way), and inherent customization possibilities.

On the other hand, I don't want to manage my phone like a desktop or laptop computer, or a server because of a plethora of reasons. First, user interface is not very suitable for that. Second, there's a lot more finicky things to manage. Last but not the least, that management task is continuous.

iOS takes all of these away. Complete backups are built-in (I know android has it, but I don't know how bulletproof is this). Defaults are sensible. Settings do not change spontaneously. OS behavior doesn't change drastically from device to device (Every android vendor tunes their OS and background process policy differently, creating a lot of WTH moments and more finicky management tasks). Updates are not slowed down by the vendor, the operator, the distributor and today's weather.

While iOS is a pretty strict walled garden, devices are set-up and forget. Even you forget that you have an iOS device, because you use it without thinking.

Radio security, isolation and its reasonable and unreasonable parts are discussed here extensively. As a HAM radio operator, I can only say that, radios can do wreak a lot of havoc even with informed tinkering, without any bad intentions. If you take a relatively cheap SDR and listen to your neighborhood spectrum (just see the traffic, not decode anything) your jaw will drop. It's a very crowded up there, and there's a lot of non-public traffic.

Another stuff about custom ROMs and Stock ROMs is SIM services. Yes, many of the SIM menus just sit here unused, but there are useful ones like mobile e-signatures. I carry my e-sig with my phone, in my SIM. So using it requires a verified and official software stack. As far as my experience goes, no custom ROMs run these services (intentionally or unintentionally).

I manage my family's Android phones, and I personally use an iPhone. As far as I can see, it's much easier to leave an iOS device on its terms and it'll fare better.

Feel free to discuss, counter or just burn this comment down. :)
And if anyone decides to read this, please make sure you read In The First Circle, not The First Circle. The latter is the "first" publication, which Solzhenitsyn abridged and modified, because he did not think that the true work would make it past the Soviet minders. In The First Circle is the true work, as Solzhenitsyn intended.
> Now please come up with a measure if an economy is elaborated and functional.

A friend once referred me to a "public transport" measure, which might not be the panacea for defining an economy's success, but it's certainly an interesting take.

I wish I could find the paper / article (I tried), but in essence, the extent to which an economy has implemented effective public transport can be used as a measure of economic success.

Edit: I also completely agree with your first point.
MAD does not apply to China. They have a very limited second-strike capability at this point, especially considering the ranges to the US mainland. They have ~50 ICBMs capable of reaching the US mainland, of which half are in silos. The other half are road-mobile, which means they’re relying on being able to move them around quickly and hide them to provide the ability to retaliate.

They have seven SSBNs, one of which is a Xia-class which isn’t capable of launching SLBMs with significant range. The remaining six Jin-class SSBNs are notoriously noisy, which means they are relatively easy to locate and destroy.
I like making digital art and little tools to help with creating digital art... happy to see this thread, here are a few things I'm proud of from over the years

An app for pen plotters focused on drawing and creating art manually more than the generative side of things [1]

A Ruby script that takes still images and recreates them entirely out of emojis [2]. Someone used it to make a music video [3]

And finally a Twitter bot that combines Marmaduke comics and Erowid trip reports at random [4]

[1] https://github.com/lilkraftwerk/lineboi3000
[2] http://lilkraftwerk.github.io/Emojisaic/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq3eR4xHjLs
[4] https://twitter.com/pharmaduke3000
It's ironic that I can't even see what the author is complaining about. At first, the site wouldn't load at all, but now I merely can't load the images.

Perhaps it's a kind of performance art, and I'm missing the point: that things are harder than we might naively assume at first glance?
40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived (2013)
That could certainly help, a standar/open/free hardware would make it easier to get things working correctly.

For instance, my tablet relied on some weird patches to get things like the LTE modem to work: that would become unnecessary then.
Apparently it's finally going to be configurable in Firefox 87 (next release)[1].

browser.quitShortcut.disabled true

The default will still be false though.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 (only took 21 years, jeez)
As someone who could probably be categorized as a guesser, I would feel incredibly pushy if I answered "well, I do" in this situation.

Askers should take notice. "Would you like to stop for a coffee?" is an entirely different question than "Would you like to stop for a coffee?". I don't see where the confusion is. (/s)
I'm curious, why is there no widespread Ubuntu for mobile?
You specialize in generalism?
"We suck at driving, you should compensate."

Nope. It's normal to expect technology to outdrive humans, not struggle to reach us.
Most old flip phones support up to 3G, which is being phased out.

The 4G ones run either Android (so a worse experience with the same spyware) or KaiOS (which is still fine but not very available).
Why is ‘electroshock’ therapy still a mainstay of psychiatry?
> This is neat! How do you choose odd numbers so the final generated numbers are high quality?

This was years ago, so I forget the details. But it was along the lines of...

uint32_t hash(uint32_t seed, uint32_t k1, uint32_t k2){
return (brev(seed*k1) * k2);
}

uint32_t evaluate(uint32_t seed, uint32_t k1, uint32_t k2){
return popcnt(hash(seed, k1, k2) ^ seed);
}

The goal is to find the values of k1 and k2 that resulted in an evaluate(seed, k1, k2) close to 16-bits (aka: 50% of bits change, the definition of "avalanche condition"). There's probably some statistical test I could have done that'd be better, but GPUs have single-cycle popcount and single-cycle XOR.

I forgot exactly which search methods I used, but note that a Vega64 GPU easily reaches 10 Trillion-multiplies / second, so you can exhaustively search a 32-bit space in a ~millisecond, and a 40-bit space in just a couple of seconds.

You can therefore search the values of k1 and k2 ~8-bits at a time every few seconds. From there, plug-and-play your favorite search algorithm (genetic algorithms? Gradient descent? Random search? Simulated annealing?).

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After that, I'd of course run it through PractRand or BigCrush (and other tests). In all honesty: random numbers (with bottom bit set to 1) from /dev/urandom are already really good.

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Exhausting the 64-bit space seems unreasonable however. I was researching FNV-hashes (another multiplication-based hash), trying to understand how they chose their constants.
I wrote a blog bost[0] about the idea of The Stalactite Developer about a year ago. I like this metaphor better than T shaped and I have applied it effectively throughout my career.

0: https://hugotunius.se/2020/01/19/the-stalactite-developer.ht...
For anyone that's wondering, link to Chapter 1 on Google Reads:

https://books.google.co.za/books?id=DqflDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA59&sou...

Link to the full book: https://www.amazon.com/Operating-Manual-Spaceship-Buckminste...
I never like the whole sentiment about taxation. Why is the taxation so complicated with full of weird language and many complicated clauses ? Ideally it should be very simple, so any layman (even not educated) can understand it. Most people I see either scared and pay taxes without understanding anything or people always looking for cheat. People who understand whole process thorougly and proud tax-payers are rare.

Sometimes I wonder, why this nobel idea become so currupt ? May be it is failure of Govt/System. When Govt wastes tax-payers money (e.g. f35) and not held accountable, layman doesnt have choice than cheating.