skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much peer-reviewed research
has anyone from Amazon published showing that their ML has made a difference in their sales, profitability, or other meaningful business measures? Based on my recent experiences trying to buy anything, more and more they seem to be leaning towards adopting all kinds of dark patterns and old-fashioned sales gimmicks.
Non-paywalled mirror: https://archive.is/lT5dT
Bans of future sales of ICE vehicles are a thing, a lot of countries either have them or are proposing them.
Or a a nearby supernova happened to deposit plutonium and other heavy elements in a fine mist over the planet within the last 10 million years...

I'm somewhat curious if modern human civilization happened to emerge in the last ~10ky simply because all other time periods since modern humans evolved were too unstable to support civilization.
> However a 2-3 hours bus trip to get to the University (4-5 h/day), when normally it'd been 20? minutes by train (on a railroad that hasn't yet been built), doesn't make Israel and the checkpoints popular.

How else do you propose they quell the proliferation of arms that they know will eventually be fired into populated areas of Israel out of pure hatred, killing innocent civilians? They certainly don't run checkpoints because they're fun.
You know, it could be that they just have a product vision and want to build and sell it to people that want it. If it's not what you want, you don't have to use it.
All: I know it's a topic that brings up strong feelings, but please only post if you're in a curious state [1]—not an agitated one. We all get agitated, because we're all human—but it leads to repetitive, predictable, and eventually nasty internet comments, so please don't go there until that subsides.

The story is on topic because it's significant new information [2], but we're only going to get an interesting thread if people stick to the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Well for developers that don't negatively refer to others specialities as "webshit" then yes there's a lot of jobs available.
>As in the preamble: "We the People of the United States."

The preamble is discussing who is creating the constitution and why. It does not say it only applies to certain individuals. I don't see how you can use that to argue that the government is free to infringe upon the rights of noncitizens.
No mention of IE...
I have very little experience with Zulip, so take this with a grain of salt. Just like Matrix, Zulip is open source and can be self-hosted. They both target instant-messaging use cases.

Zulip has a far more advanced threading model than Matrix. Currently, Matrix only has basic replies in the spec. In practice, everything in a Matrix room is in a single thread. It definitely makes it hard to follow conversations that are long-lived or in busy rooms or both.

Matrix is federated and Zulip isn't. You can run your own Matrix server and communicate with all the other Matrix servers that already exist. Rooms live on multiple servers and are resilient to the failure of any participating servers as long as one remains.

Matrix is far more general than Zulip. It acts as a store for arbitrary, eventually-consistent, ordered JSON data. Most of the time this is used to create an instant messaging service, but it can be used for much more.

Zulip subjectively has a nicer default client than Matrix (Element). Zulip's is special-built to handle its unique threading model.

It's also worth noting that Matrix is adding support for arbitrary threading [0]. I'm really looking forward to this. It should allow us to build a Zulip clone fully in Matrix with all of the benefits that come with the Matrix ecosystem.

[0]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/kegan/msc/thre...
Zulip is my favorite modern chat program because it's actually 100% FOSS, unlike Mattermost and RocketChat, which are only "open core" because they put a bunch of important features in closed-source enterprise modules.
We do plenty of histograms! Vicky is good at them! Counters are just easier to write about.
Wikipedia has an article about this, for those interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon
Terminology aside, the general principle is still the same issue and employees ARE better of with 4 year grants in high growth companies.

Let’s say you target RSU comp is $100k per year. Stock is $100 in year 1, $125 in year 2, $150 in year 3 and $200 in year 4. Ignoring inflation and taxes to make this easier to illustrate.

1) initial 4 year grant - $100k x 4 = $400k at $100/share is 4k shares. Assuming you keep all of your RSUs, you have $800k worth at year 4.

2) $100k of shares paid each year: year 1 - 1000 shares, year 2 - 800 shares, year 3 - 666.67 shares, year 4 - 500 shares. 4 year total comp in year 4 shares values is $593,334

So the employee receives $206.7k less under the new scheme versus the 4 year one. In reality, it’s even worse because we are talking high growth business here.

Layering in annual refreshers helps as well, but this is where things generally plateau a bit.
the real scam is the huge popups on your page
So do dishwashers and hot tubs, hypocrite.
> As I understood it, it means you can't look at the next insn before decoding the current one enough to know where the next one starts. Meanwhile, arm can decode insns in parallel.

This is incorrect.

Intel Skylake has 5 parallel decoders (I think M1 has 8): https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...

AMD Zen has 4: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/zen#Deco...
>closed-form minimum-fuel solutions

My dad used something called variational calculus to solve physics problems. It's beyond my understanding, but I gather it was more useful in the slide rule days. A former co-worker of his commented that once you could just throw computing power at a problem, being able to construct the elegant solutions was basically obsolete.
I've had the opposite experience with Teams threads. I'm at a big company where about half the posts are made by non-technical people, and yet the threads seem to get used pretty well. For all the things I hate about Teams, they seem to have hit a sweet spot in that bit of UI where it's hard (but not impossible) to accidentally add to an existing thread with a new topic, or accidentally make a new thread when you were trying to reply to a post, and because of that things stay pretty organized.
There's no reason why we don't have sequencing for everyone at this point.

There are at least two reasons: it's still expensive, and we still don't really know what to do with it.

The "$1000 genome" is a bit of a myth, or rather PR hype from Illumina. Sure, they proved it could be done if you juke the numbers the right way. But I believe a clinical-grade whole-genome sequence still costs several times that much (see https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...). Even at $1000/genome, sequencing the entire US population would still be $330 billion, for unclear benefit.

I'd love to be corrected, but the science just isn't there to show us what to do with WGS data except in limited applications like cancer or "rare diseases". It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem in that sense, and it's being worked on. There are pharma companies and public consortia sequencing hundreds of thousands of genomes, and mining them alongside medical records and other phenotypic data. So the value may come eventually, but it will probably be less about preventing illness so much as curing disease in a much more targeted way. And even then, you won't need to have your whole genome sequenced just to know if you should take drug A or drug B -- a cheap targeted test will suffice.
The recently release 1.16.1 supports the first beta of untrusted nodes, aka nodes that will sync data but don't know what it is, as it is encrypted with a passphrase you set.

so drop off an old machine at your parents / buddies / exs house, give it internet connection and cron some updates + reboots + power on after an outage and boom, if your house and all your devices burn down, you can get your files via decrypting with that password you saved to your email / password manager.

I love Syncthing and it's replaced Dropbox and Microsoft 365 for me. ok i keep the latter for online dictation when I'm not near a pc with dragon installed on it, but still, I don't need to trust MS with my data in their cloud.
Ransomware crooks post cops’ psych evaluations after talks with DC police stall
They won't ever reach 95%; not gonna happen.
6 months ago there wasn’t a vaccine.
It was practically an invitation to though.
Ah, for a couple of reasons:

* They need perfect information retention for refreshing to be useless. I don't think they have that.

* I didn't intend to refer only to them. Not going to donate ever again. That's just an information proliferation thing.

It's sort of like how I know that my SSN is out there because of Equifax, but I still don't post it on gas station bathrooms with other info.
> Unless surface to capture rainfall is clean, it can be contaminated with animal droppings.

Your going to have a bad time when you find out what most organic fertilizer comes from.
I'm amazed by how we can now detect an element with only several hundreds of atoms in a large chunk of rock.
The Roadster was the first highway-legal EV to use a lithium-ion battery. The GM EV1 used 16.5 kWh of lead-acid batteries.
| it doesn't understand the data it has and doesn't have individuals who have the competencies to hire analysts to help them;

Yeah, this is common and often explains why ML projects fail. ML won't magically understand data for you. And if you don't understand the data you are feeding into your ML pipeline, you will almost certainly have a garbage-in-garbage-out situation on your hands.
You should try obsidian plus syncthing. I use notion at work but hate how slow it is most of the time. For everything else and for all of my own stuff at work I use obsidian.
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It's a trolley problem. Someone gets hurt if you put the mask on, someone gets hurt if you don't put the mask on. You're assuming that there is an objectively good decision here.
Surely this is satire.
It's not obvious how representing your program in 2D or 3D can help the brain to reconstruct its inner workings in its own version of 2D or 3D, even if it really needs to do this transformation. There might be a subtle difference between a program and a coffee cup.
yeah, just not in the title. He's in fact way off.
As a frontend developer, I've been wanting to expand my skills as a server-side developer, and have been a little lost on where to get started in building an auth system, and how I'd approach deeply understanding it enough to do it right (regardless of whether it's the right business choice or not, it seems likely worthwhile to be able to do it). Does anyone have any good resource that would provide a robust exploration into building this kind of system, either in a specific language or just a general one? I'm talking sane abstractions that you'd see Fowler talking about, and something that I could actually follow while writing code to do it.
Great example. It is worth emphasising your model will capture the game from the ransom attackers perspective since for them it is repeated many times. It won't give the EV for the attacked as their number of ransom incidents will hopefully be very small rather than tend to infinity. Which likely means the EV will be based on their own personal utility function.
It's actually not a typo, just an awkward sentence. I thought the same until I read it a few times.
That's true, but stock growth influences new-hire offers as well. Google's valuation doubled in the last year, so someone who joined Google 1-2 years ago (and had the equity piece of their compensation double) will require a stronger offer to entice them away from Google.
On the other hand, a pipeline not running at all is another solid reason.
Probably just as important to save on complexity.
definitely stay away from any bootcamp startup unless it is extremely well vouched for by your peers who went through it.
The examples you give seem to fit into the "marginal process improvement" mentioned, I should think? I mean, forecasting demand, optimizing shopping paths, route dispatching, etc, don't require ML to do well. ML -might- make it a bit better still, but is it enough to offset the work that went into it? Couldn't say.

Certainly, the number of times I've seen business stakeholders treat ML as magic, where they say "It's like (standard business process) but we'll use ML!" to try and create a business case is appalling. And I think that's more what he's referring to; in many companies, ML is a solution in search of a problem, one that the business is quite happy to pay for to say they're doing (it pleases stockholders), and data scientists are happy to accept money for (it's a job, after all).
> All employees in the same position, in the same location, receive the same salary and equity offer. No exceptions.

How do they define location? In one city, there are neighborhoods where the median income is six figures while it's a fifth of that in another. Same can be said of two different locations in a state or county, or two different states.
>Let me know how that works out for you, k?

"voluntary submission" sounds like people that walk around claiming to be a sovereign citizen thereby exempt from "laws". i always find it funny that the ones screaming this the loudest are usually in the midst of some sort of legal troubles.
Gonna have lot of exemptions. Long haul and industrial/farm/mining equipment cannot always run on batteries.

We are going to have ICE's for a long time.

Mindless bans like that, if overzealous, will just push even more of industry to Asia/China, where most of pollution happens today anyway.

I wouldn't be surprised if China funds quite a few green causes, big boost for their industries, and they get to just ignore all emissions rules.
nobody gets hurt if you put the mask on.
According to a large, controlled study in Wuhan [1], asymptomatic spreading is exceedingly rare. Zero cases in the study were identified.

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4695
Ohio is holding five million-dollar lottery drawings for which only vaccinated people are eligible, and I expect other states to follow suit: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
Is living the healthiest life you can live not the best option in every circumstance?

It seems society as a whole wants a quick fix, no matter what the problem is or the consequences from a cure.
I used to love notion and roughly a year ago I started migrating all our documentation into it.

Then someone at the company decided to turn our notion workspace into an ERP+CRM+Project Management tool.

Now I hate it and moved the docs all back to Gitlab.

Never logged back in.
property rights and economic rents have no such entanglements. you may be conflating the common definition of rent with the economic definition. economic rent is that which is above and beyond reasonable maintenance and service costs. providing well-kept housing does deserve (common) rent to landlords, but only for that productive part, not the act of holdng an asset while it inflates in value due to artifical constraints rather than value-producing activities.

home values, for instance, can appreciate in value without (economic) rents, they'd just need to become more desirable in other ways, like making improvements (we need to drastically reduce code and zoning restrictions, and review, permitting, and legal delays to allow this in economically efficient ways).

i'm absolutely in agreement about anti-trust/anti-monopoly enforcement/reform though.
Who sowed the seed of doubt in me.. that vaccinated folks can still transfer the disease?
those aren't star ships
This isn’t a carrot, its public health guidance based in risks and infection rates (including the induced risk of noncompliance by the unvaccinated triggered by loosening rules for the vaccinated.)

> Will this move actually counter our slowing vaccination rates?

Yes, loosening controls does that. It also reduces the harms imposed by the controls. Vaccination and infection affect the cost/benefit analysis between those effects.
That sounds a bit like Pure Data but on the web.

https://puredata.info/
Cancers are failure of immunosurveillance.

Yes, some genetic factors increase risks, but even in those cases cancers tend to show up after the age 40, when your immune system begins to falter due to thymus involution. At that point - everyone has some cancerous cells in their body, and often even multiple tumors.

If you live long enough - you WILL gets some sort of a cancer.

From a good pool of autopsies: 1.1 per patient.

"There were 250 malignancies diagnosed in 225 patients, an average of 1.1 malignancies per patient. The average age of all patients autopsied was 48.3 years (range, 1-98 years)."

doi:10.1001/jama.280.14.1245
Nim, Pony, and maybe Dlang?
> Your point 1 seems wrong. SHA-512 is constant time for any reasonable password length and any reasonable implementation.

I'm aware of this, and it's why there's a "technically" in my original point. Of course in practice it makes no difference, and I consider the better use of bcrypt's input space when prehashing to outweigh leaking a pretty useless amount of side-channel information for extraordinarily long passwords.

Though as a follow up anecdote, one of the engineers there had set a 300kB password to test the prehashing implementation, and just continued to use it (via password manager). He was potentially leaking a bit of timing information. I'm not even sure if a password that long made a timing difference that was detectable through network jitter, but if it did and some hypothetical attacker was able to learn that his password was hundreds of kilobytes long, well... good luck.

> in fact I use: SHA-512 -> Base64 -> bcrypt when password hashing. Does that make me wrong?

No, using a base64 representation of the sha hash makes your scheme perfectly reasonable. Also note that the base64 representation of sha512 is a bit longer than the typical bcrypt input length, so you're shrinking the collision space somewhat by truncating your sha hash. Certainly not enough that it would matter at all, just a point I find interesting. Hypothetically, a binary representation with a pass that removed or replaced NUL bytes would preserve more entropy, but we're well past the point where it matters and would be playing with fire to consider that complexity.
Here is the paper that the article is based on:

The biomass distribution on Earth - https://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506

> ≈550 gigatons of carbon (Gt C) of biomass distributed among all of the kingdoms of life

A gigaton is 1 billion metric tons, or 1 trillion kilograms.

So the total mass is about 550,000,000,000,000 kg.
Sounds like you’re pleasant to work with and are a great ambassador of Amazon’s culture
I'm curious to how the math works... Basically they are willing to let covid explode among the unvaccinated which presumably won't impact those that can't get vaccinated (i.e. young kids < 16) and maybe that that number is smaller than what our hospitals can treat.

I'm also gonna guess that the people who have gotten vaccinated basically have always worn masks and the unvaccinated never have unless forced. That explains my town.
Right, but it’s through contaminated water. Industrial or not, water is the medium.
This was my initial thoughts on reading the title as well. First thoughts were "what craft re-entered with that material" went to "oh, cosmologically recent".
it's a really bad time for new weapons
Opened an issue and asked this: https://github.com/dainiusjocas/lucene-grep/issues/99
I have FF set up to open all popups in new tabs. That makes it a lot more noticeable ;)
You make some strong points but I think the idea is if someone starts by diving right into code they’ll get to the point where they’ll feel inspired to deal with setting up an environment. Someone testing the water isn’t necessary ready for much hassles and they’re not yet all in.

Once they’re all in they’ll pull an all nighter if necessary to get something done.
Yep, Lars learned GFOLD at JPL and took it to Spacex. GFOLD was invented by Behçet Açikmeşe https://www.aa.washington.edu/facultyfinder/behcet-acikmese
My vision is closer to Yahoo Pipes / LabView / GNU Radio, but yeah I think you've got the right idea!
I was at my Target very early last week to pick up gift cards for a friend. There was a line of at least 3 dozen adults queued up outside to get in for the TCGs. They had special lines for them to check out, also filled with adults.

Kids are at school while these booster packs are being bought out...
App automatically uploads contacts after the user agrees to grant permission?
Is it illegal to automatically upload a user's contact when changed (add/remove contact) for finding friends?
(mentioned the purpose of use in privacy to improve app, responsibility for user's data, have previously granted for access to contacts)?

Example

Step 1: Request a permission for uploading user's contact on Friday 14 April 2021, and User agrees to permissions.

Step 2: User add a new contact to mobile and open app again ( on Monday 20 May 2021)

Step 3: the app automatically uploads a new contact to server for finding new a friend?

-> so In this case, is it illegal?
Yes. Feedback from a professional typist, who watches and corrects your form as you type. When I was younger, my father had a secretary who helped me practice on an IBM Selectric, and it helped a tremendous amount compared to the time investment.
How do you want your employees to value their stock, then?
We looked at Cortex but running a Cassandra cluster was a little too much for us. I don't think we saw M3 until after we'd started using VictoriaMetrics.
As a grammatical matter, the phrase “the people” must refer to an antecedent. Even standing alone, “the people” clearly refers to certain people, not “all people.” The term isn’t read as applying only to citizens, because certain provisions of the constitution specifically require citizenship. It encompasses citizens and non-citizen residents, and to some extent people present on US soil. But it’s hard to read “the people” to mean “people in other countries.”
Whoa FB bought Giphy? I guess I missed that in the heat of the pandemic. Goodness I wish there were fewer acquisitions.
High-speed rail feels like such a red herring for the US (and really any part of the world). You know what's great and costs a fraction of this stuff? Normal trains. HSR is not very useful for local commutes cuz if it's going fast there aren't going to be many stops. So just build cheaper intercity networks that bring people where they need to go, and have _lots_ of stops.

Successful HSR exists in places like France and Japan because of how urbanism was shaped in those places. Everything is in Paris, so people _have to go to Paris_. So the "every TGV line is to- or from- Paris" serves that purpose. Japan is one-dimensional, so you also only need one HSR line for effect (exageratting a bit). But HSR in both of those countries are extremely expensive, and despite people posting all the "Japan is cool" stuff with people taking the shinkansen every day for work, the reality is more banal (business trips, family vacations, same stuff as what you find with planes).

But the big payoffs come from having people be able to rely on trains for more day-to-day stuff. And you solve the last mile problem by just building a train station every mile! And in that case your train really doesn't actually need to go that fast.
How can we look at what openai is doing and think that ml is a scam. GPT-3 probably could write a better blog post!
'Grand Theft Auto V' mod adds uncanny photorealism through AI