skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the advice does not suddenly become irrelevant on your 35th birthday.

The writing style, presentation and tools recommended are optimised for the younger generation. This does not mean people who are 35+ can't use the service.

In fact, a little above 60% of the website's traffic comes directly from search engines. Less than 10% of these users make it to the homepage. They have no idea the website is designed for the under-35s, and they use it still.

The tools are relevant for everyone. It's just much easier to focus on one or two age groups now rather than everyone.
Story is here: https://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/15/kevin.smith.so...

Now, I don't know the whole story of how the communication with Smith went down, but I 100% agree with the policy: If you can't lower the arm rest, you need to buy another seat.

Also, your suggestion "Like before buying the ticket" doesn't make sense. How is the airline to know someone is large enough to buy require 2 seats before they board?

I remember when this story came out, and there was plenty of backlash against Smith for going on his tirade, and some of it from other overweight people basically along the lines of "I know I'm overweight, and I know I have to deal with it by buying a second seat".
Next thing I’d want my router to shut down the internet due to mindless browsing. Also shut it down when it’s too late…like 11pm sounds enough.
„You will own nothing, and you will be happy.“
- WEF
U1 doesn’t directly know direction between iPhone and airtags either. You have to move your phone around for it to deduce the direction. At least, that’s how it works right now.
In my experience the answer is that it depends heavily on your situation. For every one of these bullets, there is a time and place to do that thing and a time not to. What sets senior folks apart is the judgement of when these things would apply and how to do them effectively. If a junior IC comes in and starts cargo culting off this they could easily spend all their time writing useless docs and sowing confusion and disrupting the team while completely ignoring the core competencies of their job.

So it's not that I think the advice is bad, but rather that most individuals would fall into one of two buckets: either they would already intuitively be applying these ideas appropriately, or else they would be unqualified to actually do so.
Not in my experience: Watch on my left and iPhone in my right. Seems to work all the time, haven’t noticed any issues thus far.
About 70% of this could probably be implemented on Android today. Might be worthwhile to provide concrete data on the value of these ideas :)
Referencing the few areas of it where I have domain knowledge I'm impressed. Lots of really good info. If nothing else it's a great starting point for research on various topics.
It's more widespread than the USA. People have gotten noticeably heavier in the last ~50 years pretty much everywhere that isn't Asia or the middle latitudes of Africa [1].

(And actually, they have also gotten noticeably heavier in Asia and Africa, too, but because they started with much lower obesity rates, it just isn't as noticeable. For example in 1975 14% of Japanese were overweight, compared to 47% US. By 2013 that was 28% Japan, 72% US).

There's a nice interactive graph on the linked page around 2/3 or so down that lets you look at the growth over time for assorted countries.

This should be pretty alarming, because it indicates that whatever is leading to soaring obesity in the US quite possibly is not something specifically that we in the US are doing wrong in our eating or exercise choices and habits.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/obesity
Good point. I'm not sure yet what the answer is there.
Take a look at how Logitech's does it with their "Flow" feature on the MX series of devices.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/options/page/flow-mul...
Are there any databases that support per-column security so you can fail reads (including globs)?
A 777-300 holds 388 passengers, so 39,000 lbs extra would be significant.

Is the average American 100 lbs heavier than the average person from the rest of the world? Probably nowhere near that.
Isn't this just basic antitrust regulation? I don't like to use the word 'propaganda' unless it's tongue-in-cheek, but ... "Ma’s assets have been stripped, shorn, and degraded" ... come on, give me a break.
I mean I just use Firefox. Unless you mean you can use those engines within Vivaldi?
How about optimal bet sizes in parallel occurrences? It is more important because in portfolio theories you must diversify...
When I worked in New York City, there was a stark contrast between senior management. Some lived very rich & urban -- West Village single family townhouse or Upper East/West side high rise, and others lived in a huge suburban home in Greenwich, Connecticut or Long Island. It was a weird mix. I could never figure out why they chose one over the other.
Why would we ever expect qualia to be based on specific and static combinations of neurons?

The belief that particular parts of the brain perform specific functions goes back a long way. One big factor is the commonness of brain injuries during WWI allowed scientists to draw conclusion like "damage in this region results in inability to do this" and that level of understanding has to various extents gone forward since how the brain really works is actually extremely mysterious.

Keep in mind that the scientist could seem localize a function to a group of neurons at a given moment. But you're right, that sort of thinking is too simple.

Luria goes into this question of localization in The Working Brain (a book that's now quite old). Overall, neuroscience has been trying to understand the brain for a long time and not doing very well.
Can we somehow change the title to reflect that this isn't an official SEC statement and rather a comment from the public? Written by someone with (seemingly) no economic understanding. Particularly, stating the price of Bitcoins is "fictitious". You can make an argument that it is based purely on speculation, but that doesn't make the price a matter of fiction.

Edit: Here is a rebuttal letter to this comment: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx20163...

The person clearly has an axe to grind with Bitcoin.
Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the search engine a public utility
If your nickel-ore dry bulk cargo is undergoing that kind of liquification, your ship will likely also be experiencing adverse handling.
Just use Webflow. It does everything for you, has templates can scale to your needs and also export the code needed to transfer the site somewhere else.
CTA is "Call to Action", basically something to incentivise or get the user to do something on the website (usually register, click something, buy something...). Hope that helps!
It is quite naive to think china is in any shape or form communist (except for the name). China has become a hardcore capitalist society with its current leader rumored to have accumulated wealth in the double digit billions.
Can you share the city name? I'm curious to learn more.
Maybe, but that is not helpful in the sense that it doesn't guide research in how to get there.
According to the assumptions behind the Kelly criterion (maximizing long-term growth rate) you should always take the bet. Kelly criterion can’t be applied here because we have a different setup (you can’t choose your bet size), that’s my entire point!
Bootstrapping.

Generally the area gets bootstrapped by some major need or force that is so potent that it establishes a vibrant economy around, and if it's potent enough, even after the need has passed.

Major civics projects like damns might do this. (Grand Coulee damn along the Columbia River comes to mind.)

Ongoing jobs like military bases might provide enough logistical need. Or a factories / exploitation of natural resources (fishing, forestry, coal, iron, processing / shipping along waterways) where there's sufficient density. Sometimes it's conditions favorable for the flow of talent, like good worker protections and a rich field of jobs so that someone can settle and build resources: Opportunity that, IMO the rich have largely denied those born in the 80s and after via housing policies and investments exactly like those mentioned in the article.
Demons In Imperfect Search (2020)
I’ve worked with lots of non-native English speakers. We “dumb down” our language the the level of the least fluent.

It isn’t really English. It’s “work English.”

I bet a lot more people speak “work English” than are fluent in the full language.
Driving along the freeway at 100mph and suddenly "sorry afk bro need to go to the toilet"
Call to action. The thing you are convincing the user to do next. Click a button to sign up for a trial, subscribe to a newsletter, etc.
The relevant case is people who have no income, but have a substantial amount of wealth (enough to buy a home). I'm not sure how you can consider that poor.
And we haven't even gotten onto the ethics of - in a bad situation - choosing whether to sacrifice the passenger or another road user.

Would you buy a car that throws you over a cliff to avoid ploughing through 20 kids running stupidly onto the road?

I mean, in theory the autonomous driving will be good enough to protect both. But a similar scenario will come up somewhere/sometime and what is the correct answer? What do you program the car to do?

Aside: Will walking into traffic become the next train surfing thrillseeking? (PS: Movie reference, Intacto.)
I said some people not all could benefit from a healthier lifestyle which is caused by losing fat, how is this controversial?
> So a qubit is a bit that has a complex number called an amplitude attached to the possibility that it's 0, and a different amplitude attached to the possibility that it's 1. These amplitudes are closely related to probabilities, in that the further some outcome's amplitude is from zero, the larger the chance of seeing that outcome; more precisely, the probability equals the distance squared.

Two questions, for anyone who knows these things:

* Perhaps it's just not perfectly edited, but the above says the amplitudes are related to the probabilities that the qubit is 0 or 1. Shouldn't that say will be 0 or 1, because the qubit is currently in a superposition?

That may seem like nitpicking over typos, but it's necessary to the next question:

* Why have two amplitudes rather than one? The probabilities of either of two exclusive results, such as the two states of a resolved qubit, are P and 1-P. Given that amplitudes are directly proportional to those probabilities (in the last sentence of the above quote), how could the amplitudes change independently of each other? If the probability of one outcome increases, the other must proportionally decrease. And why not use one amplitude, because (it seems) if you know one amplitude you can easily determine the other? I suspect I'm misunderstanding something, perhaps that last sentence.
I would pay zero per hour/day/month/year. I would be open to paying a flat upfront price though. Like we have always done for car features. If this subscription trend continues, cars will become like iphones.

For an Iphone you pay $800, get only 64GB SSD with about 50GB usable which will run out in a matter of months. Then you pay Apple $3 every month until eternity just to be able to use your phone, otherwise it will fill up and even non-apple services will fail to backup (eg, Whatsapp).

For future cars you will pay $30k for the car, which does not have radio, drive assist, etc. And you pay $2 every month to unlock the radio, $2 to unlock the Bluetooth, $2 to unlock the voice control, $2 for climate control, $10 for drive assists, and so on. Keep paying otherwise these basic features will become locked and the hardware you paid for will become less useful.
Parents rage as top NYC school plans to end advanced math program
I'm more in Yann LeCun's camp who called unsupervised learning the cake, supervised learning the icing and reinforcement learning the cherry on top of the cake.
Rollout has started at the beginning of June and now they have rolled it out to 100% of the users. This makes me very happy because Asana was the last of my regular tools that was still in light mode.

(Still waiting for HN though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25697173)
Unfortunately, we have reason to believe that over time, the immune defenses from COVID-19 infection seem to decline, particularly in older folks. It'd be great if we had some definitive data on secondary infection rates, but until a lot more people get infected, we just won't have it.
CoinCircle Is the Best
http://archive.is/qAW22
it a good name that's semantically transparent, if all things were named like that NLP would be much easier.
Compared to google, Firefox is anything but massive
What if neurons are just like storage spots? RAM.

I can move information from one memory location to another but the info can be identical.
Yea. For animals, reproduction and just surviving is the reward function?

It talks a lot about having a rich enough environment for learning which makes sense, if a computer lives only in a Go board it can only learn go playing itself.

How do you simulate a rich enough environment purely in software (or do you sense input from the "real" environment) and what reward do we define in this complex environment..
It seems to ask those 2 questions in the discussion but kind of glosses over them imo.
Well, it's definitely correlated with the time we've decided that "fat is bad, eat low fat for better health" that we've gone from obesity being a rare metabolic syndrome to a widespread epidemic. And the increased reliance on processed food, which is not only the very maligned ultra palatable junk food, but processed food in general.

Of course it's more complicated than that, studies are moving in that direction but it's going to be 50 more years since updated dietary guidelines become common (grandma's) knowledge.
Rail networks can be easily sabotaged, and therefore suck.

That's why the US for the most part uses trucks not trains.

Interestingly, the max-flow min-cut theorem was apparently developed as a way to find the best way to sabotage railroads (i.e.: how to cause to cause the most harm with the fewest "cuts" = sabotage).
Interesting how nowhere in there it mentions the words overweight or fat.
Facebook plans to organize regular in-person gathers for office and remote workers “to support the relationship-building.”

Are relationships in the workplace necessary? In my experience they only move us further away from meritocracy.
While others, like the ESP32, are much better than the PCs our computer school club had to play Defender of the Crown.

Yet MS-DOS had plenty of programming languages to chose from, when we weren't coding games or demoscene stuff.
Polio has a death rate in the mid single digits, too.
I love this, but do we really think that Apple also isn't using engagement with your phone as an internal success metric? If people use apps less often, they are probably using less apps. If people use less apps, Apple's revenue drops.

Unlike Apple's attack on privacy which makes them a differentiator in the marketplace, only at the expense of others, I don't see what's in it for Apple to do this?
No, I don't really know. I thought it's just the video call. TBH I have no intention to delve in either, they've been so shady that I will keep pushing my groups for anything else.
Nonsense article. France is pushing for this but the other EU countries have no reason to go along with it.
Especially in the East no one speaks French, so their citizens and companies would be at a severe disadvantage - from getting people into EU jobs to the various funding calls for reaearch, digitalization, etc everything is currently in English and most Europeans would suffer from a switch to French. Even Germany has no reason to go along with it as it would downgrade German (currently there are three working languages: EN, FR, DE). The EU still retains two countries with English as official language (Ireland and Malta) and clearly it is the most widely spoken second language.

In short: no chance.
I did not know this was a thing! Fascinating!
I had a similar thought, albeit dumbed down just that neurons represent RAM locations, and memory locations can change but the data can be identical to data that was stored in other locations previously...
I am in a country that is far away and experience multi-second connection drops on a regular basis.
“Call-to-action button”, the big button/link thing (which I never click on) that usually has “Learn more” beside it (which I do click on).

If not knowing what a CTA is is what confused you, then no, it’s not bad design, just bad targeting—you’re not in the target audience for this article right now. Not that you couldn’t be or that you wouldn’t benefit from knowing what it says, but it does require a certain (if minimal) amount of web marketing context to understand.

(That said, I didn’t find the article particularly insightful, but that’s because I don’t much care for or about the goals it concerns—a different way of being out of the target audience.)
You mean like UNIX?
If you send a message in a bottle it will eventually land ashore somewhere, maybe in a century, who knows, and who knows whether it will be relevant by then or not, or civilization may not even exist by then, but sure it's similarly plausible to get to AGI via RL.
I'd look at using an SSH reverse tunnel. If you can connect from the plex-server to a server hosted on EC2, Linode, DigitalOcean, etc, you could expose the service from that.

Something like:

ssh -f -N -T -R 8080:localhost:80 user@external.example

Now access to your remote host on port 8080 will be mapped back to your home machine, behind the NAT. You could install nginx as a proxy for it, etc.
Worse, the comment seems to be confusing under-eating with fit. Muscle is heavier/denser than fat and requires more calorie consumption to maintain.
> No, you just make yourself disposable.

You might be making yourself disposable specifically in the context of your original role which you are basically making redundant by documenting and automating everything - but trust me any sensible business will want to keep a staff member who massively improved their team's productivity (by enabling them to be more independent with less silo'd knowledge) and reduced the business' risk exposure (by making potentially critical knowledge more accessible and reducing single points of failure).

Employees who try to become indesposable by turning themselves into a mega-silo of knowledge that nobody else in the org has might gain some job security in the short term but they lose out on any potential job progression.

Turning yourself into a silo like this is practically blackmailing your employer into keeping you. They might keep you employed because they need to keep their systems online, but they will also not think twice about replacing you as soon as an opportunity is presented. That is making yourself disposable.

Turning yourself into a leader who improves the outcomes of various teams in a business will not only make you indespensable, it's genuinely the best (if not the only realistic) path for an engineer to work their way up into more senior or C-suite positions.
> I want control over what I do, not a random program deciding what I should do.

So ask the user once if they want to be reminded? You might not feel like social media is a toxic influence over your life but many people do.
Hmmm, I have mixed views on almost all these points, context matters. Much of these views seem to stem from a career working in large orgs, not resource constrained startups

1. Document your knowledge? Well document the right knowledge, endless documents with all the pro's / cons of every choice noted will loose the signal in all the noise.

2. Document your long-term plans? In IT long terms plans means the next 3 - 6 months. Maybe document your thoughts on where something should go, but make it brief.

3. Document your meetings? Well document meetings outcomes / actions and only very important discussion points - no one will care in a couple of weeks

4. Bring others to meetings? Maybe, only if it really adds value (for context or for education) otherwise your burning valuable time

5. Train people around you? Agreed, at appropriate times

6. Identify and train your replacement? Not sure that is all that useful unless you're actually moving on.

7. Give power to the people? If what was meant was enabling broader inclusive decision making - agreed. But otherwise, fully autonomous operating modes need to earn that trust.

8. Do not make yourself the point of contact? Depends, if you're a manager or the decision maker, you need to be the point of contact.

9. Delegate? yes, to a point see 7

10. Always be learning? Yes, of course. But not at the expense of the greater goals (personal / project / company). Nothing worse than an engineer that has not delivered because 'they were learning / wanted to try a new framework.
The GPL does create a network effect, but in a way which ends up excluding large chunks or ecosystems from professional developers.

Back when I was just a Linux hobbyist, I loved the GPL. Then I got a job as a proprietary software developer. Now, GPL just means "stuff I can't use at work".

I would love to try and convince my boss and coworkers to implement a project in Scheme. But because the majority of the packages for most Scheme implementations are GPL'ed, it's a non-starter.

So Scheme (and lots of other pockets of FOSS) shall remain a weekends-only pipe dream :(
Obviously holding down 3 staff engineer jobs at FANG. No problem. Everyone's doing it now c'mon ya doofus
Tesla's status on this is really controversial. Some people think that Tesla's sheer data advantage will put them way ahead soon and that it's imminent. On the other hand, Waymo is doing pretty well on most trips (admittedly within a small geofenced zone that has friendly weather -- you can watch oodles of video from jjricks on real trips here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61AfxOMu3wY )
+1 it looks great.
You do the secret Grinch thing instead?
If you had a custom chip it could be efficient. Determining which state machines would still be hard.
Every company wants to fire you
It will be instantly warezed, if it will ever work in the first place.
> In a swipe at Tesla, he said that by charging hourly fees, VW would make autonomous driving more accessible than “a car with a five-digit surcharge.”

This is completely disingenuous at best, and malicious at worst. This is a perfect example of the boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness [1]. This is just taking advantage of the poor-middle class' inability to pay a larger upfront cost, to extort them for more over a larger period of time.

The average person in the northeast spends 31 minutes commuting per day [2], for simplicity that's 0.5 hours,* 2 commutes a day, * 5 days a week, * 50 weeks a year (assuming 2 weeks vacation), is 250 hours commuting a week. At ~9 dollars including tax per hour, that means in just 4.4 years[3] it's already more expensive to rent this feature if the surcharge is initially 10k as VW claims. This is true even if the car is used ONLY for commuting, which is likely a non-major portion of use time.

This is 100% a way to extract more money from consumers, especially non financially stable consumers, while lying to all of our faces.

[1] https://moneywise.com/managing-money/budgeting/boots-theory-...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/798393/us-workers-averag...

[3] https://www.caranddriver.com/research/a33235649/ownership-co...
I might. But for now, I found that I prefer to read biographies. They just seems to give me more joy.
When leasing the car, you own nothing, right?
Current state-of-the-art in reinforcement learning can barely make a physical robot walk. In theory, with transfer learning, we will probably see better success over time but I'm looking forward to seeing results in practice.

A 2018 article about the challenges of reinforcement learning: https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
Scaling of Uber's API Gateway