skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the paper:

> This paper is the first to provide compelling evidence that wellregularized neural networks (even simple MLPs!) indeed surpass the current state-of-the-art models
in tabular datasets, including recent neural network architectures and GBDT (Section 6).

> Next, we analyze the empirical significance of
our well-regularized MLPs against the GBDT
implementations in Figure 2b. The results show
that our MLPs outperform both GBDT variants (XGBoost and auto-sklearn) with a statistically significant margin.

They test against XGBoost, GBDT Auto-sklearn, and others. Did you read the paper?
That quote is from the article...
The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest–and most terrifying–invention
I think you're correctly responding to incentives. If your hard work created a new product line for the company you work for, that made them millions, how much of that would you get? Close to 0%. So why should you work full-out for someone else?
~70% of Americans own a home. Don't blame us because you choose to live in a dense urban area where you can't afford to buy a home. Until recently(2010-2020) buying a home was on avg. cheaper than renting.
> Russia has the right to defend its national security within its means.

Please explain how do you associate the natural outcome of free and democratic elections in the Ukraine with a "national security " threat to Russia that's serious enough to justify a full blown invasion.
Yes, this. Though I am not sure if I would start at HR or with your manager/director because of the risk of telegraphing an intention you do not yet have, leaving the company behind.

If you have a very good relationship with your manager/director, I think I would start there, something along the lines of "I've got this germ of an idea, and it won't leave me alone. It's in a completely different area, and I've got such a strong urge to explore it... ...but I like this place so much, I don't want to just walk away."

Leave it open like that, see what they say. They might offer the sabbatical idea themselves.

Alternatively, if your co's HR policies are available for all to peruse, check for the aforementioned policy.

Another alternative, based on experiences friends and colleagues of mine have had....

If the owner or GM or insertHeadHonchoTitle here is very entrepreneurial, spend evenings and weekends working on a business plan or 7-10 slide pitch deck, then, when it is ready to go, let them know you are heading out on your own.

I know a few people who did this and, instead of being thanked for their service were offered their first angel investment. Their boss, Terry Matthews, knew he had good people and knew he could make more by funding them than either keeping or just letting them walk away.

Good luck!
The main part of the video is when he reviews the latest drink he's being paid to drink. The rest is filler for me.
Why is AI hard and physics simple?
This is interesting feedback. Thank you! I would love to ask you a few questions about this, if you do not mind, please reach out gvw[at]lowdefy.com

A visual editor is definitely on our roadmap. Our strategy is to make the schema easy to read, write and understand. We want to ensure the dev experience of working with the Lowdefy schema is first class so that change review and version control can be as productive as possible.

Adding a visual dev interface is resource intensive can easily distort the schema quality. We figured by first maturing the schema and making sure it works well with dev tooling, we can add a visual dev interface on top as Lowdefy becomes more popular.
Our lives here in the US certainly aren't 3x better than the UK, and for a large chunk of our country they would have a better life in the UK due to the NHS.
Thanks for the great feedback! I do really like the idea of offline mode and integrating text-based commentary (there's definitely some great stuff out there). The main hurdle at this point is the licensing fees associated with both these items.
I've never gone back and logged old notes but I did start doing something that's worked well for me...

I log, "stray thoughts". I put these in a physical notebook but Google Keep or Apple Notes works just as well. Anything goes and everything goes in the same place.

At the beginning of my day, I "translate" my hastily written thoughts into more complete notes in a flat text file. Each thought is written on a single line in a way that I could read and understand it out of context.

I use hash tags to categorize and to link other ideas (by line number).

I also created a biblio.txt file that has URLs, names, book titles, and other references in it. I use curly braces to link a note to a reference.

Example:

Pencils are longer lasting than pens. #324 #327 #writing {26}

The real magic happens when I use my text editors search feature to research all my previous thoughts about something in my flat text file.
Thanks for submitting this. I’ve read a few athletes’ autobiographies and was always let down by the banality of the prose and the lack of insight. A good example is Lynn Hill’s “Climbing Free: My Life In The Vertical World”. Even the title is dull. Lynn Hill is surely one of the most extraordinary athletes to ever live, and yet her book reads like ghost-written ad copy. DFW’s conclusion at the end of this piece offers some reasoning behind this. It’s kind of incredible and I’ll be thinking about it for a while.
Notices on Iran-linked websites say they have been seized by U.S.
The essay in fact makes one salient point: if athletes' life stories and interviews are often unbelievably vapid, perhaps it's because athletes don't have much of a mind for anything beyond perfecting one thing that they do well. Specifically they don't do much self-reflection in poetic and witty terms.

I was reminded of this essay when listening to Lewis Hamilton's interview for the ‘Beyond the Grid’ podcast. I vaguely dreaded this very prospect in advance, but Hamilton really shamelessly overshot my expectations, it's almost a Hollywood-esque story of perseverance by the whole family. Guess I'll stick with watching the man's pole laps, they're way more satisfying.
It should be p2p cash then turn into store of value after some years and then it becomes the settlement layer for centralized second layer solutions that only exist because the first layer sucks.

Just kidding, it should only be p2p cash and it failed at that.

PoW/PoS will be replace by FBA in the next years and every system that can not switch away from PoW will become irrelevant.
How the GameStop Hustle Worked
> I’m frustrated we knew the infection and death rates were exaggerated by faulty PCR testing and financial perks for hospitals impacted by cases they could attribute to COVID.

You can be frustrated without making up claims. Infection and death rates were not exaggerated. Death rates were higher initially due to the ramp up in proper treatment. Infection rates were subject to selection bias which skewed the denominator early on in the pandemic.
There has been great progress in scaling the original protocol through the Bitcoin SV implementation:

- Transaction fees are ~$0.0001
- The network has shown capacity for 50k tps
- On March 14, 2021, the network processed a world record 638 MB block
- As of June 4, 2021 the chain size exceeded that of the BTC implementation and is currently 418.17 GB
- New business based on micropayments have emerged like twetch, streamanity, peergame, etc

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bsv-proves-that-bit...
If you think "benefiting society" is how the US government chooses to fund things, I've got a bridge to sell you :)
The `com.` NSs are overriding its 'correct' authoritative nameservers, it seems.

WHOIS of the domain says:

Name Server: ns1.presstv.ir
Name Server: ns2.presstv.ir

Attempting to resolve it returns:

presstv.com. 172800 IN NS ns-388.awsdns-48.com.
presstv.com. 172800 IN NS ns-977.awsdns-58.net.
presstv.com. 172800 IN NS ns-1088.awsdns-08.org.
presstv.com. 172800 IN NS ns-1900.awsdns-45.co.uk.
I remember downloading and compiling Mosaic and thinking that this is stupid. A glacially slow way to display text with links and graphics, who's going to want that? Why not display text as it was meant to be displayed, on a terminal.

I still think there will be a return of peer to peer eventually, since every pocket has a computer capable of computation and bandwidth unimaginable back then. The ultimate form of data privacy is when you control the power plug.
TBH British homes do not need as much heating/cooling due to the local climate, plus the density of population in Southeast England is crazy and commute times high as well. I wouldn't like to live in such an anthill.
I can definitely see how someone who sacrificed to pay rent throughout the pandemic, maybe using up some of their retirement funds or defaulting on car loans in the process, would be frustrated to learn now that they could have just not paid rent instead and been fine. They're not getting that money back. It doesn't necessarily mean that they want to see people become homeless.

(I don't have a dog in this fight, I don't live in California, don't rent, don't own rental property.)
Take My Drift Away
On defining, measuring, and fixing drift in your machine learning models.
> Finland did very well in the Winter War, but it did not "beat the crap out of Russia" because that would be assuming that they have won.

Well, Finland did unequivocally won it's war against Russia, didn't it?

I mean, is there any possible room for any doubt whatsoever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
Having the government declare that renters can live rent-free and cannot be evicted is not a normal business risk. It's very close to outright confiscation of property.

Governments that do such things tend to have very poor economies as a result, as very few businesses are willing to undertake such risks.
The Most Dangerous Censorship
There is no need for ML here. The app can simply ask for the name of the person's church.
I disagree but wont bother explain why because I know you dont care.
Yes it's OK and I don't decry it because I benefit from it... But the typical FTE will go on thinking the best career path is E3...E6 and along the way get PIPed when no longer needed... They will build castles in the air... But the vendor route allows a different relationship with the firm...

What I mean is most FTE don't realize the other relationship is possible and at a certain compensation level preferable... It's the ignorance of our generation when most FTE don't realize instead of some equity vesting over 4 years they might have been better off with a cash balance defined benefit plan or pension plan with the maximum contribution.

We think we know best but fail to realize it could be better. We get caught up on the LC competition but fail to distinguish an optimal plan outside of the ones presented to us.

Would a union help? I think so... Would it take lots of explaining ... yes....
That's true, but I think it's a different problem. It's not clear that a spec should be expected to contain all the context needed.
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of All You Need Is Considered Harmful for Fun and Profit"
I don't see that anything in your comment precludes reciprocation of unnecessarily conservative limitations on one's life.

It could be argued that keeping everyone home instead of just those at risk was irrational.
Like I said earlier in the thread, Adobe. Currently we're fully remote, with a plan to go 50/50 hybrid when offices reopen. There is a process to apply for fully remote but you need to live within a reasonable distance of an office and "digital nomad" lifesytles won't be available. I have do a few coworkers who were fully remote pre-pandemic but that was generally the exception.
> including the risk that you may not able to boot your tenet if they stop paying

I agree that this is a risk landlords must consider, but there is a big difference between ordinary investment risk (mispredicting future supply/demand/cost/etc.), or unforeseen accidents or "acts of god" (e.g. losing your rental property to a wildfire or flood), and the risk that some powerful third party will step in and prevent you from evicting someone squatting on your property. The first two cases are either your own fault or no-fault; the third case is a direct result of deliberate action by someone else, which means that they, not you, should be liable to repair the harm which they caused.
I think we still have an outdated work ethic in America based on the Protestant work ethic, which I still fully subscribe to as a foundation for approaching work.

But the issues that arise from over-adherence with these ethics are that we tack on things like valuing formal education, and belief that a combination of education and hard work can take you places.

I think these are a proxy to pure objective success which is that the decisions you make and the opportunities available to you lead to what ends you may reap.

People see this mismatch all the time when they say things like, “Oh, but he or she is just so smart.” Or why we think it’s interesting that so many formally educated people work jobs that don’t match their level of textbooking.

None of that is purely relevant. You have opportunities available to you, you make choices based on those options, and new ones emerge.

But that’s not as easy to communicate or really as useful to people as working with these aforementioned proxies that we use today.

If you framed these discussions in the light of working towards efforts and end results that others want and can be capitalized on, I think you can get closer to what people are really looking for.
https://github.com/queer/mahou
There's a discord server, and a video about it too.
How does RISC-V places itself in market? What would be the advantage of going RISC over let say ARM (or x86)?
I mean there's plenty of books that take you through a course that you can learn yourself

The most famous one for calc is calculus by spivak but it is proof based so some find it hard because they've not done proofs before. But you'll probably understand calculus better then most from that. Because of the proof requirement people recommend a book like how to prove it before starting it. But you don't need to know much maths than that to get started.

I originally learned calculus ahead of time by reading through a First course in calculus by Serge lang. Simply because it's what I had available.

Your not going to find a complete tour of advanced maths in general though. You have to do it subject by subject. It's much too big for that.
My first thought was, they didn’t change the ugly part??
CSS :has() Support in Chromium
Apologies, "your examples" should be "the examples", edited.
> Wait, really? Are you serious?

It should be pretty obvious that many features should have no perceptible performance impact if they're not actively being used.

> Adding features historically is - by far - the single biggest cause of bloat and losing perf on a given fixed hardware configuration.

If by "bloat" you mean binary size - nobody is complaining about that. If by "bloat" you mean idle CPU, UI latency, startup time - that's an engineering failure.

> I have no idea why you’re suggesting that unnamed “features” are “just another callback/if”.

Because that's true. Most features literally have no reason to use CPU if they're not being used. If Spotify adds a new "double-shuffle playlist" option, there is no valid reason that feature should use any CPU except when it's actually being used to shuffle things.

> What features are you talking about,

Most features? Take almost any program, start enumerating the features, and then start partitioning them by what resources they consume while not in use. Let's see, Google Chrome, downloads tracker. Is there a good reason for it to use CPU while you're not clicking a download link? Nope.

> why are you assuming how they’re implemented?

This entire thing is about bad implementations. If a particular implementation of a computationally cheap thing is inefficient, then that's a bad implementation, and it should be rewritten. Nobody is complaining that ML models take a long time to train, or that videos take a lot of CPU to be transcoded, because everyone knows that those things are intrinsically computationally expensive, regardless of how you implement them (although obviously the difference between a good and bad implementation can still shave off massive amounts of time and space).
Right, but if you're in management, then management invariably decides that your labor is quite scarce and must be well-compensated. Go figure.
> I know plenty of people who simply quit their jobs and spend their time doing nothing for few months before getting a new job. No study would put this as "vacation" but in reality has same effect as vacation.

Hey, i did that too, for 6 month last year, and i still have 7 weeks of paid vacation/year. And i did go sailing every afternoon last week (this week its harder as the tides are in my work hours).
Everyone knows faketoshi is a fraud.
SimCity itself was based on some questionable ideas about city planning.

Polygon did a video and article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_51_YJQpeg0

https://www.polygon.com/videos/2021/4/1/22352583/simcity-hid...
Obvious your mileage may vary, and timeframes matter. I'm talking about getting my pieces done weeks or months in advance of when we need to ship, not days or hours.
You can't really, at least not in the sense that I think most people think of it.

You basically need to make some assumptions that are broadly equivalent to assuming you've already correctly guessed certain parts of the underlying causal structure. So in a certain sense you're kind of begging the question, in a way that you wouldn't need to do if you had the ability to do interventions/randomized trials.

That being said causal inference techniques are still very valuable in making explicit exactly what assumptions you're making and how those affect your final conclusion and therefore how to minimize the impact of those assumptions.
that explains a lot but also how would this even work? every solution that relies on generic did s would have to implement all supported methods? or is every method an incompatible namespace in which case what is even the point of did? i really don't get it...
I’ve made something similar in order to learn how everything works and made it into a python library. Everything is in pure python with no dependencies, only std lib. I’ve implemented all the crypto stuff, address generation including HD, transaction serialization and even the bitcoin script. https://github.com/mcdallas/cryptotools
We don't even need to look 20 years in the past. Software performance has degraded significantly in just the past handful of years. Compare web applications like Facebook, Jira, Twitter and Reddit to the exact same websites 5-7 years ago. They have all implemented horrendously over-engineered, buggy and most importantly dog-slow single page apps to offer the same basic service.
I am from India and I have lived in UK and USA. Personally I think it is pretty stupid to compare USA and UK. I would rather be a janitor in USA than an engineer in UK. This is not a criticism of UK or its people in any way but USA is far far better country than UK.

It is not just that salaries are higher but overall quality of life is significantly better. In USA I can drive in any random direction for 400 miles and crash at a Motel 6 without having to worry about reservations. I can eat at Denny's at any time of the day and fill up gas in towns like Austin, NV with population 29. There are giant theme parks within 100 miles of driving distance in any city. USA is dotted with national parks and various state parks, fishing spots, hiking trails, hunting grounds. Every American school is basically a mini Olympic stadium with some space for classrooms. Most people including people below poverty line own cars, which means their quality of life is way better. You can explore different and remote places, spend more time with family and friends over the weekends and show your kids lot more stuff each weekend that what a London resident can not do for similar amount of money.

Also, I can totally see why people in UK may not want to make those extra bucks putting in more hours because often, it is not allowed because of tighter regulations. Tough labor laws discourage businesses from hiring new people so if you quit your job it is harder for you to find a new job. So people would rather stick to a dead end job working uninspired. that quit for better opportunities.

It is also incredibly common for Americans to simply quit their jobs and take a long break to explore whatever hell they want to explore. I arely saw that in UK.
Just because everyone's seeing the same pattern in random data doesn't mean there's a pattern at all. For very good evolutionary reasons, humans are extraordinarily good pattern-recognition machines: we see ghosts in data when nothing exists. Our collective false positives are quite high.
I often interpret that pattern as a reference to the lyric "love is all you need" by the Beatles (e.g., an attempt at being playful and relatable), but that may be my musical bias.

Either way, totally agree. Overused, almost always incorrect, and easily misconstrued especially by people who don't speak English as their first language.
"We're going to build a universal lightening component that all of our orgs can use! It'll be easy!"
More profit to charge a higher fee on larger transactions.
One can’t simply relay absolutely all of the information. By choosing which information to relay, you could say one already engages in propaganda, selective spread of information[0]. The choice reflects one’s opinion on what you should pay attention to, which is conceptually not that different from propaganda.

[0] Quoting the article, “The art of propaganda is not telling lies, but rather selecting the truth you require and giving it mixed up with some truths the audience wants to hear.”
Keep in mind that the timeline from medical research being published to entering practice can sometimes be measured in decades, and causal inference is swimming against the RCT-heavy currents of medical research. Several journals I publish in, for example, expressly forbid causal language for non-RCTs (much to my consternation as a mathematical modeler).

Many of the tools of causal inference were also relatively inaccessible until fairly recently.

I'd argue that the potential outcomes frameworks are really useful from a philosophical standpoint in teaching students, and things like the target trial framework has been doing useful work in conceptualizing observational studies in the context of a hypothetical trial (and recognizing that trials are themselves essentially a special case of cohort studies).

The major source of potential is the places where you can't ethically randomize interventions, yet still need to produce evidence.
I disagree with you that it's a misleading way to frame your company's actions. Even if users all knew that the creators had no relationship with Brave, the company was still accepting donations on their behalf, which is what the parent comment said.

And to be clear, I'm highly doubtful that the users were all aware that there was no relationship there. Framing the distinction as being between "verified" and "unverified" creators is disingenuous IMO: On any other platform, creators being "unverified" would mean they'd signed up, but just hadn't confirmed some details yet. The comparison of the check-marks to Twitter is also very strange, Twitter's own UI would prime users to think that a check-mark signified a notable user, not just any user who'd signed up. Whereas Brave's "unverified" users have no relationship to the company whatsoever.

Perhaps this was all just naivete on the part of Brave, but it's very concerning to me that a company which (presumably) intends to become the de-facto method of monetising content could possibly be so naive as to how their actions would be perceived.