skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a balance between passionate hustle and diving into burnout. Some people can do more than others. etc etc. It's more sustainable for mental health to not make every waking minute about work, and take breaks and vacations. If you don't have a life, there's no point to working.
This is the way. I did this for a few months to burn through some of my leave budget. It was great Wednesday became my chores day. Get the house in order, go to the bank whatever. Then the weekend was entirely spent on luxury and entertainment.

My overall output was reasonably similar to that of a 5 day week because I came at work with a waay better attitude. It also made it easier to plan 2 days of work instead of 5. I also spent a chunk of my Wednesday thinking about work and how to tackle the next two days.

That meant I could without guilt take the weekend entirely off and not even think about work at all.
The first link exposes the trick employed by your model.

>animation info and simulation data

but did your model learn any of that?

>explicit goal of the video you posted is to combat runtime constraints

The trick to motion mapping is feeding a lot of data with accompanying inputs to build an atlas you can reference during playback.

>first large-scale GAN successfully trained on GTA V

Its really cool. The problem I had is in the presentation. I immediately felt insincerity bordering on scamming the audience, because I assume someone working in this field would know how the sausage is made. From the YT clip: "the shadow and reflection works", "modeling of physics works". Do they? or did your model build an atlas of video frames it can play back according to the fed input? Im guessing weather/time of day was locked when recording training data - perfect shadow and constant sun position for a nice reflection. Searching for 1:1 matches of generated output in the training set would be interesting and pretty revealing.
That sounds marvelous! I'm looking at a job at the moment that is mostly WFH and working out during the day is something I'm looking forward to most of all.
It depends where you are and what industry you're in. It's true that in some cases companies are trying to remove Ada from their codebase, however there's plenty of areas where Ada is dominant. Europe still has a large Ada presence in academia, and there's still plenty of new development using Ada in the transportation sector.
Slight tangent but I've always wondered what the economic impact would be if public transit were just free.

If there was no monetary nor mental overhead to getting around the city could that boost commerce enough to pay for it?
This YT video I recently watched on the history of the Yugo is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDJQoGJFO6Q
My perspective is that progress feels remarkably slow (despite minting an ever-increasing number of PhDs as you say), and Racket is one of a very small number of exceptions. I hope you're right that Matthias isn't necessary for Racket to keep advancing, because I fear we're about to find out.
You've never worked at a job where you had to submit time sheets at the end of each week? Lots of "professional" gigs where people have to do that in order to accurately track time to customers - particularly when they are billing you out at $500/hour on the contract.
And given what kinds of products and services the vast majority of startups out there provide, even "impact" is questionable.
You'll never beat the source.

IIUC Reproducible Builds guarantees that source is turned into an artifact in a consistent and unchanging way. So as long as the source doesn't change neither will the build.
Not sure you personally get to dictate the laws of physics. How did the Sanyo work around the energy density problem?
I would say the opposite - the only job I can imagine (outside of the first two years of investment banking) working 60+ hours/week would be a startup - where each and every hour in those first 2-3 years can make the difference between building a Billion dollar company or just getting left behind.
I wish non-Julia community would adopt this practice, because unicode symbols exist for a reason, and using proper symbols instead of making look every language like Perl with unix-style abbreviations that look bogus to pretty much everyone but the most seasoned C-programmers. And complaining u and μ are too similar is like complaining 1 and l or 0 and O are similar. I mean, yes, they are, unfortunately, but if you are noticing it's a real problem for you when writing code, you should probably check out better fonts for your text editor.

For the record, I'm not a blackboard addict, I never had a career in academia and I'm not even really a member of Julia community any more than any other person who wrote maybe a couple thousands of LoC in Julia. But I wish people would realize it's not 1970's anymore, and ASCII is culturally outdated. For that matter, I would love if I could write formulas in my code the same way I do on paper, like in that MathJax sample from the article. That's why math notation exists at all, imperfect as it may be (and I hate many things about established math notation, but it's the best we have). I just don't see how it's possible without abandoning plain-text, which I surely wouldn't like because we (currently) don't have tools that would make handling it as effortless, as editing text in Vim.
I learn lots of valuable stuff from hn. Its onepadt slacking, one part continuous learning
My main argument was that working mothers struggle to breastfeed exclusively, and your source backs that up multiple times.

Beyond that, I'm from a dark blue state, so we may have different experiences to draw on
Very few, and only to a limited degree.

Right now, a lot of games provide partial accessibility for deaf players by including on-screen captions -- although many of them have insufficient captions for sound effects -- and some games provide accessibility for the colorblind with alternate color schemes or filters. That's about the full extent of accessibility support, AFAIK.

Accessibility for the blind is basically not even on the roadmap. Some games are barely playable by blind gamers (e.g. https://www.polygon.com/2016/1/4/10707692/blind-gamer-beats-...), but that's much more by accident than design.
Yeah, I tried to get Pythran working on my computer to compare against, but it wouldn't build for me.
I noticed there is a git-crev project, might that be useful for other languages? Also there is pip-crev for Python.
I'm not sure I can agree with this analysis.

Consider two hypothetical universes. In one, p = 10^-1000, but by a statistical miracle, here we are. We would certainly be alone in this universe, because the number of stars in the visible universe is inconsequential compared to this number.

In the second one, the universe is the same size, but p is such that there are 100 planets with intelligent life like ours.

If you cannot say "anything at all about P" from our existence, then we should be indifferent between these two hypotheses, on the basis of the evidence of our existence.

However, this is not the case. The evidence supports the second hypothesis much better than the first. If X occurred, and is more likely under hypothesis B than A, then X is evidence for hypothesis B, otherwise you don't have a consistent system of probability.

Now you can further imagine that God comes down from heaven and tells you that in fact both of these two universes actually exist, and they are the only two universes that exist, so you are definitely in one of the two, but doesn't tell you which one. Is your posterior probability now 50% between the two?

"God" here represents the anthropic principle leaning over and saying "psst, don't worry about the 10^-1000, because, well, here you are". But you still have to worry about the difference between 1 and 100. If N beings in universe A and 100 * N beings in universe B all face this same question, your only reasonable conclusion as one of them is that the odds are 100-to-1 in favor of you being in universe B.

So it's not the case that our existence tells us nothing about p. Of course, p is what it is, and only physics and chemistry and biology can actually reveal it, but the fact that we are here means that theories that make our existence much less likely are themselves much less likely.
It sounds like the business model of the local gym--everyone pays every month, but most people don't go every month unless they have an ongoing health issue. Infrequent users subsidize the regular users. But then, group health plans basically do that, too. So it seems a little disingenuous for him to say it's not an insurance plan, when it's basically the same. He's just administering it for only his office.
Palantir Gotham: Taiwan Use Case
That’s basically my life and it’s fantastic. I work 12 timezones away from my colleagues. Get real work done while they are asleep, stay up for occasional meetings, scheduled in advance.
I usually take two tickets at once, so if I get stuck and need help, I can switch to the other ticket until someone who can help me is awake.
That could also be good for the environment, in that it encourages use of shared transportation and lowers barriers.
I really want to pick up Julia as my general purpose scripting language, but neither of those solutions meet the standard for “totally fine” imo. For reference, my current use case for Python is 95% scripting, 5% ad hoc exploratory data science.

I need a way to package and distribute scripts, so that they can run in a container for example. Running a server to execute scripts only works well for local workflows. PackageCompiler.jl has terrible ergonomics. I don’t think Julia is quite there for scripting yet, unless you’re already deeply invested into it for other reasons.
Seattle used to have free transit inside the downtown core, maybe there's some data from the period they were doing that.
One word, DHCP.
When I started, my team took two hour lunches
systemd makes various network socket calls.

Like DHCP
Ah, ok, good to know! When I read "dwarf planet", I automatically assumed it to be bigger than (or at least comparable in size to) the moon, which is a mere sattelite of a small planet. Then again, even Pluto, which was considered for a long time to be an "actual" planet, is smaller than the moon...
Name and promote them. They deserve the extra labour supply.
I wish GitHub under Microsoft followed this philosophy. So much of their repository management can be done through their APIs, but you hit some painful brick walls around things like enterprise security where you could really use centralized management.

My business area uses around 200 repositories. APIs aren’t really optional at that scale.
You missed a few tweets. Choice selections include https://twitter.com/ninapaley/status/838788396822716416

> You have the right to identify as anything you like, but that doesn't give you the right to make everyone else identify you the same way.

And a four tweet thread at https://twitter.com/ninapaley/status/1086633666208509952 let me copy the first two:

> The modern Trans Rights movement (not to be confused with actual trans people) is a men's sexual rights movement dominated and richly funded by white men. Its main victims are black women, for that is who mostly populate the single-sex spaces - such as prisons and domestic violence shelters - transactivists insist should be accessible to men.

Well, what transactivists insist these should be accessible to trans women because they are women. But Nina here essentially argues trans women simply do not exist, they are men as they were assigned at birth. This is the moral panic over men suddenly claiming they are women to gain access to women they can predate on. Never mind that never happens.

And the claim of rich white men somehow fueling this, as if rich white men needed to do something as absurd as falsely claiming to be trans to find women they can r*pe, often underage.
Oh no, you're right! Humanity is monstrous. Maybe we should start putting the wolf back into the dogs.
This is part of why I prefer the opposite of the 4-day workweek trend. I typically do some work 6 or 7 days a week, but a workday might be only 2 or 3 hours, on some of those days. I don't feel like a workaholic, and am not doing 60-hour weeks or anything. I average maybe 30-35 hours depending on the week, but those hours are spread over more days. Outside of the occasional "in the zone" hacking session or paper deadline a handful of times a year, there's no way I can work 8 hours in a single day on a regular basis! But working on a problem for a few hours a day in a regular cadence, not long enough each day to get burned out, but frequently enough that I still remember what I'm doing – that I like.
Very smart company. May I know the name?

For intellectual work like we what we do, the brain doesn't just stop "working". I tend to be able to come up with good solution while driving/working out/taking a walk/drinking tea...

Only at low levels that I see time-at-keyboard important. Now it's all ambiguous/large scale problems that spending time at the keyboard is a very small portion of my time. It's more productive to keep the problems in mind, then let my mind wandering and arrive at the solutions later. After you design/test/run the solutions in your mind, it only takes a small amount of time to write it out (design doc or code).
> There's no good reason (that I can think of) why this shouldn't have been the case all along

Determinism can decrease performance dramatically. Like concatenating items (say, object files into a library) in order is clearly more expensive in both time & space than processing them out of order. One requires you to store everything in memory and then sort them before you start doing any work, whereas the other one lets you do your work in a streaming fashion. Enforcing determinism can turn an O(1)-space/O(n)-time algorithm into an O(n)-space/O(n log n)-time one, increasing latency and decreasing throughput. You wouldn't take a performance hit like that without a good reason to justify it.
Where did you see an objection? At the plain language level, it's a neutral observation that such euphemism exists and I love it. Interpretation of why I made this observation and why I love it is up to the reader. In other words, my statement is like the Rorschach test that reveals subconscious biases of the subject. I find it entertaining that people map their biases onto my words, assign these biases to me and then accuse me for having the biases; but in essence they are really accusing themselves.
Each Service adds a marginal cost to maintenance, ops, infrastructure and debatably development speed (Easier to refactor in an IDE and semi-atomically deployed code than 50 independent services ).

If you have a team of 5 people, launching 50 services is probably not as efficient as 10 services.
Turn your old, cracked Android phone into a backup server
LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware (2018)
Why not tow it into Venus or Mars orbit instead? They could do with the benefits of having a decent sized moon. It would make terraforming and long term habitation more straightforward and likely to succeed as well as providing lots of useful materials feedstock atop the gravity well.
I have more trouble with parsec. I have a rough idea of how big our galaxy is in light years and some idea about nearby stars. Age of the universe helps anchor things in billions of light years. Then suddenly something is measured in parsecs. Probably a similar thing for the experts.
Ever heard of leaky abstractions?
Being a current engineer at Amazon, reading these stories and comments feels so foreign to me. I've literally never seen any of the toxic behavior & mechanisms that I've read about time and time again. I know that usually either AWS or just Amazon India are the culprits, but still, I'd imagine that I'd have witnessed _something_ down here in Consumer.

The literal worst I've seen so far was an "idea guy" L8 that pushed a number of L6's (including my manager who I followed) to a neighboring org. Other than that, I've really only seen underperforming/overplaced wallflowers "deciding to pursue a career outside of Amazon" outside of personal ambition. The skeptic/naive optimist in my tends to place a lot of these anecdotes into the points of view of these unfortunate bunch, but I realize that's probably just wishful thinking.

Regardless, for now I'm just keeping my head up and trying to grow professionally as much as I can while I'm still lucky enough to have such a positive experience. And of course, I'll follow my manager to the ends of the Earth to keep it that way :^). Hopefully by then I'll have built enough street cred to continue the ritualistic FAGMAN promotional job hop.
Would this have something to do with improving natality rates?
I so agree with your point but I don’t see this ever happening in a corp type of employment. Maybe in a tightknit smallish company, working alongside likeminded people that could be the norm.
I wish it wasn't. Many companies simply make it too difficult to move up and grow internally.
I spend 2-3 hours working, and 3-4 hours commuting, and other time in staring each other and rumbling in some meeting, and have a rather relaxed lunch with friends talking nonsense...

This was when I was in Google
As the person behind a product, I don't show information because I find the anonymity charming. It's like publishing something under a pen name.

It's a habit I picked up from my first business, where people would be supportive because you're from the same country/race/religion. They'd buy things, bring friends in, and then act entitled because they "helped" you. It also messes with the data, when you're trying to figure out whether you have a valid business model and who your target market is.

60% of the users on my site are from the US, and I worry it might have a negative effect if they see that I'm not. I also presume a lot of product owners leave out their location, because it's probably somewhere in India.
China Establishes Digital Yuan as the Official Coin
Green Tech isn't the savior we need. Flat out there needs to be a consumption revolution worldwide. Even if say we were all driving electric cars, on top of the energy required for normal everyday life now, you're also adding powering those cars. The necessary "reliable" green energy generation for that to happen is nothing short of trillions of dollars (when I say reliable, I mean exactly as you use it today). Yes I'm pulling that number out of my butt, although I'm in major power company in the country. Over 85% of our power generation is from non-renewables like natural gas and coal. Why? Well for one thing Natural resource departments don't like us damming up rivers as well as Joe "Second Home" Schmoe. On top of that, wind is unreliable or if it's too windy we can't use them so the turbine doesn't obliterate from too much torque. Sun? Where is the sun in winter?

I get so upset about people who think green energy is the answer when they don't realize it's not feasible if you want your current lifestyle. People altogether need to stop driving so much, spending so much, and living more modestly. I guarantee you without even switching to green energy we'd see a higher drop in non-renewable usage.
Climate change is just that - climate change. Some areas will get drier - the western US, some areas will get wetter. Dallas is a prime example. Most journalists are getting fed drought stories out of California, but it's clear that Texas is getting more rain than it did two decades ago. "More rain" doesn't sell ad clicks though.
I used this and love it. One feature that would be nice is some form of group source control. Like git with PRs. I want other members of my family to participate but I can't figure out how to do that
> Clear malice was proven beyond doubt in Libor fixing

Where? As far as I saw there was one bank that thought it was obeying a discreet request from the government, and a bunch of banks where traders said usual trader nonsense (which is "malicious" in a sense, but it's very much part of the norms and culture of trading and the expected functioning of a market, just like a good lawyer should make their case as strongly as possible regardless of their personal beliefs about what happened).

> even if all things considered the latter manage to harm millions of people with their actions.

Who was harmed? If there was any effect of Libor fixing, it was likely that people paid slightly lower interest rates on their mortgages.
We can automate this with bidets. For a less literal interpretation, euthanasia (legal or otherwise) is how I'd like to avoid this stage of life entirely, it's now a legal possibility where I live if there's a terminal condition preventing me from wiping my own ass.

Many people get to skip this stage in life entirely though, either through good health or misfortune.
many embedded systems could not use C++ namely because of lack of real-time capability caused by too-long pauses made by C++ garbage memory collection overhead.
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Have this mandate in Google

You'll have every engineer complaining and stop working to fight their freedom and finally the change has to be reverted. And 5 years later, oh my god, Amazon is doing that, we need to move to that direction as well...
If you recognize your doppelganger, it's probably because you have an interest in the same topics. Your opinions and your posting style may be different—or even opposite—but from a certain perspective, you have more in common with each other than most.

I'm skeptical that this tool does a good job of identifying semantic meaning of a comment, but I bet it gets the topic right.
"Those who want more days off for such purposes as acquiring new skills and taking side jobs are not eligible for the program, he said."

Of course - why would a company want their employees to learn new skills on the side that could potentially lead to greater personal fulfillment -.-
I say, better to have it happen on Mars than on Earth! Such an event would probably even have the positive effect of raising awareness and increasing funding of programmes that monitor asteroids hazardous to earth and technologies to deflect them.
Physically-separate location or not snapshots that can be added, updated, culled, or deleted by local systems aren't backups, they're replication. Replication replicates problems.

Vaulted offsite on at-rest storage media is the only valid way to store backups. Every other "convenient" "backup" service or snapshot replication process is a liability businesses must avoid. Lose all your data, 50%+ you're out of business, and The End.
Ancient Gardens Persist in British Columbia’s Forests
Our overlords have no desire to make the poor less poor
I admittedly did this a few weeks during the pandemic. Worked through the night, attended standup, and then slept and went about my day, answering Slack stuff in the late afternoon. So productive.
The only time id do that is if I was the founder.

Employees are too likely to be screwed over, even if the company is successful
Technically? Yes! Incoming gravitational radiation of precisely the correct shape will in fact un-decay a orbit under exactly the same (modulo appropiate symmetries) circumstances as a orbit would decay by emitting (the reverse of) that radiation. (The same applies to thermal radiation cooling things off - see Liouville's Theorem.)

For practical purposes, that'll never happen, but for practical purposes gravitation radiation doesn't matter anyway.
Yeap. I never get the article without some magic site.
Why your livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
I've been wondering the same. Are you referring to a 'company of record'?