skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are indeed concise and beautiful, but some of the implementations I checked are quite naïve. They're great for academic purposes and for some simple problems they will work just fine, but I would advise against using them for real-world problems.

For instance, for some of the regression algorithms the pseudo-inverse of the matrix is used to solve the normal equations. Again, for small, well-behaved problems it is OK, but for larger scale, less well-behaved problems, it is actually dangerous (numerical instabilities and other issues). There are better, faster, more stable approaches. (PhD in Applied Math here)

BTW, I have been using Julia for work for several years now and I think it is a fantastic language for scientific computing. For those who use Matlab/Numpy regularly, you should definitely check it out.
The MacBook M1 battery life appears to be better than the iPad Pro M1 battery life in my testing. I wonder why that is?
Yeah, the big studios for sure. It's like he's describing indie films.
I don't think the metaphor holds. You don't need anyone to use F# to run F# on your server. Sure, you have the library problem, but you can easily use C# libaries, so the problem isn't as big as with something like OCaml.
Knowledge access is hardly the problem.
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The entire 1968 Yellow Submarine movie from The Beatles is a good example, particularly the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds scene.
Not a Julia expert, but these snippets don’t strike me as very idiomatic or algorithmically sound [1].

What they seem to do, instead, is to demonstrate that you can write code in Julia that is quite close to the mathematical notation. (Whether you should do so is another question).

[1] for example, adding a row of ones to a matrix by using array comprehension:

𝐗 = [j==0 ? 1.0 : X[i][j] for i in 1:m, j in 0:n]

or solving a linear system by multiplying with the (pseudo-)inverse:

𝛉 = pinv(𝐗)\*y
I agree.

But I’d point out that tech companies farm interviewees for ideas on how to approach problems all the time and don’t hire the vast majority of qualified candidates.

It’s unpaid labor.

It’s a bit of karmic justice to hear of people turning the table and using this as a way to inject ideas into a target company.
I'm not even remotely worried for my job security, but I don't think the ELIZA comparison is apt.

ELIZA is clearly a toy, Copilot is something that could become integrated with the workflow of a professional developer. Maybe not copilot specifically, but if Intellisense is in our IDEs already, something like it is not a stretch.

> I don't think it really understands code

It clearly doesn't, but (a) nobody actually claimed that outside of the usual media circus, and (b) that's a very high bar. It doesn't need to understand your code in order to be useful.
I think that means this code in particular is not catering to the lowest common denominator of people using the algorithm, but is instead aimed to be easy to use by those already fluent in the domain. It's important for both types of implementations to exist, and as you say, there's lots of other implementations available for those not familiar with the mathematical notation.
Yes. Reasons; Project files going back many years and many versions of VS. These files may have been "auto-upgraded" several times. Dependency changes, locations, versions, etc... Login requirements, to SQL Server, IIS, SharePoint, various cloud things. Memory requirements, old VMs on old, overloaded VM hosts. This on a team that expended a fair amount of effort to manage and improve these things. On a long enough time line, they always creep back in. This isn't really meant as a knock of VS as much as the IDE approach.
> Pretending that the scientifically managed public school system,

Say what now? There may be places on Earth that practice scientific management, there are definitely some that pretend to, but IME public school systems are neither.
I'm aware and that's a bug, not a feature.
If you are online and go Offline with the explicit button (instead of unplug the cable) and actually keep the cable connected (not sure if LAN or internet at this point) and start a second Steam client and use the library (not sure if online or offline for the second one), the offline one will not be able to use the library because already in use.

The workaround is, indeed, pull the cable or firewall steam, go offline, plug the cable.

So the concern becomes "what if the protection becomes stronger".
Self-learning also comes with the pitfall that you may optimize for the wrong things.

When it comes to standardized tests/certain career expectations you are expected to have a broad understanding of the orthodox views on the evaluated topics.
There's a gradient there if you ask me.

There's the "gives everything up for the company, no questions asked" types of people. Tesla et al come to mind for companies that like to hire this type. I don't get that to be honest. Your family and life are not worth whatever they're paying you, even if the work is 'fun' and engaging. YMMV as always.

Then there's the opposite end which you're alluding to but I'm not entirely sure where on the gradient you are. The slackers or someone like the guy described by the OP. I had someone like that recently. I caught it within the probation period and he was gone after 2 months.

Then there's what I would consider the proper position on the gradient line. You do your work, you do your best, every day without question or being 'made' to. But in return you ask for the company to be reasonable too. Proper pay and benefits, flexibility, nice perks but not the kinds of 'perks' that are just designed to make you 'live' at the office, mandatory 'fun' etc. No BS 'do this yesterday because I say so' requests. The list goes on.

There are companies out there, that are close enough to that/let you do that if you don't just say yes to everything :)
Well, now I can at least understand what it feels like to look at Lisp and hate all the parentheses, so I'm trying to temper my immediate repulsion a little. But no, absolutely not. I would code a pre-commit hook to reject these on the first attempt, and send you your P45 on the second, sorry.
yeah, it seems the HN submission system "fixes" a V. into vs.
Reviewing them all, it seems the only remotely valid points where "LA permit approval is slow" and "California agriculture uses a lot of water"...
You seems to be a Javascript/Rust guy looking at your post history. It seems that you have learnt C with classes instead Modern C++ because you commented that C++ program has more lines.

Modern C++ is concise and much more like Javascript these days. There is this conference video that compare both.

You have RAII in Modern C++ so no need to cry for seg faults.

It lacks a NPM like package manager but rest is I swear amazing. C++20 Modules will solve this too.

Safe is nobody's word except Rustic Propagandists. Writing safe "Modern" C++ is much easier than it was prior 2011.

Modern C++ abstractions sometimes made me wonder why people still use Java.

C++20's Concepts Lite will make Modern C++ even more safer.

Rust is unsafe and you yet to see a software that written in Rust for the Airplane companies, railway etc ...
People tried ransomware before cryptocurrencies. Payouts were minuscule compared to what cryptocurrencies are now enabling.

And no, it is not at all similar to free speech. Cryptocurrencies do massive harm - to the environment, to innocent people losing their money to scammers and frauds, and to the entire economy through enabling ransomware - and tiny, tiny amounts of good, which dwindle in comparison to the harm.
Sounds like someone needs to build neverssl-nevercached.com with a "Cache-Control: no-store" header
> how long would it take to encode the average lawyer into a hdf5 file

I'd say, minimally, a good 50 years, except perhaps for the busywork. At that point you could maybe have a tool that could handle a lawyer's job. Law's often an extremely creative, verbal, expressive job, so I think machines are particularly unlikely to do well there.

I'm not worried about being automated away. If someone wants to make coding easier, neat, I'm not a programmer, that's just how I get shit done. I solve complex problems, and I don't see machines taking that job for a long, long time.

Frankly, if machines can take away the mechanical bullshit part of a job and let us humans do the interesting, creative work, that works for me.
If nothing has changed, they legitimised the transfer of money --> ISK, but not the other way around. So, I think it's unlikely...but not impossible.
It doesn't matter if a brokerage website is exclusive. Healthy competition between, say, 3 main ones means people looking for apartments will check those 3.

Kind of like people looking for used textbooks will check eBay, Alibris, and Chegg.

Of course there will be concentration, that doesn't mean it's going to be a monopoly. It's just going to be the usual 2 main competing companies with a 3rd slightly-different company -- your Coke, Pepsi and RC, or your AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. It's the usual market pattern.
For some of that period, they were living in Mike Leonard's house. Leonard was a lecturer at Hornsey Art College, specializing in light shows. To some extent, Pink Floyd's early career was an offshoot of his need for a musical component to his multimedia shows. Here's a (sadly monochrome) indication of the sort of thing they got up to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUjrxxYBsi4&t=278s
Most other research chemicals, really.
Check "TIHKAL: The Continuation" for some discussion :P
I interviewed a guy once, after pleasantries he reached into his bag and pulled out a prototype of his invention, which he was trying to sell.

It was a fascinating conversation, I basically let him educate me on its theory of operation, then it was the next person's turn on the interview team.
I believe they called her a 'coolhunter' in that book. Which I was, at my age, surprised to learn was even a term once. But that sort of guerrilla marketing does seem very effective.
First off, "open source" does not typically mean free of any kind of restrictions, and that is the entire point of this debate. So "source available" becomes equivalent to "open source" would only mean some open-source license applies by default, whereas under Berne Convention, copyright applies by default. Anyways, I am taking your statement to mean what you perhaps actually meant below.

Think about what would happen if this is applied to everything. Anything being available becomes free of restrictions. Then all books published become openly available for anyone to copy or print. Even compiled software becomes free of restrictions, which anyone can copy freely. This is basically demise of copyright laws itself, which would be disasterous.

In case I misunderstood your comment, please clarify.
Thanks for the link, I will watch it when the opportunity comes.

However it is like the sibling comments mention, this hasn't been properly managed as message to the UI/UX community.

So when someone used to Forms, WPF/Blend, Qt Designer, Interface Builder, Delphi, C++ Builder, Swift UI, Flutter, JetPack Composer,... sees blogs and tutorials where .ui files are written by hand and direct use of GtkBuilder is praised, eventually all interest is gone.

Anyway, thanks for the link and for jumping in
I would say turquoise cause it is probably the closest named color used in my language. I can recommend a dive into the field of blue-green distinction science.
To amuse a client who did "security by checkbox" everyone needed some entry level comptia certs, even old timers who "wrote the book" back in the old days LOL, so I took some proctored tests live at a testing center recently.

I read a lot of reports of eproctor'd tests being cancelled by rando e-proctors with zero recourse. There are three problems. The first is some of these tests cost hundreds of dollars, although I suppose getting kicked out of uni for cheating would be even more expensive, its just a huge risk to e-proctor compared to the human touch at my local test center. Secondly there is no feedback no oversight and no escalation procedure for most e-proctor systems that I'm aware of, some amazon turk nobody can cancel your test on you for any reason they feel like with zero recourse and you're out all the money and theres absolutely nothing you can do about it. Infinite power with no oversight will be infinitely abused. Thirdly the demands for a sterile test location were kind of a PITA. Honestly its easier to go to a test center than to provably and verifiably remove every book and piece of paper and anything with writing on it, from my office at home. I need to remove the kids from the house as any sight of another person is an instant disqualification and loss of my expensive test fee. I can't take it outside what if my neighbor starts mowing the lawn or it starts raining, instant fail when I leave the camera view. I have to silence every electronics device in the house because any interruption is again another forfeited expensive test.

(edited to add, I remember another complaint about e-proctor that to prevent brain dumps and copying questions out of their "secret test" any mumbling or even facial expressions were considered an autofail according to some online reports of people taking my test. I did the net+ and found it quite easy but sure enough I can't discuss for NDA reasons or whatever but I was eye rolling "you gotta be kidding" about one question and at a testing center locked in a room alone nobody cares when I roll my eyes but that would have cost me $350 if I did e-proctor testing.

also to prevent copying their top secret test they needed proof I had no electronics devices in sight, so it wasn't just removal of all paper products but anything electronic had to be removed from my office/lab it was just ridiculous)

Its just easier and faster and vastly less stressful to get out of the house and test onsite at the nearest Vue facility, which is a school I formerly attended LOL.
I recently accepted a job at a consulting/contracting firm for a specific contract as a data scientist. I had three separate interviews with the company I'd be working indirectly for, and I wasn't the only one they'd been interviewing. There'll be no switching me out for a junior.
Docker is pretty bad. I also work out on the patio pretty often, cranking up the screen brightness will also give it a hit.

But still unimaginably better than the Intel notebooks. With Docker and the brightness up I'll get a measly 6.5 hours instead of the solid ten or so I get otherwise.
> In this paper, we test the hypothesis that adaptive influence networks may be central to collective human intelligence with two preconditions: feedback and network plasticity

In the paper they had the participants of the experiment to manually pick who they want to follow. But what if the system connected them automatically to high signal-to-noise individuals based on feedback alone?

I've been working on something like this with my hobby project https://linklonk.com - an information network where the connections between you and other users are determined by your ratings of content.

When you upvote an article - you connect to other users who upvoted that article. When you downvote - your connection to those who upvoted it becomes weaker. That way the strength of your connection to other users captures the signal-to-noise ration of those users for you.

The stronger you are connected to someone - the higher their other upvoted items are ranked on the "For you" page.

For example, I upvoted this paper on LinkLonk: https://linklonk.com/item/6534389451373608960 If you also upvote it then you will get connected to me and will see more of my recommendations on the main page. The next user who upvotes it will connect to me and to you, etc.

Since you know that your content ratings have direct effect on what content your future self will see, you are incentivized to think whether each piece of content that you just consumed was truly worth your time. This kind of retrospective thinking is missing when we hit upvote/retweet/like in the existing social systems.

My project is in a very early stage and suggestions/ideas are welcome.
It looks like that study was done on < 300 people. Is that strong evidence?
Does this have the risk of taking private sector talent and putting them on slow moving government projects?

I like the idea of public technology and innovation, but I'm concerned about the efficiency of the US military.
Ah, he was a recently naturalized American, thus the accent. Merde.
Yeah I've been super impressed by my ipad battery life.
The constitution grants legal rights on the basis that natural rights already exist.

You are right that people have rights without the constitution. Other people are right that the constitution grants rights. The confusion is that you are both talking about different types of rights.
> unlike GPT-3 which might actually genuinely understand parts of language, computer code requires more abstracted mental model

Shouldn't computer code be simpler to understand and express than natural language? The amount of knowledge about the world is much smaller and mostly concerns artificial systems. And of course programming languages are laughably simple and well defined compared to the constantly evolving mess that is the English language.
I don't drink because of a medication I take and I miss beer with certain types of food. For so long the best available was beer flavored water. It makes me so happy that I now have a wide range to choose from.
Discounting international immigration from every state is obviously unfair. United States is a country built by immigrants.

It is true that most American states are unable to attract immigrants. However, they do reap the benefits from the powerhouse states that keep America competitive in the global economic sphere.
How timely. I like good beer and crave one most every day. About four weeks ago I found a store selling a good variety of NA craft beer. I switched to NA beer as my norm. It was a great choice. I sleep less but feel better, and my daily craving is totally satisfied. I've only had two regular beers since then.

Nothing is as tasty yet as the best regular beers, so each one involves a bit of sacrifice, but I've found these to be good choices:

Bravus Oatmeal Stout

Surreal 17 Mile Porter

Wellbeing Hell-Raiser dark amber
Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking
Depending on your definition of systems programming (there are many!) OCaml might or might not be completely unsuitable for it. Mandatory garbage collection, no real multithreading and higher than zero-cost FFI are at least reasons why it shouldn't count as a systems language.
Maybe it's just bc InfiniDash was used as the example, but I had to keep reminding myself that this was real and not some completely made up parody. Now I really want to know how long Fronk lasted and if this sort of thing actually happens nowadays?
If you can drop 100+ lbs by smoking half a pack a day, I guarantee you'll be a lot healthier overall. Not saying you actually _would_ lose all that weight, but it's not like it's a binary between "smoking" and "not smoking". Frequency and amount matters, but the it's pretty much impossible to approach the subject in our society with any sort of objectivity or science.
We’ve got a family love of the Fast and Furious movies - we got a big group to go see it yesterday. The movie is awful, it could be my last experience ever in a theatre.
It's true that society uses consensus as a proxy for truth. Even when scientists make a new discovery, it isn't considered "truth" until they convince the community – sometimes even taking decades!

Sadly, this consensus can be manufactured by those in power. Censorship helps to a surprising degree, for example. Social media sock puppets, astroturfing, bribery, the list goes on.

How do we fight against manufactured consent? Is it even possible at this point?
Fragile Finitude: A Jewish Hermeneutical Theology [audio]
Anecdotally, I encounter almost no bugs when writing Python code with mypy and frozen dataclasses (i.e. immutable data structures), but many, very difficult to understand bugs without them.
No, unless you are trying to draw conclusions limited to your friends. Similarly, two flats in 10 years might be significant for you and your driving, but not tires as a whole.
Not that it matters for the content so much, but this looks to have been updated or active since 2012 or so.

Also, they claim the content is 'copyleft' but then have it under a CC-NC-BY-SA license [0], which is very much not copyleft [1].

[0] https://letterpresscommons.com/about-letterpress-commons/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Types_and_relation_to...
I don't run it to make a point. I run it because it's relatively easy to set up even with the presently available software, and it improves my confidence in what I get from the DNS. It would be even easier to set up on an endpoint if DNSSEC were something that people providing OSes cared about. In fact, there's no reason that setting it up intrinsically requires any user interaction at all; it could easily be the default.

You claimed that it "by design, validation occurs -- has to occur -- at the recursive server". That is false, and it is false in a way that's important to the issues under discussion. Nothing forces validation to happen at servers other than laziness and inertia.
You are correct that 15um radiation will not escape directly to space from the ground. It will be absorbed by by the atmosphere. The atmosphere heats up and re-radiates the energy. Some of that energy ultimately escapes to space. The atmosphere warms up until the energy escaping to space equals the energy input by the sun. By adding more greenhouse gases, you are decreasing the distance a photon in the 15um band can travel before it is reabsorbed. This causes the atmosphere to heat up more than it would otherwise. Sure, water dominates the greenhouse effect. If it weren't there, the Earth would be frozen. That doesn't meant that adding more greenhouse gas has no effect. It most certainly does. It sounds like your professor was simply wrong.

This is not a bad article, but I am mainly linking it for the graph which shows that the Earth does indeed radiate at 15um:

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/2010_schmidt_05/

Though, again, that is a little irrelevant. What matters is at what temperature the total energy escaping balances the incoming energy regardless of the wavelength.
I quit alcohol a year ago, but still enjoy non-alcoholic beer like Athletic Brewing's [0]. It's got great selection and taste, although lacks the alcohol kick of course (which I don't miss).

I now sleep and feel a lot better, my resting heart rate decreased substantially, among other benefits.

It's not easy to quit alcohol, especially from a social aspect. But good non-alcoholic beer makes it possible for me at least.

[0] https://athleticbrewing.ca/
I saw something similar done in PICO8, pretty much an 8-bit Blender, looks absolutely nuts:
https://twitter.com/johanpeitz/status/1365356945708896265?la...
Back in the first decade of the millenium I remember ARPA-E (DOEnergy) getting started and dealing with PMs who were in charge of synthetic biology RFCs that didn't know any biology. Even DARPA had kind of lost its lustre, there was a super-PM in charge of the synthetic biology projects who we later learned had politically connected parents and whose graduate school work was chasing a nanotechnology artifact ("stripey nanoparticles fiasco") -- this all later came into focus when the PM's ex-PI railroaded a postdoc for speaking out about how the work was questionable, and the super-PM was quietly let go from DARPA, and no shit, started a blood nano-draw analysis company (you can't make this up!).

In general I feel like this ARPAization is very much organizational cargo culting on the part of the government.