skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the cleverness of GANs was to have found a way to train a neural network that generates data without explicitly modeling the probability density.

In a stats textbook, when you know that your training data comes from a normal distribution, you can maximize the MLE wrt the parameters, and then use that for sampling. That's basic theory.

In practice, it was very hard to learn a good pdf for experimental data when you had a training set of images. GANs provided a way to bypass this.

Of course, people could have said "hey let's generate samples without maximizing a loglikelihood first", but they didn't know how to do it properly, how to train the network in any other way besides minimizing cross-entropy (which is equivalent to maximizing loglikelihood).

Then GANs actually provided a new loss function that could be trained. Total paradigm shift!
You seem to be implicitly assuming that financial markets are efficient and that market makers and high-frequency trading firms are the ones making that happen. Both of these assumptions are demonstrably false.
I’ve seen quarterly vesting much more often than monthly in offers from several different companies over the years.
> browser plugin

Didn't Mozilla drop plugin support completely in Jan?
Check also Starboard that runs Jupyter Notebooks completely client-side in a web browser, powered by WebAssembly

https://starboard.gg/
Do you have a link for Uber dropping the cliff? I didn't know they did that.
They have managed to obtain the special entitlement.

Source: https://bombich.com/blog/2018/03/30/building-better-backups-...

They’re one of two apps in the world who have been granted the entitlement as far as I know. The other one is Time Machine.
The only reason we have somewhat responsible state institutions and elites is due to a long history of well deserved mistrust of said powers.
Doing something similar, good luck. Can't tell if it's very difficult or very easy.
Oh, I dunno. 330+ million people, over that many guns in the US, and what percentage are gun deaths?
Is comparability with sh really a worthwhile goal anymore?

I haven’t seen many places with sh but not full bash (busybox being the main exemptions but that breaks most things due to muslc anyway).
> Ada should be considered dead because it doesn't have an npm full of super[1] useful[2] libraries?

Wait! There is Alire[1][2]! There is a list of "crates", you can easily include them into your project, and so forth. This is pretty much the same as https://crates.io or https://pkg.go.dev, which means people really should throw their misconceptions away and actually do some research before concluding that the language (Ada) is dead. A couple of quick searches quickly tells me that Ada is pretty much alive, with all of these "modern libraries with modern solutions", and full-on safety without performance loss.

This comment is intended for the person you replied to. :)

[1] https://alire.ada.dev/

[2] https://blog.adacore.com/first-beta-release-of-alire-the-pac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_and_HIV#Mechanism...
The combination of both a ham and a GMRS license is actually pretty nice.

I got my General class license for ham a couple of years ago, and it's a fun hobby that does lend itself to disaster preparedness. My sub-$1000, battery-powered HF setup easily allows me to reach out and make contact across most of North America, and I frequently make contacts in Japan, South Korea, and eastern Russia. And with my cheap Baofeng and AnyTone radios I can tap into the awesome regional repeater network we have here in the Puget Sound.

However, with those radios I can only talk with other hams. In contrast, my $75 for 10 years GRMS license allows my entire family (the rest of which are not licensed hams) to talk on GRMS channels at up to 50 watts, instead of the 2 watt max you have with FRS. And here in Seattle we get access to some awesome GMRS repeaters, so we can basically communicate with each other anywhere across the city.
>That is not how it works,

Plenty of places pay X for tools that add more than X in productivity value.

In fact, nearly every tool I have ever gotten at a company worked like this. Most of them are also willing to test pricey tools to see if they would pay off, and when they do, the company starts buying such tools.

If you don't work at such a place, look for a place that values developer time.
I once considered something like that for AIDS, based on the book "Sexual Ecology", by Rotello. A representation of the "gay fast lane", people with very high numbers of sexual partners per year (> 100) would have been included. You could try various strategies - closing bathhouses and bars, mandatory mass testing. Now that would have generated hate mail.
I'd argue that the net utility of social "science" has been negative because it generates bad ideas under the guise of "good social-science reasoning" and is often explicitly antiscience.
It's not that I'm disagreeing with you, it's that I can not agree with you because we're not even arguing about the same thing here. I don't know what else I can say to clarify that.
If we believe that healthcare is a basic human right and that the state should therefore provide it to everyone equally and free of charge, then as a matter of practicality (money is finite), we must put some restrictions on the ways people can put themselves in danger. The more people get hurt in preventable accidents, the less money there is to treat everyone else, even if their problems weren't preventable. Doing something reckless is therefore harmful to others by definition.

On the other hand, if we believe that people should be allowed to hurt themselves if they can find someone to cover their medical bills, then the question becomes where do we draw the line? Riding a motorcycle without a helmet seems like a reasonable one. What about with a helmet? Motorcycles are inherently dangerous. But all road traffic is more dangerous than trains. Should people need a personal health insurance add-on to drive a car? What about eating unhealthy food?

Even if the line is drawn clearly, now only the rich can afford to do certain dangerous things and everyone else can't. Due to money shifting into the private sector, less and less will be covered by state insurance, making things that are allowed even today (like many sports) to be off-limits to anyone middle-class and lower. Now we've turned a situation where everyone has reasonable but equal limits to one where the rich have no limits and everyone else has unreasonably strict limits.
> Human nature were exploited for thousand years

"Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and share information. In humans, information flows were initially shaped by natural selection yet are increasingly structured by emerging communication technologies. Our larger, more complex social networks now transfer high-fidelity information over vast distances at low cost. The digital age and the rise of social media have accelerated changes to our social systems, with poorly understood functional consequences. This gap in our knowledge represents a principal challenge to scientific progress, democracy, and actions to address global crises. We argue that the study of collective behavior must rise to a “crisis discipline” just as medicine, conservation, and climate science have, with a focus on providing actionable insight to policymakers and regulators for the stewardship of social systems." - Stewardship of global collective behavior https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2025764118 [emphasis added]

> Are you stating that commenting here is irrational? Or that my arguments are irrational?

Neither. Just that your attention is here, not on your work, your family, your hobbies, or literally anything else that deserves your attention.
That's correct. I was comparing our system to existing systems which directly use a refrigerant sent into the ground loop. Our heat pump itself is a closed system just as a refrigerator, and works indirectly via the water cycle used outside.
That's still extremely unlikely given all we know about quantum computers so far, and about biology.

It's also important to note that quantum computers are just faster classical computers, they are still Turing machines. Many people who are looking for some non-computable element of consciousness in quantum effects in microtubules seem to forget that.
> Out of curiosity, which mechanism are you thinking about that would lead you to the conclusion that hospital capacity doesn't impact mortality?

First, it's that hospitals effect on covid mortality is lower than believed. Second, while morbid, I assume mortality risk can be assessed pretty accurately by hospital staff. If you must triage, triaging someone who has a 99% chance of dying in the hospital and a 100% chance of dying outside the hospital raises the expected deaths by 0.01. Hospitals tend to serve everyone they can (for good reason) but the value add part comes from serving people who have a high chance of dying out of the hospital AND a relatively low chance of dying in the hospital.

These could be wildly wrong assumptions.

I would think hospital closures would cause a large increase in mortality rates as you don't get to triage effectively at that point.
I only had 4 offers to choose from. It's a bimodal distribution between the 200K+ 0YOE folks and everyone else.
> I believe CSS' primary weakness is the general inability to define cross-cutting abstractions. I think of the style of an object as a composition of concerns: spacing, position, size, typography, color, decoration, etc.

I see this come up and it's so strange to me; the only thing I can think of is that what people are complaining about is too many ways to define cross-cutting abstractions (variables and mixins / other apply boosters and even css classes themselves) so the imposition of a framework-specific way to do it feels like it relieves a burden.

Similarly, I'd guess that you'd see a lot of overlap between people who'd chosen their own conventions for addressing this in combination with other design systems and people who don't like Tailwind much.
Is Google going to give back the $100B is made from cross site tracking in the past?

Is Google going to consider YouTube, Gmail, Maps, and Android Location history different sites, or is "having an effective monopoly an exemption to crosss-site tracking prohibition?

Does anything in the proposal prevent server-side cross-site tracking? (No.)

Is Google going to stop buying third party tracking data like credit card transactions?
It looks like it's open source to me - https://github.com/AnalogJ/gitmask
> instead of monthly, which is more typical

Is it? Almost all my and my friends' RSUs have been quarterly, with a typically 1 year cliff as described in the article.
> That said, the Etsy app won't be subject to Private Relay

Why? As far as I know it will apply to apps as well.
You're right that this is spectacularly wrong.

I dare not even read the rest of the page just in case my brain accidentally absorbs other bad information like that paragraph about GANs.
"Just want to sort hacker news by week"

HN has hidden functionality for that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/best

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
You're supposed to clean under the foreskin and regularly wash male genitalia, unlike vaginas - which are self-cleaning and should never be soaped or washed. Many men in less-developed places such as poorer countries in Africa aren't taught that.

The studies that show STD rates being lowered with circumcision almost all take place in places like those, where along with poor genital hygiene, contraception (such as condoms) are used much less frequently and proper sex ed is almost never taught.

The reality is that the rates of STD transmission aren't higher for uncircumcised penises as long as proper genital hygiene is maintained.
Man, the article was maybe 10% of the source code of that page.. what a bloated nightmare

[{"@type":"WebPageElement","isAccessibleForFree":"False","cssSelector":".content-container"}],"articleBody":"It happened on a mild day in March, in the quiet suburb in Virginia where I grew up....
> open shop in Anguilla or wherever.

That doesn't grant a GDPR exemption. The "shop" still operates in jurisdiction.
I mean, what sort of compensation are you offering?

Also - I'm talking about last year, not now.

But I am recently out of college and have not even passed resume screen by a few companies despite referral, credentials, etc.
It's my own insight.

I have about a half-dozen similarly remarkable insights each week. If you're interested in writing an econ paper about it, I'm glad to let you take first authorship.

We can call it the "Founders Race to the Bottom" or the "Brown Effect." :) If it goes viral, you'll be famous.

I've made that offer before on similar insights, and so far, no one has taken me up on it. And a few of them were really insightful.

Who knows? Perhaps you'll get a Nobel Prize for it. Econ give them out for less. Some of those insights were, er, less than deep.

The real insight behind this came in the Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith walks through this exact logic market-by-market, and for example, his section on rents leads to a similar degeneracy, where rents rise to match what the market can bare, and working people are driven to poverty by spending all excess income on rent. It's a great read.

This is very directly applying exactly his logic, just to a modern market.
Is there any real incentive to offer more favorable terms to employees that plan to leave?
Also, all robotic space repair satellites are very into military tech (even taking pictures of open space is very strictly controlled, because you may inadvertently take a picture of a military satellite). Not event talking about disabling err.. repairing, de-orbiting, spinning etc other satellites. That types of tech is opposed by military, that's actually one of the reason we don't clear dangerous space garbage (especially considering some of that garbage is actually working military satellites).
I bought and played it after reading this piece. It's a small but enjoyable game; if you're at all intrigued, I'd encourage checking it out!
Most people don't walk around recording evidence all day long. Which attackers know and make use of. So the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and a good system acknowledges that.

In this particular case, there seems to have been evidence submitted to the police, so why you would say there is none is strange to me.
Don't bother with CB radio. You can generally modify ham equipment to disable the logic that prevents transmitting on the CB frequencies -- it's right around 10M, so the 3MHz-30MHz (known as HF) equipment is perfectly capable of transmitting there, and in the case of an emergency, you'll have a lot of practice and familiarity with your tools that you wouldn't otherwise have. Not to mention that ham equipment is simply technically superior: vastly better receivers, and 100W of output means both hearing someone far away and also being able to make sure they hear you. CB equipment is stuck in the 70s and legally limited to something like 4W.

This is technically not legal, but when SHTF you're not going to find anyone coming after you for it.

Join a local ham radio club, get licensed, it's the last hobby you'll ever have. There are so many things to do in ham radio.
So, you have no point.
Apply for a job in the local municipality (city) and county governments. Both these entities typically have thousands of jobs, no two the same, requiring a wild variety of skills. I assure you there will be position(s) that they will hire you into.

Pay is usually slightly lower than similar non-government work. On the other hand, most local and county governments have decent pension systems and good benefits, so tap into those as much as possible. And they won't ask you to do anything dangerous: civil governments are very risk-averse about their employees.

Once you have a steady job, look into broadening your education. It could be as simple as learning conversational Spanish or as complex as pursuing a Masters' degree in Computer Science. Again, most governmental jobs encourage their employees to pursue further education, in some cases going so far as to allow class and travel time to count as work hours. If you get another degree then it is then your choice whether you choose to advance within the system or go outside.
Basically all effective punishment a school might use, if humiliation and corporal punishment are off the table (obviously, they are), ends up inconveniencing the parents. The most a school can directly do to a kid that doesn't inconvenience parents is make them stay in a different room than usual during school hours (in-school detention). Most other options have been (and I'm not arguing they shouldn't have) eliminated. Physical and mental stress for kids aren't allowed, so it's mental and financial stress for parents instead. That's what's in the toolbox.

Doesn't matter in this case, though, since most schools seem to have just declared defeat on the issue.
You could keep all of the PDP-11's RAM and probably most of its "external storage" in the L2 cache of most modern CPUs.
Ask HN: Has AWS become an SLA dodger?
Last month the us-east-2 RDS region had a major outage which took our multi-AZ primary database cluster down for 4-5 hours. We spend the entire outage online with a support agent but basically had to just wait on their team restoring full service as there was no way to stand up a new cluster or transfer a snapshot out of the region due to the outage.

Even though the RDS SLA makes this severe outage a very small 10% credit we went through the motion and followed their instructions for requesting an SLA credit with documentation of our affected cluster. We're now at 15 days since our request and they've come back twice in that time, the first requesting the information already included in the original request, and the second requesting that we attach a spreadsheet calculating what we think our SLA payout should be.

This process has left a pretty bad taste in our mouth regarding AWS service and their treatments of outages and SLAs. 5 years ago I would have said AWS was pretty good at this stuff and recommended them. I'm just wondering if anyone else has recent anecdotes either way. Is AWS slipping or becoming scummy in general or is this an isolated incident?
> This is the hottest job market I've seen

Clearly this is anecdotal, but what types of things lead you to this conclusion?
This does not, of course, include the people who actually do the deliveries.
I agree and just because something isn't easy doesn't mean it isn't worth the effort to get right.
Unlike the F-35, I think the taxpayers are getting their money's worth.
That's typical, but I've heard of a move away from it, to a plan where you get a set dollar amount every month(?) and it's converted to employee shares at the market rate then. Sounds like DoorDash just moved to it, and someone has linked a Blind thread where apparently Stripe/Instacart have, and I heard from a friend that Lyft just moved to that as well.

I can see the importance of this from the company end - with tech company shares skyrocketing, a fixed share amount gives them potentially unlimited stock compensation liabilities which could drag on earnings. But from an employee perspective, it sucks. You get none of the upside of company stock appreciation but all of the downside of being forced to purchase company stock with a portion of your compensation. You're much better off taking higher cash compensation and using that to purchase the stock of hot tech companies on the open market.
Looking through the GitHub repo it doesn't look to actually use any of the dependently typed features of Idris.

(And I see now at the end of the article that they mention this).

If this grows in the future, I'd be curious to see if the team starts to integrate any dependent types.
Beware: if you tax an organization, at least in the US, it will insist on its Constitutional right to representation. They'll no longer be satisfied with working around the margins to influence policy, they'll insist on a seat at the table. The Catholic Church is big enough and has enough money to upend entire political systems. Is that really what you want?
People who are only staying because of vesting tend not to be the most productive. Better for everyone to have someone who's not working out or doesn't want to be there leave after a quarter instead of dragging it out for a year.
It's true that the signal to noise ratio is high for much of these, but whatever solution we settle on, it should take into account that forcing even beginners to learn how to use npm audit means that security will be taken into consideration from the start, which is both valuable and a net benefit.
There are several big risks. It's impossible to rank them in a credible way.

Obviously there are all the usual launch risks. The cryogenics system has had a lot of development problems. The deployment is staggeringly complex and involves components that are not known for their robustness. Finally there is no repair option; one critical things goes wrong or is found to be misdesigned and that's it.
Unfortunately, it would be the consumers that suffer if Microsoft did push back. Since somewhere in the 90s consumer printer drivers have been as much about DRM for ink cartridges as anything else. Microsoft isn't allowed the keys to the DRM so they can't make generic drivers for old hardware. The printer companies would love an excuse to force everyone off old hardware to new hardware with fancier DRM.

Also, in terms of naming and shaming specific manufacturers, HP/HPE alone has already been known to hold entire industries hostage to old (unsupported) versions of Windows or the various whims of their AIX/HP-UX Unix-based OS efforts rather than support up-to-date drivers on Windows for printers and plotters (and medical equipment and other electronics). It really is easy to imagine them telling the same bad infosec advice to consumers if Microsoft were to break compatibility in their printer drivers. No one wants the chaos of supporting their family members trying to stick on an ancient unsupported Windows XP version simply because their reliable old inkjet printer told them to. Sure everyone thinks they want the Year of Linux on the Desktop, but no one actually wants to help a friend dual boot into HP-UX, and debug cups dump output for them, just to print something twice a year.
There have been a ton of in between options, they just rarely work well for anything outside of a basic use case.

Kubernetes is complex because the reality of what you’re dealing with is complex.

Kubernetes is way better than how we used to do things, not a perfect system but there are a lot of good reasons why it’s built the way it is.
I had to google it...

VWAP == Volume Weighted Average Price

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vwap.asp
In Seattle, we built the light rail down the middle of a main roadway. The train has to stop for red lights to let cars through. It's so backwards, it's ridiculous. Always fun when the train driver notices it late and slams on the brakes.
Are you also going to make gossip illegal?

Are customer reviews going to be illegal?
> Employers are mostly recruiting senior levels it seems.

Because no one is going to hire a junior developer to work remote. The job market isn't especially hot, it's just temporarily distorted in a way that favors more experienced developers.