skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm less inclined to take this advice (though much of it is fine) because there is no name attached to it. Why would I take an unknown person's advice on something? How do I know I can trust them if I don't know anything about their career?

Even more importantly, I don't know the context behind any of this advice, which is needed to process it appropriately.

Some examples:

> If you need a PhD, get through it ASAP.

Is this really good advice? I would encourage people to be extremely skeptical about getting PhDs - i.e., work in the real world first - and then if you still really want to do one, do it well, so that you have a shot at the kind of post-PhD opportunities that would make it worth it.

> Develop specific skills and think about specialising early.

The anecdote on this is weird and I'm not sure I agree (depends on what they mean by "specialize"). If by specialize, they mean "major in something practical" sure I agree with that. If by specialize, they mean, "aim to become a expert in some niche in your field in college", disagree.

> Be wary of slow feedback loops.

Agree mostly, but disagree with the specific examples given. If you know you want to be a lawyer, go to law school.

> Be strategic in your career decisions.

Agree, but the opposite advice would also be fine: careers are long and complex, so don't attempt to be overly strategic early on.

> Think about going to a startup.

This just looks like startup shilling.

> When you’re great at your job, no one’s advice is that useful.

Not sure this is true.

> Know the relevant senior people.

Not sure this is THAT important early on in your career.

> Be irrationally optimistic.

Useful if you are in sales or a founder, but for most other careers (e.g., engineering), I would advise rational optimism.
Ah I see. Thank you for the clarification.
Does anyone have a link to the full article that doesn't require a login or javascript?
Me too. I am voting with my feet and taking my labour somewhere else.
I did not realize this is how email worked, thank you!
To be fair, Mozilla is more or less what became of Netscape.
Since there are many times more straight men than lesbians, I would expect that most people who do it would be straight men, even if lesbians were just as likely to do it as straight men on a per-capita basis.
Study: Recovered Covid-19 Patients Possess Robust Immunity to Virus
We have ticking time bombs all over the place in our households and life that we’ve grown accustomed to.

- There’s the ticking time bomb of natural gas going into out homes

- The ticking time bomb of AC electric going through our homes that Edison demonstrated could kill an elephant

- The ticking time bomb of wood framed stucco houses that could easily catch fire

- The ticking time bomb of volatile gasoline in your car catching fire

- the ticking time bomb of the Li-Ion battery in your back pocket

If you want to live in a technological society, you have to accept and manage these risks from our technology.
The silly thing here is that it’s very easy to train models nowadays, so the medical AI space is very noisy.

With the right data and the right application, this technology can definitely be helpful.

However, it is very hard to sort out signal from noise since any reasonably competent undergrad can throw a convnet at some images and get an AUC.

Actually, I have even seen a high school science fair where they did a medical computer vision application.

I think this speaks more to the accessibility and ease of use of the technology that is out there than it does to the inherent limitations of the tools we have.

I am reasonably confident that there is a group out there that was more careful and has something that might have been useful, but it’s just impossible for clinicians to know who to trust.

I feel that both uncritical, un-nuanced hype (Radiologists will be replaced in 5 years!) and uncritical, un-nuanced closed mindedness (AI will never be clinically useful) is harmful for tackling the biggest problem the field faces right now: trust.

Who to trust. When to trust.
I don't understand. You can still control your own computer's interface to the web. You can install extensions to disable JavaScript functionality or even build your own browser to do so. The only frequently used web browsing platform that doesn't allow this is iOS, as far as I know.
That issue is the worst. Muppet Babies is similar. Even with Disney owning everything, it’s still not enough.
"Teams at Stripe have the choice between Ruby, Java, and Go to build services in, depending on their needs."
Nonsense, it is not like gasoline powered automobiles never catch fire, it is just that we are used to it, and practices, car designs, and building codes are specifically designed to account for the hazard, e.g., attached garage floors must be below the adjacent floor level, have a certain slope away from the house, and have firewall and fire-rated door.

If hysterical reactions like that were prevalent, we'd still be on foot. Every power technology has issues, and with consistent intelligent development, they are mitigated, or something better is developed. You think burning fossil fuels or containing hydrogen at 3000bar are better ideas?
Chinese Stick Multiplication
@dang, perhaps change the URL to link to source:
https://twitter.com/thomasareed/status/1420678663046111232
The root cause will be great of great interest; I hope we get to find out publicly. These battery systems are still new, but even so they have many layers of safety systems designed to prevent thermal runaway.
This is a very large facility, and the expected number of fires is proportional to the number of batteries.

It would be good to know with what probability a powerwall will burn your house down, and what the probability is of anything else burning the house down.
Sure, but you can have an anonymous email address and phone number in the US.
And unfortunately, people who hand write personalised outreach don't know if the recipient is like you or the parent poster.
Yeah, this was the same argument that happened with Snowden. The whistleblowers claim they tried to no avail, and then get punished for actually trying to do the right thing. The system is designed to punish those who question it.
I recall having to provide this around 2013 or so around the time I got an iPhone 5. But possibly it was part of their credit card verification? That could explain why some have been asked and not others.
The problem with this is that UST's are being used as collateral (maybe not for the "real economy" but definitely financial assets), are also rehypothicated many times over and face liquidation risks in line with notional value of credit risks of the positions its backing.

Buying and holding long dated UST is like being leveraged long duration in the environment where interest rates are more sensitive to the credit risk of other assets in the system.
> I know I saved companies millions of dollars but only got $100k/yr doing it.

Let's use an arbitrary 1m saving.

If you saved a company (me) a million dollars, you just made 10% (aka 100K). That's a pretty good commission. If you got health care, retirement contributions and anything else on top of that, you have made an exceptional commission.

Because I gather you mention saving you mean on sunk costs. The second year you earn 100K, and if you don't save me money you have now made 20% commission and only saved me 800K (1m - 100K - 100k). And so on and so on, or you need to keep saving me 1m a year and there is a point where my costs will reach $0 and your salary will outpace that, increasing my costs.

This obviously is a very linear representation where you're not adding extra value, nor am I incurring any additional cost/losses by employing you. Cost savings are reflected once in my bottom line but your salary is reflected every year in my in operating costs.

However if you made me an extra 1m a year revenue (and my costs stayed the same), I would make 900K from you every year, and you make 10%. But if my costs increased then that 900K revenue is much smaller, let's say my revenue increased 900K but my costs increased 100K, you make around 12%. Now we are talking about profit.
"We now think that" is the qualifier on the entirety of physics. It's redundant.
A lot of words we use for "the web" create mixed metaphors. Do spiders "surf" their webs? Does anything put a "post on the web"? How about "scraping the web" or "dark web"? We tack on so many different metaphors that we have completely forgotten the original "web" metaphor.

Another related one is World Wide Web. So many sites still have www in front of their URL's, yet only allow connections from specific geographic areas. Not world wide after all.
Medical diagnosis has been one of the core ai domains domains since the early 1960s so people have been breaking the picks at that coalface for almost 60 years.

And those older systems has more intelligence in them. Todays’s “AI” is a small number of tricks aimed at large amounts of data, with an unprecedented and enormous amount of marketing added.
We're looking at the best of the best. These athletes - even the ones that finished last - have probably won countless events in their lives and will probably win a lot more.

They will probably get over it just fine. It's ok to be disappointed sometimes, it can even be motivating.
I actually think openkeychain is a bad recommendation. PGP is notoriously hard to use properly, it's not forward-secure, and unlike most PGP users, OP actually needs reliable security.

I'd honestly just use Signal or something like it.
Hey, I'm really curious about how that works. Could you go into a bit more detail into that?

From what I can gather on your comment, it seems that if you are given a splay tree, and a batch of transactions i.e.

GET 1
SET 10 "hello"
GET 15

You would write all the visited nodes, in order? But splaying involves a lot of tree operations and rotations too. I don't get how that works.
And have borrowed immensely from the future generations for this. The bill will come due sometime, and some future generation would finally have to pay it up.
https://archive.is/MDqrj -possibly with javascript, however (for the captcha)
Who is? What network(s) are they connecting to? Do you remember how slow Google WiFi Mountain View was?
Watch the US government make such examples of every whistleblower and even this level of accountability which is purely driven by personal consciousness of individuals to become ineffective in fear of harsher and harsher prosecutions.

Sad indeed. US intelligence agencies have gone rogue and public doesn't really care.
It’s not reminiscent of it at all. The factory stores had shitty prices and were the only option. Amazon employees can choose to spend their money anywhere. The company towns are gone.
Yes they are a 100% remote company, even pre-covid
"Can Redis be used as a primary database"

IMHO, no. Unless! you can ensure your data is less than the size of memory. Redis must fit all the data into memory. If you run out of memory Redis doesn't have great options (besides buy more memory). In my mind a primary database handles the complexities/speed of pulling data from a disk, manipulating data in memory and scales with more disk. Redis manipulates data in memory only.

Redis is rad for specific group of problems.
Java literally runs on smart cards, including SIM cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card — and did so since the 90s.

My guess is, applets were crashy for different reasons than CPU speed.
I mean, we've seen how the discussion would go then. "Well sure he says there are outrageous murders happening, but if that were true why isn't there any documentation?".

Looks at how the PRISM leak worked. It turns out in hindsight it was a poorly kept secret and people just dismissed the evidence because it was new and there wasn't documentation.

What this looks like to me is while being a whistleblower is legal, owning a whistle, putting your lips to a whistle and exhaling vigorously into a whistle are all illegal. And suspicious noise pollution regulations for disturbing the peace with unnecessarily piercing sounds.
For those interested in posts about linters, looks like this is the post:

https://wringing.it/blog/permit-a38/
Holding realestate as an investment is the incentive for developing land and maintaining buildings.
If your idea of west is US, and think that it should be your target as a society, i think you're better as Tunisia
Republicans
I can see that it is poetic to some, wasn't the intention.

I'll just say, we are so desensitized to murder and violence that a video and additional information can allow us an inexcusable am out of brazen apathy for innocent lifes.
> I tried to submit this question with a throwaway account, for obvious reasons, was told to "please slow down".

The algo is very aggressive in preventing you from posting too frequently... happens to me all the time (probably because the admins are required to review all comments and posts)
100s of DL groups with little previous experience in this area set out to train similar models at the outset of the pandemic. Many rushed out models. I’m not surprised that they ran into similar pitfalls.
down the wikipedia rabbit hole stumbled upon this story of the killing of the Alexander the Great's father, king Philip. Pretty impressive illustration how bringing in personal erotic relationships can complicate things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_of_Orestis

"Pausanias of Orestis, feeling spurned, insulted his romantic rival Pausanias, Attalus's lover, in public. To secure his public honor, Pausanias, the beloved of Attalus, endangered himself in battle while protecting the king. Devastated by his lover's effective suicide, Attalus sought to punish Pausanias of Orestis by getting him drunk and raping him. For any number of reasons, Philip did not punish Attalus for the rape of Philip's former lover; probably as a consolation, Pausanias of Orestis was promoted to the rank of somatophylax.[1]

It has been supposed then that Pausanias' motive for killing Philip was at least in part due to personal anger over Philip, who was the host of the party where Pausanias was raped, not having intervened in any way, nor even having reprimanded Attalus."
After cardboard, sticker! gold stars through pink unicorns. and then a used pizza box for last place, because everyone else needs to feel better than someone.
> That’s why FIE introduced the Unwillingness to Fight rule in 2019. It dictates that when a minute elapses without a point, the fencer who is behind receives a yellow. Repeated offenses lead to a red.

Incentives matter.
Consider a category of item you care about. Would you accept it if it were sold to you as being in new condition, but arrived with substantial cosmetic damage? A dining table with a gash down the middle of it still holds food just fine. A white door spattered with red paint still opens and closes and keeps the wind out. Carpeting stained with wine still keeps your feet warm.

Often, in any case, the damage is more than cosmetic. A paperback book that has been badly creased is more difficult to read than one that's in good condition.

Caring about the condition of books is not a strange idiosyncrasy. There's a clear stratification in the price of the book market as you descend from new to very good to acceptable condition - because buyers generally care.
Ask HN: How to develop hobbies in remote work culture?
I spend awful amount of time (~10 hrs to 12 hrs) in front of computer. I am required to because of my job as well as part time masters and bad habits I have developed such as sitting for a long time.

I am trying to become a funny person who has life and not just someone who spends time in front of computer. What are ways to develop hobbies? I go for a walk, but I don’t consider that as a hobby.

I guess whatever I do, I come back to feel that I am wasting time and I should work more to earn more.

Please suggest hobbies (solo are better) and any ways to develop them.
WebAssembly is a much better target for compiled languages. And JS runs anywhere in the same way that Java does, which is wherever someone has installed a virtual machine for it, which is usually a web browser or Node for JS. But it doesn't run on more places than C or C++, which can be compiled to run on almost any hardware in existence.
The World Is Continuous, Not Discrete
Just to start off with, I'm not an expert; what I know is from my undergraduate days taking way too many economics classes. If someone is more knowledgeable feel free to call me out.

You're not losing much by skipping farm workers; as I noted above farm payroll changes seasonally, so skipping farm payrolls just helps to smooth the data - I suppose you could also consider it as another way to seasonally-adjust employment figure, although that is stretching the term quite a bit.

In addition farm hands for picking/planting are poorly paid and tend to have vague residency status (not making a political point, just economic reality) and so including that data does not change related figures such as GDP too much. It wouldn't surprise me if politics encourages the reporting of non-farm data due to the issue I mentioned above of vague residency status; see the current DACA fight for how contentious discussions like this can get.

TLDR the numbers work out better and nobody of importance cares about the difference
No, they’re not. They’re obsessed with taking your money and then giving you no avenue of recourse if you’re not satisfied.

Order a three pack of cat litter and get only two packs in the box because one never got included in the first place or the box was opened during transit and the re-taped closed with obviously non-Amazon tape? Gotta ship that box back with two bags of cat litter in it, before you can get a replacement box of three bags of cat litter.

Guess how many times that kind of crap has already happened to me?

Why can’t I just send the pictures of the box and then they send me the third bag of cat litter that got stolen?

I’m tempted to ship them back the bags of cat litter after they’ve been used, so that they can inspect other outputs too….
I feel like this is whatever the opposite of tautological is? If Google implements a feature for Chrome and I find it desirable as a user, am I not allowed to say “I wish Safari had this feature”? Why would somebody ever criticize Safari for lacking a feature they don’t desire?
Bioorthogonal information storage in L-DNA with a high-fidelity mirror-image
"Please describe to me how your argument doesn't boil down to "she deserved it because of what she was wearing"?"

A person, whatever they are wearing, is not overly engaging in sexualized interaction.

But if someone writes something overtly sexual on their t-shirt, they are engaging in a communication.

That someone responded to the t-shirt shouldn't be surprising, even if it's unprofessional.

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"I don't think it adds nuance"

It adds nuance because the men, engaging in discussion about 'penetration' without incitement, is something clearly different then the men commenting on the pun that is on another person's shirt.

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"Which is why FUD still works, because muddying the waters "

It's not muddying the waters if you accept that the woman initiated a level of discourse by her own accord.

Consider what would happen if one of your male co-workers wore a t-shirt with an overtly crude, sexual double-etendre about 'penetration' to the office?

"Have you ever been PENETRATED? (wink wink!)"

Surely you'd be outraged that this would be exactly the kind of 'frat boy' culture you're condemning.

I'm certain that I would be told to 'change shirts' immediately, at least at my office.

So how do we then contemplate that a women, who wears such a is not directly engaging in this bad behaviour?

If you wear a t-shirt that says: "Suck My Banana!" to the office, and someone says to you "Ok, I'll Suck Your Banana!" - then who is really 'at fault' of being crude and sexist?

I don't think that Banana has much of a legitimate claim.
The 450 MWh plant is composed out of 210 battery units [1], so a little over 2 MWh just went up in smoke. Sources say that commercial chemistries emit between 20 and 200mg of hydrogen fluoride gas per watt hour. [2] At 100mg/Wh, the pack would have released a fifth of a metric ton of hydrogen fluoride gas onto the neighboring roadway over the course of the fire. You be the judge whether or not that warrants precautions.

Edit: a second pack is on fire, so we're approaching half a metric ton of HF gas now

[1] https://victorianbigbattery.com.au/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-09784-z
Thank you! lol
Why would a medical school collect that?
> Was it the baleful influence of IE6 or some other winner-takes-all effect or what?

This. Then Steve Jobs killed Flash.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100502021750/https://www.apple...
Btw, if any student is reading this you can use Jetbrains IDEs and a lot of other stuff for free if you apply for the Github student dev pack. So that’s something worth considering :)

https://education.github.com/pack
Similar stats for me since 2016:

- only one piece of complete spam

- one targeted commercial outreach (which actually ended up being useful)

- four people following up on comments that ended up being interesting conversations. I even went for coffee with one.

- one person who evidently confused my username and thought I was @pg
Yes, where are all these "proper" whistleblowers at and why don't I know of any of them? For every one that does it "improperly" how many get caught by trying to use the "proper" channels which is actually just a trash chute straight into the abyss?
What's your point? That out of the tens of millions of homes, residential, and commercial buildings that receive natural gas just in the U.S. alone, there were only 11 explosions over the course of 2 years?

There are significantly fewer home-scale or business-scale battery installations. The fact that there have already been so many issues with them is concerning, since they're much harder to put out than other fires.

Yes, there will be new safety procedures developed to account for these new risks. But they aren't in place yet and they won't be if Tesla fans ignore reality and pretend like nothing's wrong.
A Framework for Disagreements
Similar article topic w/o the paywall, googled “fencing unwillingness to fight rule”

https://academyoffencingmasters.com/blog/new-unwillingness-t...
The Beatles personally supervised the mono mixes until their stereo-only release "Abbey Road". During the 1960s, the stereo audio systems weren't as prevalent, so the band delegated stereo mixes to their producer George Martin.

These mixes tend to separate instruments completely on the Left and Right tracks. Perhaps Martin hoped that this would produce an effect of the instruments coming from many places. Personally, I feel this is gimmicky at best, and disintegrated at worst especially when listening on headphones.

In September 9, 2009, EMI released their then-latest remasters of the Beatles studio discography. In fact, they released two versions: stereo and mono. If I recall correctly, the mono box set sold out quickly, and had to be reissued. This suggests that audiophiles perceive providence in the mono releases.

If you want to listen to the Beatles as the band has intended, you should listen to the mono mixes on vinyl.
I know it’s not how it’s supposed to work, but I think once an API is used in real world, and sees useful applications that some users rely on it day to day, it should be seen as “public”.

I never heard of Lunar before but completely understand the use case, all the more so it doesn’t seem Apple is interested in filling that gap outside of its pro display.
My static file HTTP server called "filed" [0] will satisfy a request in as few as 1 system call (no memcpy involved -- the kernel reads the file and sends the buffer to the NIC), by using sendfile(2). Most other webservers do a bit more work, like open the file for every request.

[0] http://filed.rkeene.org/
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stupid af