skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question. Unfortunately, we don't have any data about the heterogeneity of the user pool. So we have to guess. In the simplified simulation, the agents have random expectation levels and compare that to the submissions quality. They only upvote if the quality exceeds their expectation.

We thought about modeling quality and agent preference with higher dimensional vectors, like in a recommender system. And to see if a user will upvote a specific content, you calculate the dot product. A simplified 1-dimensional user expectation and 1-dimensional quality can be seen as working on the scalars of the dot products itself.

There was a Master thesis which did some simulations with high-dimensional vectors and how many dimensions make sense. The result was that it basically doesn't matter.

In the end, we have to make a real-world experiment with the HN community to see if it works as expected.
Neither of those are good things.
What Does It Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not Sell Your Data”?
How is this new ? Perhaps it's new for the author. Python one liner ifs were not introduced yesterday.
I think it's the same with everything like agile software development etc. There are some ideas with some good parts, but the way people end up applying them can cause a lot of problems. People should understand the domain, do risk analysis, change management etc.

For example car companies are suffering from chip shortages. Maybe they should have stockpiled more? But on the other hand, the "parts bin" is the worst obstacle preventing innovation and integration in established manufacturers. Why do new companies like Tesla have way less electronic parts while legacy manufacturers have lots of separate boxes and wiring, all reducing reliability, increasing cost, space and mass. Because for a legacy manufacturer it makes more sense to use the same parts from the "parts bin" as for their previous model - it's just cheaper and faster, the supply chain already exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRkm6-bBk4U
Eating a Single Hot Dog May Take 36 Minutes Off Your Life, Study Says
'I am a software engineer and I think general AI is upon us but hindered by nasty doctors who want to get rich, therefore I will make every effort to believe that this paper shows that AI is better'
Alternatively, what might be a display of a certain bias it's associating that vocal trait with young women in the first place. Isn't it akin to associating pink with gender? It's just a colour.
The loophole in the US has always been the private sector. Most mass media is controlled by a handful of individuals who play along nicely with what the government wants, newspapers and newscasters might present themselves as independent entities focused an a particular geography or demographic, but the viewpoints presented flow down from above. People who don’t play along find themselves not successful in their industry over time. Intense rhetoric between Fox News and MSNBC over how much the wealthy should pay on their income can be an orchestrated distraction from the wealthy not paying any tax at all because they effectively have no income. Facebook and Google can do the dirty work of suppressing viewpoints while anti-trust investigations plod along at a snails pace or issue only token findings. So it’s not like the countries where the tank rolls up to your front door and the storm troopers escort you and your family to new careers in the rock salt mines, but there are a lot of controls in place to guide the conversation and they are mostly implemented via the private sector. You may have thought you saw a UFO but Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will make sure people know that what you actually saw was Venus.
Friedrich Nietzsche called that "Superhuman", or "Übermensch".
To be fair to GP, during the first few months of the pandemic - early to mid 2020 - this was the rate that was used in all publications. Though the rate might currently be known to be lower (or higher for all I know) this is the rate that I remember.
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Man, it's amazing how simple things get twisted unrecognizably over time.

I introduced Scrum/Agile to my current company after having used it successfully at my previous job.

It was a little tough at first to get the project managers to understand that the daily stand-up was not for their benefit, but simply for the team to understand what everyone was working on and as a place to raise any issues. There was much gnashing of teeth as the stand-up replaced a daily check in call they had where devs had to report their status to the PM. But, a few sprints in and the PMs were happy to see results without having to be in daily status calls. (They are still invited to the stand-ups, but only as chickens)

For me, the biggest benefit of the agile/scrum process is the sanctity of the sprint. PMs don't interfere inside the sprint by changing goals or micromanaging, and devs promise to deliver the work from the sprint on time.

At the previous job, we had a dev team spanning 10 time zones. So I continued the practice of having the stand-up as a quick note in a slack channel, but the new team really wanted a daily meeting (via video conference). At the new job, we're all in the same timezone, but across multiple locations. So in some cases devs really like the "face to face" meeting.

I get that it's hard for some people to participate in social situations (I'm one of them), but if you can't muster up the strength to get three sentences out (I did this yesterday, I'm doing this today, I'm (not) blocked) then you might have larger issues. :)
> I [the manager] suggested we do daily standups

> I really liked these occasions

> the team decided it works well

One thing [people who become] managers completely underestimate is that they now have actual, real power, and that this dramatically alters the quality of the feedback they get.

You're not a neutral observer in this interaction, not by any fault of your own, but simply by the position you occupy. And there is virtually nothing you can do about it, no matter how hard you try. And no, it doesn't mean your team is actively trying to please, it just happens that way.

As an example (not quite the same thing, but similar): one time that I was managing a team I was just finishing some stuff up on Sunday and sent some e-mails that went to the team. Then I got a response. That same Sunday. Note to self: even if you write that e-mail on a Sunday, wait until Monday to send it!
I agree.

Modern collaborative tooling has made stand-ups obsolete.
No one wants to be a code monkey
> It’s also a field long overdue for disruption.

Won't happen though, way too niche market - outside of a single-digit number of hobbyists, the only ones who have an actual use for such equipment are companies for whom the expense is a rounding error on the balance sheet.
A good stand-up is a loop over items/tickets in progress, not a loop over team members. And it doesn't need to happen every day.
Right, luckily it's not enabled by default. Some other fields in which unbounded computation is common are IOT and robotics.
It is almost impossible to not ask the question in a loaded way.

"Do people want to continue doing this thing that we always do, that I come out of my office and round up everyone every morning and lead as your benevolent leader, or does someone else want to say my way is bad and have an idea on how we can achieve a not necessarily defined objective?"
Most Australians support these measures, please stop assuming we have the same views as americans.
Fully agree. Here the government could have cared a bit more about its tax payers. But I would not hold the renovation anyway. We hired https://thwindowsdoors.com/keswick-window-replacement/ after all and besides timely quotation we got a good discount. So for the pandemic times it was a really nice solution.
VAT applies at a flat rate at all levels within the supply chain, sales tax is only collected from the consumer with the final sale. Under a 5% sales tax, the consumer pays $50 on a $1000 iPhone when they buy it at retail. Under a 5% VAT, Apple pays 5% of its profits (not revenue), then whoever makes the lithium-ion batteries pays 5% of its profits, then whoever mines the lithium pays 5% of its profits, and on down the value chain.

Among other economic effects, VATs do not incentivize vertical integration. With a traditional sales tax, corporations can avoid paying the tax by bringing all the suppliers in-house so that there's no transaction to tax. With a VAT, it's all the same: either you pay the tax or you pay the supplier and the supplier pays the tax.
" a building was something like a foot over spec, about a mile off the end of a regional airport and the FAA found out."

Well I suppose the line of reasoning is, if here is something wrong and not according to spec, then maybe there are more critical things out of spec.
I am guessing he's talking about the State elections. Mainly because the current state government in Victoria is Labor, and Federal is Liberal. I am guessing he would be voting more Liberal/smaller parties not Labor at least.

Federal Election is likely in May 2022 but may be called earlier. State Election is late 2022 I think.
COBOL is still alive :)
This entire article seems like speculation. There was an early focus on the idea that the VOC contamination in the unit must be a result of the previous use of the land in agriculture. However, there never was any evidence from study that there were VOCs in the unit (except a handheld tester of unknown provenance) or if there were, that the VOCs came from contamination/land use.

More importantly, the DTSC representative even suggested that if there were VOCs, they most likely came from construction.

There's a lot of accusations without anything more than circumstantial evidence - but the path forward here seems clear. The first air quality assessment came back inconclusive. So do another.

> I argued back and forth with DTSC for months about next steps. At several points, she told me if I could give them proof of chemicals in my body and apartment that could cause my symptoms and be linked to the chemicals on site, then they “can continue to investigate further.”

> I kept pushing back that they were asking a normal resident to pay for and perform seemingly industrial testing. I was also very concerned that a government agency seemed to be asking for my medical records. At one point they said they were happy to talk directly with one of my doctors. WTF.

Holy moly. Do the test. If it's that important, do the test. Seek compensation after.

This seems like a new building, new construction and if there were VOCs the most likely source sounds like adhesives from the construction. It's possible Ashley is particularly sensitive to them. I've met people like that before.
I think I might be in the minority here that I prefer the fully laid out statements.

Sure in small cases this small ternary use is great! However too many times I've seen people chain them for far too many characters just to be "on one line".

We don't use one letter variable names anymore, so in the same reasoning why should we do the same to our code?
To my knowledge nobody has recorded a version of the song about Cheney, but it may be enjoyable to listen the more popular version about Charlie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tc1GUXxr2o
Thanks for sharing, very interesting. Haven't read the paper yet, but it seems promising as it mentions Hawkins and Subotai, from Numenta, who have been arguing something along these lines for many years. It is available in biorxiv [1].

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/613141v2.full.pdf
You can read Twitter without an account.
The gtk debugger even has a convenient dropdown to change the theme on-the-fly.
The Roli Seaboard is an interesting and expensive piece of hardware. But it was focused in a pretty narrow target audience: professionals who want a MIDI controller with a keyboard layout, but also provising additional expressive controls right at the finger tips - the soft keys respond to pressure as well as exact finger position. It wouldn't usually replace a proper keyboard because its rubbery squishiness doesn't support many normal keyboard play styles well.

How can you aim for aggressive hypergrowth and at the same time start out with a complete niche product? To me, this doesn't add up.
Because people have recency bias, and using this as an anchor, argue their point of view (aka, their political beliefs), rather than argue for the truth.
Drinking outside a bar in Paris (so table service) with my girlfriend, the glasses approach empty so I turn to catch the barman's eye. He flicks the Vs (I am culturally sensitive so not offended, he means "two more pints?"), I return the thumbs-up. He brings one pint.
What I don't get is why these "standups" need to be in-person as well as every day. One of my current clients insists on doing them, wasting about 6% of my (very expensive) billable time on this. I don't mind, of course, I still get paid, but someone needs to run the numbers on this. 10 people, 15 minutes (sometimes longer if there's something to discuss), that 150 person-minutes _per day_, or 1.56 person-days per 5-day week if my math is right, just to share information that would be much more efficient to share over Slack. Most of the time it's stuff nobody even needs to know: "I worked on X, I will continue working on X". This is just dumb cargo cult, IMO. When I managed teams I just kept an eye on things and encouraged efficient, peer-to-peer communication. We'd also have a short planning meeting once a week. That was it. It worked great.
Unfortunately the inherent PS2 advantages disappear when you use such a convertor afaik.
Interesting, thanks for posting this!

Unfortunately, figure 5 is not included in the paper. I think that this was similar to the pictures at http://www.blep.com/rd/special-effects/dinosaur-input-device...
Because the tech is useless for anything else besides billionaires going to space.
Sounds like passive aggressive programmers you got
After a few tweets, Twitter typically pushes you to sign up or log in.
Nice to see one exists, it's on windows I'd be needing it though.
> In the scenarios below you’ll notice sequences of interactions that are fully written out. Sequences like: select the window, click the caption button, and then resize the window.

This is interesting. I wonder if the caption button step is a leftover from previous design iterations, where you had to click a button on the title-bar to Snap a window...
Hey, OP here. The article is not mine.
I understood you, that's what this does. See the quote below extracted from the link I previously posted. Note that the page it autogenerates is post-filtering and works the same way for any tag (built-in or user created). The summary screen is usually enough for me, but the full note page is nice sometimes because you can annotate it just like any other page.

"If you want to view the tag search results as a notes page, click the Create Summary Page button at the bottom of the Tags Summary task pan."
Yes. I clearly know the literal meaning. I assume this means trusting client-supplied strings. That's not an inspection.
Just to augment my reply with a more personal and positive note on toughness. As a kid I was super active, doing lots of physical sports and training very hard.

By the time I was 18 I had that reckless abandon and confidence that only an 18 year old can have - that feeling of invincibility and that belief that anything is possible.

Fast forward 10 years later after years of working super hard and not doing much exercise and accruing postural issues, I went skiing and felt very vulnerable and mortal - a stark shift from the me of 10 years prior!

When I hit my 30s I made reacquiring that fitness again and started exercising super hard. Like 10-15 hours a week of intense physical training. To my surprise, I actually started to feel almost like an 18 year old again. I couldn't believe my subconscious outlook on life could be so malleable.

What does this have to do with hitting kids and toughness? I've digressed a bit - I guess having some of that stoic grit is worth developing in children but I am undecided whether hitting children builds it in them.
Count me in too. I can't stand erosion of society through identity politics and woke'ism. It's on the coverpage of the Economist this week (I am what they refer to as classical liberal): https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2021-09-04
True. Doing a show of hands by asking "all in favor?" instead of "all opposed?" should in theory yield the same result but I'm sure it doesn't.
‘A big deal’: Federal safety regulator takes aim at Tesla Autopilot
No, this is the first time liberalism exists in the historical record. It's possible that the Mohists had developed liberalism before the Burning of the Books and the Burying of the Scholars (thus removing it from the historical record, along with most of the rest of the history of China up to that point) and of course the books that survive from before Gutenberg are relatively few in number.

If the Vikings in Essex had a well-developed liberal theory, for example, we'd have no idea of it, because none of their writings survive. (There were lots of slave graves, though, so they probably didn't put it into practice any more than Jefferson did, if they did have it.) There are some less depressing archaeological finds like Çatal Höyük, whose setup suggests hunter-gatherer-like egalitarianism, but we really have no idea what their philosophy was or what kinds of freedoms they enjoyed or valued; by the time cuneiform was invented, Çatal Höyük had been abandoned for 2500 years, after 2200 years of prosperity.

But there's really nothing resembling liberalism in classical Rome or Greece or medieval Islam or ancient Egypt or the Vedas, and it's quite a stretch to read liberalism into the Mozi or the Laozi.

I don't think it's such a sudden collapse, though. Liberalism has always been just one ideological current among many in the US, and there has never been a time when the US fully lived up to its ideals. Indentured servitude, chattel slavery, the Trail of Tears, the Comstock Act, Prohibition, imprisoning people for pacifism, the Indian schools, J. Edgar Hoover's deep state, the draft, Jim Crow, the imperialist conquest of the Philippines, the Chinese Exclusion Act, mass imprisonment, the Sonny Bono copyright extension act, the plea-bargaining system, Obama's mass deportations, the Comics Code, civil forfeiture, the FCC granting local media oligopolies, and the MPAA ratings system are all incompatible with liberalism, as I see it.

But I do think the last 25 years have seen a decisive turn to the Right in this sense; the main political debate in the US is no longer between liberalism and conservatism, but between progressivism and conservatism, both of which are opposed to liberalism.
You're great at giving feedback.
Most of the time when I see python ternary in the wild, it makes the code less readable, not more. Why not just define something like this if you want oneliners?

def if_then_else(cond, true_case, false_case):
if cond:
return true_case
return false_case

x = if_then_else(condition, 4, 5)
In June, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration ordered automakers to cough up data on every crash that involves automated driving systems, such as Tesla’s Autopilot. Last month it launched an investigation into a dozen crashes in which Teslas on Autopilot plowed into parked emergency vehicles.

Then, on Tuesday, NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation sent an 11-page letter instructing Tesla to provide the agency with an enormous volume of detailed data on each Tesla vehicle sold or leased in the United States from 2014 to 2021. “This could be a very big deal,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina, one of the legal field’s foremost experts in automated motor vehicle law.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2021/INIM-PE21020-84913P.pd...
I didn't work with a setup like this without daily at all, but on my current job we have daily 3 times per week and it feels way better than having a daily every day. I can remember how boring it was on my previous job to have it 5 times per week.
You can see it as a way for images to able to speak for themselves. Information that can be injected can include creator, location, GPS data, etc.

Though not formal copyright, it does offer a way for people to claim ownership.
Astronomers may have seen a star gulp down a black hole and explode
That is an observation, not an argument. I'd guess most people in hospital are there for lifestyle diseases or preventable accidents.
Serverless storage for your functions from the Datastax Astra DB
I was working on a project once where the daily stand-up became the tem leads 15-minute "this company is bullshit!"-infused rant. The daily quarter hour predication coming from him was terrible for tracking where the team was, but established his gatekeeper role pretty well.

In another project we followed the 3-question rule (what did yesterday, what do today, what blockers) verbatimly. Meaning, answering these three questions to a slack bot. I'm not sure the answers were ever assessed, so not sure about how well tracking our team performance was.

These two examples showed me that taking daily standups to the extremes and never reflecting on this ceremony at all is the bad thing, not the daily stand-up per se. That's why I also find this article a bit...extreme, and therefore not necessarily applicable to every team.
Oh, I agree, though I have to admit I haven't read either of those.

Note, though, that the correct idea you expressed that the Taliban are a terrorist organization would be self-contradictory to anyone who defines terrorism ahistorically as non-state or unlawful violence to achieve political aims, since now the Taliban are the Afghan state and are legalizing their terrorism.
And it's on top. I wonder how often people actually read entire article or the comment. I think most often people read the first line and just choose if they agree or don't agree with comment and vote accordingly.

More often I have seen that the top comment on the article is completely opposite perspective of what is in the article. For example, if article is about why Flutter or Go is amazing we will see why both are worst choices ever as top comment here.

I think it just proves people feel the "need" to comment only if they disagree. If they agree with article they don't bother explaining and hence low comment count. In short, a controversial topic will generate lot of engagement and hence other social network don't bother moderating and let people engage in harmful behaviours to society at whole.
9 in 10 of our population lives half an hour's drive from the coastline. Stop mistaking our country for your own.
https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/previousproducts/13...
Also this is a big opportunity for the economy. There's big demand for lots of stuff and companies around the world are scrabbling to adjust. There's also plenty of capital around to invest in them. People are now used to tightening their belts a bit, more picky about their jobs and more willing to embrace change. I think many workers have a good chance to benefit in all this.
for example the ratio of upvotes to views as a signal of quality may have different average level depending on segment
Proof That Covid-19 Vaccines Are Doing Their Job
Especially if it’s differentiable
And that we're just a tightrope stretched over the abyss from the monkey until ai.
Isn't he healthy again? Some people suspect media discolored a picture of him so he looks more unhealthy. Could be fake though.