skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the same as you. As long as you only need a simple model, yes, the MLP is good enough, but forget about making any DeepLearning stuff.

And AFAIK, there isn't GPU support, CPU performance is poor compared to GPU execution.
> Ideally, good companies will find a balance with AI and human operators that's also sustainable as a business.

This is the crux of it. What do you define as a balance? In this example, Stripe shouldn’t be using ML to actually ban accounts but instead to flag accounts for manual review.

My company distributes advertisements. We need to watch every ad we ever distribute to ensure both its quality and legality. We have and still are investigating ML to improve this process, but because regulations put the cost on us for false negatives, we would use ML only to identify when it knows an ad fails our checks. It would then pulls it from the QC queue before any tech manually reviews it and emails the client informing it was blocked and why it was blocked and a link to a form where they can request a manual review if they think it was a false positive.

Our contracts allow for a fee to be imposed on the client if they challenge a block which is upheld after manual review.

Doing it this way we reduced our tech workload by removing clearly violating ads from QC queue and we give the client a clear and quick way to challenge the results of the ML.

At least, that is the plan here. It’s still in R&D.
A guy driving a truck might enable 10,000 burger sales in an hour. A cashier might enable 100. It's easier to raise the truck driver's wage.

Raising wages and prices can be done, of course. But if you're planning to export those goods to other countries, you've just made your products more expensive. If your goods are fungible, you may not be able to raise the price at all. Higher wages might simply make your business not viable in the context of international trade.
Stanford professors urge US to end program looking for Chinese spies in academia
Ask HN: 2x50K Jobs vs. 1x100K
It's crazy, but this seems to be accurate from my limited experience:

1. Senior backend developer (~10 years of experience) trying to find a 100K Euro/year job in Western Europe: quite hard if all you want to be is a simple "individual contributor" (employee, not contractor) writing $PROGRAMMING_LANG code without having to deal with k8s, the cloud, mentoring, or on-call paging. Besides, I'm not specially bright, just average, so I cannot pass tricky tech interviews. I'm currently making 85K Euro/year (around 4600 Euro/month after taxes) which is nice, but I cannot deal with the stress my current role (tech lead?) implies: I'm supposed to be on-call, to mentor junior engineers, to "own" our products, to learn more about devops/infra topics, to bring and introduce new topics to my team, to be an example to engineers with less experience. All I want to do is to be part of a team pushing useful features for our customers: I don't want to be on-call; I like to teach and learn from others but I don't want to be a mentor; I want to write $PROGRAMMING_LANG code, I don't want to setup the infra of our services... I want the job I had in 2010!
Now, that's for positions that pay ~85K euro/year. Imagine the stress for positions that pay 100K. I don't even think such positions (plain IC) exist in WE (excluding top companies ofc: I'm just the average Joe). It seems that this ~17% salary increase I'm looking for implies a 100% increase in stress. Nuts.

2. Getting a 50K euro/year job in Western Europe is easy for someone like me with ~10 years of experience. I can pass the interviews just fine (I guess I would just have to hide some previous experience of mine so that I look like a junior to the companies). 50K euro/year is around 3K/month after taxes. Not bad. Now, the stress of a 50K euro/year job is close to zero for someone with years of dev experience. Besides, you'll get ton of free time because you know exactly how to do "junior" tasks! No on-call, no mentoring, no cloud, no k8s... just coding like it's 2010!

Now, the big IF: what if I quit my current job and get 2x50K euro/year jobs? That would mean (oversimplifying taxes) around 6K euro/month after taxes (more than I would make earning 100K euro/year!). I think I could do it just fine (perhaps I would have trouble with meetings at the same time). Low stress (because I would be a senior doing junior tasks), more money. Bingo. From an ethical point of view: I would be a junior (earning junior money) producing senior-level coding. That's a big win for any company, no?

Now, coming back to reality: this is probably never going to happen.

Edit: I'm assuming 100% remote setup.

Edit 2: this all is just a mental exercise. I'm not planning to get 2x 50K jobs; the idea just came to my mind and all I wanted is to get your opinions about it. Merci!
> so eager for citizenship they’d take on any job

You disgust me for wishing we were exploiting people like this.
Isn’t there a Rob Pike quote for these?

"Who cares? Shut up"

It’s in the context of concerns from newer developers who don’t focus on what’s important.

This is the same blog that gave us code smells, abstract more to hide it (https://jesseduffield.com/Type-Keys-Revisited) -- only to point out the possibly differing perspectives on software development.

There’s a philosophy to the language that’s very clearly defined. You have many options these days on what you write in. You’re not changing how Go does error handling because you think it’s needlessly verbose.
What prevents landlords from getting any arbitrary amount of money from their tenants?

I think this is a different problem regarding housing.
Interesting, drawing parllels to religion here. In the end it might be our genes and the inherent tribalism driving us to behave that way, while thinking we are rational agents. There is an essay about it IIRC, the Lambda tribe and the Machine tribe.
It won taste comparisons and was priced the same?
I run a service (https://oikolab.com) that has hourly data going back 70 years.
https://privacy.com/card-issuing does
GPU can be useful for Nearest Neighbour as well. In case you have access to a GPU, I would strongly recommend Facebook's FAISS [1,2]. For everything else, sklearn is amazing.

[1] https://faiss.ai/
[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
Comment from tyingq:

> I have a hunch their main concern is this kind of marketing on your site: „Access the American market Our credit card comes with a U.S. billing address, so you can unlock features restricted to the U.S or Western markets especially if you don't live there."

https://justuseapp.com/free-trial-card
Ah I didn’t realise that was the rule - I will work on adding a free trial
List of Static Site Generators
> "You can't compress noise." Well, humans can't tell the difference between two snippets of white noise.

new codecs (decoders?) have something called Film Grain Synthesis. i think you have to encode the content before this is applied at the source?

i'm not sure this actually madebit into the AV1 standard or encoders yet.

tried encoding Hurt Locker a few years ago and the film grain added to it really put the hurt on x264/handbrake. the final file size was nearly as big as the original content. back then the same amount of cpu burning could have probably found a full btc :D

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17536727
B7-33 Peptide for Sale Here
> That new player would need to have 20 billion dollars of money to play along though.

In 2020 Uber's net income rose to losing only 7 about billion dollars. And they are competing for a market far less interesting and defensible than advanced semiconductors.

Competition would arise.
Interestingly unemployment is up (4.6% vs 3.8% in 2018). I doubt that will last long though.
So if Intel drops $0.8B on a risktaker learning from what I. B. M. did to make Watson and not make those mistakes. What new thing could come from that? A new category product is what Intel should look for around the corner(s).
If realized, this task would certainly be very interesting!

What will be the future of recruiting if someone is evaluated on the basis of knowledge instead of degrees?
> I'm amazed you can legally hand out free (virtual) credit cards like these without anything close to a banking license

As far as I understand it, a lot of those work like VISA gift cards.
Same old answer, and actually the real reason why Firefox marketshare is dropping: people don't change the default application.
the only 3 steel buildings ever to come down in complete free fall in a matter of seconds due to "fire"? NIST's explaination breaks the fundamental laws of physics
There's 1.5m folks on fulough so this stat isn't that meaningful.
I don't want to sound too cynical but I don't know of an ombudsman which has binding authority. Here in the Netherlands all ombudsman I know are non-binding.

I personally know of 2 dealings with an Ombudsman in the Netherlands. One involved me personally and another one of a good friend. In both cases the ombudsman advised in our favor. In both cases the reaction on the advice was: "Thanks for the advice, ombudsman, but we are not going to act on it.".

A non-binding ombudsman is in my experience just a paper tiger to make an organization look good and I have never seen a binding one.
I've never found a donkey that really liked me before and it bums me out. Donkeys have so much personality.
It is starting. I've seen big companies start shifting towards this future over the last couple of years. In discussions with other security professionals across various companies, it is appearing more like an inevitability that a shift to memory safety is coming, in one way or another. It is moving slower than I'd want, but the discussion feels very different than it did just three or four years ago.
Yeah, nah. It was about the quality, not the amount. McDonald's successfully offered a 1/3 pound burger for over a decade until price increases and health culture made it uneconomical.
Not sure if it's implied but JavaScript was basically ideated as Scheme with C syntax in the Browser. That concept didn't take off for quite some time but pure functional programming within React actual got quite some popularity. Even "plain React" is borrowing a lot of concepts from FP, especially when combined with Flux and other add-ons. During that time also Clojure due to Om (React with Clojure) gained some popularity.

One language where FP basically arrived in the mainstream is by the way Scala. And there are other newer language which allow for FP'ish programming like Kotlin.

But otherwise it's true, languages like Schema or Haskell will probably not arrive in the mainstream soon.
Will they also fine Samsung for blocking the user's right to remove manufacturer-bundled cruftware?
Australia's government is conservative, and their rights-taking is mostly racist.
No. It is exactly what it is written as. "If you were at the beach, you would have seen the shark." It's not saying you were there or not, it's saying that you probably should maintain knowledge of the following clause. I suppose it could also mean you were not there. But not always.

I can see why they'd get upset if I was assuming they're not Korean. But that's not what I said or meant.

It would be considered directly saying that if I were to say "You can't be Korean because ____" or "You would be Korean if you ______".
No, just the worst tasting...
Fungibility means that two things are mutually interchangeable on all levels.

I cannot take cash into a bank that came from a heist or a covert drug buy from the authorities for example, I'd go to jail. The term 'marked bills' exist because cash is not fungible, not all bills are equal.

This is the binary quality of fungibility. There are no shades of fungibility, there is no "well this is X's definition of it".
It was priced the same
Hello. Fantastic project! My focus is on providing historical data (I do have forecasts but is more secondary focus). Would be happy to chat.
Wikipedia is horrible regarding moderation. Trust is mostly gone.
not quite the same, but

https://www.amazon.com/fosa-Wireless-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Port...
Entrepreneur plans to resurrect woolly mammoths
Kierkegaard (who had a lot to say on this topic of the self), would have observed that recognizing that it is tricky to reconcile is one very important step. Man is both finite and infinite (or as Ernest Becker put it, half animal, half symbolic) and the entire task of recognizing one's self is dealing with this paradoxical nature.

The suggestion of the top comment to 'accept it' Kierkegaard argues is no solution, it is regression into the finite, vanishing into the crowd. One might be contempt and safe, but still in despair, even without knowing it, which is the worst kind. Getting lost in the infinite, (choice despite being bound by one's finite nature) leads to the paralysis of choice and despair over options not realized.

The actual answer is, according to Kierkegaard, not to remain indifferent, but understand that exactly this struggle is what brings awareness to the self and in his religious reading, God. (which I think does not necessarily have to be taken literally if someone prefers a secular interpretation, he sometimes also spoke of 'creation' or simply, love).

"[...]Ah! So much is spoken about human need and misery and how to overcome it. So much is spoken about wasting our lives. But the only wasted life is the life of one who has so lived it, deceived by life’s pleasures or its sorrows, that that person never became decisively, eternally, conscious of him or herself as spirit, as a self. Or, if I may put it another way, such a person has never become aware — and gained in the deepest sense the impression — that there is a God and that that person, him or herself, is answerable to and exists before this God, and that this God can only be met by way of despair. Alas! so many live their lives in denial, decapitated from eternity. So many are not aware of their true destiny, defrauding themselves of this most blessed of all realities."
You are positive you were told that electrons are matter maybe.
This is the standard (see: current) model, in QFT electrons are not particles, so are not leptons, so are not matter.
"Treat infrastructure as possible failure points and prepare accordingly" holds just as well for the payment infrastructure. Interesting and fresh perspective, thank you for sharing.
Cascaded Shadow Mapping
I'm afraid the answer to that question is called "lobby".
Yes, it's the most actively developed and the most featurful.

F# is another interesting ML. It has less of the features which makes Ocaml interesting but it runs on .NET so you have access to a ton of library.

SML seems more niche. I don't think it sees much use outside of academia.
> And if you've been following the news, the average turnaround on our government having a "parliamentary committee hearing" on a bill and passing it into law is about 3 days.

The article is dated august 27. If your estimate was accurate the bill should already be passed and this news story could be replaced with one about the final text of the bill.
> Why is anyone seriously talking about [x] when the [y] vaccine is 96%+ effective at preventing symptoms

They may be reluctant towards the latter product because their goal may be exactly to avoid damages, and they had acquaintances which suffered the potential Severe Adverse Events, which made these SAE a reality to fit properly in their "world model", and they may be confused by a strong clash between the evidence of those acquaintances and some circulating narrative according to which those cases are "anecdotal" (as if irrelevant), plus another which speaks of "safety" in relative terms instead of the closer-to-absolute terms one may intend (B says "safe" for "less dangerous than atrocilinusomethingmazipan", while A with "safe" would intend "substantially non dangerous").

They probably are the kind of people that do not consider the job done until the SAE are explained, including what is to be done to minimize them statistically (as in, "more risky for those with blue eyes") or prevent them. Some people get hurt, so you have to understand why.

Those of them who can reason about risk comparison (and know the risks of the main other option) will have taken precautions (whatever they are: some managed to achieve considerable isolation).

About explanation of the damages, some steps are being done, but it is slower than desirable: on the 9th an article came out about an autoimmune response against ACE2 as a possible cause of long COVID. Maybe something similar will be understood about the exceptional but still consideration worthy sufferers of post-vaccine SAE?

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28486930
Great practice, specifically determining how much redundancy you need, and making sure it is available. The theme also goes with your acct name quite nicely!
"Wonderful world sun (acoustic)" didnt turn out so good unfortunately:

https://rave.dj/W82-TookjbQvkg
Not necessarily more unethical, because in your example we know that this contributes to future advances which eventually reach more people including the poor.

With vaccines we know the end game, especially with an endemic virus.
Not only that, but studying math takes discipline, commitment, and practice. You can’t passively learn math. To a certain extent, mathematical illiteracy is encouraged in society by the standard trope “I’m bad at math.” Almost everyone is bad at math. The difference is that some people understood math is the best way to precisely understand the world and worked to understand it.
If you were British, you would know where York is.

It's not saying you don't know. It's saying that, this should be part of your knowledge based on you being British.

I don't see how that's offensive.
> A totally free AI that aims to maximize the money in it's account seems terrifying.

You mean the wealthy?
Ask HN: How do you get paid by a startup across borders?
I'm currently looking into leaving my big-tech job for a remote job at an early-stage startup, ideally as one of the first hires. I don't live in the US but I am a US citizen so I want to understand how such cases are handled in terms of employment/tax law as well as who deals with the foreign exchange hassle and risk.

Anyone who has worked at an early-stage startup based in a country with a separate currency/tax/banking system than where you live, how are you employed and compensated? Are you directly employed by the startup? Is it via a local subsidiary? Any impact on your equity? Are you paid in the startup's local currency or your own? Who bears the foreign exchange risk?
I generally don't trust VPNs that seem to have a huge budget to spend on advertising, because that usually means they have had a shotload of investment that a VPN service will never be able to return to the investors. These VPNs are invariably owned in some weird ownership structure in jurisdictions I don't have any confidence in.
Sure, you can do that, or you can have a software do that. But you won't get it filled out by the state + "sign here if everything looks okay".

Plus you always need extra forms for savings etc.
Was Python's package management unusually good compared to other languages at the time?
I bought a Miui phone about a week ago. It's on miui 12.5 and it's the first time I've ever used this OS. I expected to hate it because of all the flack it gets. But honestly, it's fine. It's not that different from Android.

I did have to uninstall a load of bloatware using ADB and I added a custom launcher (Niagara).
I can easily see this happen and I'm sure its affecting many others too and you just don't hear about it.

A couple of years ago I was unable to make some online purchases with my debt card.

It was always vendor specific and there didn't seem to be any logic to it. I talked to my bank, and they talked to MasterCard, and I would speak with vendors technical support or billing. Nothing out of the ordinary.

This was happening for over a year and I got by with using a credit card as needed (which I don't like to use in general).

Anyway, the common denominator was all these vendors used Stripe for payments. I email Stripe and eventually someone noted that my card number had been flagged by some algorithm in the past and had been blacklisted. For background, to my current knowledge, I've never had an issue with identity-theft, had others fraudulent charge my account, or done anything out of the ordinary.

That fact that this happens, and you have no notification or no clear recourse is frustrating. To be clear, I do not think this is specific to Stripe - I think all large services are vulnerable to this.
All good points. Which is why the stock comp would have to be multiples of $100k to equal $100k in cash in my eyes.

Of course, if the startup ever goes public, you'll make out like a bandit on that amount of stock! But more likely, as you say, you'll be left with only the cash component.
I'm not entirely sure how you would launder money through this service. From what i can tell no money is actually passed through it. It just generates a temporary credit card which is never billed. It is just used to bypass the "please enter your credit card for this free trial" prompts.
People who got vaccinated five or six months ago are seeing their immunity rate drop to around eighty percent. That's double the risk compared to a fresh vaccination.
Substance is much more than money (to me). Why use the word if we all use it differently indeed...
Black people, climate change, children, inequality, other people's money.

The perfect guilt trip for white midwits.
Questions to Ask About Covid and Air Quality at Work
That definitely sounds like Rob Pike. As for changing how Go does error handling, there is actually a proposal in motion to do exactly this, with support among both devs and the language maintainers: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21182#issuecomment-54241...
In most economic models, inflation is not defined as being equivalent to the growth of the monetary base (although that does not stop many Bitcoin and other crypto proponents to claim it is).

In fact, a currency with a constant rate of issuance is actually highly deflationary in a growing economy.
It's true that explicit code is good, but "Go code reviews are a breeze" was not remotely my experience. For me and my past teams, reading through piles of boilerplate verbiage like this - among other 'explicit' syntax - was more of an impediment to understanding the flow of the program. Personally I think what the above commenter said is pretty much spot-on, and typical of Go teams I worked in.
I'm not sure I get your argument, staking takes significantly less powerful hardware so its very accessible.

Staking pools also have a "saturation point" to encourage decentralization. That way not all 80 Billion dollars worth of ADA goes to one staking pool.

Very hard to see how oligopolies can arise in this scenario when compared to mining operations that are unprofitable to most users (and of course bad for the environment).
I agree w others that notebook for in person is best due to norms.

I use Todoist for everything. I like the txt mentioned here but proper apps like todoist will remind and ping on various things as they come up or remind me which I find insanely helpful.

Siri (ugh pixel was so much better w calendar sync etc until it just died one day and I gave up on the Android vision) to help w on the go reminders and stuff I don’t want to forget.
Oh man. Are you me? Thanks for that comment.

For me functional programming was just like a “missing link”. Wait, I can just code like I think, not in this weird statefull way? It’s just so practical for me. I can deliver 10x the value for 0.1 the effort. It’s just not fair, I know for a fact that there are more people with the same model of thinking, I just want them to feel as liberated