skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if you are just experimentally gluing black boxes together and trying to make observations about them

>ah these parameters/network layout did this, here's a guess as to why

Or just mindlessly gluing stuff to solve a particular problem

>we took x model and trained it to recognise cats

then yes, you probably do not need much mathematical knowledge. However if you are researching fundamentals, neural tangent kernel, neural odes etc, then you will probably be pretty decent at mathematics. You will also probably have been exposed to Peano at some stage in your life, even if you don't remember it. Its just good background mathematical character development.

I would say even if you are more of an applied person, being exposed to the fundamentals probably helps shape your thinking. Yes you can still be a good productive programmer, but maybe you will have something missing. The person with a broader background may be quicker at solving a new problem, they have a bit more to draw on.
Innovation or invitation to shave a Yak?
Right, but Homo Economicus doesn't really exist, and just because an action is "rational" from a purely economic standpoint, it doesn't mean that action will be taken by an actual living person. Disincentives sometimes have demotivating factors beyond their purely economic impacts.
"Add 32 and 14" is from the directions page of the test -- it's not an actual question. It's intentionally easy so as not to distract from the point, which is to tell students how to fill in answers.

You can find sample questions here: https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nqt
> It would be nice if we could just regulate this industry to protect the people in it.

Amen to that. As an ignorant outsider looking in, the first thing that comes to mind is the possible huge safety benefits gained by collective bargaining. Even if it's not certified and recognized by the NLRB, there's gotta be something.
What you describe is almost as good as the deal anyone can get from Costco in the US.

The return period is 6 months, I think. You also get one free replacement in the first 3 years if it is lost or chewed up by your dog.
It's not _just_ a self-fulfilling prophecy - there are other factors at play here beyond simply "X is good enough". But sure, the more that dominant languages try to pick up good features from other, better languages, the more they will tend to maintain their dominance. This is the way nearly all successful systems behave, incidentally. Please note that it's going to be tough sledding trying to convince JS users not to try to improve their language so that some other clearly superior language can come along and take its market/mindshare.

And, well, yes, I realize we're talking about a future maybe-feature. That said, I assume you're granting my counter-point about how, no matter how you slice it, this is still ultimately "just a babel plugin"?
Try to film a "Borat" style comedy that goes over the leftist tropes, rather than right-wing/rust belt ones, and you will quickly discover that there exist certain types of comedy that aren't conducive to one's success in Hollywood, even if the result is funny AF to everyone but Twitter intelligentsia.
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Completely agree. I remember with my past phones, there were lots of flashy features to play with but then they'd become annoying and you'd start to notice glaring usability problems. Pixel has exactly what it's supposed to have and all of them are well designed.
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Hand held terminals giving you an addiction on par with heroin, the ability to instantly pinpoint your location on a map and get directions to anywhere your gig economy job makes you go, logistic chains so perfectioned you can't buy graphic cards cheaply because people from the other side of the world who mine bitcoin out bid you, dependence on biochemistry to difficult to grasp for the majority, planes that are to complex to be checked by third parties so one needs to just trust the manufaturer, machines approaching a human level of deception, meat grown in a lab without hurting animals is not possible/affordable at scale.
I recently had to work with a JS codebase that looked like it was written by Java devs that were fooled by the surface similarities of TS and Java. Everything was a class, usually in a complex hierarchy with a lot of implementation inheritance. The code was deeply imperative and very hard to follow as well as being painfully verbose. It was the worst of both worlds.
Microsoft already checks hashes against known child pornography when you put things into OneDrive, so the uproar should be fairly minimal if they scanned sooner.

The really odd thing is that Apple does the scanner client-side so that the content can be encrypted, protecting your privacy more generally, and somehow a bunch of folks like you think it’s much much worse.

Candidly, I think this is manufactured outrage from weird nerds who have “don’t like Apple” as part of their existing identity. These weird nerds, like you, jump through massive logical contortions to explain why it’s horrible.
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Correct they gave an example xx,xxx stock options for a company that got acquired by mega corp could easily translate into millions.
Some of Samsung's rugged phones still let you replace the battery as well. In addition to having a headphone jack and SD card slot.
Now, I am a dumb rube with vague, unhappy feelings about the financial industry - but it’s not as if Jamie Diamond is running for President on a “clean up finance” platform. Who’s the person who actually understands the game that will carve away all the crap?
Well yeah, the difference is that conspiracy theories purport that a group of people are secretly conspiring in order to fool the public into believing a false narrative. I disagree with some views that fit that description and I disagree with some that don't.

But this is more about people close to me espousing fringe views that seem to do nothing but cause them anger. These views are baseless, but I'm not particularly interested in trying prove them wrong at this point. I just don't like seeing my loved ones being hateful.
Apple does not scan on device photos at all. It's something they announced they might do to images you upload to iCloud Photos some day in the future.

Google, on the other hand, has been scanning the entire contents of your account for the past decade.

>a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect’s Gmail account.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...
My son discovered and has started learning Toki Pona, a constructed language designed for minimalism, much more ‘efficient’ than English, and extremely “telegraphic” to use the term in the article. I’m definitely intrigued, but not sure if I’d want to spend the energy to learn it. Anyone here have experience with Toki Pona?

https://youtu.be/E4y7tf3VJAM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona
> I will pick up the laptop and it will often be dead despite hibernating

You have to change the default sleep state from 's2idle' to 'deep'. I can't remember what config file I changed to make that permanent since I did it so long ago, but it should be a quick Google away.
How a Mandelbrot set (surprisingly) arises from Newton’s work
In an alternate universe, Python 3 would have

- not broken backward compatibility (an astonishing value-destroying move with huge externalities that are still being felt today)

- provided a standard and improved packaging system
Im convinced the only people that like ruby are those that want to delve into metaprogramming. It might be fun for the person that constructs it but it is a nightmare as an outsider looking into a project.

I know this is more rails but the fact that autoloading is even a thing speaks to the wild nature of ruby.
https://netbeans.apache.org/kb/docs/java/quickstart-gui.html

It wasn't an "idea". It was/is working tech. How do you think a GUI builder for Java works? In fact, how would you build a UI design tool (in any language) without arriving at the equivalent of a Java Bean (aka Standard Component)?

[p.s.] Btw, "Big Object" is a funny way to call a Component. COP is not OOP. (Thus: POJO). So getter/setter naming patterns (so the 'tool' can infer semantics), distinctions made between run-time and design-time, etc. are all perfectly valid concerns for COP and Java Beans a perfectly sensible realization.

The problem with the Java community has always been two-fold:

1 - The conceptual disconnect between the target audience of Sun's architects and the said architects. SMI's failing here remains, imo, a pedagogical failure.

2 - A language that facilitates creating complex runnable monstrosities by programmers who would be crushed by the same complexity in other languages. This is an ironic aspect of the Java language. Even newbies can go nuts with complexity.
The same stats also note that the median income for an escort is $5000 per month, or $60k/year.

And for what it's worth, flying to many places with a family of four can cost $1200/hour even in economy class.
Decriminalization, that's mostly what sex workers want. I'm pretty wary of regulation, which often is done in misguided ways by people out of touch with sex workers' actual needs.
why stop there? pretty much any form of transportation is more dangerous and/or generates more emissions that humans on their own two legs. collectively, we have decided to trade some of that away to actually get places in a reasonable amount of time. but if you don't feel comfortable driving in 65+ mph traffic, there are plenty of surface roads that run parallel to interstates.
They can also be used in the other direction, allowing a corporation with an initially open-source license to re-license all contributed work, including closing it off.
Yeah, I'm really confused how someone could see multiplication tables as useless. I'm not sure how anyone could become adept at multiplying without memorizing the relationships between common numbers. Are there grown people out there who add up 8 8's when they need to solve 8*8?
Why would you be trying to find the point at which it is too loud? The goal is to amplify things to the point that you can hear them clearly, not to go beyond that.

Also hearing aids have manual volume control which a licensed professional has no influence over, so that doesn't really make sense as a justification for limiting availability.

It's certainly possible to apply volume limiting to headphones, though again the people using amplifying headphones typically are dealing with the opposite problem.
I want something a bit more selective. Like, capable of completely blocking out the sound of my wife snoring.

I’m sure that I’m not the only one in this boat, but I may be one of the rare males complaining about their wife snoring.
> A lot of people here are saying this is incredibly common which is frankly pretty surprising to me.

As an intern at one place I had to spend hours studying and then taking a test to ensure I complied with anti-bribery rules. I’m sure this didn’t just come up because one person did something bad.
Google seems to be hiding the fact where the phone is made.
I think it's very important to know for a consumer to make an ethical choice.
Where they make it?
I am kinda disappointed the "math foundations" (first part) does not have the word "logarithm" anywhere on the page, as this is for cs / AI.

The CS part of this thing (different page) does talk briefly about logarithms, but just a little. In one part it says "A (base-10) logarithm of a number is essentially how many digits a number has."

The final (AI) part then ends up needing exponential functions and logarithmic functions. It references a book

"Obtain the book Mathematical Modeling and Applied Calculus listed in the beginning of this page via library genesis or other means, and skip to chapter 1.4 Exponential Functions. There is a short demonstration here that assumes you have a basic idea what a derivative is from the other above videos. Read chapter 1.5 on inverses, then 1.6 Logarithmic Functions. By read I mean leisurely skim through the material knowing when to go practice or read more in depth later if needed."

I skimmed the three chapters of the book to see how they teach it, and i really kinda didn't like the way they approached it and what they leave out. I think even if you understood everything there, you wouldn't really have a good understanding of log and exponent, what e actually is, how logs relate to each other, how they relate to polynomials, how exponential funcs relate to doubly exponential ones and so on... just like good roots to be able to understand complexity really well. I dunno.

It's a draft right? Maybe they will fix that up and make it more self-contained. I don't think i would really want to do it like this from scratch. Math is too often taught in such a mechanical way without really explaining how everything relates. I want people to actually really have good intuition about the things i teach them before i use them as requisite to teach them something that requires them.

Is AI really a good place to start? Why even do it this way?
Kids of fraud are no joke. I'm pretty sure I'm a kid of fraud.
If I'm sitting at my desk I have my phone on the desk instead of in my pocket. It gets annoying have to pick it up to hit the fingerprint reader on the back when I fire up the 2-factor auth app.
Not if you order them from the UK ;-)
> I have seen in novel court cases where cases in other countries are used as an example

Do you mean novel court cases in the U.S. referencing cases from other countries? My impression was the U.S. was loath to base legal decisions on those from other countries (with the exception of British common law from before U.S. independence). Contrast this to Europe where the EU has adopted common European courts. It would be less surprising if you were talking about European courts cross-referencing each other.

I just don't know why they'd choose this strategy, except as a hail mary to create a new standing doctrine for software license. Has suing on behalf of the copyright holders proven insufficient in the U.S.?
AND, the day after M1 Pro 7 Max launch. Google Silicon seems so "so what?" after those jaw dropping chips!
There are many who understand it well enough to reform it. The issue is not complexity -- finance isn't even that complicated -- it's a lot less complicated than tech or physics or construction, or logistics or medicine -- it only takes political will to switch to an economy that allows only utility banking and simple vanilla financial contracts. But this would require shutting a lot of things down, and there are a lot of wealthy interests standing in the way.

In this sense, it's just like medicine or higher education. Look at the people benefiting from the current system -- these are the ones who oppose changing it.
I've been working in the collaborative editing space for a decade now (!) and I think this problem is simply a consequence of an age old architectural mistake that we persist because we don't know any better.

The problem is that the filesystem acts as a dumb blob store that doesn't understand changes. And it doesn't understand any of the semantics of what its storing. Its a lovely abstraction - but it has bullied us into the age old "load / edit / save" workflow. And that workflow just isn't very good:

- Its slower for the computer - because no matter how incremental, the computer has to rewrite the entire file to disk

- Its buggy by default. A power loss or malfunction can and will result in a corrupt save file. You can fix this with careful use of fsync() and renames, but almost nobody does that correctly because its complicated and confusing. And it makes saving slower. You see this all the time in video games - "When you see this symbol, don't turn off your console".

- Because you only give the OS snapshots in time, you end up discarding information about the changes that have happened along the way.

With code editing we work around this with diff-match-patch, but its lossy, not realtime, and not good enough for collaborative editing.

With more complex data (like 3d models) this problem is much more egregious. There's no reason the modelling program couldn't output a fine grained sequence of changes as they're made by the user. Any collaborative editor already does this.

Having a rich set of changes gives us way more options for merging - eg, they could be merged in a conflict-free way if we want. Or with a custom UI or whatever. Its strictly more information that you can generate with diff-match-patch.

The problem is there's no obvious place on the filesystem to put that information, or way to tell the OS about changes as they happen. And so long as the file system is the way that disparate programs talk to each other, and the file system can't handle this information, programs ends up just discarding any detailed change sets. And we end up with ugly JSON merge conflicts in 3d files. Collaborative editing (if it happens at all) ends up done on a per-app basis rather than just working by default across the whole OS - like it should.

And the result of all that is that the desktop is being slowly sidelined in favour of proprietary web apps (like figma or google docs). Why? Because web apps aren't constrained to the paradigm of saving and loading files.

It won't be easy, but it seems to me like a no-brainer for us to fix.
They weren't clear with what they meant, but to steelman the argument...

Some things that increase wealth inequality are bad, others are good: J.K. Rowling increased wealth inequality by writing Harry Potter, but the world is better off having a great children's book series. Book purchasers, publishers and authors are all enriched by the existence of the book.
Still waiting on that PWA support...
How do you prove your value to get promoted like this after a measly few months on the job? Play golf with the CEO? I’m seriously wage slaving to make senior leadership at my org Rich, just for the promise of not being fired and not being promoted.
Zeus (YC S11) Is Hiring for EA to the CEO/Co-Founder
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A prion causing other proteins to misfold can only occur if the misfolded state has lower energy than the correctly folded one. It does this by acting as a catalyst, lowering the potential energy barrier that was allowing the protein to persist in the correctly folded state, to the point where e.g thermal fluctuations allow it to cross that barrier. The equivalent could occur if there was a lower energy state for water (and an ice-9 like scenario could then occur if this lower energy state catalyzed further transitions to this lower energy state). We don't expect this to be possible though, as we can't make water decay by other ways of making it cross that hypothetical potential energy barrier by dumping energy into it (whereas for a protein you can e.g burn it, denature it, etc), and aren't aware of catalytic activity by any forms of water.
Sounds similar to problems predicting hourly call volume. Statistics research might give you examples, also operations management research
Marcel does a great job of arguing the value of Turing incompleteness. I've collected his talks here: https://cuetorials.com/videos I cannot say it better than he has.

JQ is close to how CUE would solve this. Both are different than an imperative config language, where you would recurse over data. For both JQ and CUE, you would provide a pattern matching "mask" of sorts. With CUE, you can also have a schema built into that mask and ensure that any transformations are still valid. You can also do the same with Yaml, so you get one tool and language to replace jq, yq, and jsonschema.

Cue might actually get bounded recursion, the idea has been thrown around. It ought not invalidate the theory because it can be proved all the way down. You can simulate it today with comprehensions. I've built some structural helpers on the pattern here: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuetils
> Go over on data?

Or you could be a T-Mobile subscriber and never "go over" on data, even when abroad. It just gets slower, but that's fine most of the time, at least for me. It's amazing to be able to use even slow internet in the butt crack of the world somewhere without paying an extra dime - that's the way it ought to be on all carriers.
Simpson's paradox is that several (most, all) groups show an increase, but the average is decreasing.

Imagine a simple chart 1980:

-----------| students | avg-score

poor ...... | 10 ....... | .2

non-poor | 100 ...... | .8

If the chart in 2020 looked like this:

-----------| students | avg-score

poor ...... | 100 ...... | .25

non-poor | 150 ...... | .85

Both groups increased their average score.

But the total average went from (.2x10+.8x100)/110=~.75 to (.25x100+.85x150)/250=~.61
They mentioned other people being fired for "not being fast enough" - I'd say that puts the blame squarely on management and not them. People will do all sorts of silly things in a culture of fear and unmovable deadlines like that.
The meaning of interpolation and generalization in deep learning
some prefer structured/smurfed bank transfers

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