skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Some teams believe that customers don't want such a feature and may have been explicitly told that they don't want that feature to exist. The latter part seemed like hyperbole to me but I don't have the context they have.

I have heard such reasoning many times to get away with all sort of BS.

The argument is often impossible to refute, since you don't have any customer at the meeting and the feature is on the idea stage. So I guess it is some sort of argumentation fallacy, referring to a non-existing person?
Come on functioning rail! Baby needs a new pair of shoes!
"Want" in this case is clearly understood to mean the option that is evolutionarily favorable.

Per this site's guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
I don't really agree with this... for one, legalese is actually very specific for the domain with which it is written (and that specificity is part of why it is so hard to read); and for another, the code in front of you might be explicit and "reliable", but can you say the same about the functions and libraries that it calls?
And then come people saying "oh but there were always ups and downs". Hockey stick or not, natural causes or human causes debate aside, what this argument forgets is that insects and animals and plants and by extension humans will suffer through this a lot and we know we can mitigate it by lowering our own emissions. So why not doing it, even if the catastrophe would be from natural causes? Don't we want to avoid a natural catastrophe even if it's natural? Everybody agrees we should blast an incoming asteroid and nobody proposes to let it hit because "yeah we had already a few during history"...
> I'm surprised we don't see Covid mutations that invalidate PCR tests

PCR tests for RNA or DNA, that's not something a mutation can change. I don't know for Covid, but usually a PCR test targets something fundamental & stable. That might need to be updated with new variants.
Surprised that this isn’t 300million Americans.
The headline looks good to me.

Few headlines work without context so what we want is for them to choose the most obvious, pertinent context. I think we all care a lot more about what Omicron means to us now, not what it would have meant if it were the main variant at the start of the pandemic.

And, of course, anyone who cares about the topic should read past the headline.
One mitigating thing I remember from that book is that no person is inherently classified as an "artist" or a "soldier" it's more that people can be operating in that mode depending on their current role, or even dividing time between one mode or the other depending on the circumstances.
I can still remember my boss telling people with a cold to take a DayQuil and power through their workday.

I really hope that mentality never comes back.
The only job in the tech industry that's not some sort of leadership role is Intern. Everyone leads and mentors. Senior Engineers at the level of a single team, with perhaps some cross-team impact. Staff Engineers at the level of an org with several teams.
Some NFL stadiums host 100k people. Would you go to a game if you knew 243 people were going to be randomly executed at it?
At this point, there's so much conceptual and syntactical overlap between the two frameworks that there isn't a "winner." Like most DS/ML tools, use which one fits your use case.
It's actually in the post itself, if you read it!
I find the way many people very easily equate covid vaccine skepticism and apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change skepticism, as you've done here, to be incredibly interesting. nothing I wrote above made any sort of correlation or even allusion to any correlation (I did not bring up vaccines) yet you made it yourself, unprompted, and characterized the apparently unified belief system between the two as "dumb babies." there's many conclusions that can be drawn from this that I personally find incredibly interesting but there's probably not much use in expounding on any of this here (flamebait rules etc.)
Does it really have to be self-trading though? Back in the poloniex days we traded a ton of shitcoin even though they were legitimately just Litecoin forks, they had no real value, no real use cases, but we traded them nonetheless because at the time some small popularity gain could make a dead coin valuable anyway and you could end up 100% in 24 hours for no reason other than some small time celebrity tweeting about it.

At the end of the day it was just speculation and it was fun.
Add to that the general lack of education around cyber security, hardly any mainstream CS course teaches cyber security as a mandatory course. We have CS Phds engineers who are experts in their domains but struggle to understand basic security concepts. We need to educate engineers to care about security of their code and systems just like they care about performance, reliability, maintainability etc.

The problem is further exacerbated by a class of people who received their MBAs and think they know it all. Just yesterday, a lead product manager was arguing with security folks about why his service needs to be patched for log4j vuln if its not internet facing. He had trouble fathoming that even though his service is not internet facing, it processes and logs user controlled data.

Look at recent Azure vulns, I am pretty sure their internal security team knew about these and after some back and forth some exec might have signed off an exception. They would rather be shipping features than fixing the mess they created. Most infosec peeps have trouble getting teams to prioritize of security stuff and some of the blame falls of infosec teams too for making everything sounds like a end of world scenario. But did Azure lose a single customer or did the stock price go down or loss of revenue? Nope, so whats the point of investing so much in security if it truly the only harm was some loss of reputation.

Even most security execs I have had a chance to interact with dont understand security topics properly, surely they can use some jargon to throw around in all-hands meetings and such. Unless from a security background these execs often confuse security with compliance and instead of investing in defense in depth techniques they look for check-boxes against security controls.
Circa News from 2012 (now closed) had some similarities to what you are describing.

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

Basically they would distill an article down to facts with links to the original source of the facts. Users could subscribe to a story and it would update you when a new substantive fact was added to the story.
Agree this is a sound solution for now however the the ISS is currently only approved for service until 2024 (this will clearly be extended) and plans need to be made for its replacement.

With the (moderately) high probability that the SpaceX Star Ship will succeed and go into active service in the next few years the cost to orbit is going to drop significantly. There is an opitunity soon to rethink what a space station is. Realistically the internal area of a Star Ship could make a space station in the same vain as ISS, and would be “cheap”. But we could also feasibly construct a rotating station with the use of Star Ship.

Space is about to undergo a transformative change in how people approach building in it.
> JavaScript did not mean "mobile code" in the sense of their checklist

What the hell does that even mean?
https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-techn...

Looks like interesting technology but I don't see how that helps here.
I can't even recognize my handwriting reliably.
For anyone who is a Principal Engineer at a FAANG, what do you do day to day?

I'm a Principal Engineer, not at a FAANG, and that mostly means i'm an expert at what I do and know the product inside and out, and I spend a good amount of time coding. I do also help others, answer questions, and deal with complex problems. I'd say I do 80% coding and 20% meetings / other things.

I interviewed somewhere else and they wanted me to do 50% coding and 50% meetings / other things. Was a bit surprised, since i'd personally rather code and keep my skills up.

My take is companies should have their top engineers spending a sigificant amount of time coding, or at least architecting, but I could imagine, and have read, that at FAANG sized companies it becomes more political? Also with so many employees I guess in theory the idea is to have Principals spend more time leveling up the rest of their workforce? In practice does that happen?
One company out there 'staff' is entry level. Whereas in all the companies I worked at 'staff' was a very prized title to have. Another company I worked at my title was basically just some random bits of roman numerals and something that sounded vaguely like a engineer. I usually just put sr software engineer/developer depending on the company and role.
If you remove vehicles EV or not, you win on all sides. I guess those who are against EV think about. As someone who suffers from air pollution, I'd welcome EV happily, but knowing that it's just a part of the (very) long term solution.

I remember that Trump was not much in fighting about climate change but much more into fighting against air pollution. On that account he was not completely wrong. Air pollution kills many people as others said.
> The company’s ascendant founder and CEO, Blake Resnick, recently appeared on Fox Business News to celebrate a venture capital coup: $25 million from Silicon Valley A-listers like Sam Altman, ex-LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s Next Play Ventures, and former acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.
It's just obvious to me that it works the correct way by way of elimination of alternative parsing. The example below can be unwrapped mentally and unambiguously as "an array of 5 items of (an array of 2 items of i32)". Indexing into the array is not backwards: the outer array is deref'd first, giving you one of those five items which has length two.

fn main() {
let mut a: [[i32; 2]; 5] = [[0,0],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0],[0,0]];
println!("{:?}", a[0]);
}

Note that the Rust array declarations are also homologous to other types in the ecosystem, such as nested Option types or nested collections (eg: Option<Option<T>> or List<List<T>>).

Contrast w/the C version, where it's obvious to a skilled C programmer but you need to remember to read the bounds from right to left to determine the memory layout (ie: an array of 5 arrays of two elements each):

int main() {
int i[5][2] = {{1,2},{3,4}, /*...*/};
printf("%ld\n", sizeof(i[0])/sizeof(int));
return 0;
}

In this case you are required to mentally combine the type on the left of the variable with the bounds on the right of the variable to parse a type declaration in your head that eventually looks like the Rust version:

(int[2])[5]

I've been doing a lot of professional C work lately so it's currently "swapped in", but I find that any time I pick C up after spending time away I find it ambiguous and I have to reason through the ordering of the declarations.

Obviously this is all IMHO and YMMV, but this developer does find it significantly easier to unambiguously parse Rust types.
Is the "less severe" part just from a roll of the dice? I wonder what's the likelihood of something more severe / extremely severe appearing in the next few years. Be it a variant of Covid, or something new altogether.

That should be the main take-away from this whole thing ... there needs to better healthcare, even in the "strongest" of countries. A comment here a few days ago really drove that point home. Germany, the EU powerhouse with 80 million people is on its knees (lockdowns again, despite good vaccination rates) because it can't handle a few thousand individuals needing ICU beds. That's just unacceptable. Until now we've been pretty lucky but that luck might run out soon.
Ocean shipping has been a boom/bust business since forever. It is possible "this time is different," and there are articles with exactly that headline, citing moderation in ordering new ships, but I don't see why such restraint will last.
Average person just as smart as brain surgeons and aerospace engineers
I've found uBlockOrigin slows down google meet a lot!
The difference is that your local IT team is overworked, understaffed (yay IT is a cost center), and bears the full deployment and ongoing monitoring and maintenance responsibility.

In new cloud land you're essentially contracting out a team at Amazon to handle all that. You can rent a team that is dedicated to that one particular service. In cloud land behind every service there is a whole team of people dedicated to maintaining that particular service, in on-prem land behind every service is a 1/20th of the capacity of your IT team.
Who want to know when they are being promoted in every review.
I think you may have hope that this is something that can be fixed instead of something you just have to live with. I would expect arthritic causes to be less limited in where they affect you, and probably jump from one joint to another or spread to them all.
Treestyle tab, uBlock origin and 1Password.
> Their goal is to get to the right answer, not to look good

I've noticed that there's a group that wouldn't have a question but would phrase their monologue to seem like a question.
I'd recommend taking a look at iNaturalist:
https://www.inaturalist.org/home

When you post observations, their AI does a great (though not perfect) job of identifying species. Works really well for birds, butterflies, does a generally good job on plants (tip: if it's flowering get the flower in the photo), and also is good with many wild mammals if you can get a decent photo. Not so good for many beetles, fungi, moss and other species where a photo's not really adequate for id. You post observations with time and location they have a map you can explore in many ways, and also there's an 'Explore' option that lets you see what wildlife are being reported in your area or an area you choose to explore.

Also the data from those observations is used by scientific researchers, so by using it you're contributing to citizen science.

edit to add: also it's free
If you did that now you'll run into sites with no content but a banner at the top with contact details so you can buy the domain.
No, they tend to become more spreadable, but there's no reason they couldn't become even more harmful as they evolve, rather than less. The strains that will win out are those that do less immediate harm (thus become more spreadable as people don't stay in bed ill), but that doesn't mean after a week or two they couldn't get really harmful (we saw in the first wave that covid was generally a week of nothing, a week of symptoms at home, a week in hospital, a week in intensive care, and then into the grave, with a certain chance of recovering each week. Imagine a mutation which reduced that recovering chance, that would cause more death, but not affect the spreading in the first week)
Would she read the millions of texts of all the family members who got killed in the world she advocated?
As a researcher in RL & ML in a big industry lab, I would say most of my colleagues are moving to JAX [https://github.com/google/jax], which this article kind of ignores. JAX is XLA-accelerated NumPy, it's cool beyond just machine learning, but only provides low-level linear algebra abstractions. However you can put something like Haiku [https://github.com/deepmind/dm-haiku] or Flax [https://github.com/google/flax] on top of it and get what the cool kids are using :)
It very much depends on the business. We offer managed data warehouses, which (a) are major consumers of compute/storage/networking and (b) often have stringent requirements around security and control of data.

We're betting that not everyone will be in the main public clouds for these reasons and prepared for the pendulum to swing back for some applications. Financial services companies for example still have major on-prem / self-managed footprints. They are very sophisticated consumers.

(My company Altinity was the one cited at the head of the article.)
Singlehandedly? Surely a lot of the people employed at Tesla worked too.

And even if he did do something great, plenty of us don't think it is right for people to own that much wealth. Would Musk have really stopped if he knew that he couldn't possess more than a billion dollars? Is "I want to be a megabillionaire" really the only thing pushing innovation?
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Supporting ML Reproducibility
TL;DR: We announced that we'd support the Reproducibility Challenge $500 per paper reproduced, and we're announcing the award winners for the Spring '21 edition, as well as our support for the Fall '21 edition of the challenge. Check out the awesome papers below

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Hey HN! Creator of DagsHub here. We really care about reproducibility. That's why, a while back, we announced our support for the Papers with Code ML Reproducibility Challenge, and that we'd award participants $500 per paper reproduced (according to the guidelines), to align incentives and put our money where our mouth is!

Today, I'm really happy to share the teams that were given the award, and the projects they worked on – read the full blog here: https://dagshub.com/blog/ml-reproducibility-challenge-spring-2021/

I honestly think the full read is interesting and worth your time, but here are the highlights from the papers:

1. Contextual Decomposition Explanation Penalization (CDEP) – The original paper proposes a method to reduce the chance of models learning spurious correlations instead of the actually important features. The team that reproduced it re-implemented the original project in Tensorflow, rewriting some functions completely from scratch! Along the way, they made a contribution to the Tensorflow addons repo

2. Self-supervision for Few-shot Learning – As its name suggests, this paper tests the importance of self-supervised learning in few-shot learning contexts. The team that reproduced it explored different input configurations than the one proposed in the article, and found out that it significantly affects the performance.

3. GANSpace: Discovering Interpretable GAN Controls – A proposed method to use "simple" PCA to create controls for GANs that are more humanly interpretable while being more computationally efficient. The team re-implemented the original implementation in Tensorflow and trained the model with a few benchmark datasets, they have a lot of very cool examples of the method in their report.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this challenge! None of this could be possible without you and we learned a lot in this process!

So what's next – well we've decided to continue the support the Fall 2021 edition of the Reproducibility Challenge! We want to host more reproduced papers since this makes the ML field better for everyone.

If you want to take part and move the field forward on the reproducibility front, check out the guidelines for more information on how to take part:
https://dagshub.com/DAGsHub-Official/reproducibility-challenge/wiki/ML+Reproducibility+Challenge+Fall+2021
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Don't forget the 'weak' will have likely been wiped out.
> Companies used to run their own electrical generators.

... and have the staff with experience and resources to keep them running. These days, UPS maintenance is sourced out to the cheapest bidder and testing is infrequent, with the predictable result of shit hitting the fan at the exactly worst time.
Neither are particularly desirable.
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Quite a few people interested in the circles I walk in, but pretty much everyone also agrees that the technology just isn't particularly close to viable yet (cost is high, general usability is low). And that's ignoring the google-glass style problems there would be with general use.
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If it is profitable it's not a ponzi, the basic feature of a ponzi is that there is no actual profit and the shareholders just take money from each other, or rather pay with liquidity if the ponzi is ongoing. But there actually is a profit to be made and it is made every day by centralized publishers, I welcome any model that would replace the current one, especially if it makes it better for the user.
Someone should tell HBO that, their Staff titles come before Senior Software Engineer, which is very confusing.
Looks nice! The inline REPL functionality reminds me a lot of the (defunct) Light Table[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H58-n7uldoU
> "Nonsense," you might say. "At the end of the day, you need to sell something; narratives are not enough." But aren't they? Another difference between the old world and ours is that we no longer sell things. In the past, the content was used to sell stuff: Executives from manufacturing companies got their TV channel buddies to produce Soap Operas in order to sell more soap. But today, content is not used to sell anything beyond itself. Everything is content, including your actions and behaviors. Why give them away for free?

To the extent that this is true - and quite possibly it is to some extent - it's pretty stark. This is the logic of the paperclip maximiser.

It's also a magnifier for socially destabilizing groupthink, because the important thing becomes not some grounded "fundamentals" but "what will everyone else think about this".

> But today, content is not used to sell anything beyond itself

Ah yes, the problem with Baudrillard is that he didn't monetize the simulacrum. Not ambitious enough.
>Biden quit demonizing BLM. That's a huge step in calming things instead of being the strong man who dismisses their beliefs and calls them sons of bitches.

Like I dont mind Biden's position on the left wing riots. BLM or antifa for that matter. I feel like rational people are going to be upset with clear police brutality that is happening. Though the tremendous violence that is involved is wrong. Biden is right to say this. However, as a leader who acknowledges police brutality. He should do something about it.

>Trump having done more is laughable when he intentionally inflamed the situation.

If you look at it objectively. Trump has to date done more for the blm cause than the democrats since replacing trump.

As of right now, they have achieved nothing for blm. Like I think we can all agree there's a police brutality problem. But also clearly a racism related issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGZnB41_e4 The only difference is skin colour and police react much differently.

As a leader this needs to be fixed. So lets step back. Why would Trump not acknowledge the issue or attack blm? Why is biden and friends doing nothing for them?

Also, why does blm only exist during elections? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

BLM isn't about police brutality. It's not even about racism. Trump attacks them because of what they are and biden ignores them because of what they are.

Alas, sideline BLM. The USA still has a police problem. Biden seems to acknowledge the problem exists and they seem to be clearly not interested in fixing the problem.
I don't even understand the use-case for this device. Who saved all their cartridges, but not their Gameboy? You may as well get a cheaper and more versatile retro handheld. The idea that hardware emulation is somehow better than software emulation when the end results feel indistinguishable to the user seems like a pointless argument.
Totally agree. Historically, prices only go down during recessions, and only barely. The only way these gains don't stick is if our economy falls off a cliff.
If the world wasn't so fat and it was 50 years ago, COVID probably would have been nothing, or the Hong Kong Flu.