skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dreyfus was a very intelligent man. He knew the difference between representational and non-representational systems. As Yann LeCun has said many times, deep learning is the learning of representations. That's all anyone needs to know in order to understand Dreyfus's thesis. The brain does not need a prior representation of a bicycle to perceive a bicycle. A DNN would be blind to a bicycle without a prior representation. Did you read the article?
Very much appreciate you pointing this out. Do you know if I can use this to embed a pdf in a personal website. a resume for example?
I'm living in a place where time zone offset/rules were changed 3 times in the last 30 years, because politics can't make their mind what do they really want.
Tesla Dogecoin Purchase Policy
It's like those open letters about climate change. won't change anything
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Isn't this power already a well-established (though also fictional) part of the US system?

What I mean by the parenthetical statement is that while the legislative branch does have an established right to ask the disclosure of information, their power to actually compel is limited. Without cooperation from the other branches of government, what they directly control is a handful of operatives who maintain no facilities for detaining people for the long term.
Canadian home prices have risen 70% or by $300,000 since 2015. There was almost a 30% jump just last year.

Source: https://www.straight.com/news/canadian-home-prices-have-rise...
Yes, absolutely. Next question?
> We understand that not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.

This was a discussion in prelude to the signing of the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany [1]. Baker's is a statement of understanding the
"Soviet Union [and] other European countries'" position, not an agreement--not even the hint of one. None of it made it into the final Treaty. Lots of ideas were mooted and abandoned in that transcript; it's revisionist to fixate on that one. (As, again, Gorbachev himself publicly admitted.)

Also, immediately following that statement, Baker says that he does not "have the Germans’ agreement to this approach," and that what he has relayed is "an account of this approach," holding that "maybe something much better can be created." Two men discussing ideas in pursuit of an agreement, which was drafted days and signed months thereafter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement...
Assuming a salary of $100k, and 0.5% daily fluctuation, that's a portfolio of $20 million, which is a sizable amount.
While I have gotten regular promotions I'm just vastly underleveled. I went to my skip asking for a level adjust and he laughed. I went to his boss who said yes, aboslutely, I'll inform your chain up to me. I went back to my boss, he said yes. I went to my skip, he said, absolutely not, provide me a ranked list of all employees and why you're better than all of them.

The problem is I'm underpaid, but the real problem is all the old garbage swirling around companies that don't respond to their management, but do expect those reporting to them to fall in line.

I could do incredible things if I wasn't treated like an underskilled know-nothing and given the authority to manage a lot more (finance, people, strategy etc). My skip just happens to be a company lifer who was coddled by previous executive leadership, so he thinks he doesn't need to change ever.
Ha, so I was right in my adjacent comment. BTW, that's how I've also instinctively pronounced REvil in my head, too.
If you do everything with SSR and only use form submissions on the front-end, then you can get 0% front-end JS with most stacks.
How Google Rigged the online ad market
LibreDrive disables the "policing", i.e., the software that makes the drive refuse to read due to a wrong region code, revoked key, etc. This counts as an "effective technological measure" separate from any decryption, etc. the drive performs and LibreDrive is thus likely a circumvention device under the DMCA. Publishing it would therefore be a felony, punishable by up to five years in federal prison, in addition to civil penalties.
I would like to see a study such as this one comparing the different strains of Cannabis and their respective THC/CBD %. I can't fathom schizophrenia developing from smoking high CBD weed.
I don't really see how the proposed way of teaching how to code is any better... I do like the idea of use-case based teaching.

Have the student choose what kind of thing they're trying to accomplish, then structure the class dynamically based on the needs of their choices, or something like that
> Then perhaps the cost of land is just too low in US cities?

Land generally is cheap in the USA because the USA is pretty damn big.

Europeans often don't think about how large the USA is. California alone is larger than every European country except Sweden, Spain, France, and Ukraine, and Texas is bigger than any of those. We have 10 states that are each bigger than the UK on their own.

It's why nobody in the USA takes a train anywhere. Even with a 200 mph train, it would take 15 hours to cross the country, and that's assuming no stops. In some states, you could ride that train for 3 hours in a straight line and not even leave the state.
The pragmatic consideration that usually influences the decision to use mmap() is the large discontinuity in skill and expertise required to replace it. Writing your own alternative to mmap() can be significantly superior in terms of performance and functionality, and often lends itself to a cleaner database architecture. However, this presumes a sufficiently sophisticated design for an mmap() replacement. The learning curve is steep and the critical nuances of sophisticated and practical designs are poorly explored in readily available literature, providing little in the way of "how-to" guides that you can lean on.

As a consequence, early attempts to replace mmap() are often quite poor. You don't know what you don't know, and details of the implementation that are often glossed over turn out to be critical in practice. For example, most people eventually figure out that LRU cache replacement is a bad idea, but many of the academic alternatives cause CPU cache thrashing in real systems, replacing one problem with another. There are clever and non-obvious design elements that can greatly mitigate this but they are treated as implementation details in most discussions of cache replacement and largely not discoverable if you are writing one for the first time.

While mmap() is a mediocre facility for a database, I think we also have to be cognizant that replacing it competently is not a trivial ask for most software engineers. If their learning curve is anything like mine, I went from mmap() to designing obvious alternatives with many poorly handled edge cases, and eventually figuring out how to design non-obvious alternatives that could smoothly handled very diverse workloads. That period of "poor alternatives" in the middle doesn't produce great databases but it almost feels necessary to properly grok the design problem. Most people would rather spend their time working on other parts of a database.
This is an oversimplified take, and completely glosses over macro social effects beyond "individual choice".

This is the social science equivalent of reasoning about human behavior and focusing on the behavior of individual neuron connections, or the behavior of an OS by focusing entirely on the I/O drivers - wrong scope of analysis.
What investment can reliably get > 5% APR with low risk?
What are the relevant interventions? Which genes correlate with MS?
>keep the cash in an investment account making > 5% APR vs. the house loan which presumably is in the low 3s.

One is guaranteed, one is not. Markets are volatile. I lived through 2001 and 2008 as a working stiff, that shit can drop on a dime.

Right now, I have no debts. House and vehicle are paid off and I have an "oh shit" account that's pretty good. I can sit here as a hermit for at least a year or two, three if I really hunkered down and pinched pennies. It's a good feeling; one less thing to worry about.

Now if I put all that money into the market and shit hit the fan, not only would I not be willing to sell stocks due to their price plummeting, I would still have a mortgage and car payment. I'd be in this situation for 6 months to a year. Not a great situation.

Ensure your freedom / ability to live first, then invest heavily, IMO.
To be fair to the managers, from my experience managers themselves have little to say and it is mostly HR that determines rules like compensation. In our case, insanely, salaries are frozen. Nothing that your direct manager can do about it. Except, leave, and get hired the next day.
It's performance review season and I struggle with this. I don't organize what I do in terms of accomplishments, it's all always small steps part of a larger vision so I have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what counts as an accomplishment.

If I fix something big or get something done, I just move to the next thing, perhaps an app like this can help me document that if I am not too lazy to use it.
The only other time I've heard of "IT-fascism" is when this 'abebeos' character threatened someone's job for not taking seriously a 50% claim on a $7k bounty for 'documentation, testing, and integration work'.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92729#c56 (relevant discussion is collapsed)

threat: comment 56;
"IT-fascism": 58,60,61
These badges are kinda controversial. The message they send out is "we give you an extra goodie if you do proper science, because we don't expect that to be the default".

Thus badges can become a kinda excuse for not fixing stuff by default.
> it will increase the surface for nitpicking and criticism

This is unfortunately. In one of my articles I linked to my github repo where I had implemented the algorithm in C. One of my reviewers complained that I had used C instead of C++. Probably advisable to not publish code before peer review.
Imfunniee/htmlOS: An OS made with HTML/CSS and JavaScript
This is great. In my ideal world all the web should be like this.
You are moving the goalposts. It's a solved problem at the scales that are relevant for today's needs. As the needs will expand, there's no reason to think the solution will suddenly fail.

Tesla sells Megapacks with a capacity as high as 3 GWh (but I'm sure if you're the richest person in India, they'll be more than happy to customize bigger solutions for you) [1].

You can head to their website and order right now over the internet a 15 MHh pack for $6.4 MM; the annual maintenance is listed as $21k. These things are supposed to last for 10 years, have a 90% round trip efficiency, and have a capacity of 70% left at year 10. So you can charge and then discharge (and sell) about 50 GWh over these 10 years, for a total investment of less than $7 MM. That is $0.14 per kWh. If you buy 1000 such packs, you get a 30% discount [1], so you end up with a breakeven cost of $0.10 per kWh.

As I said, Tesla offers now up to 3 GWh Megapacks. Would they be able to manufacture 100 such Megapacks over a 5y period? It does not sound that crazy.

[1] https://www.thestreet.com/tesla/news/new-tesla-megapack-deta...

[2] https://www.tesla.com/megapack/design
This is just unfortunately the default state for STEM-trained individuals (disclaimer: I am one of these).
I think a lot of people were already unhappy with their jobs, for whatever reason, and the pandemic + pandemic work life just pushed them over the edge.
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America Is Falling Apart at the Seams
Explain what you mean by 2,3,4x more please. You can look at levels.fyi and if you are in a big tech see what the big companies are paying, that sets the market. In my experience the amounts of sometimes shockingly high, but eliminate a few crazy outliers and I see accurate rates. I'm a 20 year experienced principal engineer, and I see rates that match what I get.

So what would 2,3,4x mean. Do you mean that much over your current salary, or over the 'market rate'. If someone paid me 2 or 3x my market rate as a principal backend infrastructure engineer, I would take it, but a year ago when I was interviewing, the offers from the big guys were not that different.
> the DB has information on access patterns and table format that the OS is not aware of

Aren't system calls such as madvise supposed to allow user space to let the kernel know precisely that information?
Don't think so. I'm highly productive working from home. But when I went to the office, we mostly ended up drinking and playing video games. I can't do maths without hours of quiet contemplation of the problem. In an office, that's almost impossible.
It's similar to Lisp in this way - what you build out of it is going to be variations on the underlying theme, you might as well just be using Lisp, or Lua in this case, with a specific coding convention and style guide.
I've had two ideas related to this in the past that I've always wanted to prototype:

- A social media website without a frontend. We just provide a fully exposed API and Oauth, and devs can create their own client to interact with the social network. This would give devs the freedom to create their own experiences without locking users into one specific way of using the social network.

- "Cloud" content hosting as a service. You'd be able to build your own frontend for interacting with a website / blog, and then include our JS code and your site's content will automatically be populated in. This would keep the frontend clean, simple, and cheap, while offloading posts, comments, and other advanced functionality to the service.

Of course both are purely experimental ideas, with no potential real world meaning :D
A poor translation. From Russian wikipedia [1]:

"""

Competent authorities are executive authorities endowed with jurisdiction and power to perform any specific tasks (“competence” here means “the right to make decisions”).

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[1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5...
If you're going to develop MS as an adult after getting EBV mononucleosis, it's likely that it will be soon (5-10 years) after you have the initial infection as an adult. There's only a long delay in children according to one study. [1] Every passing year the probability of getting MS should decay after that.

Female sex and EBV mononucleosis during adolescence are the biggest risk factors.

[1] https://nn.neurology.org/content/4/3/e308
Slack App YAML manifest to set up a chat bot
Tesla could be to self driving what Theranos is to blood testing.
True.

After sort of skimming the article again I think it would be better without the order argument, basically just promote digging deeper at some point. I fully agree with that and there are some great arguments in the article towards that.
Not sure if trying to increase solar tech,

or just paperwork fraud.
It's not controversial in terms of correctness, but it is still a bit controversial in terms of whether it's worth the effort?

See all those "but does this help me get results for existing problems?" type questions. There have always been mathematicians that prefer to first establish more structure vs those that just want to get down to business. Category theory especially in the past really pushed the envelope on the "more structure" side of things, inflaming those old tensions.
what software did you use?
For more than a year I've been trying to get it clear to my boss that I'm too stressed and need a less chaotic workplace. The last months I've had constant headache and fuzzy vision. I checked my blood pressure and it was 180/95. Ten months earlier when I last checked it it was 130/83. On medication now, but my heart beats so hard sometimes I think I need more medication.

When I told my boss about this, he said the usual friendly words about I need to do what I must and that he was relieved the problem was found. I nearly exploded when I read that and told him that high blood pressure is the symptom, the cause is my workplace. Got no good answer to that. I spoke to someone more senior than me and it seems hopeless to resolve this without leaving, so that's what I'm going to do. Leave, and start my own company.

I can't work for someone who lacks empathy and is dangerous to my life.
Resolve their conflicts locally, don’t drag me into a war for your cause.
Ha. I've heard that for 20 years. And as an employer I don't see it ending soon. There's a boom right now, for sure, and wages are up, but I heard that in 2000 too. There was a slightly drop for a year or 2, but it's been steady upwards movement since then.
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KYC laws are a tragedy that perpetuate the unranked I the digital age. without an ID you don't exist to the global financial system. Nevermind that some countries are too poor or lack the infrastructure to provide all of their citizens with IDs. Not to mention poor citizens in wealthy countries who don't have ID.
I never thought about this, but it's right. However, to get more nitpicky, most of the uses of "Comput[er|ing] Science" should be replaced with "Computer Engineering" anyway. If you are building something for a company, you are doing engineering, not science research
Two years is not long enough to do a major redesign — Apple started hiring back towards the end of the PowerPC era and they were delivering very competitive designs years prior to the M1 announcement. When they announced M1 most people had been predicting it because the phone/iPad side was so strong.
I recently changed because all of the above at once:

- spent 3y at prev job, which is typical interval where 1) learning starts to plateau, and you realize all the unchangeable constraints that block you from delivering things you'd like to deliver; 2) you are in company long enough that you're the reference point for dozens of things and people keep pinging you all the time; and you somehow end up in a box that you can't get out of; at the same time getting recognition/promotion is hard if you're in a large group of folks with similar level of exp and company is not growing

- salary-wise, recent market move has been bonkers, and getting a bump at $prev_job being even a slice of the current market rates was unimaginable.

- there definitely is a FOMO when you see all the new technologies that everyone seemingly embraces while your company does not (TypeScript! Github Actions! Cloudflare workers! and what not), and you start thinking you'll become unemployable soon

- trying to check out a slightly different kind of organization and under a different business model and different scale

- remote: due to covid everyone's been remote and will be for a while, but it was only semi-reflected in the prev company's way of working and it was not clear what will be the way forward; shifting to proper full remote / async gives me some kind of stability in how to think about work and life for a while, and makes it possible to move far away from the office if I decide it's worth it
It doesn't sound like you have the wrong job - it sounds like your team has a culture that doesn't fit your desires. There are dev teams who don't do standups, and who don't expect Slack to be real-time. I'd seek out those teams - the way I find them is to look for smaller companies, also to avoid job postings that are heavy handed on "Agile", and definitely skip any team who uses formal "Scrum".

I think most teams are Agile, but it is Scrum that gets religious about daily meetings.
+1 to use-case driven teaching (especially growing the same use case to include more complex topics). I would have loved to learn this way :)
I don't agree that view is conscious consensus. It's the track of the herd, perpetuated by copy-and-paste.

Copy-paste disclaimers have grown, drip by drip, like monster stalagmites in a damp cave. Successive, nervous lawyers deposit ever more warranties by name, some more or less made up by creative opposing counsel. Having attempted to list all conceivable warranties specifically, the language opens itself up to holdings that the drafters omitted the particular warranty the judge really wants to enforce, writing off any remnant general language of disclaimer.

Big Time (and Blue Oak, and the PolyForm licenses) don't stop with the magic words "AS IS". In full, conspicuous formatting omitted:

> As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the licensor will not be liable to you for any damages arising out of these terms or the use or nature of the software, under any kind of legal claim.

We can't stop courts from rendering bad decisions when they really, really want a result. But reading through Gaylord, the case you cited---admittedly, for the first time---I don't think the conclusory statement that "as is" can't apply to new goods ends our UCC 2-316(3)(a) conversation. We also have "other language which in common understanding calls the buyer's attention to the exclusion of warranties and makes plain that there is no implied warranty". Can a court really hold that Big Time software comes "with warranty", and expect to survive appeal?

There was also a tort claim in Gaylord, which did stay dead on summary judgment. I think the Big Time license gets there, too, without having to specifically mention "tort". Again, by sticking to good general language, and not undermining it with a potentially incomplete list of specifics: "any kind of legal claim".

At a higher level, there's a similar approach at work in Big Time's copyright and patent grants. Why list out all the exclusive rights of rights holders? Why risk omitting one, or putting it slightly different than in the relevant statute?
Did they ask for something more than a death certificate or something similar? That should have been enough, right?
Yes. I hear you about the downside, but the downside of the more superficial-accessible 'home page' is that people will not read any further, and instead simply respond generically.
He is not generalizing at all, he said what happened to his team.
Maybe that was true in old days when jobs also give you some security. Covid proved that there is no “job security”: as soon as your employee runs into a little bit of revenue trouble, the lay offs will start.

So money is very very important.