skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are my checklist to publishing research codes:

1. encumbered by pending or active patent(s)?

2. release of proprietary holds by corporates or participants

3. any tangible market values worth pursuing, then keep it to yourself.

4. any conflict with trademarks, copyrights, or domain hold? Rename it

that’s just some of the points. Contact your local VCs if it has any traction.
In my field (bio) it's fairly common not to publish code, but it's becoming more common. Biologist's code is generally crappy and I think everyone understands that. The better developers are often valued for producing tools that are reliable and people can use and get lots of attention and citations for their tool papers.

The mathematicians and computer scientists I've worked with generally wrote more complicated code, but from a bugginess and maintainability standpoint I'm not sure it was any better. I had a mentor with an applied math degree who was extremely fond of one and two character variable names.

Just publish it. Unless your paper is a _BIG_DEAL_ barely anybody is going to look at it, and some people (hopefully the right people) will respect you for showing your work. I think I'm one of the few reviewers that actually try to run and maybe glance at the code for papers I review. In the papers I've reviewed I've never seen a comment that indicated any of the other reviewers even looked at it.
Presumably you inherit it and that is part of their plan to impart wealth to the next generation.
In terms of time constants: Yes, probably. Visible lasers can be eye-safe at much higher powers because of the blink reflex, and the blink reflex is on the order of a hundred milliseconds -- detecting IR and shutting down even a gas laser should be millisecond-scale at most. One challenge would be very specular reflections that hit an eye but not your sensor, but a wide-area sensor should be able to get reflections even off the pilot's eye itself. The remaining bit would be very high frequency specificity on the sensor to allow high sensitivity without false positives, but that's pretty trivial.
I'm slightly confused by 2 and 3, as I own cap notes and have friends with mortgages (in Australia).

Are mortgage rates and cap note returns in the US not tied to the federal interest rate?

Here, pretty much every note traded publicly will yield x% above RBA (reserve bank) interest rates, and most mortgages will be "variable rate" - ie they'll automatically adjust to be some function dependent on the RBA rate.
IMO the reason compensation is so high is not that everyone is really greedy or money-focused

There's a lot of pressure to make more now days because of big student loans, skyrocketing housing prices, inflation

It feels like you need to switch jobs just to keep up now days
That article hasn't been updated for the massive increase in crime from the past two years.
It seems difficult to even have a discussion about CCP China in an open speech framework found outside of CCP China. The HN moderation on anything related to CCP China highlights this point [0]. If you cannot properly talk about the institutional challenges, you certainly cannot respond to them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod
Except for the “citizens” and the “states” bits and quite often without the “neighbouring” or the “colonized/enslaves” aspects either.
They are looking at 20 years if they get caught: 18 U.S. Code section 1991

Additionally they are releasing hazardous materials by breaking open boxes:

18 U.S. Code section 1992
Your grandparents are the exceptional case (in the US, anyway). The vast majority of homeowners here change homes multiple times in their life (IIRC, once a decade or so).

One of the big advantages of a system like the US (unlike, say, Japan, where homes are a depreciating asset) is that it increases mobility. If your home is worth less than the day you moved in, you're kind of stuck there -- every move represents a capital outlay that is just going to evaporate over time. In the US system, a home is a little like a fixed-income asset. Even if it only appreciates at the rate of inflation, you can treat it as a stable store of wealth.

Even if you purchase one home in your entire life, it's still a positive in this system. As others have pointed out already, you can borrow against that wealth, or, in the case of your grandparents, pass it down to heirs. Accumulating wealth is better than not accumulating wealth.
Maybe. Or you just up the stakes and now you have thieves with automatic weapons having a gunfight with the train guards.
From my experience, native English speakers have a very hard time pronouncing the Spanish /j/ (or the German /ch/, for that matter, or even the French /r/), so they just pronounce it as a somewhat stressed /h/ (for lack of a better term).
I really feel like it's high time we try a rotating wheel space station to see if the artificial gravity fixes problems people develop in zero gravity.
It all depends on the efficiency of your existing water heater, and your local electric rates.

I pay the same electric rates as you - $.29/kWh (PG&E). For my family of 4 using 1.024MBTU/month of heat for water, the amount of electricity consumed by the heat pump hot water heater is about 100kWh/month, which works out to or $348/year.

Furthermore, in my area, I have access to a municipal utility program that will pay me $60/year to automatically run my heat pump water heater when renewables are in over-supply, thereby functioning as a kind of capacitor for intermittent renewable supply on the grid, and lowering my water heating electricity cost to around $.25/kWh.

With my previous standard gas water heater (efficiency 65%), I was using 20 therms per month for water heating. At my current local natural gas prices of $2/therm, that would have been $480/year for hot water heating if I kept that equipment. With a condensing natural gas unit at 96% efficiency it would cost $250/year, $90/year less than the heat pump - not a huge difference.

Remember that there are a lot of old standard gas water heaters out there that are only 50-65% efficient. A heat pump water heater is very competitive to replace those.

Natural gas prices also aren't going down, and are far more subject to geo-political supply shocks, as we've seen recently, resulting in winter natural gas rates recently going as high as $2.25/therm. That's a far greater jump than electricity rates vs last year. In places like the Pacific Northwest, or Sacramento CA with clean hydro power, electricity rates are $.09 to $.18/kWh haven't budged much at all. Heat pump water heaters are even better in places like that.

Heat pump water heaters also have the ancillary benefit over natural gas of removing a major source of combustion from within your home/garage, which is better for air quality, and also removes a source of depressurization of your house's air if the water heater is contained within conditioned space.
TBF informatics is "the study of computational systems"

I have studied informatics, but don't call myself an informatic, because I am not doing any research.

I call myself a programmer, because I am not doing engineering either.
TBH, reading this as a manager, I have to admit I feel like asking my engineers to take on SOME of these beyond-just-the-code duties... is a good thing? Obviously there are a bunch of caveats, and nuances to whether you want an IC engineer to be 100% coding and 0% talking to customers or doing admin (this seems bad), or is it 90% vs 10% (maybe okay), or 80/20 (sweet spot?), 50/50 (concerning), 20/80 (bad again), etc.

That being said, if you are doing all of these things, and not being fairly compensated for it, then that's definitely a problem. A $50k/year web dev position at some random agency, doesn't deserve this level of work from you, esp. if you could instead take all these responsibilities, and do them at a serious technology company or start-up, for 2x-5x the comp.
I swear at some of these companies it is going to take engineering managers going on strike before corporate actually respects that we know how to run effective teams for the good of the business.
I'm paired with a Technical Architect (more programmatic, less point and click) who I can bounce ideas off of. We have a community of people with the same job responsibilities that I can also bounce design questions off of as well (time permitting). I use those resources as well as reference architecture, internet communities and documentation to complete designs.
Perhaps it's a US phenomenon.

In the US (and probably most places) a house is the most expensive asset that a person will own throughout their life.

It is reasonable to ask if a person's life would be better if they were able to extract some of the value from the house in exchange for other things. For example, I can borrow against the value of my home and afford to go on more vacations, or a nicer car. It could fund my retirement, even.

Another way of looking at it is as a component of an overall portfolio. Does it make sense for me to have 80% of my net worth in real estate when I can get a 30 year loan at 2% or 3% and diversify? HELOCs are another commonly used instrument.

I suppose some may argue that a few of the things I've mentioned are "irresponsible", but the truth is that it varies from person to person. When used intelligently, debt like this can be a win for both parties.
For me, http://teddit.net remained accessible. I had forgotten the address, but dug it out via HN because of the current issue. Great UI; see the ~300 comments on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
In the US, the standard mortgage is 30 year fixed. i.e. you pay the same rate for 30 years. Adjustable rate mortgages exist, but are less typical.
The 6th contributor's (nick)name, can be translated to something like "Fuckthewhores", with a play on words with Belzebuth
That’s not correct, furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...
"Air tag" like trackers on decoy packages mixed in might be a cheap solution to this issue.
Are you the apollo guy?
Just to be clear, this doesn't imply that moderna released the viruses. Patents are publically visible, after all. It suggests that someone was told to insert a furin cleavage site, then went and "stack overflow copy-pasted" the moderna furin cleavage site, and this became the coronavirus. If we believe that this is what happened, it possible that whoever did this also looked up and copy pasted other furin cleavage sites, and thus the purely random odds of the eye-popping "moderna" aspect of the coincidence would considerably less (let's say, 1 in 100 or less, depending on how much work you think the hypothetical postdoc bothered to do). Do note that the moderna furin cleavage site itself is probably subjected to industrial selection pressures that enhance its delivery, which might also correlate to infectivity, so a non-uniform distribution of infectivity among stack-overflow-ed furin cleavage sites, that favors the infectivity of something like the moderna sequence, should be considered.
I agree, a discussion of ventilation seems like a critical omission from the article. Do vent hoods help, and to what degree? Is installing more effective / higher CFM hoods a productive avenue to explore, vs replacing the whole stove? What about the impact of air purifiers? Or opening a window? I hope these things are covered in part three.
US is a big place. That means it's possible to get a steady stream of stories of innocent people getting arrested/killed by the police, and have jurisdictions that turn a blind eye to property crime.
I wish we had 30 year fixed-rate mortgages in Aus
> I had too many roles, affecting too many pieces of engineering, and my title didn't reflect my work [...] I hinted about what my decision would have to be if these accomodations couldn't be made, but he didn't budge.

My position exactly.

I won't be leaving my company, but I will be transitioning to a more defined role in a different department. Didn't sit too well with my current manager. He told me that I couldn't just leave like that. I offered him a 80/20 arrangement, and he didn't like it either.

I'll be transitioning anyway. It's just a bit bizarre that a manager would potentially alienate someone who seems to be indispensable for the operation.
I use a GPD Micro PC throttled to 6 watts TDP, which means the fan can stay off permanently. It fits in a jeans back pocket, and has an ethernet port. And a serial port. And a full size HDMI port. And three full size USB ports, and a USB-C port.

I wouldn't trade it for much...
At least #1 option is better than having to hear an announcement to press 1 to hear about how Bank of America supports the Military… when you call in for support (yes it is actually happening right now, try it). Whoever would want to hear that when they want assistance with their issue, unless they or their family is in the military?
The author actually address this a bit in the 2nd and 3rd paragraph. The US has added a layer of complexity on top of the plain vanilla mortgage. For the rest of world, mortgages are a way to pay for the house over time. However, in the US, they are into derivatives of the house price (pool them together, sell off the risk (rate of change of house price)), hence the title of the article: Mortgages are a manufactured product.

Edit: now that I think about it. The first level is just buying house with cash immediately. The mortgage is the next level of complexity, adding time dimension. The article is about the 3rd level complexity above that (securitization of the 2nd level)! Turtles all the way down.
I strongly disagree. Contracts very much primarily communicate intent, ideally in such a way that they also stand up in court. People regularly argue over details in contracts, people regularly look up things in contracts, also when there is no court to be seen and no intention anywhere to go to court. The vast vast vast majority of contracts never make it to court.

Plenty of contracts aren't even written down. When you buy a loaf of bread at the bakery, you make an oral contract about that transaction.

The idea that contracts, or licenses, need to be written in dull legalese and be pretty much impenetrable to be useful or "valid" or whatever, is absolutely bonkers. Lawyers like you to think that but it's not true. It's an urban legend.

If you need to make sure that you can defend your rights in court, then sure, you're probably going to need some legalese (but even then there's little harm in also including some intent - it's just not very common). Clearly that's not the goal here. No scientist is gonna sue another scientist who asked for support and got angry about not getting any even though the code was CRAPL licensed.
I worked at a very large corporation that had a pay freeze for years. I didn't leave because of money, I just worked less each year. After more than five years of being underpaid, I was working only a few hours a week. Eventually I got laid off, decent severance. I miss all the spare time I had.

I love my current job, but there will come a time when they are no longer willing to increase my pay above inflation (I suspect this year will be a test), and when that happens, I'll leave.

Money is the only reason I'm here. Shockingly, I can keep myself occupied and amused without scrum, a non-technical manager, or Jira tickets.
I was going to make a comment very similar to yours- there's been plenty of programming 101 books, though maybe more so in previous decades starting in the '90s, which has the author present a project or a series of projects and each chapter involves building out the project while introducing concepts. While those books tend to be about teaching how to use a specific framework, SDK, or language rather than programming in general, that project-based method of pedagogy is common.

What's annoying about those books is that sometimes you don't care to go through the entire project, you just want to jump to a specific topic, but you're forced be part of a continuous narrative. Though in modern times where every technical book has a corresponding repository somewhere with code samples, you can at least use that code rather than starting chapter one.

Whether you want to learn from how-to projects, or from abstract first principles, there's resources out there for both. Teaching how to code is not broken at all. Maybe teaching data structures and algorithms could use more work- but that's the subject for a different article.
Kind of related : America Is Falling Apart at the Seams
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/america-falling-a...

A loss of civic sense and cultural criminality are incredibly hard to weed out of a population, once it has taken root. I worry that the a mix of pessimism and a loss of civic sense is sending non-elite America into a death spiral.

Opponents of return-to-normalcy claim that these are temporary and anomalous circumstances as a result of covid. However, a 2 year period of cultural erosion can lead to this regression getting cemented as a modern cultural identity of non-elite US.

Cost-benefit analyses have been ignored in favor of tunnel-visioning on viral outcomes and short term political gain. At the end of this, we might just find ourselves asking "We made it out of this, but at what cost?".

p.s: I am not advocating for any particular policy, just pointing to the absence of any holistic response. That being said, the complete failure of the American response in terms of 'viral outcomes' despite tunnel visioning on it, doesn't inspire confidence in it.
urban.

Also, not quite what you're asking, but I use PowerThesaurus a lot.
They want:

a public-private partnership to identify a list of critical open source projects

Which should create:

formal requirements or standards for maintaining the security of that critical code.

I want to see the governement barging in on any random project, dictating to the maintainers how they're going to run the thing .

Even governemental funding might have too many strings attached. Our governement is providing subsidies to small local charity's. Turns out they wanted a paper trail with detailled activities for each meeting, and signatures from a lot of people. Auditors ran amock, requiring even more paper. The volunteers complained about the morass of paperwork, so the gov helped them 'professionalise'. After a year of professionalizing, it turns out they lost so much volunteers that a lot of local chapters were giving up.
Could I reach you about Bradfield CSI program
Why do you need lockless atomic updates to a file-backed memory area? Genuinely curious.
> What is this, open crates or sacks of packages, in traincars locked with a small padlock?

Yes, pretty much. Although in many cases it’s not even a padlock, just a tamper-evident seal device with a serial number matching the paperwork for that container:

https://shipped.com/img-parts/server/php/files/containers/sh...

For huge cargo firms handling tens of thousands of containers daily, padlocks can be problematic operationally and quite expensive.
You could also paint a picture no one else will ever see.

Personally, I hate it when academics do not publish their code. Some academics publish the code but not the pretrained model or withhold the dataset, to collect dust on their computer.

People who publish code, datasets and models become the core building blocks of future work. People who don't fade away people do not remember their names.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Your poll assumes that I am, indeed, staying at my job.
The company I work for is one of the top employers in my country/region.

Top in terms of pay/culture/getting recognized/opportunities for growth/benefits.

There are maybe 5 other companies that can compete on everything, except maybe culture. I'm very happy where I am, and risking moving to a new place for basically the same thing seems pointless.

So unless I move overseas, I'm staying.
Except that it isn't.

Assume you are a superstar of some persuasion and you earn $100M/yr. Is a 20% raise a lot of money? It's not! Sure, it's an extra twenty million dollars, but what could you possibly want to buy with that money that you can't already purchase?

At some point $100k --> $100M the math changes. That point will be different for different people.
Impressive work, but author's logic is unsound because it silently assumes the library or database BLAST uses is complete, yet it likely represents less than 1% of all sequences in the wild. The database BLAST uses only contains sequences that have been found and reported. If every person on the planet was a genetic expert with all necessary resources to find and identify new sequences, in 1000 years we still wouldn't have found all of them. The sequence in question that only matches HIV-1 may very well match a trillion^2 more sequences not in BLAST's database. Anything like this that is engineered likely has a mountain of documentation. Documentary evidence, if found, is a smoking gun in a way the furin cleavage site sequence can't be.
I wish I could pick multiple. Team is great. Comp is great. Management is great. I enjoy what I'm working on.
Lots of languages don’t have nasals and native speaker are almost physically unable to pronounce it.
I would think someone with domain knowledge would be able to debunk this posts interpretation right?
Yes, pretty much. In my opinion, perception is generalization. To perceive a bicycle is to perceive many types of qualities or properties about it that can also be applied to a potentially infinite number of other objects. The brain can perform this generalization instantly without having stored previous representations (bicycle patterns) in memory.

A great example of non-representational intelligence is the honeybee's brain. It has less than 1 million neurons but it can handle zillions of patterns/objects in its 3D environment. It would be impossible for it to store all those zillions of patterns in its tiny brain. It uses the world itself as its own model.

For these reasons, deep learning is irrelevant to AGI.
^^^^ yes! Your worker already has one foot out the door and has seen the greener grass outside the door. Is it really greener? Probably not but will be to them!
I panicked for a few minutes waiting for IT to knock on my office door...