skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the “semantic web” used in sensible, productive ways these days or does it remain an academic daydream?

I’m highly skeptical of the whole concept and feel like I should have organically come across it by now.
At-home Covid test reimbursements
I think because some things like work history, education, they lend themselves to pretty standardized fields.

And we have to keep filling them out by hand ...
There are two separate things going on in the linked post. One is the absence of a standard format as identified. The second is that HR software generally is enterprise software sold to leadership where usability is an afterthought, and so it only gets minimal development focus on having a quality resume ingestion algorithm. So you get the terrible parsing the author complains about. I'm confident that if any buyer really prioritized this feature being better, it would be.
I've tried it out a little bit - turns out you can import an existing git repository into it and browse the results with Datasette, which is pretty fun!

It's a very impressive piece of software. If I wasn't so reliant on GitHub I'd probably try using it for a real project.
Who's going to construct the linked list, and where does it live? That's what the parent comment is pointing out.

In the general case I see no alternative to either the compiler generating one alloca() per defer or heap allocating defer callbacks. Both are terrible solutions for C, because alloca can overflow, while heap allocations can fail with an error code and defer has no way to catch that error. Besides, C programmers just won't use the feature if it requires allocation out of performance concerns. Block-scoped defer is the only reasonable semantics.
> There are real examples of Bayesian estimators, for concrete and practical problems such as clustering, that give the wrong estimates for parameters with high probability (even as the sample size grows arbitrarily large).

Could you give some specific examples, and/or references? This is new to me, and I would like to read deeper into it.
Remove the profit incentive from selling food is what we really need; that or charging food producers for the bad health impacts they create.

After removing fructose, food producers will find a new thing to make people want to eat more, ad infinitum.
I do wonder if some of this was hyperbole. Even of-the-age accounts have a way of distorting actual happenings.
Well, if you paid them enough to buy wares, made the wares cheaply enough they could be afforded, and structured the entire thing to be relatively painless, equitable, and easy for everyone involved to participate in constructively, there wouldn't be a problem, now would there?

Society subject to stabilizing optimizations formulated by intelligent free agents acting in a way counter to the desires of system architects who decided to scale beyond what they could actually guarantee the security of.

Who'd'a thunk?
Are you new to HN? Google support has been an issue for years.
I'm disappointed to see spamming apologia here.

Did I sign up for a mailing list?

Yes - not spam

No - spam.

Creating an account with a company is not signing up for mailing lists unless there's a choice presented. Yeah, you can hide consent in the ToS that nobody reads, but that's not asking for permission.
There is!
https://jsonresume.org/

But nobody really uses it for data interchange. I use it to render my resume in new layouts now and then.

Although, it does let style dictate content sometimes (some templates force you to have dates down to the day for job start and end dates, etc.)
That is not true. The motives for theft are varied. Even wealthy people will steal.
In practice, there is little difference between "junk email" which I assume you mean scams/phishing/pills/viagra/etc adverts and that Amazon email. Both take space in your inbox, may send you a notification and require time and brain power to deal with. Whether the latter example may comply with some jurisdiction's definition of "spam" is irrelevant.

The "mark as spam" button gives users the ability to keep their inbox clean and you shouldn't be faulting them for using it.

Not to mention, even if we agree for a minute that the report spam button should only be used for emails that conform to the legal definition of spam, which law should we be following? The US' definition of spam is much more liberal than the EU GDPR's one for example.
Throwing public money on elections didn't solve the problem it aimed to solve, corps financing candidates for favors. Even before the prohibition most of it was transferred over the counter or in deals where corp X pay for something for Y in the name Z. This is illegal and people got arrested (mainly the intermediaries) but it's a widespread practice. What this achieved is making running a campaign as a grassroots politician more expensive and prohibitive while empowering parties leaders. The 'caciques' have enormous financial power in their hands and act as gatekeepers of who will get elected.

The share of the pie to parties is proportional to the number of votes their congressmen received in the last election. And the voting system is bizarre. Multiparty system in Brazil is a joke, mostly parties doesn't have ideology or political coherence. It's simply power for power. If you vote for candidate A from party X that is a good guy with nice ideas you will probably help instead to elect candidate B from the same party which is a piece of shit. On last election a popular Youtuber and outsider of the political system received a large number of votes but due to how the system work a bunch of trash from his party got elected along. End of day, when he tried to make the right thing he didn't have the support of his own party.
>>(large unused garden + lawn + double parking spot + garage)

I don't know about you, but I actively use and enjoy every one of those things.

Perhaps you enjoy apartment living and consider anything not active indoors a waste.

If so, good for you, I wouldn't want to impose a garden or a parking spot on you. By the same token, calling these out as if they could possibly not be useful, simply because you do not think them useful, is at best, a fallacy.
https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-978-0-387-21736...

Statistics & machine learning book authors seem to be really good at providing a free, electronic copy.
I was pretty sure that I made it clear that the concept under discussion was using a hardware root of trust scheme like PSB to tie a specific CPU to a particular vendor's boards.

As an aside I'm putting a lot of effort into staying civil; I'd appreciate seeing that effort be a bit more reciprocal.
I can remember when ISA bus (at an awesome 4.77Mhz) was king. We've come a long way since.
Let's make one. A universal format could help with bias and resume anxiety.
Violence indeed would solve the problem of rail theft though. Don't want to get shot? Don't try to steal from a train.
How the Industrial Revolution Ended Naps (2014)
One need only look at a smattering of poor villages around the world to see that this is indeed true. When they are as well off as their neighbors, people rarely complain, or steal to get ahead. One problem is that the internet has given everyone extremely wealthy neighbors.
I'd call that a "no", actually. Or just a bad faith argument.

I left it vague so people of both sides could relate to how it fits the other side's hypocrisy. But I suppose this also allows people who are looking for a fight to imagine that it fits their own hypocrisy and get defensive.
^ I have fans!
resumes are an adversarial game; the author and the reader have partly different goals.

Does the author want the resume to be objectively judged? Maybe not
I mean "with simulations using a probability distribution [for the true parameter] different from the prior used in the Bayesian analysis." (The issue of model error is a separate question.)

Yes, in this case would should conclude there is something wrong with the Bayesian way. If you hand me a statistical method to e.g. estimate some parameter that frequently returns answers that are far from the truth, that is a problem. One cannot assume the prior exactly describes reality (or there would be no point in doing inference, because the prior already gives you the truth).
Among other reasons, people's fear for their safety may be driven by reasons that aren't rational. For example, someone who is afraid to drive into neighborhoods that have a high percentage of black residents even when the neighborhood isn't particularly dangerous.
Why not do a traffic study and determine what percentage of the traffic on a road is using the road to get to adjacent properties, and what percentage is transiting through the area. Tax those adjacent properties that percentage of maintenance costs of the road. So a large mall presumably would be taxed for a fairly large share of the costs of maintaing roads that feed customers into the mall. In cases where there are roads that don't really go anywhere else, they would pay 100% of the costs of maintaining those roads. If 50% of the traffic enters the mall, they pay 50% of the costs of those roads and the city is responsible for the other 50%.
One reason is that those who like to work with their mind (so to speak) with minimal physical activity are probably not the demographic that are also interested in a physically taxing job like agriculture.
With the (already?) expiration of x86 patents, I'd love to see a "pure" x86 implementation without any of the user-hostile crap, and see how far the community can take it; but sadly, the RISC bandwagon is diverting attention away from that.

A CPU without the user-hostile features but still able to run the massive existing software base would be ideal.
Clearly written by an applicant rather than employer. Your resume is your chance to shine, use the opportunity or pay a service to do it for you.

The reason the author is trapped long enough in meat grinder hiring to notice this "problem" is likely precisely because of some indistinguishable cookie cutter bullet point soup getting them nowhere. If you can capture it in a data structure, it's not a resume!

See also: why isn't there a universal UI for web sites?
$1B doesn't sound like a very large number. Google says there's 63,706 homeless.

If LA for example is needing to build new low income housing for even a small part of that 63k number, well with spiking construction and land costs, that's going to be well more than $1B
economy of scale. Cheaper by volume and priced on utilization.

There was a time when HP sold servers that could be up to say, 8 cores but only two were on by default and you cloud license the rest. It was cheaper to shop the hardware and software gate it rather than limit it and have a process in the middle.
Uh, dude. If you read the book, you'd see the Golem of Prague isn't a parable about frequentist models specifically, it's about all models, period. He calls his Bayesian models golems all the time.
There is a lot of people that fit between rich and poor, do I think that organized gangs with cell phones and bolt cutters were the ones that initially broke in? I sure do, do I think they are rich? nope.

Just the amount of discarded items indicates an organized effort on behalf of the thieves and most likely a steal to order game plan.

I have no doubt that the entire scheme was cooked up by some meth head while the rest of us were sleeping. Those guys are always looking for an angle to make a quick buck and yes they are desperate too but that shouldn't be the stick we measure criminality and the punishment required by.
I have some mixed feelings. On one hand I certainly can sympathise with people that feel that they never got a fair chance and they think that the only thing they do is making Jeff Bezos slightly less rich.

Inequality is a big part of it. I know that in the US property rights are considered holy. But many people never even got the chance to go to a good school because they were born by the wrong parents, are working their asses off just to keep their noses above the water, and at the same time are being surrounded by wealthy people that work less than them whose only advantage seems to be that they were lucky enough to be born by the right parents. Some of the unlucky people might think that there are fundamental unfairnesses and that trying to balance those should trump property rights.
That assumes a constant relationship between reported crime and actual crime. I don't think that's a safe assumption to make. For instance it may be that as property crime becomes more prevalent so does public awareness of the futility of filing a report for it. This would lead to a decrease in the ratio of reported crime to actual crime.
I don't think the problem is with service animal laws, which I think are genuinely well-intentioned, but with the type of people who would consider owning a potentially dangerous dog in the first place.

Some animals really aren't suitable as pets for the vast majority of owners - which might be a more fruitful discussion than objecting to service animals too quickly.
Yes, it's all relative. But what if your sisters and brothers all have successful companies, and you have just an average paying job?
> Experience is a bad guide to large configurations...

At least subjectively, one is given to:

- getting the test case working and

- assuming a linearity to the functionality when scaled to a production load.

Which becomes an important iteration when crawling out of the smoldering wreckage.
Blog is a generic term that most people is familiar with but the more accurate description for both tumblr and twitter (hell, even mastodon) is microblog - due to small, short form of the posts
Is there any laptop manufacturer that doesn't ship complete bloat/mal/spy/ware in their products?
Resumes go through many systems i.e. job sites, recruiters, HR, hiring managers and are often poorly parsed by many of them.

It's not like people are managing dozens/hundreds of candidates with a pen/paper.

There is definitely a need for a standard format.
> This is what happens when the richest country in the world has some of the poorest populations in the world.

I find this statement to be misleading. If one person in the entire country lived in extreme poverty than there would be some population that is among “some of the poorest populations in the world.”

However, while the US does have issues which should not be ignored, the US cannot be compared to countries where much of the population lives in extreme poverty and other human rights issues. This comparison hurts the real cause that other countries desperately need help and that entire populations do truly live in extreme poverty.

The United Nations Development Programme puts out the Human Development report which has a great website and iPhone / Android app to access the data. A good indicator is the percentage of the population living below the income poverty line. Explore this site, it’s great. Here is a link to one stat.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/167106

App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/human-development-report-app/i...
I'm curious - I see on your profile that you're a DevOps engineer presumably using a lot of online services on a daily basis, so what approach do you use to deal with email that would justify your opinion here?

Do you just let it fill up your inbox and essentially make it unusable as it's saturated with marketing spam? Do you read every single incoming email (if so how do you find time and how do you justify spending that time for this instead of other, more productive/fulfilling endeavors)? Do you have some magical, bulletproof AI that can classify and hide these marketing emails with 100% accuracy? Do you outsource the management of your inbox to someone else and if so how do you justify paying for that?
Take a map of homeless population density per postal code (where LA would figure in the top 5, if not top 1).

Apply a map of retailer container shipping traffic per postal code (where LA would, again, figure in the top 5, due to the ports and their surrounding infrastructure such as warehouses and garment manufacturing).

What other areas of high homeless density also have as high a density of goods throughout as this particular cluster route in LA?

Is the security and prosecution of crimes in those areas as lax as it is in the LA train yard?

If so, then perhaps the only thing preventing thefts there is that no one’s done the math yet and found it. Or that they’re keeping it to themselves and not earning national attention, because no reporter has done a drone flyover of the carnage yet, or because they’re keeping it to such a low volume that no one has noticed.

I would expect this is the work of a small group of people who are spreading word about the security gap left by too few security guards on the ground, and that Southern Pacific has been trying to maximize profits by not hiring more security guards for their LA interchange and having all the insurance companies involved pay for the lost items. I suspect the nationwide news showing these photos is going to antagonize those insurance companies into spiking the rates of all involved shippers, but it’s unclear to me whether Southern Pacific is vulnerable to — or insulated from — insurance company outrage in this regard.

So maybe it’s a bit soon to pass moral judgment upon homeless people, and instead wonder “what group of opportunists are exploiting a logistics weakness and inviting desperate homeless people to join the free money party?”. Hard to imagine desperate people turning down free money at essentially zero risk, but they weren’t doing this on their own before. Find the ringleaders and deal with them instead.
Pictures are worth way more than 1k words.

The photos are disturbing and a crime by definition is an attack on our social structure and shouldn’t be ignored.

But to put it in context, the rail company is reporting $5M in losses from theft last year, on $5.56B in revenue, or 0.1% of revenue. Not ideal but not massive either.

However, we don’t have pictures of white collar crime, just stats: https://techjury.net/blog/white-collar-crime-statistics/

In 2021:

> $56 billion were lost to white-collar crimes.

> Only 3% of federal prosecutions annually are for white-collar crimes.

> California lost $400.9 million to fraud.

> Cybercrime damage cost is said to reach $6 trillion annually in 2021.

Add to that the government corruption or wasteful spending of your choice.

Imagine if these white collar criminals broke a window or littered packages during their crimes.

While it’s easy to have a visceral reaction to photos of crimes, let’s not forget the unseen crimes that also affect us.

And for those that are worried these crimes are going unpunished, 100 people have been arrested to date per the article.
> "Spam" has a specific definition;

The legal definition of spam arose as a distortion of the preexisting concept lobbied for by spammers to allow as much spam as politically possible while allowing politicians to be seen as “doing something” about the spam problem.
Hey, Grismar!

> This is just an ad though.

I'm a paying user of Descript and thought these tips can be great for someone getting started. I see your point of this being an ad—that was definitely not my intention sharing this.

> Did Jad consent?

If you're asking of whether Jad consent to have that blog post made, he's been collaborating with Descript to promote their product and appeared on some of their live events.
Only contact me by IM and say what you need in a single message first. I’ll get to it when I can. Don’t assume read means I even digested it.

Don’t email me, I won’t read it (lol seriously fuck email). Don’t call me I won’t answer.

If we need to talk or video, give me at least a days notice.
What made the Amiga great is that this was not just a bit but way more advanced than anything out there. When I had to, reluctantly, switch to a 386 PC, this was very painful because it felt like going backwards in time by several years. A friend of mine had an Amiga 1000 (it came out in 1985, before the 500 whic surfaced in 1987): going to his home was witnessing the future.

Fun sidenote: I recently found I still have my bootleg 5"1/4 Amiga floppy drive reader: this was way cheaper than buying 3"1/2 disks. If you planned to buy more than 30 floppies, it was cheaper to buy a 5"1/4 drive and 30 5"1/4 floppies than it was to buy only 30 3"1/2 floppies. We'd add a switch at the back of the Amiga to decide from which drive to boot. I plan to open that drive one of these days and see how it was made.
I ended up with a stack of 2600s a few years back. I used to go to estate sales, (for older people that had died), and almost universally they had a 2600 with a box of games. And I would give the organizers $10 and walk out with the whole thing. NESes common too. Would recommend giving estate sales a chance if you live in the USA.
We've seen how non-profit-driven research works in Soviet countries: their spies were busy stealing tech from the west, while the country was falling further and further behind.

Maybe there are many reasons to do research and people will often learn just for the sake of learning. But to turn that research into an actual useful, available product on the shelf - you need a profit motivation. Otherwise nobody will do the unsexy work and then there will not be money and nice condition for pure research either.
Funny thing about that list is that I bet 99% of programmers that use it test for equality, not suffix. Some disposable email systems allow any domain - including subdomains of their own domain. (i.e. <something>@<something>.mailinator.com [1])

If you're using "equals" - it won't catch it.

[1] Tech Evolution of Mailinator - https://youtu.be/BqNfHsZ3QUc?t=3866
> A total of 843,208 participants met the eligibility criteria, of whom 758,118 (90%) received the booster during the 54-day study period. Death due to Covid-19 occurred in 65 participants in the booster group (0.16 per 100,000 persons per day) and in 137 participants in the nonbooster group (2.98 per 100,000 persons per day). The adjusted hazard ratio for death due to Covid-19 in the booster group, as compared with the nonbooster group, was 0.10 (95% confidence interval, 0.07 to 0.14; P<0.001).

* https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115624

0.16 versus 2.98 per 100,000. 90% reduction.
Sure - but that's a fairly niche product whereas the common belief is that whatever AR / VR type product might be coming in the future will be in line with the iPhone in terms of being an every day, every person type experience. You'll note too that the other members of the AirPods line up are a smaller form factor and move a lot more units.