skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you're right. The sleep-wake cycle is like a kind of roundabout and
overcomplicated EM process. I've read the paper carefully but theirs is a
complicated approach and I'm not sure what its contributions are exactly. I
guess I should read it again.

Yes, it's possible to apply self-supervised learning to program synthesis,
because it's possible to generate programs. It's possible to generate _infinite_
sets of programs. The problem is that if you make a generator with Universal
Turing Machine expressivity, you're left with an intractable search over an
infinite search space. And if you don't generate an infinite set of programs,
then you 're left with an incomplete search over a space that may not include
your target program. In the latter case you need to make sure that your
generator can generate the programs you're looking for, which is possible, but
it limits the approach to only generating certain kinds of programs. In the end,
it's the easiest thing to create a generator for progams that you already know
how to write- and no others. How useful is that is an open question. So far
no artificial system has ever made an algorithmic contribution, to my knowledge,
in the sense of coming up with a new algorithm for a problem for which we don't
have good algorithms, or coming up with an algorithm for a problem we can't
solve at all.

My perception is influenced by my studies, of course, but for me, a more
promising approach than the generate-and-test approach exemplified by DreamCoder
and AlphaCode etc. is Inductive Programming, which is to say, program synthesis
from input-output examples only, without examples of _programs_ (the AlphaCode
paper says that is an easier setting but I very disagree). Instead of generating
a set of candidate programs and trying to find a program that agrees with the
I/O examples, you have an inference procedure that generates _only_ the programs
that agree with the I/O examples. In that case you don't need to hand-craft or
learn a generator. But you do need to impose an inductive bias on the inference
procedure that restricts the hypothesis language, i.e. the form of the programs
that can be learned. And then you're back to worrying about infinite vs.
incomplete search spaces. But there may be ways around that, ways not available
to purely search-based systems.

Anyway program synthesis is a tough nut to crack and I don't think that language
models can do the job, just like that. The work described in the article above,
despite all the fanfare about "reasoning" and "critical thinking" is only
preliminary and its results are not all that impressive. At least not yet. We
shall see. After all, DeepMind has deep resources and they may yet surprise me.
3% sounds about right. That's the order-of-magnitude fee charged by commercial payment service providers (1 ... 5% in practice).
I agree to an extent, but I think you're grossly oversimplifying the way that the average non-technical user views their privacy online. It's true that many people don't really care about advertisers tracking them, but they do care about other privacy-related aspects of their digital experience such as having their location tracked or the content of their communications monitored. As evidence of the latter, I present the enduring popularity of Signal and the fact that WhatsApp thought E2EE was an important enough feature to roll out across their entire user base.

The small minority of society that needs privacy (we should be honest and say that it includes some really nasty criminals as well as the good guys) really needs that kind of privacy, the kind that the average user is at least somewhat interested in. Ad-tracking isn't a huge concern to your average union organizer.
That's why you should measure many things - especially all your important things - in every a/b test [=
There is an enormous deference between Search Ads (such as those in Google search results) and display advertising such as Facebook and Googles Display Network.

I assure you Google are paying Apple to be the default search engine exactly because it's basically a licence to print money.

It has nothing to do with display ads.

If Facebook had a search engine they would bid against Google for that role, but as it appears to be the case there is a Google/Facebook gentlemens agreement to not compete in that area.
If they would let you migrate an arbitrary GSuite account to an arbitrary regular Google user account (or whatever the terminologies are, I hope you see what I am referring too), wouldn't that be a much simpler solution?
Or maybe because they are immigrants the stakes are higher for them? If they lose the job they may lose visa, so they higher tolerance for BS from management.

Or maybe grow up in a culture that value respect more, so you are biased against questioning the authority.

Or maybe this story is inaccurate/made up. He was put on PIP and requested a transfer at the same time.

Or maybe it's a peter principle at play.

Anyway, I don't think it's fair to post someone's linkedin like that.
Well, cobol is special of course. The more specialized you are... But for a generic c++, java or c# or web dev I would say you can't charge specialist money at all in the EU.
What Big Tech’s Riches Mean for Our Future
Trades people employed for some unscrupulous business owner don't earn much indeed, but their employer is basically shoveling piles of money.

Independent contractors who own their own business are making bank. Source: my uncle is a self employed plumber. He can't even reply to all the calls he's getting and has to turn many down despite asking for a lot of money. The fact that he's not paying much in income taxes, doing most jobs on a handshake deal and cash payments helps a lot too.
Love it!

Sitting in Munich and we plan to buy something right now as well. Rural lots of land (min 10k sqmt)

What are your thoughts on climate change?

I'm planing to buy only once and we are 35. I'm slight y ignoring Portugal due to this.
I have a question for other former/current employees of Amazon.

I worked there for 4 years on the AIV / Prime Video platform across a few teams (2012-2016). Obviously we had performance reviews every year, and I did ok. I transferred 3 or 4 times (within AIV), never a problem. I never heard of mandatory quotas to fit in the under-performing category, I didn't hear my colleagues talk about it either, "under-performing" laid off employees were rare (and unsurprising). Was I ignorant of what was going on around me?

From my perspective, the 'bar raising' in Amazon worked through the hiring process, of which I did many interviews. You only hired someone if you thought they were better than average either technically or on leadership principals.

Did this PIP quota thing always go on? Does this go on now to the same effect as people are talking about, or is this an echo chamber magnification of something that happened within a subset of one org?
Employment for life is long gone. People with good skills are best off applying their abilities to their own projects. The company will not save you, why should you save the company?
I know! I did a sharp I take of breath at that number too!
If you believe in a meritocracy then you should see the irony in that you are defending a de-facto monopolist and their rent-seeking behavior, which is an abuse of power.

The rent seekers are the inheritors of a machine that they themselves did not build (the shareholders of Apple), and who are taking away a good chunk of income of those whose products people wish to use, a sure sign of merit.
I'm convinced human beings are naturally designed to operate at 120% for 6-12 week long periods. \

Hunter gatherer survivalist genes just kick in.

YMMV, but I consider it a healthy thing for, at least for some part of your career, to work "Amazon hard." Aka, all the reasons that people list when they say you should really try working for a startup.

When you push yourself to your limits at your profession, a lot of stuff clicks into place and you learn so much.

You can't procrastinate, you can't do it wrong, there just isn't the time.
> If you were a bit larger that equation would change

Right.

Can you please stop saving smaller developers from Apple? Thanks!

PS: You maybe need some homework too. Essentially, Stripe etc. doesn't handle anything else that processing your payments(Maybe that changed or will change in the future). They have list of countries that they support and links to the governing bodies, you are on your own to figure out how to sell in these countries. There are some companies that handle stuff like that but you don't simply pay 99$/year and start using them, there are also publishers that will do it for you but they are much much more predatory and restrictive that Apple. So please, if you have something that you know say it, instead of passive aggressively attacking my character. If you are business genius you say you are, it would be much nicer of you to share some of that with those who know less instead of throwing generalised assumption and saying things like "go do your homework".
>When I was a kid, I had an Apple II with a BASIC interpreter, [...] a computer like that, where there are a lot of open-ended ways to create.

I think your particular childhood memories that understandably left an imprint on you have inadvertently affected your idea of what "open-ended" creation means.

>, and great creative experiences don't seem available on desktop

I also grew up with those 8-bit computers and I don't think the Apple II / Commodore 64 / Texas Instruments TI-99 with burned in ROM BASIC and 64kb RAM are more creative. It was simply a different time and we as children just used the technology that happened to be available for the price point of home computers. If I ignore my childhood, I'd have to objectively weigh those early home computers as less open-ended. Sure, I had fun with BASIC "10 PRINT HELLO 20 GOTO 10" and giggled as the text infinitely scrolled up. But we all had lower standards of novelty because computers were not as powerful.

With today's desktop and a browser, kids can "be creative" with digital art or make music with more powerful tools. Many examples of expressive worlds are just a few clicks away with no software to install or EPROM cartridges to buy:

+ digital art: https://www.google.com/search?q=online+painting

+ digital music: https://www.google.com/search?q=online+beats+maker

+ Javascript is more powerful than ROM BASIC and the tools cost $0

With Commodore or TI computers, I couldn't even save my BASIC programs until my parents saved enough money for a $100 cassette tape interface or $200 for floppy drive. Instead of thinking my childhood time with computers was more creative, I'm actually jealous of what today's kids can do on modern desktop computers and the web.
Lol, it's been a hardfought censorship battle keeping this kind of stuff off the front page. It's almost impossible to refute the "great reset" and the technocracy agenda at this point, it has almost obtained a similar dogma status as the "WHO narrative" or whatever you'd call the official stance.

I've been digging a bit into this and the conspiracy seems to be pretty clear (although completely unbelievable in scale and intent! like what the actual fuck!! and I don't believe half of it, I'm just saying the part about the virus being an intentional strategy to centralize power quickly and deal with climate change .. very crazy haha but nothing in comparison to Trudeau being the son of fidel castro or whatever bill gates something something..)
Not really hyper-politics, virtually hyper-politics.

Practically, IRL, people are not acting politically very much. Not more than 15 years ago around me at least. And certainly not the ones that are screaming on the internet.

Anecdotally, those who are politically active in my circle (choosing what they buy, protesting, helping a category of living beings, writing to politicians) are actually not active on social media. They don't have time or energy for that, so they prioritize. If you don't know them, you don't know about what they do.

So there is a lot of political outrage, virtue signaling, pavlov reacting and tribalism.

But I don't think in reality people are hyper politics. They talk a lot of about the fashionable rant du jour, but have no dept, and it's not followed by actions.

The article is mentioning that medias are becoming hyper politics, and on that I can agree. Social medias, but even sites for fun like imgur.

And the corporation world as well, because a temporary outrage can make people superficially act against them for a limited amount of time, which will impact trust. In an economy where value is decorelated from what you really do, an ephemeral spike can tank you. But on the long run, those same people will forget about everything quickly, and revert back to their old patterns. They are not politically commited, they are just being even more manipulated than before.
~4% less effective

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/targeted-ads-offer-little-...
Are there any stealth satellites?
> Word-of-mouth exists

True. However in this case we are confident, based on our own internal tracking and metrics, that this is correct.
Yes, but let's not get over excited.

I'm fed up with their ads to subscribe to their services in macOS/iOS: the App Store, on Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Fitness+... I'm getting tired of clicking "no thank you".
Courts are not amused by such tricks.
In South Africa we've seen _some_ disruption too, but the immediate effects have been limited from a consumer perspective.

What I find most impressive is how resilient the overall system is in spite of the many disruptions.

I recently read a book (by Mark O'Connell) about how some groups predicted ever-imminent apocalypse and social collapse. The book was released shortly before the pandemic and tellingly one of the themes presented (not as the author's view, but as a view in some prepper communities) was that a global pandemic would lead a total collapse of the supply chain and then we would become feral and play out Mad Max etc.

While global supply chain issues have led to some shortages (some more serious than others and some more protracted than others) there is so much that is still working. That's something to celebrate IMHO.
Fly.io is amazing, I'm very excitied for it! They spin up a long-lived instance on the edge closest to the user and create a Wireguard tunnel in-between. They also have a free tier and reasonable pricing. Heroku is just far too expensive for a hobby project.
I think Google as the default search engine on Safari is a big win.

How is that just an excuse to hand over money?

Do think that putting DuckDuckGo as default in Safari will not have any influence in either DuckDuckGo or Google market share?
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Who said it's about trusting you?

It's very common for templates to be written by people who are not full developers.
The HTML might be written by a designer, email-templates may be written by marketing etc.

By limiting the power of the template language to only data display and simple conditionals and loops, you can those people to write templates far easier and you can let them upload new versions whenever they want with much less worries and you don't have to go through your full code review process just to update an email template.
Amazon's mentality is pretty clever I think. The entire company is designed to repeatedly test all its employees till failure by piling on the workload until they say uncle, then backing off 20% if they push-back.

It's a crazy approach that probably falls apart if you're unsuccessful. But they're very successful so they can just keep burning money to attract new hires. Also, I imagine it's a huge career builder if you work in FMCG or development to have "Amazon retail" or "Amazon Web Services" on your resume. Since everyone uses those platforms.

I imagine what is left at the end is a residue of "born again" workaholics, who're probably pretty great at their jobs. Who then ascend to and form middle management.

And the global express trundles on, powered by these workaholics.
There's a whole ecosystem of businesses that rely on Facebook that are going to start hurting a lot over the next few years.

I used to work at a publisher where 80% of their website traffic came from Facebook. They haven't seen audience growth in years and their audience is skewing older and older, which is bad for their advertising business

Businesses like that are going to get steadily squeezed both by Facebook's declining audience share and Facebook's own efforts to change what people see.
In the blood-curdling screenshot near the middle a fragment of "stream processing script" welds together code (e.g. select sum(amount)) and configuration (e.g. receiver.url='http://localhost:8006/productionStream').

Does this WSO2 tool allow saner practices?
If my health insurance weren't so dependent on employment, I'd agree more.
Thanks for your answer, I didn't know about Goodstein's theorem

> Russel's Paradox in particular was worked around by not allowing to "build sets" quantifying over all sets (see axiom schema of specification).

Ah I didn't know that by name but this is pretty much the gist of what I'm getting.

ZFC and AC, while Axioms, seem like a better foundation than something that allows "set of all sets" which sounds like a vague specification even for a mathematician. And in the end, Russel's paradox raises the exact issue of (pardon my non-mathematical language) "Set of all sets is BS"

Hence the axiom of specification which lets you build sets that exist.

I'm not talking about Gödel or unprovable statements, because even if something is not provable it might be constructable.
The most common naïve view among scientists is in fact quite close to body/mind dualism, much as phrased by Descartes. People who have examined the problem in depth tend to go for some form of pan-protopsychism, where the substrate for subjective phenomenology has to somehow be a part of the physical universe (since it clearly enters into causal relations with the rest of it!) but can also be expected to be rather physically simple, so that it can be consistently endowed with both "physical" and "subjectively experienced, phenomenological" features or states.
I'll take a read.

I'm not a science hater at all - I love science and try to live the scientific method - its personal to me.

What I can't stand the hypocrisy in misappropriating something good by wrapping up propaganda/sales pitches as if it was science.

There is no such thing as 'the science', it is never settled - it always possible to uncover more. Using science as a cover to close down divergent opinions is perverse.
Strategic incompetence: 34% say partner does chores poorly to avoid more chores
we used c2rust in 2019 for the Delta Chat core library; we added some more details about that to the blog post that time [1]

[1] https://delta.chat/en/2019-05-08-xyiv#the-coming-delta-chat-...
But apple isn't a monopoly since you can add a website to your start screen.

We are just behind on features and it's a "highly technical issue"

;)
I'm in the same boat as you, as my whole family has been using a custom domain for 15 years.

What did you migrate your users to? Did you manage to transfer emails/calendars?
The Xbox certainly has sufficient hardware and software capabilities to run a shell or a ssh client; it is basically PC hardware and a PC operating system, just locked down. If it doesn't have a ssh client, it's only because Microsoft didn't let the app onto the Xbox store. If that's the line you draw, then the obvious thing for Apple to do is to remove ssh clients from the store.
That's a really interesting idea, it would also be interesting to set up an experiment to see if you can tell the difference between good teams and bad teams by interviewing there.
Since I detect sarcasm, I'm not sure how to respond.

As someone who chooses Apple partly because of the comparative privacy versus Android I'm actually quite happy that they bargain with other parties? It reminiscent of the working of efficient markets. I have a choice. No privacy (Google, Facebook), or a tidbit (Apple, G/F via Apple) or a lot (custom ROM options, drop all G/F/A). For a tidbit of privacy I pay more, but how much I pay more is lowered by the incoming cashflow at Apple due to these arrangements. So there is a cafateria model with a powerful party bargaining on my behalf and in line with my preferences. For me, that's glass half full.
> If you are that smart to have a background in bio, and land the jobs that he did, your career would look very different.

Is that really so impressive? Bio people do a lot of coding, and good dev practices can be learned on the job. ML is probably also something he played with during his studies. Full stack + some ML experience is probably enough for a junior ML engineer.
The law will require to allow third-party app stores. If Apple decides to impose 27% tax on everything sold in the third-party app store then I'm sure other EU competition laws will kick in. As Apple will be explicitly using their power to make direct competition non-viable.

Also, EU does not need to spell everything explicitly. The law will give the EU Commission a lot of executive power to respond to this type of shenanigans from gatekeepers.

Article 7, compliance with obligations for gatekeepers, paragraph 2:

Where the Commission finds that the measures that the gatekeeper intends to implement pursuant to paragraph 1, or has implemented, do not ensure effective compliance with the relevant obligations laid down in Article 6, it may by decision specify the measures that the gatekeeper concerned shall implement. (...)

Article 10, updating obligations for gatekeepers, paragraph 1:

The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 34 to update the obligations laid down in Articles 5 and 6 where, based on a market investigation pursuant to Article 17, it has identified the need for new obligations addressing practices that limit the contestability of core platform services or are unfair in the same way as the practices addressed by the obligations laid down in Articles 5 and 6.
This is a much more reasonable comment than your original coment.

> Explain please how distribution is tied in to the unknown price point at which the other company proceeds to do business?

This is not what you said, you said it was a one time expense. Those two statements are not the same.

> Or are you arguing that the 30% cut is used to subsidize the remainder of the free apps?

You're putting words in my mouth here. I'm not arguing the 30% cut is used to subsidise the remainder of the apps, I'm arguing that free apps still have distribution costs.

> You really should bone up on anti-competitive behavior before accusing people of flaming.

I stand by my accusation of flaming - just becasue you have a point doesn't mean it couldn't be made in a better way.

> People are forced into this model, the alternatives have been degraded to the point that they no longer function for all intents and purposes you have to distribute your app through Apple.

That I don't disagree with one bit, and if your initial comment had said that rather than " It's a mob move, taxation because you are powerful enough to harm another business, not because you have contributed to the business." I wouldn't have commented on it.
I fundamentally disagree. It's entirely a matter of how that process is manifested and the impact it has on the psychology of team members.

A good process can be empowering. It's just that 98%~ish of processes are not good.
Fox news is alt right now?