skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really surprised by the pushback this sentiment and the related idea of Chesterton's Fence gets from a lot of folks at HN. It seems eminently sensible to me. I understand how some people might think it would promote inertia, tech debt, and a kind of conservatism that can kill companies and institutions, but approached in good faith, I think it can probably prevent a lot of headaches. Surely the point is not to uncritically preserve the status quo, but to interrogate deeply why the status quo is the way that it is, to better decide whether or how a thing should be changed. And surely there is peril in the opposite impulse.
Worse doesn't mean that everyone else is swell.

A < B and A < 0 doesn’t imply B>0. All it implies is that A<B
I'm not trying to defend self driving to Tesla here, like, at all, but I don't agree with this statement.

Evolution has gifted us with a phenomenal device, the brain, but evolution is extremely cautious and conservative. There is very little reason to expect that human innovation won't catch up and surpass evolution. 10,000 years from now, I expect self-driving will work perfect. 10,000 years from now, our brains will (unless modified by our technology) largely be unchanged.
You’re getting distracted by unrelated concerns. Hint: pay attention to the part where I say

> Regardless of the above, when I say 'system' I'm referring to a cryptosystem, not the other parts of the software stack.

If your cryptosystem is compromised nothing else matters. Your argument seems to be “we shouldn’t worry about secure cryptosystems because these other unrelated things could go wrong,” which I’m not interested in debating with you.
That's absolutely true! But the OP asked about ILP in particular.

To be fair, logic and functional programming languages do have some advantages as target languages for Inductive Programming compared to imperative languages in that they have very simple syntax. For example, Prolog doesn't even have variable declarations. That's very convenient because the learning system only needs to learn the logic of the program, not the syntax of the language also. It's also much simpler to define language bias or program schemata etc constraints on the form of hypotheses in such languages, or even order programs by generality. For instance, Prolog has unification built-in and unification is used in ILP to order programs by generality (by testing for subsumption). All this machinery would have to be implemented from scratch in an imperative language.

Although the reason that logic and functional programming languages are given more weight in IP is probably for historical reasons, because Lisp and Prolog were, for a long time, "the languages of AI".

I'm trying to remember... I think there's been some IP work on imperative languages, maybe even Python. I'll need to check my notes.
ShenYu – High-Performance Java API Gateway
Isn't this how it already works? I thought people on Spotify were paid (very little) "per stream".
Is it bad to feel depressed that this has been going for nearly half a century with No end In Sight.
In fact it’s stated goal is the dream end state of any pharma co that could cure it. Endless treatment to stave off death.
My Kobo ereader has been great. I read around 50-60 fiction books a year and they've almost entirely been in electronic format for a decade now.

The Pocket integration has also been expectantly useful for reading various articles.
Well, I assume creators think that Google brings value or they would simply host their videos in a CDN themselves, at least when they already have an audience. I think YouTube provides creators a reach that others can't. Probably because of the hundreds of video clients they support or the quality of the stream even in the most hostile network conditions.
Fiber being a type of carb is also found in other high carb foods like beans, whole grains, potatoes (with skin), and popcorn. Beans are the best source of fiber by a mile in terms of quantity.
I learnt Workman a decade ago to prevent RSI, but it is also one of the most efficient layouts when it comes to hand movement and finger utilization, with English at least.

https://workmanlayout.org/

The fastest typists these days swear by Colemak-DH which just like Workman fixes many of the shortcomings of Colemak.

To me Workman feels the best, but anything that's not QWERTY is measurably better, whereas the difference between Colemak, Dvorak and so on is more circumstantial.
>In the iPhone 11 and 12, I found it useful to have the ultra-wide in my pocket— way more useful than the iPhone’s Panorama Mode— but I still mostly avoided it. It was ‘fixed focus’, which means there is no way for the lens to adjust what is sharp. It was designed so all of the frame was in focus. This caused smudgy images, trading clarity for a wider field of view.

This part doesn't make a lot of sense. The iPhone 12 ultrawide is fixed focus, so it's sharp if your subject is at infinity (which is pretty close, given the focal length) and blurry if it's not. There's no reason why having a fixed focus should yield 'smudgy images'. I guess maybe the article is suggesting that the fixed focus is set at a hyperfocal distance to increase the sharpness of closer subjects. I'm not sure if that would really make sense for such a short focal length, though, as the majority of elements in the frame would typically be at infinity.
Belter was probably joking.
A good logic programming ai could do competitive programming through purely deductive reasoning.
I just don’t see good evidence that’ll be possible at a world class level in 10 year.
Requiring citizens to produce a photo id to vote is reasonable regardless of lies certain people tell to push the idea.

Similarly, a carbon tax is reasonable even though proponents lie and claim climate change will kill us all.
The type annotation `Optional[Tuple[int, int]]` is the equivalent to `None | Tuple[int, int]`. `Tuple[Optional[int], Optional[int]]` is what you wanted.
The fastai book actually makes a nice comparison between the systems described in PDP and modern deep learning.

> In fact, the approach laid out in PDP is very similar to the approach used in today's neural networks.

From: https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/01_intro.ipyn...
No, an open source browser engine from my perspective it's not bad, especially if it has multiple contributors. I see that as an opportunity.
It's possible to fork and be up-to-date with it and it would still be less work than writing a different engine.

What's bad in Chrome is not necessary bad in Blink. Blink happens to work well and be very wide-spread, and also being open source. Usually I look for these 3 things together when choosing open source software.
Everything is more expensive when you are poor. For example, having to buy a car and putting a disproportionate amount of your income into petrol makes it very difficult to find jobs outside your neighbourhood. And moving costs money. So when you get stuck in an unattractive area, it’s difficult to get out.

Another example is education. It’s difficult to educate yourself when you need to work 2 jobs just to eat and pay your rent and bills. There are stories of people managing it, but that is an unattainable utopia for a large number of people.
Why does a link to an empty page have 24 upvotes?
In this context, that's exactly what we're talking about. To say the native Americans already settled the western US is being obtuse.
I don't have much knowledge on supplements or even diet - beyond it's intersection with the microbiome. From the microbial perspective I think traditional dietary stuff is enough - eat fibrous plants and legumes and that's all you need to do.
Off-topic, but I am surprised how many regressive costs there are to having money: insurance, healthcare, legal costs, regressive government policies, advisors, retirement savings, hanging with peers of similar wealth means expensive habits...

The big difference with having wealth is how much agency I have over where I spend my time, compared with friends on minimum wage.

I have also lived with friends on the sickness benefit (somewhat by their choice), and they had relatively lots of time to spend as they wish compared with most employees (middle class or working class). In New Zealand you may have more disposable income on the benefit than you do working for minimum wages.
the poverty tax is real
The data suggests that this is a pointless waste of money

“Despite the Herculean effort and enormous expense, only a few drugs for the treatment of cancer were found through NCI’s centrally directed, targeted program. Over a twenty-year period of screening more than 144,000 plant extracts, representing about 15,000 species, not a single plant-based anticancer drug reached approved status. This failure stands in stark contrast to the discovery in the late 1950s of a major group of plant-derived cancer drugs, the Vinca Alcaloids -a discovery that came about by chance, not through directed research.” — Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs.

CRISPR-9 was discovered by accident while trying to understand how bacteria fight the flu. (CRISPR-9 is the acronym for gene editing brouhaha).

Penicillin was discovered via Alexander Fleming’s random mold observation.

Roentgen discovered X-ray tech by accident when he shot electric current through a special gass in a glass tube. Roentgen found out that he’d made a ray that passed through light elements, but interacted with heavy ones; the X-ray.

Vaccines were accidental too. (Edward Jenner — cowpox)

Directed effort seems to be a not-good bet in biotech.

Lesson: Let scientists advanced things in accordance with the invisible hand of scientific discovery and observation as opposed to subsidizing bridges to nowhere. Think more Ioannidis than Kurzweil.*
Are insoluble and soluble fiber equivalent in this respect?

My gut (pardon the pun) says insoluble is more important, but I'm not sure if that's true.
Not all painful memories or memories of pain have to be catastrophised into "trauma". Some can be simply instructive ("hot surface hurts") without needing to go into provoking an irrational response.
ACM membership gives you access to all of oreilly catalog for free, plus access to ACM journals (although TBH I got it mostly because it’s cheaper than getting oreilly directly).
The other side of this coin is that some ignorance can be beneficial to break out of local minima.

> How do you overcome schlep blindness? Frankly, the most valuable antidote to schlep blindness is probably ignorance. Most successful founders would probably say that if they'd known when they were starting their company about the obstacles they'd have to overcome, they might never have started it. Maybe that's one reason the most successful startups of all so often have young founders.

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
I work in a lot of old systems and this is something I have to remind myself of constantly--the people that were working on these systems before me were not necessarily dumber than me. If they made these choices, they may have had good reasons for it that are not immediately clear to me, but if I change it may have far flung consequences that I am just not aware of.
Their desktop app is pretty good, and even feature-complete (and moddable!) on Linux these days which is commendable if nothing else. I generally didn't care about the Rogan controversy (if anything I found his content excruciatingly boring, but not reprehensible), but seeing them tighten down their policy makes me incredibly wary of the platform's future. I don't need a music syncing service, I already have Syncthing. I don't need a podcast app, I have RSS. I pay for Spotify because it's convenient, but if they're increasing moderation and enforcing ludicrous double-standards like this, their value-add over hosting my own music starts waning considerably.
Same age, similar insights and personal development path (except in my case it's woodworking rather than jiu-jitsu). If I could have one personal "do over", it's wishing that I could have spent my 20s and early 30s a lot more humble. I was really unaware how much I didn't know.
Some crazy shit, but also some good shit. Hard part is figuring out which is which.
The naming does indeed matter here. The concept of general intelligence is filled with pseudo-science and has a history of racism (see Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J. Gould). Non-linear statistical inference with very large matrices could be assigned intelligence as it is very useful, but it is by no means the same type of intelligence we ascribe to humans (or even dogs for that matter).

If your plant actually looks like a moss you probably shouldn’t call it a rose. (Even though your moss is actually quite amazing).
"and informed subtly through virtually every lesson plan that their skin color changes how they are supposed to behave and how they should view their positions in life".

Frankly, everyday life will do that for a lot of folks.
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Isn't that exactly how it works? You listen to something and the artist gets a share of the profits. Same as YouTube.

Personally, I still don't think that should make these platforms immune from content scrutiny. There's implicit granting of authenticity when a global leader like Spotify or YouTube hosts content and puts their brand behind it, so I think it's fair they get to decide what is acceptable or not. ESPECIALLY when something is controversial, better to just get it off the platform and take a position that they do not want their brand attached to it.

Facebook and Twitter went all in on free speech for years, beyond any reasonable doubt and it still burnt them. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
A dog. Our previous dog passed away in November 2020 and we adopted a new family member late last year. It has been a joy watching his intelligence and personality blossom as he's gotten more comfortable with us (his previous living situation was not an entirely happy one.)
The seatbelt is an excellent example since there are multiple mechanisms with varying observability contributing to its effectiveness. Even after discovering the dynamic locking behaviour, a naive yet inquisitive passenger remains blind to the pretensioning feature that is observable only during a collision.
we already knew there are many small variations of nucleotides and even amino acids
A pair of headphones: Sennheiser HD 280 Pro. I'm still using the same pair I bought years ago (maybe a decade?), but bought another pair recently because I like them so much. Clean sound, comfortable, and lets me enjoy and appreciate sounds, music, and even silence. (I often keep them on with no sound, haha..)
Microsoft Trackball Optical. Borrowed one 20-years ago when I hurt my shoulder snowboarding. The person who loaned it to me then left the company and told me to keep it. Still using it.

Haven't had to use a mouse since. Never did like mice as used to find when overly focussed on something I'd end up half way across the desk without noticing.
Just ask Google, how much money do ad blockers steal from content creators, lots of people reporting how their sites now produce way less money than they used to.
It's almost certainly possible to create dedicated "battery cars" to extend the range of these locomotives enough to use them on long-haul trains. I expect the only downside of that today is cost, but as batteries get cheaper it will probably become a common thing.
That is a good advice, thanks. Big companies are not fans of moonlighting like this (potential conflict of interest), but I like the way you are thinking.
> because some truckers parked downtown for a few days

Truck horns have been blaring 24/7 for 9 days in a residential area.
In most cases, yes.

But someone is paying for the guaranteed $100M too, and they aren't going to get there with streams at the rate they are paying, so it's probably me as a well.

I don't want that. I am suggesting that they should also switch to a pure pay for stream model so I don't have to pay for podcasts (don't want that from Spotify).
Sorry, I don't understand. What is gatekeeping?

I appreciate that nobody has unlimited resoureces but, for example, the latest DeepMind paper posted on HN (on AlphaCode) had a couple dozen authors. By comparison I do all my work myself, with the help of my advisor and so do his other PhD students. And all for a PhD student's stipend, when DeepMind researchers are paid at least at post-doc levels, presumably. There's no comparison in the resources that I and DeepMind can throw at a problem.

I mean, please, give me DeepMind's limitations. I'd be so happy!
I am a Tesla owner, and yes, I regret the purchase of FSD. I did and still do consider it a bit of an investment in a future I'd like to see, and I'm quite happy I also _actually invested_ in Tesla when I bought my model 3, but over the last 4 years I've learned something that has changed my mind considerably:

AI does not step forward progressively. Normally, engineers spend ages improving things, testing, improving again. With AI, it's far more of a "let's just re-train this black-box on a totally different set of data, wind up with a totally different black-box, and see if its better!" The difference in driving quality and intelligence between even minor version updates is dramatic. I very intentionally _do not_ update my Tesla until the release is ~6 months old. This... sucks.

I am still very bullish on Tesla and EVs, and on technology in general - unlike many I am not full of hate that this didn't work out, nor do I particularly think FSD is _dramatically_ more dangerous behind the wheel than say my grand father was before we convinced him to stop driving, but I do think I have more or less zero patience for AI engineers these days. The failure by Google and others to deliver even a moderately usable voice assistant is all the proof I need that FSD is _years_ away.
It's almost as if the further you go towards the left over the decades, the worse the problems got....
As far as I understand, Canadians were exempted from these vaccinations for non-covid diseases. That is probably because vaccinations are mandatory as a child in Canada.
Interesting - I've never used figma but I'd be open to trying it. My main concern is that I do a lot of collaboration on presentations, including outside my company, and there would be a lot more friction in having to get collaborators onboarded to figma.

For better or worse, that had always been the appeal or MS Office, pretty much every business uses it so it's easy to share documents. Just like I might rather do my writing in LaTeX, I'm stuck with MS word because of interoperability
Alexander Solzhenitsyn believed he cured himself of cancer by following the instructions of a shaman. He then wrote of his experience in “Cancer Ward”

Years later a Solzhenitsyn fan who worked for the NIH recreated the shaman’s recipe and long and behold it was a cocktail of the most promising cancer fighting chemicals the NIH was investigating at the correct dose!

[1] https://undark.org/2016/03/31/did-solzhenitsyn-cure-his-own-...
Many other studies before this one have reached similar results.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
"It's the [housing] economy stupid"

If we actually built an abundance of housing, where it would cease to be a vehicle to park stores of wealth, where there is no musical chairs competition to outcompete each other for the basic security of shelter, the deflationary cost savings that would percolate through the economy would be absolutely immense. I'm talking about even chipping away at the cost of education and healthcare immensely, because of how much of the cost goes into indirectly paying the housing of the huge amount of workers in those industry. In the world of mass housing at the cost of construction, everything is cheap, and we live with much more abundance.
Great article title!
Thank you for clarifying. I don’t mean to critique your work or your ability to complete the interview, i was specifically quoting the tweet you were quoting in your post. In that tweet it mentions the triggering aspect of such interviews.
To your situation in particular, my point in a comment further down was that it’s possible that employers like Shopify still see the “on the spot coding exercise” as a natural filter for certain personality traits. Wether they do this consciously or not, i have no idea. Wether it’s good practice or not, also debatable. Probably not as it excludes a lot of potentially good developers. Nevertheless it is a behavior that continues to filter out the types of people who can’t/won’t do the exercise.
Your ability to deliver great work is almost definitely completely unrelated to the exercise itself. It’s unfortunate that you didn’t progress as a result, and hopefully your friend can help you out with resetting the process.
Re: "young founders," this is simply not true, at least not anymore, if it ever was:

> More broadly, 2018 research published in the Harvard Business Review found that the average age at which a successful founder started their company is 45. That’s “among the top 0.1% of startups based on growth in their first five years,” according to the report.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/27/super-founders-median-age-of...

Let's not perpetuate yet another ageist myth.
The Root from Issyk-Kul Revisited
Counterpoint. Want to automate reporting the amount of toil on a team based on ticket assignment with pretty much any language that can talk HTTP? Want to create super-easy dashboards that are easy to read and use, and then export that into code? Is your company trying capital-A-Agile and wants to experiment between using scrum, kanban, fragilefall, whatever? Jira can do all of these things, and it can do them easily.

What you're describing is a people problem IMO.
I think you gotta be naive enough to have schlep blindness, but experienced/skilled enough to have some hope of making a dent in your target.

So I'm not sure if ignorance is exactly what's called for...maybe irrational optimism is more like it?
Yes, Python seems simpler in some aspects, but it does lack the ball-of-clay flexibility of JS, and Python feature-set seem rather conservative speaking in the 2020s (Its standard library data structures abounds in a very mutable api, for example).
Only if they can be charged. Many rail yards are in remote locations. A battery-powered train is useless if you are charging it using diesel generators because your rail yard doesnt have enough grid capacity.
Are you suggesting not using BeeWare and using Qt instead? I only want to target Windows and macOS (I'm ignoring mobile.) For web I'm stuck in my ways and just go with Golang + server-side rendering (a bit of JS to make forms nicer.)

I was looking at Fyne for doing desktop UIs in Go: https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne

I can keep everything in the Go ecosystem that way.

Any thoughts or advice?
I do, but since the data is not publicly released its not shareable. Hence the reason I've explained and pointed you to the appropriate resources.

A reduction in the incidence rate ratio among vaccinated individuals is a reduction to community spread, ceterus paribus.

Have a good evening.