skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Senior Dev's Quick Thoughts on the Odin Project [video]
There are plenty of such swag companies. Before they were bought out, one of my clients did nothing but company-branded gear from Nomex suits to keychains and everything in between.

I built their client-specific ordering sites, all of which had to be customized for each client's particular policies and desired bureaucratic process.
My point is... I don't think it's very common to ban them. I have visited hundreds of offices with consumer grade coffee makers in the break room. I've seen plenty of the machines that use various "pods" and come with a service contract too, but buying a $20 Mr. Coffee from Walmart is totally a thing in the business world.
> If you take this very same system and put it in thermal contact with another system, then an objective entropy perspective is the relevant one. Those systems will equilibrize and your subjective knowledge is irrelevant to that process.

The subjective view handles this scenario just fine, though, and makes more accurate predictions than the objective view.

For example, there are systems where some aspects of the original microstate survive thermal contact with another system. We use such systems to store data! I bet your hard drive is in thermal contact with its environment right now! It's very hard to reconcile this with an objective take on entropy.

And there are some systems that will rapidly be scrambled. The subjective perspective has no problem admitting that your knowledge of a system can become inaccurate and useless. Even without thermal contact, you'd need to perform a tremendous amount of (perhaps reversible) computation in order to make a functioning Maxwell's demon with your initial microstate conditions, because the microstate will evolve in time in a complicated way. The subjective view is still totally consistent with entropy of a system increasing over time!
That is my mental model, yes. More bits are needed to capture more detailed (or micro-states as you called it elsewhere in this thread, or finer-grained) information.

Let's say there's a stone, we want to know its details. If all we want to know is whether it weighs more than 100KG or not then one bit will do. 1 means > 100KG and 0 means < 100KG. If we want to know its colour (as one of 7 WIBGYOR) as well then we need 4 bits; 3 bits to encode 7 colours and 1 bit to encode yes/no for the weight. And so on..as we gain more and more information we need more bits to store that.

This is just for the storage though; in order to gain the information we need to expend energy. More information requires more energy leading to more disorder as expending energy releases heat and thus 2nd order of thermodynamics as well as arrow of time. IMO our perception of time is purely based on memory which is information content of event stored in Neurons.

Quite a bit of hand-wavy. But this is a mental model I've developed over the years of thinking and reading (and listening to lectures) about entropy, information, arrow of time, and energy and how they are interconnected.
Does that factor in the effects of lockdowns?
It's easy to hire someone who has done something before. It's hard to make sure you've got a situation where they can do the same thing.
Actually, just to be correct, the tritium in question is not mixed in with the water. It's part of the water.
You can write off a good chunk of the interest paid on a mortgage come tax season. Saved me thousands of dollars in taxes this year.
Except that unlike React, COBOL doesn’t bring along 10000 dependencies written by 5000 different authors, randomly abandoned a few months later but teeming with unpatched vulnerabilities.

Sure, somehow I’m going to find React developers 15 years from now to maintain my line-of-business React app but how secure will it be?

One could argue that I can rewrite the framework-dependent parts. But rewrites cost money, too.

I love new stuff but I still think that, depending on the app, it may make good economic sense to plan ahead for it to be useful after a decade or two.
Oh yeah, remember the civil war of 1982? When inflation was 14% and The Fed raised rates to purposefully start a recession?

Give me a break, we’ve been through much worse. Let’s stop with the FUD please.
The thing to know about 3D scanning -- and more generally, automated photorealistic 3D modeling of the entire physical world -- is that it is an unsolved problem. A lot of the 3D scans you'll find were created with techniques (e.g. photogrammetry) that do not scale to a majority of the physical world.

The concern with assembling datasets for ML from e.g. Sketchfab and Turbosquid, besides typical copyright restrictions, is very high variability in 3D model quality. I love that Epic Games indeed seems to be very excited about 3D scanning (acquiring several companies), and their Unreal Engine does offer a large number of free 3D scans. But the scope of their publication so far is just a drop in the ocean of possibility for 3D computer vision.

Even if I may disagree with and see further opportunities in the techniques employed for 3D scanning, I commend the Google authors on their hard work over multiple years collecting massive datasets, their detailed academic communication, and their open source licensing. In my view, anyone working on and communicating new techniques for 3D scanning/modeling/vision like this, and especially anyone who is publishing large numbers of 3D models for the world, is contributing to a much bigger future, where we can have the entire world fully 3D modeled.
F1 cars in 2026 will have less drag and no MGU-H, FIA says
I thought it was pretty clear that I was joking about that part. My point is everyone has struggles with their job and may think about leaving sometimes.

For me, the question "have you considered leaving your career in the past year?" Is not specific enough to have a reasonable answer, so I'd like to know what the questions were more specifically.
> In this climate change age

The Great Lakes only exist because the massive ice sheet melted and left the lakes as a deposit some 10-15,000 years ago.

I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few thousand years the lakes largely dissipate.

That said I grew up near the lake, definitely something that’s awesome to live near
"Every team has things they hate to deal with. Find those things. Learn how to make them less painful."

I've always done the work that others don't want to do. I volunteered for roles in addition to my main one, like being an application security champion. I've also built automated scripts throughout my career to deal with boring or tedious tasks (which I then shared with the team).

So I've followed the pain, but it has never paid off. I'm tired of dealing with the pain and having no future because of it. I appreciate the suggestion though.
Yes, there is just a single lake comprising Michigan and Huron.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_of_Mackinac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt
So you have an idea for a system/process for how some large business could operate better and you wan't to pitch them to buy it and execute it?

Companies don't buy ideas... they buy; teams, products or businesses. Fit into one of those buckets.
I don’t really get what “it” means in the context of this article. Using some actual examples might be nice.
There are many troubling things happening at the moment. From a US centric point of view.

- Inflation is at it's highest since the 1970s in the US

- There is a large military conflict in Europe.

- There are shortages of chips, energy, and food on the horizon.

- Unprofitable growth stocks have valuations as high as 100:1 on revenue.

- There is increasing militarized tension on many portions of the global supply chain (Russia:EU, China:US, China:Taiwan).

- Housing has appreciated by up to 40% YoY in major US cities.

- A global pandemic has introduced lockdowns, and potentially permanently changed people's relationship with work. While killing a million people.

- The US legislative branch is utterly paralyzed.

- The US business cycle hasn't seen a recession since ~2010.

I'm sure I missed a few, but the fact that a recession hasn't happened should be more surprising than a recession happening.
Most likely because we can't even nail down a coherent theory of consciousness amongst humans, despite the fact that we can communicate verbally and use the scientific method.

I personally believe that if we assume humans experience some form of high-level consciousness, we must assume that all/most species do too. They have different neural networks, different sensory organs, different communication mechanisms, but they do not LACK these things. An octopus or a bat will experience the world in a vastly different way to ours, not higher or lower. I'd like to see the burden of proof go the other way - what evidence do we have that humans' neurobiology is uniquely suited to consciousness while every other species' is not?
Yeah, show the numbers for each book made after the first year of release. I'd consider that more passive.
You’re responding to a comment discussing the CBA of getting a mortgage vs paying all cash, not buying a house vs renting.
>The office is no longer a venue for people to work in their cubicles; instead, it's a forum to create human connections. Rather than looking for large offices in business parks, organizations should explore creating hubs where employees can connect. At Optimere, after talking with our employees, we closed our large office in a San Diego suburb and replaced it with two small offices located in beach communities just outside the city, close to where most employees live.

Simply requiring employees to step out of their home is already recreating 80% of the friction that caused them to want to work remotely in the first place. The 20% reduction in annoyance will be welcome by those who end up having no choice in returning to the office but that's not the same thing as them welcoming the return. Retention likely will end up being a problem as employees are poached by companies that are able to offer much more than a 20% reduction in friction.
The level of food shortage you're talking about is extreme and very unlikely, excepting an extremely unlikely series of major disasters. It would take a lot to overcome people's inertia to action and by that stage of your theoretical disaster they will be too focused on immediate needs of food, energy & safety for them and their family to consider wider actions.
I would expect the Keurig to be banned also if there was much to this "building managers just ban consumer grade coffee makers as a matter of course" theory.
The half life of U-235 is 700 million years.
Haha, after the disaster my tongue-in-cheek solution to the mess was just use a small tactical nuke to blow the whole mess into the ocean. Someone said that would put waste into the atmosphere :-(

But hey, they can just drain the water into the ocean right?!?!
I find myself doubting that this goal makes any sense.

One mathematician often cannot "justify" their reasoning process to another if their thinking is even slightly different. For example what is intuitive for one side of the algebra/analysis divide is often not to people on the other side.

It is therefore unlikely that a human level computer program will think enough like humans that it can be justified to any human. And vice versa. For it to do so, it has to be better than the human, also have a model of how the human thinks, and then be able to break down thinking it arrived at one way to something that makes sense to the human.

If a computer succeeded in this endeavor, it would almost certainly come up with new principles of doing mathematics that would then have to be taught to humans to for humans to appreciate what it is doing. Something like this has already happened with Go, see https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q05n7pz for example. Even so, humans are still unable to learn to play the game at the same level as the superhuman program. And the same would be true in mathematics.
What I think it means, is that if you take two different parametrizations of the same physical phenomenon, then you get two different entropy values.

E.g. if you have a bunch of particles with fixed mass. You could look at the distribution of speeds and get one entropy. Then the distribution of kinetic energy (basically speed squared). Uniform speed means non-uniform speed squared so the entropies would disagree.

This sounds like it could pose issues.
In this case, the water is radioactive. They are talking about releasing water in which a small fraction of the molecules are composed of Hydrogen, Tritium and Oxygen (HTO), rather than ordinary H20. HTO acts chemically just like H20, and is literally radioactive water.
You just keep telling yourself that.
Agreed. Moreover, the parent poster is overlooking that in a well functioning engineering organization, political influence is at least partly a function of competence.
Name names you coward :)
What subject areas does this seem to actually help with? I've heard of people doing it but whenever I try it I seem to get results that are at least as irrelevant as what I'd get from searching the web at large - posts with no replies, or with a bunch of useless and poorly informed ones, random trolling, etc. That is, on the occasions when I'm lucky enough to be able to see the content without Reddit throwing 40 different modals and hiding replies in an effort to get me to sign up.
Another alternative explanation that wouldn't require Facebook's malice, assuming that this initiative does have its opponents, is that Facebook's some reporting tools were weaponised, i.e. lots of false reports caused the automated detector to misclassify it.

(I don't actually expect it to have such staunch opponents, though, so the misclassification is probably due to other reasons.)
Ask HN: Qualities SWEs who get quickly promoted lack compared to older managers?
Whether it's their grindset, office politics savviness, or job-hopping skills, some software engineers find themselves climbing the ladder pretty quickly while still in their 20s. Do quick progressions have a drawback? Do these SWEs have any major blind-spots compared to their older counterparts?
But there's only one state that is 10010001111110101000.
Hiring for someone who has done it before is very common at the Principal and Staff Engineer level. As people get more senior in their careers there is more demand for specific skills and expertise not less.

Contracting out is its own can of worms and can introduce as many problems as it solves. Exact specifiable way typically means 30 details to iron out later even when both sides mean well and those details are usually problematic.
Let us not forget the similarly-useful Dominos Pizza terraform provider: https://github.com/nat-henderson/terraform-provider-dominos

I could see one combining these into a nice evening.
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I like coding, but I don't like coding for a job. I have to do something for money. It seems like all jobs suck, and that coding has paid more for enduring it.
> > all the successful authors who spoke about their experience all expressed similar struggles.

> Definitely not true.

You're saying that all the successful authors who spoke about their experience did not all express similar struggles?

You have a quote from a successful author, who said that they did not express similar struggles?

Because I am only making the claim about what successful authors said, not whether they were lying or not.
I've had great experiences with both Ruby and Go. Both are a joy to write, and can handle most use cases. When I'm writing Ruby I sometimes wish I had Go's type system and lightning fast test suites. When I'm writing Go, I sometimes wish there were more conventions so I didn't burn so much time thinking through the absolute perfect way to architect every little thing. Still, they're both wonderful languages that hopefully fade to the background of your consciousness so you can focus on the actual business goals at hand.
Don't mirror your fears into others.

I don't hide behind throway accounts, and you snarky remark regarding C only proves the point how little you know of my HN history.
"Citation needed" is not a nice quip. You're responding to a forum comment, not reviewing a paper.

It's fine to be dubious of a claim, and it's fine to ask politely for sources or rationales. Just be nice.
> I thought we were discussing statistical mechanics.

This is from the message that you first replied to in this thread:

"Typically when you calculate the entropy of a system at temperature X, that means all you know is that you stuck a thermometer in it and measured X. You don't know anything more than the average temperature. It could be in any state consistent with that temperature."

Will you tell students to count the microstates consistent with the temperature?
or they say yes and you feel obliged to accept.

I asked for $50k above what a company offered me, thinking that we'd part on good terms; and they accepted.. So, I guess that's what I'm doing now.
Supplier's prices have shot through the roof in the last quarter and people's buying power has decreased through inflation which seems like a recipe to slow down the economy but, I'm not an economist.
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I think companies/people who are deep in google SEO have also infiltrated reddit. Still better than Google in some regards but only a matter of time before it is degraded beyond useful value.
Because they have no actual rebuttal.
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There is a distinct element of the American psyche that focuses on anti-government suspicions, self determination, armed resistance, etc.

It’s part of our founding mythos and reinvents itself in all sorts of contexts.

Doesn’t mean it is at all realistic for our present circumstances. I don’t happen to think so. An increase in stochastic violence? Sure. Actual, organized civil war? No chance.
https://academic.oup.com/jrr/article/62/4/557/6256015

> Because some people are concerned about biological accumulation of OBT in the environment, we briefly summarize the behavior of OBT in the ecosystem. Scientific data about the environmental behavior of OBT are still limited, however, it is clear that biological accumulation is not the case for tritium including OBT.
Maybe, maybe not.

I've been downvoted for my analysis but absolutely stand by it and want to double-down for the record, as I think HN is very wrong about this.

Worth noting that Facebook's stock is now less than 50% of its peak price, and we're in a bull market. How is that going to look when the recession hits?

Whilst I'm sure it will continue to rake in cash for a few years, my point is that the gradient is severely negative and it will accelerate. Tik Tok will overtake Instagram this year, despite the fact that its audience haven't even reach 25 yet. That's _already baked in_ to the demographics.

The only way I'm wrong is if Facebook make a big success with a new product in-house, which they have never done. I believe they don't have the ability to do it. Their hiring and their culture are the problem, and you just can't fix culture overnight (esp with the original founder at the helm).

Facebook are not Microsoft, Google, or Amazon. They don't have the same culture. The reason they're in the same bracket is their financial success, but it's not an appropriate comparison.
> Stephen King could have never written so much so persistently without thoroughly enjoying it.

And? I didn't claim that he claimed not to enjoy it, I claimed that he said it's a struggle to get into the groove.
I always felt that animals just see us as one of them. Like you are the alpha cat or dog of the pack since you provide food.

I think part of consciousness is being constrained by a certain perspective, and so all animals like us see the world from that anthropomorphic (or catomorphic) lens. I mean we communicate with animals using human language and vice-versa.
There are a lot of very angry conservatives who are getting angrier by the day. And they own the vast majority of the guns.
Another common situation I've encountered is this one: They don't really want "it".

They say they want someone to do "it", they hire someone who has done "it". But then that wasn't really what they wanted done.

I think I can also draw the hypothesis that the more convinced they say they want "it" and/or the bigger the "it" they ask for, the less they actually want it when the time comes.
People got along a lot better with their neighbors in the 80s than they do now.
> And vice versa. For it to do so, it has to be better than the human, also have a model of how the human thinks, and then be able to break down thinking it arrived at one way to something that makes sense to the human.

This is more or less what Gowers is after. And that's exactly why he wants GOFAI instead of ML. He wants to understand how "doing mathematics" works?
You’re correct in that it’s not deterministic or idempotent if the APIs are not, but this reads as very anti-terraform. The purpose is not to be easier than curl, but to express your infrastructure in code so you can check it into a project and automate the deployment process, keeping the code version of the infrastructure in line with what is deployed. Curl doesn’t do that in any way and isn’t at all a valid comparison to terraform. If you feel IaC as a whole is a pointless/useless endeavor, that’s a point to argue, but comparing terraform to curl in this way is ignoring the main value add of IaC.
As a computer scientist it isn't helpful that the entropy in thermodynamics and that in computer science (informational content - I don't know a good English term) collide a bit.
This seems like a solid case where Hacker Rank and their contractor filed bad-faith documents and lied under the penalty of perjury. Now that SymPy has $25k of found money, it might make sense to hire a lawyer and counter-sue for damages.
It's just a preprint and a literature review?

Criticism:
https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/does-mccullough-s-pap...
The equivalence is an important theorem (important enough to be engraved on Boltzmann's gravestone), and if you're switching back and forth in an explanation of what entropy is then you're skipping over some important details that answer what it means for something to be a 'low entropy state'.
Exactly. I don't know if anyone under an architect or director can get over 200k here. Still, you can support a family on 150.
Could that also be because people are living paycheck to paycheck and not buying things like houses and cars anymore?

Relatedly: a decrease in debt is exactly what I would expect from an Uberized economy where nobody owns anything anymore. I’m not sure this is such a good measure of economic health.

Stated differently: a small amount of debt is an indication that people are investing in things. That’s usually a good sign.
Well that's pretty cynical, but you're right, that could be what I'm planning to do. A cursory look at my domain, socials and what I've posted on HN should be enough to at least suggest I'm not trying to do that though.

Also, raw profit wise, it would be incredibly short-sighted to sell emails to spammers IMO. That's a dogshit plan.

My plan is to put out good content -- i.e. deliver value (well actually unvalidated ideas are near worthless... so this might be hard) -- and maybe add a paid tier (early reception? better quality ideas? I'm not sure) or an ad in the mailing list (probably at the bottom) eventually. That's a far more sustainable AND profitable plan than selling to spammers.
There’s a NHK documentary on the same topic

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Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3016120/
So change the secrets and/or find professional developers? Sorry, not sorry, it’s an amateur mistake, not acceptable in a professional environment. Why would an amateur possess the secrets in the first place?
True, but to late to edit.
Abbott wouldn't be doing things like that if the Federal Government would do it's job.