skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it's possible to acquire the equivalent of a PhD through the vast wealth of information and literal college courses online. Degrees don't mean what they used to.

The dilution of quality caused by profit based perverse incentives, the cultural issues grounded in grievance studies, and the enormous wealth of high quality material and alternatives to formal education have radically changed what academia means to society going forward.

Gatekeeping for profit and not discriminating between the value of a degree in mathematics and a degree in underwater basket weaving, eliminating political, ideological, and epistemic diversity have resulted in a world where degrees increasingly mean you simply paid money to exist in the presence of other folks with paper over a sufficient length of time that all parties involved felt satisfied with the kabuki show.

Accreditation through a legitimate culture of intellectual peers in which institutional academia has earned the respect and dedication of its members approaches the ideal case. Few, if any, American institutions pass muster. They're not without value, and some departments are world class, but they exist in relation to near total institutional failure, and they are infecting the rest of the world.

Academic journals, outdated pedagogy, DIE gatekeeping, woke babysitting and infantilized students are just the most obvious rot.

American academia has a lot of soul searching and hard work to do, or it's going to be displaced by something better that serves the need for legitimate accreditation in society. I personally don't want that to be private corporations, and I'm rooting for the professors and alumni who want to preserve the integrity of their institutions.
I don't understand entropy and this article did not change it. The issue I take is with the definition of "the most likely state".

Think of a series of random bits that can be either 0 or 1 with equal probability. How likely is it that they are all 0 or all 1? Not very likely. There is exactly one configuration. How likely is it that they have a specific configuration of 0 and 1? Equally likely. All states are equally likely. If you randomly flip bits you go from one state to another state but each one is equally likely to occur. There is no special meaning to a specific configuration if you don't give it one.

If you look at the average of all bits you start grouping all states together with the equal number of 1s. If you talk about the average there is only one configuration that is all 1s but most configurations have roughly 50% 1s. If you now start flipping bits you will meander through all possible bit-states but the average will most likely be close to 50% 1s most of the time.

In physics we usually look at averages such as the average velocity expressed as temperature. Therefore it makes sense to group together all states using the average and then the states with very low or very high averages are few.

But if you look deeper than that averaging it stops making sense to me. It's a completely different world. I don't know what Entropy is supposed to mean on the level of individual states/configurations. I don't understand what kind of macroscopic "averaging" function we may use to group up those states. There could be more than one possibility - from that would follow that there is more than one definition of macro-Entropy. Ideally there should be one general definition of how we have to look at those microstates and from that follows our general definition of Entropy. Sadly I didn't study Physics and this topic still continues to confuse me. The usual explanations fail to enlighten me.
I was the same way, but epubs can be quite good now, even for highly formatted technical content.
Meh. These "tragedies" are often irrelevant and often the only time you will ever encounter them will be in some news article written by a hand-wringing doomer.

Willfully ignoring the news is amazing for mental health. The benefit of cutting the constant stream of doomerism out of one's life cannot be overstated - it's a benefit that far exceeds whatever minimal value to society you could provide by tuning into the news.
> Is it best to go ahead and get those fillings now? Probably, as far as your dental health is concerned.

This is mostly untrue. Fillings don't last forever, so prematurely filling cavities "starts the clock" on the longevity of the filling. When the dentist is replacing a broken filling, the dentist has to remove more of the tooth. Eventually you will need a root canal and/or crown. So for maximizing your health, the dentist still has to make a judgment call on how early or late to fill.

I say mostly because mercury amalgam fillings do seem like they can last effectively forever (20+ years), but they have fallen out of favor.
"They're everywhere" doesn't mean they innovate, it means they're cheap and good enough.

The Prius has been incremental for the last 20 years.
No. Demolition men had training while in prison.
You could certainly ask for the right to redistribute the code when we were negotiating the contract. But that would get you a much larger quote since now you wouldn’t just be buying the software, you’d also have to be paying for every potential future sale of something similar.

I can’t imagine that the government (or anybody really) would do that.
But all of this is something you can contract out to an agency for a cut of the rent.
https://archive.ph/czTjr
Thanks a lot for sharing boogies, much simpler now.
Another awesome youtube channel (Ben Eater) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA
In Shannon’s 1948 paper, part V deals with continuous sources. The key is to realise that you cannot measure a continuous signal exactly, and so you can define a rate of information relative to the fidelity of your measurement. (I only skimmed that part years ago, and never studied it carefully. But it makes perfect sense.)
And get all your readers to shout at you for getting their readers to pay twice.
That's not normal news, that's BECOME normal news. It's become more difficult to find informative, educational news without an agenda or tabloid spin.
Absolutely, and my home automation setup in total also uses more power than what this trick is saving. But it's there anyway because I want an automated home, and then this is a simple rule to save some otherwise wasted energy that takes only 5 minutes to set up.
Incidentally, Nurses organized by Finnish labour unions are currenlty planning to quit en masse since they weren't allowed to go on strike. Forecasts indicate we'll have a total collapse of the healthcare system by summer unless negotiators manage some kind of breakthrough in the negotiations.
>> I wake up daily excited to write. When work is a dread, or when something unhappy pops up, some writing will always bring in positive energy into me. I don’t dread writing. In fact, I can’t stop myself from writing!

>I fear we are built different.

Isaac Asimov was like Greg Lim:

>[T]he only thing about myself that I consider to be severe enough to warrant psychoanalytic treatment is my compulsion to write ... That means that my idea of a pleasant time is to go up to my attic, sit at my electric typewriter (as I am doing right now), and bang away, watching the words take shape like magic before my eyes.
> From what I've read, following the merger Boeing was no longer run out of Seattle but Chicago. How can you effectively manage a manufacturing facility from halfway across the country?

It's worse than that: They deliberately moved management to Chicago to separate management decisions from engineers. All those pesky pocket-protector-wearing eggheads were considered a nuisance who were apparently hellbent to rain on MBA powerpoint parades.
I don’t know what they intend to use it for but face swapping is a common request on Instapainting.com, so we (ai work there) could use it to generate previews before an artist does the face swapping work.
My mom is a nurse and although she doesn't live in the US she also suffers from the same poor conditions. She has to work on the database herself, staff shortage is a big problem (sometimes getting to 4 nurses in her "sector"). She gets underpaid even though she works 12 hours shifts sometimes in consecutive days (she usually gets paid 400 dollars per month if I estimated correctly). It's quite miserable.
If you mean differential entropy (which Shannon supposedly suggested as a generalisation to continuous random variables), this is not a good generalisation of entropy to continuous random variables. It lacks all the interesting properties of entropy.

The "proper" generalisation of entropy to continuous random variables is something called relative entropy, or in some books it's called KL divergence. But this is now a property of how two probability distributions relate to each other, rather than a property of a single probability distribution alone.

I'm not an expert in probability theory or physics, but this is what I've learnt from a brief study of these areas.
I read the headline as following a similar construction as descriptions of how Gavrilo Princip triggered the First World War. Eg, from a DDG search I easily found:

] If you have an image in your head of a notorious assassin or terrorist, Gavrilo Princip is probably the last person on your mind. ... you'd be hard pressed to believe this poseur had any chance of setting the world's economic and political center on fire. - https://mida.org.il/2014/06/28/shots-started-first-world-war...

That doesn't mean Princip literally set the world on fire, nor is it sympathetic towards Princip nor Serbian nationalism.

> That's essentially just a form of a blasphemy law.

I concur. But it's not an effective counter-argument since those who want such a law will make exactly the same argument. "This is just a form of blasphemy law like Finland and Germany already have." (I don't know the specifics of those two countries, only that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law describes them as having blasphemy laws.)
Hiring mechanics & technicians for Boeing in the Pacific Northwest is also quite difficult with their poor reputation, middling pay and the high cost of living. FAANG has increased the cost of living in the region to the point of pricing out whole neighborhoods that used to be Boeing employees, pushing them out of the inner suburbs.
All of the data aggregators already have it. Why not release it globally? :)
https://slate.com/culture/2001/08/one-cheer-for-cheering.htm... - first line "Spy magazine had a column titled “Logrolling in Our Time,” devoted to exposing authors who traded good reviews back and forth. " which I remember, it was pretty funny sometimes.
That's probably against the "ToS", I would imagine.
And there is even a fork on F-Droid that works without google framework only requiring microg, working on older devices, and having some minor additional features: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.corona.tracing/
>There could be more than one possibility

This seems to connect with the idea behind Chaitin's incompleteness theorem. Making specific statements about the reducible complexity of something is not always possible.
Boeing CEO calls Air Force One deal a risk it ‘probably shouldn’t have taken'
My mom is a nurse and although she doesn't live in the US she also suffers from the same poor conditions. She has to work on the databases herself, staff shortage is a big problem (sometimes getting to 4 nurses in her "sector"). She gets underpaid even though she works 8 but usually 12 hours shifts sometimes in consecutive days (she usually gets paid 400 dollars per month if I estimated correctly). It's quite miserable but at least she a number of vacation days which she can choose when to "validate" them.
Economics focused journal rediscovers the supply and demand curve.
That would be all Western intelligence assessments that one could read about in the mainstream media.
No offence but Cloud Run has been doing this for a while?

And now Cloud Functions gen 2 as well…?
I have a new job since last month.
And the amount of info to ingest into my brain is simply too big.
Many documents, many people, acronyms everywhere.

I chose to use a note taking app called Obsidian to deal with that infobesity.
And honestly offloading all that to a tool was a fantastic experience.
To me, this Personal Knowledge Management buzz is a real thing.
And it was a life saver, to me.
[The simplicity of the tool and its almost immediate added value is simply too good to ignore]
Ask HN: How to interpret mathematics in terms of deep learning models?
Ok. First, let me introduce myself.

I am a master's student in Computer Science, in US. I had a lecture on speech recognition today in my machine learning class. It was a good lecture and mostly focused on first principles and basic concepts related to learning speech recognition. Then comes the devil, neural networks jargon, and architecture(LSTM, RNN, Transformers). Till now, all these things make sense to me.

I came back home and gave a thought to everything I learned today. My question is why did we study first principles(like phonetics, n-grams, and all) when deep learning models and all are able to learn patterns themselves. In technical terms, my question is how do we interpret problems, mathematical modeling, and intuition derived from first principles and models in terms of deep learning models and architecture? Because mathematical intuition behind deep learning models looks completely different to me. So, is it just the game of input-output-losses? If possible, if anyone can give me a very classic example of how did you conclude what the deep learning model would look like?

I would ask this question my professor next week. But HN is kind of my professor, so asking here. :P

Thanks!!!
Sleep, diet, life events all negative. GIGO.

Although, I probably could do with some life changes, they need to be manageable.
What do you mean by “flee for safety”? Do you think he’s in Russia by choice? It’s not the case, he cannot leave the country.
Prepare image…? Just let buildpacks sort it out and forget the Dockerfile ever existed.
> we have no choice but to drop salaries or close up shop

there's bound to be at least a third option and the fact that you ignored it is part of the problem.
That dude is a machine. He wrote 4 secret novels during the pandemic on top of several regular ones.
what is a fortune? $200?
why? conversations look polite to me
Seems like the bubble burst is going to be more sudden than we thought. 30 year mortgages are suddenly at nearly 5.5-6%, listings are sitting on the market for longer, and multiple cities are cracking down on Airbnb.
Particularly as I have it on a mini-itx, in a cupboard - the radiator lives outside the case, outside the cupboard. It’s actually proven dead handy, as the weather gets too warm for running the log stove, but too cold at night to not have any heating - so using the waste heat from entertainment to keep the place cosy seems like an efficient approach.
I don’t have a good way to reconcile the current hot job market with seemingly increasing reports of mass layoffs, but one wonders if the graph will change directions decisively at some point soon.
The Internet is a paradox. It only seems rich, but most information is regurgitated or a lossy simplification of its source.

If you count the good articles divided by the total number of articles, the classical probability of the web's utility tends to zero. You can only access a constant amount of websites per week, whereas the Internet grows exponentially.

So don't sweat it, the top 5 results in any search engine are good enough.
"Cracking down on Airbnb"... you say this as if Airbnb is a horrible thing or something LOL
Cars making their normal combustion engine noises are already a serious source of noise pollution. The solution can't be to make noise pollution required by law. That's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Stop running cars in areas that are easily accessible to pedestrians. There are already plenty of streets pedestrians have to use an overpass or underpass for. It's even safer and doesn't ruin the auditory environment.
> seems like a vanity project to put on your resume

What's your problem with vanity projects? And since when is doing side projects for your CV wrong?

> Do people really need every single aspect of their lives measurable to this degree?

No, but it's fun? "Do people really need X" can be said about anything.

> I, for one, would hate for this to become a thing.

No-one is forcing you to look at it and even less participate in it.
Reading this thread made me realise I developed this as a defence mechanism and have honed it over many years, but as you say it's a great social skill as well.

It's amazing how many conversations you can have about interesting subjects (and thereby dodge smalltalk) by simply rewording them into something everybody at the table can understand.
Given that HackerRank has more than 1000 employees, I agree that it is surprising that they were able to react and apologize on the same day as the takedown and all the buzz on social media.

However, I still think it's a damn shame that HackerRank needed such a high-profile incident before reconsidering their shady arrangement involving probably-automated DMCA takedowns against GitHub repositories. Either they didn't know what that would incur on open source repositories hosted on GitHub and other platforms, or they just didn't care about it as long as it wouldn't cause a huge fuss for themselves (which it did in this case).
My dentist is very busy. That often means that I have to wait a couple of months before I can get an appointment, if I'm not in active pain. That is of course sometimes annoying. The flip side of that is I'm quite confident that she won't suggest anything that isn't necessary since she already have a full schedule.
Spacedrive open source cross-platform file explorer written in Rust
Airplane safety is a function of fatalities over capacity, flight hours and model service life. As such, planes that have been in production longer usually tend to become "more safe" (which is a self-fulfilling thing - notoriously unsafe planes eventually won't be sold anymore). See [1] for a short overview.

As such, the 737NG - which had fatalities - is unlikely to be a contender, considering the much older A340 has had none.

[1] https://turbli.com/blog/the-safest-planes-to-fly-in-by-accid...
I'v found that using this will cause Lambda sometimes to return 500 errors while it's reloading the container image from the registry. This might be the price for allowing large images, they've decided not to do it in a blocking way.
We as the people's government. Yes we're able, with salaries almost half of what the industry pays, and people constantly complaining about revolving doors and assuming corruption and bias if you ever come from any industry (it is a problem but being extremist about it doesn't help much). Sure, I'd want that spot.
Airbnb is a horrible thing if you (like me) live in a tourist city and making rent inaccessible to the local residents
I’m seeing 5.0% most places (see ally bank). Still higher than its been but not pushing 6% by any stretch.
I think the mortgage industry is a bit different in that their workload is so closely correlated with interest rates. People were refinancing like crazy 1-2 years ago, but it's slowed down as rates have gone up.
Attacks on French Fiber Networks Cause Internet Outages
> Sure, no troops (yet), but lots and lots of firepower.

From my understanding, it's been only light weapons so far. Enough to make the Russian advance hard, but not enough to kick them out. It's about to change, though, as the allies have finally agreed to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons (and are now even talking of a lend-lease program).
It’s my understanding that Airbnb is pretty bad when it comes to gentrification and driving city natives out of affordable housing.
I don’t know about other places, but Airbnb has been a mixed bag for NYC: I’ve seen it used to keep housing stock off the market, to dodge the obligations associated with keeping a property livable, and to essentially run entire illegal hotel businesses without attracting regulatory (including safety) scrutiny.
You Shouldn't Use SQLite
Not supporting RDP may make for a very slow experience, but this is interesting to see.
Most flight booking portals I know do tell you which equipment a flight is using.

And yes, I strongly prefer airlines that do not use "modern" Boeing planes at all (which arguably might be a lot easier here in Europe). If it's Boeing, I'm not going.
> I thought entropy (in the Shannon sense) was a property of discrete and finite probability distributions. It's essentially a measure of how random a sample from such a probability distribution is. Notably, continuous probability distributions don't have meaningful entropy (or in some sense, their entropy is always infinite).

True, but for continuous distributions you can use the KL divergence against a uniform distribution :)
Just found out they do support alternative state backends like Terraform does.
It is if you live next to a landlord that houses loud guests. Is this even a question?
This is not a problem with journalists alone. This is human nature. Establish the same set of incentives and structures and this outcome will be very likely.
it hurts to make decisions based on our current knowledge that is a child's knowledge
Literally advertising the turbo lag.

Still a cool spot. Car ads in the 90s were so much better. “Enjoy the ride” was another good Nissan one.
From Thoughtworks Tech Radar
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

21. Production data in test environments
Hold
We continue to perceive production data in test environments as an area for concern. Firstly, many examples of this have resulted in reputational damage, for example, where an incorrect alert has been sent from a test system to an entire client population. Secondly, the level of security, specifically around protection of private data, tends to be less for test systems. There is little point in having elaborate controls around access to production data if that data is copied to a test database that can be accessed by every developer and QA. Although you can obfuscate the data, this tends to be applied only to specific fields, for example, credit card numbers. Finally, copying production data to test systems can break privacy laws, for example, where test systems are hosted or accessed from a different country or region. This last scenario is especially problematic with complex cloud deployments. Fake data is a safer approach, and tools exist to help in its creation. We do recognize there are reasons for specific elements of production data to be copied, for example, in the reproduction of bugs or for training of specific ML models. Here our advice is to proceed with caution.
If there's a choice between online/offline school, Then one could choose what works for their kid.

But it's not a choice anymore in India where the online-school-education started out as a necessity during pandemic lock-down and now kids are enrolled in it due to peer-pressure; Parents in India already spent >40% of their income on their kids education before pandemic.

What's worse is that these online school education startups copied Khan Academy's coursework and some even became an unicorn during pandemic with fraudulent practices(False advertising: E.g. 'Kid who took our course got employed by Google', Untrained/Unqualified teachers etc.); So I wouldn't think twice about enrolling my kid into an online-school run by Mr.Khan if I had one.
Ah yes! I had to repair a broken tooth when I was in the US, which was covered by our insurance. The dentist took 19(!) x-ray plates of my teeth, which she then charged the insurance company for.
A way out that is popular with governments is to use contractors. Certification is a highly specialist job that requires independent experts. Perfect job for subcontracting to companies that employ such specialists.

The FAAs job is to ensure that certification happens and that it is done right; but not necessarily doing it themselves. And effectively they aren't because they let Boeing self certify currently. So, this would be an improvement.