skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that a PhD is training, though I will disagree that it's independent research training as few PhD graduates can do truly independent research in the sense of not needing to collaborate with others. Academia emphasizes collaboration far too much in my view.

I don't think a PhD is necessary to learn how to do research, however, and I think it's actually a bad way to learn how to do research. The system is quite abusive in my view and pays poorly. I think it's likely someone could do better by taking a well-paid job and going on long research sabbaticals every once in a while.

A while back I recall someone on HN comparing a PhD to an apprenticeship, which is not consistent with my experience. My PhD advisor did not provide a lot of value I couldn't have got on my own.
What kind of sales impact can we expect from using Klarna's “Pay Later”
The author really does not do a great job, here, at least in saying something sensible as a response to DeBoer's piece. The core premise seems to be that:

> I find it so very irritating that there is no term for my so-called ⸢attention deficit disorder⸣ that does not have the word “disorder” baked into it. I know what a disorder is, and this isn't one.

But the author then argues against a strawman:

> Why does any deviation from the standard have to be a disorder? Why do we medicalize human variation?

It doesn't, and in fact, the diagnostic criteria for ADHD and many other disorders require that the deviation amount to a disorder rather than not interfering with someone's life.

What the author really seems to be criticizing is that he learned and began identifying with the medical term for a disorder ("the ADD really is a part of my identity") and now he'd like a different way to describe his experience.

Fair! But get the cause-and-effect the right way around: we don't need to "stop labeling every difference as a disorder," we need to not adopt diagnostic terms and apply them to ourselves inappropriately. That's a part of what DeBoer is criticizing—that people self-diagnose and then "perform their various personalities."

To be clear, I agree with the author that it would help to have terminology for people who don't feel negatively impacted by their brains being different in a way that we can label, not just for those who do. Maybe the author could get started with that by dropping the "disorder" bit and just identifying himself as someone with an attention deficit.
I agree. My adhd has never made me more able than anyone, but has certainly been a detriment to myself and those around me. The best I can do is not hate myself for what I evidently can’t control, and continue working to lessen the damage it does. I mean, I was diagnosed because it’s a problem. Not because I have super powers.

I think the idea of wearing it as a badge of pride is because that reflex is easier than being more honest and introspective. At the same time it might help soften the pain. If you have a disability, you are a strain on those around you. You shouldn’t be ashamed of it, but you shouldn’t be prideful either. You should be proud when you succeed against the odds and you know it took hard work, but that’s not adhd happening.

For a brief time I entertained that I should be more adhd positive. Ultimately I realized that bias is not helpful at all if it clouds my perception of how it impacts my life or those around me. For some people though, perhaps it helps lessen the burden of the common self-loathing that tends to manifest as sufferers age.
Don’t they do extensive user testing on these products ? Surprising some of the design decisions they make with the amount of resources at their disposal
GPT-J and GPT-Neo are previous open source reproductions of GPT, but distributed training is overrated. There’s way too much communications overhead. I’m not sure any of the various @home projects have ever accomplished much for that matter.

Instead they use donated time on a TPU or a GPU cloud provider.

An exception is Leela Zero since you can realistically have it play chess at home.
When waves overlap on a guitar string they are two different waves whose state covers the same area. A wave superposition in an atom is a single wave that has a position state that's more complex than being in a single location.
And then your prototype gets into production, and you can never rewrite it.

So, no, they do not make sense for making prototypes. They do make work when you want a 70% solved problem and won't care about never reaching 100%. On the other cases, you still need to use them, because if somebody gets those 70% first, you will have problems, but they make no sense at all.
It already can if it’s mostly text. Have you checked hard drive prices lately?
You reschedule it only once so it doesn’t matter
What is the day to day like?

Is it codebase migration to newer stack? Adding features in Cobol? Documentation for the next generation of Cobol developers maybe?

I think Cobol development/maintenance work should exclusively done by contractors/agencies as opposed to hiring employees. Contracting is perfect as older devs are more suited to work part time or as sub-contractors and banks don't need to have a greater responsibilty of an employee whose skillset is what they are trying to abolish.
Not exactly the same thing, but we had Jeeves also
As somebody who writes code most days, and is constantly downloading and compiling others' code, your comment doesn't sound like we are in the same platform, even though I also use macOS. I wonder why our experiences are so different.

For example, I don't have a $99 developer certificate, and am not sure why I would want or need one.
Then we are in agreement. Even if it were the case they had to do 800 separate recoveries (which I vaguely remember reading they couldn't do it individually), it means they never tested a large scale recovery situation and had no idea that 800 recoveries would take 2 weeks. That's a significant issue that they should have tested.
There is going to be a word (or several) in your native language that your grandparents would never expect to hear you say, and you would get at the very least severe talking-to from your parents if you said it in public as a young child. For those who grew up in english-speaking countries, fuck is one such word. It falls below other words, such as cunt and whore, (which I struggle to type out without asterisks or somesuch self-censoring) but it is not tolerated in children.

There are plenty of less severe words in english that can be used, such as "bloody" or "damn" which roughly equate to how those who speak english as a second language use "fuck"
This is the problem with designing and re-designing where function follows form.

You have to keep changing and the only way to go, seemingly, is away from functional.
Maybe the mobile products were? Desktop was 14nm:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/212047/...
Thanks for the extra details! What do you think of buying a TIPS fund instead of purchasing TIPS directly?
Not sure that I'm disagreeing with you; but:

Can you contruct a sequence that an adversary CAN distinguish from a real dice-cast?

If you can't distinguish a spoof from the real article, then that blade has two edges. It's impossible to distinguish them, so the instruction in the pudding test that you are to make a sequence that is indistinguishable from a dice-cast is meaningless, because any sequence is indistinguishable from a dice-cast.

If you ask people to do impossible things before breakfast, then it's not sensible to do an analysis of what they end up doing. It's a waste of time.
I hate how when I switch the racer death adder mouse from one computer to another their stupid software installer pops up automatically on windows.
> sending money back to Russia, simply forbid that.

hmm - working people usually send money to those that need it, whatever the language spoken...
What a weird take.

A lot of the changes the "accountants" have made recently are responsive to user request to my eye.

So so many more ports on the new products. I absolutely love this. I hated the pure design direction things were going under Ive.

Battery life once again going big. I love this. Usability again the key.

The trashcan Mac Pro? Too much design. Give folks a square box if you need to crank power up.

Self service repair program? Only one out there from what I can tell? I like it.

Iphone mini - yes I was one of the few folks who bought this. Sorry to see this go away, I like the small phones. But giving a range of options was great.

And this list goes on. My wife keeps her stuff (iphone / macbook) around FOREVER - software updates on phones going back 5+ years? Fantastic.

Their run rate is now something like $400B++ per year? With nuts gross margins (maybe getting close to $200B in gross margin?!!)

They've done this with almost no acquisitions (relatively speaking). And throwing off $150B in operating cash flow (6 months). I think stock buybacks are lame but what can they spend this on really? A moon launch and base?

This is the reward for being trusted (in my view) far FAR more than many other players in the market despite the complaints you see on HN.

I know they are considered a "ripoff" but if someone has a monitor / keyboard, dropping $700 for a mac mini, you can basically do all the programming / video editing / photo editing you could want.
Someone I know created a 4 day work week job board. I think it was this one: https://30hourjobs.com/

There are definitely several takes on it. I say what the hell, if you can do something well, why not try
Have you read the book by its author, Python for Data Analysis
Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython
By Wes McKinney · 2017?

I think it is a bit mean to say about a package as popular as this to have “no design philosophy”. You should read about their design philosophy before making that comment.

From my experience, I jumped all in when I discovered pandas and then I dialed it back. (It was partly because of my inexperience before.)

Pandas is more useful for exploratory data analysis. It is kind of in the philosophy of working in the terminal (with UNIX pipes, etc.) to explore things quickly. That’s why you’d see in the wild people chaining tons of methods together, sort of like people writing terminal one liner chaining a lot of pipes.

It is also useful as a dictionary containers, in fact you can treat a data frame as if it is a dictionary of dictionary of values in terms of API. Vice versa, if one has an internal structure that is dict of dict of values, you can convert that to a DataFrame as a drop in replacement (I’ve done that when working with a software that does not use pandas.)

For simple things that one has prototyped, it can be left as is for “production”.

But for more complicated things, one should “productionize” it using easier to understand and/or more performant logic.

Some of the mistakes of using pandas is to treat it as you “data container”, as if the table itself is self explanatory. From my experience I’ve been confused by the table I saved in the past. So now I write classes that has a to_frame method that my internal data structure can be converted to a dataframe for further exploration if needed.
If you have $1million in your own personal accounts, I'll offer you $50k for all those accounts and the funds there in, deal?
> Reasonable people will disagree, but I think IRC's lack of features is actually an advantage and not a disadvantage.

Everybody always cries "IRC is minimal and good!"

Except ...

You have to start installing a whole bunch of extra crap to make IRC useful. Want to be offline? You need a bouncer. Want to search? Well, you need to record things. And why is it that every IRC channel seems to have a custom bot to do a bunch of things and they all have different syntax?

Sorry, as an occasional user of IRC, I found IRC to be lousy. How do I get a nick on your node? Which node? Which port? Okay, great, I finally got onto the node. Now, which room? Oh, okay, and finally I can ask my question. "That's in the FAQ. Download it." Erm, I thought I checked the FAQ elsewhere, but maybe not. What cryptic command downloads the FAQ and then displays it on my computer? Ah, finally. Oh, guess what, my question ISN'T in the FAQ ... whoops, I bumped into one of the know-it-all jerkbags of the channel. Okay, mark that nick to be ignored and ask again. etc.

I'm happy that Matrix bridges to IRC--that is good. I'm also happy that I don't have to use IRC directly.
And prices change. Surprising for a trading company it seems.

It's funny to see so many people trying to justify the ridiculous. My children try this all the time.
Will implement that this week for all of the pre-existing skills!
Yes, finding the right ratio between centralization/decentralization is hard
Wild Lettuce is much stronger and you can find it growing around the place because most people only know it as being a weed! LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_virosa
https://www.erowid.org/plants/lactuca/lactuca.shtml
https://www.captain-planet.net/natures-strongest-painkiller-...

Most plants that we class as food have been domesticated to avoid some of the wild experiences that might get documented on Erowid.org but in the past were explained away as religious experiences and documented as such.
Growing Field of Twistronics: Key to Holy Grail of Physics?
Personally I don't like seeing it as a regular illness. Yes it's a complication to how society wants people to function. Work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Go to school 6 hours a day 5 days a week. Be productive in that time frame. Keep focus on given tasks.

You can take medication to adhere to these artificial expectations on how an individual should function within society. Or you can live in a way that matches your natural behavior and capabilities.

Granted, we sometimes cannot avoid having to function in the expected way so medication is helpful. But seeing it as an illness that one needs to constantly surpress just doesn't sound right to me.

It's part of my personality. I'm not proud of it. But I also certainly don't see it as something that needs to be constantly treated.
Could you elaborate on the warts?
Absolutely there is overlap. Comcast owns NBC, and where there is not direct ownership, they will partner to offer zero-rated content that won't count against your metered and speed-capped bandwidth.
Here’s what we do in MSVC’s STL:

constexpr bool test_is_even() {
assert(is_even(0));
assert(!is_even(1));
// … more test coverage
return true;
}
int main() {
test_is_even(); // runtime coverage
static_assert(test_is_even()); // compile-time coverage

This lets us run all test cases at both runtime and compiletime. (The static_assert performs constant evaluation, and if an assert within test_is_even would fail, it won’t be a constant expression.)
It has already been announced, all of a sudden, in the first week of the war. It had all the signs of being a creation of old bureaucrats who had really outdated personal values. So they promised near 0% mortgage plans and exemption from military service for “IT specialists”, fast track for foreign workers' permits, cut or reduced taxes, grants, and subsidized loans for IT companies. Oh, and “IT specialist” is someone who has a diploma to prove it (cue the sarcastic trumpet effect). Another joke is that university education usually makes you a useless reserve lieutenant in whom military is not interested anyway, and juniors with college degrees who do get drafted right after they get them are certainly not getting any offers from international companies. Well, neither are local ones going to give you any additional points for having a degree, to be honest.

So they expect people to shut up and work on supporting government goals in order to keep better living standard than “regular people”, like they themselves did in the Soviet era (yeah, at the time when just having stylish foreign clothes meant you were well connected, and above “regular people”). It's hard to imagine that someone with a decent IT career can see that as an opportunity.

However, there is enough swindling types to ride the “we are constantly reducing our dependence on imported technology” propaganda wave who try to make contacts with relevant officials in order to transfigure government budgets into personal wealth. There have been many companies relabeling Chinese hardware after making minimal changes, and there is going to be more. So, among other things, it was announced that we need “our own Github”, and they vaguely described it as some kind of “central source of open source”. Man, even I can make “my own Github”, and maybe even a second one if I'm not feeling lazy. That announcement only resulted in people scratching their heads and guessing whether Github would be blocked, and require additional network configuration to be accessed.
> Every statement that paints Russia in a positive light must be propaganda, right? This becomes tiring really fast.

A hyper violent fascist dictatorship (going on two decades now), with no human rights, where just proclaiming the war in Ukraine to be a war can get you 15 years in prison - yeah, there are a lot of very good reasons why Russia can't be painted in a positive light at present.

This is the same fascist dictatorship that just instructed its soldiers to intentionally genocide, rape and torture civilians by the tens of thousands in neighboring Ukraine.

We're talking about one of the most evil regimes of the last several hundred years. And it all derives directly from the culture of the country, just as the Soviet era did before it.

What positive light?
Wow a $3000 bounty on that one too. If this is achievable within a week of full time work, that's the equivalent of a 150k salary
Fresh vegetables are often good. Raw vegetables rarely are. Some kind of cooking or fermentation or other preparation is necessary to make the nutrients bioavailable to genus homo, along with neutralizing the plants' chemical defense mechanisms on account of they do in fact prefer not to be eaten.
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Yes I think you are right about driver overhead, although there should be ways to amortize that it probably doesn't work very well for latency sensitive problems! I expect that in most cases if you have enough work to do to make using AVX512 worthwhile you can afford the round-trip.
Hi, I am the creator of Remotewide, I am currently going over 25 companies I have on my list that offer location independent pay, and I am sure some of them have sales/accounting in them. Will probably come this week.
Review of Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran
>It's civilization is ascending while western white European culture is obviously descending.

China's had a below-replacement birthrate since 1991. It's TFR was 1.7 last year, 132nd in the world, putting it next to demographic powerhouses like Latvia and Denmark.

This is an ascendant civilization?
This is a good illustration of a binary epistemology vs a continuous one.

> It's always impossible to tell, for any given sequence, whether it was produced by a fair die.

Something like "you can't make any determination, because it's random".
Whereas under the second worldview you can make statements about how likely things are, despite uncertainty.

For some reason the binary worldview seems to be incredibly common. My sibling commenter exhibits the same issue.
They have to protect it in a better way. This thing cost a lot of money nowadays
> If everyone is writing "raw" JS/HTML/SQL/Java/whatever, they are actually building their own individual, unstandardized frameworks.

It depends.

If you have a nail, and you are using a jackhammer of a framework to pound it in, every developer that comes after you has to learn how to use that jackhammer unless they have previous experience with it. And honestly, most complex frameworks have so many different potential usage patterns that future developers will still have a heck of a learning curve. (I've never seen two uses of redux that remotely resembled each other! After using redux for 3 years I can easily find redux code that I have literally next to no idea what it is doing!)

If you use a hammer, even if it is a bespoke hammer, future developers just have to learn how to pick up that hammer.

Obviously at some point it pays to switch to using an Industry Standard(tm) solution, but for many problems plain old JS or HTML may very well be appropriate.

For example, I was making ad campaign landing pages for my now defunct startup. To ensure speed I wanted them to all be static HTML. I could have used a static site generator of some sort, configured templates and all that jazz, or, instead, I could just write HTML + CSS for 3 landing pages. (Actually I only had to write the CSS once).

Now if I needed to programmatically generate dozens of landing pages, then sure, adopting some static site generating framework may have been worthwhile. But in my case it wasn't. Raw HTML was the correct solution.
Hi, I am the creator of Remotewide, it could be possible that I've labeled some jobs incorrectly myself, so make sure to visit the /companies page and search a bit yourself, maybe there is something useful!

Thanks for checking out the page!
Are you implying that the author did not get a professional diagnosis and is merely comparing himself to people who have ADHD?

When I was diagnosed with ADHD, the disorder did cause me significant problems. Over the years I have managed to do a lot better, where I can now relate to the state the author is in (just the ADHD part, I do not suffer from depression).

I would now say it’s not so bad too.
A first step would be for american scientists to start studying the excellent and revolutionnary russian research, e.g. Khavinson and his peptides
The biggest problem was Motorola/Freescale saw that their future was in embedded, not the (relative) high performance required for personal computing. So the chip provider for Apple's mobile lineup no longer was producing performant chips. Unfortunately, IBM's implementation of PPC led a dual life as a server/workstation and desktop chip meant that getting it's power consumption, heat profile and performance optimized for a mobile device was an extremely difficult proposition.

It would be interesting to see where we'd be if IBM had ensured Apple they could deliver a G5 laptop and had done so at a price and spec competitive with, or superior to, Intel.
Is it less hot when writing?

I have the original pro and I won't buy another iPad again until it doesn't get so hot when taking notes.
Wow, that's outstanding.
Neal Stephenson also published a geoengineering novel this year.
This is entirely false.

There's been plenty of litigation in this area. If you offer $230K, the other party accepts, then you are done. You can sometimes rescind before acceptance.

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Well, nowadays anyway. It's come a long way from the point where an AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean seemed like a viable solution to a problem in the framework.