skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a very prevalent and very real difference between "building your own framework" and "building your own bricks and nails". Programming isn't exactly equivalent to a construction worker. Rather your team are the construction worker, the structural engineer, and the architect all at once.

The framework isn't bricks and nails. It's a prefab house plan. You follow the instructions and you get a house out on the other end. If you need to go outside what the prefab covers, you have to fight the framework because now you are drawing over top of an already printed out structural plan to try and do something different.

The equivalent of bricks and nails in SWE is using libraries. Use a library to do a thing. You still need to design the program (drawing the floor plan), formalize how the parts interact (drawing the structural plans), and actually put the pieces together (building the actual house) but you don't need to worry about the small details like how to perform X algorithm (make the bricks), write a messaging standard (make the nails), or handle the intricacies of concurrency, distributed data structures, or drawing to a user interface (making the concrete and mortar). Your libraries do that for you. All you need to do as a developer is focus on writing neat functional kernels that do "the hard stuff", wrapping all your "hard stuff" and libraries together in some OO class to implement a certain functionality, and then stringing the bits together with some imperative glue to tell all the pieces to work together. Past that is orchestration & administration and that's Ops' responsibility.

Unless all you need is cookie cutter, don't use a cookie cutter. Fighting the cookie cutter will be far harder than using the tools for the job(cleanly separated, well documented, and interoperable libraries) to solve specific problems.
It IS odd that ADD/ADHD is approached this way. There's a sort of weird relativism wherein ADHD can be considered a deviated cognition and not a disorder, but it depends on the environment. Because of the ways of the world, and how modern life goes, it's considered a disorder largely because of the effect it has on integrating with that norm.

If life were different but the ADHD brain wasn't, I think there might be a world where it's not considered a disorder.

I've lived with ADHD-C all my life, and it was something that got me labelled as "lazy" and "unfocused" and even sometimes I was told that I didn't give a shit. People who saw me work 16hr days or work for weeks on end without a day off, these same people called me those things because of how I came across in social situations or in everyday life situations.

I think my tribe of ADHDers sorta see it as part of the formula in how we evaluate our own merit. I'm capable of incredible creativity and ruthless hyperfocus on task when I get spooled up the right way, and so I feel GOOD about myself because I know my true potential. I don't think of myself as some leper weirdo who can't talk right, asks too many questions, turns on a dime. Other people don't really think about that, it's not natural to take that sort of probabilistic view of people, of what they MIGHT be capable of. Stakes are high, and the cost of error correction is high enough usually to motivate a rigid adherence to cautiousness.

I'm not sure how exactly I feel about this article, but I'll say this in conclusion: I've never, ever, ever, even once wanted a different brain than the one I have.

I've wanted to be treated better, and considered more fairly.
There may be an argument that the sale price has been negotiated. Although I don't believe it has, since Jump countered again after the fact with $200k.

However the rest of the terms have not been negotiated. Timeline and transfer details have not been discussed.

For timeline I suggest:
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars

As for the "transfer ceremony", I leave that to your imagination
AB tests are part of the replication crisis
and every year we have less and less snow on our sierras so don't bank on this.
Nah I would probably force myself to sleep earlier. Stimulants are a cope for bad discipline imho.
I don't buy it. Seems to measure vocabulary + problem-solving-specific-to-this-question.

I bet plenty of "uncreative" people could easily do well if you just told them to pick specific things from different topics(e.g. an obscure food, an obscure job, etc...), which is all I did and I scored in the top 1%. You don't have to be creative at all to do that. You only have to think of such a strategy, and then pick some obscure things.

Also, there seems to be some cultural bias - it wouldn't accept chow mein, but I bet pizza would have worked.

Also, the instructions seem silly - the more close to "technical" the terms were that I picked, the higher they seemed to score.
When I ran the numbers on having 100 million urban Californians, large-scale desalination seemed like a no-brainer. It really does not cost all that much and it can be entirely powered during daytime solar energy surpluses, since intermittent water production is no problem at all. If there is some equity-justice-words objection that is easily covered by a universal basic rebate. Nobody should be using more than about 50 gallons/person/day anyway. Utility-scale drinking water costs a fraction of a penny. Even the punitive rates being charged for wastefulness during the drought, which only kick in at a ridiculous 1600 gallons/day, is only 0.7¢/gal. There's no reason that desalinated water at utility scales should add more than $5/month to a household expenses and to the extent that is a problem, just subsidize it with a free first 3000 gallons per month per meter or whatever.

California environmentalism has been finely crafted by its boomer/hippie inventors as a way to stop everything, but that needs to shift into a mindset of building the large-scale projects we are going to need to face climate change: a huge amount of solar and wind, numerous desalination stations, many storage projects since we are losing the snowpack, etc.
That's very interesting! My understanding of World War 1 is from Tuchman's The Guns of August and Clark's The Sleepwalkers, and both of those don't seem to rate the Germans as being more flexible at the beginning of the war than the British.
> I've never felt judged or victimized for it

I wish I could say the same. Were you diagnosed as child or an adult? I was diagnosed as an adult, and the school system I grew up in was rather... unwilling... to accommodate my "personality" differences.
> The more nuance in a word, the more potential cognitive distance between it and another word.

I don't see that. What is the cognitive distance between a more common color and a more obscure color? They're both colors. In your example, describing the color as olive instead of just green is certainly more specific, and maybe more accurate, but how is it more creative? If anything, it is less creative because it's more analytical and merely descriptive.

For instance, saying something is '.01 centimeters' long is not more creative than saying something is 'small' or saying that something is '.1 centimeters', it's just more precise.
I don’t know about “genetically best” but you can check out heirloom seeds from houses like the seed savers exchange (And many others)

https://www.seedsavers.org/
Personally, I’d miss it, as I really enjoy coffee, but I wouldn’t foresee any impact to my ability to work.

If you really feel that caffeine is sustaining your existence, time to reset. Start cutting down by substituting tea, do some sort of ritual or physical activity after work to establish a boundary and get more sleep. Before bed, turn off the TV and do something without a computer. Read, have sex, do a puzzle, whatever.
You can use it to infill subregions. Or you could add a “but <your requested edit>“ to your and run again. It’s not super robust to prompts involving complicated composition though so that might not be a reliable strategy.
With all the discussion here about alternative programs to make vector graphics for mathematical figures, I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned Ipe (https://ipe.otfried.org/), given it's far and away the most popular tool in my field (and has good native support for LaTeX expressions).

It certainly doesn't have all the features that Inkscape supports (although it does have quite a lot of features), but the features it does have are implemented with a heavy emphasis on ease-of-use. It's sometimes easier to brainstorm within the program than on paper.

It's also plenty easy to add useful plugins in Lua: At one point I coded a plugin to check if a diagram of a graph contained a Hamiltonian cycle (by calling an external C++ program I wrote that used simple backtracking). I was able to very quickly experiment with which of my small graphs and modifications to said graphs ended up having Hamiltonian cycles, and was able to narrow down some useful features to think about.
I graduated my bootcamp in 2015 and had a jr developer job with a 50% pay bump within 6 weeks. I had a college degree but in a non-technical field and 0 experience coding before I started the program. In my cohort of ~20 people all but 1 had found gainful employment as software developers within a year, most within 3-6 months.

I completely agree that the value of a bootcamp is having a community to encourage you through the process, everything they teach you can be found online. I also went to a bootcamp that had a good reputation around my city so I think it was legitimizing for someone with no experience and no stories of coding for fun as a teenager.

Even back then hackernews was full of people saying how flooded the market was with bootcampers.

4 years later I grinded leetcode and got a job at a FANG and essentially 6x'd my income from 4 years earlier before I could code. I eventually left that job because I was miserable but thats a whole other story.

Now with 7 years of experience I leave the bootcamp off my resume because of the stigma. I took the specific degree program off my linkedIn and just put "bachelors of science" and let people assume what they want. If anyone asks I just say I'm self taught.

Point is, it's 100% possible.
Semi-related but I heard of someone - a friend of a founder I worked for a couple years ago - who tried to get into Oxford and failed, so took a gap year to go travelling. Applied again the next year and failed, so took a second gap year and keep travelling. Tried a third time, failed yet again, and spent more time on holidays. On his fourth attempt he ticked a couple diversity boxes as he'd been travelling around strange parts of the Globe for long enough and actually got in haha.

He was a white Etonian but had the privilege to pay for a long enough holiday to move into one of the diversity groups.
You can save it locally to a file that's in a JSON format and easy to parse. That can allow you to run it locally, or you could build some kind of exporter. Right now to export audio you'd have to record the audio output.
Yup this is exactly it. I don't think the issue is that our fruit is larger, but just that the soil is much more degraded. 90-95% of all plant species get the MAJORITY of their nutrients from mycorrhizal associations and some, like many orchids, are even obligate. Plant roots are generally primarily meant for communication and connection with fungi, not to extract nutrients from soil.

But when practicing monoculture, the #1 threat is pests and so we do everything we can to fight them. This includes using sterilized soils, an overreliance on pesticides, and the usage of artificial fertilizers. The artificial fertilizers are a particularly big problem when it comes to phosphorous because for most plants they rely on the depletion of locally available phosphorus before they start the complex chemical dance necessary to make the association with fungi

The really sad thing is that soil inoculated with fungi can hold 50-100x more water than sterilized soil. Without it water tends to drain and we use much more of it. Combine that with the fact that most of the phosphorus in artificial fertilizers is not actually accessible so we end up using more water which carries this leftover fertilizer which causes massive cyanobacterial/algal blooms that have already led to the extinction of many fish species.

It's a race to the bottom all to maintain the practice of monoculture. The research on mycorrhizae is relatively recent (mostly in the past 3 decades), but at this point the existing evidence is astoundingly clear. Plants with mycorrhizal associations better resist drought, frost, soil pathogens, produce more nutritious fruit, and can even produce more fruit mass (depending on the species, some will end up producing more leaves instead but this can be inverted with some manual labor)
The US West's water allocation policies are based on history, often old compacts made between various interest groups. The big California water systems would have never gotten off the ground back then without the farmers being part of it, the problem is that starting in the 1960s new water projects were canceled on a bipartisan basis while the urban population continued to skyrocket.

You try to change this system and you'll open a _huge_ can of worms for all of the US west of the Minnesota to Louisiana border, the legal fights would consume the relevant courts for decades. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_law_in_the_United_States and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_right for a start.
There's a Chinese American mathematician who had the exact thing happen to him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang

Dude obtained his PhD in 1991 and had some bad blood with his advisor. Coupled with the influx of Soviet talent and some stubborness with staying in academia, he had to deliver food and make sandwiches for almost a decade before finally landing a lecturer job and eventually academic breakthrough more than a decade after that.
I cant wait for Apple Glass. I wonder if Ive has contributed to that product.
No significant effect probably except for some craving; during the start of the pandemic, with all of the changes going-on, mind was no longer bored and so didn't really seek or drink any caffeine for months.

I notice the caffeine craving is stronger when bored at the job, otherwise, it can be ignored. Now in the latter years of the pandemic, boredom is setting-in and so caffeine craving has increased.
This is weird take in a thread whose very topic is an open source implementation of the model less than a full month after it originally came out. So obviously an evil mastermind can already copy them, and anyone strapped for cash to buy the hardware can hire people on fiverr to do the same thing.

I think the primary reason for the closedness is that it hypes up the research and makes it look more significant than it is. Same reason Palantir is allegedly happy about negative news coverage, it just makes them seem like James Bond villains.
I've been pretty happy with pinta for that sort of thing
Part of having fun at work is figuring out how to make work fun yourself. Sure not every task is fun, but having fun is as much a perspective as it is an aspect of the work itself.
This seems like an asserted distinction with no content.

> statistical theories are efficient maps ... Quantum mechanics ... does not represent at all reality

I don't see how this is true at all. It just seems like quibble between the difference between something being a description of a phenomenon vs something making predictions correlated with experiment. Like what is the difference.

Seems like you are smuggling an assumption like, "we know reality isn't really this way" But you don't
PayPal has Venmo integration coming later with Amazon. In my opinion it was announced way to early to be an event that could have been capitalized on. Also to think how many people will actually switch their payment method to Venmo when most people already have a funding instrument pre-selected. I imagine the number of peoples credit cards expiring this year to be a low number.

Also having said that, PayPal is not a company that will make Venmo with Amazon a value add for users. PayPal doesn’t innovate, they play catch up. The company knows that growth is not an option.

The only way to capitalize further is to increase transactions costs, integrate their non branded experience (Braintree) with more merchants, and seek out more deals/partnerships. Until then they’re gonna have to wait and see what will stick.
So your argument here is actually that wormhole.com should be worth way more to Jump than to any other generic buyer, since they have already built up a product around the name of a domain they didn't control.
"if you owe the bank $100,000, the bank owns you. But if you owe the bank $100 million, you own the bank."

Though I don't think it applies here ;)
This is true for literally as little as 0.1% of the entire worlds tech entry level positions. Probably even less. The world is a little larger than the stops of the Caltrain. FWIW, based on Glassdoor, Salary.com, and a couple other sources they all suggest the average salary of an entry level role in the Bay Area is 90k, so not only is 100k not a reasonable global salary it's not even the expected rate unless you're above average in the Bay.
Very few foods are genetically modified and those modifications have nothing to do with taste or nutrition, but pest and pest control resistance.

Foods have been bred for shelf stability and size which leads to less flavor and nutrition.
They've taken a hit to their revenue by losing those sales. There's also the reputation damage of losing a prestige customer like Apple.
Good answers are something like “we don’t have many gatekeepers. if you need a compute instance, just spin one up in Terraform.”

bad answers:

* (interviewer guffaws)
* “work hard / play hard”
* implying significant overtime
If everyone prints money then everyone devalues their currency together and the dollar stays put in relative value, no?
Many years ago I carpooled with a libertarian who believed that we shouldn't have police. Rather, if you want protection you should either protect yourself or subscribe to a security service. He was also opposed to the county public health department assigning grades (A, B, etc.) to restaurants; if you want to subscribe to a service to monitor restaurants, that's your choice. I can't say I agree with my old carpool buddy or with you. But I am a big fan of freedom of speech, so I'm giving you an up vote.
I would put this squarely in the "use Pandas incorrectly" bucket again. As you point out, Pandas is very much geared towards notebooks. Conversely, I would claim your problem is actually one of the benefits of Pandas over something like R and the associated packages. At the very least, you can copy your Pandas code and ship it and collect technical debt. With R, either you make calls to R from Python, which doesn't solve the problem you are having, or you rewrite the code in Python to be usable in your app. This costs time and is the correct way to do things, even with Pandas. I'm sorry you had to handle the technical debt but I hope that was an intentional decision on your project's behalf.

As for your other complaints, I would need to see examples because I'm not really sure what you mean. Are you referring to things like "mad" which stands for Mean Absolute Deviation? This I would put into my "grok documentation" bucket because just look up the mad method and it literally gives you the acronym. Would the method "mean_absolute_deviation" really help you? Furthermore, if they used long names like that, statisticians from R (which are the target audience) would have another nothing-burger bullet to use against Pandas.
Indeed, and this is why they’ve recently become major political battlegrounds. The combination of general awareness that schools are sites of indoctrination/character formation and that different political groups which really hate each other have different views on how to indoctrinate is guaranteed to lead to conflict.
I work for a Fortune 500 company. About 70% of the employees has a MacBook Pro. Until recently, all of them had an intel chip inside. Going forward they will have an M1. We are on a 3 year refresh cycle. So within 3 years the majority of company computers will be running M1. About 90% of company phones are iOS. If Apple starts using M1 in those…
The problem of software specification in that comprehensive sense is unsolved.
Thanks for your reply. Methamphetamine is top tier adhd treatment. It's a shame it's so stigmatized.
If you already have a bachelor's degree, then Georgia Tech's OMSCS is a good option for a CS master's. The tuition is fairly low, especially if you take multiple courses per term (about $10k to $12k, I believe) and it's basically at your own pace
If the prescription of stimulants is strictly due to pollutants or "other problems of modern life" then why are boys over-represented compared to girls?

"6.4 MILLION CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOUR AND SEVENTEEN HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD. BY HIGH SCHOOL, NEARLY 20% OF ALL BOYS WILL HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD—A 37% INCREASE SINCE 2003" [0] (CAPS are from article)

"The number of children who have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder—overwhelmingly boys—in the United States has climbed at an astonishing rate over a relatively short period of time." [0]

It is well-known that boys and girls have different tendencies when learning. Boys tend to be tactile/kinesthetic learners, compared to girls who do better with visual/auditory learning. For example, consider how you would teach a child to build a house. A boy would learn the process better by actually building a house, whereas a girl would do better reading about construction methods or seeing blueprints (on average).

I am inclined to to agree with GP and that it is schools. When faced with the aforementioned learning styles: parents, teachers, and administrators struggle to accommodate boys and instead opt to medicate them. It's easier to drug boys when they have difficulties for lack of tactile/kinesthetic learning options.

I will admit that pollutants and the flood of instantly-gratifying entertainment, movies, TV shows, music videos, and porn is not helpful. However, I don't think that is the most fundamental problem. I simply see an educational system that caters to girls at the expense of boys. Further, the boys are confronted by media that portrays them as "skirt-chasers", "metro-sexuals", and "macho-men" and not the "good-hearted, hard-working, and self-sacrificing just trying to take care of their friends and families" men that they really (often) become. [1]

[0] - https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/11/14/are-m...
GlaxoSmithKline to pay 3B dollars for fraud (2012)
> Pbd, can anyone really learn to code?

Just as with writing, there's some disabilities that will make it impossible or impractical, but otherwise, with sufficient effort, yes.

Also just as with writing, not everyone can be good enough to have a job centering the skill, especially on the strength of that skill alone (some will be able to leverage moderate skill in the target area plus skill in some other area.)

Like writing, but perhaps somewhat less so than writing, it may be useful even in jobs that don't formally center the skills (subprofessional writing skills are useful in jobs that aren't “writer”, subprofessional programming skills in jobs that aren't “programmer”.)
The could have chosen to work on smaller models and used their already substantial amount of funding to be truly open. Instead they chose a path that demonstrates the Open part in OpenAI was just marketing.