skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks to the four authors and publisher for making this available as a PDF download.

I am definitely going to give this a read. After decades of more or less using GOFAI, the last eight years has mostly been machine learning and deep learning. Lately I have been scratching an itch to combine old fashioned symbolic AI with more modern deep learning (hybrid systems). I started a new job on Monday where I think this may happen.

From the table of contents, the four examples look appropriate for looking at ML in the context of large real world problems.
It varies based on the plant. The phrase you're looking for is called 'true to seed.'. For some plants it's odds of 1:100,000 and for others it varies an order of magnitude in either direction. Don't try growing avocados from seed either. You'll get some disgusting fruit, most probably, in this little genetic lottery after 5-10 years. You can buy presorted seeds that'll grow good fruit, but they're awfully expensive and take roughly a decade to grow. Most fruit trees are just grown via cloning/grafting.
I think these kinds of sites are made by people who never experienced that hell.
I had a similar interview experience with Disney recently. Going so far as them telling me I would have an offer letter in hand within 2 weeks, followed by silence. When I reached back out to them they basically played dumb about it and said some phrase about how "their hiring needs are always changing."
> When people trade dollars the world does things. when people trade bitcoin...

the world continues to do things.

The unit of account has nothing to do with actual production.
The first law of tech support. Second law is check (unplug and re-plug) all the cables.
you could try copy paste the pdf on obsidian, there was an extension/plugin that turned pdf to markdown.
>A final note: all of this is about software support - none of this is actually about useful lifespan. Two years ago my phone crapped out on me and I used a friend's old iPhone SE (1st generation, 2016) for a couple months - it was trending hard towards a trash can. The battery lasts about 2 years before it needs replacement, the glass screen breaks easily and aftermarket replacements have touch input issues, and running the latest iOS on it had things moving slower than LA traffic.

The screen doesn't break that easily unless you drop it face down on a sidewalk or accidentally close it in a rat trap (don't ask). Tip for buying screens if they do, get working pulls or buy from a vendor that does high quality refurbs on OEM screens. I've had good luck with the 'premium refurbished' from injuredgadgets, their batteries have held up (even if the battery health % never goes down) as well. Ifixit's aftermarket screen had poor colors and one of my batteries turned into a spicy pillow in about a month of use, so I can only recommend them for guides and tools.

As for speed, I don't use them as a primary anymore but unless your battery is shot and iOS is throttling it, maps and payments don't seem to lag. Data speeds will be unimpressive, it can't aggregate carriers. Otherwise it works fine. For me it's a great utilitarian secondary device, basically the phone that always 'just works'. Absolutely usable, in fact there are use cases where it excels simply because it can be used with wired headphones while plugged into a charger at the same time and I can't think of any other supported device on the market able to do that.
Why couldn't you use short-term fed paper? Even a 0.5% yearly yield would be more than enough.
Right? And if you’re a VC backing a new startup you might want to pay that extra to get them started right.
>> So if Tether had say, $50-billion in 10-to-30Y treasuries at the start of the year, they only have $45-billion of that now.

This is nuts - they dont and it wouldnt make any sense. You cant have a short term cash-equivalent backed with long-duration bonds. It would be a total asset-liability mismatch.

For reference:

T-bonds mature in 20 or 30 years and offer the highest interest payments bi-annually.

T-notes mature anywhere between two and 10 years, with bi-annual interest payments, but lower yields.

T-bills have the shortest maturity terms—from four weeks to one year.
I'll take contemporary teenager slang over YC-backed web3 shitcoin startups, recruiters looking for "rockstars" or "ninjas" coupled with the latest JS library, or founders with their "change the world" mantra at yet another utterly useless ETL SaaS.
What's with all the astroturfing for that website?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
30 years ago in order to navigate somewhere you had to ask someone for directions and write down notes. If you missed a turn, god help you. We fundamentally move through the world vastly differently thanks to digital maps. Many people (and in a few years, the majority) are doing so in cars that use electric motors instead of internal combustion engines.

One way to tell whether you're in an 80s house would be to look around for reference books, encyclopedias, rolodexes, filing cabinets. If you wanted to know more about something, you probably had to go to a library, which might not even have a book on the topic (maybe if you were particularly determined to know the answer you'd wait a few weeks for an ILL).

Its a bit sad to me that you look at this enormous sea change in how we interact with the world and see Angry Birds.
Hey, it's the plot of Etrian Odyssey! A sinkhole with a forest inside was discovered, and the nearby town became mobbed with adventurers. It turns out there were many layers of forests and other biomes the further down you went into the sinkhole.
Yes but only to an extent. We cannot have an economy only of rappers and influencers.
I made a split keyboard for me (I need to write up that post at some point), and I just made holding out the tilde convert the right half (yuihjknm,) to a numpad. It works great, since I don't use any other keys while using the numpad, and I get to save all that space and switches for something I rarely use.
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc, put it in angle brackets. Maybe this works? <https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...>
What prevents you from only selling the coins to US citizens with full KYC? Wouldn't that be enough?
I assume it's based on the UI of Instagram Stories, which maybe feels quite natural for some people (not me so much)
But Street View itself is not monetized (not directly, and Maps itself is barely monetized). Street View proves your thesis wrong.
I've already got a house on .33 acres in PA. Not sure I'd want to move to the South or Midwest. I might be a bit right-wing compared to neighbors who are either part of the professional-managerial class or wish they were, but I suspect I'd be pretty far-left compared to people in the areas you recommend and might find the local culture unwelcoming as a result.
> if you go into an average house right now and you take out all the screens, could you tell that you're not in the 80s?

Yes. Even the cheapest house built to code will be noticeably better than one from 1980s. The quality of materials, technology of materials, wiring, plumbing, flooring, insulation, etc will all be better.

> The difference between a car right now and a car 30 years ago is that you can now play angry birds on a tablet

Not true, for similar reasons as above. Name a 2022 Corolla equivalent that could be purchased in the 1980s, safety, fuel efficiency, and reliability wise, at a similar inflation adjusted price. No 1980s car will even come close, and that is just for the most basic car today.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off June 6 with keynote address
Anecdotally, the recruiter calls surged in the previous few months and have slowed to a trickle in the last couple.
> Nature doesn't evolve in order to do anything. Evolution is not a helping hand it's a process, the hollowed out chronological pathways in the ocean of death.

By that logic lizards and bugs didn't evolve to change their pigment defensively to avoid predators.

Easy on the pedantry, Francis.
How does it compare with TensorFlow (graph-based, i.e. symbolic) or Theano? Or maybe also JAX, which you could also see as symbolic.

In the paper it is briefly mentioned that TensorFlow/JAX are slower due to more overhead? I doubt this is true. Also, TensorFlow could be compiled to TF-lite or XLA and then C++ or whatever you like. Same for JAX.

It is also mentioned that TensorFlow/JAX perform poorly on second-order optimization. But this is not true.

Further, it is said that TensorFlow/JAX have poor performance for sparse matrices. While the performance is not great, I am not sure that other frameworks would perform faster.

Some fair benchmarks would be nice.

But then, despite just benchmarks, also a more direct comparison on a conceptual level would be nice. Because from the description, I don't directly understand how it is much different.
Also reminds me of the time I went to Russia in 1996. They had serious inflation and a very uncertain post-Soviet economy. You know how they managed it? They asked us all to pay for things with USD as much as possible.
I doubt one would say Facebook or Oculus came out of "business analysis", right?
> Web extensions should allow you to do normal sockets

Not since 2017 or whenever it was that Firefox dropped XUL extensions and replaced them with WebExtensions. The legacy XUL extensions could do much, much more and there was correspondingly much, much more malware in browser extensions.
> and some programmers, instead of seriously learning mathematics, think that learning category theory would fill up their lack of knowledge (in mathematics). It's quite contrary since category theory alone (i.e. without context) is trivial.

High applauds for this part.

Category Theory, by design, attempts to be more general, more basic and more abstract.

1. You cannot learn the more abstract stuff first. You have to learn the special cases first- i.e. Calculus, Set Theory, Analysis, etc. You do not start studying Physics with General Relaitivity or Quantum Mechanics because they are more general. You learn them after long years of studuying special Physics of fluid motion, Newton's Law. One should not think that one can simply get a "shortcut" to the most general thing there is, without learning the special cases.

2. A lot of more general sciences are indeed special cases. When you are asked to find the set of points in a certain domain where the derivative of a function cannot be found, you are not actually doing Set Theory. You are doing Calculus.

I believe that the notion one can learn the abstract cases just by studying the abstract science is laughably wrong. They better study Theology. Shouting out "Monad is a monoid in a category of endofunctors" doesn’t teach you Math.

However, let me end this comment and rant with a book suggestion.

Please read "Seven Sketches of Composionality" if are looking for books to learn Category Theory.
I don't follow crypto stuff closely, so maybe this question has a laughably obvious answer, but: what's wrong with Binance?
what you're missing is customer numbers. If you go from 20 servers to 200, and have 100x the customers, that's a massive win.
Where paused hiring = slowed down hiring in some teams and divisions. None of these companies have blanket paused hiring.
Politicians dictating technical practices is insanity. I hope apple gives them the middle finger
For me, lisp was pretty intuitive when I first picked it up. It wasn't the first language I learned though.

When I was little my dad had a reverse polish notation calculator he explained and taught me to use. I think it was sort of a novelty for him, but when I encountered lisp in college my first thought was something like "oh this is just like reverse polish calculators".

There was sort of a strange learning curve for me though. The basics were fairly intuitive to me, then things got frustrating, and then easier again.

I really miss lisp though and wish it (or scheme or racket) had more widespread use, especially in numerical computing. I admit, though, that the hardware-lisp gap is bigger in my mind than the hardware-c gap, which extends to more procedural languages.
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2B on a Plan to Save Salmon
Is it possible to search Gitter archives? It's real easy in Discord but I don't see a way to do it in Gitter, at least not without third party interfaces (I haven't tested if they work).
from the same site: The US has gone $days since a record high temperature

https://pudding.cool/2022/03/weather-map/
Full frontal nudity in the first 10 minutes.
Correct, in polite company one should say "get dabbed on" instead.
I think instead the images people want to put on the Internet will do the same for these models as adversarial training did for AlphaZero; it will learn what kinds of images engage human reaction.
I read your article when it was first published and agree with the sentiment.

Off topic (sorry) but one thing Racket is missing is great Python interop to mix in deep learning and other libraries. Common Lisp and Clojure have this support. Years ago I tried saving trained Keras weights and using them in Racket with the Matrix support: it works, but not very fun to use.
Just to be clear, my comment is talking about toxic positivity in the workplace (I intended to anchor my reply to another related comment) - I agree that toxic positivity regarding other people's more general problems will just minimize their decisions and experiences.

At work however, I've definitely been helped by being given direct advice on things I hadn't even been considering I could be doing better (or doing at all, as a matter of fact). Your take implies a lack of trust in the motive of the other party, which is obviously a deal breaker, and the reason why establishing trust in the first place is required.
Rust could conceivably have worked similar to C, where you have to cast void* to the correct type. You could still have borrowing annotations on such generic pointers, similar to how C(++) has const. Having borrowing semantics doesn’t necessarily imply a general-purpose generics feature. Stuff like iterators and option types would obviously be different then.
Interesting! I hope Indigo may be really helpful for you. If I'm understanding your use-case correctly, you could create a stack with both MySQL versions, and another stack containing a site per PHP version, all pointing at the same codebase in your filesystem, but each configured to use a different PHP. Then you can run them all simultaneously if you want, with each in their own browser window eg project-72.test, project-73.test, project-74.test, project-80.test etc (one per PHP).
Since GP says it was a POP3 server, I suppose you would set up an email account in your client with its inbox server pointing to that POP3 server. When the client requests the content of the inbox, the server responds with a list of "emails" that are really just files with some email header slapped on; so your email client's inbox window essentially becomes a file browser.
DC plus water equals electrocorrosion[1] if the pins are in contact with water. USB 5 Volts is easily enough to corrode most electronics - certainly made a huge mess of one phone I owned that got dunked while charging.

[1] electrocorrosion isn’t used much as a word, but it should be. Google electrolytic corrosion, direct current corrosion, stray current corrosion.

[null] https://knowledge.electrochem.org/encycl/art-c06-cathodic.ht...
Interest rates were raised and there seems to be a concerted effort to blame inflation on higher wages and low unemployment, so those are being dealt with with hiring freezes: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-the-fed-wants-corporate-a...
With AOL, in the early 90’s you didn’t even need to do that. You could just reformat and reuse the floppy disks they were always sending you for free storage.
Very early on in my MBA, I ran a pretty simple simulation of different investment strategies with different expected returns and different tail distributions. Each round, new money entered the market and was distributed based on previous empirical returns.

The result was the same “slow up fast down” sawtooth we see in the real market, and investments that had real alpha were crowded out by investments that simply pushed risk into the tails. It took like an hour to assemble that agent-based simulation and it scared me out of finance. Most financial engineering seems to just be Martingale betting schemes that guarantee small to modest returns 99% of the time.
At the end of explaining the "bakery algorithm", he says "I am proud that I stumbled on it" He doesn't say "I invented it", "I came with it", "I wrote it", etc, etc.

In my career I have seen that people who are true geniuses are also very humble!
How will we add the caramel color?
Interestingly, if you take a look at your emails from a few years ago, most of the non attached images will fail to load now.
That’s exactly what plants, algae, etc. do during photosynthesis. Photons are self propagating electromagnetic waves, just another form of electricity.
When I think about the productivity adds from tech from the last 20 years, I'm often left wondering why we aren't working less .

Others have mentioned us navigating faster, having neat new gadgets, etc, but fundamentally what I and many others want is more free time
Why the Fed wants corporate America to have a hiring freeze
Crypto does not need to replace all financial activity. But it may be used in place of some activity, and opens up some new use cases that we did not have before. Somebody can purchase their coffee with fiat and their NFT (which may be an ENS domain) with an ERC20.

Take decentralized escrow, which underpins auctions, crowdfunds, markets, atomic swaps and more: it does not require a private third party.

Most traditional escrow are companies that will do data collection, long settlement windows, arbitrary thresholds, high take-fees, and restrictions based on locale.

A decentralized, open source, forkable, global, instant-settlement, ownerless, and feeless protocol to handle escrow of digital assets is rather novel.
typedef has been there since at least C89... the only alternative is #define - how is that better?
Tesla Employment Arbitration Agreement Substantively Unconscionable
I see enough charcoal dust from a new filter to tell me it is doing the charcoal filtering it claims.
I know in the equities, forex, and other traditional markets, these things are all force-arb'd by arbitrageurs forcing the cycle. So is that possible here? Forgive my ignorance here, but how do i short Tether here?
Maybe it has to do with the first post not having a link to another site? Link reference and priority on your site play heavily into their algorithm.
Argentina responsible for massacre of 500 indigenous people: Federal court
I didn't assert it was a virtue. I asserted that is why, and why we continue to assume human exceptionalism.

In a different comment, I was talking about dogs, birds, cephelopods being more intelligent than we typically give them credit for.
I'd expect you could store more data steganographically than the raw video data.

You can probably do things like add frames that can't be decoded and so are skipped by a decoder; that effectively allows arbitrary added hidden data. That's maybe cheating.

If you stipulate that you can't already have a copy of the unaltered file, and the data has to be extractable from a pixel copy of the rendered frames ... that becomes more interesting, I think.
That’s a cool concept. Real world we have ngorogoro crater which elephants, who are surprisingly good climbers, make the journey in and out
Why go that way. I’m no digital signal processing expert, but images (and series thereof, i.e videos) are 2D signals. What we see is spatial domain and analyzing pixel by pixel is naive and won’t get you very far.

What you need is going to frequency domain. From my own experiment in university times most significant image info lays in lowest frequencies. Cutting off frequencies higher than 10% of lowest leaves very comprehensible image with only wavey artifacts around objects. You have plenty of bandwidth to use even if you want to embed info in existing media.

Now here you have full bandwidth to use. Start with frequency domain, set expectations of lowest bandwidth you’ll allow and set the coefficients of harmonic components. Convert to spatial domain, upscale and you got your video to upload. This should leave you with data encoded in a way that should survive compression and resizing. You’ll just need to allow some room for that.

You could slap error correction codes on top.

If you think about it, you should consider video as - say - copper wire or radio. We’ve come quite far transmitting over these media without ML.
I think one of the things that helped was his ability to come up with very catchy explanations and names. “Paxos” and “Byzantine Generals” have great memetic power verses some boring technical name.
> I suspect I'd be pretty far-left compared to people in the areas you recommend and might find the local culture unwelcoming as a result.

I suspect you'd be pretty wrong. I'm quite left-leaning and no one in those areas ever gave a crap about it.
Been wondering how much uptime you get with "these" managed databases? Currently running similar service on Digital Ocean and unsure if extra database nodes are necessary (2 failover nodes increases cost significantly).
Personal computers have become a distraction, like TV sets. People watching TV are generally not very productive.1 Before the internet we referred to TV as "the opiate of the masses".2 Not only do we now have a worse figurative opiate than TV in the form of today's www,3 we have the legalisation of literal opiates for the masses thanks to Purdue Pharma.

1
A plaintiff's lawyer specialising in class action securities fraud litigation might be one exception. He might be watching CNBC and drafting a new complaint at the same time. :)

2 https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809673...

3
Circa 1996 https://github.com/mikemurr/nc110/blob/master/scripts/web

"The web sucks. It is a mighty dismal kludge built out of a thousand tiny dismal kludges all band-aided together, and now these bottom-line clueless pinheads who never heard of "TCP handshake" want to run commerce over the damn thing. Ye godz. Welcome to TV of the next century -- six million channels of worthless shit to choose from, and about as much security as today's cable industry!"

I am still using original netcat every day to deal with the dismal kludges band-aided together, now run by pinheads. Although I use scripts I write myself instead of those of the author, netcat's simplicity, portability and reliability over 26 years is one of the few things I still enjoy about the www. In the rare chance he still uses the www and reads HN, thank you Mr Walker for one of the best programs ever written, not to mention the entertaining source code comments.
your "simple equation" is completely inadequate. When a company improves their efficiency they don't just cut a check "to the billionaires"

If it is causing share price increases, every shareholder benefits. Why are you excluding millionaires?

> 5,671,005 US households have a net worth of $3 million or more

There's another 16T right there, minimum.

The companies in S&P 500 hold another 1.5T in cash

Presumably there are workers at these companies being rewarded handsomely for these productivity gains, how do you account for that wealth?

The housing market in California grew 1.4T last year, now sitting at over 9T total "value".

This is just first thoughts for my envelope math. Looking at "billionaires" is overly simplistic
If anyone is interested in learning FP and how to think about it, I personally recommend three resources:

1. Martin Odersky's "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" MOOC on Coursera. Do not focus on the Scala part (5-10% of the course is about Scala).

2. The Little Schemer book. Among the best programming books U have ever read in my life. It actually teaches you how to think recursively. It actually does that.

3. Graham Hutton's Haskell book and YouTube playlist.