skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has always been my intuitive explanation as well, and seems related to how a typical over-parameterized net can memorize a randomly labelled training set, yet the same net will be able to generalize (opposite of memorize) if trained on a meaningfully labelled training set (i.e. one where the labels are non-random, and correspond to features in the training data).

With the randomly labelled dataset these activation "modes" are essentially gerrymandered to fit the data since the datapoints have no common features correlated to the labels to cause it to do otherwise.

With the meaningfully labelled dataset, and a smooth loss landscape, multiple datapoints with common features & labels will be pushing these activation modes in the same direction creating "high density modes" within which meaningful generalization occurs.

Generalization, or lack of it, is of course also intimately related to adversarial attacks. It seems that what is going on there is that these high density modes are only disconnected from each other (by areas of low density) when considering the degrees of freedom of data on the training set manifold. In the unconstrained input space off the natural data manifold, these high density areas of different generalization are likely to be connected and it's easy to select an "unnatural feature" that will push a datapoint from mapping to one mode to another.

I've suggested this explanation of generalization a number of times over the years, and always had negative feedback from folk who think there's more to the "generalization mystery" than this.
My last few jobs have been replacing no-code setups. It certainly doesn't take teams long to figure out how bad the current offering suck. Sometimes only 3-4 integrations in.
I mean, the article explicitly talks about how they start by collecting pre-exiting individual excellence, there is never any pretence of this program creating excellence from average students.
If memory serves well, mailvelope can actually be used for any text box so you can use it even in non-email contexts.
I could write a post about how becoming a coffee snob in college led to True and Lasting Happiness. I’ll dispense with the well-painted scenes and evocative memories and just put it plainly, however.

Once I started making a french press of single origin locally roasted coffee every day, I realized that every single day I could simply be happy. I could make decisions (at a reasonable cost, for Happiness) and enjoy the little things each day. Regardless of how the rest of my day could go, I had my coffee, and I had it my way.

At the time, since it was college, I was reading widely across religions and counter-culture - trying to Figure it All Out - and this daily ritual of making my coffee struck me as a shortcut to gratitude, mindfulness, and existential affirmation. Money may not be able to buy you happiness, but it can buy good coffee - and with the right mindset these are one and the same.
>Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you?

Writing is an additional form of learning for me. Just the thought of sharing with someone makes me to do my research better, verify my assumptions, etc. I look up my posts first over docs/online-search if I've written about a topic before (and often, I'd have added related links which would be easier to follow compared to fresh research).

>Did it help to get noticed/ find jobs or other opportunities?

I sell programming ebooks, so having a blog helps in marketing.
It’s complicated. Iceland is less corrupt than many nations with tropical rainforests, so your dollars are more likely to actually be used as you intended. There is very little logging industry competing against you and virtually no poaching so your effort is more durable, too.

It’s hard to quantify these things and get a conclusive answer on which is better; I think we can leave it at “both are good.”
You would think that would be a good idea but my last TV arrived with a whole in the box.
> Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that "the correct solution" is actually feasible right now

Ah, I understand. I guess starting your comment with "I think the correct solution is" and not including the disclaimer of "you can't actually do this today" is prone to making people believing you could do something like that today :) No harm done though, thanks for explaining.
This is the same reason why the 24 core GpU model M1 Max was the best choice unless you had very specific needs for extra GPU power that could actually take advantage of the apple silicon GPU cores
on emacs why not use PlantUML ? It's not the same thing of course, because you're not "drawing" but it seems a better solution for a manual text entry than actually trying to _draw_ diagrams.
How long have you used https://montaigne.io/? Never heard about it before; very interested.

Love the simplicity of your site, by the way.
I work with experts in the business domain, often C-Suite as a consultant. I've come to understand the domains almost as well as them for the companies I work with. While this knowledge is invaluable, and critical to getting the solution right in my experience they still would be completely lost when it comes to a no-code solution.

They generally only think happy path and have a really hard time understanding why you need to think about edge cases. They don't understand how to structure data or implement robust processes.

No code is great for very simple things. Fill out a form and send it in an email. But for more important and complex things we'll still need programmers. I'm not yet convinced that no-code is an amplifier for programmers. Beginners maybe, but more experienced developers are in my opinion far more likely to be productive in a text based environment.
Oops, I meant to come back to this but stuff happened. It certainly was a lot of work to get it halfway reliable. I think they were working on adding a vibrating motor to keep things moving even if they weren't rolling - while I was there they just had a guy poke it with a bit of rebar every time things hitched up.

A ball mill is used to grind things into paste, usually for further processing. In this specific case it was a SAG mill (https://www.mogroup.com/portfolio/sag-mills/) and it was frikkin' huge, powered by a 10MW electric motor. It ground up ore-containing rocks from a mine which were then processed to produce lead and zinc. The balls roll around in the mill and help to grind up the ore, which I guess works better if they're round, which they will be before long due to wear and tear no matter what shape they go in. They come out as tiny ball bearings. It was quite an interesting project!
That's a very unlikely scenario, to be honest. If you'd found a dead person in their house, the police are not really going to care that you kicked the door in.
You're certainly right. Even EU imports soya from amazon to feed its cows.

Not eating beef / meat / dairy is the single best thing one can do to help.
In the instance, the piping can easily be repurposed to run other kinds of lines (for example electric, phone, fibre). Which it certainly was.
Did you ever spend organised time helping students outside of the team?
Yes, x86 will always have some power disadvantage because ARM's heritage is low power embedded devices (and RISC). x86 has other advantages like a very mature and optimized software stack with good compilers.

Apple also has the advantage of cramming every thing on a single piece of silicon while AMD has gone in for the chiplet approach. The single piece of silicon reduces yields but increases performance with a lower power draw. The chiplet approach followed by AMD is more modular, less risky and cost effective.

So if both AMD and Apple use the same TSMC node _and_ AMD went in for "cost is not an objective" and cram everything on a single piece of silicon _and_ add HBM (aka unified memory) it would be real interesting for the two to go "head to head".

I would definitely be interested in paying good dollar for such X86 client system !

I hope someone at AMD is listening !
Nowadays they come armed with bodyarmor and rifles so.. it's not completely the same thing.
I can recommend https://stackshare.io/dot-net-core as a good starting point.
As a .net developer, I always use .Net in the backend. I think it is very good in asynchronous programming.
There should not be a stigma on the desire to use crypto mixers to preserve anonymity. Saying it is only used for crime is like saying end-to-end encrypted chat apps are only used for crime.
Technically, the central repository can be an almost static wiki. The costs will be very low and can be paid for as a fraction of the moderation fee.

Users choose their fact checkers. Some have to be chosen, because that's what is required by law. As such, some state agency will enforce whatever has to be enforced.

This is not a complicated idea. Create a platform and a market for the problem, and let the market find the optimum. Right now, every social network has a monopoly on moderation of fake news. That will lead to market distortions.
> When I see recommendations I don't like, I flag them with "not interested" or "don't recommend channel".

Recommendation engines like YouTube are way too confident in their own abilities, to the point that they hide first-class operations like these behind the little three-dot menu on videos. They support negative feedback reluctantly, to the detriment of society.

I bet you their reasoning is "well, not many people use it so it doesn't need to be up front", but the problem is that it must be used in order to tailor the feed correctly, and now many people don't even know it's an option because it's hidden.
I used to do this on Firefox, it's where I learnt the trick (before some sites made it necessary to use Chrome, and before Firefox had containers).
https://archive.ph/UwyXE
The world isn’t perfect mate, don’t let small things like this make you angry :)
I haven't been active on the beancount mailing list lately, but have been working to meld Fava and Beancount together in a vscode environment using Eclipse Theia, with the long-term goal of making Beancount and plaintext accounting feel more like a packaged, crossplatform app that doesn't require upfront programming experience to at least do manual entries.

This drive sorta came after using Beancount+Fava for a couple years and realizing Im the only one who could understand the accounting system and it'd suck if I needed to share it to family or start an organization with it.

Happy to hear if there's interest in such a thing. I'm the same guy that collaborated on bringing extensions to Fava a few years ago.
Not a single screenshot on that website. The github page has some at least: https://github.com/moneymanagerex/moneymanagerex/
Links to illustrations and data:

* https://github.com/ablwr/illustrations/tree/main/cables

* https://archivesoftomorrow.com/illustrations/video/

* https://archivesoftomorrow.com/data/video/
This is why we need to build software companies as co-ops and for everything else unionize.
Amazing project! After testing it for a few minutes, I think this is a handsome tool. Smooth and functional.
I do wonder if there was an (unmentioned in article) synchronization system like a special midnight pulse to get the clocks all back in sync in case there was drift.. or it was all handled by periodic inspections
It was worth it for me as an entry point to understanding a bit more about web development (as a systems engineer).

I used to try to do two posts a month, hoping for extra "exposure" that way, but now I am doing one. Right now, it feels like a bit of a chore since projects I am working on do not naturally align with blog posts, but that should change soon.
If you bury the trees reasonably deep, that CO2 takes a very long time to get to the surface (like tens of thousands of years) so it’s good enough for our purposes.
This was not just for clocks. There were pneumatic network in Paris "distributing compressed air at a relatively low pressure of 5-6 bar over a network of (eventually) more than 900 km of mains, serving more than 10,000 customers." That run the industry and lasted over 100 years until 1994.
Long term thinking and planning are different though.

> Grow up. You’re an adult.

Being an adult is also about taking paths that you don’t know where they go, but have enough resources, experience and confidence you’ll make it work somehow. I think your point has merit, but it’s not that solid to match such confidence in it.
You omitted "It looks like" before that sentence - for a person who is so bent on rigid meaning and precise wording omitting that part looks a little out of character :)

Again you cannot really prove this from where you and me sit - so it is implied that even without "it looks like" I meant their externally visible actions / results make it looks like they go out of their way to hinder - that can be a combination of thoughtless hardware design and resolve to not help anyone else. And none of those are necessarily "malevolence" (which is a word you used) - it's just business practices.
I think having a blog is fun. I don't really consider myself to have a brand, though - I could not care less if people read my website.

I think the most I get out of it is that it's a project where you can just make a website/infrastructure stack the way you want it, without anything really holding you back.
I use HomeBank [1] because I find the UI a lot simpler than GnuCash and importing mostly just works, with pretty good automatic category assignment that lets you use regular expressions.

The only quirk is that one of my accounts uses a non-standard ordering for its csv file which needs fixing before HomeBank will accept it since the import UI is limited.

I also find that it is useful to track the database file under git.

[1] http://homebank.free.fr/
Yes. But in that movie, they didn't go to Federal "pound me in the ass" prison.
For some, it's because Buchholz uses actual class time as team prep time, I think some schools can't get past the bureaucracy to allow that. For a month over the summer, we learned about 4 hours a day from the class above us / Frazer, then for another 4 hours taught the class below us.

I think the state/national runner ups, American Heritage has copied this in class teaching method, among other Frazer tactics.
Have a pointer to any of these talks? I always found him to be impossible to grok, saying really ambiguous things to the point of being devoid of practical meaning.

But what you cite that you got out of him is a mindset that I got out of years of therapy and reading self-help books - that is, those methods utterly failed and so now if it doesn't come from my own mind (with a few exceptions), I can't take the advice.
I find it fishy that you haven’t connected the dots between “firmware update meant to mitigate speaker cone damage under specific power delivery circumstances” and “user experiencing unexpected power reduction at all power delivery circumstances”.

Blaming the user here is not endearing you to the community.
I was thinking about this from the perspective of saying "I wish to not have a job, be free, FIRE" and your employer sees that and they say "alright peace".
The article is relatively old. But I have the most complaints about the performance measurements. The WebAssembly should be tested in a way that eliminates the interop time, which is very expensive. That's why sorting and simple multiplication will always be slower if tested outside WebAssembly. Sorting in AssemblyScript is actually faster than in Rust or JavaScript:
https://twitter.com/MaxGraey/status/1414867216676368384
Yes definitely, but my situation is unusual. I use my blog primarily to publish research results. A typical post is halfway between a typical blog post and a peer-reviewed paper in an academic journal or conference. I've been dipping my toes into the latter and have not been having as good results. Basically, a blog is more efficient in use of time, and I also like the voice where I'm trying to explain things to a broad audience.

I really don't like Medium - I did a few things there before switching to GitHub Pages. The point of writing is to reach an audience. Why accept friction to juice their monetization?

And yes, there's no question my blog opens doors for me. For example, I recently got invited to give a keynote at RustLab this fall, and I'm sure that was on the strength of a blog post I had done on Rust UI architecture.
My plan was to work for really large companies with a high salary for ten years and then move on to smaller ones. I made this because where I'm from, software engineers don't make close to what they do at large firms and people were moving to my state in droves that had been in or around these larger businesses and thus had a lot more buying power than I did.

I'll share that working at a FAANG or larger tech business is soul crushing if you come from hobbyist programming and computing. Over the course of that time, I've learned to somewhat adapt. I still work on high tier roles, but I don't work on things adjacent to my interests anymore and I don't invest nearly the amount of time I used to. Think, good boundaries for work kind of thing. I'll still probably move to a smaller business, but this attitude bought me a little extra time.
Sorry, what else is being done about disposable electronics containing lithium cells? Could you recommend a news story (UK specific, preferably) with details of other projects in the context of the OP. Fwiw, I don't doubt that I'm not aware of every environmental project in this space. Thanks.
I think long term projects typically correspond with appropriately larger challenges. That's why I used losing weight as an example.

Even with losing weight, it is much easier to understand what you are getting into when you want to drop 3kg vs 30kg.

In my case feeling cold all the time for about a year wasn't something I have predicted when I started it. Or how difficult it is going to be to manage clothing department. Or to learn new recipes.

Now, none of the above would cause the project to fail, but one quarter into that year I figured out I need to find ways to keep me focused on the goal or I am going to fail. Just eating less wasn't doing it for me and I felt constantly hungry and miserable and I would soon drop out.

So I had to pivot and be innovative to be able to finish the project.
Yes.

I've been blogging in some form for ~18 years - https://caseysoftware.com/ - and use it to put out ideas that are fueled by my day job or just generally document things that I've thought through and made sense of.

At least 3-4 times/month, when someone asks me something, I have a blog post written in that area and I send it to them. The credibility shift between "here's my email answer" and "here's a blog post" is HUGE and people take it much more seriously.

The vast majority of developers out there don't write at all, let alone regularly. Even writing a handful of times per year will make your writing better and put you in a higher tier of devs.

And finally, our very own Patio11 talks about this (and me) in this post: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-en...

> I have a few friends who are developer evangelists, which is a funny job created at API companies where your brief is basically "Go demo our product to a group of developers. Now, do that again, every day, for the next several years." Sentiment on the actual job is decidedly mixed. Keith Casey gives a pretty good account here.

> (Side note: I'd be remiss if I didn't note that Keith just got his work shared with 10,000 people because Keith did the work and made it easily shareable, and also because Keith knew me, through his previous job at Twilio. I'm a customer there. Everyone can play six degrees to Kevin Bacon in our industry, but actually putting in the work makes it much more likely that other people will play six degrees on your behalf.)

This is the post he links to: https://caseysoftware.com/blog/developer-evangelism-the-whol...
Komet: A Cocoa editor for creating commit messages
> when the invention of accurate mechanical and electric clocks made the need for a central synchronization clock obsolete, and the service was discontinued

Most accurate clocks in factories and railway stations are controlled by a central timekeeping source, so it's not quite correct that such a source is obsolete.

(edit: wording)
*hole I guess. Was the tv ok?
I have a fully working setup.
In order to be useful for my personal budget management though I need some program to scan receipts and invoices via camera or pdf, to be honest.

Nonetheless. I am from germany and I successfully integrated sync with multiple bank accounts via aquafinance. I can pull down and automatically categorize transactions and even issue transfers.

There are more reasons i did not fully commit yet:

I have no automatic backup configured.
I do not have an designated desktop-pc yet. Having all this important data on a mobile device is insecure imo.
I have no _real_ usecase to apply double-checked accounting (hopefully this is the correct term).

Nonetheless, it's great.
If one had a tax-guy I guess it is even more beneficial.
> You missed the radio button on page 3 which lets you see the test positivity rates based on vax status too. There too, the vaxxed and boosted score worst:

Again, --- any high school statistics students should know why that rate can be, and is completely decoupled from the actual case rate (non-uniform selection bias-- which is obviously present because the size of the strata doesn't equal their base rates in the population).

We have looked at the actual entire United States data. You are cherry-picking and Gish-galloping. You completely ignore the mountain of evidence that contradicts your view, but endlessly want to talk about specific datapoints which do (most of which you don't even provide). You bury the other side in citations but refuse to look at theirs.

This is not a means to actually reach consensus or have an honest discussion.

> You also haven't explained how that Lancet study for UK has been disputed.

My earlier citation, BEFORE YOU POSTED IT, showed that while viral fragments in plasma is equivalent, the actual transmissibility from shed droplets appears to me lower. Your study's primary argument is the opposite. Further, it discussions transmission dynamics in a household, as if this somehow has import on national case rates which is the assertion you made and keep galloping away from.

It's so thoroughly bogus that it's difficult for me to even engage with. In response to April 2022 data indicating that it is likely that transmission is reduced despite earlier data that viral copy fragments are high... you sent me the earlier data that viral copy fragments are high... and then repeatedly demanded to hear why I thought that the conclusions of that earlier study were disputed. Hello? Hello?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782952
If you don’t mind my asking, how many transactions go through your account a month?
The Independent Researcher (2018)
> But in any organization bosses often don't like to have the number of people under their command reduced.

This accounts for the "flunkies" class of Bullshit Jobs [1]. And I don't think that capitalism is particularly effective in keeping this type of jobs in control as company grows. Because outside of the personal prestige of a manager, there's also the corporate facade. E.g. banks often prefer to keep paying redundant employees rather than laying them off, which would signal that they're having problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
But sports watches / ‘dive’ watches seem pretty popular. Maybe the sports involved aren’t so likely to involve damaging the watch somehow.
I think it's good to have a long-term plan and goals, as long as it's fluid and can be adjusted as new problems/solutions arise.