skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like abstract art in book form, or trying to interpret a dream that someone else is telling you about. There are glosses of the book out there that give more context to the words and references. Having one of those can fill you in, but it's still going to be a slog.

Maybe I'm unkind, but I've never been a fan of the Wake. It's always seemed to me to be the sort of thing academics in English literature departments and lovers of abstract art really go for, but few other people can appreciate. (Nothing against literature academics or abstract artists -- it's just that their tastes are informed by things that don't inform most people's!)

If you want to appreciate Joyce as a more approachable author, 'Dubliners' is a great collection of short stories and not experimental.
> When a plane or train crashes, we stop everything and redesign the entire network to prevent this from happening again.

They do that because planes and trains are expensive and owned by big corps/government.
the other poster's point went over your head. Risk-accepting people and their families understand what they're doing and that they're making a bet with their life. I've done so, and not without cost. Opinions might differ on the value of such bets, and acceptance of that risk might be grudging rather than serene, but it's not unexpected.

But sudden random death is a different story. Car crashes or stray bullets can suddenly kill people uninvolved in and not seeking any risk. An unbuckled driver is primarily a danger to themselves, but also highly incentivized to drive differently - eg swerving to avoid an unsurvivable collision, but causing someone else to have a more serious accident.

I'm not sure where you'd start a statistical analysis, but the worst outcomes in the many traffic accidents I've seen always seem to involve 2 cars that have a minor collision causing a third car to have a major one, like hitting a structure or rolling.
Rebalancing with Shannon’s Demon (2016)
Purchased roughly 200 acres in a remote part of the northern border. Setting up solar and wind arrays, purchasing weapons, considering experimenting with developing automated sentries.
You can specify custom diff algorithms to git, so you could say all .dwg files get diffed with something which knows how to parse the binary data and present a reasonable diff between the two versions?
Good point, and there were several remarkable cases in the past years. Also it really depends with what source that AI was trained.
This is why science needs to formally pre register hypotheses. "People tested this ten times and it worked once" is infinitely more useful info than "someone published a paper because this works! But we have no idea how many people tried exactly the same thing and got a negative result".
..and SoCs and software to make 50,000..."Whatever takes the focus off your face" -Tommy Boy
The US has this concept of "black spots" too. However, they are ironically named "safety corridors." We get a nice sign [0] to mark the death zone and then traffic continues unabated.

[0] https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2010/04/inflated_traffic...
I've been doing since graduating and I'm middle age now. Its not a new phenomenon.

In 07 I was very young and worried about the economy; when expressing my concerns to an older coworker said "dont ever worry, we've always been and always will be in demand". He was right. I jumped ship 3 times during the last recession, all with big bumps in pay. I've never worried about finding work, so much so that if pressed I know I can secure 2-3 offers after a week of looking

But to answer your direct question I think its three fold:

* No one wants a junior in production so unless you're well established and can burden the cost of one good luck getting in

* The educational path is very informal and unless you're going for this type of work specifically you're not learning
what you need to be

* Most SWE's dont make good devops (sorry thats a fact no offense meant to anyone)
A Glassdoor-like site would be a great idea.

Kind of related, https://forbetterscience.com reports lots of research frauds.
Perhaps the venues you used had stronger norms than those I used. To check my memory I just downloaded a collection of posts from rec.arts.sf.written (one of the newsgroups I used to use) from the Internet Archive. Matching my recollection, I see nested replies that are short and express attitude without substantially advancing discussion. e.g.

>>>> DeLaney didn't say it could have happened, merely that he
>>>> would have been happy if it did.
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>>> A distinction without meaning or merit.
>>
>>Wrong twice.
>
> On the contrary. It's dead spot on, in fact.

You really are a retard, aren't you?

I consider it better for participants to vote down this sort of noise rather than add to the chain of "nuh-uh" responses.
The problem I think with all of these ML functions is that there is never enough of an in between full manual and full auto magic. The Nest could simply ask you a few times a day how you feel about how its doing (too hot ? too cold? too expensive?) or you could opt in somewhere and to give feedback. And then it could keep doing its behind the scenes mumbo jumbo.
Not watching the telly.
Is one of the goals to apply climate indices to economic predictions? I've been thinking a lot recently about a chart I saw a long time ago, showing how "peak oil" (as it was called before fracking increased reserves) would result in a series of economic shocks where the global economy bounced up against an energy ceiling, sending energy prices higher until the economy entered recession, at which point energy demand/prices would fall enough to trigger another growth boom that would again be cut short by the oil ceiling. This presupposed that oil availability was falling every year after the peak. But it also supposed that energy was the only "ceiling" out there. Climate change, covid, the size of the generation entering old age, market bubbles, and trailing energy capacity have all served in some way to compress and limit growth in the last ten years. I'm curious what kind of proxies you're using to model the interactions.
Honestly, the old site comes across as way more “real” to me and I think he should go back.

I appreciate that they’re getting their enclosure done with 3D printing but going for a highly refined website design while 3d printing your enclosure seems like a mismatch in quality expectations. (I think the new site comes off as an attempt at a refined modern design but is very “light” or lacks real personality or depth)

I think the old site and the 3d printed enclosure of the product are the perfect match.
"But the emergence of the internet largely nullifies that problem. Wide distribution of scientific information no longer requires scientific publishers."

I'm not at all convinced that this is true - people have been saying it for a long time, and it's not manifested itself in a particularly compelling fashion yet.
In that case you've had good luck with the books you've read. There are tons and tons of books that contribute much less to your life than a good subreddit, I can promise you that. Some books can damage you for life with ideas that are only sound absent other people to talk about with. Give the wrong teen a copy of Mein Kampf and watch what happens.

I personally love film and books but these days I love reddit and youtube more. But like when you read good books, it will not do to let the gatekeepers guide your passive atention. You must hunt the prey, break the bones and suck out the marrow yourself. You'll find plenty of emotional and intellectual sustenance on digital mediums if you put in the work. Even on hacker news!
They're trying to force a cooldown of the labor market, let see who holds out longer
This fails to note an important factor in both suicides and car crashes, which is (in the US especially) strong popular preference for personal freedom over personal safety. People would rather be able to freely own guns (even if they are routinely used for suicide) or drive their own cars at fast speeds (even if it causes deadly accidents).

Trains and planes get such strong safety assurances because they are typically commercially operated, so they are subject to another popular feature, which is commercial operators' permanent fear of liability lawsuits.

It's much harder for people to accept to trade off personal freedom for safety than it is for people to demand safety guarantees in commercial transportation services.
Moving to zsh (2019)
Nobody talks about the inflated prices for that kind of work with close to zero effort and required knowledge. A Community College student would have done that 3 pages website in 3 days at most and would looks 100x better. win-win.
Sounds nice. Let the machine figure out something other than people - it will probably be much better at that.
There was never one singular push for gay marriage over all other things. If anything the aids crisis was the most unifying phenomenon in the lgbtq community, because it perfectly encapsulated that society at large can and will unequivocally kill lgbtq people via the intentional withholding of basic consideration for life. And even that had multiple fractures in the community of what to do about it (such as whether or not to protest in churches).
> The disasters that happen when nuclear energy fails are amazingly bad though. Even discounting immediate human deaths,

Are you sure you're not discounting that figure because it's contrary to your conclusion? Very few people have ever died as the indirect long-term result (let alone by direct immediate result) of nuclear energy accidents, even according the highest estimates from histrionic ideologues like Greenpeace.
I don't think that's really how we do it in the US. A lot of tradespeople may be rich (making 6 figures in a very low cost of living area), but no one would call them high class, at best they would just be "well off".
Lockdown-type measures will do more long-term damage to the poor and exacerbate socio-economic inequality than COVID, the actual disease, ever could.

Truly the "it is what it is" method of governance.
Having just gotten extensive edits back on two papers of mine, including fixing something that I had overlooked but am glad they didn't, the role of journals is something that I think people underestimate in some fields.
I agree, but it's true that some jobs should not simply exists.

To this day, if I go to our airport in Sofia (Bulgaria), and my baggage is over the limit of 20 or was it 25kg I have to go to another place, pay for it and come back (why? bureaucracy - not only I have to do it, but I'm slowing anyone waiting for me to this - it's like 25-50 meters one place to the other)

Unlike Frakfurt, Munich or Heathrow airport where I can pay that fine right there.

Some jobs simply should not exist.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
Sounds like a priority queue
Syria intercepts Israeli missiles targeting Damascus: State media
>I don’t think OP is denying that there are differences between the parties.

I'm not sure we read the same comment then.

Your own comment even circles back around to agreeing with the basic premise, so I'm confused as to why you're even disputing something that you're in fundamental agreement with.

The parties are in disputably different, and electoral outcomes lead to massive differences in policy choices which are clear to anyone who's willing to bother to do the research. It takes a lot of finessing and hedging and caveats and broad meandering musings on political grand strategy to start to attempt to equate the political parties. The reason it requires that much work is because the parties are indeed different.
Statistically, I'll only be around for about another 25 years, so things will be just starting to get really bad right around when I'm due to kick the bucket. I recycle, use electric vehicles, vote for liberal tree-huggers and donate money... Sorry it hasn't done much.

Good luck with the post-apocalyptic hellscape. I'm an atheist, so I won't be watching from above or anything. Though we might interact again in a few billion years when the sun consumes the Earth, converts its mass into energy and shoots our constituent particles out into the universe as beams of photons. Maybe we'll all become part of a Boltzmann brain, gain sentience again and hang out.

(Actually, to quote the amazing Douglas Adams, "There is another theory which states that this has already happened.")
If you buy shares in a Blackrock S&P 500 fund, which is the sort of fund that accounts for their huge holdings of most public companies, then I don't think they have the power to dump stocks that are on the official list.

That would be weird. I mean, at least it would be much more newsworthy than this article, and I would expect to have heard. And I would expect massive lawsuits and regulators out for blood.

I could be wrong. Do you have a source?
I really don’t understand how Accenture is as big as they are or how they truly provide value to the world.

I just don’t understand it. Im not trying to be sarcastic. I’ve been scratching my head trying to understand this since I created my own consulting firm years ago.

Please, sincerely, explain it to me.
Perhaps it's my own bias but through the lens of founding and running a SaaS business, but the website often just IS marketing, while the core offering(s) are hosted somewhere else and have their own team/owners/stakeholders. It's certainly different if your product is a physical good or service, but I'm reading the GP's comment as 'tech startup = software company'.
I guess if that data can be easily represented as plain text then git would work ok?
>"who the hell wants a library full of books they've already read?!"

Harlan Ellison liked to say that a lot, and I'm sure he wrote down in a book at some point.
This a case for more powerful debuggers that can unroll code for you.
Perforce and Plastic SCM are heavily used in certain industries. I think they're both superior to Git.
Much the same with me. I have it on about 5 computers in/around my house and work, and have never had any commercial naggings, nor do I use it commercially.
This part (at least) of science needs to be revolutionized.

Somehow.

https://fastgrants.org/ did some good work for covid. Could maybe be a starting point for a new system.
All probabilistic structures are fascinating to me. I'm most enamored with HyperLogLog - estimating the number of distinct elements in extremely large sets of data without having to build a set of seen elements - but the entire field is pretty awesome.

The canonical use case for HLL is counting unique visitors. But any large dataset where you only need a good approximation is a valid target :)
I love stories like this bc it means there is more work for competent people like me to fix.
I first saw this from the Hackaday article (The Casio Smartwatch You Never Had) - https://hackaday.com/2022/07/20/the-casio-smartwatch-you-nev...

Hackaday is something I'd definitely recommend to the average HN reader if they like the hardware side of things.

I'd also recommend N-O-D-E's channel for anyone interested in such things, here's his video on his F91 mod:
https://youtu.be/cvtvm7N_qj4
AI Coding with CodeRL: Toward Mastering Program Synthesis with Deep RL
Note that I'm being intentionally reductive to argue that the net buscoquadnary threw around ML models and future-telling with sheep entrails also includes the scientific method.

I do also think that ML as a field progresses through the scientific method ("I theorise that this network with residual connections will converge faster, lets see if there's a significant difference") - but maybe not to the full extent it could.

> Just trying two things at random and picking the one that makes some arbitrary metric go up, is not the scientific method. It’s gradient descent.

I'd say that's closer to evolutionary algorithms. GD finds (locally) the direction to tweak the weights to improve predictions on a given batch.
> tour de force

Hardly. This is not a secure device. It is more of a "no hidden code" device (like a ME or CPU microcode), that you the owner don't know about. Like the portable version of a Raptor Talus II.
The author also mentioned that there is a cost to selecting an alternative firm and managing them. Also, I'm not sure the author would have learned the same lessons outlined in this blog post had they not seen the process through to the end.
Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting had an expensive divorce in 1997ish, and Andersen Consulting became Accenture.

A very wise investment (basically the Accenture partners needed to pay off the rest of the AA partnership to leave) in retrospect.

AA based on my impressions was the top of the big 6 accounting firms in size and reputation. Wow did they bite it hard in Enron. They probably all fled like rats to the rest of the former big 6, but all that hard earned reputation....
Hypothesis comes before data collection in the scientific method.

You can share equipment, but if you share data, then it's the same experiment not a new one reproducing the first.

Sharing data would not only miss fraud, it would miss experimental errors (e.g. spilled beer in the petri dish), p-hacking, etc.
Do we need plastic books?
No, the effect is also that policy can be to put you're "non-compliant" in your medical record (see your sibling). If those words don't terrify you then this probably isn't an issue for you, but for some that can be a literal death sentence.
Formulating ‘Out of Memory Kill’ Prediction on the Netflix App as an ML Problem
There's an argument, but not a strong one. What can be passed quickly can be amended or even repealed quickly. Many countries have done OK with that. Stasis is a bad strategy in such a quickly changing world, and the empirical results seem to support the theory. Built-in gridlock is dumb.
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I recently learned about monotonic stacks thanks to this LeetCode problem: https://leetcode.com/problems/sum-of-total-strength-of-wizar...

I feel like they're quite possibly the most deceptively simple data structure I've yet to encounter. That is to say that for me at least there was/is a wide gulf between simply understanding what the data structure is (doesn't get much simpler than a stack!) and when/how to actually apply it.
Moving out of the American West. Moving somewhere where rain falls and food grows.
I'm sure some do have that attitude but I don't believe, for most, that they're choosing to operate that way.

TinyPilot is clearly successful and growing. Any smart agency would nurture that relationship, deliver a great product, and secure an ongoing relationship.

By contrast, there's a huge amount of reputational risk in allowing things to spiral. They've walked away with more today but imagine for a moment the damage that would have been done were they named in this article. It doesn't take much for a brand to turn toxic and things to implode.
Europe is making it easy for Microsoft.
This is perhaps the most contrived way to say "we have decided to adopt remote-first work in 2022" I have ever seen.

VC folks are very influential and interesting people, but sometimes I feel like they get up in the morning and stretch in bed while saying, "I am taking the bold step of transitioning my limbs to a decentralized operating model in order to re-invigorate the bio-somatic flow of energy and ideas and prime myself for the next phase in my transformative journey."

Anyway, glad to hear it! Silicon Valley is great, but there's a lot of value and innovation to be found far away from Sand Hill Road too.
Your claiming anything wrapped in a module block is a module. My point is that they aren't "real" modules. I know it's debatable what a module is but Ruby's don't meet my definition. Here's why:

Let's say a file had a module in it. It can behave differently based on context.

For example, let's say I have a module A that requires modules B and C. Module C could use module B without explicitly pulling it in because modules are just globals. However, if a different module just requires module C but not module B and no other files required B either, then module C would break when it tries to use model B. If modules weren't global B, would have to require it to use it directly regardless but since it doesn't it's easy to get unexpected results.

In ruby a file doesn't have to declare the modules it uses which is why I don't consider them modules but just global namespaces. So if another module that got required earlier happens to require B, then B can be used because it's just a global.

I'm summary, modules in Ruby aren't modules but just global namespaces.
The TL;DR is that this appears to beat both OpenAI Codex (12 billion params) and DeepMind's AlphaCode (1 billion params), despite having only 770M parameters.

There is also a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01780

And the code is available: https://github.com/salesforce/CodeRL
If you go deep into all the settings you can turn all of amazons predictive jibber jabber off and turn off a ton of tracking. It has been awhile but I swear there were settings hidden everywhere. I just went back to amazon and it still seems to suggest some products based on what I just viewed so now I am wondering what the hell I even turned off.....it is actually fairly accurate now though (I looked at a timex watch and it is suggesting a very similar timex watch)

edit: My bad - it was just suggesting products I had recently previously viewed
For the love of anything sacred, can you please point me to a resource that explains all possible operations with “dx” and their conceptual meaning.

Like, I get “dx”, but I cannot put my finger to it!!! This might be because the Precise Definition of the Limit phrases it as “x approaches a”; it is as though we are “sent” to the land of dx, but not told what it is as an atomic concept!
Your firm was charging just over 2x, but in the US it's not uncommon to see the client billed 3x what the consultant makes. This is especially true if there are subcontractors.