skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking in systems, their interactions, feedback-cycles and causal dependencies is a very important and underdeveloped skill for any person, regardless of profession, since we all live and have to make decisions in an increasingly messy/complex/interactive environment. I believe second/nth-order thinking can help with that.

From my personal experience I can recommend the free online course “Introduction to Complexity” since it helped me develop a better understanding and intuition about these things: https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/144-introduction-... and also the book “The Art of interconnected thinking” from Frederic Vester (I am not sure if this is the correct translation, the German title is: “Die Kunst vernetzt zu denken”). But there are of course many other great resources to learn about complexity and systems thinking.

It is also increasingly important to think beyond our own (ideological, disciplinary, conditioned, etc.) “tunnel”, because many problems in the real world have multiple dimensions to them, just like there is not only black and white, not only grayscale, but all the colours of the rainbow. It is convenient to stay in one dimension (e.g. our own profession, a paradigm/worldview, a conceptual framework) because it makes us feel confident and secure. Often we can afford to do so if the implications of our decisions stay within the boundaries of our “tunnel”. But this is most often not the case in complex environments and being ignorant about those other dimensions can lead to miscommunication and failure to address the concerns of our clients, relationships, etc. So I would recommend not only nth-order thinking, but also multi-dimensional thinking (which may be included in the former, but should be emphasized more strongly I believe).
> 1. advertises the "top 3% of freelance talent" on its home page

> 2. on an inside page says that what that really means is roughly the top 3% of freelancers who apply to join Toptal

Sounds like that first claim is a blatant lie, and the real top freelance talent cannot be found on Toptal. They won't hire everybody, so the talent they offer is probably solid mid-tier.
Where do you live? Do you deal with apple support directly, or apple authorized service providers?
Also the early investors in WeWork did rather nicely.

If you are a16z this is probably not a bad investment.
SIG did not do an excellent job with the tech, that's for sure, but his point is still valid, that poor implementations of it causes further issues. Also, SIG is quite slow with new features, so companies start adding their own stuff on top of it. With Apple, things like sharing BT pairings over iCloud comes to mind, which is kind of a weird hack. They also do some non-standard switching between LE and Classic on the go.
> Linux is more than likely suited for a different sector of the computing market than the desktop, considering its endless failures to breakthrough

Linux has suited me very well as a desktop for 10+ years. (I'm aware it is probably not suitable for every person or use case.)

To maintain the health of the Linux desktop(s), we do need to be open to new people and ideas from outside. But Linux is, and should remain, different from proprietary OSes. Otherwise, what is the point?
Is there a way to perform direct Bézier-path intersection, union and difference operations?

I lately tried to find some options for a hobby project. The only way I could find was to first break the path into a lot of line segments, then do the logical operations between paths and finally convert them back by trying to fit Bézier curves into the resulting line segments.

Conversions back and forth seem less than optimal and can lead to artefacts. There must be a better way.
Sure, but ADHD prevents me doing anything regularly :(
I wouldn't let the lack of a relevant degree get in my way.

Sure, there are some EU countries where degrees are still being listed as a job requirement. Hell, when I contracted for a company in Munich, every other guy in the hallway had "Dr." in front of his name (and used it proudly in his e-mail signature).

Nevertheless, hiring can get very pragmatic when the company is hungry for engineers and few competent applicants come in.

Not sure exactly what the typical requirements are for a UX position. I'd imagine having a humanities background should be a huge plus, however. After all, this field is about human-vs-computer interaction, is it not?

Could she develop a small portfolio, maybe even using volunteer / non-profit jobs to get started? There's a good chance she could then use it to get in the door for better-paying UX jobs later, degree or no degree.
Yeah, if you want an old age filled with weakness and fragility. If you build up to it and you have the strength and lift with good technique there is nothing wrong with it.

50lbs is only just over the weight of the bar anyway. Weakness is never a strength.
I claim that claiming computer algorithms are inspired is a big stretch.

I claim humans can be inspired.

I don't claim to know how human inspiration happens, or if neurons have anything to do with it. (They may, but I make no claim). Not being able to describe the process by which human inspiration happens doesn't invalidate either of my claims.

If there is a satisfactory non-bit based explanation to how computer algorithms achieve inspiration, I would accept that to. We have the advantage with computers, that their activity is conveniently summarized by their programs which are represented in bits, so expecting an explanation in that form I think is reasonable.

The defense if the claim of human inspiration is (1) we have that word for the concept (2) we have thousands of years of thought, philosophy and literature giving support and definition to the concept.
I’m not sure I get your argument. I’m saying that it’s impossible to distinguish between machine written music and human written music.

You could maybe make the argument for distinguishing between a human and a machine playing a piece of music.

But if I write a song that just goes A, D, C, G on a loop (plenty of songs like that), how would you determine that a machine song that goes A, D, G, C is not human written?
> Elixir is not just 2x but very likely anywhere from 4x to 10x more productive

More productive than what? Rust, Go or Shell?
I see this argument made more and more, as all the other arguments against solar are proved beyond doubt to have been total nonsense.

It's still not true though. For starters "expensive" rooftop solar costs roughly the same as nuclear, which means it's part of the solution, not the problem.

Distributed solar (and batteries) are useful to the grid. It simply makes economic sense to share some of the economic benefits with the people doing the work. The homeowner pays the installer, and then gets payed back over time as they deliver energy to the grid for use by their local area.

The key savings for the grid are around lowering the peak demands on the grid transmission lines.

There's plenty of documentation on this. People have calculated exactly how much benefit was provided by the rooftop solar and it's regularly shown to have had positive externalities beyond what the homeowner got paid.

Though, most of that is for times in the past, when federal incentives may have been overriding local utility attempts to protect their profit margins and most solar was retrofits. And solar generally was in it's infancy and needed subsidized because we didn't have a carbon tax.

Today, the key thing is to be buliding net-zero housing, which generally involves adding solar PV (and insulation) at the design and construction phase. Which basically removes all the costs and is saving money from the start. We can also not hook up gas at all, for a massive saving on new construction, plus health and climate benefits.

https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-ene...

> All new residential construction will be zero net energy (ZNE) by 2020.
> All new commercial construction will be ZNE by 2030
> 50% of commercial buildings will be retrofit to ZNE by 2030
> 50% of new major renovations of state buildings will be ZNE by 2025.

Meanwhile, rooftop solar on commercial buildings, was always cheaper than residential (so cheaper than nuclear for example) due to scale and still makes sense for the same reasons, large commercial bulidings use energy, and using it locally is cheaper than transmitting it.

So rooftop solar is good. Subsidies to make markets work better are good. (I'd prefer that the subsidies given to the fossil fuel industries were removed, but if that's not politically viable, I'm happy with counterbalancing subsidies).
The trouble is that these positions try to filter you out asking for the same concepts in interviews. Nobody cares for how good a programmer you are. Data engineer positions don't work well if you want to touch cutting-edge concepts like big-scale DNNs. Sure you'd learn about deploying things but if your day-to-day job is not about e.g. ONNX, pytorch, JAX and massive scale training/inference pipelines, then you'd still be left out.

Chicken and egg problem.
Probably the optimal way is just aiming for top ML research teams right from the start as a new grad. No other way is better.
Yes it's a great video, my contribution is modest in comparison. Watching it again it appears some information unsurprisingly overlap (typically the lerp/mix thing!), but I think I’m still covering different aspects of it.
I'm not sure about taking over the entire GUI ecosystem but I certainly do want more functionality in the kernel instead of user space precisely because of how stable and universal the kernel is. I want system calls, not C libraries.
The new set of dangers that are introduced by electronic navigation should be well understood, so nothing in this article should be news to anyone who’s learnt how to navigate.

That said, navigation is now so “easy” that you can get complacent. As demonstrated by this professional crew in 2014 in one of the most prestigious ocean races when they hit a reef in the pacific because they hadn’t zoomed in enough on their plotter to identify the hazard:

https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/sailing-skills/electronic-ch...

This is a set of circumstances where the UX of the modern device is subtly far worse than the old pen and paper way, with some quite spectacular results. Ultimately the blame falls on the navigator and the skipper, but I can’t help but feel sorry for them.
Lol. I wouldn’t take a pay cut in return for WFH. I already have WFH.
10kg of 'muscle mass' would be close to 40k kCal. Even if half of was water 20kCal is still tons - like mass starvation - 10day of not eating at all.
25 years, still no preview images in file picker
Don't know about 2022, but in 2020 the fast.ai video series was a good way to get started. It has been revised a few times since then, so chances are it is still good.

If you want something more theoretical there is a book by Hopcroft et al. that was released in draft form a number of years ago. It appears to be out for real now: Foundations of Data Science, by Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan. Blurb and video lectures: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/foundat... I just found these so haven't looked at them yet. The book draft (2014, wow) is here: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book11April2014.pdf I didn't stick with it long enough to make much progress, unfortunately.

Kaggle.ai problems are a good set of practical projects even if you're not aiming to be competitive at them (which takes a lot of effort and resources). The Fast.ai vids are ok as preparation for them.
Us doing something one way for 500 years doesn't inherently mean we should continue. Horses were the primary means of transport for 3000+ years, so should we go back to them? (We should use bikes really)

An abacus worked for a similar amount of time, should we go back to that because it worked?

I have no skin in the navigation game, but something working in the past isn't a good enough reason to not change.
> "make install" for example is specifically something Tup can't do. This is trivially solved by having "install.sh".

`make` is different things to different people. What you describe, `make` as a tool to compute optimal strategies for recursive file-based build operations, is indeed its original purpose.

On the other hand, I tend to use `make` more as a standardized format for script collections. Whenever I open a new repository, and it has a Makefile in it, I'm very thankful because it's a useful jumping-off point for how to build and use the software contained in the repository. Therefore I do the same in my own projects. Even if the project is in a single language with established conventions, I tend to include a Makefile regardless as a way of documenting.

For example, if I have a Go project, I could rely on other people looking into it to know how Go is compiled, or I can just put in a little Makefile like:

PREFIX = /usr

build/foo:
go build -ldflags '-s -w' -o $@ ./cmd/foo

install: build/foo
install -D -m 0755 build/foo "$(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/foo"

.PHONY: build/foo install

Which will make it entirely obvious to everyone, including non-Go-developers, how to build and install the software.
you would of course have to take it to court to have the court decide that yes, that was part of the definition of accessibility, I do not think that is part of any of the WAI or WCAG definitions although it would a good idea to ask for it, in fact I guess I will raise the issue later today on a mailing list.

But if you took it to court, in the U.S, if it went all the way to Supreme Court I have hard time believing it would not be denied. So effectively, they are not obligated to let you know which is which.

on edit: in initial discussion it was said " 1.1.1 Non-text
Content, or 1.3.1 Info and Relationships." https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/info-and-relatio... might be used as an argument that unidentifiable Ad content would be non-accessible https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/info-and-relatio...
I'd highly recommend reading this book, which is available free online: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/ . It covers the foundations up to 2016 very well, with useful references for understanding the underlying math/theory.
Didn't SPARC have some kind of sliding window register set?
Well the Vatican did, to Galileo Galilei.
Eventualy, took a while :P

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618460-600-vatican-...
Yeah, I feel like it only discourages legitimate bots, but for malicious ones it's a big red sign saying "SENSITIVE CONTENT HERE, SCRAPE IT"
How is this relevant here?
Don't group data engineer and ML engineer together - they're very different positions. Data engineers typically don't do any ML (in fact teams often create DE positions to differentiate between the people who do ML and the people who don't); for ML engineers is varies depending on the team/company - some work more like applied data scientists, others focus almost entirely on infrastructure and deployment.
A/B testing Xcode build settings
Whoever it is thanks for posting!

So yeah, I created this software only search engine. Currently, the index size is pretty low. The results might be irrelevant but I will be expanding the index size.
https://happybirthdaygnome.org/images/gnome2.jpg

Nostalgic.
Calling 3AC responsible for the larger market decline in crypto is incredibly sensationalist. Total market cap had already declined 50% by the time 3AC became insolvent.
My bluetooth are ok until I reach the kitchen table and fridge because they are close to the door. It starts doing robot voices and cutting out a few step further.
Decompilation of the first Touhou game completed
> And there’s no “natural skinny as a rail”, you either eat and workout enough, or you don’t.

Just as some people are short and others tall people produce different amounts and proportions of hormones which leads them to put on muscle easily or not.

For the most extreme ethnic examples of this consider the Kalenjin of East Africa who are skinny and wildly over represented as marathon runners and Polynesians who are wildly over represented as rugby players and in US Football, who are more muscular.
I see two previews, one next to the file name, and a large one on the right when clicking on a image file name. So:

25 years, now with preview images in file picker :)
Evolution of the OSM Data Model [pdf]
Hey, I can see where you are coming from but this is a really bad idea. You'll be sabotaging your application/life.

~90% of the hiring managers looking at your suggestion (me included) will not see any value in this. Having somebody working at minimum wage / under market value (besides unethical) creates all kinds of inequities and weird work place dynamics. For me it would not be worth it.

And the 10% who would actually entertain the notion: would you be ok working for people happy to exploit employees? That's setting yourself up for a burnout.

The best way to guarantee the things you want to guarantee is to do due diligence yourself and research the place you are applying to. Look for red flags. Be critical.
> "The effort to add search ads to Apple Maps has already been explored internally. Such a feature would probably work similarly to search ads in the App Store. For instance, a Japanese restaurant could pay money to rank at the top of local listings when users searched for “sushi.”"

The author argues it's about search results, not placement on the map. But the author also doesn't seem to have any sources.
Looking outside the echo chamber
I understand that these results aren't great. I just checked the index for your queries, it's a bit low on these niches, but I am working hard to expand the index.
This is a common complaint, but I've never felt the normal arrangement to be counter-intuitive.

I read it as “I want the id and first name, you can get this from…” — the projection clause stating what you want, and the following clauses detailing how the information what you want can be found in is arranged.

You can also think of it like a recipe: “I'm, going to make a cake, from eggs, flour, …” rather than following the instructions then at the end being told what you are making.

While “from <here>, filtering by <condition>, pick <things>” better matches your view of what the database engine is going to do to service your request, matching what the engine does internally to service your request is not SQL's priority. As another example of this: with joins you are not telling the engine “this is how to do…” (well, you are, but indirectly) — what you are actually doing is describing how the information links together. With this information and other information it already has (from the schema, particularly what indexes are available) it will decide the best way to proceed, and in fact will sometimes effectively reorder your request for efficiency (some simple DB engines will always follow the order you state the objects to use, but that is their limitation not something dictated by SQL in theory).
I may be reading it incorrectly, but it seems rather strange they are counting the eccentric (decline / negative) portion of the Bicep curl as the only stimulus. It begs the question, how did the trainees get the weight back up to the top to do the next rep? Lab assistants?

It is also interesting because negatives are super-effective when you are too weak to manage a whole rep, this is often the case with pull-ups and the trainee can easily jump up to the bar, lowering themselves slowly as the stimulus, and soon enough will become strong enough to perform a complete rep. But after that point, the eccentric portion alone will not be enough to improve further.
Even that didn't work last time I checked, which was years back.

Did it, reload the page, and then watch all the ads still there, but some random div panel getting lost that you need.

Facebook did it intentionally. So that ad blockers don't work.
google might see this and add it as an offering with cost lower than bigtable
Arguably the whole point of Delaware (in its manifestation as a port of convenience for companies; I assume some people live there too) is precisely that that sort of thing does _not_ happen.
A lot of people here recommend fast.ai which is solid, but not really that useful if you want to do research.

I would start with math foundations: basic linear algebra, stats, probability and some analysis. CS undergrad level is plenty of math for start.

Then I would try to understand back prop on intimate level: learn how to calculate gradients, maybe take a look on how autograd works as well.

Then you should know a bit to pick your next steps by yourself.
And so did the Berkrley RISC design. Also notably the Intel i960 and the Itanium
So it appears. Appearances may deceive, though. See if you can find any source that says that vaccine doses are being discarded and it has nothing to do with their use-by date.

The use-by dates are remarkably strict on these vaccines. Use all doses of a bottle within hours of opening it, use within days of removing from a dark freezer, use within months even if stored in a dark freezer.
This is really going to make 5 people angry.
And if you do functional bodybuilding aka CrossFit have a follow here from the guys of ETH Zurich: https://www.instagram.com/wod_science/
A corollary to that is to not overdo it, even if you have an enjoyable time while you do it. You shouldn't be too tired or sore when it's time for the next training session.
in 2010, i would pull an html file from ftp or visual sourcesafe, make my edits and upload.

2022, i need to setup git, setup node, setup credentials, run a bunch of npm commands, which invariably fail and lead me down various rabbit holes, then install docker, then install a bunch of docker updates, then run a build command and hope that all the magic comes to together. just so i can edit a line of copy.

it's not fun anymore. the immediacy of web development has gone for me, i feel my time is spent grappling with obscure issues unrelated to the actual work and something stakeholders are totally oblivious and uncaring about.
It's so anonymous, it's not even filtering html tags.
Depends on how complicated your context is. I try to strive to keep it as simple as possible so distractions don’t matter that much.
> I think it can yield the highest success rate.

At what?

If you want to be an SRE for a data platform, sure, but this pretty thankless work:

- cleaning up dodgy data

- cleaning up behind low code data pipelines and other painful integration work with systems that suck and sometimes just don’t work (like PowerBI).

- cleaning up behind data scientists that create models in arcane and imaginative ways and expect you to “productionise” them.

- cleaning up behind brain dead scheduling systems that fail unexpectedly.

- constant churn with partners and cloud products for whatever the latest hotness is.

If you want to be solving actual problems with ML, this is a dead end.

It’s IT support for the people doing real work.

…so, it depends on your goals. Getting a job? Sure! Everyone wants a workhorse who they can dump all the annoying problematic on-call tasks to.

Learning ML, contributing to research, building models?

This isn’t a path that leads there.
Relocate somewhere with better year-round climate, it can't be overstated how much easier it makes staying fit and active.
they could also have put the sponsored message into an aria hidden div then the screen readers would be safe. Not difficult to separate out things that mess up automated solutions and screen readers from each other.
That could all be true. I wouldn’t know. But SS is absolutely sufficient to get all your beginner gains and then switch to maintenance which would get you 80% of the gains for 20% of the effort. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Better any plan to become fit that’s not actively harmful, executed, than someone putting it off to find the perfect plan.
that's standard pomodoro timings which are globally popular
> 1. Continue to work in the industry and reduce your emotional investment.

thanks, this is what i've been doing. but it's really impacting my mental health.